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Editor Carol Keochekian ’81 CONTENTS Managing Editor Lynda Paige Fulford, M.P.A. ’97 FEATURE STORIES Associate Editor Peggy L. Johnson Art Director Michael L. Adams ’72 Designer Cary Hanson Contributing Editors Scott Chisholm Karin Grennan Mitzi Ward 20 CLU After Dark 26 First Ladies Photographers 24 Touchdown! Erik Hagen ’04 As darkness falls on campus, a Bill Rolland’s vision and his gift of When the MBA Program first Art Miller ’01 whole different breed of student more than $5 million have paved admitted women, the prevailing Brian Stethem ’84 emerges. ADEP undergrads find the way for a long sought after belief was that females couldn’t Editorial Board Members juggling full-time jobs with college football stadium. succeed in business courses. The Marsha Anderson night classes is the pathway to that first 10 women to complete the Kristine Calara Bryan Card ’01 critical bachelor’s degree. program quickly debunked that R. Guy Erwin, Ph.D. philosophy and today nearly half of Veronica Guerrero CLU’s MBA students are female. Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Robert Meadows, Ed.D., Ph.D. Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, M.S. ’03 Special 50th Anniversary Section ALUMNI NEWS Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, Ph.D. Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, M.P.A. ’90 14 Yam Yad Returns 30 Class Notes Dennis Sheridan, Ed.D., Ph.D. The traditional service day is revived for the 50th. Bruce Stevenson ’80, Ph.D. 33 Milestones Jeanette Villanueva-Walker 14 Data Proves CLU’s Value to CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010, County, State, Nation DEPARTMENTS Can We Count on You? Volume 18, Number 1. © Copyright An intensive study by economics professor Jamshid 2010. Published by CLU for alumni, 4 Campus Highlights parents and friends. 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Olsen Road #1625, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY SUMMER 2010 CLU Administration CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS Chris Kimball, Ph.D. President Leanne Neilson, Psy.D. Provost and Vice President for Noted Musicologist Petersen to Lead School Academic Affairs Geeting Hall Dedicated for Music Students Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Reviews Student Work of Education as New Dean Vice President for Administration and Finance eorge J. Petersen, former Co-director William Rosser, M.S. Gof the Joint Doctoral Program in Vice President for Student Affairs Educational Leadership at University of Cali- and Dean of Students fornia, Santa Barbara/California Polytechnic Matthew Ward, Ph.D. State University, San Luis Obispo, is the new Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing dean of CLU’s School of Education. R. Stephen Wheatly ’77, J.D. Petersen has a doctorate and master’s Vice President for University degree in educational policy, organizations Advancement and leadership studies and a bachelor’s Joan L. Griffin, Ph.D. degree in cultural anthropology from UCSB. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences His former positions include Chair of the b rian s t e th m ’84 b rian s t e th m ’84 Charles Maxey, Ph.D. b rian s t e th m ’84 b rian s t e th m ’84 Department of Graduate Studies in the Col- Dean of the School of Business J. Peter Burkholder, editor and co-author of A History of Western lege of Education at Cal Poly and Associate Director of the University Geeting Hall, the beautifully renovated K-1 instrumental rehearsal room, was dedicated in April. “Although it’s called George Petersen, Ph.D. Music, visited a CLU music history class in the spring to hear Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), a national research Geeting Hall, it really belongs to all those students past, present and future that will rehearse, study and, to a large part, Dean of the School of Education students read synopses of their term papers for his comment. and policy organization. learn to live in music within its walls,” said Dan Geeting (above left), professor and Director of Instrumental Music. The “Imagine that,” exclaimed CLU music professor Dan Geeting, Board of Regents complete redesign, made possible through a generous grant from the Geeting family, came to fruition when David The new dean also has served in leadership and on the faculty at Karen Bornemann ’70 Spies, Chair who arranged for the visit, “our music students presenting written the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Evansville (Indiana) Geeting asked his brother what he needed most. “The answer is easy,” Dan responded. “I need to have K-1 completely papers to what is perhaps the finest living musicologist in the Rod Gilbert, Vice Chair and Missouri State University. He has extensive experience in program GayLyn Talbot, Secretary redone.” David set up a consortium including brothers Greg and Dan and Dan’s three sons Glenn, Loren and Preston. English language!” Burkholder, a professor at Indiana University, and curriculum development, having designed and taught courses at Family members present at the dedication were Kristina (1eft, daughter of David and Barbara), Greg, Dan and Joyce, has researched and written extensively and is the recipient of Glen Becerra David and Barbara, and Preston ’02. the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. He has also written Kristine Butcher, Ph.D. numerous music awards. Evan Clark ’11 two books and numerous articles on educational leadership. Dennis Erickson, Ph.D. Petersen has been recognized for his outstanding teaching and Randall Foster leadership in the educational field. He began his career as a high school Shawn Howie ’78 Ted Jensen Counseling Center Opens in Oxnard CLU Hosts International social studies teacher and was named one of 100 Outstanding First Chris Kimball, Ph.D. Year Teachers by the American Association of School Administrators. William Krantz Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88 Virtuous Economy Conference His many other honors include the national 2004 UCEA Distinguished Ron McDaniel ’88 cholars, activists and faith leaders from throughout the world Service Award, the 2008 Association of California School Adminis- The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70 trators Region XIII Education Professor of the Year and 2008 UCSB The Rev. Dean Nelson Sconvened at California Lutheran University in June to discuss the Sasan Nikoomanesh, MBA ’99 search for a virtuous economy. Distinguished Alumni Award. James Swenson The theme of the ninth annual international Globalization for the Stephanie Taylor-Dinwiddie, Ph.D. David Tiede, Ph.D. Common Good Conference was “In Search of the Virtuous Economy: Former Facilites Building Recycled George Ullman Jr. ’76 A Plea for Dialogue, Wisdom and the Common Good.” The five- Tim Wennes Joan R. Young day event featured panel discussions exploring an ecological political economy, the role of business education in creating morally responsible Advisor to the Board prosperity, engaging youth spirituality for positive social change, and

Marilyn Olson ERIC PARSONS ERIC PARSONS many related topics. Honorary Member Globalisation for the Common Good: An Interfaith Perspective Takashi Uyeno was founded by Iranian-born Kamran Mofid in 2002 as a result of life- Mission of CLU changing soul searching about economics and the issues of social justice, California Lutheran University is ethics and morality. Mofid regretted that in his 20 years of teaching a diverse, scholarly community economics at universities he had not gone beyond the mathematical dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional models and theories to discuss compassion, solidarity and spirituality with studies. Rooted in the Lutheran his students. He had told them about scarcity and competition, but not tradition of Christian faith, the about abundance and cooperation. He had covered free trade, but not University encourages critical inquiry into matters of both faith fair trade. Now, each year, Mofid invites people to come together with a ERIC PARSONS and reason. The mission of the ERIC PARSONS global focus on the common good. University is to educate leaders The School of Business’ Center for Leadership and Values sponsored ’04 ERIK H AGEN California Lutheran University celebrated the opening of its new Oxnard Community Counseling and Parent Child for a global society who are the conference as part of CLU’s 50th Anniversary celebration. Past con- strong in character and judgment, Center with an open house last spring. The new center provides low-cost counseling and psychotherapy for families, The offices of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid confident in their identity and couples, children and individuals. It is the clinical training site for CLU’s Marriage and Family Therapy program and the ferences have been held in Russia, Australia, Turkey, Kenya, England and relocated to the totally renovated former Facilities building on vocation, and committed to new doctoral program in clinical psychology that will launch in fall. United Arab Emirates. The next conference will be held in Egypt. Campus Drive, creating a new focal point for campus visitors. service and justice.

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Leave Mark at CLU amela Jolicoeur, former accreditations and increasingly higher rankings by U.S. News & World provost and dean of the Report and other well-respected organizations. hree professors retired after a combined P faculty at California Lutheran It was during this time that CLU President Chris Kimball first met total of 53 years of teaching at the T University, died June 9 just her. “Pam was a real dynamic force,” said Kimball, who credits Jolicoeur University. WRITERS BLOCK hours after suffering a stroke. for drawing his attention to the Thousand Oaks university. “She stood Carol Bartell, Dean of the School of She was 65. out among other provosts and presidents because she had such Education, A. Joseph Everson, professor of Jolicoeur left CLU in 2004 incredible energy and intellect.” religion and former interim provost, and Silva Recently published books authored, illustrated or edited by CLU faculty and alumni: to become the first woman While at CLU, Jolicoeur also served as an adviser to the Ventura Karayan, professor of education and Director of The Desert Will Bloom, Poetic Angel Park: A Novel by Patricia president of Concordia County Community Foundation, a member of the Civic Alliance for the Special Education Program, became emeriti Visions in Isaiah is co-edited by Kokinos, M.A. ’94, is an College in Moorhead, Minn. Ventura County and a board member for United Way of Ventura faculty members in May. A. Joseph Everson (Religion, award-winning mystery about She had spent more than 30 County. Carol Bartell returned emeritus) whose essay “A the death of a school official and the web of bureaucracy, years at Cal Lutheran, working She is survived by her husband, Michael A. Doyle, a CLU criminal to CLU two years ago Bitter Memory: Isaiah’s Commission in Isaiah 6” is corruption and power politics her way up from a sociology justice professor emeritus, her daughter, Jessica Rich, mother, Eleanor to serve a second term included in the collection. The essays in the that is holding schools, kids and teachers professor to the University’s Jolicoeur, two sisters and several nieces and nephews. as dean, and recently led book explore the poetic artistry and hostage. (iUniverse STAR, April 2009) second-in-command. the School of Education symbolic imagery in the Isaiah scroll. “The magnitude of the through a successful process Fire in the Hole: A Year in the (Society of Biblical Literature, September Life of the World’s Sorriest loss is indescribable both to resulting in reaccreditation 2009 / E.J. Brill, 2010) Stuntwoman by Colleen Kelli Concordia College and to Robert B. Cummings, a regent of California Lutheran University by the National Council Winner’s Way by Kirkland R. (pseudonym for Heather CLU,” said CLU Provost Leanne Neilson, who served under Jolicoeur from 1963-1968, passed away March 23, 2010, in Modesto, Calif. He for Accreditation of Teacher Education Gable (Psychology, emeritus) McPhaul, T.C. ’05) is a for 12 years. “Pam was the kind of leader who made you want to was 87. A pioneering social entrepreneur and successful businessman, and the California Commission on Teacher centers around a college comically dramatic story of a follow her lead. She was passionate about her work, and her energy Cummings co-founded the Vesper Society in the mid-1960s. The Credentialing. 30-something actress facing serious changes student, Mark, who is caught was contagious.” unique faith-based organization addresses social justice and healthcare Joe Everson joined the in her life while training to become a between family obligations and William Rosser, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of issues around the world. In 2000 the Robert B. Cummings Internship religion faculty in 1990 and having an enjoyable life. With stuntwoman at a quirky western theme Students, said one of the main reasons he came to CLU was to work was established for students with interests in international affairs and served as Interim Provost the help of a wise and engaging gardener, park. (iUniverse, March 2010) with Jolicoeur. “She is among the small handful of truly outstanding global thinking. The two-year internship is awarded in conjunction and Dean of the Faculty Mark discovers a way to skillful living. This Joyful Volunteering: Together We visionary leaders it has been my honor to know and work alongside. I with CLU to students completing their sophomore year. Cummings is from 2004 to 2006. His story about courage and discovery is a Can, co-authored by Gail see the positive impact of her life and work around me at Cal Lutheran survived by his wife, Pauline, a son and daughter, three grandchildren primary academic work guide to life’s hidden opportunities. (Star Endelman Small, M.A. ’73, was everywhere everyday.” and two great-grandchildren. has been in the prophetic Cloud Press, May 2009) written to help others A graduate of Santa Clara University with master’s and doctoral literature of the Hebrew Modelling of Pollutants in understand what volunteering degrees from Purdue University, Jolicoeur joined the CLU sociology Francis “Frank” Maguire of Westlake Village, Calif., passed away Bible/Old Testament and, in particular, in Complex Environmental Systems, is all about and provides faculty in 1972 and served as department chair from 1979 to 1983. April 12, 2010, en route to a speaking engagement. He was a founding research on the book of Isaiah. He is the author Volume I, edited by Grady inspiring examples of how to become a She assumed key leadership positions in the dean’s office beginning member and vice president of FedEx Worldwide, head of program- of a number of scholarly essays including the Hanrahan (Chemistry), includes volunteer. (Hazel Street Productions, September 2009) in 1981, becoming Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1993 and ming for ABC Radio Networks, senior vice president at Kentucky Fried major entry on the book of Isaiah in Eerdman’s a chapter titled “Catchment Scale Assessment of Provost in 1996. Chicken, vice president at American Airlines and special assistant to Dictionary of the Bible, 2000. Religion and the Rise of History: Phosphorus Loading: Evolution of the Export Stephen Wheatly ’77, CLU’s Vice President for University presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was president of Silva Karayan played Martin Luther and the Cultural Coefficient Modelling Approach” written by Advancement, said Jolicoeur was a motivational professor who went Hearth Communications Group and, most recently, an advisory board an active role in the Revolution in Germany, 1760- Hanrahan and three of his students – Sarah 1810 by Leonard S. Smith on to become a visionary administrator. “Pam was loved, admired and member for Omega Health Systems. As a member of the CLU Board recruitment, preparation Muliadi ’09, Lyra Porcasi ’09 and Alex (History, emeritus) addresses a respected,” he recalled. “She will be missed greatly by all of us who of Regents from 2001 to 2005, he served on the Marketing and Com- and support of special Sherbetjian ’09. (ILM Publications, March central problem in the history had the pleasure of learning from her as a teacher, working with her as munications and Development committees. He is survived by his wife, education teacher 2009. Volume II, also edited by Hanrahan, of 18th-century German and European a colleague, and knowing her as a friend.” Carmel, and their children and grandchildren. candidates at CLU and has was published in January 2010.) thought – the emergence of a new, CLU Campus Pastor the Rev. Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, spearheaded a number of Drug-Induced Dementia: a evolutionary view of history called a psychology major, took Jolicoeur’s Social Psychology class as an Terrence “Terry” Noonan, a member of the CLU Board of successful initiatives. She is “historicism.” (Cascade Books, April 2009) perfect crime by Grace E. undergraduate. “Wow, what a class!” she exclaimed. “Had I taken a Regents, passed away May 22, 2010, in Dana Point, Calif. He was founding Director of the University’s Center Jackson ’92, M.D., is a timely The “Mysteries” of Qumran: class from Pam earlier in my undergraduate career I certainly would 72. Noonan worked in the automotive and plastics industry for 40 for Academic Service-Learning for Research resource that reveals why and Mystery, Secrecy, and have changed my major to sociology.” years and became President and CEO of Furon Corp. The company and Development and was the first Chair how medical treatments Esotericism in the Dead Sea Jolicoeur, Maxwell-Doherty continued, was a strong advocate of was sold in 1999, and he turned his focus to service. He was deeply of the Center for Teaching and Learning for themselves – specifically, Scrolls by Samuel I. Thomas programs that stretched how CLU lives out its mission and advances involved with the Ocean Institute, Mission Hospital and the Orange Faculty Development. She was also Director of psychopharmaceuticals – are a substantial (Religion) provides a new human knowledge. “She was a brilliant teacher – engaging students to County YMCA in addition to CLU. A regent since 2002, he was Chair the Service-Learning Partnerships in Inclusive cause of brain degeneration and premature interpretation of the functions be more, think more, write more, and serve more than they thought of the Administration and Finance Committee. He is survived by his Education Project, a collaborative initiative death. (AuthorHouse, May 2009) of “mystery” language and secrecy in the possible.” wife, Carolyn, sons, Thomas and Michael, and five grandchildren. between CLU and several school districts. Qumran scrolls. (Society of Biblical Literature / Brill Academic Publishers, During Jolicoeur’s tenure as provost, CLU increased enrollment November 2009) and achieved many academic milestones including regional and national

6 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 7 CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS SPORTS NEWS Commencement 2010 Winter/Spring Sports Wrap The University honored more than 1,100 Winter graduates during the Forty-Seventh Annual Commencement ceremonies held May 14 and 15 in Mt. Clef Stadium. Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks spoke at the graduate ceremony and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws. Student speakers were Reseda resident Kevin Schaffels ‘86, who received an MBA, and Christine McCloskey, an Ed.D. in educational leadership candidate from Newbury Park. Undergraduate ceremony speakers included Nicole Flanary, a communication major from Dayton, Ohio; John R. Larisey, a business management major from Moorpark who represented the Adult Degree Evening Program; ARNE TT TT C H IS OL M TT C H IS OL M

and Undergraduate Valedictorian Patricia King- M APLE T RACY DOUG B SCO SCO Wright, an exercise science and sports medicine Kyle Knudsen Starla Wright Jake Kaija major from Ventura who received the Provost’s Kelley Fry Award for Academic Excellence. Men’s Basketball – Two Women’s Basketball – New- Men’s Swimming and Women’s Swimming and Guest speakers Pat Paulucci, a community seniors reached the 1,000-point comers led the way for the 2009- Diving – Sophomore Jake Kaija Diving – Senior Kelley Fry leader and philanthropist, and William Rolland, scoring plateau for their careers 10 women’s basketball team, and broke three school records during swam to a school record time in a philanthropist and former firefighter, received during the 2009-10 season. Andy four of the team’s top five scorers the 2009-10 season with the best the 200-yard backstroke in the ’04 erik h agen Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees. Meier became the 22nd Kingsman were freshmen. Starla Wright and times in CLU history in the 1,000- consolation finals of the SCIAC to join this exclusive club on Dec. Erica Whitley, both freshmen, led yard freestyle, 1,650-yard freestyle Championships. Senior Amanda 29 against Monmouth College the Regals in scoring at 11.6 and and the 100-yard breaststroke. Graves finished as runner-up at while Kyle Knudsen became the 11.5 points per game, respectively. Freshman Will Kennedy added the conference championships in 23rd member on Jan. 2 against Second-year head coach Roy Dow another school record with the the 200-yard butterfly and earned Bethany Lutheran College. The led the Regals to a 19-win season program’s fastest race in the 50- third place in the 100-yard but- team used seven consecutive and third place conference finish yard freestyle. terfly. The Regals finished in a tie wins to end the regular season, after just seven victories the previ- for third place in the conference, sweeping the SCIAC in the second ous season. improving on a fifth-place standing round, and fought its way into the the year before. conference tournament. ’04 erik h agen ’04 erik h agen ’04 erik h agen M ILLER ‘01

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Pat Paulucci Bob Brooks William Rolland AR Baseball – Junior K.C. Judge Golf – Freshman Chad led the SCIAC with his .488 Kimmelshue was the top CLU batting average in league play, individual in the overall standings earning All-Conference first team ranking 23rd and finished 11th honors. Senior Paul Hartmann at the SCIAC Championships. set program records for career Fellow freshman Parker Colvin hits (194), doubles (48), home was the top Kingsman at the final runs (30) and total bases (338) competition with his top-10 finish. during his final season with the The Cal Lutheran team ranked Kingsmen. CLU finished as SCIAC seventh overall in the 2010 final runner-up for the second straight conference standings finishing year and has been in the top two sixth in both the final regular 16 of its 19 years as conference season SCIAC round and SCIAC AX T ER ’09 members. Championship tournament. KEVIN B J eff L indgren M ILLER ‘01 M ILLER ‘01 T T AR AR K.C. Judge Chad Kimmelshue

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Tristan Baer, junior John White, defending SCIAC champion in the Coach Vanessa McPadden led the championships en route to the Track and Field: Throwers Coach Brings Success sophomore Patrick Torrellas race. team to an 11-win season, equal- title and finished the 2010 season and junior Brian Coan brought The Regals finished second ing the most victories by a first- with 14 wins in their last 16 By Kevin Baxter ’09 home the conference title in the conference for the second year head coach of CLU women’s contests. Ten throwers from the men’s finishing in 3:16.10, more than two year in a row and narrowly missed tennis since 1987. and women’s track and field seconds faster than the second earning their first SCIAC Champi- teams made their mark while place team. Later in the season, onship, finishing with 139 points to rewriting the record books dur- that same relay team ran the Redlands’ 162. ing the 2010 campaign. Seven second fastest time in Kingsmen Regals and three Kingsmen history at 3:14.83. They went posted all-time CLU top 10 on to compete in the national throws over the course of the championships, finishing 12th. season in the shot put, hammer Women’s Track and Field - TT C H IS OL M throw, discus or javelin. Senior Christa Youngern collected SCO Eric Flores came to CLU three SCIAC titles in 2010 to bring Andrew Giuffrida to train under the guidance of her career total to eight. The CLU throws coach Lucais MacKay thrower was the conference cham- Men’s Tennis – Junior Andrew ax t er ’09 and has flourished as a result. pion in the shot put, hammer and TT C H IS OL M Giuffrida was named 2010 SCIAC ax t er ’09 K evin b

The junior transfer claimed two SCO B CLA ORN JACO discus, and qualified to compete in Player of the Year and was the SCIAC titles and broke the the national championships in all K evin b driving force during a season in Emily Robertson NCAA Division III record in the All-American Eric Flores is All-American Christa Youngern three events. She finished as D-III Joy Cyprian which Cal Lutheran earned 19 the 2010 NCAA Division III finished as runner-up in the AX T ER ’09 hammer throw. The Regals’ top runner-up in the hammer throw victories, the most since joining champion in the hammer throw. hammer throw at the NCAA Softball – Senior catcher Emily thrower, Christa Youngern, has and earned All-American honors KEVIN B NCAA Division III in 1992. Division III championships. Women’s Water Polo – For Robertson closed out her four- also thrived under MacKay’s tu- in both the hammer throw and The team made its first NCAA Holly Beaman the second time in four years, the year career as the Regals softball telage, claiming the eighth SCIAC title of her career MacKay has brought his experiences from discus, finishing eighth in the latter. postseason appearance since 2005 women’s water polo team won record holder in home runs (33) this season. the highest level of the sport to CLU and helped She placed 10th in the shot put. after opening the season with 16 Women’s Tennis – Sopho- the Collegiate III Championship and walks (106) while senior MacKay knows about conference champion- the Kingsmen and Regals throwers dominate the Youngern was named SCIAC 2010 consecutive victories, including a more Holly Beaman led the after finishing third in conference pitcher Lizzy Chacón threw 50 ships. He was a two-time Southeastern Conference conference. One of the prime examples of his Female Track and Field Athlete of stretch of nine straight wins over Regals in singles play with 15 play. Senior Joy Cyprian set the complete games and notched (SEC) Champion and six-time NCAA Division I teaching prowess may be the success of senior Chris the Year, the first to garner the nationally ranked opponents. victories, playing primarily in the school career records in goals 300 strikeouts in her four All-American in two seasons at the University of Brouillette. A catcher for the CLU baseball team for award in Regals history. She will Giuffrida, who grew up in No. 3 slot where she posted a (223) and assists (143). Fellow seasons. Sophomore pitcher Talia Georgia. As a sophomore at Moorpark College, he three seasons, Brouillette joined the track and field leave CLU with the school record Argentina and attended Thousand 10-4 record. Fellow sophomore senior Meredith Butte was named Ferrari broke the CLU record claimed three state championships, and as a fresh- program in 2009. With no previous experience, he in all three of her throwing events. Oaks High School, has become Jordan Leckness ranked second the Most Valuable Player at the for strikeouts in a game twice in man at the University of Southern California, he won back-to-back SCIAC titles in the javelin in his Sophomore Toccoa Kahovec one of the best Division III players on the team with 13 singles wins Collegiate III tournament and 2010 with 11 against La Sierra finished third in the Pac-10 in the hammer throw. two seasons with the team. gave the Regals a first place finish in the nation. He was named and finished among the top-25 in leaves CLU ranked second in in her first start of the season The Regals used a dominant performance in MacKay was named 2010 West Region Wom- in the conference 3,000-meter Intercollegiate Tennis Association the West Region rankings. Bea- career goals, assists and kick- and later posted a 12-strikeout the throwing competitions to earn second place at en’s Assistant Coach of the Year, and Flores was steeplechase and took second in (ITA) West Region Player to man and Leckness teamed up for outs drawn. The Regals won performance against Concordia the SCIAC Championships. With the top six finish- named Men’s Field Athlete of the Year. Flores and the 1,500-meter event, finishing Watch and Head Coach Mike 11 doubles victories. New Head all five of their matches at the University-Chicago. ers in each event scoring points for the team, four Youngern qualified for the NCAA D-III champion- less than three seconds behind the Gennette was named Coach of athletes scored in the discus, three in the shot put, ships held in Berea, Ohio. Flores won the national the Year. Senior Ryan Lassila and three in the hammer throw and one in the javelin championship in the hammer throw and finished freshmen Nick Ballou and Ray totaling 58 of the team’s 139 points. On the men’s 13th in the shot put. Youngern placed second in Seasons at a Glance Worley also finished the season side, 44 of the team’s 61 points came from the the hammer throw, eighth in the discus and 10th in ranked among the top-30 in the 2010 Winter Season at a Glance 2010 Spring Season at a Glance four throwing events. the shot put. West Region. Kingsmen Overall SCIAC Conference Standing Kingsmen Overall SCIAC Conference Standing Giuffrida earned All-American Basketball 15-11 9-5 Second (Tied) Baseball 27-13 20-8 Second (Tied) singles recognition for the second Men’s Track and Field – In throw while finishing second in the Senior Chris Brouillette, who Swimming and Diving 4-3 4-3 Fourth (Tied) Golf ------Seventh straight year, finishing No. 9 in the his first season with the Kingsmen, discus. After his performance at spent his first three years at CLU Tennis 19-2 7-2 Second national ranking. He and Ballou junior Eric Flores burst onto the conference championships, he as a catcher on the baseball team, Regals Overall SCIAC Conference Standing Track and Field 3-5 3-5 Fifth (Tied) earned doubles All-American the NCAA Division III throwing was named the 2010 SCIAC Male won the SCIAC title in the javelin Basketball 19-7 11-3 Third status, finishing No. 4 in the scene in 2010 and broke the D-III Track and Field Athlete of the for the second consecutive season. Swimming and Diving 5-2 5-2 Third (Tied) Regals final ITA national poll. The pair record in the hammer throw with Year, the second Kingsman to ever His throw of 195 feet, 1 inch at Softball 16-24 7-17 Fifth advanced to the NCAA D-III a mark of 220 feet, 10 inches. earn the honor. He went on to the conference championships Tennis 11-8 6-4 Fourth Track and Field 6-1 6-1 Second Doubles semifinals before falling to The transfer from Black Hills State win the NCAA D-III championship topped the second place finisher Water Polo 21-12 8-2 Second the eventual champions from UC University claimed the SCIAC and earn All-American status in by nearly 12 feet. Santa Cruz. title in the shot put and hammer the hammer throw. He finished The Kingsmen 4x400-meter CLUSports.com 13th in the shot put. relay team made up of freshman

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of women’s volleyball coach Kellee Roesel, the club could be a The one sport secure in its club status is rugby, which is not offered steppingstone to a full-fledged NCAA-recognized Division III program, by the NCAA at any level. But it has its own draw: the seven-a-side Club Teams Score at CLU not just at Cal Lutheran but throughout the Southern California version of rugby joins the Summer Olympics in 2016. And in the U.S., Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, if members get their way. where rugby remains a niche sport, it’s not impossible to imagine some By David Lassen “For a first year, I think we had a great year,” said Bill, who put players rising from a club program to national-team competition. together a team mixing experienced players with those new to the “If we are not varsity, that’s fine,” said Ricardo Palavecino, who sport. He’s convinced varsity status is “not too lofty a goal, because if coaches the CLU team and is also part of USA Rugby’s youth we can get the other schools in SCIAC to have teams, then it’s easy development program. “We hope that we can go forward and keep for the SCIAC volleyball league to be set up.” growing. The most important thing is what they’re learning, which is The lacrosse club may also have long-term varsity potential. There unity, friendship, and hard work together.” are 166 Division III men’s lacrosse programs, and the sport is growing That may be the perfect description not just of rugby but of all rapidly in Southern California. CLU club sports. But at present, club members are more interested in introducing students to the sport and offering them a chance to compete outside David Lassen covers the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Riverside Press- of a varsity setting. Most members of the CLU team had not played Enterprise. He wrote about Cal Lutheran athletics for 25 years as a staff before coming to the University. writer for the Ventura County Star. He has also covered a variety of professional sports and five Olympic Games. Post-Season Recognition SCIAC Athlete of the Year Talia Ferrari, Softball Jordan Leckness Eric Flores, Men’s Track and Field Kaylin Garcia, Women’s Track and Field Ray Worley Andrew Giuffrida, Men’s Tennis Britlyn Garrett, Women’s Track and Field Track and Field (USTFCCCA) Christa Youngern, Women’s Track and Field Greg Grimm, Men’s Basketball Eric Flores, Men’s Field Athlete of the Year All-SCIAC Kelly How Tam Fat, Women’s Swimming Lucais MacKay, Women’s Assistant Coach of First Team Jake Kaija, Men’s Swimming the Year Nick Ballou, Men’s Tennis Will Kennedy, Men’s Swimming Luci Lapp, Women’s Track and Field Academic All-District VIII RACE RONNING ’10 RONNING T RACE ’10 RONNING T RACE Chris Brouillette, Men’s Track and Field Lacrosse has the potential to become a varsity sport. Seven-a-side rugby will join the Summer Olympics in 2016. Ryan Lassila, Men’s Tennis (ESPN/CoSIDA) Meredith Butte, Women’s Water Polo First Team Brian Coan, Men’s Track and Field Jordan Leckness, Women’s Tennis Matt Martin, Baseball Chris Brouillette, Men’s Track and Field udy Dini and Kai Borson-Paine came to Cal Lutheran, at least “Leadership experience in any environment is always great,” said Joy Cyprian, Women’s Water Polo Andy Meier, Men’s Basketball Meredith Butte, Women’s Water Polo in part, because of the lacrosse team. Some members of the Sparby. “When I came in, I was kind of soft-spoken, kind of shy. So Eric Flores, Men’s Track and Field Brianna Parker, Women’s Basketball Bobby Sanders, Women’s Water Polo next freshman class could be drawn by men’s volleyball. And having to direct this group of guys … I think it’s going to help me a lot.” Andrew Giuffrida, Men’s Tennis R Lilly Price, Women’s Track and Field the school’s rugby players — as their coaches point out — are playing Amanda Graves, Women’s Swimming Second Team Lauren Rasmussen, Women’s Track and Field a sport that could lead them to the Olympics. Finding the right level of competition K.C. Judge, Baseball Joy Cyprian, Women’s Water Polo Ember Reyes, Women’s Track and Field This is pretty impressive, considering most people don’t even know The clubs offer competition that falls between the relaxed atmosphere Toccoa Kahovec, Women’s Track and Field Toccoa Kahovec, Women’s Track and Field Robbie Selden, Baseball these sports exist at CLU. But they do, as club sports. of intramurals and the full-fledged commitment of varsity competition. Kyle Knudsen, Men’s Basketball Academic All-American Jenna Snyder, Women’s Swimming The programs differ in their aspirations, but all share the purpose of “We’re still really competitive,” said Borson-Paine, who came to Kara Komarzec, Women’s Track and Field (ESPN/CoSIDA) Taryn Thordarson, Women’s Track and Field any club, athletic or otherwise, at the University: To broaden the range CLU from Anchorage, Alaska. “We still practice three, four times a Victor Lara, Men’s Track and Field First Team Erica Whitley, Women’s Basketball of experiences and social interaction available to students. week, we still have a game every week, but you’re not spending six Jessica Predovic, Women’s Track and Field Meredith Butte, Women’s Water Polo Ray Worley, Men’s Tennis The social aspect of the club sports cannot be overstated. Dini, a hours a day. It’s a lot easier to have some fun.” Emily Robertson, Softball Bobby Sanders, Women’s Water Polo New Jersey native who came to CLU after taking a year off between For someone like Dini, who played on a state-championship team Starla Wright, Women’s Basketball All-West Region All-American high school and college, didn’t really connect socially at the school until in high school, the reduced commitment was definitely appealing. High Christa Youngern, Women’s Track and Field Baseball (ABCA/Rawlings) Third Team Nick Ballou, Men’s Tennis he began meeting other lacrosse players. He formed bonds strong school lacrosse was “a lot of hard work, a lot of pressure. … I just Chris Hertz Second Team Eric Flores, Men’s Track and Field enough that three years later, one of the players he met that year is wanted to step back from that,” he said. K.C. Judge Aly Anderson, Women’s Track and Field Andrew Giuffrida, Men’s Tennis still a roommate. The club teams are student-run, and funded in part by participants Matt Martin Tristan Baer, Men’s Track and Field Christa Youngern, Women’s Track and Field Setareki Wainiqolo is a freshman from Fiji, a country that takes its and in part by student government. Holly Beaman, Women’s Tennis Robbie Selden rugby very seriously. In joining the rugby club, he found a way to stay USTFCCCA National Male Field “You just have to come up with an idea that’s good enough,” said Kelsey Bergemann, Women’s Water Polo Tennis (ITA) involved in the sport, and to break down cultural barriers. Athlete of the Year Borson-Paine, who went on to explain that funds are allocated based Erica Carter, Women’s Track and Field Mike Gennette, Coach of the Year “I wasn’t sure I wanted to play for a college rugby team,” he said, Eric Flores, Men’s Track and Field on the publicity and the number of people the club attracts. “I think Lauren Dakin, Women’s Swimming Andrew Giuffrida, Player to Watch “but I don’t regret the decision now. The guys are so cool, and I this is our seventh year on campus, and it started with one guy having Jackie de la Paz, Women’s Track and Field Nick Ballou NCAA D-III National Champion adjusted pretty quickly. They helped me a lot.” an idea. He pitched it, and got the school to sign off on it.” Courtney Downing, Women’s Swimming Ryan Lassila Eric Flores, Men’s Track and Field Erik Sparby, a criminal justice major from Forest Lake, Minn., was The newest of the clubs, men’s volleyball, may have the loftiest Ian Durham, Baseball president of the rugby club in 2009-10 so he gained experience goal. Started this year by senior Graeme Bill with the assistance beyond the sport itself. For up-to-date news and scores and to subscribe to the CLU Sports E-Newsletter, go to CLUSports.com

12 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 13 EXCERPTS FROM Yam Yad Returns for 50th Anniversary CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY College of Our Dreams: The First Fifty Years 1959 - 2009 For its 50th Anniversary, CLU brought back an old tradition –Yam by Ernst F. Tonsing, Ph.D. Yad, which is “May Day” spelled backwards. In the early years of CLU, College of Our Dreams: Yam Yad started as a day of fun in the sun when students skipped class to enjoy the company of their peers. Eventually, this evolved into The First Fifty Years 1969-2009 a tradition of classes being cancelled so all students and faculty could participate in service together. Yam Yad 2010 was devoted to making Page 18 – Page 27 – CLU a little “greener” with students, faculty and staff planting drought- Recruiting faculty, building facilities Waxing poetic over chicken coops tolerant, native plants around campus. Recruitment of faculty with solid academic Fay Roope of the Conejo News wrote a little ditty backgrounds, experience, and a willingness to about the chicken coops for the newspaper The undertake the tasks of establishing a curriculum was Western Lutheran: given special attention. By April of 1961, twenty- Now within a brooder house eight professors had been enlisted. Dahl wanted a (What a fitting place to find!) ten-to-one ratio of students to faculty, and for fifty They’ll hatch their plans with faith and hope percent of the teaching staff to hold doctorates. …. To illuminate the mind. Meanwhile, the facilities on the campus were being readied. The student center located in a former chicken coop, complete with coffee shop and meeting facilities, opened by the time the board met in late January 1961 and the “dorms” that summer. A laboratory building was ready when the school opened its doors for students in the fall. B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 B RIAN S T E TH M ’84

Kelly Schuhert ’07 (l), Linda (Depew ’70) Catalano, Lynda (Benton Laura Brain, left, and Caitlin Ellrott do their part to beautify ’64) Elmendorf, Linda (Lewis ’70) Nausin and Thomas Odegard ’90 the campus. pitch in during Yam Yad Service Day. Own a Piece of the Celebration Data Proves CLU’s Economic Value to County, State, Nation A new study shows that California Lutheran • Indirect effects—Goods and services produced by various Special items to commemorate 50 years of CLU University pumps hundreds of millions of businesses in response to expenditures of CLU dollars into the national economy. • Induced effects—Expenditures of those who are affected by the The University’s economic impact spending of CLU employees, students, visitors and attendees of nationwide totaled $369.5 million in the CLU events held within the region, state and nation These items and more 2008-2009 fiscal year. It generated $213 are available in the CLU million statewide and $142 million for The report was based on financial data, surveys completed by Ventura County. nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and personal Bookstore or online. Jamshid Damooei, Department Chair of interviews with select CLU administrators and program coordina- Economics, Accounting and Finance, spent tors. Damooei, who has a doctorate in economics and has completed CLU’s 50th Anniversary a year collecting and analyzing data for the similar studies both locally and in developing countries, ran a series of items are great gifts for any B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 project. Initiated as part of the University’s regional input-output models to measure the economic impacts of occasion. 50th Anniversary observation, Damooei’s study sought to establish the CLU at the county, state and national levels. value of the institution, what it brings to society and how it serves the The study proves that CLU is a vibrant institution that not only has common good. immeasurable value as a higher education provider and center for the The extensive study, released in April, considered three areas of cultural and intellectual life in the region, but also creates jobs, uses impact: goods and services, and provides tax revenue, Damooei concluded. • Direct effects—CLU’s payroll and operating expenses and local callutheran.edu/impact purchases made by students, visitors and people attending University-related functions

14 CLU MAGAZINE callutheran.edu/50store SUMMER 2010 15 Then . . . And Now . . .

In 1957 an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times about a gift From fields created by clearing orchards and a few fledgling FROM FURROWED FIELDS of land in Ventura County to build a Lutheran college in Southern teams, CLU has achieved prominence over the past 50 years with California. After reading the article, Bob Shoup decided to try to championship teams, expanding programs and exceptional athletic find the campus and talk to someone about its future in sports. At facilities. TO MODERN FACILITIES the time, he was teaching and coaching at North High School in The University’s philosophy of developing well-rounded students Torrance, which had a new multimillion-dollar facility. has strengthened the role of athletics on campus during its first half “I succeeded in driving north on Moorpark Road and entered a century. Today, CLU sponsors 19 NCAA Division III men’s and dusty road leading to a farmhouse, some outbuildings and several women’s varsity sports and successfully competes in the Southern chicken coops. Parking in a dirt space, I saw a sign that said ‘office’ California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). It also CLU Athletics and found Ethel Beyer and Orville Dahl as the only inhabitants.” sponsors a host of intramural and club sports as well as a plethora Shoup introduced himself as a Lutheran educator and asked of summer camps. specifically about football in the plans for the future. He was told The transition of sports from fledgling to fruitful is the result there would be no football team, so he picked up some materials of many factors. In an interview with CLU Magazine editor Carol and went home. Keochekian ’81, three current coaches with a combined tenure of In 1962, in spite of a negative vote by the faculty, President Dahl more than 50 years share their insights on Cal Lutheran athletics and and the Board of Regents decided to start a football program in the how these programs contribute to the mission of the University. fall, and Shoup was named head coach. When asked to describe the most significant changes on campus “In the spring of 1962 we had on paper a football team, but no and to their particular programs since coming to CLU, Marty Slimak, fields, schedule, dressing and training facilities, no equipment, and who has been in the baseball program 21 years and head coach for only a few brave souls who were on campus as basketball, baseball 17, listed the expansion of the University and all the new facilities. and track were under way. The only grass on campus was where “It always helps in recruiting student athletes when you can show Soar … Pederson House is today. We rented a home, near Holy Trinity them the best baseball stadium in the conference or in the area,” he Church, which [housed] our offices, equipment rooms, etc.” said. Shoup contacted 10 schools about playing, hoping for a junior Not only have the new athletic facilities attracted many new varsity schedule since his players would be mostly freshmen. Six col- students to CLU, explained Dan Kuntz, Director of Athletics and a leges responded but four would play only their varsity squads. soccer coach at CLU for nearly 19 years, but they also have fostered thletics have been a significant part of the curriculum since “Occidental gave us an opener against their freshmen, and greater opportunities for students to strive for excellence in the Pomona said we could play their Frosh/JV team but only if we could classroom as well as in sports. the opening of California Lutheran College. Founding play their varsity too. Caltech, L.A. Pacific, Claremont and La Verne “The development of the north campus has had a significant APresident Orville Dahl believed that a strong athletic [varsities] rounded out the schedule. impact on all aspects of campus operations from admissions to program was important in building strong minds and bodies as well continued on next page continued on page 19 as strengthening school spirit and identity. Bob Shoup, the University’s longest reigning football coach, began teaching on campus in 1962 and was instrumental in growing the athletics program. In 2005, he penned a paper titled “Genesis Book One, The Alpha Project” that details the early history of sports at CLC. Following is a brief summary of Shoup’s first visit to California Lutheran College, the rocky beginning of the football program and the association with the Dallas Cowboys, as well as insights from three current CLU coaches.

16 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 17 ’04 ERIK H AGEN THEN continued... NOW continued... Rich Rider Marty Slimak Dan Kuntz Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach “After a humiliating 8-0 opening loss to Occidental, we faced alumni to community awareness of CLU as a quality institution of Men’s Basketball Baseball Men’s Soccer an undefeated L.A. Pacific team. We wore our brand new liturgi- higher learning, and it has captured the attention of some top student- cal violet jerseys and had a thrilling come-from-behind win. We athletes,” added Rich Rider, Assistant Athletic Director and head beat Caltech and the Pomona JV, but were trounced by Clare- basketball coach for 16 years. Mission, Leadership and Sports mont and Pomona. Our last game was a slaughter. La Verne was Athletics contributes to the mission of CLU, Rider contended, by very, very good, and we were awful.” A Greater Asset to the Community providing numerous opportunities for students to work together in Meanwhile, college officials met in Thousand Oaks with Dallas The new athletic facilities have also enhanced CLU’s community situations that call for strong leadership and committed character Cowboys’ General Manager “Tex” Schramm to discuss the outreach by allowing expansion of activities geared to young people toward a common goal. feasibility of using CLC as a summer camp for his novice team. and the business community and by enabling involvement of more Student athletes, Kuntz concurred, find that they are learning many of the values that are woven into the fabric of the CLU mission Favorably impressed, Schramm said the decision was up to Coach 1960s Kingsmen outside groups. Tom Landry. “We already have the Men’s Water Polo Olympic team training including academic achievement, service, leadership, awareness of our “The visit by Tom Landry could not [have] been worse. It was at CLU, the Men’s Olympic Handball team, various high school global society and the roles that education cold and very windy; it was dark and dreary. There was no field championships, community college championships, local clubs and a and sport bring to these areas. (only dirt graded). There were no locker rooms or dressing area, host of other athletic and non-athletic events,” Kuntz elaborated. All three coaches believe that no training room, no showers, no meeting rooms. The athletic “When people from the community or from the outside see the participating in sports at any level develops facilities were non-existent. athletic facilities here, their first reaction usually is that they did not leadership skills. “What none of us knew was that the master of dreams was realize how much CLU has grown over the years,” Slimak added. “When students electively choose to himself to resign in a matter of days. Dr. Orville Dahl, who had As far as other significant changes the coaches have seen, Kuntz participate in sports and represent their sold Tex Schramm [on the summer camp concept], left Dec. 31, points out that the introduction of the Internet created different ways university this is a form of leadership,” said 1962.” to reach potential students. Kuntz. “Athletes sacrifice lots of things to Seth Eastvold, who took over as acting president in Janu- “Prior to the Internet,” he said, “we did everything by hand participate in sports. This discipline and ary 1963, received a letter from Tex Schramm saying that Tom or by phone. Now, much of our recruitment is done via e-mail the ability to work with others in a team Landry and the Cowboys were coming to CLC in six months to correspondence and…cell phones.” environment make them unique.” open their training camp. Rider believes joining SCIAC was a great positive change for CLU Under Kuntz’s coaching the “This set up a beehive of activity. Eastvold went to the Janss that has given the University brand identity and an association with men’s soccer program has earned family and got a $5,000 grant to customize the Butler build- other quality institutions in Southern California. seven SCIAC titles and six NCAA ing for the Cowboys. Dallas sent plans of what they wanted. I postseason appearances. As head was appointed liaison with the Cowboys and we rolled up our Teams and Individuals Shine coach of the women’s program from sleeves. The day Dallas arrived we were installing the toilets, Under Slimak’s tenure the Kingsmen baseball teams have posted 16 1993-2004, he led the Regals to eight erik hagen ’04 showerheads and basins. One of the plumbers bumped into straight winning seasons and have been SCIAC champion or runner-up straight SCIAC titles and one of the longest conference win Landry and was upset because Landry was in his way. Of course, in 13 of 16 years. The coach singles out the two national championship streaks in women’s soccer history. Coach Bob Shoup introduces nobody at CLC knew who Tom Landry was then, or the Dallas games in Salem, Va., as special memories. The first game was in 1992 Rider has always felt that coaching is one of the highest forms of fans to Dallas player Cowboys.” and the second in 1996. teaching. In the years to come, CLU and the Dallas Cowboys grew up Coach Tom Landry Kuntz tabbed the 1997 men’s soccer team’s reaching the final “While the classroom may be a field, a pool, or a gym, what together -– winning seasons, winning championships, getting bet- seven in the nation and hosting first round NCAA competition at teacher wouldn’t desire to have students, mostly on a volunteer basis, ter facilities. Out of the partnership came the Dallas Cowboys CLU as significant events. For the women’s soccer teams, he recalls wanting to improve their particular physical skill while acquiring the Welcome Dinner, the Dallas Christian Businessmen Day, the achieving 10 consecutive SCIAC championships and multiple NCAA intangible qualities of commitment, dedication, time management, CLC-Dallas Cowboys football clinic, the Community Leaders appearances. goal setting and working within a team to achieve success,” he asked Club, the football Boosters and the Landry Medal. “It would be difficult to single out one specific memory as I rhetorically, noting that these are transferable skills that future “We both won our epitome games the same year. Dallas continue to be impressed by the impact that CLU has on the lives employers seek. won the Super Bowl and CLC the NAIA II National Champion- of young people and the special place that it holds with alumni that “Athletics does not build character in the ship. CLC was recognized by the NCAA and NAIA as one of the return year after year,” mused Rider, who has led Kingsmen basketball individual,” Slimak concluded. “It greatest programs in football history.” to five SCIAC championships. reveals it.”

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AR ight pools along the main walkway through campus as darkness falls and the cold wind brings a chill. The bells of the carillon in Pederson Administration Building herald the start of 6 p.m. classes. It is winter quarter, and ADEP student Shanuki Stanislaus grabs her books and rushes across the parking lot to Alumni Hall for her class. CLU It’s a time of day and a face of the campus that few traditional day students associate with CLU, but one the 300 students in the Adult Degree Evening Program (ADEP) know well. In fact, most of these students have been to campus in daylight hours only to do their initial registration and degree planning. Though she doesn’t consider herself a night person, the Sri Lankan native is determined to get AFTER her degree from CLU. Since she enrolled in ADEP in 2008, Stanislaus has juggled a job as an Amgen accounts payable coordinator with pregnancy, motherhood and then job loss. At two classes each session, she hopes to accumulate the general education credits she needs to earn her degree in DARKBy Marsha Anderson business management by the end of the year. Her studies are beyond the 130 credits she earned from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the United Kingdom. The four-year British program, she found, was not recognized by American employers as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree. “ADEP is a great opportunity, especially for students new to the U.S.,” said Stanislaus. “ADEP accepted most of my credits, so I needed to mainly take some general education courses and a few classes in my major. My teachers have been really great.” Like many of her fellow students, Stanislaus realized that she needed her degree to be eligible for job opportunities in the future. Her former employer, Amgen, paid her tuition costs. It is one of more than 15 companies in the Thousand Oaks area that reimburse employees for education expenses. Six of her Amgen coworkers also were students in ADEP.

Help with Achieving Goals “ADEP students are wonderful to work with,” said Darla Arcuri, associate director of the program, who along with her staff provides counseling and support – and a fair amount of cheerleading – to help the students achieve their goals. “They all have maturity, focus and a lot of real-life experience they bring to the classroom,” she noted. “They know their studies are important and why they are here. And they are busy, busy, busy!”

20 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 21 B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 “We are the people of the night that invade the campus ADEP at 25 when the traditional students disappear into the dorms” ADEP’s first classes were held in fall 1985, and the program is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding as CLU celebrates its 50th. Over the past quarter century, ADEP has continued to grow, and in 2006, classes ~ John Larisey ’10 were expanded to CLU’s Oxnard campus. In June, Gina La Monica was hired as the first full-time director to oversee the program. This fall, ADEP classes will be offered at the Woodland Hills campus, making it convenient for many more adults to complete their CLU degrees. A thumbnail sketch of the Adult Degree Evening Program: Four 11-week terms each year (summer, fall, winter, spring) Classes meet one to two evenings a week per course, 6-9:30 p.m. Majors offered: Accounting, Business Management, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Liberal Studies, Organizational Leadership and Psychology ADEP office hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission requirements: High school diploma or GED certificate; 12 transfer credit hours (up to a maximum of 70 credits from community college and unlimited university transfer credits); substantial work experience; 25 years of age; cumulative GPA of at least 2.25. Average time to earn degree: 2 1/2 years (10 terms) For more information about ADEP, please call (805) 493-3325 or visit online callutheran.edu/adep B RIAN S T E TH M ’84

ADEP is a formula that has worked for 25 years now. In the past reimbursement, which provided “an added dimension of pressure.” As a business management major taking finance, law, marketing declared, “I started college at 18 and graduated at 52. I lived life in seven years alone, the program has graduated 638 students. Over “As my career has progressed,” the CEO said, “I have applied a lot and other courses, Cole gained many skills that came in handy at work. between!” the life of the program, more than 2,000 have earned their degree. of that experience to my work, especially the qualitative experiences Since graduating from CLU, she has received two promotions and is When Schering merged with Merck in late 2009, a “bloodbath Graduates from years past have met with success in many fields, and you don’t realize you are learning at the time.” ADEP classes helped currently director of government and external affairs. of layoffs” began and Fullner lost her job. But armed with her ADEP at least one has gone on to become a member of the University’s improve his writing skills (for which he gives special acknowledgment “Verizon recognizes the value of an educated employee,” Cole degree, the Simi Valley resident found she could face losing her job governing board. to English professor Sig Schwarz) and his public speaking ability. noted. with greater confidence, knowing that she was well prepared to make CLU regent Ron McDaniel ’88 is president of the California Credit To his position as a regent, McDaniel brings a unique perspective a job change. With this can-do attitude, she was soon employed by a Union in Glendale. Possibly the first ADEP graduate to serve on the since he has experienced firsthand the needs of evening students. Loving to Learn property management firm and is studying for her real estate broker’s Board of Regents, McDaniel entered CLU in 1984, starting classes “I understand the bulk of our students are traditionally aged, but When pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough hired Gabby Fullner license. the term before the program officially began. He praises the late Pam ADEP and master’s programs need appropriate attention as well and as a hospital outpatient sales representative, she was one of only two Whatever the future holds, Fullner and her fellow ADEP graduates Jolicoeur, the first ADEP director, and her team for responding to the are important to the overall success of the University,” he observed. people hired without a bachelor’s degree. The company offered to have learned one important lesson: It is never too late to go back to special needs of adults coming to campus at night. Holly Cole enrolled in ADEP when her job with Verizon brought pay 90 percent of her tuition, sparking her return to school. Like many school for that bachelor’s degree. No matter how many years have “We all had careers, different motivations and families,” said her back to her hometown of Thousand Oaks. With her associate ADEP students, this mother of four and former in-home day care passed since you started college, it’s really whether you finish that McDaniel, noting that everyone was trying to balance home with work degree already in hand, she went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in provider had an associate degree and assorted credits from other matters. and study. During the time he earned his degree, McDaniel’s daughter 2001 and her master’s in public policy and administration in 2005. The universities, which allowed her to enter ADEP as a junior. “We are the people of the night that invade the campus when was born and he went from being the vice president of a credit union company provided 100-percent tuition reimbursement and covered “It was not easy, but I loved it!” she said. “I loved the class work, the traditional students disappear into the dorms,” said John Larisey, to the CEO. the cost of textbooks. the research, working in teams.” Taking only one course each term, student Commencement speaker for the ADEP Class of 2010. “We’re “For all of us, time management was essential,” he reiterated. “ADEP retriggered my love of learning,” Cole declared, noting that she focused on learning each subject well. sometimes referred to as seniors but for reasons other than our class “After my daughter was born, I had a better understanding of the she had looked at a number of other options for a degree, but CLU After signing up for a dreaded math class, she put together a standing,” continued the 56-year-old insurance broker who enrolled balancing act of my own employees.” was the only place where she felt that the goal was to give her an study group that met each Sunday to work for an hour. Soon that in the CLU program in 1990 and received his bachelor’s degree in education. weekly session lengthened to four hours, with beer and chili for its five business management in May. “Think of it. If we were able to work Students Highly Motivated “One thing I liked about the ADEP classes was that the students participants. full time, parent full time, study full time, anything else that life can McDaniel believes that motivation among his peers was very high were all professionals who had experience to draw from and valuable “And they all did really well in that class!” she boasted. challenge us with will be easy in comparison.” because, unlike more traditionally aged students, they all wanted to input. I learn best from dialog with others, so ADEP was a good fit,” Fullner did better than well, winning the Outstanding ADEP be there. And most employers required a minimum grade for tuition she said. “For my master’s degree, I didn’t look anywhere else.” Student award at her graduation in spring 2009. Looking back, she

22 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 23 Touchdown!By David Lassen

ill Rolland has a vision for Cal Lutheran’s new but he sees a broader impact, as well. football stadium — as he should, since his gift is “What we’ve seen with the Gilbert Center” — the athletic making that stadium a reality. and fitness facility opened in 2006, adjacent to the site of Rolland “One of the beautiful parts of this stadium,” says Stadium — “is that it helps recruiting of all students, not just Rolland, “is the bridge that joins the two sides of the student-athletes,” Kimball says. “Whether it’s seeing state-of-the-art Stadium Opens Door for campus. As you come across the bridge, you’ll look facilities, the workout room, whatever, it just helps. right into the stadium … and onto the field. So you “And so we’ve been getting more and better students in recent Performing Arts Center just have this collage in front of you, of the football years, and I think some of our faculty in particular are saying, ‘This By David Lassen stadium, the grounds in front, the bridge you’re coming across, the will be another boost to recruiting of top-class students in general, clock tower that’s going to be part of it.” even if they never go to a football game.’” The art gallery that will be part of CLU’s new William Rolland Planning is well under way for William Rolland Stadium, slated Athletic director Dan Kuntz looks beyond the campus in Stadium isn’t just a signature feature of the new facility. In a sense, to open in fall 2011 as the latest addition to the University’s north assessing the stadium’s importance, believing it will strengthen ties it’s also a preview of coming attractions, as well as a reminder of campus athletics complex. A successor to Mt. Clef Stadium, home between the school and surrounding communities. how interconnected the football stadium is to other parts of the of CLU football since the program began in 1962, has long been “Let it be a place, that kind of crown jewel, that people can come University’s strategic plan. discussed, but it was simply part of the University’s long-term plans to and share together,” says Kuntz, “that connects the University to When the football program moves across Olsen Road to its new until Rolland, a longtime Conejo Valley resident and real estate them, and them to the University. home in 2011, it will open the door for the University to begin thinking developer, stepped forward this year with a donation of more than “The more you’re involved, the more you’ll understand your in earnest about another long-sought feature — the addition of a $5 million, the largest single gift in Cal Lutheran history. community, the more you’ll have a sense of direction in terms of performing arts center. “If you had asked me on Christmas Day if this would happen in what its needs are. … It’s going to create synergies that we just “We knew we had to move football to even be able to start the first couple of months of 2010,” says President Chris Kimball, “I haven’t seen, that universities are uniquely able to have in their planning on the arts center,” says President Chris Kimball. “To have would have said, ‘No, I don’t see that.’ communities if they do it right.” this happen even faster than we thought speeds up that other project, “But good things happen sometimes, and people like Bill Rolland Rolland is an active participant in weekly on-campus meetings too.” come along and feel committed to get something done.” to finalize stadium design, which will include a gallery to display Inevitably, Kimball says, some have wondered why the University is the gift was encouraged by Rolland’s friend Joan Young, a pieces from his extensive collection of art, an eclectic assemblage of building the football stadium ahead of other facilities. member of CLU’s Board of Regents. It was inspired, says the bronzes and paintings ranging from 17th-century to contemporary “A perfectly fair question,” he notes, “but donors determine the 76-year-old Westlake Village resident, “by respect for the school works. nature, scope and timing of their gift. And even for advocates of the and the way it’s been operated over the last 50 years,” and by his “I think it is important to have a place to leave my artwork, too,” arts, this was something that had to happen first.” love of the Conejo Valley, his home since 1970. Rolland explains. the City Planning Commission unanimously approved the revised “I owe a great deal to the city,” he says, “and I believe the college It is an unconventional feature, but one Kimball embraces. He plan for the new stadium June 21. And once the stadium is built, will make great use of our donation.” recalls a conversation with a faculty member who said, “For a liberal football coach Ben McEnroe is also excited about the possibilities for It is a gift with wide-ranging impact. arts campus like us to combine art with athletics is a great statement the rest of the campus. For football coach Ben McEnroe, it’s a huge boost for a program about how they’re all part of the college experience. … Having “You look at the area from the scoreboard of Mt. Clef Stadium all that won the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference those two things together actually makes a lot of sense for the the way to Kingsmen Park,” says McEnroe, “and it really becomes a title in 2009, earning its first playoff berth in 27 years. message the campus is trying to present about itself.” blank canvas. And I’m very excited to see what that does, long term, “It’s going to help us in the recruiting process,” says McEnroe. For now, the biggest message represented by William Rolland for the University and the master plan.” “It’s going to allow us to host playoff games.” (Mt. Clef Stadium does Stadium is simply that its time has come. And Bill Rolland’s gift of just over $5 million could have impacts not meet NCAA hosting requirements.) “And the opportunity for “To see it come to fruition,” says McEnroe, “I was overwhelmed far beyond the construction of the stadium, Kimball notes. Anecdotal our student-athletes to compete in one of the best venues in the — and extremely grateful, and excited about the opportunity evidence is that major gifts beget other gifts. country, on top of the CLU experience that they get academically moving forward.” “Within two weeks of announcing his gift,” says the president, “we and socially, is sort of the icing on the cake.” received one of $650,000 — essentially cash, not even a pledge — to Kimball, who earlier in his career taught at the University of David Lassen covers the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Riverside Press- support study abroad from an anonymous donor. Now I can’t say Nebraska, recognizes football’s influence on campus life. Enterprise. He wrote about Cal Lutheran athletics for 25 years as a staff those two are connected … but I don’t know that they weren’t, “I think that is the college sport that people identify with,” he writer for the Ventura County Star. He has also covered a variety of either . . . That’s the expectation, that a big gift begets others. And says. “You have a robust program and a nice stadium, that gives a professional sports and five Olympic Games. we’ll certainly be glad to be in a receiving mode, should that prove to sort of aura to the University that is beneficial.” be true.” 24 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 25 B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 B RIAN S T E TH M ’84

Six of the first 10 women graduates of CLU’s MBA Program gather for a reunion luncheon on campus: Natalie Shaw (l), Nancy Stehle, Kate McLean, Paula Bortel, Margie Price, Vivian Goo.

ate McLean clearly recalls the day she showed up Groundbreakers. Trailblazers. Official demolishers of glass ceilings. at what was then California Lutheran College to The first women to earn MBAs from CLU were, like McLean, all of The first 10 look into joining the school’s Master of Business those things and more. Administration program. Cal Lutheran conferred its first MBAs in 1974 – handing out eight It was 1973 and the absence of women was that year to an all-male class. But the following year, two women conspicuous. An admission officer attempted to earned master’s degrees through the business program. And by women to earn explain, saying there was some concern whether 1978, 10 women held Cal Lutheran MBAs and were going on to women could cut it in an MBA program. carve successful careers in everything from finance to engineering to As she has throughout a career that has education. included stretches as the leader of some of Ventura County’s most “It allowed me to break into the corporate field and achieve my important and dynamic social service organizations, the Westlake goal of becoming a corporate manager,” said Westlake Village resident an MBA from CLC Village resident was about to prove her doubters wrong. Margie Price, MBA ’78. The Missouri native used her advanced degree “I just laughed, because I had that statement given to me a million to work her way from secretary to engineering manager at business times,” said McLean, who joined the program in 1974 and in those equipment giant Burroughs Corporation. early years often found herself the lone woman in her classes. Three “I never really thought I was a pioneer or anything like that,” she blazed new trails years later she would become one of the first women to earn an MBA added. “I just always thought that education was the key to moving up from the Thousand Oaks campus, outscoring all of her classmates on in the business world.” the program-ending comprehensive exams. “For me it was incredibly important to have earned my MBA – it Significant Achievements By Fred Alvarez gave me a sense of credibility in the work I was doing,” McLean added. Those early successes were all the more notable for the time in which “I did feel that it was breaking some ground. I felt proud that I had they took place. done it and done it well.”

26 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 27 The earliest of the female MBA candidates at Cal Lutheran began their graduate school journeys just CLU’s First 10 Female MBA Graduates as the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 1970s Vivian Goo, MBA ’75 Julie Streets, MBA ’76 Kate McLean, MBA ’77 was gaining traction. It was a time when an increasing Hometown: Camarillo Hometown: Oxnard Hometown: Westlake Village number of women were entering the workforce, but Employment: Retired, Naval Base of Ventura Employment: H & R Block Employment: Retired, Ventura County also a time when most women earned a fraction of the County Community Foundation salary of their male counterparts and when many were Paula Bortel ’73, MBA ’77 excluded from traditionally male jobs. Natalie Shaw, MBA ’76 Hometown: Bakersfield Lorraine Newlon, MBA ’78 It was a time when women had to choose between Hometown: Port Hueneme Employment: State Farm Insurance Hometown: Santa Rosa Valley the career path and the path to parenthood. Even when Employment: Retired, Naval Energy and Employment: Retired, California State women were able to break into the management ranks, Environmental Support Activity, Port Patricia (Liebmann, MBA ’77) Foley University, Northridge (CSUN) Hueneme; seasonal enrolled agent, H & R Hometown: Westlake Village too often they encountered discrimination and other Block Employment: Musculoskeletal Transplant Margie (Myers, MBA ’78) Price hurdles that cut short their climb up the corporate Foundation Hometown: Westlake Village ladder. Nancy Stehle, MBA ’76 Employment: Price Association Add to that the fact that the nation’s big-time MBA Hometown: Oxnard Billie (Golden, MBA ’77) Gillean programs didn’t even start admitting women until the Employment: Retired, Office of the Assistant Hometown: Onalaska, Texas 1960s. It wasn’t until 1963 that the first eight women Secretary of the Navy Employment: Interface Child and Family enrolled in the MBA program at the Harvard Business Services School, according to that university’s website. B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 Enter this feisty, independent, and determined group Chuck Maxey, Dean of the School of Business, chats with Vivian Goo (l), Margie Price and of MBA candidates at Cal Lutheran. They came from Kate McLean at a reunion luncheon for the first 10 women to receive MBAs at CLU. different backgrounds, held different views of the world, and had different reasons for pursuing graduate degrees. But they all had this in common – they were determined to gain of that division, Newlon oversaw a staff of more than 100 employees She was ultimately named the Navy base’s first deputy public works fact that I had that ‘MBA’ after my name said, ‘Yes, I’m management the tools necessary to successfully navigate what at that time was and orchestrated the transformation of the admissions process from a director, but only after overcoming concerns that she wouldn’t be able material.’” definitively a man’s world. manual system to the electronic age. to supervise or give directions to military officers. Stehle would go on to parlay her work experience and advanced Camarillo resident Vivian Goo was a true pioneer. She was one of Her forte was organizational management, and she got the education into a job in Washington, D.C., with the Office of the Women Stayed Home two women in Cal Lutheran’s 1975 class of MBA graduates, the first to opportunity to put those skills to the test when she was chosen to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, managing land and environmental “I think it was left over from the generation when women were mostly deliver advanced business degrees to women. help oversee the 2000 consolidation of Point Mugu’s Naval Air Station programs. at home,” explained CLU School of Business Dean Charles Maxey of Cal Lutheran began offering the MBA at the Naval Air Station at and Port Hueneme’s Naval Construction Battalion Center into a single Retired now from government work, Stehle devotes much of her the small number of women early on in the program. Point Mugu in 1973. It was there, where Goo worked as a civilian command called Naval Base Ventura County. time these days to community service. She is on the board of the St. “Nationally, at that time, it was still a man’s game,” Maxey added. planner, that she began taking graduate courses in an effort to pursue a Goo retired in 2002, but remains busy as a volunteer for a variety John’s Healthcare Foundation and serves on the board of directors “There just happened to be this highly motivated, determined group of management career. of clubs and charities, including serving as president of the Oxnard of Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County. She also serves as people who didn’t accept roadblocks. They weren’t making a political “I wanted to set myself in a position where there might be better chapter of Altrusa International, a grassroots organization dedicated to chairwoman for the steering committee of the Ventura County Civic statement; this is the thing that made sense for them to do and they opportunities in the future and where I could be valuable to this community service. Alliance, a group dedicated to promoting a healthy and sustainable set out to do it.” government,” she said. “I would get up at 3 o’clock in the morning to She has three grown, professional daughters who, Goo says, have future for Ventura County and the region. Maxey points out that much has changed in the MBA program study for my classes. But I liked it because it was a natural fit for me.” little idea what a trailblazer their mother was or how hard she fought When considering all of the contributions of the early female MBA since those early days. Starting with the inaugural 1974 graduating class Goo said the male members of her MBA class were generally to achieve success. graduates from Cal Lutheran, Stehle said she is proud to be part of a of eight men, 2,284 students had earned MBAs from Cal Lutheran accepting of their female counterparts, largely because they all worked “Getting my MBA was definitely significant,” she said. “It opened up sisterhood that has achieved so much and continues to give back to its as of August 2009. For the past decade, nearly half of Cal Lutheran’s together at the Navy base. But she said her educational and career doors for me and helped me progress throughout my career.” community. MBA recipients have been women. pursuits weren’t always met with the same enthusiasm. “You see the product, you see the people who have gone through Maxey said that currently nearly half of Cal Lutheran’s MBA Management Material the program and who are competent and contributing to all facets of candidates – 528 this school year – are women. That compares to a Discrimination Starts Early Oxnard resident Nancy Stehle, MBA ’76, tells a similar story. the community,” she said. “Yes, we’ve come a long way, baby.” national average of about 30 percent female enrollment in graduate Dating back to her co-ed Catholic high school in Hawaii, Goo With a degree in geology from all-female Wellesley College, she A long way, to be sure. But McLean is quick to point out that the business programs at universities nationwide, according to a study by remembers as a junior being prohibited from taking pre-engineering arrived at the Navy base at Port Hueneme in 1959, working as a gains that have been made toward gender equality should never be the nonprofit group Catalyst, which works with businesses to expand electives because school officials didn’t want her joining what at the civilian employee first in the Navy’s polar division and then its division taken for granted. “I sometimes talk to young women today who business opportunities for women. time were all-male classes. That summer, she went across the street to of environmental programs. During that time, she earned a master’s can’t fathom a time when women couldn’t get into medical school, All of the early MBA graduates went on to become successful another school to take mechanical drawing and engineering courses, degree in geology from UCLA. But she knew if she wanted to move or couldn’t go to law school,” she said. “But for them, it was not even women in their communities, and many became the first in their fields and then remained at that school for her senior year. up through the management ranks at the Navy base, she would need two generations ago. We should never become complacent, because as engineers, educators and community leaders. Later, Goo would become one of the first female engineering even more of an educational boost. what has been given can be taken away.” McLean, for example, was promoted to executive director of the students at the University of Hawaii and was elected president of the A friend told Stehle about the MBA program at Cal Lutheran nonprofit group Interface shortly after receiving her MBA, becoming university’s Engineering Club. She said upon her election, half the male and she began taking classes after work at Point Mugu, earning her Fred Alvarez is a high school history and journalism teacher who lives in one of the first nonprofit executive directors in Ventura County. students threatened to quit and form their own club. graduate degree in 1976 along with two other women. Ojai. For more than two decades, he was a staff writer for several daily Santa Rosa Valley resident Lorraine Newlon, MBA ’78, used her Even at Point Mugu, Goo said she at times came face-to-face with “I was a scientist competing against engineers, so I needed newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union- Cal Lutheran graduate degree to springboard to the top admissions the kind of discrimination that was all too common for progressive something extra to stand out in the crowd,” Stehle said. “Just the Tribune. and records job at California State University, Northridge. As director women of her era.

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Class Representatives Greetings from the CLU Alumni Association! Linda (Gulsrud) Harris CLU Psychology Professor Honored ’64 [email protected] About six years ago, I • COME BACK: If you live regionally, or have plans to Marty (Ronning) Schwalm Julie (Menzies ’69) Kuehnel, Ph.D., is the 2010 recipient of the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. was pulling out of my be in the area, definitely take time to visit the campus. [email protected] neighborhood in Livermore, Amazing new and leading-edge facilities are on the A psychology major who graduated with honors from CLU, Kuehnel earned a doctorate in educational Calif. (Bay Area), when horizon including the Swenson Center for Social and Class Representative psychology from the University of Texas at Austin the man next to me at the Behavioral Sciences, KCLU Broadcast Center, Early ’65 Ruth Ann Johnson [email protected] and returned to her undergraduate alma mater to join stoplight started honking. Childhood Center and William Rolland Stadium. YEAR the faculty in 1975. She teaches courses in abnormal I looked over and he was • CONNECT: Contact a former classmate or send Jerry Anderson, 45 , 2010 psychology, counseling and psychotherapy, applied waving his arms to get me REUNIONREU a note to a favorite professor. Become a fan of the Henderson, Nev., has been OCT. 21-24 psychology and criminal psychology. to roll down my window. Kingsmen/Regals Facebook Page and check out your retired for five years and spends May/ The Camarillo resident believes that highly interactive When I did, he yelled across class’s page. If this is a reunion year for you (or even if June to September/October volunteering as courses challenge students to apply theory and concepts to case studies, problems and issues. the lanes, “What year did it’s not), consider coming back for Homecoming - a handyman with RV MAPS, the ministry of “Learning facts is only the first step in education,” says you graduate? I saw your Oct 21-24! the Assemblies of God U.S. Missions. He does license plate frame, and I went to CLU too!” We chatted repairs at churches, campgrounds, universities Kuehnel, Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 Division. “Students must learn to evaluate, analyze and for the 30 seconds the light was red and then went our • CONTRIBUTE: You can help us as we’re on our and children’s houses. He also volunteers with apply material to become educated.” separate ways never to meet again. Perhaps you’ve had one way to “A Million Reasons to Study Abroad.” As its Teen Challenge and Chi Alpha. Students rave about the interesting small group discussions in Kuehnel’s classes of these random CLU encounters? The shared experience of contribution to CLU’s 50th Anniversary celebration, the Alumni Board is spearheading a $1 million Study Class Representative and her creative, meaningful assignments, all of which help them better understand attending CLU provides an instant bond that makes you feel psychology and decide on the professional path they will pursue. A licensed clinical Abroad Endowment Fund. We’re within $100,000 of Judy Halweg like you’ve run into an old friend. psychologist who specializes in behavior therapy, the inspiring professor also focuses on meeting our goal! Contributions may be made online at ’66 [email protected] When my husband, Jeff (class of ’94), and I moved back mentoring students toward fulfilling their career aspirations. www.callutheran.edu/SAfund. to Thousand Oaks five years ago, one of our desires was to Barbara Gulliford, Livermore, Calif., has Co-author of the 2004 book Evil Minds: Understanding and Responding to Violent become re-connected with the University. Now, as I enter my The 50th Anniversary is, to a large extent, a celebration been volunteering in the classroom since Predators with CLU criminal justice professor Robert J. Meadows, Kuehnel has also third year on the CLU Alumni Board, this year in the role of of our alumni and the wonderful people who have come out retiring from teaching in 2003. She also tutors published a book on marital therapy, journal articles and book chapters on behavior president, we feel truly blessed to be part of the great things of this institution. We hope you will join us in some of the with Project Read, an adult literacy program, therapy and the treatment of mental disorders. that are taking place at CLU. Many of our closest friends and special events scheduled to commemorate this milestone, where she works mainly with women from The President’s Award for Teaching Excellence was created in 1995 to recognize most meaningful business contacts are CLU alumni. such as the Homecoming & Family Festival in October and Afghanistan. professors who are held in high esteem by their peers, the students and the University I want to welcome all of the 2010 graduates to the ranks community. Kuehnel was named this year’s recipient at the Honors Day Banquet in April. the Athletic Hall of Fame in November. Ed Keesling, Yucca Valley, Calif., retired from of the Alumni Association! I hope that each of you realizes With CLU Pride, Morongo Unified School District in 2008. that the blessing of a degree from CLU carries on way Renee (Busch) Svarc, Mission Viejo, Class He creates pottery in his studio, Ed Keesling YEAR beyond graduation. As CLU continues its 50th Anniversary Calif., teaches kindergarten at Abiding Savior Representative Clayworks, and volunteers with the Morongo ’70 40 , 2010 celebration, I encourage all alumni to take a proactive step Lutheran School in Lake Forest and is a mem- Paula Morgan-Martin REUNIONREU Basin Cultural Arts Council and the California OCT. 21-24 this year to strengthen your ties to CLU. Here are just a few Marcie (Hegebush ’95) Aschbrenner ber of the Lutheran Hour Float Committee. [email protected] Art Education Association. suggestions: President, CLU Alumni Board of Directors, 2010/2011 Class Representatives Class Representatives Class Representatives ’69 Jim and Judy (Wacker) Day ’71 Adele Broas-Trent ’67 David and Janet (Monson) Andersen [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jim Day, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was hon- Don Hossler James Ulrikson, Fountain Hills, Ariz., is a ored on May 17 as Official of the Year by the [email protected] Send us retired ELCA clergyman. He and his wife, Arizona Interscholastic Association. He has mike Riley Alice, celebrated 63 years of marriage in been a wrestling official for 25 years. your news! December. [email protected] Dan Mangler, Estes Park, Colo., assumed Class Representatives Class Representative leadership of the Estes Park Church of the Send us your news along with high Rebecca (Overton) France ’68 Gerry Price Air music program in May. The program is ’72 quality, high resolution family and group [email protected] [email protected] heard each Sunday on local radio station photos. Photos not published in print Jodie (Simonson) Bischof, Sunriver, KEPL. Dan retired as Pastor of Shepherd of Alan Virgil

B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 may be posted on the alumni website. Ore., owns Miss Jodie’s Music School where the Mountains Lutheran Church on Christmas [email protected] California Lutheran University Alumni Board she conducts private piano lessons as well Day after serving there for nearly 10 years. Stephanie (Maxey) Novak, Downey, Calif., Front row: Margaret (Nish ’75) Tobin True (l), Lynda (Benton ’64) Elmendorf, California Lutheran University as group lessons for pre-kindergarten and He serves on the Church of the Air Board of took early retirement as a vice principal and Marcie (Hegebush ’95) Aschbrenner, Jeremy Hofer ’98, Mary (Malde ’67) Alumni & Parent Relations kindergarten children. She volunteers with Directors and as a chaplain with the Estes Park teacher to spend more time with her two Brannock, Amy Downing ’06, Ryan Krieger-Palmer ’04. Back row: Victoria 60 W. Olsen Road #1500 the Sunriver Music Festival and is the pianist/ Police Department. granddaughters. She volunteers with American Dickran, MBA ’04 (l), Russell White ’94, Derek Butler ’81, Simy Rajan, MBA Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 organist for her church. Association of University Women, Delta ’08, Arnold Blitstein ’02, Steven Kissinger, Daniel Burbach, MBA ’95. Not pic- [email protected] Kappa Gamma (women educators) and her tured: Linda (Lewis ’70) Nausin, Greg Frye, MBA ’95, Gretchen (Grimes ’80) church. Gutierrez, Nicole Hackbarth ’03, M.S. ’05, Connie Stewart ’98, Evan Clark ’11.

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Christine (Hinds) Elliott, Camarillo, Calif., Alumni Board of Directors and four of her fellow teachers at La Mariposa Crib Notes Heather Ahrling Green ’05 and Chelsea Edgett were married Dec. 4, 2008. Executive Committee Hall of Famer School received a grant for “Something as Violet Evelyn Harriet Bachmann was Brian Lee Kelley, former California Lutheran Marcie (Hegebush ’95) Aschbrenner Precious as Gold” from business partner born Dec. 21, 2009, to Amy and Eric ’88 Jessica Schroeder ’09 and Chris Estes University linebacker, was inducted into the President Bachmann. ’08 were married in August 2009. 2010 Divisional College Football Hall of Veneco Inc. as part of the Ventura County Fame in July. 2010 Impact II program. Lauren Barry was born in July 2009 to Margaret (Nish ’75) Tobin and Skip True Amy Downing ’06 Kelley played football for Sunny Hills Dennis Gillette (M.S.), Thousand Oaks, Emily (Johnson ’99), MBA ’06, and Jeff ’98, were married May 17, 2009. Secretary High School in Fullerton, Calif., before Calif., is serving his third term as Mayor of MBA ’01, Barry. Merle Vermillion ’07 and Mike Hanks ’08 W. Greg Frye, MBA ’95 becoming a key member of CLU’s football Thousand Oaks. He was selected by his fellow Patrick Mackenzie Below was born April were married Aug. 30, 2008. and wrestling teams. In 1971, he helped lead Treasurer council members to fill the honorary and cer- 29, 2010, to Elizabeth (Amrhein ’99) and the Kingsmen to the NAIA National Football emonial post. Dennis served as Vice President Richard Below. In Memoriam Championship and was named most Victoria Dickran, MBA ’04 valuable player of the championship game. of Administrative Services and Corporate Austen Helena Card was born April 22, Lois Gladys Allmen, MBA ’77, passed Vice President, Development The following year, he was selected to Treasurer at CLU after retiring as Assistant 2010, to Angela (Claros ’01, MBA ’03) and away March 28, 2010. Lynda (Benton ’64) Elmendorf the NAIA All-America First Team as well as Sheriff of Ventura County in 1987. The Bryan ’01 Card. Roy Ballard, MBA ’79, passed away Vice President, Enrichment, Recognition & the NAIA District 3 Defensive First Team University awarded him an honorary Doctor Cole Alexander Charlston was born Aug. July 4, 2010. Nominating and the All-Lutheran College Defensive of Laws degree last year. 19, 2009, to Katie and Kevin ’93 Charlston.

milestones Sandra K. Brown ’70 passed away First Team. Adding to his senior season John McMullen (M.A.), Los Angeles, Calif., Nicolas Robert Dockry was born May 27, May 9, 2010. Linda (Lewis ’70) Nausin honors, the defensive playmaker was named was inducted into the Santa Monica College 2009, to Melisa (O’Hara ’91, M.S. ’99) and Dan Vice President, University Relations the team MVP and a Kodak College All- Charles Carpenter ’76 passed away YEAR Sports Hall of Fame in January. John retired Dockry. American. Kelley currently holds the Cal May 4, 2009. Arnold Blitstein ’02 (At Large) 40 , 2010 as coach of SMC in 2004 after 25 years of REUNIONREU Lutheran record for interceptions in a career Donald James Fick was born May 11, 2010, Mary (Malde ’67) Brannock OCT. 21-24 Elena P. Cirino passed away March 22, 2010. with 17. The dual sport athlete made a coaching but continued teaching physical to Emily (Kanney ’96) and Bryant Fick. Daniel Burbach, MBA ’95 Canndice Green ’10 passed away name for himself in the wrestling world as well by becoming education until his full retirement in 2007. Lark LeClair Powell was born April 6, 2010, Derek Butler ’81 (At Large) April 17, 2010. the NAIA District 3 heavyweight champion in 1970. He guided SMC to the state championship to Heather (Kennedy ’99) and Matthew ’98 Evan Clark ’11 (ASCLU-G President) After leaving CLU, Kelley went on to play for 11 seasons round five times and the Western State Powell. John Hamiter ’71 passed away Jan. 29, 2010. Gretchen (Grimes ’80) Gutierrez as a starting linebacker for the New York Giants of the NFL. Conference title six times. John was inducted Nicole Hackbarth ’03, M.S. ’05 Annika Singh was born Jan. 10, 2009, to Bonnie Hoult, M.S. ’79, passed away Playing for the Giants from 1973-83, he became a member into the California Community College’s Men’s Jeremy Hofer ’98, J.D. Undis Vatvedt (Fjeld ’00) and Jasdeep Singh. Dec. 14, 2009. (Regent Representative) of one of the most renowned linebacker corps in NFL Basketball Association Hall of Fame in 2005, William B Lindsey ’68 passed away Steven Kissinger, Ph.D. history - the “Crunch Bunch” - with Lawrence Taylor and and was named state coach of the year twice Samurai Lee Stephens was born Sept. 10, fellow College Football Hall of Famers Brad Van Pelt and 2009, to Jennifer Smith and Tim ’88 Stephens. Jan. 29, 2006. (Faculty Representative) and Western States Conference coach of the Harry Carson. The California native was the club’s leading Ryan Krieger-Palmer ’04 year four times. John Moreland ’65 passed away Feb. 26, Simy Rajan, MBA ’08 tackler from 1974-76. Marriage Announcements 2009. The former Kingsman was inducted into the CLU Alumni Association Athletic Hall Patrick Miller, Ventura, Calif., retired in Connie Stewart ’98 (At Large) Rachel Bates ’08 and Robbie Loutsios ’09 Sandra J. Rond ’81 passed away April 5, Margaret (Nish ’75) Tobin True of Fame in 2003. The first Cal Lutheran player to be elected to the College Football Hall December as Chief of Police for the City of were married Jan. 30, 2010. 2010. Russell White ’94 of Fame, Kelley was inducted along with three other players and two coaches during an Ventura after serving in the post for six years. enshrinement festival in South Bend, Ind., July 16-17. He is a financial advisor and resides in Alyska Brown ’05 and Nathan Gutzwiller He joined the department in 1981 as a police Sharon Rose ’89 passed away March 3, 2009. Office of Alumni & Basking Ridge, N.J. were married Oct. 31, 2009. officer and rose steadily through the ranks Christopher L. Smith ’95 passed away Parent Relations before being named Assistant Chief in 1998. As Jennifer Gast ’03 and Kristopher Madsen Feb. 17, 2010. See a Hall of Fame interview with Kelley at http://bit.ly/BrianKelley Assistant Chief, Pat developed a model Arrest ’04 were married July 3, 2009. Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Control Technique/Use of Force tracking sys- Director

tem and was a leader in bringing to Ventura Richard Nelson, St. Paul, Minn., was elected as chair of Class Representative local nonprofit affordable housing and service Class Representative Mitzi Ward, M.S. the highly successful Crisis Intervention Team the board of Lutheran World Relief in January. The inter- ’74 Lea Lamp provider. Karen is Director of Community ’76 Victoria (Vasco) Green Associate Director [email protected] Services at Frank D. Lanterman Regional program, which teaches police personnel how national nonprofit organization works to end poverty [email protected] best to respond to the mentally ill and indi- and injustice by empowering impoverished communities Lana (Howard ’06) Clark Kate Bryant-Hall, Aptos, Calif., teaches Center, serving people with developmental Mariaemma Pelullo-Willis (M.S.), Ventura, Calif., is viduals in crisis. In 2003, he was awarded the to help themselves. Richard is Senior Pastor of Central Assistant Director emotionally disturbed high-school-age disabilities. one of five founding members of Change The Schools, California Peace Officers Association’s Award Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. students through the Santa Clara Office of Rod Marinelli, Lake Forest, Ill., was named a new online network dedicated to creating a new of Distinction for his work in bringing the CIT Vicki Smither Education. She has four children: sons, 25 and defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears Alice Oberg, Santa Clara, Calif., is Senior Pastor of vision for schools. For more information, visit www. Administrative Assistant program to Ventura. The program has since 18, and 6-year-old twin daughters. Kate and in February. Santa Clara United Methodist Church. changetheschools.ning.com. Mariaemma is co-founder been implemented countywide. As Chief of her husband, Christopher Hall, celebrated Joyce Robinson, Ojai, Calif., retired after 40 years of of the LearningSuccess™ Institute and co-author of David Brobeck, Ph.D., Salem, Police, Pat established a number of commu- their 10th anniversary in April. They plan to teaching for the Ojai Unified School District and is an several books for parents and teachers on assessing Ohio, is an assistant professor in the nity partnerships including the Volunteers in travel the world, starting with New Zealand, ’75 active volunteer with several Ojai community organiza- learning styles. Graduate School of Policing program, the School Resource Officer after she retires in a few years. tions. In addition to annual trips to Hawaii, she has trav- Educational Leadership at program and the Responsible Retailer program. Class Representatives Karen Ingram, Thousand Oaks, Calif., has eled to the Orient, South Pacific, Mexico, the Caribbean Walsh University in North YEAR Recognized nationally as one of America’s top George Carganilla been appointed to serve as a member of and Greece. ’77 Canton. He formerly served 35REUNIONREU , 2010 experts on homeland security, the former chief [email protected] the Board of Directors of Many Mansions, a OCT. 21-24 serves on the Homeland Security Advisory as Superintendent of Field Mary Stein-Webber Council in Washington, D.C. Local Schools. [email protected] 32 CLU MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 33 ALUMNI NEWS

Class Representative Glen Tarnowski, Gulf Breeze, Fla., had a YEAR OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD ’80 Ginny Green one-man exhibition of his art at the Chuck 30 , 2010 Lu Heads [email protected] REUNIONREU Jones Gallery in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp OCT. 21-24 Chris Elkins ’70, Ph.D. Edith Johnson (M.S.), Roseville, Calif., District from May 8 through June 12. The The CLU Alumni Association Board of Directors is proud retired last year after 40 years of teaching in collection titled “Modern Allegories: Homage to recognize Chris Elkins ’70 as the 2010 Outstanding Bakersfield and Sacramento school districts. In to Chuck Jones” included a series of paintings Alumnus. 1994 and 1995, she received Special Subjects and sculptures created exclusively for the Elkins, a microbiologist and recently retired associate Recognition from the California State Senate gallery. Glen’s paintings are in the permanent professor in the Department of Medicine at the and California Legislative Assembly, respec- collections of several museums including University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is tively. She has made three trips to Europe, National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), a highly regarded investigator of bacteria that cause one with the Bakersfield Master Works Brooklyn Museum (New York) and Aspen human disease. He is considered the leading expert in Chorale. Museum (Colorado) as well as a number of the world on the organism Hemophilus ducreyi, which corporate and private collections. Cliff Moore (M.A.), Camarillo, Calif., retired causes the genital ulcer disease chancroid, a persistent from the Oak Park Unified School District as Class Representative and painful disease that is one of the important cofactors Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources mike Engstrom in the HIV epidemic. Using a full array of techniques ’84 after nearly three decades in the district. He [email protected] including molecular genetics, immunology and chemistry, came to Oak Park in 1982 and served as Elkins and his colleagues have proven the roles of Eric Jensen, Agoura Hills, Calif., is the CEO

B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 teacher, dean, activities director and assistant several cell surface proteins that appear to be excellent for a neurology and sleep disorder company principal before being named Principal and vaccine candidates. Furthermore, they have shown that in Newbury Park. He and his wife, Cherie, Director of Alternative Education at Oak View Cal Lutheran alums Sean Demmon ’89 (l), Llanie (Vang ’91) Swanson, Adam experimental animals can be protected by a vaccine made up of the respective proteins. have a daughter. High School. After five years, he returned to Rauch ’98, Deonna (Olson ’97) Armijo, and Brett Hardison ’87 show their Lu These studies offer promise for development of a vaccine that could be used to prevent the Oak Park High as Principal and in 2004 was Brian Stethem, Fillmore, Calif., was a Head pride during the annual College and Career Week at Mesa Verde Middle School in disease in humans. promoted to Assistant Superintendent. featured artist at Studio 1317 and Deakins Moorpark where they have worked together for many years. Elkins has earned continuous support for his research from the National Institutes of Studio in Ventura during the month of April. Health for more than 15 years. He has authored or coauthored 38 papers in well-regarded Jon Shaneyfelt, Waxhaw, N.C., and his The exhibition, part of Art First Fridays the collegiate level, including the last 16 in the Grant Elliott, Santa Rosa, Calif., has scientific journals and has served as a reviewer of manuscripts for many journals. He also wife, Carol, are missionaries assigned to the Ventura, consisted of photographs he took Southeastern Conference (SEC), and is widely run GE Fitness for the past six years. has presented his findings at scientific conferences around the world, earning a reputation as technical support center for Bible translators. ’89 on a road trip to Texas. Brian is an instruc- regarded as one of the best running back To learn more about his personal one of the best, if not the very best, person in his field. Jon has served as a software developer on tor in CLU’s Art Department and University coaches in college football. training company, visit GEFitness.com Elkins earned his master’s in medical technology from the University of Vermont and the software suite that is available free to all Photographer. a Ph.D. in microbiology from Hahnemann University Hospital. He worked at UNC for Bible translators around the world and is cur- Helen O’Donnell, Santa Rosa, Calif., is Rachel (Caudill) Smith (T.C. `91), more than 20 years. In addition to being a father, husband and colleague, Elkins has found rently working on the Information Technology Class Representative YEAR a labor representative for the California Newbury Park, Calif., is a second grade Power Systems team that helps translators Diann (Colburn) Spencer Teachers Association. She is also active with teacher at Cypress Elementary School. Rachel time to serve the community, becoming a leader in the state of North Carolina’s fishery ’85 25REUNIONREU , 2010 conservation efforts. with electrical power needs. Jon and Carol are [email protected] OCT. 21-24 the Sonoma County Democratic Central has two sons, ages 12 and 10. members of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Committee, Faith Lutheran Church and Class Representative Lutheran Bible Translators. Class Representative the Sonoma County Forum, a professional YEAR Mary Lou Collier-McFaden, Moorpark, plastics, tires, medical waste and green wastes Julie Donaldson-Prince mario Rodrigez women’s organization. ’90 20 , 2010 ’86 [email protected] REUNIONREU Calif., is a clinical laboratory scientist/Point of into fuel and power. OCT. 21-24 Class Representative [email protected] Donald Price, Los Angeles, Calif., is the Care Coordinator at Los Robles Hospital and Geraldine Birch, Cornville, Ariz., is author Class Representative ’81 tori Nordin Nancy (Gonzales) Heer, Lake Oswego, owner of First Step Sports Academy, an Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. She volun- [email protected] of the novel Sedona: City of Refugees, which Rhondi (Pinkstaff) Durand Ore., is Vice President and Commercial Loan athletic and academic youth development teers with C.O.R.E. music ministry and Blanket ’79 offers a biting look at a modern-day American [email protected] Officer for Banner Bank in Portland. She is academy. He also coaches football and track Ministry at Calvary Community Church in tourist community caught in the throes of . Class Representative on the board of directors for Serendipity at St. John Bosco High School. Westlake Village. Mary Lou and husband Ron Craig Fulladosa, Palmdale, Calif., is design- change. Originally published in 2001, the tony White Center, a therapeutic school for K-12, and will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary ing a pottery studio where he will teach ’83 Class Representative book was recently republished and is available [email protected] Community Health Charities of Oregon. She in September. They have two daughters, ages and produce functional earthenware and Debbie (Elliott) Sellers on Amazon.com. is also a member of the executive committee ’88 20 and 17. stoneware pieces. He will offer private and Anand Nallathambi (MBA), Poway, Calif., [email protected] was named President and Chief Operating for the American Cancer Society and served Class Representative semi-private lessons in ceramic hand building Eric Bachmann, Palatine, Ill., is band director Class Representatives Officer of Information Solutions Group of as auction chair for its 2010 Gala Ball. Carrie (Jurgemeyer) Fick and wheel throwing. Screen printing, drawing, at Emerson Middle School in Niles. ’91 Jon Backstrom The First American Corp. in December. [email protected] ’78 sculpting and painting may be included. Class Representative [email protected] He joined First American, America’s largest Ross Hartenbower, Brighton, Colo., is an Franc Camara Olivia Erin Powell, Westlake Village, Elfriede Mac Iver, La Palma, Calif., is a provider of business information, in 1995 and ’87 Officer I with the Fort Collins Port of Entry Dottie (Roman) Sterling [email protected] Calif., is Marketing Director for David Powell retired resource (bilingual) teacher and has held leadership roles in the company’s and volunteers as a reserve deputy peace [email protected] Financial. She also serves as a trustee on teaches lip reading at the Long Beach City subsidiary groups. Anand serves on the board Eddie Gran, Tallahassee, Fla., has joined officer with the Weld County Sheriff’s Office. the board of directors for the Berkeley Hall Claire Mamakos, Thousand Oaks, Calif., is College Senior Center one day a week. She of directors of the Consumer Data Industry the football coaching staff at Florida State Timothy Stephens, Ed.D., Henderson, School in Los Angeles. She and husband the executive administrator for Remediation and her husband of 54 years, Ron, wrote a Association, an international trade association University as associate head coach, running Nev., is Principal of Desert Pines High School David recently celebrated their 25th wedding Earth Inc. in Westlake Village. The alternative book about La Palma, which was published that represents consumer information backs coach and special teams coordinator. in Las Vegas. anniversary in Belize. They have four children, energy company converts non-recyclable in 2008 by Arcadia Publishing as part of the companies. Eddie has 23 years of coaching experience at Images of America series.

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and Brady was honored as Coach of the Year Alumni and Regent Join Forces to for the Omega League as well as California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division 6A. Enhance CLU Upward Bound Programs Kevin F. Coffman, Los Gatos, Calif., received his Master of Science in computer engineering Follow the Flag from Santa Clara University in 2009. Are you traveling anywhere soon? ! Josh Green, Greenville, N.C., is an assistant Are you celebrating any significant events? coach in the women’s soccer program at East Carolina University. He began his coaching career Take CLU with you! at Pepperdine University and went on to coach at Loyola Marymount University, University of Iowa, We want to Follow the Flag as CLU alumni and families Minnesota State University as a graduate assistant, celebrate special moments and travel and most recently Xavier University. the world. Patricia Kokinos (M.A.), Ventura, Calif., a veteran educator, is one of five founding Order your CLU Alumni or CLU Family flag online members of Change The Schools, an online by going to www.callutheran.edu/alumni and clicking network dedicated to creating a new vision the Follow the Flag icon. Send us the photos of your for schools. For more information, visit www. adventures with the flag, and we will display all of your

B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 changetheschools.ning.com. Patricia recently published Angel Park: A Novel, an award-winning Kodak moments on the CLU Alumni & Parent website! Brandy Newton ’09 (l) and When Sergio Galvez ’03, MPPA ’09, (l) got together with fellow alumnus Rudy mystery about the death of a school official and Send photos to: [email protected] Jessica (Schroeder ’09) Estes Gonzales ’97 (r) and CLU regent Glen Becerra, good things were bound to happen. the forces of an antiquated school system. See enjoy Canyons Resort in Park Galvez is Director of Upward Bound Programs at CLU, and Gonzales is Region Manager, www.changetheschools.com/angel_park.html for callutheran.edu/alumni City, Utah, in January. Local and Public Affairs, for Southern California Edison, where Becerra is Chief of Staff. reviews of the book. Becerra had been instrumental in a 2007 Edison grant to the Upward Bound program and encouraged Gonzales to consider another proposal from CLU this year. Kristina Ripatti, Redondo Beach, Calif., a Class Representative Alan Major (M.A.), Charlotte, N.C., is head vice president, Jake spent nine years with Edison likes to give back to the community, funding programs that serve K-12 students. retired LAPD police officer, was featured in brian McCoy YEAR men’s basketball coach at University of North Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, most recently And Galvez had just the programs: Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math & Science, an April 26 Los Angeles Times article titled ’95 15 , 2010 Carolina at Charlotte. Alan joined the 49ers serving as division credit officer. programs that serve approximately 60 low-income/first-generation high schoolers by “Continuing her strong push.” The article details [email protected] REUNIONREU OCT. 21-24 after six seasons as assistant coach at Ohio preparing them academically for college. how Kristina, who was shot by a suspect four Laura (Riegner-Cowle) Nguyen, Elizabeth Mueller Johnson, Oxnard, Calif., State. He previously served as assistant coach Faced with flat federal Upward Bound funding for the last eight years, Galvez hoped years ago, continues to make maximum use of a Lawndale, Calif., is the owner of Huggle Me received a kidney transplant in February and at Xavier, University of the Pacific, Southern that Edison might expand resources for environmental science, biology and medicine Creations at hugglemebaby.com, an online has renewed her studies for the CPA exam. part of her body that was not left paralyzed: her Illinois and CLU. classes for the summer, thus motivating students’ interest in the areas of math and science. arms. When the article was written, Kristina was resource for custom baby blankets, bibs and Clint Britt (MBA ’04), Littleton, The latest Edison grant of $100,000 ($25,000 for each of four years) “fills in the voids,” training to participate in Race Across America, a fancy spit rags. She and husband Joseph have Class Representative Colo., is Vice President of Member says Galvez. The grant is helping to pay for science classes, field trips to science-related 3,000-mile bicycle race from Oceanside, Calif., to two children, ages 4 and 2. Dianne (Habring) Frehlich ’99 sites (such as a bioscience research hub in San Diego), supplies for students to conduct ’97 Services for Coast to Coast Resorts, a Annapolis, Md., using her hand cycle. The former [email protected] soil and water testing in their own communities, and scholarships for two of the students Class Representatives brand of Affinity Group Inc. Clint spent several CLU soccer player and mother of two is part to attend the Johns Hopkins workshop offered at CLU every summer. Desta (Ronning) Goehner Christy (Boyle) Day, Simi Valley, Calif., is years with Countrywide Financial Corp., and of a four-person relay team raising money for ’96 [email protected] an administrator at Simi Covenant Church. for the past three years, has served as General Operation Progress, a charity begun by LAPD Manager of Britt PowerSports, a family-owned all teenagers. This summer they visited summer. He and his wife, Kathy, have a She and husband Brady ’94 have two sons, officers to provide college scholarships for youths Chad McCloskey ages 8 and 6. Honda distributorship. London and Scotland with their daughter who 6-year-old daughter. [email protected] who steer clear of gangs. A July 7 article on ESPN. Peter Daland, Thousand Oaks, Calif., recently graduated from high school. Class Representative Class Representative com titled “Paralyzed officer rides bike across Paul La Mott, Bigfork, Mont., led the Bigfork teaches college prep classes in the history Kari Gravrock Class Representatives Anne Christenson U.S.” reported that the team completed the race High School boys basketball team to the ’98 department at Moorpark High School. In May, ’93 top of the conference in his first season as [email protected] ’92 mark Marius [email protected] in nine days. Kristina, who wants to become a he received a grant for “The Road to the [email protected] lawyer, has received a full scholarship from Swim head coach. Following his collegiate career Jeff Barry (MBA ’01), Simi Valley, Calif., White House” from business partner SAGE Class Representative with Mike, an annual swim-a-thon that raises at CLU, Paul played professional basketball earned a doctorate in management last Publications as part of the Ventura County marguerite (Olmedo) Wolfe Jeff Aschbrenner funds for disabled athletes. in Australia and coached at multiple levels, year. He is an investigator with the Ventura 2010 Impact II program. [email protected] ’94 from young kids to grown men in city [email protected] County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Jennifer (Miller) Pengelly, Everett, Paul Tapp, Moorpark, Calif., owns Gemini leagues. He ran a 2,500-person basketball Eric Bennett, Peyton, Colo., was ordained Investigation. Wash., started Hopes Closet at University of Brady Day, Simi Valley, Calif., teaches and Services Inc., a painting, decorating and detailing association in Australia and also has college by the Colorado Springs Council of Christian Washington Medical Center to benefit the coaches basketball, volleyball and football business. coaching experience. Currently in the real Jake Ganajian (MBA ’01), Thousand Churches in January. He completed his third families of premature babies. The organization at West Valley Christian School in Canoga estate business, Paul is pursuing an MBA and Oaks, Calif., is a commercial banking officer at season presenting Christ in the Passover Rabobank’s financial service center in Santa gives clothing and baby items to families, Park, Calif. His high school boys basketball considering going into teaching. for Jews for Jesus, this year in Oklahoma, Barbara. Before joining Rabobank as a senior especially those in need. Jennifer’s two sons, team competed in last year’s state finals, and is serving on a mission trip in Israel this ages 5 and 2, were both born prematurely.

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Class Representatives Class Representative of Art” from business partner State Farm Randall Delling (Ed.D.), Simi Class Representatives Class Representatives Sommer (Embree) Barwick ’02 Kim (McHale) Miller Insurance as part of the Ventura County ’06 Valley, Calif., Principal of North ’07 Rosalyn Sayer ’08 Katelyn Kruse ’00 [email protected] [email protected] 2010 Impact II program. Hollywood High School for the past [email protected] [email protected] eight years, was named 2010 State Secondary Stephanie (Howe) Johnson Wes Sullivan Class Representatives Class Representatives Principal of the Year by the Association of Tiffany Slattum [email protected] [email protected] Nicole Hackbarth Courtney Parks California School Administrators. He will [email protected] YEAR ’03 ’05 Irene (Tyrrell) Moyer [email protected] [email protected] receive the state award at the Leadership J.R. Wise 10 , 2010 Brittany Bartold, Woodland Hills, Calif., [email protected] REUNIONREU Summit in November. The finalists for the [email protected] OCT. 21-24 Katie (Bashaw) Johnson Ryan Lisk received her Juris Doctor magna cum laude YEAR national title will be announced in August and Ashley Cooper, Moorpark, Calif., teaches [email protected] [email protected] 5 from Pepperdine University School of Law Rachel (Bates) Loutsios, Cleveland, Ohio, , 2010 the winner will be announced in September. ninth grade Geo Science/Biology at Thousand REUNIONREU in May along with a certificate in dispute is a financial analyst with Nestle U.S.A. Sally (Sagan, M.S. ’05) Lorentson, Ed.D., Mark Nielsen OCT. 21-24 Oaks High School. In May, she received Jennifer Dobbie (T.C.), Ventura, Calif., a resolution. She has accepted a first-year Thousand Oaks, Calif., received her doctorate [email protected] Kristin Cook, Portland, Ore., is a human a grant for “My California” from business teacher at Thelma Bedell Elementary School, associate attorney position with Lewis Brisbois in higher education administration from The resources generalist with the Portland Public partner Amgen Foundation as part of the received a grant for “Weather Chasers – Bisgaard & Smith LLP in San Diego. George Washington University in May after Jacquelynne Fontaine, Moorpark, Calif., School District. Ventura County 2010 Impact II program. Beginnings of Meteorologists” from business successfully defending her dissertation on was a featured soloist in the Pasadena partner Star in Education Foundation as part of Brian Coltin, San Diego, Calif., earned a Mike Hanks, San Marcos, Calif., is a deputy Brian Schneider, Deer Park, Texas, is “Female Intercollegiate Athlete Alcohol Use: The Master Chorale production of Carmina the Ventura County 2010 Impact II program. Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego with the San Diego County Sheriff. Assistant City Manager of Morgan’s Point. Impact of Peer Social Networks on the Alcohol Burana in January. Named 2008 “Singer in May. Use Rates of NCAA Division III Athletes.” of the Year” by the L.A. chapter of the Kirk Jones (MBA), Oxnard, Calif., is Jessica Murphy, Newbury Park, Calif., Class Representatives National Association of Teachers of Singing a product line specialist with Skyworks Merle (Vermillion) Hanks, San Marcos, teaches at Ventura Charter School. In May, ’01 Inga (Magi) Pavrani Class Representatives (NATS), Jacquelynne has appeared as guest Solutions, an innovator of high reliability Calif., is an administrator with Costco. she received a grant for “The Key to the [email protected] ’04 Jon Gonzales soprano with many symphony orchestras as analog and mixed signal semiconductors. Kirk Universe” from business partner Amgen [email protected] well as performing on stage. Last spring, she is a member of the Association for Operations Wes Sullivan, Thousand Oaks, Calif., is Foundation as part of the Ventura County Angela (Namba) Rowley appeared as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Management (APICS) and holds certifications Campus Experience Coordinator at CLU. 2010 Impact II program. [email protected] holly Halweg Giovanni at USC. in production and inventory management Lucas Johnston, Simi Valley, Calif., is Vice [email protected] (CPIM) and supply chain (CSCP). President, Regional Relationship Manager, Laura (Brummer, M.Ed.) Konrade, Alyska (Brown) Gutzwiller, Dana for Pacific Western Bank. He is a member Lakewood, Colo., teaches fifth grade at Our Point, Calif., is a jeweler with Zia Jewelry of Rotary International and volunteers with Lady of Fatima Catholic School. in San Juan Capistrano. She and husband It Takes a Village... and More the Ventura County Medical Resource Nathan had a Phantom of the Opera Diana Mareno (M.Ed.), Thousand Oaks, Calif., Foundation, Long Term Care Services of theme wedding last Halloween. For their in her village. In an effort to promote English education, exposure to and three of her fellow teachers at Lang Ranch Ventura County and the Downtown Ventura honeymoon, they traveled to London and new ideas and an appreciation of global affairs, she has been working Elementary School received a grant for “Masters Organization. Paris over New Year’s Eve. to build a library at the school. Through a grant and the help of the entire village, the library Ana Mondet, Simi Valley, Calif., works at building was recently completed. The men of the village did all the the California Department of Corrections construction and different families cooked and brought them food Buckets of Hanksite and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile every day, Danielson reports. Justice, Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. “What we are lacking at this point is books!” she laments. She is a college coordinator for both the Therefore, Danielson is reaching out to friends and anyone who Coastline Community College program and would like to join her effort to educate, facilitate peace, and promote the Ventura Community College program. understanding to send books or financial support. The alumna’s hope She is the English Learner Coordinator for is that the library will be utilized not only by primary school students the facility’s high school, which is part of and teachers but also by older students and adults in the village. the California Education Authority School “The English level doesn’t go much past a fourth-grade level,” District, and teaches art history at the high Danielson points out. “The books that would be most useful at our school level. Ana also works as a volunteer library are children’s picture books, books with repetitive text, and with youths in trouble and incarcerated Children from the village enjoy the new library. books geared toward young readers.” students, ages 13 to 24, and promotes Those interested in sending books should mail them to Jenny and prepares curriculum for the Bridge to eaching children English in a faraway place with very few Danielson, PCV, P.O. Box 24, ’Ohonua, ’Eua, Kingdom of Tonga, Success program. She has completed her books was what Jennifer Danielson ’07 faced upon her South Pacific. She suggests using a flat-rate box (available at the post master’s in education and plans to begin a Tarrival as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga. office) as the least expensive way to mail. doctoral program soon. When she landed at Ta’anga G.P.S., a small (pop. 164) village Another way to support the project is to donate toward shipping located on an outer island, Danielson found that there were liter- costs through International Book Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that Robert Schneider, State College, Pa., ally no books at the school, not even textbooks. She immediately collects new and used books and sends them to schools, libraries is an associate professor in the School of jumped in to resolve the problem. and other nonprofit organizations in developing countries. Readers Zubi Olin ’06 (l), seniors Ryan McCarty, Kayla Kilpatrick and Kandi Hargett and geology Theatre at Pennsylvania State University “I have been working the past year to get books for the students, can learn more about the organization at www.internationalbook- professor Bill Bilodeau hold buckets of hanksite, an unusual mineral found in Trona, Calif. The where he teaches Theatre 100, Advanced but don’t yet have enough to fill a library,” she writes. “The kids love project.org group went to the small town in the Mojave Desert to bring back samples of the rare mineral Play Analysis and Junior Studio and has reading, and I have seen their literacy levels improve greatly over the Danielson invites readers who would like to hear to share with other geology students. They spent three days learning about minerals and how directed a variety of theatre productions. past year.” more about what she is doing in Tonga to visit her blog at they impact the economy. Zubi, who graduated with a degree in music, has returned to CLU He has also directed professionally in New As a community educator, Danielson’s number one assignment jennyspacislandadventures.blogspot.com/ to study geology. York City, Los Angeles and England. is to teach English to the 40 students who attend the primary school

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Class Representative Honorary Alumnus Award ’09 Adam Erickson [email protected] Krister ’89 and Stacy ’91 Swanson Chelsea Brown, Chicago, Ill., is studying Sig Schwarz, Ph.D. at the Conservatory at Second City, the world’s premier comedy theatre and school of Professor of English improvisation. She also works full time for the believe in Lutheran higher education Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Chicago. The CLU Alumni Association selected Sig Schwarz, professor Jacob Calderon, Covina, Calif., was signed of English, as the recipient of the 2010 Honorary Alumnus “We see CLU as a prominent institution in by the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Award. Ventura County, Southern California and in Football League in January. A 2008 All- Schwarz and his family came to the United States from Lutheran higher education overall. It is an American defensive end at CLU, Jacob played Germany when he was 6 and settled in the Midwest. He institution of choice for students seeking a vibrant in 33 games for the Kingsmen with 92 tackles began teaching at CLU in 1970 and joined the faculty two and engaging college experience. Hopefully, it will and 19 sacks. years later. He teaches courses on non-Western writers be a place for our three boys!” Leslie Heilbron (Ed.D.), Calabasas, Calif., and emphasizes the voices of African Americans, Native was named Assistant Superintendent of Americans and Chicanos in his writing and literature classes. Krister Swanson came to Cal Lutheran as a Human Resources for the Oak Park School A passionate and supportive professor who has impacted the toddler in 1969 when his dad, Gerry Swanson, District in February after serving as Principal lives of many students through the years, Schwarz received was hired as campus pastor. A few years later, of Oak Hills Elementary School for the past the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005. six years. Before joining the Oak Park School Krister’s mom, Jan Bowman, joined the English B RIAN S T E TH M ’84 He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, National Defense District, she spent 14 years as a fourth-grade faculty. Stacy Reuss came to CLU as a freshman Education Act Fellow and National Endowment for the teacher at Yerba Buena in Agoura Hills. from Littleton, Colo., after a high school Humanities Fellow. An expert in Asian Pacific and minority studies, Schwarz has conducted Zachary McVicker, Camarillo, Calif., is research on indigenous authors in Fiji and on the subjects of romanticism and phenomenology. counselor told her it would be the perfect place Project Manager for Mustang Marketing in During sabbaticals and occasional summers, he has taught at The University of the South for her. Thousand Oaks. Previously, Zach was a sports Pacific in Suva, Fiji, where he developed an ongoing interest in the area of post-colonial correspondent for the Ventura County Star and At CLU, Krister and Stacy benefited from an studies, a focus that has only sharpened his passion for human rights. product development assistant for Evolutions environment that challenged, encouraged and Professor Schwarz graduated summa cum laude from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, Footwear. helped them develop a passion for serving S.D., and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at University of Southern California. He is a others. Today, Krister is a teacher and Stacy Juan Ros (MBA), Simi Valley, Calif., is member of the Modern Language Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. Director of Development at the Ronald heads up a nonprofit organization. They are Reagan Presidential Foundation. strong believers in Lutheran higher education, Cody Shirk, Malibu, Calif., graduated from which is why they support the Annual Fund and the Santa Monica Fire Department training The Swansons (l to r): Stacy, Dane, Nate, Erik and Krister have included CLU in their estate plans with life program in March. He is third generation insurance as the giving vehicle. SMFD, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Cody has been an ocean HALLOF FAME The Orville Dahl Society was established to honor those who provide for the University in their estate. It was named in recognition lifeguard for the L.A. County Fire Department of CLU’s founding president Orville Dahl, who gave life to CLU (then CLC). As envisioned by Dahl, a key element to fulfillment of our for the past five years and recently completed his A.S. in Fire Science at Oxnard College. California Lutheran University mission is the continued growth of the University’s endowment. Krister and Stacy share that vision. Brigette Stevenson, Newbury Park, Calif., Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame The Orville Dahl Society gives everyone the opportunity to carry on Dr. Dahl’s work. Membership in the society is open to all who have wrote a Lenten devotion titled “Honor your made some form of estate or deferred gift commitment of any amount to CLU. father and mother” that appeared in the May 9th Annual Dinner & Induction Ceremony If you believe that you qualify for membership or would like information on how to become a member of the Orville Dahl Society, issue of The Lutheran magazine online. She is please call the Office of Estate and Gift Planning at (805) 493-3166 or visit our website at www/callutheran.edu/giftplanning. the daughter of Peggy (Gabrielson ’81) and Saturday, November 13, 2010 Bruce ’80 Stevenson. Lundring Events Center • Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center Class Representatives Master of Ceremonies, Hank Bauer ‘76 ’10 Ben Hogue [email protected] The Athletic Hall of Fame will also have reunions for ReShai Tate 1975 Football & 1988-90 Softball [email protected] If you were part of one of these teams, we hope you’ll join the celebration. Casey Kloehn Orville Dahl Society [email protected] For more information, please visit us online at Office of Estate and Gift Planning California Lutheran University www.callutheran.edu/hof (805) 493-3166 or call (805) 493-3170.

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September 11 Michael Lynn Adams Art Exhibit Opening Reception 3 p.m. Exhibit runs Sept. 2 through October 11 11 Tailgate Party (v. Linfield), Noon The Age of Social Media 16 Kao Kalia Yang, “The Hmong Experience,” 7:30 p.m. 19 Faculty Concert, 2 p.m. By Don Waisanen, Ph.D. 26 Scandinavian Lecture Series, 2 p.m. Henrik Williams and Richard Nielsen, “Runes and Runic Inscriptions” 26 Hmong Cultural Performance of 50TH ANNIVERSARY Martial Arts and Dance, 7 p.m. SIGNATURE EVENTS October

FALL 2010 4 Artists and Speakers Series: • Homecoming & Family Weekend - Tim Mooney, “Molière Than Thou,” 7 p.m. October 21-24 lthough I am a researcher of social networking sites and an of benefits have arisen from these tools – including the ability to offer 7 Michael A. Moffitt Educational Leadership Lecture, 6 p.m. • Alumni Association Athletic Hall of avid blogger, it was not until recently that I began to ponder expertise and links to others, and most surprisingly, the gaining of new Arthur L. Costa Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony - 11 Artists and Speakers Fall Lecture, 10 a.m. the ways that these 21st century social media tools are contacts and shared networks with the local community and beyond. November 13, 7 p.m. A Mark Plotkin, “Shamanic Medicine, Mind-Body impacting higher education. By “social media” I mean not just social According to Kimball, there is an increasing awareness of Cal Lutheran Connection and the Future of Healthcare” networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn, but texting, and its events because of these social media. 16 Tailgate Party (v. La Verne), Noon blogs, vlogs, e-mail, instant messaging and collaborations through Overall, social media hold much promise for the liberal arts 16 “Psychcollagic,” Art by Barry Burns videoconferencing and wikis. mission of colleges like CLU. The liberal arts equip an individual with Reception, 7 p.m.; Exhibit closes Nov. 19 Turkey: Crossroads It is now common practice for newly admitted California Lutheran the outlook, character and skills to navigate a lifetime of personal and 21-24 Homecoming/Family Weekend of Our Faith University students to join a Facebook group for their class. Many professional challenges. The liberal arts are committed to knowledge 22 Founders Day Convocation, 10 a.m. students show up for their first day of college already having dialogued discovery and creation, and the sharing and testing of ideas with Founders Day Concert, 7:30 p.m. with their future classmates. By creating shared networks in the online others to pursue the best, while avoiding the worst, of which human 24 Homecoming Choral Concert, 2 p.m. Scandinavian Lecture Series, 2 p.m. world, students come to campus with common interests and less beings are capable. Alan Petersen, “Painter of the Grand Canyon: uncertainty about their coming undergraduate experience. By providing both a deep and broad education, the liberal arts Gunnar Widforss”

Communication scholar Joseph Walther finds that relationships ask students to make their worlds bigger, recognizing how we 28 Dia de Los Muertos, 7-9 p.m. travel that begin online are often as good, if not better, than those that start always exist within particular situations, while offering the potential November in face-to-face interactions. At the same time, suspense is one of the for freeing oneself from the myopic orientations to which we are all 4-6 Fall Mainstage: The Cherry Orchard, 8 p.m. critical elements in communication, so there may be less mystery and apt to settle. The liberal arts ask students to seek understanding but Additional performances: Nov. 11-13, 8 p.m.; incentive to interact at deeper levels with other new students when also to constantly work toward the reflective orientations and broad Nov. 14, 2 p.m. R. Guy Erwin, Ph.D. one can simply go look through their Facebook profile and assume perceptions necessary to a free and tolerant society. 5 Harold Stoner Clark Lectures, 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Professor of Religion and History that is all there is to know. Similarly, social media tools can be used to connect with others, David Chalmers, “From The Matrix to the Singularity” 7 Areté Vocal Ensemble, 2 p.m. For faculty, the nature of teaching, research and service are test ideas and confront diverse perspectives that our limited life Oct. 11-23, 2010 changing. Social media influence professor-student dynamics, circumstances may not normally offer. A technology like Skype, 13 Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner/Induction Ceremony, 7 p.m. as both come to know each other more through the details of for instance, dissolves geography and opens up the possibility of Inspired by the ELCA Book of Faith Initiative, this 15-19 International Education Week: World Celebrations social networking sites—potentially dissolving some of the stricter interacting with more people in different places and time zones. Opening Ceremony, Monday, 10 a.m. travel seminar offers an encounter with Scripture hierarchies that have separated the two in the past, whether for good As educator John Dew speculates, social media are likely to International Chapel, Wednesday, 10:10 a.m. in the lands where the Word first thrived. You or ill. advance more faculty-student mentoring than ever before – a goal World Fair, Wednesday, 5 p.m. will see the remains of ancient cities and the most At the very least, these online sites have become an addendum to that fits with our university’s personal approach to education. As such, Closing Ceremony, Friday, 10 a.m. sacred sites of ancient Asia Minor, and marvel at the offline classroom. Many of these new technologies are amplifying there are many ways in which social media can directly align with the 19 Wind Ensemble Concert, 8 p.m. the glories of Byzantium, the Christian Roman Empire of the East, while enjoying the warm hospi- issues that have been raised in the communication revolution of unique emphases of liberal arts institutions like CLU. 21 “Hungarian Goulash” Concert, 1 p.m. Scandinavian Lecture Series, 3 p.m. tality of modern Turkey. the past decade, such as expectations about a professor’s offline Lorence Collins, “Iceland’s ‘Explosive’ Geology” availability. New issues have been prompted. Did the professor Don Waisanen, Ph.D., is a former instructor in the Lutheran theologian and historian R. Guy Erwin December respond to a student’s e-mail slowly or quickly? What about the length Communication Department. Among his areas of California Lutheran University and Linda Staats 3, 4 Christmas Festival Concert, 8 p.m. of the Rocky Mountain Synod staff will lead the of the response? And should that even matter? (According to many of of interest are rhetoric and public affairs, political 4 Kwanzaa, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. pilgrimage. The cost of $2,999 includes most meals my students, it does.) entertainment, and new media. He is part of 5 Christmas Festival Concert, 4 p.m. and airfare from Newark to Istanbul. For more The nature of university administrations is also changing. University an interdisciplinary group of CLU professors who Las Posadas, 7 p.m. information and a brochure, call CrossingBorders admission offices are reaching out to prospective students through created a collective blog called ThickCulture. The 7 Hanukkah, 4:30 p.m. Inc. at (800) 990-6811, visit www.crossingborders. new strategies such as current students’ blog posts about their college online forum tackles current issues from different 8 Santa Lucia Festival of Lights, 10:10 a.m. com or contact Linda Staats at lstaats@rmselca. experiences. Even college leadership and advancement are being scholarly perspectives and provides an opportunity 10, 11 Artists and Speakers Series: org. Space is limited.

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