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USD Alumni Magazine features http: //alumni.sandiego.edu /usdmagaz ine Incredible Voyage EDITOR by Timothy McKernan Susa n Herold Professor John Stoessinger's journey from e-mail: Sherold @sa ndiego.edu IO the shadow of the Holocaust to USD. CONT RIBUTIN G ED I TORS Michae l R. Has kins Double Dipping [email protected] by Susan Herold Timothy McKernan [email protected] 12 Twins Jeanne and Marie Mijalis paddle Krysrn Sh ri eve for matching Olympic gold medals. Kshrieve@sandi ego.edu Breaking Ground DESIGN & PRODUCTION by Susan Herold and Warner Design Associates, In c. 16 Krystn Shrieve PHOTOGRAPHERS As USD breaks ground on its Center for Rodney Nakamoto Gary Payne '8 G Science and Technology, graduates Marshall Willi ams derail their ground-breaking work which began in the tiny labs of Camino H all. departments University of San Diego Power Broker ~ by Michael R. Haskins Alcala Almanac PRESIDENT ,L,,,,,/,,. Lynn Schenk's biggest challenge came Alice Bourke Hayes 4 when the lights went out in California. VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Alumni Gallery John G. McNamara Karen Stonecypher-Cote '85 whispers to EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR horses .. . The Rev. Carmen Warner­ FOR COMMUN ICATIONS Robbins '82 gives former prison inmates AND MARKETING a second chance ... Saral1 Zimmerman '00 Harlan Co renman doesn't peek during "The Full Manry" USD Mt1gt1zi11e is published quarterly by the Uni ve rsity of San Diego for its alumni , 1n Their Own Words parents and fri ends. Ed itorial offi ces: USD 34, Mt1gt1zi11e, Publications Office, Uni ve rsity of Sa n Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Sa n Diego, CA 92 l I 0-2492. Third-cl ass postage paid at Sa n Diego, CA 92 1I 0. USO phone num­ 35 Calendar ber (6 I 9) 260-4600; emerge ncy securi ty (6 19) 260-2222; di sas ter (6 19) 260-4534. Postmas ter: Send add ress chan ges m USD Magazine, Publications Office, Uni versity of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park , San Diego, CA 92 110-2492. (07 /0 I 43,400)

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ship that had been attacked. The Cole was bombed while refuelling in Yemen at the Gulf of Aden, the western arm of the Arabian Sea. Because of technology, chil­ Matthias' job was to help survivors get in touch with their loved ones via the dren as young as 5 or 6 years Camden's satellite communications system. old can manipulate a weapon. "We had the phones running 24 hours a As a result, 300,000 children day," says Matthias, who offered hugs to the are serving in conflicts Co/e's survivors while they waited for their turn on the phone. "They mostly just wanted around the world." to assure their families that they were OK - Joyce Neu, director of the Joan B. and that they loved them. There were lots Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, of tears." The bombing, caused when a small ship during her speech at the I 2th packed with explosives rammed the Co/e 's annual Social Issues Conference. bow, killed 17 sailors and injured 39. ftMichelle Matthias '99 "We ran boats back and forth, swapping Jesus was the ultimate man­ out our crew for theirs so they could come USS Cole back and call home, take showers, talk to ager. He hired 12 losers and the chaplain or just rest," says Matthias, still built a successful organi­ Tragedy whose duties didn't allow her to leave the zation." Camden . "We fixed their air conditioning, When disaster strikes, bailed out leaking water, got their mail -Author and motivational speaker delivered, set up e-mail accounts, did their Ken Blanchard, to a BusinessLink sometimes the best laundry and just helped them relax." USD breakfast crowd. comfort is calling home Matthias cannot disclose much informa­ t ion about the tragedy. Although she didn't hat's what Michelle (Dye) Matthias '99 see the destruction firsthand, she saw its Don't you get the feeling that T discovered during the aftermath of last effects in the exhausted faces covered with Dick Cheney is sitting behind year's bombing of the USS Cole. tears, blood and soot. She will never forget the desk in the Oval Office, Matthias, a naval communications officer the stench of death that clung to everyone while George W. is off to the deployed in the Persian Gulf on the supply who set foot on the Cole . ship USS Camden , was working the radios "I can't imagine seeing what they saw and side at a card table, playing after dinner on Oct. 12, when the captain going through everything they went with model airplanes?" announced they were heading to a fellow through," Matthias says. "They are heroes." - "Saturday Night Live" comedian Darrell Hammond, who imperson­ USD by the Numbers ated Cheney, Bill Clinton and Al Gore for a sold-out show in Shiley Theatre . U.S. News & World Report College Rankings

There are 1,600 lobbyists in 228 National* universities in country, including USD Sacramento and 1.5 of them 4 Number of tiers national universities are divided into are devoted to children's 2 Tier in which USD is ranked issues." I S Ranking of USD's engineering program - Law Professor Bob Fellmeth, director 2 I Ranking of USD's tax law program of USD's Children's Advocacy 3 6 Ranking of USD's graduate nursing program Institute, speaking to law students I OJ Ranking of USD's business program applying to the institute. * National universities are those with a full range of undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs. The magazine's other categories include liberal arts colleges and regional colleges.

4 U S D M AGAZ I NE Dot-Com or Dot-Bomb? What a difference a year makes DOINGTHE hen we left our alumni Internet Travelscape merged with Internet travel DOT-COM GAADS TACFKE~6~~~~f entrepreneurs (featured in the giant Expedia last year, sold more than woR.LD O · W Summer 2000 USD Magazine), l million room nights in the first quarter the World Wide Web seemed more like a of 200 I and turned a profit a year ahead worldwide money-making machine. Twelve of projections. months later, the doc-com industry has been Mike Corrales '98 shaken to the core by fai led start-ups, mass Corrales also had a positive experience, layoffs and canceled IPOs. but in greenery instead of getaways. A Last year, our grads predicted chat only marketing manager with Internet Aorist the savvy would survive, and that solid busi­ ProAowers.com, Corrales says simple busi­ ness principles would separate the block­ ness smarts put the bloom on the rose. busters from the busted. Ir turns out they Rather than blowing big bucks on image, were right. So in the trimmed down e-com­ tony offices and lavish perks, the company merce climate, how are they doing? counted on top-notch service and products Erica Bixby '00 to spread the word. Although she landed a job at stare-up "A number of people and companies we To read the original article, "Doing the Dot-Com,'' log on Scream Tone.com before she graduated, Bixby worked with a year ago aren't around any­ to http://alumni.sand iego.edu/usdmagazine/Summer2000. wasn't there for long. The Internet sound more, and there was a stretch when calls technologies firm, she says, had the same from partners celling of layo ffs and bank­ opmenc. "The market is caking rime to problems as many companies on the Web: ruptcy fi lings seemed almost a daily event," regroup, but e-commerce will move forward an indistinguishable product and an inexpe­ Corrales says. again, only chis rime with more caution." rienced management team. Heady success or not, our 'There were a lot of companies alumni say being a part of tryi ng to do the same thing; only "It's a culture shock to go the dot-com culture was an one or rwo could really make it, experience they wouldn't trade. and I knew that we wouldn't be from the position of turning These upstarcs, with their the one," says Bixby, now an ana­ down offers to a market dressed-down attitudes and lyst for ARS, a San Diego firm fresh ideas, changed corporate that cracks e-commerce and net­ where there are too many culture and introduced innova­ working markets. "The venture tive business models. And capital for start-ups isn't out there people and not enough jobs." while some companies couldn't anymore, so I feel lucky to have ride the wave, interest in had the entrepreneurial experience Mike Paganelli '93 e-commerce hasn't waned. USD's master while it lasted." For every success story, there are dozens of of science in electronic commerce program Tom Breitling '91 companies that didn't make it. Paganelli got is thriving, mainly because it focuses on In contrast, Breitling hit the trifecta of caught up in rwo of them. He lost his job as managing e-commerce initiatives within a right time, right place, right product. A parmer a product manager for Change.com, a busi­ broader business context. In Dece mber, the in the online travel service Travelscape.com, ness-to-business buying site, when spending business school added a dual Breitling built an early niche by making far outpaced revenue. He moved on to M.B.A./M.S.E.C. degree. exclusive deals with hotels and offering con­ £-help.com, a software development firm , "We were never focused on the 17-year­ venient booking and discounts. bur the slowdown in tech companies forced old kids doing a business plan on the back "It's a lot easier to purchase travel over the owners to scrap several new projects, includ­ of an envelope," says Professor Gary lnternet, a benefit chat is not obvious in ing Paganelli's. Schneider, who helped start the program, some other Internet businesses," Breitling "It's a culture shock to go from the posi­ "and it's a good thing, because that segment says. ''As we grew our busi ness, we added to tion of turning down offers to a market of the industry is gone. A lot of experiments our customer service and increased our ability where there are too many people and not didn't work out, but there's a ton of good to answer questions, sell travel and process enough jobs," says Paganelli, who now is ideas out there. We're still in the very early rese rvations." looking for work in business software

SUMMER 2001 5 ALCALA ALMANAC Hitting It Big

orero shortstop Josh Harris' recent Between acting jobs, Harris T 29-game hitting streak tied a West found time to play Little Coast Conference record, but it wasn't his League. After wearying of the first experience with hits. demands of a weekly series A former child actor, Harris co-starred and of show business in gen­ for seven years on the hit TV show "Dallas" eral, he put acting aside and as Christopher Ewing, son of the ever became a standout baseball earnest Bobby Ewing. In 1984, a 6-year-old player at Calabasas (Calif.) Harris beat out 500 other hopefuls for the High School, hitting .487 and role of evil J.R. Ewing's nephew, and also had winning first-team All-League roles in the television series "St. Elsewhere," honors his senior year. Harris "Star Trek:The Next Generation," and "The played for two years at Los Commish." Angeles Pierce Community Although he has fond memories of his College before t ransferring experience, Harris says as his roles grew, he to USD. found it difficult to be a kid. Midway through this season, Harris "I was tutored on the set, so I didn't began the hitting streak that smashed out­ In Good Company: Josh Harris got cozy have the typical school experience," he fielder John Mullen's 18-year-old Torero with TV mom Victoria Principal on "Dallas" says. "I worked pretty regularly until I was record of 19 consecutive games. Harris hit and went out of this world with "Star Trek: about 15. It was a lot of responsibility and safely in 29 games before his streak ended The Next Generation's" Brent Spiner. I wanted time to do normal things - like in a game against Long Beach State. But he says he still has some interest in play baseball." "After 14 or 15 games, I began to think I returning to acting. could get the school record," he says. "It "It's been in the back of my mind," he got pretty nerve-racking. It's not like a says. "I needed a break, but I have nothing home run record, where you can have a but great memories. It was a lot of fun ." couple off days and still chase it. You have to be on every day." Harris, signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs after he graduated in May with a degree in business administration. ON THIS DATE

By a 2-1 margin, students defeated a "war strike proposal" that called for flags on campus to be lowered to half-mast until the United States with­ drew troops from Southeast Asia.

The largest graduating class in USD history, 350 students, received their degrees in a ceremony at the Civic Theater in downtown San Diego.

Four USO divers defeated teams from SDSU, UCSD and USIU in an underwater Monopoly game that last­ ed more than three hours. Their prize - $500 in real money. News Briefs

Saying Goodbye forms from donors who prefer to make pay­ ments over rime. Donations are viral to rofessor Janet Harrison in the School of USD's future, funding academic programs, PNursing is retiring from USD after 25 scholarships for needy students and other years to become a vo lunteer docent, world university projects. traveler, book club member and physical fit­ To make yo ur online gift, sign on at ness fanatic. http:/ /alumni.sandiego.edu/giving. Thanks Also retiring this year are Professor Ronald for your help! Hill in the English department and Ray White, director of the physics department. After 11 years at USD, theater ans Care for a Second Cup? Professor Marilyn Bennett is moving to rhe ou knew rhar was good coffee in Pacific Northwest to be nearer to fami ly. To Y Aromas. Bur we bet yo u didn't know it ease the transition, she has accepted a one­ was award-winning coffee. year position in the theater arts program at Aromas took first place in this year's the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, National Association of College & Wash. University Food Services competition, the Law Professor Cynthia Lee is leaving after second time it captured the award that's been eight years to reach at George Washington called "the Oscars of coll ege dining." The University Law School. Rahul Singh, assis­ coffeehouse was judged on its menu, service tant professor of information systems in the and marketing efforrs against other similar School of Business Administration, is resign­ specialty resrauran rs . ing after three years at USD to reach at Richard Easton (left) gives stage advice In May, the Maher Hall hot spot also to a USD acting student. another university. became home to USD's first public wireless Don Vickrey, associate professor in port, enabling laptop computer users to accounting in the School of Business connect to the Internet without plugging First Richard, Now Tony Administration, wi ll continue teaching at into a phone jack. Technology lets people SD acting students who studied under USD part rime, but resigned his full-time surf the Web on radio waves from anywhere U veteran actor Richard Easton saw their position to work on the growing financial within the coffeehouse, or even outside on mentor pick up a Tony award in June for his engineering business he starred more than rhe patio. performance as poet-scholar A.E. Housman four years ago. Also moving on is Decrick Aromas underwent a facelifr last year, in the Broadway play "The Invention of Cartwright, an assistant professor of arr his­ adding Macintosh computers and a clubbier Love." tory and director of Founders Gallery. setting for studying and sipping joe. Next up Easton has directed, coached and per­ The Rev. John Keller, director of the for a renovation is Traditions, the student formed alongside graduate students in USD's Office of University Miniscry, wi ll return to dining faci lity in the University Center. The professional actors training program, a part­ Sr. Augustine High School in San Diego, newly remodeled food spot wi ll open this fall nership between the university and The and associate minister Sister Irene Cullen as the Torero Grille. Globe Theatres. The Tony nomination for has lefr the university to work best actor was his first, and came for a per­ in Africa. formance directed by Globe artistic director Jack O'Brien (the play includes USD gradu­ ates Caitlin Muelder, Brian Hutchison, Erin Giving Made Krohn and Peter Smith). Easy An international performer co nsistently in upporting USD demand, Easton's latest honor may keep him programs and away from The Globe Theatres for some S scholarships is now as rime. Bur his simple but powerful reaching simple as logging onto the philosophy will continue to resonate with Web and making your gifr in a the many students he's caught. secure and confidential manner. T he Office of Annual Giving has launched a new Web site that accepts credit card gifts or pledge

SUMMER 2001 7 Graduation Day Senior Elizabeth Rivera 's range of emotions during USO's commencement captures the true meaning of the occasion - the antici­ pation of the future, the thrill of success, the sorrow of parting from good friends. Rivera was one of 1,678 undergraduate, graduate and law students who received their diplomas Memorial Day Weekend in the Jenny Craig Pavilion, the first time commencement was held in the arena. For more commencement photos, log on to http://alumni.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine.

INCREDIBLE VOYAGE Political science Professor John Stoessinger's journey from the shadow of the Holocaust to USO

] ohn Stoessinger former Secretary enters a Serra Hall ofState Henry classroom reverberat- Kissinger and ing with the din of President Carter's a dozen student con­ national security versations. He walks adviser, Zbigniew A young John Stoessinger, with his parents, Oskar to the front, sets his and Irene, before he boards the General Gordon for Brzezinski, and his voyage from Shanghai to the United States. briefcase down, turns a prolific author and smiles. "Ladies and gentlemen, " whose books are staples ofpolitical science he begins in a soft, clear voice. The room courses throughout the world, Stoessinger falls silent. brings a first-person authority to virtually For the better part ofthe next two hours, every significant event in international Stoessinger's students are spellbound by their politics since World War II. professor, a former director ofthe United But Stoessinger teaches more than history Nations' political affairs division, who and politics. His incredible journey from weaves the discussion in and out ofthe Hitler's Europe to China, from Iowa to world's current political crises. His talk is the United Nations and, ultimately, to equal parts lecture and storytelling, scholar­ Alcald Park, prepared him to offer insight ship commingled with personal tales. A into something else. '1 teach my students Harvard scholar whose colleagues include about life, " he says.

BY TIMOTHY MCKERNAN

10 USO MAGA Z INE Escaping the Nazis from one of the world's finest universities. Seared in the audience of Sroessinger's com­ Stoessinger, born Hans Hirschfeld in mencement was Dalameter. In a gesture of 1927, actually escaped Hider twice. After appreciation, Stoessinger shined his shoes the Nazis annexed his native Vienna, one last time. Austria, in 1938, Hans and his mother, Irene, Aed to her parents' home in Prague, To Japan for an overdue thank you Czechoslovakia - a city the Nazis occu­ Stoessinger went on ro fashion a career as a pied the following year. Young Hans wit­ leading academic in international affairs, nessed the Nazi leader make his terrible, teaching at institutions including Harvard, triumphant entrance into both cities. Like Columbia, the City University of New York, all Jews in Prague, Hans was compelled to the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology wear a yellow Star of David, a designation and Trinity University in San Anronio, that made him a target for regular beatings Texas. He has written nine books including by the Hider Youth. Why Nations Go to War, currently in its In 1940, his mother married Oskar eighth edition, the cornersrone of countless Stoessinger, and Hans not only ass umed university political science courses. his stepfather's surname, but also changed Stoessinger served as director of the Peace his Germanic first name to its Anglo Corps Training Program in World Affairs equivalent, John. The next year, as Hider before caking the position at the United continued his rampage across Western Nations during the height of the Vietnam Europe and terrorism of Jews intensified, Landing in Iowa's cornfields War. He says he devoted much of his time at the elder Stoessinger secured visas that Stoessinger was just shy of his 18th birthday the United Nations trying to arrange meet­ would take his family across the Soviet when World War II ended and Shanghai was ings between President Lyndon B. Johnson Union to Japanese-occupied Shanghai, liberated by American soldiers-men and the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. China. Within weeks of the Stoessingers Stoessinger perceived as demigods. "I failed," Sroessinger says, "because one boarding the train out of Prague, John's "They were kind, and they brought exotic or the other - usually Johnson - would cancel grandparents were deported ro the con­ delicacies li ke Spam and chocolate," he says. at the last minute. Ir was very frustrating. " centration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, "I had already thought a lot about America, Stoessinger also is an in-demand speaker where they were murdered in 1944. bur after that I knew that's where I wanted who has addressed audiences in every state On the long train ride through the ro go. " and more than 20 foreign countries. In 1995, Soviet Union, the Stoessingers met Stoessinger took a job as a shoeshine boy during a speaking engagement in Kobe, Ryoichi Manabe, a member of the with the hope he might meet the soldiers. Japan, Sroessinger began chinking about the Japanese Diplomatic Corps being trans­ One day in 1947, Sroessinger's Auent ferred from Berlin ro Shanghai. Manabe, English - acquired at the Hanbury continued on page 25 who passed time on the train playing school - caught the attention of one of chess with young John, invited the family his shoeshine clients, Lt. Peter Dalameter. to contact him in Shanghai if he could be "He said since I spoke English so well, I l Lu.]m:::,,"" '.":.:: •I_,.,;,;~ "~~;.:'~1~''.,uo, : of help. might do well in America," Stoessinger says. 1 • !~•,_• l • i.r u• rlLU.'ltCJll ta•r uu 1/1 14 ' l Oor..• / Jw/ Vt f v.Jr?'JUI u l •"4- 1ru•II to/I .L J IJ The Stoessingers certainly needed help. "He said, 'I went to Grinnell College in :s • llhU unuia: aof! 1111 '1 U

a series of orders over the next three years United Stares. His excellent academic work 11 0..--.. Cl11hrUllll:O chat allowed the Sroessingers to remain at Grinnell led to a graduate degree at ,1.1 Oor.ao/ J u / H oh Oltsa ·::!::· if FrhU h ll Ula:J I • U/n outside Hongkew. His kindness made it Harvard University, where he studied with 17/ JJ U/U. possible for John to enroll at the Thomas some of the 20th century's most notable r.t:/ U » .iu • ....,.~ . Hanbury School for Boys, a British leaders in political thought, including ) 33 • •. 1~ .... n.c~ . . u / u institution that retained its demanding Kissinger, Brzezinski, Hans Morgenthau and . :.>· ': .;: ·.·._·.:•. _',- ~/.:1_: .~_~."_:.._. ··.~ ..:_:_~.',· t' ·.:{~i: ;t1~; ~': .:.: t~?:h·.Li-.. ~;~t-· : ••• I • ,A-;,;:1,;,~: - ~ ~~ . curriculum even after the Japanese Stanley Hoffmann. government assumed control. John, In 1954, the refugee who had twice eluded The visa list that allowed the Stoessingers to in the midst of a savage war, received punishment and death by totalitarian regimes flee Prague. John Stoessinger is listed under a first-race education. earned a doctorate in international relations his birth name, Hans Hirschfeld.

SUMMER 2001 II Twins Paddle for Matchin Gold Medals

STORY BY SUSAN HEROLD PHOTOS BY GARY PAYNE '86

t is much too early on a gloomy Saturday morning when I walk into the drafty, cinder block boathouse lon the edge of Lake Oray. In th e Arco O lympic Training Center building are about a doze n hard-bod­ ied men and women in sleek long-sleeved spandex jerseys, each in their own world of athlete conce ntra­ tion, Walkmans on, eyelids shut. I ask one fell ow who looks friendly enough if he knows whi ch ones are Jea nne and Marie Mijali s. I should know this, since they are identical twins and I have met them once before, but on that day they were just coll ege girls tal king about coll ege life, bub­ bl y, giggling, funny sisters teasing each other about the time they pretended to be th e other to trick Jeanne's boyfri end. In this pl ace they are world-class kayakers and, strangely, al l th e athletes look the same, hidden under sunglasses and ballcaps, conce ntrating on the gruel ing two-hour workout before th em. The fell ow shrugs, and I wander around a bit more befo re practi call y running into the twins as they ca rry their kayak down to the lake. They offer me a nod as they settle inside their poin ty craft and onto the lake's glass, two identical girls movi ng in perfect uniso n, two fa ces set in pure conce ntrati on. If yo u as k Jeanne and Mari e Mijalis what they hope for, Jea nne hopes to beco me an ophthalmologist and Marie an anes thesiologist. T hey likely will - the sophomores are pre-med majors and carry an impres­ sive 3.5 GPA on a 16-credit se mes ter load. But if yo u as k them what th ey want th ey tell yo u straight up: gold medals from th e 2004 O lympics in Athens. When yo u see them on the water, a gracefu l ye t powerful sy nchronized engi ne, one perfectly mi rrorin g the other, yo u don't doubt them. "A lot of peopl e say their goal is to go the Olympics," says Jea nne, who describes herself as the more responsible sister, even though technically she's yo unger by two minutes, "but my goal is to do well in the O lympics. Ir's tough sometimes to train and go to school, but I don't want to look back so meday at 40 and say that I never gave the Olympics a shot. "

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MIRROR TWINS, ocher one would guess what it was. T hey MIRROR WINS can look at each other over dinner, and from Kayaking is nor a glamorous their eyes I know they're talking co each sport. You carry yo ur own ocher. I ask what it's abo ut, and they just say boar and paddle. You are con­ 'Oh Mom, leave us alone.' " sran tly wee, and your hands They first climbed into a kayak rogerher and feet blister from gripping in eighth grade after rowing the previous the paddle or roe bar. If your year with their mother for fun. Two-rime kayak flips, yo u drag ir back Olympian Angel Perez, a Cuba native who to shore to get in . In the fled his co untry to compete for the United United Scares, there never has States, saw the twins in Miami been a kayaker on a Wheaties and agreed to train chem for free. box or with his or her own His only requirement - they TV commercial. teach him English and, in return, Ir is a spore char is all about he'd reach ch em Spanish. During speed and endurance, riming high schoo l, when ocher kids and balance. A kayaker's were hanging at the mall, they physique is lean and muscular, trained six hours a day, winning with shoulders broadened by race after race. During their years of lifting weights to senior year, after performing strengthen rhe back and arms. well in the U.S . Nationals, Ir is also one of the most they were invited to train at the beautiful water sports because Arco Olympic Training Center. of the harmony between the Even before the invitation, the paddlers in a boar, a dance of twins had zeroed in on USO as th e grace and strength. West Coast school they wanted to attend Marie (with hat) and Jeanne Mijalis. In a sport where rhythm (Southern Cal ifornia is a hotbed of world­ wins races, where rhe slightest class kayaking) .When they visited Alcala Ir's unlikely they'll live a life of regret. Ar hirch in a stroke can mean finishing last, Park, it sealed their decision. Their mother, 20, they are the youngest athletes training at it isn't surprising that twins, who share so who raised them by herself, balked. She cried the Olympic facility just south of San Diego, many mental and physical traits, excel in to convince her only children to go to the and the only ones attending college full kayak doubles. Jeanne and Marie are doubly University of Florida, a state school char rime. Currendy ranked in the United Scares' blessed in char respect - as "mirror twins" was cheaper and closer to home. The girls top five , the twins are bearing women who Jeanne is right-handed, Marie left-handed, refused. Noc only had rhey fallen in love have been in the sport nearly as long as they which creates a balanced stroke on each side wirh USO, bur they cold their mother train­ have been alive. Selected for two of the fo ur of the kayak. ing at the University of Florida was nearly women's spots on chis year's U.S. Canoe "Mentally, i r's easier for us being sisters impossible - the lake was full of alligators. and Kayaking Team , they recently medaled and twins, because we have a sense for the "So I turned to the folks at USO fin ancial in four of the five distances in which they ocher," says Marie. aid, and they were incredible. They made competed during rhe first leg of the World "Ir's nor like if yo u slapped her, I'd feel everything work with loans and financial Cup competition in Atlanta. In rhe 200 it," Jeanne interjects, "it's just chat if there aid," says Elaine. Additionally, the Olympic meters, they came in second only to the is something wrong with her, I'll know ir." Committee spends about $60,000 to cover Canadians - who rook the silver in the During a kayak race, the front paddler, Jeanne and Marie's room, board and travel 2000 Sydney Olympics. who keeps th e kayak on course, has to each year. After a summer that will rake chem to constan tl y yell to rhe back paddler, who "As a single mom, co have everything Paris, Copenhagen and Germany for more serves as rh e engine. With many boars on taken care of like chis is such a huge gift. I World Cup matches, the twins co uld be the water, it gets loud. Yer the twins' kayak hare co so und co rny, but God was opening chosen for rhe ultimate competition: the is oddly silent. "They just men rally chink doors and closing other ones." World Championships, where they would what they're supposed to do , and they do duel in August against the sport's power­ it. Ir drives their coach crazy because they BEATING house nations - Hungary, Germany and don't verbalize their plan," says their mother, THE CLOCK Poland. Elaine, who lives in Miami where the gi rl s Ar their mother's insistence, Jeanne and If they finish in the top nine, their ticket grew up. Marie lived on campus freshman year so to Greece is almost guaranteed. "They won't cell you this, bur they can they could lead as normal a coll ege life as "Which is cool," says Marie, a smile read each ocher's minds," Elaine adds. poss ible. Bur their schedule was grueling. breaking across her tan face, "because we're "When rhey were lirde, we'd play chis game T hey left at 5:30 a.m. to drive rhe 25 miles Greek." where I'd hold up a card to one and the to rhe training center and back again for

14 USD MAGA Z I NE classes, a routine they repeated twice each in their car on campus. They say Jerzy they prefer not ro think about the one thing day. By their sophomore year, their mother considers going to school "a break." Their more painful than crossing the fini sh line relented, allowing them to live at the mother worries that they are pushing them­ out of medal contention - the possibility Olympic facility and commute to class. selves too hard, frets that they may be chat one may make the squad and the other "We don't want to miss our on the college missing out on a normal life. This summer, won't. With three years to go before the experience, so we try to hang out weekends she will only get to see her daughters one Olympics, an injury could mean one might at campus and with our friends, " says Marie, day, during a layover in Miami between not have the chance ro fulfill her dream. who, though an identical twin, is two inches San Diego and Europe. Or, their coach may select one and nor che railer and more muscular than Jeanne, the Theirs is a life of schedules and clocks, other ro compete in the singles competition engine in the back of the kayak. always racing ro beat rhe second hand. or four-person boar.

"Our friends are in sororities and clubs," "It's getting harder," admits Marie a few "I always know there is a chance of that," adds Jeanne, "and I'd love to do chat, roo, weeks later on a warm spring afternoon in admits Marie, her face darkening. "There's but you have no rime. Some people ask if the Olympic village apartment she shares no question it will hurt if one of us doesn't (training for the Olympics) is worth it, with her sister and two ocher arhleres. On her make ir. But we're so supportive of each because of what you miss. I think it is. " bedpost is a tangle of the twins' medals, the ocher, that if it did happen, we would be They don't linger afrer class to chill with only testament in rhe place to their success. right there for the other." friends, rarely do they take in a movie. "The closer we get ro competition, the "Right there," adds Jeanne, "cheering the They're nor allowed ro Rollerblade for fear more we practice, sometimes four times other one on." + of a career-ending injury. They have enough a day," Marie says. "With finals com­ time for an energy bar and warm-up before ing up, it gets hard sometimes ro bal­ hitting rhe lake at 6:30 a.m. In the damp ance it out with school." cold amid the early-morning anglers lining "I wish," adds Jeanne, "char it would the lake, the twins are put through 12 ro get dark earlier, then we wouldn't have 15 kilometer paddles by their coach Jerzy to be out on the lake so long." Dziadkowiec, a 1972 Olympian who Bur the girls are not complainers, represented Poland. In his thickly-accented and they quickly switch ro the English he booms encouragement and benefits of the life they chose. They critiques as he rides alongside the pair in wonder what Europe will be like, a mororized ponroon boar. ask advice about the streets of Paris. He says rhe twins are young bur have rhe They marvel at rhe face they are potential ro be among rhe best in rhe world. mere greenhorns bearing veterans Like fine thoroughbreds, he says, rhey need who have spenr decades on rhe experience and will learn from each race. As water. They laugh at the double­ for heart, he says, they need no lessons. rakes they get when they meet their "They are the hardest trainers I know," competirors for rhe first time - says Dziadkowiec, who has coached rhe identical twins in identical wrap­ kayak ream at Arco since 1997. "Whatever around sunglasses, backward baseball I ask of them, they do." caps covering their long blonde hair. He asks of them at least 10 miles of pad­ They cannot bear the thought, dling on the water, plus two hours of weight they say, of not competing at this training and running, in two separate work­ level. Losing is nor an option. outs a day. In between, rhe girls attend classes Because rhe sisters have shared so from 10 a.m. ro 2 p.m., often catching a nap much, spent so many hours training,

IS Stories by Susan Herold and Krystn Shrieve

SD science graduates work Center for Science and Technology, U throughout the world in sophisti· putting Alcala Park at the forefront cated laboratories, major medical of science. bio·technology and centers. public schools and remote medicine. four graduates detail backwoods towns. their ground-breaking work, which They are physicians. researchers. began in the small classrooms and scientists. teachers. All are driven tiny labs of Camino Hall. by the same desire - to unlock the They are examples of the thou­ mysteries of life. and. in turn. heal sands of alumni who use their the sick, better the environment and degrees in biology, chemistry. enrich our lives. physics and related sciences As USD breaks ground on its to improve our world.

16 USD M AGAZ I NE to spark the cell's good qualities. This summer, she'll con­ duce one of the first rests of her work by introducing the protein into lung cells (she works with adult rat tissue, not human tissue) . If the tissue protects itself from further damage or, even more dramatically, begins rhe process of repair, she will have made a significant breakthrough. "Much of what we know today as gene therapy started like chis, because someone wanted to know rhe answer to a basic question - how genes work," says Driscoll, who recenrly won a National Institutes of Health grant char will fund her work for another four years. "As researchers, we usually don't start our figur­ ing how our work will be applied. We believe in ask­ ing questions, even if we can't see the immediate benefit." Bur her work has dra­ matic benefits. Her previous study, an eight-year stint working on a rumor sup­ pressor protein, resulted in the first clones of the pro­ tein. Driscoll says a San "This is the black box developing from an embryo into a baby. Diego-based company is using the research By locating these progenitor cells and ana­ to make the protein more active and stall the of science right now" lyzing their RNA (the mid-part of DNA growth of cancerous rumors. hen discussing her intricate research, coding), Driscoll hopes to unlock the secret Driscoll's determined approach to chal­ Wwhich someday may lead to rhe human to their wild growth and flip the same switch lenges was evident in her youth. Originally lung replacing its own dead and diseased tis­ in healthy cells, ulrimarely resulting in dam­ an English major at USD, she switched to sue, Barbara Driscoll has a way of slapping aged lung tissue - or ocher parts of the the sciences after finding her classes too easy. you upside the head with the pure simplicity ofir. body- regenerating itself. . "At the time, I thought I really wanted a "You can't live without breathing," Driscoll "This is the black box of science right challenge, to do something exciting and use says matter-of-factly, a frank analysis of the now," says Driscoll. "If we find the key a different part of my brain. Thar's the arro­ five years she has spent hunkered in her lab, markers for these cells and isolate chem, gance of youth. Ir turned our to be really, searching for the secret to growing "good" there would be a lot of interest in growing really hard, and it wasn't always that rewarding. " lung cells. "People rake it so much for organs for replacement." Driscoll credits the direction of her men­ granted ... bur to struggle to breathe is a The search is excruciating. And exciting. tors, Sister Par Shaffer and Patricia Traylor, terrible thing." Driscoll thinks she may have found the both chemistry professors during an era A simple concept, yes. A simple quest, marker, a surface protein believed to partici­ when women were expected to be cooking in anything bur. pate in the cell's protection, repair and the kitchen, not in the lab. Like an astronomer scanning the heavens regeneration. Bur that's only half the barrle. "They made me chink that wanting to be for a delicate star millions of light years She then has to rake char generic coding and a scientist wasn't a big deal," says Driscoll, away, Driscoll scrutinizes the most micro­ feed its 60,000 pieces of information onto a who received her doctorate from the scopic bit of life - our generic coding - to microchip. Using her computer like a light University of Arizona. "Now I know what a discover the elusive recipe for prompting cells switch, she rums each piece of generic infor­ miracle it was for chem to be women and to quickly replicate, much like they do when mation on and off to get the correct sequence have their Ph.Ds. They were true role models."

SUMMER 2001 17 three pathologists in her office, reaches vet­ erinary courses at the unive rsity and uncov­ ers new diseases. She discovered a vi rus chat destroys pigeons' white blood cells, and another char causes deer co bleed out through chei r intes tinal trace and accumulate fluid in their lungs. "Sometimes a disease has been there for a while, but nobody has recognized it," Woods explains. "Every once in a while we come across something new. Ir's exciting." T he deer virus killed a few thousand black-rail deer in northern Cali fo rnia fro m August 1993 co April 1994, and it also has been identified in white-rail deer in Wyoming and Canada. T he pigeon virus, called a circovirus, has been reporeed thro ughout Europe, Afri ca, Canada and Aumalia since Woods discovered it in 1990. Woods is hoping co receive grants co work on ways to prevent che diseases fro m spreading. "In her field , it's considered ch e goal to discover one new disease, but Leslie already has discovered two," says chemistry Pro fesso r Patricia Traylor, who says Woods is an inspiration when she returns co campus to talk co under­ graduate students. "She is one of our scars." As she keeps up her vigil against foor-and­ mouch disease, Woods and her co ll eagues are worki ng with ocher age ncies on prevention plans and determining what co do if the virus enters rhe country. Current plans call fo r a quarantine of the infected ranch or farm, rhe purchase and slaughter of che ani­ "We've got our eyes open or decreased milk producti on in cows. To mals, and continued resting fo r ch e disease all the time because we combat che spread of the disease, which does on nearby pl ots of land. nor affect humans, Europeans slaughtered "Because of the economic impact foo r­ can't miss this" and burned thousands of carde, sheep and and-mouch disease would have on chis coun­ ~ s panic over fo ot-and-mouth disease in pi gs. Since humans can be carriers, visitors try if introduced," Woods says, "veterinarians 1-\Europe crossed rhe Adantic co rhe to the United Scares from contaminated and lives tock owners know chat sometimes United Scares, nervous Cali fo rnia ranchers areas we re required to have their shoes and it's best to lose so me animals rather chan calke curned to Les li e Woods. ocher parcels disinfec ted. the risk of nor having ch em checked our. " Woods spends her days performing California ranchers and fi eld veterinarians necropsies - autopsies on animals - to have Ho oded Woods' laboratory at the determine how and why they died. She is University of California, Davis with samples pare detective and pare border pacrol age nt, fro m animals char died from similar symptoms, the state's first defense against rogue animal hoping her necropsies and blood and tiss ue diseases. Lately, she's looking fo r signs of rests will show foo r-and-mouch wasn't che cause. foo r-and-mourh, a fas t-spreading disease she So fa r, Woods feels confident rhe culprit hopes she never sees. in these cases is one of several co mmon look­ "We've go t our eyes open all ch e rime ali ke diseases. T here's blue tongue vi rus in because we just ca n't miss chis," says Woods. sheep, bovi ne diarrhea virus in carde or "T har's one of our biggest fears. We've go r to bovine herpes, which causes blisters on a be on the ball every sin gle rime. " cow's udder and ree rs. Cali fo rni a has sent 44 Foo r-and-mouth disease, which hasn't hie of these look-alike cases to rh e United Scares rhe United Scares bur has swept through Department of Agriculrure's Plum Island Grear Brica in, is a highly contagious virus fac ili ty near the New Yo rk coast, whi ch over­ ch ar causes ulcers on cloven an imals' tongues sees all fore ign animal diseases. and hooves, and leads to starvation, lameness When she's nor busy defending che scare against animal affli cti ons, Woods, one of

18 USD M AG A Z I N E Kozak wouldn't have ir any other way. While in medical school, the California native was drawn to family practice - the Rodney Dangerfield of the medical world - while most of his fellow students specialized in lucrative fields like cardiology or surgery. Even his father was a specialise, a pediatric allergist. On any given day Kozak delivers babies, treats Alzheimer's disease and sutures wounds. While the diversiry of the job enticed him, Kozak was hooked by the bond he developed with his patients. He's invited to christenings, graduations and parties, and has photos of many of chose he has created, including Ocilla, who demanded Kozak attend her 93rd birthday parry. He did, and mourned her when she passed away 10 days lacer from inoperable lung cancer char he had diagnosed. "Ir's wonderful to have people really need you," Kozak says. "Bur what blows me away is how appreciative people are char their doc­ tor spends rime wirh chem." A devour Catholic whose holistic approach to medicine was developed at USD, Kozak believes a doctor can't treat a physical ai lment without first considering a patient's sp iritual ailments. Thar's why he schedules his appointments in 25-minute blocks, rather than the 10 to 12 minutes most doctors allot. "Sometimes an emotional upheaval causes physical illness, and you have to discover what iris," says Kozak, relating a story about a woman whom he recently saw for severe headaches. After inquiring about her home life and her faith system, the woman opened up, pouring out the derails of her alcoholic husband and his abusive ways. Kozak referred her to a counselor. "Medicine is a challenge, With 2,000 people living in Lone Pine "The first instinct is always to throw med­ but it's a gift to practice it" and another 3,000 in the surrounding valleys icine at a problem," Kozak says. "But you and foothills, Kozak has a line of patients - develop an intuition and you just start ask­ ~ sk Tom Kozak to describe life as the only and their families, dogs, horses and medicine ing the questions. There are very few people ""physician in the tiny town of Lone Pine, men - out his door. At rimes he's gently who I've come across who don't do some­ Calif., where he sometimes shares his emer­ elbowed aside family members crowded into thing to help bring chem peace, whether it's gency room with a Paiuce Indian shaman his ER in order to work on a patient. Once, praying or going for a walk." and rhe most common ailment is barbed­ he dispensed information about sexually Kozak says he is at peace with the career wire curs, and a smile breaks across his face. transmitted diseases to a teenage patient, choice he made, knowing that a more lucra­ "I like ro say it's like 'One Flew Over the only to realize later chat a neighbor was the tive private practice means dealing with Cuckoo's Nest' meets 'Northern Exposure,' " reen's aunt. HMOs, insurance companies and drug sales­ says Kozak, whose career has taken him from "Everyone knows everyone in a small men rather than patients. And being a big­ California's Vemura Counry, where he ran a town, which has its bad points and its good ciry doc means giving up the things that cl inic rending rhe coastal communiry's points," says Kozak, who rotates the town's bring him peace - the outdoors and having underserved population, to his current post doctoring wi th ocher physicians who travel enough time to thoroughly care for ochers. in the shadow of California's Sierra Nevada in for four-day shifts. "The bad part is confi­ "Medicine is a challenge, bur ir's a gift to ra nge, where he single-handedly staffs the dentialiry, because it's hard to keep anything practice it. If you focus on making money, town's emergency room, clinic and nursing a secret. The good part is communiry sup­ you'll be miserable," he says. "But if you home during four-day shifts. port, because everyone shows up to help." focus on people, it's an awesome thing."

SUMMER 2001 19 "Despite coming so far. he enters the skull through the back of Goebel, who is tumor-free and working Goebel's neck and navigates the delicate area through surgery after-effects that include there's still a lot to explore" using a surgical microscope - Goebel could minor paralysis of his tongue. "If I had kip Goebel had undergone a biopsy on lose his ability to speak, breathe or move his stayed in Missouri, I'd be dead." Sa tumor in his brain, a surgery to extremmes. Jackson has access to one of only five remove it and a round of conventional radia­ Yet Goebel didn't hesitate. He traveled CyberKnife systems in the nation. The $3 tion when he met neurosurgeon Robert from his Missouri home to California for the million machine at the Newport Diagnostic Jackson at a medical seminar. operation, as well as a ground-breaking pro­ Center in Newport Beach, Calif., is housed With another tumor now pressing on his cedure in which Jackson focused pinpoint in a room encased in three feet of concrete to brain stem - the area that controls breathing, doses of radiation on remaining cancer cells protect ochers from harmful doses of radiation. heart and speech functions - Goebel literally through a robotic machine called a CyberKnife. "The beam disrupts the DNA within the put his life in Jackson's hands. If Jackson fal­ "The miracle is that (the CyberKnife) was cells and prevents them from replicating, so tered in the slightest during the eight-hour made available to me and that someone that within two to three months the tumor operation to remove the tumor - in which came up with it in the first place," says dies," says Jackson, who practices at two

20 USO MAGAZINE hospitals in southern Orange County. "The majority of brain tumors are still taken out surgically, but this system can be used on patients who have ocher health problems, multiple tumors or ocher circumstances chat make surgery difficult." The system is much more accurate than standard surgery because data from a patient's brain scan are used co direct che robotic arm chat delivers massive doses of X-rays precisely co the designated target. Even more amazing, the patient feels no pain and side effects are limited co a slight swelling of the tissue around the tumor. Jackson, who also performs spinal opera­ ti ons - the next potential use for the new technology - says the surgical communi ty is opting for less invasive approaches, such as microsurgery, co treat patients. In one proce­ dure, Jackson inserts a scope connected co a camera and video monicor inco the brain through a small hole drilled inro the skull. Work Under Way on Long-Awaited Science Center Looking at a screen, Jackson performs che operation using instruments that fie inco a cube the size of a ballpoint pen. Construction began in May on the • A four-story Spanish Renaissance He recently used microsurgery on a 32- $47 million Center for Science and building. The lobby design interprets year-old woman who entered the emergency Technology, the largest, most complex with skylights and glass panels an room with a brain hemorrhage. After he and most anticipated academic building interdisciplinary experiment com­ removed an abnormal tangle of blood ves­ on campus. bining biology, chemistry and sels, arteries and veins in the area of the Scheduled to open in Spring 2003, physics, which with marine and envi­ brain ch at controls leg functions, the woman the I50,000-square-foot center will ronmental sciences form the core of walked out of the hospital five days lacer. replace the university's cramped and USD's science curriculum. "Over the past 20 or 30 years improve­ outdated science classrooms and labs, The project is challenging, says planner ments in anesthesia and equipment have which currently are spread among Tom Coffin, because of the demanding allowed patients co return co their normal three buildings and date to the 1950s. engineering required to build such a functions much sooner," says Jackson, who "We know from the companies who state-of-the-art structure. Each lab sta­ became fascinated by che brain in medical have hired our graduates or placed tion, for example, has its own electri­ school. "Despite coming so far, there's sci ll a our interns that they are very satisfied cal, gas and water lines, and the build­ lo t ro explore." with the quality, the knowledge and ing must be vibration-free so as not to Although every type of brain surgery takes skills, and the work ethic demonstrat­ interfere with delicate experiments or tremendous care and precision, Jackson says ed by our students," says President the electron microscope. the one surgery chat is che most draining is Alice B. Hayes. "The Center for "By its very nature a science build­ removing a cerebral aneurysm, a blister at Science and Technology will support ing is fraught with mechanical and the intersection of blood vessels. Aneurysms USD's effort to be a strong resource electrical issues," says Coffin, who built are fatal at the time of rupture in 40 percent for the scientific, medical and biotech­ science facilities for the University of of patients, and the danger, he says, is that nology communities in San Diego." Southern California. "Because of its an aneurysm will rupture during surgery. power and air circulation require­ "Ofren neurosurgery is incense," Jackson The facility features: ments, there is no building on campus says. "There are numerous seeps co every • 70 world-class laboratories, includ­ that compares to it." operation, and the smallest mistake can ing labs for electron microscopy, With $3 million in government potentially have devastating consequences." + nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, grants to get the cena!r under way, the lasers and chemistry computer university is working with corpona­ modeling. tions, foundations, alumni, faculty, staff, • Aquariums, an astronomy deck trustees and friends to fund the con­ and a greenhouse. struction. For informatiori on making a • Areas to accommodate visiting gift, please contact the Office of scientists and technology meetings. Development at (619) '.260-4814.

SUMME,R 2 00 1 21 Lynn Schenk spent three decades BY MICHAEL R. HASl'iINS PHOTOS BY RODNEY NAl'iAMOTD in the corridors of power, but her fter a term in Congress, stints as special biggest challenge came when the assistant co vice presidents Nelson 1 Rockefeller and Walter Mondale, a high- lights went out in California. level cabinet position in the administration A of California Gov. Jerry Brown and years of private law practice, yo u'd think Lynn Schenk would know a whole lot about power. Not half as much, it turns out, as she thought she did. When the electrical power crisis hit California last year, the 1970 USD School of Law graduate, now chief of staff for California Gov. Gray Davis, arranged her own crash course in the literal kind of power. She talked endlessly co providers, consumers and conservationists, learning how energy is produced, transmitted and used. She studied federal and state regulations, power plant construction plans, transmission strategies and supply projections, all in an effort co find a so lution co the state's sudden energy woes. "We needed a strategy," she says, "and it rook months just co understand what we were up against. Every day there was something new impacting the issue." The state's energy problems came co a head last year. Poorly planned deregulation of the electricity industry, combined with low suppli es and high demand, led co skyrocketing prices and periodic blackouts. Confronted with millions of angry, scared and, in some cases, finan­ cially strapped energy cusromers, the governor had co find a way co fix the problem. Fast. Schenk was the natural choice ro lead the effort. The crisis first broke in San Diego, where she had been an atrorney for San Diego Gas and Electric early in her career, was a port district commissioner overseeing harbor development, and won a seat in Congress. Us ing her knowledge of the industry and her high-level contacts in Washingron and Sacran1ent0, Schenk navigated through an atmosphere polluted by accusations of price gouging, political partisanship and regularory incompetence co foster an environment where industry, government and consumers could work rogether.

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"Absent her role, we'd be much further behind in put­ ting an end to this crisis," says Mike Gotch, the gover­ nor's legislative secretary. "S he knew where to reach our and find a ream of experts when nobody else in the gov­ ernor's office or the legislature did." Bur th e process was frustratingly slow, and without respite. Last December, while most were raking a holiday break, Schenk traveled ro rhe nation's capital and met with policymakers to talk about federal intervention in near-bankrupt utilities. She spent Christmas Eve on the phone with Gene Sperling, President Bill Clinton's national economic adviser, discuss ing how blackouts in California could affect che nation's economy. do some legislative and budget planning, maybe read Her efforts were rewarded this April when Davis up on transportation, water supply problems or any unveiled the results of che discuss ions: a plan for increas­ one of a dozen other issues char are - or will be - ing supply by fast-tracking construction of new power on the governor's mind. plants, promoting conservation and stabilizing the electri­ "Lynn is always in high gear, and she's in constant cal industry through stare oversight. Implementing the contact with the governor," Gotch says. "She's got to plan through law and regulation comes next, and with be on her roes constantly ro anticipate what issue the che federal government unwilling ro institute che whole­ governor may want to talk about. An impossible task, sale price caps Davis has asked for, the work is far from but she's managed it." finished. So Schenk will be, as she puts it, "dreaming Schenk doesn't meet with lobbyists - staffers develop about electricity" for some time to come. expertise on specific topics and filter the information for her at twice-weekly policy meetings - but fre­ TEN STEPS AHEAD quently brings in executives and heads of organizations It may seem a distant memory now, bur there was a rime when electricity wasn't the all-consuming issue in California. In 1998, before the power crisis, Schenk was capped to join the new administration as the governor's chief ai de and senior policy counselor. Unlike a typical chief of staff, who primarily handles personnel and day­ ro-day administrative duties, she went to Sacramento to carry our the governor's priorities in education, health care, housing, transportation, budget and the state's relationship with Mexico. "When I rook chis job, it was with the understanding that I have one duty, ro be there for the governor," she says. "Whatever is on his plate is on mine. And it's a big plate. " "When took this job, it was with the u derstanding that I have one d ty, to be there to discuss che environment, business issues, the needs of senior citizens, crime and ocher issues. And she doesn't do for the governor:' e-mail, not afrer receiving 300 messages, just from staffers, her first day on the job. Although her role has evolved to encompass more per­ Ir's a thankless, rough, low-profile job yo u wouldn't sonnel responsibilities - she directly oversees 150 staff wish on yo ur worst enemy - and one you could only members and is responsible for the thousands of employ­ offer to a best friend. The choice was easy for Davis. He ees in the state's executive branch - Schenk mainly acts and Schenk served together under Gov. Jerry Brown from as an extra set of eyes and ears for Davis. 1977 to 1983 - he as chief of staff, she as secretary of She's usually the first perso n Davis talks to in rhe business, transportation and housing - and have known morning and the last person he calls at night. In the 12 each other for more than 20 years. ro 15 hours between, she's a trouble-shooter in che policy The decision wasn't quite as simple for Schenk. At the arena, making decisions about che fin er points of legisla­ time, she was working in San Diego as an attorney for tion and regulation to keep the governor's vision intact. the internati onal law firm Baker & McKenzie and, after If there's no crisis du jour and Davis has n't asked her ro an unsuccess ful 1998 bid for scare arrorney general, wasn't Ry ro Los Angeles or San Francisco for a meeting, she'll missing rhe campaigning or the travel. A 30-year resident

S U M M E R 2 0 0 1 23 of San Diego, where her husband, C. Hugh Laurie Black, Schenk's chief of staff during legal scene. And she helped launched rhe Friedman, is a USD law professor - they her term. "Unlike many politicians, she's not city's Women's Bank to provide capital for met through mutual friends while she was in reactive. She's always chinking about how women entrepreneurs, who at the rime the law school's day program and he was an things can be better, and most of the rime found ir nearly impossible to get credit or a adjunct professor in the night program - she's 10 steps ahead of everyone else." mortgage in their own names. Schenk was content to be away from policies. Schenk demonstrated her vision as a com­ "I always felt char I had to prove nor just "Ir wasn't on my radar screen at all, and I missioner of the San D iego Port District in chat I could do something, but rhar women didn't chink I was at rhe right stage in my the early 1990s. She focused on environmen­ could do it, " she says. "I hoped that someday life to rake on rhis job," says rhe 56-year-old tal, labor and transportation issues, propos­ a woman going into a job wouldn't have to Schenk. "But my rime in elected office ing a high-speed ferry system for commuters represent anything, rhat she could be just taught me rhe need to work wirh people you and fighting against overdevelopment to pre­ can trust. And rhe governor convinced me I serve views of rhe bay. Such foresight carries could make a conrriburion." into her current job, in which she recently "I always felt that I Those were the magic words. Throughout led staff discussions about healrh care and had to J:, l'O Ve not her career, Schenk has seized opportunities breast cancer research, talks char culminated to contribute through law, education and in a stare Senate biU rhar would provide low­ just that 1 could do public service. income women with access to breast and As a freshman congresswoman in 1992, gynecologic cancer screenings and treatment. something, ut that her expertise in high-speed rail, a hor issue women could do it:' in California since her tenure in the Brown THE FIRST LADY administration, laid the foundation for years Alrhough she was the first woman elected to like anyone else. I chink we've reached that of transportation development policy. She rhe House of Representatives from San day where women don't stand our like a sore was rhe first to propose a commuter lane Diego, the first Democrat elected from her thumb in the classrooms - or rhe board at the Oray Mesa, U.S.-Mexico border cross­ district and rhe firsr Jew sent to Congress rooms." ing, a project char is about to come to from Southern California, Schenk was a pio­ Schenk nor only hoped for ch at day, she fruition. Schenk lost her seat in the rradi- neer long before she entered politics. helped realize it. She returned to USD in the mid-1970s as an adjunct professor, A PUBLIC RECORD creating one of the first courses in rhe nation on Sex Discrimination and the Law. 1972-76 Deputy attorney general, California state Throughout her career, she put women in attorney general's office ; attorney, San Diego top sraff sloes. Black, now a public affairs Gas & Electric Co. and communications consultant, calls her an "incredible mentor," while former staffer 1976-77 Special assistant to vice presidents Nelson Molly Bowman, a USD alumna, says Schenk Rockefeller and Walter Mondale was a tremendous source of inspiration. 1977-83 Deputy secretary and secretary, California "Lynn brought a sense of empowerment State Department of Business, Transportation to the people she worked with, and encour­ and Housing aged us to be creative and look for opportu­ nities," says Bowman, who now works as an 1983-1993 Attorney, private practice advocate for che American Heart Associa­ 1984 Candidate for San Diego County Board of Supervisors tion. "She's one of chose women who paved 1988 California co-chair for the presidential campaign of rhe way for ochers." Michael Dukakis Now char she's gone from politician to policy wonk, Schenk is content to operate 1990-93 Commissioner and vice chair, San Diego Unified Port District behind the scenes, and rules out running for 1993-95 Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives another elected office. "I like to get things done, and in the leg­ 1995-98 Attorney, law firm of Baker & McKenzie islative branch that's difficult," she says. "I 1998 Candidate for California attorney general like the effect I can have in the executive 1998-present Chief of staff and senior policy adviser to Gov. Gray Davis branch." Certainly her efforts to find solutions to rhe energy crisis will be felt when legislators rionally conservative district rwo years later In the early 1970s, when few companies enact some of rhe hundreds of power and to Republican Brian Bilbray, but not before hired female attorneys, she was San Diego electricity bills currently winding through earning the respect of her colleagues on the Gas and Elecrric's first woman lawyer. She the state Senate and Assembly. Schenk is Hill as an expert in biotechnology, women co-founded the local Lawyer's Club, a group optimistic that chis problem, like many och­ and families, and crime. that created opportunities for women in the ers she's cackled, will be solved. "The plain fact is that she is a brilliant legal field who couldn't find jobs or - "California is resilient," she says. "We know person, and her ideas quickly brought her incredible as it sounds - a place to have what the challenge is, and we're up to it. " + into rhe highest levels of leadership," says lunch in the exclusively male downtown

24 USD MA GAZ I NE Stoessinger continued from page I I THE WORLD ACCORDING TO STOESSINGER Japanese diplomat who saved him from the Hongkew ghetto a half-century before. He Q: What are the potential ramifi­ Q: Can Israel co-exist with a asked a Japanese journalist for help cracki ng cations of U.S. involvement in the Palestinian state? I believe a Palestinian state is down Ryoichi Manabe, and soon learned he China-Taiwan dispute? A: A: I don't see anything overly dramatic inevitable. It will happen, but there was living in Tokyo. After returning to the developing in China. Of course, they will be a lot of violence before it United Scares and a series of letters and perceive Taiwan as a breakaway repub­ does. War typically involves right phone calls, Stoessinger Aew to Japan to lic, but I believe that situation will see against wrong, but in the case of Israel reunite with the man whom he credits for a political resolution, not a military and Palestine we have two rights con­ saving his life. one. The key thing to remember is that fronting each other, in that both sides "I wasn't sure he'd remember me, bur he both China and the United States want have sincere religious conviction. remembered everything," Stoessinger says. to do business with each other. China Religion can be an instrument of "We were both near rears as we talked about covets its Most Favored Nation trade peace, but when you insist that your what had happened. After the war, he taught status with the United States, and I religion in the only valid one, religion German literature at a university in Tokyo. I don't see them doing anything to jeop­ becomes an instrument of war. The gave him one of my books, which neve r ardize that. China has never been an only way this situation can be resolved would have been written if nor for him." overseas aggressor, and a shooting war is with a compromise, and the major Stoessinger compares Manabe to would be self-destructive, because it question is how much blood will have Germany's Oskar Schindler For risking his would wreck commerce with Japan as to be spilled before the parties life to help Jews. well as Taiwan and America. involved realize that. "When I asked him why he did it, he said, Q: What effects will President Q: What is the appeal of the mod­ 'It was the decent thing to do.' Dr. Manabe Bush's proposed missile defense sys­ ern day Neo-Nazi movements, and helped teach me about our common humanity. tem have on international relations? are they a legitimate threat? He is one of the true moral heroes of our time." A: I think it is likely to have a very A: The movement today is nothing at negative effect. The Bush administra­ all like it was in Hitler's time. The Returning home to USD tion believes the missile defense sys­ Nazis today are a lunatic fringe, not One of Stoessinger's most heartfelt speeches tem will render nuclear weapons the major socio-political force they came in May, when he delivered the com­ obsolete, but that pre-supposes a were then. The so-called skinheads in mencement address to USD's education and mutual trust between nations that cur­ Europe come mostly from the former business graduates. Provost Frank Lazarus rently does not exist. They character­ East Germany, where democracy never says there was "overwhelming sentiment" ize the system as defensive, but in my had a chance. They went right from from students to have Stoessinger speak. experience, if a so-called defensive sys­ Hitler to Communism and feel now tem has the power to make you invul­ like they don't share in the country's College of Arts and Sciences Dean Patrick nerable, it becomes an offensive wealth, so they rally to this totalitarian Drinan says Stoessinger has an uncommon weapon, because then you can kill with refuge. In the United States, Nazism ability to connect with students. impunity. Most every nation perceives will never establish a legitimate "He's compassionate, cosmopolitan and a U.S. missile defense system as a foothold. Democratic convictions are takes his teaching mission incredibly seriously," threat, and not many are going to sit so deeply embedded in American he says. "He could have retired, or taught idly by. Another important point to society that anyone who takes a hard only graduate seminars, but he wants to be consider is the tremendous cost asso­ line either left or right cannot attract involved at the undergraduate level. The stu­ ciated with a technology that has not votes. Extremism is a synonym for dent eval uations of him are like nothing I've proven to be even remotely reliable. failure in the United States. ever seen. I remember one semester there were 40 students in his class, and 38 fi lled out an evaluation. All 38 rated the course as outstanding." For more than 10 years, Stoessinger has served as the distinguished professor of global diplomacy at USO, jetting off berween classes to speaking engagements. He is involved in the development of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, and team-teaches, along with motivational speaker Ken Bl anchard, a course in the School of Business Administration's global leadership program. "I thank God every day," he says. "I know how lucky I've been. I lived in a dictatorship where my life wasn't worth rwo cents, and now Hitler has been dead for 50 years and I'm here on this beautiful campus, reaching these remarkable students. I've never been John Stoessinger gets a congratulatory kiss from Jenny Craig after his commencement speech. happier in my life." + S UM M ER 2 0 0 l 25 ~-- ... ~: ALUMNI GALLERY FROM THE HOR Mo Being a "Horse Whisperer" is all about listening

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1960 Answers, and plans on publishing UNDERGRADUATE two more books later this year. Mary Joan (Padberg) Kath ry n retired in 1995 after work­ MacDonald is retired and li ves ing 33 years as an ed ucator, and in a home ove rl ooking the ocean spends most of her time writing. in White Rock, B.C., Canada, wi th She and husband Charli e have two her husband, Bob, a retired physi­ chi ld ren, Bonnie and Barnabas. cian. The couple have three grand­ 1971 ch ildren and enjoy traveling to UNDERGRADUATE 1976 Palm Spr in gs for the winter, ski ing Thomas O'Neill has worked for UNDERGRADUATE and hiking. Vons Grocery Co., in San Diego Randall Klotz is a partner and since I 974. He and his wife, Sherie, shareholder in the law firm of have three daughters, Kaitlyn, 15, Branton & Wilson , APC, in San Leslie, 12, and Angela, 11. Diego, and practices in the areas of business, real estate and es tate plan­ 1971 ning. Randall and his wife, Laurel Hobbled by arthritis and UNDERGRADUATE (Potter) Klotz '77, have two not much bigger than his 5-foot­ children, Nicholas, 9, and Jennifer, Weldon Riley retired in 1981 tall pupil, Dorrance looked from the San Diego Counry 7 .... Rosa Roman is a full-time Stonecypher-Cote dead in the 1963 Department of Agricu lture after mom to her three chi ldren ages 14, UNDERGRADUATE worki ng for 16 years as an ag ri cu l­ 12, and 7. Her husband, James eye , wagged a finger in her Eloisa (Sanchez) Thompson tural biologist. He th en had his own Ovieda '76, is chief operating face, and said: "First, start from is a proud grandmother ro Jos hua agricu ltu ral consulti ng business in officer at El Centro Region al where the horse is at." He Scott Mi ller, 2, her daughter Medical Center. ... David Rossi is Puerto Rico before settl ing in Las then turned and ambled away. Jennifer's son. Eloisa, whose Vegas, where he works at the Rio president and CEO of King Jewelers "I thought, 'that's it?' " recalls three other children are William, Hotel and Cas ino. in Chula Vista, Cali f., and is pres i­ Emily and Robby, is a medical dent of the Chula Vista Downtown Stonecypher-Cote, a 1985 technologist in San Diego. 1975 Business Association and the San School of Business graduate UNDERGRADUATE Diego Baseball Historical Sociery. who has trained horses in 1969 Mary Anne Ekno recently Poway, Calif., for six years . "I UNDERGRADUATE 1977 returned from Italy and is goi ng was so disappointed. I wanted Richard Davis retired in through the teacher credential UNDERGRADUATE 2000 after practicing medicine program at National Universiry. Frank Gontarski is a dentist some sort of method." for 25 years and fo unded She li ves in the North Counry in Fair Oaks, Calif., where he and Yet the old teacher's advice ConfirmatoryAnalysis.com. and has two chi ldren . his wife, Susie, have two ch ildren, soon resonated with his student, He also is finish ing a book on Grant, 13, and Grace, 10 .... who came to understand what investing through the Internet. Martha (Banghart) Foltz is GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL those cryptic words meant. She Kathryn M, Snelson (M.Ed.) a pharmaceutical rep with Merck recen tl y published her second book, and recently moved with her hus- discovered the media-coined 2,500 Biblical Questions and continued on page 28 "Horse Whisperer" training style 26 US D MAGA Z I NE wasn't just about talking to the the horse, it was the horse hav- a piece of cloth on its back, path. After graduating from USO, horse, but listening to the horse. ing trouble with the person." "then we'll have the horse go to she spent eight years working Once a trainer understands the To listen, Stonecypher-Cote its corral and think about it." for a San Diego stock brokerage horse's issues - its insecurities spends time watching the animal, Carolyn Frankel took her firm, rising to management. After o r anxieties - learning becomes its body language and reactions. Arabian to the couple after a company shakeup, her thoughts a partnerhship between human On a recent spring day, she unwittingly using other trainers turned to horses, and she decid- and animal. observed two horses groom who used fear as a tactic - she ed to trade them. But she had "It is all about understanding each other and made a mental came upon one trainer kicking one big problem - whenever where that horse is, mentally note of where they scratched. her horse in the shins to get she bought a horse, she didn't and psychologically, and then Next time, she'll scratch them it to back up. Because of the want to sell it. going from there," says in the same spot. abuse, her horse threw every At the urging of her husband, Stonecypher-Cote, who with For a horse that refuses to be rider who climbed on its back. she tried horse training, and was husband Gerald has trained saddled, Stonecypher-Cote will After about 30 sessions with back in the saddle again. hundreds of horses without start with a blanket. If the horse Karen and Gerald, Frankel now "I try not to make it a busi- using restraints, chains or other still bucks, she'll use a handker- can ride her horse bareback ness, but rather to concentrate traditional "breaking" methods. chief. If that doesn't work, she'll with just a halter. "I feel safe, on the qualities of the horse and It, "Tom Dorrance had all these apply some light pressure with really safe, with him," she says, rider," says Stonecypher-Cote, people coming to him with her hand. petting the stately horse's nose. who also trains young riders ' problem horses.' And he told "Once we get the change that Despite her horse training for the show circuit. "I look for me that it wasn't the person is appropriate at that level," she success, Stonecypher-Cote never the good in people, and I look -le who was having trouble with says, such as the horse accepting intended to go down the bridle for the good in horses."

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TELL US ABOUT IT Finding Balance in Mind, Body and basketball team member, recencly Send class notes to either your class correspondent Spirit, and produces a Web sire and received her doctorate degree in or one of the following addresses, and we'll get television show on the subject. kinesiology from the University of it in USD Magazine as soon as possible. Class Minnesota and is now the under­ notes are edited for space, and only wedding 1986 graduate fitness program director information, not engagements, will be published. UNDERGRADUATE for the University ofWisconsin­ E-mail: [email protected] Sharon Amend recencly joined La Crosse. Web site: http://alumni.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine SAIC in San Diego as a tax man­ U.S. Mail: Alumni Relations ager. ... Catherine Colbert is 1989 University of San Diego a senior account executive with UNDERGRADUATE 5998 Alcala Park the advertising agency of Slack Jennifer Qacobs) Deming San Diego, CA 921 I 0 Barshinger in Chicago .... Theresa is a supervising social worker in De La Torre is a biological science San Francisco, where she li ves with techn ician for the USDA Western her husband, Sean, in Presidio band, Robert, to Fort Wayne, Ind., he continues to take scenic phoro­ Corron Research Laboratory in National Park . ... Theresa where they plan to turn 12 of their graphs. He recencly was in Banff Phoenix, where she also works (Rasic) Gonzales returned ro 15 acres into a wildlife preserve .... National Park in Alberta, Canada. weekends for the Wildlife World Northern California from Charlotte, Harold "Jay" Jacobson Ill ... Clarissa Rosas is chair of Zoo . ... Mark Hoekstra is a N.C. with her husband, Mike is a demist in El Cajon, Calif., and the education department for the partner in a commercial real estate Gonzales '88 (M.B.A. '93) teaches dentistry at Loma Linda College of Mo unt Saint Joseph in firm rhat deals in office, retail and who is with Salomon Smith Barney. University. Jay and his wife, Kathy, Cincinnati, where she lives with industrial property. Mark and his The couple have two chi ldren, have two chi ldren, Eli zabeth, 11, her husband and their two children. wife, Glynna, have two daughters, Catherine, 5, and Christian, 3 . ... and Kristin, 7. Amanda, 11, and Noelle, 9 .... Judith Groshek recencly moved 1981 Virginia Kearns-Galindez li ves from Colorado ro Wisconsin, 1978 UNDERGRADUATE in Vacaville, Calif., with her hus­ where she is a regional manager UNDERGRADUATE Mark Ike owns Ike Properties, band, Bill, and their four chi ldren : for Swanson Services Corp .... Patrick Sesto is chief of podiatry Inc. , in Costa Mesa, Cali f., and Erin, 14, Laura, 12, Michael, 10 Maj. Sean Hackbarth is a watch surgery at Ft. Gordon, Ga., and plays guitar and si ngs for the chi l­ and Kai cl in, 7 . ... Allison officer for the U.S. Space Operations his wife, E. Marie (Conlon) dren's ministry at Calvary Chapel (Bailey) Lynch is a disability Center at Peterson Air Force Base Sesto is working on a master's of Costa Mesa. Mark and his wife, claims manager in Columbus, in Colorado, and is working on degree in education and teaching Collette, have five chi ld ren. Ohio, and has two daughters, his seco nd master's degree .... the sixth grade. The couple have Lauren Danielle, 4, and Lexanne Mary (Featherston) Wolfrey two daughters, Christina and Laura. 1981 Delaney, 2 .... Kenya Newman is a regional leader with Primerica UNDERGRADUATE works in entertainment manage­ Financial Services and has three 1979 Lesa Christenson U.D. '85) ment in Las Vegas and has four children, Nicholas, 6 months, UNDERGRADUATE starred a woman-owned law firm boys and two girls with her hus­ Jacob, 2, and Naomi, 3, with Maria Martha Goette has in San Diego in November called band, Jimmy Jackson. husband Jeff. been in private medical practice in Ashworth, Blancher, Christenson Mexicali, Baja, Mexico, since 1992. & Kalemkiarian chat focuses on 1987 GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL She also is a professor of mineral fami ly law. Lesa also is active in the UNDERGRADUATE Michael Wildermuth (J.D.) is metabolism at the Faculdad de Lawyer's Club of San Diego and rhe Brian Bratlien has been traveling a shareholder in the firm of Never, Medicina . .. . Marcella Teran San Diego County Bar Association. the world with his job ar US Airways. Palazzo, Maddux & Packard in volunteered as an emergency med­ ... Cara Kennedy recencly bought Wesclake Village, Calif., specializing ical technician and traveled through 1983 a home in Searcle and has been trav­ in business and real estate litigation. Nepal, Thailand, India and South UNDERGRADUATE eling throughout rhe country as a Michael and his wife, Lisa, have America. Marcella also worked Terri (Melvin) Gosen was sales rep. three children , Rebecca, 9, Nicole, in pharmaceutical sales and is a selected the 2000-200 I Poway 6, and John, I. competitive distance runner. She Unified School District Elementary 1988 has a 5-year-old child .... Monica School Teacher of the Year. A teacher UNDERGRADUATE (Drill) Weiss is an anesthesiologist for 16 years, Terri is in her eighth Brandi (Beurnier) Blake living in New York with her hus­ year at Garden Road Elementary moved to Connecticut in 1998 and band, Craig, and their two sons, School in Poway, where she teaches plans ro move again this summer Josh, 16, and Reed, 11. a pre-kindergarten class. Terri and due to husband Robert's position in her husband, Ted, USD's sports rhe Navy. The couple have three information director, li ve in Poway children, Tyler, 8, Sydney, 5, and with their four daughters: Katie, 13, Jarod, 3 .... Erin (Reagan) 1990 Colleen, 11, Claire, 8, and Erin, 4. Lightle, her husband, Todd, and UNDERGRADUATE ... James Hitchcock is executive their 2-year-old so n, Drew, are in Kristine (Reuba) Brown works director of investments for CIBC for a climate change when they from home for United Behavioral Oppenheimer in Newport Beach, move from Florida to Kodiak, Health in San Francisco. She is rais­ Calif., and is celebrating his 18th Alaska, this summer. Erin is a ing daughter Madeline, 1, with hus­ 1980 year in the securities industry.... licensed clinical social worker and band Stephen .... Teresa Sarabia UNDERGRADUATE Eileen (Restrepo) Richardson her husband Aies helicopters for the has been busy traveling around the Robert Cavalier sold his condo published a book, Off Balance - U.S. Coast Guard .... Karen world, preparing for her wedding north of San Francisco in January The Importance ofand How To of Skemp, a former USO women's and moved to Porcland, Ore., where

28 USO MAGAZINE IRST, CARMEN in 1995 to be ordained by Grace WARNER-ROBBINS Ministries International, an organ­ WAS TRAINED TO ization that focuses on the poor, HEAL THE BODY. NOW imprisoned and homeless. THE 1982 NURSING "The Methodist Church puts graduate is hard at work to heal you where they need you," she the soul. says. "I heard a calling and decid­ Warner-Robbins, a former ed to do what Jesus did and go emergency care nurse and an among the people." ordained min ister, is founder Warner-Robbins volunteered and president of Welcome Home to minister to inmates at the Ministries, an Oceanside-based Vista (Calif.) Detention Facility

Faith o/Her L. Portrc,,tf Convictio Giving former prison inmates a second chance at life The Rev. Carmen group that helps women make and the Las Colinas Detention on a donated budget of $5,000. "It is so Warner-Robbins (right) welcomes Then, close to the deadline for the transition from incarceration Facility in Santee, Calif. Calling glorious a woman to her to society. Since 1996, some 250 upon her training as a nurse, she applications, the group heard to see lives ministry. women have passed through the began to organize the effort to about Davis' initiative to allocate turned Welcome Home program with a help women adjust to life after funds to faith-based organizations around," Warner-Robbins says. recidivism rate of only 6 percent incarceration. fo r job training and other "One woman here had 400 run- - a fact not lost on California "We had to figure out what employment services for people ins with the law since the age of Gov. Gray Davis. Welcome Home the women needed - clothes, a with criminal backgrounds, the 12, and now she's a counselor recently received a $180,000 place to sleep, employment that first such program in the nation. at a sobriety services center. grant from the state to develop matched their aptitudes - and a Due to the grant, both men Another was once considered job training and other employ­ way to get it to them." she says. and women with criminal records the drug queen of North County, ment opportunities for former 'Then we had to do some dis­ now will be served. Warner­ and now she's clean and sober, prisoners. charge planning, kind of like when Robbins says each ex-inmate who working full time and doing very "Most of these women get a patient is released from the expresses an interest will receive well. Almost all of the women released from jail with nowhere hospital, to create a support an assessment to determine spe­ at Welcome Home are in some to go and no one to help them;• structure outside the jail to help cific-job-related aptitudes. Once fo rm of school. It is truly a mira­ Warner-Robbins says. "We're prevent them from falling into employers identify the types of cle to see God's love at work." here to be that someone." old behaviors." jobs they need filled , the former Planning to be a Methodist Warner-Robbins and a small prisoners will then be trained to minister, Warner-Robbins opted staff of volunteers struggled by fit those needs. and starring her own bus iness . 1991 daughter, Kaitlyn Elizabeth, 2.. .. selli ng seco nd homes and invest­ "In the game of life, I feel like a UNDERGRADUATE Daniel Fitzgerald recentl y moved ment property in Va il , Colo .... wi nner," she writes . ... William Diana (Schumacher) Brictson to Thousand Oaks, Calif., to work David Huizenga is an attorney Scheibner Jr. is vice consul in (M.Ed. '93) moved from Leawood, for Giant Bicycles, running its cred it in Atlanta, where he lives with his Istanbul , Turkey, with the U.S. Kan. , to Greensboro, N.C., in department. Prior to that he spent wife, Carin a, and their two daugh­ Fo reign Service. His wi fe of eight October with her son, Ford Al len, 1, 10 years as a manager at Fisherman's ters, Helena, 7, and Hann ah, 5 .... years, Elizabeth, passed away in and husband Derik. . .. Cynthia Landing in San Diego .. .. Hillary Debra K. Wallace is perm iss ions November afi:er a six-month battle (Brienza) Dibsie is a paralegal Hobel received her M.B.A. from editor for Harcourt e-Learning in with cancer. and lives just outside of Ph il adelphia th e University of Denver and now is Monterey, Calif. with her husband, Greg, and their a partner in a real estate business,

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made her New York theater steps 30 minutes before the cur- But in the end, it's about six guys second off or that their hats debut. tain went up, which was terrify- who strip down to their birth- might slip," Zimmerman says. Zimmerman, who graduated ing. But it's for that kind of rush day suits. But now, she says, it's no big in 2000 from USD's master of that I do it." The naked truth? Zimmerman thing. fine arts program at The Globe The play is an adaption of has never peeked. Nevertheless, the crew some- Theatres, worked as an under- the 1997 movie in which out- "You know during the whole times teases. Once, the orches- study during the show's premier of-work British steel workers show you're going to see them era's female conductor dropped last summer at the Globe. That bared it all to make a few bucks. strip," Zimmerman says. "It all her top du ring the finale. Another class assignment gave her a leg The musical version, set in builds up to that. But, oddly time the orchestra performed in up when an understudy spot Buffalo, N.Y., is staged at the enough, I never watch the last the buff. opened in the East Coast cast Eugene O'Neill Theatre and moment because they're my Zimmerman understudies for in January. recently received IO Tony nomi- friends and I just can't do it." five different characters in the "My fi rst night, I had to go on nations, including one for best At one point, each guy's only show.There's Estelle, the main with little rehearsing," recalls musical. protection is a well-placed hat. character's gi rlfriend, a gum Zimmerman of her New York The musical is about father- "In the beginning, they wor- chewer with huge hair and a premier. "I was learning dance hood, friendship and marriage. ried the light cue would be one short skirt; Susan, who's giggly

1992 in Denver. ... Loree (Hill) a location in Puerto Ri co .... GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE Luther operates her own dessert Karin (Anderson) Shady Jebette Caterina (M.A.) teaches Kristine Ashton was promoted catering business, Al l in Good Taste, moved co Lou isv ill e, Ky., with Eng li sh at Mt. Carm el High Schoo l. co vice pres ident ofThe Mitch in Carlsbad, Calif. .. . Nancy husband Roger and their children .. . Stephen Nellis (M.Ed.), wife Schneider Organizati on, a Los Marcello works at Sony Pi ctu res Tyler, 6, and Emi ly, 3. Karin is an Jani ce and daughter Katelyn Dawn Angeles public relations firm. in Culver Ciry, Calif. She is accountant wo rking with the Latin moved co Canascota, N.Y. Ashcon's cl ient list includes reco rd­ pursuing an M.B.A. at Loyo la American subsidiaries of several in g arti sts Ko rn , Papa Roach and Marymo unt Universiry .... Joseph co mpani es .... Jennifer Tombini 1993 Disturbed .... Eric England is O' Rourke, Jr. reports th at his teaches high schoo l and is wo rking UNDERGRADUATE enjoying a "serene, healthy and company, O'Rourke Distributing, on a master's degree in edu ca tion. Christine Hawkins is workin g co simple lifesryle" as a phocographer Inc., has offi ces in Dallas and San She is also a busy mother of two. co mplete her M.B.A. at New York's Anconio, Texas, and recently opened Co lumb ia Business School and is se t

30 USO M AGAZ I NE Jellinek lives in Virginia, where She says she stays in touch with she is hose of a local television show old friends from USO including Class Chairs "Loudoun Woman." She recently Jennifer Anderson, Maria Arriaga, If you would like to volunteer appeared on the Discovery Channel Ted Canterbury and Santos Gonzalez. for class chair, call the Office of program "The FBI Files" and Alumni Relati ons at (619) 260- ling completed a year-long residency 1996 4819 or (800) 248-4873, ext. 7 as a member ofThe Shakespeare UNDERGRADUATE 1953 Therese (Truitt) Whitcomb, Theater.... Liesel Oohnson) Angela Cooper was married on Honorary Chair 1954 Katite Feb. 12, 2000, completed her mas- nee Mestre earned her graduate degree (McGonigle) Murtha 1955 Mary in human genetics from Sarah cer of forensic science program with Scott 1956 Carol Dusler, James V. Lawrence College and now works honors, graduated from the police Freed, Honorary Chair 1959 Angel at the Sharp/Children's Diagnosis academy in February 2000 and is (Kraemer) Kleinbub 1960 John J. and silly; Molly, an 80-year-old Center in San Diego. working for the San Diego Police Bowman, Karene (Lemke) Evenson Department in the southern subdi- 196 1 Elizabeth (Korander) Bradley, woman in a wheelchair; Pam, the Elli (O'Donnell) Lorch, Tippy (Gary) GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL vision .... Tapitha Krez:onls main character's ex-wife who Thibodeau, Mary Jane Tiernan James Kaskade (M .B.A.) is graduated from law school and will 1962 Janet (Halla) Trily, Ned Wilson wants a better life for her son; founder and president of INCEP cake the New York and New Jersey 1963 Hank Acquarelli, Penny and Joanie, Pam's co-worker. Technologies, Inc. bar exams. In the fall, she will work (Nutting) Guthrie 1964 Noel Hall "Sometimes I have to be more in patent law for the New York Ciry 1965 Maureen Buckley, Dennis Wick than one character in the same 1994 law firm of Oscrolenk, Faber, Gerb 1966 Diana Doerr Klink, Bernard UNDERGRADUATE & Soffen .... Wendy Pacofsky Palacek 196 7 Donna (Trumble) show," Zimmerman says. "It can Kelly Noel (Benton) is part owner of a travel company McGill, Paul Tuomainen Jr. be confusing because I'm inter- Loukides and husband Mark live in Point Loma, Calif., and a Web 1968 Sandra (Kiszla) Chew, Walter acting with different people and in Pacific Beach, Calif. Kelly is get- site focusing on adventure travel , Johnston 1969 Jan (Davidson) Tuomainen 1970 Rosemary ting a teaching credential and plans www.OTAdventures.com . ... have to know different dance (Masterson) Johnston, G. Vincent co work with elementary school Jocelyn Romig has been living steps, vocal parts and lines for Reardon Jr. 1971 Steve Nasman children .... Kyle Douglas is in Phoenix for more than three each character." 1972 Roy Lechner 1973 Victoria import director for Lucky Brand yea rs, working as an assistant man- (Westervelt) Nasman, Doug Robert Offstage, Zimmerman aud i- Dungarees, a division of Liz ager for Louis Vuitton .... Cory 1975 Dennis Blair 1976 Randy Klotz, cions for commercials, other Claiborne. He says his job has Schmelzer is president of the Bird Maureen Phalen 1977 Sam Dove cheater and television pilots. allowed him to travel extensively Rock Communiry Council, a La 1978 Stephen L. Plourd 1979 Kathy (George) Frisbie She says gaining a regular "Full to China, Taiwan and Macau . ... Jolla, Calif.-based organization Stephanie Ludwig is director of composed of businesses, residents 1980 Carrie (Galvin) Dern Monty" role would depend on 1981 Hugh Swift 1982 Richard Huver communiry education for a domes- and pro perry owners . ... Anthony 1983 Chris Pascale 1984 Tim Huckaby someone leaving the cast, which tic violence agency in Flagstaff, Ariz. Thomas is studying at the Georgia 1985 Maggie Keller Hawbliczel she doesn't anticipate happening .. . William Roberts is a senior Institute ofTechnology, where he 1986 James Pierik 1987 Philip Welp soon. But during a period of transportation engineer for Calcrans. is earning a master's degree in man- 1988 Jacki (Cepe) Lake looming Hollywood strikes, the ... Karin (Tatman) Rose is agement. 1989 Tom Gorman office manager for Karise Body 1990 Estela Lopez 1991 Rick Apel actress says she got lucky landing Therapy in San Diego. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL 1992 Charlie Bush, Greg Weaver a job she loves. Steven Keller (M.B.A.) was 1993 Houssam Ahoukhater 1994 1995 "A teacher once told me GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL recently named president of Tom Venetis Jennifer McCann Vertetis 1996 Bryan Walsh Courtney Ann Coyle Q.D.) Predicate Logic Software Systems you look for three things when 1997 Greg Johnson 1998 Michael recently was appointed to rhe Inc., in San Diego. Keller joined you're doing an audition," Corrales 1999 Kristen Jones Counry of San Diego Redistricting the company four years ago as vice Zimmerman says. "Does it 2000 Scott Bergen Advisory Committee. Courtney just president of engineering services. advance you r career, do you completed two terms as president Prior to his tenure at Predicate need the money and is it an of the La Jolla Town Council and Logic, Ke ller was a depury division Crusade in July. To sponsor Kendall, artistic decision. 'The Full Monty' has kept busy with her husband, manager at SAIC, developing e-mail her at goofysuz@mind- fulfills all three, so I don't plan Steve McDonald, board president high-tech software projects. spring.com . ... Kelly McGeehan of the San Diego Natural History graduated from the Notre Dame co move on yet." Museum . ... Aimee (Walsh) 1997 law school in May and accepted Schade (M.A.) lives with her UNDERGRADUATE a position as an assistant district husband and three children, Julia, Peter Bennett is a full-rime attorney for rhe Cook Counry Scace co begin a career in investment Tyler and Carter, in Amherst, N.H. youth minister at Sc. Gabriel's Attorney's Office in Chicago .... banking at J.P. Morgan Chase chis Aimee says being a scay-ar-home Church in Poway, Calif. , where Kathryn Reuter is assistant co summer. From 1994 to 1999, she mom is rhe best job she's ever had. he lives with his wife, Heather. ... the registrar ar Claremont School served as director of international Caila Coughlin expects to gradu- of Theology, where she received her trade for rhe American Chamber 1995 are from the integrated marketing master's degree in 1999. She is an of Commerce in Mexico Ciry. .. . UNDERGRADUATE communications graduate program activist on women's rights, gay Brent Hodges recently was pro- Kathleen Burke attends the at Northwestern Universiry in rights and labor rights .... Seth mored to senior tax manager at University of San Francisco School Chicago in December with a mas- Thompson and Valerie Franchise Finance Corp. He lives in of Law . ... lldifonso Carillo is cer's degree .... Susan Kendall is (Dalton) Thompson '96 were Scottsdale, Ariz. , with his son, T.J. , senior teacher and bilingual coordi- training to walk 60 miles from San married in May 1999 in Newport and is studying to be a certified nacor at Feaster-Edison Charter Jose, Calif., to San Francisco as pare Beach, Calif. Seth works for a financial planner. ... Tiffni School, Inc., in Chula Vista, Calif. of the three-day Avon Breast Cancer staffing company and plans on

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through a management develop­ Estates, Ill. and working ·on her Get Back Here! ment program . ... Benjamin mas ter's degree at Concordia Homecoming Weekend October 12-14 Borrell lives in Sebastopol, Calif. , University. ... Stephen M. Why return for Homecoming Weekend? with Crystal Marker '00, his Sakulsky '00 married Vanessa Where else can you hook up with old girlfriend of five years. He is attend­ lmpicciatore '99. T hey each friends, eat and drink, check out all the ing graduate school at Sonoma Stare are getting mas ter's degrees in changes on campus - and still see if your University where he hopes m earn fashion design development from ex-roommate has aged more than you? a si ngle-subject reaching credential. Fashion Institute of Design and Pl anning is under way to make He also is vo lunteering for the Merchandising in Los Angeles. Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 12-14, three Democratic Parry and working on They also partnered to start a days to remember, but here are some a rock band .... Helen Godfrey is new business called Just Bags Co. highlights we can tell you about: worki ng as the on-campus recruit­ designing, manufacturing and se ll ­ A Friday night reunion of former ing coo rd inato r for Florida ing women's handbags wo rldwide. members of the Student Alumni Association, which Intern ational University in Miam i. . .. Catherine Sarkozy '00 helps staff Homecoming, organizes the annual senior ... Zachary Koucos is a finan cial married Greg Hughes in Sep tember banquet and serves on the Alumni Association board . advise r for Morgan Stanley Dea n and honeymooned in Jamai ca. Reunion classes ('61, '66, '71, '76, '81 , '86, '91, '96) Witter in downtown San Diego . ... The co uple purchased a house in will have their own areas at the all-alumni tailgate Diane Wilkerson is wo rking full Mission Viejo, Cali f. She is co m­ party, planned for I I a.m., Saturday, before the time as a nurse practitioner at a pleting her internship hours as a Homecoming football game against Fairfield. family practice in Rivers ide, Calif. therapist and he is a stock broker. An all-alumni dance and cocktail party Saturday night. Alumni Mass Sunday morning in Founders Chapel, which includes GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL presentation of the Mother Rosalie Hill Award, given annually to a Sabrina Cassidy (M.B.A.) is Steve Thorn '94 (M .A.) married graduate with a commitment of service to USD. mar ried with two children, ages 1 Bernadette Young on Ap ril 21 in For more information on Homecoming activities, and 3, working full time and study­ St. Luke's Episcopal Church in San call the Office of Alumni Relations at (619) 260-4819. ing for the ce rtified manage ment Diego. Steve is the social sciences acco unting exam. department chairman for Coleman College in Miss ion Valley. getting his teaching credential in 1999 art, and Valerie received her master's UNDERGRADUATE degree in molecular biology at UC Laura Laggren is li ving in Baron Davis and is a high school science Rouge, La., where she is working on teacher in Irvine, Calif. her master's degree in communi ty and school counseling in the graduate 1998 program at Louisiana Srare UNDERGRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE University. .. . Adriane Prado is a Katy Hough '94 wed Steven UNDERGRADUATE Natalie Borresen worked on the sixth-grade reacher in Yuma, Ariz. Abrams on April 29 in Waltham, Jean-Philippe Gay '82 and his motion picture "Romeo Must Die." She says the training she received Mass. The co uple live in Somerville, wife, Dina, welcomed Luc Philippe Currently she is working for Mandy from USD's School of Education has Mass .... Amy Geddes '96 mar­ in November, almost two years to Fi lms in Beverly Hills, Calif. where been invaluable and that her col­ ried Brody Hofmann on Aug. 5... . th e day after rhe arrival of their she worked on "Charlie's Angels" leagues often comment how much Roxanne Martinez '97 and daughter, Eve Frances. The family and is helping with the sequel. .. . more "ahead of the game" USO grad­ Elton Perkins '99 wed on April lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla .... Derek Thornhill is living in uates are . ... Joshua Staffieri lives 22, 2000, in California and again H. Spencer Webster Ill '86 San Francisco where he works as an in Ohio where he works as a child on Aug. 5 in Hawai i. The couple and his wife, Denise (Ingwersen) institutional stock broker for Banc day care worker and counselor at have a home in Scorrsdale, Ariz. Webster •as , celebrated rhe birth of America Securities. Bunker Hill Haven for Boys, a group Roxanne works for The Bryman of their seco nd child, Mia Elizabeth, home for boys between the ages of 13 School as an admissions representa­ March 9. Denise works for Siebel GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL and 17. In February he was granted tive and Elton is a sem iconductor Systems in California .... Michael Loessel (M.A.) has been admission into a graduate program at buye r for Motorola Inc . ... Alysia Geoffrey R. Dean '89 and his working for two years as an om­ the Ohio campus of University of Rutherfurd '97 married James wife, Vida, celeb rated rhe birth of reach specialist through rhe school­ Miami, where he will be focu sing on Romero on Sept. 9 in Carmel , Cali f. their first chi ld, Jackso n Louis, on to-career program ar Point Loma career counseling. ... Michael Vacchi '97 O.D. '00) March 2 1. ... Kathleen (Walsh) High School in Sa n Diego, where and Amber M. Spataro O.D. '00) McEnroe '90 O.D. '94) and her he provides job shadowing, commu­ married on March 18, 2000 and li ve husband , Steven , welco med a ni ty service and employment for in Newport Beach, Calif. ... Paul daughter, Danika Marie, on Dec. more than 1,900 students. He also Wilson, Jr. '98 married Shawn ice 13, joining brothers Jonathan, 6, is responsible for marketing the ~- /ll - Crooms on Dec. 14 in a ceremony and Nicholas, 4. Kathleen works for school's schol arships and pre-college .,. i!.•' on a Miami beach. He has been liv­ the Los Angeles Coun ty district attor­ summer programs.... Carol Masso 2000s ing in Arlanra and working as a buyer ney's office . ... Katy Jones '91 (M.Ed.) has been busy raising her fo r Georgia Power Co. since February and her husband, Brian, celebrated 2-year-old son .... Myra (Yip) Sun 2000 1998 .... Angela Laux '00 mar­ rhe birth of their first child , Jack (M.B .A.) is an electronic commerce UNDERGRADUATE ried Jaso n Crase in July 2000. She Joseph, on July 11 , 2000. Kary retired acco unt manager wirh United Parcel Michelle Anderson is working is currently reaching fourth grade from her job at the Arrowhead Pond Servi ce. fo r a local co mm ercial printing at John Muir School in Hoffman co be a sray-ar-h ome mom .... co mpan y, where she is going

32 USO MAGA Z I NE Kenneth Kasinak '92 and wife wise, at any hour," says history Piper welcomed th eir first child, Professor Emerims Ray Brandes, Correspondence Katharine Mary, on Dec. 28. who worked with Oddo fo r close If you would like to volunteer for correspondent, please contact the The family lives in Scripps Ranch, co 30 years. "S tudents always came Office of Alumni Relations at (619) 260-4819 or (800) 248-4873, ext. 7. Calif. Kenneth is a police officer for first, and when they needed advice If your class has a correspondent, please send news di rectly to rhe City of La Mesa and recendy he was there co help." him or her, or e-mail notes to [email protected]. received his master's in public A self-taught Spanish speaker administration from National with a lifelong passion fo r Me x_ican CLASS CORRESPONDENTS University.. .. Jennifer (Case) culmre, Oddo fo resaw the need for '56 Diane (Sinclair) Drew '85 Kacie (O'Rourke) Delano Pistorius '93 and her husband, cross-culrural smdies long before 2854 Creekside Road 425 Yale Aven ue B, Luke Pistorius '94, were most curriculums were offici all y Santa Rosa, CA 95405 Coalinga, CA 932 10 blessed with th eir first child, "internationalized. " In I 964, he '58 Nadine Israel Thomas '86 Shannon Smith Alexa nder Case, on April 9 .... rook a student group co Guadalajara 2538 Tupelo Drive 520 E. 76th St. Augusta, GA 30909 No. 12-8 Lisa and Michael Stehle '96 for an intensive language, cultural e-ma il: nthomas204@ao l. com New York, NY I 002 1 wel comed their first child, Faith and academic experience. Every year '60 Simo ne Gennerre Ostrander e-mail: [email protected] Ann, on March 28. The family since, the popular fo reign study 543 North Trout Lake Drive '87 Niamh Foley Homan li ves in Virginia. program has sent srudents co the Sanger, CA 93657 1479 Wi ld Iris Lane Larin American city for six weeks. Pat Gan non Roberts Orange, FL 32003 GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL "He hoped co show students 1426 Boyle Avenue '88 Joannie (Santoni) Mcloughl in Catherine M. Easter '85 (J .D.) d1 ar there are dramatic differences Escondido, CA 92027 I I 4 54 Eastridge Place San Diego, CA 92 13 I and her husband , Craig Howard , among cultures, chat things aren't '61 Martha (Fiorin o) DoweH 676 West Timberbranch Parkway '89 Coll een Blackmore Pappas celeb rated rhe birch of their second the same everywhere," says USO Alexandria, VA 22302-36 14 69 IO Blue Orchid Lane child, Clare Catherin e, on Sept. 2 Pres ident Emeritus Author Hughes. Dennis Halloran Carlsbad, CA 92009 in Anchorage, Alaska .... Joyce "He beli eved stro ngly char they 23896 Taranto Bay '90 April (Flores) Goodjohn Peterson '99 (M.S.N.) and her should see chis for themselves." Monarch Beach, CA 92629 7187 Willet Circle husband, Marc Rzepczy nski , were Although reaching was hi s first '63 Martha (Spiers) Lepore Ca rlsbad, CA 92009 blessed with their first child, pass ion, Oddo rook several sabbati­ 750 F Ave nue '91 Glenn Hickok Katherine Ka i, in November. cals to direct polirical campaigns. Coronado, CA 92 1 I 8 805 Ramey St. Alexandri a, VA 22301 He also was a tireless campaigner '64 Delle Wi llett 2440 Caminiro Venido for equali ty. '92 Mike Williams San Diego, CA 92 I 07 I 020 Honeysuckle Drive In Memoriam "In th e Mexican-American com­ email: [email protected] San Marco, CA 92069 munity, he worked ro find programs '65 Karen (Grallam) Thielke email : [email protected] Professor Gilbert and wo rk for students so they they 195 18 14th NW '93 Hays (Fraim) Padrnos L, Oddo, who co uld become involved," Brandes Seattle, WA 98 177-2702 9832 Crysra ll o Court broadened the says. "He vo lunteered his rime and '6 7 Joseph Walker Parker, CO 80 I 34 horizo ns of hun­ money when ochers we re downplay­ 7 I 5 South 32nd Street '94 Lauren (Riaski) Young Renton, WA 98055-5097 dreds of smdents ing the need for min ori ty srudents 7948 E. Vassar Drive Denver, CO 8023 1 through his leader­ co obtain college degrees." '68 Moira Lees I I 806 Gorham Ave nue '95 Eric Ludwig ship of USD's Oddo was born in Bronx, N.Y., Los Angeles, CA 90049 163 72 Sarape Drive summer program in Guadalajara, and was a Navy meteorologist in '7 I Lawrence Pickard San Diego, 92 I 28 Mexico, passed away March 20 from the Pacific from 1942 ro 1946. After 4906 New Castle Street e-mai l: [email protected] complications related co Alzheimer's World War II he earned a bachelor's Rive rside, CA 92509 '96 Joy Deutsch disease. He was 79. from Union College in Schenectady, '75 William Uberri 12604 Carmel Country Road, Oddo caught fu ll-rime in rhe uni­ N.Y. He went on co earn a master's 15660 Southwest 123rd Avenue No. 20 San Diego, CA 92 130 versity's political scien ce department and a docto rate at Geo rgetown Miami, FL 33 177 '97 CoUeen Engel from 1966 co 1992, and was named Univers ity. '77 Michael Aeling 48 Darlene Street 10062 Pasco Monrril #509 Professor Emerirus in 1992. His During his career, Oddo wrote Sr. Paul, MN 55 11 9-4908 San Diego, CA 92129 love for reaching - and for stu­ three books : These Came Home, e-ma il: engelj ohnso n@ao l. com '79. Dorothy Kettcl-Kneski dents - brought him back co reach Slovakia and Its People, and Civil 20 Sandpiper Court '98 Elizabeth Himchak pare- rim e at USO for four more Liberties and the Sup reme Court. Westhampron, N.Y. 11 977-1 410 11 334 Capilla Road years, from 1992 co 1996. He is survi ved by his wife, San Diego, CA 92 127 '81 Lisa Si ll e- mail: "His door was open co help those Mari an, fi ve child re n and eight I 0720 Ohio Avenue, # 12 [email protected] with problems, academic or ocher- grandchildren. Los Angeles, CA 90024 '99 Sara Straul1al '83 Rick Sanchez e- mail: strauhal@ul v.ed u 1453 West Kesler La ne Chandler, AZ 85224 '00 Scott Bergen JOIN THE ONLINE COMMUNITY e-mail : [email protected] e-mai l: [email protected] More than 1,000 graduates have joined the USD Alumni Online Community, which '84 Norma Sama ni ego can be found on the Web at alumni.acusd.edu/alumni/olc.htm. The Web site 489 Pescado Place includes an alumni directory. a career center, a permanent e-mail Encinitas, CA 92024 forwarding service, business Yellow Pages, discussion e-mail: [email protected] groups, and cools co build a personal home page.All services are free and access is password-protected. Register using your USD identification number printed above your name on the USD Magazine mailing label , or call the Office of Alumni Relations at (619) 260-4819 for your ID number.

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From the Mean Streets to a Life with Meaning School ofEducation senior Andre Bryant was selected from more than 62, 000 applicants as a 2000 Gates Millennium Scholar, a $1 billion program funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda. Bryant, who maintains a 3. 68 grade point average, was among the 4, 000 inaugural recipients. The awards are given to high­ achieving minority students with severe financial need. Bryant's scholarship will pay for his master's and doctorate degrees. He told his story in March at a Gates Millennium Scholar leadership seminar in Los Angeles.

ow I came to be a Gares Millennium Scholar is like a H Cinderella story, so I guess I'll start at the beginning. I am a native San Diegan born on Dec. 15, 1962. In my early years I was a happy child and did very well in school. My parents said if I got remedial course work. I eventually declared a major in education. It straight A's on my report card I could get anything I wanted. One was not until a year lacer chat I realized I was fulfilling the promise I year it was a puppy, the next $100, and in the third grade, a mini­ made to my grandmother. bike. My grandmother was very proud of me. She always thought I graduated SDCC with honors and won an academic scholarship chat I was special - so much so chat she made me promise chat one to the University of San Diego. I could not believe I went from day I would go to college and study to become a teacher. being a crack addict in the streets to a student at a highly acclaimed What I thought was ever-present bliss came to a screeching hale private institution of higher education. The classes were tougher when I was molested by a "friend of the family." I kept chat painful than anything I had faced before, but I just knew I had it in me to secret from everybody I knew and became woefully shy. I began to work that much harder and excel. I am now a senior at USD in my feel self-hatred because I did nor feel chat I was beautiful like the rest credential year in the School of Education. of my family. Last year, my adviser and counselor, Professor Steven Gelb, nomi­ I acted out all my frustrations in high school by being the class nated me for the Bill Gares Millennium Scholarship. And I won. Ac clown and never paying attention. I thought it made me cool to chat moment my life changed considerably. Noc only does the schol­ smarc-mouch the teachers and get in trouble. I finally sought escape arship pay for all my tuition and fees, it also covers my living expenses. through drugs and alcohol. I managed to graduate high school and The gift of the program is char Mr. and Mrs. Gates wilt continue to landed a job at General Dynamics with che assistance of my father. I give me aid until I gee my doctorate in education. Now I can dream lasted there for 3 1/2 years and was terminated for drug-related reasons. bigger and do more. Some day I would like to become a principal. I A week after I lose my job I was introduced to crack cocaine and wane to reach because I love children and I feel char I have a very my life took a nosedive fast. Within six months I spent every penny special connection with chem. I had. I ruined my credit, drained my savings and lost my home and Bm che thing char truly resonates within my soul is working with new truck. Ac the ripe old age of 22, I was homeless on the streets of other alcoholics and helping them achieve so briety. To be part of downtown San Diego, afflicted with a raging drug addiction and a another person's enlightenment and awakening to "life on life's heavy drinking problem. The shame and guile I felt was nonstop and terms" is one of the most meaningful and soulful things I have ever overwhelming. Frankly, I often wished I was dead. experienced. I now have seven years of continuous so briety. My edu­ My life was a spiral to nowhere for the next eight years until finally, cation and my recovery are both gifts from God. I would like to with the help of God, I reached a bottom. While in the middle of thank my grandmother for the dream she instilled in me and special yet another drunken stupor, a voice said to me, "Andre, it is over. Ir's thanks to my mom and dad for standing by me even when times time to give these drugs away and go home!" That is exactly what I were bad. did. I showed up on my parents' doorstep and, forcunacely, they fed H av ing lived my adult life with barely any education ocher than me and took me in. I slept hard char night, and the next day we char which I lea rned on the mean streets, I now truly see how igno­ went to the hospital and I asked for help. The doctor suggested I go rant I was. In hindsight I know chat I was a self-centered, manipula­ to a 12-scep program. I took his advice. I have not taken a drink or a tive and angry man. My education has allowed me to become hum­ drug since March 10, 1994. ble. I am truly a different man and I continue to be a work in After a year of sobriety, I decided to go to college at the age of 32. progress. I am excited about what the future has in store for me. I took a placement test and discovered char I had the equivalent Other USD recipients ofthe scholarship are .fi'eshmen Diana Cornejo, "i ntelligence" of an eighth grader. Talk about humbling! My first Michelle Hashimoto and Maria Kammerzell; junior Gisela Salgado; three semesters at San Diego City College were filled entirely with and senior Stephanie Valdez.

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july Kids' Computer Camp Salute to Women's Athletics '}!J Day or overnight computer camps 19 Join President Alice B. Hayes, coaches Sports Camps are for children ages 8-1 7, from and fans for this si lent and live auc­ Directed by beginner to advanced levels. Topics tion, cocktail reception and dinner USD head include digital video and movie pro­ to raise funds for women's athletic coaches, duction, programming, robotics, programs. Tickets can be ordered by camps offer a multimedia, game creation, Web calling (6 19) 260-5917. full schedule design and graphic arts. Camps State of the University Address of instruction include swimming, chess, scavenger and Luncheon and drills in hunts and field trips to the beach. basketball, vol­ All day, through Aug. 17. For mi tion 20 The primary opportunity for the leyball, softball, and registration information, call business community to hear firsthand baseball, tennis, (888) 709-8324 or log on to fro m President Hayes, as well as a swimming, soccer, water polo, www. internaldrive.com. report on USD's impact on the triathlon and more. Call (800) 991- region's economy. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 1873, ext. 2, or log on to UC Forum. Reservations are required http://camps.sandiego.edu. and can be made by calling the Office of Corporate Relations, University Of The Third Age (6 19) 260-4690. 9-26 A three-week series of exercise an d Law Alumni Weekend seminars for persons 55 years and older. Guest lecturers will discuss 21-23 Find out what your former classmates business, the arts, medicine, politics, are up to at this event, which incl udes current affairs, religion and ethics. a reception for reunion classes, an all­ Field trips and arts events are includ­ alumni dinner Saturday and a Sunday ed. 8 a.m.-noon, Monday-Thursday. Mass. (6 19) 260-4692 for more For information or to register, contact information. Nicole Rooney at (619) 260-5986 or e-mail roo [email protected]. Regional Alumni Events LSAT Preparation Course LO S ANGELES AND IQ Planning on taking the October Law O RANGE CO UNTY School Admissions Test? This course assists with the skills Aug.18 and methods neces­ Los Angeles Dodgers vs. sary to tackle the New York Mets test and required Sept. 15 writing sam­ Hollywood Bowl ple. 6:30-9:45 p.m., Tuesdays Orchestra 200 I and Thursdays, Contact: Liam Dunfey, through Aug. ldunfey@sand iego.edu, 16. $895. Call or call (619) 260-4819. (6 19) 260-4579. september NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Researching International Markets Move-In Day Sept. 9 11 Discover val uable sources of interna­ tional business information to help I Time to unload, unpack and unwind Napa Valley Wine Tasti ng before the start of a new semester. locate and sell to foreign markets. Sept. 29 Class includes hands-on wo rk with Includes a student and parent Mass, San Francisco Giants vs. databases and Web sites. 6-9 p.m., as well as other events. Call (6 19) USD Computer Technology Center. 260-4808 for more information. San Diego Padres Continues July 18, 25 and Aug. I. Fall Classes Begin Contact: Kristin Boettger, $240. For information, call Bay Area alumni rep, Welcome back. (619) 260-5986 or log on to 6 Kristin.M.Boerrger@ www.sandiego.edu/cib. bankofamerica.com, or call (619) 260-4819.

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