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Recently a crane operator turned up the tooth of a woolly mammoth in San Francisco while digging holes for the supports for a new downtown transit center. Woolly mammoths were shaggy relatives of the Asian elephant that are thought to have made their way to this continent over the Bering Strait. They were likely

PUBLISHER done in 10,000 years ago by climate change, loss of habitat and human hunters, Michael Beseda ’79 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR although stragglers are thought to have survived on an Alaskan island until

EXECUTIVE EDITOR about 1700 BC. J. Elizabeth Smith (Note at right, a woolly mammoth tooth we photographed in SMC Professor

EDITOR Rebecca Jabbour’s office.) Jo Shroyer Our San Francisco woolly mammoth seems to have fallen somewhere between

ASSISTANT EDITOR Mission and Folsom Streets and is so buried in time that our understanding of his Teresa Castle life and death is pretty sketchy. But the discovery of his 10-inch-long tooth, found

CREATIVE DIRECTOR more than 100 feet deep in the sandy soil under the city, is a timely contextual Karen Kemp reminder as we celebrate the sesquicentennial of Saint Mary’s College:

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Beth Brann Every day we stand unawares upon many layers of history and millions of stories

CONTRIBUTORS that are, nonetheless, the very foundation for our world today. Chris Carter ‘97, MA ‘02 Katherine Ellison Brother President Ronald Gallagher noted during the Sesquicentennial Mass in Kathryn Geraghty Caitlin Graveson ‘11 September that it was humbling to think of all the people whose zeal, genius and Ronald Isetti faith have sustained Saint Mary’s for 150 years.“We stand proudly today on their Herman Lujan ‘58 shoulders,” he said. Dan Murphy ‘13 Ginny Prior In preparing to tell Saint Mary’s story during this landmark year, we’ve learned a lot about these hardy souls who simply refused to give up on a great idea: providing a life-changing Christian education for working-class kids who couldn’t afford the The Saint Mary’s College more expensive Jesuit schools in the area. It was a thoroughly American idea — of California experience inspires learning that lasts education for all — but also rooted in the ethos of the Christian Brothers, founded a lifetime. The College’s in France in 1680 to educate the children of the poor, in cheeky defiance of then rigorous education engages current practice. It’s no surprise that Archbishop Joseph Alemany, who doggedly intellect and spirit while awakening the desire to championed the founding of Saint Mary’s, recruited the Christian Brothers to run transform society. We are his school after it struggled to get a foothold in San Francisco. all learners here — together, Alemany worried about the temptations that the Barbary Coast presented for working to understand and shape the world. San Francisco’s young men. The 19th century Irish families living in the neighbor- For more information, see hood where our woolly mammoth tooth was found surely must have worried about stmarys-ca.edu. this, too. The excavation between Mission and Folsom also turned up numerous artifacts of their lives. Saint Mary’s magazine is Meanwhile, the excavation also uncovered a sizeable gold nugget, a symbol of published three times a year. Please send comments to 19th century events that turned the tide of California history and also played a role [email protected] in the founding of Saint Mary’s College. To fund his idea for a school, Archbishop or call (925) 631-4278. Alemany engaged a plucky young Irish priest, Father Croke, to go up into the Sierra Please submit name and address changes to to convince gold miners, many of them tender-hearted Irishmen, to share some of [email protected] the bounty they’d dug from the mountains. Father Croke came back with more than or write Saint Mary’s College, $30,000, some of it paid in gold dust. It wasn’t quite enough, but it seeded a plan for P.O. Box 4300, Moraga, CA 94575-4300. a school that has survived and thrived for 150 years. So, this year, we celebrate a significant anniversary of this remarkable college. We’ve named it the Year of the Gael, for everyone who has made this college pos- sible. As we excavate the past, we’ll share the big dreams and tales of derring do, and marvel at the close calls and David and Goliath moments that are part of our history. Of course, we’ll also look to the future, standing on the broad shoulders of people who had a really good idea.

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Politically Correct won’t hunt, so to speak. Only when students seriously wonder about the meaning of those Seminar Redesign? books and ask those great questions to (and Your summer issue contained an article of) announcing that the Great Books program themselves, can they truly appreciate has been “redesigned” after a “…reevalua- the value of the Great Books. I can only tion of the College’s educational goals...” The imagine how difficult it is for professors redesign makes the fashionable books of the to explore questions they don’t know the moment as important as the classics of the answers to alongside our undergrads, past. It also makes SMC less committed to instead of teaching them known answers the liberal arts, the Catholic Christian tradi- with authority. But, speaking for myself, tion and De La Salle himself. I can assure professors across the College Randy Andrada ’73 that when I witnessed my professors (my tutors) trying to understand, with great dif- Read the full letter and other commentary ficulty, the challenges those texts presented, on this topic at stmarys-ca.edu/saint- and the strangely familiar ideas those marys-magazine.edu. books represented, it completely inspired me as a student and gave me the courage to explore with them as a partner in our Thinking About and shared inquiry. As tutors, they helped me Rethinking Seminar see the apparent contradictions in those texts and excited that wonder in me that Thanks for publishing a great magazine and made me want to understand. That’s why I keeping all of us informed about the happen- greatly respect all of my professors from the ings around the College. I wish to provide Integral Program — greater than all of my feedback on the article on “New famous graduate school professors. Obvi- Seminar Approach Aims to Help Students Succeed” in the summer issue. ously what I describe is easier said than done. Getting back to the point It’s always good news to hear that the administration is thinking about of my letter, I hope the changes in Collegiate Seminar will support our (and rethinking) Collegiate Seminar. As a graduate of the Integral Program professors’ continued inspiration of our students by earnestly struggling my guess is that the only way for Seminar to truly succeed with the students alongside them with these insanely difficult, and inspiring, ideas and is by exciting wonder in them. We can try to sell students on the value of texts. developing critical thinking, debate and reading skills. But if students don’t Aaron Nelson value those things to begin with, then that sales pitch won’t work — that dog Integral Program ’95

OCTOBER universities will join him in a panel on Catholic Higher Education. yearofthegael.com/catholic-higher- 6 CONTINUES THROUGH DECEMBER 16 education.html. The Art of the Cross Wednesday to Sunday, 27 Italian Night 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Soda Center 6 – 9 p.m. Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art A Tuscany buffet and music by Gene Falcone, with The Art of the Cross presents works by Chagall, part of the proceeds benefiting the Guild Scholarship. Rouault, Buffet, Villon, Bernard, Charlot and Dali, RSVP by October 23 to Pat Wiegmann at among others. Also showing, Nyame Brown’s John [email protected] or (925) 376-6088. Henry’s Adventures in a Post-Black World, fantasy- 30 The Year of the Great(est) Conversation(s): style paintings of African-American folklore hero The Liberal Arts and the Common Good: John Henry. See more about these and other exhibits Educating Citizens in the 21st Century through December 9: stmarys-ca.edu/node/3422. Soda Center 24 The Year of the Great(est) Conversation(s): 7– 9 p.m. Catholic Higher Education Speakers Catharine Bond Hill, president of Vassar Soda Center College, and Carol Geary Schneider, president of the 7– 9 p.m. Association of American Colleges and Universities, will Bishop Marcelo Sanchez-Sorondo, chancellor of the address the future of the liberal arts’ commitment to

Robert Prescott, The Road of Life, n.d., altered Pontifical Academy of Sciences, will deliver a lecture. educating responsible, democratic citizens. Learn more road sign. At 3 p.m., presidents and leaders from local Catholic at yearofthegael.com/educating-citizens.html.

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FEBRUARY 25 The Year of the Great(est) Conversation(s): SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA Michael Sandel on the Liberal Arts and the Common Good — Justice and Citizenship Soda Center 7– 9 p.m. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His recent book “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” relates major questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of our time. His newest book, “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets,” was published in spring 2012. Learn more at yearofthegael.com/justice-citizenship.html.

2 36th Annual Saint Mary’s College SESQUICENTENNIAL Car Drawing Soda Center Steadauto.com presents the annual car drawing, held prior to the men’s basketball game vs. Portland. TREASURE ISLAND It’s your chance to win a new car and support

MICHELE ROSENTHAL Gael athletics.

4 Washington, D.C., Alumni Chapter America?” explores how power and politics operate in NOVEMBER Reception with the President the United States. Lecture and SMC faculty panel. 3 Sesquicentennial Gala U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Building One, Treasure Island 14 Global Economic Forum: Corporate Social 450 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20442 6:30 –11:30 p.m. Responsibility in a Global Context 6 – 8 p.m. The “Jewel of the Bay” on Treasure Island is Saint The Commonwealth Club of California Gather with fellow Gaels in Washington, D.C., for a Mary’s sesquicentennial black-tie event. A reception 595 Market Street, San Francisco reception with Brother President Ronald Gallagher. is followed by a tented dinner under the stars, then 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and hosted bar. $25 per person. dancing until 11:30 p.m. to the Dick Bright Orchestra. The role of business leadership and growth 22 Baseball “Meet the Players” Night All proceeds benefit Saint Mary’s student scholarships. stimulation in the wake of the Great Economic Soda Center Register online at yearofthegael.com/gala.html. Recession. Learn more at yearofthegael.com/ Come support the baseball program at the annual global-economic-forum.html. 8 Harvest Faire Boutique and Luncheon Meet the Players Dinner. Soda Center 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 28 Creative Writing Reading Series — RSVP to alumni events at stmarys-ca.edu/alumni-events The Saint Mary’s Guild Harvest Faire features a Linda Spalding Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings at noon Soda Center 7 p.m. and a sale of holiday and elegant items. $27; proceeds Spalding, the author of three novels, will read from LIVE SIMPLY, PRAY DEEPLY, TEACH PASSIONATELY benefit the Guild Scholarship. RSVP: Cyndie Harrison her most recent work, “Who Named the Knife,” a at (925) 820-8002 or [email protected]. memoir of crime and punishment.

8 CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER 18 Spring Awakening DECEMBER LeFevre Theatre 5 Creative Writing Reading Series — Nov. 8 –10 and Nov. 15 –17 at 7 p.m. Michael Palmer Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. Soda Center 7 p.m. Duncan Sheik and Steven Slater’s 2007 Tony Award- Poet and translator Michael Palmer, recipient of the winning hit is this generation’s Rent, about the Arts and Letters Prize in Literature from the American treacherous path to adulthood. Performance times Academy of Arts and Letters, will read from his work. and tickets stmarys-ca.edu/performingarts. 5 The Voice of Broadway For information about the Brothers’ vocation and Lasallian volunteers, please visit: 12 Power, Politics and Social Change: Soda Center 12:45 p.m. A Conversation with G. William Domhoff (Also Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m.) BROTHERSVOCATION.ORG or LASALLIANVOLUNTEERS.ORG Soda Center 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Student vocalists, under the direction of Donna Olson, UC Santa Cruz researcher, professor of psychology and sing show-tunes ranging from the romantic and DE LA SALLE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS sociology, and author of the classic text, “Who Rules poignant to the sharp and sassy. Free.

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New Students Get brings the College’s A Sesquicentennial total enrollment to 2,863 students — an Welcome all-time high. The The annual action- academic profile packed Weekend also strengthened to of Welcome gave a record levels, with 114 host of new Gaels first-year students and their first taste of the 40 transfer students Saint Mary’s experi- enrolling with honors ence. Whether it was at entrance. The enter- organizing their dorm ing class’s average room, meeting their GPA rose to 3.58. neighbors, painting Improvements the new “SMC 150!” were also seen in sign or participating ethnic diversity, as in Saturday of Service, enrollment of African the new undergraduate Americans jumped students jumped into from 4.8 percent to SMC with gusto. 6.4 percent, and The entering Latinos from 25.8 per- class of 826 students cent to 27 percent.

Saint Mary’s Sees Big Jump in International Students

aint Mary’s has a little more international flair this year. In fact, the College begins a new academic year with double the number of international students from a Syear ago — representing no less than 10 countries. The Class of 2016 boasts 23 international students – up from 11 last year. The number of students from U.S. territories has also grown sig- nificantly, quadrupling from three to 12. Susie Miller Reid, the director of the Center

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Alumni Writers Merge Art and Sport in Poetry Reading

BY TERESA CASTLE

he contemplative world of poetry and the frenetic world of basketball seem like an unlikely pairing, but they came together with surprising ease recently at a special sesquicentennial reading at Saint Mary’s Col- Tlege by two renowned alumni — former Poet Laureate Robert Hass ’63 and basketball star turned teacher and writer Tom Meschery ’61. In his introduction to the reading, Chris Sindt, vice pro- vost for graduate and professional studies, said the poetry of Hass “reminds us both of the vital purpose writing and litera- ture play in our culture and also that the work of poetry can be fun, natural, even routine. He has famously said that ‘poetry is a way of living…a human activity like baking bread or play- ing basketball.’” Poetry and basketball came together quite literally in Saint Mary’s Recognized Meschery’s life. A Russian immigrant, he was a hoops star and scholar at Saint Mary’s and went on to play in the NBA as Transformative Institution with the Warriors and the Seattle Supersonics. After leaving the world of professional basketball, he devoted himself to Saint Mary’s education is a life-changing experience. We know it, and now the teaching and writing. He recently published his third book of world knows it, too. SMC has been chosen as one of only 40 U.S. institutions poetry, “Some Men.” in the 2013 edition of “Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Sindt aptly described Meschery’s poetry as “deeply engag- Change the Way You Think About Colleges.” ing and empathetic.” Among the works Meschery read were ASaint Mary’s is the only Catholic college — and the only California college — in the “Hakeem Olajuwon, AKA Hakeem The Dream,” a poem he history of the 40-school compilation, which was originally created by former New York wrote while in West Africa, and “Continuation School,” a Times education editor Loren Pope to highlight exemplary liberal arts colleges that break funny and touching piece about his experience as a teacher. the traditional Ivy League mold. It is widely recognized for identifying colleges that offer Hass is one of the preeminent poets in the nation. Aside life-transforming educational experiences. from serving as poet laureate of the United States, he won the The book, published by Penguin, gives special recognition to Saint Mary’s for its 2007 National Book Award and the Tom Meschery (left) Lasallian tradition, the rich diversity of its student population, the educational impact of 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry col- and Robert Hass the Collegiate Seminar program and January Term, and the strength of its faculty. lection, “Time and Materials: Poems (right) engaged in a It also praises the students’ “love for their community” and “fierce sense of school 1997– 2005.” He recently published lively post-reading discussion moderated spirit” and the College’s commitment to the guiding Lasallian principle of “Enter to “What Light Can Do: Essays on by Vice Provost Learn, Leave to Serve,” which the guidebook describes as an “important principle to Art, Imagination, and the Natural Chris Sindt. twenty-first century students and alumni — and to American culture.” “As we mark our sesquicentennial anniversary, the recognition by “Colleges That Change Lives” is timely high praise,” said SMC President Brother Ronald Gallagher. “It underscores our longstanding commitment to an academic experience that is student- centered, provides opportunities for a student’s personal growth and creates a firm foun- dation for success after graduation.” Saint Mary’s has also been invited to join Colleges That Change Lives, Inc. (CTCL), a nonprofit academic initiative dedicated to the advancement and support of a student- centered college admission process. Vice Provost for Enrollment Michael Beseda said that “membership in the CTCL group will introduce SMC to thousands of highly qualified students across the country and globe and will substantially strengthen our academic reputation among edu-

cational leaders.” MAX CROWELL ‘13

6 FALL 2012 World.” He is also the co-founder, with Pamela Michael, of River of Words, a program of SMC’s Center for Environmental Literacy. The New York Times has described Hass as a writer who “is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure.” No doubt many in the audience would disagree with the adjective “almost.” He began with an evocative and hilarious reading about his heady days as an undergraduate at Saint Mary’s, and segued into a story about a memorable college soiree where Meschery was seen hanging out of an upper-floor window in Dante Hall reciting verses from 19th-century symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud’s “Le Bateau Ivre” (“The Drunken Boat”). Hass then delivered a captivating reading of three new poems-in-progress: “Nature Notes,” “Sprezzatura” and a tour de force touching on poetry, symbolism, philosophy, armpits and art entitled “An Argument About Poetics.” Like much of his work, the poems ranged from starkly beautiful works “grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world,” as one reviewer put it, to complex poems that illuminate history, politics, ideology and all things human. Throughout the evening, the respect the two men felt for each other was evident, and it was summed up in a poem Mesch- ery read that had, in fact, been inspired by one of Hass’s poems. It’s called, appropriately, “A Reading with Robert Hass” and begins with a quote from Hass’s poem, “Dragonflies Mating.”

A Reading with Robert Hass

BY TOM MESCHERY

“…and I’d bounce the ball two or three times, study the orange rim as if it were, which it was, the true level of the world, the one sure thing.” – ROBERT HASS FROM SUN UNDER WOOD

The writer of these lines thing, the rest of me, mind, should have been me, but soul, whatever, would follow. wasn’t. For years I envied I wondered back then, and the writer understanding still do, how a poet came to something I knew from expe- this understanding without rience, but could not put into the years it took me shooting words, my love of basketball, the ball a thousand times a how it has, from the begin- day, how a poet got it right ning into old age, kept me from a childhood memory safe. Because I was certain of standing on the line? that if my body did the right NASA ARCADE

shattering change right away, and the point isn’t to look for the biggest Alumni Fellowship Introduces and brightest idea; it is to love wholly and completely. It is to welcome the stranger, visit the imprisoned, offer food for the hungry. Doing everyday Student to a Whole New activities with the utmost recognition of a person’s humanity is the greatest gift we can give each other. We are all human, and transcending that, as a World in Alaska believer, we are all created in the image of the divine. … This is the idea that Mother Teresa hit on; every act we do must be done Saint Mary’s education can take you a long way – like to in love of our neighbor. The selflessness of this act is what is so amazing: Alaska. That’s where SMC senior Julie Cozzetto spent eight There is nothing to gain from caring for the sick or injured — it is done only weeks during the annual Alumni Summer Fellowship, which because we care about our fellow human beings. is coordinated by CILSA and supported by alumni donations. This element of love and compassion is what I have been witness to here ACozzetto served at Daybreak, Inc., a nonprofit in Palmer, Alaska, that in Alaska. I have seen this in the clients that have opened up to me, trusting helps mentally disabled adults by creating treatment plans and advocating me, and sharing their stories and lives with me. The people that have opened for them with public service agencies and the courts. When she wasn’t shad- their homes and hearts to me, asking questions, offering stories, laughter, owing case managers and working one-on-one with clients, she took time to joy, and yes, food, have shown me the action of love by treating me like experience the wild, natural side of Alaska and write about her experience. family. The case managers and employees of Daybreak have embodied this In this excerpt from her blog, she shares a little of what she learned. idea of love in the truest way. They are true advocates for the voiceless and marginalized. … The True Meaning of Hospitality It is in the small acts — a weekly phone call, driving them to a therapy “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with session, or working with them to maneuver the system — but when done great love.” – Blessed Mother Teresa with love, that the clients find in their case managers an ear to listen, a shoulder to lean on, and a voice to offer advice and encouragement. By act- Coming up here was scary — I was alone and lacked the support I am so ing through love, the small act becomes that much greater. used to having at home or school. What I have learned about people up This is what I am bringing back from Alaska. I have a greater sense of here is that everyone treats you like family. They offer a roof over your what it means to open your arms and your heart to someone and welcome head, a warm bed to sleep in and food in your stomach. … them. Mother Teresa said it best: No matter what we are doing in life, the It is so beyond basic hospitality that these people have welcomed me with. action becomes that much greater when it is done with love. And as I considered these situations and people, I realized Cozzetto that what I was going to bring back is not a concrete lesson or on McHugh package, it’s an idea — an idea of finding love in each other. Peak, near Anchorage, Mother Teresa’s quote above is one that I believe Thank you, Alaska, you have taught me well! Alaska. embodies this idea. We are not going to cause earth- Lessons learned in Alaska: of grace — something that the Hiking by yourself can be case managers have an excess a therapeutic endeavor, but you of. They’re able to work with need to know the trail and have clients who need the most help the right precautions (hello, without being condescending. bear bell!). Alaska has taught me to The views are always worth be thankful — for my personal the hike, and the longer and blessings in life, physically, harder the hike, the better the mentally, socially and emotion- view, usually. ally — for the world I get to All people do not have equal explore, the trails, oceans, and opportunity and therefore are valleys — for others and the unable to “pull themselves up impact they can play in my life, by their bootstraps.” Some- teaching lessons and giving times they don’t even have their personal gifts. boots, and because of this, they I was reminded of the beauty require assistance from their of humanity and nature and fellow human beings. the importance of living a life Working with clients that reflects that beauty as requires patience and a touch best I can. TYLER HARTH TYLER

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Myrna Santiago: book called “Changes in the Land: Indians, Colo- She delights in sharing her expertise on nists and the Ecology of New England,” by envi- environmental and social justice with her stu- A Pioneer in ronmental historian William Cronon. The book dents, through classes exploring the tumultuous described how the transition from Native Ameri- histories of Mexico, Cuba, Central America and Environmental can to European dominance affected the early Andes nations. Alicia Villanueva, who graduated American environment. Santiago was hooked. last year, took six of Santiago’s classes, includ- History “It was like, ‘Oh my God, this stuff is amaz- ing one on the Latin American drug trade and ing,’ ” she says. “I hadn’t known environmental another on women’s roles in Latin American his- n 1985, politically progressive North Ameri- history existed before that. I totally fell in love tory. She said Santiago’s approach was “down- cans were flocking to Managua, Nicaragua, with that book.” to-earth yet challenging. She makes you feel to support the leftist Sandinista govern- The love endured, and today Santiago herself comfortable to express your opinion, challenges ment. Just six years earlier, a revolution had is a pioneering environmental historian. Her 2006 you to think outside of conventional thought and Itoppled the corrupt, U.S.-backed dictatorship of book, “The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, to make connections.” Anastasio Somoza. and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938,” exam- Santiago has taught January Term travel Myrna Santiago — then newly graduated ined the impact of the U.S. and British-dominated courses in Cuba, China and Colombia. In Janu- from Princeton — joined other foreign volunteers oil industry on the land and people of the Mexi- ary, she plans to accompany a group of students trying to help remake the country. For the next can State of Veracruz. Published by Cambridge to Cuba to study the island’s experiments with four years, she lived in Managua, working for the University Press, it won the Latin American Stud- organic farming and other land-use decisions. country’s human rights commission as it inves- ies Association Bryce Wood Book Award. Andrew Aguilar, another student who graduated tigated reports of attacks on civilians by right- Santiago’s research helps demonstrate that last year, describes the visit to Colombia as the wing contra rebels. The experience environmentalism isn’t a middle-class “trip of a lifetime.” deepened Santiago’s commitment to FACULTY luxury, as it has sometimes been por- Santiago was determined to show her stu- social justice while awakening her to PROFILE trayed in the United States, says her dents a different reality from Colombia’s noto- a new set of human rights concerns friend and colleague Angus Wright, rious image as the hemisphere’s main source of related to the environment — a major concern of professor emeritus of environmental studies at cocaine. Students spent one night sleeping in the young government. CSU Sacramento. hammocks with an indigenous matrilineal com- “I was 25 years old then and so were the Her concern for the oppressed comes natu- munity, met the famous Colombian musician Nicaraguans running the country,” she recalls. rally. Growing up in Tijuana, she watched her Andres “Turco” Gil, who runs a school to teach “It was awesome to witness young people like me mother struggle to find work as a seamstress local children vallenato music, and visited an being so serious about making a difference for all after Santiago’s father abandoned them. Once organic farm. Aguilar, now in his first year as a of Earth’s creatures.” Santiago finished the sixth grade, her mother Teach for America corps member, says Santiago Nicaragua had more than its share of envi- resettled the family in central Los Angeles, where helped him grow as a student and an activist, and ronmental blights, legacies of Somoza’s leniency she found jobs in sweatshops. She told Santiago also advised him on his career. “Myrna has some- toward businesses. Santiago remembers living and her younger brother that she couldn’t have thing to do with everything I do,” he added. downwind from the Exxon chemical plant in afforded to keep them in school in Mexico, where Colleagues praise Santiago for her excep- Managua. “The plant released who knows what public school is theoretically free, but where fam- tional dedication to her students. At least three chemicals on a regular basis and when they did, ilies must pay for expensive uniforms and books. times a year, she includes several students on the the whole neighborhood became saturated with “My mother made it very clear to me and my guest lists for large parties she hosts at her home an acrid smell that used to give me headaches,” brother that the only reason we were moving was for friends working in social justice fields. “They she says. “There went another brain cell on the for us to go to school,” says Santiago. “She valued get to meet people working in public health, labor path to early Alzheimer’s!” education because she hardly had any — she only and community organizing — rabble-rousers of The Sandinistas welcomed their foreign made it through sixth grade herself.” all kinds who are old and have fun,” she says. visitors’ new ideas about cleaning up Nicaragua’s Santiago proved to be such a good student She makes sure to stress the fun part. “Stu- water and air, including organic farming and the that two of her teachers encouraged her to get dents often tell me that my class in environmen- installation of wind turbines for energy. Santiago a scholarship to Phillips Academy in Massachu- tal history is depressing,” she says. “People fight still keeps a postcard from those years. Beneath setts, one of the nation’s most prestigious board- and fight and lose. But that’s not the lesson I want pictures of volcanoes, jaguars, fish and sea turtles ing schools. She excelled at the school, and from them to learn. It’s more that people fight and is the motto: “The revolution is also for lakes, riv- there, she went on to Princeton. lose and then get up again. The story of Latin ers, trees, and animals.” At Saint Mary’s, where she has taught since America’s poor in many ways is less like Humpty In 1989, however, the Sandinistas lost power 1998, Santiago has stayed true to the commit- Dumpty than those inflatable dolls that you can’t in free elections, leaving Santiago without a job. ment to service that first took her to Nicaragua. knock down, because they keep coming back.” Returning to the United States, she enrolled in In addition to her position as chair of the his- – KATHERINE ELLISON graduate school at UC Berkeley, where she earned tory department, she is a board member and a master’s and doctoral degree. Initially, she had former director of the Women and Gender Studies Writer Katherine Ellison received the Pulitzer Prize

TOBY BURDITT TOBY planned to focus on Mexican diplomatic history but Program and an advisor for La Hermandad, for her reporting on the Philippines.

STMARYS-CA.EDU 11 12 THOUSANDS ATTEND. FALL 2012 FALL GAELEBRATION MATT BEARDSLEY, ANDREW NGUYEN ‘15, JO SHROYER

On a brilliant early fall day, It began with a proclamation with puffy clouds rolling read by Russell Harrison, through a clear blue sky, chair of the board of trust- Saint Mary’s showed its stuff ees, followed by a flyover by at Gaelebration, an academic a WWII-era biplane. Some open house with a large dose 5,000 attendees came to learn of carnival and music festi- more about Saint Mary’s, val thrown in. The October 6 relive fond memories or just event was the first big party enjoy the friendly SMC vibe. of the sesquicentennial year. READ MORE AT yearofthegael.com/ gaelebration

STMARYS-CA.EDU 13 Why Not Dream Saint Mary’s story is in many Big? ways the story of California — a timeline entwined with the lives of brave, visionary souls, determined to build something worthwhile on the rim of what was still a decidedly rowdy, untamed place. Archbishop Joseph Alemany established a school in San Francscio that has survived for 150 years, against the extreme odds that closed scores of other such colleges. He, like the many others who have believed in the enduring mission of Saint Mary’s, faced the obvious challenges and said, “Why not?”

1861–65 Civil War 1863 Reverend John Harrington; Reverend Peter Joseph Grey (A Timeline of our Presidents) 1879 Brother Bettelin McMahon 1868 Brother U. Justin McMahon 1853 Joseph Alemany 1862 Construction begins becomes first Archbishop on 60-acre campus south of San Francisco and soon of San Francisco decides to build a more practical and affordable 1863 Campus dedicated; college 210 students begin classes at height of 1859 Father James Croke the Civil War raises funds in Gold Country, asking gold 1867 Archbishop Alemany miners, like the one travels to Rome to ask pictured right, to donate Pope Pius IX to send and help to build Saint Christian Brothers to Mary’s run Saint Mary’s

14 FALL 2012 BOYS FISHING AND GOLD MINER COURTESY OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

1879 Brother Bettelin McMahon 1891 Brother Cianan Griffin 1892 Brother Yvasian Michael Dorgan 1868 Nine Brothers 1872 First BA and BS 1887 Campus moves 1894 Brother Erminold Walter O’Donnell arrive from New York to degrees awarded; first to Oakland “Brickpile”; find a school with low athletic team established contributors include 1895 Brother Walter O’Melia enrollment and high debt — Phoenix baseball former slave Mary Pleasant, mother of California’s civil rights movement

1894 First fire at the Brother Adrian Denys “Old Brickpile” returned to New York soon after arriving. 1896 The Little Big Game — first against Santa Clara University

STMARYS-CA.EDU 15 ASK BIG QUESTIONS In the early 1940s philosophy professor James Hagerty championed a radical change in Saint Mary’s core curriculum — the introduction of “The Great Books of the World.” He and others led a movement on the West Coast to transform higher education from vocational preparation to a focus on liberal arts, the great texts and important ideas. At the same time, Academic Seminar brought the great literature of western civilization to the round table for shared inquiry, where students, with faculty as peers, asked big questions: What is goodness? What is death? Does evil have to exist? 1906 San Francisco earthquake 1914 –1918 World War I 1900 Brother Erminold Walter O’Donnell 1910 Brother Florinus Peter Doyle 1914 Brother Vellesian Mallon 1902 Brother Zenonian Brannan 1911 Brother Fabrician Pellerin 1904 Brother Vellesian Mallon

1907 The Phoenix baseball team is undefeated; player Harry Hooper goes on to play for the Boston Red Sox and win four World Series 1918 With WW I Corps (SATC) is added championships Oakland campus becomes and 200 students join a U.S. Army camp; the Army; second fire at Students’ Army Training Oakland campus

16 FALL 2012 Why Not? 1914 –1918 World War I 1929 Stock Market Crash 1914 Brother Vellesian Mallon 1917 Brother Gregory Mallon 1922 Brother Vantasian Sharkey 1927 Brother U. Lewis Treacy 1923 Brother Gregory Mallon 1927 SMC is offered 1928 Moraga campus 1929 Madigan Gym is 100 acres of free land dedicated before built; Chapel is dedicated in Moraga and breaks a crowd of 10,000 ground for new campus

1927 Slip Madigan moves Galloping Gaels home games to 1921 Brother Gregory 1926 Local sports writer Sundays at the 60,000- Mallon hires Edward dubs the largely Irish seat Kezar Stadium in Patrick “Slip” Madigan football team the Golden Gate Park as the College’s new Galloping Gaels football coach AP PHOTO/SJV BUILD AND SERVE Saint Mary’s tradition of service is built upon Catholic social justice and the pioneering work of John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Why Christian Brothers, who insisted on education for all, regardless of their ability to pay. From its beginnings, educating the sons of early California’s working class, to engaging in the California labor movement, to guiding student groups to serve the needy here and abroad, Saint Mary’s has cultivated a distinctive approach to doing good — engaging critical social issues through intellect, spirituality and action. The College today is a powerhouse of community service, with students logging more than Not? 40,000 hours a year in service to others while integrating their experiences into their academics.

(Jack Henning ‘38, center, was a longtime California labor activist.) 1939 –1945 World War II 1930 Brother Z. Leo Meehan (chancellor) 1935 Brother Albert Rahill 1941 Brother Austin Crowley 1932 Brother Jasper Fitzsimmons 1930 First annual Gaels’ 1936 The Cross of Victory, transcontinental train or “La Cruz de la Victoria,” trip to play Fordham is placed on the hillside University, which they defeated 20 – 12, shocking 1937 The Golden Gate and the nation and winning Bay Bridges and Caldecott an invitation to the Tunnel make SMC more White House; San accessible to Bay Area Francisco throws a ticker day students tape parade 1941 Introduction of the Great Books program and the first Seminar

18 FALL 2012 GET WITH THE TIMES Faithful to the pragmatic, Why compassionate spirit of Saint John Baptist de La Salle’s innovative educational philosophy, Saint Mary’s has adapted to the times and necessity to meet the students where they are, serve community and national needs and also assure the school’s survival. During both World wars, when enrollment dwindled, the College became a training facility for American service personnel. In 1970 Saint Mary’s admitted women, with a resulting boost in enrollment and resources; also in the 1970s, the College established the High Potential Program to Not? meet the needs of first generation college students, plus programs in business, education and leadership to meet the needs of working adults. 1939 –1945 World War II 1950 –1953 Korean War 1941 Brother Austin Crowley 1950 Brother W. Thomas Levi 1956 Brother S. Albert Plotz

1942 SMC becomes 1956 Integral Program one of four U.S. Navy is established pre-flight training facilities during WW II, bringing 1959 Students stuff a vastly improved campus phone booth and land infrastructure. Future on the cover of Life President Gerald Ford Magazine teaches and coaches 1959 Men’s basketball football from 1944 – 45 advances to Elite Eight, 1945 With end of World led by Tom Meschery, War II, returning veterans LaRoy Doss and Joe Barry and GI Bill increase enrollment

STMARYS-CA.EDU 19 STAND UP TO GIANTS Beginning with baseball in the late 19th century, Saint Mary’s has beaten the odds and faced up to giants — defeating professional and university sports powerhouses. Members of the 1897 Phoenix baseball team defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Philadelphia, while the 1912 team trounced the Boston Red Sox. More than 60 SMC baseball players, including Hall of Famer Harry Hooper, have gone on to play in the major leagues. Meanwhile, the legendary Edward “Slip” Madigan revived a foundering 1921 football team, and the next year, it defeated Fordham in a win that shocked the nation. Madigan established the flashy bravado that characterized Gael football for years. Today Saint Mary’s fields 16 Division I teams in the West Coast Conference, winning five WCC championships in the past five years, and has 14 club teams, with rugby, ranked second in the nation, beating No. 1 ranked Cal last year.

1962 –1973 Vietnam War 1962 Brother Michael Quinn 1969 Brother Mel Anderson

1970 SMC admits women established 1977 Hearst Art Gallery dedicated 1971 First women baccalaureates 1978 McKeon graduate from Pavilion dedicated; Saint Mary’s Joint Nursing Program with 1973 High Potential Samuel Merritt Program begins College established 1968 SMC letters 1970 First cemented on hillside January Term 1975 School of Extended begins Education and Executive MBA Programs

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1969 Brother Mel Anderson Not?1997 Brother Craig Franz 2005 Brother Ronald Gallagher 1979 Brother Cornelius 1999 Women’s basketball 2010 Saint Mary’s hosts men’s basketball in 2011 Saint Mary’s College Art Center dedicated advances to NCAA Barbara Boxer-Carly NCAA Tournament Museum of Art debuts Tournament Fiorina U.S. senatorial Sweet Sixteen 1989 National candidates’ debate; 2012 Saint Mary’s Endowment for the 2007 Honors Program included in prestigious Humanities lauds Great established “Colleges That Books Program Change Lives”

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STMARYS-CA.EDU 21 Saint Mary’s College was created in 1863 by Archbishop Joseph Alemany (left); from its birthplace in San Francisco, the College moved first to Oakland RISING FROM RISING ASHES THE THE PHOENIX in 1889 and then to Moraga in 1928.

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BY TERESA CASTLE AND Looking at the campus of Saint Mary’s College today, with its peaceful green KATHRYN GERAGHTY vistas and graceful architecture, it’s hard to imagine that this idyllic scene could hide a tumultuous history brimming with near-escapes from financial ruin and natural disaster. But this is the hidden story of Saint Mary’s — a tale conjured up by visionar- ies, dreamers and risk-takers, often decked out in clerical garb.

STMARYS-CA.EDU 23 “We’re standing on some pretty broad shoulders Christian Brothers college with 34 students and two professors. when we look at our history,” says current presi- to the Rescue Within four months, under the leadership dent Brother Ronald Gallagher. To save the fledglingof another charismatic and energetic vision- The College began as a gleam in the eye of school — and his dream of ary, Brother Justin McMahon, they had raised one such visionary, Archbishop Joseph Alemany, education for the mass- enrollment to 80, and a year later to 225. Soon, who had been dispatched to the wild West by es — Alemany sought the help Saint Mary’s was the largest institute of higher Pope Pius IX with the words: “You must go to of the Christian Brothers. In education in the state. California. Others go there to seek gold; you go fact, for more than a decade But it was still saddled in debt, a predica- there to carry the Cross.” When he arrived in he had begged their superior ment that came to a head in the Crisis of 1879, San Francisco in 1853, he took over an archdio- 1863 in Europe to send some Broth- when Archbishop Alemany, who had been prop- cese that stretched from the vice-ridden Barbary ers; he finally succeeded only ping up the College financially, delivered an Coast to the bawdy Gold Rush towns of the after a bold and arduous jour- ultimatum: The Brothers would have to pay Sierra and beyond, to Nevada and Utah. ney to Rome to plead his case to the pope himself. $75,000 to buy the College outright or $25,000 Clearly, there was a need for religious “Alemany’s vision of a Saint Mary’s College with interest to lease it. instruction, and Alemany set out to provide it. open to the less affluent reflected a nineteenth- “I am too embarrassed and oppressed In the early 1850s, he helped to found Santa century preoccupation, reaching back to the by debts,” Alemany wrote plaintively to the Clara College and Saint Ignatius College, which Jacksonian era, with democratizing American Brothers. “Their load is too heavy for me to later became the University of San Francisco. higher education, once largely the exclusive carry.” He even hinted at eviction if they did But he soon grew disenchanted with the two preserve of the wealthy upper classes,” says not comply. Jesuit schools, especially with their high tuition Isetti. “It was also very much in the Lasallian Brother Justin scrambled to come up with a and rather elitist “classical curriculum.” spirit, set out by the founder of the Christian plan to buy the College, but the order’s superiors “I invited the Fathers here years ago for Brothers, Saint John Baptist de La Salle, when he in Paris refused to go along. Just as the Brothers establishing a college, but they have not come challenged the elitist ideas of the day and began resigned themselves to the death of Saint Mary’s, up to expectations,” he wrote. What Alemany establishing schools for poor children in France Alemany capitulated, reducing his demands to wanted was a new kind of college — a college in 1679.” annual rent which was set at $1,000 a year. The for the masses — where students would pay just So it was that on July 16, 1868, nine Chris- school’s second crisis was over, but Saint Mary’s $150 a year rather than the exorbitant $400 tian Brothers left New York on the Ocean roller-coaster history was just beginning. Santa Clara charged. Queen, crossed the On July 9, 1863, in the heady afterglow of Isthmus of Panama, the California Gold Rush and in the midst of the boarded the Pacific Civil War, this bold, new experiment opened its Mail sidewheeler, and doors in San Francisco and was christened Saint steamed up the coast Mary’s College. of Alta California, To raise funds for the College, Alemany had arriving in San Fran- sent a young Irish priest named Father James cisco on August 10. Croke on a two-year barnstorming campaign On the follow- through California. Miners, ranchers, farmers ing Sunday, Alemany and merchants alike contributed cash — and told his congrega- even gold dust — amounting to $37,166.50, a tion at Saint Mary’s princely sum at the time. Cathedral, “I made Unfortunately, it cost more than $150,000 a journey of twenty to build the College. To complete the project, thousand miles to get Alemany was forced to take out huge loans — a the Brothers. I have at move that would soon force the College to the last succeeded. Let us brink of bankruptcy. On top of that, the cut-rate give thanks to God!” tuition proved far too low, and qualified teach- When the Brothers ers were nowhere to be found. arrived they found a By 1868, just five years after its founding, “Saint Mary’s College had reached the point of no return,” writes Professor Emeritus of The original Saint History Ronald Isetti, who is writing a book Mary’s campus, shown in this 1875 photo, was about Saint Mary’s, adding that “only a reli- a windswept place gious order of teachers could hope to bring with its own livestock some order out of the chaos and set the institu- pen on the outskirts of San Francisco, far from tion, at long last, on a solid academic and finan- the temptations of the cial footing.” Barbary Coast.

24 FALL 2012 after the 1918 conflagration and told them: them: toldand 1918 the conflagration after students the gathered Mallon Gregory Brother $50,000. toonly increased been had insurance fire college’s the Incredibly, damage. in $250,000 caused fire devastating 1918, amore in that, after years 12 And 1906. of Earthquake Francisco San great the during age dam in $20,000 Twelve it suffered later, years $350,000. worth on a building insurance fire in $20,500 outonly taken had Bettelin Brother short-sighted the that discovered later it was and building, the of most gutted 1894 afire In cious. Brickpile.” “The appropriately, as quite butalso affectionately somewhat known, became The Oakland Tribune reported that that reported Tribune Oakland The auspi be not would move toOakland The 1889 Trouble at at Trouble August 11, 1889,August soon and on Oakland in Broadway on opened campus new The Pacific.” “Athens of the the as touted was which Oakland, tosunny location Francisco San blustery and cold its from Mary’s tomove Saint decided McMahon, Bettelin Brother successor, Justin’s Brother “The Brickpile”

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But when he brought the Brothers to the The college created by site by train, what they found was “a veritable Brother Joseph Fenlon (inset) was much like swamp,” Isetti says. Several of the dismayed the beautiful campus Brothers refused to even leave the rail car to we know today, with inspect the property, and the College president the chapel flanked by Dante and Galileo halls took the first train car back to Oakland. and Augustine, De La Salle and Aquinas The Move to Moraga Halls in the foreground. Despite strong opposition, Brother Joseph prevailed, and the campus, with its distinc- academic city, a cathe- tive Spanish Renaissance- dral campus of Euro- California Mission style of pean civilization in the architecture chosen by Brother Moraga Valley.” Joseph, rose in the Moraga Val- ley — but at a cost of $2 million. Saint Mary’s Sold 1928 By the time it opened on August for a Pittance 5, 1928, the District had taken But trouble was brew- on $1.37 million in debt. ing beneath this glis- “Brother Joseph’s plan to build the new tening surface. The school without going into debt proved to be a stock market crashed pipe dream,” Isetti says. “The thread that links in 1929, and the the history of Saint Mary’s College in San Fran- nation’s economy and cisco, Oakland, and…Moraga is that the school, social fabric were torn no matter its location, was always burdened with apart by the Great a heavy mortgage, at least until recent decades.” Depression. Colleges In its new location, Saint Mary’s flourished. all across America were closing their doors. From Mitty visited the campus in 1938 to celebrate its The renowned orator Brother Leo Meehan took 1931 to 1937, Saint Mary’s enrollment was cut in diamond jubilee, the “bells of St. Mary’s rang over as chancellor and shaped the College, which half, from 691 to 343 students. loud and clear” once more. had moved toward technical and professional Finally, in the summer of 1937, when the Col- Never again would Saint Mary’s come so education, into a classical liberal arts mold, even lege could no longer hold the debt collectors from its close to extinction, but there were still a few more naming the buildings on either side of the Chapel door, the unthinkable happened: Saint Mary’s was brushes with death in its future. for Dante and Galileo. Soon, the College was rec- sold at auction. (See “Black Friday.”) It looked as if ognized as one of the most distinguished Catholic the College had finally reached the end of the line. The Navy to the Rescue liberal arts schools in the West. But just before the new school year was When the United States entered World War II after The noted California historian Kevin Starr to begin, Archbishop John J. Mitty “marched into the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it wrote, “Brother Leo dreamed of fashioning St. the bondholders’ office” and bought back the Col- looked like the final nail in the coffin for the school, Mary’s College into, as he put it, a white-walled lege, along with Saint Mary’s High School, which as most of the all-male student body went off to had been sold with it, battle. But on Feb. 27, 1942, the U.S. Navy took for $715,000, Time over most of the College as a pre-flight school, pay- magazine reported. ing to train 2,000 cadets a year through May 1946. As luck would have A now-famous instructor of those cadets it, the doors swung during 1945 was former president and honorary open again just in time Saint Mary’s College alumnus, Gerald R. Ford. for its 75th anniver- Paradoxically, it was at this time, when the cam- sary. Time magazine pus had turned into a military encampment, that reported that when the seeds of Saint Mary’s signature Great Books program were planted. Four years later, the Korean War threatened Moraga Valley to drain the student body again, and a succession before Saint Mary’s of lackluster seasons slashed football profits. It was a lonely stop along the route of was only through the good graces of the new pro- the Sacramento North- vincial, Brother Alfred Brousseau, that the school ern Railroad, which survived. Drawing on profits from the Brothers’ would soon carry hundreds of students flourishing winery business, he gave the College to the college. more than a million dollars, and in 1955, he paid

26 FALL 2012 ground. A new recreation center is taking shape and a new vision for the campus of the future is on Black Friday the drawing boards. Academically, it is attracting On July 25, 1937, a sweltering summer day accolades for its unique programs, such as Janu- later dubbed “Black Friday,” a crowd of ary Term and Collegiate Seminar, and its success- about 40 spectators, composed of “news ful model of engaged student learning. hawks,” reporters, photographers and the curious, gathered on the steps of the Alam- A Rare Survivor eda County Courthouse in downtown The survival of Saint Mary’s through all its trials Oakland to witness the auction of Saint and tribulations is “providential, if not miracu- Mary’s College to the higher bidder. lous,” says Isetti. “Indeed, of the hundreds of Bespectacled Sylow Berven, trust offi- denominational colleges founded before and after cer of the Central Bank of Oakland, took the Civil War, the vast majority have perished.” almost 50 minutes to read “in a low drone” What is it that kept Saint Mary’s alive when the long bill of sale. After 15 minutes, the other colleges succumbed to the same financial, crowd had dwindled to a handful. A street social and academic pressures? For Brother Ron- urchin hit up the remnant for nickels but ald, the crucial factor was the faith of the Brothers. pocketed only one. At last Berven opened “There was always in each of those crises a very up the bidding, offering at auction not strong group of Brothers as a community at the only the Moraga campus but also, in turn College. And within our own tradition as Broth- and separately, three additional properties ers, the sense of faith is very strong,” he said. “We belonging to the College: the campus of the believe God is leading us in this work, and we’re Saint Mary’s College High School in Berke- going to do it no matter what challenge we face.” ley, 247 unimproved acres on Foothill Bou- And if it had not survived? American higher levard in San Leandro, and 47 unimproved education would have lost a unique and powerful acres in the City of San Mateo. voice, Isetti says. “When the Christian Brothers “Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. off the last of the mortgage from the Black Friday came to America, they melded the democratic ide- 1?” Berven asked. There was complete debacle. The Christian Brothers finally owned als of human equality with the educational ideal silence; it continued as other properties Saint Mary’s College. of the liberal arts,” he notes. “In this new vision, were offered in turn. Heightening the In the 1970s, in wake of the Vietnam War everyone had a right to a broad and humanistic edu- drama, a long funeral procession wound and campus protests, enrollment dipped again, cation, from the rich and privileged to the middle down the adjoining street. “Do I hear any but new academic programs for professionals and class and even to the poor, for whom Saint La Salle bid for the properties of St. Mary’s Col- successful fund-raising efforts managed to erase had founded the Christian Brothers congregation lege in their entirety?” Berven continued, a $1.3 million deficit. In the years when Brother in Europe. That’s the real legacy of Saint Mary’s.” wiping sweat from his brow. Two mus- Mel Anderson was president, from 1969 to 1997, tached “mystery men” in Panama hats put enrollment grew from 950 to more than 4,500. in a bid of $411,150. They were Gerald Today, under Brother Ronald Gallagher, WEB EXTRA yearofthegael.com/gaelblazers S. Levin and Leland H. Groezinger, attor- the College happily finds itself on firm financial neys of the prominent San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, repre- senting the College’s bondholders. A Time magazine writer later reported: “Cameras clicked as Mr. Levin handed Mr. Berven, as a down payment, a crumpled cashier’s check of $43,000.” Photographs of both men, along with one of the campus, appeared in the August 9 edition of Life magazine. The sale of the College had become a national news story.

From a manuscript by Professor Emeritus Ronald Isetti, “Not in Literature Merely, but What Is Greater, in True Christian Knowledge: A History of Saint Mary’s College of California.” COURTESY OF BRETT YOUNG & CAHILL CONTRACTORS

STMARYS-CA.EDU 27 BY GINNY PRIOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY BrothersJEFFREY BRAVERMAN There are 24 Christian Brothers living and working at Saint Mary’s, while 12 Brothers from Saint Mary’s live in retirement at Mont La Salle in Napa. Devoted to education, service and faith, they are big brothers to their students and brothers to each other, in the tradition established more than 300 years ago by the founder of the Christian Brothers — John Baptist de La Salle. It was a bleak Saturday “If you show including former SMC president, Brother Michael morning in Moraga. Rain them the firm- Quinn. Quinn was Brother Arnold’s principal at fell from the dark clouds like ness of a father, Cathedral High School in Los Angeles during the tears as a Saint Mary’s stu- you should mid 1940s. “He inspired me. He was such a fun dent struggled with child- also show the person — still young himself,” he remembers. hood memories no young tenderness The nuns were an early influence on Brother person should have to face. of a mother Michael Meister, who admits his devilish sense of Abused by her father and in gathering humor probably drove them crazy in elementary unprotected by her mother, them together, school. But even then, he felt called to serve God she came to Brother Ron- and in doing as a teacher, and when a Christian Brother came ald Roggenback’s office to them all the to his classroom, he says he fell in love with the tell him she wouldn’t be good in your idea of being a Brother. He attended a Christian coming to counseling any- power. By love Brothers high school in Napa, graduated from more. Brother Ronald, who and patience, Saint Mary’s and earned a Ph.D. in theology and worked in Campus Min- win over the literature at UC Berkeley. Brother Michael taught istry and taught psychol- hearts of those religious studies on campus for the past 11 years. ogy and religious studies whom you For Brother Camillus Chavez, a childhood in 1983 – 84, wasn’t ready teach.” interest in altered states of mind led him to the

to give up. “She ran out JOHN BAPTIST Christian Brothers. When he was 18 he entered and I followed her,” he DE LA SALLE the Brothers’ Novitiate at Mont La Salle where remembers. “Drizzle was he devoted much of his time to meditation and coming down — she was running ahead of me deep prayer. It was there that he found the spiri- and the branches were flying back in my face.” tual benefits of inner peace. He went on to earn When the young woman finally stopped running, a Ph.D. in social and clinical psychology, which it was because she realized how much Brother has informed his teaching, workshops and medi- Ronald cared. tation sessions for the Saint Mary’s community. The words of Saint John Baptist de La For Brother Stanislaus Sobczyk, a mail order Salle still ring true: “The need for this institu- ad in a 1962 Guideposts magazine drew him to tion is very great.” The mission of the Brothers the Christian Brothers. “It was a booklet with a is a sacred one — to nurture faith, friendship, the picture of male religious in their habit for every development of character and the love of learn- congregation represented in the United States,” ing. “We continue to say ‘Yes’ to that same spirit he says. A few days after he sent queries, a Chris- that called De La Salle to cooperate with God’s tian Brother came to meet him at his high school salvation of young people,” wrote Brother David and “sold” him on the teaching ministry, know- Brennan, FSC, on the 100th anniversary of De La ing that a life of education could help young peo- Salle’s elevation to sainthood in 2000. ple experience the holy presence of God. A common theme for the Brothers is the Brother Stan has a bachelor’s degree in phi- respect they have for the dignity of each student losophy and theology from Christian Brother’s in their charge. The mission is more urgent than University in Memphis, where he witnessed ever. “I think the students need the kind of mes- major events in the Civil Rights Movement: sages about Christianity that we offer in our George Wallace’s segregationist speeches and the schools,” says Saint Mary’s president, Brother assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ronald Gallagher. “I don’t know that our society “I sat on the front steps of the Christian is doing very well at training them in that. They Brothers University and watched tanks roll down are subject to all kinds of influences. So I think the street to maintain order.” the ethos of our schools is very important.” With a Ph.D. in educational administration But what draws each man to a life in com- from the University of San Francisco, Brother munity and a mission to serve the young and espe- Stan first came to Saint Mary’s in 1990 to teach cially the poor? For Brother Arnold Stewart, it was in the School of Education, also serving in several the influence of his teachers and administrators, leadership posts at the College, most recently as

30 FALL 2012 People know Brother Dominic Berardelli, special assistant to the president (page 29), for his big smile, his friendly ways and an inter- esting mode of transportation. Brother Michael F. Meister (top left), is a professor of theology and religious studies, director of the Joseph Alemany Community and a residence hall director. Brother L. Raphael Patton, (bottom left), is a retired math and computer science teacher with a passion for College history and trains. Brother Camil- lus Chavez (right), a professor of psychology and religious studies, teaches medita- tion to faculty, students and staff, promising that it will change their lives. And it does. interim vice president for advancement in 2008, “Someone’s in charge of the kitchen, someone’s in and is now retired. charge of maintenance, someone leads the prayers Today’s Christian Brothers have the same and the singing, someone gets snacks, someone strength of commitment to schools around the does the bookkeeping and someone gets beer, world as the hardy men who came to San Francisco wine and soda — all the stuff you’d do in a house- in 1868 to lead an upstart young college that had hold,” he says. With a smile, fallen on hard times. As it did then, the Brothers’ “Your zeal for Brother Michael readily mission today may sometimes demand high risk. the pupils admits the Brothers have When Brother Dominic Berardelli found under your social hour, tucked between himself at the end of a machine gun barrel in guidance late-afternoon liturgy and war-torn Sri Lanka in the late 1980s, he thought would be very dinner. “It’s nice to be able he would die at the hands of the Tamil Tigers. imperfect if to relax at the end of the day He was there for the Mission Office at the Gen- you expressed because college life is high- eralate in Rome checking on it only in energy. People are teaching the Brothers laboring under “If my work words. It in different disciplines, they the duress of civil war. “The does not come will become have different responsibili- lessons I learned strength- from God, I perfect only if ties, committees, depart- ened me as a Brother. They would consent you practice ment work, advising, and suffered so,” he says. And to its ruin. I yourself what several of us also live in the yet, 24 hours a day, the would join our you are teach- student residence halls.” Brothers kept their doors enemies in ing them.” Brother William Beatie, open to offer food and destroying it if JOHN BAPTIST one of nine brothers who comfort to the people. And I thought that DE LA SALLE live in the dorms, has a they protected the children it did not have wood-paneled haven in from being kidnapped and God for its Claeys North, with a window looking out at trained to fight. “The Broth- author, or that green grass, framed by trees, and hummingbirds ers would say ‘we are not he did not will flitting around a feeder near Bonsai and flower- taking sides. But you’d bet- its progress.” ing plants. His 96 neighbors keep him young. “It’s ter not touch our kids.”’ JOHN BAPTIST noisy when the students move in,” he says, “but it Similarly, the Broth- DE LA SALLE all calms down after two or three days.” Besides, ers showed courage in the Brother William admits he’s a night owl, rarely face of the ongoing conflict in Israel. In 2002, asleep before 11 p.m. Israeli soldiers stormed the campus of Bethle- Brother William mentors students, referees hem University, looking for Palestinian snipers. occasional spats among suite mates and cooks din- Brothers Kenneth Cardwell and Myron Collins ners for groups of six students throughout the year. were visiting professors from Saint Mary’s Col- Like a big brother. Then, after dinner, the students lege. “They (the Israeli soldiers) pointed guns go on their way and Brother William turns on his at us. They almost shot us,” says Brother Ken- white noise machine and settles in for the night. neth. Yet, Brothers Kenneth and Myron stood The community of Brothers at Saint Mary’s in solidarity with their brothers, and refused to has its own rhythms, intense, happy and lively. leave, knowing the mission of the school was too “We have wonderful discussions,” says Brother important to abandon. Michael. “Gosh, if you stood outside in the patio

There is profound peace in living a pur- some night during dinner and listened to our LARSEN FLYNN poseful life. Christian Brothers take care of one conversation upstairs, besides the lively talking, another in what Brother Ronald Gallagher calls a you’d hear all this yelling and laughing and car- “vibrant community of prayer and work.” rying on and wonder what’s going on up there.” “It’s an amazing group of men,” Brother Michael Meister says of his community of Broth- WEB EXTRA: READ PROFILES OF ers at Saint Mary’s. Like a loving and functional SAINT MARY’S CHRISTIAN BROTHERS. family, each person has his daily “chores.” yearofthegael.com/brothers

32 FALL 2012 Brother William Beatie (left) teaches philoso- phy, Collegiate Seminar and is a resident director. Brother Kenneth Cardwell (left) has taught the sharp minds of Integral Program students, ridden in a cattle drive, and stared down the muzzle of a gun — all in the interest of education and service. Brother Martin Yribarren (right) is the College organist and a tutor in the Integral Program. He is passionate about music, sports and teaching. QUAD

A Learned and Good Man: Herman Lujan ‘58

erman Damien Leilehua Lujan ’58 was in the first seminar of his master’s program at UC Berkeley, waiting for Professor Peter Odegaard to arrive. Odegaard was a nationally recognized politi- cal science scholar whose book “Religion and Politics” was a Hpioneering study of the role of special interest groups in American poli- tics. Lujan’s thesis would focus on the composition of political parties in Hawai’ian politics. So, there I sat, another of Brother Albert Rahill’s recruits, in a sea of Harvard’s and Yale’s best and brightest faces, their anticipation tingling and mine buried in fear. We were all waiting to face Dr. Peter Odegaard, arguably one of the world’s best political scientists. It was the voice of wis- dom facing the siblings of privilege — and the hesitant and unsure son of a small village on the north coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i ready to challenge the elite. Odegaard began the seminar by asking if anyone knew what the square of opposition was. There was a long hiatus punctuated by silence. But I knew this stuff. I had it in philosophy class at Saint Mary’s! It was a way of structuring logic and argument. Emerging from the facade of timidity, I raised my hand and defined the structure as Aristotle would. Odegaard approved and I emerged from the face of anonymity to an invitation to meet with him after seminars for an occasional dinner and regular chats about the theories of politics and the models of learning. In class, I dueled my way past his criticisms and discussions about the paraphernalia and witticisms of learning in political science. My growth and self-confidence emerging, I decided to pursue my Ph.D. degree. But the graduate adviser at Berkeley discouraged me, argu- ing that my 3.5 grade point average at Saint Mary’s was not comparable to grades at Berkeley. Beaten down but not out, I went to Odegaard. He encouraged me to go ahead, as I had established my competence with him. I also talked with Victor Ferkiss, a Saint Mary’s political science profes- sor, who chuckled and told me to apply to several schools and he would send recommendations. With Odegaard and Ferkiss behind me, I received a National Defense Education Act award from The University of Idaho that would cover all of my costs. Married and with three children, I accepted. Two years later on a sunny day in early June of 1964 I graduated with my Ph.D. from the University of Idaho. My dissertation was an empirical study of the demographic basis of the Idaho electorate, using statis- tics to analyze political parties and methods for predicting election outcomes. My parents and sister were able to join us on the day I received my degree. The ’ohana from north Hilo watched their son become a learned and good man, the attributes expected of a scholar in kanaka (Hawai’ian) cul- ture. These attributes also helped me to become a university faculty member, department chair, institute director in environmental studies, vice president, vice provost, provost and president. On May 23, 1992, Saint Mary’s awarded me the degree Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa. I had made the

‘ohana proud beyond their dreams — and mine — thanks to Saint Mary’s. BURDITT TOBY

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QUAD Left, Scott Parris ‘78; top-center, Ken Vincent ‘52 and Don DeLong ‘51; bottom-center, Dennis Haskins ‘81 and Paul Garvey ‘81. Football Alumni Chapter 5th Quarter Picnic

On July 28 more than 150 alumni, family and friends were on hand for the annual 5th Quarter Fam- ily Picnic, presented by the Saint Mary’s Football Alumni Chapter. In addition to live music and games, this year the Chapter named Sean Laird ‘98 as the first recipient of the “Coach Mac Award” in honor of longtime coach Jim McDonald, who passed away this year. The 5th Quarter Family Picnic is an annual tradition held on the last Saturday

of July. STEVE BABULJAK

Reunion Bridges the Gap Between Generations of Gaels

s Saint Mary’s celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, the Col- lege can look back on a great deal of change, but the spirit of the school has remained constant throughout its long history. As a testament to this fact, a record number of alumni — from as far Aaway as London and Japan — flooded the campus on July 20 – 22 for Reunion Weekend 2012 to celebrate their years as Gaels. “What is it that brings us back?” John Parziale ’62 asked. “It is the values of the institution, the memories and the love.” Among the nearly 1,000 attendees, alumni from the Class of 1962 turned out in force to celebrate their 50th reunion. In fact, more than half the class returned for the occasion. Parziale still remembers their freshman initiation. “We had to find a nut the size of our brain and a rock the size of our head,” he said. The weekend kicked off with a keg party in the lower townhouses on Friday evening. Saturday’s events were highlighted by a historical tour of the campus led by Brother Raphael Patton ’63, an academic open house and a huge barbecue. In the afternoon, there was a walk to the Legacy Garden and an historical storytelling session with Brother Mel Anderson ’51, longtime coach Bob Hagler ’50 and recently retired professor Lawrence Cory ’39. Many Gaels then headed to the Redwood Grove for a party with live music from the band Amoebas of Doom, led by Cora Manuel, SMC assistant director of financial aid. The afternoon ended with a special reunion Mass.

COURTNEY LOHMANN COURTNEY An evening cocktail hour hosted by Brother President Ronald Galla- gher allowed alumni to mingle before the class dinners and Reunion Dance. Summer Wine Festival “I was happy to see so many alumni return to see the great friends they made while students here, and to renew their acquaintance with the campus More than 450 people attended the 8th annual Summer Wine Festival and the great programs we offer to today’s students,” said Brother Ronald. in August. The event raised more than $20,000 for student scholarships. Rita Richcreek ’77, along with friends and classmates Megan Riley

36 FALL 2012 Top row, L to R: Jacob Wolfe ‘03, Ian Douglas ’01, Paul Reynaud ’03, Torin Simpson ’03, Scott McMahon ‘03, Nick Wisely ‘03, Zack Rockwell ’07; front row, L to R: Chris Tucker ’01, Andrew Espino ’02, Tony Mendoza ’04, Andre Coleman ’04, Joe Lucia ’07. MONA BROOKS MONA

McGilchrist and Pam Chisholm Scholtz, reminisced about being in the first and his neighbors were alumni from earlier classes. “They were like, ‘This decade of women who attended SMC. is how we used to party,’ ” he laughed. “You understand what was different “There were still urinals in our dorm in Mitty,” Richcreek recalled. for them … what was cool or hip at that time.” David Johnson ’84, president of the Alumni Association, noted that the Megan Manely ’07 noted that a graduate from the class of ’57 wished reunion allows alumni of different decades to bond over similar experiences. her a happy reunion and they took a picture together. Gerald Morales ’97agreed. “Seeing the generations,” he said, “it makes “Saint Mary’s builds such a character and a family,” Manely said, you feel like you are part of a larger community.”Alumni celebrating their “Even if you don’t know someone, they are going to come up to you. … It’s 40th reunion joked with alumni from the ’80s about a math professor they a Gael thing.” all had. “That kind of spark never would have happened on Facebook,” – CAITLIN GRAVESON ’11 Johnson pointed out. “It’s not just about the people you know but about the people you meet as well.” Even generational differences can lead to a communal experience. GET READY FOR ALUMNI REUNION 2013 stmarys-ca.edu/reunion13 Ryan Thompson ’97 stayed in the dorms on campus for the weekend,

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New Alumni Board Members legislative and regulatory affairs in California and the state of Washington. Prior to joining PMSA, he worked Jahmese Myres ’06 develops policy to improve work- for the Marine Spill Response Corporation, American ing conditions for low-wage workers in Oakland. President Lines and the American Petroleum Institute. Richard H. Meyer McLaurin has a bachelor’s degree in political science Brent Austin MBA ‘09 has worked for Chevron for from UC Davis and a law degree from Southwestern 21 years in a wide range of positions researcher to University School of Law. He is active in a variety of financial analyst, cost engineer, operations manager, efforts and programs dealing with special education trading analyst, trader, marketing specialist, project for children and adults with autism. manager and product engineer. Paul Stich ‘79 is the former president and CEO of Liane Cismowski ME ’05 has had a teaching career that Dasient, an Internet security company that protects spans 25 years and classrooms ranging from kinder- websites from web-based malware attacks. Dasient John McLaurin garten through graduate school. She currently serves was acquired by social media giant Twitter in January as a teacher and vice principal at Mount Diablo Jahmese Myres 2012. He has also served as vice president of global High School. telecommunications solutions at McAfee, as president and CEO of Counterpane Internet Security, Jodelle (Jodie) Prola Russi ’83, ME ‘84 is a teacher and as co-founder, president and CEO of Groundswell, and vice principal at Saint Mary of the Immaculate an internet consulting firm. He received a bachelor’s Conception School in Walnut Creek. degree in economics at Saint Mary’s and an MBA at University of Notre Dame School of Business in 1984.

Harry York EE ’89 is the chief executive officer of Paul Stich the Pittsburg, Calif., Chamber of Commerce. He served Jason Shellen ‘96 worked with a number of Silicon in a similar position for the Reno-Sparks chamber Brent Austin Valley companies in hardware sales and marketing and as executive vice president for the Concord after he graduated from Saint Mary’s. He is on the Chamber of Commerce. RSS Advisory Board and the advisory boards of Feedly and 8tracks.com. Currently the CEO & co-founder of New Board of Regents Members Tapedeck, Shellen has worked at Google, at Thing Labs, a company that made Brizzly, a social media Richard H. Meyer ’69 retired as director of anesthesia reader and Twitter web tool, as founder and CEO, and business development and marketing for the interna- Jason Shellen at AOL. As an employee of Pyra Labs, he was part of tional division of Abbott Laboratories in 2002. He Google’s acquisition of Blogger in 2003. During his Liane Cismowski was born and raised in Southern California. A gradu- tenure at Google, Jason started the Google Reader ate of Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, he project and became the founding product manager. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from Saint holds patents on feed and social media technologies. Mary’s in 1969, and earned an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1977. Meyer joined Abbott Laboratories in Diana T. Wu, Ph.D., professor emeritus from the School Los Angeles in 1969 as a domestic sales representative of Economics and Business Administration, started for the hospital products division. He was promoted teaching at Saint Mary’s in 1981 and was the first to increasingly responsible positions in Oklahoma Diana T. Wu woman and first minority to lead the Business Admin-

City, Philadelphia and, in 1981, to Abbott’s headquar- Jodelle Prola Russi istration Department, which she chaired from 1986 to ters in Chicago. In 1984 he joined Abbott’s interna- 1989. She earned an MBA from New York University in tional division. 1961 and worked as an accountant in Berkeley before earning a doctorate in organizational psychology from John McLaurin has been the president of the Pacific the Wright Institute in 1980. Her field of specialization Shipping Association (PMSA), a nonprofit trade involves all aspects of business management — with association that focuses on global trade, since 1995. special interests in organizational psychology and PMSA represents ocean carriers and operators of international business and China. She is the author marine terminals and has offices in San Francisco, of the textbook “Asian Pacific Americans in the Long Beach and Seattle. PMSA engages in community, Harry York Workplace.”

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the country with candidates as a blogger and freelance political analyst. His book “Age of Obama: A Reporter’s Journey with Clinton, McCain and Obama in the Making of the President 2008” was released during inaugural week 2009 by Nimble Books, Inc. [2] Mikey Lawler made the fateful decision at age 19 to try out for a beach soccer team in Santa Cruz, which led to tournament play around the U.S., the chance to play for the U.S. Beach Soccer Team in Rio Quente, Brazil, and an offer to play in Switzerland for three months in the summer. His success led to an offer from another Swiss team for the 2012 season; he now lives in Switzerland for three months out of the year. At home in the Bay Area, Mikey works as a personal trainer at Living Lean in Orinda and coaches soccer at De La Salle High School. He says his time in 2 3 Switzerland has taught him about sports, life, 2011 culture, communications, relationships, himself Chris Cooper EMBA has announced that and what he really wants and needs. He hopes his electronic/pop band, Loquat, has signed beach soccer will take off like beach volleyball with a major label that is distributed by Sony. has and be included in the 2016 Olympic Games He and the four other band members plan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check out Mikey’s on doing more benefit shows. Their album game-winning bicycle kick goal in the last came out on iTunes, and they have a video minute of a game: youtube.com/watch?v=S_ on YouTube. ecZbiLhGI [1] Mark Curtis EdD ’11, a news correspondent for WLNE in Providence, 2010 Rhode Island, reported on both the Republican [3] Patrick Young ’09 and Alexis and Democratic National Conventions this Standfieldare happy to announce that they summer. Curtis is a 30-year radio and TV are engaged to be married. Patrick is employed professional, who worked at the Bay Area’s as an IT administrator in Pleasanton, and KTVU from 1993 to January 2008. Curtis has Alexis is a Ph.D. student in physical therapy covered presidential campaigns and traveled at Oakland’s Samuel Merritt University.

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2008 [4] Maritza (Flores) EMBA and Paul Haller were married on May 7, 2011, in Pleasanton. Hilary Calhoun EE ’06, EMBA was a bridesmaid, and fellow Gael Kathleen Cook EMBA also joined the couple on their special day. 2007 [5] Stephanie (Fierro) Eastwood EE is working as a litigation paralegal for a large firm in Sacramento. Stephanie and her husband have two boys (pictured), ages 3 and 1. [6] Molliee Martin and Martin Marechal ’06 are engaged and plan to marry on April 27, 2013, in San Francisco. They currently live in Los Angeles with their Pomeranian, Gaston. [7] JP Musgrove and his wife, Rebecca, welcomed a daughter, Julia Grace, on April 23. 2006 5 Stefani Carver and fiancé Levi Finch (an Oregon alum) were engaged on July 2011 and married September 22, 2012, in Pebble Beach. Anthony Spivey EE is working for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area as an enrollment and match specialist pairing Bay Area youth with positive adult role models in one-to-one mentoring relationships. His colleague, fellow Gael Nicole Olson EE ’08 (Human and Community Services), is 9 employed as a match support specialist supporting and guiding mentors during their match relationships.

2005 6 11 [8] Angelina (Elliott) Burke graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine on May 19. She was a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Crystie Halsted Award for Excellence in Pediatrics and is currently a pediatric resident at Kaiser Oakland. [9] Andrew ’05, MBA ’09 and Victoria (Hernandez) Hansen met in marketing class their junior year and have been inseparable ever since. They were married in the SMC Chapel last year and celebrated their first anniversary on July 8 30. Andrew, who runs the finance team at a venture capital firm, and Victoria, an apparel buyer for Sears, are enjoying the city life in their San Francisco home along with their dog Goose. [10] Kehli Louise Kankelborg, of Butte, Mont., is engaged to Randy William Hazlett of Ramsay, Mont. Kehli is pursuing a master’s degree in technical communication at Montana Tech in Butte, where she works as an outreach program coordinator. Randy is a civil engineering graduate of Montana Tech and is employed at Pioneer Technical. A September wedding is planned. [11] Sean O’Brien was named one of Sacramento’s 40 Under 40 by the Sacramento Business Journal for his work in the community. [12] Stephanie Sandbergen MS received word this month from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences that she has completed all the requirements to finally sit for the first of two marriage and family therapist exams. She vacationed in Alaska in July 2011

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2001 Hacker, as well as Joe’s father, Joe M. Beth (Carrillo) Burnell is a social Manifesto ’68. Joe and Rachel currently worker for the Orange County Social Services reside in Dublin, Calif. Agency. She was married in 2007 to Eric Burnell and has three children, Tyler, 4, Drew, 1998 2, and Leigha, who was born on Jan. 23. Kelly McMillin EE, a 23-year veteran of Coral, Fla. Dave recognizes that there are many 1993 [17] Kristen (Fry) Wallace ECR the Salinas Police Department, was appointed blessings associated with working at a Catholic [21] Damien Fairbairn and his wife, ’03, ME ’08 and her husband, Charles, are chief of police of that city. He rose through school, but the best is having his three kids Angelina, welcomed their first child, Lucas proud to announce the arrival of Benjamin’s the ranks from officer to detective, corporal, (Drew, 7, Kaylin, 6, and Charlie, 4) with him at Shane Tan Fairbairn, on March 29. They reside little brother, Jackson Wayne, on Aug. 23. sergeant, commander, and then deputy chief. school each day. Dave and Sue (Susan Perry in San Carlos, Calif., and are enjoying every McMillin helped create and directed the ’03) are hoping to find a few Gaels in South minute of parenthood. 1999 Community Alliance for Safety and Peace, Florida with whom to share their Gael Pride! Cathy Blyther, Joe Manifesto and providing leadership for Salinas Police Depart- 1989 Brandon Nelson attended the SMC Wine ment’s Ceasefire strategy, work for which 1996 [22] Geoff Calla recently worked as Festival in August. he was honored by the White House with 11 [20] Michael Keefe EE ’96, former an actor opposite Nicole Kidman in the [18] Joe R. Manifesto married other leaders at the National Forum on Youth deputy fire chief of the San Mateo-Foster made-for-TV movie “Hemingway & Gellhorn.” Rachel Nethercott on Feb. 4 at Saint Mary’s Violence Prevention. City Fire Department, was appointed fire The film premiered in May on HBO. College Chapel. Both attended Our Lady of [19] Michael Spencer and his wife chief for those communities. Keefe also [23] Dr. Lauren Speeth EMBA Grace (K–8) and Bishop O’Dowd High School. Elizabeth are thrilled to announce the arrival of served as president of the San Francisco Bay ’89, the founder of the Elfenworks Foundation, Rachel graduated from San Diego State their third son, Matthew Collins Spencer, who Area Chapter of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn SMC Regent, and frequent campus lecturer, University in 2005 with a B.A. in communi- was born on May 23. The family lives in Fresno. Foundation in addition to serving as a member has authored a new book, “Intelligence & cations and currently works as a hairstylist, of the statewide executive board. The Alisa Compassion in Action, The 7 Pillars for Social while Joe is employed as a deputy sheriff 1997 Ann Ruch Burn Foundation is a California- Entrepreneurship.” The purpose of the book is for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Dave Perry MBA ’01, ECR ’04, ME based nonprofit organization dedicated to to be used as “a tool to empower the aspiring Gael members of the wedding party were ’04 is excited to begin his new adventure as promoting burn prevention education and social entrepreneur, with real guidance as groomsmen Brandon Nelson and Jon principal at St. Andrew Catholic School in Cape burn survivor assistance. to how, and why, social entrepreneurship

42 FALL 2012 1955 [31] Lou Lotorto and wife, Karen, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary 29 on June 25 with a formal dinner for family and friends at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel’s 31 32 Georgian Room. Son Louis Jr. ’83 served as master of ceremonies. 1954 – 1956 [32] Four founders of Les Amies des Frere, a group of former De La Salle Christian Brothers who support the Leo Center, were honored at the Leo Center Celestial 33 Gala on March 31. They are Pat O’Brien ’55, Chuck Meuel ’56, John Savage ’54 and Gerry Forrest ’56. The Leo Center provides after-school supervision and ESL classes to students in Oakland. 1950 [33] Neil Sweeney and Beverly T. Sweeney celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in August with their eight really works.” The book has already received confident they will serve the American people 1976 children and their spouses, 20 grandchildren, enthusiastic reviews. This is Speeth’s second with integrity and a steadfast commitment Candy (Finnegan) Timoney graduated and two great-grandchildren, who initiated book, her first being “Tracks of Hope.” The to justice.” in May from California State University the Neil and Beverly T. Sweeney Family Elfenworks Foundation (elfenworks.org) has Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who Sacramento with an M.S. in nursing degree. Endowed Scholarship for Saint Mary’s funded the Saint Mary’s College Center for the recommended Judge Nunley for the position, Candy and her husband, Dennis, live in Granite students as a gift to mark the occasion. Study of Fiduciary Capitalism, the Stanford expressed her admiration for the SMC Bay, Calif., and just returned from a two-week Neil, six of his and Beverly’s children, and University Center for the Study of Poverty and alumnus. “In addition to a decade as Superior vacation in Italy. seven of their grandchildren attended Inequality, and many other worthwhile organi- Court judge in Sacramento, Judge Nunley Saint Mary’s. zations and activities. The Elfenwork’s motto brings with him a range of experience as a 1973 is “In Harmony with Hope.” criminal prosecutor in two district attorney’s [28] Michael A. Kelly has been elected offices, as a deputy attorney general in the the 2012 –13 president of the International 1988 California Department of Justice and in private Society of Barristers. A partner in the San Diana Helfrich EMBA, most recently practice. I believe Judge Nunley will serve with Francisco litigation firm of Walkup, Melodia, vice president of marketing for SolarCity has distinction on the District Court,” she said. Coming soon to a Kelly and Schoenberger, he was a 1976 been named vice president of marketing at Nunley grew up in San Francisco and computer near you: graduate of UC Hastings College of the Law. Blu Homes, a California and Massachusetts- attended Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Kelly was recently chosen by rating-service Gael Nation, the new online based green precision homebuilder. Helrich High School. Super Lawyers as one of Northern California’s alumni community and directory has 25 years of executive and marketing Top 10 attorneys and in 2011 received the exclusively for Saint Mary’s experience in clean-tech and high-tech sectors 1985 Oliphant Award from the National Institute of graduates. Find friends, network, promoting renewable, environmentally friendly [26] Brent Eastman and Maureen Trial Advocacy for his pro bono contributions sign up for events and more! technologies. Butler Eastman ’86 own Brent Eastman to advocacy teaching. In addition to his legal Keep your eyes open for an [24] Robert Sher EMBA and Insurance Services Inc. in Salinas, Calif. practice, he spent 20 years as an adjunct email from the Alumni Office lecturer, 1995 – 2000, has been asked by Brent is also vice president of the California assistant professor of law at Hastings. inviting you to register Forbes.com to be a permanent columnist in Rodeo, held every year in Salinas during the in October. its Leadership section with a column entitled third week in July, and president of Partners “Game Raising Insights: CEO-to-CEO.” Sher is for Peace, also in Salinas. Amanda, the first 1970 founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting of five children, just graduated from CSU [29] Steve Aloia has had a child enrolled firm that helps executives running mid-market Channel Islands and is working at Chateau at SMC for each of the past 16 years, from companies raise their game. From 1984 to Julien in Carmel Valley. Son Sam attends 1996 until his final child, Molly, graduated 2006 he was the chief executive of Bentley Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, in May. The Aloia family includes Molly Aloia DEGREE KEY Publishing Group, and steered the company Ariz. Cammie, age 15, is a sophomore at Notre ’12, Caitlin Aloia ’08, Shannon ECR Education Credential to become a leading player in its niche of Dame High School, and twins Ben and Brent Aloia ’05, Matthew Aloia ’02 and EdD Doctor of Education decorative art publishing. Jr., age 10, are in 5th grade. Stephen Aloia ’00. Steve’s brothers, EE Extended Education “The Connected Company” by Dave Gray [27] Jo Singleton MBA is currently Roland Aloia ’65 and Roland Aloia EMBA Executive MBA with Thomas Vander Wal was published national IT program manager, Kaiser ’65, also attended Saint Mary’s. There has HON Honorary in 2012 by O’Reilly Media. It launched at #58 Permanente in Pleasanton, Calif., previously been an Aloia enrolled at SMC for 25 of the MBA Graduate Business on the Amazon Top 100 Business titles and #8 senior vice president at Bank of America and past 51 years, making it a true family affair. MC Counseling on top Business Communication titles. vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. In May, [30] Michael Tucevich is a federal ME Graduate Education her son Andrew graduated from Chico State administrative law judge in the Phoenix, Ariz., MFA Fine Arts 1986 University with a BS in Business MIS and Hearing Office and resides in Scottsdale, Ariz. ML Leadership [25] Sacramento County Superior Court stepson Burton Ritz obtained his MBA from He and his 16-year-old daughter took a trip to MLS Liberal Studies Judge Troy L. Nunley was nominated Saint Mary’s. Paris in the summer of 2011. MS Science by President Barack Obama in June to serve N Nursing as U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern 1983 1969 P Paralegal Certificate District of California. Louis A. Lotorto, Jr. appeared in Dan Whitehurst has been elected A White House press release announcing the Colony Theatre of Burbank, Calif.’s, chairman of the board of AAA Club Partners, the nominations included a congratulatory production of “Blame It on Beckett,” which a holding company with 10 AAA auto clubs Saint Mary’s magazine will statement from the Oval Office, “I am pleased ran from Aug. 8 through Sept. 2. He also serving 12 million members in 20 states. ACP publish two Glimpses per year to nominate these distinguished individuals appeared in the farce “Noises Off” at the is based in Walnut Creek and Wilmington, Del. for any graduate of the College. to serve on the United States District Norris Center for the Performing Arts in Palos Dan says AAA reminds him of Saint Mary’s. “It Please post more frequent updates Court bench,” said President Obama. “I am Verdes, Calif., from Sept. 21 through Oct. 7. has positive people who want to be of service.” at stmarys-ca.edu/glimpses.

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T. J. Ash, FSC ’59, brother to Brother Martin Ash, FSC ’62 FAMILY AND FRIENDS GETTY IMAGES Robert Blengino ’50 Mary K. Alice

B. J. Bugatto ’57, June I. Allen parent of Robert Bugatto ’90, Tom Bennett Barry Bugatto ’85, Annette Romano ’87 Benjamin W. Buzzo

Patrick F. Cannon, Jr. ’58 Ima Christner

Michael S. Cimino ’51 Joseph J. Coffey

C. J. Crane ’53, Taihee Dewes, parent of Sandra Crane ’84, parent of John Dewes ’96 Victoria Verber-Salazar’ 87, Ernest M. Dickson and Steven Crane ’83 Geraldine Donnelly , wife of late Charles D. Evans ’50 husband Joseph Donnelly ’39

Charles J. Freeman ’53, William A. Driscoll parent of Daniel Freeman ’90 Virginia T. England Astra Gabriel MBA ’79 Nita N. Esposito Justin S. Garcia ’51 Austin E. Givens CROONER AND ALUMNUS TONY MARTIN James B. Kohnen ’86 MS ’88 MA ’03, parent of William Kohnen ’95 Richard Heggie Debonair crooner Tony Martin, whose singing career spanned 80 years, was an SMC alumnus before making a name for himself Lorraine Lecount ’78 Richard D. Herring in Hollywood musicals and TV in the 1940s – 50s. He passed away Tony Martin ’35 Helen Kramer on July 27, at the age of 98. Born Alvin Morris in 1913 to poor Jewish immigrants, Martin’s Sandra K. McKillip ’80 MA ’85 Margaret M. Kreider long life in show business began in the late 1920s when he formed Stanley A. Pimentel ’63 Eunice A. Kritscher his first band at Oakland Technical High School in California. He enrolled at Saint Mary’s College in 1931, following his parents’ advice Jessica R. Robinson ’13 Robert Lacher, parent of Marie Lacher ’98 and to pursue a career as a lawyer. But his first love was music, and Edward A. Schumann ’53 Thomas Lacher ’95 he left the College after a year and a half to answer the call of show business. George E. Slevin ’50, Edward Lucas Martin, who was known as the “Butterscotch Baritone” for his parent of Cynthia Gallagher ’83 Richard J. Mitchell, smooth vocal style, was one of the most glamorous singers of his Erma G. Spencer ’97 parent of Carol MacPhail ’92 generation. He appeared in 25 Hollywood musicals with stars like Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner, hosted his own TV Christine J. Spring ’86 MA ’96 Carol A. Riordan variety show and recorded 17 gold records. Among his hit records Aaron K. Stull ’53, Warren E. Rupf were “To Each His Own,” “There’s No Tomorrow” and “Begin the grandfather to Annette Stull ’14 Beguine.” He was still performing in nightclubs around the country Lorenzo Spinardi, well into the 21st century. Robert G. Trestler ’51 parent of Robert Spinardi ’72 Martin also married two movie musical superstars, first Alice Faye Gayle Uilkema and then Cyd Charisse, his wife of 60 years until her death in 2008.

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Walter Wegner Saint Mary’s magazine prints the names of recently deceased alumni, Nan Williams, wife of late Christian Brothers and friends who have given to Saint Mary’s. Names husband Thomas K. Williams ’47 of other friends of the College, as well as family members of alumni, Stuart W. Willis faculty and staff, appear in the online version of the magazine.

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