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SUMMER 2012 Magazine The Makers Atelier: Mark Alsterlind ’76 at work. Features Bella vita 14 BY RON HANSEN M.A. ’95. After 66 years, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. He’s imparted to generations of Santa Clara students an understanding of Italian language and culture—and how to live a beautiful life. The sporting life 18 BY ANN KILLION. From when women first arrived on the Mission Campus 50 years ago and athletics was a dirty word—to internationally known programs and penalty shots heard ’round the world. Respect the game 20 BY BRITT YAP. They’ve been national champs and the subject of dreams-may-come- true movies. But in the beginning, they were women who just wanted to play soccer. 32 The Makers 22 BY JESSE HAMLIN. What does it mean to teach the arts—and to create art in all its forms— here and now? By that, we mean here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching out to the rest of the world. Elemental 32 BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM. Fate and design, weather and the story of beauty: painting as a way of life for Mark Alsterlind ’76. Medicine at 13,000 feet 34 BY MIKE LARREMORE ’08. A photo essay from a medical aid expedition in the mountains of Peru. ABOUT OUR COVER 18 Collage by Kelly Detweiler C ontents ALVETTI C OMAIN R Web Exclusives Santaclaramagazine.com carries new stories every week. Find stories organized by channels—plus videos, slideshows, class notes, and much more, including … Y ARR B S LE AR CH Reviving our destiny The SCU Gospel Choir moved the Mission during Gospel Fest 2012. See photographs of the celebration. Y B E COL RAC YG AR /M S DEPARTMENTS HIVE RC 2 FROM THE EDITOR SCU A 3 LETTERS Run, swim, volley, kick As part of our series on 50 years of women on 6 MISSION MATTERS campus, see sports snapshots from across the 31 BRONCO PROFILE: decades: the stars who’ve played on the BRIAN THORSETT ’00 Mission Campus, as professionals, and in the 11 World Cup. 36 BRONCO PROFILE: TARA MACKEN ’08 49 AFTERWORDS: THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN JESUIT EDUCATION CLASS NOTES Y R E 37 STORYBOOK SEASON: THE 1962 M 14 BRONCOS ON THE DIAMOND 39 BRONCO NEWS: H MONTGO ARA THAT COMMON BOND Y S S 42 LIVES JOINED TE UR 43 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS CO 45 IN PRINT: NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI Kenya to Breakers 46 OBITUARIES Sarah Montgomery ’13 organized runners in San Francisco’s fabled Bay to Breakers race to 34 48 ALUMNI CALENDAR help a girls’ school in Kenya. C ontents santaclaramagazine.com SUMMER 2012 From The Editor SantaClMagazineara Volume 54 Number 1 Imagine you are here: E DITOR Steven Boyd Saum It’s a Monday afternoon in May and the Mission Campus is [email protected] bathed in a golden light, dappled shadows on the lawn, L IT E RARY E DITOR the breeze picking up. There’s poetry in the air—and for Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 good reason: Dana Gioia is at the de Saisset Museum. C R E ATIV E D IR EC TOR Writer of verse and essays, former business exec, and head of the Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz National Endowment for the Arts until 2009 (“the man who saved P HOTOGRA P H E R the NEA,” Businessweek called him), Gioia is talking to a room full Charles Barry of students and faculty and staff about what he calls the element E DITORIA L I NT E RNS of magic in poetry, both in the meaning of the word poetry in other Holly Hanbury-Brown ’12, Jon Teel ’12, Liz Wassmann ’13 tongues (akin to enchantment in Romance languages) and in how we encounter this thing in our lives. D EPARTM E NT C ONTRIBUTORS Deepa Arora, Connie Coutain, John Deever, Mitch “Most of us are weighed down by responsibility,” Gioia says. “That’s Finley ’73, Christine Cole Harden, Chris O’Brien, the human condition: We’re distracted, we’re burdened. What a poem Sam Scott ’96, Katie Sells ’13, Heidi Williams ’06 does is arrest your attention for a moment, give you the pleasure C L ASS N OT E S & O BITUARI E S of the language, of the imagery, of the musicality of the form. And Christine Cole Harden, Marisa Solís suddenly you realize there’s something odd about this pleasure, www.scu.edu/alumupdate because this pleasure is linked to a kind of insight … You begin to see A SSO C IAT E E DITOR , S ANTA CL ARAMAGAZIN E . C OM something essential about the world. It could be something small … It Clay Hamilton could be something gigantic. And then it’s gone. That’s the experience of C O P Y E DITORS beauty, the experience of art, the experience of poetry.” John Deever, Jeff Gire, Marisa Solís, The occasion for Gioia’s reading is a publication celebration for the new Sarah Stanek edition of The Santa Clara Review, the student literary journal whose origins Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton as The Owl give it the oldest pedigree of any literary journal this side of the Mississippi. There is new writing from students who hail from South S ANTA C L ARA M AGAZIN E A DVISORY B OARD Carolina to Indonesia; there is photography, painting, and ink on paper. Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing And there is a nod to the past with a whimsical excerpt from the 1874 Owl. Terry Beers—Professor of English Earlier in the day, a poet who teaches at Santa Clara talks with Gioia Michael Engh, S.J.—President about living a life of listening and the role of imagination. “I don’t think Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist of that as a luxury,” she says. “That gives us leaders who can make the Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, best decisions. These are qualities we associate with the arts in highly Marketing and Communications pragmatic ways.” Robert Gunsalus—Vice President for University In Greek, the word poet is, literally, a maker. Yet, in our feature on Relations “The Makers,” conspicuously absent is creative writing—the poems and Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., creative nonfiction, the novels and the stories and screenplays. That’s not to Professor of Arts and Humanities say that writing or filmmaking is divorced from the artistic sensibility that Kathy Kale ’86—Executive Director, Alumni Association animates the other makers who populate the pages of this edition of SCM. Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of Communication But it is to say that we have more stories to tell than we can possibly exhaust in one edition about what it means to make art and teach the arts here and now, and the myriad ways they stretch mind and muscle, and how Update your address and the rest of your contact info: www.scu.edu/alumupdate they summon you to: Imagine. [email protected] Santa Clara Magazine 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Keep the faith, The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2012 by Santa Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Steven Boyd Saum Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara Editor University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500. 2 S ANTA C LARA M AGAZINE | SUMMER 2012 Letters “It was not enough to dig deep enough to prove that you were right. You had to be willing to dig deep enough to find out if you were wrong.” a good sport, as Committee at Santa Clara Eleanor Long taught me glam as a mascot to pay for Ben’s “room and that when doing research, it can be, and a good board” at Alum Rock Stables, was not enough to dig deep colleague for us and to spring for horse trailer enough to prove that you cheerleaders. She got rentals when we conveyed were right. You had to be more attention than him to football games. I willing to dig deep enough we did and certainly “blanket broke” Ben—but he to find out if you were Bucky confidential could get the crowd going. was high-strung and strong. wrong. A lesson worthy to My most fond memory Being Benny probably helped He could tow an entire be remembered in all walks involving Benny Bronco: a her prepare for her job right section of folded, empty of life.