GENESIS IV THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, SAN FRANCISCO, SUMMER 2004 2 Development News A Legacy for a father from Chronicle reporter John Wildermuth ’69 • SI thanks parents who have completed their pledge to support the school.

7 Feature Articles The Buddy System: Tom Leach ’94 & Bill Duggan ’93 are the success behind TV’s Curb Appeal • Mike Nevin ’61 & Ed McGovern ’75 are among the top COVER STORY: The Class of 2004 received 10 most infl uential in San Mateo County • Physics teachers Byron Philhour their diplomas … Page 18. & James Dann ask students to look at the sky and wonder • Celine Alwyn ’98 & Brendan Quigley ’78 are in and behind the spotlights on Broadway.

18 School News COVER STORY: Class of 2004 honored at 145th commencement ceremonies • Valedictorian Kevin Feeney asks students to heed the prophets • St. Antho- ny’s Fr. John Hardin receives President’s Award • Chad Evans bikes across the US to raise awareness for poverty. SPORTS: The Boys’ Varsity 8 took third in the nation in crew … Page 31. 32 Alumni News All-Alumni Sports Day brings 400 graduates back to SI • Actor, Producer, Director Geoff Callan ’85 does it all • Sean Cheetham ’95 fi nds faith through art • Looking back 15 years on coeducation.

42 Sports Highlights Boys’ Varsity Crew takes third in nation • Alumni lacrosse players win na- tional championship

45 Departments Keeping in Touch • Births • In Memoriam • Feedback • Calendar

On the cover: The Class of 2004 celebrates outside St. Ignatius Church mo- ments after they received their diplomas. Photo by Paul Totah.

ALUMNI: Sean Cheetham’s art led to new- found faith … Page 36. developmentnews GENESIS IV A Report to Concerned Individuals A Legacy for a Father Vol. 41, No. 2 Summer 2004 From Chronicle Reporter John Wildermuth ’69 The Rev. Anthony P. Sauer, SJ President

ack Wildermuth never graduated from dad, there was no question where my brother The Rev. Harry V. Carlin, SJ SI. He attended for two years but had and I would go to high school,” said John. Executive Vice President Jto leave when his family, hard-hit by the “Like many families, my folks sacrificed Depression, couldn’t afford the tuition. to send us to SI. My mom went back to work, Stephen Lovette Vice President for Development When he died last year, his son, John and though it wasn’t easy, it was also never a Wildermuth ’69, a veteran San Francisco question where we would go.” Mr. Charles Dullea Chronicle reporter, knew just what to do Wildermuth carried on the family tra- Principal with some of the money that came from the dition by sending his two sons — Paul ’02 The Rev. Gregory Goethals, SJ sale of his parents’ home. and Greg ’04 — to SI. “Going to college, I Rector He started a scholarship, named in always felt prepared,” he noted. “All my suc- memory of his mother, Florence, who died in cess grew on a base that SI helped me build. I James Dekker 2002, and his father to help en- couldn’t half-ass my way through my classes. Director of Alumni Relations

SI helped me and my classmates develop good Paul Totah habits — ones that served us well. Now my Editor sons have those same good habits.” The new scholarship is only partly en- Art Cecchin Sports Editor dowed, but Wildermuth is committed to building it up every year until it becomes fully Stella Muscat endowed. “My situation is the same as many Doug Salin people my age. Our parents worked hard to Design Consultants

pay for a house in the city and pass it along. GENESIS IV (USPS 899-060) is published Now we have the opportunity to help kids quarterly by St. Ignatius College Preparatory, who want to go to SI but who can’t afford 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA to.” 94116-9981. Periodicals postage paid at To honor Jack’s devotion to the school, San Francisco, CA, and additional mailing SI President Anthony P. Sauer, SJ, sent John offices. an honorary diploma, making Jack Wilder- POSTMASTER: Address Service Requested. muth an official graduate of the Class of Send address changes to GENESIS IV, 2001 1940. 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116- John was shaped not only by his fa- 9981. ther’s love for SI, but also by his love for sports. He competed in shot put for two CONTACT US: You can send e-mail to years in high school and covered sports [email protected] or reach us at (415) 731- for the Loyola University paper. 7500 ext. 206. You can also read the issue on our web site at www. siprep.org. Wildermuth grew interested in writ-

ing after taking an English class from ST. IGNATIUS, mindful of its mission to be Fr. John Becker, SJ. “By the time I got witness to the love of Christ for all, admits to college, I was used to putting words students of any race, color and national and/ down on paper because of the weekly or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, essays he assigned. He was a kind man who programs, and activities generally accorded to sure that no child will ever have to taught us that writing was important and that or made available to students at this school. St. Ignatius does not unlawfully discriminate leave SI for lack of money. anyone could do it.” on the basis of race, color, national and/ “My father would have wanted this,” At Loyola, Wildermuth went from sports or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability in said Wildermuth. “Until the day he died, writer to editor-in-chief before graduating the administration of educational policies, he considered himself an SI alumnus and a and working for a string of Southern Califor- admissions policies, scholarship and loan member of the Class of 1940 despite the fact nia papers. He served as city editor for the programs, and athletic and other school- that he had graduated from Lowell.” Star News in Pasadena before landing the job administered programs. Likewise, St. Ignatius When John and his brother, Mark ’71, with his hometown paper in 1986. does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, were students at St. Michael’s, their father, Throughout his career, he has covered national and/or ethnic origin, age, sex or who worked as a railroad freight salesman, politics, and he is now reporting on the Senate disability. took them to cheer for the Wildcats. “For my race between Barbara Boxer and Bill Jones.

2 GENESIS IV developmentnews Saint Ignatius Board of Trustees He likes covering politics because “it’s wondering, along with the rest of the na- Rev. Gregory Goethals, SJ one of the few disciplines where there’s an tion, who would become President. Chairman actual end. People yack and yell at each The chance to cover local politics, Rev. Harry Carlin, SJ ’35 Mr. John Christen III ’61 other and point fingers, but come elec- such as last year’s San Francisco Mayor’s Mr. Mark Cleary ’64 tion day, it’s over and a decision has to be race, brings rewards of its own, since “it Rev. Michael Gilson, SJ made. Then you do it all over again.” gives me a chance to see every nook and Martin D. Murphy, Esq. ’52 Wildermuth hopes that his stories cranny of the city and reacquaint myself Rev. Thomas O’Neill, SJ ’74 make people less cynical about politics with the place where I grew up.” Rev. Anthony P. Sauer, SJ and politicians, who “get a bad rap. Most Despite all of his high-profile politi- Rev. Michael Turnacliff, SJ of the ones I know are in the business be- cal stories, Wildermuth is most proud of cause they want to make things better. a piece he did covering a homeless man Board of Regents What they do is important, and their deci- living in a bus in Whittier while dying of Mr. Mark W. Cleary Chairman sions affect us all. My job is tell people cancer. “In doing my interviews, I found Mr. David Bernstein what the politicians are doing and why out that he was a veteran. I made calls to Mr. Thomas Bertelsen they should care.” local Congressmen, and four days later he Mr. Peter J. Brusati The job can get tricky sometimes. was lying in a bed in the Veterans’ Hospi- Mr. Clark Callander Four years ago, for example, Wildermuth tal. He died two weeks later, but he spent Rev. Harry V. Carlin, SJ worked until 3 a.m. on election night and his last days cared for by people who gave Mr. Al Clifford then caught a 6 a.m. flight to Tallahas- a damn about him. He didn’t die alone or Mr. Sam Coffey see, FL, where he spent the next six weeks unwanted. That story made a difference.” Mr. Hal Cranston Mr. John Duff Mr. Charles Dullea Mr. Scott Erickson Fathers’ Club Welcomes New Officers Mr. John J. Fitzpatrick Mr. J. Richard Fredericks Mr. Lynn Fritz Mr. Gordon Getty Rev. Gregory M. Goethals, SJ Mr. Michael Gorman Mrs. Donna Hale Mr. Paul Hazen Mr. Jeff Knox Hon. Richard Kramer Mr. Robert Lalanne Mrs. Mary Lawson Mr. Stephen Leveroni Mr. Jeff Maggioncalda Mr. Curt Mallegni Mrs. Margaret McCaffery Mr. William McDonnell* Dr. Allison Metz The Fathers’ Club held Mr. Russell Miller its installation luncheon Mr. Leo Murphy June 7 at Alioto’s Res- Martin D. “Pete” Murphy, Esq.* taurant on Fisherman’s Mrs. Noreen Murphy Wharf to welcome next Dr. Farris Page-King year’s leadership: Presi- Eugene Payne, Esq. dent George Lawson, Mrs. Elizabeth Purcell Vice President Sal Rizzo, Mr. Stanley Raggio Vice President Marty Mr. Gary Roberts Cerles, Secretary Paul Gaspari, Treasurer Jim Rev. Anthony P. Sauer, SJ Costello, Sgt. at Arms Pat Francis Scarpulla, Esq. Ferdon and board mem- Michael J. Stecher, Esq. bers Brad Barisic, Dave Mrs. Sara Stephens Pacini, Jim O’Meara, Joe Mrs. Kate Sullivan Betro, Don Mancini, Dan Mrs. Mary Szarnicki Beaulieu and Bob Gug- Mr. Fred Tocchini lielmi. At the luncheon, Mr. J. Malcolm Visbal Fathers’ Club President Mr. Alfred S. Wilsey Jr. Steve Leveroni and Auc- tion Chairman Sal Rizzo * Lifetime Members presented Fr. Sauer with a check for $580,000, the profit from all the clubs’ events for the year.

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Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Darling Heritage Society Mr. & Mrs. William B. Davenport Thank You! We especially thank the following SI Parents Keep Their Pledge Mr. & Mrs. Virgilio R. De Leon lifetime friends who have made provi- Mr. & Mrs. Michael Deely The following parents of the Class of 2004 sions in their estate plans — bequests, Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Denning have completed their pledges to SI, helping us charitable trusts, gifts of life insurance provide the quality education that has been Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Diaz de Rivera or retirement funds — to support SI’s the hallmark of this school. On behalf of the Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Dougherty Endowment Fund. Such gifts provide entire community, we thank you! Mr. & Mrs. Mark Dowdy for the long-term welfare of SI and may Dr. & Mrs. Eric Adler Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Downey also provide donors with valuable tax Mr. & Mrs. Victorino D. Aguirre Ms. Lydia I. Beebe & Mr. Charles E. Doyle and income benefits during their life- Mr. & Mrs. Paul Aherne Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Dudley time. The forethought and generosity Ms. Theresa Thornton & Mr. Miguel Alson Mr. and Mrs. William Durkin Dr. & Mrs. Michael Aminoff Mr. & Mrs. Berc Eldemir of the following is most appreciated: Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Giampaolo Fenili Mr. & Mrs. Rico Anicete Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Ferdon Mr. & Mrs. Martin D. Murphy ’52 Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Anicetti Mr. & Mrs. Steven Fike Ambassadors Mr. & Mrs. John Aquilina Mr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Fisco Mrs. Fred Grant Mr. & Mrs. John L. Armanino Mr. & Mrs. James Fitzpatrick Chairwoman Mr. & Mrs. Joselito Banares Mr. William Fong The Doelger Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Barbieri Mr. & Mrs. David Fowler Mrs. Raymond Allender Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Barrack Dr. & Mrs. Richard Francoz, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Roger Barreneche Ms. Lori Fuchiwaki Fr. Dennis Alvernaz Ms. Francesca Bator Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Furniss Mr. Kenneth Atwell ’29 Hon. & Mrs. Carlos Bea Mr. & Mrs. Allan Gallagher Mrs. Maryann Bachman Ms. Debra Bellings-Kee Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Garcia Mr. George Baldocchi Mr. & Mrs. Mike Bianchi Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Gaspari Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bertelsen Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bollman Mr. & Mrs. John P. Gianaras Mr. Tom Bertken ’50 Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Ginotti Mr. & Mrs. Michael Boyle & Sheila McManus Mr. & Mrs. Primo Braccini Mr. & Mrs. Jon Gledhill Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blom ’55 Mr. & Mrs. Louis Brizzolara Mr. & Mrs. Ming Go Mr. Thomas P. Brady ’31 Mr. & Mrs. Dean Brown Mr. & Mrs. John R. Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bruni Mr. Robert Goldstone Mr. William E. Britt ’36 Mr. Michael W. Burdick Mr. and Mrs. Mark Groshong Mr. & Mrs. Gerhart Broeker & Mrs. Susan Manheimer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Guglielmi Mr. & Mrs. Gregoire Calegari Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Button Mr. & Mrs. Mark Haesloop Mrs. Edward Carnes Mr. & Mrs. Roger Cardenas Mr. & Mrs. Hagop Hagopian Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Carroll ’43 Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hansen Mrs. Jocelyn S. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Coffey ’74 Mr. Rolando Castro & Ms. Cecile Ehrmann Mr. & Mrs. Hans Hansson Mr. Gerald W. Conlan ’47 Mr. Philip Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Harris, Jr. Mrs. & Mrs. Kevin Coyne ’67 Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Chan Mr. & Mrs. James Harty Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Chan Agao Mr. & Mrs. Sammy K. Ho Mr. & Mrs. Hal Cranston Dr. Robert L. Charpentier Dr. & Mrs. Walter Holleran Mr. & Mrs. Leonard P. Delmas ’47 & Dr. Mary A. Murphy Dr. Ann Omachi & Dr. Gerald Hom Ms. Christine Dohrmann Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Charter Mr. & Ms. Howard P. Hoyt Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Downs ’73 Mr. & Mrs. You-fang Chen Mr. & Mrs. Wade C. Hughan Ms. Mary Driscoll Ms. Hyacintha Chow Ms. P. Roseanna Hughes Mr. & Mrs. John Duff Mr. & Mrs. James E. Christian, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hunt Mr. Frank M. Dunnigan ’70 Ms. Josephine V. Ciappara Mr. & Mrs. Anton Jaber Mrs. Robert Enright Mr. Kevin Collins & Dr. Kristen Sparrow Mr. & Mrs. Howard Joe Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Corbolotti Mr. Philip Johnson Mrs. Myrtis E. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. John Corkery Dr. Carmen A. Jordan-Cox Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Fitzpatrick ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Cortez Mr. Jeffrey Kantner & Ms. Susan Stallard Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gibbons ’37 Mr. & Mrs. Trey Cosgriff Mr. & Mrs. Cesar F. Katada, Jr. Mrs. Linda Grimes Mr. Martin J. Coyne Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Hanley ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Crisafi Mr. & Mrs. Mark Kenney Mr. & Mrs. William Healy ’47 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kerrigan Mr. & Mrs. Blaise Curet Mr. John P. Horgan ’32 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Damon Dr. Gregory A. Ketchum

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Heritage Society, cont. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Klestoff Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Rawls Mr. & Mrs. John M. Knox Mr. & Mrs. David Reiser Dr. Peter Kane ’51 Dr. Deborah V. Kohloss Mr. & Mrs. Paul Repin Mr. Francis J. Kelly III ’75 Mr. Anthony Kosmas & Dr. Lola Giusti Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Reudy Mrs. John Kotlanger Mr. & Mrs. Nick Kosturos Mr. and Mrs. Rick Ribero Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Lagomarsino ’27 Dr. & Mrs. Matthew Lando Mr. & Mrs. Salvatore J. Rizzo Mrs. Lida Lalanne Mr. and Mrs. John J. Larkin Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Robinson Ms. Karen Lau Mrs. Lynne Rodezno Mrs. Phyllis Lavelle Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Tony Rodriguez Mr. George D. Leal ’51 Mr. & Mrs. George C. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. William T. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Henry Leidich Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Leese Mr. Robert Rucker Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Lovette ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Leveroni Mr. Michael Rugen & Ms. Jeannine Kay Mr. John M. Mahoney ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. Lew Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Salvemini Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Maioli ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Lew Mr. & Mrs. Ceasar Sanchez Mrs. Cornelius McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Lim Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Sanchez, Jr. Mr. Jay D. McEvoy ’27 Mr. and Mrs. David Lopez Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Sangiacomo Judge E. Warren McGuire ’42 Mr. Roger Low & Ms. Virginia Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Shaun Scharetg Mr. & Mrs. Allan B. Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Frank Schimaneck Mr. Terrence V. McGuire ’45 Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Ma Mr. & Mrs. Kim Schoknecht Dr. Allison Metz Mr. & Mrs. Victor B. MacFarlane Mr. & Mrs. Bradford Scott Mrs. John Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. William Madison Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Sherer Mr. & Mrs. James Monfredini ’65 Mr. Patrick Maguire & Ms. Jean Rieke Dr. & Mrs. Jack Sinow Mrs. Frank Mullins Mr. & Mrs. James Mah Dr. Ronald Smialowicz Mr. Jeffrey J. Mullins ’67 Mrs. Danila C. Manapsal Dr. Neil Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Leo J. Murphy ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Renato Mariano Mr. Gregory P. Suhr Mrs. Cecil Neeley Dr. Joan Campagna & Mr. Alan Markle Mr. & Mrs. John B. Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. John H. Masliah Mr. & Mrs. Robert Switzer Mrs. Bernice O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McAteer Mr. & Mrs. Kirk C. Syme Mrs. James F. O’Grady Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCaffery Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Szarnicki Mrs. William O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Brian G. McEvoy Ms. Carol Devincenzi & Mr. Richard Talbot Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Payne ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel McGee Mr. Nick Tarlson & Mrs. Mauna Arnzen Mrs. Edgar Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. McGovern Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Telleen Mr. Emmet Purcell ’40 Mr. & Mrs. John McInerney III Mr. & Mrs. Joselito Tengco Mr. Charles Quarré ’42 Mr. & Mrs. William McQuaid Mr. & Mrs. David Thompson Mrs. James J. Raggio Dr. & Mrs. John J. Meharg Mrs. Marina Tolentino Mr. & Mrs. Frank Melcher Mr. Peter Tso & Mrs. Theresa Tso Mr. & Mrs. Dante Ravetti ’49 Mr. & Mrs. Don Miller Mr. Kevin Tully Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Reilly ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mizono & Ms. Louise Velaquez-Tully Fr. Vincent Ring Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Montarano Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Unruh Mr. & Mrs. Gary Roberts ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Danilo Montilla Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Unruh Mrs. Henry Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Moore Mr. & Mrs. George Urda Mr. L. Emmett Schaefer Mr. & Mrs. Michael Munday Mr. & Mrs. Gregory V. Vaughan Mrs. Victor Schaukowitch Dr. & Mrs. Ricardo F. Munoz Mr. & Mrs. Matthew B. Venturi Mrs. Robert Scholla Mr. & Mrs. John G. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Santos Vibat Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Scollin ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Murphy Mr. & Mrs. David Villongco Mr. and Mrs. John B. Muzzatti Mr. & Mrs. James P. Walsh Mrs. Juana Sevilla Mr. & Mrs. Richard Nahass Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Warren Mrs. Joanne Smolich Mr. & Mrs. Julio Najarro Ms. Naomi Weinstein Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stecher ’62 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Nowak Mr. & Mrs. John F. Wildermuth Mr. William L. Teglia Jr. ’65 Mr. Chris J. O’Connor & Dr. Shan Kaur Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Wilhelm Mr. Michael Thiemann ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. O’Mahoney Ms. Elena Wong Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tomasello ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy O’Shea Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Worner Mrs. Jean Travers Mr. & Mrs. N. Lorentz Ou Mrs. Karen S. Wright Mr. John van der Zee ’53 Mr. and Mrs. William Pashelinsky Mrs. Susan Wu Mr. & Mrs. James L. Paver Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Zatkin Mrs. James Walsh Mrs. Nancy Prowitt Mr. & Mrs. Marc Zimmerman Mr. & Mrs. Albert Worner ’36 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr. Mr. Richard Zitrin

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International Faire Celebrates Diverse Cultures of SI The annual Ignatian Guild International Faire, Joe Montana Wows held April 24 in the Carlin Commons, fea- Father-Son Dinner tured food and dance of the various cultures Former ’49er quarterback Joe Montana came represented at SI. Above, the Namu Groove to SI to speak to a sold-out crowd at the Fa- ensemble, featuring West African music, per- ther-Son dinner in April. He brought along formed, along with Irish Dancers from the his father and regaled the crowd with stories Healy School, the Cherng Loong Lion dance about his youth — from playing basketball Troupe, the Hye Fi Armenian Band, the Manu- with his dad to throwing snowballs at cars. ia Polynesian Dancers, Morning Theory and the Unauthorized Rolling Stones, all directed Corrections by Harry Philibosian. At right are chairwomen The following people were omitted from Meredith Arsenio, Jennifer Ohanessian and the list of freshmen and transfer parents Mary Chang. who are participating in the Parent Pledge Drive. Our apologies for this error. Mr. Robert Carroll Mr. & Mrs. Mark Cavalier Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Clark Mr. & Mrs. Renee Gaspar Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gilson Mr. & Mrs. Jack Giuliani Mr. & Mrs. Rosito Lamela Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Lau Mr. & Mrs. Rod Linhares Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGrath Mr. & Mrs. Robert So Mr. & Mrs. Robert Theleen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Tursi Dr. & Mrs. John Umekubo Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Watson Mr. & Mrs. William Wen Mr. & Mrs. Wailan Woo New Scholarship Created Evelyn and Eduardo Coli ’43 recently donated $50,000 to create an endowed scholarship in Ignatian Guild Installs New Officers memory of Eduardo’s parents, Hugo and Lena The Ignatian Guild held its installation Mass May 20 to welcome new President Terry Dillon, Coli. Our thanks to them for this generous Vice-President Jennifer Ohanessian, Secretary Sue Dudum, Corresponding Secretary Becky Lo- gift! back, Treasurer Peggy Nevin and Assistant Treasurer Cynthia Maurer.

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Think of all the SI alumni you know who, over the years, have worked together.

The fi rst people we turn to, it seems, are our high school buddies,

whether as business partners and associates or as weekend warriors The helping each other with some grand project. In this section, we feature just a handful of SI grads who work together Buddy in fi elds ranging from politics to science & entertainment. Their stories are yet another testament

to the strong community SI helps create System and that you help to sustain.

Tom Leach ’94 & Bill Duggan ’93 Success Behind TV’s Curb Appeal

ou’ve seen SI grads on TV Wallace P. Leach ’37; his father, before — it’s not a common Thomas W. Leach ’65; his uncles Je- Ysight, but it does happen oc- rome Leach ’68, Vincent Leach ’71 casionally. and Joseph Leach ’75; his brother, Now you can watch two SI Steven Leach ’97; and his sister, grads on the same show. Christine Leach ’02. Tune in to Home and Garden After SI, he earned a degree in TV’s Curb Appeal on Wednes- interior architecture through a joint days at 10 p.m., and you will see degree program offered by USF and Bill Duggan ’93 hosting the show. the California College of the Arts. From time to time, he will be joined Interior architects, like interior by Tom Leach ’94, who serves as designers, work on the insides of one of several designers the show homes and offi ces. Unlike interior uses to make over the exterior of designers, they use architectural Bay Area homes. features as part of their designs. Each came to the job indepen- Leach decided to get into the dent of one another, despite the fact business because, as he notes, “I that they both went to St. Brendan’s was always interested in the way as well as SI, and their families have homes looked. I even thought brief- been friends for years. ly about going into real estate. But Leach, who comes from a long when I found about the program at line of Wildcats, was the fi rst to USF, I put in my application that land the job. His great grandfather, very day.” Thomas F. Leach, attended SI and graduates include his grandfather, Bill Duggan is the host of HGTV’s Curb Appeal.

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He graduated in 2002 with jobs for but homeowners shouldn’t count on this.) While most of his family had attended college grads few and far between. De- To give the illusion that the host has either Riordan or SH, Duggan chose SI, spite this, he landed a job, thanks to some been there the entire time, the homeown- where he excelled both in acting and poli- family connections, with a small design ers and designer will change into the vari- tics, starring in several plays and serving fi rm. “They had done a few Curb Appeal ous sets of clothes they wore during the as student body president. shows, and said I could assist them with months of fi lming and speak to Duggan as At SCU, he majored in theatre and their next house,” said Leach. “When the if they were still in the middle of construc- political science, and he is the fi rst to time came, they asked me if I could do it tion. tell you that those disciplines go hand in on my own as they were so busy.” “I didn’t get it at fi rst,” said Leach. hand. “Just look at Arnold and Willie Leach jumped at the chance, and “It’s very confusing, especially because Brown,” he noted. “Politicians know that

Curb Appeal, continued the show has gained him tremendous ex- they shoot it out of synch. They might it’s all about how they and their issues are posure. Already, based on the two packaged. People who know how to homes Leach has done — one that ’play the game’ are apt to do well.” aired Oct. 12 featuring a home in “We kept calling each After graduating from SCU, he Orinda, the other May 12 showcas- worked for the school’ school’ss alumni of- ing a San Rafael house — he has re- other Billy and Tommy. It’s fi ce for four years while also pursu- ceived email from people all around ing work on commercials, fi lms and the country complimenting his work. stage in the Bay Area. While working He also landed a job in Moraga funny how we came full with SCU alumni all over the coun- working with a homeowner there. try,try, he eventually met the man who “At my level and age, it’s rare circle to end up where we now serves as his manager manager,, Daniel to do your own projects without a Sladek. boss or without infl uence from other “I actually read an article in Gen- designers. This isn’t a typical job for did. As we sat on the steps esis about Freeman Michaels ’86, a young graduate.” who performed in The Young and The work has been “cool and between takes, it was as the Restless,” said Duggan. “He exciting,” said Leach and has steered said he didn’tdidn’t move to LA until he him away from interior design to if we were sitting on the had credits to his name. That’sThat’s one exterior work. “Design concepts reason I worked on my craft before are the same, whether you’re deal- moving.” ing with interior or exterior,” said steps of our school.” Duggan left SCU in 2001 for LA, Leach, though he is now learning where he took acting classes and au- about plants used in landscaping. — Bill Duggan ’93 ditioned for commercials and TV se- He is also a fi rm believer in the ries. (He has appeared in The Shield show’s philosophy. “The front of a on FX, ABC’sABC’s General Hospital and home should welcome and invite some short fi lms as well as commer-commer- guests,” said Leach. “And it gives start with Billy saying goodbye to all of us cials for Honda, US West,West, and Pedi- visitors a fi rst impression of the hom- and then shoot him as he greets us for the gree among others.) eowner.” fi rst time. They use voice-over to make it “I had to acclimate myself to LA and On the last day of working on his fi rst look as if he is there.” to the studio environment,” said Dug- home, Leach learned the Big Secret behind Leach, who worked on his fi rst home gan. “I had to learn not to get the “Oh the show. The host shows up for one day with a previous host, got the chance to my God!” jitters walking onto studio lots. only at the very end, and the homeowners work with Duggan for his second home Now it’s almost second nature. But most and designers create the illusion that the and for a third show that will air in July people, including myself, still get excited host has been there throughout the entire or August. being around celebrities and ’Hollywood.’ process. They do that because the make- “We had a great rapport because of The trick is to channel that excitement overs could take as long as nine months our SI and St. Brendan’s connections,” into the audition.” to complete. “We fi nished one job in four said Leach. “When we weren’t fi lming, we Despite the heady fi rst days of work- days,” added Duggan. “Just because the were talking about our teachers and mu- ing in Hollywood, Duggan managed to work is done on TV doesn’t mean it will tual friends.” keep his head and his faith. “I’ll say a get done any faster than a normal home “We kept calling each other Billy and quick prayer before an audition, not nec- improvement project. Well, perhaps a bit Tommy,” added Duggan. “It’s funny how essarily to get the part but in gratitude for faster.” we came full circle to end up where we the opportunity. More than 6,500 people (The work, incidentally, is paid for did. As we sat on the steps between takes, can submit resumes for four parts, so just almost entirely by the homeowners. Some it was as if we were sitting on the steps of getting a chance to read is an accomplish- of the work or materials may be donated, our school.” ment. Some people in LA are surprised

8 GENESIS IV features when I tell them I still go to church, but stories. For my faith is important to me.” example, a Duggan also kept his sense of humor homeown- intact. His family owns Duggan’s Mor- er might tuary, and he jokes on auditions that if not like he doesn’t get the part, he’ll be digging the salmon ditches. “On my resume, I note that I’m color cho- willing to work with dead people. Trust sen by the me. It’s just a conversation starter,” he d e s i g n e r, said, quickly adding that he’s proud of his and I’ll put family’s 100 years of service to the com- a humor- munity. ous spin on Duggan’s HGTV break came when he that ten- attended a going-away party for an SCU sion, hope- classmate last September and met a man fully.” who said he produced a cable show out of D u g- San Francisco. “I said jokingly, ’What is gan’s pro- it? Curb Appeal?’ He was shocked that I ducers also was a fan of the show and that I pulled the have him name out of thin air.” i n t e r a c t Duggan’s interest in home design was with fam- inspired by his mother, a graphic artist, ily mem- and his father, with whom he had worked bers in on various home improvement projects creative — around their house. “They raised me on and some- economical how-to projects, and they times em- taught me that you don’t have to buy it barrassing when you can make it. There is a certain — ways. empowerment in learning these skills, and “A woman that stuck with me.” asked me The next day, a Friday, Duggan called to watch the producer, who told him to send in his her daugh- reel, resume and headshot as the show ters while was auditioning for a new host. “If you’re she was in LA auditioning, you have to be ready,” o u t s i d e , said Duggan. “By Monday, those items so I ended were all on his desk.” up play- After three weeks of auditions, Dug- ing Barbie gan got the job and found himself, oddly with two enough, working in the Bay Area, although girls, 3 and he still lives in LA. 6, which “It’s great to be back in the area. I re- I had no ally enjoy walking up to homeowners and p r o b l e m Tom Leach has served as designer for learning that they went to my rival col- doing. But after it aired on TV, I received three Curb Appeal homes. lege or that their dad went to SI, which letters from people giving me a bad time was the case on the last house Tom and I about it. Oh well. It’s all a part of the can watch Bill Duggan Wednesdays at 10 did, or that their mother taught my sister craft, kind of.” p.m. And over the summer, stay tuned for in kindergarten. San Francisco is such a Nearly every homeowner has been a show featuring a San Anselmo house tight community, and I am proud to call it delighted with the makeovers, though with new curb appeal courtesy of Tom home.” a few, Duggan admits, haven’t been so Leach. Duggan likes Curb Appeal’s approach happy. “With those people, I spend all day If you want to try to get your home to simple fixes that encourage viewers to tiptoeing around them. Luckily, for nearly on HGTV’s Curb Appeal, send Duggan tackle projects around their own homes, everyone, the last day when I come is the an email to [email protected] and include and he enjoys the light humor of the show, day to celebrate the completion and enjoy a picture of your home and yourself, de- most of which he adlibs. “They give me their home.” scribe your budget and write what you notes that detail some of the remodeling If you have cable or satellite TV, you woud like to see done to your abode.

GENESIS IV 9 features SI Duo Most Infl uential in San Mateo County

d McGovern ’75 and Mike Nevin The newspaper also praised McGov- and chairs community events such as the ’61, both named to the Examiner’s ern for his work as co-founder and co- Heart Walk, sponsored by the San Mateo Elist of top 10 most infl uential people president of Public Affairs Associates, a County American Heart Association. in San Mateo County, have more in com- public affairs and political consulting fi rm. Nevin is most proud of his work serv- mon than you might think. The story mentioned McGovern’s success- ing the mentally ill of the county. In 1995 he ful handling of the campaigns of Super- visor Mark Church, Assemblyman Gene Mullin and a host of people now serving on city councils of Millbrae, Belmont, San Mateo, Burlingame and Redwood City. Nevin, a 27-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, served on the Daly City planning commission from 1979 to 1982 and earned a spot on the Daly City Council before winning the may- or’s race there in 1984 and 1989. He moved to the San Mateo Board of Supervisors in 1992 and served as board president in 1997 and 2001. He made news two years ago when he decided not to move his family after re- districting made him ineligible to run for the California State Assembly, a job he had been eyeing. “That was a tough time for him and his family,” said McGovern. “Some politicians are criticized for putting their careers ahead Mike Nevin ’61 of their families. One of the things I admire Ed McGovern ’75 most about Mike is that he was poised to They are both SI grads, longtime po- take the seat with very little competition. was instrumental in creating Colma Ridge, litical fi gures in San Mateo politics and big He had worked towards that goal for the which offers 20 apartments for individuals fans of one another, so much so that Nevin past 20 years of his life of public service. with mental disabilities, despite protests has hired McGovern to run his campaign Then he chose his family over that seat be- by neighbors. “That fi ght threatened me for State Senate. cause he knew how much they valued their politically,” said Nevin. “But I stuck to The Examiner named both men to lifelong home in Daly City. I truly admire my guns. Since then, the home has served its prestigious list in April, with Nevin him for making that personal sacrifi ce. It many people, with not a single incident of coming in fi rst place for the fi fth straight motivates me to help him even harder to concern for the neighbors.” year and McGovern taking the number 10 get elected to the State Senate now that Much of Nevin’s work has dealt with the spot. Jackie Speier is vacating her seat.” issues of affordable housing and transportation, The paper hailed Nevin for “having McGovern isn’t the only one to sing which he sees as linked. If elected to the State an active year clashing with BART and Nevin’s praises. A devoted family man (he Senate, he hopes to help transform the El Cami- pushing Measure A” — a half-cent tax and his wife of 35 years, Kathleen, have no Real corridor by building transit-oriented used to alleviate congested roads, reduce three adult children: Mike Jr. ’86, Michelle European-style villages, with people living near accidents and lessen pollution — and call- Levine — a counselor at SI — and Tim where they work and commuting, if they have ing him “the acknowledged leader on the ’90), Nevin has received the Papal Medal to, by CalTrain, BART or SamTrans. “As se- Board of Supervisors.” Pro Ecclesia et Pontifi ce and the Citizen of nior citizens move out of their large homes and Nevin fought with BART over how the Year Award from Daly City. downsize, I want to encourage them to move much money it hoped to charge Sam- He has served as president of the CYO closer to the downtown areas and avoid using Trans for the extension to SFO. Thanks board of directors and received that orga- autos,” said Nevin. “I’d also like to give fi rst- to Nevin’s efforts, the county will save nization’s Service to Youth Award. He con- time homebuyers an option of living near their somewhere between $5 million and $10 tinues to serve on numerous boards, com- jobs so they don’t have to drive two hours to million. missions and regional and state committees realize the California dream.”

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Nevin is an effective politician be- cause he likes to stay put. He served as a councilman for Daly City for 10 years and is in his 12th year as supervisor. “I’m en- trenched in local government,” he noted. “Sometimes, when local politicians go to Sacramento, they forget where they come from and vote to take money away from county and city coffers. I will remember my roots and the people I represent.”

ike Nevin, McGovern’s roots are in San Francisco. His father, Ed Mc- LGovern, Jr., attended SI and started a delicatessen that turned into Knights Ca- tering. “Watching my father build a business from scratch taught me that I could do the same thing,” said McGovern. Before starting his company a dozen years ago, McGovern cut his teeth in poli- tics as student body president of SI and, after The Examiner placed Mike Nevin (left) and Ed McGovern on their top-10 list of San Mateo County’s most influential. McGovern, a political consultant, is leading Nevin’s campaign for graduating from SCU, working for Leo Mc- California State Senate. Carthy ’48, helping in his bid for lieutenant governor. He then worked for San Francisco can governor,” said McGovern. “The year I run for office — people who have no in- Mayor Art Agnos for eight years and helped helped him, he received more votes than any- terest in power or prestige. “They simply the city acquire the land now occupied by one else running for judge. I’m very proud want to do good, to make their communi- SBC Park. He worked briefly for Barbara of that campaign.” (Ryan now serves as U.S. ties better places to live. They will spend Boxer before venturing out on his own. Attorney for the Northern District of Cali- hours in commission meetings and go to Over the years, McGovern discovered fornia.) hundreds of events. It’s unfortunate that that he enjoyed helping people get elected That race helped to sour McGovern so many people are cynical about elected more than the nitty gritty work of forming on San Francisco politics. “Everything officials. But the people I work with on the policy. “I liked putting coalitions together, in the city becomes personal. It’s almost city and county level are committed to fix- running campaigns and organizing around a blood sport. I choose to work in Santa ing the pot holes and improving parks and issues. Those things interested me. I freely Clara, Marin and San Mateo Counties be- making sure the fire department can get admit my strengths aren’t in public policy is- cause politicians there disagree, but they to your house on time. These are the real sues that try to resolve intractable problems, are still cordial with each other at the end workings of government.” but I admire and want to help people who of the day.” McGovern’s biggest fan is, perhaps, hope to tackle those problems.” McGovern also finds that being an Nevin, who describes his campaign man- McGovern also started his firm “be- SI grad helps in his job. “The SI bond that ager as “master of the Peninsula. He has cause I wanted to be my own boss. I wanted I share with Mike Nevin and Leo McCar- a great political mind and a sense of calm to pick and choose the people I would help thy helped cement our connection. It’s a re- that is rare to find. And he has absolute and the issues that I cared about. Over the markable testament to this school that the SI integrity. The political world can be highly years, I’ve turned down clients where we network helps so much in the business and charged, but he knows how to stay calm, might have made a lot of money. I won’t help political community. It helps to break the ice listen and use his imagination.” tobacco firms. I think cigarettes are a terrible at meetings and to bring commonality to the Nevin tells the story of the day he product, and, as a reformed smoker, I abhor issues we discuss.” came public about his decision not to run them.” (He and his wife, Tina, have more SI for the State Assembly. “I hurt a lot of He is proud of the work his firm has connections with their children Katie ’04 and people with that decision — people who done, including helping Stanford expand Claire ’07 and future Wildcats Meagan and helped me raise $400,000 for the election. student and faculty housing on Sand Hill Jack, students at St. Brendan’s. His daughter I spent the day driving around to tell peo- Road and campaigning for Kevin Ryan ’76 Katie served as captain of the varsity soccer, ple my decision in person. Ed was at my in his bid to become a judge. field hockey and lacrosse teams and will at- side the entire time. He was professional, “Ten years ago, Democratic activists tend UC Davis on an athletic scholarship.) calm and loyal. He made me feel as if I in the city were attacking Kevin because he What motivates McGovern is the were his older brother. There’s no one bet- was a Republican appointed by a Republi- satisfaction he feels helping good people ter than Ed McGovern.”

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Asking Kids to Look at the Sky and Wonder

By Byron Philhour investigate faint radiation from an ep- Let’s imagine that there are about 250 s a new faculty member at SI with och in history — a scant 300,000 some- papers added to the astro-ph arXiv every a background in astronomy, I am odd years after the Big Bang — when the week. How many do active astronomers regularly approached by students universe was still so hot it glowed like a read? This depends on their devotion and A toaster fi lament. We can now see across on their reading ability, but often they read and other faculty members in the halls with a question or comment about the lat- all of visible space and can answer basic no more than a handful and likely none in est astronomical news. It’s an encouraging questions equipped with actual data — we detail. There’s a kind of fascinating “meta- sign: After all, we live in what has often are no longer forced to imagine, as Aristo- astronomy” in just keeping up with what been called the “Golden Age” of astrono- tle did, that fundamental questions can or topics are being written about, let alone my. Thanks to technological and theoreti- should be answered by pure thought. what the results are. You might consider cal developments of the past 30 years, the A quick look at the astrophysics sub- browsing these topics. If you are humbled rate of new discoveries in astronomy is section (astro-ph) of the Internet reposito- by the complexity, you are in good com- ry arX- pany. iv.org, So what’s interesting? Needless to say, run by Mars is interesting. We have seen some Cornell really beautiful photos come in from the Univer- Spirit and Opportunity rovers. What al- sity, will ways strikes me about these photos is not c o n - how alien the world is, but how much it v i n c e reminds me of Earth. y o u As a graduate student at Caltech, that as- I had the opportunity to visit the Big Is- t r o n o - land of Hawaii, in particular the fabulous my as telescopes that sit atop the dormant vol- a re- cano Mauna Kea. We would typically stay s e a r c h on the mountain for two to three weeks, science sleeping at the mid-level 9,000-ft. dormi- is ex- tories and working at night at the 14,000- p l o d - ft. summit. The drive up each morning ing. My was an education in awe: It takes about o w n 20 minutes to navigate up to the summit, u n s c i - and in doing so, you rise above the thick Astronomy teacher Byron Philhour and entific cloud layer. The sparse vegetation at the students observing the rings of Saturn on poll of all new astronomy papers posted to dormitories gives way to a dead landscape a spring night on the SI practice fi eld. the site on the morning of Feb. 17, 2004, littered with red and black volcanic peb- produced the following data, grouped bles. overwhelming … and increasing. I’d like roughly by topic from “near to Earth” to The air at the top of Mauna Kea is to share with you one teacher’s opinion “far away”: breathtakingly thin and dry — perfect for of what’s interesting (and, by omission, astronomy but uncomfortable for humans, what’s not interesting) in astronomy to- Topic # of articles much like the surface of Mars. Through day. Our solar system 1 breaks in the clouds, you can see the green The essential questions in astronomy Cosmic rays (particles from space) 4 ranches and farms below, as if from an air- are much the same as they were 2,000 Stars & stellar nurseries 8 plane. At night, you can see the red glow years ago: What is the universe made of? Planet formation around other stars 4 where the lava from Kilauea volcano is When and how did it begin? When and Black holes 4 pouring into the sea. To say that the sur- how will it end? What is our place? It’s Mysterious dark matter 5 face of Earth is alien is, perhaps, a way to exciting to recall that humans living today Galaxies 4 remind ourselves that we are aliens. Mars — you and I — are the fi rst in history to Galaxy clusters 6 is just another place. be able to pose answers to these questions Mysterious gamma-ray bursts 3 It will be some time before the plan- based on a systematic survey of the entire Big Bang cosmology 2 etologists have had a crack at the huge observable universe. Total 41 amounts of data being collected by these Radio telescopes routinely detect and Mars rovers. Perhaps they will get lucky

12 GENESIS IV features with their microscope and camera and snap a picture of a small fossil. Already RadioShack Honors they have found convincing evidence that water once flowed on the surface of that SI’s James Dann now-dry planet. f you ask Science Depart- Scientists surmise that the creation of ment Chairman James life on Earth required a mix of ingredients Dann why he won a Ra- that may have been unique to our planet: I dioShack National Teacher a source of energy (lightning? solar ener- Award and $3,000 last April, gy? heat from underwater volcanic vents? he’ll simply tell you this: the stirring motion of tides?), a mix of “I just won because I ap- organic chemicals (delivered by comets? plied. Almost everyone on gathered in interstellar clouds?) and water. the faculty deserves an award Why water? Water is the universal solvent. like this. I am blessed to work Water allows the organic chemicals neces- with such an amazing group sary to come apart and reform in new and of teachers here at SI. If they In the spring, Physics teachers James Dann interesting ways. Water gives dumb luck a applied for this or any other award, they and Byron Philhour brought 26 students to chance to play out. a Sacramento area ranch owned by Dann’s would win, too.” Life is a mystery — but it’s surpris- parents. There students launched weather This is the second RadioShack award ing how much we know these days. For balloons 1,200 feet above sea level and Dann has earned. Last year, the company analyzed pressure and temperature data, instance, we know that life (on Earth) de- selected him to help develop its Learning comparing them to NASA and exponential pends crucially on a set of chemical ele- models. Pictured above are Patty Pang, ToolKit, which offered hands-on projects ments, chief among them hydrogen, car- Dann, Dan Bollman, Erin Cavanaugh, Shant for students to download from the Inter- bon, oxygen and nitrogen. I have the good Hagopian, Cecilia Thornton Alison Joanne net and try on their own or in conjunction dela Cruz and Clarissa Wong. At night, fortune of being able to preach the genesis with a teacher or parent. students looked through two large tele- and subsequent evolution of the elements scopes at the rings of Saturn, the moons of Dann posted several of his experi- to my three SI physics classes. We recently Jupiter and a binary star system. ments online through that grant, drawing discussed the decay of radioactive atomic tens of thousands of students to his site. nuclei and the fusion of light nuclei (like T h i s he drilled holes into a 2-meter tube and the hydrogen nucleus, a single proton) year, Dann placed a speaker at one end. He then filled into heavier nuclei (like carbon, which has is one of the tube with natural gas and lit it as it six protons and about the same number 110 edu- emerged from each of the holes. He then of neutrons). This type of transmutation cators to asked students to calculate the sound fre- happens only at the centers of dying stars. receive the quency needed to create a certain wave It’s funny: There’s a few times when N a t i o n a l pattern. “If their calculations were cor- you’re teaching and suddenly you feel like T e a c h e r rect, they would see a wave pattern among you’re floating, because you know you’re A w a r d the flames. If not, all the flames would be talking about something profound, and across the the same height.” that it is clicking with your students as U.S. for The experiment helped students un- something profound. The formation of a c h i e v e - derstand the resonant frequency of sound chemical elements in stars, and the subse- ment in waves in a tube. “That’s why musicians quent wild distribution of these elements mathemat- can create notes using wind instruments. through the explosions of stars, never fails ics, science Flutes and clarinets are a certain length for to give me one of these giddy teaching or technology, and one of 12 in California a reason.” moments. Perhaps this is one reason why to earn this honor. To win the award, Dann wrote four stars and stellar nurseries — star-forming “I know my students appreciate my essays discussing how he uses technology regions in the galaxy — top the chart of work,” said Dann. “This award is nice in the classroom and submitted demon- today’s astro-ph posts. because it tells teachers that others ap- stration materials. What else is interesting? All astrono- preciate our work, too. The faculty at SI Dann, who has served as science de- mers are anticipating upcoming observa- regularly goes above and beyond the call partment chairman for half of his six years tional tests of exciting new extensions to of duty. We don’t believe in just doing the at SI, earned a doctoral degree in particle the Big Bang model. That the Big Bang oc- minimum.” physics from UC Santa Cruz in 1998, curred isn’t controversial; abundant and Dann submitted several demonstra- working at CERN in Geneva along the diverse evidence points to the fact that our tions to win the award, including one way at the largest particle physics labora- universe was once much hotter and packed he calls the “flaming tube.” For this, tory in the world. much, much more tightly than it is today. continued on page 14

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in an ad- etoid just smaller than Pluto found out in ditional set the cold depths of the solar system. Yes- of dimen- terday I saw a story describing the newest sions (w, v, X-ray pictures of a black hole devouring a u, …?) as companion star. Why should I dread this? well. We I think other teachers might understand w o u l d n ’t this best: Some of my SI astronomy stu- notice these dents are too into it. dimensions I teach a new, 4th period astronomy b e c a u s e class for post-physics seniors filled with our experi- some of the brightest students I’ve ever ence is lim- seen. Like any teacher, I have a lesson ited to the plan and a progression in my mind for input of the order of topics. Some things have to our senses, be discussed before others, some topics go and these together, and some topics need to be kept senses rely far apart. But every day my students come on physical with a new question about the latest news. laws that, If we spent the necessary time discussing for some their questions, we’d have no time left. I r e a s o n , guess it’s a pretty silly thing for me to com- only play plain about. A region in our galaxy consisting of a mix of dust and gas named NGC-604. out in the It is in these types of places that huge 3+1 dimen- Byron Philhour is in his first year clusters of stars — and, presumably, sions we teaching astronomy and physics at SI. He the planets that orbit them — are are familiar received his doctoral degree in physics, born. Photo courtesy of STScI/NASA. with. But with a concentration in astrophysics, from perhaps, as the California Institute of Technology in As I mentioned, astronomers since the close as 1 centimeter away in the “w-direc- 2002. 1960s have observed the leftover “relic” tion,” there lies another universe of galax- radiation of this cataclysmic explosion us- ies, another membrane or brane. And per- ing radio telescopes. (In fact, when I was Resources on the Internet haps these two branes can feel each others’ at the telescopes in Mauna Kea, that’s pre- gravitational pull. And perhaps, time and cisely what I was measuring — in particu- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov again, our branes collide with each other lar the way this radiation is discolored as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab site. in this 4th dimension, causing an enormous it passes through distant galaxy clusters.) Check out Mars images here. Astronomy, continued Astronomy, explosion of heat: the Big Bang. Extensions to the Big Bang aim to Observational tests of this theory explain, if possible, why and how the Big http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov might include employing machines like Bang occurred. The front-runner right now NASA’s Microwave Anisotropy Probe the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) to is known as cosmic inflation. Inflation the- site. Learn about the Big Bang here. ram together subatomic particles with such ory claims that, in the first moment of his- vigor that they scatter some gravitational tory, the universe began growing exponen- http://www.arxiv.org energy into our cousin brane elsewhere in tially, ripping apart its primordial sea of ArXiv repository for physics preprints, the 4th dimension. Observationally, such subatomic particles faster than the speed including astro-ph. an event would manifest as a breach of of light. Initial random patchiness in the the law of conservation of energy — we positions of these particles was amplified, http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/ would actually lose energy to the other and this theory proposes that today’s dis- maunakea.htm brane. It’s no joke: there are papers posted tribution of galaxies in the universe bears Mauna Kea observatories photos and on astro-ph that have actually been writ- an imprint of this initial randomness. It’s information. ten about this stuff; use the search engine an elegant theory, one that ties together to find them by searching on ’membrane.’ the worlds of the very large and the very http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov It’s a maddeningly large number of small. And, amazingly, it has survived a The Astronomy Picture of the Day (a concepts to keep track of. number of observational tests. must-see). In fact, I’ve almost come to dread the There are competing theories. One, new daily news report about some fasci- dubbed brane theory, suggests that our http://www.siprep.org/faculty nating astronomical topic. Recently many universe is expressed not just in three spa- bphilhour of us read something about a new plan- tial (x,y,z) and one time (t) dimension, but My own web site at SI.

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In and Behind the Spotlights on Broadway

part-time work with the California Con- fi lm industry, Bollywood. The story of Celine Alwyn temporary Dancers, a modern dance com- Bombay Dreams centers around the life Gets Her Big Break pany that fuses Classical Indian dance of a young man, Akaash, who goes from with modern dance. The co-artistic direc- being an “untouchable,” a member of the in Bombay Dreams tor of the company, Sheetal Gandhi, had lowest caste of Indian society, to mak- auditioned for Bombay Dreams in New ing it rich as a movie star in Bollywood. By Celine Alwyn ’98 York and had been cast. Over the phone, Through the distractions of stardom, am 23 years old (soon to be 24) and the production team asked Sheetal wheth- Akaash struggles with his identity, falls in have just gotten my fi rst big break er she knew of anyone who had the look love and ultimately embraces who he is I as a performing artist. I (at least for and the skills needed for the show. A week and where he comes from. now) can say goodbye to waitressing, ap- after that phone call (and a very kind and plying for ridiculously low-paying jobs on selfl ess recommendation later), I was on a First Week of Rehearsals Craig’s List and depending on others to plane to New York, about to attend my On the fi rst day of rehearsal, 40 new get me through the month. fi rst Broadway show audition. people are all raring to go, some already The day after I graduated from SCU, Here is a little of what I have experi- familiar to the proceedings, veterans of I fl ew to New York City to attend the Ai- enced and learned dancing and singing in Broadway, some fi nding themselves in a ley School’s summer intensive dance pro- Broadway’s Bombay Dreams. musical for the fi rst time and still others gram as an independent study student. In happy to have fi nally found work. (I fi t college, I had fallen in love with modern About Bombay Dreams into this last category). We all have several dance and had decided that if I were se- Bombay Dreams is set amid India’s new names to remember, a complete new riously considering a career in it, dance style to learn, Indian ac- both as a performer and a chore- cents and gestures to practice and ographer, I would need to throw some very long days ahead. myself into more training. For a We work from 10 a.m. to 6 year, I danced by day, waitressed p.m. Monday through Saturday in by night and lived in a tiny little a studio on 42nd Street. From the room in a dormitory up in Har- window, we have views of such lem. Times Square attractions as The Life was not the easiest for me Lion King, Madame Tussaud’s, in the Big Bad Apple my fi rst time a very brightly lit McDonald’s, around. The talent around me and, of course, the steaming Cup was very intimidating and I often of Noodles. We start the day with found myself in need of motiva- company warm-up class and then tional speeches. I was not a big fan proceed to learn choreography of the competitive environment, and blocking. When 4 p.m. rolls but found that it made me work around every day, it is a struggle that much harder and forced me to staying alert and attentive to the push myself beyond my limits. On changes and new steps they con- a normal day, I would be in dance tinue to give us. class for three hours in the morn- The pace at which they are ing and two hours in the after- throwing new material at us is noon and then be at my waitress very challenging. Our choreogra- job from 6 p.m. until midnight. I phers (Farah Khan and Anthony seldom had a day off in the week. Van Laast) inform us that we After a year of sore muscles, a di- will be performing what we have minished social life and very severe learned for Andrew Lloyd Webber weather conditions (22 inches of and our director, Steven Pimlott, snow blanketed the city in April of the following Monday. The pres- 2003), I was dying to escape New sure is on. They tell us that almost York City. every Saturday we will have a I returned to San Francisco Ayesha Dharker (center) with Celine Alwyn (right). Photo by small audience (designers, poten- (home sweet home) and found Joan Marcus tial investors and sometimes even

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ing the culture. We begin to grow as simple as a “but” in place of an “and” frustrated when little cultural details or in some cases the addition of a new seem to be overlooked, and we be- scene. come at times too outspoken with our opinions. Opening Night to Now I have grown to love going to April 29, 2004. It feels as if it is work. Yes, my body is achy, I can- Christmas! All of our dressing room sta- not party as much as others and I tions are littered with cards and gifts am already a little sick of some of from well-wishers. Other Broadway casts the songs, but I feel alive. I look at have left notes telling us to break a leg. everyone in the cast, with ages range Our family and friends will be populating from 19 to 40, but to me, everybody a large part of the seats tonight, and out- looks in his or her twenties. We sing, side a red carpet has been placed for such dance and above all play for a living. luminaries as Miss America and Donald If that is not the fountain of youth, Trump. In the theater, we are involved in please tell me what is. Broadway opening night traditions, in- cluding the laying on of the Gypsy Robe, Dress Rehearsals & which is presented to the chorus mem- a Month of Previews ber who has been in the most Broadway First day of rehearsal at The shows and who embodies the qualities Broadway Theater and I feel like a of a true Broadway Gypsy. The robe is little kid again. I inspect every nook adorned with mementos from different and cranny of the place, from the or- shows and cast signatures. This was my chestra pit to the dressing rooms. We fourth Gypsy Robe ceremony I have at- have now begun the arduous process tended, the first three having been at SI of adding lights, sets, costumes, fog, for the opening nights of Evita, Carousel water and sound into the picture. and The Secret Garden. Costumes and wigs are tailor- May 29, 2004. The cast has been per- made to fit each cast member. As a forming the show for more than a month member of the ensemble, I have eight now, and we are all facing new challenges. different costumes and about six wig/ Voices and muscles not accustomed to the Celine Alwyn backstage in her Miss India contestant headpieces. I go from being one of the strains of an eight-show-a-week run have costume. poorest citizens of Bombay (wearing begun to grow tired. Unfortunately, inju- shapeless and stained raggedy cloth- ries have started to creep up. Last week- newspaper and television representatives). ing) to being a bejeweled, Vegas-styled end, one of our lead actors had a bad case Without needing to be informed, we are Miss India Beauty Pageant contestant. (In of pink eye but performed anyway. We well aware of how much money is riding the show this transformation takes about have had good and bad reviews, and some on the success of this musical. two minutes.) I have learned that walking audiences have been more approving then with three-inch heels on a sloped, raked others. Still, we come in to the theater ev- End of the First Month stage might appear glamorous; however, it ery day (sometimes twice a day) and hope The cast has become very close. Con- is both painful and dangerous. Backstage to give as much if not more energy than trary to what television and movies have quick changes can be more nerve-rack- we did the show before. led me to believe about life on the profes- ing than the actual performance. Contact I still cannot believe I am here. When sional stage, there has been no behavior wearers beware: Dancing in a 23-jet foun- I was a student at SI, I was just starting to reminiscent of Showgirls and the stars of tain is just asking for trouble. (This is one discover my love for the stage. I was very our show applaud us, the ensemble, as of the biggest attractions of our show!) lucky to have had teachers and mentors much if not more than we applaud them After a week of 1 p.m. to 12 a.m. re- during that time who noticed my passion for their work. Whether this is because hearsals (final technical and dress rehears- and encouraged me to perform. It was the majority of our leads are either new to als), Bombay Dreams is finally open for thanks primarily to SI performing arts Broadway or not yet famous in America, I previews. In a preview performance, the teachers Peter Devine ’66, Angela Brizuela do not know. audience is aware that the show is still and Janet Sablinsky that I received such a The entire cast, Indians and non-Indi- unfinished. The entire cast is called into good start. ans alike, have come to an understanding rehearsal from 1 to 6 p.m. during the day If you have any questions at all about that this musical has the power to change and then performs the show with changes New York or Broadway or just want to the way Americans look at India. Some of made that day and that night. Lines are chat with a fellow Wildcat, please email us worry that we might be misrepresent- constantly changed, with some revisions me at [email protected].

16 GENESIS IV features Brendan Quigley Enjoys an Illuminating Career

ome people meet life head-on, tack- use power tools, and he soon found him- with celebrities, some of whom he found ling the biggest challenges they can self making close friends with other mem- quite friendly. “Pat Benatar would come Sfind. bers of the backstage crew while assem- in every night at dinnertime to make sure Brendan Quigley ’78 does this too. bling sets and backdrops. the crew had eaten well,” he noted, “and But that’s not what he points to as the rea- “Peter had high expectations for the Joel Grey, Naomi and Winona Judd and son for his professional success. production values of his shows. My suc- Rob Halford, the lead singer for Judas “I’ve gone down the easiest road I cess is partly due to SI’s great theatre pro- Priest, are great people.” could find,” laughed Quigley, who has gram. It taught me to work with the best He became interested in sports and na- worked with lighting and special effects people I could find.” ture photography while on the road, and for a who’s-who of Rock & Roll and Quigley went on to Cal Poly Pomona he hopes one day to sell his prints. He is theatre celebrities, from Ozzy Osbourne, where he studied theatre and fell in love also involved with the Coastal Bend Land KISS and Judas Priest, to Elton John and with the world of lighting. He left college Trust, based in Corpus Christi, and the Val- Tim Rice. in 1984 to work professionally and began As a Vari*Lite Technician for the touring with Ozzy Osbourne the follow- Broadway production of the Tony-Award ing year. After touring with KISS, he was winning Wicked, Quigley is currently hired by Judas Priest and learned how to helping Joel Grey shine brighter in his role operate Vari*Lite lighting systems, whose as the Wizard of Oz. (The day after the movements and effects are controlled by Tony’s, the show sold $1.6 million in tick- a sophisticated computer program. Based ets, a record high for Broadway.) on his expertise with these lights, Van Following this laissez-faire philoso- Halen hired him in 1988. This led to tours phy led him to Hollywood, where he cre- with numerous other bands including Ba- ated special effects for Nightmare on Elm nanarama, Pat Benatar, Hank Williams Jr. Street III & IV and for Bill and Ted’s Ex- and the Rolling Stones. cellent Adventure. Before his six-month odyssey with This philosophy has also led him to KISS’s “Crazy Nights” tour, however, he try his hand at nature photography, which landed a job as special effects technician led, in turn, to his work protecting endan- for Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV. gered ecosystems. “Whenever someone As a fabricator and welder for part IV, presented something to me that looked he was given the task of fabricating a like fun, I took that opportunity until truck that gave the illusion of “crashing something better came along,” he added. into nothing,” said Quigley. “It’s as if the Quigley, who has lived on the road truck wrapped itself around a tree that no since 1999, now finds it odd to have a one could see. It was pretty cool seeing it place to call home. For Wicked’s New work, and it looked great in the movie.” York run, he sublet an apartment in West After his stint in Hollywood and years New York, but he’s more comfortable in of touring, he taught at the Collin County hotels or staying with his many friends Community College in Plano, Texas, from throughout the country. 1992 to 1996. He helped his students put Brendan Quigley sheds light on Wicked. “I really enjoy being on the road,” he together a show that placed them in the noted. “I feel as if I’m on vacation all year top seven theatre schools in the country, long. I’m continually exposed to new things, competing against the likes of Yale and ley Land Fund in McAllen, Texas, helping and I can play tourist everywhere I go. Trav- Harvard. both groups preserve fragile ecosystems. eling and meeting people like I do keeps me He worked for the Vari*Lite corpo- Quigley admits that life on the road mentally challenged. Also, it gets me out in ration for several years before heeding can be hard. “It has taken a toll on my per- the field and behind my camera in a lot of once again the call of the road. In 1999 sonal relationships. I don’t see my brother places I might not have the opportunity to he joined Riverdance and, in 2001, Aida and his family as often as I like, and I miss get to if I had a regular 9–5 job.” (written by Tim Rice and Elton John for out on seeing my nephew grow up. And it’s Quigley got his start in theatre while Disney) working as an electrician for both hard to keep up a relationship. But I’ve been a student at SI. He worked as a carpenter, national tours. “I had to leave the Aida fortunate in that my jobs have introduced building sets for Peter Devine’s plays, un- tour in 2003. After 720 performances in me to the biggest names in the industry, and der the direction of Bill Raffetto ’69. His 35 cities, I couldn’t take it any more.” these people are now friends of mine. It’s a father, a Bechtel engineer, taught him to His work puts him in close contact great life.”

GENESIS IV 17 graduationnews

Maricela Cardona Jennifer Castro Erin Cavanaugh Class of 2004 Honored Christina Cella Derrick Chan Catherine Charpentier at 145th Commencement Tiffany Chinn Elizabeth Christian VALEDICTORIAN Commended Students Thomas Chu Chosen from among those seniors who, in the 2004 Merit Program Thomas Corbolotti Jonathan Abinante Michael Corbolotti throughout their prep school career, distin- Nicholas Adler Ernesto Cortez guished themselves by genuine academic Dominic Bea Tracy Cosgriff achievements, as well as by participation in Erin Cavanaugh Madeline Curet David Darling the extracurricular activities of both school Adrian Charter Thomas Chu Joanne dela Cruz and community. Madeleine Curet Jill de los Angeles Kevin Feeney Jennifer Doherty Noel Diaz de Rivera Amanda Lowrey Marriane Ugarte Kathryn Lawson Brian Estrada Elizabeth Dougherty Stephanie Lucas Zachary Unruh Mary Leveroni Lisa Fike Jason Doyle Tiffinie Ma Amadeo Vibat Vanessa Li SALUTATORIAN Kristen Francoz Patricia Dudziec Sarah Mackota Christopher Villongco Brenden Lim Selected as one who embodies the spirit and Kristen Gledhill Brian Estrada Martin Maguire Emily Warren Jessica Liu values of the graduating class. As one who Andrew Haesloop Kevin Feeney Kari Mah Ashley Werner Alessandra Lollini Francesca Fenili Adam Malinowski Clarissa Wong Timothy Lopez manifests the Christian values of the school Shant Hagopian John Hughan Charles Ferdon Melvyn Manapsal Katrina Woo Brandon Loughridge and a marked concern for fellow students, Amy Lew Lisa Fike Patrick Mariano Ian Wright Amanda Lowrey the Salutatorian is chosen to address the S.I. Anna Lund Dana Fisco Philip Markle Laura Zimmerman Stephanie Lucas Student Body at the Awards Convocation. Tiffinie Ma Carlton Fong Emily McGowan Samuel Madison Martin Maguire Lawrence Fong Zoe Meharg 200 Club Christian Sarah Mackota Jeffrey Knox Matthew Maguire Laura Fowler Regina Moore Service Hours Martin Maguire Jessica dela Merced Kari Mah Semuteh Freeman Aubrey Muñoz George Aherne Matthew Maguire Philip Markle Kristyn Gherardi Morgan Murphy Kirsten Andereck Adam Malinowski Gregory Ginotti Laura Muzzatti Melvyn Manapsal LOYALTY AWARD Catherine Miller Elysha Anderson Aubrey Muñoz Kristen Gledhill Natalie Nowak Phillip Aquilina Marjorie McAteer This award honors extraordinary dedication Daniel Murphy Victoria Go Elizabeth Ontano Dana Armanino Michael Melcher to the entire school, conspicuous service, and Marisa Pereira-Tully Mari Goldstone Stefanie Ordoveza Joseph Barrack Julius Mendoza dedication to the stated values and goals of Kevin Poon Janette Mae Gonzales Tiffany Ou Aaron Bellings Nichole-Lauren Mendoza Christopher Ragni Shant Hagopian Jacob Pashelinsky Kevin Bianchi Regina Moore St. Ignatius. Kristina Serratto Brittany Harrison Marisa Pereira Tully Exstace Boccara Morgan Murphy Timothy Szarnicki Victor Sinow Ashley Hawthorne Michael Peroutka Zachary Brown Laura Muzzatti Matthew Switzer Danny Ho Kevin Poon Christine Bruni Alberto Nissim William Holleran Christopher Ragni Nicholas O’Shea GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Claire Telleen Elizabeth Button Clarissa Wong Meghan Horn Natalie Repin Gregory Callaghan Elizabeth Ontano A special award conferred on a senior who Rosalind Huddleston Caroline Robinson Jeffery Callaghan Tiffany Ou is distinguished by scholarship, excellence California Scholarship Jennifer Hunt Gabriella Rodezno Roger Cardenas, Jr. Vanessa Paredes in conduct, and outstanding devotion to the Federation Life Members George Jaber Hayley Rucker Erin Cavanaugh Kevin Poon Peter Johnson Lauren Sanchez Christina Cella Christopher Ragni school through participation in both curricu- Nicholas Adler Adrienne Aguirre Maureen Kantner Valerie Santos Catherine Charpentier Carolyn Rayburn lar and extracurricular student affairs. Anthony Aminoff Lyncea Samantha Katada Kristina Scolari Tiffany Chinn Eric Reiser Emily Warren Elysha Anderson Yvonne Kelly Bradford Scott Cornelius Corkery Natalie Repin Phillip Aquilina Kelly Kennedy Kristina Serratto Ernesto Cortez Caitlin Reyna Kristine Arangcon Rachael Kerrigan Pamela Sevilla Karen Damon Gabriella Rodezno THE IGNATIAN AWARD Dana Armanino Jill Kitaura Peter Sherer Carlo De Leon Daniel Rodriguez This is the highest award our school can of- Alexandra Banis Jeffrey Knox Victor Sinow Joanne dela Cruz Elizabeth Rogers fer. It is conferred upon a graduating senior Alexandra Barreneche Cassandra Kosturos Sarah Smialowicz Jessica dela Merced Sophia Salfiti Amanda Lawrence Claire Sullivan Eric Dhall Grazia Salvemini who has consistently put the welfare of fel- Aaron Bellings Kristen Boffi Jonathan Lawson Jacqueline Taheny Christopher Dowdy Lauren Sanchez low students above his/her own interests. Emily Boyle Kelly Lee Claire Telleen Bryan Downey John Sangiacomo This award winner is chosen from among Paolo Braccini Amy Lew Jonathan Tengco Carleen Durkin Steven Sangiacomo Vanessa Li Shanti Tharayil Michael Schimaneck fellow classmates for service on their behalf, Elizabeth Button Andree Engelhardt Gregory Callaghan Brenden Lim Cecelia Thornton-Alson Brian Estrada Kristina Scolari dedication to the Gospel message, and devo- Jeffrey Callaghan Joseph Linehan Cynthia-Marie Tolentino Francesca Fenili Victor Sinow tion to the Christian ideals enunciated by the Alessandra Lollini Sairina Tsui Lisa Fike Alexis Solis patron of our school, St. Ignatius of Loyola. Dana Fisco Edmund Steacy Kristin Francoz Haig Sujohn Semuteh Freeman Semuteh Freeman Jacqueline Taheny Marcus Gallagher Jonathan Talbot THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD Ashley Gant Cecelia Thornton-Alson Jack Torres The President’s Award shall be conferred Andrew Gaspari Matias Godinez Marriane Ugarte upon non-alumni who have distinguished Mari Goldstone Christopher Urda themselves in the service of the greater Janette Mae Gonzales Katherine Vaughan community.” Craig Hansson Laura Volpe Elizabeth Harris Emily Warren Fr. John S. Hardin, OFM Brittany Harrison Katherine Watts Ashley Hawthorne Ashley Werner National Merit Scholarship Program Finalists Albert Hernandez Clarissa Wong Mark Bollman Danny Ho Katrina Woo Charles Ferdon Meghan Horn Martin Wu Jeffrey Knox John Hughan Zoe Meharg Lyncea Samantha Katada Jacob Pashelinsky Jill Kitaura Cecelia Thornton-Alson Inna Kurikova Emily Warren Amanda Lawrence

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STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT SOCIAL SCIENCE AWARDS Maureen & Kenneth Atwell Endowed Scholarship Conchita O. Bishop Scholarship Jeffrey Harris Knox Shant Arshak Hagopian Fund Morgan Campbell ’08 Emily Casey Warren Karen Marshall ’08 Shelly Capulong ’07 NORMAN A. BOUDEWIJN AWARD Ashley Elizabeth Werner SOPHOMORE ORATORICAL CONTEST Angelo Baffico Scholarship Fund Thomas J. Brandi Family Scholarship Phillip Benedetti Nicole Gonzalez ’05 Joseph Hills ’05 JOHN E. BROPHY ’43 AWARD Di Marco Hoskins ’05 OUTSTANDING SENIOR ATHLETES SPIRIT AWARD Opal I. Bailey Memorial Scholarship Craig King ’06 Ryan Andrew McQuaid Steven Michael Sangiacomo Jared Salin ’06 Katherine Ann Watts Brown Family Scholarship VISUAL ARTS AWARD Anton Bakker Memorial Scholarship Fund Sam Salfiti ’06 CAMPUS MINISTRY AWARD Charles Murphy Leese Jake Avella ’08 Aubrey Elizabeth Luz Muñoz Louis Bueler Scholarship Fund Jonathan Lyman Talbot BANK OF AMERICA ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Thomas J. Bannan Scholarship Endowment Ariana Jarrell ’07 2004 Rex Brown Jr. ’06 CHORUS AWARD Ryan Brown ’07 John E. Buick III Scholarship Carlton Jing Fong APPLIED AND FINE ARTS Joseph Cromwell Chy ’05 Laura Grealish ’08 Marriane Ugarte Plaque Winner Claire Herbert ’06 Kevin Watters ’06 Zachary Unruh CHRISTIAN SERVICE AWARD Pamela Sevilla Charisse MacDula ’07 Amadeo Vibat Gabriella Rodezno Certificate Awards Arkadiusz Malinowski ’06 Calegari Scholarship Fund, Jean-Paul ’85 & Jean- Christopher Villongco Art: Tracy Cosgriff Monika Stansbury ’08 Emily Warren Claude ’89 CLASSICAL & MODERN Drama: Gregory Callaghan Ashley Werner Matthew Summers-Gavin ’07 Clarissa Wong LANGUAGES AWARDS Music: Kevin Poon Katrina Woo French: Mark Kochayan Bollman Ian Wright Japanese: Ai Alina Chen LIBERAL ARTS Laura Zimmerman Latin: Tracy Clotilde Cosgriff Plaque Winners Spanish: Maricela Cardona & Kevin Feeney 200 Club Christian Shant Arshak Hagopian Semuteh Freeman Service Hours Certificate Awards George Aherne DANCE AWARD English: Catherine Miller Kirsten Andereck Amanda Marie Lowrey Language: Maricela Cardona – Spanish Elysha Anderson Ai Chen – Japanese Phillip Aquilina DRAMA AWARD Carlton Fong – French Dana Armanino Zachary Winters Kenney Religious Studies: Sarah Smialowicz Joseph Barrack Social Science: David Darling Aaron Bellings ENGLISH AWARD Kevin Bianchi Kevin Joseph Feeney SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Exstace Boccara Plaque Winner Zachary Brown ENGLISH WRITING AWARD Joanne dela Cruz Christine Bruni Elizabeth Rose Ontano Certificate Awards Elizabeth Button Mathematics: Shant Hagopian Gregory Callaghan FINE ARTS AWARD Science: Jacob Pashelinsky Jeffery Callaghan Gregory Thomas Callaghan Roger Cardenas, Jr. FATHERS’ CLUB AWARDS Erin Cavanaugh FOX MEMORIAL RELIGION AWARD Thomas William Corbolotti Christina Cella Class of 2004: Sarah Ashley Mackota Charles Patrick Ferdon Catherine Charpentier Class of 2005: Christopher J. Tow Yvonne Marie Kelly Tiffany Chinn Class of 2006: Paul A. Zmuda Mary Elizabeth Leveroni Cornelius Corkery Class of 2007: Marina L. Gilmore Alessandra Elizabethe Lollini Ernesto Cortez Kevin Alexander Poon Karen Damon FRESHMAN ELOCUTION CONTEST Lauren Ashley Sanchez Carlo De Leon Elizabeth Palazzolo Joanne dela Cruz IGNATIAN GUILD AWARDS Jessica dela Merced JAZZ BAND AWARD Mark Kochayan Bollman Eric Dhall Maureen Veronica Stallard Michael Joseph Corbolotti Renolds J. Barbieri & Evelyn Barbieri Scholarship Clark & Elizabeth Callander Scholarship Fund Christopher Dowdy Lauren Ashley Sanchez Dana Polite Fisco Fund Amelia Ho ’08 Bryan Downey Kristin Allegra Francoz Carleen Durkin Elizabeth Santos ’05 Yesenia Padilla ’05 JOURNALISM AWARD Cecelia Claire Thornton-Alson Andree Engelhardt Daniel Radovich ’06 Victoria Go Clarissa Wai-Wah Wong Brian Estrada Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Barbieri, ’36 Scholarship Fund Carlos Velez ’05 Francesca Fenili Jessica Alejandrino ’07 MATHEMATICS AWARD Lisa Fike Nathan Singhapok ’05 Andy & Miriam Canepa Scholarship Emily Casey Warren Dana Fisco SI Scholarships Catherine Abalos ’05 Kristin Francoz Barisic Family Scholarship Fund TOM MURPHY JSEA AWARD Semuteh Freeman Nina Anguiano ’07 Steven D. Cannata Scholarship Kristen Marie Boffi Marcus Gallagher 2004–2005 David Lopez ’07 David Andrew Darling Ashley Gant Lawrence & Mae E. Barrett Scholarship Peter Patrick Madigan Antonini Scholarship Andrew Gaspari Catherine May Abalos ’05 Gregory & Robin Canonica Scholarship ORCHESTRA AWARD Nicole Canepa ’07 Matias Godinez Brian Del Castillo ’06 Elizabeth Burke Dougherty Mari Goldstone Anthony Bartmann Scholarship James Mezzera ’08 L. James Archer, Class of 1950 Scholarship Fund Janette Mae Gonzales Kayla Arangcon ’07 SCIENCE AWARD Boris Albinder ’05 Craig Hansson William & Beatrice Carlin Endowed Scholarship Daniel Corrigan Murphy Nicholas Alvarado ’06 Elizabeth Harris The Mary Katherine Bertken & James Thomas Elizabeth Andolong ’05 Robert Alvarado ’06 Brittany Harrison Bertken Scholarship Fund Nina Anguiano ’07 Ashley Hawthorne SERVICE AWARD Jeffrey Cosgriff ’06 Sean Boyd ’08 Joaquin De La Torre ’08 Albert Hernandez Lauren Elizabeth Goldberg Allison Fitzpatrick ’08 Melissa Liotta ’08 Danny Ho Caroline Ashley Robinson Yeshi Haileselassie ’05 Dr. and Mrs. Edmond Bedrossian Scholarship Fund Laura Maxwell ’06 Meghan Horn Juan Carlos Arrieta ’08 John Hughan CHUCK SIMON AWARD FOR THEATRE ARTS Edward J. Armanino Scholarship Endowment Fund K. Carpenter Family Scholarship Fund Lyncea Samantha Katada Emily Frances McGowan Samuel Buckter ’08 Roland Biancalana Scholarship Sabrina Cardona ’06 Jill Kitaura Joaquin De La Torre ’08 Karl Carrillo ’05 Inna Kurikova PETER SMITH ’80 THEATRE ARTS AWARD Morgan Jarrell ’08 Thomas Caruso Scholarship Amanda Lawrence Jeffrey Boragno Callaghan Dionne Licudine ’08 Sean Irwin ’05 Jaclyn Los Banos ’06 GENESIS IV 19 schoolnews SI Scholarships, continued Hugo & Lena Coli Memorial Scholarship Fund James Devine, ’63 Memorial Scholarship Fund Matthew Pacelli ’08 Gar-Wai Lee ’07 Camila Mize ’06 Ed & Marie Collins Scholarship Leah Randolph ’06 Juan Carlos Arrieta ’08 Oscar Roque ’06 Michael Santa Maria ’06 James E. Collins, Jr. Scholarship Mikhail Sundukovskiy ’06 Sasha Martinez ’08 Katrina Yupangco ’06

John P. Collins, Sr. Scholarship Joe & Maggie Diffley Scholarship John Maxwell ’08 Alexis Huff ’07 Elizabeth Melnitchenko ’08 Vincent Donohue Memorial Scholarship Fund Collins Family Scholarship Lauren Quach ’06 Ian Del Castillo ’05 John & Dagmar Casey Scholarship Class of 1958 Scholarship Thomas Doyle, Class of ’55 Scholarship Ariel Estebez ’06 Andrew Ragni ’07 John J. Connolly, ’39 Scholarship Heather Mui ’07 Yvette Labiaga ’07 Marilyn K. Christen Memorial Scholarship Fund Class of 1959 Scholarship Drucker Family Scholarship Sandra O’Donoghue ’08 David McCracken ’05 Frances Grace Corriea Memorial Scholarship Raven Hills ’08 Renee Kwok ’08 Salvatore Ciraulo Memorial Scholarship Class of 1964, Dennis Carter Scholarship Catherine & Richard Duggan Scholarship Susanna Peeples ’05 Matthew Crumedy ’05 Brian Cotter Memorial Scholarship Daniel Harrington ’06 Brian Franceschi ’05 Meghan Toner ’08 Monsignor William J. Clasby Scholarship Class of 1965 Scholarship Max Torres ’07 Gustavo Manzanares ’05 Lorenzo Cabrera ’07 Shou Mei Hu - Eric K.S. Cowan Scholarship Fund Susanna Peeples ’05 Britt and Nancy Evans Scholarship Fund Class of 1928 Scholarship Class of 1966, Mike Walsh Scholarship Ryan Aguirre ’07 Jasef Jaicee Casas ’05 Julian Johnson ’06 Kevin & Susie Coyne Endowed Scholarship Fund Jennifer Olsen ’05 James V. Farley , Jr. Scholarship Fund Class of 1929 Scholarship Class of 1967 Scholarship Laura Cremen ’07 Shannon Banahan ’07 Vincent Kinnard ’06 Michael F. Coyne Family Scholarship Jeffrey Byrnes ’07 Genevieve Davis ’05 W. Chester Farrell Scholarship Chaz Morales ’05 Class of 1968 Scholarship Thomas Mezzera ’08 Carmel Hall ’07 Christian Ong ’05 Daniel O’Donnell ’06 Brittany Salilnas ’08 Vashti Viray ’08 John F. & Mary Finnegan Scholarship Class of 1972 Scholarship Barbara Adams Crudo Memorial Scholarship Fund Jordan Knox ’06 Class of 1936 Scholarship Fiona Ho ’05 Alanna Pinell ’06 Louise Miller ’05 Forbush/Aveson Scholarship Fund Class of 1973, John McVeigh Scholarship R. K. Davies Scholarship Sofia Gutierrez-Johnson ’05 Class of 1937 Scholarship Alanna Pinell ’06 Loretta Roddy ’06 Ian Del Castillo’05 Friend of S.I. Scholarship Class of 1974 Scholarship Patti and Leonard Delmas Scholarship Fund Joan O’Neill ’08 Class of 1940 Scholarship Jasef Jaicee Casas ’05 Kristoffer Praxedes ’08 Nicole Radovich ’07 Christopher Kramer ’05 Zachary Love ’08 Class of 1978 Lyda Rico De Luca Foundation Scholarship Carl & Celia Berta Gellert Scholarship Fund Adrian Schurr ’07 Hannah Abarquez ’07 Jennifer Lee ’07 Class of 1941, Daniel Coleman Scholarship Danielle Brunache ’08 Kevin Tow ’07 Nicole Gonzalez ’05 Class of 1980 Meghan Campbell ’06 Evelyn Derderian ’07 Reed Campbell ’08 Charlotte McFarland Gibbons Fund Class of 1942 Memorial Scholarship James Daly ’06 Kaitlin Farnham ’05 Julia Balibrera ’06 Class of 1982 Allison Fitzpatrick ’08 Yuliana Quintero ’07 Celsa Tonelli ’06 Britney Huelbig ’07 Sean Tang ’08 Class of 1943 Scholarship Johnathan Lou ’06 Alex Trembath ’07 Elizabeth Groh ’06 Peter Claver Scholarship Mattie Loyce ’08 Anthony Urbina ’08 Daniel Brunache ’08 Miranda Tsang ’05 Tiffany Woo ’05 Class of 1944, Ivan “Bud” Maroevich Memorial Maya Burns ’08 Scholarship Mattie Loyce ’08 James J. & Catherine A. DeMartini Scholarship Edmund J. & Cherie M. Gilmore Memorial Scholarship Robert Sturgeon ’05 Monika Stansbury ’08 Leena Karjalainen ’08 Kerry O’Donoghue ’08

Class of 1948, Jim Kearney Scholarship Cocconi-Silvestri Family Scholarship St. Vincent DePaul Scholarship Rick Goethals Scholarship Robert Mulhern ’06 Raven Hills ’08 Pauline Miller ’08 Brianna Loughridge ’05 Bridget Roddy ’08 Danielle Smith ’05

Class of 1949, Pat Malley Scholarship Margaret C. Gordon Memorial Scholarship Catherine Ferdon ’06 Natalie Monterrosa ’07

Class of 1950 Scholarship Goossens-Rambo Family Scholarship Richel Briones ’07 Lucia Gonzalez ’08

Class of 1951, Warren White Scholarship Fred R. Grant Memorial Scholarship Fund Gina Castagnola ’07 Anabel Agloro ’05

Class of 1952 Scholarship Richard & Shirley Gravelle Memorial Scholarship Olivia Salfiti ’08 Stephanie Soderborg ’05 Maria Salvemini ’07 Jean & E C Grayson Scholarship Class of 1953, Jack Ashman Scholarship Elizabeth Palazzolo ’07 Douglass Finigan ’06 Raymond Grialou Scholarship Class of 1955 , Dan Casey Scholarship Nicolas Lee ’07 Clancy McCartney ’07

20 GENESIS IV John J. Guheen Scholarship Jon Philip Jensen Scholarship John J. LoSchiavo, SJ, Owen McBride ’07 Kathleen Woods ’07 Scholarship Befekadu Mulugeta ’06 Katherine L. Handley Endowed Scholarship Fund Mr. & Mrs. Timothy F. Jones Scholarship Lydia Centeno ’05 Jonathan Mui ’08 Lovette Family Scholarship Raven Hills ’08 Howard George Hanton/ Patricia Camarena James Keating Scholarship Scholarship Fund Carolyn Badillo ’08 Loyola Guild Scholarship Jessica Protasio ’08 Jasef Jaicee Casas ’05 Keating Memorial Scholarship Laura Cremen ’07 Harold Harper Scholarship Maya Smith ’07 Loretta Roddy ’06 Karl Carrillo ’05 Jared Salin ’06 Rev. William J. Keenan, SJ, Scholarship Adrian Schurr ’07 Curt & Patsy Hayden Family Scholarship Fund Kevin Brown ’05 Julian Johnson ’06 John H. Lyden, Jr. Scholarship Kevin E. & Mary C. Kern Om LePree ’05 Robert Emmet Hayden Family Scholarship Tyler Scurr ’08 Catherine Abalos ’05 Sister Felicitas Macsera, O.P. William J. Kirby Scholarship Scholarship Ramona Hayes-Healey Scholarship Samantha Bautista ’06 Alexandra Maramba ’08 Max Cabahug-Gabiana ’05 Melissa Flores ’07 Leo Paul Koulos and D. Virginia Koulos Scholarship The Pat Malley Memorial Scholarship John Hazelwood Scholarship Fund Brian Franceschi ’05 James J. & Mary Muldoon Scholarship Luisa Fernandez ’08 Rebecca Recinos ’08 Danielle Christopher ’07 Paolo Luigi Maraviglia Memorial Scholarship Stefani O’Donoghue ’08 Florence Heafey Foundation Scholarship David E. Kozel Scholarship Samantha Bautista ’06 Nora Hall ’07 Rebecca Byrnes ’05 Daniel J. Murphy Scholarship Marvin Manzanares ’07 Mason Family Scholarship Francesca Lollini ’05 Stefani O’Donoghue ’08 Edward & Elizabeth Kozel Family Scholarship Fund Siubhan Lynagh-Shannon ’06 Paulina Singhapok ’06 Karla Ruiz ’07 Rex Brown, Jr. ’06 Katherine Scolari ’07 Theora Cimino ’05 Matza Family Scholarship Fund J.B. Murphy Scholarship Peter Moises ’07 Janelle Trooper ’05 Carolyn Badillo ’08 Hearst Foundation Scholarship John Townend ’07 Calvin Trembath ’07 Rev. Charles J. McCarthy, SJ, Scholarship Joseph Matthew Murphy, ’80 Scholarship Natalia Urabina ’05 The Honorable Richard & Susan Kramer Scholarship Connor Fitzpatrick ’06 Daniel O’Donnell ’06 Wilma Mui ’05 I.W. Hellman Scholarship Sister Frances McCarthy Endowed Scholarship Hal Riney & Elizabeth Myers Educational Francille Badiola ’06 Francis A. Lagomarsino (Class of ’27) & Jean Y. Juan Carlos Arrieta ’08 Scholarship Lagomarsino Endowed Scholarship Fund Brian Franceschi ’05 Albert J. Holmes Scholarship Matthew Jones ’06 McCarthy-Lawson Family Scholarship Fund Louis Schuman ’07 Le-oul Samson ’05 Nicole Herrera ’07 Father James Francis Cannon O’Brien, SJ, Scholarship Fund George & Josie Norien Hornstein Scholarship Robert & Millicent Lalanne Family Scholarship Fund Michael J. McFadden Scholarship David McCracken ’05 Nicole Schwabe ’08 Francille Badiola ’06 Alanna Pinell ’06 Odell Foundation Scholarship Jean Hubber Scholarship Karen & Scott Lamson Scholarship Fund McGovern Family Scholarship Ebony Dortch ’07 Christina Wa ’07 Luisa Fernandez ’08 Sofia Gutierrez-Johnson ’05 Francesca Lollini ’05

Ignatian Guild Scholarship Alfred D. Lawson Memorial Scholarship Fund Terrence V. McGuire Scholarship Ronald J. Oliva Scholarship Matthew Lai ’05 Diana Nomicos ’07 Joan O’Neill ’08 Jennifer Hourani ’06

Joseph & Marion Imhof Scholarship John Barrett Leonardini Scholarship Tim McInerney Scholarship O’Riley Scholarship Alexa Contreras ’05 Antonio Racanelli ’07 Lester Montes-Silva ’06 Nicole Gonzalez ’05

The Father John Isaacs Scholarship Jules & Dorothy Leonardini Scholarship C. Merrill Foundation Scholarship Dorothy Boynton Parker Scholarship Joseph Darza ’07 Gregory Malman ’05 Evelyn Derderian ’07 Sean Irwin ’05 John M. Jack Family Scholarship Daron Melkonian ’05 William T. & Mary M. Logan Family Scholarship Leon B. Metz, Jr. M.D. Memorial Scholarship Fund Kathleen & Robert L. Paver, M.D. Scholarship Fiona Ho ’05 Meron Haileselassie ’06 Zachary Scurr ’08 Jaquier Family Scholarship Tyler Scurr ’08 Lopez Low Endowed Scholarship Russell Miller Endowed Scholarship Fund Captain Thomas J. Petrini Scholarship Fund Luisa Fernandez ’08 Lucia Gonzalez ’08 Catherine O’Mahoney ’06 Stephanie Tang ’05 Pidgeon Family Scholarship Fund Georgia Edna Molfino Scholarship Agnes Lee ’05 Leohn Smith ’07 Adam Powers Scholarship William J. Moore, Jr. Scholarship Zachary Scurr ’08 Jenalyn Sotto ’06 Dante & Irene Ravetti Scholarship Daniel J. & Mary Moriarty Scholarship Karl Carrillo ’05 Christopher Johnson ’07 Reidy Family Scholarship Hannah & Catherine Moriarty Scholarship Kirk Wolfrom ’05 D’Genaro Pulido ’07 Fabian Tellez ’07 Karen Reidy Memorial Scholarship Celsa Tonelli ’06 Moriarty & McInerney Scholarship Michella Melendez ’08 Edward, Fred, John & William Ritchie Scholarship Victor Nguyen ’08 George Bravo ’06 Maya Simpson ’06 Mickey Moriarty Scholarship April Bautista ’05 GENESIS IV 21 Miss Nancy Turo Scholarship Richard J. Wall Educational Scholarship Fund Nicole Herrera ’07 Dante Lauteri ’07

Michael Bruce Ugawa Science Scholarship Fund W. Urie Walsh Sr. Scholarship Fund Andrew Liotta ’05 Kevin Aguirre ’06 Guillermo Kuhl ’06 Robbie Payton Unruh Memorial Scholarship Tyler Scurr ’08 Barrett & Elise Weber Family Scholarship in Memory of Florence Weber Vaughn & Capitolo Family Scholarship Brian Lee ’05 Roy Tang, ’07 Charles E. White Scholarship Viehweg Family Scholarship Miranda Tsang ’05 Gustavo Manzanares ’05 Elizabeth Mary Wolf Endowed Scholarship Fund Anthony G. Vlantis Scholarship Fund Dionne Licudine ’08 Sean Irwin ’05 Melissa Liotta ’08

Charles A. & Albina Rossi Wall Scholarship Sara DeMartini ’07

Gary L. Roberts Scholarship Fund Thomas F. Stack, Sr. & Jr. Scholarship Miranda Herrera ’06 Matthew Terrizzi ’06 Stephen Lopez ’06 Colleen Mullen ’06 Sugrue Family Scholarship Meghan Mullen ’05 Marjan Brown ’08 Zachary Salin ’05 Elena Castillo ’08 Victoria Gomez ’08 Fr. Sauer and Board of Regents Chairman Mark Cleary honored three The Don & Catharine Robinson Scholarship Fund Kelly Roberts ’08 individuals leaving the SI Board of Regents — Stan Raggio ’73, Eugene Veronica Recinos ’06 Alyssa Sangalang’08 David Soto ’05 Payne III ’65 (not pictured) and Ignatian Guild President Kate Sullivan Katie Robinson Scholarship Christopher Tow ’05 — at a ceremony following the June graduation ceremony. Meredith Chandler ’07 Kirk C. Syme Family Scholarship Leo Rock, SJ, Memorial Scholarship Ryan Brown ’07 Diana Nomicos ’07 Szarnicki & Donovan Scholarship Graduation Photos by Pedro Cafasso Graduation Photos by Pedro Victor Lawrence Rollandi Family Scholarship Maya Burns ’08 Laura McCunniff-Reid ’05 Jon E. Tarantino Scholarship Kevin V. Ryan Family Scholarship Nicholas Kramer ’07 Kerry O’Donoghue ’08 Thiemann Family Scholarship Anne C. Sapunar Scholarship Melody Pak ’05 Julie Tayag ’05 Edward J. Thylstrup, SJ, Class of ’52 Scholarship Rita & Kearney Sauer, MD Scholarship Danielle Brunache ’08 Alexandra Pinell ’08 John & Frances Thylstrup Scholarship in Honor of Bernice Schaefer Memorial Scholarship the Class of 1952 Sofia Gutierrez-Johnson ’05 Camille Gallo ’06 Anthony Nguyen ’06 Raj Singh Family Endowed Scholarship ( Nicole Herrera ’07 Toboni Family Scholarship Mattie Loyce ’08 Sisters of St. Charles Elementary School Scholarship Eunice Bengco ’05 The Burl A. Toler Achievement Scholarship Nabil Hourieh Jr. ’05 Adebayo Domingo ’07 Bob Sarlatte ’68 paid his annual visit to the senior class to welcome Giovanni Gallaread ’05 them into the SI Alumni Association. Members of the Alumni Board Peter Smith Scholarship Denzel Nicholas ’08 also came to help serve sandwiches to the seniors. Pictured with Sar- Meredith Chandler ’07 Millicent Olawale ’06 latte are grads Michael McCaffery and Elizabeth Dougherty. Society of Jesus Scholarship Fred Tollini, Class of ’52 Scholarship Meredith Chandler ’07 Kevin Brown ’05 Nicholas Kramer ’07 Matt A. Tonkovich Scholarship Solso Family Scholarship Ronan Baynes ’07 David Abarca ’05 Jean Travers Scholarship Misao Tachibana ’05

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Valedictorian Urges Classmates to Heed Prophets By Kevin Feeney ’04

t this moment, across the country, how many valedictorians do you Athink are delivering their gradua- tion speeches? And of those speeches, in how many will sails, or suns, set? Also, with apologies to Robert Frost, in how many will two roads diverge in a yellow wood? In how many will butterfly wings beat through the ages? Today, I’m afraid to admit, I may play the role of the sweaty twelve-year-old choir- boy whose voice has just cracked, the lone discordant note of an otherwise perfect har- mony. I have difficulty characterizing time in traditional valedictorian fashion. I cannot call time the bathtub drain through which our lives swirl like tornadoes, and memories cling like strands of hair. I cannot describe the scent of the future, the gravity of our childhoods. I cannot speak of golden chari- ots, tremendous touchdowns and bursting Senior Kevin Feeney impressed parents, faculty and peers with his wise and witty valedictory. cocoons for fear of disappearing from my- self, my nature. for passion, gratitude and reconnection. ber the guy’s name; no, he hasn’t talked to Here’s the truth: Our first prophet is an elderly man who the man since high school. But he wishes he I am scared. My lips chap in cold weath- lives in the Tenderloin. He flew fighter planes had. What does a man like that turn into? he er; I have trouble sleeping in beds that are not during World War II. He knows a dozen dif- wonders out loud. What does he think about my own; I secrete reticence like bug spray; ferent languages, likes Japanese the best. And now? There’s something neat about revisit- I’ve always been incompetent at doing my today, he can’t count the number of times ing people from the past, he says, and I wish laundry and no jet-smoke-turned-blue-skies he’s been robbed. He calls our generation his I could do more of it. metaphor can appease me. Little Warriors. He sees life as a battle and Prophets. True prophets. I do not know what the future brings. I says we must fight to live the way we choose. I need to hear other people’s stories and simply do not know. Thank God I am not the If he had the money, he says, he would give voices before I can hear myself. Their words end-all-be-all of knowledge and experience. us all twenty dollars and tell us to spend it help me find my own, although mine are After all, millions and millions have previ- only on hot air balloon rides. Do something only 18 years deep. I feel them coming now. ously undergone the rite of passage called you’ve never done before, he says. Here is what I do know: graduation. And millions of others have faced Our second prophet goes running in the Bad singers should never feel shame; even more dramatically life-shifting transi- mornings. She doesn’t have much time to we are never too old for scraped knees and tions. As a graduate, I must take the time to talk. She thinks we should all become veg- Band-Aids; it feels good to dance in front of pause, and to listen to those who have come etarians, the healthier choice, she says, and the mirror once in awhile; the stories of those before me. They have experienced more, on a more serious note, she wishes she had who come before us possess the power to in- know more, and all of them have something soaked up more life when she was younger. spire; thousands of languages will die next to say. I think it’s time we started calling our She looks down at her watch. I concentrate year unless someone learns them; working predecessors what they truly are — proph- too much on time, she says. I wish I didn’t do for good is a necessary act of rebellion; a gi- ets. Prophets whose truths reverberate. All of that. If I could start all over, I would worry ant trampoline just might do our five year these prophets are more qualified to speak less about how I spent my time and more reunion justice; SI basketball games can lead today than I am. But you’re stuck with me about how I approached my time. I think to asthma attacks; Br. Draper is a universal — we’re going to have to deal with that. The that’s a better philosophy, she says. hero; and lastly, we must follow our passions least I can do, then, is pass on the messages Our third prophet is a mechanic. He like madmen — like madmen and madwom- of our predecessors, from whose philoso- marvels at how he can still remember a guy en with and for others. phies we may derive meaning or inspiration. in his class who enjoyed sticking things up It seems like only yesterday that I, super- Allow me now to profile three such prophets his nose. Pencils, straws and anything else skinny kid with a mouthful of braces, relied who emphasize the importance of our need that would conceivably fit. He can’t remem- on my parents and friends’ moms to drive

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me everywhere. Actually, it was only yes- is what unites us. We have grown together in I’ll give you some examples. Our intelligence terday, or more precisely, three weeks ago. I one of the most confusing times in history, and wide-eyed curiosity? Good breeding. wish I could stand up here today and say the but I have never witnessed this divide us. Our desire to put the needs of others before time flew by extraordinarily fast. The truth Over these last few years, we have discussed our own? Good breeding. Our faith and is, these four years passed no more quickly terrorism, war and security respectfully and sense of individual spirituality? Good breed- than any other four years. The ages of 0 to humbly, because, in the end, we recognize the ing. Our talents, passions and creativity? 13 are all a blur to me. The point is, fast is ambiguity in the questions of our future. We Good breeding. Our wildly handsome looks? too general a word to describe the passing of recognize there will never be one right an- Genetics and good breeding. Parents, never time, as our runner prophet emphasized. We swer, not one right answer, because how can feel ashamed to say thank you in response deserve better. Beautiful is more a fitting there be one right answer to a compliment directed toward your son descriptor. Our time together as a class or daughter once in awhile. It’s okay. passed beautifully. For me, all of it has With all the talent and heart in the been beautiful: my first day as a sopho- room today, there’s enough credit to more, when I sported wet, brown paint go around. After all, you inspired us on the backside of my new pants, after to make SI our own, to take the red sitting in the wrong chair at the wrong and the blue and paint our faces how- time; the day I stunned my PE coach by ever we chose. Be proud of rearing a throwing up almost immediately after group of superheroes who sport polo the warm-up lap; my persistence, even collars as capes and who aren’t particu- at 18 years of age, to have my mother larly adept at flying. make me bag lunches every morning. Classmates, you amaze me. It is It’s all beautiful — from the fortunate time for us to rip the world in half to the humbling. and infuse its core with our love, so Classmate Semuteh Freeman that love may one day become every- pointed out to me the other day the one’s dependency. So that one day love beauty in a little ritual we have go- will act as water. The world will thirst ing. Every morning, after the bell for it. I think some of us already do. I rings, dozens of us accelerate down think, a year from now, some of us will the hallways so as not to be late for lick our lips and wonder what’s miss- our first class. But the second the ing. A St. Ignatius memory might come prayer begins, we all stop. Maybe to mind, and, subconsciously, we’ll get there’s a freshman who has never the idea. And maybe a few of us will been late before, three steps away find that power, that strength to turn from his classroom, sweat drip- memories into principles and principles ping down his face, wondering if into action and soon enough, there’s a life will ever be the same, but he little St. Ignatius in Juno, Alaska. There’s stops, too. We all freeze. We all a little St. Ignatius in Riverside, Califor- freeze together. I think that is the nia. Eugene, Oregon. Even Yoder, Kan- essence of SI. We are utterly dy- Kevin Feeney edits Thought Magazine. sas. After a while, when friends catch on namic, running from one thing and create memories of their own and to the next, everyone celebrating his or her pass those on, there’s a little St. Ignatius, passions, but when it comes down to it, we to questions that big? There is no doubt we a little love, just about everywhere. We’ll are a community like no other. We are the are products of an Ignatian education. With title the whole thing something showy, like class of the giant balloon cross glorifying Fri- guidance from our brilliant teachers and The Glorious Revolution of St. Ignatius — day Morning Liturgy, the class of the immer- mentors, we have logged thousands of hours whatever you want. We’ll have tee-shirts sion group who ordered matching lime green in community service; we have joined teams that take the form of blankets for the poor tee-shirts, the class who always managed to and dramatic casts; we have experimented, and handshakes that transform into bear reinvent the gospel in skit form on retreat, debated, stressed and studied; we have even hugs for all. We will be messengers and year after year. We are a wild lot of dancers, dressed up as pirates to show our unity. And bridge builders and, yes, prophets. We will bowlers, comedians, sculptors, rowers, his- now we sit here today, strong, big-hearted be listeners. We will be creators. Then, torians, runners, guitarists, gardeners, couch and prepared to, at any moment, sacrifice then I will no longer be scared. Allow us potatoes and plenty of other breeds too nu- for one another. to detonate everything we’ve learned and merous to name, all of whom breathe and Parents, I recommend adopting the experienced, and let it rain down on all love and work and play until we collapse. We phrase “good breeding.” It’s outdated and people. I hope we can do it. I think we can as a class possess an unparalleled spiritual a bit pretentious, but you’ve got to learn to do it. I believe we can do it. energy, an undying sense of justice, and that love it. Let it take root in your vocabulary. St. Ignatius Class of 2004, I trust you.

24 GENESIS IV St. Anthony’s Father John Receives SI’s Highest Honor

Below is the citation for Fr. John Hardin, But like St. Paul on the road to Da- mise by making prayer stools and turning who received SI’s President’s Award, the mascus, something sidetracked him. In his actions into prayer. highest accolade given to a non-alumnus. 1980, while dining on a floating restaurant That is precisely what he has done in in Hong Kong, a small boatload of Viet- all his roles as a Franciscan priest, from oday, in the city named for St. namese refugees drifted by. “I asked myself serving in a parish in Oregon to march- Francis, in a church dedicated to right then what I was doing with my life,” ing side by side with Cesar Chavez and TSt. Ignatius, the Jesuits honor a he said. “These people were trying to sur- working in his province’s social justice Franciscan, and in doing so, we present vive day to day, and I was trying to see how and business offices. In the 1990s, he lived to the SI class of 2004 a shining example much money I could spend. I knew some- with Fr. Alfred Boeddeker, the longtime of how to live one’s life. By serving the thing was missing from my life.” head of the St. Anthony’s Foundation and poor, by living a life of simplicity, and by After informing the archdiocesan of- the 1976 President’s Award recipient. “I fighting for justice for the poor, Fr. John S. fice in Los Angeles of his desire to become sat at the foot of the master for his last five Hardin, OFM, the recipient of this year’s a priest, he was sent to the Franciscans who years,” he noted. “He touched my heart.” President’s Award, is more than an exam- then sent him on a retreat. “The only thing Fr. John coupled that education with a ple for those of us gathered here in this I knew about St. Francis,” he said, “was the Master’s degree in non-profit administra- church. The Executive Director of the St. story of the birds.” At the retreat center he tion from the University of Notre Dame, Anthony’s Foundation, he is, in our city met Franciscans who were genuinely happy which he received in 2000. on the hill, a light for the world, and one and friendly, and he wanted to share in that After serving on St. Anthony’s board, that shines brighter because of his own joy, especially after seeing in Francis a model he was appointed executive director in down-to-earth humility. for himself — someone who could have been January 2002. Since then, he has shep- Life could have turned out quite dif- a wealthy merchant only to give it all up for herded the foundation’s dozen activities, ferently for this native of Vicksburg, Mis- the service of God. “I hoped that this outfit including a lunch program that has served sissippi. Although he came from a humble was crazy enough to take me,” said Fr. John. more than 30 million meals every single home, he quickly rose in the ranks of the “And they did!” He joined in 1981 and was day since its start in 1950. Now the kitch- Illinois Central Railroad and later became ordained four years later. en serves 2,400 guests daily — not clients vice president of a transportation corpo- While preparing for the priesthood, or customers, but guests as they are delib- ration based in Los Angeles, earning six Fr. John found he lacked the contempla- erately called and as they are treated. Fr. figures in the 1970s and engaged to the tive nature of his brother Franciscans. John knows that when you show people boss’s daughter. Had he married her, he “These guys would be doing centering dignity and respect, nine times out of ten would have been the owner of two large prayer, and I would be suffering as I tried they will respond in kind. companies and a very wealthy man. to keep still.” He found a happy compro- In 1981, the Franciscans made a land-

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mark decision. Corporal works of mercy never spoken to a homeless person. They about being served.” would continue, but an explicit part of find people much like themselves, except Fr. John has impressed his fellow their mission would now include advocat- that these homeless men and women have Franciscans with his goodness, includ- ing for the poor, to be the voice for the made bad choices.” He is grateful for the ing Provincial Vicar Thomas West, who voiceless. They hope to change the unjust strong connection between SI and St. An- noted John’s passion for justice and his systems that create poverty, and Fr. John thony’s over these many years. extroverted nature. “John is half revivalist is at the forefront of this, serving on the SI students aren’t the only ones who preacher and half businessman who never Mayor’s commission to end chronic home- give him hope. The homeless, themselves, forgets anyone he has ever met. But what lessness. Here, in the city of St. Francis, Fr. have done him this service. One of Fr. touches people the most is that he is often John believes his job is to imitate Francis, John’s favorite stories is of a time he was so moved by certain things, that he will Father John, continued who made peace between the Mayor and running late for a meeting. While walk- cry. He is embarrassed by this, but it en- Archbishop of Assisi and tamed the wolf ing outside St. Anthony’s, he felt someone dears him to people.” of Gubbio. He works to build bridges be- tap his shoulder. “I knew what the person His close friend and former provin- tween disparate factions and to help cre- wanted,” he said. “He wanted money. I was cial, Fr. Joseph Chinnici, echoes this. “He ate a climate for civil discourse. He wants in a hurry, but I composed myself, turned is an exceptional administrator who has civic leaders to seize the moment to end around, smiled and said that I needed to helped dozens of non-profits throughout homelessness as it may never come around get to a meeting. The man said, ’Father, I the city to provide dignity and a future for again. And he is hopeful. want to give you something.’ I opened my the poor. He brings both his heart and tal- Among those people who give him hand, and he gave me 24 cents, telling me ent to the Franciscan job he has, that of hope are the students from SI who, every that ’it’s all the money I have, but I want creating a better society.” Thursday morning, bring sandwiches and to give it to the poor.’ You could have Today, Fr. John, you are in our hearts juice to the men and women waiting out- knocked me over with a feather. The next for all the loving service, the agape, that side in line at St. Anthony’s. Fr. John be- day, our foundation received a $2 million you have shown, for the bridges you are gan a youth council two years ago, made gift, the largest ever. But that 24 cents was now building, for the justice you are creat- up of students from SI and other schools, just as important to me. I have those coins ing and for the example you set. For all of because, as he says, “I am amazed to framed in my office. They remind me that these gifts of the spirit brought to life in watch kids from the suburbs who have my life should be about serving others, not you, we are profoundly grateful.

Ashley Werner, Gaby Rodezno Honored for Lives of Service

eniors Ashley Werner and Gabriella those stereotypes is by talking with people and other student volunteers from SI and (Gaby) Rodezno have more in common who live in poverty.” Riordan even planned a full-course break- Sthan you would think. Take Thursday She started doing just that when, as a fast for one day in May to feed 250. (Nor- and Friday mornings, for example. junior, she accompanied her religious stud- mally breakfast consists of bread, oatmeal Both girls serve homeless and hungry ies teacher Mary men and women, and last May, SI honored Ahlbach to Mar- Seniors Gaby Rodezno and Alexis Solis at Martin de Porres kitchen. Gaby received the Community Service Award in May. both girls at the awards assembly, with Wer- tin de Porres. ner receiving the Norman Boudewijn Award “That’s when I for her work with the Thursday Morning first met home- Comfort Runs, and Rodezno earning the less people. I Christian Service Award for volunteering at spoke with them the Martin de Porres kitchen every Friday and learned morning. to see them as Up until two years ago, Rodezno didn’t equals despite the know about the food program at Martin fact that I have a de Porres, even though the Catholic Work- house and food er community was five minutes from her and they don’t.” home. That first She did enjoy volunteering — she had trip inspired Ro- worked as a counselor at Camp Armstrong dezno to wake and coached volleyball — but she was leery up early every of working with the homeless. Friday morning “We all have stereotypes about them,” to serve break- she noted. “The only way we can get rid of fast there. She

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Mackota and Emily Warren, picked up the work left off by students in the Thursday Morning Comfort Run program. Werner and the others took juice and sandwiches that SI students had made to the Tenderloin to feed people waiting at St. Anthony’s Foundation. They continued this school year, meeting at SI at 6:45 a.m. to start each Thursday. “I have met amazing people there,” said Werner. “Our friend, Lee, moved out of the Tenderloin but now walks from where he is staying in the Mission to talk and grab a sandwich. He’s one of the fun- niest people I know and is reading a differ- ent book each week. I met another friend, Charlie, when I brought handpicked strawberries one week, and he insisted that the only sweet ones come from Ala- bama. He hasn’t let it go to this day.” Based on her work there, the St. Antho- ny’s Foundation director, Fr. John Hardin (whom SI honored this year with the Presi- dent’s Award), invited Werner to join a new- ly-formed Youth Council there. With other students on that board, Werner has toured Gaby Rodezno the Tenderloin, attended services at Glide Ashley Werner and tea.) “We bought ham and eggs, cooked Memorial, shared stories with men at home- took personal responsibility for sharing them, and served them along with the food less shelters and served food in St. Anthony’s the resources of the SI Community with they normally receive. Sometimes, we run Kitchen. the Tenderloin Community of St. Antho- into people who are a little grumpy, but not “My immersion experience taught ny’s Dining Room. And they both under- that morning. They had a decent meal to eat me that I need to do this kind of work stood the direct service and advocacy di- and were grateful. I never knew the power in college and beyond,” said Werner. “In mensions of working for social justice.” a simple meal could have on someone until Tacoma, I met Catholic Workers who had Religious Studies Department Chair- then.” dedicated their lives to service and who woman Mary Ahlbach echoed those re- Rodezno looks forward to going every love that lifestyle. I find that encouraging. marks, praising Rodezno for “always Friday to see people who have become good What discourages me are those who won’t showing up despite being plenty busy. The friends. “One of the men who comes for look a person in the eyes who addresses guests know her by name. She comes in them on the street.” Seniors Gaby Rodezno and Alexis Solis at Martin de Porres kitchen. breakfast, Robert, spoke to me the first day I and just gets down to whatever needs do- Gaby received the Community Service Award in May. came. I was shy, and he asked me my name. Werner knows that the sandwiches ing.” Now he asks how my week went and how she hands out every Thursday morning She praised Werner for “figuring my mom and sister are doing. He’s consider- only address part of the problem. “We out what to do on her own and doing it ate and caring.” need to go to the root of the problem, to week after week, during vacations, mid- She will attend UC Santa Cruz in the fall examine the whole cycle of poverty and to terms and finals. Ashley understood that where she plans to study political science. discover why so many people are spiritu- the people who have spent a night sleep- Like Rodezno, Werner also worked at a ally broken,” she said. ing out in the cold down in the Tenderloin summer camp — Camp Mendocino — with Werner, who will be attending Swarth- don’t take vacations either. underprivileged children, and she always en- more in the fall, isn’t sure what she’ll ma- “I have accompanied Ashley and the joyed doing volunteer work. jor in. “But I know I want to minor in re- students a few times. I wish I could have Her transformative moment came last ligious studies. I’d like to change things on taken a picture of what I saw. There, leaning summer when she went with SI students to a large scale if I possibly can.” against the wall of St. Anthony’s, are Ashley Tacoma on an immersion trip. She helped at SI Campus Minister Michael Shaugh- and her friends just hanging out with some a Catholic Worker soup kitchen and garden nessy ’67 praised both girls, noting that people they know, chatting away. It was a there, and talked with many homeless peo- they both “grew in understanding what beautiful, touching tableau — these girls ple. being a person with and for others entails. from the ’burbs with people who have so After returning to the Bay Area, she They both appreciated the importance of little, just sharing life together. I thought of and two others from that immersion, Sarah the Thursday Morning Comfort Runs and Jesus and how he did just that, too.”

GENESIS IV 27 schoolnews Chad Evans Crosses U.S. to Help the Poor

don’t remember exactly how old I was were about my dad. Following the per- (as it usually does in Humboldt County), when I got my first bicycle. My mom plexed look on my mom’s face would he rode his bike to work. When it rained Ithinks that I was 6. Whenever it was, I come one of two explanations: either my hard, he put on a jacket and then rode his can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a dad was “simple” (code in those days for bike to work. bike, so it must have been early on. In our mental retardation) or was a drunk. Those My dad’s example made quite an im- house people were pretty “into bikes.” were the only two logical explanations for pact on our family. My brother now lives in Seattle and rides a green 1970 Raleigh SuperCourse. Like my dad, he commutes to work on his bike. And yes, once in awhile, when it’s really raining hard, he gives in and puts on a jacket. While my dad was inspiring us to “think green” and giving us Howard Zinn to read, my mom was doing her best to pass along the Catholic faith that had been so formative in her family. This she did in a number of ways, like sending my brother and me to Catholic schools, making sure we attended Mass regularly and encourag- ing us to become altar boys. Additionally, it became clear to both my brother and me that my mom’s socially active politics were inspired by her faith. Her volunteer- ing and compassion came right out of the Gospels. Through the lives they led, both of my parents were telling us stories about our country and the world that were dif- ferent from the stories we saw on TV and heard in the news. They both hoped for a more just and more compassionate society and hoped that my brother and I could do Chad Evans biked across the country to raise awareness of poverty in the U.S. By June he made more than imagine change in our own life- it to Jenkensen Lake in the Sierras. time. My dad rode his bike to work for why my dad rode his bike to work instead Last summer, I realized a long-term more than 35 years. When he and my of driving a car. dream. I had the good fortune to ride my mom were first married, they lived in We moved to rural Humboldt County bicycle from San Francisco to Washing- Vallejo, and he worked at the old naval when my brother and I were still little, and ton, D.C., about 4000 miles by the route shipyard at Mare Island. He rode his bike my dad kept riding his bike to work, now we took. I joined a group of 24 other rid- to and from work every day. For my par- to the county airport. His route changed, ers, ranging in age from 19 to 73, who ents, working-class and just starting out, but the attitudes of those around him did spent their summer riding their bikes to this was an economical decision. For my not. Living among what we called “hill- raise awareness of poverty in the U.S. and dad, an environmentalist before his time, billies,” he now had to dodge beer cans the Catholic Church’s response to this sad this was also a “green” decision. For years and rusty pickups thrown his way for reality. Our ride was organized through we had a sign hanging in our garage that sport. One morning, on his regular route the Catholic Campaign for Human Devel- read, “Bicycles don’t pollute.” My dad to work, my dad saved a family whose opment (CCHD), a program of the U.S. rode a green Raleigh SuperCourse, which house had caught fire. They were asleep Conference of Catholic Bishops, dedicated he bought in 1969, the year my brother inside, comfortable in the early morning to eliminating poverty in the wealthiest was born. He paid $125 for it new, which darkness of winter. Outside, their fireplace nation in history. Being a cradle-Catholic, convinced everyone that he was crazy. had thrown a spark and ignited their roof. interested in social justice and a bike nut, I In the early years of my parent’s mar- My dad stopped, woke the family, helped found this the perfect fit for me. The only riage, my mom would be stopped by other them to get out of their home and call the problem was that, like most Catholics, I women in the grocery store and around fire department and then got back on his had no idea what CCHD was. town, who would tell her how sorry they bike and rode to work. When it rained The bishops started CCHD in 1971

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with the radical notion that Catholics across the U.S. would financially sup- port an effort to partner with the poor, creating long-term solutions to poverty. CCHD works like a large foundation, col- lecting funds from parishes and dioceses and disbursing grants to organizations in urban and rural areas. The catch here is that CCHD only funds groups who are actually made up of the poor themselves, based on the equally radical idea that the poor themselves know best how to solve the problems in their own communities. When people hear that I rode across the country last summer, I usually get the look you’d expect — something between, “You did what?” and, “Haven’t you heard of United Airlines?” The author hoists his bike somewhere between Ely and Middlegate Station in Nevada. I’ve tried explaining what it was like. It’s hard. Honestly, it was like running ing about their geographical — and not tion of churches in East Los Angeles. Their away to join the circus. Every morning for their metaphysical — location.) program of reducing recidivism among 62 days, we would rise before dawn, roll Once we arrived at our destination — ex-convicts by insuring they get their GED up our beds, put on our silly outfits (if you usually a friendly (and unsuspecting) par- was so successful that the state has made have ever seen a grown man in Lycra at 5 ish hall or elementary school gym — we it a mandatory part of the parole process. a.m., you will not soon forget it), eat some- would eat like a plague of ten-year locusts For nine weeks, I heard that the poor know thing quickly and set out pedaling for our and then mill about, nap, write in journals the solutions to the problems in their own destination. Over the Sierras and the Rock- or web logs, tinker with bikes and chat communities. Sometimes they need help in ies (and the Allegany Mountains, the Toi- with the local media or community lead- getting those solutions started. CCHD pro- yabe Range and too many others to name ers. At some point in the early evening, vides a kick-start. in Nevada and Utah), across the wheat and we would find ourselves in the food line Last summer was in many ways an corn fields of the Midwest, through major at a huge parish potluck before putting odd time to barnstorm the country talk- cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and on an educational program for the as- ing about the programs of the Catholic Baltimore — we rolled on, slowing for flat sembled parish and media. As you would bishops in the U.S. Coming on the heels tires, ice cream (!) and good old-fashioned imagine, we were a group who generally of the sexual abuse crisis and cover-ups, roadside Americana. And each afternoon went to bed pretty early, sleeping in one most stories in the news that dealt with for 62 days we rolled into small towns large room together, and getting ready to the bishops, dealt with the scandal, and like Fallon, NV, and Sedalia, MO; college do it all again the next day. It was a bit like rightfully so, as both the Catholic commu- towns like Lawrence, KS and South Bend, joining the circus. nity and the nation at large struggled to IN; former industrial centers like Toldeo, When I left, I wrote in the web log come to terms with what had taken place. OH; and boom- that I was making the trip because of three However, those stories told only a part of ing towns of the things I was passionate about: riding, fight- the total story. The final word about hu- Southwest like ing poverty and experiencing America. manity is never a word of condemnation Cedar City, UT. When I listen to the news in the morning, I or fear, but a word of hope, compassion (The residents of often get disheartened about where our so- and justice. This was the lesson my par- Cedar City must ciety is going and what we are doing for the ents had taught me — a lesson more indel- find themselves 35 million Americans who live in poverty. ible than the church prayers that they had existentially It’s easy to do. The hardest thing I did on me memorize or the love of cycling that torn. Nearly ev- the ride last summer was to listen. Across they handed down to me. It just took me ery person I met the country, I heard the remarkable stories 62 days on my bike to make it real. there mentioned of people with different perspectives on the that they were U.S. than those I hear on NPR. From farm Chad Evans is a first-year teacher at “closer to Las workers in Ohio who pick the tomatoes to SI in the Religious Studies department. He Vegas than Salt provide the nation with ketchup, to Hmong rides a 1971 Raleigh Professional. When it Lake City.” I can and Latino immigrants in Sacramento, I rains, he drives his car to work. For more only assume that heard stories of CCHD successes as inspir- information about CCHD or the Brake Chad and his wife, Shannon, on they were speak- ing and diverse as the people of our nation. the Cycle of Poverty Bike Tour, visit www. Day 1 on the Marina Greens. One CCHD project grew out of a coali- brakethecycle.org.

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Senior Kevin Bianchi received the Na- Fine Arts Fair tional Football Foundation and College Hall Cyrena Giardano ’07 and Marcus Gallagher ’04 were two of the students on hand for the Fine of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award at a Feb. 12 Arts show held May 18 at SI by art teacher Larraine Seiden. Parents, students and faculty en- ceremony at the Airport Marriott Hotel. joyed student art that included small-scale tree houses, masks, models of chairs and drawings. Cheese & Fleas en Français French language students at SI learned their lessons while munching on cheese and baguettes (left) as part of a cheese-tasting seminar led by Judy Creighton. They also, in conjunction with the Spanish classes, staged a flea market (below).

Birthright Winners Carleen Durkin ’04 (left) won first place in the annual Birthright of San Francisco Essay Contest for her essay about her experi- ences working with the poor and homeless in the Catholic Neighborhood Center with Sister Constance in Wheeling, West Virginia, during her immersion experience last summer. Second place honors went to Aubrey Mu- ñoz ’04 (right) for her essay en- titled “An Enduring Inspiration.” Birthright published Durkin’s es- say in its summer newsletter. Stu- dents from all over San Francisco entered the contest.

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Spring Dance Recital Meredith Cec- chin, Ted Cur- ry and Lizette Ortega cho- reographed the annual Spring Dance Showcase, which fea- tured 75 tal- ented dancers and drum- mers from the SI student body.

Wells Fargo Ad Features SI Seniors Three SI students have a jump start on a model- ing career thanks to a nationwide ad campaign launched by Wells Fargo. The PR firm Hollenbeck Associates chose seniors Sarah Mackota, Zachary Seale and Danny Rodri- guez for this campaign and have featured their images on CDs, on the Internet and on promo- tional literature.

Rabbi Shelley Waldenberg, a professor at Holy Names College, Spring Choral Recitals came to SI May 5 to speak to students about Matthew 27 and Gibson’s Janet Sablinsky directed the chamber singers, the mixed chorus, the film, The Passion of the Christ. He spoke about the Jewish perspective men’s ensemble and the bell ringers for the annual spring choral con- on Jesus and his own experiences growing up Jewish. cert this May in Bannan Theatre.

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Jim Dekker ’68, Katie Kohmann and Tri- Letter to the cia Brown of the alumni office deserve our heartfelt thanks and appreciation for alumni their time and effort that made this day a By Michael Stecher ’62 huge success. Many thanks to Bob Sarlatte President, Alumni Association ’68 for his wonderful job as emcee and to Mark Hazelwood ’80 for his efforts in coordinating the tribute and slide-show rec- ognizing the ’75–’76 basket- ball teams. Top:Claude Perasso ’44, Bill Rodgers ’58 and At the end of the eve- Bob Drucker ’58. Coach Drucker was hon- ning dinner, the Alumni As- ored later in the evening as the coach of the championship teams of ’75 and ’76. sociation honored Sal Rizzo by making him an honorary SI alumnus. Sal is only the endary. He was the chairman of this year’s sixth individual to be hon- Fathers’ Club auction, which netted over ored in this manner. Sal’s $540,000. Prior honorees Fr. Tony Sauer, accomplishments at SI have Don Collopy, and Katie Kohmann were in been too numerous to men- attendance. Jay Jurado ’92, Greg Toler ’80, Matt Stecher ’93 and John tion. His leadership in school The listed sponsors were very generous Regalia ’93. fund-raising activities is leg- and contributed to the success of the event.

Silver Sponsors McGuire Real Estate Jim Ruane ’93 am excited and Tony Clifford ’80, First National Randy Harris, South Bay Beverage John Barbieri ’80 proud to have had Bank John P. Cruden III Dreyfus Investments the opportunity to I Louis & Brenda Allesandria/ Dan Duggan, Duggan’s Serra work with the SI Alum- Designer Consigner Bronze Sponsors Mortuary ni Association during Paul Christen ’92, Realtor, Coldwell Beronio Lumber Company Bill Williford, Rosenblum Sellers the past year. Together, Banker Gene Buggatto ’78 Costello & Sons Insurance we have accomplished Erich K. Habelt ’75, DDS Mark McGuinness ’55 a great deal, and I look Rocca & Phillips S.P. Tarantino Insurance Brokerage, Inc Wine Donors forward to next year to Rich Hunt ’60 & Rich Hunt, Jr., ’96 San Francisco Gravel Dan Leese develop new and inter- Coldwell Banker Real Estate Swan Oyster Depot Paul Giusto ’90 esting events and occa- Dr. Tony Cucalon III ’75, Lawson Roofing Company Gunnar Brekke ’82 sions for all SI alumni. Orthodontics Tony & Gina Passanisi ’75 Mark Marion ’82 I would like to express Parente & Christopher KC Murphy ’77, Placer Financial Lalanne Vineyards my appreciation to you Dan Linehan ’83 Matt Bernstein ’81 Valley of the Moon, Dan Abela ’76 for your work during the past year. We held the annual Alumni Reunion Sports Day June 11, attended by 400 graduates many of whom were at the sold- out golf tournament at Harding Park Golf Club. Those who attended the reunion had a fabulous time. Alumni in attendance ranged from the class of Bill Casey ’35 to Michael Cecchin ’00; in all 54 different classes were represented at the scrump- tious dinner at Carlin Commons. The alumni honored the champion- ship basketball teams of 1975 and 1976 and their coach, Bob Drucker ’58. Jeff Columbini ’79, the reunion chairperson,

Members of the ’74–’75 WCAL Championship basketball team.

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Top: More than 30 hoopsters participated in the basketball por- tion of the day. Middle: Members of the ’75–’76 WCAL Champi- onship basketball team. Below: The Casey Family — Bill ’35 (the oldest alum in attendance, Jack ’58, Peter ’68 and John ’67.

Christ the King Award Each year the Alumni Association and the school present the Christ the King Award to honor a graduate who has been distin- guished in his or her profession and who best exemplifies the ideal of service to God and Fellow Man. The Christ the King Award is the most prestigious honor presented to a graduate of SI. On Nov. 21 Leo A. La Rocca ’53 will be honored as the 2004 recipient. Orradre Chapel should be filled to capac- ity to honor Mr. LaRocca for his exemplary leadership qualities and distinguished contri- butions to the SI community. For more than four decades, Leo had a long and distinguished career as SI’s ath- letic director. He oversaw and directed the increase of the athletic department in the 1960’s with approximately 15 coaches and a handful of sports to more than 120 coaches and nearly 30 team sports. Leo is the father of six children including SI grads Christo- pher ’77, Mike ’78, Nick ’80 and Paul ’84.

Class of ’93 members Marielle Murphy, Jen Carter, Shana Soulis and Andrea Callen

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Actor, Director, Producer — Geoff Callan Does it All n the golf course at the Olympic Phil Kaufman movie starring Ashley Judd. about the recent mayoral election in San Club a dozen years ago, Geoff Cal- In 1998 he launched Fore! Films, named Francisco, where he, with camera crews roll- Olan ’85 got some great advice from for his love of golf and because “we’re com- ing, tagged along with both Gavin Newsom actor Michael Douglas, who was in town ing right at you.” He directed In the Ruff, a and Matt Gonzalez. And, when Newsom filming Basic Instinct. golf comedy about a woman who hires a began allowing gay couples to “My best friend, Matt Kennedy (Serra hit man to kill her wed, Callan was there, ready to ’85), invited Michael to play golf at the document the event. Olympic Club,” said Callan, who, Despite being married along with Kennedy, started hang- to Hilary Newsom — Gavin ing out with the star on the set. Newsom’s sister — Callan “Here I was, selling commer- was able to maintain ob- cial real estate in Sacramento and jectivity while trailing both pretty unhappy about it. I saw Mi- candidates last summer chael Douglas acting in front of the and fall during the mayoral Tosca Café, doing his own stunt driv- campaign. “No one knew ing down an alley. Watching him get my relationship to him out of the car, seeing that look on his until I stood on stage next face, I finally knew what I wanted to to him at the celebration do with my life.“ on election night. And I Later, on the golf course, Callan made sure that nothing told Douglas of his new dream. “He I filmed was released gave me some great advice: ’As an actor prior to the campaign.” you have no control over your career,’ Callan, never he told me. ’Start your own production quite comfortable with company.’” the LA scene, returned That was the first great advice Callan to the Bay Area in received. The second was from his grand- 1999 and merged father, Michael Driscoll, who died last year. his company with “He always told me to stay in San Francis- Enough Said Pro- co, that your home is where your heart is.” ductions, teaming Callan took both men up on their ad- with Mike Shaw, a vice — advice that has shaped his career as Washington High an actor, producer and director. Thanks to School grad and their wisdom, his career is on the verge of top-ranked surfer taking off. who, after wreck- He moved to Los Angeles with his ing his back, brother, Bob Callan ’84, and his friend Matt picked up a cam- Kennedy, hoping to launch his acting career. era and started a He soon guest starred on The Bold and the new career. Beautiful and General Hospital and landed a In 2002, Cal- co-starring role on Frasier in 1995. Roles in Geoff Callan is producing a documentary on the mayorial race.lan, along with Enough Said numerous national commercials followed, as and Shaw, produced and directed three films golf-addicted well as supporting roles in such films as Be- that were used as part of San Francisco’s of- husband, and the movie received tween Somewhere and Salinas, Raising Cain, ficial bid for the 2012 Olympics. One film favorable reviews at independent film festi- Showgirls, Set It Off, and Happily, Even Af- focused on the romance and beauty of San vals. ter. Francisco, and another featured dramatic As an independent producer, he helped Callan recently appeared on NBC’s aerial footage that highlighted all the fields produce Happily, Even After, a movie shot Movie of the Week “Behind the Camera: the and stadiums that could be used for the dif- entirely in San Francisco starring Jason Behr Unauthorized Story of ’Charlie’s Angels,’” ferent events. Later, they created an anti-lit- (Roswell), and featuring himself, Ed Asner where he played a security guard named Lt. ter campaign for San Francisco, featuring and cousin Joey Cannata ’92 in supporting Steven Driscoll (named after his cousin, Ste- the cast of Stomp, as well as the promotional roles. The film tells the story of a brother and ven Cannata ’94, who died last year, and his commercial for San Francisco’s Convention sister coping with their parents’ death. grandfather). He also appeared in Twisted, a and Visitor’s Bureau. He is also working on a documentary

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Callan never thought about being an ac- Going to the Bard’s Home England tor or producer while at SI, but he did love of his creating and being in front of audiences. to Study Shakespeare day. This As rally committee president, he wrote and k n o w l - staged humorous skits for the student body, e d g e was involved in student government, and by Annie Morring ’02 h e l p e d served as an active member of the Spirit me ana- Club. hen I first encountered Shake- lyze and He studied business and communica- speare in my honors freshman p a r s e tions at St. Mary’s College, where he earned WEnglish class, I did not hate him, e a c h an NCAA Division 1 golf scholarship and nor love him. Together the class trudged passage produced TV shows. After graduation, he through The Merchant of Venice and final- and even The author and Kenneth Branagh began selling investment real estate before ly moved onto another work. Consequent t a u g h t Michael Douglas opened his eyes to another English classes and more enjoyable (in my me what words needed stress when per- world. opinion) Shakespearean plays soon wore formed. He met Hilary Newsom in 1998 thanks down my dislike of Shakespeare; suddenly On our final weekend in England, we to his sister, who had been trying to set them I was enjoying the works. Watching mov- drove up to Stratford-upon-Avon and visited up for years. “I finally met her at a party, ies such as Othello and Much Ado About Shakespeare’s birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s and said ’Nice to meet you,’ before walking Nothing sealed the deal: I not only gained cottage and Shakespeare’s grave. While in away. My sister would have none of that. an appreciation and understanding of the Stratford, we saw two great performances She grabbed us both, shooed away the two great author’s works, but also dreamed of by the Royal Shakespeare Company: Shake- guys Hillary was talking to and told us to performing in one of his plays on stage some speare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and John talk. We’ve been together ever since.” day. Fletcher’s sequel, Tamer Tamed. After arriv- Despite his hectic schedule as a pro- After four great years at SI, I moved ing back in London, our class watched two ducer and director — he and Shaw most on to UC Berkeley, officially undeclared. more Shakespearean plays at The Globe: recently worked on films for the San After one semester of breadth requirement Richard II, played by an all-male cast, and Francisco School Volunteers, San Fran- classes, I decided to have some fun. Besides Richard III, played by an all-female cast. cisco Girls’ Chorus, Auberge Resorts, a few music courses, I auditioned and placed One main lead of Richard III had fallen ill PlumpJack and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club into an acting class. During winter break, the day we were to see it, and as The Globe — Callan continues to act. In addition to Berkeley sent me a flier about summer study has no understudies, actors switched roles his Charlie’s Angels’ role and his part in abroad, and my parents told me to look and casts for that evening’s performance. Twisted, he has appeared in several na- into the opportunity. I wanted to attend the During the final days of the trip, we lis- tional commercials including a spot for month in London, England; not only would tened to a lecture by Sir Peter Hall, who talk- Bud Light and Dodge. I take an acting course on both modern and ed about modern acting and gave us a taste “I feel pulled in all different directions, Shakespearean acting, but I would also learn of how some scholars think Shakespeare’s but the best thing I do is being a dad,” said how to speak with Standard British, Cock- English may have sounded. We were sur- Callan, whose daughter, Talitha, was born ney and Irish accents! Soon I was flying to prised when discover that it sounded closer last summer. “Fatherhood is everything I London with 24 Berkeley students (plus one to American (with a twinge of the Southern always thought it would be. I learned long recent high school grad) and two Berkeley drawl) than to Standard British. ago the importance of family and home. faculty members. While studying in London, we were That’s why I returned to San Francisco.” Eleven of us arrived at Heathrow on free to travel to other cities or countries; ev- Being here also allows him to help a Saturday afternoon and moved into flats ery weekend I was sitting in a train off to his wife, who serves as the vice president that stood across the street from Hyde Park. some part of England. And as most of the of the PlumpJack Group, on their annual That following Monday we sat through students were interested in drama or music, golf tournament that raises funds for the classes and the first of nine scheduled plays. we saw other shows not on the itinerary Northern California Cancer Center. “Hil- While I was eager to jump right into Shake- — in my case, the musical Chicago, and the ary’s mom died of breast cancer, and my speare, I had to wait for the second half of play Edmond, which starred actor Kenneth mother, Barbara, is a 17-year survivor of the program. When the time came, I learned Branagh, whom I later met. breast cancer. Moving back to San Fran- that I couldn’t do this; instead, I had to learn The classes were fantastic — as the cisco has allowed me to be close to work important historical and literary informa- British would say, “Simply brilliant!” As a on projects such as this, to be close to my tion. My fellow students and I learned that declared theatre major, my summer experi- family and to start giving back to the com- Shakespeare used different costumes and dif- ence will help me next year when I return to munity.” ferent styles of bows and curtsies throughout England to study theatre at the University of You can find out more information his career as a playwright, and we learned to Kent in Canterbury. on Callan and his work at www.forefilms. distinguish among them. We also learned as- Anne Morring is a sophomore at UC com. pects of Shakespeare’s personal life and the Berkeley and a member of the Sigma Alpha social, political and economic realities of the Lambda honors fraternity.

GENESIS IV 35 alumninews Sean Cheetham’s Art Led to Newfound Faith

hen you think of Sean Cheetham’s Cheetham hopes people see it as both a remarkable art, think Mel Gib- crucifixion and a resurrection. While it hung Wson without the controversy. in the Morseburg Gallery in West Holly- Cheetham ’95, a talented young artist wood, it drew plenty of admirers, including living in Los Angeles, has painted two large- one man who claimed the painting had “ru- scale images of Christ that are, in some ways, ined him,” said Cheetham. “He would stare as graphic as Gibson’s movie. at it every time he walked by, and he kept Cheetham, whose large paintings sell for missing meetings and appointments.” just slightly under $10,000, is drawing the The painting, he added, “needs to hang attention of some big names in Hollywood, high so that people will look up to see it.” from James Woods, to Flea of the Red Hot Growing up Catholic, Cheetham had Chili Peppers. seen much religious art and studied the ico- Even the movie Northfork, starring nography of the great painters of the Middle Woods, Nick Nolte, Anthony Edwards and Ages and Renaissance. He found his inspira- Daryl Hannah, featured one of his paint- tion in the French painter Adolphe William ings. Bouguereau (1825–1905), whose realistic Cheetham’s “Crucifixion,” an 8-foot- images of young girls captured his eye. by-4-foot oil-on-linen depiction of Christ “I can’t get over his work,” said from the back suspended in air, arms out- Cheetham. “His paintings are highly con- stretched without a cross, is, perhaps, his ceptual but both luminous and more realistic most striking work. than anything else I have seen.” “I wanted to paint my own version of Cheetham, who felt disaffected with the crucifixion,” said Cheetham. “A vision the Catholic Church in high school, found flashed in my head, and I started painting. himself returning to his spiritual roots after The image came out just as I had imagined moving to Los Angeles. it.” “As a kid, whenever I thought of God, I felt only fear of punishment. I had been force-fed my faith without having discovered a few people. “Some people think Christ it for myself. But moving to a predominantly never had a penis, I guess. But I’m not hurt. Hispanic LA, I was immediately surrounded The fact that people are looking at and talk- by religious images, from kitschy Christ car ing about my work means they are moved by fresheners to paintings of the Virgin of Gua- it, and that’s what I want. I don’t try to of- dalupe on the sides of supermarkets. Then fend people, but controversy can be good.” I recalled the image of the crucifix at Holy While at SI, Cheetham took every art Name Church, where I went to school. I used class he could from instructor Katie Wolf. to stare at that for what seemed like hours.” He found that art came naturally to him. Through art, he added, “I’ve found my Sean’s father, the proprietor of J. Cheetham faith again. I have a clear idea of where I am & Company jewelers, used to show his with God, though I don’t quite know how young son how to sketch Disney characters, that happened.” and his mother, Linda, a secretary at Holy Other religious images of his include Name School, would share with him Chinese an homage to Albrecht Duhrer’s “Praying art from her side of the family. “Everyone on Hands,” which features his own tattooed my mother’s side is an artist, it seems,” said hands in prayer, and a pieta featuring a nude Cheetham. “My mom’s cousin and I would Christ. draw motorcycles together, and my grandfa- Regarding the folding hands, Cheetham ther used to paint portraits and sculpt busts wanted to include tattoos “because they are on commission. My grandmother used to such a large part of modern culture, and I draw musclemen, which proved to be my enjoy tattoo art as a medium. I also see so earliest exposure to artistic anatomy. I’m still many people whose hands are folded in trying to catch up to them.” prayer. That image is so simple yet so power- After two years studying art at the Col- ful.” lege of San Mateo, he moved to LA where he The image of the nude Christ did offend enrolled in the College of Design in Pasadena

36 GENESIS IV alumninews and did well enough to earn a scholarship. In his last semester there, as a teacher’s aide in a head painting class, he was commissioned to create a painting for Northfork, which was released in December 2003 by the brother- team of Mark and Michael Polish. The highly allegorical image was fea- tured extensively in the movie, and James Woods, one of the films’ stars, told Cheetham he wanted to buy it. He also asked him to create storyboards for a movie he is produc- ing. Cheetham did not attend the film’s Sun- dance premiere, but he did see a prescreen- ing in LA. “I had chills seeing my work on screen, and it was very exciting when my name rolled by on the list of credits.” Cheetham sells his paintings and draw- ings at several galleries, and he has had many shows featuring his work. Many of his draw- ings feature his girlfriend, Alice, who is also an artist doing both painting and fashion de- sign. He also taught for a while at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, at the ArtCenter and at the American Interconti- nental University in LA. A big fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (and a musician himself), Cheetham saw the group’s bass player, Flea, in front of his mu- sic school. “I was walking my dog and ran into him. I told him I admired his art and wanted to paint him. He called me the next day and commissioned me to paint him and his daughter.” Cheetham, who performed in a band with his brother, Ryan ’97, finds that play- ing his guitar balances his life. “When I do too much painting, I turn to music, which is another creative outlet. I always need to be learning, taking in life and putting it out in art.” His older brother, Chris ’94, will be moving to LA this summer to join Sean and Ryan. “I miss San Francisco, but it will be nice to hang out with both my brothers.” For more information on Cheetham, and to see more of his images, go to www. seancheetham.com.

Sean Cheetham’s remarkable religious imagery had its roots in both his Catholic upbringing in San Francisco and in the re- ligious iconography that is part of the LA landscape. At left is his work “Have Faith,” modeled after Duhrer’s famous painting. To the right is “Crucifixion,” showing a unique perspective of the famous scene.

GENESIS IV 37 alumninews Looking Back 15 Years on Coeducation

By Emily Behr ’93

’ll never forget Aug. 22, 1989. I was a member of the first co-ed “Iclass at SI, one of 175 girls in a school of more than 1,300 students. On our first day of orientation, we were greeted by nervous yet expectant teachers, excited juniors and seniors and the news media. They literally greeted us — they stood on the front steps of school and watched us arrive that first morning. After 134 years of single-sex education, everyone was ready From left: Brenda Lamb, Lorelei Suarez, Theresa Kelly, Marco Giannini, Moira O’Neil, Alicia Thomas, Latifah Phillips, and Dina Calvin at the 10-year reunion. to get a good look at us. As I reflect back, I also recognize God’s welcoming presence. Genesis IV editor Paul Totah interviewed ger as individuals and as a class. Attorney He was in the face of Fr. Mario Prietto, SJ, several of my classmates about their experi- Tiffany Cheung reflects, being at SI “taught SI’s principal, who welcomed us that first ences at SI for the history of the school he is me to be a stronger woman. As a freshman, day in Orradre Chapel and did everything in writing. As one would expect, our class ex- I was surrounded by men, so I learned to his power to make us feel comfortable. He perienced our share of challenges and strug- speak out for myself and to be independent.” was in the face of our teachers who banded gles as we lived through SI’s growing pains. Despite her trial by fire, Amber Clisura be- together to form female ’support groups’ to Amber Clisura, now a textile and fashion lieves that SI “prepared me for the world in make sure that we were able to adjust and designer, recalls, “It was a trial by fire. The ways they never knew they would have. I re- integrate into the historically male-domi- faculty wasn’t sure how to handle 175 girls, ceived an education in finding my principles nated school environment and support us and we weren’t sure how to handle the fac- and sticking to them. My teachers taught me through a difficult school transition. He was ulty.” not to be afraid to do that, and I’m thankful even there in the very pink walls of our brand During our first few years, the school for them.” Jean-Paul Bergez, who owns his new locker room — such a well-intentioned paid so much attention to the female mem- own landscape design business, was grateful (yet slightly misguided) gesture by the school bers of our class that, at times, the 175 boys for the extra attention we received. “People administration to ’rebrand’ facilities for girls in our class lived in the shadows. David warned us that being a freshman is rough, — to let us know they had planned for our Ciappara, who today works as a paramedic, but it was easy [for us] because people treat- arrival and were welcoming us with open remembers, “As a guy, you melted into the ed us so well. No one gave us an initiation arms. All girls must love pink, right?” background. With so many guys there, the process. Everyone patted us on the back tell- Last March, I had the opportunity to girls paid attention to the older guys. You ing us we were special, instead of knocking lead a Kairos retreat for some of our seniors, were like a number almost unless you played us down because we were freshmen.” and I shared this reflection with them about sports.” For MelissaAnne Gallo, ’it was eye For me, the most incredible thing about my first day at SI. As a naive and oblivious opening to see that not all of us were wel- being part of this historic class was the myri- eighth grader living in Marin County, I had comed at first. On my freshman retreat, a ad opportunities that we were offered. Erica no idea what I was getting into when I ac- senior admitted that he [at first] didn’t want Drous noted that “we had a better high school cepted a place in SI’s “pioneer” class of 1993. us to be there and that he agreed with all experience because we never had to be the Fifteen years later, I feel incredibly grateful, the alumni who returned jackets and rings youngest.” For four years, our class, particu- blessed and proud that I was able to be a part [when SI announced its decision to go coed], larly the girls, served as the school’s guiding of this incredible class. but he now saw that it was a good thing.” force. We served on varsity sports teams as At our 10-year reunion last October, For the most underclassmen, gaining valuable experience part, our ex- that earned our teams championships during periences were our final two years. As freshmen, Blair Wilde overwhelmingly and I were the only two girls admitted to Ser- positive. Adver- vice Club for our sophomore year. Because sity that we faced there was no female representation on stu- made us stron- dent council (made up primarily of seniors), we were invited to attend

From left: Todd Denbo, Andy Reid the student council retreat and Jim & Monica Ruane. as sophomores.

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Cross country standout Alicia Stan- fill was one of the first girls selected for the Frank Walker ’43 Working Block Club. Although at times she felt the pressure of being the first to “break tradi- to Publicize Story of Fritz Wiedemann tion, knowing I was setting precedent and By John Paul Sekulich ’97 their drama and intrigue and the result- that I couldn’t screw up and ruin it for ev- ing wounds inflicted across the pages of eryone else,” she also knew that she was he U.S. had just severed relations history, wounds whose scars still remain. consistently “supported and given all of the with the Axis countries, and Ger- That huge conflict today is but a painful coaching and equal opportunities” afforded Tman officials were leaving Amer- legacy, its booming guns, once stamped older students. ica in July of 1941 as their diplomatic with the heavy swastika imprint, are I fondly recall having Fr. John Mur- offices closed. Our nation’s entry into now red with rust and silent, strewn on phy ’59, SJ, as my English teacher freshman WWII was imminent. abandoned fields.” year. For years, the brilliant and dedicated As Fritz Wiedemann — the Nazi Walker’s dream is for someone to Fr. Murphy only taught juniors and seniors. Consul General to the U.S. stationed in adapt the book into a movie that would As department chair in 1989, he added one San Francisco — boarded the ship that rival Schindler’s List. He knows that freshman English class to his own schedule would return him to Germany, Frank Wiedemann’s story surpasses Schindler’s because he wanted to see what it was like to Walker ’43 stood on the pier along with because of crucial intelligence Wiede- teach a coed class. The 30 of us in his class had been blessed with unparalleled intellec- tual challenges coupled with Fr. Murphy’s caring, generous and loving spirit. Our class was a class of firsts, but our experiences were much like every other grad- uating class at the Prep. We studied as much as necessary, immersed ourselves in theater, athletics and other activities, celebrated litur- gies, prayed together, laughed together, cried together and made lasting friendships. Bryan Giraudo, now an investment banker, marvels at how typical our experience was. “There was beauty in what Fr. Prietto and Fr. Sauer did. They did not make it [co-education] an exception, other than the speech on the first day. As I recall, the first day there were TV cameras and then class. It didn’t matter the next day.” Emily Behr is a member of SI’s first coed class and the first one from that class to Frank Walker (left) and his father at the Trocadero shortly after the end of WWII. work for SI. A Stanford graduate, Behr first worked in the school’s admission’s office and his father and waved good-bye to his mann gave the Allies in the early days now directs the SI Magis Program. good friend, a man who had once served of the war that helped them defeat Hit- as Hitler’s private secretary. ler and save nearly 4 million Jews who From left: Janet Wiese, Chrissy Drucker Wiedemann had also served as Hit- would have died in Nazi gas chambers. and Shannon Bardsley. ler’s superior officer in World War I and, Wiedemann befriended the San in one battle, had saved Hitler’s life. Francisco family in 1939 by way of Both Walkers knew that, despite this Walker’s father, Frank Walker, Sr., the fateful action and his subsequent work city editor of the San Francisco Call Bul- with the Nazis, Wiedemann was a good letin who often rubbed shoulders with man who had saved the lives of many elite figures in the news. Wiedemann’s German Jews. family and Walker’s family enjoyed pic- . Now, more than 60 years later, nics together in San Francisco. Walker is telling Wiedemann’s story in Wiedemann stayed in close touch a book nearing completion that he plans with the Walkers after his 1941 depar- to publish. ture, and the family was heartened to The book begins this way: “The learn that Wiedemann was exonerated memories of WWII still linger, with all of war crimes at the de-Nazification tri-

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als in Passau, Bavaria, following the war 20, 1944, attempt on despite his high rank in the Nazi party. Hitler’s life. Testimony at those hearings showed that Although that San he had worked to save the lives of many Francisco pier was the Jews both in Germany and China. last time Wiedemann Major support for clearing Wiede- saw any of the Walk- mann’s name came from evidence later ers, he exchanged close revealed about a secret meeting that correspondence with occurred in November 1940 in Room the Frank Sr. from 1945 continued from page 39 continued from 1026 of the Mark Hopkins Hotel. The to 1957. Frank encour- meeting was arranged by the British Se- aged Wiedemann to cret Service and wiretapped by the FBI, write his wartime bi- which hoped to prove that Wiedemann ography, which Frank was feeding American secrets to the Axis and his staff later ed- countries. ited and embellished. During this meeting, however, Wi- The book fetched little edemann did just the opposite. FBI tran- success on the racks, scripts of that wiretap revealed that Wi- however, and their edemann, in an effort to topple Hitler, friendship suffered a provided the allies with vital information minor setback for a on Hitler’s weaknesses plus the details short period. of his war plan. Wiedemann informed In 1997 Frank British agents that Hitler wouldn’t at- Walker, Jr., began car- tack the Soviet Union without securing rying on his father’s the Baltic states. Based on that informa- attempt to recognize tion, the Allies began actively support- Wiedemann’s heroic Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler’s private secretary ing resistance movements in those coun- actions after he discov- tries. Thus, Hitler had to delay his at- ered among his father’s and the University of California, the tack against the Soviets, allowing them old papers a November 17, 1948, AP Library of Congress and the National crucial time to build up their army and release about his family friend’s de-Na- Archives in College Park, Maryland. forcing Hitler to confront the debilitat- zification trial, which proved that as Other sources for his project include ing Russian winter. Hitler’s private secretary, Wiedemann the FBI, the OSS, the War Department Sir Winston Churchill later said this had been a secret savior of the Jews and and the Munich Archives in Germany. about the information that Wiedemann a traitor to the Nazi cause. Walker was “Without Fritz Wiedemann and had provided the British Secret Service in intrigued and began his research. the vital help he provided the Allies, San Francisco: “William Stephenson (head (Walker, by the way, has his own Hitler might very well have conquered of BSS) and William Donovan (later to interesting history. After graduating Russia, dominated all of Europe and found the OSS) carried out the single out- from SI, he served in the WWII in the wiped out the remaining European standing intelligence coup of the Second Philippines. Upon returning, he pur- Jews,” said Walker. World War when they delayed the Nazi sued engineering degrees at USF and In taking up his father’s cause, invasion of Russia.” And Stephenson him- Gonzaga before attending Georgetown Walker hopes his book, in addition to self said, “Fortunately, in this matter, Wi- University’s School of Foreign Service. recounting a hero’s tale, will show the edemann was taken seriously.” He worked in Latin America for 21 world that “many Germans actively After leaking these secrets, Wiede- years in the chemical industry, taught opposed what the Nazis stood for.” mann knew he was marked within the professional tennis for eight years, did Much WWII literature and written his- Nazi party and had to distance him- research in kinesiology, wrote for na- tory exists, but few sources credit Cap- self from Nazi headquarters. He pulled tional tennis magazines, worked as a tain Wiedemann as a major character. some strings to become Germany’s Con- building contractor, and spent the past Frank wants his work to exonerate sul General in Tientsin, China, where he 10 years as a feature writer and colum- his friend from Nazi involvement and remained until September 1945. nist for a newspaper in Mariposa. He highlight Wiedemann’s role in bringing During his stay in China, Wiedemann and his wife, a native of Peru, have five about the end of the war. saved many Jews from being sent to con- children.) Walker also hopes to take his story centration camps by altering their docu- In the course of his research, Frank to Hollywood, and is looking for possi- ments. He also maintained close and secret reviewed some 20,000 documents and ble backers of a movie based on Wiede- relations with top military officials back in several books and spent much time mann’s life. He invites interested parties Germany who were implicated in the July in the libraries of Stanford University to contact him at [email protected].

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BOYS’ VARSITY CREW TAKES THIRD IN NATION Photo: Doug Salin

ll season long, Varsity Boys’ Crew the boat room at Lake Merced and stole and lived up to it until the end.” Coach Tom O’Connell had his three motors. Later that week, an expen- In Cincinnati, SI took to the water on Arowers repeat this mantra: “Poise sive oar broke in practice in a freak acci- Saturday, coming in third for the first heat and power.” dent. — not good enough to place them in the “Power moves the boat,” said The worst was yet to come. At the finals. In the repechage heat — a second O’Connell. “But when something inevita- San Diego Crew Class in April, the SI chance for some boats — SI took first. bly goes wrong, you need poise to be able rowers found themselves in a qualifying “That was a dream for us,” said junior to respond under pressure.” heat against the top two teams in the state Michael Tate. “That meant we were in the — the Oak- finals. We didn’t think we would make it land Strokes that far.” and Capitol In the finals the next day, in hot and Crew of humid weather, SI clocked a time of 6:16, Sacramen- 3 seconds behind Oakland and 6 behind to. Only Cincinnati to earn bronze medals for cox- the top two swain Jesse Burdick ’04 and rowers Joe boats ad- Dudley ’04, Mike Snyder ’05, Mike Gil- vanced to son ’06, Derek Johnson ’06, Jim Terhey- the finals, den ’04, Noel Castro ’04, Ryan McQuaid and SI came ’04 and Mike Tate ’05. in a close (Two of the crew — McQuaid and third. Bea — will row for Cal next year, with “I told Burdick and Terheyden rowing for the Na- the boys val Academy and Dudley for Gonzaga.) that good O’Connell praised his rowers for their For the boys in the varsity 8 who won things can come from adversity,” said accomplishment, noting that they had third in the nation at the U.S. Rowing O’Connell. “They decided right there, they rowed 950 miles since Jan. 15 in practice Youth Invitational National Champion- wouldn’t let this happen again. The boys and races. “They made it to Lake Mer- ships in Cincinnati June 6, that mantra showed great character after that loss, ced, rain or shine, as early as 5:15 a.m. also became prophetic, as the team over- coming back to beat five boats by more They showed great dedication. Even last came a series of obstacles, including a last- than five seconds, an amazing margin for year, when I watched these same guys row minute injured ankle. crew races. together, I knew they had something spe- The first- and second-place finishers, At the state finals, SI came in second cial. They are a tight group and fun to be the Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club and behind the Oakland Strokes, qualifying with.” the Oakland Strokes, are club teams that them for the national championship. Tate praised Coach O’Connell for draw rowers from a variety of schools. Then, the Tuesday before the meet, se- helping remind the crew of the need for This third-place showing makes SI the nior Nicholas Bea tore all the ligaments in “poise and power.” “If you look at the top-finishing high school crew in the na- his ankle on a flight of stairs in his home, other crews, you’ll see that they are all tion. These bronze medals come seven taking him out of the boat. O’Connell re- bigger than we are. We succeed because years after SI won the national champion- placed him with JV rower Mike Snyder we work well together, and that’s where ship in 1997. ’05. “Some crews would have given up at ’poise and power’ come in. If we stay fo- The bad luck that plagued the crew that point,” said O’Connell. “But these cused, avoid distractions and pull hard, started in April when someone broke into boys took that motto of ’power and poise’ we know we can win.”

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Girls’ Crew Overall Record: 18–5 Coach: Mac Cannady League Record 8–0 Assistants: Matt Oscamo, Anne Stricherz, Highlights: third place Carmel Tournament; Michelle Devencenzi second place St. Ignatius Tournament Team Awards: Ignatian Award: Clarissa All League Selections: Tom Corbolotti, Sam Wong; Wildcat Award: Christine Bruni; Madison, Phil Donici, Mike O’Mahoney Commodore Award: Claire Sullivan Team Awards: Coaches’ Award: Harrison Woerner; Most Improved Player: John Me- lis; John M. Senyard Award: Mike Corbo- lotti, Tom Corbolotti

Boys’ Baseball Coach: Ted Turkington Assistants: Forrest Higgins, Anthony Ji- menez Overall Record: 7–17 WCAL Record: 3–11 Highlights: During the second half of the Girls’ Lacrosse Boys’ Golf season, the ’Cats posted victories over CCS Coach: Colleen Niklaus Coach: Julius Yap semifinalists Riordan (4–0), Bellarmine (5–2) Assistant: Carla Bisio WCAL Record: 3–11 and Valley Christian (4–3). Team Awards: Most Inspirational Play- All League Selection: Andrew Venturi All League selections: Second Team: Greg er: Kristyn Gheradi; Baggataway Award: Team Awards: Rev. Roland P. Dodd, SJ, Ranes (.400 batting average); Pat Popovits Meghan Horn; Outstanding Athletic Award: Jason Doyle, Greg McEvoy, Matt (2–2, 3.06 ERA); Steve Harty (.412 batting Achievement: Katie Watts Mistica average); Honorable Mention: Mike Wat- kins, Kevin Bianchi Boys’ Lacrosse Team Awards: James B. Keating Award: Coach: Greg Angilly Steve Harty; Most Improved Player: Matt Assistant: Chris Packard, John Wise Suhr

Boys’ Swimming Coach: David Fisher Boys’ Crew Crew Photos: Doug Salin WCAL Record: 4–3 Team Awards: Bill Schup- Coach: Tom O’ Connell pel Award: Marcus Gal- Assistant: Eric Giessler lagher; Wildcat Award: Highlights: Varsity 8 second in State Finals Mike McCaffery; Biggest and third in National Finals Turn–Around Award: Bo- Team Awards: Coaches’ Award: Nicholas ris Albinder Bea, Joe Dudley; Captain’s Award: Ryan Davenport; Most Improved Oarsman: Mike Gilson

42 GENESIS IV Boys’ Tennis Coach: Bill Haardt Overall Record: 14–8–2

WCAL Record: 11–3 (third place) Photo: Dan Lang Highlights: Victory over Bellarmine (4–3). mance: Brian Wilhelm; Most Improved Conor Feeney and Nic Amaroli won WCAL Track Athlete: Eli Lazaro; Most Improved Doubles Tournament and reached semifinals Field Athlete: Matthew Crumedy in the CCS Tournament. All League Selections: First Team All League Girls’ Track & Field — Nic Amaroli; Second Team All League Coach: Martin Logue — Lorenzo Cabrera; Honorable Mention Assistants: Al Berrin, Tim Dangaran, Kerry — Ron Alivia, Conor Feeney, Matthew See Hansell, Dan Lang, David Longacre, Yakov Team Awards: Bro. Arthur Lee, S.J. Award: Lozovatskiy, Elizabeth Regalia and John Re- Girls’ Softball Michael DelRosario; Magis Award: Ron galia Coach: Alexis Pena Alivia; Wildcat Award: Derrick Joe WCAL Record: 5–1 Assistant: Frank Sinkavich Highlights: In the 1600 meters, Ciara Vie- Overall Record: 13–16 Boys’ Track & Field hweg won the WCAL championship, fin- WCAL Record: 3–4 Coach: Dan Lang ished second in the CCS Championship and All League Selections: First Team All League Assistants: Al Berrin, Tim Dangaran, Kerry fourth in the California State meet; Carly — Laura Kulm; Second Team All League Hansell, Martin Logue, David Longacre, Ya- Rayburn tied for fourth in the CCS pole — Laura Zimmerman and Liz Larkin; Hon- kov Lozovatskiy, Elizabeth Regalia and John vault (11-feet) and Jazzmonai Gentry fin- orable Mention — Katie Ferren and Vanessa Regalia ished seventh in the CCS long jump with a Farnham WCAL Record: 4–3 leap of 17-feet, 3-inches. Team Awards: Wildcat Award: Laura Kulm, Highlights: Brian Wilhelm WCAL and CCS Team Awards: Julius Yap Award: Laura Deely, Elizabeth Larkin; Most Improved Player: Shot Put Champion and qualifier for Califor- Kelly Kennedy; Outstanding Track Perfor- Laura McCunniff–Reid nia State Meet; ’Cats defeat Bellarmine in a mance: Ciara Viehweig; Outstanding Field dual meet 81–55. Performance: Talia DeMartini; Most Improved Team Awards: Riley Sutthoff Award: David Track Athlete: Rachel Mikulsky; Most Im- Darling; Outstanding Track Performance: proved Field Athlete: Carly Rayburn Michael Lando; Outstanding Field Perfor- Boys’ Volleyball Program Coordinator: Karen Cota Coach: Louie Valiao; Assistant: Pat Steacy Overall Record: 4–14 WCAL Record: 0–12 All League Selec- tion: Honorable Mention All WCAL: Steve San- giacomo Girls’ Swimming Team Awards: Coach: Greg McCarthy Wildcat Award: WCAL Record: 5–2 Steve Sangiacomo; Team Awards: Wildcat Award: Francesca Coaches’ Award: Lollini; Most Improved Swimmer Award: Eric Anguiano and Katie Fitzpatrick; Coaches’ Award: Alessan- Eric Reiser dra Lollini

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Former Wild- cat Lacrosse Stars Damon Conklin-Mor- agne ’02, Matt Wagner ’00, Hank Caulkins ’00, Tycho Suter ’00, Ryan Brittain ’01, Luke Wilson ’01 and Alex Wilson ’99 celebrate after winning the U.S. Lacrosse Men’s Division Intercollegiate Associates Na- tional Cham- pionship in St. Louis.

goalie Ryan Brittain ’01 and specialist Da- ship tournament. SI Alumni Dominate mon Conklin-Moragne ’02, also received Laura Terheyden ’01, a star on the Collegiate Lacrosse All-American honors. Star Mid-Fielders Cal varsity 8, was named to the second Matt Wagner ’00 and Alex Wilson ’99 also team for the CRCA All-America Team he SI Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse Team made crucial contributions throughout and helped her team in a stunning unde- won the California State Champi- the year that helped lead UCSB from one feated regular season. Tonship three years running, from victory to the next, capping a phenomenal Other SI lacrosse alumni also did well 1999 to 2001. That legacy continues as 24–1 season. this season, including Eric Dahm ’00, Pe- seven members of those championship Four of the teammates (Tycho, Hank, ter Langkammerer ’01 and Brian Bianchi teams, who are now competing for UCSB, Alex and Luke) are also college room- ’00, who played for Sonoma State, and won their second consecutive Western mates. Elsa Beyer ’01, who played for UCLA and Collegiate Lacrosse League Champion- Also, Bridget Mulhern ’00, who was earned Second Team All American hon- ship title by defeating Arizona 11-1 in featured last year in Sports Illustrated, led ors. early May. her Cal Poly team to its fourth national Out on the East Coast, Ben Horn Two weeks later, on May 15, they championship in St. Louis. Mulhern ’01, playing for the Naval Academy in the captured UCSB’s first-ever National La- earned First Team All-American honors NCAA Division I National Champion- crosse Championship by defeating Colo- and was named Mid-Field Player of the ship, scored two goals against Syracuse, rado State 8–7 in a hard-fought Year and MVP of the national champion- the eventual winner of that match. Dur- televised game against the de- ing the televised game, announcers praised fending U.S. Lacrosse Intercol- Horn for his terrific showing. legiate Association Club cham- pions in St. Louis, Missouri. From left, Ben Horn ’01 (’05 Naval Academy), Team co-captain Tycho Kenny Yambing ’00 (’04 West Point) and Frank Suter ’00 was named First Team Verducci ’00 (’05 Naval Academy) pose at the All-American Defenseman and steps of Bancroft Hall at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Kenny will graduate from Luke Wilson ’01 received First West Point in May, and then begin training as Team All-American Attack a helicopter pilot in the Army. Ben and Frank honors. have one more year to decide what service Co-Captain and attackman they will select. Ben is playing for the Acade- my’s lacrosse team, which finished second in Hank Caulkins ’00, along with the nation this year against Syracuse. 44 GENESIS IV She was drawn to that fi eld af- ter working as a page 30 for Nancy Fr Joseph O’Reilly, Pastor Emeritus of St. Pelosi the Stephen’s, San Francisco, celebrated his 65th summer be- jubilee as a priest June 2. Fr. Joseph Walsh, tween her present pastor, and Fr. Sauer, who has as- sophomore sisted at St. Stephen’s for 25 years, attended the event.

45 Fr. Felix Cassidy, O.P., a Dominican friar, Four SI grads will enter the Naval Academy. From left are Jesse Burdick, celebrated his jubilee Mass at St. Dominic’s Laura Zimmerman, Jorge Hernandez and (right) Jim Terheyden. where he is associate pastor. The June 13 event celebrated his many years of service, in- cluding fi ve years in Chiapas, Mexico, where LAURA ZIMMERMAN First SI and junior Coed to Enter Naval Academy he earned the title of El Padre Feliz (the hap- year, and she py priest) due to his joyful music making at plans to ma- fi estas with makeshift maracas. He served in hen Laura Zimmerman was jor in politi- Portland, OR, and in Reno before coming to 3, she looked up at the Blue cal science. St. Dominic’s in 1979. He is the chaplain of Angels crisscrossing the sky at W Zimmer- the St. Jude Shrine at the church, which is near supersonic speeds and announced to man, who has visited by people from all over the world and her mother that she wanted to fl y jets. doubts about her country’s involvement in has taken an active role in the church’s res- “Then my mother told me girls Iraq, said the current confl ict never altered toration. Fr. Cassidy recemt;u attended the couldn’t be fi ghter pilots,” said Zimmer- her desire to enlist in the Navy. “I wish baccalaureate liturgy for his grandnephew, man, who graduated from SI last June. we weren’t at war and that war never oc- Harrison Worner ’04. Now that women are allowed to fl y curred. But if sent, I would follow orders. James DeMartini, Jr., after almost 20 years F-14s, Zimmerman hopes to be one of This is the career that I’ve always want- as an active volunteer pilot member and past them as SI’s fi rst coed entry into the Naval ed.” commander of the San Mateo Sheriff’s Air Academy. Zimmerman, who attended the Ham- Squadron, has taken retired status. He con- Many SI boys have matriculated to lin School, chose SI over other private high tinues to teach instrument ground school for Annapolis, and this year is no exception schools “because SI goes beyond pure aca- fl ying. with seniors Jesse Burdick, Jim Terheyden demics and emphasizes spirituality and and Jorge Hernandez heading back east to athletics. SI has been a much better choice join several Wildcats already at the Naval for me.” 48 Academy. A talented athlete, Zimmerman com- Robert Guisti’s grandson, Mathew Kosmas Zimmerman will be one of 200 wom- peted on the varsity water polo team for ’07, is a freshman at SI. Robert’s daughter, en in a freshman class of 1,000, but she’s two years and played centerfi eld and third Lola, is an instructor at the San Francisco not too worried. “I’m just going to have base for the varsity softball team, hitting campus of the University of the Pacifi c where to get used to that uneven ratio and ac- .400 in summer league ball and earning she teaches SI grads, who, she says, are doing cept it,” she noted. “I can take care of my- second team All League honors this sea- quite well. self.” son. From the moment she visited the Na- She also valued her volunteer service val Academy the summer before her fresh- that she did through SI’s Christian Service 55 & 56 man year at SI, Zimmerman knew she be- Program, working at Camp Costanoan 50th Anniversary Reunion of the 1954–55 longed there. She visited the school while over the summer. Varsity Football Team: If you played varsity staying with her aunt in Annapolis, and She is confi dent she can make it at An- football for SI in the fall of 1954, join the “from the fi rst, I had a good feeling about napolis, given how many SI grads thrive in team for an anniversary celebration at the the school. I liked the order and the disci- the Naval Academy. “I know SI has pre- Kezar Club for a buffet dinner from 4:30 to pline and how it keeps with the SI philoso- pared them well enough to graduate and 6:30 p.m. Coaches Burl Toler and Jim King phy of educating the whole person.” be fi ne, and that is heartening, especially will be there, and the team will be introduced In addition to fl ying fi ghter jets, Zim- given how many people have told me how at halftime of the SI–SHC Bruce Mahoney merman hopes to one day work in politics. hard the school is.” Game that evening. Cost for game and din- ner: $20.

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60 Emmet Keeffe become president of the Amer- ican Gastroenterological Association in May 2004. Founded in 1897, the AGA had more than 14,000 members and is the oldest medi- cal subspecialty organization in the U.S. Em- met is also the past president of the Ameri- can Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and is currently professor of medicine, chief of hepatology and co-director of the Liver Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center.

The SI Alumni Association held its annual Southern California Alumni Lunch, named in 61 honor of the late Bob Smith ’32, at the Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena May 14. The fea- Pat Sullivan was named Driver of the Month tured speaker was Genesis IV Editor Paul Totah, who is writing a book on the history of SI. Pictured above are Dave Baccitich ’60, Bill Scannell ’48, Leo Hyde ’47, Brian Keefe ’68, Fr. by Ride-On Transportation, a San Luis Jack Dullea, SJ ’46, and Anthony Totah ’83. Obispo non-profit that ferries developmen- tally disabled persons on their daily rounds. fore transferring to Palm’s Bellevue Office He flies domestic and international missions where he worked on integrated wireless from Los Angeles International Airport. 67 devices for Palm. He is now moving to Microsoft to work on tablet PC innova- Mike Bassi’s son, Neill, a star player on tions. 84 Georgetown Prep’s varsity lacrosse team, Steve Sirianni has opened Blend on Colum- put in a remarkable showing in the Interstate bus, across from Washington Square Park. Athletic Conference championship game, 75 Assisted by his able classmate Matt Corvi, despite a 6–5 loss against rival Landon Pre- Frank Howard was named a partner with a Steve also owns the Velvet Lounge and Grav- paratory School. Georgetown had won that newly created government relations and in- ity. championship the previous year. ternational consultancy company, Artemis Matt McCabe’s daughter, KC (Kristin), was Strategies, LLC, with offices in Washington, crowned Miss Rose of Tralee in San Fran- D.C., Houston and San Francisco. Work- 85 cisco, the same title her aunt, Jane McCabe ing in the Washington office, Frank runs the Mark Delucchi just completed his course- Kolling, wife of Mark Kolling ’70, held in her firm’s public affairs and strategic communi- work for a doctorate in clinical psychology day. KC goes on to the International Rose of cations practice serving its foreign govern- and will finish writing his dissertation over Tralee finals in Ireland, Aug. 20-25. ment, corporate, association and non-profit the next year. He will analyze community at clients. SCU. Shawn Paxson will marry Phuong Nguy- 69 en, DDS, on Aug. 7, 2004, at St. Stephen’s Steve Leveroni, Fathers’ Club President, was 76 Church in San Francisco. Best Men are class- honored by the Salesian Old Timers with the The Class of 1976 will hold its inaugural mates Patrick O’Connor and Mike Onken; 2004 Father Trinchieri Medal at the Found- first annual dinner Nov. 12 at Alfred’s Steak- groomsmen include Tom Oertli and Craig ers’ Day Mass at SS Peter and Paul’s Church house (6 p.m. cocktails, 7 p.m. dinner). Con- Lynch. on May 10. The liturgy was followed by tact Bob Enright at bobenright@sbcglobal. dinner in the Salesian Auditorium. Edmund net. Leveroni, Steve’s father and past Fathers’ Brad Jack is the new chairman of Lehman 87 Club President, won the award in 1967. Brothers, the global investment bank, with Todd Burns has been in living in San Rafael responsibilities for overseeing all of the firm’s for the past six years and recently started 70 investment banking relationships. Brad his own accounting and finance execu- joined the firm in 1984. tive recruiting business: Solstice Consulting Thomas Forsyth has been living in the Se- Group. attle area for the past six years with his Steve McFeely and his writing partner, Chris lovely wife of almost 20 years and their 82 Markus, sold a script based on a biography two daughters Elisabeth, 16, and Carolyn, David Hamilton appeared on The Wheel of of Peter Sellers to HBO in 2002. The project 13. Elisabeth attends Seattle Prep (Jesuit, Fortune in May with his mother on a special went into production last year, and The Life of course) where she plays lacrosse and tribute show to mothers. and Death of Peter Sellers starring Geoffrey soccer for Prep. Tom worked for Word- Courtney Norris is a Federal Air Marshal Rush had its premiere at the Cannes Film star, Intuit and Palm in Silicon Valley be- with the Department of Homeland Security. Festival in May.

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on May 15 at Trentadue Winery in Gey- 88 serville. Best Man was Billy Zanze ’89, and 92 Chris Dunn and Kibber O’Balle, both Ma- Joey Tomsic married Rebecca Marie Jason- groomsmen included Bob Gumina ’89 and rine Corps majors, are in Iraq, the former in tek on Aug. 30, 2003, in Cincinnati. They Gio Martorana ’01. The newlyweds met just logistics and the latter as a helicopter pilot. now reside in Santa Clara. This summer Joey after Damon graduated from the University will travel to Greece for the Olympics to sup- of Oregon in 1995. Damon and Amy will port his wife as she tries to bring home a gold reside in Fort Bragg. 89 medal in synchronized swimming. Ralph Barsi, Stefan Mayo, Graham Burke, Dan Burke and John Pasha — all from ’89 — will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their 90 Patrick Growney married Emily Jan Sole 93 rock band, SEGUE this year. They toasted Joe Tocchini was recently named vice presi- on April 24 in Lake Charles, LA. Best men the first 10 years with an appearance and dent and securities principal for North Star were Pat’s brothers, Bill ’88 and Kevin ’95. live album release at Marin County’s Sweet- Resource Group, a financial planning firm Groomsmen included Will Selva ’90 and water in July. Over the last decade, SEGUE based out of Minnesota. He is in charge of cousins Christian ’92 and Marco Giannini has also included Mark Fassler ’91, Martin the Southwest offices of the firm, including ’93. Pat was re-activated in the Navy and Burke ’92 and Bill Taylor ’82 in its lineup. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. promoted to lieutenant commander. He is Damon Valla was married to Amy Smith currently stationed in New Orleans. 94 Tom Leach has earned a joint degree in inte- rior architecture from USF and the California College of the Arts. He is currently a regular guest designer doing home makeovers for Curb Appeal, a nationwide television show on the Home & Garden Channel. Coinci- dentally, the host of that show is Bill Duggan ’93. (See story in this issue.) Rob Skinner is married and living in Spo- kane. He is going back to college for his sec- ond Bachelor’s degree, this time for nursing.

95 Elizabeth Allen is engaged to be married to Vince O’Neill. Liz and Vince met while at- tending Santa Clara University. They will be married September 18, 2004. Erin Allen ’98, Kathleen Allen ’99, Brian Allen ’01 and Meaghan Allen ’03 will all be in the bridal party. Steve Braccini recently graduated from SCU’s School of Law and passed the California Bar SportsRally Examination. Currently, he is an attorney with the San Francisco firm of Hardiman & an evening of Carroll, LLP. He is also a candidate for San Francisco District 2 supervisor in the upcom- ing November election. More information regarding his campaign is available at www. stevebraccini.com. Bernadette Greene graduated May 28 with Wildcat Spirit! her MBA from SFSU. She just returned from Fathers’ Club Annual Auction a trip to Ireland and England and is working as a proposal manager for Littler Mendelson Saturday, March 5, 2005 in San Francisco. Dave Pacini, Chairman Melissa Kelleher married Mark Lewis March 27 at St. Vincent’s Church in Marin. Jennifer Bob Guglielmi, Vice-Chairman (Stecher) Sullivan ’95 and Eliza (Gaenger)

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Bennitt ’94 were in the wedding party. They Felony Criminal Trial Division. sport. Igor is the first person born in the for- live in San Francisco. Kelly Morris graduated from UC Santa Cruz mer Soviet Union to play for the NFL. The 6- Meg Sablinsky lives in Seattle, WA, and in 2002 with a degree in molecular biology. foot, 6-inch defensive end and tackle weighs works as a physical therapist at the VA Hos- She worked for four years with the Early 320 pounds and was featured on the cover pital there. She became a doctor of physical Academic Outreach Program there doing of J, the Jewish news weekly for Northern therapy in May 2003, earning her degree college-outreach to low-income and under- California. from the University of the Pacific. In her privileged youth on the Central Coast and Rebecca O’Neill graduated from George- spare time she volunteers for the Special meeting some amazing high school students, town University in May. Her parents credit Olympics’ “Ski for All” and is remodeling educators and activists in this community. her success to the wonderful education she her home, which she purchased last year in She plans to start a new position as a medical received at SI. West Seattle. assistant at a women’s health clinic and also Elise Stevens graduated December 2003 Blamoh Twegbe received her doctoral de- to apply to medical school and to become an Magna Cum Laude from the UC Berkeley gree in pharmacy from the Massachusetts OB/GYN specializing in transgender health. with an honors degree in history. Elise hopes College of Pharmacy and began her clini- To Kari B., Scott D., Vlautin, Jamal J.P., and to teach and is pursuing a Master’s degree cal rotations last May at the New England Tito S.B: Where are you guys? in history at the University of Massachusetts. Medical Center. Her proud parents are Joan and Dick Ste- Jennifer Yamate currently works in the radi- vens ’61. ation department at California Pacific Medi- 99 Amanda Tucker graduated from UOP in cal Center (California Campus). Former CSP Lauren Dito graduated from Tulane Univer- May with a Bachelor’s degree in sports sci- director David Mezzera ’64 was happy to sity with a degree in psychology. Following ences. She competed four years in water polo find her working there, especially consider- her graduation, she worked on a research and served as team captain in her senior year. ing that Jennifer had served her community project at the university. She will return to She will continue at UOP where she will pur- service hours at another CPMC site — the New Orleans in the fall to begin a doctoral sue a Master’s in education. She is a two-time Davies Campus. program in school psychology. recipient of the scholar-athlete award from Vivian Khoury graduated cum laude from the Big West Conference. SCU June 2003 after majoring in combined Kenneth Yambing graduated from the U.S. 96 sciences and minoring in sociology. In Au- Military Academy at West Point May 29 as a Michelle Giuffre has been living in Port- gust 2004, she will begin her first year at 2nd lieutenant in the Aviation Corps. land, Oregon, for the past three years and Case Western Reserve University School of is training for her second marathon — the Dental Medicine in Cleveland. New York City Marathon — this fall. She Stephen Scarpulla has a Bachelor’s degree 01 has been working as a child mental health from UC Santa Barbara and is a current stu- Chris Achacoso graduated cum laude a year social worker since moving there and will dent at USF’s law school. early with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism be starting a Master’s teaching program at and mass communications and a minor in Lewis and Clark College this summer. sociology from NYU. He spent half of 2003 00 studying abroad in London and Madrid. He Alex Bruns has been elected president of now lives in Brooklyn and plans to stay in 97 Auburn University’s College of Architecture, New York City, where he recently got hired Marjorie Skinner has been promoted to co- Design and Construction for 2004–2005. as the office manager for Spring Street Net- ordinating editor of the Portland Mercury, Alex will graduate in May 2005 with a Bach- works, an online personals company. an alternative weekly in Oregon. elor’s degree in building science. David Arnott graduated in May from New Paul Lorentz graduated with honors from York University with a BA in English and LMU and received a president’s citation American Literature. This summer, he will 98 award for academics, leadership and service, start graduate school at UC Santa Cruz, Robert Davis II graduated from UC Davis and a fellowship to study at the Lonergan where he will be studying for his MA in last spring with a double major in history Institute at Boston College, where he will education, with the goal of becoming a high and psychology. After playing four years of pursue a Master’s degree in philosophy. He school English teacher. football at UC Davis, his love of sports has was a student leader in the Social Justice Michele Porter went to South Africa in May led him into sports business where he is cur- Coalition, did community service at the LA and June as part of Fordham’s first Global rently enjoying a dream summer as an intern Juvenile Jail and performed music in liturgies Outreach Immersion Program to that na- for the San Francisco Giants. each week. tion. Keefe Duterte married Sarah on April 16 in Igor Olshansky was drafted in the second Kapa’a, Hawaii. round by the San Diego Chargers. Like Holly Hogan is the new student body presi- Dan Fouts ’69, the Chargers’ Hall-of-Fame 02 dent of Harvard Law School. This summer quarterback, Olshansky graduated from the Bryan Lorentz, a student at SCU, worked for she is working at the office of the Chicago University of Oregon and was encouraged Fr. Mario Prietto, SJ, former SI principal and District Attorney (State’s Attorney) in the by former coach Vince Tringali to play the SCU’s campus minister. Bryan and three oth-

48 GENESIS IV keepingintouch ers lived and worked at the Ministry House. Andrew Giovanni, born April 18, 2004. An- Bryan is a religious studies major and will be drew joins big brother Ethan. spending his fall semester in a monastery in In- dia studying Eastern religions and meditation. Amanda Nichols has just completed her sec- 89 76 Bill Casey and his wife, Allison, their third ond year at Loyola University Chicago. She John Kavanagh and his wife, Aran, a son, child, a daughter, Emilie Jane, in November. is majoring in communications with a minor John “Jack” Garvin, born April 29, 2004. Jay Barangan ’86 is proud to be Emilie’s in theatre and has spent all four semesters Jack joins older sister Juliana. on the Dean’s List. She will be spending next godfather. Emilie joins Ryan, 5, and Andy, year in London studying fi lm production and 3. Andy’s godfather is Eric Vennemeyer ’89. theatre performance. 80 Bill is the co-owner of an IT services fi rm lo- Philip Duarte and his wife, Cherie, a daugh- cated near Chicago. 03 ter, Ava, born Jan. 23, 2004. Christopher Lorentz excelled in his fi rst year 90 at Dominican University both academically 85 David Casallas and his wife, Pamela, a and musically. This summer he will work as a Mark Delucchi and his wife, Susan, a baby daughter, Amanda Gabriela, born May 10, counselor at Camp Armstrong while continu- girl, Celeste Tomaro, born Dec. 8, 2003. She 2004, in Santiago, Chile. Amanda joins big ing to perform music at liturgies and directing joins older sister Clare Tomaro, 3. sister Olivia. the youth mass at St. Anselm’s Church. Tony Gnecco and his wife, Keri, a daugh- Joe Drucker and his wife, Katy, a daughter, ter, Emily Robin, born March 18, 2004. She Ella Elizabeth, born June 8, 2004. 04 joins big brother Austin, 3. Sam Madison was one of seven Bay Area 91 players selected to the U.S. Lacrosse All- 86 Stephen Lucey and his wife, Gabrielle, a American team. Robert Mossi and his wife, Elizabeth, a son, daughter, Clara Ann, born Feb. 28, 2004.

15th Annual SI DOWNTOWN BUSINESS LUNCH Wednesday, October 6, 11:30 a.m. Peter Siggins ’73 Gov. Schwarzenegger’s New Legal Affairs Secretary for California Name ______Address ______To be held at the new headquarters of the World Trade City ______State_____ Zip ______Club, located in the heart of the Embarcadero, behind the historic Ferry Building with panoramic views of Work Phone ______San Francisco Bay. Home Phone ______

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hood in 1947, Fr. Dullea taught Aquatic Park in San Fran- 92 philosophy and English at USF cisco and, with his friend Elwyn Cabebe and his wife, Emily, a son, for three years. This was the Tom Rice, completed sev- Isaiah Elikai, born April 5, 2004, in Daly beginning of what would be- eral trans-Golden Gate City. Both Elwyn and Emily are fi nishing come 36 years of service at and Alcatraz swims. their internal medicine residencies at Santa USF where he would serve as He is survived by his Clara Valley Medical Center. rector, president, chancellor brother, Fr. John Dullea, and chancellor emeritus. SJ ’46, his niece, Mary 93 He also served two tours Dullea, his nephews Ed- Andrew Grove and his wife, Dana, a son, in Rome where he nourished ward Dullea ’62 and Aidan Matthew, born May 12, 2004. a great affection for the Ital- Charles Dullea ’65, and Jim McGuigan and Allison, a daughter, Syd- ian people and their culture. In many cousins. ney Marie, born July 4, 2002, in San Fran- Rome he earned a Doctorate in Sacred The- cisco. ology and he served as U.S. Secretary to the General of the Jesuits and as Superior of the Charles Quarré ’42 Pontifi cal Biblical Institute. Then, from 1955 Member First SI Board to 1958 he served as rector/president of Bel- harles Mohun Quarré ’42 larmine College Preparatory in San Jose. passed away peacefully in Sol- 32 William H. Dobert His father was a career police offi cer, Cdotna, Alaska, surrounded 34 Rev. Charles W. Dullea, SJ serving as chief of police in San Francisco by family and friends on June 12. 42 James W. Doherty from 1940 to 1947, and from him Fr. Dullea A member of SI’s fi rst Board of Regents 42 Charles M. Quarre inherited a commanding physical presence and an eighth-generation Californian, he 45 Albert J. Bordalampe and a capacity for leadership. During the was born Nov. 29, 1923, and graduated 47 Frank W. Dolly, Sr. tumultuous 1960s, Fr. Dullea provided a from the Merchant Marine Academy as an 47 Thomas J. Sammon, Sr. steady hand as USF president as the school engineer offi cer. He transferred to the U.S. 48 Robert L. Gogin grew from a “streetcar” campus serving a Navy and became a lieutenant and chief 51 Rudy Dangcil largely San Francisco student body to a res- engineer during WWII. 52 Robert C. “Bob” Rodriguez idential campus with international appeal. After the war, he received a Bachelor’s 52 George R. Shanabarger During his time as president (1963– degree in Animal Husbandry from UC 53 James P. Brown 69), USF doubled the size of its student Davis and worked for Kern County Land 56 Robert Nannizi body, went co-ed, developed an emphasis Company in Bakersfi eld for 18 years. He 69 Michael Maring on serving students from Pacifi c rim coun- served in the banking and real estate busi- 71 Joseph J. Giampaoli, Jr. tries and embarked on a building program ness until he returned to sea in the early 75 Ken Piazza that turned the campus into a modern, ur- 1980s as an engineer with the Merchant 83 Simon A. Siniora ban university facility. Marines. Soon after he retired, he moved 97 Brian G. McBrady Later, as chancellor (1977–1991), he to Alaska and spent the last 11 years of his continued to present the Jesuit face of USF life enjoying travel, the great outdoors and to an expanding population of alumni and volunteer work in his community. Rev. Charles Dullea, SJ, supporters. He encouraged the growth of He was a member of the Bohemian former President of USF the St. Ignatius Institute at the University Club, the Olympic Club, Society of Califor- and planned to teach there until his duties nia Pioneers, Old St. Mary’s Parish, served By Br. Daniel Peterson as chancellor precluded that assignment. on the Board of Directors of the Cal Ag- Province Archivist He served on many boards and com- gie Alumni Association and the California mittees and, for years, was moderator of Cattleman’s Association. While in Alaska ev. Charles W. Dullea, SJ ’34, for- the Loyola Guild. he was very active with the St. Vincent de mer president of USF and uncle Fr. Dullea was also a great swimmer, Paul Society, AARP, American Cancer So- Rof SI principal Charles Dullea ’65, and USF named the swimming facility in ciety, Hospice, and his local parish. died June 8 in Los Gatos. He was 87. the Koret Center for him. As a youngster He is survived by his brother, Peter; A Jesuit for 70 years, Fr. Dullea was he used to frequent the Crystal Plunge in his sister, Ann Davidson; his former wife, born in San Francisco and entered the Je- North Beach, and later in high school he Harriet Meyer Quarré; his four children: suits after graduating from SI. A gifted stu- swam for the Olympic Club. During his Catherine Alexander, Wilson, Simone, and dent, he passed up a scholarship to USF to time as a Theology student he rescued two Marianne Dean; and his six grandchil- enter the Jesuits and later, as President of classmates who had exhausted themselves dren. USF, he joked that USF still owed him four swimming against a powerful rip tide in In lieu of fl owers, the family requests years of education. the ocean off Santa Cruz. He was a proud donations to SI’s Class of 1942 Memorial Prior to his ordination to the priest- member of the South End Rowing Club at Scholarship.

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You can mail letters to Y S GENESIS IV 2002 Genesis IV justify arson, bombings and At Gonzaga University in Spokane, 2001 37th Avenue even murder. Indeed, re- WA, I teach a course entitled Christian San Francisco, Ca 94116 or e-mail [email protected] cently “faith” was used to Spirituality. The autobiography of Catholic justify beheading an inno- Worker movement founder Dorothy Day, cent man. The Long Loneliness, is the centerpiece. I Dear Editor, had lost contact with my classmate, Larry Christopher Staring ’78 Purcell ’62, and it was refreshing to catch just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed up on his inspiring life of service: feeding, reading Genesis IV Spring 2004. Jim THE AUTHOR RESPONDS: clothing and sheltering homeless teens. I I Dekker’s article, “Swimming the was further impressed by his prophetic Gate,” brought back a name from my have nothing to say to the specifics stance to embrace fully the pacifist’s pre- youth — Bob Roper. Did he really swim of the letter. The basis for my life as cepts of the Catholic Worker. Like Day, the Gate in 17 minutes? Bob found a great I a Catholic Worker (including non-vio- Purcell has tasted jail, not for its own sake, way to express his athletic abilities. Con- lent actions in the name of peace) is an at- but motivated out of a higher sense to pro- gratulations on making it across Jim! Per- tempt to make sense out of everyday life test what Pope John Paul II refers to as our sonally I would rather take the ferry. and the Gospels. The story of Jesus is clear: modern day culture of death. Keep up the good work communicat- “Love one another” and “Don’t kill.” It’s I confess that I had to smile wily about ing with alumni. as simple and as difficult as that. Purcell’s disarming approach to his “short time” experience in jail. For Purcell, jail Regards, Peace, became the new arena in which to encoun- Bob Barron ’56 Larry Purcell ter the face of Christ. In the comfort of class discussions at Gonzaga, we consider a number of Catholic personalities who Dear Editor, Dear Editor, have spent time in jail: Thomas More, Francis of Assisi, Oscar Romero, Dorothy erhaps due to editing, the excerpts want to commend the Genesis IV Day, Ignatius of Loyola and Edith Stein. of Larry Purcell’s articles do not Spring 2004 issue and its four diverse- Jail can be a transformative as well as Pcontain any meaningful discussion I ly sensitive features on the Iraq War. costly experience. For Purcell, 30 days in of whether his illegal conduct was man- A balanced perspective of the intricacies jail became his new ministry and an inno- dated by his faith and Church doctrine, of war and peace was presented, ranging vative pulpit for the Gospel of Life. although that premise is strongly implied. from the importance of training a new Lastly, thank you for granting permis- Mr. Purcell’s willingness to embrace hard- Iraqi army, to Catholic Worker protest sion to reprint these feature articles, which ship for the sake of his convictions is ad- against production of WMD at Lockheed collectively will challenge university stu- mirable, as are his many God-honoring Martin in Sunnyvale, to band entertain- dents to grapple with contemporary war acts of kindness both in and out of jail. ment for our troops, to 1st Marine Divi- and peace issues. Candidly, however, it appears that more sion “No Better Friend” humanitarian aid than anything else his incarceration result- for Iraqi children and citizens. SI should Fr. John Mossi ’62, SJ ed from his strikingly all-encompassing contempt for the government overwhelm- ing his ability to obey the law. Reunions There undoubtedly are circumstances Date Year Place Contact in which possessing a vital faith would Sept. 18, 2004 Class of 1984 Velvet Lounge Mark Orsi & require engaging in public protest, even Martin Murphy civil disobedience. The American Civil Sept. 18, 2004 Class of 1964 S.I. Dinner/Commons Tom Hunter Rights Movement immediately comes to Oct. 2, 2004 Class of 1979 S.I. Dinner/Commons Dan Kearney mind as a source of examples. Mr. Purcell, Oct. 16, 2004 Class of 1994 S.I. Dinner/Commons AnnMarie however, fails to convince me that “mo- Taheney Seefeldt mentarily” blocking a roadway was ei- Nov. 13, 2004 Class of 1969 Miyako Hotel, S.F. Mike Taheny ther mandated by faith or even necessary for meaningful protest. Furthermore, the question is not merely academic, but in Alumni Events Oct. 6, 2004 Business Lunch World Trade Club fact has dangerous implications, because Nov. 12, 2004 Class of ’76 Dinner Alfred’s Steakhouse Bob Enright many people of “faith” are not as com- Nov. 21, 2004 Christ the King Leo LaRocca Recipient mitted to non-violence as is Mr. Purcell. In recent years, “faith,” coupled with flawed

52 GENESIS IV keepingintouch Calendar 2004–2005 August January 2004 25 Frosh Orientation/Registration 8:45 a.m. –3:30 p.m. 3–4 Faculty Retreat, no classes Junior Registration/Convocation 8:30 a.m. 5 Classes resume 8:30 a.m. Frosh & Transfer Parent Reception, Library 9 a.m. 8 Entrance Exam for 8th Graders 8 a.m.–noon Sophomore Registration/Convocation 11 a.m. 11 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 26 Senior Registration/Convocation 8:30 a.m. 12 Father’s Club Crab and Cards, Commons 6 p.m. Frosh Orientation 10 a.m.–3 p.m. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 27 School begins 8:30 a.m. 23 Ignatian Guild Day of Recollection 28 Athletics Parents Meeting, McCullough 9 a.m. 26–29 Dance Concert, Bannan 7:30 p.m. 31 Frosh/Transfer Parent Night, Commons 7:30 p.m. February September 6 Mother-Student Communion Breakfast 9 a.m. 7 Fathers’ Club Welcome BBQ, Commons 5:30 p.m. 8 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 7 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 8&10 Winter One Acts, Bannan 7 p.m. 9 Back to School Night 7 p.m. 10 Counseling: Sophomore Parents’ College 101 10 Mass of the Holy Spirit 8:30 a.m. 16 Board of Regents Meeting, Library 4 p.m. 14 Junior Parent Counselor Night 7 p.m. 21 President’s Day Holiday 18 Class of 1984 Reunion, Velvet Lounge 23 Black History Month Celebration Show 7 p.m. Class of 1964 Reunion, SI 24 Mother-Daughter Dinner, Commons 6:30 p.m. 21 Senior Parent Counselor Night 7 p.m. 23 Community of Concern Frosh Parent Night 7 p.m. March 2 Board of Trustees 4 p.m. October 5 Fathers’ Club Auction 6 p.m. 2 Class of 1979 Reunion, SI 8 Career Day 8:30 p.m. 5 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 8 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 5 Sophomore Parent Counselor Night 7 p.m. 11 Quarter Break 6 Downtown Business Lunch, World Trade Ctr. 11:30 p.m. 14 Faculty In-Service, no classes 7 Ignatian Guild Mom’s Night Out, Commons 6:30 p.m. 20 Golden Diploma, Chapel & Commons 10 a.m. 10 Father/Student Communion Breakfast 8:30 a.m. 22 College Night 13 PSAT/Frosh Retreat 8:30 a.m. 24 Easter Break begins Senior Portraits noon-8 p.m. 16 Class of 1994 Reunion, SI April 20 Board of Regents Meeting 4 p.m. 4 School resumes 8:30 a.m. 22 Quarter Break 5 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 25 Faculty In-service, no classes 8 Father Daughter Night, Commons 8:30 p.m. 26 Frosh Parent Counselor Night 7 p.m. 16 Mother-Son Night, Commons 8 p.m. 27 Community of Concern Soph., Jr., Sr. parents 7 p.m. 17 College Case Studies Program 1 p.m. 19 General Parent Meeting 7:30 p.m. November 20–23 Spring Musical 7 p.m. 2 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 25 Magazine Drive Holiday (tentative) 6 Ignatian Guild Fashion Show, Commons 6 p.m. 26 Father-Son Dinner, Commons 6:30 p.m. 7 Ignatian Guild Fashion Show, Commons 11 a.m. 27–30 Spring Musical, Bannan 7:30 p.m. 9 Community of Concern, Soph, Jr., Sr. Parents 7 p.m. 10 Board of Trustees Meeting 4 p.m. May 10–13 Fall Play, Wiegand 7 p.m. 3 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 13 Class of 1969 Reunion, Miyako Hotel 11 Board of Regents’ Meeting 4 p.m. 14 Open House 1–3:30 p.m. 11–12 Choral Concert, Bannan 7 p.m. 16 General Parent Meeting 7:30 p.m. 18 Ignatian Guild Installation Mass & Reception 11 a.m. 17–20 Fall Play 7 p.m. 19 Awards Assembly 8:30 a.m. 21 Christ the King Mass, Commons & Chapel 10 a.m. Class of 2005 Alumni Lunch 11 a.m. 24 Girls/Boys Alumni Basketball Game 6 & 7:30 p.m. 20 Faculty In-Service, no classes 25–26 Thanksgiving Holiday 23 Transition Liturgy, Holy Name Church 8:30 a.m. 27 Alumni Soccer Game noon 24 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 30 Winter Pops 7 p.m. 24–26 Senior Final Exams 8:30 a.m. 26 Baccalaureate Mass, St. Mary’s 7:30 p.m. December 28 Graduation, St. Ignatius Church 10:30 a.m. 1–3 Winter Pops, Bannan 7 p.m. 4 Christmas House Tour 10 a.m. June 4 President’s Cabinet Dinner 7 p.m. 4 Day on the Boulevard Sesquicentennial Celebration 7 Counseling: Financial Aid Night 7 p.m. 8 Board of Trustees Meeting 4 p.m. 7–9 Winter Pops, Bannan 7 p.m. 13 Summer School begins 8:30 a.m. 9 College Financial Aid Night, Commons 7:30 p.m. 14–17 Final Exams 20 Start of Christmas Vacation 24 Community Christmas Mass 10 p.m.

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SI’s Marc Baumann produced and di- rected The Music Man, with music di- rection by Nick Sablinksy ’64, starring Zach Kenney in the title role and Pa- mela Sevilla as Marian Paroo. The play ran from April 21 to May 1 in Bannan Theatre before sold-out crowds.

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e all know the buddy system. It starts from the fi rst days in kindergarten when you pair up on fi eld trips. You look out Wfor your buddy, and your buddy looks out for you. In this issue, we see how that system extends beyond high school walls, and we offer stories of SI grads and faculty who work together in interesting ways. Take the HGTV show Curb Appeal, for instance. Tom Leach ’94 serves as a designer for that show from time to time while Bill Duggan ’93 hosts every episode. In the story, Leach discusses the “great rap- port” he had with Duggan “because of our SI and St. Brendan’s con- nections. When we weren’t fi lming, we were talking about our teachers and mutual friends.” Duggan echoed this, noting that between takes “we kept calling teach other Billy and Tommy. It’s funny how we came full circle to end up where we did. As we sat on the steps [of the remodeled home], it was Above: Byron Philhour and his astronomy class. Below: Celine Alwyn (4th from right) in Bombay Dreams. as if we were sitting on the steps of our school.” Two grads who also work together are Michael Nevin ’61, a mem- ber of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and Ed McGovern ’75, a political consultant who will be running Nevin’s campaign for the State Senate. The two found themselves together in another context when the Examiner last April named them to its list of the 10 most infl uential people in San Mateo County-. Sometimes the buddy system can create indirect connections. Take, for example, SI faculty Byron Philhour and James Dann. Both men ask their students to look skyward, to wonder, to ask questions and to fi nd answers. Philhour does that in his astronomy class, where he has found an insatiable curiosity among his students for the heavens, and Dann does this in his physics class, by having students send weather balloons skyward measuring air pressure and temperature. These two men are linked with someone from SI’s past. John Montgomery, who attended SI College in the 1870s, did more than look skyward. In 1883 he became the fi rst person ever to fl y a glider when he sailed above the earth on his family’s ranch near San Diego. Montgomery, Philhour and Dann all serve to illustrate that this desire for what lies beyond us seems hard-wired into the SI spirit. Finally, we present two grads who are buddies only in that they work on the same street — New York’s Broadway. Celine Alwyn ’98 dances in the ensemble of the hit musical Bombay Dreams and Brendan Quig- ley ’78 is controlling the lights for Wicked, another Broadway suc- cess story. But you don’t have to read Genesis IV to see how much the buddy system is at work among SI grads. How many of your class- mates have worked together at one time or another? How many business associates do you have who are alumni of this school? As McGovern notes in this is- sue, “It’s a remarkable testament to this school that the SI network helps so much in the business and Photo: Joan Marcus political community. It helps to break the ice at meetings and to bring commonality to the issues we discuss.” And it does more. The community we share today reminds us of our common foundation in St. Ignatius of Loyola and grand venture he fathered forth fi ve hundred years ago. Like Montgomery’s glider, that venture — the Jesuit system of education — has taken wing and brought us to where we are today. — Paul Totah ’75