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T H E M E N L O ADVANTAGE MENLO COLLEGE’S MAGAZINE President & CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, Dr. Russell Hancock with Timely Advice for Students SPRING 2009 Think critically, outside the box. Strategize and innovate with self-confidence. Mary Robins, Director of Career Services and blank walk the first lap in Relay For Life, a 24-hour fundraiser Communicate walk that was hosted to by Menlo College in April. Proceeds from the program benefited the American Cancer Society. make connections. Use your Menlo advantage to change the world. Non Profit Org G. TIMOTHY HAIGHT US Postage President, Menlo College PA I D Denver, CO Permit NO 3280 1 SPRING 2008 PUBLISHER Advancement Office, Catherine E. Reeves Vice President for Institutional Advancement MANAGING & EDITORIAL SERVICES Darcy Blake, Managing Editor Tina Fairbairn, Copy Editor Tom Haflinger ’07, Copy Editor CONTRIBUTING WRITERS G. Timothy Haight, Chop Keenan III ’66, James J. Kelly, Table of Contents Catherine E. Reeves, Darcy Blake, Tina Fairbairn, Tom Haflinger ’07, Said Karimzad ‘09, Michelle Pualuan, 3 FROM THE PUBLISHER | Catherine Reeves Trent Sillanpaa, Dorothy Skala ’96, Eric Sponburgh ‘99, Ways of Giving Derek Stimel, Francis Turner, Tom Wood ‘93 5 FROM THE PRESIDENT | The Road Ahead 7 Significant Milestones | Chop Keenan DESIGN 8 Nobody Owes You a Living | Russell Hancock Darcy Blake 10 If I Could Have Just Have 15 Minutes with the President | PHOTOGRAPHY & GRAPHICS Enrique Ybarra ‘91, International Entrepreneur Darcy Blake, Tom Haflinger ’07, Catherine E. Reeves, 12 Fixing the US Economy One Person at a Time menlooakssports.com, SF 49ers 14 Keep Our Street Cred! | John F. McDonough 15 The 5th Annual Business Plan Competition | Tom Wood ‘93 PRODUCTION Tina Fairbairn 16 In Memoriam: Carlos López Tom Haflinger ’07 18 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS | Jim Kelly 19 Faculty News COLLEGE PRESIDENT G. Timothy Haight 22 Liquidity | Dr. Derek Stimel 24 Overcoming Adversity | Francis Turner BOARD OF TRUSTEES 26 STUDENT NEWS | Sean Meyer | Monique Cabrera Chairman of the Board, Charles “Chop” J. Keenan III ’66 Aaron Kingdom | Quynh Anh Nguyen Thomas Escher ’69 30 Working Students Kerilyn Yado, Shaleia Auld Julie Filizetti, Ed.D Gleb Matsulevich and Trevor Mates ‘05 Using Harry W. Kellogg Jr. ‘67 Their Advantage Roxy Rapp ‘59 33 STUDENT AFFAIRS | New Orientation Retreat Kristine Thagard ’77 Honors Convocation Andrew C. Woodard ’89 34 Speed Networking Event TRUSTEE EMERITA 36 ALUMNI RELATIONS | Michelle Pualuan Rosemary Hewlett 37 Reunion 1927-1959 38 Class Notes | Dorothy Skala ADVISORY TRUSTEES Judy Q. Chen ’96 40 ATHLETICS | Tom Rathman Alexander P. Panagopulos ’87 42 Athletes Giving to the Community The Menlo Advantage, published by the Menlo College Office for 44 A Team Full of Reasons for Victory Institutional Advancement, brings news of the College and its 46 Commencement Speaker Steve Westly community to alumni, parents and friends. 1000 El Camino Real, Atherton, California 94027-4301 Honorary Degree Recipient, Khaled Juffali Tel: 800.55.MENLO Fax: 650.543.4102 47 Jeff Patmon and Skyler Chase: More than a Degree Advancement Office: [email protected], www.menlo.edu 48 Works by Lyons and Tolomei Previous page and above: Brawner Hall, which opened in 2 SPRING 2009 1969, is the center of business education at Menlo College. Our Mission Menlo College’s mission is to develop future leaders through a liberal arts-based business education that integrates academic study and fieldwork in a Silicon Valley environment unmatched in its potential for innovation. A Message from the Publisher Our Transformation imilar to the world of finance, the world of academic Menlo College is regaining its reputation as one of philanthropy seeks—and thrives—on value, growth and the most preeminent, small, private undergradu- preservation. When you read through this issue of the ate business management colleges in the United Menlo Advantage Magazine, you will conclude that, for S States. With focused leadership and strategic many reasons, there is probably no better investment today than Menlo College. teamwork, Menlo College’s size, and its location in one of the world’s most entrepreneurial and Historically, it has been Menlo College’s tradition to take innovative geographical locations, is enabling growth leaps of giant proportion during the toughest of times. the College to create a valuable market niche Born in 1927 with the expectation that it might become a for itself locally—as well as globally—as Silicon support system for Stanford University, Menlo College quickly Valley’s Business School. regrouped when Stanford’s plans changed at the onset of the Great Depression. As a fledgling institution of higher edu- Menlo College is developing graduates who cation, Menlo College survived the nation’s most historically will be entrepreneurial, innovative, critical difficult economic trauma through the support of dedicated thinkers, strategic communicators and team benefactors who, believing in the importance of its vision and players, who can flourish, thrive and lead in a mission, became the lifeblood of the College. constantly changing global environment. This Suffering reduced enrollments in the fallout of WW2, the cam- is being accomplished by partnering with the busi- pus once again had to strategically categorize its niche in the ness community to develop programs that are competitive world of higher education. Menlo College seized practical and relevant—providing students with the moment when Stanford shifted its business course emphasis the knowledge, skills and abilities that ensure to graduate studies, and the College’s School of Business graduates an effective leading edge in a global Administration (SBA) was established in 1949 as four-year business environment where the only constant program. This “stake in the ground” led to Menlo’s recognition, is change. many years later in U.S. News & World Report, as number one in the nation in the small business school category. Menlo College is reestablishing its international Today, the College again makes a large leap into the future at reach. The College is taking advantage of its a time when the global economy is highly challenged. Unlike location by developing business programs that other institutions that have lost much of their endowment and educate the next generation of business leaders must cut back on programs, projects and growth, Menlo College, in the Silicon Valley, and beyond. Its ultimate for many reasons, is poised as an academic cornerstone for the goal is to prepare students for “careers that do future—a key partner in the dynamic evolution of Silicon Valley not yet exist.” Finally, Menlo College is leverag- business and industry. ing its newly-established relationships with its In this issue we will share the thoughts of our president and vastly successful international alumni base to other accomplished, visionary leaders who are partnering with ensure that its graduates have an in-depth un- Menlo College as we step together into a whole new world of derstanding and appreciation of global business business. With much anticipation, we invite you to join us in the practices. thrilling, fast- forward, collaborative road before us. With warmest regards, Above left: Catherine Reeves, VP for Advancement (left) with Ann Haight, wife of President G. Timothy Haight Catherine Reeves and Chairperson of the Vice President for Advancement Menlo College Art Committe. 4 SPRING 2009 The Road Ahead by Dr. G. Timothy Haight, President, Menlo College Menlo College’s first priority will be y charge upon assuming the to continue to recruit and retain an presidency was to recapture outstanding faculty. The faculty is Menlo College’s reputation at the heart of any great academic as a preeminent business institution. In effect, faculty ignites Mschool. Indeed, Menlo College’s School the flames of a student’s passion. If of Business Administration (SBA) was you are an alum thinking back to your considered the jewel of business and experiences at Menlo College, I am management education. Its formula for confident that you will remember one WASC success was innovative and ahead of or two faculty members who had a Accredidation Reaffirmed its time. First, the College assembled major impact on your life. The recruit- a faculty with substantial business ment of faculty for Menlo will Menlo College is pleased to experience that could translate theory continue to be a much more rigorous announce that on February 26, into practice. Second, it developed a and arduous process than at many 2009, the Western Association cutting edge curriculum that exposed other institutions. of Schools and Colleges (WASC) students to current business problems Accrediting Commission for Senior We look for faculty with solid and their timely solutions. This com- Colleges and Universities acted business experience and a passion for bination provided our graduates with to “reaffirm the accreditation of teaching. These faculty are in high the knowledge, skills, and abilities Menlo College.” demand, especially in the business that fully prepared them for a rapidly disciplines. Menlo College also seeks “I could not be more proud of our changing business environment. faculty who are professionally quali- faculty and staff for their many At the top of its game in the early fied. Some are non-Ph.D. faculty, but hours of work and perseverance in 1990s, Menlo College began to lose they possess outstanding business helping us to maintain this impor- its focus. The College decided to de- experience. Silicon Valley is blessed tant accreditation standard,” said emphasize its most prized program with a number of very successful the President. entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, (business education) and sought to Accreditation is a rigorous and business professionals who are develop and offer a smorgasbord of assessment of all of the processes indispensable to an applied business degrees. Although Menlo College still within an institution of higher program such as ours. In addition, offered an outstanding business edu- education, and the ways in which we are pleased to announce that cation, it was not the centerpiece of stakeholders participate in the Menlo College has just finalized and the institution.