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USD Magazine Spring 1999 14.3 University of San Diego University of San Diego Digital USD USD Magazine USD News Spring 1999 USD Magazine Spring 1999 14.3 University of San Diego Follow this and additional works at: http://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine Digital USD Citation University of San Diego, "USD Magazine Spring 1999 14.3" (1999). USD Magazine. 21. http://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine/21 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USD News at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in USD Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. It was a night for presidents, at least the USO kind, at President Alice B. Hayes' annual dinner Jan. 9 honoring top donors to the university. Joining Hayes for the 50th anniversary-themed event was the first president of the Associated Students, Kathleen (McGonigle) Murtha '54 (left), and cur­ rent president Kristen Jones, decked out in traditional Spanish Renaissance attire to greet the 255 guests. USO junior Angelique Breaux (right) had a little more than working out on her mind during the semester break. Breaux, 20, represented California in the 1999 Miss USA Pageant in Branson, Mo., It's a banner year at Feb. 5, finishing as the second runner up. Alcala Park, as the university celebrates its golden anniversary. Banners proclaiming the 50th celebration and motto "Tradition with Vision" were unfurled on Odissi, one of the the campus's Marian Way classical Indian dance and nearby Linda Vista forms, was performed Road. as part of the Sixth Annual All Faith Service Feb. 5 in The lmmaculata Church. More than 900 wor­ shipers attended the service, which featured prayers from various faiths and a perfor­ mance by Manoranjan Pradhan (left), a lead­ ing Odissi dancer, and the Patnaik Sisters, who danced with pop San Diego Mayor Susan Golding helped boost USD's star Madonna at the Golden Anniversary celebration by delivering her seventh 1998 MTV Video annual State of the City Address Jan. 13 before a capacity Music Awards. crowd at Shiley Theatre. Golding congratulated university officials for "50 years of excellent education," and illustrated San Diego's commitment to high-tech by speaking via satel­ lite to the city's Hong Kong development office. USD MAGAZINE Inside the Beltway EDITDR 5 Susan Herold Students work alongside members of Congress and embassy (E-mail: [email protected]) officials as part of an intensive internship and academic program in Washington, D.C. CDNTRIBUTING EDITDRS Michael R. Haskins John Titchen Jill Wagner '91 & Special Educator ART DIRECTOR Nearly 30 years teaching mentally handicapped students every­ Visual Asylum thing from reading to catching a bus earned Dennis Wick '65 USD's alumni humanitarian award. PHOTOGRAPHERS Jim Coit Pablo Mason Leveling the Playing Field Rodney Nakamoto 7 Gary Payne '86 USD athletes' spirit and perseverance will soon be rewarded ILLUSTRATORS with construction of the Jenny Craig Pavilion, which will bring Charles Glaubitz the university's sports facilities up to par with its competitors. Joel Sotelo ADVISORY BOARD Arian E. Collins '87 Laura Hale '92 :1.2 In Love with Shakespeare Thomas Scharf '72 (M.A. '73) David Sullivan Master of fine arts students belly up to the Bard at San Diego's renowned Old Globe Theatre as part of an intensive, two-year UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO graduate program that lets them flex their acting muscles. PRESIDENT Alice Bourke Hayes VICE PRESIDENT FDR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS :I.& A Piece of Work John G- McNamara DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC Unfulfilled by your career choice? Overwhelmed by that first RELATIONS job out of college? The USD Career Center offers advice and Jack Cannon counseling to navigate bumpy job waters. DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS John Trifiletti '78 USD Magazine is published quarterly by the University of San Diego for its Departments alumni, parents and friends. Editorial offices: USD Magazine, Publications ALCALA ALMANAC 2 ALUMNI GALLERY 22 Office, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA Event Highlights Five Decades ... High Noon Lori Abbott '85 gives birth to twins in a 92110-2492. Third-class postage paid Hoops ... Alumni Online Community Debuts ... p.istory-making way, page 25 ... Rod Phillips at San Diego, CA 92110. USD phone number: (619) 260-4600; Gotcha: Alumni Reveal Favorite Pranks '70 teaches troubled kids on the high seas, emergency security: (619) 260-2222; CALENDAR 33 page 28 ... David Pollick '71 went from col­ disaster: (619) 260-4534. lege dropout to college president, page 31 Hughes Career Achievement Awards ... Jenny Postmaster: Send address changes to: Craig Pavilion groundbreaking ... Commence­ PARTING SHOT Back Caver USD Magazine, Publications Office, ment schedules University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Walk on Water Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492. ALCALA , - , ,. •,.,. Ji-·,'t"t-~ , --~ ,. I • -~ -. -II ."r:~ '"C,T'A1;-·, t ,"-',I. ll;i>'_., ·.$:',-~,m Event Highlights Five Decades hat do a network news in San Diego, and what if Mother Rosalie anchor, the bishop of the San Hill hadn't said 'yes' to Bishop Buddy's W Diego diocese, an astronaut, invitation to start the College for a Fortune 500 executive and a former Women here?" Crier asked "Brady Bunch" kid have in common? alumni, corporate constituents, They all were on hand to wish USD 50th anniversary sponsors and happy birthday during a 50th anniver­ university trustees, administra­ sary tribute hosted by BusinessLink tors and staff. USD, the university's corporate affilia­ Between video tributes from USO President Alice B. Hayes, well wishers like singer Gladys tion program. Barry Williams and Sally Ride. Catherine Crier, who headlines Fox Knight and former Attorney Left: Most Rev. Robert Brom, bishop News' "The Crier Report," hosted the General Edwin Meese, co-hosts of San Diego March 25 event at the San Diego Hyatt took various stages to give their Regency, setting the tone for USD's aca­ perspective on each of the five decades university around an ethics-based curricu­ demic and social achievements by telling since the university's founding in 1949, lum. Astronaut Sally Ride, who made the 460 in attendance how the determi­ and USD's contribution to them. history by becoming the first woman in nation of the individual can change the The Most Rev. Robert Brom, bishop space aboard the space shuttle Challenger world. of San Diego, recalled the university's in 1983, urged those in attendance to do "What if a bishop hadn't had a humble beginnings on a dusty hilltop and as she did: Never stop dreaming, never dream of an institution of higher learning efforts by its founders to build a Catholic stop learning, never stop teaching. D I GD N O O N H O O P S efore returning to his social services The group is so well known and job from a recent lunchbreak, Al respected, in fact, that the games are BSmith '89 iced his knee on a bench regarded by those in the know as some of outside the USD Sports Center. the best pick-up hocips in San Diego After seeing the group of guys he County. Dozens of Torero stars have just spent an hour playing pick-up bas­ tested their mettle against players like ketball with, it wasn't hard to under­ Kojis, a 59-year-old, 12-year NBA veter­ stand why. an who made the All-Star team twice. "We aren't just messing around in Kojis is not a USD alumnus, but he there," says Smith of the 15 to 20 USD serves as the ad-hoc dean of the group, graduates, faculty, staff and community which at times has included real USD members who gather for lunch-hour deans and currently includes professors. games three times a week. "This is pret­ Foreign languages professor Richard ty good basketball." Stroik has been playing since he arrived For nearly four decades, the open at Alcala Park eight years ago. gym period during the day has been a "They didn't let me shoot my first Noon-ballers in action USD tradition. Known as the "Noon­ two years," says Stroik with a laugh, ballers," current Torero players drop by "I started playing my first year of prompting one of his teammates to won­ and basketball alumni make regular law school," says Dave Golia '84, "and der aloud why they started letting him appearances. The crowd even includes just kept coming. At first, I needed it for shoot at all. some former pros, including two-time the competition, but now I need it to The "Noon-ballers" don't just run NBA All-Star Don Kojis. keep in shape." and gun. They set picks (hard picks), U S D M A 6 A Z N E i' ALCALA Richard Farman, chairman of Sempra Energy, told of the impact USD graduates have had on technology and communica­ tions. And Barry Williams, better known as Greg Brady from "The Brady Bunch," sang a Broadway show tune. ver wonder what happened to your But not just any Web surfer will California Gov. Gray Davis also lent former roommate, the one with the have access to the information. Users a hand to the celebration, designating ear-splitting snore and odd penchant of the alumni site will have to register March 25, 1999, as "University of San f for cheese? and receive a password and user ID. Diego Five Decades of Distinction Day." Maybe you'd like to chat with Restrictions also are in place to prevent The night was one of the first major other alumni who share your passion information from being downloaded, and anniversary events scheduled for the year, for wine collecting. Or perhaps you're none of the information will be released which includes an open house campus looking for a job, and would like to put to the general public, Foley says.
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