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Walk the walk A gift: The family that Peace Corps Volunteer Renee Billingslea stayed with immersed her in Gilbertese language and culture. The globe was her small thank-you. Features

Change the world. 18 Or at least how you see it. EditEd by John dEEvE r and StEvEn boyd Saum. The U.S. Peace Corps turned 50 this year, with more than 340 Santa Clara grads (and faculty and staff) having served as volunteers over the years. A few of them recount their time in-country—and where it’s taken them.

How can you defend 26 those people? by StEvEn boyd Saum. Public defenders on the Homicide Task Force in Chicago have heard that question time and again. Between them, Robert Strunck ’76 and Crystal Marchigiani ’78 have some 40 years on the task force, representing accused murderers—many of whom faced the 18 death penalty. And they have a few answers. Band of sisters 31 Celebrating 50 years of women at Santa Clara In autumn 1961, a small, brave vanguard of women enrolled at Santa Clara as undergrads. And the 34 University would never be the same. Tradition shattered Gerri Beasley ’65 and a few classmates share their stories of arriving on the Mission Campus. Remembrance of things Graham by JEff GirE. The first residence hall built for women, the Graham Residence Complex boasted a gate that was locked at night, a pool, the Pipestage Club, and bounteous hijinks over the years.

ABOUT OUR COVER Adriana Varejão’s photograph “Andar com fé (To Walk with Faith),” was created as part of The Missing Peace exhibit, which was brought to the Mission Campus this fall. In this edition of SCM, you’ll find a few people living out their ideals on the paths they trod. Courtesy of Loyola University Museum of Art. C ontents ILLINgSLEA

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At santaclaramagazine.com you’ll find expanded articles, the Santa Clara Mag Blog, and other goodies, including … CoUrTeSy THe MiSSing PeACe exHibiT The Missing Peace Explore a remarkable exhibit in depth—then see it for yourself on campus.

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3 LETTERS CoUrTeSy Mike WHAlen 6 MISSION MATTERS A Question of Habit Michael Whalen has produced a new 48 AFTERWORDS documentary that shows nuns are far more than 6 kitsch or fixtures of a bygone era.

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31 CONTENTS 32 BRONCO NEWS: FROM THE SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 12 38 LIVES JOINED 39 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS 42 THE 2011 ALUMNI AWARDS 44 IN PRINT: NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI CoUrTeSy SCU ArCHiveS And THe redWood 45 ALUMNI CALENDAR 46 OBITUARIES Fifty years of women at SCU See interviews, photo slideshows, and read 48 the history. C ontents santaclaramagazine.com Fall 2011 From The Editor

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E ditor Steven Boyd Saum he journey of a thousand miles begins [email protected] with a single step, avers a Chinese proverb: through the doorway and into L itE rary E ditor T Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 the meadow, across the threshold or down the

C r E ativE d irECtor stairs, up the jetway and up the mountains, Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz across the Yangtze or the Ganges or the P hotograP h E r Amazon or the Rubicon. In whose shoes are Charles Barry you walking? And what are you carrying to sustain you? E ditoriaL i ntE rns Hope and trepidation, love and faith, a journal and a camera, desire Nicole Giove ’12, Jon Teel ’12 and curiosity and Chapstick. d EPartmE nt C ontributors Afoot in this mag are a couple of golden anniversaries: one very close Deepa Arora, Maggie Beidelman ’09, Connie Coutain, Emily Elrod-Cardenas ’05, Justin Gerdes, to home and one traversing the planet. Striding onto the Mission Campus Deborah Lohse, Alden Mudge, Jeff Gire, Mick LaSalle, for the first time in the fall of ’61 were women enrolled as undergrads who Sam Scott ’96 came knowing that a degree—from the Jesuit university named for a female C L ass n otE s & o bituariE s saint, Clare—could be theirs for the earning. It’s a singular moment in time Jon Teel ’12, Marisa Solís and historic to say the least. And it’s only the beginning of the story: Tens of www.scu.edu/alumupdate thousands of women have since walked the paths and corridors of this place a ssoC iatE E ditor, s antaCLaramagazinE . C om and transformed it. And armed with what they learned, some of them (and Clay Hamilton some scores of Santa Clara men) have, over the past five decades, tried to

C o P y E ditors change the world (or at least how they see it) by heading to points far-flung Allena Baker, John Deever, Jeff Gire, Marisa Solís, as Peace Corps volunteers. Darienne Hosley Stewart Full disclosure: I, too, am a returned Peace Corps vol. It’s an idea and Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton institution that I admire and respect, freighted as it is with the baggage of any big government bureaucracy. That’s both good and bad, as many a vet- s anta C L ara m agazinE a dvisory b oard eran vol will tell you. What drew me to the Peace Corps was the end of the Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing Cold War and the transformation of the sundered Soviet Union; it seemed to Terry Beers—Professor of English me the big story of the end of the 20th century, and I wanted to understand Michael Engh, S.J.—President firsthand what it meant for a society to be so utterly transformed, its econ- Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist omy and institutions crumbling. There was a chance to begin writing a new Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, chapter in history—and, of course, rewriting the old ones, with voices able Marketing and Communications to speak, suppressed memories now told, and the lessons learned depending Robert Gunsalus—Vice President for University on where one stands in the slipstream of time: Was it really all meant to lead Relations up to this? The narrative arc—that is, the stories we tell—is stuff that matters Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., profoundly, for it answers the questions: Where are we coming from? And Professor of Arts and Humanities where are we going? Kathy Kale ’86—Executive Director, Alumni Association Among the third group of volunteers in Ukraine, as an assistant Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of Communication professor at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, perhaps I could offer willing hands and heart to help rebuild in a better way, and I could convey Update your address and the rest of your contact info: www.scu.edu/alumupdate to my students of literature and American studies that either they would [email protected] write the stories of the years to come or someone would do it for them, Santa Clara Magazine 500 El Camino Real with said someone’s own agenda at work. There in the city of Luts’k, I Santa Clara, CA 95053 hosted a radio show, I founded a newspaper, and I learned a few things— The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do some of which lightened the load. To wit: The first toast is to meeting, the not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2011 by Santa second is to friendship, the third is to women—or to love—or both. Stand Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without for that one. And drink to the bottom. permission is prohibited. Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly, Keep the faith, February/March, May/June, August/September, and November/ December, by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500. Steven Boyd Saum Editor

2 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 “I was a recipient of Letters scholarship money to attend SCU. So giving is personal to me!”

is the tools to help the judgment we won was ever California to secede from individual lift him- executed. Few judgments the union, I trust there are or herself from the obtained under the Alien Tort significant numbers of us in throes of dependence Statute or the Torture Victim “flyover country” who would on society to the dig- Protection Act have been fully support that initiative. nity of self-reliance. executed. Often the defendants Although it would RICHARD CALLAHAN ’59 flee the jurisdiction or have not serve to eliminate the Another factor in the Orange, Calif. no assets within reach. In our various forms of pollution investing equation case, we immediately deposed California pumps into the As an ardent investor for Altruism v. both defendants and inquired environment (unless you over 50 years, I enjoyed Meir pragmatism and about assets. One was living believe you can legislate the Statman’s article “What other international with his children and testified direction the wind blows), it do investors really want?" law conundrums that he had no assets; the other would surely minimize the [Summer 2011 SCM]. I par- In her article about inter- had an investment account political exhaust the balance ticularly identified with his national law in the summer that we were able to have liq- of us endure as a result of statement that “investments issue, “Altruism v. apathy,” uidated for the benefit of the California’s influence at the are about a sense of security Beth Van Schaack reports clients. Each received about federal level. in retirement, the hope of winning a $50 million $100,000. One invested the FRANK CANEPA ’71 riches, joy, and pride in rais- verdict against two former funds in a low-income clinic Johnstown, Colo. ing our children, and paying Salvadoran officials—but she that serves the Washington, It was with a mixture of for the college education for doesn’t say how, or whether, D.C., immigrant community; enjoyment, mirth, and cha- our grandchildren.” the plaintiffs received their one used the money to plant grin that I read the recent But one area of the $50 million. That seems to organic community gardens “There oughta be a law.” equation universally ignored be important to the ques- in vacant lots in the city of With respect to Dean is the somewhat altruistic tion, which she addresses, of Chicago; the third launched George Alexander’s wish practice of providing money the effectiveness of interna- a new organization dedicated for better representation for for the engine of our tional law. to torture survivors residing in the underprivileged, who economy: small business. There appears to be an the United States. can disagree with that view? Many investors take some of interesting parallel to law However, achieving that their fruits of our investments as practiced under the tra- Remember to give! end will require significant and use it to provide seed ditional culture in Ireland I was a recipient of scholar- money for individuals to when there were in excess of ship money to attend SCU. start new businesses. No 100 kingdoms but a set of So giving is personal to me! government subsidy, no Classmates of 1976, please laws that were applied across Write us! handouts, just belief in their boundaries. Law experts consider pledging or giving an individual and a free to the scholarship fund of We welcome your letters (brehons) acted as judges in response to articles. enterprise system where if you when cases were submitted your choice. It is important “teach a person to fish” he/she to them. The deciphering of for the future of SCU—I santaclaramagazine.com can provide for themselves, legal principles from (very) know how much it meant! [email protected] fax 408-554-5464 and in the case of small old sources was a problem ROBIN FERRARI ’76 Santa Clara Magazine business, others—for life. for them also. San Jose Santa Clara University Santa Clara University BILL EGAN ’58 500 El Camino Real taught me many things, Cupertino Let’s talk law. Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500 among them discipline In response to Dean (thanks, Fr. Fagothey), We may edit letters for style, Beth Van Schaack replies: Mack Player’s comment tenacity, and respect for the clarity, civility, and length. Thanks to Bill Egan for his [AfterWords, Summer 2011] Questions? Call 408-551-1840. individual. To me the great- question about whether the regarding his desire for est gift I can offer to society

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resources. Given the pres- I was amused by Dean years in costly treatment for Bergin Hall—named in ent economic climate, those Mack Player’s suggestion their smoking folly does not honor of Thomas Bergin resources will likely need to to “get rid of the two-thirds necessarily follow. Society 1857, whose legacy was the be diverted from other vital requirement for budget and could require smokers to basis for founding a law functions and services. taxes,” while extolling the pay for the cost of their own department—has remained I was most intrigued by virtues of democracy. I could treatment or ... well, you get the core of the law school Dean Gerald Uelmen’s sug- not help but wonder what the idea. over the past 70 years. gestion to abolish the death Dean Player would say about SCOTT SWISHER J.D. ’85 Other bricks and mortar penalty. What intrigued me “the tyranny of the majority” San Ramon, Calif. highlights: After opening in was not the dean’s position, in a country where a recent 1963, Heafey Law Library which is not uncommon, study indicated that almost More to a century underwent extensive expan- but his invocation of the 50 percent of the people pay “Law at 100” [Summer sion in 1988; Bannan Hall Catholic bishops in support no taxes at all. 2011], I found interesting, classrooms were remodeled of his view. One wonders Finally, like Don Polden, yet the features failed to and wired in 1997; and the whether Dean Uelman is I would like to see a public convey the true progress physical plant of the law similarly willing to urge ban on smoking. However, the school has made, school tripled in 2010. people to follow the bishops’ Dean Polden’s assertion rising “from promise to Conspicuously absent position with respect to that the public must pay prominence.” was mention of the national abortion? for those who languish for acclaim the school had

AwA rds The CAsE awards were presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles in March. At the ceremony, the 2009 sCU President’s report, “Keeping our Commitment to students,” was also Most lauded mag in the West honored with a bronze medal for excellence. The CAsE regional recent months have brought in accolades for competition includes more than 100 colleges and universities Santa Clara Magazine on a few fronts. Among them: from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. Nationally: Sam Scott ’96 Last but unleast, the western Publishing Association named wrote a profile of Internet the summer 2010 SCM a finalist for a MAGGIE Award, which security expert Dan recognizes excellence industry-wide in publishing—drawing Kaminsky ’02, “Internet, entries from the likes of Reason and Macworld. It’s always nice we have a problem” (Fall when the way we’re able to tell the santa Clara story grabs the 2010 SCM) that earned attention of folks who’ve never set foot on the Mission Campus. thumbs up not just from our readers but from judges And 30 years old this fall for the national competi-competi It was 30 years ago this september tion among university that santa Clara President magazines hosted by the William Rewak, S.J., enlisted Council for Advancement editor Peg Major to launch a new and support of Education publication: Santa Clara Magazine. (CAsE). They awarded the profile a bronze medal this June. That inaugural issue included The photo essay “Life cycle” by Susan Middleton ’70 (spring an essay by President rewak, 2011 SCM) rightly caught the eye of the University and College “saints, diamonds, and bears,” design Association, which honored the piece with an award for on the changing nature of higher excellence. That follows on an award from UCdA last year for education, as well as articles by the cover illustration by Ken Orvidas for the winter 2009 issue, faculty and alumni on the media “Imagine. Go. do.” and mass psychology, love and Regionally: The folks in the western region of the CAsE made the new Catholic marriage law, the SCM the most bemedaled university mag in the west again this high-tech boom, and “santa Clara year, awarding one gold medal (staff writing), three silver (overall Potpourri”—aa visual quiz of campus excellence, photography for the essay “Courage in the face” by landmarks. SBS Mike Larremore ’08, and illustration for Ken Orvidas’ winter ’09 Web cover), and three bronze (overall design, the spring 2010 special Exclusives issue on “Home: A house, a land, an idea,” and photography for Read and see all the good stuff from 1981 and more recently, Bud Glick’s portrait of Pat Mangan ’84). and judge for yourself at santaclaramagazine.com

4 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 received for the overall Mary Emery, about the “realpolitik” of law hearts. She was a mentor to strength of its program. In we’ll miss you. schools, law libraries, and so many. She inspired me 1997–98 Santa Clara’s pro- Associate Dean and Director librarianship. Luckily, our to become a law librarian, gram in intellectual property of the Library for the SCU paths crossed many times in a career I have loved and rose to being the No. 2 pro- School of Law Mary B. the intervening years, and it have never regretted. She gram in the United States. Emery J.D. ’63 died on Aug. was always a delight to hear encouraged me to go to law And in 1998 the school 7. Read an in memoriam Mary’s perspective on the school even though, having launched three master of tribute to her on page 47. current happenings. worked at the law library for laws (LL.M.) degrees, one in Below are a some of the many MARCIA ZUBROW a few years, I questioned the intellectual property. tributes to her the University Eggertsville, N.Y. wisdom of putting myself Since at least the mid– has received in the weeks since through the grind that I 1990s, through this centen- her passing. I sincerely thank Mary had observed others going nial year, Santa Clara Law Emery for her insightful through, especially since I has had one of the five most As a person, as friend, and vision, gutsy leadership, and had absolutely no intention ethnically diverse student colleague, Mary is irreplace- decisive actions that helped of ever practicing law. One bodies in the United States. able. Her influence on the to create a diverse and inclu- of our last conversations Another development law school and everyone that sive environment for women before her vacation revolved that made Santa Clara a true has or will pass through it is and students of color at around the question of retire- pioneer in clinical legal edu- deep and indelible. Brilliant, Santa Clara University ment. To quote one of her cation: the 1971 founding caring, and wonderful, her Law School. frequent sayings: “I am never of its on-campus law clinic. intellect and humor will JOYCE LEWIS J.D. ’92 going to retire. They will just be forever missed, but will And the establishment of the San Francisco have to wheel me out of my law school’s three scholarly always live on in our hearts. office on a stretcher with a journals each reflected a step BEN MARTIN MBA ’99 Mary B. Emery—or, to me, sheet over my face and toes in an ever-expanding intel- San Jose Mrs. E.—was irreverent, up.” We all thought that this lectual growth. The most funny, witty, intelligent, and would not happen for many significant indication of the When I was admitted to the loyal. She loved Santa Clara years. It gives me comfort to overall intellectual stature law school in 1990, it was Law and her fingerprints can know that she passed away of the law school was the expected that the University be found in every nook and still with her boots on and school’s election in 2003 to would have in place a staff cranny of the law school, not in the saddle—on her terms, membership in the Order of tuition remission program just in the law library. Her the way she lived her all-too- the Coif, an honor society, for the law school at the sudden and untimely passing short life. start of the academic year. which, similar to Phi Beta leaves an enormous crater MARY HOOD ’70, J.D. ’75 As the summer arrived, and Kappa, is offered only to in the institution and in our Santa Clara elite American law schools. the policy was still not in place, I was nervous that MACK A. PLAYER my tuition would not be Professor of Law, SCU covered. Mary assured me F eature C ontributors that money would not keep Mick LaSalle (“Sisters act”) is the film critic for the San Francisco By now, law alumni should me from starting school, and Chronicle. This is his first contribution to this magazine. have received the 80–page she gave me a scholarship Jeff Gire (“Remembrance of things Graham”) is a University writer/ centennial issue of Santa Clara that first year until the staff editor. He’s new around here, and this is his first feature for SCM. Law magazine, with extensive His favorite font is Comic Sans. policy was worked out. She coverage of the law school’s his- John Deever (“Change the world”) most recently covered the was always generous with the tory. Find it via santaclara- Northern California Innocence Project for this magazine. He served in purse strings. the Peace Corps in Ukraine 1993–95 and is author of the memoir of magazine.com or, for a copy of that experience, Singing on the Heavy Side of the World. PRANO AMJADI J.D. ’94 the print edition, contact Mary Steven Boyd Saum (“Change the world,” “How can you defend Short in the Law Alumni San Jose those people?”) is the editor of this magazine. Office at [email protected] or In 1973, Mary Emery Diane Dreher (“21st-century miracles”) is professor of English at 408-551-1748.—Ed. SCU and author of, most recently, Your Personal Renaissance. hired me for my first job Sarah Stanek (“Those who can”) has written profiles, news, and fea- as a professional librarian. tures for SCM over the years, including a piece on the MySpace Nun. During my four years in Khaled Hosseini ’88 (AfterWords: “The promise of this day”) is a the Heafey Law Library, doctor, U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, and author of the novels The Kite she taught me a great deal Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. This AfterWords is adapted from his commencement address to 2011 graduates.

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CommenC ement PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY A greater sense of purpose

t the 160th undergraduate commencement at Santa AClara it was a blue-skied day for 1,350 newly degreed grads and families to celebrate with laughter, tears, and cheers. World-renowned author of Youngest grad The Kite Runner and physician Khaled Hosseini ’88 was awarded Morgan Hunter ’11 distinguished an honorary Doctor of Humane herself at Santa Clara in a few Letters before delivering the day’s remarkable ways. She enrolled commencement address. It was a already commanding a knowledge of proud moment for his mentor in Ancient Greek. And she graduated at biology at Santa Clara: Professor Humane doctor—and writer: Khaled Hosseini ’88 age 18. After scoring a perfect 800 on William Eisinger, who read the presented his honorary degree by Professor the verbal section of the SAt in the Bill Eisinger, left, and President Michael Engh, S.J. 7th grade, the classics major from proclamation awarding the degree. Several years ago, while back visiting Palo Alto began her freshman year In his commencement address, at SCU in lieu of high school. She the Mission Campus, Hosseini Hosseini in turn challenged the new studied French, German, Japanese, revealed that Eisinger, through a graduates to live up to the ideals that Arabic, and Sanskrit—and this year selfless act of generosity, worked on define Santa Clara and to be men taught Latin at her middle school. Hosseini’s behalf to obtain special and women for others. “Making a this fall she began graduate studies funding to ensure that he would in classics at U.C. Berkeley. difference in the world, no matter be able to travel to needed medical Connie Coutain SCU how large or small that difference is, school interviews.

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Graduate and law commencement

A grateful, prayerful heart eeping a grateful, prayerful Commencement heart will fortify you for life’s K inevitable surprises, conflicts, by the numbers and tragedies, Sharon Kugler ’81 told the 1,000 or so graduates at 18 age of youngest SCU graduate commencement on June 10 for Santa Clara University’s four advanced- 40 countries represented degree programs: engineering, business, counseling psychology, and 3,000 pounds of ice for pastoral ministries. Three firsts at Yale: Sharon Kugler alumni picnic Yale University’s first female, first Roman Catholic, and first lay 82,300 square feet chaplain, Kugler advised: “As members Unless individual rights to due (almost 2 acres) of tents of one human family, whether we like process, equal protection, and civil it or not, we live our sorrows together, rights “are enforced and exercised and but the power and mystery of human given meaning in actual practice,” he resilience is a constant in our lives.” said, then “for all intents and purposes will change your life in extraordinary they may as well cease to exist for ways and connect you to a greater Access for those in need many people in our society.” sense of purpose,” he said. (Read his Use your law degree to make legal and But armed with a degree from Santa talk in its entirety on page 48.) civic rights accessible to those without Clara, he encouraged, “You will be truly Also honored was Charles resources, former California Supreme amazed at the impact you are going to PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY Currie, S.J., retiring president of the Court Justice Carlos Moreno told the be able to have with it as you enter the Association of Jesuit Colleges and 300 graduating law students from practice of law and join the pantheon of Universities, for his impact on Jesuit Santa Clara University School of Law truly great lawyers who have come from higher education across the country. on May 21, during the law school’s this law school.” Deborah Lohse SCU Graduating senior Jessica Cassella, centennial year. a political science major, was recognized as valedictorian. The St. Clare and Nobili medals, honoring outstanding academic performance, personal character, school activities, and constructive contribution to the University, were awarded respectively to Stephanie Wilson (see the Spring 2010 SCM for a profile) and Quentin Orem. The Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Award, recognizing graduating seniors who exemplify the ideals of Jesuit education, especially being a “whole person of solidarity in the real world,” was presented to Christopher Freeburg. CC and SBS SCU

Web Exclusives Speeches, Q&as, slide shows, videos, and much more await at santaclaramagazine.com Look sharp: Muhab Benten M.S. ’11 clasps the shoulder of son Mohammed—and his degree in engineering management and leadership. Maxine Goynes ’11 (left) and Lauren Anselmo ’11.

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AdministrA tion campus, which required an unprecedented collaboration of city, state, and University. He launched a series of institutes on Welcome home, Fr. Rewak campus to examine issues of War and SCU’s poet-president returns to the Mission Campus as chancellor. Conscience, The Family, Poverty and Conscience, Technology and Society, and The Constitution. He he first time that William Fr. Rewak has also made time to teach a Rewak, S.J., taught English traveled far and wide “We are here weekly poetry seminar for Tat SCU was in 1970 and since then, but this for that human engineers. And, in a decision it was baptism by fire: sit-ins and August, he returned interchange where near and dear to us, he classroom lockouts and Vietnam War as chancellor of Santa enlisted a talented editor protests—and he wondered, with some Clara University. In wisdom is born, to serve intellect by the name of Peg Major misgivings, Is this what teaching college his new role, he assists to helm a new publication means? He served as rector of the Jesuit President Michael and to touch the human heart.” in September 1981: Santa community and oversaw the move of his Engh, S.J., in vital Clara Magazine. He wrote fellow Jesuits from St. Joseph’s Hall into areas, including civic in the pages of that first Nobili Hall. Then, as the University’s engagement, fundraising, community issue, 30 years ago: “We are here for 26th president—and the first chosen outreach, and ceremonial events. He that human interchange where wisdom by SCU’s Board of Trustees—he led also heads a newly established Council is born, to serve intellect and to touch the Santa Clara community for a dozen of Trustee Emeriti, a board comprising the human heart.” years, 1976–88. former, honored trustees who will The route continue to serve and provide counsel to SCU. Fr. Rewak was appointed chancellor of SCU once before, in 1989, following What he built his presidency and after a year of As president, Fr. Rewak

Charles Barry research and writing at Harvard. But oversaw the creation of he served as chancellor for only a few nearly a score of endowed months before being tapped to fill in professorships and headed for the unexpectedly ill president of up the largest fundraising Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. campaign ever undertaken He led Spring Hill until 1997, served by a Catholic university as director of the Jesuit Retreat House in the West, ultimately in Los Altos to 2005, and through last boosting Santa Clara’s year served as minister of the Jesuit endowment from Community at Loyola Marymount $11 million to nearly University in Los Angeles, where he $80 million. The student also taught poetry. body grew more diverse Regarding his new role, Fr. Rewak geographically and says, “The challenge for all of us will be ethnically, and Fr. Rewak to imagine Santa Clara’s future as one let it be known that Santa of a continuing high achievement and a Clara would be the profound dedication to serving a world preeminent Catholic that needs a spirit of selflessness.” SBS university in the West. and DL SCU The Bannan Engineering Building was built and renovation, expansion, Web and construction of at Exclusives least eight more facilities Chancellor Rewak will be reading his completed. He embarked poetry, as will SCU poets Claudia on a project long McIsaac and Kirk Glaser, as part of the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. desired—rerouting The Creative Writing Series in the Fess Alameda to unite the Parker Studio Theatre on Nov. 2. At santaclaramagazine.com find out more about the reading, see archival pics, and read some of Fr. Rewak’s past Poet in the garden: contributions to this publication. Chancellor William Rewak, S.J.

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AdministrA tion After 34 years at SCU, Don Dodson bids farewell Wisdom, professionalism, Comings and goings and selflessness

Charles Barry are a few of New provost and vice president Fr. Mick to lead the Ignatian the attributes for Academic Affairs Center for Jesuit Education used to describe The University’s Associate Professor Professor of new provost arrived Michael (Mick) Communication on the Mission McCarthy, S.J. ’87 Don Dodson, Charles Barry Campus in August. Charles Barry has been tapped who stepped down this summer Dennis Jacobs as the new execu- after more than three decades of comes to SCU tive director for the service to the University. Seasoned from the University Ignatian Center for administrator, wise counselor, of Notre Dame, Jesuit Education. dedicated community member, where he served as He’s taught at Santa generous spirit, and gifted listener vice president and associate provost for Clara since 2003, with joint appoint- are a few more descriptors. undergraduate studies. At Santa Clara, ments in classics and religious studies, What role did Dodson play? A Jacobs is tasked with providing leader- where he holds the Edmund Campion, better question: What role did he ship and management of all aspects of S.J. endowed chair. For the past three not play? academic and student life programs, years he has also directed SCU’s He served the University as information services, and athletics. Catholic Studies program. special assistant to the vice president Jacobs—who played jazz piano in As his biography notes, McCarthy for University Relations, director of college—sees his role as akin to that was “born in San Francisco in the research and academic development, of a director of a jazz band: inspir- 1960s, the youngest of six children in a associate vice president for academic ing, summoning unique talents, and fairly traditional Irish Catholic family. affairs and university planning, using the whole ensemble to create Since then, he has wrestled with one vice provost for academic affairs, something unique. “In order to bring question that forms the backbone of his senior vice provost, and interim coherence and vision to the University,” academic interests: How does one make provost and vice president for he says, “the provost needs to recognize sense of commitment to the Catholic- academic affairs. SBS SCU the diversity of strengths and talents Christian tradition in a world which is across the campus—and leverage them dizzyingly complex and richly diverse strategically.” Deepa Arora in cultures?” CC

A rt Lost and found A look at The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama—now on campus he task for 88 internationally renowned artists from 30 countries: inspired by the dalai Lama, work in media ancient His Holiness the Dalai and new to make your art. the result is The Missing Peace, Lama at Karnataka, T India, January 1998. with painting, sculpture, installation, and photography that are Copyright Richard poignant and comical, contemplating religion and politics. now, Avedon, 1998. Courtesy following a five-year world tour, 28 selections from the exhibit of the Richard Avedon Web have taken up temporary residence on the third floor Archives and Foundation. Exclusives special Collections gallery of the Harrington Learning Commons, sobrato technology Center, and orradre Library. Among the artwork on display is an intimate portrait of the oct. 27, “Photography, transformation, and Peace” (6–8:30 p.m., dalai Lama by Chuck Close and one of Binh danh’s signature de saisset museum) and nov. 8, “Art, transformation, and Peace” chlorophyll prints, which replicates a photograph on a leaf using (5–6:30 p.m., st. Clare room, Learning Commons and Library). photosynthesis. other artists featured include richard Avedon, Jeff Gire SCU squeak Carnwath, and mike and doug starn. Web the show runs through dec. 14, with some special events this Exclusives fall, including two panels with photographers and scholars: on See more at santaclaramagazine.com

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 9 Slow it down: The sail on NanoSail-D trims the speed and brings down the satellite sooner rather than later and cuts down on space junk.

The rocket also contained two satellites operated by the University of

Ce Flight CeNter Texas at Austin, using flight computers provided by the Santa Clara team to guide the satellites in formation flying. O/OREOS, though, was the satellite most entwined with SCU. In addition to operating Mission Control for months, students provided the satellite Courtesy Courtesy Nasa/Marshall s pa with its own way of de-orbiting. A satellite of O/OREOS’ size, SatelliteS ardors of space. Results could help sci- altitude, and density would normally entists with questions about the origin, remain in space for more than 60 years evolution, and durability of life. before it burned up in Earth’s atmo- Up, up, The Small Spacecraft Division sphere, which is twice as long as NASA The flight was a joint effort between guidelines allow. So graduate student NASA/Ames’ Small Spacecraft Division, Eric Stackpole M.S. ’11 devised a and away which built the 12-pound vessel, and spring-loaded, box-shaped tail that popped out of the satellite after The Maude Group Further nanosatellite adventures Santa Clara, which managed it. Space O/OREOS reached orbit, increasing its in the cosmos—with SCU students missions are nothing new for Santa surface area by more than 60 percent. at Mission Control. Clara’s Robotics Systems Laboratory, a magnet for undergraduate The increased drag should aunching a 12-pound and graduate students eager gradually slow it down, nanosatellite into orbit is a little for real-world, high-tech hastening re-entry time bit like becoming the caretaker SCU is the only L challenges in environments university in the for the satellite to less for a newborn baby. Suddenly you do as diverse as deep lakes than 25 years. Stackpole’s things on its schedule, not yours. country to let and outer space. For more students do all device marked the first In the weeks after the O/OREOS than 10 years, engineering time NASA has used a satellite was detached from an Air Force mission operations students involved with the propellantless de-orbiting rocket last November, students with the and ground lab have been designing, mechanism on a scientific SCU School of Engineering Robotics development for building, and controlling satellite. Systems Laboratory had to be ready NASA satellites. nanosatellites that are often The next project will any time the satellite streaked overhead. times as small as a loaf of give the lab’s undergraduates Be it at 3 a.m. or 3 p.m., they were at bread. The lab has been working with a chance to show their power of design. Mission Control on the third floor of NASA since 2004. In August 2012, NASA will launch a Bannan Engineering, furiously sending nanosatellite studying E. coli in space. A cosmic tail commands and checking vital statistics SCU students are designing a low-power, before the tiny vessel disappeared over In addition to the O/OREOS satellite, low-cost mechanical way to point the the horizon, out of reach till the next the Minotaur rocket that launched satellite in a particular direction, necesary pass. “You never know how things are last November from Kodiak Island, for communicating with Mission Control. going to act in space,” says Associate Alaska, contained three more satellites “There is no other school that does Professor Chris Kitts, director of the with SCU connections. One of them, mission operations for NASA the way we robotics lab. NanoSail-D, reported to SCU’s Mission do,” says lab director Kitts, who started Waking for satellites means a weary- Control, testing a novel way to force in satellite operations as an Air Force ing schedule, doctoral student Michael satellites into de-orbit—an important officer. “It’s really a student-centered Neumann ’03 says. But like any guard- goal given the growing amounts of operation.” ian, he found it a relief to see things junk orbiting in space endangering SCU is the only university in the are going well 400 miles above. The other satellites. After reaching space, the country to let students do all mission satellite, whose name is an acronym for NanoSail unfurled a 10-square-meter operations and ground development for Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital sheet of fabric no thicker than single- NASA satellites, he says. Students devel- Stresses, carried astrobiology experi- ply tissue to slow its speed. oped the Mission Control center itself, ments testing how microorganisms and they wrote the software and operat- found in soil and salt ponds respond ing procedures. Sam Scott ’96 SCU to solar ultraviolet radiation and other

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ConstruC tion

A dazzling (and new!) first impression

the Patricia A. and stephen C. Graham Hall is gone. schott Admission and Enrollment Long live Graham Hall. CONNIE COUTaIN services Building rises. Location: Bellomy and The Alameda, Location: Palm Drive on the footprint of old Graham ETA: Fall 2012 ETA: Fall 2012 A year from now, Santa Clara For nearly 50 years, the Graham University will make a new first impres- complex served as a home for Santa sion with a building that is a one-stop Clara undergrads. This summer the shop for all student services—and complex came down—to make way for is sure to have visitors “immediately a new neighborhood of Graham Hall Piping hot: Assistant residences. Vice President of Housing Facilities University Operations Joe Sugg shows off the Director Mako Ushihara solar collectors. provides specs: 125,000 square feet; 350 beds; The Maude Group and all rooms will be Benson’s in hot water— “mini-doubles”—two in the best way double-occupancy rooms Diners at Benson Memorial Center sharing a bathroom. On won’t notice, but this spring each bite the sustainability front, the of their lunch got a little bit greener— new residence will apply for in a good way—thanks to cutting- silver LEED certification edge solar technology installed on the and will also reuse tiles roof. the 60-collector system, made from the old Graham. by Chromasun, was the largest of its Former members of the kind built in California when it was “Grahamily” looking for installed. A similar (and much smaller) The new Schott Admission and Enrollment Services Building system was installed last year on the an immediate nostalgia fix roof of the solar-powered house built should turn to page 34 for by sCu students for the 2007 solar immersed in what Santa Clara is all alumni memories of pranks, parties, and Decathlon. about,” in the words of Joe Sugg, the famous Graham pool. JG SCU rather than harnessing the sun’s assistant vice president for rays to produce electricity, the University Operations. collectors concentrate solar energy The Patricia A. and to 25 times normal, generating Stephen C. Schott temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit—temperatures hot Admission and Enrollment enough to boil water and transfer The Maude Group Services Building will be the energy to the building at sunset. the first building you see enter- concentrated solar energy is used to ing campus through the heat or cool buildings or provide hot main entrance. It will house water. this should shave Benson’s five departments—admis- water-heating bills by as much as 70 sions, enrollment, financial percent and offset 34 tons of Co2— aid, the registrar, and bur- closing the gap to sCu’s goal of becoming climate neutral by the end sar—for the convenience of 2015. Justin Gerdes SCU of parents, prospective students, and current students. Ground was broken in April. The new building has goals of gold LEED cer- Graham Hall returns. tification and energy effi- ciency 40 to 50 percent better than California’s exacting building codes.

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Film major health organizations, who are working at the United Nations, who are heads of colleges. They were right there with Martin Luther King and the Sisters act civil rights movement. Two nuns were To many, nuns have increasingly become founders of the National Organization either icons of Old catholicism or strangely for Women.” dressed figures good for nostalgic laughs. But Talk about nuns brings up a host other interesting, vibrant stories about women of issues related to the broader role of mission and community aren’t being told. of women in society. “Nuns are femi- a new documentary produced by ScU’s nists,” says Whalen, “if a feminist is Michael T. Whalen aims to set a few things right. somebody who pushes the boundaries for women. Nuns were literally getting By Mick LaSaLLe Ph.D.s in astrophysics when few other women were going to college.” t their best, documentaries Communication. He addresses the sub- American feminism has had a con- show you something you’ve ject of vowed religious sisters in his new fused relationship with vowed religious A never seen, make you think documentary, and watching it I soon women because of their fidelity to a about something you’ve never really realized I knew nothing about nuns Church that many consider patriarchal. thought about, and broaden and and that few others know much about Yet, the feminist Susan Sarandon—who sometimes change your mind. Take nuns, including Catholics who had portrayed Sister Helen Prejean in the A Question of Habit, produced and them as teachers. film Dead Man Walking—narrates A edited by Michael T. Whalen, associ- For example, what’s with the Question of Habit, and “she didn’t ask ate professor in the Department of habit? Why do they (or did they, in for a cent” for her participation. And most cases) wear that? nuns have hardly been a meek and The habit dates back to docile force in the world, as over many Europe’s Middle Ages, years they have continually challenged when women were not and corrected it. “The Catholic Church allowed on the street would be better off with these women unaccompanied unless as part of the clergy, in leadership they were widows. roles,” says Whalen. “Think how we all Initially, nuns wore the could benefit.” signature black outfits As a viewer, my sense of the value as a way of being able to of Whalen’s film is that it forced me to go about independently realize, for the first time, how the con- and get things done. And tributions of nuns have been trivialized, getting things done is stereotyped, compartmentalized, and precisely what nuns have dismissed for the simple reason that it been doing for centuries. is often so easy to overlook the contri- “Nuns were the first butions of women, especially of women Civil War nurses, the who take themselves out of consider- first medics, caring for ation as sexual entities. both sides,” says Whalen. A Question of Habit was written and “They started most of directed by Bren Ortega Murphy and the major hospitals in the is being considered for broadcast on a United States. The first number of PBS stations. SCU health-care systems were started by nuns. Most Web if not all of the colleges Exclusives educating women were See a trailer for A Question of Habit and started by nuns. You have find out more—including how to schedule a

COURTESY DaN PaUlOS / COURTESY DaN BEHOlD PaUlOS THE WOMEN nuns who are heads of screening—at santaclaramagazine.com

Iconic: Habit of a bygone era

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THEOLOGY Santa Clara Snapshot: 2001 Faith seeking 4 honorary degrees presented in June to: Charmaine Williams ’89 (President, SCU Alumni understanding Association, 2000–01), William H. Muller, S.J. (President, Bellarmine ow do Christians under- College Preparatory), Gordon E. stand the Resurrection—and Moore (Chairman Emeritus, Intel how does that understand- Corp.), and William J. Rewak, S.J. H (President, Santa Clara University ing serve as a source of motivation for 1976–88) world transformation? Scholar Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M., says the issue of 13 residence halls the Resurrection is often skirted in 90 percent of campus connected theology because it’s very difficult to to high-speed Internet and campus imagine, and yet, the Resurrection is email arguably the most 2,500 people gathered for a central tenet of the Memorial Liturgy in the Mission Gardens on Sept. 17 to pay tribute Christian faith. to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 In 2011–12 SCU ArCHiVeS Schneiders, a pro- Happy birthday, Santa Clara: 150 years is 4,477 undergraduates enrolled fessor at the Jesuit something to celebrate, and there was plenty 60,412 alumni of birthday cake to go around. School of Theology Jon Teel ’12 who has taught at the COUrTeSy SANDrA SCHNeiDerS Sandra Schneiders school since 1976, will be at work on a project that addresses that question. As the recipient of a Henry Luce III Lives lost on a fateful day Fellowship, she will be taking a year Sept. 11, 2001 off from teaching to write the mono- Deora Bodley was Capt. Lawrence graph Risen Jesus, Cosmic Christ: Biblical 20 years old and Daniel Getzfred ’71 Spirituality in the Gospel of John. was flying home to was a no-nonsense The Luce Fellowship is awarded begin her junior year Navy man: “Get it

to scholars who make innovative ODLey AND at Santa Clara. She done, get it done contributions to theological studies was aboard United right.” But he was

and strengthen the link between higher OrzA Airlines Flight 93 when much more than that. education and religious communities. al-Qaida terrorists y A Nebraska native hijacked it. The plane with four brothers in DeBOrAH B U.S. N AV This June, Schneiders joined Teresa COUrTeSy DerriLL B Pleins M.A. ’94, an alumna of SCU’s crashed in a field in the Navy and 38 years graduate program in pastoral ministries, Shanksville, Penn., killing all aboard. She of service around the world—including for a panel presentation at the meeting was studying French and psychology and active duty in the wars in Vietnam and the of the Catholic Theological Society of hoped to be a child psychologist. Bodley Persian Gulf—he was awarded numerous America held on the Mission Campus. was actively involved with community decorations, and he was on his second service from high school on, and she tour of duty in the Naval Command Center Schneiders and Pleins, who serves as tutored at St. Clare’s parish school across in the Pentagon when terrorists crashed chaplain to the Catholic community at the street from campus. One of those American Airlines Flight 77 into the building, Stanford University, discussed the hopes, children wrote on her memorial: “Deora killing 125 people on the ground and all challenges, and vocation of today’s made the sun brighter.” A rose was planted aboard the plane. He was 57 years old and Web theologian. For centuries, Schneiders Exclusives in her memory near the Mission Church and was taken from his loving wife, Pat, and reflected, to study theology meant pass- a fund established to benefit the children two daughters, ages 11 and 12, for whom ing on the same body of static doctrine. of St. Clare’s. “We see the face of God in he enjoyed building marvelously intricate Now, “No longer are we only learning or Deora’s love for family and friends,” said dollhouses in his spare time. SBS teaching theology, but now we are doing President Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60, “in theology,” she says. “We are not merely her service to the community, in her trying to master a prescribed and limited concern for others, and in her smile and body of knowledge, but we are engaged laughter.” SBS in the adventure of ‘faith seeking understanding.’” Emily Elrod-Cardenas ’05 SCU

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 13 BOOKS New from SCU faculty

growth) but also from the post–Civil War downturns (“We cannot comfort unem- era into the 1920s. And it certainly alters ployed workers with the thought that their our view of the underlying economic sacrifices paved the way for a better tomor- history of the Great Depression itself, a row.”) “Overall,” Field writes, “welfare and period Field, the Michael and Mary Orradre economic growth benefit from moderation Professor of Economics as well as of the business cycle. Recessions impose executive director of the Economic History an irrecoverable burden of lost output, Association, has been studying for nearly income, and expenditure.” three decades. Great scholarship requires a curious mix But how can we measure growth of assertiveness and humility. The argument potentiality in and of itself much less across in A Great Leap Forward is a boldly asser- epochs? Or, as Field asks emphatically: tive one, but one that is backed by an in- “How can we know these things?” The depth look at economic data. Its author by answer lies in a set of inferences Field contrast has an appealing humility. He notes draws from quantitative data, using an that his argument “will strike some readers efficient tool kit of analytical methods. Chief as implausible.” He invites and awaits the among these methods is a careful judgment of his scholarly peers and lay examination of “total factor productivity,” readers—who will surely see in A Great which he describes as “the ratio of output Leap Forward a lasting contribution to U.S. to a combined measure reflecting inputs of economic history. Alden Mudge both capital and labor.” Deploying it helps calculate “a rough measure of growth in Keep the faith capacity due to technological and What’s it mean to be a organization advance.” Catholic in America Read BefoRe leaping If this sounds technical or obscure, well, today? Or even just in The arguments and observations in it can be; Field is a preeminent scholar and the San Francisco Bay alexander J. field’s extraordinary work of arguments sometimes address specific Area? Jerome p. economic history, A Great Leap Forward, issues in his field. At the same time, he Baggett, professor of are more akin to a glowing solar system discusses not just the trees of interest to religion and society at than a streaking comet. At its center is the the specialists but the forests that will the Jesuit School of book’s dazzling claim that “potential output beckon the lay reader. For example, he Theology, conducted grew dramatically across the Depression illustrates a discussion of the causes of 300 intensive interviews with members of years.” (Hence the subtitle: 1930s shifting growth rates in the years between six East Bay parishes to explore how Depression and U.S. the two world wars with a fas- American Catholics integrate the ancient Economic Growth.) This cinating look at the impact on devotional practices of Catholicism with the assertion overturns the stan- “Potential factory design for the shift modern world. In Sense of the Faithful: dard narrative that World War from steam and water power How American Catholics Live Their Faith II “both brought us out of the output grew to electricity. He performs sim- (Oxford University Press, 2009), Baggett Depression and laid the foun- dramatically ilar narrative-analytical magic looks beyond national surveys, political dation for postwar prosperi- later in a subsection called punditry, and the stereotypical image of the ty.” Orbiting around this across the “Rails and Roads.” “cafeteria Catholic.” By exploring the view- central claim are a host of Depression Field often writes with wit points of rank-and-file Catholics rather than implications and questions. and verve. At one point he pronouncements from Church leaders, These range from a fairly years.” quips, “For the purposes of Baggett offers a ground-level view of technical rumination about my argument it would have American Catholicism. His findings paint a

the utility of “general purpose been helpful had the Japanese complex portrait. For instance, Catholics are CHARlES BARRY technology,” a concept that is currently delayed by eight or twelve months their not as passive as they might seem when popular among economic history scholars, attack on Pearl Harbor so that the U.S. they’re sitting in the pews; they’re actually to a question of much urgency for policy economy could have returned to full very reflective about their religious selves makers and the general public: Do eco- employment.” His title itself invites an edgy and their Church as a whole. Generally, nomic downturns have silver linings? contrast of Depression-era private industri- Baggett argues, they take responsibility Field devotes the first and longest alization with the Chinese Communists’ for their connections to the sacred and section of his book to making a convincing Great leap Forward—a disastrous forced- strive to actively live out Christ’s message case for viewing the history of economic industrialization program of the 1950s. by engaging in some form of service to growth through a new lens, one that takes Of particular interest to lay readers will others. Sense of the Faithful is Baggett’s into account “a very substantial increase in be the final section of Field’s book. He second book, the first being Habitat for potential output between 1929 and 1941.” applies lessons from re-envisioning the Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building To do so refocuses not only how we Great Depression to recent economic Public Religion (Temple University Press, understand U.S. economic growth in the events and to the questions of whether 2001). EE-C SCU present and recent past (New Yorker writer regulation is bad (it’s not, since it moder- James Surowiecki drew from its lessons ates the business cycle), war stimulates Web earlier this year in a piece on how the economy (not for the better in the long Exclusives “innovative consumption” fuels economic term), or there are economic benefits to Alexander Field reads from A Great Leap Forward at santaclaramagazine.com

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RESEARCH

Grotesque advertising stimulates creativity and pocketbooks

lip open the latest issue of Vogue McQuarrie and co-author and perhaps there you’ll see her: Barbara J. Phillips of the University Fa woman in a leopard-print bath- of Saskatchewan borrowed the term ing suit and heels dangling a purse over “grotesque” from what appears to be a lifeless male body aesthetic litera- floating face-up in a pool. In striking ture. Think Victor capital letters, written across the image: Hugo’s Hunchback JIMMY CHOO. What the heck is going of Notre Dame, on there? which persuades This would be a standout example the reader to be of a grotesque ad, the subject of a study both disgusted It ain’t pretty: McQuarrie with co-authored by Ed McQuarrie in the by and empathic some grotesque ads October 2010 edition of the Journal of toward the gro- Consumer Research. “This is not pretty tesque Quasimodo. girl getting out of fancy car in front The same sort featuring two women in French period of posh night club,” says McQuarrie, of reaction is elic- costume, one about to stab the other’s a professor of marketing at the Leavey ited by grotesque advertising, which rep- neck with a metal skewer. “You do not School of Business. “The grotesque is resents about 25 percent of fashion ads see the grotesque in Good Houskeeping,” McQuarrie notes. “Tide detergent does not pretty. It’s a little bit more charged,” in Vogue and other such mags. Without he says. words, the ads encourage viewers to not advertise this way.” For the study, 18 women ages 30 to consider the scene and imagine a story Is this emergence of the grotesque 52 (the target demographic for fashion unfolding—what McQuarrie calls “nar- ad a positive thing? McQuarrie says yes. glossies) were interviewed. The gro- rative transportation.” “The viewer gets to do more,” he says. tesque ads grabbed their attention and “There’s a potential for alteration A more creative mental process comes caused them to linger over ads—even of how you experience a brand,” into play in considering the original and critique them as works of art: light, McQuarrie says of the grotesque. bizarre. Which, in turn, might seduce color, and texture. Indeed. Witness the grotesque in us into buying the product, after all. a Dolce & Gabbana handbag ad, Maggie Beidelman ’09 SCU

SpoR t S nationally. Captain and economics major Angelina Pascual ’11 didn’t mind being pegged as an underdog. “It is prob- Sweet Sixteen Season ably the rugger in me speaking, but who CHaRlES Ba RRY wouldn’t want to be able to take down Women’s rugby ranked nationally someone twice your size?” for first time in history Among the victories: these Division Call the team “tiny, clean, and focused,” II women in Bronco jerseys felled the as Rugby Magazine did last spring— Division I U.C. Santa Cruz Banana but be sure to pay the Bronco Rugby Slugs 108–0, earning designation as the Union Women’s Side their due: In the top women’s rugby team in Northern season that ended in April, they earned California. a spot in the Sweet 16 Championships in two All-Americans led the team: San Diego and wound up ranked No. 15 forward and political science major in the nation. Ana Carvajal ’13 and back pascual, who Women’s rugby was established as plans to return to the team this year as a club sport at SCU in 1997, but this she pursues her MBA at Santa Clara. the was the first time it has been ranked next scrum season begins winter quarter. Web Nicole Giove ’12 SCU Exclusives Forward and captain: From left, Carvajal and Pascual

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EnE rgy Putting cleantech

on the map F ElECtroPowEr The Center for Science, Technology, and Society tracks where off-the-grid solutions are lighting the way. CourtEsy CourtEsy aC t-I By JuSTin GerdeS Act-if electroPower (Mexico)

he 791 million people who live Social Benefit Incubator, hosted on the In Mexico, public spaces in slums and in sub-Saharan Africa use as Mission Campus each summer. Profiles rural towns often lack lighting, and a much electricity as the 19 provide foundations, investors, entre- critical traditional industry—making T tortillas—is often done with equipment million in greater New York City, preneurs, and government agencies according to the United Nations. with a detailed dossier on each com- run on expensive diesel fuel. Act-If ElectroPower, based in Mexico City Around the globe, some 1.5 billion go pany—including distribution systems, and founded in 2006, addresses both without any electricity at all. A billion business models, and product designs. challenges by selling solar-powered LED more have only intermittent access to “This map is the first of its kind, streetlights to cities and solar generators electricity, sometimes just a few hours a and only CSTS could have pulled it to tortilla makers. Its streetlights now day. Highlighting innovative projects off,” says Radha Basu, who is Regis operate in 30 communities in the state of that redress this imbalance—and that and Dianne McKenna Professor of Chiapas, bringing light to 17,000 people. create solutions that could help people Science, Technology, and Society and Last year, it sold 50 solar tortilla machines, reducing vendors’ energy bills by 40 to 60 around the world rethink how energy is CSTS Dean’s Executive Professor. “Our percent, and expects to sell 300 in 2011. created and distributed—is the aim of network of social entrepreneurs allows the Energy Map (energymap-scu.org), us to discover and connect the best a site launched May 23 by Santa Clara examples of frugal innovation.” University’s Center for Science, Hohyun Lee, assistant professor of Technology, and Society mechanical engineering, adds (CSTS), in partnership with that the Energy Map should social-enterprise information inform and inspire students company Ayllu. and business leaders alike. The site was launched “Not only do the in-depth in May with CSTS’ Andy profiles provide awareness Lieberman serving as project for organizations in some of manager. Visitors scroll across the world’s most remote the interactive map and click regions, they give a much through to learn more about more tangible example to 40 social enterprises in 16 see what is already being countries that are delivering developed.” SCU clean electricity or alterna- tive fuel to the energy poor. Each company profiled on the map is either a Tech Award laureate with winners selected in part by Santa Clara faculty (see “Taking Innovations to Scale,” Spring 2011 SCM) or a graduate of SCU’s annual Global

Web Exclusives Follow links to the Energy Map and more profiles at santaclaramagazine.com

16 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Missionmatters Courtesy Courtesy aCumeN FuND Courtesy suNlabob Courtesy VaNrepa Courtesy Courtesy GNeeDer/CoWs to KIloWatts

GNEEDER/Cows to Kilowatts Husk Power Systems (India) Sunlabob (Laos) VANREPA/Green Power (Nigeria) (Vanuatu) India’s economic boom has lifted millions Three-quarters of the population of Laos Left untreated, slaughterhouse waste can out of poverty, but 125,000 villages still lives on less than $2 per day. Nearly Vanuatu, like most small island pollute water sources and contribute to lack access to electricity. Husk Power half of the population lacks access to nations, lacks a robust electric grid climate change. The methane released Systems, founded in 2007 and based the electricity grid. Founded in 2000, and suffers from burdensome energy from cattle waste, for instance, is a much in Bihar, India, owns and operates mini Sunlabob, based in Vientiane, specializes prices. Where the grid doesn’t reach, more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. power plants fueled by biomass—rice in providing lighting to off-grid villages. rural subsistence farmers rely on In Ibadan, Nigeria, GNEEDER/Cows to husks, corn cobs, and rice and wheat Customers buy light as a service through kerosene and batteries to power lights Kilowatts, founded in 2001, has developed straws. By the end of last year, the community-owned lanterns, which and wood for cooking. VANREPA/ a biogas digester reactor that converts company had built 75 power plants, with are charged every day at central solar Green Power, based in Port Vila and slaughterhouse waste into cooking fuel or two more added each week. Within three stations. To date, Sunlabob has installed founded in 2002, imports and sells electricity. GNEEDER’s reactor can process years, it plans to have built more than 7,500 solar systems in more than 500 solar lights and efficient cookstoves. 1,000 cattle each day into 1,800 liters 2,000 power plants serving 6 million rural villages. Since December 2009, the company of cooking fuel or a half-megawatt of villagers in India. has sold 22,000 lights. It sees room electricity. The company says payback on for growth in neighboring Fiji, Solomon the reactors comes in as little as two and Islands, and Papua New Guinea, and a half years. GNEEDER is looking to build it may add fixed solar panels to its plants in six other cities in Nigeria and to product lineup. expand into four or five countries.

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 17 Change 1 Or at least how you see it. The U.S. Peace Corps turns 50, and a few Santa Clara grads (and faculty, and staff) recount their time as volunteers—and where the it’s taken them. world

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[ EdITEd by STEvE n boyd Saum and John dEEvE r ] W ITh rESEar C h and rEPorTIng by Jon TEEl ’12, JuSTIn E m a C CaulE y ’10, and KE llIE QuIST ’10

So what was it like? In the human-sized parcel of 50 years of Peace Corps service, it was hope and making history, and it was, sometimes at least, an exercise in futility. These volunteers set out to change the world and, more often than not, found themselves transformed: learning so much more than they could ever teach, receiving so much more than they could possibly give— which is not to diminish the teaching, the giving. Since the creation of the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 340 Santa Clara alumni have served in some 80 countries. At times, the number of Change Santa Clara grads heeding the call has put SCU in the top 10 for Peace Corps schools of its size. This year, 10 alumni serve in eight countries, including Azerbaijan, Honduras, and Tanzania. Who are these intrepid vols? Across the years and across the con- tinents, they’ve included the likes of Ken Flanagan ’63 (Colombia 1964–66) and Brian Boitano ’03 (Benin 2004–06). Before Heidi von der Mehden ’97 became winemaker at Arrowood winery, she served in Tanzania (1997–99); and ere Gina Pastega Smith ’96, MBA ’00 the put her business savvy to work running Romano’s Italian Soda Co. in Oregon, she took that acumen to Ecuador (2003–05). Korea called Margot Diltz ’66 (1968–71) and Costa Rica summoned Mary Barros- Bailey ’84 (1984–87). Larry Jenkins ’71 put his shoulders and civil engineering know-how to the wheel in Ghana (1971–73), and Bryan Bjorndal ’76 used his training in biology in the Philippines (1976–77) and now heads a company, Assure Controls, focused on water quality. After serving in Malawi (1965–67), Bill Luke Jr. ’65 went on to work with Catholic Relief Services in Sierra Leone. world Who else? Julia Yaffee is senior assistant dean for External Affairs at SCU’s School of Law, but from 1973–75 she was in Malaysia, training media professionals from 23 countries in broadcast media; her husband provided training in computerized accounting, and their children (ages 4 and 5) were in school. Malaysia also drew librarian Gail Gradowski (1974–76), and business development in Fiji helped shape Nick Mirkovich (2006–08), assistant media relations director for SCU Athletics and Recreation. There’s so much more to tell than fits into the snapshots that follow. The experience was, for many vols, one of the best—or, 1. mary hegland at the very least, the most intense—time of a life. Here are a few overlooking mahabad, Iran, stories in vols’ own words. Whet your appetite and then roam the 1968. 2. Peter ross with onward-spinning digital tales of these and other vols in word and his 8th grade class and fellow teacher rashid ali, image online. hyderabad Public School, India, 1964. 3. Women walking to market in ghana, 1972—photographed by larry Jenkins ’71.

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John Johnck ’60 When President Retired businessman Kennedy was assas- and former chair of sinated, I was at work the San Francisco as a back office assis- Republican Party tant at the stock bro- Peru 1964–67 ker Reynolds & Co. in San Francisco. I heard the news and recalled his famous line: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” So, at the age of 26, I filled in the Peace Corps application and was accepted to join a university education program as a math teacher targeted for Peru. But there the Peace Corps was pegged as an arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, especially on college campuses. We were met with sit-ins, graffiti, and protests. My teachers college assignment collapsed. In Lima I met some fellow volunteers who were audi- tors for the Peruvian National Association of Credit Unions. John Johnck exploring trails near the Amazon River, Iquitos, Peru They introduced me to the association president, who asked me to help. Credit unions played an important role in Peru, because banks only catered to the upper classes, professionals, and government employees; 98 percent of the country had limited access to banking. Churches, unions, agricultural workers, and farmers turned to credit unions. Jim Heyburn ’68 Peace Corps gave me my I performed audits of credit unions all over Peru. A third Director of a maritime start: It set me down in a were so poorly run that I recommended they be shut down. consulting business village in Liberia with no I traveled with my sleeping bag and slept wherever I could— in Sierra Leone running water, electric- sometimes in a priest’s rectory, on a credit union office ity, or paved roads. And I Liberia 1968–72 couch, or in other Peace Corps volunteers’ rooms. really never left. I’ve been My most interesting audit was for six months in Iquitos, working and living in at the headwaters of the Amazon River. The second-biggest West Africa for the past 42 years. credit union in Peru, with 5,000 members and a $5 million For two years I taught math and science at a rural capitalization, it was founded by a Spanish missionary 15 mission school, then at a high school in Monrovia, the years prior; he was still on the board of directors and served capital. My fourth year I was involved with teacher train- as treasurer. But small loans were made out the back door by ing and training for newly arrived volunteers. With the the padre, with the credit committee only told weeks later. help of the U.S. Information Service, I started a village He was not pleased that I was assigned to stay and imple- library. I coached basketball and refereed games and ment the audit: tightening lending policies; raising rates on was appointed a commissioner of the Liberia National loans and dividends; writing off uncollectable Basketball Federation. debts. The padre was demoted. I’d love to share photos of my time in Peace Corps, That credit union in Iquitos is still in but in July 1990, when Charles Taylor’s rebels invaded existence, despite the efforts of the leftist Monrovia, all of my property was looted or destroyed. government that took over Peru to After 22 years of living in Liberia, I was made a war refu- close it down in the 1970s. This is an gee, along with so many Liberians. I fled to neighboring “AMDG” outcome that gladdens Sierra Leone, where I have resided and worked for the the heart of an old alum of Santa past 20 years. Clara. I really loved my term of service in Peru. It was ennobling and enabling—and humbling. It’s really a transformational “Of all I’ve been through, experience for anybody who my two years in the Peace goes into it. Corps have had the greatest impact on the person I turned out to be.” — Clayton Drees ’77

20 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, crafted Clayton Drees ’77 The beneficiary of a in wood, tile, and Professor of European, first-class education at stucco—and most Islamic and African SCU, I was consider- lovely during Friday History, Virginia ing devoting my life prayers Wesleyan College to teaching, a calling Sierra Leone 1977–79 I found in Dr. Chris Lievestro’s lit classes, as a tutor for Coach Carroll Williams’ basketball squads, and as a historical tour guide in the Mission Church. When the Peace Corps offered me the chance to teach in Sierra Leone, I jumped at it. I taught high school at a Catholic mission school in Yengema, in the eastern diamond-mining district. I taught economics, English, math, and history, served as the school’s librarian, and coached basketball and track. In addition, I obtained a Peace Corps grant to raise chickens at the school to supplement the often protein- deficient diets of townsfolk. I’d felt pretty successful in teaching my students to gather and evaluate information, to analyze problems, and to find solutions to those problems that might assist in the country’s economic development. But Sierra Leone’s education system was stuck in the “rote- memory” model. Students were to memorize textbook passages and spit them back on exams. In the end, my dynamic, discussion-oriented, thought-provoking teaching strategy ultimately failed my students, few of whom were able to pass the rote-memory exams. It’s hard to look back on my start as a teacher and wonder whether I may have done more harm than good. Civil war in Liberia soon spilled over into Sierra Leone—undoing accomplishments of any teacher. Valerie Stinger Stalled in commute traf- However, I think I did serve as a valuable “ambassador,” MBA ’78 fic approaching South if you will. Of all I’ve been through, my two years in the Consultant to biomedical San Francisco, I had a Peace Corps have had the greatest impact on the person companies and to realization. At age 52, international development I’d met my financial, I turned out to be. I still list my volunteer experience organizations on my résumé, and I think about it every day. After two professional, and per- years of what I saw in Africa, I knew I could deal with Morocco 1999–2001 sonal goals. I either whatever life chose to throw at me. needed to change those goals to justify suffering my commute or else get out of the commute lane. I wanted to test life-long learning, to experience another culture, and give something back. In Settat, Morocco, I taught business students and worked with a developing artisan business, planning to export representative Moroccan arts. I also helped tailor Camp GLOW (“Girls Leading Our World”) for adolescent girls. I have continued to work with motivated entrepreneurs in developing countries: weavers in Lesotho, vendors in Sudan, farmers in Malawi and Ghana, businesspeople in the former Soviet Union, and women entrepreneurs in the Middle East. A couple of years ago, through International Executive Service Corps, I implemented a program in Juba, Southern Sudan, providing basic business skills and HIV/AIDS training. These strong people taught me two valuable lessons: one, about how much individuals can accomplish, even under difficult circumstances; and, Hospitality and mint tea: from left, their two, about how valuable and tenuous our democracy is. Moroccan host, Valerie Stinger, her daughter Lesli, another Peace Corps Volunteer S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 21 Christy Duncan Late one night, after Anderson ’96 several years of working Executive director of in advertising at a large The Safeway Foundation agency and living a life of expense accounts Bangladesh 1998–2000 and “A-list” parties— but not saving the world—I applied online to the Peace Corps. “I’ll just get Geof Giacomini ’98 I went to Kyrgyzstan with the physical,” I thought. “I need one anyway.” I was invited Egypt country director a love for Russian lit- to join the first group ever sent to Bangladesh. Teaching for Save the Children erature and found myself transformed. To kids ages English, assisting local businesses, and building school Kyrgyzstan 1999–2001 libraries replaced fancy dinners. 11–17 I taught English as a One project involved educating children born in foreign language as well as brothels. Due to the caste system, those children are American literature and journalism. I sponsored an exis- destined to follow in their mothers’ footsteps. Bangladeshi tential philosophy club, softball games, Model United colleagues brought the project to me. I was a little Nations, and summer camps in ecology and leadership. reluctant to take it on, since it is difficult even to bring up I also became a champion kok chai (green tea) drinker! prostitution in Muslim society. But my co-workers lined up You should always be curious, always brave, I support of key people in town, so we set to work. learned. Values are not inherited, and education can The project was a huge success and was duplicated only pass on an intellectual awareness of them; in other areas of the country. A staggering number of they are formed and understood when you girls were “saved.” Also, among these poor in one of the confront values different from yours and poorest countries in the world, sexually transmitted struggle with them, their justifications diseases declined. and rationales. But a few years after I left, the project shut down. I chose to extend for a third year Why? We had programs for the girls and boys, health (Peace Corps service is usually a education for the prostitutes, and programs to help older two-year commitment). Then Sept. women no longer able to work. But we never did anything 11, 2001. Peace Corps was evacuated about the demand in this sexually oppressive society. less than 10 days later, and I left my Without new girls, brothel owners sought out young girls new home. elsewhere. Impoverished families sold their children, creating I now work in international development, supporting a commerce that hadn’t previously existed. Eventually the projects that embody the values I had or developed mayor closed down the project to stop this from happening. during my Peace Corps service: a commitment to human Clearly, this story does not have a happy ending. Even with dignity, equality of opportunity, better health care and the best intentions and community support, some Peace education for all, and respect for diversity. After working Corps projects ultimately fail due to unintended with Save the Children in Azerbaijan, I arrived in Cairo consequences. in mid-February, the day before (former President) Still, starting a new project out of virtually nothing and Mubarak stepped down. What a wild ride it’s been. If I building it up taught me to meet challenges and overcome do my job well, then at some point I won’t have a job. setbacks. Perseverance and thinking creatively go a long We could even make this profession unnecessary. We just way when other resources are unavailable. have to figure out how to eradicate poverty.

Michael Neumann ’03 My two main purposes for joining the Peace Corps Doctoral student in were to spend time in another culture and master mechanical engineering another language. In Tanzania I learned Swahili, the at SCU lingua franca of East Africa, and taught math and Tanzania 2004–07 physics to classes of up to 90 students at a government secondary school. I also served as head of the physics department. On the side I was in charge of the school’s orchards: supervising the planting and care of avocado, citrus, and papaya. With a Tanzanian colleague I designed, purchased, and installed a second photovoltaic lighting system in two classrooms so students could study in the evening. After returning to the United States, I became involved with Engineers Without Borders in San Francisco, working with a community in Tanzania. We’ve developed a water distribu- Math and physics: Michael tion system and installed a photovoltaic lighting system on the dispensary. I recently finished Neumann with students in my third trip back. A few other returned volunteers and I also started the nonprofit TETEA Tanzania to support education in Tanzania through a village library and scholarships.

22 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Students from the village of Huacanhuasi in Peru prepare for a festival dance.

Erin Stratta ’05 After only a few weeks, Class of 2012 at Loyola the ice cold showers, the adobe room, a University Chicago’s Jessica Barnett ’10 and Jessica: While study- Stritch School of foreign language, ing abroad in South Medicine the barking dogs, Alexandra Angel ’10 Africa my junior year screeching roosters, and Current Peace Corps Peru 2005–07 at SCU, I came across crying babies became volunteers in Teaching English as a Foreign the quote by Nelson my new normal. More trying was accepting culturally Language Mandela, “When you ingrained lifestyles that seemed damaging. I refuse to let your own light shine, condone domestic violence, and yet I had to find ways Ukraine 2010–12 you unconsciously give to continue looking wife abusers in the eyes every day others permission to do the same.” I’ve been involved with without hatred or fear. I never accepted the machismo service work since I was young and know that by offering of my host culture, but I learned to work within a my abilities to others, I gain a better understanding of who system where it rules. I also quickly realized that the I am as an individual. children there would save me—that working with In Ukraine I teach English at a secondary school in the them would always bring me joy. city of Rivne. I’ve also focused on HIV/AIDS awareness, Coming home is the hardest part. You have this serving as a member of the grant review committee for the entire other life that happens, that is full of people President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief program, and you care for, and yet you must go back home and helping plan a new summer camp for HIV-positive kids. spend the rest of your days trying to wed these two At the camp, these active, loving kids swam, did arts and incredibly different worlds. crafts, and met daily with a doctor and psychologist for les- During college, I took to heart a quote by sons on living with HIV. It’s truly inspiring—and of course : “Fall in love, and it will decide Pedro Arrupe, S.J. we welcome donations for next summer’s camp. everything.” If I hadn’t gone to Santa Clara, I’m certain I never would have thought about service Alexandra: What am I doing here? is a question I’ve found abroad. My two years in the Peace Corps were an myself asking more often and more intensely than ever absolutely direct consequence of my immersion trip before in my life. I live in a little community in eastern to El Salvador. Working in public health for two years Ukraine, where neighbors watch out for one another. But gave me practical experience and solidified my desire this is a mining town, and expectations are low, futures to pursue a career in medicine. bleak. I’m trying to raise money to provide 13 new computers for the school where I teach English—to further educations, brighten hopes, and spark creativity. I’ve run or worked at several summer camps—including Camp GLOW, where I taught lessons to 20 girls about leadership, human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, self-esteem, domestic violence, and positive body image. The girls learned a lot, but they gave me so much more. People who donated money to make this camp possible helped change the lives of children—and gave them tools to go out and effect change. Be flexible is the Peace Corps mantra. But living here can be lonely, boring, frightening, depress- ing. There are times, though, when I’m inspired and realize that while this isn’t what I expected, it’s beautiful and remarkable beyond description.

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Peter Ross at the beginning of a two- year adventure Peter Ross Although Retired senior lecturer Calingapatnam was in mathematics a large village, about 4,500 people, I was India 1963–65 its only native English speaker. When, as part “Kennedy of the fourth group of Peace Corps volunteers truly inspired sent to India, I started teaching physics at the hope among high school, the students did not know how to use simple rulers; science and math involved only the poor and rote-memorization of blackboard work or text disadvantaged material. As for math, the texts I was to teach of the world. They from were all in Telugu; Peace Corps hadn’t felt that he, and realized that the school had just started the conversion to English for math—one class year America, cared.” at a time. —Peter ross The village lay where the road from Srikakulam dead- ended in the Bay of Bengal. That road was one I traveled by bicycle many times—to travel to the big town, and to meet Mary Hegland The Peace Corps was perhaps with another Peace Corps volunteer and enjoy the water Professor of the most formative experience buffalo burgers he cooked. And it was a road I traveled anthropology of my life—giving me my career in cultural anthropology the afternoon of Nov. 23, 1963, after I’d heard the shock- Iran 1966–68 ing news over the short-wave radio in the school library: and the geographical focus on President Kennedy had been shot. At school, we observed Iran and the Middle East. I several minutes of silence at the morning flag-raising. gained my calling—working to serve as a bridge between JFK was not just our president; he had promoted the people of different countries, religions, and cultures. Since idea of a “peace corps” in his 1960 presidential campaign, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, attempting to explain the and he instituted it by an executive order the following people of Iran to Americans, so that they can be seen as year. Moreover, Kennedy truly inspired hope among the other human beings rather than frightening enemies, has poor and disadvantaged of the world. They felt that he, and become extremely important. I am fascinated by Iranian America, cared. culture and delight in my research trips back to southwestern There were times, traveling out to more remote villages, Iran, near the city of Shiraz. I have now known my friends that I had people gently pinch my skin to see if it was real. in the village of Aliabad 33 years! They had never seen a white person before. Peace Corps sent me to Mahabad, a Kurdish city of about 30,000 in the Zagros Mountains, near the Iraq border. I taught English as a second language at the girls’ high school. I became fascinated with how people could have such different ideas, values, and perspectives from my own—and yet, in so many ways, we all wanted the same basic things: the respect of others, the well-being of family and friends, interesting pursuits, a meaningful life. I also learned, in June 1968, that American foreign policy could have disastrous effects on the lives Noruz, the of individuals in other countries: when an agreement Persian new between the CIA and the main Kurdish political year: Mary group in Iraq resulted in the capture and killing Hegland and fellow volunteers by the Iranian military of two prominent Kurdish visit Chesm-e dissidents. One man’s naked body was hung by a Ali (Spring of helicopter that circled over the city. The other body Ali), not far from was tied to an upright ladder in the main square. Tehran, where people bring Attached to his body, a sign: This is what happens their rugs to to people who resist the Shah’s regime. Horrified, I wash and then visited the sister of one man who had been killed. spread them We wept together, grieving both for her brother to dry on the hillside. and for Bobby Kennedy, who had just been killed in Los Angeles.

24 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Renee Abaiang is a coral Billingslea atoll 15 miles long Lecturer in art and 1 mile wide, near the larger island of Kiribati 1990–92 Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. That is where I taught art and English as a foreign language at St. Joseph’s Catholic Boarding School, run by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. As they were training Gilbertese teachers overseas, they used Peace Corps volunteers to fill in. The art teaching included basic foundations in color theory and composition, how to batik, print-making, and silk-screening. My Two wheels good: a Kiribati portrait by challenge was to do it in a way so that traditional customs Renee Billingslea wouldn’t be lost. The people there have very little; getting enough to eat isn’t a given. And yet, they were, all the time, so happy. I loved being surrounded by that: open hearts and a very I was a tenured law school teacher, strong sense of family. But it was clear from the beginning Kandis Scott 54 years old, when I began a new that this wasn’t going to be an island vacation. Half the Professor of law career as a Peace Corps volunteer. volunteers in my group went home during the first few Romania 1995–97 Why? Many of my friends joined weeks of training. the Peace Corps out of college. I I hoped that my work might touch one person’s life, shared their values, but was a bit slow to sign up. My hus- and that would be enough. As I was getting ready to leave, band had died several years earlier and I had recovered from one of my homeroom students, who was away from his my grief. I felt capable of doing my job and wanted a new island for the first time, recognized that I was also very far and different challenge—and a deep immersion in a culture from home. He hadn’t spoken any English at all. He came different from my own. up to me and said, “Thank you for leaving your family and When I arrived in Romania a few years after Communist country for two years to come and teach us.” dictator Ceausescu was overthrown, the country looked like I came back a more mature, passionate person—with a an enormous clean-up, fix-up, paint-up project. Ceausescu larger sense of the world, more appreciative of what I have. paid down the country’s international debt by impoverish- And I found I love teaching. ing his own people. People wanted simple material objects that had been hard to find during the socialist regime, such as cotton terry towels and toilet paper. In Communist Romania, volunteer service activities were not voluntary: Students were obliged to sweep streets or even harvest crops when not in school. And if there was a chess club or fishing club, the government had created it. Nevertheless, I organized a group of Romanian women friends into a public service organization. They collected clothes for the poor, created a teen social club in a school basement, and inspired students to clean litter from the public woods on Earth Day—and persuaded some public sanitation workers to pick up the collected debris. “Grupul Start” proved that a civic spirit could thrive. I returned from my service having satisfied my personal goals and eager to get back to teaching at Santa Clara, including new courses in compara- tive law. Today, the law school offers a scholarship for returned Peace Corps volunteers interested in that field. SCU

Above: Timisoara market—and two Web Roma women selling batteries. ExclusivesExclusives Below: Christmas is coming—so Kandis Scott helps butcher a hog. Read and see more snapshots and digital S antavideo—and C lara share M agazine your Peace | Corps Fall 2011 25 experiences—at santaclaramagazine.com As public defenders on the Homicide Task Force in Chicago, Robert Strunck ’76 and Crystal Marchigiani ’78 have some 40 years between them representing accused murderers—many of whom faced the death penalty. There is one question they’ve been asked over and over again.

Defender: Homicide Task Force veteran Robert Strunck outside Cook County Jail

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City of big shoulders territory in Cook County: for the lawyers, crushing case loads act I. and little or no training before handling a murder case; for cli- February 2009. It’s a cold day in Chicago, and Bob Strunck is ents, being shuffled from lawyer to lawyer as their case made its standing outside a coffee shop on Lake Shore Drive smoking way through the system’s layers. Journalist Kevin Davis chroni- a cigar. Instead of the suit he wears in court, today it’s a USC cled the task force (more recently known as the Homicide Task sweatshirt and Chicago Blackhawks ball cap. He’s telling me Force) in detail in the book Defending the Damned. Strunck how he handled one client, charged with killing four people. is in there. One of the compelling stories he tells is of Ronald Prosecutors sought the death penalty. Strunck already had Macon Jr., a drug addict who confessed to raping and killing years defending murder cases under his belt. He told the man: three women. Macon drank booze and smoked crack with “You’re a poster child for the death penalty. See, you’re a drug his victims before he murdered them and left their bodies in dealer. You’re clearing $7,000 a day from each of four drug Dumpsters. At sentencing, Strunck tried to save his client from spots on the West Side.” execution. As is often the case, there was a horrific childhood: Strunck’s goal: Wear the client down and plead him guilty to Macon’s father beat him and shot his mother in front of the avoid the death penalty. “That guy finally came clean six years boy. That, and as Strunck told the judge, Macon was already later, and he pled and took life.” under a death sentence: He had HIV, which explained some of Strunck puts out his cigar, then stashes it in a potted plant. his rage. Was there any point in executing him sooner? We go inside for more coffee. “I saved his life, and now it’s up to him to make something “That’s another part about this drug culture and the culture of it,” Strunck told Davis. of poverty,” he says. “Common sense would tell you, Gee, if there But Strunck is no bleeding-heart liberal. When he came to are drug dealers all over the neighborhood, why aren’t these people Santa Clara his politics were “pretty much to the right of Attila calling the police? Because that’s the damn economy. The drug the Hun.” When he started lawyering, he thought the Coalition dealers are out supporting a lot of people: gang members, fellow Against the Death Penalty folks were a bunch of Molotov drug dealers, families, girlfriends, all their kids.” cocktail-throwing Trotskys. A few years in the trenches changed A few things to know about Bob Strunck. He’s five-foot- the way he looked at things. “In this job, you become real nine and stocky, broad face, square glasses. He can steer you to humble, real quick. But I’ve always gotten along with prosecu- every cigar store in the Windy City. With a flat-voweled, thud- tors real well,” he says. The current district attorney for Cook ded-consonant growl he will tell you, “I’ve seen and heard it County, Anita Alvarez, is a friend of his—and a fellow White all.” Then he starts into the tales to prove it. Among colleagues Sox fan. Conversely, he doesn’t have patience for those he his reputation is larger than life. describes as “quasi-Marxist millionaires up in Pacific Heights. He grew up among the sons and daughters of policemen What I admire is people who can walk the walk.” and firemen on Chicago’s northwest side, St. Francis Borgia On his cluttered office wall hangs a pennant for legendary parish. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was an Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, alongside pennants for the San Illinois state senator before serving as a judge. “Then in seventh Francisco Giants and New York Giants, the Brooklyn Dodgers grade, we moved up farther northwest, into the 41st Ward, and the Oakland Seals, photos of his 2005 World Champion which still is like the Orange County of the city of Chicago White Sox, and a poster of the Rolling Stones. (He’s seen them politically.” 17 times.) Amid the piles of files on his desk stand figurines of For high school he went to Loyola Academy in Wilmette, the Three Stooges. an upscale North Shore suburb. At Santa Clara he majored in A few things Bob Strunck wants you to know about history (and, as he’d be the first to admit, goofing off) and was Chicago: “It’s the biggest hick town on Earth. Skyscrapers. When a radio announcer for baseball and basketball games. He’s prone I’m on sports message boards, I call this place Hooterville. I to historical analogies like: “When you’re trying a death penalty mean, people treating the goofy Cubs like they’re a high school case, you’re going to Stalingrad. And it’s not getting any better team. This place is real provincial.” until it’s over.” The Cook County court system is one of the largest and bus- After getting his J.D. at the Chicago-Kent School of Law iest in the world. When Strunck and I meet for coffee, one front he started out defending shoplifters and prostitutes in branch page story is a federal investigation of former Chicago police misdemeanor court at State Street and 11th, an experience officer John Burge, who was accused of leading a rogue group of he describes as trial by fire and interesting as hell. In 1989 he detectives torturing confessions out of murder suspects in police joined the Murder Task Force, an elite team created in the Area Two, on Chicago’s far South Side, from the early 1970s to 1970s to address shortcomings that came with public defender the early 1990s. The statute of limitations on the torture is past. How can you defend those people?

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 27 The latest investigation is into perjury and obstruction of justice. Two women, the guy that was supplying the cocaine, and a “These are the tales of the naked city,” Strunck says. 9-year-old boy. A private attorney was representing both him A few things Bob Strunck wants you to know about his and his brother, allegedly for only $200, on a quadruple mur- clients: “Pretty much all of them have sheets. When you’re der. Two hundred bucks. And the attorney decided he’d represent actually up close and personal with these people, you can the other guy. He told the cops and the state’s attorneys, ‘Well, understand why some of this happens: living in a four-block maybe my guy knows something about a fire that killed 10 kids area, and selling drugs, and these stupid, senseless street a few years earlier.’ Kidd kept pleading guilty and going to tes- shootings over revenge. A lot of these murders on the South tify for his brother—the Frick and Frack defense—thinking his Side and on the West Side, they’re like one paragraph in the brother would win, and then the brother would testify for him. paper, if you read about them at all. I’ve had a lot of cases where Stupid street law, okay? Just nonsense. When they first tried these kids are in fist fights. The one kid that loses goes back and him on the 10 bodies, they introduced dream testimony into gets a gun, and will shoot the other kid in front of five or six evidence. When that case came back to get retried, the client people. Or an old lady gets shot through her window, or a kid thought he was cute and he’d be his own lawyer. That way, he gets hit in the crossfire, or a kid gets shot on a bus.” could tell the jury he didn’t do it, and the state couldn’t cross- Back outside the coffee shop, Strunck retrieves his hidden examine him. Now, his IQ, when I had him tested, was 70.” cigar and relights it. He says, “People have the idea that most of A lawyer is only as good as his facts. With Strunck defend- these murders are well planned and that these people are inher- ing him, Kidd was convicted by a jury and sentenced to death. ently evil. The majority of these people aren’t evil.” Governor Ryan later let Kidd’s brother go, saying that the confession was obtained through torture. Those people “You’re always Drug debt going to get the Another of Strunck’s clients was Cinque Lewis, a native of question, ‘How can Oakland, Calif., who, as a juvenile, went into a motel on you defend those MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland and killed a man with a people?’” Strunck sawed-off shotgun over a drug debt. He was sentenced to says. “In this town, those prison. “Then, every death penalty juror’s worst nightmare: He people means the blacks. escaped,” Strunck says. “He got to Kansas City, where he had When I started doing this, an uncle who was some sort of storefront minister and who we were on the wrong side of gave him money and sent him to Chicago. He comes here and everything.” One judge, now becomes an enforcer for the El Rukns.” retired, had sentenced more On Nov. 5, 1985, Lewis went to collect drug money from people to death than most states Yvonne Donald—a 31-year-old mother of two daughters who had. Another with a reputation for was five months pregnant. Lewis told the older girl, Brunell, age tough sentencing, Thomas Maloney, 10, “‘You go in the other room, I got to talk to your mother.’ turned out to be taking bribes from She knew the guy,” Strunck says, “because he was always local Mafia and street gangs like the El around collecting the money for the drugs. The mother didn’t Rukns to acquit their guys—then have the money, so he stabbed her 31 times.” hammering public defenders’ clients Lewis went back to California and turned himself in. While to cover himself. “In the last he was in prison in Vacaville, his fingerprints were matched to 15 years, 18 people have been the Chicago murder; he was brought back to Illinois for trial. exonerated—18 people. They Brunell—then 15—identified him. weren’t legally not guilty; they were “I cross-examined the girl—a textbook cross-examination,” absolutely innocent. Because DNA’s Strunck says. “The defendant had a big, ugly scar from his ear the ultimate fingerprint. When you get to to basically his mouth. She didn’t describe that to the police. a situation like that, you realize the whole system’s broken.” So I figure, okay, I’m going to try to cast doubt on what she’s In 2000, then-Governor George Ryan, a Republican, agreed saying here.” with that assessment and suspended executions. Investigations But Brunell wasn’t fazed. into the capital punishment system in the 1990s led to a string Lewis was sentenced to death. Several years later, during of exonerations of men who had been wrongly convicted and a resentencing hearing, Brunell was on the stand again. sentenced to die. In 2003, Ryan commuted the sentence of all “They asked her what she was doing now. ‘I’m in law school,’ 167 inmates on death row to life in prison. she said.” One of those men is Leonard Kidd. In 1980 he set fire Strunck talked at length with Brunell Donald afterward. to a building and killed 10 children, whose ages ranged from “That girl became a public defender,” he says. “She wrote 17 years to 7 months. a book and now she’s a motivational speaker.” She wanted to “Because he was burned, they didn’t arrest him,” Strunck get Strunck on The Oprah Winfrey Show. “I think that’s the explains. “A few years later, he and his brother are involved highest tribute to us that she became a public defender.” in a quadruple homicide, over rock cocaine in a dope house:

28 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Not guilty: Robert Strunck defended Antonyo Gipson, 23, when he was charged with a triple murder in 2006. Read the Act II. The Fishbowls story at santaclaramagazine.com The Cook County Courthouse stands at the corner of California and 26th Ave., next to the hulking Cook County Jail. The courthouse is grimed with history; its wood-paneled rooms were witness to the Black Sox trial and the filming of The Fugitive. The smaller, upper-story courtroom where Crystal Marchigiani tries a case on a gray-brown morning in February is a bit more prosaic; with sloping gallery windows, it is one of the rooms they call “the fishbowls.” Alongside the scuffs and streaks on the wall is a sign that reads Please Keep Your Feet Off the Walls. Marchigiani is chief of the Homicide Task Force—then composed of 33 lawyers currently handling 450 cases, a quarter of them capital. Marchigiani’s client, James division. “I realized that the stories these children had were the Freeman, is accused of participating in the kidnapping and same stories that the adults charged with capital crimes in adult shooting of a known drug dealer, Robert Greene, in December court had, but nobody had ever seen the 11-year-old that they 2002. The body was left in the trunk of Greene’s car, a black had been,” she says. “The kids growing up in Chicago’s war Chevrolet Caprice, and not discovered until May—after zones—some of them may make it out. But it’s not just danger- Greene’s sister, who owned the car, began receiving notices of ous because they may be shot or killed, it’s dangerous because parking tickets. they grow up hardened, with a lack of empathy.” Freeman’s confession is on a police video, as is his brief biog- In 2003, Marchigiani became chief of the Homicide Task raphy at the time: 25 years old, five kids, an 8th-grade educa- Force. She has also taught trial advocacy at DePaul University for tion. He and his girlfriend were arrested a year after the killing: the past 20 years. And she, too, is a Sox fan. It was night, they were in a white Mercury Sable parked in a visible area of an apartment complex parking lot, and a security The crime guard got suspicious and called the police. Caribbean food, Greene was killed in the Caprice with a TEC-22. cannabis, and a 9 mm semiautomatic with hollow-point bullets The version that James Freeman tells on the video goes some- were in the car. Freeman was charged with illegal possession of a thing like this: He and three other guys decide to rob Greene. weapon. He admitted that the Mercury was stolen. Freeman pretends to buy a bag of cocaine, the others drive up, When the judge calls a recess for lunch, Marchigiani eats guns flashing. There’s a tussle, Greene is shot in the leg, shoved an apple and sips a cup of soup in her office. In contrast to in the trunk. They take him to a garage and demand that he tell the exuberant clutter of Strunck’s, hers is spare, orderly; there them where his cash is. He tells: his girlfriend’s apartment. They is a framed print of scales of justice and a ceramic figurine of a get it: $60,000 stashed in a pink purse. But Greene has seen faces. girl with a pony tail at an easel, painting flowers. And there is “Gotta get rid of this nigger,” one of the others says. a view: freight trains, freeway, bare trees, and stubby towers of They throw Greene back into the trunk of his Caprice, then the southwest city skyline. with others in the backseat and another car trailing, Freeman A few things about Crystal Marchigiani: She is a true believer drives the Caprice to 51st Street on the West Side. Shots are in what she does. As long as she can remember, she wanted to be fired—four or five. Body and Caprice are left. Money is split up. a public defender. She has dark blond hair and is five-foot-five and Freeman heads for Memphis. projects a quality of force in the courtroom. When she speaks, At first Freeman denied involvement in the murder. But police her sentences are well crafted and thoughtful; when she laughs (“I held his girlfriend on the same floor; she knew some of what had hope the prosecutors think I’m taller!”) it’s deep and melodic. happened—what was she telling? By 4:30 a.m. a day after being “Toughness for me is a strategy,” she says. “But it’s the arrested, Freeman led detectives to the garage where they’d held humanity of the job that matters to me. Of course my client Greene and began a two-hour taped confession. has done something heinous—or is accused of doing something With ample evidence to place him at the scene, Freeman was heinous—or knows the wrong people, because here we stand. convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison. No one else has And it’s truly our negotiating skills that keep our clients alive.” been charged. She grew up in a working-class family in Sacramento with a mother who waitressed and a father who had been sergeant- at-arms in the State Assembly but, for most of her childhood, was on disability. At Santa Clara she studied political science Act III: Survival of the fittest and worked at a temp agency. After earning her J.D. at U.C. Bob Strunck says that in his junior year in college he and his bud- Hastings, she joined the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s dies received a letter from the University informing them that Office. “This place is so enormous compared to that,” she says. they were incompatible for dorm life. So they rented a house next And, “But for love I never would have left.” door to The Hut, a bar just off campus. In those hell-raising days She spent 1990–97 on the Homicide Task Force and then he figured himself for a future prosecutor, “somebody asking for needed a break; after a year in private practice, she was back the death penalty. I’d be merciless. And then become a judge and as a public defender—this time as a supervisor in the juvenile just whack everybody.” But if Strunck could talk to his 19-year-

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 29 old self now, “It would be a stern lecture. Like, ‘Hey, smart-ass, lot of these cases in a comical way,” Strunck says. “You know, if you don’t know everything and you’ve got a lot of learning to you want to be offended by stuff, you’re in the wrong place. When do. Shut your mouth and listen to people because you’re going I was trying the arson case, I’m walking up to the podium in the to learn more from listening than by talking. The world doesn’t courtroom one day and I catch a couple of my buddies in the gal- revolve around you and your friends. And no matter what you lery. They’ve got their hands low, so the judge can’t see them, and think your life is gonna be, it’s not.’” they both had lighters lit.” In a nod to the persistent question—How can you defend those people?—he says, “I didn’t need to see all this misery and mayhem and murder. But then again, maybe it’s God’s will that End of an era I did see it, because I can understand it. It opened my eyes. I Act IV: became a lot more compassionate. And that’s not in defense December 2010. Strunck is outside the courthouse in the early of homicide or anything like that. I’m not the most devout evening dark, smoking a cigar and freezing. He’s called to share Catholic, but if you have any kind of conscience at all, you some news: Illinois’ House Judiciary Committee has voted 4-to-3 understand what the Jesuits are trying to tell you. I am not to abolish the death penalty. “This is all about money,” he explains. arrogant or self-delusional enough to say that the people The deficit is nearly half the budget; unfunded pension obligations who are against capital punishment—or public defenders, or are four to five times the deficit. Ending the post-conviction pro- defense attorneys in general—are doing God’s work. Because cess for death penalty cases would save millions of dollars. conscientious prosecutors are doing God’s work. I respect the The House votes to abolish in January. Marchigiani is on her way hell out of a lot of them. Conscientious judges are doing God’s home and hears the news on her car radio. She has to pull over to work. I just think we’re on the right side of this argument, if catch her breath. The Senate votes a few days later. And the company they’re arguing at all, up at the Pearly Gates. But in that court- that manufactures the lethal injection cocktail used in Illinois’ execu- room, I know how it’s perceived: They’re wearing the white tions announces plans to cease production. hats, and I’m wearing a black hat. And that’s the way it is.” Ash Wednesday, 2011: Patrick Quinn, the governor of Illinois, He also acknowledges that, while he has worked with a sense signs the bill abolishing the death penalty. Strunck stops off to buy of obligation to both his clients and the taxpayers of Cook some champagne on the way to the office. The timing couldn’t have County, 95 percent of those taxpayers weren’t happy when he greater symbolic value for him; come summer, he will retire from won. “Which is understandable,” he says. “For having me do the task force and join a friend’s private criminal practice. this job, it must’ve been the Jesuits’ gotcha moment.” “I feel about this like when the White Sox won the World Strunck recounts a seminar on the death penalty in New Series,” he says. “‘What? This is really happening?’ Of course the Orleans. “One of these half-wit liberals was up there saying, Coalition Against the Death Penalty and all these people take ‘Oh, Colorado’s such a beautiful place. But it’s such a rough credit, but that doesn’t bother me. We were the ones ducking the jurisdiction for our clients.’ And I yelled out from the back of bullets at D-Day.” the room, ‘I guess they don’t like crime in Colorado, either!’ By March, Marchigiani is no longer at the Homicide Task Force. This guy sitting behind me was from Florida. He almost fell She’s been transferred to Bridgeview, a suburban courthouse, where out of his chair laughing.” she supervises the public defenders. She has one client for whom the In contrast, Strunck says, the Death Penalty College run change in the law alters the landscape completely. by Ellen Kreitzberg at Santa Clara is “the best death penalty The day after the death penalty is abolished, the state appellate program in the nation. Nothing is close. It’s actual simulated defenders downstate are laid off. At the Homicide Task Force, the courtroom stuff.” Strunck came out for that in 1998. public defenders need to submit their job description for review. Being pragmatic and seeing all angles has served Strunck and For Strunck’s retirement party in July, District Attorney Anita his clients well. He estimates that he got the results he wanted Alvarez comes to see him off. It’s a tribute to him and the work of more than half the time—well above the curve. Marchigiani the task force. “I’ve been doing this job so long and I’ve been doing credits him for being particularly adept at assessing how a defense it honorably, so I can walk in their circle like an esteemed oppo- story is going to be perceived, how to work a prosecutor, and nent,” he says. “But if you would’ve told me when I was a junior when it’s wisest to arrange for a bench trial—whereby a judge, at Santa Clara, sitting in Candlestick Park, on my fifth beer—that not a jury, will make all the decisions. “He has had a lot of clients someday I would’ve been personally involved, even being a little acquitted, or acquitted of the more serious charges, or sentenced cog in the machine, in the abolition of the death penalty in the to life instead of death, because he made that decision correctly,” state of Illinois, I would’ve said you were flat-out crazy. There was she says. some greater purpose here.” “A lot of folks get in personal battles with prosecutors or the Marchigiani is more circumspect; yes, the death penalty has judge,” Strunck says. “No, you’re not the defendant. You have been abolished—for now. But ask her if she might not want to to be effective. You can’t sit here and listen to a sob story which do anything else after all she’s seen, she says she can’t imagine not may or may not be true. You have to look at the law, and you doing this work. have to look at the facts. And you have to investigate the hell Strunck, on the other hand, professes, “Oh, I would have loved out of these cases.” to have been a sports writer, before the collapse of the newspa- And you have to stay sane. One of the ways the public per industry. Obviously, I would have loved to have been Sandy defenders do that is with true gallows humor. “We talk about a Koufax. But that wasn’t in the cards.” SCU

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Band of sCU aRCHIves sisters Celebrating 50 years of women at Santa Clara

n autumn 1961, a small, brave vanguard of women enrolled at santa Clara as undergrads. And the University would Inever be the same. On the pages that follow we commemorate that historic change. In “Tradition shattered,” Gerri Beasley ’65 and a few classmates share their stories of arriving on the Mission Campus. The first women to live on campus actually lived off campus, in a converted apartment complex, the Park Lanai, which was rechristened the Villa Maria for its new residents. In 1963 the first residence hall built for women opened: The Graham Residence Complex boasted a gate that was locked at night, a pool, the Pipestage Club, and bounteous hijinks over the years. A few of those moments are here in “Remembrance of things Graham,” shared by the women (and, later, the men) who called this place home. It’s a send-off for Graham, which was leveled this summer to make way for a new Graham complex opening fall 2012.

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Tradition shattered

ifty years ago, rest of the women faced the hazing all freshman did, in the fall of including having to wear red-and-white beanies. We 1961, the were also on the receiving end of some especially University of obnoxious behavior that first year. There were actually F Santa Clara boys who threw food at us in the cafeteria. admitted women as Some professors had a niece or cousin in class. undergraduate students Some had never taught a female before. Most were for the first time. Quietly not accustomed to perfect penmanship, illuminated forging the way ahead reports—or tears from a student when there was of them were student disagreement over a grade. Some were reluctant nurses, in training at to call on a coed to answer a question or solve a O’Connor Hospital and problem; I learned that firsthand. I used to spell my taking classes on the first name with a “y,” and one day one of the Jesuits Mission Campus in the saw my name on his attendance sheet and said, late 1950s. My older “Gerry Ferrara, would you tell us the first cause sister, Vera, was one of being?” I stood up. And he said, “Oh, not you. of them. That she Thought you were a guy.” So I changed the spelling studied here also gave of my name to Gerri. me courage when the Other professors were won over quickly by young good and forward- women who were eager to learn and forceful in their thinking Jesuits, led convictions; and some of the professors recognized by President Patrick the historic change for what it was. To be one of There’s an app for that: Donohoe, S.J., announced they would admit the those women, you had to be someone who wanted It’s March ’61, and Martha tradition-shattering freshman class of 1961. to be a pioneer. You may have been encouraged by Patricia O’Malley is the This class would include first woman to apply for your grandfather who went admission. 70 freshmen coeds, several here, or a great-uncle. sophomore and junior coeds, It takes a villa But most women were and one lone senior transfer There was a welcoming group of going to be strong from student, Mary Somers sophomore boys that met us at our the beginning. And they Edmunds ’62, who became the apartments, the Villa Maria. They carried probably became more first woman to earn a bachelor’s in our bags, and that was the only time assertive. they were allowed into that facility. The degree from Santa Clara. And Santa Clara made apartments at the very back were very there were 1,500 male students. popular, since the Ra was in the front. me a stronger person I was delighted to have the There was a lot of sneaking in or out of spiritually, academically, chance to be one of these the screen windows, because of curfew. and socially. Certainly as More seriously, what the Jesuits women. Most lived in an I raised four children and taught me is the freedom to explore apartment complex rechristened and to be there for others; that’s why I saw their educational the Villa Maria and made part of went into teaching. There were times, and other opportunities, campus. Because my parents with some of the male students behav- I could encourage them ing badly, when Fr. Lou Bannan would couldn’t afford that, I lived at to press into areas that come talk to us and ask how we felt home. The first day of class, about it. Then he’d pretty much tell us: other people hadn’t gone the bus from Mountain View to “Just ignore it, it’ll go away.” It did. before. In my professional Santa Clara seemed to take an He also told us, “You know, you won’t career, too, I had no eternity. On campus, I and the realize this until later, but you really qualms about walking into are part of something very special.” and we were. Pat Pepin Dougherty ’65 32 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Tennis, anyone? We had to wear skirts or dresses at all ClassNotes times on campus. If we were going to play tennis, we needed to wear a trench coat over our tennis outfit on our way to the courts. We could take off the trench while he waits for a second coat, play tennis, and then be sure to UndergradUate put it back on before we left the ten- kidney transplant at age 71. nis court—no matter how hot we were. 1963 James B. Fugua has There were no team sports for us at all. edward Maffeo 1949 been elected vice commodore But we changed Santa Clara irre- MBa ’63 and wife Joyce vocably. We learned, and we taught a of Stillwater Yacht Club at celebrated their 60th wedding lot—particularly the priests, who really Pebble Beach. anniversary with friends and had not had any experience dealing with women. Intellectually, we were a very family, including their two 1966 REUNION bright group. That impressed a lot of great-grandchildren, at their OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 the faculty. and I think that we improved residence in Erie, Colo. Santa Clara. The whole culture and James P. green writes: “Still tenor of the University changed because 1951 dick Schaub writes in active law practice of my women were here. that he and wife Lou-Ann 39th year as a trial lawyer. [I Gaby McKannay Miller ’65 attended his 55th class reunion have] three adult children and at Harvard Business School in three grandchildren—soon to June. be four.”

Barnard J. Vogel Jr. J.d. a room filled with male doctors and telling them to 1967 Christine (Mattson) ’56 writes that a group from Barrett writes: “I work as a put out their cigarettes and pay attention so we could the class of ’51, along with homeopathic and spay/neuter get to work planning the next medical conference. spouses or dates, have veterinarian. I live with Ed In 1962, the number of women enrolled at Santa been getting together two or (husband of eight years) and a Clara grew to 400. And other Jesuit, Catholic all-male three times a year for more few dogs and cats in the schools began to become more inclusive as well—of than 10 years. They include: Sierras.” women and many other groups. But for us, only once Jim Vaudanga ’51, neil Moran ’51, don Iden ’51, theodore e. Burke we were out of Santa Clara did we truly realize what 1968 angelo Siracusa ’51, Sam writes: “[Being] co-owner of we were doing, and how things were changing for Winklebleck ’51, and Pierre Shadowbrook Restaurant in women in society. Bouquet ’51. Capitola and having completed Those of us who were lucky enough to have 12 years as the California state been among the first women on campus celebrate 1952 robert C. gilkey representative on the board all of you who are now among the best that Santa writes: “I lived in Honolulu, of directors of the National Hawaii, for over 50 years Clara has prepared for the world. We have honored Restaurant Association, I (1953–2007) before moving to was recently elected director and will continue the mission of the Jesuits: to be Georgia to live near one of my emeritus, a lifetime position.” competent, conscientious, and compassionate sons. I was sports editor of women, mindful of the rich history and tradition of our the college newspaper during Kevin J. donahue was great University. Being engaged as alumnae has also my sophomore (1949 Orange named the California State been a privilege—and tremendously rewarding over Bowl) year—a wonderful Athletic Director of the Year for the decades. experience!” 2010–11. He was also honored with the Distinguished Service I am honored to be the first of three generations of 1953 gary Kilkenny writes: Award from the Central Coast Bronco women, followed by our daughter, betsy ’87, “Married 55 years to my wife, Section Athletic Directors and our granddaughter, Megan McIntosh ’10. All of Bev. Retired for 11 years. Association and the In Via us—including my husband, bill ’62, and our son Still chair of board of Taylor Award from Serra High School bart ’90—hope that the tradition will continue. Forge Engineered Systems. in San Mateo after 31 years at Four married children, 15 the school, where he served Go Broncos! grandchildren. Granddaughter as athletic director. He lives in abbey will start at SCU this fall.” Danville with his wife, Robin.

1961 REUNION 1969 Marilee Pierotti Lau Gerri Beasley ’65 OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 Immediate Past President of the MBa ’70 has been appointed to National Alumni Association 1962 Phil abel is still living in the ERISA Department of Labor Winnetka, Calif., with his wife, Advisory Council in Washington, Pat. They have four children D.C., for a three-year term. Web and six grandchildren. Abel Exclusives repairs computers part time Video, photos, and the rules for residents of Villa Maria await you at santaclaramagazine.com/women

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 33 Remembrance of things Graham

thousands of students called in 2005 its swimming pool was filled in. Graham’s Graham Hall home over the past final chapter came this summer, as the complex was half century. Santa Clara’s first leveled to make way for the new Graham Hall that residence hall built for women, will open in fall 2012. it also boasted a pool, the In May, alumni spanning Graham’s half-century Pipestage Club, and bounteous of student housing returned for the dorm’s send-off hijinks. the old buildings are party. Guests enjoyed barbecue, took tours of the gone to make way for the new— four buildings in the complex, and entered a raffle to but the memories live on. win their old room number as a keepsake. Before the tile was plucked from the roof and bulldozers came By Jeff Gire calling in June, every last number had been claimed. Read on for a sampling of alumni memories, and Right from the start, students called it a be sure to dive into the full collection online. country club, and the pristine facility with Gates and Curfew the sparkling pool looked the part. The Charles The Graham gates hold a special infamy for some— H. Graham Residence for Women opened its gates because the 11 p.m. curfew was serious business back (yes, it had gates) in 1963, just two years after in the day. Ronnie Schwarz ’66 was one of many Santa Clara first admitted women as undergradu- curfew limbo artists, taking part in the frequent ates. Before Graham opened, coeds lived in the Villa “mad dash to beat the clock and get in the gate.” Of Maria Apartments next to campus. For more recent course, one could always go up and over the fence; students, the Graham gates served as ornamentation, Suzann Selden ’68 remembers “being hoisted over but in the beginning they were locked nightly at the concrete fences post-curfew … only to end up in 11 p.m. to enforce curfew. rose bushes.” Jim Heyburn ’68 upheld Santa Clara’s Over the years, Graham underwent changes as engineering tradition by “installing a quick-release it housed men as well as women, the curfew was screen on one select ground-floor room.” relaxed, and—much to the dismay of its denizens—

Birthday dunkings here!

34 S anta C lara M agazine | | Fall 2011 Pool and Pranks There were parties. Ken Rohner ’91, The pool inspired many students MBA ’97 recalls the day that several frater- over the years to put off studying nity mud wrestlers, still a mess from that for just a bit more sun—and it day’s competition, turned the pool into “a tested the limits of undergrads’ swamp.” Sue Fry ’79 remembers a particu- imagination and friendships. Patti lar bash when “a full-size powerboat some- Boitano ’71 and Sarju Naran ’98 how made its way into the pool.” were each the victim of an abrupt The GreaT Pan T y r aid of ’67 (if temporary) eviction from their “It was during finals. I was a freshman rooms. Boitano returned from 1 living on the second floor of Walsh Hall,” class to discover “all my belong- ings out by the pool with every- Timothy “Pat” Hannon ’70, J.D. ’74 recollects. What began with loud music, thing set up just like my dorm shouting, and a water fight suddenly room.” More than two decades “morphed into a panty raid for unknown later, the same prank was played reasons.” on Naran, who calls the culprits The male students gathered at Swig his “best friends to date.” Hall, where they staged their invasion. If it was your birthday in Over in Graham Hall, Graham, you wore a swimsuit if Betty Ross ’67, observed an early arriver push you didn’t want some drenched M.A. ’79 a security guard into the pool. And while togs. Janice Benech ’88, Ron “the male students were crossing The Andre ’93, and Susan Sy Cabael Alameda to Graham—women at Graham ’95, M.A. ’98 all fondly look were yelling at them to come in.” back on the traditional, and Suddenly, “out of the night” Dean non-negotiable, b-day dunk. of Students appeared in “It was very cold,” says Andre. Jerry McGrath a police car. He stood on the cruiser’s Even resident assistants weren’t 2 doorjamb and addressed the unruly crowd safe. The residents under Robert with the most disarming weapon at his Genchi ’00 ambushed and then disposal: wit. “I am glad you invited me chucked their RA into the deep here to speak to you tonight,” he said over end. “Bad then, awesome in hind- the PA. sight,” says Genchi. “It was a profile in courage,” recalls Hannon. “I, unfortunately, have witnessed other mobs, but I have never witnessed one person so alone and so deftly disarm a group with words so quickly.” In hindsight? It was “a nice way to release the pressure valve of finals!” Ross says. The PiP esTa G e Located in the basement of Graham 100, Pipestage allowed students to catch some of the 1970s’ biggest acts for about a

3 PhotoS courteSy Scu archiveS and the redwood buck—as Jim Esposito ’78 recounts in his litany: “Who would have ever imagined that Steve Martin, Mike Bloomfield, 1 Interiors: The all-women’s residence hall in the ’60s. Harvey Mandel, Michael Franks, Sammy Hagar, and a host of other great musicians 2 Pool party: It was the ’70s, and it seemed and comedians would end up playing in like a good idea at the time. the basement of this dorm?” SCU 3 Gated community: Locked at curfew in the early days, to keep women in and men out. Web Exclusives See more pics and memories—and share your memories, pics, film, and et ceteras— at santaclaramagazine.com

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 353535 1970 Edward Walsh, CFO and part owner of a Mark Ivary writes: “I was Mary McQuade Schrey who retired from City of San construction company for 38 married to my late wife for 27 Springer relocated to Eugene, Francisco service in January years. I lost my wife, Maureen, years until her death in 2002. Ore., in 2009 and has been 2009, went back to school in 2009 to cancer after 39 We have three kids. I have instrumental in bringing the to study math and science years of marriage and have one owned and operated an Ace nonprofit Second Saturday (his worst subjects in high son, who is a CPA.” Hardware store in Stockton, to the city. Its mission is to school and college) toward a Calif., for the past 31 years, as keep divorcing women and Robert G. P. Cruz J.D. ’83 B.S. in biology. He is also a well as being a general contractor their children out of poverty completed a two-year term as commissioner/trustee of the for the past 15 years.” through education and member of the Guam Election Retiree Health Care Trust Fund, support. Through her private Commission. He also was Phil Johnson writes: “I’ve been which funds medical care for psychotherapy practice she an international observer in married for 23 wonderful years to retired City of San Francisco has also spearheaded a elections in the Philippines my wife, Vicki, who has amazing employees. Grandparents Raising Their and in Kosovo while serving patience and fortitude! We are Grandchildren Network 1971 REUNION with the U.N. Department of raising four great kids and also and is on the board of OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 Peacekeeping 1999–2006. helped our niece through high the Oregon Association of Cruz works as part-time traffic school and college. We live in Collaborative Professionals. David Bence writes: “I have and small claims referee, the Sacramento area. I was She and husband Dean enjoy practiced law since 1974; Superior Court of Guam. in high-tech for 25 years (HP, spending time with her two currently in solo practice Andersen Consulting, a few granddaughters. in Torrance, Calif., with an Karen Enz writes that she startups) and have spent the emphasis on estate planning earned an M.A. both in last 10 years focusing on real 1972 Denise Traficanto and probate; residing in biological sciences and estate syndications.” McGraw M.A. ’74 teaches first Rancho Palos Verdes with wife counselor education at San grade at an Orange County Anita and several cats.” Jose State University. She lives Will Shadish and his wife, magnet school. Her husband, with her partner of 16 years in Cindy, have lived in Mariposa, Ambrose, is semiretired as a Paul Bruschera writes: “After Sunnyvale and is an employee Calif., since 2003 after 30 federal auditor and business two years as an Army finance of the Fremont Union High years in the Midwest. He is professor. Both their daughters officer, [I] moved back to San School District. professor, founding faculty, and work as teaching assistants, Francisco and have been chair of Psychological Sciences at U.C. Merced.

GIFT PLANNING A perfect match Bill Adams ’37 needed a date for classmates “would never have had the the Engineering Society’s spring Santa Clara experience without dance. It was April 1937, and the scholarships.” senior—who would receive the Nobili In 1990, Adams donated stock to found medal—was nervous. “The Lord must the William J. and Marijane E. Adams Jr. have been with me,” Adams recalls. “I Awards, a pair of scholarships for opened the Saturday Mercury News, and mechanical engineering students. there was a picture of Marijane.” In 2005, Marijane passed away from Marijane and Adams attended the Alzheimer’s disease. same grammar school in Santa Cruz. She “I tell anyone who’s interested in was a music talent who played the Holy giving, do it while you’re living,” Adams Cross Church organ as a teenager. Adams says. “Even today, I still get ‘thank you’ had admired from afar his “belle of Santa letters from recipients of our scholarship Cruz”—until the spring dance. Not only that I’m sure would bring tears to did she accept Adams’ invitation, Marijane Marijane’s eyes.” broke off a previous date to do so. For more information about planning “We were married 66 years.” Adams your own legacy for future generations, says. “She was my inspiration.” please contact the Office of Gift Planning: As he approached retirement, Adams Liz Gallegos Glynn, CFRE and Sue Covey, CFRE • 408-554-2108 • [email protected] • ARRy considered how education had shaped his life—and the fact that he and most www.scu.edu/giftplanning CHARlES B

36 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 ClassNotes respectively in Orange County estate business for 34 years. I countries around the world— Andrea Hawkins Sloan J.D. and in northern France. spend a month a year traveling teaching, training, praying, ’86 was appointed immigration the European continent and counseling. Garner preaches judge in October 2010. Since Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann learning Italian.” Her two weekly at a Korean-American 1998 Judge Sloan had worked Peters is provost of the U.S. daughters also received a church in Silicon Valley. for the Office of Administrative Naval War College in Newport, Jesuit education, at Loyola Hearings, in Salem, Ore., in R.I. She and her husband, Tim Chicago. Dr. John W. Hubbard is various capacities as a law McMahon, a teacher, have two a senior vice president for judge. From 1987 to 1991, college-age children. Mike O’Hara writes: “Mary Pfizer Inc. He and wife she served as deputy district ’77 and I are healthy and living Jeanne (Strobach) ’78 live in attorney, Humboldt County David B. Samuelson J.D. ’75 in San Diego. We root for the Doylestown, Pa., and NYC. District Attorney’s Office, in writes: “Still enjoying living up in Aztecs and USD these days.” They enjoy traveling and are Eureka, Calif. She lives in the San Juans—probably never They have five children. involved in many children’s Beaverton, Ore., with her retire.” organizations and fundraisers. husband, Chris Sloan J.D. ’84, Steven Schumann writes: and their two children. 1973 Dr. Thomas Kane “Back to managing the work 1981 REUNION writes: “Medical director of at SLOCO Data & Printing OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 1983 Carol (Leclair) Brewer the Queens Joint Center, after visiting Cabo San Lucas and John Brewer ’83 are now founder of the Kane Orthopedic Peggy Donovan-Verheul for 11 days. Adjusting to two empty-nesters with their third Institute, still surfing in Hawaii writes: “I am a physical adult children now back living child at Loyola Marymount after 26 years here.” therapist and reside in Hanford, at home with us parents. (their oldest graduated from Calif., with my husband, Eric, Maybe I should ship them off Bates College and another is 1976 REUNION to Santa Clara!” and our three children.” OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 enrolled at the University of Redlands). Carol and John Robert Strunck writes: Nancy Doyle writes that Rose Marie Beebe writes: have swapped career roles, “Retired from the Cook County she recently retired from the “I was hired in the Modern with Carol teaching Weight Office of the Public Defender in administrative position of dean Languages department at Watchers in company classes July to enter private practice, of students at St. Francis SCU in 1978 and rose through in the Silicon Forest, while specializing in—what else?— High School, in Sacramento, the ranks from lecturer to full John tries to figure out what criminal defense. It has been to move to its counseling professor in 2002. I have been to do after the sale of SiGe quite a ride from representing department. Two of her three married for almost 12 years to Semiconductor. Carol continues an individual who currently children have graduated from Robert Senkewicz, professor to play tennis in USTA and sits atop the standings for the college. of history at SCU since 1976. Portland City leagues while most murder convictions in Together we have published a Gregory A. O’Leary writes: maintaining her running career the history of the state of Illinois number of books on Spanish “Donald Mazzilli ’81 was from her Bronco days. to the abolition of the death and Mexican California, inducted into the St. Mary’s penalty, with two victories in especially the mission period.” High School Athletic Hall of 1984 Denis Dillon and triple-murder cases thrown in for Fame in Stockton, Calif., on Hilary ’86 live in San Anselmo good measure. I spent the last Marcia Daszko, business Oct. 27, 2010.” with their two children. Hilary strategist, founded her 22 years of a 30-year stretch in works for Trainos Commercial executive consulting firm, the Murder Task Force—I have 1982 Rev. Bill Brown Construction and Denis is vice Marcia Daszko & Associates, seen and heard it all. George is director of St. Joseph president of finance and in 1994 in Santa Clara after Giacomini ’56 would have Retreat House in Milton, controller at Norcal Mutual a career in marketing and made a great judge.” Mass., outside Boston. He is Insurance Co. corporate communications and a priest and member of the Daniel T. Zorn is director living in Switzerland. She has Oblates of the Virgin Mary 1986 REUNION of finance and technology founded three nonprofits, is a religious community. He OctOber 6–9, 2011 services at California State published author, and teaches previously served as Provincial University San Marcos. Leanne D. Ingram writes: “A MBA classes in management for eight years. The retreat year ago I married my first love and marketing. She has one house focuses on directed 1977 Bill Quiseng is the from high school on the beach married son and two vibrant retreats based on the Spiritual charter general manager of in Hawaii where we used to grandchildren. Exercises of St. Ignatius. The Henry—An Autograph hang out. I have three kids, my Collection Hotel in Dearborn, Tom Henry currently directs Michael A. Jacques J.D. husband has five. My son has Mich. all marketing activities for ’88 was recently elected as profound autism. He does not a commissioner for the Placer talk and has severe behavioral Logitech–Americas. 1978 Michael Garner County Superior Court. He lives issues of head-banging and writes that after 25 years as a Martin Morici writes: “I have on his small-scale farm in rural punching himself in the head. pastor of a local church, he’s been in the commercial real Placer County with his wife of I have dedicated myself to now doing missionary work in 20 years, Kyle, and two sons.

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 37 LiV e S J O ineD learning more about autism and 1988 Greg Dalcher is a other developmental disabilities. senior software engineer with M. Dean Sutton J.D. Cooper Carras ’03 ’06 were in the wedding I am midway through receiving ’77 and Adriana Frederick and Allison Beckord party. Other Broncos in McAfee Corp. in Beaverton, on May 21, 2011, at ’03 on May 15, 2011, in attendance: Melissa my master’s in special Ore. Point Lobos overlooking Boulder, Colo., in a very Diamond ’06, Holly education.” Carmel. They live in Santa small ceremony in the (Honnen) Smith ’06, 1989 Kristin Valente- Cruz. He practices law in snow. Nathan Beckord Christina Alexander Lawrence Luke writes: “I have Madden, a veteran account Santa Clara and Santa ’95 officiated, and alumni ’06, Alex Tosti ’08, been happily married to Joan leader at Ernst & Young’s Cruz counties. She is a guests included Cyril Michael Haro ’05, Greg (Oliver) ’86 for 21 years. We TV reporter in Monterey. Vidergar J.D. ’03, Wade Berber ’05, Vinnie Seattle office, was promoted Buckland ’03, Marcy DiCarlo ’05, Ryan have lived in San Clemente, to the firm’s advisory services Maria Ferguson Swiatek ’03, Bonnie Kunkel ’05, and Spencer Calif., for the past 14 years. We practice in Portland, where Amidon ’96 and Andrew Young ’03, Emily Rand ’05. In Los Angeles, have two daughters—at the she is a partner. Previously, Amidon on May 22, 2010. (Abbott) Harryman ’03, Anita currently works as a The couple lives in Santa University of Colorado, Boulder, she worked as an auditor for Charlie Doty ’03, Katie U.S. history teacher at Notre and at Marquette University— Clara, where Ria teaches Cambier ’03, Pat Rue Dame Academy, and Trevin the firm in Silicon Valley. She fifth grade. ’03, Rachel (Paul) Rue works as a wholesale insur- and two sons [in the 12th and pioneered Ernst & Young’s Lynn M. (Harr) Cole ’03, Greg Flanagan ’03, ance broker. 8th grades]. I am the western CyberProcess Certification ’98 and Peter J. Cole Justin Buell ’03, and division wine manager for methodology, which offered Jim Freeburg ’03. The Ashley Schweickart on Nov. 27, 2010, in ’07 and Kyle Brown-Forman Corp. in my the first examination-based, Portland, Ore. The couple couple lives in Emeryville. Stephenson ’07 spare time.” online certification for Internet lives in Gresham, Ore. Anita L. Ellias ’06 and on April 23, 2011, in businesses. Lynn continues to work as Trevin J. Phillips ’06 on Fremont. In attendance Mike Pola writes: “Just a high school counselor. July 24, 2010, in Somis, were fellow SCU alums returned from a nine-month 1990 Sean M. Kneafsey Meghan Lang ’98 Calif. Toby Hardman Danielle Granieri ’07, sabbatical with my wife and ’06, Broderick Smith Sara Forrester ’07, J.D. ’95 is married with three and Tim Smith on June three boys, traveling and 11 in Phoenix. They will ’06, Vince Castro ’06, Seena Kallingal ’07, children. He owns his own make their home in San Jennifer Gottschalk Patrick Rugo ’07, volunteering throughout business and intellectual Francisco. ’08, Katrina Welch ’06, Matthew Cherry ’07, southern Europe, the Middle property law firm in Los Michelle Rhoney ’06, Daniel Chance ’08, and East, and South America. Angeles, Kneafsey & Friend and Diane Snodgrass Reinhard Cate ’07. Moving back to San Francisco LLP. this fall.” Read more (and see photos) at santaclaramagazine.com Alaina Sayers is the new 1987 Michael Arthur 2nd/3rd-grade teacher at Gallagher M.A. ’94, M.A. St. Mark’s Catholic School in graduated in May with an ’97 Boise, Idaho. Ed.D. in educational leadership from San Francisco State 1991 REUNION University after successfully OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 defending his dissertation: Agustin de la Guardia MBA Compassion, Accountability, ’93 writes: “Living in Panama and Collaboration: Effective with wife Macy and our two

AxTON Teachers in High Poverty boys. Working as CEO of the Schools. Gallagher is an leading television broadcast assistant superintendent in the network company. If you visit Sunnyvale School District. Panama, please let me know!” Mark Shuken has been NGELENA SANFILIPPO P Pamela (Rozolis) Ortega appointed senior vice president writes: “I work every day and general manager of Time to help raise funds to lift

COURTESY A Warner Cable. He oversees people off the ground and day-to-day management, give them the gift of mobility. ride this ride programming, production, Free Wheelchair Mission is Angelena Sanfilippo Paxton ’97 and Don Paxton ’97 sent marketing, and all business a faith-based, humanitarian, this pic, and Angelena shared this note: “After seeing your operations of the regional article and photo with the SCU license plate, we wanted one, international nonprofit sports networks. Prior, too. Driving in the Bay Area, i get honks and thumbs up from organization based in Orange Shuken served as president both young and old alumni. even after years of grad school County. We manufacture and and CEO of both DIRECTV at another university, my heart still belongs to Santa Clara.” deliver inexpensive and durable Sports Networks and Liberty wheelchairs to the disabled Sports Group. He has 25 poor in developing countries.” years in sports programming experience. He also spends time on community service initiatives.

38 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 B IRTHS a ND aDOPTIONS Lisa (Secan) Strain writes: former domestic violence and “I have been living in Marin elder abuse prosecutor in San Diana (Sutton) Van Cleve J.D. ’81 Mary (Kerans) McCafferty ’98 and County for the past eight years. Francisco and will be a liaison and husband Bill—their eighth great- husband Tom—identical twin boys, John ’90 and I have two kids to local, state, and federal law grandchild, another boy, in May 2011. Andrew Peter and Ian David, on Feb. 5, (10 and 8 years old). I am enforcement. She lives in San 2011. The boys have a 3-year-old big Ben Tsu ’89 and Jill Tsu—their new- sister, Abigail Quinn. going to the reunion and look Francisco with her husband, est future Bronco, Ashley Elodie Tsu, on forward to seeing familiar faces Tom, and three daughters. June 1, 2011. She weighed 8 pounds, Charlie Cownie ’00 and wife and hopefully lots of the Brown 7 ounces and joins brother Aidan, 2. Kerry—a boy, Enzo Raffaele Cownie, House Girls!” Goutham Narla co-directs the The Tsus live in the Seattle area. on April 11, 2011, in Los Angeles. Tisch Cancer Institute’s Young Kristin (Busch) Raczykowski ’93 Felicity Jimenez-Howard ’00 and Iris (Corenevsky) Tashjian Scientist Cancer Research and husband Dan—twins, Tyler Joseph Joshua Howard ’00—their second writes: “I’m glad to be back by Fund. According to a press and Lexi Marie, on June 18, 2011. The child, Ava-Grace Jimenez Howard, on the mountains and ocean in release, the fund just received family lives in Spokane, Wash. June 16, 2011. She has a 4-year-old brother, Brennan. the Bay Area after 10 years in a $100,000 donation from Top Anissa Slifer ’93 and husband Chicago! I’ve been a massage Chef winner Floyd Cardoz. Brooks Bernardo—their first child, Marcel Nienhuis ’00 and wife therapist since 2004 and have The fund was created to foster Taylor James, on Oct. 25, 2010. Anissa Bethany—a baby girl, Nya, on April is working as a hospitalist in Knoxville, 29, 2011. been grateful ever since for the development of young Tenn. finding my professional calling.” scientists at the pioneering Jason A. Thompson ’00 and Merrin cancer research center, Mount Helen K. Yi ’93 and husband James L. Thompson—their first child, daugh- Mark D. Emerson Choi—their first child, Andrew James, ter Zoe Ella Thompson, on March 30, 1992 Sinai School of Medicine. earned his MBA from the on Aug. 26, 2010. He weighed 8 2011. pounds, 15 ounces and was 19.5 Foster School of Business at 1998 Ryan T. Dunn opened inches long. Helen and James were Juliet (Lopez) Miller ’01, husband the University of Washington Dunn & Panagotacos LLP, married on May 16, 2009, at Mission Steven, and son Jonas, age 2—baby in June 2011. He was recently a law firm in downtown San Santa Clara. Helen continues to boy Luca Fox on Aug. 12, 2010. The family lives in El Dorado Hills, Calif. promoted to financial controller Francisco. The boutique firm serve as vice president and general counsel at The Matteson Companies, of COMPA Industries Inc. specializes in personal injury Aug Sebastiani ’02 and wife a Redwood City–based real estate Allison—their third child and first son, and business litigation. Dr. Gordon F. Gibbs investment, management, and develop- August David Sebastiani III, on May 10, 1994 ment company. and Erin M. Reilly-Gibbs are 2011. Gabriella, 5, and Sofia, 3, are Tomás Jiménez’s book, very excited to be big sisters. thrilled to announce their new Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Dr. Julie A. Chang ’94 and husband Christopher McEvoy—a baby boy, business: Rocky Mountain Vein Americans, Immigration, and Craig Corica ’04 and Melissa Matthew, on June 15, 2010. He joins —their Institute of Colorado. They (Meek) Corica ’04, J.D. ’08 Identity (see Winter 2010 big sister Leah, 6. The family lives first child, Logan Michael Corica, on write: “We care for venous SCM) was recently awarded in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Julie is a April 17, 2011. He weighed 7 pounds, disease and run a full vascular the American Sociological physician in pulmonary diseases and 12 ounces. The family resides in critical care medicine and Chris is a diagnostic lab. Life is good Association’s Sociology of Alameda, Calif. pediatrician. in Pueblo, Colo., with three Latinos/as Section 2011 Arthur Obolsky ’04 and Caitlyn energetic kids and lots of Distinguished Book Award. Olivia Brittany Stover (Ford) ’97 Gilley Obolsky ’06—their third and husband Kieran—their second outdoor activities.” Jiménez’s current scholarship child, Adam Daniel Obolsky, on May daughter, Lily Finch, on Nov. 19, 2010. 19, 2011. His big sisters, Isabelle and includes a study of how host- Her older sister is Madeline Deia, Maya, are smitten. The family relocated 1996 REUNION society individuals (U.S.-born of age 5½. OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 from San Diego to Berkeley and main- U.S.-born parents) participate Monica (Eastman) Karambelas tains a law practice in both tax dis- putes and consumer protection laws. Matthew Hewitson has taken in the assimilation process; how ’98 and Shawn Karambelas—a over as principal at Lincoln immigration becomes part of baby boy, Nicholas, on May 3, 2011. Julie (Baker) Broms MBA ’09 and He joins big brothers Stephen and High School in San Jose. American national identity; and husband Ryan Broms—Evan Canaan how contextual factors shape Demetri. The family lives in Lake Broms on April 26, 2011. Hewitson joined the school Oswego, Ore. district in 2000 as a football the sense of belonging and coach and social science related intergroup attitudes, teacher at Gunderson High behaviors, and support for School. He went to Lincoln immigration policies among in 2007 to serve as assistant immigrants and host-society Movement. They will serve in Meghan (Shumm) Oliveri principal of summer school and members in the United States. Nicaragua, as English teachers writes: “My husband, Matt, since 2008 has been assistant at Instituto Agropecuario and I are both attorneys in principal of guidance. 2001 REUNION de Waslala, which is a Walnut Creek and San Ramon, OctOberOctOber 6–9, 2011 teaching farm and secondary respectively. We live in Danville Suzy (Pollack) Loftus was Kristin (Simms) Byrnes school offering educational with our family. We welcomed selected to serve as a special M.Div. ’05 and her husband, opportunities focused on our first niece this year with assistant attorney general Billy, have accepted volunteer diversified and sustainable her parents Katy ’05 and Matt on criminal law issues to positions for two years farming practices specifically Tuttle ’05.” California Attorney General with Volunteer Missionary designed for the region. Kamala Harris. Loftus was a

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Transitional Care Medicine gRaDUaTE 2011/12 Program at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, in Phoenix, Ariz., in August. Ota credits 1966 William a. Cooper President’s his SCU advisor, Associate MBa, president of Cooper Professor of Biology David & Company, a full-service Speaker Tauck, for helping guide him to industrial and commercial his medical career. real estate brokerage and Series development firm in Santa 2003 Mario Urquilla has Clara County, was presented completed his first year at the with Muskingum University’s Distinguished Service Award for SERIES Six: University of Miami School of Business. He has been elected his professional endeavors and ngineering ith a iSSion e W M Graduate Business Student service to society. He resides with wife, Sonie, in Monte IncludI ng Association class president and plans to graduate in May 2012. Sereno, Calif. Paul Otellini Jim C. Jones J.D. The Innovation Imperative 2005 Brian Hurd graduated 1969 from Colorado State University retired after more than seven President and chief executive Officer of Intel corporation this year with a Ph.D. in years as county counsel for October 6, 2011 industrial/organizational Calaveras County. In July, the Mayer Theatre, 7:30 p.m. psychology. He is enjoying county board of supervisors unanimously passed a Steve Wozniak his job as a training account manager at Intel in Folsom, resolution thanking Jones for From Garage to Global Importance: the Rise of the PC Calif. outstanding service. co-founder, Apple computer, Inc. Thomas M. Wendel MBa is and chief Scientist Fusion–IO Elizabeth Simas, daughter January 26, 2012 of Rita and Ted Simas ’70, on the board of directors of Mayer Theatre, 7:30 p.m. earned her Ph.D. in political Cognizant, a leading provider science from U.C. Davis in of information technology, James McLurkin June 2011. She has accepted consulting, and business Dances with Robots a tenure-track position as process outsourcing services. Assistant Professor, rice University an assistant professor at the april 5, 2012 1975 art L. Jaramillo J.D. is Mayer Theatre, 7:30 p.m. University of Houston. a partner in the law firm Cuddy 2006 REUNION & McCarthy LLP, primarily in the Tickets are required. For more information or to OctOber 6–9, 2011 areas of complex commercial order tickets, visit www.scu.edu/speakerseries and tort litigation, insurance 2009 Cherie Motobu law, antitrust and trade this series is co-sponsored by the ScU center of received her M.S. in school regulation, and public utility Performing Arts and the ScU School of engineering. psychology from San Francisco regulation. Previously he was State University. She will be secretary of the New Mexico interning at the San Mateo Foster General Services Department Crystal Retterath was lateralsports.com), a company City school district this fall. (2006–2010). nominated by RBC Wealth that aggregates online media Management, where she is content for college athletic John Reyes, a second-year Elvira Robinson J.D. received an investment associate, as teams, ranging from game M.Div. student at the Jesuit an honorary degree from an honoree at the Nevada times to information on favorite School of Theology of Santa Gavilan College in Gilroy in May. Women’s Fund 2011 “Salute players. It also features links to Clara, has been recognized She served on the college’s to Women of Achievement” games being streamed online by the Fund for Theological board of trustees (1990–2010) event, which recognizes and and free text message alerts Education (FTE) as a young and the Latino Advisory celebrates the achievements of when your favorite teams are leader who demonstrates Committee (1989–2010). the state’s women who inspire playing. The website had been exceptional gifts for ministry. Currently in private practice, and support others. Retterath live for only a few weeks when As a recipient of the 2011 FTE Robinson was honored with lives in northern Nevada with it was noticed by the Wall Ministry Fellowship, Reyes will the Woman of the Year Award her husband, Kevin, and Street Journal. receive $10,000 for educational from the 28th Assembly District 2-year-old son. expenses and a self-designated this year. Ken Shadman Ota completed project to enrich his formation 2002 Maribeth (Bleymaier) his family medicine residency in as a ministerial leader. Oscamou and her brothers June. Ota initiated his unique started Lateral Sports (www. 2011 REUNION OctOber 6–9, 2011

40 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 James W. Tamm J.D. writes: “I have joined the faculty of the Wallenberg Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.”

1978 James H. Hartnett J.D., former mayor of Redwood City, was appointed in April 2011 by the state Senate to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors. He is also a partner at Hartnett, Smith & Patekau, with an emphasis in business and real estate law.

1981 Theresa Carey M.S. is a contributing editor to Barron’s magazine, where she has written “The Electronic Investor” column for more than 10 years, the annual review of online brokers since 1996, and nearly Back on track. The numbers tell the story: This past year, Santa Clara alumni gave at a 200 columns describing tools level not seen since 2006. For those keeping score, that puts SCU ahead of any school in the for investors and traders. Carey West Coast Conference. Well done, Broncos. is also the finance industry editor for eWEEK.com.

Laurel B. Silver M.A. has been named vice president Diane E. Maloney M.A. is medical evaluator. He has a 2002 David Bonacci MBA for student affairs at Prescott director of field education at clinical and forensic psychology brought the first FirstLight College in Arizona. She Loyola University Chicago practice in Pasadena, HomeCare location to California also serves on the regional Institute of Pastoral Studies. Calif. He and his domestic in June. Located in Walnut executive committee for the partner celebrated their 33rd Creek, the company provides 1988 Mark I. Jacobson National Association of Student anniversary in May. professional, nonmedical, MBA is celebrating 25 years as Personnel Administration in-home care services to a volunteer DJ at KSCU. He can 1997 Rev. Adel G. Ghali (NASPA). seniors and others in need of be heard Sunday mornings 9 M.A. is chaplain at Our Lady assistance with daily activities. 1982 Laura Lung Cha a.m.–11 a.m. playing the blues of Fatima Villa, a skilled nursing J.D. is a member of the at 103.3 FM and KSCU.org. assisted-living facility, in Steve McShane MBA was Executive Council of the Saratoga. elected to city council last fall 1993 Ricardo Echeverria Government of Hong Kong in Salinas, Calif., where he J.D. was named the 2010 Special Administrative owns McShane’s Nursery & Trial Lawyer of the Year by Region; nonexecutive deputy Landscape Supply. chairman of the Hong Kong the Consumer Attorneys & Shanghai Banking Corp. Association of Los Angeles. He Ltd.; vice chairman of the had previously been nominated International Advisory Council for the award in 2006, 2007, Send us of the China Securities 2008, and 2009. Regulatory Commission; and Fernando J. Gutierrez your notes! an independent nonexecutive 1994 Ed.D., J.D. has been certified director of the Hong Kong Keep your fellow Broncos by the state’s Department of Exchange and Clearing Ltd. posted on what’s happening. Industrial Relations Division and China Telecom Corp. Ltd. Mobile: m.scu.edu/classnotes of Workers’ Compensation Online: www.scu.edu/alumupdate 1987 Christopher E. Acker Medical Unit as a qualified By snail mail: Class Notes • Santa J.D. has been elected vice Clara Magazine • 500 El Camino Real president of the Colorado • Santa Clara, CA 95053 County Court Judges Association.

S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 41 ALUMNI AWARDS not in the public eye. Most visibly, he devotes his time to the St. Francis Center in Redwood City, serving as an These who can endowment trustee and on the board of directors. The financial expertise also From the California Supreme Court to Santa Clara’s Co-op, from comes in handy during the many other gang-ridden neighborhoods of Gilroy to elementary school classrooms hours Conn spends at the center as a in Redwood City, these Broncos have made an impact. They were math tutor working with students—and recognized at the 2011 Alumni Association Awards, presented April 30. their parents, who study side by side with their children to earn GEDs and improve opportunities to THE HON. EDWARD ’53, J.D. among the founders provide for their families. ’55 AND LORNA PANELLI of the Bronco Bench The Awards To support scholar- PAUL L. LOCATELLI, S.J. AWARD Foundation, which ships and education Ignatian Award—recognizes raises millions of dollars alumni who live the ideals in California, Conn A noted legal expert and former each year for scholar- of competence, conscience, is a trustee of the San California Supreme Court justice, Ed and compassion through out- adam Hays ships and athletic pro- standing service to humanity. Francisco-based Robert Panelli and his wife, Lorna, have been grams. S. and Helen Pfeiffer part of the life of the University for Louis I. Bannan, S.J. Award— The Panellis also honors alumni for distin- Odell Fund. And in 1998, many years, and they are the proud enjoyed a special guished service to the Alumni Association and University. he helped found the parents of two Broncos. Over the connection with Fr. BASIC Fund—Bay Area years, the Panellis have been generous Locatelli. Shared inter- Paul L. Locatelli, S.J. Award—honors SCU fac- Scholarships for Inner supporters of the University’s mission, ests and Italian heritage ulty or staff for outstand- City Children—which giving of their time, energy, and helped shape a friend- ing service to the Alumni Association and University. pays partial tuition for expertise. Ed has served for 43 years ship that endured for low-income students in on the Board of Trustees, including 19 decades, each becoming kindergarten through as its chair. He was the first layperson a part of the other’s extended family. 8th grade to attend private schools. elected, in 1963, and was a member Ed and Lorna were with Fr. Locatelli Today the fund has grown to help more of the search committee that brought when he learned of his illness last than 5,000 students at over 300 Bay Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60, back to Santa spring, and they supported him through Area schools, many of them Catholic Clara as president in 1988. the difficult times after his diagnosis. schools. He has been a supporter of Lorna has served on the advisory They feel his loss every day, but also the Santa Clara and the Alumni Association board of the de Saisset Museum and tremendous legacy he left behind for for years, as have his two sons, both the board of the Kenna Club, build- Santa Clara, a legacy of students who SCU graduates. ing connections with neighbors, truly embody the values of competence, Education, he says, is the great alumni, and friends. The Panellis were conscience, and compassion. equalizer. It gives everyone a chance. And Conn has dedicated his service to JAMES P. CONN ’59 advancing opportunities for others to IGNATIAN AWARD get ahead, to overcome adversity, and have those chances. Service to humanity takes many forms, often quiet, humble, and BRIAN HENNESSY ’00, J.D. ’03 practical. The youngest of six chil- IGNATIAN AWARD dren in Southern California, Conn attended Santa Clara following in Brian Hennessy had already overcome the footsteps of his four older plenty of obstacles to succeed in school brothers. He graduated with a and begin a successful career as a lawyer. degree in business, and enjoyed a Since leaving the Santa Clara campus, successful career in corporate he has faced down even more serious finance and investment, eventually challenges—ones that have changed not becoming chief investment officer just his own life, but the lives of count- CHarles Barry for the TransAmerica Corp. in less others for generations to come. Supreme generosity: Edward and Lorna Panelli with San Francisco. A short time after graduating from Chancellor William Rewak, S.J. Conn has supported his com- law school, Hennessy was diagnosed munity in countless ways, all of with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It was them valuable, but many of them not his first brush with the disease,

42 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 Getting to and from school great standing is exceptional enough. meant long days and plenty But since retiring 12 years ago, of hard work. His scholarship, Villarreal has volunteered more time though generous, didn’t cover for the Alumni Association. She is a all of his costs, so Hennessy regular at First Friday Mass and lunch. worked at the Gilroy Outlets She’s particularly committed to work at to help with money for family the Homesafe Shelter for women and and school. But after fighting children, where she’s the “right-hand cancer, Hennessy realized that woman” for Mary Modeste Smoker his life was about more than ’81, senior assistant director of the just “getting out” himself. He Alumni for Others program. needed to help others find their Her energy serves as a steadfast way out of difficult situations example for those finding their calling and set the goals to make a to volunteer as well as those already better life possible. working beside her in service. She helps The Council of Goodness people become better people. adam Hays is in its fourth year now, with From young kids through “her Realize the mission: From left, Brian Hennessy ’00, J.D. ’03, more than 30 student mem- boys” from the Class of ’56, Villarreal SCU Alumni Association National President Gerri Beasley ’65, bers. Brian Hennessy is now bridges any generation gap with a President Michael Engh, S.J., and James P. Conn ’59 cancer-free. smile. The Class of ’56 unanimously made her an honorary member at which also claimed his best friend and BECKY VILLARREAL its 25th reunion and established the Rebecca J. Villarreal Alumni fellow Bronco Dodge Ackerman ’02 at LOUIS I. BANNAN, S.J. AWARD the age of 22. Scholarship. One recent recipient, Where others might begin to ques- The story begins at the Bronco Corral, Jack Corrigan ’10, is now teaching tion or doubt, Hennessey found clarity. or the Co-op as it was more commonly at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in He says, “Cancer helped to change me. known, a popular hangout thanks to Chicago. He shared in a letter to I had a mission I hadn’t yet realized.” its soda fountain, snooker table, and Villarreal that her stories of overseeing He founded the Council of the company. In September of 1948, SCU’s campus “hotspots” in her day Goodness, with the objective of Becky Villarreal, a recent graduate of are a particular inspiration to him as he teaching through action. Students who Santa Clara High School, came to work works with those of his students who join the council pledge 100 hours of at the Co-op, and—as some members need a little more discipline. He writes, community service each year for all of the Class of ’56 attested—soon ran “I often ask, what would Becky do?” four years of high school and make a it single-handledly, teaching social Sarah Stanek SCU commitment to return and mentor and etiquette, disciplining support one other student. But before offenders, and dispens- that, they focus on service inward to ing advice—and credit. As Villarreal moved

themselves. Hennessy’s methods of sCU arCHives meditation and self-evaluation would from the Co-op to the be familiar to St. Ignatius of Loyola, bookstore to the Orradre whose own spiritual exercises have Library and more inspired growth and reflection for recently into retirement, centuries. she became an integral As for Hennessy’s own story: He member of the Santa grew up poor, in Gilroy, surrounded Clara community. She by gangs, crime, and violence. He was remembers every name, provided the opportunity to change, keeping connections thanks to a partial scholarship to attend alive with alumni over Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. several decades, greeting That was made possible, he says, by their children and grand- his father, who pushed him to succeed children as they join the academically—and who, as a railroad Bronco family. foreman, literally laid the track that Certainly more than The pause that refreshes: Becky Villarreal dispenses Coca-Cola and advice connected their troubled neighborhood 50 years of service as a at the Bronco Corral in the ’50s. to San Jose. University employee of

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In PrI nt New books by alumni

Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Ruth Chojnacki Locke, and Einstein; and through a series M.Div. ’92 contributes of adventures, personal challenges, and a comprehensive and discoveries. insightfully interpreted “Chasing miracles became a way to work with Indigenous connect as friends,” says Hill, “to heal Apostles: Maya past hurts, to resolve—and maybe even Catholic Catechists dissolve—issues with the Catholic Church, Working the Word and to find meaning again in our relation- in Highland Chiapas ship with the Divine.” Phillips tells of how (Rodopi, 2010), her doctoral project at the 21St-CentuRy MiRACleS in the darkness of an intensive care unit University of Chicago. Her ethnographic she had held her baby, Elizabeth, and study takes place in Santa Maria While meeting for coffee, three women— prayed the Memorare: “Remember, O Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in Joan Luise Hill, Katie Mahon ’78, and most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was Mexico’s Maya highland, Chiapas. She Mary Beth (Meb) Phillips ’76, M.A. ’78— it known that anyone who fled to your explores relationships with the saints realize that they had each experienced protection, implored your help, or sought and reinterpretations of local Tzotzil what could be called a “miracle.” They your intercession, was left unaided.” Her traditions—and, with efforts toward knew that Phillips’ daughter had recovered daughter made a remarkable recovery fostering communal well-being, there are from brain-damaging abuse in infancy, and from traumatic brain injury and Phillips the economic and political consequences. Hill’s 14-year-old son had just survived became a child advocate, reforming our Jean Molesky-Poz life-threatening open-heart surgery. Then nation’s child-care laws. “If trauma can Mahon shared her story: As a Santa Clara ripple through the life of an individual, undergraduate, she was rescued from Beyond the Box $core: a family, or a community, even through An Insider’s Guide to serial killer Ted Bundy by a helpful stranger time,” she writes, “then so, too, can the who then mysteriously disappeared. the $750 Billion effects of the miraculous.” Business of Sports So these friends decide to collaborate Miracles, these women found, are on The Miracle Chase: Three Women, (Morgan James, 2010), moments of grace, “gifts freely bestowed by Rick Horrow and Three Miracles, and a Ten-Year Journey and altogether unmerited.” They learned of Discovery and Friendship (Sterling Karla Swatek ’86, that miracles often come through the peo- touches on the industry Ethos, 2010). Three women, three mira- ple around us—miracles of faith, love, and cles, three lives combine in this 10-year side of Super Bowl friendship. Engaging, inspiring, and filled revenues, team owners, fantasy leagues, journey of faith and friendship, filled with with personal warmth, the book invites the surprises, synchronicities, and personal sports gambling, sports video games, reader to join their circle of friendship and player agents, player unions, and awakenings. “What is a miracle?” the evolving dialogue of discovery. three women ask, searching for answers in stadium construction. Nike, one learns, In book signings and blog posts, the has a $1.6 billion budget for athlete lively discussions at Hill’s house; through journey continues, as readers share their insights from Aristotle, Plato, endorsements—and when Manny reactions to the book and their own “mira- Ramirez was signed to a two-year, cle” stories. A timely book for challenging $18 million deal with the Dodgers, that times, The Miracle Chase strikes a com- was equivalent to the “annual salaries mon chord, for as we face an uncertain of 100 L.A. policemen, 100 firefighters, economy and disheartening world events, and 250 teachers.” Jeff Zorn people are searching for rays of hope. One reason miracles are so rare is that Protecting Industrial our culture accepts inexplicable negative Control Systems from events as normal. Wars, murders, and Electronic Threats disasters are reported dispassionately on (Momentum Press, the daily news while inexplicable good- 2010), by Joseph Weiss ness too often falls beneath the radar, MBA ’80, discusses seri- unseen and unacknowledged. Yet, as ous electronic threats research in positive psychology reveals, to industrial control the power of love, compassion, and systems and the all-too- hope can open our hearts, heal our common lack of security in the systems. lives, and transform the world with a A renowned industry security expert power many would call miraculous. with more than 35 years of experience “Miracles happen,” the authors in the energy industry, Weiss warns that write. “We may not always notice electronic threats are very real and have them, but they exist, and the choice already caused extensive plant and envi- to recognize a miracle is up to each ronmental damage, power outages, and of us.” deaths. Emily Elrod-Cardenas ’05 Royalties from this book support the Miracle Works Foundation,

devoted to the health, education, 9/2011 and empowerment of abused and disadvantaged women and chil- 82,500 dren. Diane Dreher OMC-8169

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Date Sponsor Event Contact Contact Info O C t O b E r 19 Santa Cruz Fall Luncheon Bob Dennis ’79 [email protected] 19 Santa Clara Valley AFO Food Packing at Second Harvest Food Bank Mary Modeste Smoker ’81 [email protected] 22 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Prep at St. Matthias HS Martin Sanchez ’02 [email protected] 29 Chicano Latino AFO Lunch & Volleyball with Nativity Gloria Torres ’98 [email protected] 30 Alumni Association Young Alumni 6 p.m. Mass & Reception Matt Hendricks ’06 [email protected] nOv E mbE r 3 Central Coast 38th Annual Alumni Dinner Jenny Moody Sullivan ’07 [email protected] 4 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] 5 Peninsula AFO Building Project at St. Francis Center Gerri Beasley ’65 [email protected] 5 Phoenix AFO Service Project at Maggie’s Place Lynn Brysacz ’83 [email protected] 9 Hawaii Chapter Planning Meeting Bran-Dee Torres ’97 [email protected] 10 Chicago Happy Hour Kristina Alvarez ’09 [email protected] 12 East Bay AFO Food Packing with St. Vincent de Paul Mary Modeste Smoker ’81 [email protected] 12 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Prep at St. Matthias HS Martin Sanchez ’02 [email protected] 18 Napa Chapter Planning Meeting Jenny Moody Sullivan ’07 [email protected] dECEmbE r 2 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] 3 San Francisco AFO Toys for Tots with SF Firefighters Mary Modeste Smoker ’81 [email protected] 4 Chicano Latino 15th Anniversary Virgen de Guadalupe José Cabrales ’00 [email protected] Mass & Reception 8 Sacramento Annual Holiday Reception Melanie Borchardt ’05 [email protected] 8 Santa Clara Valley AFO Home Safe Holiday Party Mary Modeste Smoker ’81 [email protected] 8 Austin Holiday Happy Hour Shiloh Uhlir ’04 [email protected] 10 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring Prep at St. Matthias HS Martin Sanchez ’02 [email protected] 14 New York Annual Holiday Reception Megan McCoy ’07 & Ana Raab ’07 [email protected]

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Below are obituaries of Santa Clara alumni. At and raised in Martinez, Calif., and Andrea E. Riley-Sorem ’95. santaclaramagazine.com/obituaries you’ll find obituaries the medaled Army veteran was His brother, Mark Sorem ’66, published in their entirety. There, family members may an attorney and retired as a preceded him in death. also submit obituaries for publication online and in print. judge of the Sacramento Su- perior Court. Survivors include 1960 Frank Cannizzaro, May 2, 2011. The 73-year-old daughter Katherine Hatch ’81. the New York Yankees, St. Louis San Francisco native was a OBITUARIES Browns, Baltimore Orioles, and Donald M. Perlenda, March three-term mayor of Millbrae Philadelphia Phillies. He was 15, 2011. The native Santa and city councilman for 17 a member of the SCU Athletic Claran and WWII Army veteran years. Survivors include children 1934 John MacDonald, Hall of Fame. Later he found worked in agriculture his whole Frank Cannizzaro III ’87 and March 8, 2010. He taught success in the mobile home life. His survivors include Caroline M. Cannizzaro ’01. engineering at San Jose State daughter Pam (Perlenda) business for 32 years. , University and designed part McCullah ’73 and stepchildren William M. Necoechea Jan. 21, 2011. of the engineering center. He 1948 Robert A. Camozzi, Tim Reding ’75 and Carol served as a Navy lieutenant and March 31, 2011. The Orangevale, Reding Sisney ’82, M.A. ’07. 1965 William Martin Head engineering officer during WWII. Calif., native was a teacher at Lloyd F. “Scotty” Scott, M.S., Oct. 22, 2010. Born in Will Rogers Middle School for Soledad in 1925, he taught 1937 Richard E. Barton, many years. April 9, 2011. Born in 1925 in Oct. 24, 2010. Milwuakee, Wis., Scott served thousands of Salinas Valley 1949 Roland W. Belanger in both the Army Air Corps and students during more than Lt. Col. Joachim “Joe” 1939 Sr., April 9, 2011. Belanger Air Force, then worked for the 29 years as a junior high and J. Speciale, May 4, 2011. Born served in the Navy during WWII Crown Zellebach Corp. and elementary school teacher. Sur- in San Jose in 1918, at Santa and was the district attorney for later the James River Corp. vivors include wife Lila Head Clara he was the youngest man Pershing County, Nev., for 20 M.A. ’72. to become an ROTC officer. 1953 Michael Robert years. Then he worked out of Juanita O’Connor, May 13, He was commissioned in the O’Sullivan, May 15, 2011. He his private practice for 30 years. 2011. O’Connor raised her U.S. Army as an artillery officer worked for the foreign service family and helped run a deli and and served 20 years in the 6th Philip Matthew de Bord, April and for Hughes Aircraft and catering business in Healds- Army. Speciale later worked for 3, 2011. A native of Toledo, Ohio, TSC as a radar engineer before burg for several years. She was Santa Clara County, retiring as de Bord was a Naval reserve of- creating O’Sullivan Consulting 68 and is survived by children clerk of the court. He helped ficer for 20 years and later had a in 1982. The 80-year-old lived , launch and support the Casa 28-year career with Metropolitan in Rancho Palos Verdes. Kevin O’Connor ’91 Maureen Italiana community at SCU. Life. He lived on the Monterey O’Connor ’91, J.D. ’94, and Peninsula and worked as an 1956 Ronald Deiro, Patrick O’Connor ’92. 1942 James Denver Rickert, April 21, 2011. Born in Stock- apricot rancher in Tracy. , April April 10, 2011. Born in Green- ton in 1935, he led a career, Gary Allen Olson MBA 5, 2011. Born in 1938 in Amery, ville, Penn., in 1918, he spent 1950 James E. Doyle, May mostly in the field of clinical Wis., Olson served in the Army his life in his family’s cattle busi- 5, 2011. Born in 1924 and laboratories, spanning 44 years. National Guard and was em- ness, which included a ranch raised in Redwood City, the Air In retirement, he was active in ployed by five major corpora- in Bella Vista and Rickert Meat Force veteran had a rewarding his Grass Valley community. Co. in Cottonwood. career in education from 1951 tions in sales and marketing until retirement in 1984. 1957 John Edmund Moran, management positions. He 1943 Michael A. Filice, April April 29, 2011. Born and raised started Recognition Products 3, 2011. Born in Gilroy, Filice Vincent Lyon Guise Jr., April 15, in Stockton, Moran worked Inc. and was a founder of the served in WWII as a Marine 2011. Born in Oakland, the active 30-plus years with Granite National Wildlife and Western then worked for 40 years in the community volunteer entered Construction. Art Show in Minneapolis. canning industry, starting at his the Navy during WWII, worked family-owned business, Filice & with his father at Guise and Son 1958 Richard P. Traina, 1966 Charles H. Lau MBA Perrelli Canning Co. Masonry Contractor, then owned March 8, 2011. The former ’67, March 30, 2011. Born in Brentwood Furniture for 45 years. president of Clark University 1944 in Honolulu, Lau worked 1944 Duane “Dee” Pillette, was also very active in improv- as a financial analyst before May 6, 2011. The eight-year Leighton Hatch, April 13, ing the Worcester, Mass., starting his own real estate/in- major-league pitcher played for 2011. Born in Oakland in 1929 neighborhoods surrounding the vestment consulting firm in San school. He was 73. Francisco/Marin. 1959 Lawrence H. Cook Jr., 1968 Samuel H. Vaught Edward Michael Kelly ’39 of San Jose died on Feb. 1, 2011. J.D., March 28, 2011. The May 1. Honored with SCU’s Ignatian Award in Texas native, Air Force veteran, 1992, he worked as a volunteer with the Athletic Robert J. Machado M.S. ’71, and family man was 79 years Department at SCU as the manager of ticket Nov. 17, 2010. Born in Stock- old. His private law practice operations from 1981 to his last day. He credited ton, he served in the Navy and spanned more than 28 years. his time with athletics for keeping him young. Due was employed at Lockheed to his passion for the sport of tennis, he formed the Missile and Space for 35 years. 1969 James H. Hanson Edward M. and Muriel E. Kelly Endowed Scholarship Survivors include son Mark MBA, April 9, 2011. Born in Fund to assist SCU tennis athletes, and he threw Machado ’88. Coatbridge, Scotland, in 1926, out the first tennis ball at the opening of the Degheri Tennis Center. Kelly Hanson had a 25-year career Nelson Bernard Sorem, March was born and raised in Salinas and served in the Army Air Corps during with SRI International in Menlo 10, 2011. Born in 1937 in WWII as a staff sergeant in the finance department. He was employed Park. The avid traveler’s survi- Ventura, Calif., he taught and by Pacific Gas & Electric for 42 years, retiring in 1981 as the manager vors include daughter Margaret coached at a prep school for 12 of general services in San Jose; his concurrent service to the Salinas Sueoka J.D. ’90. years then joined the Senior Can- Rodeo spanned nearly 60 years. Jon Teel ’12 yon Mutual Water Co. in Ojai for 1971 Arline Esther Sjerslee 30 years. Survivors include nieces Bollman M.A. ’73, March Alexandra M. Riley-Sorem ’03 15, 2011. Born in 1927 in 46 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 IN M EMORIAM

Chicago, she was a librarian Edward Francis Reilly MBA, at the University of Southern May 19, 2011. A resident of California, the San Jose Public Sunnyvale, he was an eloquent J. Terrence (“Terry”) Lanni, a member of the SCU Library, and the Los Gatos lover of knowledge and life. Board of Trustees, passed away at age 68 on July Public Library. Survivors include 14. He was a loving husband to his wife, Debbie, Roger Gillis, S.J., husband Victor Stanley 1983 and father to two sons, Sean ’06 and Patrick. M.A., Dec. 3, 2010. He was Bollman MBA ’66. Outside of his family, Lanni’s greatest passions 63. “Father Rog” had taught were for education, politics, and horses. When he 1973 Joseph Frank Tamez, and advised students at Seattle retired in 2008, he was chairman and chief executive Feb. 10, 2010. Tamez grew up University since 1987, having of MGM Mirage, a company he had built into the in Cupertino on a ranch. He entered the Society of Jesus second-largest casino company in the world. taught and coached for the East in 1969 and been ordained a The Southern California native studied at the University of Southern Side Union High School District priest in 1978. California and began a career in business as treasurer of Republic in San Jose for 30-plus years. Corp. He served on the reelection campaign for President Gerald Ford Antoinette “Toni” (Chaix) before being asked to join as a senior executive of Caesars World, Inc. Douglas G. Miller McCabe M.Div., Feb. 23, 1975 Lanni acknowledged in an interview years later that he was reluctant MBA, May 23, 2011. Born in 2011. Born in 1946 in Los to join the gambling industry at first, but in various senior capacities he Providence, R.I., Miller worked Angeles, she taught for five proved instrumental in helping the industry gain greater credibility on in the finance field for 45 years. years and was an avid golfer. Wall Street. In 1995 he was recruited to MGM Grand as president and 1976 André Lavaly, May 1989 Diane T. Hansch J.D., CEO. As chairman, he oversaw that company’s acquisition of Mirage 15, 2010. He was born in San Jan. 5, 2009. and Mandalay resorts. Francisco in 1953 and was a Lanni joined the SCU Board in 2006 and, in a quiet and unassuming , March unit director for Oregon State 1994 Lori Kipp way, provided valuable counsel and support. “As a Santa Clara parent, 26, 2011. Born and raised in Hospital. Survivors include sis- he got deeply involved in the life of the University,” said President Monterey, she worked many ter Gayle Moran ’76 and niece Michael Engh, S.J. “And his special concern was students in need.” years for the Peninsula Family Kendra V. Calderon ’02. A Funeral Mass was held for Lanni at Holy Family Church in YMCA in San Mateo. She was Pasadena, Calif., on July 22, with Sen. John McCain delivering one of 1978 Glenn J. Cahalan very involved with cystic fibrosis the eulogies and paying heartfelt tribute to Lanni as a loyal and trusted MBA, March 16, 2011. fundraising and educational friend, through good times and bad. activities. She was 38. 1979 Ronald James Gomes In addition to the Board of SCU, Lanni was a member of the Ronald J.D., April 13, 2011. A Nellis Air 1999 Carrie (Dunn) Reagan Presidential Foundation and served on the boards of the Force Base Internet administra- Penchuk, April 14, 2011. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and USC’s Keck School of Medicine tor, Gomes was also a Vietnam Born in 1977 in Fresno, Calif., and Marshall School of Business, among others. SBS War veteran. He was born in Penchuk taught English in 1946, in San Jose, and lived in Italy, studied speech language Mary B. Emery J.D. ’63, associate dean and library Nevada. pathology at MGH Institutes of director of the Santa Clara School of Law, died Health Professions, and worked peacefully on Aug. 7 at the age of 73. A graduate John Marvin Langholff, June with children. 5, 2011. He loved to barbecue of Notre Dame High School and San Jose State for family and friends and was Elizabeth Marie University, Emery was one of three women in her 2003 ARRY an avid fan of the 49ers and Glotzbach, May 30, 2011. law school class—the first to graduate women—and Giants. He is preceded in death Born in 1981 in Newark, Ohio, accepted an assistant professor and law librarian job at Santa Clara Law, a position she imagined would by Marvin Langholff ’58; survi- she began her career in the film CHARLES B vors include sisters Mary Anne industry at Paradigm Talent, then be short-term. Instead, her tenure lasted nearly half Delaney ’72, Joanie Biniek worked at Fox Searchlight as a a century and, in the words of classmate and U.S. Secretary of Defense ’73, and Nancy Beavers ’76. creative coordinator. Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63, “She devoted her life to helping students become good lawyers and, more important, good citizens. Mary Emery 1980 Kelley Ann Farrell, 2004 Nathaniel Luc and Santa Clara Law School will always be one—now and forever.” May 1, 2011. A lifelong resident Oscamou, Aug. 12, 2011. For her Funeral Mass at the Mission Church on Aug. 12, Dean of Sacramento, she began her Born and raised in Northern Donald J. Polden of the law school observed in his eulogy that Emery law career at Hanna, Brophy, California, Oscamou enjoyed a was a “fierce advocate” and believed “that our institutions—be it the Maclean, McAleer, and Jensen, career in private equity finance Church or the law school—must reach out to serve and nurture those in then worked in private practice. and entrepreneurial ventures. our communities and societies who need it most.” Emery spearheaded She was 53 and preceded in He is preceded in death by his efforts to admit more female students and hire more female faculty, and death by father Joseph Farrell father, Jean ’65, and survivors she took great pride in her contributions to minority recruitment. She ’51; survivors include sister include family members Aimee served on numerous University committees, including co-chairing the Shannon Farrell-Hart ’81. Oscamou ’90, Julienne law school’s alumni centennial steering committee and the law school’s Neumann ’94, Noelle admissions committee. Jon A. Riesberg MBA, Aug. Passalacqua ’97, Matheu Paul Goda, S.J., professor emeritus of the law school, presided 23, 2010. Oscamou ’01, Maribeth over the Mass and described Emery as a woman of great presence 1981 Roy Gerard Mytinger, Oscamou ’02, and Jason and “insouciant elegance.” She earned an entire chapter in the history April, 16, 2011. Born in Passalacqua ’97. of the law school by Judge Mark Thomas J.D. ’56, From Promise to Prominence, with special admiration for her sense of humor. Newport, R.I., he worked as Stephen William 2010 President Michael Engh, S.J., and Chancellor William Rewak, S.J., a civil engineer for Foundation Dane, March 10, 2011. He was co-celebrated the Mass. In his eulogy, Fr. Rewak praised Emery as Pile Inc., loved Ford Mustangs, 23 and had a strong love for “one of the selfless individuals who ensured that Santa Clara reflect and courageously battled his family. The Fairfield native and communicate its ideals. She helped to keep us on a true path.” amyotrophic lateral sclerosis had worked at Mimi’s Cafe JT (ALS) for years—and devoted and Petco. Survivors include himself to raising money and his parents, Joe Dane ’78 and and awareness for ALS. Read a Colleen Dane ’78. profile of Mytinger in the Winter 2006 SCM. S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 47 AfterWords on this planet 1 billion people go to bed hungry, and we are told that this is because there is not enough food. But that’s not true. The truth is that right now, this very minute, there is enough grain to feed the world twice over. The promise of this day We are bombarded daily with messages Reject the mindset of scarcity, says the author of The Kite that reinforce our belief in scarcity— Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns in his 2011 Santa Clara and in our own incompleteness. These commencement address. And hold fast to the watchword of this messages tell us that we should buy more, University: Be men and women for others. that we should have more, and that we should be more, because what we are and By KhA led h o SSeini ’88 what we have is not enough. How can we possibly think about being for others, when we are convinced we will never have enough for ourselves? hank you very much for inviting me to be part of today’s Of course we can’t. celebration. It is a privilege to be a member of the SCU So in order to be a man or woman community—and a special honor to be asked to speak to you for others, the first thing we have to today. It’s actually kind of fitting in a lovely, circular way: This do is break free of the scarcity mind- class read The Kite Runner the summer before [their freshman set, and try on a new way of thinking, Tyear]—so you started your college education with my book, and now I’m something that author Lynne Twist calls The Great Truth of Sufficiency: “When seeing you off. There’s a nice little cosmic karma with that. you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, which is usually what we are trying to get, it frees up At the time I graduated, I was prepar- I’d like to tell you what this has immense energy to make a difference ing to become a physician. I can admit meant for me and why I think this with what you have.” now that being a doctor was what I notion is not only the “true north” of Right now, your parents may be thought I should be, rather than what I education, but also of what it means to getting worried that I am suggesting that truly in my heart really wanted to be— live a fulfilling life. Because being a man you don’t need a master’s degree, or a job, but nonetheless, it’s what I thought my or woman for others is not only a great or a car, or a home. So let me reassure education was preparing me to do. I did responsibility, but it is them, and you, that become a physician and practiced that also a great gift. But, this is not what I mean. craft for more than eight years before I in order to accept “To accept this gift, (Laughter) was fortunate enough to realize my life- this gift, we have to we have to first What I am suggesting, long dream of becoming a writer. But, first reject the prevail- reject the prevailing though, is that each of us, thinking back, I can see that much of ing mindset of our mindset of our me included, already has what I learned on this campus is more culture—which is the enough to begin thinking relevant to me now, today, than I could mindset of scarcity. culture—which about how to be a man is the mindset of or woman for others. have ever imagined. And I think that, in never enough scarcity.” We don’t need to wait at least one aspect, both you and I will In the West, sadly, the walk away from our Santa Clara educa- until we land a good job, mindset of scarcity is so have sufficient savings, tions with one thing in common. deeply entrenched that And that thing goes back to what this or retire. And the best part is, that the even at an unconscious level, we believe moment we begin to live for others— University is all about. Because when it things are scarce. Think about it: We comes to identifying the one thing to even if only for a small fraction of our don’t have enough time, we don’t have day—we feel a release from the mindset which you can hold fast throughout your enough money, we don’t have enough life—regardless of the career you choose, of scarcity. Because making a difference bandwidth, friends, clothes, we don’t in the world, no matter how large or where you live, or how much money have enough opportunities … you can you do or don’t make—the founders of small that difference is, will change your fill in the blank. The list is endless. We life in extraordinary ways. And connect this University, members of the Society have been trained to believe in scarcity of Jesus, were spot on. Their aspiration you to a sense of purpose. because we are constantly being told we Being used for a larger purpose does was for you and me to become “men for need more of everything, that there isn’t others.” Or as we would say today, they not mean responding to the next natural enough of go around. disaster by getting rid of all the things hoped we would be “men and women Food is a great example. Every night for others.” in your house and texting a donation on

48 S anta C lara M agazine | Fall 2011 your iPhone. (Although I do encourage ting in this audience. Her name is Alicia you to do these things as well.) It means Wrangel. (Hi, Alicia.) She has been using your knowledge and your heart interning for my foundation. Thank you to gain wisdom by doing something for for your tireless efforts. someone else. Something that requires Some raise money for my foundation you to learn something different, think to help us build shelters. Others raise in a novel way, and imagine yourself in awareness about the plight of refugees in someone else’s shoes. countries besieged by war. Others just A lot of you do this already. You awaken from the numbness that can set volunteer as tutors, raise money for in after seeing so many photographs of breast cancer and AIDS research, you people suffering in places and circum- work for environmental groups, you stances we know little about. And all of deliver meals to the sick. You are, I these things make a huge difference. All am sure, helping hundreds of causes. are expressions of being a man or woman And I am certain that your knowledge, for others. your ability to learn quickly, and your The payoff for these efforts exceeds enthusiasm are of tremendous value to anything I could have possibly those you are helping. imagined. When we hear that a 16-year- The truth of the work itself old girl in Afghanistan is finally able to Cuttriss & Hambleton Being a writer has given me an amazing attend school or that a family of refugees opportunity to see just how much of a has a shelter to see them through the difference young people can make—even winter, I feel hope—even though in my those with little money and limited heart I know that the environmental time. Every day I get letters from young and humanitarian problems are readers around the world. And in these overwhelming, perhaps even impossible letters they tell me that my stories have to solve. But I have learned not to be moved them to want to help women and afraid to begin the work for fear it can children in Afghanistan. never be completed. They tell me that those books have The Christian mystic Thomas schedules, and from finals, and from helped them discover their own strength Merton counsels: “Do not depend on grades, at least for a while. (Cheers) I am and desire to effect change. And they do the hope of results. You may have to face very grateful to be here with your friends effect change. the fact that your work will apparently and family to celebrate your accomplish- In the fall of 2007, I took a trip to be worthless and achieve no result at all, ments. You have worked hard and you Afghanistan. On that trip, I met fami- if not perhaps bring about its opposite. deserve the accolades and attention you lies who lived on less than $1 per day. I As you get used to this idea, you start are receiving. And I hope you take it all spent time with women who sheltered more and more to concentrate not on in. You’ve earned it! their children in holes that they had dug the results, but on the value of the right- But tomorrow, or next week, you in the ground because they could not ness, the truth of the work itself.” may notice that things are already start- afford a home and needed some way to I have been told that one of the most ing to feel a little difficult. Most of you protect their children from freezing to profound Jewish teachings says that you will find that the world is not going to death in wintertime. Everywhere I went, are not required to complete the task of roll out the red carpet for you. Jobs may I met people who experienced real scar- “healing the world,” but neither are you be hard to find in spite of how brilliant city—not enough shelter, food, water, free to refuse to start it. you have just proved yourself to be. medicine, and certainly not enough All of these teachings aim to prepare So here is my advice: When and if opportunity for education. As a father, us for the fact that we should practice this happens, don’t get caught by it. I was overwhelmed and heartbroken by generosity in life without expecting Instead of letting the voice of scarcity what I saw and heard. As an Afghan, I necessarily to see the world change as a take over, remember the watchword of felt connected to this suffering in a way result of our efforts. It’s hugely freeing to this University, and be a man or woman that I hadn’t before. come to terms with this—especially for for others. When I came home, I created The you, after all these years in which your If you do, you will not only fulfill Khaled Hosseini Foundation, to provide achievements have been measured and the aspirations of those who founded shelter, health care, and education for graded by others, and in which you have this great school for you, you will always the people I met in Afghanistan. This is lived with the expectation that things have work, you will always have pur- my way to effect change. Along the way, can be completed, in order, in a predict- pose, you will always have community, I have been joined by young people just able and timely manner. and you will always remember the like you. One of them is actually sit- That brings me back to today—your promise of this great day. SCU day to celebrate being free from class

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Let it roll, amico Visitors to Vintage Santa Clara were treated to a look at this ornately decorated carrettu Sicilianu (Sicilian cart) this September. Built in the Palermo region a century ago, this rolling work of art depicts battle scenes from Sicily’s history—and is one of many such ornate and functional iron-and-wood vehicles that were once ubiquitous on the island. This lovely two-wheeler was recently restored and donated by Cy and Lena Barbaccia. At santaclaramagazine.com read and see more. A rry ChArLeS B