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Q&A on Iraq with Reza Aslan ’95 on how Kabul’s splendid son: www.santaclaramagazine.com 24 Leon Panetta ’60 28 to win a cosmic war 34 Khaled Hosseini ’88 Magazine from the editor Santa Clara

There are photographs The country of which, when you happen Wi nter 2007 upon them, startle for honorable people a moment and then let you go: a dramatic Managi ng Editor 28 Tough call instant framed, message transmitted, received, over and out. The meaning, while contentsBy Jim Shepard. Mike Carey ’71 reveals what it takes Steven Boyd Saum 14 to earn your stripes as a head ref in the NFL. not necessarily insignificant, is right there on the surface. And then there are Literary Editor Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 those photos, like the one on the cover of this magazine, which ask you to see in Art Di rector Redefining nature a way that perhaps you haven’t before—or if you have, it’s been a long time. But Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz By Steven Boyd Saum. Is it the end of wilderness as 16 we know it? And could genetically modified crops more than that, this act of seeing is not something to be rushed. Nor is it neatly Photograph er Santa Clara University, a compre- Charles Barry hensive Jesuit, Catholic univer- be better for the environment? Read what SCU packaged in cellophane and waiting to be unwrapped, consumed, forgotten. sity located 40 miles south of San ditorial nterns scientists are saying. E I Francisco in ’s Silicon Jessica Chung ’06 Rather, it is a plea for understanding, the promise of a wisdom to be gained over Valley, offers its 8,377 students Alicia K. Gonzales rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and The person in front of you time. What gives the image this quality? Perhaps it is the luminescent white of Contributing A transglobal photo essay by David Pace. Writers engineering, plus master’s and law 18 the garment, its pale folds speaking of something simple and true. Of course it Adam Breen degrees and engineering Ph.D’s. Distinguished nationally by one Jessica Chung ’06 is the learned hands, cradling the threaded beads. Count your worries and speak of the highest graduation rates Panetta on Iraq Emily Elrod ’05 among all U.S. master’s universities, By Farid Senzai. A Q&A with Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63, Justin Gerdes California’s oldest operating higher- 24 your prayers. And it is the gaze that holds you transfixed: welcoming, questioning. member of the Iraq Study Group and chief of staff Karol Kafka education institution demonstrates Kathy Kale ’86 faith-inspired values of ethics and for President Clinton. Charles Barry He lives in the village of Bereba, in the Country of Honorable People—a West Ann Killion social justice. For more information, African nation you might know better as Burkina Faso. Photographer and SCU Jed Mettee see www.scu.edu. Maureen Muscat How to win a cosmic war Tim Myers Santa Clara Magazine (USPS# 609- lecturer David Pace was there this past winter visiting Santa Clara colleagues 240) is published quarterly, By Steven Boyd Saum. Reza Aslan ’95 says the David Pace February, May, August, and battlefield for jihadists isn’t Baghdad. It’s not even Leslie Gray and Michael Kevane, whose work in Africa includes a libraries project J. David Pleins November, by the Office of 28 in this world. But if you fight the enemy on their Farid Senzai for villages that stretches back some years. As for the cover photo, it’s part of an Marketing and Communications, Jim Shepard Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, terms, they win. essay in this issue asking you to take a moment to try and see the person in front Sarah Stanek CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Heidi Williams Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster send address Kabul’s splendid son of you—in the dignity each possesses, by virtue of their humanity: Who is this Design ers changes to Santa Clara Magazine, By Justin Gerdes. On the heels of A Thousand Cuttriss & Hambleton c/o Donohoe Alumni House, Santa 34 man, this woman, this child—whose lives are not making headlines today? Splendid Suns, the second novel by Khaled Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Campus News Hosseini ’88, comes the long-awaited film Of course, the absence of newsworthy events in their lives can be a blessing Contributors 95053-1505. Deepa Arora Readers—you can also update your adaptation of The Kite Runner. indeed. The pieces in this magazine that look at current events in Iraq and Iran— Karen Crocker Snell address information online at Donna Krey www.santaclaramagazine.com. interviews with Leon Panetta and Reza Aslan—bring that point home. So does the E x c l u s i v e s Paleolithic Burial Advisory Board The diverse opinions expressed in Charles Barry A poem by Tim Myers. fiction of Khaled Hosseini, depicting what he calls “lives of ordinary people caught Margaret Avritt Santa Clara Magazine do not On the Web 36 Terry Beers necessarily represent the views of in very extraordinary experiences.” All three offer a challenge that is all the more Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 the editor or the official policy of Whose globalization? Santa Clara University. Copyright …and all for one Rich Giacchetti Globalization is the new reality for higher education—but By Ann Killion. Three Santa Clara alumnae on the difficult: amid violence and mayhem, to find the ability to see deeply. Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 2007 by Santa Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part what does that mean in terms of the gritty reality for much 38 U.S. women’s soccer team on what went right (and Kathy Kale ’86 That’s not to say to see naively. (Burkina Faso—the Country of Honorable People— Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 without permission is prohibited. of the world? President Paul Locatelli, S.J., talks with the wrong) in the World Cup. James Purcell Santa Clara faculty about what’s at stake. Read his remarks was given its present name by leaders who had taken power in a military coup Paul Soukup, S.J. at www.santaclaramagazine.com. in 1983 and discarded the name Upper Volta.) Instead, the demand might be to 2 Letters see a difference between people and government—or between what is and Sapolsky on biology and individuality 4 Mission Matters Listen to an interview with renowned behavioral biologist what could be. Robert M. Sapolsky. Download the podcast. 12 Bronco Sports 37 In Print Keep the faith, Loggers, outlaws, and Merry Pranksters 39 A Letter from the Donohoe Santa Clara Magazine is printed on paper and See a gallery of some of the scores of vintage photographs at a printing facility certified by SmartWood Alumni House to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards. that Bob Dougherty ’91 MEE, ’96 MBA has collected in his From forest management to paper production to new book, La Honda. Visit the SCM Web site. 40 Class Notes and Bronco Profiles printing, FSC certification represents the highest social and environmental standards. The paper 48 After Words Steven Boyd Saum contains 30 percent post consumer recovered Managing Editor fiber; cover stock contains 10 percent. 49 Calendar About our cover Photo taken in the village of Bereba, Burkina Faso 2007 by SCU www.santaclaramagazine.com faculty member David Pace. See Page 18 for more of his work. 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A day in the life Built by immigrants An AVID fan elements of safety should be presented involved in, and he made it all perfect. of the president I once asked my Boston College pal I enjoyed the profile of SCU alumnus and foot comfort should be discarded. When our first son was born, the little guy became Brian Daniel (or, as Dan What a wonderful article is “A day in Fr. Joseph Appleyard why many of the Johnn Ybarra ’86, who volunteers for JOSEPH B. ALLEGRETTI called him, “B. Daniel”). When that the life of the president,” in the Fall Jesuits at SCU and USF had Italian the AVID program amid his duties as a Carson City, Nev. 2007 Santa Clara Magazine. Between surnames. Gerald McKevitt’s article [in CHP officer [Fall 2007 SCM]. I taught same baby had to undergo abdominal Ron Hansen’s writings and Chuck the Fall 2007 issue] answered most of AVID for four years in an at-risk high Farewell, Fr. Germann surgery as an infant, Dan came to the Barry’s photos (especially the cover) my questions about that fact. school outside of Denver and can My husband Tim (’75) and I flew from hospital, blessed him, and sat with us. one has to ask: How does Paul L. As a journalist, I always try to ignite appreciate the power of the program in Washington state to Santa Clara to He did it again for our second son in Locatelli, S.J., do it! He looks a sense of wonder and surprise with my bringing minority students in particu- join with friends in singing at Dan an identical situation four years later. relaxed, fit, presidential…CEO, articles. Fr. McKevitt’s piece fulfilled lar onto the college path. Germann’s memorial service on Sept. In July 2006, friends and fellow CFO, CPA and a Jesuit priest and the journalistic maxim of leaving the I highly encourage all SCU gradu- 28. I just had to say goodbye to the most Jesuits planned an anointing ceremony a gourmet cook—all starting at reader with a sense of “Holy cow. I ates to consider exploring AVID amazing man I’ve ever known. held at Sacred Heart Center in Los 5:30 a.m. and with a four-mile run! didn’t know that!” programs in their area. Few districts There are enough Dan stories to fill Gatos. The outpouring of love and Consider that he is in the middle I wish my college magazine (Boston can afford to pay their AVID tutors, volumes, and they’re all either hilarious, affection from people Dan had known of his fourth term, unprecedented College Magazine) published more and they need strong community or touching, or both. and loved throughout his life clearly when the usual is a single or at the articles like this. participation to help students with week- Dan was my first professor in my moved him, and he reveled in the most two 4-year terms. Some of us ly tutoring and mentoring. Students first class on my first day of college. At healing power of Scripture, touch, GENE ROMAN alums thought that Patrick Donohoe, especially bond to college-age tutors, first his presence intimidated me, until I music, and laughter. New York, N.Y. S.J., was the top builder, but Fr. Paul so recent SCU alumni in particular learned to relax and understand that his As Dan’s health declined over the past several years, despite the tremors has exceeded that by at least a factor Twenty-one years ago, I arrived at SCU Beneath the surface should consider giving their time as intensity was born of his dedication to his and other physical symptoms, he of three. And, was he not in crutches after driving 2,000 miles in an old beat- of our experience AVID volunteers. What a way to subject. Dan taught Christian Liturgy, was 100 percent on track mentally about 2 years ago from a back injury? up car. Tired and hungry, I asked a man When turning to page 34 in reading expand SCU’s spirit of community and I wish I could somehow have made almost until the very end. His ability What about the Locatelli three C’s? where I could find a bed and sandwich. the article on “Let your life speak” and compassion! it mandatory for every Catholic on the to converse, one of the great joys He practices them par excellence. And, He led me to a refrigerator and [Fall 2007 SCM], I was struck by the planet to take his courses. SHAWNA BABULA ’01, M.A. ’03 and talents of his life, was severely his warm engagement with students, made me two sandwiches, then gave me poem “Butano Ridge,” juxtaposed As Director of Campus Ministry, Rushville, Ill. compromised, but he always found alums, friends of SCU, corporations, a towel and showed me the showers and with an essay discussing the Ignatian Dan was the driving force behind the a way to indicate that he got the all of this on top of recently being a dorm bed. approach to examining our deeper No open-toed shoes allowed Freshman Weekend, 10 p.m. Mass on Sundays, the St. Clare Festival, and the joke, remembered the anecdote. He appointed Secretary of Higher He then wished me good luck in feelings. Your Summer 2007 Issue of Santa annual Baccalaureate Mass. Just when was comfortable with the idea of his Education for the Society of Jesus. apartment hunting and in law school. Rebecca Black’s poem is a jewel. Clara Magazine (Vol. 49, No. 1) you thought he couldn’t come up with impending death, and rather than feeling As for Fr. Paul’s recipe for Risotto “Your future starts tomorrow, after you Being a poet myself, I understand how features two articles regarding the another original feast to use as a conduit frightened, he seemed to be frustrated Alla Mama Locatelli—with Italian rest,” he said before he left. Professor Diane Dreher’s commentary subject of “construction.” In both, to integrate Christian ritual into daily because there was still work yet to be Arborio rice, beef broth, and saffron— Weeks later, I found out this kind on the Ignatian practice of discern- you accompany the article with college life, he would—and in the most done, things yet to be said to the people it is quite similar to Risotto Milanese Good Samaritan was Paul Locatelli, S.J. ment [complements] the poem’s power incongruous photographs. energetic and genuine way. he loved. which uses chicken broth. I am going to probe “beneath the surface of our Having spent 54 years in TOM LIETZ J.D. ’84 When my father died in December Dan knew, and tried to teach others, to try Mama’s recipe the next time I experience” and to “reflect on the manufacturing and building safety, Hays, Kan. of my senior year, Dan was by my that there is such raw joy and beauty in make risotto. motions of the soul.” I know the importance of hard hats. side, holding me up, letting me cry. life and the world God has created, and BILL ADAMS ’37 Without question, the learnings But open-toed sandals and bare feet Seven months later, he officiated at our that our time here is short, and we’d San Jose from my own faith journey continue do not complement construction safety. Mission wedding, the planning and best not waste it. to be enlivened by eloquent prose and In the future, I would suggest that preparations for which he was intricately Rest in peace, Dan, and save us a seat. poetry. Thanks to Diane and Rebecca! when a photograph is staged, all of the SHARON MCCARTHY DEAN ’78 WILBUR R. MORTON ’41 To Our Readers: Vancouver, Wash. Palo Alto Experience has taught us that mistakes inevitably happen in print. In We welcome your letters in response to articles. We print a representative selection of letters Corrections An in memoriam for Dan German, S.J., appears as space allows. Please limit copy to 200 words and include your hometown and class year (if the Summer 2007 issue, in the in memoriam for Lucky Hinkle, who served the University on Page 47. Read more from friends and Santa appropriate) in your letter. Address correspondence to The Editor, Santa Clara Magazine, Santa for over 25 years and is sorely missed by friends and family, we misspelled the name of his Clara alumni online—and contribute your Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 95053-1500; fax, 408-554-5464; e-mail, [email protected]. wife, Kathleen Veatch. And in the Fall 2007 issue an extra “r” crept into the title of the fall memories of Fr. Germann as well. Please visit show at the . The correct title? Experience Teaches. www.santaclaramagazine.com. We may edit letters for style, clarity, civility, and length. Questions? Call 408-551-1840.

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Charles Barry recent work was all virtual. A rede- signed University Web site, nearly nine Faculty enter the for convocation. months in the making, went live the Carey’s convocation counsel: It’s about respect morning of Sept. 12, just in time for requires in-depth learning that encom- the start of the academic year. passes the “‘gritty reality’ that the poor sk Mike Carey ’71 about the That included hosting guest speakers Nigh on every pixel and link got and vulnerable experience,” to use meaning of leadership, and the from across the political spectrum— a makeover on the new site. There Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans answerA will likely start and end with from Angela Davis to Bob Hope. are hundreds of new photographs of Kolvenbach’s phrase. respect: for self as well as for others. Drawing parallels to the turbulent the campus and community, more As Secretary of Higher Education For others, it’s not just for what they political situation in which the nation informative navigation, and animated for the Society of Jesus, Locatelli has do, but by virtue of their humanity. finds itself today, he encouraged stu- slideshows on the University home been meeting with university leaders As for gaining respect dents to take advan- page and the home pages of the schools in East Asia and Latin America, in part from other people, tage of the diversity and colleges. Visitors have also noticed to understand the “major challenges Carey said, it’s about on campus and to get improvements to the faculty and staff and priorities” that Jesuit institutions “commanding—not to know those they directory, campus map, online events Charles Barry worldwide may face over the next demanding.” might not normally calendar, and search tools. There’s also decade. For many Jesuit universities With more than 35 associate with. a new tier of pages that didn’t exist outside the U.S., “gritty reality” and years as an NFL official, Carey also con- before, notes University Webmaster poverty strike close to home. Carey became in 1995 fessed that, in his Brian Washburn—to help users get to The faculty convocation was held Home sweet home: the front page of the Santa Clara Web site at launch. only the second African undergrad days content quickly. Though it’s hard to tell in print, the large image is one of 20 that refresh every on a date that signifies for many the American to serve as a studying biology at Because the Web is constantly few seconds, showing off not just our beautiful campus but our lively student realization of a world suddenly smaller. body and our academic facilities. At the bottom is another favorite feature, head referee. He still SCU, he would see changing and updating, this isn’t the In that vein, Locatelli observed, “the SCU’s mission logo and “Est. 1851”—demonstrating the University’s heritage heads up a team of the members of the end of SCU’s online improvements. conflict that radical Islam has with the with a modern twist. officials on the field, so Board of Trustees on Look for new interactive elements West is as much about cultural values, that means he bumps campus and could and more rich media content in the which emanate from religious values, up alongside plenty of hardly imagine how coming year. —SS SCU as it is about poverty. Religious funda- professional-sized egos Mike Carey ’71 they connected with mentalism has distorted the tenets every week. Also the his experience. Now of faith for political purposes, a distor- founder of Seirus innovation, a major he finds himself a member of the body tion which has caused only conflicts manufacturer of snow sports accesso- charged with governing the University. and violence.” Santa Clara Magazine ries, he’s the inventor on several “Somebody in this group, years from That informs the responsibilities patents—and, for the past decade, a now,” he told students, “will be in the recognized with national award facing higher education, Locatelli said. member of the SCU Board of Trustees. same position.” “Santa Clara should focus its research We knew from the moment we saw Marty Stortz’s essay about Bill Spohn On Sept. 17, as part of the University As for asking questions of Carey— and teaching on efforts to discover the that it was a remarkable piece of writing about a unique man, and it was convocation marking the beginning of see Page 14 for an extended Q&A. a privilege to publish it in these pages. So it was doubly gratifying to have root causes of the critical problems of the academic year, he spoke to students “The School of Hope,” published in the Winter 2006 issue, recognized our time, paying special attention to and faculty at the Leavey Center and Global possibilities with a national award by the Council for Advancement and Support of their ethical and religious dimensions.” shared what Santa Clara had taught him and contradictions Education (CASE), which honored Marty and SCM with a silver medal for The pace of globalization in the By taking on this responsibility, the through lessons inside the classroom and Best Article of the Year. The awards were presented in July at the CASE 21st century presents higher educa- University will continue to prepare out: “Think critically and act responsi- national conference in . tion with a paradox, President Paul “ethical citizens who will leaven the bly,” he said. “Learn not only to come Locatelli, S.J., reminded the SCU world with knowledge, justice, virtue, More than 250 articles were submitted nationwide, with the judges sur- up with the right answers, but to ask the faculty assembled for faculty convoca- and wisdom.” —DK and SBS SCU mising that the best of the lot could just as easily have found a home in right questions.” tion on Sept. 11. The speed of The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, or Harper’s. Sharing the silver As a college student in the “vibrant” change today is unprecedented, and limelight with SCM were articles from publications that include Harvard late ’60s, Carey said, he found the understanding its effects requires Magazine, Stanford Magazine, and Yale Alumni Magazine. —SBS University a place that fostered what he E x c l u s i v e s dedicated, even “cloistered, scholarly On the Web called “open, disciplined free speech.” research,” Locatelli said. It also Read President Locatelli’s convocation address in its entirety online. Visit this article at www.santaclaramagazine.com  Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 and follow the link. Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine  mission matters mission matters

There is a very significant minority well as the attention of Fortune Best in the West A rising star with presence here because Santa Clara Santa Clara shines 500 companies interested in how personal touch works hard and earnestly to make in Solar Decathlon the students designed and built he results are in, and “America’s everyone feel at home.” Which leads to houses meant to be energy self-suf- TBest Colleges 2008” has offered “ t’s always better when an admissions the conclusion: “The university’s popu- hen a team of Santa Clara stu- ficient, attractive, and affordable. SCU high marks—for the 18th year staff regards you as a person, not larity is increasing across the board, dents embarked on the Solar Each entry was judged on 10 in a row. Santa Clara ranked second anI enrollment target,” opines one new which proves that nice guys sometimes DecathlonW competition just over 18 different criteria, and the com- overall among 127 master’s universities college guide. Amen. “Unfortunately, finish first.” months ago, they knew they had a long petition included a battery of in the West in the U.S. News & World such is not always the case.” Too true. In the realm of education, what way to go—the longest, in fact, of any scored tests, adding up to a total Report annual ranking of the country’s So where will you find these students have to say counts for more university stateside, since SCU was the of 1,200 possible points. The colleges and universities. sage words? In the 2008 edition of than a little. The Best 366 also quotes only school west of the Rockies to com- German Technishsche Universitat SCU is ranked against other simi- Princeton Review’s The Best 366 from students who describe the aca- pete. But as Richard King, head of the Darmstadt captured first place lar comprehensive universities that Colleges, an 800-page paperback tome. demic workload at SCU as “excessive U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored with 1,024 points. The offer a full range of More specifically, they’re in a write-up and insane” with professors who are, competition, assessed when he visited University of Maryland U.S. News & undergraduate pro- of SCU that commends the University in the words of one junior, “brilliant, SCU in August, this team just might took second with 999 SCU team World Report grams and master’s because, it says, “Santa Clara University fascinating, humane people who have have some surprises in store for the vet- points. Santa Clara degrees, but few deserves recognition as a rising star been nothing short of an inspiration eran schools in the contest. scored 979 points, takes third in America’s doctoral programs; that still manages to be highly to my friends and me.” Our favorite What kind of surprises? A very big finishing first in two the world Best the Western region personal and accessible.” line, though, comes from praise heaped one indeed: Santa Clara outscored categories, second in includes schools The guide also surmises that it upon specific departments and pro- every other U.S. team save one, beating three categories, and in Colleges from Colorado to the “would be hard to find a place that is grams: “The math department is too out the likes of MIT and Cornell, to the top 10 of all categories West Coast, includ- 2008 more receptive to minority students. awesome for words.” —SBS SCU finish third in the international com- save “Architecture.” ing Texas. Joining petition. The judging itself took place We’ll have details in the next SCU in the West’s top 10 this year on the National Mall in Washington, issue of SCM. In the meantime, are Jesuit schools Gonzaga and

D.C., over one week in October, with you can check out the SCU Solar Charles Barry University, and California Polytechnic final results announced Oct. 19. The Decathlon site and other news sto- State University, San Luis Obispo. Of “solar village” of entries from 20 uni- ries by visiting this article online master’s universities in the West, Santa We can do it! Senior Meghan Mooney (aka, Meghan versities from the U.S. and internation- at www.santaclaramagazine.com the Riveter) joins fellow SCU students in putting

Clara is also listed among the top 15 Charles Barry ally drew some 200,000 visitors—as and following the links. —SBS & finishing touches on the Solar Decathlon House. in the “Great Schools, Great Prices” DA SCU category. Santa Clara continues to have the highest average freshman retention rate—93 percent—in its class, and engineering, associate dean, shipped to Washington, boasts the second-highest peer assess- A new dean for associate chair, and director D.C., describing it as a ment score. SCU’s average under- engineering of the High Temperature “tremendous project.”

graduate graduation rate, 85 percent, Gasdynamics Laboratory. Charles Barry As dean, Mungal will ranks nationally as the second highest . Godfrey Mungal, the new He is the author or co-author seek ways to promote of all 574 master’s level universities. dean of Santa Clara University’s of more than 150 papers and the University’s goals of The School of Engineering is No. 20 SchoolM of Engineering, describes has won several teaching and increasing enrollment in among the top 87 engineering schools himself as “a teacher who does advising awards, including the undergraduate and in the country that focus on under- research,” so he feels he’ll be a great Stanford’s Tau Beta Pi award graduate engineering graduate and master’s engineering pro- match for SCU’s teaching scholar for excellence in under- programs, and forming grams. And a section titled “Programs model of education. “Engineering fits graduate engineering teaching. partnerships within to Look For” commends SCU’s resi- so well with the Jesuit tradition of Mungal began his duties the Silicon Valley dential learning communities, where Inspiring and accessible: a religious studies seminar with Associate Professor Paul Fitzgerald, S.J. being able to change the world,” he here Sept. 5, meeting with community to enrich students in residence halls take some says. Born in Trinidad, Mungal earned engineering faculty and get- M. Godfrey Mungal the curricula. courses as a group to get to know one his Ph.D. in aeronautics from Cal Tech ting his bearings before the Although the job is another and their professors better. and has spent his career focused on start of the quarter, but even before new, Mungal is already quite familiar —DA & SS SCU turbulence and thermosciences. Before that, he was taking in the engineering with what it means to be a Bronco. joining the SCU family, he spent more atmosphere. He was able to tour SCU’s One of his daughters is a 2004 alumna; than 20 years at , house under construction for the the other is an SCU sophomore. serving as a professor of mechanical national Solar Decathlon before it —SS & DA SCU

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-  Class participation: Lecturer Sarita Tamayo-Moraga, center, with students in the St. Francis de Asís Chapel. mission matters Charles Barry Those practicing Buddhist mission matters meditation take the floor, while those practicing Christian centering prayer use the chairs. The opera was directed by Michael An aria for San Ignacio Zampelli, S.J., associate professor of the- atre and dance at SCU. In spring 2006, n true operatic fashion, “San Ignacio for the Jesuit Jubilee, he directed perfor- Ide Loyola” is a story about love and mances in Rome, and he’s headed up faith, courage, and temptation. To productions elsewhere stateside. But this underscore the epic nature of this tale, is the West Coast premiere for “San angels and demons mount the stage. Ignacio,” and having it performed in a ¡Qué tormento! laments San Ignacio in Mission church is, Zampelli says, a kind Check your sources, his opening lines—sung in a special of homecoming. one-night performance at the Mission “San Ignacio” is a missionary lest you come to grief Church on Oct. 12. opera—originally performed by and In this story, we know that good for the Chiquitos, indigenous people or the past seven years, grief coun- shall triumph and that St. Ignatius’ of South America. It was composed Fseling has been getting a bad rap. companion, Francis Xavier, will in Spanish and, in its original form, Scientific literature has often called carry on the Jesuit mission in places included a parallel drama in the it weakly effective or even potentially to which Ignatius cannot go. And, Chiquitanian dialect. The music was harmful to clients. But a new review of thanks to a discovery of a manuscript composed by Domenico Zipoli, S.J., such literature, co-authored by SCU in the remote Bolivian Church of the (1688-1726), Martin Schmid, S.J., counseling psychology professor Dale Immaculate Conception in 1986, we (1694-1772), and a third anonymous G. Larson, now calls these claims see—and hear—how the story came to composer. The libretto was written by unfounded. life in performances in the Jesuit mis- two unknown Spanish Jesuits. The review looked at the origins sions of the Province of Paraguay three When it comes to the look and feel of a widely-cited research summary centuries ago. of this baroque chamber opera, it’s that claimed 38 percent of clients and This being college, students’ course- nearly 50 percent of “normal” grievers Pre-emptive sit-down strike work and participation in upcoming

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e as ook at religions in practice across After teaching two spring courses in i of Theatre and Dance— source, it turns out, was unpublished In both Zen and Christian tradi- data and a non-peer-reviewed student the globe today, and too often conjunction with SCU’s Local Religion s op h tions, the outcome of this kind of whose talents have been theL outcome of faith traditions at Project, Tamayo-Moraga, along with thesis. Not the ideal basis for making contemplation is supposed to lead to on display in the opera odds seems to be mayhem and terror. a Zen guru and Catholic teacher, will sweeping conclusions. action, transforming suffering in our performances already But juxtapose that with the writings give a final course this spring. Students But this research summary, pub- world by creating more mindful, self- given in other cities and of Trappist monk Thomas Merton: read works by Merton and Thich Nhat lished in 2000, was cited in later aware, and compassionate people— countries. Costumes “Solitude and silence teach me to love Hanh, one of the best-known Buddhist articles, suggesting that those authors while issuing a call to action to help were designed by associ- my brothers for what they are, not for monks in the West, as well as others. never read the student dissertation those in pain. ate professor Barbara what they say.” Therein resides some But it’s clear in this class, Tamayo- itself, while still spreading its nega- The majority of students say they Murray ’73 and sewn hope that religious practice can in fact Moraga says, that students are walk- tive conclusions. When Larson and have left the class seeing their contem- under the direction of overcome violence. ing away with a better understanding his co-author William T. Hoyt of the plative life as a resource for making Joanne Martin, who Sarita Tamayo-Moraga and Philip of these religious traditions through University of Wisconsin, Madison, difficult decisions in a non-reactive supervises the depart- “Boo” Riley, respectively lecturer and active engagement. had experts peer-review the disserta- way, especially when it comes to mak- ment costume shop. associate professor of religious stud- Does this mean students are trying tion, they found its statistical analysis ing choices that might be unpopular, Jerald Enos, founding ies, saw students’ frustrations with to pray their way to world peace? Not for basing its deterioration claims was such as supporting (or not supporting) director of SCU’s Center an increasingly violent world and exactly. While meditating, students seriously flawed. Larson and Hoyt’s the war in Iraq, personal issues such of Performing Arts, over- answered it by creating an experimen- reflect on real world issues both large review is in the August 2007 issue of as going against the wishes of a loved saw stage and set design. tal course in Buddhist and Christian and small: the war on terror, what it Professional Psychology: Research and one—and even centering themselves “It’s a jewel of a meditation. In addition to classroom would be like to live in a war zone, acts Practice. before taking tests come finals week. piece,” says Zampelli— study, the course offers techniques that of compassion and generosity, or con- one created amid a Recently, Larson was also the —EE SCU recipient of the 2007 Hospice Award give students a hands-on (or rather, flict with a friend or family member. confluence of cultures, mats-on) experience. offering a message of of Excellence, presented by Hospice understanding and hope. of Northeastern Illinois. The award is given to individuals or organizations that —SBS SCU have made a significant difference in the arena of hospice care on a regional, St. Ignatius (Randall K. Wong) sings in Mission Santa Clara. state, or national level. —JC SCU

10 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 11 Bronco Sports www.santaclarabroncos.com arry A trophy in the works? Lowry, a three-time All-WCC Snell, who led SCU with 11 goals b coach Bill McPherson was inducted. selection, is hoping to lead the in 2006, also has high hopes for the McPherson is best known for being e c ov gon zales Santa Clara seniors Peter Lowry and Broncos to the College Cup in his 2007 season. An All-WCC honoree Charles the defensive vid final season on the Mission Campus. last year, Snell and the Broncos have a Meagan Snell were both named to the d coordinator and helping them win five Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann As a junior in 2006, he helped SCU their sights set on the program’s 11th D on je d l Super Bowls. A year before, in 2005, Trophy watch list this fall. The M.A.C. reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA College Cup. She helped SCU post Brent Jones, a former Bronco football is presented each Tournament and was named All-Far a 15-5-1 record last year and earn player who had an illustrious career year to the outstanding player in West Region First Team. A native of a number one seed in the NCAA at tight-end with the San Francisco Division I soccer for both men’s and Fair Oaks, Calif., Lowry scored six Tournament. For her career, she 49ers, was also inducted. —SBS women’s soccer. Lowry is one of 29 goals and notched two assists to tie has scored 17 goals and recorded 11 male soccer players from around the for the team lead in scoring with 14 assists. —JM WCC Commissioner’s nation on the list and Snell is one of points. With five goals already this Honor Roll 45 female players. season as of press time, he has moved Coaching changes No limit, says women’s coach Cabell. into the top 10 all-time in goals scored in tennis Husack finishes on More than 100 Bronco student- at Santa Clara. Mills dons the jacket as Watch that man: Lowry is in the running to be a high note: the new men’s tennis coach. athletes were honored this summer top soccer player in the nation. The Bronco tennis programs had some best season ever for by being named to the West Coast changes over the past summer. Interim men’s tennis. Conference 2006-07 Commissioner’s women’s head coach Ben Cabell shed Honor Roll. Earning Gold, Silver, e c ov to a number of wins over nationally- the interim label on July 16, while More accolades for ranked opponents. This past year, or Bronze honors were 122 SCU longtime men’s head coach George the Broncos had the best season in a pair of Bronco legends students—an increase of nearly 50 D on je d l Husack stepped down on Aug. 10. program history, posting a 20-8 mark student-athletes over the 2005-06 Husack has been replaced by former Bronco basketball stars Bud and Ralph and earning a No. 59 ranking in academic year. The honor roll honors Saint Louis University head coach Ogden have been inducted into the the country. Eight players received student-athletes that attained at least a Derek Mills. San Jose Sports Hall of Fame. In a All-WCC accolades and the team 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Cabell led the shorthanded Broncos ceremony that was slated to take place earned the number two seed in the Cross country runner Shannon Bell to a strong season in 2006-07. With in mid-November, as this magazine conference tournament. led the way once more with a perfect injuries knocking out a number of was going to press, the San Jose “I am truly grateful for the many 4.0 GPA, which she has maintained key players, SCU has an 8-12 record natives were recognized for their opportunities given to me here at her entire college career. Women’s and a fifth-place finish in the West contributions to sports in San Jose. Santa Clara University,” said Husack. cross country also had six members Coast Conference. Three players, The Ogden brothers helped “The relationships established with earn gold honors. —JM Erika Barnes, Kim Daniel, and Casey Bronco basketball reach new heights players, coaches, administrators, Knutson, were named All-WCC under in the late 1960s and early 1970s, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and fans setting program records and elevating Cabell. He becomes the 10th head e c ov have meant so much to me as they coach in program history. the team to a number three national impacted my life both personally and ranking in 1969. Here at the Mission

“I am very excited to be named D on je d l professionally.” the head coach at Santa Clara,” said Campus, Bud had his jersey raised to Mills, who headed both men’s and Cabell. “SCU is a great fit for me and the Leavey Center rafters, alongside women’s tennis at SLU from 1999-01, I think that we have everything in teammate Dennis Awtrey’s, in a coached three All-Conference USA place to build a great program. There halftime ceremony on Feb. 5, 2007. players, and his team posted a GPA of is no limit as to how far this program The brothers are not the only 3.3. He also spent time as an assistant can go, so I am looking forward to former Broncos to be inducted into coach at Brigham Young and continuing my work here.” the Hall of Fame recently. In 2006 Northwest Missouri State. —JM On the men’s side, Husack stepped former Bronco football player and down after 12 seasons at Santa Clara as an assistant coach and head coach. He posted a 68-63 overall record on E x c l u s i v e s the Mission Campus and led the team On the Web Bronco sports fans, make sure to stay connected to SantaClaraBroncos.com for all the information about Santa Clara athletics during the 2007-08 seasons. The official Web site of Santa Clara athletics features live audio and video streaming as well as GameTracker for men’s and women’s soccer, , men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. And be sure to check out the latest Bronco Blog.. Running for the gold: cross country ace Bell

12 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 13 Tough Call B y J i m S h e p a r d Mike Carey ’71 on what it takes to earn your stripes as a head ref in the NFL

J i m S h e pa r d : What are the biggest challenges, in never exactly the same. And then you terms of officiating at the pro level versus college? just run those over in your head and M i k e C a r e y : I think it’s that the game is imagine yourself doing something completely different: It takes a quantum leap in speed different. and impact—the collisions are much bigger and faster, and you have to adapt to that. That’s probably the Q: Is a loss of confidence one of the worst things that can happen to an biggest change. official?

Q: That would mean that mak- A : Yes. Like in anything in life, your Mike Carey—No. 94 ing the right call is a matter of will and confidence to execute that will e

slowing down a spectacularly fast are really what make the difference. Just gu Born August 1949, game. How do you do that? as in athletics, in officiating, when you

Graduated from SCU in 1971 with A : Practice. You watch a lot of get in a groove, there’s nothing you’re all lea a B.S. in biology film. Some people are naturally

going to miss. But sometimes when that footb Varsity football for 4 years; MVP 1967 able to do it and some never make happens frequently, you can just expect

the transition. There are some that it’s going to be there. When you’re al tion More than 35 years experience people considered some of the top thinking you’re impervious to anything, n a esy esy

officiating t officials in who that’s when you’re going to get caught. r

In 1995 became second African can’t cut it on the NFL level. You always have to be ready, anticipat- cou American to serve as NFL referee ing, those things that can happen. Most Q: Is that film preparation everybody who officiates has played. And Founder and owner of Seirus mostly information-gathering, or it’s that feel for the game that allows you to excel. Q: If some teams and individuals are more prone Q: Would you like to address, here and now and In the thick of it: Innovation, Inc., a major manufacturer are you trying to train your own Carey refs Arizona There are some things that, I don’t care how much to infractions than others, how do you negotiate once and for all, the ordinary fan’s conviction that of snow sports accessories perceptions: getting ready to see your own expectations in those cases? Do you try bad calls are often redressed with makeup calls? at . The you read or study, you don’t know what it feels like to Cards wound up stuff at a faster clip? to strike a balance between keeping an eye out for Inventor on five patents A : There are two things that it seems like people with eight penal- A: I think it’s how you’re wired, to have them happen. someone’s tendencies, and trying to give them a are absolutely sure of: one, that if we think we made ties that game. Member of SCU Board of Trustees be able to do that. That puts you fair shake? Q: And that allows you to understand how much a bad call, we make a makeup call, and two, that since 1996 at a base level. But without a lot of that particular action would affect a play. A : I try not to pay attention to that. Each game has we’re always for the other team. Both are completely practice and film work, and concen- A : Correct. If you played defense, or offense, a life of its own. What somebody will do when he’s untrue. The worst thing you can do is layer a mistake tration, it’s easily lost: If you’re not you know where people are going to be, or go, and faced with one person will be completely different with another mistake. ready at any game, a game can outspeed you, so you that gives you a leg up on what can happen when when he’s faced with somebody else. And most of the really need to work on it all the time. And then there’s they get there. time people foul because they’re overmatched. So Q: No one other than the players has seen the the level of scrutiny in the NFL. those matchups are more important than individuals’ game more intimately than officials. Has it evolved Q: What sort of complaining is acceptable to you, tendencies. You might start to see those tendencies as in the last 10 years? Q: I assume that all good officials obsess over and what sort will get someone the hook? the game unfolds. And you’ll try and talk guys out of A : It’s always changing; it’s dynamic, that’s what makes what they worry were mistakes. And that you’re putting themselves in that position. But I’m not much it so entertaining. The players’ size, speed, agility, and tougher on your own mistakes than any fan. A : I haven’t thrown anybody out for what they’ve But what sort of methods do you have to put said. It’s always that they’ve stepped over a physical for saying, “This guy always holds.” skills are improving all the time, and that’s phenomenal, the previous week behind you? line: hitting another player, spitting on a player, grab- I think. Q: Given the demands of a life like this, officials A : It’s a matter of going over mistakes that you’ve bing or pushing an official—that sort of thing. must love the game. Does that ever convert to Q: What’s the best thing about officiating? made and thinking, faced with those circumstances Q: Is that idiosyncratic from official to official, or being a fan of a particular team? A : The game: a tight game, right down to the wire. again, what would you do? And that repetition in your pretty standard? A : It doesn’t with me, but I know there are officials Being right in the middle of the action, with the head, it’s like muscle memory: It puts you in a position A : I don’t know. I’m very tolerant, because it’s a pretty who do have favorite teams, whether it’s the city they crowd so loud it’s just white noise: just that whole to be able to do it right the next time. But you never get volatile game, so emotions are going to run over. But live in or whatever. atmosphere of our crew being really tight, communi- over the mistakes: They may be small and they get over- there’s no excuse for fighting. If you want to fight, cation-wise, and covering everything, and a really big, weighed by the other things, but you don’t forget them. Q: Does the NFL address that directly? you’re going to have to go somewhere else to do it. hard-hitting, fast, close game. That’s the best. SCU You try to visualize what happened and then A : Yeah, by evaluating every play of every game. So circumstances that could be similar. Because they’re if you’re not objectively able to hold those feelings Jim Shepard is the author of Like You’d Understand Anyway aside, you won’t be in the league long. and Project X. He teaches writing, literature, and film at Williams college.

14 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 SantaSanta ClaraClara MagazineMagazine 15 A rry On the Web E x c l u s i v e s Read the studies from Science online.

Charles B Visit this article at www.santaclaramag called “virgin” rainforests should lead us to rethink colleague Kareiva; azine.com and follow the links. our terminology—and you have an approach to stew- Chanel McCreedy ’05, ardship set up for failure. The study also notes, “Apart who began work on the from reproduction, the most natural of all human study as an SCU senior activities may be the domestication of nature.” and continued as ESI staff; as well as a researcher Yet domestication may give birth to a cascade of from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and unintended crises. For example, humans have mostly Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara. Together, the team eradicated cougars from parts of Utah’s Zion National has done something no other scientists have: analyzed Park. That’s good for hikers, and good for mule deer— environmental impact data from field experiments too good, in fact. The deer population has exploded, all over the world involving corn and cotton with leading to overgrazing, which, in turn, has exacerbated a Bt gene inserted for insecticidal properties. The streambank erosion, increasing sedimentation of results have given GM boosters and detractors alike streams that is harmful to fish. Plus, deer overpopula- something to chew on. tion can lead to deer starvation. Compared to chemically sprayed crops, it turns out On a larger scale, development of levees and chan- that GM crops might just be better for the environ- nels might protect farmlands and urban areas, but ment. The study is titled “A Meta-Analysis of Effects Ultimately, Environmental Studies Institute this can lead to loss of wetlands where rivers meet the of Bt Cotton and Maize on Nontarget Invertebrates.” at stake are Executive Director sea. That’s not just bad for cranes and cattails; when And it finds that the likes of ladybugs, earthworms, social as well Michelle Marvier ’90 extreme weather hits, the wetlands’ inability to absorb and bees all do better with these Bt crops than they do with Peter Kareiva, storm surges is acutely felt by humans as well (cf. with crops that use large-scale insecticide spraying. as scientific left, and Sean Watts. Katrina). “We carried out this research,” says Marvier, Together, their recent questions. scholarship has Ultimately, at stake are social as well as scientific “because we found that most of the studies submit- elicited an op-ed in questions. Kareiva, Watts, and their co-authors sug- ted by industry to the U.S. regulatory bodies (the the New York Times gest that resilience theory, “which suggests a link U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and USDA) and media coverage between simplified ecosystems and a loss of resil- had been poorly replicated and therefore could have around the globe. ience,” might help provide a basis for understanding ‘missed’ important side effects of these crops. We can the consequences of choices in managing ecosystems. now answer the question: Do Bt crops have effects on The goal? A planet where “nature and people simulta- beneficial insects and worms? The answer is that it Redefining nature neously thrive.” As opposed to one where the ecosys- depends to a large degree upon the type of compari- tem is pushed beyond the point of no return. son one makes.” By Steven Boyd Saum One study by Santa Clara scientists says that Case in point: While the good bugs do better with wild places are effectively a thing of the past. Another finds that Bt crops than with sprayed crops, they do better still some genetically modified crops are better for the environment. Genetically modified with non-Bt crops that haven’t been sprayed. So what sustainable agriculture? conclusions can be drawn? One, further investigation So what does this mean for the future of the planet? is necessary—as is understanding that whether you First there’s the matter of trust in public judge technologies “good” or “bad” depends on the institutions and agribusiness. Then there’s goals of your agro-ecosystems. when it comes to managing ecosystems. The study, Disappearing wilderness the question of personal values: For some, it’s a given The study does conclude with one clear assertion: “Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and that pesticides are bad for the environment and that “Regardless of one’s philosophical perspectives on risk The good news: Malthus got it wrong. Ecosystems for Human Welfare,” is co-authored by biotechnology is gene splicing us toward a future assessment for GM crops, enough experimental data Human population growth hasn’t out- Peter Kareiva, who directs the conservation science of frankenfoods with unforetold consequences for has accumulated to begin drawing empirically based stripped the food supply. The species homo program for SCU’s Environmental Studies Institute biodiversity and human health. Perhaps lost along the conclusions, as opposed to arguing on the basis of sapiens has domesticated nature in ways that have (ESI), and Sean Watts, who also teaches in ESI, in way is a hard look at the scientific research itself as to anecdote or hand-picked examples.” SCU yielded, among other things, energy-rich grains and collaboration with researchers from the Nature what the ecological consequences are of genetically the ability to harvest meat and dairy products at will. Conservancy and Harvard University. modified (GM) crops. —Steven Boyd Saum is managing editor for Santa Clara Magazine But at what cost? Up until now, the study notes, conservationists Enter a study published this June in Science A study published this June in the journal Science have relied on “protecting nature from people as the looking at the data on harms and possible benefits sets out to answer that very question. Or rather, while primary form of stewardship.” But put this together of crops modified to carry the Bacillus thuringiensis the study acknowledges the tremendous gains from with the fact that only 17 percent of the Earth (Bt) gene, which kills targeted insects. Michelle taming landscapes, it calls for scientists to get system- remains “untouched”—along with the recognition Marvier ’90, head of Santa Clara’s ESI, led the atic about trying to understand what the tradeoffs are that thousands of years of human activity even in so- four-member research team, which included SCU Wildly accurate Percentage of the In Europe alone, square Globally, factor by As of 1995, percentage Percentage of Percentage of Earth’s world’s land surface kilometers of coastline which water held by of world’s land area Earth’s land area land area set aside converted to grazed covered with concrete dams exceeds the that had escaped designated as as wilderness: 1

land or cultivated or asphalt: 22,000 amount in free- direct influence by natural protected Sources cited in “Domesticated crops: 50 flowing rivers: 6 humans: 17 area: 14 Nature,” Science, June 29, 2007 issue

16 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 17 The person in front of you A Photo Essay by David Pace

I have been a photographer for without running water or electric- more than 25 years. For the past ity. Life is hard, but the villagers are decade I have been traveling around generous and hospitable. Many have the world observing and recording the never left the village, yet all are aware effects of globalization on contemporary of the broader context of their lives. cultures. I photograph ordinary people Whether they are weaving cotton cloth at work, at play, and at rest in the course in traditional patterns or building vil- of their everyday lives. lage libraries where their children can Each portrait is the result of a col- learn to read, they integrate local prac- laboration, a tacit agreement built upon tices into a global economy with good honesty and respect. An image emerges humor and ingenuity. from a dialogue, sometimes directly, Through Santa Clara’s International sometimes through an interpreter or a Studies Program I was able to visit simple gesture. The camera is my inter- Cuba as well. Although poor in mediary and my witness. resources, Cuba is a country rich in cul- Most of my earlier work had ture and tradition. Music and dance— explored the villages and towns of Italy both traditional and contemporary—are and Spain and the great cities of Central vibrant and ubiquitous. Food and drink are shared willingly. It’s a country of Europe. But the focus of my project Bereba, Burkina Faso 2007 shifted dramatically in fall 2004 when stark contrasts: literacy and health care I visited El Salvador with a group of Opposite page: are almost universal, yet ox-drawn carts faculty from Santa Clara University. Produce Market, are not uncommon sights. On this trip, sponsored by the Ignatian Bobo Dioulasso, In El Salvador, Cuba, and Burkina Center for Jesuit Education, we learned Burkina Faso 2007 Faso, I encountered three very different about El Salvador’s complex history, stories about tradition and moderni- its devastating civil war—including the zation, global culture and local custom, role the played—and the serious economic and tragedy and hope. Each community welcomed me and social challenges facing the country. The tragedies recounted stood proudly before the camera. And each asked me to by the Salvadorans were deeply disturbing, yet the cour- share the stories of their experiences and the images of their age and strength we saw in their faces gave us hope. I have lives more broadly. returned to the country twice during the last three years, sup- Juan Velasco, a poet who teaches in Santa Clara’s English ported in part by a grant from Santa Clara’s Bannan Institute. and modern languages and literatures departments, has said: Last winter I traveled to Africa, and my project took on a “When you really pay attention to the person in front of new dimension. Santa Clara colleagues Michael Kevane of the you, when you really ‘see’ the person in front of you—then economics department and Leslie Gray of the Environmental you can really help this world.” These photographs are Studies Institute invited me to visit them in Burkina Faso, the part of my attempt to really see individual lives in all their West African country where they have been doing research richness and beauty. SCU for more than 10 years. I spent time in Bereba, a small village Photographer, musician, and filmmaker David Pace is a lecturer in SCU’s art and art history department.

18 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Opposite page: Conservatorio Esteban Salas, Santiago, Cuba 2006

Top: On the road to Guantanamo, Cuba 2006

Bottom left: Santiago, Cuba 2006

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Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 21 Top: Santa Ana, El Salvador 2005

Bottom: “Aranca Cebolla (Pulling the onion)” —La Chacra, El Salvador 2004

Opposite Page: Santa Cruz Parish, Soyapango, El Salvador 2004

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A moment of truth in the U.S. occupation Senzai: Has the surge contributed to success for of Iraq came in September: General David Iraq, outside of Anbar? Or is this Anbar success Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan directly due to the surge? Crocker testified before Congress on what had Panetta: This isn’t the first surge we’ve done there. been achieved nine months into the so-called And the whole point of these surges is to do what the surge of American forces. Following that military calls “clear, hold, and build.” Unfortunately in the past, we’ve cleared, and the Iraqis have been unable to hold testimony and the presentation of the Petraeus or build. In terms of the mission of trying to eliminate the Report, SCU political scientist Farid Senzai conditions that produce sectarian violence, we have not spoke with Leon Panetta to examine what was been successful at that with the past surges. being said—and to look at hard truths that will With regards to this surge, what we decided is, frankly, need to be dealt with in the months ahead. that we were not only going to clear, but we were going to hold these areas. There’s no question, we’ve been able to— Farid Senzai: What are your initial at least on a temporary basis—reduce some of the violence. thoughts in regards to General Petraeus’ On Anbar, the idea of using this tactic of a bottom-up assessment of the situation in Iraq? approach, using the insurgents to go after al-Qaida and to reduce violence: It’s a bold effort. I can’t tell you that it’s the Leon Panetta: If you’re going to under- kind of thing that can repeat itself in other provinces. But at stand what’s going on in Iraq, you really have to look at least with regards to Anbar, it’s certainly proven itself. a very big picture—what’s happening in that country in a Senzai: General Petraeus stated that the political number of areas. With regards to one piece of that, the situation has not caught up with the security situation. issue of the military surge and what Petraeus was testify- ing about: I don’t think there’s much question that when Panetta: Exactly. you add 30,000 more troops, that it is going to have some Senzai: Is that, in some ways, an attempt to shift impact, in terms of level of violence, particularly from blame to the Iraqi government for not moving as Baghdad. I also think what they’re doing in Anbar is quickly, even though the security situation, in his probably helping to get some control over violence. view, is progressing? But having said that, when you look at the larger mis- sion of why we’re in Iraq—which is, in President Bush’s Panetta: Again, you have to go back to: What was terms, to have an Iraq that can govern itself and sustain the mission here? What was the purpose of the surge? itself and defend itself—that’s where you get a much more The purpose of it was not simply to try to reduce violence discouraging viewpoint. Some of it was confirmed by but, by reducing violence, to create the breathing room Ambassador Crocker. A lot of it is in the context of the for the Iraqis to implement the political reforms and meet reports that were presented to the Congress. When it the political benchmarks that they had set for themselves. comes to that larger mission of having an Iraq that ulti- Unfortunately, that has not happened. mately can control its own destiny, the mission there is far from accomplished.

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W e a r e n e v e r g o i n g Senzai: So do you think that there is much with Israel and the Palestinians, and resolving that issue; and ultimately has to move to Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. t o a c h i e v e a n y difference among the candidates’ positions on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq? I don’t see any kind of broad effort to try to resolve these k i n d o f p e a c e f u l issues. For that reason, we are in a very dangerous period, Panetta: My viewpoint is that most of these candi- in terms of the Middle East. r e s o l u t i o n w i t h o u t dates, like the administration, have not really, in a clear manner, developed what the overall strategy is that they Senzai: Do you think that there should be direct e v e r y b o d y a t would implement as president of the United States if they dialogue with current government in Iran? t h e t a b l e . have to face this issue. What really has been lacking in the Panetta: There should be continuing dialogue with Bush administration’s approach—and as I said, I don’t get the government in Iran, with Syria, and obviously with all a lot of comfort from what these candidates are saying on of the other countries in the region. We are never going to the campaign trail—what’s been lacking is a clear strategy achieve any kind of peaceful resolution without everybody about how we are going to transition from a combat to a at the table. support role, and how we are gradually going to transition You have to ask the question, even though we’ve have to communicate. And you have to do this on a con- out of Iraq. Senzai: In November 2002, the president came reduced violence on a temporary basis: Has it fulfilled the tinuing basis. And I think frankly, this administration has We’ve talked surges, we’ve talked benchmarks. But out very strongly suggesting that our 60-year fundamental mission for which it was designed—which is really never learned how to implement strong diplomacy. there has not been that clear strategy about how are we effort historically in the Middle East has failed, to have the Iraqis implement the reforms that ultimately and we need to shift gears and try to promote Senzai: In the president’s Sept. 13 address to the going to—province-by-province in Iraq—gradually transi- are the only way to control sectarian violence? democracy. Initially there was an effort, including nation, he suggested there may be long-term mili- tion control to the Iraqi government. money being spent. But because of the consequences tary bases in Iraq. Clearly that sends the wrong Senzai: Have any of the candidates taken the of that—bringing people in that we may not like— Strong diplomacy message to the region. Iraq Study Group report seriously and suggested the administration seems to have backed off from Senzai: The diplomatic offensive that you have Panetta: Sure, because it means we’ll have a large that they would in fact try to implement the rec- that effort. spoken about in the Iraq Study Group—do you presence there for a long time without engaging those ommendations? Panetta: I have always felt that our primary goal ought think that has in fact taken place, or has the Bush other countries. And one of the problems we’ve had is, by Panetta: I haven’t gotten that impression. They use, to be security and stability. And unless you provide that, administration been too slow in that approach? virtue of our large military presence in Iraq, these other obviously, some of the pieces that we recommended. But you’ll never get to democracy. We thought somehow we countries are standing on the sidelines and not doing what Panetta: The best way to say it is that what was miss- I have not heard either a Democratic or Republican can- could leapfrog to Jeffersonian democracy. Frankly, that’s they should be doing to try to help. ing from the military surge was a diplomatic and political didate, for that matter, embrace the key recommendations never going to happen in the Middle East. You’ve got to surge to complement it. Where I think the administration Senzai: In terms of the troop levels, General that we made. walk before you run. For most of those countries, you need failed is in developing that strong diplomatic initiative in Petraeus suggested that we could begin to reduce Senzai: What do you think this means in terms to establish not only political stability but begin to improve the region that the Iraq Study Group recommended: a the number by December to 130,000. of our relations and our status in Iraq, with the the quality of life for people in the region. That is not just support group, made up of the nations in the region, to giving them a parliament; it’s giving Panetta: In many ways, as has been pointed out, they larger Arab and Muslim world? provide both the support and encouragement to the Iraqis them food and healthcare, and a good don’t have a lot of choice. Because in April 2008, they Panetta: That is the most important challenge that we to do what they have to do to provide security. There was education. SCU kind of a hit-and-miss effort to meet with Iran and some either have to extend tours of duty or they’ve got to bring face. It’s not just Iraq; it is our relationship in the Middle harles Barry

Farid Senzai is director of research at the Institute c other nations. But frankly, they just haven’t put enough them home. I think they’ve made the decision that they’re East. And what are we doing to try to prevent the Middle not going to extend people in an election year. So the for Social Policy and Understanding. He has into the diplomatic effort. East from imploding into a series of sectarian wars? What’s researched foreign policy and Muslim politics for likelihood is that they are going to have to bring back at been missing here, in addition to a clear strategy in Iraq, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Senzai: That leads to the question of Iran, least 30,000. If you listened to the comments by Secretary is a clear strategy for the Middle East that has to begin Relations, and the World Bank. He teaches U.S. which the Iraq Study Group emphasized. It seems [Robert] Gates you know that he’s planning to probably foreign policy and Middle East politics at SCU. that rather than engaging with Iran, in fact, the increase that number. He’s talking about reaching a level of tension has risen. And some suggest that before about 100,000 by the end of 2008. I wouldn’t be surprised they leave office this administration is keen on if they move in that direction. militarily responding to Iran. Panetta: I think that’s part of the problem. In the Iraq Election-year strategy Study Group, as you know, one of the co-chairs was Jim I n t h e p a s t, w e ’ v e Senzai: Why do you think the Democrats have Baker, former secretary of state, who continually stressed had such a difficult time making the case for c l e a r e d , a n d t h e the fact that if you’re going to engage diplomatically there, reducing troops from Iraq? you’ve got to engage with all the countries, and you have I r a q i s h a v e b e e n to pursue it in a very aggressive and continuing manner. Panetta: The biggest problem they’ve had is translat- He pointed to the fact that when he was working on ing public concern about Iraq and the war and where it’s u n a b l e t o h o l d the Middle East effort, he had to go to Syria eight times in heading into an effective alternative strategy that would o r b u i l d . order to eventually get them to support that initiative [in gain Republican votes in the Senate. Without those the first Gulf War]. He’s a believer that you have to engage. Republican votes in the Senate, unfortunately, they’re not You don’t have to compromise in your principles, but you going to get anything done.

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i n i s l a m , s a y s r e z a a s l a n ’ 9 5 .

B u t t h e b a tt l e f i e l d f o r j i h a d i s t s i s n ’ t

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T h e p r o b l e m i s , i f y o u f i g h t t h i s e n e m y

o n t h e i r t e r m s , t h e y w i n . By Steven Boyd Saum

28 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 29 One Wednesday in January, as I fellow at the University of Southern California’s be local or regional aren’t going to stay that way. One of Azzam’s pupils was Osama bin was enjoying a pleasant lunch Center for Public Diplomacy and an assistant profes- And in that regard, it’s not so much that the West is Laden. So it’s no surprise that from bin sor at UC Riverside. a bystander; the West is very complicit in the socio- Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, al-Qaida’s with Reza Aslan in the Adobe With a head of wavy black hair and just a touch political and economic factors that have led to these second-in-command, “you hear the Lodge, the conversation gray at the temples, he also cuts a hipper and more conflicts in the first place.” same kinds of things,” Aslan says, “that turned to world war. Not in the youthful figure than most plying the trade of Middle jihad is the beginning and the end of historic sense, but rather future tense. And East analyst. He’s gathered a coterie of self-described In what at first sounds like the beginning of an our theology. It’s a form of worship, “intellectual groupies” that congregate on his MySpace argument for keeping a large American footprint in they say.” Wrapped in references not in some abstract realm, but in terms of page. (And yes, given that Friedman is in his 50s, Iraq, Aslan assesses, “The West cannot extricate itself to the ancient Muslim caliphate, cause and effect: from the disintegration of Huntington in his 80s, and Lewis the far side of 90, from this.…Nor should we try.” Instead, he says, jihadism aspires to a kind of mythical the security situation in Iraq, which would Aslan just might be able to take on all three at once in “We have to do a better job of being the promoter ancient ideal. In fact, Aslan insists, it’s draw in bordering nations and, in turn, a a fight.) These days you’ll find him in high demand as of moderate ideas. Right now, we’re, I would say, the something wholly new. a commentator and speaker, both in the U.S. and exact opposite. We are, in our actions, in our rhetoric— “We talk about jihadists as tradi- few superpowers with a vested interest in internationally—an interest, it’s safe to say, fueled as and certainly in the war in Iraq and the larger war on tionalists or anti-modernists in some the region. That’s the first scenario. much by his articulate, startling assessments of current terror—the greatest recruiting tool for extremism. way,” he says. “Nothing could be It’s not that Aslan is a doomsayer by nature. (He events as by the widespread desire to understand the By the end of 2001, most scholars of the region were further from the truth. Jihadism is dismisses Iran’s claim, made in September, to have religious, cultural, and political conflicts of the Middle talking about jihadism as a dying movement on its last about as modernist as a Muslim move- 3,000 centrifuges running to enrich uranium, as a gross East and Islam. Because across the political spectrum, legs. Our actions and our rhetoric have transformed ment gets. It’s just that what they’re exaggeration at best.) Nor does he subscribe to the most would agree that ignorance is no longer an option. it into a movement that is, according to our own desperately trying to do is divorce notion of a clash of civilizations. But his first book, No National Security Estimate, stronger than ever.” the idea of modernism from the idea The Thirty Years’ War with nukes god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam In other words, while there are no good choices of Westernism. We, in the West, have has led some to compare his work to that of Thomas There is a reformation taking place in Islam, says for the U.S. in Iraq, Aslan argues that withdrawal is a a tendency to think, ‘Well, if you reject west- Friedman, Bernard Lewis, and Samuel P. “Clash of Aslan. He uses the term reformation to evoke not just prerequisite. “The best case scenario in Iraq,” Aslan says, ernization, then you reject modernization,’ because we Civilizations” Huntington. When Religious Studies Christian Europe’s theological quarrels but also the “is a gradual withdrawal that leaves as few Iraqis dead think of them as the same. No, that’s not it at all. Even chair Paul Crowley, S.J., mentioned the comparison in terrifying, bloody wars that accompanied them in the as possible. And that in itself is impossible without bin Laden, who lives in a cave, would think of himself introducing Aslan for the launch of 17th century. Only, in the 21st century, the weaponry the robust participation of not just the international as quintessentially modernist.” the President’s Speaker Series ear- available goes far beyond the muzzle-load- community but, more importantly, the help of Iraq’s By modernist, Aslan means grounded in events of lier this year, Aslan had to confess ing rifle. We know there may be atomic neighbors.” the past 50 years or so. The end of colonialism and the “ the west c annot he wasn’t sure what to make of it. weapons in the picture. But, I asked Aslan Marking the anniversary of the September 11 rise of Arab nationalism led to the so-called Sawa in “I do know, though, that I could extric ate itself in September, if we’re talking theology, terrorist attacks, 9/11 Commission leaders Lee the 1970s—a religious and political awakening in the take all three in a fight,” Aslan from this…. Nor just what is it that is being fought over? Hamilton and Thomas Kean published an op-ed cit- Arab and Muslim world that gave birth to a number Reformation has to do with individual- said. “Probably at the same time.” should we try.” ing polls that show support for democratic values all of now-familiar militant movements: the revolution in That sharp sense of humor— ization, “the notion that individuals rather throughout the Muslim world—while, at the same Iran in 1979; and in the 1980s, the war in Afghanistan along with swiftly moving hands than institutions should be charged with time, anti-Americanism has never been higher. “These against the Soviets and the rise of the Taliban and al- and an urgency in the voice—are interpreting their faith,” Aslan says. principles that we are supposedly fighting for are prin- Qaida; Hezbollah; and Hamas. often on display. When Aslan speaks, it’s as if his fin- In Islam, it’s a change that’s been taking place for a ciples that the region already accepts,” Aslan concurs. What does jihadism want? gers are literally trying to grasp skewed assumptions century or so, and now we’re seeing the results. What At the same time, democracy and America have become and set them right. To those who look at the turmoil would those be? “A grand debate between these vari- synonymous—but not in a positive way. “Democracy It’s a litany which may have changed over time, but in the Muslim world today and assign blame to the ous highly individualized, innovative interpretations is seen very much as a hypocritical element whose pur- the goals of jihadists seem to include the annihilation imams, the mosques, and the madrassas, Aslan says, of Islam: some promoting peace and tolerance and pose is to promote American interests in the region,” of the U.S. military—or at least driving it out of all “That’s a complete reversal of what is actually taking democracy and reconciliation with Western values, Aslan says. “Any objective observer could understand Muslim countries; the destruction of Israel; and the place.” As for the notion of Islam vs. the West: “This some promoting intolerance and bigotry and war why that is. We pushed for free elections in Lebanon, establishment of a Muslim caliphate. Regarding item and terror. And because in Islam there is no central- No. 3 on the agenda, Aslan says, “I’ve read almost isn’t so much a war between us and them,” he says, “as we pushed for free elections in Palestine, we pushed ized authority that gets to say who is right and who everything that both bin Laden and Zawihiri have it is a war between them and them.” Albeit one that for free elections in Egypt. In all three of those cases the West has been dragged into with little hope of is wrong, what is proper Islamic theology and what the elections don’t turn out exactly how we want, so written,” Aslan says, “and rarely do they actually bring a clean exodus. isn’t—in other words, there’s no Muslim pope—then we shut down the process.” this up. In fact, I would say that the President of the what you’re left with is a shouting match.” United States talks more about the caliphate than Something wholly new Reza Aslan was born in Tehran in 1972. His family But it’s an asymmetric matchup. “The clerical insti- bin Laden ever does.” The reality is that there is no fled the country in 1979, after the revolution. Raised tutions in the Muslim world have yet to come to the Over the past 14 centuries, Islam has developed a com- actionable policy that could yield the desired results. in San Jose, he came to Santa Clara in 1991 and realization of their growing irrelevance,” Aslan says. plex panoply of theology, philosophy, and law. But in “It’s more like an aspiration of jihadism. But it’s not a earned a degree in religious studies; he thanks one of “They’re still busy debating how many angels sit on the 1980s, Islamic scholar and mujahideen star recruit- possibility.” his teachers, SCU Professor Emeritus of Religious the head of a pin, while the rest of the Muslim world er Abdullah Azzam instructed his acolytes in a version Which leads back to the question: So what do the Studies Catherine Bell, in the acknowledgments for is embroiled in an existential conflict over the future of of Islam that had been burned down to one concept jihadists want? “The answer,” Aslan says, “which I think the faith itself.” alone: jihad and only jihad. It was a useful premise would come as a shock to a lot of Americans, is: noth- No god but God. To his arsenal of degrees he’s added a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard and an The conflict may be fundamentally about Islam. when the goal was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, ing.” Nothing? “Their raison d’être is a clash of civiliza- M.F.A. from the Writers Workshop at the University But for those of us in the West, one of the lessons and Azzam visited dozens of cities in the U.S. and tions, cosmic war mentality that divides the universe of Iowa; he is currently completing his Ph.D. in the of September 11 is that, as Aslan acknowledges, “In Europe soliciting support for the freedom fighters bat- between the forces of good—themselves and their sociology of religions at UC Santa Barbara, is a senior a period of intense globalization, conflicts that may tling the Red Army.

30 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 31 followers—and the forces of evil…. They’re fighting a showdown with the United States. Yet at the same What kind of war? The only weapon we have war in the heavenly plane. So for them, what happens time, Aslan cautions, “Iran is amassing its troops. It is Some argue that a proxy war with Iran is already On a crisp January night, after speaking to a stand- here on this world is totally irrelevant.” conducting war exercises. It is buying up as much mili- underway in Iraq. Though Aslan contends the conflict ing-room only crowd at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre, The problem is, Aslan says, “We’ve fallen into the tary hardware as possible. It’s rearranging its military is nothing like the hell that Iran could unleash if it at the end of an audience Q&A, Reza Aslan was posed same trap. We’ve essentially adopted hierarchy and even rearranging the so chose. As for how that would involve U.S. forces, one final question. The card read: “I am a young their terminology, their cosmology of hierarchy of the revolutionary guards. “We’re not really talking about war in Iran,” Aslan Lebanese-American Muslim woman. How can I make what’s going on, and we’re now fight- And it is preparing for what it sees as says. “That’s not possible for us…. Certainly, we would a difference and send a message of peace to my peers “What al-Qaida ing the same war that they’re fighting: the inevitable war with America.” engage in aerial bombardment of select targets. But in high school?” represents, what a cosmic war, not a real war.” Early this fall, Ayatollah Akbar the war with Iran will be fought inside of Iraq, and Aslan has said that promoting peace and tolerance The title of Aslan’s next book, due the jihadists Hashemi Rafsanjani was elected that is where the real potential is for the possibility are the only real ways to defeat jihadism. That night out next autumn, is How to Win a represent, head of Iran’s powerful Assembly of of not just a wider regional war but a war that would he used the opportunity to upend the perception of Cosmic War. The subtitle: Why We’re goes against Experts. Mahmoud Ahmadinejead bring in the major superpowers.” Americans as ignorant and isolated from events abroad. Losing the War on Terror. defeated Rafsanjani in the presidential every thing Aslan cites the enormous trade relations Iran “I’ve been through large parts of the world,” he said. election in 2005. But Rafsanjani’s new maintains with Russia and China. With these at stake, “There is not another country on this planet that has which almost Jihadism is an ideology that can post could mean that the pendulum is and with concerns that if the U.S. isn’t stopped now, the diversity, the pluralism, the religious freedoms, every sector of be defeated, Aslan contends—but not swinging toward pragmatic reform in it will only be more difficult to push back later, then including freedoms given to Muslims, to practice their with guns. At least, not ones fired society in almost Iranian politics. for China and Russia this might be seen as the right religion, their beliefs, in any way they see fit—certainly by Americans. In September, during every country in It would be nice to think so, moment to clip America’s wings. no Muslim country allows that kind of freedom for General David Petraeus’s testimony the Middle East Aslan agrees. And while Iran may What about within the Muslim world? The sectar- Muslims.” before Congress, one of the success be stronger militarily than it’s been stands for.” ian violence in Iraq—Sunni vs. Shia—shows just how So what comes with those unparalleled possibilities? stories shared from the U.S. military’s since the Shah was toppled, “As far as vicious that religious divide can be. Given that, I ask “In this case,” he told the anonymous young woman in surge was the fact that, in Anbar prov- the internal dynamics go, Iran is also him, aren’t there Muslims who would just as soon see the crowd, “the responsibility that you have is to make ince, Iraqis were going after the insur- the most fractured it’s ever been.” Iran attacked? sure that there isn’t this massive divide between us and gents. “There is a reason why the Sunni tribesmen in Iranians are grappling with big questions about the Aslan doesn’t quite accept the premise of the ques- them—that the other is not this faceless demonic enemy Anbar are killing al-Qaida in Iraq,” Aslan says. “Not future of their country. The problem is, Aslan says, tion. Because of Iraq, he says, we in the West have a that we have turned it into but is very much a part of because they want to be on our side; they couldn’t “when you’re in a state of national security, which distorted perspective of the Shia-Sunni divide, which us, part of how we understand the world.” care less about us. But because what al-Qaida repre- Iran is—and, as we Americans can attest—ideas of he says tends to deepen and lessen over time. Even so, When we find ourselves d y

sents, what the jihadists represent, goes against every- like political development or dealing with dissent and o he says, “Al-Qaida and the Wahhabists, particularly in enjoined in a clash of monothe- l thing which almost every sector of society in almost opposition get thrown out the window.” b Saudi Arabia, will clap their hands and cheer as soon isms, Aslan said, “stuck in this ah every country in the Middle East stands for.” In the case of Iran, recent history serves as a vivid as Iran is bombed.” Why? “They’re worse than non- ideological battle that we are e k As for the argument that the departure of U.S. reminder. “The Islamic Republic of Iran was not born Muslims, they’re heretics. But that group makes up a fighting for the very future of re b troops from Iraq would allow the jihadists to take over, in 1979,” Aslan says. “The Islamic Republic was born very small percentage. The rest of the Sunni world— civilization, as the president has “That is the most absurd and most insidious kind of in 1980…as a result of the invasion of Iran by Iraq.” for the people on the street in Egypt and Jordan said, the only weapon that we have joke,” Aslan says. “Even our political leaders know that Which completely halted the political development and —they are going to see this as just yet at our disposal is knowledge.” SCU that’s impossible.” To the extent that al-Qaida in Iraq that was beginning to take place. And with the country another bombing of another Muslim country, forget Steven Boyd Saum is managing is tolerated by Iraqis, Aslan says it is that they serve on a war footing once again, he says, “The hard-line, about Shia or Sunni.” For proof, one need look no fur- editor for Santa Clara Magazine. one purpose: “They kill Americans.” So if U.S. troops revolutionary, ultra-nationalistic elements of Iran are ther than Hezbollah, which, despite its Shia identity, E x c l u s i v e s leave? “Yes, the consequences could be disastrous going to take over—as those elements always take over became the standard bearer for the Muslim world by On the Web for a whole host of reasons. But the first thing that in any country during wartime.” fighting Israel in Lebanon. Hear podcasts of Reza Aslan speaking at would happen is that the Iraqis themselves would wipe Does that make the elevation of Rafsanjani to the SCU and a panel looking at the ethical choices confronting the U.S. in Iraq. Visit al-Qaida in Iraq out of existence.” Assembly of Experts inconsequential? Perhaps. But www.santaclaramagazine.com Rafsanjani isn’t gearing up for another run at Iran’s Slow it down presidency. “Rafsanjani is preparing himself for the Rethinking us and them: As part of the Aslan hopes that the presidential primary season will President’s Speaker Series, Aslan fields goal that he’s been pursuing for the last decade,” Aslan questions moderated by Paul Crowley, S.J.,

close the window of possibility for the U.S. to bomb says, “to become the next supreme leader of Iran. Charles Barry chair of religious studies. Iran. Which, to return to the topic of our lunchtime Now, one can’t really run for that office…. But it’s very conversation back in January, could well escalate into clear that Rafsanjani is positioning himself for that. a wider conflict. “If that happens, that would be good for both Iran What about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon? On and America. That would make a huge difference to a hopeful note, Aslan cites the fact that International the evolution of Iran. But that would not happen in a Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei has million years if there’s a war going on.” assessed that Iran is deliberately slowing its uranium enrichment process. In other words, it’s taking its foot off the accelerator propelling the country toward a

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k Overnight, Afghanistan, a country that many Americans could not (and still can’t) place on a map, was the lead story around the globe. Sensing that the world was r mwo ready for an Afghan story, Hosseini’s wife, Roya, encouraged him to submit the manuscript to publishers. Fearing he’d be thought opportunistic, and thinking that d rea ray/

b readers wouldn’t want to hear from him—he was, after all, an Afghan, from the l i

p h country that hosted al-Qaida—Hosseini resisted. Roya, a debate major in college and lawyer, urged him on. Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the War on Terror dominated the discussion about Afghanistan, she told him. Why not show people a different side of the country? Hosseini returned to the manuscript in December 2001. In June 2002, he sent the manuscript, the first Afghan novel written in English, to literary agent Elaine Koster, who sold it to Riverhead Books. Released in June 2003 without much of a marketing push, the novel, despite its unknown author, soon became a popular book club selection and, eventually, a New York Times bestseller. Astonishment at his good fortune probably gave way to acceptance for Hosseini one day late in 2004. On a cross-country flight, Hosseini says that he watched as the passenger next to him reached into her bag and pulled out a copy of The Kite Runner. A moment that, for any writer, says, “I’ve arrived.” This summer, the book served as the “common reading” text for all incoming first-year students at Santa Clara. Kabul’s Splendid Son T h e g o o d w i l l e n voy Hosseini was soon offered a platform to match his growing celebrity. In B y J u s t i n G e r d e s 2006, officials with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) presented Hosseini with a humanitarian award for his depic- Kite running: a scene from tion of the plight of Afghan refugees in The Kite Runner, and they invited him to the film adaptation of speak at World Refugee Day. Hosseini, however, wanted to do more. “I felt that “Afghanistan Hosseini’s first novel. I wanted to speak out, to take some action,” he told the Los Angeles Times in June Inset: Hosseini speaks at SCU. 2007. Named a Goodwill Envoy by UNHCR, Hosseini traveled first to eastern is a country Chad to visit with survivors of the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, and populated by later, in September 2007, he visited Afghanistan for the first time since the publi- ordinary people here’s a story that Khaled Hosseini has told a few cation of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. times at most. In 1987, during his senior year at For all his fame, one senses that Hosseini—who, more than perhaps anyone who want the Santa Clara, Hosseini began applying for medi- else has made the lives of ordinary Afghans, within and without the country, real same things as cal school. A bright student with a major in biology under to the world—has also made it his mission not to let the world forget about his people do here,” his belt, he was invited to interview at campuses across the birthplace. Forgetting should be more difficult come December, when the film country. For Hosseini, the opportunity was at once tantaliz- version of The Kite Runner arrives in theaters in the United States. The studio Hosseini says. Tingly close and seemingly unattainable. The son of Afghan immigrants who had delayed the film’s release by six weeks after concerns were raised about three held careers as a diplomat and educator in Afghanistan but who made a living as young Afghan actors who appear in the film: a scene in which one adolescent boy blue-collar workers in the United States, Hosseini himself worked nearly full time rapes another might lead to persecution of the child actors in Afghanistan. The to pay for school and help support the family, which included a grandmother and studio has offered to move the boys and their families to another country after four siblings. He knew there was no money to pay for the flights and hotels to make the end of the Afghan school year in December. But there are no plans to cut the campus visits, and he couldn’t bring himself to ask his parents, who’d already the pivotal scene; it illustrates, most poignantly, what it means to stand by and sacrificed so much, for help. do nothing while another human being is brutalized. Already, this September, Swallowing his pride, Hosseini approached William Eisinger, a biology profes- President Bush and the First Lady, a fan of the book, invited Hosseini to a sor, and explained his predicament. Eisinger told Hosseini not to worry, that he’d screening of the film at the White House attended by Vice President Cheney and On the heels of speak to the dean and administrators. A few days later, Eisinger pulled Hosseini U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and ethnic Afghan, Zalmay Khalilzad. A Thousand Splendid aside after class and handed him a check from the University that more than cov- Even so, in an interview with Renee Montagne on NPR’s “Morning Edition” Suns, the second ered his travel expenses. Nearly two decades later, Hosseini remains grateful, he just after his recent trip to Afghanistan, Hosseini described a country still in need novel by Khaled says, for the “very private and very personal act of kindness”—one that he will of the world’s attention. In village after village, in the countryside outside Kabul, never forget. Hosseini ’88, comes he saw families living in mud shelters or tents exposed to the environment. He Hosseini shared the story with an overflow crowd at Louis B. Mayer Theatre met families who spent months huddled in earthen pits, exposed to freezing the long-awaited in February 2007, three months before the publication of his second novel, cold. He described a country where more than half the population doesn’t have film adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. By that time, Hosseini was already the real-life actor access to potable water, and many work for less than $1 per day. Yet, remarkably, The Kite Runner. in what must have seemed a dream. With the success of his first novel, The Kite Hosseini said, despite a raging insurgency (and resurgent Taliban), increased Runner, which has sold more than 8 million copies in nearly three dozen opium production, joblessness, homelessness and abject poverty, Afghans, nearly countries, Hosseini rocketed from anonymity to worldwide fame. And he was 80 percent according to one survey, remain hopeful about their future. “We just back on campus as part of the inaugural season for the President’s Speaker Series. cannot afford to give up on these people,” he said. SCU Hosseini admits that he never imagined The Kite Runner would be published Justin Gerdes has written on politics, culture, and the environment for Motherjones.com, when he began writing it in March 2001. Six months and two-thirds into his first California magazine, and The Commonwealth magazine. He serves as editor for Flex Your Power. draft, though, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 34 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 35 P a l e o l i t h i c B u r i a l New books by mission matters SCU alumni and faculty In Print When he died they hunched him up like baby in womb, curled him coggins

den into a shallow scoop in the cave-floor, Youth, Inc., 2006, $25). The book edu-

Bierce the beloved cates readers on issues concerning how esy hay

t planted him like a seed as he slowly stiffened, curmudgeon to prevent child molestation and offers r T h e b u r i e d l i f e cou covering his slumped and earthen limbs screening and monitoring procedures On making a poem n the pithy and acer- for organizations. with a layer of red ochre, Our son Seth, currently living a bachelor life that’s bic Devil’s Dictionary, sprinkling him with wildflowers— included two rough-and-tumble years in Fairbanks, IAmbrose Bierce defined recently told us about “Hobo Hash.” The recipe is, to realism as “the art of Tasting the water then turned away. say the least, flexible; though it often includes eggs depicting nature as of freedom and potatoes, even those aren’t strictly necessary. it is seen by toads.” You simply mix together what you’ve got. This, of Moon comes back each month, so bright, And in Essential Bierce: auren Hackworth Petersen ’87 dis- course, is stew, a dish for which we have at least A Selection of the Writings covered her passion for art history then curls itself into a dying crescent— 8,000 years of archaeological evidence, with the of Ambrose Bierce (Heyday whileL a senior at SCU. She is now an supposition that the invention of pottery 10,000 baby struggles out of a woman’s darkness— Books, 2007, $11.95), associate professor of art history at the years ago led directly to its invention. edited by John R. University of Delaware and author, petals of delicate blue, pale yellow, in the wet woods, And though it’s a homely metaphor, I think it’s Dunlap ’68, you’ll find an apt one for the writing of poems. Humans are most recently, of The Freedman in the stuff that makes the how do they know always making and combining things. A poem, like Roman Art and Art History (Cambridge curmudgeonly Bierce beloved even a stew, usually comes from what’s near to hand. University Press, 2006, $90). The book Bandit Days: hijinks La Honda style, circa 1948 when sun is past dying and comes today. But this anthology also offers Again and again I find that whatever’s been knocking comes out of several summers spent readers some of Bierce’s compelling war to life again? around in my mind will suddenly, mysteriously, come examining the homes and tombs of From the together in a poem. There are rules: As with Hobo and horror stories. The collection is freedmen (freed slaves) in Pompeii— This is older than cities or books, Hash, you can’t just dump in anything—eggs and part of the California Legacy Series, a who were prodigious patrons of art and redwood forest whipped cream don’t go together. And stews don’t collaboration between SCU and architecture—and offers insights into older than prayers or earnest discussions, always turn out the way they should; many of the Heyday. As for editor Dunlap, in addi- the lives of everyday people in ancient eil Young lives there now. Ken older than farming, poems I write aren’t really edible. tion to holding his bachelor’s degree Rome and Pompeii. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters But the ancient art of making a poem results, from Santa Clara, he has taught at SCU onceN called it home. So, for a time, did something buried and burst open often enough, in nourishing food for heart, mind, for more than 30 years—now serving the outlaws who rode with Jesse James. long before words, ideas, church or temple or crudest holy place, and spirit. And a good poem often reveals a as a senior lecturer in both classics A prayer for all seasons And they all make an appearance in harmony among disparate elements that we and English. La Honda (Arcadia Publishing, 2007, hadn’t suspected before. hy has the rosary remained $19.99) by Bob Dougherty M.S. ’91 older even than itself, In this case, I’d spent years fascinated with the such a popular Catholic devo- MBA ’96. Part of the Images of America dawn-of-humanity burials archaeologists have W this longing. Keeping youth SAFE tional prayer? series, Dougherty’s collection chronicles discovered around the world. (I’d read a particular An answer to the history of this rural community in account a few days before this poem came to be.) n July, the Archdiocese of Los that lies in The the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz —T i m M y e r s – Many include the body placed in a special posi- Angeles agreed to pay an estimated Rosary Handbook: Mountains that was once a logger’s tion—often the fetal position—and covered with red I $660 million to more than 500 vic- A Guide for dream. When Kesey and co. lived ochre. A good number include flowers strewn over tims of child sexual abuse by clergy. Newcomers, Old- there, Hunter S. Thompson dubbed the corpse, discernible across the centuries to the The Southern Baptist Convention has Timers, and Those their cabin “the world capital of mad- expertise of paleobotanists. also been riven by an abuse scandal In Between (The ness.” Things have settled down a little, There was more in my head at that time, too. I’d across multiple states. With an eye Word Among but there’s tremendous beauty in this become a parent, and that mystery, having filled toward preventing future abuses in reli- Us Press, 2007, Tim Myers is a writer, storyteller, and songwriter. He is the author my life, is always with me. And I watch the moon mountain community near the sea. gious and secular organizations alike, $11.95) by of nine children’s books and, most recently, a poetry chapbook, endlessly, wondering and, to some degree, adoring. Mitch That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant. He teaches in the Michelle Smith ’91 has co-authored And when we lived in upstate New York near the Finley ’73. In clear, accessible prose, education and English departments at SCU. and edited SAFE (Screening Applicants Canadian border, I saw how the wildflowers tended Finley explains how the simplicity and E x c l u s i v e s for Effectiveness): Guidelines to Prevent to be smaller and paler there. So all of this was depth of the rosary make it a prayer for On the Web Child Molestation in Mentoring and churning and bubbling inside me—not so unlike a all seasons. See a photo gallery of some of the (Friends for stew simmering in a pot. Youth-Serving Organizations images from La Honda. Visit www.santaclaramagazine.com. And of course my endless longing for God. —TM Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 37

36 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 37 team for the final World Cup game. The Santa Clara Alumni controversy became the team’s signature mission matters …and all for one moment of the tournament. Ryan was let Association From a World Cup bronze—to Olympic gold? go by U.S. Soccer in October. “It was unfortunate that it happened and became the focus,” Osborne said. Broncos in blue: From left, U.S. Women’s Wagner also called the situation National Team members ’05, ’03, and Marian Dalmy ’07 regrettable. “It’s too bad it played out Pack your bags that way,” she said. At the same time, That chapter begins this spring, Wagner underscored the caliber of the as the national team reconvenes with team—individually and collectively. e hope you’ll join us next a new coach. The players’ mission is “The Hope situation got way too much beyond what I could summer for an unforgettable to put the controversial World Cup attention, but I’m proud of the way we have foreseen. It is one trip.W Santa Clara alumni and friends experience behind them and prepare came together as a group.” of those broadening ven- are headed to Ireland in August and to defend their Olympic gold medal Against Norway, they showed just tures that alumni need— September. Accompanied by knowl- in Beijing this August. how well they could come together, the world beyond the edgeable Santa Clara professors and “I think this team will regroup dominating the game and winning 4-1. SCU campus!” very quickly,” Dalmy said. “I think staff, you can expect a uniquely Santa To sign up for more we’ll all be very motivated. We have Eyes on Beijing Clara experience with exceptional information or to join a lot to prove, and what better time Her lone start was particularly gratify- service. Our trip itinerary is varied our mailing list, please to show it than the Olympics?” ing for Wagner—one of the more expe- and balances well-known sites with contact Anny (Madden) Only the University of North rienced players on the roster. Wagner, lesser-traveled stops throughout this Tedeschi ’97 in the SCU Carolina produced more members limited by a lingering groin injury and beautiful country, with SCU faculty Alumni Office at 408- than Santa Clara on the 21-player coaching decisions, had been frustrated lectures during our travels. 554-5085, 866-554-6800 U.S. roster, the top-ranked team by her lack of play. Dates for this 12-day (toll-free), or via e-mail at coming into the World Cup. But “It was definitely frustrating to watch trip are Aug. 24 to Sept. 4, 2008. [email protected]. And the experience for the Broncos was from the bench,” said the San Jose The itinerary includes Belfast, learn more about past No Blarney: The famed castle is one of the stops on the next Alumni Trip mixed in China. native. “I wanted to help. It was hard to Derry, Galway, Adare, Dingle and upcoming trips at er Midfielder Leslie Osborne see them struggle.” Peninsula, Killarney, Cork, Kildare, www.scu.edu/alumnitravel. alumni had fun looking through year-

received the most playing time, Of the Santa Clara trio, Wagner— and Dublin (San Jose’s sister city). books, watching slideshows, reminiscing occ .s. s .s. Reunion weekend u who led the Broncos to the 2001 More information on pricing and

starting four games and subbing During the weekend of Sept. 7-9, about old times, and catching up on esy esy

t national championship—is the veteran r a detailed itinerary will soon be in another. Called on to mark the classes of 1952, 1956, and 1957 each others’ lives.

ou presence. Dalmy—the 2006 WCC C available on the Alumni Web site. the opposition’s best player, the celebrated their reunions with class Since the Class of 1957 marked its Player of the Year—is the youngest. Last year’s Alumni Trip to Italy one-time Honda Player of the Year per- dinners, the Gianera Society Lunch, 50th anniversary, its members were By Ann Killion Osborne’s time at Santa Clara bridged was, in the words of Tiffany formed exceptionally well. But she may and Sunday masses and brunches. There inducted into Gianera Society during the careers of the other two. They all Hippensteal ’96, “a trip of a lifetime.” be most remembered for one play: an was also a small reunion group who call a ceremony on Sept. 8. The Society Amidst the debris of broken say their experience at Santa Clara And Jim Torrens, S.J., called it own goal against Brazil, the first score themselves the “Fighting ’40s.” They pays tribute to the legacy provided dreams at the Women’s World helped groom them for the interna- “enriching, pleasant, companionable, in a 4-0 defeat that would unravel the include men who graduated in the 1940s by our “Golden Broncos” and acknowl- tional stage. well-planned and executed. Our city Cup in China in September, U.S. team’s dreams. and went into the military at the same edges their long-standing loyalty to “I couldn’t have been better pre- and personal guide were special, three rose “Unfortunately, I made a mistake,” time to serve in World War II. All the the University, their classmates, and the Osborne said. “I didn’t hear anything, pared,” Osborne said. Alumni Association. Seeing classmates to the occasion. “We enjoy playing with each other “In the first game, we were all sit- and someone was on me. I tried to reunited—after 50 years or more!— because we have the same ideas about Class of ’52: back on campus for a September reunion ting on the bench, looking at each make a play. A lot of things happened in is such a wonderful reminder of the that game.” how the game should be played,” strength and longevity of our Santa other,” Aly Wagner ’03 said. “But in Wagner said. the last game we were all in the starting The error was, in part, the result of a Clara family! I hope you’ll consider far bigger controversy. The person who Watching the final game back home, coming back to campus for your lineup. We were very proud to be start- Santa Clara Head Coach Jerry Smith conci ’04 ing next to each other.” should have called off Osborne from next reunion. heading the ball was goalkeeper Briana was happy for the way things ended for Former Bronco players Wagner, gi a nn a Scurry. Scurry, who had played spar- his former players. Go Broncos! Leslie Osborne ’05, and Marian Dalmy “I was proud of the way they played ’07 all played well in that finale—a ingly in the preparation for the World Cup, was named the starter by coach when they were called upon,” he said. “I third-place victory over Norway. And think all of them will contribute going though the 2007 World Cup didn’t . Ryan benched , who had started every World Cup game forward.” turn out the way any of them—or their Forward and onward, the Broncos teammates—had hoped, the finale was until that point. Kathryn Kale ’86 The aftermath of the Brazil game and the rest of the team look to the an indication that the Broncos will be Beijing Olympics. This time, they hope Executive Director, key factors in the next chapter of U.S. turned Osborne’s miscue into a footnote. to realize their dreams. SCU Alumni Association Soccer. Solo lashed out in an emotional outburst after the game and was banned from the —Ann Killion is a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News.

38 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 39 55-year 5 2 reunion Sept. 7-9, 2007

50-year 5 7 reunion Sept. 7-9, 2007

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6 S ha class notes Oct.. 19-21,19-21, 20072007 Heather left her 35-year25-year reunion 78 23 position as librarian Oct. 19-21, 2007 May 16-18, 2008 at the Arkansas Arts Center to care for

t Sarah (Deininger) Vasquez l 30-year20-year reunionreunion her son full time. u oversees7788 29 shopping cen- 83 OctMay. 19-21,16-18, 20072008 The family lives in ters as senior vice president of White Hall, Ark., but

era era re n a Westfield Corporation. She and is building a house c Undergraduate Alumni her25-year 15-yearhusband R89ichard33 reunion have two in Little Rock. childrenMa andy 16-18, live in 20082008 San Jose. Wine Carol LaMadrid and Norman Steve Rychly and his wife, her husband live in Slaught Michelle, live in the 10-year reunion 52 73 20-year 98 reunion Geneva, Switzerland, and reports that he Chicago suburbs with their two May 16-18,88 2008 Eric Stille ’81 May 16-18, 2008 where Carol works in yacht bro- “finally” has a sons, Sean, 17, and Johnathan, 15. Food and family grandchild Steve is a regional sales manag- kerage and charter for Edmiston roses 5-yearFrank Basich wasreunion recently How does Nugget Market, a family-run chain of grocery stores 15-year reunion & Company. She is also involved attending er for Apple. presented093 an Award 88 May 16-18, 2008 with the musical theater and headed by Eric Stille ’81, wind up on the FORTUNE magazine list Santa Clara. for AcademicMay 16-18, Excellence 2008 in Shirley Trevino was named one has choreographed several of the 100 Best Companies to work for in America—two years in Robert B. Yonts Jr. J.D. ’68 of the 100 most influential the Associate in Reinsurance Program.10-year This awardreunion is given shows. a row? In the words of FORTUNE, it’s with “rah-rah spirit, good pay 3retired as a judge of the Latino/as in the Silicon Valley 98 6 each yearMa toy 16-18,two graduates 2008 and benefits, plus a rockin’ end-of-year bash.” That adds up to a Santa Cruz County Superior by The Mexican American George Lotti is chief financial

with outstanding cumulative Bronco Profile ranking of No. 13 in the nation according to the magazine. Ask Stille, Court in January and immedi- Community Services Agency. officer of Heat and Control Inc., grade averages for the national ately started part-time as a Shirley has worked for more 5-year 03 reunion an international company based and he credits the Nugget employees with creating an award-win- mediator and arbitrator with examinations in this Insurance in Hayward. George’s wife, Lisa ning work environment. “People are our best asset,” he says. “They than 30 years in labor relations InstituteMa ofy A 16-18,merica 2008 program. JAMS, a nationwide group of (Eidson) ’89, is a middle school create the magic.” and is co-founder of CAUSA and Since graduating from Santa more than 200 retired judges. teacher in San Jose. Both operate the Institute for Non-Violence. Clara, Frank has completed more Stille started working in his family’s grocery store at the age of 14. Yonts and his wife, Bjorg, a stone a nonprofit animal rescue orga- than 20 insurance examinations He’s the fourth generation of his family to carry on the tradition; sculptor, live in Soquel. Their William E. (Bill) Brown was nization—Unconditional Love elected president of the and has earned four insurance the first Nugget Market was founded by his great-grandfather and family includes 10 children and 74 Animal Rescue—that has res- 28 grandchildren. California Association of Realtors designations. He is employed by grandfather in Woodland, Calif., in 1926. Family remembers recall that cued more than 1,000 animals for 2008. Fireman’s Fund Insurance work- Grandfather Mack went out of his way to foster a positive work envi- Steven ing as a senior inland marine from local shelters and placed ronment and to treat everyone equally. “There is only one race,” he 65 James Dan and Thelma (Silvio) Dietsch underwriter. Frank and his wife, them in homes. The couple lives Bartlett edited completed the four-year diacon- Jennifer, recently celebrated in the Willow Glen area of San would say, “the human race.” and helped pub- ate formation program for the their 17th wedding anniversary. Jose with their six cats and Building on the family’s experience, Stille became the first in his lish his late Chicago archdiocese, and Dan They live in Petaluma, with their one bunny. family to earn a four-year degree. He majored in finance at SCU, and father Paul was ordained a deacon. 3-year-old son, Sam. he credits Santa Clara for shaping his leadership style. Alexander Barbara Galvin was pro- How does that style play out in practice? “Even the baggers Bartlett’s work, Robert E. Strunck is Amy (Hutcherson) Brink and moted to associate at The afternoon sun shone 91 Voices from the 76featured in the newly her husband, Tim ’86, recently Gensler, a global architecture, benefit,” Fortune noted in 2006. “There’s no premium for full health down on Vintage Santa Past—A Quintet of Novels: released book, Defending the moved from Southern California design, planning, and strategic insurance, family coverage is $1 a week, and employees are offered a Clara XXIV, our 24th Sappho’s Journal, Christ’s Journal, Damned: Inside Chicago’s Cook to Pennsylvania with their three consulting firm headquartered pension plus a 401(k) plan.” Annual Alumni Wine and County Public Defender’s Office, in San Francisco. She joined Leonardo da Vinci’s Journal, boys, Taylor, 15, Jonathan, 13, It was also at Santa Clara that Stille met Kate Riley ’81, who later Food Festival, in the Mission which discusses the office’s Shakespeare’s Journal, Lincoln’s and Riley, 7. Tim is the executive Gensler in 2001 and serves as Gardens on September 9. Murder Task Force and the project accountant, managing became his wife. Kate is now director of marketing for Nugget Journal (Autograph Editions, director of the mechanical con- The event brings alumni defense of death penalty cases. accounting matters for such cli- Market—which Stille took over as president and CEO in 1987. $29.95). tractors association of Eastern and friends of all class years The Nugget empire now comprises some dozen stores in northern Robert Mason is legal ents as the Gap Inc., Cisco, and back to campus for a wonder- Colleen (Stinnett) Pennsylvania. Amy says she is a advisor for the Public Network Appliance. Prior to join- California. Step inside a typical store and you’ll be greeted by displays ful afternoon of wine and Badagliacco is the 2007 77 “baseball mom.” 66 Utilities Commission. He has ing Gensler, Barbara served in of gleaming rosy plums, softly fuzzed peaches, crisp, leafy greens— food tasting, live music, a president of the California worked for Bergman and Mickey Pierce and Nancy the Peace Corps in Poland and and, from the baking ovens, the aroma of artisan breads laced with silent auction, and great camara- Association of Realtors, a state- (Schnetz) Pierce were worked as a high school teacher Dacey Inc. since 1989. 89 olives, walnuts, and asiago. Marinated meats, fresh fish, and poultry derie! Check out photos at www. wide trade organization repre- married at Mission Santa Clara for five years. scu.edu/alumni/vintagephotos. senting more than 220,000 James Houghton became on Aug. 26, 2006. Mickey is a sizzle on the grill. Stacy (Hawes) Melle has expand- Realtors. the Richard Rodgers hazardous substance scientist “Eric doesn’t really like to cook himself,” Kate confesses. “He is a 81 ed her responsibilities at NBC Kevin Kelly reports that he Director of the Drama Division for the state of California, and big fan of our ready-to-go, chef-prepared entrees and side dishes— at The Juilliard School in 2006. Universal Digital Distribution is “living the reflective life Nancy is a technical sales man- along with a good bottle of wine, of course!” 72 as vice president of marketing in and on the Pacific Ocean” James Hulburd is ranked ager for Jeppesen DataPlan. They Aside from business, Stille’s other passion is his family. He and live in Willow Glen. to include not only video-on- aboard the sailing vessel 82on Barron’s 2007 list of Kate have raised their three children in Davis. Will this next genera- Farraige, with his wife, Ruth. The the “Top 100 Financial Advisers” demand, but also electronic Heather (Dabel) Hignite sell-through, and mobile and tion carry forward the Nugget family business? Stille says it is too vessel’s home ports are Santa for the second year in a row. He and her husband, Dennis, 90 interactive television for all TV soon to tell, but daughter Stephanie is a senior at SCU, majoring in Cruz and Lahaina, Hawaii. is a private wealth advisor at announce the birth of their first and film content. business. —Karol Kafka Merrill Lynch. child, Corey Thomas, on April 2.

40 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 41 55-year 5 2 reunion Sept. 7-9, 2007

50-year 5 7 reunion Sept. 7-9, 2007

45-year 62 reunion Oct. 19-21, 2007

55-year reunion 40-year 7 reunion 5 2 U6ndergraduate g r a d u a t e The Santa Clara University classSept. 7-9, 2007 notes Oct. 19-21, 2007 class notes 50-year reunion 35-year 7 reunion Board of Fellows 5 7 2 Sept. 7-9, 2007 Oct. 19-21, 2007

i n v i TES YO U TO Sav e T h e DAT E Lorie (Hannigan) Murphy and Nick Marquis ’95 and Sarah Lauren Russell and Brendan Roger A. Laux MBA is pres- Spring Homecoming & her 45-yearhusband, Tom,2 announcereunion the Bartlett30-year ’95 welcomedreunion a daugh- O’Brien ’01 were married on ident of the Silicon Valley 6 77 85 r eunion Weekend birth of theirOct. 19-21,son, R yan2007 James, ter, Avery,Oct on. 19-21,May 23. 2007 They live in May 19 in the Mission Church at San Jose chapter of the Dec. 12, 2007. Ryan joins older San Mateo. Santa Clara. The wedding party California Society of Certified 40-year reunion Public Accountants for 2007-08. sisters Mandy, 3, 7and Hannah, 25-year reunion was also included Lindsay Smith, 6 Jason Marandas83 Roger is a consultant for 7, in the familyOct. 19-21, home. 2007 Lorie is appointedMay 16-18, manager 2008 of UK Megan (Sullivan) White, Kevin 97 Pinnacle Intertech, a manage- K ? < +) E;8EEL8C the senior vice president of e2k Sales for the EMEA division of O’Brien, David Bianco ’01, and ment and technology consulting Homecoming Sports35-year in Palo Alto. reunion WebEx Communications, recent- Felix Tismer ’01. The newlyweds 7 2 20-year reunion organization in San Jose. Reunion honeymooned in St. Maarten Mike StrainOct .and 19-21, his 2007 wife, Anna, ly acquired by88 Cisco Systems. He >F C ; < E :@ I :C < May 16-18, 2008 and live in San Francisco. Rodney G. Moore J.D. was elect- M a y 1 6 - 1 8 announce the birth of a daugh- lives in Amsterdam with his wife ed president of the National K?<8KI<G8IKP ter, Maggie, in June 2007. She of seven years, Tiffany (Allen) Jennifer BeVard entered • Golf Tournament 30-year reunion Marandas15-year, and their reunion2-year-old Bar Association for the 2008-09 joins big sister77 Katrina in the 93 the Master of Fine Arts • Fiesta de Santa Clara Oct. 19-21, 2007 daughter,Ma Ayvalon. 16-18, 2008 06 term. Moore is a member of the family home. in Directing program at DePaul • Academic Programs University. Atlanta Litigation, Labor and • Campus Tours 25-yearDan Dion and reunionhis 10-year reunion Employment, and Media and • Homecoming Picnic wife, Lisa,8 3are pleased 98 Christina Flynn entered the 92 May 16-18, 2008 May 16-18, 2008 Entertainment practices. He is • Reunion Dinners for the Classes of 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003 Master of Fine Arts program to announce the birth in the first Georgia lawyer ever • Mass in the Mission September of Roman James, in Acting at Wayne State Kelli Swader married elected to serve as president of their20-year second child andreunion a native 5-yearJames Wolfe inreunion St. Lucia, University. Join your reunion committee and help rally your 88 98 03 the National Bar Association. San Franciscan.May 16-18, 2008 West IndiesMay on 16-18, March 2008 28. The classmates for the reunion! A. Zell Williams was chosen He is also a member of 100 wedding party included “Best as one of only two recipients Black Men of America’s Atlanta Invitations will be mailed in early April. Contact the Alumni Office Mate” Dawn Michelle Roberts. 15-year reunion toll free at 1-866-554-6800 or e-mail [email protected]. 93 The couple lives in London, for the African-American Chapter, has served on the Board May 16-18, 2008 Fellowship by Steppenwolf of Visitors and the Alumni Board England, where Kelli has Connect with your classmates by joining your reunion class group Theatre Company in Chicago. for the University’s law school, Peter Lampe and his released her debut CD, “On the on inCircle, SCU’s ever-expanding online alumni network at f e B R U a r y 9 , 2 0 0 8 10-year reunion 93wife, Kristi,98 announce the Verge,” which has earned acco- The two-year fellowships are and as trustee for the Santa www.scu.edu/incircle. birth of aMa son,y 16-18, Dylan 2008 James, on lades as “smooth country pop.” awarded based on the candi- Clara County Bar Association. March 5. Dylan joins older sisters Listen to album tracks at www. dates’ academic accomplish- www.scu.edu/homecoming 4:30 p.m. Mass Heather Crothers MBA Kaitlyn,5-year 6, and Megan,reunion 3. firedragonsings.com. ments, demonstrated potential was recently named chief 03 for leadership, and commitment 00 St. Joseph’s Cathedral Mai (Vuong)May Wang16-18, MBA2008 ’95 and David Doroquez earned marketing officer of Sightspeed her fiancé, Brian S. Jones, wel- 99 a Ph.D. in biology from to a career in arts administra- Inc., which provides personal comed their first child, Bradey the Massachusetts Institute of tion. Zell will be working with video services over the Internet. 5:30 p.m. Doors Open Sam Jones, on April 26. Mai and Technology in Cambridge and is Steppenwolf’s General Manager Prior to her appointment, Brian have started a manage- now a post-doctoral fellow at David Schmitz. Heather was vice president of product management at Intuit, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts ment consulting business, Coral Brandeis University in Waltham, John Sabine has been where she worked for 13 years. Equity Partners, to assist private Mass. David and his wife, Lesley 07 chosen to be an intern equity firms. Yamaki, a nurse at North Shore for The Second City theatre Cyril Rayan MBA has writ- 6:00 p.m. Show Time Medical Center in Salem, Mass., in Chicago. ten Moving From Vision to Jose Arroyo and his wife, 01 seley mo live in the Boston metro area. Reality: Happy About Fulfilling i s

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An Evening with Kenny Loggins 95 Your True Purpose (Happy About, c birth of a son, Emilio Antonio, on Myra Ramirez-Geronimo $19.95). The book uses seven April 29. Emilio joins big sister 00and her husband, Marc, Graduate Alumni steps and includes exercises and Elisa in the family’s Gilbert, Ariz., welcomed their first child, 7:30 p.m. Cocktails & Dinner Nicholas James, on Jan. 11 in asks questions meant to help home. Sean Gallagher J.D. was a San Diego. you define and act upon your San Jose Fairmont Hotel Trevor Corkery and Courtney 79public defender in Santa vision of leadership. Christina Newell married Moroney announce the birth Cruz for more than 20 years Thomas Stanley on June before he and his wife, Liz, an of their son, Kevin, on June 5. 02 29 at the Hilltop Ski Chalet in For more information, please call emergency room nurse, moved Sylvanna Falcon has been Anchorage, Alaska. Christina is to the big island of Hawaii, 408-554-6912 or e-mail [email protected] appointed to the faculty at an art teacher in Alaska. Thom where Sean now works as a Connecticut College in New graduated from UC Berkeley in beach lifeguard with the Hawaii Bronco groom takes the cake London, Conn. Her areas of spe- 2002 with a bachelor of arts Fire Department. He also teach- The lovely pastry above featuring the SCU Broncos logo (the cialization include race-ethnic degree in history. He is an assis- es part time at the local high groom’s cake, for those keeping score) made an appearance at relations, racism, globalization, tant brewer at the Glacier school. the wedding of Tyler Green ’04 and Meghan Hanratty ’04 on and human rights. She previous- Brewhouse. May 26 in Dallas. The wedding party included fellow ’04 grads ly taught at UC Santa Barbara. Colin Harrigan, Lucas Herrera, Megan Kinnear, Cam (Elkin) Barsness, and Alison Bettles. Guests included more than 20 other SCU 2004 and 2005 graduates. The newlyweds honey- mooned in Hawaii and live in Seattle.

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President’s Joseph F. White, June 18. A 58- Lt. Col. Edwin S. Williams dent of Kenna Club. He worked Obituaries year resident of San Mateo (retired), July 13. A native of at Lockheed for 36 years and was and long-time parishioner of Oakland, he served in the U.S. active with the Los Gatos Parks Walter J. Desmond Jr., Speaker St. Gregory Church, he was Marine Corps during World War Commission, the Santa Clara May 3. He is survived by 30 the owner/proprietor of J & M II and received the Bronze Star, County Explorer Scouts, and his wife, Virginia; and four sons. Series Hobby House in San Carlos. He two Purple Hearts, and numer- other organizations. He is sur- Charles E. Paganini, Aug. 4. is survived by his wife, Marcelle; ous other decorations. After vived by his wife of 49 years, 34A native of San Francisco, five children; 13 grandchildren; the war, he attended SCU and Lois; six children, including son, he served in the U.S. Navy as a was inducted into Alpha Sigma Engaging people and 10 great-grandchildren. Patrick ’80; and 10 grandchildren. lieutenant commander in the Nu, the national Jesuit honor and ideas that Richard L. Powell, Jan. 12. Thomas P. Higgins, S.J., June 9. South Pacific during World War II. society. He held a variety of com- In 1942, he left his studies He was a longtime faculty shape our world After the war, he worked as an 44 mand positions with the Army at Santa Clara to join the U.S. member and chaplain at Loyola executive for Security Lithograph in the U.S., Germany, Korea, and Army. He served in World War II, Marymount University in Los Co., then Diamond International. Vietnam. After his retirement, Korea, and Vietnam. By the time Angeles. “Father Tom,” as his stu- He is survived by five children, he worked for Johnson County he retired in 1973, he had earned dents knew him, entered the Five from ’57 including Patti Momii ’74. Community College as database the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Society of Jesus in 1952. After This summer we received the sad news of the passing of Bronco specialist, was a volunteer driver Walter F. Dunn Jr., June 24. and 11 battle stars. His hobbies preliminary studies, he taught Bob Jones ’57 and we went looking for a photo that might capture him for the VA hospital in Kansas in his eternal spring. Behold, the graduating baseball-playing seniors During his working included golf and RV travel. He Latin and coached football and 36 City, and delivered meals for of the Class of ’57: from left, Norm Huletz, Dan Gaffney, George Soetje, years, he was a member of the is survived by his wife, Mary; golf at Bellarmine College Prep. the Johnson County Nutrition Robert E. “Bob” Jones, and Dick Venezia. Immaculate Conception parish, two sons; a brother; four grand- He completed his theological Program. He is survived by his San Francisco native Jones died June 20. A baseball scholarship brought the Knights of Columbus, children; and five great- studies at Regis College in wife of 53 years, Patrice; four him to Santa Clara—and he turned down a football scholarship to UCLA American Legion, Lions Club, grandchildren. Toronto, Ontario, where besides Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Elks, children; 14 grandchildren; and to come here. He went on to become captain of the baseball team, and January 16, 2008 delving into scriptural exegesis, and the Red Cross. He is survived Charles “Charlie” Lambert, a great-grandson. he was a member of Delta Sigma Pi. After college, he went into the U.S. Robert M. Salpolsky he staked out a plot of land by three children and five May 12. A native of Army, where he was a captain in the 82nd Airborne Maroon Berets and a 48 Gerald T. “Jerry” Fry, May 24. behind the college and built a The Biology of Our grandchildren. Willows, his college years were medic for two years, before landing a job with Ford Motor Company in San A native of Pacific Grove, nine-hole golf course. He was Individuality interrupted by his military 51 Jose. Work took him to many cities, including and New Orleans, Fred F. Minniti, Jan. 27. Born in he served in the U.S. Marine ordained a priest in 1964. As a How does biology shape individuality deployment to Europe in World before he retired as district sales manager after 30-plus years of service. Tacoma, Wash., he lived there Corps then began long careers member of the Campus Ministry —and our understanding of it? The War II. He retired after a long He is survived by four children and five grandchildren. renowned behavioral biologist discusses all his life and graduated from in public service and business. staff, he initiated his “Lucy career with Bechtel Corp. He is how to make sense of our behavior in the Bellarmine College Prep before He served on the Monterey City Booth,” which he operated for survived by his wife of 59 years, context of brains, genes, and hormones. attending Santa Clara. He is sur- Council for 20 years, includ- many years on the lawn outside Lorraine; two sons; a brother, vived by five children; a brother, ing six years as mayor, during the offices; a sign on the booth March 12, 2008 Robert Lambert ’50; nine grand- Bob; 16 grandchildren; and 25 which he was instrumental in said, “Spiritual Advice—5 cents.” children; and nephews James ’72 Charles A “Chuck” Leahy, Richard T. Onishi, May 29. Paul Berg great-grandchildren. the revitalization of downtown Students dropped by every day and Richard ’76, MBA ’79. 55May 14. A third-generation 58 He is survived by his wife, The Gerald and Sally DeNardo Lectureship John “Jack” A. Higgins, Monterey and the Cannery between classes to give him a San Franciscan, he attended St. Violet; three daughters; and two A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, teacher, and Thomas J. Lyons, July 10. 41Feb. 4. After graduating Row area. He was named the nickel and get a joke and some Ingatius High School before grandchildren. research advocate. He will answer some of the difficult questions facing 50He served in the U.S. 1985 Monterey Chamber of personal care in return. coming to Santa Clara. He stem-cell researchers and policy-makers today. from SCU with a degree in com- William N. “Budd” Army in Japan during the Korean Commerce Citizen of the Year. became a lieutenant in the U.S. merce, he went on to become Robert “Bob” Muxlow, June 12. Compagno Jr. M.E. ’67, War, then joined the J.C. Penney He managed Palace Stationery Navy, in 1957 wed Gerry Francis, 62 May 6, 2008 manager at Higgins Shoe Store, A native of Long Beach, he was April 27. A native of San Francisco, Co. and rose through the com- in downtown Monterey for and together the couple raised which was opened by his father in SCU’s ROTC program and then he worked for IBM for 30 years. Michael S. Malone pany ranks to executive vice many years and co-founded three children. For nearly a in 1908, and headed operational enlisted in the U.S. Army. After Following his corporate career, The Significance of the Entrepreneur president of the office of the Office Products + Interiors. He is decade he ran the family busi- duties until the store’s closing completing his service, he began ness, R.J. Leahy, CO., before he he formed his own consulting in American History chairman. He is survived by his survived by Mary, his wife of 51 in 1993. A Napa resident since working with his father in a moved to Oregon and pursued a firm. After his retirement in Journalist and double-SCU grad Malone’75, MBA ’77, looks at the trans- wife of 57 years, Mary Lou; six years; five children; eight grand- formation of the place we call Silicon Valley and takes stock of where we 1982, he was raised in Vallejo family owned business, M&M career as a real estate broker. He 2000 he was able to pursue his children, including Kevin ’87 of children; a great-grandson; and find ourselves on history’s trajectory. A new society is emerging in 21st- and remained active in Vallejo Perforating, located in Taft. He is survived by his wife; their two love of woodworking. He is sur- Costa Mesa; nine grandchildren, numerous other relatives. century America, he says, which has no real precedent in civilization. business and community affairs later ran the business until he daughters, Trish and Sharon; and including Logan S. Ascher ’05, vived by his wife, Leanne; five until his death. He is survived Creaghe Henry Gordon, sold it in 1996 and retired. He is their son, Michael. and Lauren S. Kida ’05; and a children; and six grandchildren. by his wife, Dana; three sons; July 13. He remained active survived by his special friend of All events at 7:30 p.m. in SCU’s Mayer Theatre. Tickets may be ordered online or great-grandchild. 54 William (Bill) Franklin by telephone for individual lectures. Tickets cost $20 each. Students may attend a sister; and four grandchildren. with SCU beyond graduation, 23 years, Marge Bentz; and five Phillips Jr., May 17. He the events for free, and tickets are $15 for faculty. Through a generous gift from serving as an Ambassador, a children, including Catherine 56 Gerald and Sally DeNardo, the lecture by Paul Berg is free, but reserved tickets was dean of students at the member of the Osher Board; and are required. The series is co-sponsored by SCU’s Center of the Performing Arts. Guglielmi ’92; 10 grandchildren; for as a member of the Board of and two great-grandchildren. several years, and spent his For more information, call 408-554-4400. Fellows. He was also past presi- retirement years traveling, golf- ing, fishing, and flying model airplanes. He is survived by his www.scu.edu/speakerseries wife, Joan; their four sons; and six grandchildren.

44 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 45 class notes O b i t u a r i e s Charles Barry Wendall C. Gates M.E. Janet (Lum) Ryder, June Pedro Sanchez M.A., to Yosemite as a young man he I n M e mo r i a m 64’66 , May 26. A native 8421. She is survived by her 68Jan. 19. Born in Fireco, was introduced to photography of Crestline, Ohio, he was a husband, Gary; two sons; and W. Va., in 1932 as the youngest and Ansel Adams. He became a Daniel Germann, S.J. licensed professional engineer sisters Caroline (Lum) Kauffman of 10 children, he served in the student to the famed photogra- who served in the U.S. Army. ’78 and Diana (Lum) Szelong ’81. U.S. Marine Corps from 1951 to pher and held a lifelong passion From the time he arrived at Santa Clara He later worked as an engineer University in 1970, and later through his struggle Kenneth John Green, 54. He relocated to Sunnyvale for photography. Ellis married for Manning Environmental with Parkinson’s disease, Daniel Germann, S.J., never June 29. He was a biology in 1955 and attended San José Judith Tronvig in 1964 and had Corp. before establishing 86 teacher for 16 years at Los Altos State and Santa Clara universi- two sons, Eric and Andrew. The stopped believing in the power of faith and of social justice. his own company, Advanced High School, an assistant golf ties. He loved teaching at couple divorced in 2001. He held When he died Monday, Sept. 24, at the Jesuit Center in Instrumentation Inc. He is coach, and a former high school Sunnyvale High School and, a degree in economics from Los Gatos, he left behind a legacy of love and commitment survived by his wife, Tanya football coach. He is survived by after the school’s closure, con- UCLA and a law degree from that will serve the University for generations to come. Harris-Gates. his wife and a daughter. tinued to work for the Fremont SCU. His varied careers included “Dan Germann was an extraordinarily kind and pas- Kathleen Ann Naughton, Union High School District until time as a sheriff, horse-logger, M. Timothy Inkmann, toral Jesuit who welcomed anyone and everyone into his June 18. She was a retired he retired in 1988. He is survived writer, photographer, educator, 65 July 8. A native of London, friendship,” said President Paul Locatelli, S.J. “His leader- U.S. government employee 89 by his wife, Dolores; three dairyman and hay farmer, and Ontario, he majored in econom- ship of Campus Ministry at Santa Clara built a liturgical and a 40-year resident of daughters; two siblings; seven city manager. He is survived by ics and history at Santa Clara and pastoral program that was recognized as among the Washington, D.C. She is survived grandchildren; and four great- his wife, Kathy Woltring O’Neill; and went on to earn his law best for Catholic universities across the country.” within the University’s curriculum, giving students a by two siblings. grandchildren. three sons; a brother; and two degree from Gonzaga. He was grandchildren. Known for his gentle nature and engaging sense of chance to learn from and develop relationships with people David Edward Stanton M.A., Cheryl Ann (Trinchero) admitted to the State Bar of humor, Fr. Germann was a consummate community- most in need. The project also resulted in many commu- May 20. A native of Houghton, David A. “Hondo” Hardin 67 Beauregard, June 19. A California in 2000 and worked builder. He understood and championed those in need— nity-based learning sites at schools, parishes, and agencies native of San Francisco but as attorney in the Inland Empire Mich., he earned a teaching J.D., April 19. A native 81 from the homeless in San Jose to the destitute in poverty- across Silicon Valley. lifelong resident of Santa Cruz, area for seven years. Survivors credential and master’s degree of Texas, he was a criminal stricken, emerging nations. Recognizing his 25 years of service to SCU and his life- she earned an associate of arts include his 2-year-old son, in counseling from SCU. He defense attorney in San Jose degree from Cabrillo College, a Thomas Victor; his mother, spent his career as an educator for 24 years. He is survived by “Dan wanted people to find God—be it in a liturgy or long commitment to faith and justice, more than a decade bachelor’s degree from SCU, and Connie Taylor; his stepfather, and a counselor in the Bay Area. his wife, Betsy Gebhart; and in the search for social justice,” said Sonny Manuel, S.J., ago the University created The Daniel V. Germann, S.J., a teaching credential from San Parnell Taylor; two brothers; and He is survived by his wife of three children. rector for the Jesuit community at SCU, and, along with Endowed Fund for Ministry and Community Engagement, 49 years, Sylvia; four sons; four José State University. She taught a sister, Therese Inkmann ’95. Richard L. Clenner J.D., Germann, a co-founder of the Eastside Project. “The intended to support the University’s internship programs first grade at Natural Bridges grandchildren; three brothers; core of his work was to meet the needs of other people.” and immersion trips. For his part, Germann also created Virginia Rosalie “Gena” 84Jan. 30. He received Elementary School for eight and one sister. Harris, June 28. She is his undergraduate education Father Germann traveled on one of the University’s the Alumni For Others program—which Jim Purcell, vice years. She was a devout Catholic 96 survived by two children. Bruce Douglas Seaton from San José State University first immersion trips to Mexico, impressing upon students president for university relations, commends for providing and attended both Star of the MBA, June 27. A native of before coming to SCU for his the importance of becoming involved in the world around alumni a “vehicle for helping the needy and allows them Brian L. Rose, June 18. 70 Sea and Holy Cross Church. She Yakima, Wash., he was an engi- law degree, where he gradu- them. The trips, he believed, were critical to the educa- to carry out the University’s mission of making the world is survived by a daughter. He earned a bachelor’s 06 neer, certified public accoun- ated in the top 10 percent of tion and spiritual development of those who participated a better place even after they graduate.” degree in psychology from SCU. tant, and general contractor. He his class. A licensed CPA, he Donald Postelle J.D. ’79, in them. Robert Senkewicz, professor of history at SCU and a He is survived by his parents. is survived by three children. worked as an ERISA attorney for July 12. He received a “Dan’s inclusiveness touched us all in so many ways,” longtime friend of Germann’s, notes, “Dan was known 76 over 20 years. He also traveled bachelor’s degree in political Ronald Brugioni, Feb. 6. the country giving seminars on said Jennifer Konecny ’68, member of the SCU board and loved by generations of Santa Clara students. His science before obtaining a law The 37-year resident of Graduate 74 defined benefit plans and was of trustees. Konecny worked with Fr. Germann in the gentleness, humor, patience, and understanding made him degree from Santa Clara. He Portola Valley received his bach- an accomplished drummer in Campus Ministry soon after she graduated from Santa a Jesuit who had a profound influence upon Santa Clara lived in San Jose. elor’s degree from San Francisco Obituaries a rock band called Crystal Mist. Clara. “The core of everything Dan did centered on his students, faculty, staff, and alumni. He transformed a tra- State before getting his mas- Nicholas Parshootto, He is survived by his wife, Pat; Edwin Jack Zeldin MBA, ter’s in education administra- ability to bring diverse people together and build a com- ditional ‘chaplain’s’ office into an inclusive and inviting 77 March 25, 2004. his parents; and a sister. 65May 31. A veteran of tion from SCU. He taught for munity based in faith and love.” campus ministry office, which was marked by collaboration Dario Jose Sanchez, World War II, he graduated 37 years in the Fremont Union Louise Schaefer J.D., Dan Germann had been a Jesuit for 57 years, 34 between clergy and laity, openness to a variety of religious 83J une 12. A native of from the University of Southern High School district before 89May 14. She earned a years an ordained priest. He was born in Los Angeles on traditions, and an emphasis on liturgy and worship as an Nicaragua, he worked for California, was a longtime mem- retiring. He is survived by two master’s degree from San José Nov. 9, 1929. He graduated from Loyola High School, expression of the community’s genuine concerns.” Summit Microelectronics Inc., ber of the Ionic Masonic Lodge daughters; three siblings; and State University and a law attended Loyola University and the Los Angeles Junior One manifestation of the affection the Santa Clara and was a fourth-degree knight and a 32 degree Scottish Rite two grandsons. degree from SCU. She recently Seminary, and entered the Jesuit novitiate at Los Gatos in community returned to Fr. Germann: He was asked to with the Knights of Columbus. Mason. He owned the Great was a real estate broker in Alan E. Ellis J.D., July 4. The 1950. He came to Santa Clara in 1970. officiate at more weddings, funerals, and baptisms than any He is survived by his wife, Atlantic Lobster Company in Saratoga. She is survived by Los Angeles native was In addition to holding a faculty position in the reli- other Jesuit priest on the Santa Clara campus. Margarita; two children; and Oakland. He is survived by his 75 three daughters, including Kari a retired superior court judge gious studies department, in the 1980s Fr. Germann co- A Mass was held for Fr. Germann Sept. 28 in the a grandson. wife of 59 years, Lorrie; and (Schaefer) LeMiere ’94; and and longtime farmer-rancher in founded the Eastside Project, which became the Arrupe Mission church. Donations can be made in his memory a daughter. three granddaughters. Indian Valley, Idaho. On a visit Partnerships, and is now a major part of the Ignatian to The Daniel V. Germann, S.J., Fund for Ministry and Center for Jesuit Education. The project was established Community Engagement. —Deepa Arora to mutually benefit SCU and San Jose’s Eastside neigh- Read more tributes to Dan Germann, S.J., from friends and Santa Clara borhood. It brought the concern for social justice firmly alumni online—and contribute your memories of Fr. Germann as well. Please visit www. santaclaramagazine.com.

46 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Winter 2007 Santa Clara Magazine 47 after words calendar God and the Culture Wars Coming By J. David Pleins

omehow the Bible always seems to the production’s carbon emissions, December Attractions be at the center of our culture wars. Shadyac had more in mind than “raising Date Sponsor Event Contact Contact Info TheS battle this past summer was over awareness.” He really thinks we should 2 Engineering 17th Annual Distinguished Heidi Williams ’06 408-554-5303 Engineering Awards Dinner Noah’s Ark. Charles Barry do something to save the world! Fundamentalists made a splash as Between Greenpeace and Evan 6 Sacramento Annual Holiday Reception Anny Tedeschi ’97 [email protected] arch defender of biblical literalism Ken Almighty, environmentalists—with 7 San Francisco Fall Quarterly Lunch John Spieth ’06 [email protected] Ham opened his $27 million Creation Bible in hand—scored big points for 7 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] Museum, complete with dinosaurs the planet. 8 San Francisco Service Project: Firefighters Mary Modeste [email protected] going two-by-two on board the maiden But all was not rosy in this summer’s Toy Program Smoker ’81 voyage of Noah’s luxury liner. The culture wars. 13 Santa Clara Valley Service Project: Holiday Dinner Mary Modeste [email protected] dinosaurs, as Ham explains, were “juve- A spate of atheistic-evolution and for Home Safe Shelter Smoker ’81 niles”—small tykes that still left room anti-religious titles were to be found January on the boat for representatives from the on the bestseller lists. Big guns, like 4 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] rest of creation. Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam 16 President’s Office President’s Speaker Series: Office of Marketing 408-554-4400 Since dinosaurs died out soon after Harris, and Christopher Hitchens car- Robert M. Sapolsky and Communications www.scu.edu/speakerseries the flood, according to Ken Ham, one ried on the offensive against religion as 17 Alumni Association 2nd Annual Alumni Immersion Mary Modeste [email protected] wonders why God put Noah to so the source of all the world’s woes. Trip to New Orleans Smoker ‘81 much trouble. Perhaps the most influential of the 17 School of Business 2008 Economic Forecast Business School 408-554-4872 In any event, Ham’s museum gives bunch, Dawkins, of Oxford University, with Mario Belotti Dean’s Office J. David Pleins, author of When the Great the slickest pitch yet to biblical literal- Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary used his book The God Delusion to tar- 19 Alumni Association Annual Pre-Game Pasta Feed Maureen Muscat ’91 [email protected] ism with its six days (24 hours each) of Readings of Noah’s Flood (Oxford University and-feather believers as sloppy scien- 25 School of Business 40th Annual Crab Feast Business School 408-554-4872 Eye on the Sixties the world’s creation—some 6,000 years Press), is Professor of Religious Studies at tists, poor philosophers, and religious Dean’s Office Vision, Body, and Soul ago. The museum lets fundamental- Santa Clara University. militarists. Needless to say, Dawkins 26 Alumni Association Alumni Chapter Workshop Maureen Muscat ’91 [email protected] Selections from the ists appear “scientific” while seeking to MBA ’99 or 408-554-5479 Collection of Harry W. and before it’s too late. Since the and his crowd sound about as shrill as undermine all of modern science’s views Mary Margaret Anderson Greenpeace replica doubles as a hut the creationists who raise their ire. February of life’s development. Feb. 2-March 20, 2008 for hikers, environmentalists are As if to redress the balance, another 1 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] Why embrace the 13-billion-year- of the summer’s featured bestsellers March 29-June 15, 2008 now able to bask in the Bible while 9 University Relations Golden Circle SCU Events Office 408-554-6911 old Big Bang, the fossil record, or the remaining true to their secular environ- came from Francis Collins, head of the The 1960s represent an important period of genome that binds humans to apes, 13 East Bay SCU Alumni Night at John Speith ’06 [email protected] mental creed. Human Genome Project. His book, The the Warriors or 408-554-4888 social, historical, and cultural transformation when for the price of admission the Language of God, seeks to use the best in the United States. Artistically, the decade But environmentalists got more 17 Palm Springs Santa Clara Sunday David Doyle ’60 & [email protected] & visitor can be assured that the first 11 signaled many dramatic changes as well, as than their share of the Bible this sum- of modern science to defend a religious Larry Specchierla ’63 [email protected] chapters of Genesis are all the science belief system that does not fall into the artists searched for new modes of expression. mer with the arrival of Evan Almighty, 23 Santa Clara Valley Join Sacred Heart Nativity Boys Mary Modeste [email protected] This exhibition will celebrate the artistic leg- of origins they’ll ever need to know? biblical literalist trap. at SCU Basketball Game Smoker ’81 a blockbuster with a strong environ- acy of this decade in all of its dynamic diver- Doubtless many put the Creation mentalist twist. In this film sequel to The lone holdout among the sity—including a focus on California artists. Museum on their vacation agendas secularists was the evolutionary socio- March Bruce Almighty, newly-elected con- this past summer, but biblical literalists biologist Edward O. Wilson—himself 1 San Francisco Service Project with Mary Modeste [email protected] A tremendous range of media by artists gressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is St. Joseph’s Family Center Smoker ’81 are represented. Among them: Anni Albers, were not the only ones caught up in the a humanist raised in a fundamentalist tasked by God (Morgan Freeman) to 6-10 Athletics WCC Men’s and Women’s Athletics Department 408-554-4063 Josef Albers, Robert Arneson, Bruce Beasley, Noah’s Ark craze. Secularists also got in household—whose book build an Ark. A copy of Ark Building The Creation: Basketball Tournament Billy Al Bengston, Fletcher Benton, Wallace on the act. called on in San Diego for Dummies provides Evan with the An Appeal to Save Life on Earth Berman, Lee Bontecou, Bruce Conner, Ronald The Greenpeace organization, that blueprint while animals that magically both secularists and biblical literalists to 7 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch Priscilla Corona [email protected] Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, bastion of progressive environmental- Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Indiana, Jasper gather in Washington, D.C., supply engage in a common struggle to protect 8 Los Angeles Service Project Martin Sanchez ’02 [email protected] ism, scored a coup that fundamentalists the environment. Johns, Philip Guston, Jess, Bruce Nauman, the cargo. Despite his family’s initial 9 Alumni Association Easter Bunny Brunch Maureen Muscat ’91 [email protected] Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenberg, Nathan only dream about. They erected a 32- The message in all this is simple: MBA ’99 or 408-554-5479 protests, Evan saves his valley from the Oliveira, David Park, Robert Rauschenberg, foot long replica of Noah’s Ark halfway For the sake of the planet and posterity, misguided plans of local developers. 12 President’s Office President’s Speaker Series: Office of Marketing 408-554-4400 Ad Reinhardt, Sam Richardson, Ed Ruscha, up Mt. Ararat in Turkey to draw atten- we need to lay down our arms in the Paul Berg and Communications www.scu.edu/speakerseries Evan Almighty was not just any old Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, H.C. Westerman, tion to the global-warming crisis. Bible movie. The film’s director, Tom culture wars to at least save the world 13 Phoenix Alumni Night at the Suns John Spieth ’06 [email protected] and William T. Wiley. Greenpeace’s “Ararat Declaration” Shadyac, put his money where his mes- for another round of bickering. 15 Portland Service Project with Mary Modeste [email protected] tapped this legendary religious symbol For more information, sage is. Buying 400 bikes for the cast Now if I could just lay my hands on St. Andrew Nativity Smoker ’81 in an attempt to push politicians past visit www.scu.edu/desaisset. and crew and planting trees to offset a copy of Saving Earth for Dummies. SCU 17 Sacramento St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon Lisa ’80 and [email protected] empty rhetoric toward taking action with USF and St. Mary’s Dick Shanahan ’80 or 916-863-0717 Jasper Johns, Figure 1, 1969, from the Color Numeral Series, color lithograph, 38 x 31 in., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, gift of the Harry W. and Mary 48 Santa Clara Magazine Winter 2007 Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, © Jasper Johns/ SCU OMC-7860 75,200 11/2007 New events are added often. 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