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SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE CLARA SANTA Santa Clara Magazine A $25 million The hidden story DiMaggio on one Introducing a bigger, SPRING/SUMMER 2015 SPRING/SUMMER boost for social behind Silicon Valley’s of our own: A good bolder, lovely new entrepreneurs Page 6 beginnings Page 16 baseball man Page 28 design Every page POWER OF PLACE OF POWER POWER OF PLACE 05/23/15 The beatification of Archbishop Óscar Romero brought half a million peo- ple to the Plaza Divino Salvador del Mundo. Among them: dozens of alumni from Santa Clara’s Casa de la Solidaridad in El Salvador, as well as Ana María Pineda, RSM, an associate professor of religious studies who this year taught a course at SCU on Romero and the Salvadoran martyrs. In February, days after Pope Francis officially declared Romero a martyr, Sister Pineda and colleague Juan Velasco hosted “A Legacy of Love and Jus- tice,” honoring Romero and Rutilio Grande, S.J., a Salvadoran Jesuit killed by soldiers in 1977. Grande was Romero’s friend; his assassination was a catalyst for Romero taking the cause of El Salvador’s poor as his own. That in turn cost Archbishop Romero his life; in March 1980, he was shot while saying Mass. The Church has also begun the process of sainthood for Fr. Grande—an uncle to Sister Pineda. Born in San Salvador, she lived in the United States; in 1979 she traveled to meet Archbishop Romero. “His beatification recognizes what he was in the life of the Church in El Salvador—and also beyond those borders,” she says. PHOTOGRAPHY © EPA/OSCAR RIVERA TABLE OF CONTENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2015, VOLUME 56 NUMBER 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR STEVEN BOYD SAUM STAFF Editor santaclaramagazine.com Steven Boyd Saum Literary Editor Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 DIGITAL EXCLUSIVES Creative Director What’s New? Linda Degastaldi Timely features and interviews, Associate Editor, Digital videos and slide shows, Steve Nash So here’s something that you might not know: Magazine is a verb as well as Clay Hamilton ’96 and Bill de Blasio, essays and a noun. Go back to the well of language and you find the English word comes Photographer mastodon tusks. New stuff: from Italian and French and before that Arabic: makzan, a storehouse, kazana Charles Barry to store up. It’s good to think of a magazine as an action word, even if that use Contributors John Deever is pretty rare these days. Take this magazine: There’s the place and what we do. Jeff Gire And we’re doing some different things starting with this edition. The visual Alicia K. Gonzales ’09 Leah Gonzalez ’14 transformation is the work of DJ Stout and colleagues from the design firm Harold Gutmann Deborah Lohse Pentagram, out of their office in Austin, Texas. The whole shebang is bigger and Marisa Solís offers more room to breathe. Lynn Peithman Stock Magazines speak, too. Through this redesign, we hope you’ll find ours is a Interns Tad Malone ’17 resonant voice. Stories take new shapes, revealed through unique lenses. There Grace Ogihara ’16 are more pages and a new texture to the paper (100 percent post-consumer Eryn Olson ’16 Danae Stahlnecker ’15 waste). Three major sections populate the environs: Mission Matters, Features, Design Consultant and Bronco News. That third part is magazined with stories of SCU alumni Pentagram Austin near and far, from the World Series to weddings, from the ocean depths to the ADVISORY BOARD first international chapter for the Alumni Association, in Bangalore. In back as well as front, meet the Keys—literal as well as metaphoric: sym- President Michael Engh, S.J. bols from the keyboard to unlock for you quote, paragraph, plus, copyright, and Vice President for more. We reclaim @ as place and # as numbers. (Twitter handles and hashtags University Relations we know; have you met our digital mag?) The keys open doors and wider geog- James Lyons MADAME SECSTATE From a May raphies—of earth and the imagination, to this time and centuries past, perhaps Associate Vice President for Marketing and talk as part of the President’s Speaker racing across the water or redolent with the fragrance of ancient redwoods. Communications Rich Giacchetti Series: former Secretary of State An old literary friend, 17th-century English writer Ben Jonson, inquired: “What Madeleine Albright on economy and more than heauenly pulchritude is this? What Magazine, or treasurie of blisse?” Assistant Vice President for security in the 21st century. So glad you asked, Ben. Let’s say, where this mag is concerned, it’s where im- Alumni Relations ages and words meet in vibrant collusion, a place for wit and wisdom, laughter Kathy Kale ’86 and tears—and because this is Santa Clara, a place to speak of faith and hope Margaret Avritt Linda Degastaldi and birth and death; of truth and beauty; of human beings in sinew and spirit, Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 strength and humility, subtlety and surprise. Welcome. Michael C. McCarthy ’87, DEPARTMENTS FEATURES M.Div. ’97 Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77 4 LETTERS Paul Soukup, S.J. 16 Silicon Valley Story Where and what 6 MISSION MATTERS The hidden history behind the heart of ingenuity. Santa Clara Magazine is By Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77. published by Santa Clara University and printed 7 AT on FSC-certified paper containing 100 percent post-consumer waste. 8 AND 22 Barcelona Siesta BACK PORCH BLUES Dig the rustic Opinions expressed in On a Fulbright to Spain, in pursuit of the meaning of sleep. In the 21st century, CHRIS CRISMAN AND HALL, SCOTTY blues vibe of the latest album from the magazine do not necessarily represent 11 QUOTE it’s not what it used to be. By Maya Kroth ’01. Jorma Kaukonen ’64. Writer Mark Purdy views of the editor or official University policy. calls it “crunchily satisfying.” Copyright ©2015 by 13 COPYRIGHT Santa Clara University. Reproduction in whole or 26 Build It Beautiful in part without permis- 14 NUMBERS See how the campus has been transformed in the past two decades—thanks in sion is prohibited. Letters, photos, and stories with no small part to Joe Sugg. Illustration by Rod Hunt. a Santa Clara connec- tion are encouraged. 38 BRONCO NEWS P: BY TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS, GREENFIELD-SANDERS, BY TIMOTHY P: santaclaramagazine. com/contact 39 AT 28 A Good Baseball Man [email protected] Charlie Graham and a tale of the Red Sox and the San Francisco Seals, big-time @santaclaramag 41 QUESTION horse racing, and five generations of Broncos. By Jeff Gire. 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BY DAVID ILLUSTRATION known as Chaplain of the Colbert Nation. 2 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE LETTERS SPRING/SUMMER 2015 Jesus never ranked sins, and these to create a “Big Tent.” But I don’t think As a student of Christian theology, Church, seeing to the Corporal and THE WRITER’S ART men are no less deserving of God’s redefining God is the best approach. especially of its ancient sources, I am Spiritual Works of Mercy in his dio- Nota bene: Along with striking a Letters grace than anyone else: “For there is Jim Walker ’63 not surprised that people struggle cese as a valued and honored member chord or nerve with readers, some mag no distinction: for all have sinned and Tucson, Arizona with faith. From Abraham and Sarah of society. The Jesuits—like all the stories and editions earn awards. fall short of the glory of God and are through Moses, from Peter to Mary priests of a diocese—bear a special justified by his grace as a gift.” I find faith most difficult when I Magdalene to Paul, early monastic relationship to the bishop; they are Three for the books: award-winning The Catholic Sharon H. Barnett forget who I am. The distractions men and women—for all of them his spiritual sons. One of these, Fr. writer today illustrations for us BY DANA GIOIA For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox Lindsay, California and errors of our society pull us out faith was a trial.