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SUMMER 2001 volume 16 • no. 4 USO MAGAZINE 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) page 8 3 ALCALA ALMANAC 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.