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SUMMER 2016 A basketball court like saint and the St. Clare When meningitis redemptive vision of no other. Page 12 Medal. Page 25 struck campus. Page 28 George Tooker. Page 42 COME TOGETHER

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World Refugee Day. Here, a refugee man stands at the Serbian border. There are now more displaced people on the planet than there have been since the Second World War. One of the organizations that helps hundreds of thousands of refugees is Jesuit Refugee Service, directed by Thomas Smolich, S.J. M.Div. ’86. “We have had the misperception that the typical refugee leaves home and she is able to go back six months later—when the political situation has calmed down or, in the case of natural disaster, that recovery has begun,” he says. “But now people are living in these situations for an average of 17 years.” Those pro- tracted situations mean that not only food, clothing, and shelter are essential; so is education. And education of children is some of the work that JRS continues to do—including inside Syria. “How do you make sure children don’t fall through the net? How do you give people training to succeed?”

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRISTÓF HÖLVÉNYI TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMER 2016, VOLUME 57 NUMBER 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR STEVEN BOYD SAUM

STAFF Editor magazine.scu.edu Steven Boyd Saum Literary Editor DIGITAL EXCLUSIVES Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 Silver and Gold Creative Director Linda Degastaldi Timely features, interviews, videos, When we redesigned this magazine a year ago, we reimagined it on a new Assistant Editor slideshows, unexpected Mother’s scale, literally and figuratively—a place of greater breadth and depth, for sto- Matt Morgan Day gifts, and a Safeway shop- ries big and small. Goal numero uno: something better for you as readers. Stel- Associate Editor, Digital ping cart stuck to a wall with clay. lar work in these pages also draws recognition from around the country and Clay Hamilton Here’s some of the latest. the world. And since we last met, your magazine has brought in more awards Photographer Joanne Lee than any time in its 35-year history.

Contributors Best in the West: a pair of MAGGIE Awards—for the best magazine pub- Michael Collopy lished by a nonprofit or association, and the best design for any consumer Alicia K. Gonzales ’09 Jesse Hamlin magazine period with a circulation above 75,000. Presented by the Western Don Jedlovec Publishing Association in Los Angeles in May, the MAGGIEs have a 65-year Tom Killion Marisa Solís history and recognize the best in publishing west of the Mississippi. Editorial Assistants Best Jesuit Mag: a gold medal for the best magazine at any Jesuit university Grace Ogihara ’16 Eryn Olson ’16 in the country. The Jesuit Advancement Association presented the award in July. Also honored: the SCU Alumni Association for the Young Alumni Soiree; Interns Devin Collins ’17 and the critical work by colleagues in communication during the meningitis Maura Turcotte ’17 Esther Young ’18 crisis this past winter. Read more about it in the main feature in this edition. National Gold: six medals, including a pair of golds, from the Council for Design Consultant Pentagram Austin Advancement and Support of Education—announced in Washington, D.C., in June. The winners: best mag with a circulation over 75,000; best design; best ADVISORY BOARD BREAK TIME Francesca LeBaron ’10 cover (Fall 2015); editorial design and illustration for “Change the Game” (Fall President Michael Engh, S.J. empowers refugees with break-the- 2015), written by John Farnsworth with illustrations by Emiliano Ponzi; and

Vice President for cycle programs so they can get back writing for “The Green Knight” by Christine Long Brunkhorst ’83—her trib- University Relations to living, not standing in lines. ute to beloved teacher Ted Rynes, S.J. James Lyons Silver Design: six awards, including a couple silver medals, from the Uni- Assistant Vice President for Marketing versity College and Design Association—in the premier design competition in and Communications education. Honors: best mag design, best cover (Fall 2015), and illustrations Matthew G. Dewey by Emiliano Ponzi (Fall 2015) and Anna+Elena=Balbusso for the essay “Dr. Assistant Vice President for Jerome” (Spring 2016) by David DeCosse. Alumni Relations DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Digital Silver: In March, our digital edition earned a silver medal from the Kathy Kale ’86 western region of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 The print mag earned a bronze. Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 Michael S. Malone ’75, 4 LETTERS 26 Can’t Thread a Moving Needle International Merit Badge: The Society of Publication Designers (SPD), a MBA ’77 Paul Soukup, S.J. To tackle sexual assault on college campuses, a playwriting project comes big dog in the design world, honored us in May with an award of merit for 6 MISSION MATTERS to the screen. By Danae Stahlnecker ’15 “Silicon Valley Story” (Spring/Summer 2015) by Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA

Where and what ’77 with illustrations by Brian Stauffer. We’re now part of the 51st SPD Design Santa Clara Magazine is 8 NUMBERS Annual, a key resource for pro publication designers around the world. Fellow published by Santa Clara University and printed 28 Mission Critical STILL UNWRITTEN As she graduates, SPD competitors include Wired, Esquire, and New York magazine. on FSC-certified paper 10 AND When three students fell ill from meningitis-causing bacteria—which can It’s been a good season. While publishing awards are a bit of inside baseball, containing 100 percent Eryn Olson ’16 writes six things she post-consumer waste. be fatal—it meant the clock was ticking. And to get through this, it would would tell her first-year college self. they draw attention to the lively thinking and creativity and tremendous work Opinions expressed in take everybody’s help. By Harold Gutmann and athletic brilliance that animates this place. And speaking of baseball and the magazine do not 17 AT We’re partial to No. 5. necessarily represent PHOTOGRAPHY OF MOTHER TERESA FOR COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE BY MICHAEL COLLOPY winning, this Chicago-born editor can’t help but hope: This could be the year. views of the editor or official University policy. 18 QUESTION Copyright 2016 by Santa Clara University. 36 “Where are they taking us?” Reproduction in whole or 22 COPYRIGHT A journal from the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece. in part without permis- By Colleen Sinsky ’10 sion is prohibited. Letters, photos, and stories with 25 EXCLAMATION a Santa Clara connection are encouraged. magazine.scu.edu/ 48 BRONCO NEWS 40 No Strangers Here contact Refugees, home, and work by Ameera Naguib ’16 from Jordan [email protected] 50 PARAGRAPH to Silicon Valley. By Grace Ogihara ’16 and Eryn Olson ’16 @santaclaramag Santa Clara Magazine 52 CLASS NOTES 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 42 The Art of George Tooker 408-551-1840 54 PLUS What we are forced to suffer … and what we should be. By Dana Gioia THE WAREHOUSE Quirky, messy, funky, dusty, rickety, sweltering, Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and 63 FOOTNOTE charming. Former art students remi- at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send 46 Like the Dew that Blesses nisce on all-nighters, paint-covered address changes to: 70 LAST PAGE clothes, successes, and failures as Santa Clara Magazine 500 El Camino Real the Grass they say goodbye to their old friend, Santa Clara University A Mass Elegy. By Brian Doyle the Art Warehouse. Santa Clara, CA 95053-

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2 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE and appealing. I couldn’t let another all that your school has to offer. This Faust ’97, her cast, and crew for cou- ies classes. I took them from Tenny ORANGE BOWL MEMORIES issue arrive without sharing these morning Mrs. Clay shared her copy rageously and skillfully bringing this Wright, S.J. Through the Internet in The spring issue of the magazine thoughts with you. of the spring edition of Santa Clara enormous and painful reality further the 1990s, I reconnected with Tenny brought back memories. Page 61 has Letters Mary G.F. Bitterman ’66 Magazine. We were thrilled to see an into the light. Eclipsed by the events on a regular basis. a picture of a few of the Bronco foot- President, The Bernard Osher article about Francisco Jiménez ’66. of 9/11, the efforts of investigative re- I knew that as a young adult, Tenny ball players of the 1950 Orange Bowl Foundation, San Francisco We would love to supply our students porting by The Boston Globe to uncov- was moved by reading The Confes- and the trophy they won. During the with copies of your magazine. er sexual abuse of youth by Catholic sions of St. Augustine. I knew as a victory parade, when the team ar- The Spring 2016 cover with all those Kelly Alvarado priests was somewhat short-circuited knobby-kneed high school student rived back in Santa Clara, I had the stars grabbed me right away, but Thompson Middle School by these spectacular acts of terror. with a two-handed set shot, he was the articles inside really hit home. I Murrieta, California This film helps bring this watershed coached by the legendary Pete New- had to read the Cepollina story first, crisis-of-faith event full circle and ell. But what I really learned: his love given my family’s connection with Thrilled to oblige! —Ed. gives the topic the credit and attention for movies and the written word. engineering and the stars. My dad, it must have. Spotlight is an essential When Tenny passed away last Sep- Barney Bannan ’42, and his brother, The new format, larger pictures, new primer for all Catholics who wish for tember, I reread his favorite book by Tom Bannan ’23, were SCU-educat- size, and paper quality are awesome, and deserve far better from those who Graham Greene, The Power and the ed mechanical engineers like Cepi. and the double-page Super Bowl 50 hold and guide their faith and beliefs. Glory. Good and bad exist so close to They did work with the Apollo pro- picture at the new Levi’s Stadium, Brent R. Gilliland ’84 one another down the path we jour- gram and were founding members of with the six Blue Angels overhead, is Sherman Oaks, California ney in life. The whiskey priest in the the Vatican Observatory Foundation worthy to be framed. book demonstrates even a coward board, helping the Jesuits build the I can’t believe how the SCU cam- has a sense of duty. In the 1991 edi- Pope’s telescope outside Tucson. pus has changed over time. I used to THREE DAYS’ WORK tion, with foreword by John Updike, Through my work there I’ve met take visitors on tours my senior year, Such an amazing experience every on page vi, that is Tenny being re- a few astronauts and some amazing and now I barely know what is where. time. I can’t wait for Katherine Nich- ferred to. people who get them out into space I lived in the old Orradre Library, it olson ’10 to plan it again next year. Thank you, Tenny. and back home again. I can only seemed. Since then, the El Camino Eric Pelfrey ’09 Bill Kerler ’74 imagine what it was like for Cepolli- has been rerouted and a wonderful San Francisco Grass Valley, California Riding in style: honor of transporting that trophy na to constantly push the boundaries new library built. Melvin Marks ’52 and some of the players in my car. and produce the incredible innova- Tom Burke ’67 Our story in the Spring 2016 edition As an old friend of Tennant Wright, chauffeurs the 1950 I graduated with a degree in me- tions he believed in. Great story! Sultan, Washington (p. 53) on the immersion trip to Baja, S.J., and as a Zen priest myself, it Orange Bowl trophy chanical engineering and went to Then, leafing through the rest of California, strikes a bittersweet note is clear from his printed obituary in and some Broncos work for General Electric Co., and I the magazine, I ran into Mike Car- Speaking of framing pictures: Here’s now. It was the last for Fr. Jim Reites. Santa Clara Magazine, Fall 2015, that who won it in a worked for them for 37 years—35 on ey ’71 and Dan Pastorini ’71. I met a sweet story shared with us recently. Read a tribute to him on p. 63. —Ed. the editor didn’t understand Tennant victory parade. aircraft engines. I was based in Even- them and Mike Pereira ’72 at the A fan of our Fall 2015 cover, featur- or Zen Buddhism. Tenn’s quote “The dale, Ohio, and for 28 years in On- SoCal Alumni golf tournament a few ing Pope Francis, had all of his Jesuit older I get, the more ordinary I feel” is tario, California. From those bases I Comments on our Spring 2016 mag. Write us: years ago—joining classmates Rusty friends sign the picture, then framed it true clarity of the deepest understand- traveled the U.S., Canada, and most Read more, discuss: magazine.scu.edu scmagazine Weekes ’71 and Bernie Clougherty to hang on his wall. —Ed. ing. Stating that he was extraordinary of Europe. @scu.edu ’71. We heard some great stories. in the last sentence misses the mark Melvin D. Marks ’52 Just when I thought this was one As I read your editor’s letter in the completely. Apple Valley, California SUPER STARS of the best issues ever, up pops the spring magazine, I was delighted to Daishin Sunseri ’67 I receive alumni magazines from Ricard Memorial Observatory! Ac- recognize my home county in your San Francisco Berkeley, UCLA, Illinois, and U.C. San- cording to the guys I work with, that star-gazing tales. So which lake’s edge THOSE LETTERS ta Cruz as well as Santa Clara. I am an telescope is old but still an outstand- were you gazing from: Big or Little In the fever of the current political cam- alumnus of Berkeley and Illinois, and ing instrument. Not sure what to do Glen, Lake Leelanau, Lime, Bright, GRACIOUS FR. GODA paign, I was saddened to see two sub- a donor to UCSC, UCLA, and the Je- about the light pollution. Maybe we Little Traverse? Or was it the big As a 1973 law school graduate at Santa missions in your letters column express- suit School of Theology—now JST at should ask Frank Cepollina … A great one...? Do you still visit the Mitten? Clara, I was so pleased to see a note ing narrow and biased perceptions of Santa Clara. I want to tell you this is- edition. Thank you! I now live in San Juan Bautista from Paul Goda, S.J., whom I met our president, Barack Obama, without

sue is absolutely the best I have ever Katie Bannan Steinke ’71 with my husband and sons, one of PHOTO COURTESY NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA) my first year in the fall of 1970, as the any balance on the other side. Like his seen in these five magazines. I compli- Development Director, Vatican whom is a thriving Bronco freshman. opening letter. For me, as a Jew at a politics or not, the man is intelligent; ment you on the choice of articles, the Observatory Foundation, Thank you for “Seeing Stars,” which Catholic institution, Fr. Goda was the has personal integrity; treats others artistry, and the connection to SCU. Pasadena makes me feel even more connected first priest I spent any time with—and with dignity; engages in civil discourse; This is what an alumni magazine to Santa Clara than these first eight I found him to be then, as now, a gra- has maintained an administration re- should be. Keep up the good work! Congratulations on a great new maga- wonderful months have already done. DR. JEROME cious, intelligent, empathetic man of markably free of personal scandals; Karl Pister zine! I’m proud of you! Mindy Scherr I just read David DeCosse’s piece in exceptional character. As a Jew at SC, and has handled with aplomb many Chancellor Emeritus, U.C. Santa Larry Fargher MBA ’65 Bronco Mom the Santa Clara Mag and was deeply I never felt out of place and was always crises. Has he made some mistakes? Cruz; Dean and Carlson Professor Mayor of the city of Santa Clara, moved. My mom is a physician and treated with great respect. Sure. While there is editorial license of Engineering Emeritus, 1964–65 Bingo! Big Glen. Time for a visit. —Ed. shares many same qualities as your Then, unfortunately, I read the two to publish whatever letters you deem U.C. Berkeley dad did. Thank you for sharing. “I hate Obama” letters that followed appropriate, I, for one, would really Recently, one of my colleagues, An- Rose Madden ’09 Fr. Goda’s and wondered why the edi- appreciate some balance when you I write to congratulate you on the gela Clay, shared that her son would SHINE A LIGHT via Facebook tors chose to publish these disrespect- publish letters that are political in tone. splendid job you are doing as editor. be attending Santa Clara University This evening I watched the Acad- ful sentiments. The juxtaposition of I suspect your readership is broader in Everything—the presentation, the con- this fall! Your school has become a emy Award presentation for 2015 Fr. Goda’s letter and the one that fol- scope than those two particular letters tent (I loved your “American Story” on part of our morning coffee conversa- best picture given to Spotlight (p. 54, BLESSED FR. WRIGHT lowed could not be more ironic. and is deserving of balance as well. Professor Francisco Jiménez ’66), tions when teachers relive personal Fall 2015). Well-deserved congratula- When I was an undergraduate, I was Mitch Lyons J.D. ’73 Helen E. Williams J.D. ’86 the letters—is interesting, informative, college experiences and delight in tions are due to producer Blye Pagon MARKS MELVIN COURTESY PHOTO ANNA+ELENA=BALBUSSO. BY ILLUSTRATION required to take three religious stud- Auburndale, Massachusetts Santa Cruz

4 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 5 MISSION MATTERS CAMPUS Who Rebuilt the Mission? Architect Henry Miller was busy in the 1920s with work on campus. And when Cornelius McCoy, S.J., was named president of Santa Clara in 1926, he proposed restoration of the Mission Church along historic lines. Remodelings during the previous century had left the church scarcely recognizable the size of the crowded old art facilities on the southwest side of campus, as a California mission. Then came the fire. and for the first time it brings the studio art and art history departments Faulty wiring was to blame. The fire together in a well-organized space started in the north bell tower of the Mission. (At that time there were two conducive to the making and study towers.) A priest celebrating Mass on the of art in its myriad forms, from etch- morning of Oct. 25, 1926 gave the alarm, ing and welded steel to graphic design and students and faculty tried valiantly and digital photography. Designed by to save the historic building. Alas, the church was totally destroyed—though San Francisco’s Form4 Architecture, students rescued many books, statues, the building gracefully merges the paintings, other liturgical objects, and Mission Revival style of the tradition- one mission bell. That night, the bell rang al campus structures—adapted here the De Profundis for the dead, as it had for a hundred years. with a Pantheon-like dome covered Encouraged by a flood of sympathy in red Spanish tile and lightly embel- and donations, the University admin- lished with Saturn-like steel rings— istration began reconstruction of the with the contemporary materials and destroyed church almost immediately. Rather than a duplication of the church feel of the building’s airy interior. that had burned, the restoration attempt- “We wanted a more functional teach- ed to recapture the appearance of the ing environment but also a reunification 1825 church before its many remodelings. of art and art history,” Detweiler says. The church was again made wider than The old art quarters were charmingly the original because it had to serve as the University chapel. The facade, however, funky but utterly lacking in feng shui. returned to its original one-tower design, Faculty had to go through each other’s embellished with carved wooden statues classes to get to their offices. They of the saints instead of painted decora- called the place the Art and Art History tions. The decorations of the interior also followed the original lines, except that the Animal Sanctuary “because over the patterns on the walls were painted in pas- years we had rats, we had mice, we had tel pink and blue instead of the original squirrels. It had a lot of character but problems. We didn’t brilliant red and yellow. Careful copies want to lose that character and community.” were made of the destroyed Mexican reredos and the painted ceiling. Glass Grace There are spacious new studios for sculpture, painting, Heading up work on restoring the ceramics, and printing; stylish art history classrooms with historic mission was Henry Miller, who Dale Chihuly's Kelly Detweiler stands in the luminous rotunda lobby giant flat-screen monitors on the walls and smaller ones at had a hand in building structures that Persian and Horn of the new Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Build- shared workstations; a new photography studio and dark- defined so much of Santa Clara for Chandelier welcomes decades: Kenna and Nobili Halls, Varsi guests to the lobby ing on the north edge of the Mission Campus, gazing at the room; and a new ground-floor gallery that, at 1,600 square Library, the Seifert Gymnasium, and the of the Edward M. orange-red organic forms and golden tendrils of the Dale feet, is double the size of the hard-to-find old one. Donohoe Infirmary. When the four-floor Dowd Art and Art Chihuly sculpture suspended there in space. The inaugural show will feature art by SCU faculty, as well Nobili Hall was built, the entire student History Building. “It reminds me of underwater life, the movement and the as works recently acquired for the de Saisset Museum with body of Santa Clara consisted of only 300 The 43,000+ square grace of it,” says Detweiler, the painter, sculptor, and long- the involvement of art history students. Also on view will be students; the top floor was left unfinished foot building (lower because of skepticism from faculty that it right) features three time SCU art professor who’s been involved for a decade paintings by Bosnian-born New York artist Amer Kobaslija, would ever be needed. floors designed to in planning the beautiful and technologically up-to-the- who’ll be here for a week teaching. The sixth Mission Church was dedi- support the minute new home for art and art history, which opens for WORDS BY JESSE HAMLIN. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOANNE LEE cated May 13, 1928. From then until now creation and classes this fall. it has served as the University chapel, study of art. used by the University community for It was Chihuly, the celebrated Seattle glass master, whose Masses, baptisms, weddings, and funer- work inspired the love of art in Ed Dowd ’72. That pas- als. Henry Miller died in 1937 at age 70, sion motivated Dowd, a prominent South Bay real estate and a special Requiem Mass was held for developer, to contribute $12 million to the construction of him at the Mission. the $26 million building that bears his name. And he pur- Finding a niche: chased the big Chihuly for the entryway. Architect Henry Works by other artists will appear in a sculpture garden Miller checks out the on the sun-splashed patio to the west, where receptions will view from the spot where a statue of be held, and plants growing on the metal structure screen- St. Clare will stand. ing the garage will make a living wall.

At 43,000 square feet, the three-story structure is twice HISTORY A FROM ADAPTED WORDS COLLECTIONS. SPECIAL AND ARCHIVES SCU AND PURCELL JIM COURTESY PHOTO ’80 RUPP P. TERESA BY WRITTEN

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COUNSEL & TEACH Sabrina Zirkel Deep Impact. What would the Bay Area be without began work as dean of the School of Santa Clara University? Less entrepreneur-friendly, Education and Counseling Psychology in THE WELSH JESUIT June. She comes to SCU from Mills Col- lege, in Oakland, where she served as home to fewer innovators. In shorter supply of associate dean, taught courses on race and ethnicity, and served as an advisor professionals vital to Silicon Valley. And with to the African American Regional Edu- cational Alliance and to STEM STEPS, less economic horsepower. Those are some of the both programs that seek to enhance the conclusions of a 2015 economic impact study— educational experiences of African- American students. She previously which also tracks contributions to R&D, social taught psychology at College of the Holy Cross, a sister Jesuit school in Massa- entrepreneurship, and more. A few numbers. chusetts, and served as a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Research Insti- tute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. At SCU she looks forward to fostering development of the Thriving Neighbors Initiative and the school’s new satellite campus in East San Jose. And she welcomes the opportunity to build the school’s ExCel program (Excellence

Think global: The Meet Dorian Llywelyn, S.J, who He is an immigrant and took his oath Ignatian Center’s began work as executive director of as a U.S. citizen in California. He has new executive director, Fr. Dorian Lly- the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Educa- taught at Loyola Marymount Univer- welyn has taught tion in August. A few things about Fr. sity, and in its fine magazine he wrote, at University of Llywelyn: He’s the first Welsh Jesuit “Like cultural identity, religious free- London, Marquette in more than 300 years. (His most re- dom is fragile and precious … I value University, and cent predecessor was a 17th-century the separation of Church and State Seattle University. martyr.) His first language, Welsh, that should preclude wars of religion. is listed as “vulnerable.” Along with But I also wonder if our comparative English, he’s added a few more, in- tolerance witnesses to a faith that is cluding Spanish (he earned a degree more privatized and indifferent to in theology in Spain); French and its wider implications.” Fr. Llywelyn in Catholic Education and Leadership), Italian; colloquial Arabic, Indone- takes the reins from Michael McCar- which creates pathways for graduate sian, and Javanese (thanks to service thy, S.J. ’87, M.Div. ’97, who began students to earn both an M.A. in teaching in Egypt and Indonesia with the Brit- work in January at Fordham Univer- and a California teaching credential. She takes the ECP wheel from the capable ish equivalent of the Peace Corps); sity as vice president for mission and hands of interim dean Carol Ann Git- as well as Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. planning. tens, a professor of liberal studies, who returns to teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences. O’Brien’s Odyssey In his late 20s, Kevin O’Brien, S.J., realized it was time for a major career shift: from law—corporate litigation, specifically—to the priesthood, joining 8,200 PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL HALBERSTADT. WORDS BY ED COHEN the Society of Jesus. He recounts that in his award-winning book, The Igna- Estimated Bay Area jobs supported The new dean of tian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily by SCU’s annual direct expenditures 150+Successful ventures launched by the the Jesuit School of Life. His Jesuit journey led him to India, Mexico, and Bolivia, and to serve of $474 million. California Program for Entrepreneurship Theology, Fr. Kevin with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Los Angeles and on the Arizona–Mexico (CAPE), part of the Leavey School of O’Brien once had his border. Then to his alma mater, Georgetown—as executive director of campus Apple had more alumni of the Santa Clara School of Law working in Business, since its inception in 2010. sights set on a career its legal department in 2015 than from any other law school. in politics and ministry and vice president for ministry, and to found the Kino Border Im- No. 1 mersion experience, which brings students to southern Arizona to meet with policymaking. Then came a calling for communities on both sides of the border. In August, Fr. O’Brien joined SCU the priesthood. as dean of the Jesuit School of Theology. Located in Berkeley, the school is a preeminent international center for the culturally contextualized study of theology—educating and training Jesuits, religious, ordained, and lay students 43Of all accounting majors who% graduate from Bay Area colleges and universities each year from across the United States and from 40 other countries for lives dedicated come from Santa Clara. For finance the figure to ministry and scholarship. Fr. O’Brien brings wonderful energy and admin- is 42 percent. $1.2Santa Clara’s total annual economic Billion impact on the Bay Area. istrative chops. He takes the dean’s baton from Thomas Massaro, S.J.,

From data prepared by ICF International HILTON KYLE BY ILLUSTRATION LEE. JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHY SAUM. BOYD STEVEN AND '09 GONZALES ALICIA BY WORDS who returns to teaching moral theology.

8 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 9 MISSION MATTERS COMMUNITY Mamitas y Escritoras. Some say that behind every good kid is a great mom. Meet Liz Molina, Juanita Escamilla, Marlen Monroy, and Socorro Madrigal, four women who live in the Greater Washington community of San Jose. They’re a dynamic part of the Thriving Neighbors Initiative, run by SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Recently they were asked: What’s the hardest job in the world?

Third and fourth The question was posed to 35 mothers program. And Madrigal has spent this pilgrimages she made in her hometown of grade students by Juan Velasco, an associate professor summer writing her very own life story. Jalisco, Mexico. (This spring, exercise was designed this mural of English, at the second annual Fam- “Me gusta hacer todo,” Molina says. I augmented by a yoga class led by Erika for the TNI portable ily Engagement Day, held on campus in like to do everything. The mother of three Francks ’17.) Escamilla is also president of PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOANNE LEE. WORDS BY ERYN OLSON ’16 classroom—where May. One woman’s answer: “Ser una buen earned the Thriving Neighbors Leadership the school’s reading club and collaborates the moms spend mama.” To be a good mom. Velasco told of Excellence Award for her involvement with students in Professor Lucia Varona’s much of their time. them that to be a good mom you need to and dedication. The past two years she has Spanish classes. “It’s about knowing each The poppies and take care of yourself first. He handed them led the iPad Tutoring Program, a mothers other but also about them getting to know cacti represent their each a notebook and took them through discussion group, and a lunchtime craft the community,” Escamilla explains. roots in California writing and meditation exercises. Molina, program for girls. She also treats Thriving Over the summer, Madrigal continued and in Mexico. Escamilla, Monroy, and Madrigal were Neighbors student assistants and staff from work on a local air-quality project with already proud moms and community lead- SCU like family. “Building relationships TNI. And she took a class taught by Thel- ers. They learned that day that they were with them has been beautiful,” she says. ma Valadez ’17, a Jean Donovan fellow, also escritoras—writers. Escamilla and Monroy run the Camino on The House on Mango Street, by Sandra “In the process of writing, I’m healing a la Salud health program. Monroy Cisneros. Valadez, who emigrated from my wounds,” says Monroy, who now teaches Zumba four days a week. Esca- Mexico to California in high school, guided writes daily. Molina carries that notebook milla, a mother of four whose 8-year-old mothers through the novel and had them with her everywhere. Escamilla plans to daughter attends Washington Elementary, write their own stories. Her goal: “I want add a writing component to her exercise says the walks remind her of the four-day them to be the authors of their own lives.”

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SISTER SYNC They run in sync, finishing within seconds of each other. They talk in sync, usually completing the other’s sentences. And they have broken records in sync, setting the fast- est 1500m and 5000m times in school history. Mary Kriege ’15, MBA ’16 and Herb Sendek has 39 Grayson Murphy ’17 have been one career wins against tight team—in a sport where athletes opponents ranked compete as individuals. Their coaches in the top 25, in- made them training partners 18 months cluding two top-10 SWEET ago, and they have pushed each other wins in his final two to new heights. On their long runs years at ASU. every Sunday, no topic of conversation WOOD Making a basketball court like no other was off limits. School, family, the team, training. At a meet in early May, Murphy spent the first two laps of the 5000m making her way through the pack to catch up with Grayson. “I tapped her BY MATT MORGAN on the shoulder to let her know we were together now and we could start working,” Murphy says. Shoulder to shoulder, just like in workouts, they MAGIC Every basketball coach wants their players to see the court—front, sides, the fell into a rhythm and came away with whole shebang—no matter where they play. And this autumn, at Santa Clara new records—each breaking Kriege’s they’re going to see a court like none they’ve ever laid eyes on. It’s a tale of previous by more than 10 seconds. In IN NUMBERS wood and shoes, hoops and clubs, brilliant design and a little luck—if luck is May, they also became the first female athletes from SCU to compete in the At his first press conference, new budgets. “We’re going to treat this as what happens when preparation meets opportunity. NCAA postseason in school track and men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek a top-20 program,” athletics director Back in summer 2015, new SCU Athletics Director Renee Baumgartner field history—with regionals in Kansas. said, “Hiring a new coach is great, but Renee Baumgartner says. Sendek was playing in a charity golf tournament in San Diego. There on the course she you don’t perform magic just because has a career record of 413–295 spread spotted Tinker Hatfield, Nike’s vice president for Design and Special Projects. you have a special out-of-bounds play.” over 22 seasons at Miami (Ohio), Hatfield runs Nike’s Innovation Kitchen and has been friends with Baumgart- He was talking about how it takes re- North Carolina State, and Arizona ner for nearly two decades, dating back to her time at University of Oregon. sources, not trick plays, to compete State, along with eight NCAA Tour- If his imposing title or the phrase “Innovation Kitchen” doesn’t tip it off at the highest level of college basket- nament appearances. Lifting the already—Hatfield is a big deal. Very big. Chances are you or someone you ball. A new commitment to athlet- Broncos, who haven’t danced in 20 know has worn a pair of shoes he designed. Not only is he responsible for ics by the University’s leadership has years, will take a team effort, he said. the Air Jordan III through XXXs—the most iconic series of basketball shoes already yielded new locker rooms for “It starts with [University] leadership ever—but he also invented the first cross-trainer and designed the Air Max 1. the men’s and women’s teams, a new and carries right through the ranks,” He even worked with movie director Robert Zemeckis in 1989 to sketch out Bill Carr returns to floor for the Leavey Center depicting he said. “We’re going to lock arms and Marty McFly’s self-tying sneakers from Back to the Future II. You could call GO PRO The welcome couldn’t have the West Coast Con- the Mission Church, and a boost in do this together.” him Mr. Nike. been much warmer for Dani Weatherholt ference after serving Nike has long used University of Oregon as its test market for its unconven- ’16 (above) when she made her first pro- as an assistant tional jersey and sneaker design. Hatfield also designed a landmark basket- coach at San Diego fessional start with the Orlando Pride in ball floor—Oregon’s Kilkenny Floor. In 2011, when that swirling landscape of April. Not only because it was in front of a and San Francisco trees stained into the wood was unveiled, it was hailed as daring and unique. National Women’s Soccer League single- and playing at USF. game record of 23,403 fans or that her It inspired many—and it made some bristle. But there was no denying it was Play to Win distinctly Oregon. team won 3–1, but because she was greeted on the opposing sideline by The résumé of new women’s basketball coach Bill Carr includes a win over Here at Santa Clara, Baumgartner knew the floor of the Leavey Center was former teammate Megan Crosson UConn in the NCAA Tournament and a national championship. Some ex- due for a makeover. It was 14 years old. The logo needed to be updated to ’16, playing for the Houston Dash. planation is in order. The victory was not against UConn’s women’s team, match the return to the new, classic logo for SCU Athletics. But Baumgartner Crosson—the second SCU player which has 10 national titles since 2000. Rather, Carr was an assistant for the envisioned something bigger for Santa Clara’s court than a refresh. to go pro this year—signed with men’s team at San Diego in 2008, when the 13th-seeded Toreros upset the When she saw Hatfield, she saw an opportunity for the program. the Dash in early March before Huskies in the first round. For the last five years Carr coached the men’s team “He is the best when it comes to this. He’s the only one,” Baumgartner says. joining Speranza Takatsuki of at Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, winning a National Christian College “I walked up to him and I said, ‘Hey, Tinker. Would you consider designing a Japan’s first division in August. Goalie Andi Tostanoski ’16 also Athletic Association championship in 2012. In 11 seasons, Carr has a record floor for Santa Clara?’’’ continued her soccer career as of 202–132. This will be his first time coaching women, but he has an experi- He would. He did. Lift the page to see the result. a pro, signing a free-agent enced staff composed ofMichael Floyd, Kristin Iwanaga, and former West contract with the Seattle Coast Conference player of the year Taelor Karr. What’s next? “Our goal at Reign FC minor league Santa Clara is to play for championships,” Carr says.

WORDS BY ED COHEN AND ERYN OLSON ’16. CROSS COUNTRY PHOTO BY DON JEDLOVEC. SOCCER SOCCER JEDLOVEC. DON BY PHOTO COUNTRY CROSS ’16. OLSON ERYN AND COHEN ED BY WORDS HILTON KYLE BY ILLUSTRATION JEDLOVEC. DON BY PHOTO SENDEK PHOTOS. ISI BY PHOTO soccer team in April.

SUMMER 2016 11 12 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE 8 9/16 8 15/16 THE DESIGN Renee Baumgartner confesses that, once she’d asked Hatfield to tackle the design, what started as excitement quickly turned to mild apprehension. Hat- field has a history of nontraditional designs when it comes to shoes: patent leather, chrome, holograms, elephant grain leather, interchangeable midsoles, zebra-print patterns, and infrared coloring. “No one would hire me to do something more normal,” Hatfield says. As the new A.D., Baumgartner was hired to bring new ideas, but she wondered if Hatfield’s design would mesh with Santa Clara. If there’s one thing 30 years in design taught Hatfield, it’s to know what a client wants. Teenagers buying sneakers want flash. Jesuits want something else. “Here we are on this absolutely stunning campus with this wonderful mission-style architecture with these Spanish and Mexican influences,” Hat- field says. It was only natural to ask, “How could we leverage that?” Hatfield started looking at pictures of campus in late September before coming across a photo of the Mission Church. Perfect. He submitted his first design in November and it was finalized in January. “The messaging here is that this is a university that plays sports but it’s also about academics. It’s about faith. It’s about a beautiful environment,” Hatfield says. “I think that’s what we’re trying to say here all in one image.” “He nailed it,” Baumgartner says. “It’s iconic Santa Clara.”

MAKING IT A REALITY Joe Gonyea III ’84 was key in taking the design from a computer screen to the hardwood. Gonyea is partner and chief executive officer at Timber Prod- ucts Company of Springfield, Oregon. The hardwood lumber division of Tim- ber Products is one of the largest gym-floor suppliers in the country and responsible for Oregon’s floor. Gonyea arranged Timber Products Company to donate a shipment of sustain- ably certified A1 white maple from Michigan to be used for the Santa Clara floor. In addition, the Gonyea family—including his dad Joseph H. Gonyea II ’60 and brother David W. Gonyea ’93—provided a gift to make the project happen. Gonyea then worked with two of his vendors, Connor Sports flooring and HY Floor and Gameline Painting, to facilitate installation. Since Hatfield used a photo instead of a logo, the specificity of the colors could only be achieved using a paint and seal mixture, rather than normal paint. This way they could use several layers to find the correct color for each part. The crew didn’t have much time to create the blends, but it had to be perfect. Hatfield flew into Santa Clara to spot-check the colors. They started with a 6-foot- by-6-foot block and, after Hatfield signed off, proceeded to the rest of the floor. “It’s an iconic design that I think well represents our broader community at Santa Clara,” Gonyea says. “It’s exciting to see the reinvestment in athletics.”

“THAT’S SANTA CLARA!” This basketball floor is more than a playing surface. It’s a brand. Each time Santa Clara University plays on television, viewers will immediately know where they are. They’ll see the Mission and learn a little something about the school. “It ties a lot into the Santa Clara 2020 frame of bringing national visibility,” Baumgartner says. “We needed something that’s very quick to the eye that people can recognize.” Everybody sees their court as a chance to market themselves, Hatfield says, but most aren’t smart about it. They simply blow up their logo to fill the court, which is a bit juvenile, he says. Too loud. “This is a unique opportunity to speak about this gem in the valley that is Santa Clara University,” Hatfield says. “I can’t think of a better way to do that but to be simple about it and describe it in the form of a beautiful piece of architecture.”

In 1998, Nike’s Tinker Hatfield was

COURT PHOTO BY RICHARD FITZSIMONS. HATFIELD PHOTO BY CARMEN CHAN CARMEN BY PHOTO HATFIELD FITZSIMONS. RICHARD BY PHOTO COURT named one of the top 100 most influ- ential designers of the 20th century by Fortune magazine. MISSION MATTERS STUDENTS MISSION MATTERS STUDENTS Beyond Borders. Change the world? First you need to identify problems beyond your immediate perspective—then look within to find the solution. This year, four recent grads from Santa Clara University head overseas with prestigious Fulbright fellowships, building on their experiences studying Jesse Caemmerer (left) was inspired on-campus and internationally to solve problems to study abroad in SKATE GREAT Physical strength, Beijing by Professor artistry, and confidence make a skater Eric Hanson’s first- great, says two-time U.S. figure skating facing the world community. year seminar “Poli- silver medalist and Olympic and World tics and Religion team member Polina Edmunds ’20. Her in the Developing training (two to three hours a day, six days World.” Now he’s one a week) includes conditioning and ballet of the first Scharz- practice. The global attention of the Sochi man Scholars. games was intense, but the Olympic village had moments of levity. Athletes got around by bike, but U.S. figure skat- ers were prohibited by coaches out of concerns for safety. Other athletes would ask Edmunds if she wanted a ride on the handlebars. “No, thank you,” she’d say. Her next goal: making the 2018 Olympics ELITE COMPANY in South Korea. “I’m proud to represent the Bay Area, and now I’m going to be Jesse Caemmerer ’14 is one of the works in Singapore as a personal re- representing SCU as well!” chosen few tasked with making the search analyst for Ambassador Barry world a smaller place. Named to Desker, chairman of the Singapore the inaugural class of Schwarzman International Foundation. After Scholars for the master’s degree pro- studies at SCU, Caemmerer gradu- gram at Tsinghua University in Bei- ated at the top of his class at Nan- SEAN REILLY ’16 is on the trail of the pond apple in Queensland, Australia. LINDSEY ALLEN ’16 has seen entrepreneurship spur change firsthand. jing, Caemmerer will engage in an yang Technological University, win- This bio invader, native to West Africa and tropical parts of the Americas, During a two-month stay in Africa as a Global Social Benefit Fellow, Allen elite graduate curriculum that trains ning a Rotary Global Fellowship and isn’t your typical predator. It doesn’t have teeth or claws but can wipe out traveled to 15 East African villages to investigate the social impact of Solar plant species by forming dense stands and replacing native ecosystems. Sister, a clean-energy women’s empowerment enterprise. As a Fulbright Fel- students to work in China’s expand- earning his M.S. in strategic studies. Reilly will assist Aborigine rangers in managing the maintenance of pond low in Morocco, Allen will dig into grassroots work to bridge the gap being role in the world. This program Caemmerer says his goal is to earn a apples. Reilly’s interest in the environment started as recreation but evolved tween policymakers and civic society, helping groups like Solar Sister thrive. was modeled after the Rhodes schol- Ph.D. and pursue an academic career into activism when he learned in high school that “everything wasn’t hun- A Chicago native, Allen studied political science at SCU. After her Fulbright, arship, with only 111 of 3,000+ appli- in U.S.–China relations with an em- ky-dory in the world.” Until his semester starts in Australia, Reilly is help- Allen intends to pursue secondary education—an MBA, perhaps, that will ing assistant professor Hari Mix research water and atmospheric rivers. place her right in the intersection of on-the-ground work and policymaking. WORDS BY GRACE OGIHARA ’16 AND ESTHER YOUNG ’18. THOMAS PHOTO BY JOANNE LEE. CAEMMERER ILLUSTRATION BY cants accepted. Caemmerer currently phasis on security policy. EDWARD ROOKS. EDMUNDS PHOTO COURTESTY POLINA EDMUNDS. MITCHELL WHITE PHOTO COURTESY SCU ATHLETICS In addition to her SIGNING SEASON Three Broncos Udall scholarship, were drafted by Major League Baseball Déjà Thomas was franchises in June—the most since awarded a Global 2010. ¶ Mitchell White ’17 (second Social Benefit round, L.A. Dodgers, 65th overall) The Fellowship—which right-handed pitcher is the highest will allow her to Bronco draft pick since Randy Winn assist a sustainable ’96 was taken 65th overall in 1995. social enterprise in Keep it clean White’s 118 strikeouts led the West Mpigi, Uganda. Déjà Thomas ’17 and her high school classmates rode on a bus through mounds Coast Conference, ranked seventh of trash, smelly and wet with Washington state rain. As their tour guide ex- nationally, and were the most at SCU since 1996. ¶ Maxwell Kuhns ’17 plained the importance of recycling and composting, Thomas could (21st round, New York Mets) A 2016 see the landfill quickly filling before them. “We had been talking All-WCC Honorable Mention, Kuhns about life cycles in class,” Thomas recalls. “This trip kind of made (RHP) set a Bronco single-season it real.” Since that field trip, Thomas has devoted her time to record with 14 saves in 2016, tied finding innovative methods for environmental change. Before for ninth nationally. He struck out coming to SCU, she volunteered with Bellevue’s Environmen- 37 batters while boasting a 2.21 tal Stewardship Initiative, which allowed her to help prepare ERA and holding opposing batters her hometown’s application for the Georgetown Energy Prize. to a .192 average. ¶ Stevie Ber- She has served in leadership roles for several groups at SCU, man ’17 (31st round, L.A. Dodgers) STEPHANIE GOODMAN ’15 was working as an emergency medical techni- CLARA CUSHING ’16 can’t wait to use To Kill a Mockingbird to teach stu- The catcher led SCU in batting including an initiative aimed at reducing energy consumption cian in Kumsai, Ghana, when a boy named Kwame was brought into her dents in the Czech Republic about social struggles in the United States. Or average (.297), on-base percent- NGO with severe brain trauma. His school had collapsed. Without insur- introduce them to California’s culture through John Steinbeck. Helping in campus laundry rooms. For her efforts, Thomas was awarded age (.432), and walks (26) in ance, Kwame’s family did not have enough money to pay for life-saving sur- non-native speakers with English is not new to Cushing, who has worked at the Udall scholarship, which provides $7,000 for research as his junior campaign. The gery, and he did not survive. Goodman returns to Ghana this semester de- the HUB writing center as an ESL tutor for three years. After taking Span- well as networking and professional development. Thomas is Saratoga, California native termined to prevent situations like Kwame’s from happening again. She will ish, Italian, Latin, Homeric Greek, and German, Cushing is now tackling interested in the social and cultural components of environ- tallied 13 doubles, four examine rates and barriers to enrollment in the National Health Insurance the grammatical and pronunciation adventures of Czech as she prepares to home runs, and 22 RBIs Scheme and the effect of insurance on outcomes. “I hope to spread the word teach English in a small town outside Prague. With relatives from the Czech mental movements and wants to advocate for communities through local NGOs, government officials, and physicians,” Goodman says. Republic and Northern Germany, she looks forward to exploring her roots. in 2016. disproportionately affected by these issues. LEE JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHY ’18. YOUNG ESTHER BY WORDS

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NEW ON BOARD Four trustees Where’s Lunch? The question isn’t simply what joined the SCU board in June. Henry J. Gage III ’11, J.D. ’15 is an associate at- you’re putting on your plate—but if there’s anything torney with Richard, Thorson, Graves & Royer LLP. His Summer of ’69 to eat all. If you are among the food insecure, as practice focuses First scandal, then book, now movie: Two Illinois Supreme Court Justices on defense of self- were accused of accepting bribes in the form of stock in a bank that had cor- 14 percent of the population in our country is, insured employers ruption cases before them. The court appointed a commission—with six weeks and public entities to investigate. A dedicated counsel led the sprint; his team prosecuted vigor- you’ve got limited access to affordable, culturally in litigation. While ously. Justice was upheld, and the judges resigned. The counsel who led the appropriate, nutritious, and physically available in law school, he charge: John Paul Stevens. His newly public role led to an appointment with served as presi- John Paul Stevens: the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals and put him on the path to the U.S. Supreme dent of the Student Bar Association bow-tied and low food. So where are you? That’s a question SCU profile, he didn’t Court. One hardworking lawyer on his team: 27-year-old Ken Manaster, who and associate with the Santa Clara deliver a summer went on to a career in environmental law and joined the Santa Clara Law fac- Law Review. ¶ Peter C. Gotcher is an students have sought to help Silicon Valley answer. whitewash in lead- ulty in 1972. Manaster told the story in his book Illinois Justice: the Scandal of independent investor with decades of ing the investiga- 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens. In 2015, filmmakers Greg Jacobs and experience in supporting innovations tion. He retired from In 2014–15, SCU students worked with John Siskel made a documentary based on the book. Unexpected Justice: The scholar Chris Bacon, an associate in digital and emerging media. He is the Supreme Court professor of environmental studies and chairman of the board of directors of in 2010. He’s still Rise of John Paul Stevens aired on PBS last year. Manaster, who was Presiden- sciences, and Greg Baker, director of the Dolby Laboratories. He also serves on alive, at 96. tial Professor of Ethics and the Common Good, has just retired from teaching. Food and Agribusiness Institute, to study boards for GoPro, food security in Santa Clara County. Later Pandora Media, in 2015–16, Bacon helped another group and Jaunt. Fans of of students tackle research on food secu- Pro Tools know his rity in San Mateo County—ranked as one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. work; he founded Hanouf Al Jijakli ’16, George Bunk- Digidesign, which all ’16, Lauren Cloward ’16, and Julia produced the Tawney ’16 embarked on the most recent popular audio pro- project. They collaborated with Second duction software package. He is the Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and father of two recent SCU grads, John San Mateo Counties (SHFB), which pro- Gotcher ’15 and Will Gotcher ’15. ¶ vides food to more than a quarter million Rob Lloyd is the CEO of Hyperloop people each month—one in 10 people. One, a Los Angeles–based startup Their study finds that overall SHFB serves the county well, but 10 priority ar- aiming to commercialize ground trans- eas with potentially high food insecurity portation capable of near supersonic (idenfitied by poverty, unemployment, speeds. He spent 21 years at Cisco, and rental rates) and low access to food where he managed agencies were identified in San Mateo the majority of County. Students tackled two aspects of Cisco’s worldwide food security: proximity and awareness. businesses. Earlier For proximity: Find areas of need not al- he held posts at ready being addressed by food assistance Cisco of executive services. Awareness: Find how information about food assistance programs vice president, could be best communicated to clients. worldwide opera- They compared forms of communication tions, and senior vice president, U.S., and the role of social media. Canada, and Japan. He also served as From interviews and surveys at two president of Cisco’s Europe, Middle distribution sites, they found that the East, and Africa region. He has two best initial outreach is word of mouth, sons at SCU: Andrew ’17 and Curtis followed by continuing the relationship ’20, an incoming freshman. ¶ Gregory through social media. And social media Vaughan is a managing director and was recognized as underutilized—especially on specific types of food being private wealth advisor based at distributed. Geographic Information Sys- Morgan Stanley. He manages a team tems enabled students to map distance that customizes wealth solutions for ARThile ichelangelo may WALL W M have laid on his back paint- and demographics on a spatial plane. entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, pri- ing the Sistine Chapel, Professor of Art Kelly Detweiler “When food banks want to expand in new vate foundations, got quite the workout with a recent project: a landscape areas they can pinpoint areas that are in endowments, and the most need,” says Lauren Cloward. privately controlled mural in downtown Willow Glen, a few miles south of An interactive map has been created corporations. campus. “My FitBit tells me that I did five miles up and using GIS, and it is now available on the down ladders,” Detweiler says. Alongside artist Bill Maul, MAP BY ERIC HANSON. WORDS BY GRACE OGIHARA ’16 He was recently SHFB website. Cloward, who graduated with degrees in political science and named one of the former Silicon Valley Artist Laureate sketched out a environmental studies, has also studied Barron’s top five design for the Santa Clara County Art Commission. The in Morocco, worked in Kolkota, India, investment advi- real magic happened when a team of Detweiler’s former as an SCU Global Fellow, and traveled sors for the seventh year in a row— students joined in for a full Saturday of painting: Kris- to Cuba with the Food and Agribusiness and received the No. 1 ranking six ten (Rieke) Morabito ’11, Melina Ramirez ’12, Clare Institute. She is leading efforts to publish times. He has five children, including Nauman ’11, Armando Portillo ’11, Charlotte Allen ’11, the group’s research in The Professional three SCU alumni: Caroline Vaughan Geographer. ’06, Victoria Vaughan ’12, and Peter Kathryn Fraser ’10, and Luke Bartel ’96. One element Access becomes a Vaughan ’14. of painting in public: You hear from your audience as you problem for people work. “Even the mortuary across the street really liked it more than .5 mile and they are asking us to do something now,” Detweiler from a food assistance agency. says. “There was one guy, I think he was drunk. He said he

WORDS BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM AND DEVIN COLLINS ’17. TRUSTEES PHOTOS COURTESY THOSE PICTURED. JOHN PAUL STEVENS PHOTO PHOTO STEVENS PAUL JOHN PICTURED. THOSE COURTESY PHOTOS TRUSTEES ’17. COLLINS DEVIN AND SAUM BOYD STEVEN BY WORDS LEE JOANNE BY PHOTO MURAL IMAGES. CORBIS COURTESY preferred the brown wall. I told him to get lost.”

18 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 19 MISSION MATTERS CAMPUS MISSION MATTERS CAMPUS Goodbye & Hello. When valedictorian Gus Hardy ’16 was in high school, he wasn’t expected to A life for others go to college. “But on my 90-minute commute to school every day as a high school senior, I would read Santa Clara Magazine,” he says. “It was a kind of inspiration for me.” Shall we talk inspirational? From this student of religion and HIS AND HERS GAVELS In a commencement address to SCU Law political science, the 2016 valedictory address. in May, husband-and-wife judges Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, California Supreme Court, and Lucy Haeran Koh, “Our interactions United States District Court, recalled the [are] the birthplace story of Wayne Kanemoto J.D. ’42, a of friendships, of Japanese-American who received his understanding, of law degree and passed the bar from an love, of loyalty and internment camp. Kanemoto served in intimacy,” Carolyn the U.S. military, worked as a Japanese- Woo said during her commencement language signal specialist, became speech in June. the first Japanese-American attorney in Santa Clara County, and created naturalization classes for new citizens. This year’s commencement speaker, Carolyn Y. Woo, is president and CEO Cuéllar and Koh, both immigrants, of Catholic Relief Services, an organization that’s been helping refugees for de- urged law graduates to build bridges, as cades. Her parents were refugees. They fled communist China to Hong Kong, Kanemoto did, across divided groups. where she was born and schooled by the Maryknoll sisters. She offered graduates a new set of ABCs for life: Be attentive to other people; be brave enough to MINISTERS AFOOT The world and stand up for what you believe; and show compassion. She quoted the theolo- the church are changing. Trust your in- gian Karl Barth, who wrote, “It is not enough to be with the other, we have to stincts, and don’t let the fear of making mistakes stop you from moving ahead. be for the other.” “Many of you are looking to succeed,” she said to graduates. Those were some of the recommenda- “The Gospel tells us … the real measure of everything we have done in our lives tions of Rev. Donald Cozzens at the comes down to: Have we been kind to the person who crosses our path, who Jesuit School of Theology’s commence- is actually sent by God?” She mentioned a conversation with one of her sons, a ment in May. Cozzens, is a Catholic doctor. She asked him how he handled patients dying, and he said, “I have no diocesan priest and author of The problem handling death because it’s part of life. My real question is, did a per- Changing Face of the Priesthood. son ever live?” She said, “The Gospel tells us that to have lived is to have loved, because God is love, and in that journey of living and loving, we meet God.” SANTA CLARA OF THE MIDWEST When Vice President Joseph Biden spoke to graduates at Notre Dame this spring, he recalled that his grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan, who played football for Santa Clara in 1901, always resented Notre Dame. Why? Because Santa Clara football, particularly 1910–30, was called the Notre Dame of the West. “He Her moment: Chiara de Blasio said, ‘Hell, they’re the Santa Clara of the HONORARY Midwest.’” ’16 (center) and Gus Hardy studied My very being here on this very stage is through failing grades and unlikely odds. the Bronco suit. During those days, I proud parents abroad in the a testament to the good that Santa Clara Some of you also knew that if you came remember my heart was stirred by all Chirlane McCray Philippines. He also does in the lives of its students. I came to Santa Clara, you would be the first in the opportunities the University of- and Bill de Blasio— swam from Alcatraz here from a high school for kids who had your family to attend college and would fered—retreats, immersions, chances at the mayor of the to San Francisco. autism. There I was discouraged from have to undergo a level of fear and ap- leadership—all of the ways that I could DOCTORS Big Apple His next journey: to even attending college. I overcame both prehension that I can never comprehend. do what I loved. In addition to an honorary doctor of public service for Carolyn Woo, a pair Missoula, Montana, my academic and social struggles to earn There are some of you in the crowd who Of course, we must not forget why we WORDS BY ED COHEN. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOANNE LEE of honorary doctorates in education were conferred on Charles Geschke, co- where he begins a seat at this University, once I resolved told me how you survived the deaths were here in the first place. It was not— work with the Jesuit with all my heart, soul, and strength in your family, loss of dear friends, and no matter they told us—just to get a job founder of Adobe Systems, and his wife, Nancy Geschke, for their philan- Volunteer Corps. that I would get here. This was always a cancer. Every single one of you had but to learn. Whether in the classroom, in thropic work in Catholic education. Chuck Geschke also serves on the advisory prize—that Mission Church was a guiding challenges and overcame them to walk the streets at an Arrupe placement, or on board for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. ¶ Michael E. Kennedy, S.J., light that reminded me I could do more, through these doors not as visitors, but as the other side of the world while studying executive director and founder of the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative, was become more than what society believed students. in Rome, El Salvador, Germany, or the I could be. I studied hard, took college So to all of the students who struggled, Philippines, we all found ourselves in our given an honorary doctorate in pastoral ministry for his lifelong commitment classes to make up for a lack of APs, fought, and earned a place at this Univer- studies and took courses that changed to people at the margins, including, most recent, incarcerated young peo- drilled myself on speech therapy to get sity, will you say “goodbye” with me? our lives. We could imagine none of these ple who have been tried as adults. Before founding the organization, Fr. over a stutter, and finally ended up here. We each made the life-changing deci- coming in to Santa Clara, and yet we Kennedy was pastor at Dolores Mission in Los Angeles, working with And I knew that I was not alone in this. sion to become Broncos. We all arrived found them here. There are those of you in the crowd on campus and were greeted by a gaggle families whose lives were torn apart by gang violence and crime. who also had a difficult journey just to of passionate orientation leaders and Read or watch the whole speech: even enroll here. Some of you fought one poor, sweaty student in a Bucky magazine.scu.edu PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOANNE LEE JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHY

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Paper, Wood, and Copper. Add ink and make something beautiful on the page. Be- and more detailed copper etchings. First impressions upon a reader came from the printer’s unique mark, hold book treasures from the original Mission Library and the early collection of Santa such as an engraving of the hand of God demanding judgment. Some books were later bound at the on- Clara College, now held by the Archives and Special Collections at SCU. Sold unbound campus tannery. They range from travel narratives of early voyages across the Pacific to prophecies about when initially printed between 1518 and 1803, these illustrated volumes trace the evo- the papacy. Special Collections Librarian Elizabeth Newsom and Digital Initiatives Librarian Tom Farrell lution of the book itself: from handwritten manuscript to movable type with woodcuts co-curated a show of these works in 2015. We saw it and said: “Let’s celebrate the beauty of print in print!”

Left: Pinuum Dasypus, a wild cat, printed in Antwerp in 1635. Below: Dolphin and Anchor Device, a woodcut from Amorum libri II, printed in 1518. Bottom: Device with Christogram demonstrating printing privileges.

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FR. JETT In April, Ateneo de Manila University President Jose Ramon “Jett” Mother Teresa. In her lifetime many called her Villarin, S.J., delivered the annual Santa Clara Lecture. His topic: “The Pope, a living saint. On Sept. 4, she will formally be the Poor, and the Planet.” Villarin was a member of the Intergovernmental canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. Born in Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when DIVEOceanographer Sylvia Earle and computer exec JonathanIN Knowles share Albania in 1910, she achieved renown for her work it received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. a cool title in common: explorer-in-residence—she for National Geographic Given the ecological risks that face us and he for Autodesk. They also share this point of view: The ocean and plan- and the uneven distribution of responsi- with the most destitute in the slums of Kolkata, et Earth need everyone to be an active advocate on their behalf. The Miller “Humankind bilities, he said, how can we overcome a India, where she began work in 1946. Former SCU Center for Social Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with Dana Christensen actually has the sense of fragmentation and insularity? ’83, presented an evening with Earle and Knowles on campus March 2. In a potential for tak- He encouraged the audience to find president and chancellor William Rewak, S.J., ing decisions to pathways of hope and inspiration to help discussion moderated by Miller Center’s executive director, Thane Kreiner, secure an enduring care for our common home. Earle focused on all the things that humanity now knows about the vital role place for ourselves presented her with the St. Clare Medal in 1986. of a healthy ocean and the choices we are making that have placed the ocean within the natural in jeopardy. “Without the ocean, life that shapes the character of the planet ocean-dominated planet that makes could not exist,” she said. “No ocean, no life. No blue, no green … It’s only right everything we care about now that we’ve accumulated enough evidence, and the ability to share about possible.” that evidence, that we are beginning to get it,” she said. —Sylvia Earle

LABOR INTENSIVE As secretary of labor for Bill Clinton, Robert Reich (above) faced the task of bringing the American workforce out of a recession and into a new global economy. He visited the Santa Clara campus as part of the President’s Speaker Series on March 8. “Right now, we separate politics and economics into separate disciplines … Nobody is looking at the political economy. We used to talk about it as political economy. I hope that changes. It’s gotta change, because inequality is getting so large and income and wealth so concentrated that we can no longer simply avoid the subject.”

Poetry Man EARLE PHOTO BY BRYCE GROARK. HERRERA PHOTO BY JOANNE LEE. ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE HILTON. Poet Laureate of the United States Juan Felippe Herrera was back in familiar territory on April 4: on the Mission Campus, EXERCISE DAILY The United States meeting with students and scholars and delivering a talk in was founded in part on religious free- verse and prose on “Immigration, Migration & the Alien Thing.” dom. Many today consider Muslims a grave threat to that principle. Is Islam Herrera first came to Santa Clara in the 1960s and struck up a incompatible with the free exercise of friendship with Francisco Jiménez ’66—“one of my great men- religion? That was a question posed in tors who helped me out at the very beginning,” he said. Herrera a talk on May 18 by Hamza Yusuf, the read verse in English and Spanish, the stuff of community and founder of Zaytuna College—the first compassion, and some call and response—including “187 Reasons Muslim liberal arts college. SCU political Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border.” He laughed, he danced, and scientist Farid Senzai moderated the Saintly Star: Fr. Rewak recalls: She sat down on a chair, looking tired. a charismatic personality; you could not Mother Teresa talks Mother Teresa had come to San Jose for She had just completed a long, fervent help but look at her and notice, quite Q&A, and the program was hosted by Jiménez fielded questions from the audience. He shared that the day with Fr. William a major address in the Convention Center. speech before our own presentation. I clearly, an extraordinary grace of humil- he got the call from the librarian of Congress, Dr. James Bil- the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Rewak backstage. Part of the visit, and ceremony, was Santa walked over to her, leaned over, and told ity. And when she looked at you, she Yusuf’s work to foster an under- When she spoke to Clara University’s presentation of the St. her how pleased I was that we were able looked inside you. lington, asking him to be poet laureate, he thought it was WORDS BY STEVEN BOYD SAUM standing of Islam grounded in a prank. His advice to young writers? “Begin at one, or the crowd of 3,000 Clare Medal to her. So after her talk, with to confer on her this honor, that I hoped She had a nun companion who then empathy and intellectual rigor at the San Jose Civic the three of us at the microphone, Justice it was an honor for her, but that it was helped her up and walked with her out at zero, and then move on little by little,” he said. “If our has earned admiration from Auditorium, she Ed Panelli ’53, J.D. ’55 and I took turns certainly an honor for Santa Clara. to the car that was waiting to take her grandparents could make it to the U.S. on absolutely many—and a death threat was clad in modest reading a script that detailed our rationale She asked me how many students we to the airport. She walked through the nothing, then we can write. They were pioneers, now from ISIS. sandals and a sari. for awarding her the medal. After that have. I told her and then asked if she had darkened backstage, carrying her cloth we can be pioneers, with our words.” Herrera is the formal ceremony, all of us—city officials any message for the students. I remember satchel, and then outside, silhouetted in and conveners—moved higgledy-piggledy this well: She said, “Tell them to keep the light of the doorway. A good memory More from these talks: 21st U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Mexican Ameri- off the stage to the wings. God in their hearts.” No doubt, she had of a future saint. PHOTO COURTESY SCU ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SPECIAL AND ARCHIVES SCU COURTESY PHOTO can to receive the national honor. magazine.scu.edu

24 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 25 Can’t Thread a Moving Needle

To tackle the issue of sexual assault on college campuses, a playwriting project comes to the screen—to reach schools around the country.

BY DANAE STAHLNECKER ’15

ILLUSTRATION BY ANNA+ELENA=BALBUSSO

The film is uncomfortable to watch, intentionally so. Ac- pacts consent. It also dispels the myth that sexual predators tors recount real stories of sexual assault on college cam- are necessarily strangers; many sexual assaults occur with puses across the country with no censor. The details may friends, acquaintances, and even significant others. be jarring, but it had to be this way, says Profesor Michael “So often we hear of studies or news stories about sexual Whalen ’89, who directed it. To do the victims justice, you assault,” says Maren Lovgren ’06, who directed the play have to be truthful. To change a harmful culture, you have for its first two years. “But very often we don’t have the abil- to shatter it. ity to talk with survivors—or in some way experience what “We don’t want to put people into mental or emo- they experienced—so we don’t have genuine empathy. With tional distress,” Whalen says of Can’t Thread a Moving art, we are able to delve into the emotion and not just the Needle. “But we wanted the film to be tough enough, honest logic of the situation.” enough, so that people couldn’t dismiss it.” “With art, The film challenges audiences to take an active role in The project that became the film started almost 10 years we are able to changing the culture that allows sexual assaults to take ago, with nine students, one alumna, and Professor Bar- delve into the place. It calls on all people to examine their behavior—even bara Fraser gathered in the stuffy attic library of Mayer the jokes they make and images they see in movies—and Theatre for a playwriting workshop. The class was a col- emotion and view it as their responsibility to say, This is not acceptable. laborative initiative between Fraser, now associate dean not just the “It’s a social justice issue, something that men need to for the college of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Stu- logic of the stand up and take accountability for,” says Associate Dean dent Life to develop an orientation program for first-year of Student Life Matthew Duncan. “The majority of men students about sexual assault. situation.” do not commit sexual violence, but to what degree are we Fraser and her students emerged from the meeting with standing up against it?” an ambitious vision of how to give voice to victims who Since the details of the film can be troubling to viewers, are often silenced. They spent 10 weeks interviewing more Residence Life coordinators at SCU offer training mate- than 100 people from across the country who were affect- rials and host peer-led conversations after screenings. It ed by sexual violence—victims, perpetrators, relatives, or wasn’t enough to identify the problem—the people in- friends—and from the research Fraser wrote Can’t Thread volved with the film wanted to keep the conversation go- a Moving Needle. The title came from a phrase used by a ing, Whalen says. 19th-century gynecologist and medical officer who insisted While the film is a powerful tool, it is only one aspect of that unless a woman squirmed to avoid unwanted sex, it the support network that Santa Clara offers sexual assault couldn’t count as rape. survivors. That network includes relationships with YWCA The play was performed for five years at freshman orien- Rape Crisis Center and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, tation before the film was commissioned, thanks to a grant as well as others, to offer legal and emotional support as from Avon Foundation for Women. The film premiered at survivors recover. Santa Clara in January 2015 and is now shown at orienta- “We’re attentive to creating a culture where people feel tion in place of the play. Nearly 200 universities and non- that reporting is something that is valued,” Duncan says. profit organizations across the country have used it. “We want people to know about the resources.” Duncan says it is important for Santa Clara to be a leader A QUESTION OF EMPATHY on the topic of sexual assault, and he didn’t want their work The goal of Can’t Thread a Moving Needle was to broaden to end on campus. The film is available for free download the conversation on sexual assault and offer nuance to a from the SCU website (scu.edu/ctmn), and the training complex topic by using real examples. The stories encom- materials are available for other schools to use. pass a wide variety of assaults, from groping on a school “We don’t run from this issue,” Duncan says. “We recog- bus to date rape to violent gang rape to how alcohol im- nize it exists and we’re trying to be at the forefront.”

26 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE Sunday, January 31 Early in the morning in Swig Hall, the roommate of Bradley Sheffield ’19 telephoned Campus Safety. An ambulance was called. Sheffield was taken to the ER of O’Connor Hospital around 8 a.m.—confused, agitated, and with a burning fever. Dr. Brian McBeth MISSION suspected meningitis; a spinal tap confirmed it. McBeth phoned Sheffield’s parents. They headed for the airport. More calls were made.

Christopher Shay | Assistant Vice President for University Operations: It had been an incredibly difficult week the week before, and so I had settled in to an honest-to- goodness Sunday nap after playing volleyball with my daughter. I woke up to an abso- lute panic situation within a 30-second phone call. With a lot of our emergencies you know exactly what you have to do, you know what your tools are. With meningitis, it could go from two people to 200 in a flick of an eye. Patience and coop- eration: Vaccinat- ing thousands of CRITICAL Sean Collins | Director, Environment, Health, and Safety, University Operations: students in a matter There was a lot of anxiety about the unknown because of the severity of the illness. The of days meant for When three students fell ill from meningitis-causing bacteria— mortality rate’s pretty high, even when caught early. And not knowing—since there were long lines—but two to three cases that came about pretty quickly—how widespread this was gonna be. only because a plan which can be fatal—it meant the clock was ticking. And to get to set up a clinic At other schools, they had cases trickle in for months and months and months. Were we was rolled out in gonna be able to nip this in the bud—or was this going to be a much wider thing? less than 48 hours. through this, it would take everybody’s help. A few of the people That set a national Peggie Robinson | Clinic Manager, Cowell Center, Student Health Services: Typically record. More impor- in the eye of the storm recount that week for us. tant, it was the right the Cowell Center is closed on Sunday. We opened that evening so that we could evaluate thing to do. students for what is called PEP, post-exposure prophylaxis, which is a treatment of one Cipro 500 mg tablet. It was obviously crowded, and there was a lot of anxiety and concern. BY HAROLD GUTMANN This is my 16th year here. Certainly we get training, and we learn about these types of things, but I’ve never been involved in something to this degree. I was here when we had H1N1, and we did a lot of different services and a vaccination clinic for that. But this had a whole different tone to it. It’s very scary to think that we could lose a student. In the midst

of our response, foremost in our thoughts was “I hope these students are gonna be okay.” LEE JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHY

28 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE Christopher Shay: A significant number of people had Monday, February 1 needed to gear up for a mass vaccination clinic on Thursday. presented at Cowell, and a lot of our resources were headed Jeanne Rosenberger | Vice Provost, Student Life: Over over there—to hand out Cipro and make sure that everybody the course of the next 48 hours, we had students go to the All three students with meningitis had received the stan- was calm and doing well. It was amazing to go from nobody hospital with symptoms. In some cases they would get an dard vaccination—but this was a different strain of men- at Cowell to a fully operational center that treated over 100 antibiotic; in other cases their symptoms were such that ingitis. The vaccines for it had only been approved by the The president said, “We’re students in a very, very short period of time. That was the the doctors would do blood work and a spinal tap. We were FDA in late 2014 and early 2015. (Misha Hindery had not only going to do this, first real marker of success, that the campus had come alive, constantly monitoring back on campus—Who went to the actually received the MenB vaccine—though the family responded, and we were up and running in no time. ER? What do we know about them? Have their parents didn’t know this until Saturday.) “This is what but we’re going to do this in “With a lot of been contacted? Is there a roommate? At the same time, we need to do; At O’Connor Hospital, dozens of SCU students arrived also our emergencies once the county confirmed that Student A [Bradley Shef- Christopher Shay: Clinics held at University of Oregon this is how record time.” Setting the bar asking for Cipro—and wanting to know what was hap- you know field] had meningitis, they wanted us to go back to the pri- and U.C. Santa Barbara [which had dealt with a meningitis many cots we pening. They were met by Fr. Jeffrey Baerwald. exactly what or week and say, “Where was this student, and who might outbreak in 2013] took two months to go from the deci- need, how many at that level let everybody you have to do, have been exposed?” We kept building out a list, and then sion to hold the clinic to executing it. Whereas ours was: chairs, how Jeffrey Baerwald, S.J. | Assistant Dean, Office of Stu- you know what we contacted students and said, “If you have these symp- On Tuesday we decided we were going to hold the clinic many tables, focus on not if we were going dent Life: It was never frustrating; it was just more of you your tools are.” toms, go to the Health Center.” on Thursday, which was absolutely unprecedented. This is how many to do it, but how. kind of feel helpless, because you don’t have the answers. —CHRIS SHAY, where the story really diverts, from the president saying, screens … not to You don’t have those critical pieces of information that can ASSISTANT VICE Christopher Shay: On Monday we had confirmation that “You’re gonna do it,” to, Okay, how are we gonna do it? At mention all the help somebody alleviate some of their anxieties. PRESIDENT FOR we had one student who actually had it—and there were all that point, we had no logistics, we had no clinic, we had supplies.” Christopher Shay: Some of the emergency planners had UNIVERSITY OPERATIONS kinds of rumors about other students who may or may not no clinicians, we had no supplies, and, most important, we —JEANNE been fretting that it would take weeks and weeks to design Bradley Sheffield’s parents flew in from Arizona to be with have presented at various hospitals with flu-like symptoms, had no vaccine. And we really didn’t have any customers— ROSENBERGER, the clinic. U.C. Santa Barbara went through 17 different de- their son at the hospital. so the situation grew dim. we had no idea whether we would have a hundred kids or VICE PROVOST, signs. That was used as an objection—we’ll never be able to all 5,400 students coming through. STUDENT LIFE pull Thursday off. And I said, “We’re going to use the 17th Michael E. Engh, S.J. | President: We gathered at his Michael Hindery: I told my son, “Yeah, go get the antibi- The president said, “We’re not only going to do this, but design, and that’s the end of the story.” bedside to pray for him and anoint him with the sacrament otic.” We had two students in the hospital by then, so we we’re going to do this in record time.” Setting the bar at that of the sick. He was comatose. It was heartrending to see his were pretty full blown into the response. But 10:00 Mon- level let everybody focus on not if we were going to do it, Sean Collins: In July 2015 there was an Emergency Opera- parents when their son was in such a state. —As reported in day night he calls, and he’s miserable. So it’s like, “Okay, let’s but how. And that switch in an emergency, from if to how, tions Group exercise with the President’s Cabinet, a simula- the Washington Post. go to the ER,” because he had these symptoms. They did a is critical to success. tion of almost the exact scenario: meningococcal outbreak blood test and said he didn’t have it, so at 2:30 a.m. Tues- of the B strain, which is the same strain that we had. The president convened the Policy Group—including Pro- day they sent us home. Even before President Engh articulated what needed to be vost Dennis Jacobs, Chief of Staff Molly McDonald, and done (perhaps in words not quite so informal), those at the Michael Hindery: You can’t do everyone else’s jobs. People other campus leaders and staff who would steer the re- Fr. Jeffrey Baerwald: More than a couple of students, policy group meeting understood: The clinic needed to open have to pick up their pieces, especially as more and more sponse to the crisis in the days ahead—and lead hands-on because their symptoms looked so much like meningitis, Thursday. Now it was a matter of rolling up sleeves to do it. pieces came into play. We had a structure in place. And “Would this work. First the group met by phone Sunday evening, then had to go through a lumbar puncture to get that ruled out. “Ten to 15 people were phenomenal—committed and engaged, and spread, was he in person throughout the week. Some of the work would Some tolerated it well, but it’s a nasty procedure, and a Jeanne Rosenberger: By 1 p.m., County Public Health had percent of passionate about doing the right thing. going to come people that get be on campus and with the immediate community—first through it? good number had really severe responses to it. So a number created an opportunity for the entire Santa Clara response meningitis die and foremost, taking care of any students who were ill. It It was pretty of those families came up to be with their sons or daugh- team to be on the conference call with U.C. Santa Barbara. even if they’re also meant taking care of those students’ families who were traumatic all ters through that. It was Super Bowl week. And so, without It was a little bit more than an hour, but the ability to ask Wednesday, February 3 here—as well as keeping open communication with those hesitation, University housing was provided to families so firsthand questions about logistics and communication treated right Matthew Cameron | Assistant Vice Provost for Student around.”

who couldn’t be here. Then there were the rest of the student that the families would have a room to go back to, a place to ILLUSTRATIONS BY KYLE HILTON and setup and everything you could imagine, that was one off the bat with Life: I got a phone call at home about 7:15 in the morning body, faculty, staff, and parents. And for some working at —PRESIDENT sleep, because hotel rooms were just not there. of the most generous, awesome things—to have colleagues antibiotics.” from Jeanne Rosenberger. She said, “You need to be at a MICHAEL ENGH, S.J. SCU, the stake was personal. say, “Look, we’ve been through this, and we’ll help you.” —SEAN COLLINS, meeting at 8 a.m., and we’re gonna figure out how to open They sent us floor plans for clinics; they had a list of sup- DIRECTOR, up the first meningitis clinic in about 26 hours.” Michael Hindery ’76 | former Vice President for Fi- Tuesday, February 2 plies. That allowed us, by 4 p.m., to have a logistics meet- ENVIRONMENT, nance and Administration: I talked to my son Misha [a Jeanne Rosenberger: At 11:47 a.m. Santa Clara County ing, and then that evening, at 6 p.m., to walk through the HEALTH, AND Christopher Shay: There were about 25 people [in the 8:00 SAFETY, UNIVERSITY freshman] on Sunday evening, and he wasn’t feeling well. Public Health said on a conference call, “We’re confirming Leavey Center to say, “We’ve done everything that we know, OPERATIONS a.m. meeting], two from County Public Health, the rest from But we didn’t connect that with other things going on. the serogroup—serogroup B.” That’s when they told us we at this moment, in order to open the clinic on Thursday.” the University. When people walked in, I had everybody

8:00 AM The bacteria that 2:47 PM 3:33 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM Emails from 8:30 AM Parents notified causes life-threaten- Campus Safety contacts County Public Bradley Sheffield tests positive First policy group Cowell Center provost go out Cowell Center by Office of ing meningococcal Health, O’Connor Hospital, and Cowell for meningitis, waits for test conference call opens for informing reopens for SUNDAY, Student Life on- disease: Neisseria Health Center. CPH recommends that SCU to confirm meningococcal. with campus lead- patient care. students, patients. JANUARY 31 call personnel. meningitidis notify anyone who has had contact with Cowell Center speaks with ers, Cowell staff, faculty, staff, 7:10 A.M. student over past seven days. MD about case. and others and parents. Student Bradley Sheffield is transported to hospital 11:00 AM 2:07 PM 2:36 PM 2:52 PM 3:09 PM 4:00 PM Antibiotics admin- MONDAY, 3:00 PM for what is believed to be istered to students FEBRUARY 1 alcohol intoxication. Hospital calls parents Parents contact Campus Safety Student Life on- Decision made Sheffield is Numerous students to say Sheffield has Sheffield’s contacts Student call phone tree to implement admitted to to prevent spread of 8:00 AM admitted to ER and some sort of infection. roommate to tell Life on-call implemented. infectious disease the hospital. bacterial meningitis First policy group later released. Parents call SCU. him Sheffield is personnel. protocol at SCU. meeting—one of being treated for nine in the week meningitis. to come

30 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 31 scary. At that point, there’s a student in the hospital in a something happened during Super Bowl week, we would said, “You know, I’ve been sitting here for an hour; it would coma, another in the hospital, lots of kids with symptoms, be ready. We asked staff not to go on vacation that week. It have been great to have entertainment. If I bring back my but one of them is my son. just happened that the meningitis outbreak occurred dur- buddies, could we perform?” Absolutely. So they performed ing Super Bowl week, and so I think all of us were prepared. for two hours. They went from design To staff the clinic, scores of volunteers were needed from the and development of a full whole SCU community. Jill Rovaris | Director, Cowell Health Center: A stranger Thursday, February 4 came into the Cowell Center and identified herself as an publicity scheme to rolling Matt Cameron: The first e-mail asking for volunteers Matt Cameron: At noon, volunteers were invited to lunch MD. She asked, “Can I volunteer?” After we verified her went out around 11:30 that morning. I started with people and orientation. I read a children’s book called What Does credentials, I began to walk her over to the clinic. She told it out in the same amount of within Student Life. As the day went on, that concentric It Mean to Be Present? As volunteers, we’re to be present me, “You know, my niece was in line and told me, ‘I am get- circle, like the pebble in the lake, went out farther and far- with the students to walk them through the process, allay “If you treat it ting out of this line, because it is just too long.’ I told her, ‘If time that it took us to build ther. Volunteers came from all parts of campus: faculty, se- any fears. There were people who don’t like to get shots, early and you you get out of that line, I am calling your mother.’” So the nior administrators—but the vast majority were staff from and, at the same time, you can imagine they’re being bom- know what niece said, “Okay, I’m not gonna get out of line.” As a result the clinic, within eight hours. around campus. barded either by the media or by their parents or by peers. you’re dealing of that, the aunt came to volunteer her services. with, okay. But who had been through a mass vaccination clinic raise their Bradley Sheffield came out of a coma Wednesday Jeanne Rosenberger: There weren’t enough needles in people do die.” Jeanne Rosenberger: We had [practitioners] from the hands; of course that was only County Public Health peo- afternoon. the county. We had to have them donated. Valley Medical —MICHAEL Red Cross and from the local hospitals, people who came ple. Then I said I’d like the people who are medical profes- Center donated some; Stanford donated some. When we HINDERY, FORMER in on their days off. We had a nurse from the company that sionals to raise their hands. That was Jill Rovaris and Peg- Matt Cameron: By about 8 p.m. on Wednesday, we were open a clinic, we have to have enough needles. We were VICE PRESIDENT provided needles for the clinic, who happens to be an R.N. gie Robinson. I said, “Those four people are in charge. At full for Thursday shifts and all but maybe six on Friday. so grateful for all of the generosity of all our partners. FOR FINANCE AND When she saw that our lines were getting really long, she ADMINISTRATION any point and time, if there’s a conflict or a disagreement, By Thursday morning, all were filled—96 shifts. The re- said, “Well, I have the credentials; I can help.” they have command authority to make a determination on sponse, the outpouring—it was amazing. Christopher Shay: These vaccines have to be maintained what’s necessary to make this clinic a success.” at a certain temperature, from when they’re created to Jill Rovaris: We counted everyone who came through There’s a saying in the Valley—“one throat to choke.” Christopher Shay: We could have built the clinic and had when they’re dispersed. That has to be monitored all the door. But not everyone who came through the door was You always want to have one person responsible for an ac- nobody come, but the SCU Office of Marketing and Com- way through. We received a call Wednesday afternoon administered the vaccine. Some people were just there for “Those were the tivity. We had to go out and buy all new refrigerators for munications put together a publicity campaign in record that said the 2,000 vaccines we’re expecting in the first moral support of students in line. There was a father who moments when the vaccines, and one person was responsible for that; one speed. They went from design and development of a full day—just in time, delivered to the students—were under was there in moral support of his son—and to make sure I said, ‘This is person was responsible for getting pizzas for the students. publicity scheme to rolling it out in the same amount of question. They’d been held at temperature but some pa- his son got the vaccine. Another student was present with why you’re at time that it took us to build the clinic, within eight busi- perwork hadn’t been signed or dotted. So those had to be some kind of advocate or mentor. It was just really, really Santa Clara.’” Sean Collins: It was a short lead time to get set up. But ness hours. They were on the ground showing us the pro- quarantined, and we didn’t have vaccines for the first day. nice to see such an outpouring of compassion. except for the volunteers, all the other groups were doing —MATTHEW totypes, working on wording, getting it out on the Web and We worked with County Public Health through the CAMERON, what they normally do. Facilities was setting up the fa- ASSISTANT VICE social media, and making everybody aware that the clinic night and found that the FedEx of 1,500 vaccines [for Michael Hindery: At the vaccination clinic, the students cilities. Auxiliary Services was providing food. Emergency PROVOST FOR was ready to go. Friday’s clinic] was going to be delivered Thursday. So we themselves created the environment they wanted. “Why Management and University Operations were providing STUDENT LIFE Bob Owen, the chief information officer, knocked a had 500 fewer and they were going to be late. It terrified be miserable? We’re gonna be here.” That was inspir- some of the other resources. The logistics resources were home run with the Leavey Center. With reinvesting in everybody; we had already told students to line up. “Some persons ing. Thursday afternoon, my son still in the hospital, I’m coming also, and Risk Management was doing risk man- infrastructure throughout the campus, we have WiFi in When we were going to open the clinic on the first day, were just there walking around the clinic, and tears come to my eyes— agement, and Marketing and Communication was doing many locations, but they had not gotten to Leavey. I talked the students were lined up all the way back to the library, for moral because we’re doing this. It was just, wow. I’m sure it was 72 marketing to let students know about the clinics. So we to Bob early Wednesday morning and said, “Is there any and the vaccines still weren’t there. The vaccines finally support of hours of emotion, and fear, and anxiety. But it was mainly, I were really doing our day jobs, focused on this one task. possibility? ’Cause if I have a thousand kids jammed in arrived just in time. We didn’t even put them in the re- others in think, tears of joy. There are 600 people in line, but we were there for three-hour waits, it would be fantastic to have frigerators. We took them out of the coolers, put ’em on that line.” making this happen. It’s just a pretty cool situation—com- Michael Hindery learns that his son is not out of the woods. wireless.” He pulled that off in eight hours. That’s a two- the box, and the first students were allowed to walk in. —JILL ROVARIS, munity does conquer anxiety and fear. year project. But for fifteen minutes, the students didn’t know that DIRECTOR, COWELL Michael Hindery: I thought Misha was okay, and then I there was no vaccine in that entire clinic. HEALTH CENTER Misha Hindery ’19 | Student: I was in the hospital, but be- got a call from him Wednesday morning saying the state Dr. George Han | Deputy Health Officer and Commu- cause of rowing—I’ve been doing it for six years—I’ve built public health people had called, and he had meningitis. So nicable Disease Controller, Santa Clara County Pub- Matt Cameron: The president of the campus student im- up that mental toughness to like, “Pain is pain. I’m going to I left the meeting I was in to take him to the ER. It was lic Health Department: We wanted to make sure that if prov group was in line to get a shot. He came forward and be sick. I’m going to get better.” It’s the same as rowing: I’m

TUESDAY, 7:00 AM Plan 17 in place: 1:00 PM 10:08 PM WEDNESDAY, 10:30 AM 11:31 AM FEBRUARY 2 Student B the proposed lay- Conference call Two additional FEBRUARY 3 Bucky Wants Joint press conference All volunteer 5:00 AM transported to out for the clinic with county public students 8:00 AM You with county public shifts at clinics News vans arrive hospital. in Leavey Center health and U.C. transported to Logistics meeting to protect health. President Engh for Thursday and on campus. Santa Barbara hospital. with SCCPHD yourself makes it clear what SCU Friday filled. is dealing with—and how.

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32 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 33 going to go into some pain for the next seven minutes, and Matt Cameron: The Santa Clara Dance Team, who had —about attending to the individual—provided an auto- then it’s all going to end. So I’m kind of like, “Please don’t just performed at the Super Community Celebration, they matic response of saying, “How can we help you?” That overdramatize this. Let me recover.” Our coach, Jay Far- came over en masse. There must have been 25 of them still was of incredible value, to see that in action—this tremen- well, came to the hospital. One of the priests, Fr. Baerwald, in their dance attire, and they just went through it together. dous care for individuals. It never was about one individ- came from Santa Clara. And then my parents—they were ual’s response to this crisis; it was about this great sense of People put their curiosity pretty great. Though when my mom came to the hospital, Christopher Shay: We moved the clinic three times over wanting to help, of service to the community, of wanting to she was freaking out. I think everybody else was just as con- the next three days, because the different locations were be- contribute in any way. It’s a very strong reminder of what aside—how did it start?— cerned—and like, “Please don’t give meningitis to me!” ing used for other functions. Sunday everybody slept, and it means to be a community: that we go beyond the lan- and instead the focus was: then on Monday we opened it up again in Locatelli Student guage, that we do what we say we’re going to do. Jay Farwell ’94, J.D. ’01 | Coach, Men’s Crew: I’ve made Activity Center. It was an unbelievable coordinated effort. How do we care for the a handful of hospital visits in my time at Santa Clara. From “It’s a miracle Jill Rovaris: The compassion that people had for one Day 1 with these guys, I preach that I’m here for them. They there’s not more Dr. Sara Cody | Health Officer, Santa Clara County: another, and how people were so willing to serve was so community? How do we damage—and know they can call any hour of the day or night. We had a The short amount of time—less than 48 hours between the refreshing. Our personal need to be there for one anoth- a miracle that couple of guys who we thought may have contracted it. Our confirmation of the outbreak and the start of mass vaccina- er helps to shape our identity. During this time, a lot of make the community whole? I recovered so team was quarantined for about 24 hours; they didn’t want tion clinics—set a national record … I am very proud and people put their curiosity aside, such as wanting to know, them coming into Leavey or into training to possibly infect fast.” grateful to think of the talent, dedication and sheer grit re- “How did it start? Who was the student?” Instead people concluded by saying, “I cannot name everyone who contrib- others, and they all needed to get the antibiotic. —BRADLEY quired to make these clinics happen. —as told to CBS News just focused on “How do we care for the community? How uted to these massive undertakings. Many worked behind SHEFFIELD ’18, do we make the community whole? How do I serve?” So the scenes, but all of you demonstrated dedication to the STUDENT Misha Hindery: One of my friends—her sister died from part of my takeaway from this situation is to not be afraid University and, in particular, commitment to the welfare Friday, February 5 to Monday, meningitis when we were in high school. So I knew it to call on people to help because people have a real need of our students. God bless you all for your contributions, could kill you. But when I got in there, the doctors were to make a positive difference in the world. and thank you again for your care. I am so very proud of February 8 like, “You’re going to be fine.” So I had no real reason to you. You are the ‘amazing grace’ for Santa Clara!” Sean Collins: When we finished on Friday, a lot of satisfac- be scared—other than that spinal tap. That was pretty ter- Peggie Robinson: After about two weeks we stopped get- tion and exhaustion. We were really stressed out because rible. I was on morphine for that. ting notifications of students being evaluated to rule out Misha Hindery: I took maybe three weeks off rowing. I of Super Bowl planning, which was already an all-hands- meningitis. I have to admit—and I told Jeanne Rosenberg- “Misha is one would go to practice and sit in the launch and ride along. on-deck event. I spent a lot of time in line, sending stu- By Monday, 4,923 doses of a meningococcal B vaccine had er this—any time I got a message that she wanted to talk to of the toughest But I wasn’t cleared to row, mostly because of the spinal dents to the various vaccination stations when a vaccine been administered on campus. All three students diagnosed me, it like, “Oh, no! I hope she’s not calling to let me know kids I’ve been tap. With rowing, the team is like a family. Everybody station would become available. I had time to talk with with meningitis had been discharged from the hospital. that we have another student with possible meningitis!” around. He wants everybody else to succeed. students, and I never heard a single one of ’em complain, is one tough even though they’d all been in line for two to three hours. Christopher Shay: One takeaway is the importance of in- cookie.” Jay Farwell: When you’re down for that long, there’s a pe- Postscript tegrated command structure when dealing with an emer- —JAY FARWELL, riod of time that it takes for you to get back to where you Christopher Shay: Our RAs had distributed flyers from “After I left the Matt Cameron: If you want to paraphrase something, “It’s gency. Having a group of people that are the policy experts MEN’S CREW were. It impacted Misha’s performance a little bit. But I’ll COACH OMC within the residence halls, but we realized that no- hospital and did about the community, stupid.” It’s about the community and people that are the logistics and execution experts, say this: Misha is not big in stature, but he’s big in heart. body had gone door-to-door in the community, to knock on more research, I and their willingness. They understood the importance; working in tandem is critical. That was critical to the suc- our students’ houses. We wanted to catch the students ear- was like, ‘Okay, they understood that they could drop things or find time. cess. And the second thing: Never, ever, ever plan a Super Misha Hindery: At the championships in Sacramento, we ly Saturday morning and, say, “Hey! Come do this before I have this. And there were a couple of people who literally it was their Bowl on the same weekend as a meningitis outbreak. had a pretty wicked, fast, freshman eight. We were sup- you go out Saturday night.” Many of the students, when I The other guy first month working at the University, and we had people posed to win one race, then we had some issues in the sprint walked up to them, were very congenial and said not only has been in a who had been working at the University for over 30 years. Student Bradley Sheffield went home to Arizona to recov- and one of our guys caught a crab. We ended up second. had they had a shot—they all were proud of showing me coma, and that’s er. He returned to campus at the end of March. “You don’t their arms with their bandage on it—but they had pushed terrible.” Fr. Jeffrey Baerwald: You have to remain calm during think something like this is going to happen to you,” he told Men’s varsity rowing finished 21st in the country in 2016. their friends to go as well. They had taken this seriously. this kind of event and help people, listen to them, be pres- the Mercury News. “It’s a miracle there’s not more dam- Farwell says they have a good shot at breaking the top 20 —MISHA HINDERY One of the houses that I came upon, the students were ’19, STUDENT ent to them, and not get carried away yourself. But I think age—and a miracle that I recovered so fast.” SCU opened up next year. Practice starts mid-September. up on the roof, sunbathing. It struck me that after all the the grace of God was there and really thank God that it all clinics for a second round of MenB vaccinations in early effort we had put in, the students were now safe from the ultimately worked out well, that we didn’t lose anybody, April—since the vaccine requires a second dose. HAROLD GUTMANN is an award-winning writer and editor in meningitis—but in danger being up on a rooftop, so I had and nobody seems to have any long-term side effects. At the State of the University address on Feb. 17, the SCU the Office of Marketing and Communications. Eryn Olson ’16 and to talk to them about coming off the rooftop. What strikes me is that our University’s cura personalis Gospel Choir sang “Amazing Grace.” And President Engh Steven Boyd Saum contributed to this story.

11:00 AM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM FRIDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, Policy Committee Training for clinic Clinic Opens FEBRUARY 5 FEBRUARY 7 FEBRUARY 8 Meeting volunteers 10:00 AM SUPER BOWL 10:00 AM Clinic opens for SUNDAY Fourth day of Day 2 clinic begins

Lines formed before Students who are still wait- SATURDAY, The SCU campus hosts The crisis is over. And clinic opened. 1,485 ing in line Thursday night 2,696 FEBRUARY 6 thousands of visitors for outreach efforts begin for 4,923 There to help: the vaccines when the clinic closes are vaccines 10:00 AM the Super Community follow-up clinics in April total vaccines president, and administered given Fastlane passes to administered Small clinic opens. Celebration (right)— to administer the second administered faculty and staff come back Friday between Students deliver planned months before. doses of the vaccine. to date from across campus 10 AM and 1 PM. flowers for nurses.

34 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 35 takingus?” arethey “Where

A journal from the front lines oftheSyrianrefugee crisisinGreece A journalfromthefrontlines WORDS AND PHOTOS BY COLLEEN SINSKY ’10 CREDIT

CREDIT June 3, 2016. Idomeni was evicted last week. It was corralled into the 17 or so army camps recently set-up in peaceful. Around 8,000 people were herded by riot po- the region. lice onto buses, shouldering what possessions they could It’s difficult for me to write about the new camps. I carry. Some left wheelchairs, strollers, and anything that have to remain diplomatic. We are trying to forge rela- couldn’t fit on the buses. They weren’t given any informa- tionships with each commander to allow teams of small tion or options. Communities were fractured, kids were NGOs access to serve the populations inside. traumatized once again, and the colorful, muddy camp on But these camps are terrible in ways that make me the train tracks that had become home to so many was question any faith I had in the broken asylum system. bulldozed within hours. Basic human needs for clean water, privacy, enough A brave 16-year-old Syrian girl I know called me from food, medical access, and showers are largely unmet. The the bus she’d been herded onto. I could hear kids crying in camps are isolated—rows of army tents hastily put up in- the background. “Where are they taking us? Why are they side of abandoned warehouses in industrial areas. Kids treating us like prisoners? We didn’t do anything.” play on small patches of cracked concrete, food is insuffi- What the hell can you say to that? cient, on-site medical support hardly exists, safe drinking I tried to reassure her. I told her that she and her broth- water is not always available, and electricity and WiFi are ers would be on the bus for about an hour. I told her to a rare luxury. find out the name of the camp where they were being I heard that a hunger strike is planned. They’re hop- relocated. When they arrived at their destination—an ing for more media coverage, but that won’t happen in abandoned warehouse in a distant industrial district— a compassion-fatigued world. The United Nations High I had her send me a “dropped pin” of her location on Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)—in an attempt WhatsApp, and we were then able to establish where to make a political statement against conditions in these “Reading the news she’d been taken. camps—is refusing to go in and provide aid and, by doing about the deteriorat- ing crisis kills you Idomeni was closed hastily for political reasons. It’s true so, “validate” the existence of some of these camps. That a little bit because that these fields and an old train never should have been leaves major gaps in lifesaving services to be provided by those statistics have home to tens of thousands of people fleeing violence. But volunteers. The big international aid organizations are smiles you know, the fact that it was home—and that communities sprang absent, the Greek system is completely overwhelmed, stories you’ve heard, and hands you’ve up, shops were set up, kids studied English, and extended and stuck in the middle of all of this are these beauti- held. ... I don’t think families sat around cardboard campfires drinking tea to- ful, resilient, traumatized small kids who are growing up you ever really leave gether—is a testament to human resiliency. Idomeni was learning how little the world cares about them. Lesvos, or Idomeni, the last place where these refugees were still visible to the Everywhere I go, refugees tell me that they want to go or Zaatari. I don’t think you can ever outside world. Just by existing there at the closed border, back to Syria—that a fast death there is better than this unsee urban poverty in the largest European refugee camp since World War II, slow death in Greece. in the backyard of they represented a defiant demand to be seen and heard. This evening, I did a site assessment for one of the your own city once They were frustrated and tired, but they were free, and worst camps. “We’re treated like animals,” a group of you’ve looked at it with a vulnerable there was a certain power in living en masse. I think that mothers told me through a translator. and open heart. I scared the European Union, which pressured Greece with An old woman with deq facial tattoos recognized me think that’s okay. an arbitrary eviction date—well before infrastructure from an afternoon tea in Idomeni. She approached me, Let what you’ve seen elsewhere was set up to take care of the Idomeni residents. kissed me hello, and begged for insulin. A determined become part of who you are.” We had one day of warning before the mandatory evic- Syrian woman whose husband was killed in bombings at tion began. When the roads to Idomeni were closed, the home gave me a tour of the 12-foot-tall pile of industrial volunteers and journalists escorted out, and the camp waste that lines the side of the warehouse, along with the surrounded by hundreds of riot police early in the morn- outhouses that haven’t been cleaned for weeks. “I want ing, some people refused to get on the buses. Hundreds, to work with you,” she said through a translator. “Can we thousands maybe, are still unaccounted for. Some sleep make this place better?” on the streets of the city of Thessaloniki, some live quietly COLLEEN SINSKY worked as a volunteer assisting refugees on in surrounding forests, and many made the dangerous the island of Lesvos in 2015. She returned to Greece with the push across the Macedonian border. The rest have been organization A Drop in the Ocean this year.

We had one day of warning before the mandatory eviction began. When the roads to Idomeni were closed, the volunteers and journalists escorted out, and the camp surrounded by hundreds of riot police early in the morning, some people refused to get on the buses. Hundreds, thousands maybe, are still unaccounted for. PHOTOGRAPHY BY COLLEEN SINSKY COLLEEN BY PHOTOGRAPHY

38 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 39 NO STRANGERS HERE

Only friends she hadn’t met: refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond

BY GRACE OGIHARA ’16 AND ERYN OLSON ’16

1. THE VALUE OF PI my job? What am I going to do? What is going to happen?” Ameera Naguib ’16 knew that running a Girl Scouts pro- Naguib sat with him in his new home in Fremont until 1 in gram in Jordan working with refugee girls from Syria and the morning, answering questions and offering assurances. Iraq wouldn’t have much to do with Thin Mints. Instead, it After returning from Jordan, along with continuing her led to Raspberry Pi. studies, Naguib began working as leader of a refugee re- While studying diplomacy and policy in Jordan in 2014, settlement team for the International Rescue Committee. Naguib interned for WeekdayRx, a company that consults The IRC, founded at the request of Albert Einstein, himself with NGOs. Through it, she took on a project that brought a refugee, includes as its mission providing relief to people the Girl Scouts program to 20 refugee girls near the capital, whose lives and livelihood are shattered by conflict and di- Amman, where camps hold some 80,000 people. saster within their country. The program emphasized psychosocial goals. To earn For Naguib, much of that work has meant being pres- badges, girls spent weeks learning first aid, gardening, and ent—in person or on the phone, whenever she is needed. art—with some important differences. Art projects were “There were days when they’d call at 2 in the morning on a Abdul Qahar worked tailored to dealing with trauma; for first aid, the trainers Saturday and ask, ‘Ameera, what does it mean that we don’t as an Afghan trans- were careful not to trigger memories of the horrors from have work on Monday?’ And I would say, ‘Well, it’s Labor lator for the U.S. military for nine which the girls had escaped. Day. You just don’t have work.’ ‘What does that mean?’ years. After being a Girls could also earn a badge in computer programming. ‘Who is Martin Luther King?’” victim of a Taliban At SCU, Elijah Reynolds, who teaches Arabic language, The local resettlement team does airport pickups, finds bombing and shoot- encouraged Naguib to apply for a Willem P. Roelandts and homes for families, and helps with applications for jobs ing, Qahar and his family arrived in Maria Constantino-Roelandts Grant supporting STEM and social services—ensuring they get food stamps, medi- San Jose in August projects that foster social good. With funding, Naguib pur- cal benefits, and refugee cash aid once a month. Most of the 2015 on a special im- chased 10 small Raspberry Pi computers to teach girls basic refugees Naguib worked with in 2016 came from Afghani- migrant visa. He and programming. stan. Some came through the Special Immigrant Visa pro- his wife, Nahida, are expecting their third gram for Iraqis or Afghans who helped the United States: child in September. 2. CHICKEN AND RICE as contractors, as translators for the Army, or as cooks for “I am American, but a lot of my family is in Egypt,” Naguib the Marines. says. She grew up in both countries, visiting Egypt most For some, it wasn’t easy to accept Naguib’s role. “They’re SACRED SPACES SACRED summers. The Middle East also feels like home. like, ‘Who is this young woman telling me how I’m going So she understood that it was significant when a tribal to live my life? What is this country? Women don’t actually leader from a village near the Syrian border invited her and do things where I’m from.’” Naguib also had to offer an oc- a friend to shape a program for psychosocial development casional reality check—if, say, “Somebody is telling refugees of village children. The tribal leader’s sister ran the local back in their home country that they’re going to come to school. Naguib and a friend made the journey north—via America with a mansion and a pool, and it’s going to be like car, five different buses, and minibus. They worked with Hollywood, and it’s going to be amazing, it’s up to people the children at the school. And they found themselves wel- like me to tell them, ‘No, just kidding. You have to work comed into a home with six female village elders, listening at Safeway for a few months and live in a tiny apartment to gossip, eating a platter of chicken and rice, and drinking with your family until you can get used to [it]. It’s going to tea from the single common cup. be hard.’” Naguib finished working with the IRC recently. She 3. DAY OF THANKS graduated in June, honored with the Richard J. Riordan Silicon Valley, November 2015. The Wednesday night be- Award for outstanding community service, and took on fore Thanksgiving. A busy travel day, and Naguib was at responsibilities as a team leader on a research project in the San Jose airport for a pickup: a family of refugees from political science. Afghanistan arriving in their new home. As Naguib drove, GRACE OGIHARA ’16 and ERYN OLSON ’16 are editorial

PORTRAITS OF REFUGEES IN BLACK AND WHITE FROM AMEERA NAGUIB’S SERIES SERIES NAGUIB’S AMEERA FROM WHITE AND BLACK IN REFUGEES OF PORTRAITS the father asked question after question. “When do I start assistants for Santa Clara Magazine.

SUMMER 2016 41 “This is what we are forced to suffer . . . Even Tooker’s creative process differed from the methods of his more celebrated contemporaries. The abstract this is what we should be.” expressionists practiced “action painting,” in which paint was dripped, splashed, smeared, or even fingered onto the canvas in a self-consciously spontaneous performance. Tooker meticulously planned his paintings with preliminary drawings, arranging his figures in geometric perspective as carefully as an Old Master. Tooker even The Art of George Tooker mixed his own paints using egg yolks and pigments—just as Giotto or Botticelli did before the introduction of oils. Tooker’s mature paintings were executed in tempera, a dif- Modern life, astonishing BY DANA GIOIA ficult and unforgiving medium. He applied the tempera in and ordinary. tiny strokes, carefully layering the colors, taking weeks or The Subway (1950), months to finish a work. and Lunch (1964).

In 1950 when Abstract Expressionism was all the rage and representational art was declared hopeless- ly passé, a young painter in Greenwich Village began creating a series of haunting masterpieces in a real- istic style. The paintings depicted ordinary people in everyday settings—offices, waiting rooms, subways, cafeterias—but conveyed in a manner that made the scenes seem fantastic, even supernatural. Today these dreamlike paintings would be called magical realism, but that term did not yet exist in English. The artist was George Tooker. Tooker’s work survived and eventually flourished because he had a genius for creating images of mod-

ern life that seem simultaneously astonishing and or- SCHILLER SUZANNE AND J. PHILIP THE FROM FUND, DERBY PURCHASE, MUSEUM OHIO: ART, OF MUSEUM COLUMBUS dinary. In Lunch (1964), rows of office workers hunch over their meals seemingly oblivious of one another. In Teller (1967), identical bank clerks sit listless iso-

lated behind steel-barred counters. In The Subway WHITNEY THE OF COLLECTION TOOKER. GEORGE OF ESTATE ©THE INCHES 36 X 18 BOARD COMPOSITION ON TEMPERA EGG 1950. , (1950), commuters stand, anxious and afraid, in a concrete underworld. Once seen, the paintings stay fixed in the memory. SUBWAY THE Recognition came slowly. For many years Tooker existed on the margins of the art world. The artist was 65 when the first full-length book on his work appeared. He was 87 when he received the National Medal of Arts. Tooker never complained about ne- glect. He was too absorbed by his own contrarian passions. They led him to surprising places. When other young painters followed Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, Tooker studied the early Renaissance master Piero della Francesca. When the leading critics praised abstract formalism, Tooker emphasized con- tent. His central concern was never style. It was the TOOKER. GEORGE OF ESTATE ©THE INCHES 26 X 20 PANEL, GESSO ON TEMPERA EGG 1964. , LUNCH YORK. NEW GALLERY, MOORE DC OF COURTESY YORK. NEW ART, AMERICAN OF MUSEUM human condition. 1930-1970. ART COMMENTARY SOCIAL AMERICAN OF COLLECTION

42 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 43 The Seven Sacra- ments on seven panels: George Tooker’s painting in the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Windsor, Vermont. The church is also home to Tooker’s Stations of the Cross.

Tooker not only shared technique with the Old Masters. and grace. Shortly after the death of Tooker’s partner, piece when the church was rebuilt. In 1980 he finished never the real subject. His paintings depict the trials and He also adopted their metaphysical vision of painting, William Christopher, in 1973, the artist resettled perma- The Seven Sacraments, a powerful re-creation of the redemption of all humanity. “In one kind of painting,” he which tries simultaneously to present both the body and nently in Vermont. Three years later he joined the Catho- Renaissance tradition. Each of the seven panels pres- disclosed, “I’m trying to say ‘this is what we are forced to the soul of a subject. Tooker’s artistic development reflects lic Church. ents a sacrament in contemporary terms. The kneeling suffer in life,’ while in other paintings I say, ‘this is what we the slow transformation of his spirit. His early work ema- Tooker’s Catholicism was both genuine and profound. penitent in the radiant and compassionate depiction should be.’” nated existential anxiety and terror. The intervening years His partner’s death provided the catalyst, but the artist’s of “Reconciliation” is Tooker’s self-portrait. Four years George Tooker never met the critical expectations of the were marked by his struggle for identity and meaning. His conversion reflected his lifelong search for community, later he painted the 14 Stations of the Cross. No Ameri- art world. He was both too far behind the times and too far later work presents mysterious states of rapture, vision, justice, and religious faith. For years, he had followed can Catholic church has more impressive paintings than ahead of them. But history has vindicated his outsider’s vi- Dorothy Day’s The Catholic Worker and participated in this modest parish. sion of the spiritual struggles and consolations of the mod- the civil rights movement. His early paintings contained Tooker’s originality is understated but abundant, ern age. When he died in 2011 at the age of 90, The New subtle Christian themes and symbols, which simply be- though he never calls attention to his own innova- York Times praised him as “one of the most distinctive and came more explicit after his conversion. At his parish tion. What is most new in his paintings is inextricable mysterious American painters of the twentieth century.” By What is most new in his paintings church, St. Francis of Assisi in Windsor, Vermont, Took- from what is most ancient, because the two impulses have then the press was only stating the obvious. er attended daily Mass and helped distribute the Eucha- merged into the same vision. Let one example of his vi- DANA GIOIA served as chairman of the National Endowment for is inextricable from what is most rist. He patterned his daily life on Franciscan simplicity. sionary originality suggest his meaningful newness. Start- the Arts, and under his guidance George Tooker was presented When the church was destroyed by fire, the pastor ing in the late 1940s, Tooker began mingling the races with the National Medal of Arts in 2007. Gioia is the California State ancient, because the two impulses Poet Laureate and the author of many books of poetry and criti- asked Tooker to contribute a painting for a charity auc- in his work—white, black, Latino, mixed. The inclusivity cism, including 99 Poems: New and Selected. Read his essay have merged into the same vision. tion. Instead, the artist offered to create a new altar- is striking. The gesture has resonance, but race itself is “The Catholic Writer Today” in our Summer 2014 edition.

THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS (A CELEBRATION OF LIFE), 1980. EGG TEMPERA ON GESSO PANEL 42 X 132 INCHES ©THE ESTATE OF GEORGE TOOKER. COLLECTION OF 44 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE ST. FRANCIS ASSISI CHURCH, WINDSOR, VERMONT. COURTESY OF DC MOORE GALLERY, NEW YORK. SUMMER 2016 45 Like the Dew that Blesses the Grass

A Mass Elegy

BY BRIAN DOYLE

The way when we are about to say the Our Father every- the moppet and reaches out his hand big as a gentle shovel one hesitantly reaches for the hands of the people on ei- to bless the child, and she is not sore afraid but silent and ther side, people whom they do not know and would never smiling and aware that something sweet and cool is hap- hold hands with so boldly and nakedly in the world out- pening, then I feel the grace like dewfall upon us, and upon side, and the way the people at the ends of the aisles step the toy bear clutched in the child’s arms, and the pianist out into the aisle, with their hands extended, reaching for who looks exactly like Agatha Christie, and the moth who the hands of the people from the other side, and the way is always circling the second light in the ceiling whether it we all stand there, almost swaying a little but not quite, is summer or fall or spring, but not winter; does he or she and the way we all elevate our handholding for the latter sleep away the winter, huddled in the sacristy, or cupped part of the prayer, and then detach our hands, grinning a in the hand of the statue of the Mother outside? little at the fact that we were all just holding hands; and Every single time I drink the Mass I am given a new even the few men who are uncomfortable holding hands gift, if I have eyes with which to see: the sweet old shoes with people they do not know and would never hold propped under pews when the kneelers clank down; the hands with, hold hands with them; and so we are one in shaking hand finding a dollar bill for the basket, an enor- grace like the dew that blesses the grass, like rain on the mous gift from one who has nearly naught; the man in the parched and withered fields. wheelchair in the corner who sings quietly with the most The way the daughter, age twelve or so, shyly reaches beautiful velvety baritone I have ever heard; the woman her arm out and slips it around the waist of her dad, who bent so far forward by illness that the priest crouches and inches closer, as he booms out the hymn, in a voice like a bends to look her in the eye as he offers her the host, at- tractor starting for the first time after a paralyzing winter, tentive and kindly soul that he is; the young woman who and they stand like that, with her arm around him like a always comes alone, but in recent weeks wears an engage- vine around a tree, all the way to the end of the hymn, and ment ring; the father and son chosen to carry the gifts to for a moment I think I have ascended into heaven, and the altar, as alike in visage as twins, but one twice as tall heaven is here, as Saint Catherine of Siena said, and who as the other; the sheer spilling motley bumbled silly holy would argue with a woman who dug graves for the dead, humanity of it all, ancient and ever new, theater and ritual, and who nursed those ill with plague, and who walked meal and story, some of the Words of the Lord written long with condemned prisoners all the way to the brooding before Jesus was born of the teenage girl Miryam, in Ju- gibbet? Not me, brothers and sisters; not me. dea, in the time of Gaius Octavius, later Augustus Caesar. And the way we shuffle up to receive Eucharist, and Ancient and ever new, the same and different all over make faces at the moppet hanging over the shoulder of the world, spoken and sung every moment somewhere on the mother in front of us, so that the moppet giggles, and this earth, in every language imaginable, with every mu- this is a sound of pure ringing holiness, for where there sic imaginable, and every sort and stripe of human being, is innocent laughter there is the Chief Musician, as He is and other beings too, like moths, gathered together to be called in the Psalms; and when we have arrived at the cel- washed by the Mass. Do we take it a little for granted? I ebrant, and he offers the host to the mother and grins at do, we do, for it is as sturdy and available as a table, as regular as nightfall, as free as air; and every one of us has endured poor Masses, triumphant arrogant Masses, Masses that were mostly show and not so much humility and gratitude and food for the road, Masses that were NICASIO merely tinny ritual, rushed through and rushed from; but this morning I do not take it for granted, for it is every day BY TOM KILLION, COPYRIGHT 2011 Do we take it a little for granted? extraordinary, did we see it with the eyes in our innermost hearts; for it is of us and for us, a grace like rain on the I do, we do, for it is as sturdy and parched and withered grass. available as a table, as regular as BRIAN DOYLE is the editor of Portland Magazine. He is the author of books of essays and fiction including, most recent, the novel nightfall, as free as air. Martin Marten. In our Fall 2015 edition, you might have seen his essay on basketball great Steve Nash ’96, “A Wild Generosity.”

46 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE BRONCO NEWS ATHLETICS Confidence Is Key. Ask Kelly Rickon Mitchell ’81: Cut by the 1982 U.S. women’s rowing team, she won a silver medal in ’84. Or coach Dick Davey: After a 25-point run by Arizona, he pulled

SCU ALUMNI NEAR AND FAR off the biggest upset in NCAA tournament history. Randy Winn ’96 walked on to SCU’s basket- going to a game. That’s how ball and baseball teams. Leslie Osborne ’05 tried Elna and I met. She was taking classes at San Jose State. to commit to SCU before she even had an offer. We got married in 1940 and we were together 70 years. I went to work for United Pacific Insurance and to law school at Golden Gate Uni- versity at night. Then the war came. I joined the Army. I was in New Guinea and the Philippines with the 743rd Anti-Aircraft Battalion. I was a master sergeant when I was discharged in ’46. I went to work as an attorney, and I did that until 2002, when I fell and broke my hip. Elna said, “Okay, you’ve got to retire.” We lived in San Francisco and later raised our family in Palo Alto. Of course, I could speak Italian, and growing up, learned Spanish and Portuguese. That helped in my law practice, being able to talk to clients who were new to the country. Sometimes they weren’t able to pay Santa Clara 101 in cash. They would pay with what they had: ravioli, as- Goat cart: John paragus, string beans, a pannetone. So that’s what we’d My name is John Filippi, Class of ’38, and this Novem- Filippi in Hanford, have for dinner. ber I will celebrate my 101st birthday. I was the first in my California, circa There’s a big stone brick in front of the Mission—the 1920. Below: A grand family to go to college. My parents were from Italy—my reunion indeed— stagecoach stop. When the kids were little we took them father was 3 or 4 when he came over, and my mother was 75 years since to the Mission and planted them on that brick. With all of graduation, with

born on the way, when the ship stopped off in Buenos Ai- the kids it stuck: Judy Bishop ’69, Dana Filippi ’72, and WORDS AS TOLD TO STEVEN BOYD SAUM. PHOTOS COURTESY THE JOHN FILIPPI FAMILY res, and then she came to America. congratulations from Lynn Momboisse ’79. Dana met his wife at Santa Clara— Chancellor William I grew up in Hanford, California, where my parents Rewak, S.J. Sharon Filippi ’73—and Lynn met her husband there— had a small farm and fruit stand, and they went Mike Momboisse ’79. With three of the grandkids into the garbage business. They couldn’t speak that brick stuck, too: Ellie Bishop Dexheimer ’07, English but they knew what people needed. Robin Momboisse ’07, and Richard Momboisse Each of this year’s Santa Clara University Davey guided the Broncos for 15 played pro ball 13 seasons, most notably Hall of Fame My uncle Pete first brought me to Santa Clara. ’10. Ellie met her husband, Dan Dexheimer, when Athletics Hall of Fame inductees faced seasons, posting a 251–190 record (.569) with the San Francisco Giants, and he inductees were hon- We stopped by the Mission Church and I got out he was teaching at SCU. Richard met his wife, Me- obstacles throughout their careers but and leading the team to three NCAA hit .284 with 110 home runs and 662 ored at the Red and and walked right up those steps and blessed myself lissa Heinrich Momboisse ’10, when they danced found strength within to persevere. They Tournament appearances (1993–96). He RBIs. (See magazine.scu.edu for a story White celebration and went on in. I just fell in love with the place. together performing in a theatre production at SCU. bet on themselves and made history. led Santa Clara to three regular season on his latest work for the BAT charity.) May 21. Including Mitchell was a two-time member of conference titles (1995–97), four 20-win Osborne is one of the most decorated the class of 2016, I played intramural baseball, and Fr. Gianera My grandkids call me “Nonno.” the U.S. Olympic women’s rowing team. campaigns, and nine seasons finishing athletes in school history, earning first there are now 251 practiced with us. I love music, and first thing I Elna died in 2010. Last spring I took the Honor She was awarded a Congressional gold in the top three of the WCC. He also team All-American honors three times Broncos who carry did was get in touch with the music teacher, and Flight—part of a group of World War II veterans medal for the boycotted 1980 Olympic earned Coach of the Year honors four and winning the 2004 Honda Award as that distinction. that was the beginning of the Santa Clara swing were flown from California to Washington, D.C., to Summer games and went on to become times and is a beloved member of the the nation’s top women’s soccer player. the captain of the 1984 Olympic team, University community. Before going pro, she was a two-time band. I could play the coronet and accordion. We see the monuments. Then for my 100th birthday helping the American men claim the sil- Winn was a two-sport standout at WCC Player of the Year (2003–04) and played Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw and the we had a few parties. President Michael Engh, S.J. ver medal as coxswain. During her junior Santa Clara but made his mark profes- instrumental in leading the Broncos to Dorsey brothers. And we played Santa Clara foot- came to visit and that was a special honor. season at SCU, she was coxswain for the sionally in baseball. As an outfielder he the 2001 National Championship. Her ball games—that was the hot ticket in town. What’s also nice: I’ve made it to every one of my U.S. women’s team that placed sixth at helped guide the Broncos to the 1994 jersey is one of only four to be retired by From the street car once, I saw a girl who lived Santa Clara reunions except for two. Like I said, I the 1979 World Championships. She also NCAA Tournament and a first-place Santa Clara, and she was inducted into ran cross-country. finish in the West Coast Conference. He the WCC Hall of Honor in 2014. right off The Alameda. I saw her again on the train just saw the Mission and fell in love. MORGAN MATT BY WORDS MCCABE. SEAN BY ILLUSTRATION

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Speaking Their Peace. You’ve been silenced by the ALUMNI EVENTS trauma of conflict, gagged by fear and conformity in A FINE TIME Vintage Santa Clara, STERLING BRONCOS the Alumni Association’s signature a troubled land, or muted by the world’s indifference. food and wine festival, will be held in the Mission Gardens on Sept. 11. Enjoy When you have the chance to be heard at last, what live music and support alumni vintners and restaurateurs while benefiting the would you say? That’s what Colette Rausch J.D. ’90 Alumni Family Scholarship Program. Tickets were snapped up in early Au- sought to answer—through interviews with 80 people gust. Will we see you there? in 11 countries, from Iraq to Burma to Peru, from Yemen to Nicaragua to Nepal.

Undeterrable Bill 2016 Locatelli Award: Peggy Bradshaw ’72 was never allowed to cook when Scilacci ’44, win- Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 joined her for dinner. She opened the door and he ner of the Ban- nan Award, and took over the kitchen. It was a special friendship indeed. As much as Brad- OUR NEWEST BRONCOS Join Peggy Bradshaw ’72, shaw respected the work Locatelli did transforming the University, she equally current students and other alumni for honored with the admired his character. Bradshaw kept this in mind throughout her 30 years Welcome Weekend 2016. Help answer Locatelli Award. as a leader in Silicon Valley banking. At Comerica she headed the Personal Fi- questions, share your SCU experiences, nancial Services and Small Business Banking Divisions. She also served on the and give new students and parents Alumni Association board and became the second woman named president of insight on life at SCU. Receptions begin the association in 1990. ¶ Bannan Award: For Bill Scilacci ’44, nothing got in Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m., following the Wel- the way of education. Not a war—or a rejection letter. When Bill returned from come Weekend Presidential address. World War II, he applied to Stanford’s business school but was denied. Unde- terred, he showed up the first day and talked his way in. Scilacci’s salesmanship came in handy running his family furniture business and proved valuable for SCU. He served on councils, committees, boards—and as President of the Alum- ni Association during the capital campaign in 1983, helped raise $125 million.

GRAND REUNION WEEKEND Love & Service Renew your connection with the Rick Georgetti (be- The Ignatian Award winners for Bronco family at Grand Reunion low) played football 2016: Rick Giorgetti ’70 and his wife, Weekend, Oct. 6–9. Choose from a at SCU—and met Terry Giorgetti ’71, were committed wide variety of events with something his partner for life. for everyone. Classes celebrating a Right: Judge Terry to service, right from the start. Early reunion year—that’s all the 1’s and 6’s dons his robes. in their marriage, before they could in 2016—are invited to a special donate money, the couple offered celebration for their class. The time, talent, and leadership. It’s a only rules for Grand Reunion simple idea but not always easy to do. PHOTOGRAPHY BY LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY are to show up and have fun. As an accomplished CPA, Rick pro- June 1998: A refugee The result is Speaking Their Peace: Per- nationals alike, expressing their personal and they took him. He went to his father Your Alumni Association vided crucial assistance in fundrais- child from Kosovo sonal Stories from the Frontlines of War experiences, fears, and hopes.” in the field. My husband told the Serbs takes care of the rest. checks his bag while and Peace (Roaring Forties Press), which that our son was young, so why were they ing to many Catholic organizations, waiting with a carries a foreword from the Dalai Lama. Here is one heartbreaking story from taking him. He was beaten by one of the nonprofits, and schools. He’s been an group of refugees for Why undertake such a book? Rausch is Faze Idrizi in Junik, Kosovo. paramilitary soldiers. enthusiastic supporter of SCU’s Bron- a truck to take them the associate vice president for gover- My husband, me, and our three sons After four years, the remains of my son co Bench Foundation. In the Founda- to Albania. nance, law, and society at the United ages 15, 13, and 10 were in the convoy of were found … The remains of my husband tion’s 54-year history, the program’s Courts in Santa Clara County in 1994. States Institute of Peace in Washington, tractors and vehicles that was traveling were found six months later. D.C. She has spent two decades trying to to the Albanian border. We were stopped I always think of him. Someone asked endowment has grown to more than Judge Terry’s court gained state and build systems that bolster justice, secu- by the Serbian military, who took the men me, why are you still dressed in black? I $25 million, dispensing over $50 mil- national recognition for its innova- rity, and rule of law in countries emerging and boys aside. told her I will never dress in other colors. lion in support to student athletes. ¶ tive work in introducing treatment from violent conflict. As she writes: “The The first man that the Serbs stopped My heart is dark. Until I join my hus- Court dockets and prisons were worn and recovery into criminal cases. Indi- international community pours billions was my husband. Then they took other band, I will be thinking about him. of dollars into countries emerging from men, too, tied their hands and lined It is hard to find jobs, and no one cares thin by rising drug offenses. Drug ad- viduals who would have been sent to conflict while peacebuilding practitioners them up in a field just across the road. about us. All three of [my sons] are grown dicts were sent to prison, instead of prison instead received a second lease toil tirelessly to strengthen stability, good My uncle’s son and my sister’s son were up and need to work. I don’t think about getting the treatment they needed. No on life. For Terry, this court became governance, and the rule of law.” So, she in the group that was told to step down myself and my life. I live only for my one was winning. Judge Lawrence the embodiment of the Jesuit values argues, they need to “hear the real voices from tractors. Then they took my son, children. of the people in the field, locals and inter- too. When he saw his father, he stood up, Read more: speakingtheirpeace.org. Terry ’57, J.D. ’62 sought to change he learned at Santa Clara: that every

ILLUSTRATIONS BY KYLE HILTON. REUNION PHOTO BY JOANNE LEE. LEE. JOANNE BY PHOTO REUNION HILTON. KYLE BY ILLUSTRATIONS MORGAN MATT BY WORDS ASSOCIATION. ALUMNI SCU COURTESY PHOTOS ARCHIVAL that by helping form Drug Treatment individual is valuable and redeemable.

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her 80th birthday with their nine chil- Philip J. Wagner A resident of Red- ness company that seeks to inspire people Class Notes dren and 18 grandchildren, including 1964 retired early at 1969 wood City for near- to discover a new way of life through the Kristopher “Gus” King ’79, Gretchen age 52 to play Irish music, recite Robby ly 70 years, Alyn Beals received the city’s Nikken philosophy of a healthy mind, At magazine.scu.edu/classnotes see the King ’80, Kathleen Twomey ’81, and Burns, and write poetry. He is currently 2016 Outstanding Citizen Award for his body, family, society, and income. ¶ Mari- latest, post an update, share a photo— Melinda King Grow ’86. ¶ Michael ARTIST LIFE landscape painting in Moab, Utah, and volunteerism. At the Sequoia YMCA, lyn Sponza MFT writes: “I have retired especially if it’s your reunion year. For McCormack returned to Maui to devel- Philip J. Wag- a few of his works hang in galleries and Beals serves as chairman of both the from my position as perinatal substance Broncos in the Gianera Society— op real estate after spending the last 15 ner ’64 writes: museums. board and major gifts campaign. He has abuse counselor from Kaiser Permanente that’s 50+ years since graduation— years in Santa Barbara, California, doing “No man is truly sponsored, hosted, and chaired fund- after 20 years.” every year is reunion year! the same. happy unless he Members of the raising events and assumed leadership is a painter. And 1965 classes of ’65 and roles for the Police Activities League, Laurence Wagner is Dick Clark writes life? ... It’s been ’66 got together at Hotel California in Todos the Sheriff’s Athletic League, Boys and 1974 still rowing, but now John P. Matheu of 1958 that he’s been at- exciting—and as a Santos, Baja California, in January. There Girls Club, and the Peninsula College in Bayou Vista, Texas. He retired from the 1940 New Jersey writes: tending monthly First Fridays at the Mis- bonus, I’m a very for the big event: Richard “Hap” Happoldt Fund. ¶ Dan Kelly J.D. and wife Carole Department of Water and Power in Los “The new magazine is much better—wider sion Church and luncheons at Donohoe happy grandpa.” ’65, Heide Happoldt ’66, Rob Zinman ’65, recently celebrated their 50th anniver- Angeles after 25 years of service as a se- scope of activity.” He hopes his remaining Alumni House. ¶ Norman “Norm” Hu- Joanel Zinman ’65, Vera Dudley ’66, and sary. They reside in Napa and San nior systems programmer. classmates (20 or so of them!) are happy letz was inducted into the National Senior Jim Pavisha ’66. Francisco and have two sons, including and well. Softball Hall of Fame in November 2014 Matthew Kelly ’92, and three grand- REUNION YEAR after playing in the league for 25 years REUNION YEAR children. ¶ Arthur Liebscher, S.J., 1976 Col. Tom Eichenberg Fred Lico writes: and winning 10 world championships. He 1966 Don Gomes writes: ’69, M.Div. ’84, STM ’86 has been M.S. ’77 is looking forward to celebrating 1949 “I’m glad to have currently plays infielder; at SCU he played “Retired with wife Annie Holt in Torrey, named by the Superior General of the his 40th class reunion. In 2005, he was re- lived long enough to see my No. 1 grand- shortstop. Utah—population c. 300. Forming a com- Society of Jesus, Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., as called to active duty in Iraq as director of the son, Maxwell Lico ’16, graduate from munity and public radio station and help- the next rector of the Santa Clara Jesuit National Iraqi Assistance Center (NIAC), SCU. I hope his memories will be as great ing to raise $1.2 million for a performing Community. He began serving in his Fr. Art Liebscher With a gift of $3 a walk-in humanitarian assistance facility. as mine. After returning from World arts center.” ¶ Robert Malcolm writes: new role on July 31, and as rector also is got to know Jorge million, Edward M. With the help of dedicated organizations, Mario Bergoglio— 1972 War II to SCU, I wrote the song ‘There Santa “My wife, Cecelia, and I returned to the a member of the University’s Board of Pope Francis—while Dowd has established and funded the Ed- Eichenberg and the NIAC developed pro- Clara, There with You,’ which the SCU Con- United States in September 2014 after Trustees. Current chair of the history doing research in ward M. Dowd Personal Advocate Program grams for heart surgery, plastic surgery for cert Chair of Chamber Singers performed 21 years overseas with assignments on department, Fr. Liebscher has taught at Argentina in partnership with the National Multiple burn victims, and corneal transplants, and on May 7, 2010, at the Mission Church.” [Hear large projects in Malaysia (five years), Santa Clara since 1986, focusing on Sclerosis (MS) Society, which will accelerate built the largest prosthetics clinic in Iraq Fred Lico’s song and read our story about it at Singapore (eight years), and Tokyo Latin American history. In addition to expansion of personalized case management during his deployment in 2005. While in magazine.scu.edu/fall2010. —Ed .] (eight years).” his teaching, he has served SCU stu- for people living with MS who need special- Baghdad, Eichenberg formed an impromp- dents as resident minister, faculty advi- ized services. [And read about the beautiful tu SCU Alumni Chapter, which included REUNION YEAR Since Antonia “Toni” sor, and Jesuit faculty-in-residence for new Edward M. Dowd Art & Art History Lieutenant General Joseph Peterson ’72 1951 Frederick “Fred” 1967 (Lastreto) Allegra more than two decades. Fr. Liebscher Building on p. 6. —Ed.] ¶ Mary Ganahl and Special Agent Bob Gorini ’71. His fa- Farrell writes: “87 years old two days ago, established the Symposium for Profes- follows Michael Zampelli, S.J., who ’72 writes: “I just retired! I spent 35 years ther, William L. Eichenberg ’41, served still surfing!” sional Food Writers in 1989, the annual has served as rector since 2010. as a deputy district attorney in LA County. as an assistant professor of military science conference has become a hub for culinary Bought a sailboat to sail off into the sun- during WWII, and brothers William L. Norman Slaught authors, with the 2016 Symposium (spfw. Mary Dullea Hood set. Two grandchildren keep me young and Eichenberg ’65 and James R. Eichenberg 1952 and wife Claire cel- org) taking place Sept. 26–30. In 2004, 1970 J.D. ’75 retired in healthy.” ’77, as well as nephew James P. Eichenberg ebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in she also launched the Symposium for 2014 from the Heafey Law Library after ’92, have all graduated from the ROTC pro- July 2015 at the La Jolla Beach and Ten- Professional Wine Writers, which takes 46 years. ¶ Ed Walsh is in his second Carl Brodt writes: “I gram. ¶ Margaret “Peggy” Holm J.D. has nis Club. They have eight children and 27 place annually at Meadowood Napa Val- term as trustee of the city of San Fran- 1973 retired from Union joined Sedgwick LLP’s Orange County, Cali- grandchildren, including granddaughter ley (winewriterssymposium.org). Toni, cisco’s Retiree Health Care Trust and is A TASTY TRIBUTE Bank in February 2016 and plan to keep fornia office. She is a fellow of the American Diane Slaught ’11. who lives in a “tree house” in St. Helena, studying music at Skyline College. Guglielmo Winery, busy by consulting, volunteering, and College of Trial Lawyers and is the third Thomas Ginella The Rally California, is also a poet, author, and edi- owned by Gene teaching business courses at Holy Names woman in the nation to earn the rank of Committee from the Henry Shea has writes: “Class of ’62 tor of magazines, including Napa Valley REUNION YEAR Guglielmo ’71, University.” ¶ Geoffrey Craig M.A. has Diplomate of the American Board of Trial 1960 Class of 1966 were 1954 two grandchildren, meets at a ‘Bronco Blast’ every year, most known for raising Tables, Appellation, and Vine Napa Val- 1971 Randall Blaesi offers two Santa published his first novel, Scudder’s Gorge. Advocates, which requires a minimum of Michael Shea ’18 and Elizabeth Ste- recently at La Playa in Carmel and Asti, school spirit with ley. ¶ Kathleen (Meehan) Thuner was writes: “I am a commercial real estate Clara University– His fiction, poetry, and drama have ap- 100 jury trials. She has been repeatedly phens ’18, attending SCU. Italy, for the Palio—live well!” their pre-game recently elected chair, Consumer Interest appraiser, specializing in litigation sup- inspired wines peared in New Plains Review, Calliope, Fo- recognized by The Best Lawyers in America rallies and half- Forum, American National Standards In- port.” ¶ Catherine Mannino Fawcett, a named Spirit liate Oak, Spring—the Journal of the E.E. and Super Lawyers, and was named a 2016 time entertainment Curtis Cole J.D. REUNION YEAR at football and stitute (ANSI), and serves as an ex officio real estate agent, and husband James C. of the Bronco. Cummings Society, and The MacGuffin. He Orange County Lawyer of the Year by Best 1955 ’57, an active Board 1961 Jerry Kerr served basketball games. member of the ANSI Board of Directors. Fawcett ’71, a surgeon, are living in San The Cabernet has also received two Pushcart Prize nomi- Lawyers. ¶ Mike O’Hara is living in San of Fellows member since 1973, practiced as executive director of the SCU Alumni Diego. They have three sons, three Sauvignon nations and directed eight of his own plays. Diego with wife Mary (Russell) O’Hara worker’s compensation law from 1958 un- Association for 31 years. He now splits Diane M. (Quass) grandchildren, and have been married features rich ripe ¶ Bill Dow writes: “After surviving a heart ’77 and working as a field agent with the til his retirement in 2005. He writes: “My time between his homes in California 1968 Brenneman was since December 1971. ¶ Guglielmo Win- fruit and savory attack and a vertigo attack, I am finally Knights of Columbus. He is also serving as practice was taken over by my daughter, and Mexico. ¶ Rev. Max Oliva, S.J., re- honored as Judge of the Year by the Bar ery—now run by Gene Guglielmo ’71 oak flavors while feeling well again and looking forward to San Diego SCU Alumni Chapter president Leah Cole ’81, one of my six children.” cently published a book titled The 10 Association of the District of Colum- and his brothers George E. and Gary— the Chardonnay SCU’s basketball season—Go Broncos!” ¶ and is “blessed with five children and three

The others are Cathy Cole Oleson ’77, Commandments for Everyday Life in bia. ¶ Ted Burke, co-owner of the famed PHOTO COURTESY THE REDWOOD has been inducted into the Business has bright, sweet Tony Nisich is the director of Building Ser- grandchildren.” ¶ Robert Emmett Strunck Nancy Hall ’78, James Schimandle ’81, which he explores the 10 Commandments Shadowbrook Restaurant, was inducted Hall of Fame by the San Jose/Silicon notes of pineap- vices for MNS Engineers, Inc. in Buellton, is a happily semiretired lawyer, finally get- Matthew Schimandle ’83, and Leslie and how they touch lives today. Buy it at into the Monterey Bay Business Hall of Valley Chamber of Commerce for its sig- ple, tangy citrus, California. He and his wife, Terri, and their ting to pick and choose his legal headaches Von Der Ahe ’79. ethicsinthemarketplace.com. Fame—the first resident of Santa Cruz to nificant contributions to the growth and and green apple. sons, A.J. and Erick, live in Santa Barbara. ¶ after 30 years as an assistant public de- receive this honor. ¶ Dennis A. Young well-being of the region. ¶ David Her- Joanne Polverino is the director of benefits fender in Chicago. He keeps busy traveling REUNION YEAR Jim Fuqua is board MBA received the 2016 Distinguished rmann writes: “After nearly 21 years at Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union. to various MLB, NHL, and NCAA foot- 1956 Mike King writes 1963 chair for the Cen- Service Award from the California Society with Intel Corporation, I will finally be ¶ Angel K. (Fields) Raposa works as an in- ball games nationwide. Rumor has it that

that his wife, Janet King, is celebrating tral Coast Arthritis Foundation. of CPAs, the society’s highest honor. LEE JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHY retiring on June 24.” dependent consultant for Nikken, a well- these are well documented on social media.

52 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 53 BRONCO NEWS LIVES JOINED BRONCO NEWS CLASS NOTES Beautiful Game. For her wedding day, bride Leslie Osborne ’05 donned white dress and veil [Bob Strunck’s decades as an attorney with Lives Joined Births & the Cook County Murder Task Force are and 5-inch heels—then took to the soccer pitch also documented—in our pages. Read the Brent Gonzalez ’99 married Jaime story at magazine.scu.edu/fall2011. —Ed.] of Stevens Stadium to kick around a ball with Melissa on May 1, 2016, at Vibiana in Adoptions downtown Los Angeles. The School of En- groom Ricky Lewis. A second ceremony, by the Steve “Skoatch” Nemsick ’93 and wife 1977 gineering awarded sea in Baja, Mexico: time for a game of one-on- Anna (Kraus) Lydon ’02 married Nelcida welcomed Hudson James to Robin (Senigaglia) Beck the Distin- Keith Lydon in Incline Village, Ne- their home in Jersey City on Jan. 30. guished Engineering Alumni Award. She one between the two former soccer pros while vada, on April 16 at St. Francis of Assisi is currently the lead engineer at NASA Church. Myra Ramirez-Geronimo ’00, hus- AMES Research Center. As NASA’s the surf crashed on the beach. band Marc, brother Nicholas, and sister cognizant engineer for the Mars Science Mike Loza ’03 married Julie (Silva) Emma welcomed Evan Amelia. Laboratory thermal protection systems, Loza on Oct. 17, 2015, at Mission Santa she led the team that designed the heat Clara. Mike is the regional director of Mark Davis ’01, wife Rachel, and sib- shield for the Curiosity rover’s spacecraft. business development at Sanveo Inc. lings Jacob, Leila, and Clara welcomed [Read that cool story, too, in our fall 2012 alongside CEO Ashfaq Rasheed ’03. Bridget Rafqa Antoun on Jan. 14. edition. —Ed.] ¶ Marina “Lisa” Michaels has written the book The Forgiving Life- Liz (Courter) Oseguera ’06, MBA ’11 Monique Derenia ’01, husband Benoit style: How to Forgive Everyone (Includ- married Michael Oseguera on Sept. 10, Roederer, and sisters Gianna and Noa ing Yourself), available on Amazon. ¶ Bill 2015, in San Diego, with Kate (Goeth- welcomed baby Hugo on Aug. 23, 2015. Quiseng is general manager of Marriott als) Barbero ’06, Micaela Esquivel SEVEN MINUTES Vacation Club San Diego, which opened ’06, and Dan Erwin ’06 by her side. Reed (Dudley) Moll ’01, husband Aar- OF TERROR The July 2016. ¶ Eldon Regua, a retired ma- on Moll, and Ledare (2) welcomed Wil- heat shield Robin jor general, was recently appointed to the Sarah (Boskovich) Villalobos ’06 liam Alexander “Alex” on Oct. 8, 2015. Beck ’77 and California Governor’s Military Council. ¶ married Nicolas Villalobos at Seascape her NASA team Rob Uyttebroek is the CFO for Serving Resort in Aptos, California, on Aug. Wendy Kuo ’03 welcomed baby Audrey designed for the Our Children in Washington, D.C., the only 29, 2015. Fellow ’06 classmates Kris- in 2016. Curiosity rover federally funded school voucher program tin Siem Matthews and Mary Nadine withstood speeds in the country. Kane, along with Kate Hitchcock ’05, Nate Seltenrich ’04, wife Jocelyn, and of 13,200 mph were bridesmaids. older brother Leo (3) welcomed Dean and temperatures Sally-Christine Pascal to their home on Nov. 12, 2015. of 2,100 degrees 1978 Rodgers published Thomas D. DeNatale ’08 and Regina The family lives surrounded by sheep Celsius during re- Convergence: A Voyage Through French M. Novak M.A. ’11 wed on Oct. 10, and chickens in Petaluma, California. entry to Mars. Polynesia (available at westmarine. 2015, in a Mass presided over by Paul com), which chronicles the first leg of Soukup, S.J., at St. Nicholas Church in Hillary (Boller) Haase ’06 and Brent her sailing circumnavigation with her Los Altos. Haase ’08 welcomed future Bronco husband and son. Working in marine Samuel Logan Haase on May 27. Sam conservation for decades, she has served Andrew Engel ’08 was married to joins big brother Louis and Ollie, their three terms as the first woman on the Kelly Kearns by Michael McCarthy, German shepherd, at the family home in board of Oceana. All book proceeds go S.J. ’87, M.Div. ’97 on Dec. 12, 2015, Greenwood Village, Colorado. toward marine conservation. ¶ Robert at St. Helena Catholic Church in St. Williams writes: “Recently completed Helena, California. Santa Clara alumni Brandon Rasmusson ’06 and Rachel a beautiful second home in Brasada in attendance included Kelly Meriano (Greenberg) Rasmusson ’06 wel- Ranch in central Oregon. Looking for- ’08, Jim Freeburg ’03, James Servi- comed baby girl Madison Lee to their ward to cool summer nights!” no ’07, Patrick Flanagan ’08, Lauren San Francisco home on Aug. 15, 2015. Verrilli ’08, Liam Satre-Meloy ’08, Tim Beglin has Ann (Thomas) Drevno ’08, and Chris Jenica (Mariani) Maldonado ’06 and 1979 written Ring$ of Freeburg ’11. husband Adam welcomed their first, Jo- PHOTO COURTESY LESLIE OSBORNE. WORDS BY GRACE OGIHARA ’16 Value, Run Your Business Every Day seph Gabriel, on Jan. 6 in San Francisco. Like It’s for Sale, available for purchase Caroline Freytag ’09 married Nick through Beglin’s consulting company Fútbol festivities Some backfield on the pair: They were Cabo provided plenty of dancing, an array few years ago, and they met up in person in Bratcher ’09 in San Francisco on Oct. 3, Austin Woody ’08 and Meghan (Mad- website targetadvisoryservices.com and and instep drive: wed in a private, family-only ceremony at of sweet treats, and a brunch and pool London during the summer Olympics. Leslie Osborne and Mission Santa Clara de Asís in November party. The proposal: In London, out for a run 2015—with more than 25 SCU alumni den) Woody ’10 welcomed son James Amazon.com. ¶ Peter Buckley repre- Ricky Lewis 2015, presided over by Paul Soukup S.J., Leslie and Ricky both played for United together, Ricky pulled a muscle (he said), in attendance. Hamilton Woody on Dec. 18, 2015, to sents south Jackson County in the Oregon M.Div. ’78, S.T.M. ’79. To accommodate States Youth National Soccer Teams and and they found a bench to let him rest. their Austin, Texas, home. House of Representatives. He has also international guests, the couple opted for met at a National Team Camp in Rhode He got down on one knee and popped the Benjamin Petersen ’10 and Leah (Tor- been a House co-chair of the Joint Com- a celebration two months later, on Jan. 22, Island at age 17. The two stayed in touch question. in lovely San José del Cabo. The wedding through college and into their postgradu- Leslie is in her second year as assistant res) Petersen ’10, both of Bend, Or- Robert “Bert” Girdner ’11 and wife Cic- mittee on Ways & Means since Decem- party included fellow Bronco soccer play- ate lives as professional soccer players. athletic director for intercollegiate sports egon, married Aug. 15, 2015, at Mission ily welcomed Abigail Grace Girdner on ber 2008. Peter lives in Ashland with his ers Bree Horvath ’05 and Carrie Schuler Leslie, a defensive midfielder, played for and student-athlete leadership at SCU. Santa Clara. Feb. 8. The family hopes Abby will be a wife, Joan Langley ’80, who is the educa- ’06, with Bronco women’s soccer coach FC Gold Pride, the Boston Breakers, and This spring she was inducted into the San- fourth-generation Bronco, following tion director of the Oregon Shakespeare Jerry Smith and former teammate and Chicago Red Stars, as well as for the U.S. ta Clara University Athletics Hall of Fame. Morgan Stinson ’13 married Jack grandfather Gregory Girdner ’83 and Bronco assistant coach Brandi Chastain Women’s National Team. Ricky played for Ricky is in medical sales at Stryker work- Festival. ¶ Eileen Clark writes: “Many ’91 in attendance, along with eight more the LA Galaxy and the Colorado Rapids. ing with doctors and hospitals in the South Schneeman ’13 on April 23 at St. Cath- great-grandmother June Girdner, who happy memories of our daughter Lor- Bronco teammates. The celebration in They reconnected during a Skype session a Bay from Redwood City to Monterey. erine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. attended 1957–59 as a nursing student. raine Clark ’79 at Santa Clara. She loved it there. Thank you.”

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Tom Brysacz loves tirement is marvelous! Second grandchild the board of directors of OmniTRAX Inc., for the design of the R. B. Oliver Bridge 1980 his job as a family arrived in January.” ¶ Cynthia Gonsalves a rail and transportation service com- Replacement Project in Tulare County and physician more than ever and is the lucki- lives in downtown San Jose with her wife pany. He serves as president and CEO of for renovating and seismically retrofitting est man on the planet. ¶ Jeffrey H. Coo- of two years, Emma Humphries. She is TRAC Intermodal, an intermodal chassis the South American Rain Forest and Avi- per MBA has been appointed to the board a senior technician at Evans Analytical pool manager and equipment provider for ary Building at the San Francisco Zoo. ¶ of directors of ProNAi Therapeutics, a Group making samples for transmission international and domestic shippers in The School of Engineering has awarded clinical-stage oncology company advanc- electron microscopy and measuring sur- North America. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Major Gen- ing therapeutics for patients with cancer. face contamination on wafers. ¶ Julie Sly eral Michael C. Wehr the Distinguished Cooper has served as an independent con- has been editor for the past six years of After a three-year Engineering Alumni Award. He has been sultant for life science companies since Catholic Herald Magazine, a bimonthly 1984 sabbatical from married to Deborah D. Kalisz ’84 since January 2014. ¶ Scott Freeman is the magazine of the Diocese of Sacramento, professional life, Kate Carey will join 1986. He is currently responsible for a EVP of International for Bunim/Murray reaching more than 40,000 households the Property Casualty Insurers Associa- $2 billion civil works program impacting Productions. In addition, he is an execu- with faith stories of Catholics in the tion of America (PCI) as vice president of 1.25 million square miles, 31 states, and tive producer on The Challenge for MTV 20-county diocese. ¶ Peter Coe Verbica federal government relations. She has two Canadian provinces in the Mississippi and Valerie’s Home Cooking with Valerie J.D. ’99 has published Hard-Won Cow- worked in the insurance industry for more Valley Division. Bertinelli for Food Network. ¶ Angela boy Wisdom (Not Necessarily in Order than 25 years as a strategic government “Angie” Robbiano MBA ’01 was selected of Importance), which incorporates five MOON AND relations and public policy attorney. ¶ Ju- REUNION YEAR to be on the list of 2016 Women of Influ- generations of ranching tradition dis- WINE COUNTRY lia Harper Cooper was selected to be on 1986 Rob Boyd J.D. ’97 ence by the Silicon Valley Business Jour- tilled into maxims with photographs from Phil Sullivan ’83 the list of 2016 Women of Influence by has worked at SCU since 1988 and, as a nal. As a senior finance manager of one of the 1800s and early 1900s, available at writes: “I recently the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She hobby, plays the bagpipes. He recently the nation’s biggest defense contractors, hardwoncowboywisdom.com. moved to the has served in a number of key positions performed for the president of Ireland, Robbiano enjoys tackling challenging heart of the wine during her nearly 30-year career with the Michael D. Higgins. ¶ Tanya Monsef projects. Attorney J. Michael country, not far city of San Jose and is currently the direc- Bunger was selected to be on the list of of the Santa Clara Inns of Court. ¶ Mike That voice! It’s new job as the internal communications Bailey, a sharehold- from the histori- tor of finance. ¶ Heidi (Le Baron) Leupp 2016 Women of Influence by the Silicon Kollas owns an event marketing agency, A.J. Riebli ’91, manager for U.C. San Diego Health. I 1983 aka the Death REUNION YEAR er in Parsons Behle & Latimer’s Salt Lake cal Jack London was recently appointed to the St. Ignatius Valley Business Journal. She is the direc- ONUS Agency, which produces corporate have been with UCSD for 12 years.” Bowl Announcer, 1981 Allison Abbott-Kline City office, has been elected to the execu- estate in the most College Prep board of regents. She is cur- tor of the SCU Leavey School of Business events around the country. Mike and his in Telltale Games’ and her husband, Norman Kline ’79, cel- tive committee of the United States Golf scenic Valley of rently co-president of Sacred Heart Prep Global Fellows program. ¶ Paul De- wife, Kathy, live in Portland, Oregon, and Minecraft: Story REUNION YEAR ebrated their 35th anniversary in June. Association (USGA)—the first Utahan the Moon (below), Atherton Parent Association. ¶ Patrick Cunzo writes that he recently founded have two sons, Matthew and Connor. ¶ Mode, Episode 2. 1991 Brandi Chastain They serve on the SCU Board of Fellows ever elected to serve in the USGA’s 121- where I spent my Joseph Moran received his Ph.D. in com- the Kelly SWAG Academy, a new school In February, Renee Niemi, the head of has been elected to the National Soc- and are involved with SCU Catala Club year history. He is a current board mem- formative years puter science from University of Illinois of engagement and collaboration focus- smart home business at Logitech, was a cer Hall of Fame. Chastain is a leader in and the Markkula Center for Applied Eth- ber of the Utah Golf Association and an on a 12-acre ‘mini and is a visualization specialist at NASA ing on coaching, teaching, training, and panelist at the School of Engineering’s women’s sports and a pioneer soccer pro- ics. ¶ Kerry (Lenihan) Baz works at Ado- advisor to the Golf Alliance of Utah. ¶ farm.’ I’m truly in Mountain View. ¶ Catherine “Cat” facilitation. (SWAG stands for “Strengths “Imagining the Future State of STEM” fessional, best known for a game-winning be Systems Inc. in downtown San Jose, is Richard T. Bissen Jr. has been a second passionate about Girolami Westover, a realtor at Sereno With A Groove.”) ¶ John Del Santo is a conference. Previously at Google, Niemi penalty kick at the 1999 Women’s World adjusting to life as an “empty-nester,” and circuit court judge in Hawaii since April wine country real Group Real Estate, just celebrated her senior managing director at Accenture re- was the director of global business for ANIMATION Cup in the Rose Bowl. Chastain scored is looking forward to seeing classmates 2005. Previously, he served as interim di- estate! It’s great 19th wedding anniversary with husband sponsible for the financial services sector. Android and Chrome. ¶ Andy Russick is MAVEN A.J. 30 goals in 192 appearances for the U.S. at the reunion. ¶ Chris Fellenz lives in rector for the State of Hawaii Department to be so involved Rob. The couple and their two sons live in He and wife Maureen (Meagher) ’87, live serving as vice president, sales and mar- Riebli ’91 is the national team, where she spent most of San Jose working as a consultant in high of Public Safety and as the first deputy at- in Sonoma, Napa, Atherton with their 80-pound chocolate in the Bay Area and son Colin will soon keting, for Pacific Coast Producer, a food creative studio her career as a defender. Chastain assists tech. He and Diane (Watkins) ’83 have torney general for the state. He is a mar- and Marin areas lab, 12-year-old cat, and three chickens. be a first year at SCU—class of 2020! ¶ manufacturing firm in California’s Cen- manager at her husband, Jerry Smith, with coach- three children: Kyle, Curtis, and Janelle. ried father of three daughters, including with my team and Gov. Jerry Brown ’59 appointed Robert tral Valley. This spring marks Andy’s 29th Telltale Games, ing the Santa Clara women’s team. Along ¶ Dan Hunter is the vice president and Sayble Bissen ’10, and two grandsons. ¶ Previews Interna- Stephanie Ker- Anthony Fultz J.D. ’91 judge of the Supe- year with his company. Andy and Kathy an award-winning with Marlene Bjornsrud, the former corporate controller at Coherent, Inc. He Keith Lovetro MBA has been elected to tional.” 1985 korian lives in rior Court for the county of Tulare, taking (Martin) Russick ’87 recently celebrated independent associate athletics director at SCU, and writes: “Looking forward to the 35-year Phoenix with husband John Kerkorian the oath of office on Dec. 31, 2015, with his 26 years of marriage. ¶ Mary Beth (Fox) developer and U.S. teammate Julie Foudy, she founded reunion in October!” ¶ Don Kinney re- ’84 and works in oncology device sales. wife of nine years, Jennifer (Hayes) Fultz Suhr is a senior vice president at Mor- publisher of video the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative tired from Chevron Corporation after 35 She writes: “Our son Jack Kerkorian J.D. ’03, and their two children in atten- gan Stanley Wealth Management in Palo games. In 2014, (bawsi.org). ¶ Genice (Holmes) Cho- years, with the last 18 years in positions ’18 is currently a sophomore at SCU. dance. ¶ Kathy Kale celebrated her 13th Alto. Husband Peter Suhr J.D./MBA Fast Company chon is working at the Elkhorn Public in South America and Africa. He and his Our daughter Kate graduated from Miz- anniversary working in the SCU Alumni practices business law at Doty, Barlow in deemed it the Schools Foundation as the accounting family have retired to Pinehurst, North zou and works in PR in LA.” ¶ Therese Office in August and feels lucky to have Palo Alto. most innovative manager and scholarship coordinator. Carolina. ¶ Julio Ledesma IV is begin- Aylward-Kravetz published her first the best job in the world. She and husband company in She and husband Mike have three kids, ning a second tri-term at the Philippine nonfiction book, Why Zarmina Sings: 18 Jim live in San Jose with their two kids, Anne Lawlor gaming. Riebli Chris (16), Morgan (13), and Carson House of Representatives and is currently Steps to Live and Learn Beyond Anxiety, and she is looking forward to reconnect- 1988 Goyette J.D. of previously spent (11), and live in Elkhorn, Nebraska. ¶ senior vice chair of the Ways and Means which explores how to accelerate learning ing with classmates and friends at the Oc- Burlingame is the principal of Griffiths 17 years with Gov. Jerry Brown ’59 appointed Chris- Committee. He is also founder and prin- and overcome the fight-or-flight response. tober Grand Reunion. ¶ Melanie Kassen Goyette Mediation Firm. She serves as Pixar, working topher C. Hite J.D. ’94 to a judgeship cipal steward of Their Family Trust, a ¶ The Silicon Valley Business Journal published the children’s book Bruce and a full-time special master and mediator on six Academy in the San Francisco County Superior Giving Pledge–inspired organization. ¶ named Mike Blach, president and CEO of Juliet: The Unlikely Friendship of a Bub- who has been managing and resolving Award–winning Court. Hite has served as a deputy pub- Laurel Rematore writes: “On Jan. 4, Blach Construction, among its first “Pow- ble Breathing Dragon and a Daydreaming complex litigation and civil disputes in animated feature lic defender at the San Francisco Public I became the executive director of the er Executives.” The journal also named Kitten in 2013. Previously, she worked for federal and state courts and outside formal films. Defender’s Office since 1998. ¶ Pamela

Great Smokey Mountains Association, an Blach Construction one of the Best Plac- PHOTO COURTESY GETTY IMAGES Warren Beatty and has operated her own litigation for the past 23 years. ¶ A nov- (Rozolis) Ortega recently celebrated her educational nonprofit that has provided es to Work for the eighth year in a row. holistic health care practice in Los Gatos elette by Taryn Hook J.D., “Van Gogh’s 20th wedding anniversary with husband more than $35 million in support to Great ¶ Cornerstone Structural Engineering for the last 21 years. ¶ Peter Kirwan J.D. Slice,” was published in the literary journal Johnny Ortega ’88. They live in Or- Smokey Mountains National Park since Group Inc., founded by Todd Goolkasian heads the complex litigation department Abstract Jam. Hook lives and writes near ange County, California with their twins, GSMA’s formation in 1953.” and Maureen (Orlando) Goolkasian, of Santa Clara County Court’s Civil Divi- Honolulu, Hawaii. Sophia and Daniel. Pam works part- received two 2016 National Engineering sion. Kirwan is currently on the faculty at time for an affordable-housing builder. Nancy Creveling Excellence Honor Awards from the Amer- Santa Clara School of Law as an adjunct Eileen Silva writes: You can also follow her cooking blog at

1982 MBA writes: “Re- ican Council of Engineering Companies RIEBLI A.J. COURTESY IMAGE professor and is the incoming president 1989 “Last fall I started a busybrunettebakerista.com. ¶ Ron Pasek

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MBA is now executive vice president and and New York Times best-selling author— of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. Ragan Selina Camaibau trict Attorney’s office. She was recognized Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley CFO of NetApp. He brings more than received the James Joyce Award from Uni- currently serves on the Board of Legacy 2002 Kuruleca M.A. as Deputy District Attorney of the Year in Business Journal. Reiley is developing arti- 30 years of experience in financial man- versity College Dublin’s Literary & Historical Alviso San José Youth Foundation and works in Fiji as director of Kuruleca Con- 2011 and received the Santa Maria Elk’s ficial intelligence for self-driving cars and is agement. After graduating from SCU, Society, Europe’s largest university society. ¶ is responsible for the foundation’s chari- sultants, which provides psychotherapy Law Enforcement Appreciation Award the co-founder and president of drive.ai, an Pasek joined Rolm Corporation, where he Bridget Mackay J.D. has served as a deputy table distributions. She and her husband and training. She writes: “I love the work for Outstanding Performance in 2015. ¶ artificial intelligence self-driving car start- worked in accounting and financial plan- district attorney for both Solano and So- live in San Jose with their daughter. ¶ that I do: listening to people, not judg- Mihir Nanavati has joined the executive up that recently closed its Series A round ning. ¶ Meredith McAdam Smith is the noma counties for nearly 10 years and was Elsa Mendoza Jimenez is the interim ing them, facilitating the process. Help- team of Redwood City-based Kahuna, a of VC financing. ¶ Heather Schlenger is development and marketing director at profiled on Petaluma360.com. After switch- director of health at the Monterey County ing them realize that everyone has prob- communication automation company, as a recipient of CalCPA’s Women to Watch JW House in Santa Clara, a home away ing to estate planning, she joined the Peta- Health Department. She has been in the lems—including me—but if we are honest KAVA COOL senior VP of product. Nanavati previously Award. She is a tax senior manager at Moss from home for families with a loved one luma Educational Foundation and is now public health sector for 15 years. ¶ Aruna and willing to do something to make it In addition to spearheaded initiatives for Tradeshift, Adams, where she handles tax planning, in the hospital. president of its board of directors. ¶ Alison Ravichandran M.S., MBA ’09 was se- right, we can overcome difficulties. I am working as direc- Hightail, and Adobe Systems. ¶ Jenni- compliance, and tax provision preparation Peters works at EnviroIssues, a Seattle- lected to be on the list of 2016 Women of proud of my kids; mostly they have learned tor of Kuruleca fer Renk J.D. has been promoted from for closely held food and agriculture opera- Lisa (Kellers) Fe- based agency dedicated to public policy and Influence by the Silicon Valley Business some good skills and manners and are try- Consultants in Fiji, attorney to partner at Sheppard Mullin. tions as well as manufacturing and distri- 1992 deli and Nick Fedeli pressing environmental issues. She spends Journal. Ravichandran says that if she ing hard to stay in school, play sports, and Selina Camaibau She is a member of the real estate, land bution organizations. relocated to Portland, Oregon, in fall 2015, her free time serving on the board of the weren’t working in tech, she’d be “a kick- achieve their targets. And I am proud of my Kuruleca M.A. is use, and environmental practice group when they switched roles and Lisa became Northwest Literacy Foundation, planning ass mixed-martial arts instructor.” contribution to various policies governing enjoying hanging in the San Francisco office. Renk’s prac- Nafiz Ahmed J.D. the director of financial planning and analy- road trips, and cheering on her two sons, suicide prevention and mental health in out at home, bak- tice focuses on land use and environmen- 2005 is a criminal de- sis at the Port of Portland—which operates Ryan and Charlie. Kim Felt MBA has Fiji.” ¶ Sean Mendelson has put out his ing, drinking kava, tal law, with particular expertise in the fense lawyer and partner at Ahmed & Su- PDX Airport, marine terminals, and indus- 1999 been inducted into third children’s album, Love and Music, listening to Fijian California Environmental Quality Act. ¶ karam, Attorneys at Law. He is also on the trial property—and Nick became a high- REUNION YEAR the National Association of Professional under the artist name Sean’s Music Factory and Hawaiian Heidi A. (Shulse) Seely has recently co- NRA referral list for his work defending energy wrangler of their sons, Cormac (2) 1996 Matt Hansink, Women (NAPW) VIP Woman of the Year (seansmusicfactory.com). He is the direc- music, and watch- authored the book The Boston Trustee, clients against firearms charges and has and Aengus (7). along with his wife, Holly, and 6-year-old Circle. NAPW is a leading networking tor of a licensed Music Together Center in ing CSI. which tells the story of a unique Boston advanced DUI detection and standardized son, Quinton, moved back to Portland, organization for professional women. ¶ Santa Clara called Teacher Sean’s Music institution where men and women who field sobriety testing training to better de- Ann Barham M.A. Oregon. He is now a marketing consultant Pallie Zambrano was selected to be on Factory. ¶ For the last 12 years, Erin Tay- serve as individual professional trustees fend clients facing DUI charges in Califor- 1993 has published The for Bridge Partners Consulting. ¶ David HEY ENGLISH the list of 2016 Women of Influence by lor has worked at EnviroIssues, an agency are known universally as “Boston Trustees” nia. Ahmed has been named a Super Law- Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your R. Hayes has been appointed to the board MAJORS Since the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Be- dedicated to public policy and pressing (bostontrustee.com). ¶ Sunderraj Sounda- yers Rising Star for the past five years as True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes of directors of Symbility Solutions Inc., a graduating with a fore joining the firm McManis Faulkner, environmental issues. She has managed ranathan is vice president of WW sales at well as a Top Lawyer in California in 2013. (Enliven Books/Atria/Simon & Schuster), global software company dedicated to de- degree in English, Zambrano actually litigated against Jim engagement associated with installing a a mobile software startup in San Jose. ¶ which shares client stories from nearly 20 veloping applications for the insurance in- Misha McPher- McManis’ team. safe seawall foundation on the Seattle wa- Patrick Vallez-Kelly is working as coor- REUNION YEAR years of work as a transpersonal psycho- dustry, based in Toronto. son ’97 has gone terfront, converting an entire community dinator of liturgy at Junipero Serra High 2006 Jackson Dovey therapist. ¶ Rob Devincenzi, editor and on to help scale Gustavo Guerrero from septic to sewer near Hood Canal, and School in San Mateo. has been a superintendent at XL Con- publisher of several South Bay newspa- Jeff Cleveland has teams at com- 2000 started Ben’s Roof- developed light rail planning across Puget struction for 10 years. He ranks ninth pers, has been named president and pub- 1997 joined the growing panies such as ing, Inc., based in Oakland. He is married Sound. She lives in the Seattle area with Lindsay (Westby) in the world for Ironman triathlons. lisher of Marin Independent Journal. He investment banking team of D.A. David- Mixpanel, Respon- to his soul mate and best friend, Rosario. her husband and 18-month-old daughter. 2004 Caron M.A. His wife, Alyssa Dovey M.A. ’07, is a was named Milpitas businessman of the son & Co as managing director in its con- sys, Yammer, and ¶ Sheila Hatch MBA was selected to be ’07 launched her Etsy shop, MyCatholi- kindergarten teacher, working for nine year in 2010 and was a 2016 nominee for sumer and retail sector. Cleveland works Yahoo—“proving on the list of 2016 Women of Influence by Paul Chen M.S. cHome.etsy.com and published her first years at MUSD. They live in San Jose. citizen of the year. He and wife Monica out of the Seattle office, where he leads that, yes, liberal the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Her 2003 writes: “I just Frontier Bites: book, The Little Way for Parents of Little ¶ Kristin Kinder is an environmental have two sons, ages 15 and 11, and live in the firm’s food, beverage, and agriculture arts degrees are best advice for others: Be open to input. moved to north Chicago to go back into a Matt Oscamou ’04 Ones (available on Amazon). She works as consultant specializing in zero waste. San Mateo. practice, in addition to his responsibilities marketable!” government job so I can retire early. I miss heads up the com- a family faith-formation consultant, writes She and her sister have also started in the broader consumer industry. ¶ Misha REUNION YEAR the Washington, D.C., Alumni Chapter.” pany making these at inspiredforthejourney.com, and lives a new business together, KinderInk snacks—gluten-, Fernando Gutier- McPherson accepted the role as COO of 2001 Katie (Barlag) Ack- ¶ Cynthia (Nulman) Gresser J.D. has soy-, and dairy- in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, (lovekinderink.com), making wedding 1994 rez J.D. was in- ShareRoot, where she heads up sales, mar- erman was recently promoted to president been promoted to chief deputy district at- free, and non-GMO James, and boys, Luke and Levi. ¶ Carol and baby shower thank-you notes easier strumental in convincing the California keting, product, and business operations. ¶ of Global Executive Group (GXG), a pro- torney for the Santa Barbara County Dis- verified. Reiley was selected to be on the list of 2016 for the bride and groom. ¶ Eduardo Le- Board of Psychology to approve a require- Jessica Perry J.D. ’00 was selected to be fessional services firm dedicated to help- rma is director of outreach at the U.S. ment of continuing education for Califor- on the list of 2016 Women of Influence by ing great leaders become extraordinary. Senate Democratic Steering and Out- nia psychologists in multicultural issues the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Perry, ¶ Eric Bathen Jr. J.D. ’73 writes about reach Committee. Previously, he worked in psychology. ¶ Scott Handley is co- a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe his daughter: “Hollis Barr (Bathen) is for U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez founder and CTO of Jawger, Inc., a new in Menlo Park, represented venture capital a Realtor in San Francisco and raising (CA-46). He married Johanna Heil- social networking platform (jawger.com). firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in a her 1-year-old daughter, Poppy, with her man on Oct. 24, 2015, in New Orleans, ¶ Marjorie Doyle Versen MBA is CFO of high-profile trial last year defeating gender husband, Sal.” ¶ Matt Oscamou, founder Louisiana. ¶ Maria Patricia Miranda Applied Control Equipment LLP in En- discrimination claims brought by former and CEO of Frontier Snacks, created their writes that she completed her residency glewood, Colorado. ¶ Rosalinda “Rosie” partner Ellen Pao. Frontier Bites products in a baking compe- in internal medicine at the University Zepeda was selected to be on the list of tition with his brother Nate Oscamou ’04. of Massachusetts in Worcester in 2013. 2016 Women of Influence by the Silicon Brian Fukumoto Since Nate’s passing in 2011, Matt has been She is now a practicing primary care Valley Business Journal. She has earned 1998 MBA has been growing their company (now in over 2,500 doctor at Tri-River Family Health Cen- two college degrees, leads a Latina- hired as VP of WW manufacturing op- stores nation wide) to become the leader of ter in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and an empowerment organization, and runs erations and supply chain at FINsix. Fu- innovative, clean snacking. Matt was the assistant professor in medicine at the Compelling Conversations, her own busi- kumoto will oversee day-to-day global featured speaker at the Leavey School of University of Massachusetts Medical ness focusing on communication training operations to ensure timely supply of Business Winter CIE Entrepreneur Forum School. ¶ Katie Payer is celebrating and diversity. high-quality product for FINsix’s retail in Feb. 2016. Learn more at frontierbites. the one-year anniversary of starting her and OEM customers. ¶ The Silicon Val- com ¶ Ofelia Rodriguez is now working own consulting practice, which provides Reza Aslan—schol- ley Business Journal named Ragan Hen- for SCU’s Gifts and Records. She is assist- program development and organiza- 1995 ar of religions, pro- ninger a Woman of Influence. Ragan is ing with online gift and demographic batch tional design services to companies in

fessor of creative writing at U.C. Riverside, the senior policy advisor for the Office entry as well as other administrative duties. OSCAMOU MATT COURTESY PHOTO Colorado and California. ¶ Nicole

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Zellitti J.D. ’11 works in business de- Zeidan writes: “After five years as a pro- Valley. In addition to her duties on the Mike worked in Pune, India, designing an and is also volunteering as a crisis coun- neering as practiced “in the field.” ¶ Alys- velopment and marketing for the ven- duction engineer at Cisco TV and two city council, Jessica serves as Mill Valley’s off-grid solar panel refrigeration system for selor with Crisis Text Line. ¶ Chris Das- sa Kleiner, a recent alumna and former ture capital group at Cooley LLP. Prior years as a broadcast engineer establishing representative to the Association of Bay low-income local farmers through Villgro gupta has joined SCU’s Alumni Relations soccer player, was acquired by the Wash- to this role, she worked in business de- Al Jazeera’s newest digital venture, AJ+, it Area Governments, the Joint Services JPA Innovations Foundation. ¶ Kurt Wagner team, managing events and chapter lead- ington Spirit from the Portland Thorns. velopment at Orrick in San Francisco. was time to move from television to film. Oversight Committee, the Community has been writing almost daily for the past ership in India and regions throughout In exchange, Portland received defender I am now a media systems engineer for Development Block Grant, and the MC- four years. He is now a senior editor at the country as well as three ethnic alumni Katherine Reynolds ’10. Kleiner made Kristin Klingvall Industrial Light and Magic, the visual ef- CMC Legislative Committee. As a human the business and tech publication Recode, her NWSL debut in 2015 and played in 2007 MBA has joined fects division of Lucasfilm.” rights attorney, she began her career rep- where he covers social media, including eight matches, including four starts, for DZH Phillips, an accounting and ad- resenting California death row inmates companies like Facebook, Twitter, Snap- Portland. ¶ In March, the property man- visory firm in the Bay Area, as director Paul La Londe in their appeals. She is now the national chat, and LinkedIn. agement service OneRent—founded by of its Bridgeway Outsourced Account- 2010 joined SV An- director of #cut50, a bipartisan initiative Rico Mok, Greg Toschi ’16, Arman Dez- ing group in Burlingame. Most recent, gel as an associate in 2014 and be- to end mass incarceration, which she co- As CEO of Silicon fuli-Arjomandi, and Chuck Hattemer Klingvall was controller for the Califor- gan attending The Wharton School, founded with Van Jones in 2014. ¶ Megan 2013 Valley startup Artve- ’16—closed a $4-million Series A round of nia Academy of Sciences. University of Pennsylvania, in sum- Wirth writes: “I cannot believe it’s been oli, Inc., Alina Adams helps her company funding from Renren, a leading investor mer 2016. ¶ Rochelle Stowe works at five years. Just yesterday, we were ‘run- make buildings healthier by using high- of early-stage startups. OneRent manages Mary “MJ” Aus- EnviroIssues, an agency dedicated to ning’ the streets of Bellomy and roaming density algae and microfluidics to convert properties in San Francisco, Seattle, and 2008 tin MBA was se- public policy and pressing environmen- the beautiful Santa Clara campus. Cannot CO2 into fresh oxygen. Along with co- San Diego for 800+ investors and owners. lected to be on the list of 2016 Women tal issues. Her projects range from de- wait to see all of my fellow Broncos again founder Anastasia Neddersen M.S. ’10, An introduction to Renren was made pos- of Influence by the Silicon Valley Busi- signing public meetings for wastewa- in the near future!” ¶ In February, Clare the duo also participated in Tech Crunch sible through investor and entrepreneur ness Journal. Her best advice for others: ter infrastructure to building websites Wylie participated in a STEM panel at Startup Battlefield, a venture pitch and Matt Murphy ’02. Dean Ku M.A. ’09, “Always do the best that you can—even if about regional mass transit expansion. the School of Engineering’s “Imagining demo competition in New York City. ¶ assistant director and an alumni coun- you don’t like the role you are in—and you On weekends, she enjoys some good old- the Future State of STEM” conference. Karl Cook continues to ride horses pro- selor at the Career Center, introduced the will be rewarded in the future.” ¶ Michael fashioned water polo, reminiscent of the Currently at Lyra Health, a digital health fessionally. He has been riding since age founders to initial seed investors. ¶ Eric Becerra MBA was a finalist in the Fifth days she spent competing for the Broncos. company in the Bay Area, she serves as 8 and has won numerous competitions. Stackpole M.S., co-founder of OpenROV Annual Mr. Marina Competition, a fund- ¶ Grace Wu writes: “I have moved to Yan- service operations manager, working for a ¶ Symone Jackson is a 2016 recipient and creator of the OpenROV submarine, raising pageant for the Leukemia & Lym- gon, Myanmar, with my husband, Maung fellow Santa Clara graduate, Steve Blake of the Rise Up: Be Heard journalism fel- a low-cost underwater robot, was inter- phoma Society. Becerra is a co-founder Aung Lwin Oo ’11, and we are seeking ’86. ¶ Amy Yao MBA is a data science lowship, which gives young people living DESIGNER AIR chapters: African American, Asian Pacific viewed by the YouTube channel Tested of Crewmix, an app using tech to bring investment opportunities in Myanmar. If New to the scene supply chain strategist for Seagate Tech- in California’s most underserved areas an “It’s like having Islander, and Chicano Latino. He will also at the Maker Faire in May. Stackpole has and turning heads: friend groups together to create lifelong anyone is interested in visiting or invest- nology, deploying big data methods to opportunity to report on issues affecting trees inside be working with Kendra Kliesen on the worked on numerous other projects that race car driver memories. ¶ Martin Juarez MBA is VP ing in Myanmar, feel free to contact us!” Adrien De Leener ensure the hard drive leader is the first to health in their community. She is also a buildings,” Class of 1976 Grand Reunion Committee. utilize telerobotics as a means for explora- of operations at Infoblox, a rapidly grow- ’11 in the lead. utilize advance planning systems. community organizer in San Jose, primar- Alina Adams ’13 ¶ Marissa L. Minnick began her job as tion, including piloting ROV submarines ing company that provides software and REUNION YEAR ily working with families who have lost (above) says of governance coordinator at SAG-AFTRA under the Ross Sea in Antarctica and hardware to help businesses manage their 2011 Amanda Arthur co- loved ones to police violence. At SCU, she her air-purifying (Screen Actors Guild-American Federa- developing low-cost spacecrafts used to networks. ¶ Marilena Lamp MBA ’14 has founded the mobile application OptTown, was a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Tau device, Artveoli. tion of Television and Radio Artists) in carry out scientific missions in low earth joined the donor relations team at SCU as which was acquired in early 2014, before Beta Pi, and the University Honors Pro- The name of her Los Angeles in March. ¶ Dylan Porter is orbit. ¶ Xiaoyun Yang M.S. works in the assistant director, responsible for Univer- transitioning to work for a pre-IPO start- gram. She was also a SWE ViaSat Scholar, revolutionary director of engineering at Byington Steel, operations department at Apple in Silicon sity recognition societies and programs up in San Francisco called MuleSoft. She a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholar, product is derived a Santa Clara–based heat-treating com- Valley. ¶ A number of 2015 SCU grads (President’s Club, Loyal Bronco, etc.) and now runs global training and enablement and winner of the NSF Grace Hopper from the words pany. He has been working for the com- are just finishing a year volunteering with capital recognition (plaques, signage, and for its inside sales department and lives Celebration Scholarship. ¶ Shane Rogers “alveoli,” the tiny pany for two years. ¶ Campbell & Associ- the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. They include other naming opportunities). ¶ Stepha- in San Francisco. ¶ Adrien De Leener and Brian Holm ’00 are founders of Hive air sacs clustered ates, a personal-injury law firm, named Dalan Angelo, who was working with St. nie Marquez accepted a position with signed a professional contract with WRT Design, a consultation company offering tightly inside the John Thomas Ryan J.D. an associate at- Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana Best Buddies International as the director Audi for the Blancpain Endurance Se- design services to companies in addition lungs, and the torney based at the firm’s Eden office. Pre- (he loves and misses all of his classmates); of alumni relations in Miami, Florida. She ries (European endurance racing). ¶ Di- to offering three of its own products: Eligo, designer “art” that viously, Ryan served as a law clerk at Parker Atkinson, who was working with will be charged with creating an alumni ana Fitts has published two books: Your RPM Speed Rope, and Edwin, the latter of adorns its front Google Inc. ¶ Timothy T. Tran is a design Women Against Abuse in Philadelphia; association, alumni board of directors, Focus Formula and What Next? She has which was designed with the help of Bryan panel. engineer for BKF Engineers at its Red- Charlotte Coe, who was working with and other new initiatives involving the also launched a business helping others Herrera ’14. ¶ Joshua Ronen is studying wood City office. ¶ Paige Webster has Nativity Prep Academy in San Diego; Best Buddies alumni. ¶ Melissa (Lomeli) achieve their goals and live with no limits at the Ross University School of Medicine joined the Alumni Relations team as the Cameron N. Coulter, who was working Sesma has been hired as administrative at dianafitts.com. ¶ Jessica Gagnon M.A. (RUSM) in pursuit of an M.D. He is in his new assistant director of Student & Young with Cristo Rey Baltimore; Daniel Hunt, assistant to the president and vice presi- completed her Ph.D. in education at the third-year clinical clerkship in Los Angeles. Alumni Programs, managing the Student- who was working with Nativity Jesuit dent of Central Coast College in Salinas, University of Sussex. Her doctoral thesis During his time at RUSM, he has served as Alumni Council as well as a group of young Middle School in Milwaukee; Genevieve California, after graduating from the USC was titled: “Born to Fight: The University the president of the Student Government alumni ambassadors to implement a vari- Magnan who was working with New Av- Sol Price School of Public Policy with a Experiences of the Daughters of Single Association, representing a student body of ety of events and programs. Webster will enues for Youth, in Portland, Oregon; Pat- master’s in public administration. Mothers Who Are First-Generation Stu- 1,500 at the school’s island campus in the also be working alongside Frankie Bas- rick D. McDonell, who was working with

dents in the United Kingdom.” She earned PHOTO COURTESY AUDI SPORT MEDIA CENTER Commonwealth of Dominica. tone ’15 to bring about the 2nd Annual the Public Justice Center in Baltimore; Nicholas Bass an uncommon unconditional pass/no Abram Dawson was Young Alumni Soiree. Madeline Regan, who was working with 2009 writes: “Moved to corrections following her viva voca/de- 2012 listed on Forbes mag- Melissa Bica has the Low Income Housing Institute/Urban Texas and started a new job!” ¶ Amanda fense. ¶ Daniel A. Reyes has published azine’s 30 Under 30 list for venture capi- 2014 created the data- Hackworth Engi- Rest Stop in Seattle; Veronica Solorio, Major is now in her third year of private his first novel, The Essences, the first in a tal in 2016. Now at SV Angel, he’s sourced mining tool RendezView, which uses Twit- 2015 neering Ethics Fel- who was working with Community Food practice as a general dentist in Sonoma trilogy series. The book “follows the lowly Product Hunt, Taptalk, Clearbit, Outlier, ter data to display relationships, patterns, lows Clare Bartlett, Nabilah Deen, and Bank of Southern Arizona in Tucson; and County. She writes: “In my free time, I angel Uriel as he gradually finds himself LaunchKit, and Readme, while also work- and new insights that can be missed when Jocelyn Tan have published nearly 40 Adam Whalen, who was working with serve as treasurer on the board of my lo- wedged in the early stages of a rebellion ing with Vidme and Mindie. ¶ Michael looking through a database or an Excel engineering ethics cases from Silicon Val- Back on My Feet in Baltimore—which cal dental society and spend my Fridays in Heaven” (available on Amazon). He Sizemore M.S. ’14 is a business analyst spreadsheet. ¶ Christine Cate served in ley and beyond, intended to acquaint en- combines help for the homeless through teaching the next wave of future dentists resides in Morgan Hill. ¶ Jessica Jack- for Sunrun, a San Francisco–based resi- the Jesuit Volunteer Corps with San Diego gineering students and professionals with educational support and job training,

at UCSF School of Dentistry.” ¶ Jennifer son Sloan J.D. is the vice mayor of Mill dential solar electricity provider. Recently, ADAMS AILNA COURTESTY PHOTO Youth Services as a residential counselor the variety of ethical experiences of engi- along with morning runs.

60 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 61 BRONCO NEWS CLASS NOTES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES Papa Reites. Craftsmanship and humility. Be- Frente; and served as a LOOP Mentor to the Richard J. Riordan Award in recogni- first-year students. He works as an assis- tion of her outstanding contributions to loved member of many, varied communities. The tant paralegal at a corporate immigration community service. Through a Roelandts secret sauce in a trio of Solar Decathlon teams firm in Santa Clara. ¶ Lauren Gardiner Grant, Naguib worked to develop a com- was presented with a Student Life Award puter science curriculum for refugee girls and, recently, Tiny House builders. For 41 of his 78 in recognition of her contributions to the living in Jordan. ¶ In February, the Wash- overall quality of life in the University ington Post published an essay by Mohit years of energy-filled life, we were blessed to have community. She has served as a past co- Nalavadi about how his studies at Santa chair and secretary of Igwebuike and di- Clara translated to life-affirming work Jim Reites, S.J., MST ’71, here on campus. He rector of the Multicultural Center, where with Engineers Without Borders, includ- also lived a life of the mind—and now we feel an she helped to establish the Multicultural ing iterating designs to deliver clean water Center Scholarship. Gardiner will be at- to a rural community in Honduras. Last ache of the heart. tending Columbia University as part of its year, he assisted in engineering a more ef- post-baccalaureate premedical program. ficient way to make clay tiles in Rwanda. ¶ ¶ Lucas Hill received the Richard J. Rior- Aaron Poor was presented with a Student dan Award in recognition of outstanding Life Award in recognition of his contribu- community service. As a first-year student, tions to the overall quality of life in the REUNION YEAR FREE TO Hill was awarded a Jean Donovan Fellow- University community. He has worked as 2016 Hannah Baker re- EXPLORE ship to live for one month at Baan Dada’s an orientation leader, served as president ceived the 2016 Alumni Association Board Created by Eric Children’s Home for disadvantaged youth of the Ruff Riders, and is the outgoing of Directors’ Service Award. After gradu- Stackpole MS in western Thailand. As a sophomore, he Associated Student Government student ation, she began hiking the Oregon and ’15, the OpenROV organized the Rainbow Prom and Drag body president. This summer, Poor re- Washington stretches of the Pacific Crest submarine Show. During his third and fourth years, turned to YMCA Camp Orkila in the San Trail. She is now starting two years of ser- (above) is a low- he participated in the Health Care Eth- Juan Islands as an assistant director. ¶ vice with the Peace Corps. ¶ Glen Bradley cost robot aimed ics Internship and Honzel Fellowship Harrison Price works at EnviroIssues, was presented with a Student Life Award at democratizing through the Markkula Center for Applied an agency dedicated to public policy and for his contributions to the overall qual- underwater Ethics. ¶ Alana Hinkston was presented pressing environmental issues, where he ity of life in the University community. exploration by the Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Award. helps communicate and find solutions to He has been a Search retreat leader, peer making tools At SCU, she served as vice president of environmental, transportation, and ur- educator, Drahmann Center tutor, Eucha- capable of public relations for SCU’s Associate Stu- ban development challenges. When Price ristic Minister, member of the Concert navigating the dent Government. She was also a neigh- is not in the office, he is riding his bike, Choir, and part of SCCAP. He also worked deep available to borhood representative in the University drinking coffee, or exploring Puget Sound. for the Rainbow Resource Center and re- anyone. Villas, a mentor for the LOOP Mentoring ¶ Hayley Raquer was awarded the Saint ceived the Senior Leadership Award at the Program, and a co-founder of the Unity 4 Clare Medal. She was a University Hon- Lavender Senior Ceremony. In August, movement. This summer, she moved to ors student and research assistant in the Bradley began working in Washington, Minneapolis to work at the Target head- biology department and served as a board D.C., advocating for LGBTQ+ people in quarters as a marketing associate. ¶ Grace member and co-founder of the Santa Clara the Catholic Church. ¶ Jon Colarelli was Lacayo was presented with a Student Life University STEM Alumni Panel. ¶ Tiffany awarded the Nobili Medal by SCU. He was Award in recognition of her contributions Sarchet was presented with a Student Life a member of the University Honors Pro- to the overall quality of life in the Univer- Award in recognition of her contributions gram, served as a community facilitator, sity community. She has participated in to the overall quality of life in the Univer- and worked as an assistant resident direc- various aspects of Campus Ministry and sity community. In addition to serving as a tor for the Alpha RLC. After graduation, was the assistant resident director for the community facilitator, she has also worked Colarelli moved to Baltimore, Maryland, Xavier RLC. Lacayo moved to Washing- as a liaison to Campus Safety Services to to serve incarcerated youth as part of the ton, D.C., to pursue a master’s in health bring the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) “Fascinating cool- He served on the faculty of the Depart- But it was with my family that I spent assuming that life as a Jesuit meant con- Jesuit Volunteer Corps. ¶ Shelby Crespi systems administration at Georgetown Program back to campus. ¶ The Univer- ness,” Papa Reites ment of Religious Studies, where he was most of my time with my friend Jim; his stant access to free cookies, good food, and received the Richard J. Riordan Award University. ¶ Jenna Lipman received the sity Council on Inclusive Excellence has would say. “To associate professor. He helped found the life was deeply and indelibly woven into a recent-model Toyota Corolla. in recognition of her outstanding contri- 2016 Alumni Association Board of Direc- awarded the Gracelyn Rillorta Bateman figure out something Xavier Residential Learning Community, the fabric of my family for nearly Later those kids—in college and high butions to community service. She was a tor’s Service Award. She will be spending Student Inclusive Excellence Award to difficult, to imagine where he served as faculty director. He led 40 years. school, and even later, in careers launched how to make it 2015 Global Social Benefit Fellow and has READY TO two years with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Piper Thomasson. She has served as pro- various student and alumni immersion In the early ’80s we lived in a cavern- and joined by spouses—would entertain work, to watch it trips to Mexico and El Salvador. He once ous house on Franklin Street, next to the Jim over leisurely summer dinners. (Note, been a part of the Resilient Families Proj- SERVE Grace in Belize at a local Jesuit primary school, gram coordinator for GASPED (Gay and perform ... that’s worked construction, and in the School big cross that now is at the entrance to Jim was the perfect guest to host in the ect (RFP), where she co-led its interven- Ogihara ’16 fin- tutoring in math and reading, and co-run- Straight People Educating for Diversity) fascinating of Engineering he was a tireless and SCU. Jim referred to the chaos that was kitchen; everything, even a simple PB & tion program entirely in Spanish. In the ished her tenure ning an after-school program. ¶ The Uni- and guided such events as the Rainbow coolness.” stalwart advisor—and associate profes- the life of a family with four kids under J sandwich, was “the best ever.”) And Jim fall, Crespi will be attending the Universi- as an intern and versity Council on Inclusive Excellence Prom and Drag Show. She was a founding sor. He died in his sleep on April 15. From the age of 10 as the “divine milieu.” He would in turn entertain them and their religious studies colleague Philip Boo loved it. He’d come by many evenings— friends. Sometimes we turned to things ty of Minnesota’s Master in Public Health editorial assistant presented the Gracelyn Rillorta Bateman member of the Santa Clara Dance Coali- Riley, a eulogy. arriving amidst baths, story time, and intellectual, introducing my kids to the life program in epidemiology. ¶ Eduardo for our mag. She Student Inclusive Excellence Award to tion and received both the Anna Halprin homework—with a brown bag bursting of the mind; sometimes they debated Tu- Cuevas received the Richard J. Riordan has begun service Marissa Martinez. She served as associ- and Charles Lampkin Awards. ¶ Avery Jim was a friend of mine. with cookies he had purloined from the pac, something I never got; but more often

Award in recognition of his outstanding with JVC in Min- ate director for the Multicultural Center, Unterreiner received the Richard J. Rior- PHOTO COURTESY OPEN ROV The amazing thing about Jim is just Jesuit residence, where he’d just finished he’d regale us with stories. Jim loved to tell how many people—here and around the community dinner. stories—not all were true, but that is a story contributions to community service. He neapolis, working helped with SCCAP’s first Beyond the dan Award in recognition of her outstand- world—can say that about him. On Sundays Jim would host us for lunch for another day. has been a Donovan Fellow to the East LA with refugees. Guilt Campaign, and oversaw a number of ing contributions to community service. From the moment I met him in the first in the Nobili dining room after the 10:00 And now he is gone, a reality I never, Community Corporation; assisted with clubs and organizations including Barka- She held a variety of leadership roles in few weeks of my career here at SCU, Jim a.m. Mass, delighting in our disruptive ever considered. But he has left me—and tours, panels, and organizational plan- da. She also wrote and produced the play both SCCAP and Associated Student Gov- bounded into my life with élan, care, un- presence. My kids looked on those lunches perhaps you, too—to ponder, with grati- bridled enthusiasm, support, and curiosity. like a trip to the White House, and for a tude, humility and love, the words with ning at Raza Day for Latino high school HAPA Cup of Sugar, which was performed ernment. She is staying on at SCU to pur- Jim was a great colleague. while one of my sons discovered a vocation, which I began: Jim was a friend of mine.

students; been involved in MECha-El on campus. ¶ Ameera Naguib received sue a master’s in teaching. GODOY NABOR BY PHOTOGRAPHY

62 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 63 BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES Revolutionary with a Rickenbacker. He started children, including Shannon Victor ’85; and nine grandchildren. on the folk circuit, toting guitar and banjo. San Ronald “Ron” Joseph Schenone, a Francisco-born Paul Kantner ’63 never graduated firm believer in the value of education and a lifelong learner, died peacefully at home on from college, but he helped define a musical era. April 11. Born and raised in Stockton, Ron Engineer and was a devout and proud Catholic Italian. He He co-founded Jefferson Airplane and led its sci- offspring: Dick Blackburn ’49 served in the Army for two years and worked fi transformation into Jefferson Starship. He died came back to SCU for Shell Oil Company and United Tech- years later to assist nologies. After retirement, Ron took classes Jan. 28. Fellow Airplane crew member Jorma with the rerouting and pursued his master’s. He was a vora- of The Alameda cious reader and lifelong 49ers fan. Ron cre- around campus. Kaukonen ’64 shares this remembrance. ated the Athletic Hall of Fame for St. Mary’s High School and was inducted in 2009. He Here’s to us, and those like us … damn ran more than 750 races, including his first few left. Paul and I were old friends. Bob Kinzie ’64 introduced me to him when I marathon in 1985. Ron is survived by his was in Santa Clara in ’62. Our common- wife of 59 years, Gloria Chinciolo; five chil- ality was always the music and whatever dren, among them Renee Westerfield ’83; it took to make it happen. We all played and seven grandchildren. the same little dusty, smoky rooms … struggled to be heard over the hiss of espresso machines … and loved every A proud fourth-gen- moment of it. When Paul enticed me into Commission and later was president of his 1953 eration San Francis- joining what would become Jefferson own company, Mollard Marketing. Tom can whose great-grandparents came for the Airplane, we rehearsed relentlessly. When Obituaries we went on the road in the beginning we loved attending reunions. The discipline Gold Rush, Adolph Capurro passed away couch-surfed together. No one could af- We publish news of the passing of and faith he learned from high school in San Rafael on April 15. He served in ford hotels. We shared food … we shared Broncos as we learn of it. Find obitu- and college never left him. He lived in Los Germany with the U.S. Army. In San Fran- cars … we had one heart. The Airplane aries published in their entirety at Altos since 1959 with the love of his life, cisco he practiced law and began managing was an amazing aggregate of personali- magazine.scu.edu/classnotes. Family Ann, and their family. the family business in 1979, and attended ties and talent. That we could all coexist in the same room was amazing. That we members may also submit obituaries Athlete, Army veteran, and avid trav- weekly gatherings of the city’s Italian men’s could function together and make the and photos for publication online and eler, George A. Stein passed away on Sept. cultural club. A resident of Marin County lasting art that we did was nothing short in print. 11, 2015. He attended SCU on a basketball since 1964, he never stopped rooting for the of a miracle. In my opinion, Paul was the scholarship and served in the Korean War, 49ers. He is survived by his wife of almost catalyst that made the alchemy happen. He held our feet to the flame. He could George Doll J.D. then played minor league baseball with the MEMORIES 56 years, Jeanne Sciutti Capurro; three be argumentative and contentious … he 1938 ’40 was born in Yankees farm club. He was a man of his When Adolph children, among them John (Sandi) Ca- could be loving and kind … his dedication Santa Clara on March 22, 1918. After earn- word and never missed a paycheck in 59 Capurro ’53 purro ’85 and Stephen (Rose) Capurro to the Airplane’s destiny as he saw it was ing his law degree, he served in the Navy years of work. He worked for Basalt Rock retired, he began ’91; and five grandchildren. Daughter undeniable. Over the years he and I oc- casionally butted heads over things that during WWII as a Registered Publications Company, later Dillingham Corporation, taking cruises Christina Capurro Sand (Duane) ’92 seem trivial today. I was so pleased last Officer on the staff of Admiral William F. then the California Field Iron Workers Ad- around the passed in December 2015. year when he accepted my dinner invita- Halsey, Commander Third Fleet, South Pa- ministrative Trust until just a few days shy of world. His latest: Born in Butte, Montana, in 1931, John tion when I was in San Francisco, and cific area. He was an asisstant U.S. Attorney his 85th birthday. Born in St. Louis, the avid a trip in 2015 to W. McMahon Sr. died April 28, 2015. Jack indeed we rediscovered our friendship. After all those journeys together in the in San Francisco and later practiced law for bowler and golfer spent most of his life in Antarctica filled played football and baseball at SCU and re- beginning … the different paths our lives many years in Redwood City. He passed Napa and helped create the Napa High Ath- with the wonder turned to Montana during summers to play took as we got older and all the water away in Santa Rosa on May 13, age 98 years. letic Hall of Fame Foundation, to which he of pure beauty. semipro baseball, work in the mines, and under the bridge made us all one in a way and his brother were inducted. Survivors in- He was an avid build what would eventually become the that no one who wasn’t there could ever Dedicated civil en- clude his wife of 30 years, Carol, with whom stamp collector, family cabin at Georgetown Lake. He de- understand. We shared water from the same well. In Heinlein parlance, we were 1949 gineer Richard R. he visited all 50 states and all 58 California a backpacker, bated between the priesthood or a coaching indeed water brothers. We were all on fire Blackburn served in the Pacific in World county seats; three children; one stepchild; and a lover of career but decided medicine was his calling. in a fiery time. Time may have dimmed War II and worked 30 years for the city of and multiple grandchildren. fine music, early The young doctor proposed to his wife of 59 the flame, but the fire in the sky that was San Jose. He retired in 1980, but he wasn’t California art, and years, Joan Livingston, in residency in St. so easy to see in youth is still discernible from the grey castle if you know where nearly done. He founded the San Jose Re- Engineer and Army good Italian food. Louis, on a night when she had two other to look. I will try to keep my eyes open. tired Employees Association and served as 1952 veteran Joseph Vin- dates already scheduled. He was known Friends are always good … you can’t have director until 2008. He contributed his ex- cent Reynolds Jr. of Los Angeles passed for telling people that when the priest said too many of them. That said, the old ones

pertise on campus and assisted the city of away on July 10, 2015, at his home in Napa. to go forth and propagate, he thought he PHOTO COURTESY THE FAMILY OF DICK BLACKBURN share that wondrous gift of knowing you when you were young. You can’t buy that. Santa Clara. He died at age 94 on March 1. He served two tours in Korea. Joe’s civil en- was responsible for the whole world (Jack I will miss your presence on this plane … gineering career then took him from Los and Joan had 10 children). Jack’s favorite Ride free to the end of the earth my old As part of the indom- Angeles to Napa to Saudi Arabia, where he moments: watching kids’ and grandkids’ friend … I will not forget you! 1950 itable Class of ’50 en- worked on water systems. Along with being games, hunting, pack trips, float trips, and gineers who have met annually without fail a gracious party host and avid reader, Joe summers at the cabins. He taught that serv- The brain of the Airplane: Paul since their graduation, Tom Mollard will was a nature lover. He took his children on ing God meant serving those round you, Kantner in New be sorely missed. The 89-year-old passed several trips to the Trinity National Forest learn from today and do better tomorrow, York, October ’67. away on Jan. 21. Tom was born and raised in in Northern California, and, even into his and, if you are having a bad day, “get your We lost him this Oakland. He served aboard the USS Cogh- early 70s, went on solo backpacking trips. ass to Church.” His wife, his children and winter at age 74. lan during World War II. As an electrical Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Carol their spouses, and more than 50 grandchil-

engineer he started with the Atomic Energy Reynolds, whom he met on a blind date; five dren survive him. IMAGES GETTY / OCHS MICHAEL BY PHOTOGRAPHY

64 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 65 BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES BRONCO NEWS OBITUARIES This Bright Beauty. Playfully sporting a dash of Paul “Pat” Murphy passed away on A proud member of pines, passed away from cancer on July 20, red or blue or green in her hair, Paula Z. Kirkeby March 18. He served as an artillery officer 1956 the Dynamic Class 2015. At SCU, he was a senior class officer at Keflavík Air Force Base, Iceland. In 1969 of ’56, John Edward Nolan J.D. ’60 had and basketball statistician. After gradua- loved art—and “artists who mark on paper and he started Special Products Co., which con- many great loves, but the biggest was his tion, he was the ambassador of Philippines tinues today as Window Solutions. He en- family. He loved to golf at his Santa Cruz to Spain for many years. He was a very those who don’t … Buddhas; motorcycles, leathers, joyed skiing and hiking almost to the end Mountains vacation home, cheer for the warm, personable, down-to-earth friend of his life, and traveling with his wife, Patty, 49ers and the SF Giants, and attend Christ to many. He is survived by his wife, Pilina, and tattoos; jewelry; writing her e-mails in all cap as well as taking Fromm Institute classes at the King Church, where he was a mem- three children, and six grandchildren. University of San Francisco. ber for 50 years and Eucharistic Minister. letters and always signing off with ‘Love, Paula.’” So John spent a few years in private practice John Hall of Ros- recalls Rebecca Schapp, director of the de Saisset Veteran director of ELVIS: ALOHA law before joining the Port of Oakland, in 1961 eville, California, died 1954 live TV extravagan- The proudest his birth city, for 30 years. The 81-year-old on July 15, 2015, at 77. John moved from Museum at Santa Clara, a place Kirkeby also adored. zas and San Jose native Marty Pasetta left achievement for resident of Pleasant Hill passed away on his birthplace of Minneapolis to California SCU to work for San Francisco’s KGO-TV. Marty Pasetta ’54, May 9, after a long illness. His loving wife in 1949 when he was 11 years old. He later Kirkeby had a unique ability to connect He then spent four decades in television. according to son Sheila of 53 years, four devoted children, spent two years in Ecuador as a Lay Mis- artists, and she sought to foster a place for them in museums like the de Saisset. On top of 17 Academy Awards shows from Marty Pasetta Jr.: seven cherished grandchildren, nephew, sion Helper, 15 years as a probation officer, She founded a fine arts press, Smith 1972 to 1988 and inaugural galas for Presi- convincing Elvis and nieces survive him. and worked as a licensed marriage and Andersen Editions, in 1969 in Palo Alto. dents Carter and Reagan, Marty directed Presley to sus- family therapist. Among his surviving fam- She brought artists to work in residence. and produced specials for Hollywood’s pend his drug use Superior Court ily are four children, his sister, brother Tom Each time an artist worked at her press, one print was gifted to the de Saisset biggest names: Frank Sinatra, Bing Cros- and lose weight Judge John Thom- Hall ’61, and nephews Patrick Frontiera 1958 Museum. by, and tributes to Elizabeth Taylor, Fred for the 1973 spe- as Ball J.D. will be remembered fondly for ’95 and Joe Frontiera ’97. That relationship began three decades Astaire, and Alfred Hitchcock. Thanks to cial “Elvis: Aloha his quick wit and fun-loving teasing. The ago, when Kirkeby entrusted the de Sais- Marty, the Oscars have split screens, in- from Hawaii.” One 82-year-old enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, San Luis Obispo set with the Smith Andersen Editions Archive, representing some of the most stant replays, and musical numbers with billion people and snowmobiling. Born in San Jose, he lost an icon and the 1962 important California artists of our time. background dancers, lasers, and pyrotech- worldwide viewed spent his childhood years in the Santa Cruz world’s best host when Gregory Morris She facilitated many other gifts as well, of nics. His first major directing job came that first satellite Mountains and Los Gatos. After practic- died on Feb. 8 at his home in Avila Beach. art and self. on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour broadcast of a live ing law for 28 years, he was appointed as A gentleman through and through, Greg Kirkeby grew up in Massachusetts, in a in 1967, but he also helped launch and concert. a Municipal Court judge and then Superior made sure your glass was full and your home where many artists and art dealers passed through. She studied fine arts, direct the game shows Wheel of Fortune Court judge for the county of Santa Clara. smile was big. The former Eagle Scout graduating from Lesley College in 1955, and Love Connection. For 15 years begin- Judge Ball presided over 100 homicide worked in an insurance firm now known as and moved west. She and her second ning in 1971, Marty secured the talent for trials. He retired and moved to Plumas Morris & Garritano, where he joined his fa- husband, Philip Kirkeby, began collecting SCU’s Golden Circle Theatre Party, flying County and spent the last 14 years travel- ther and where two of his own children still art—particularly works from the European avant-garde movement COBRA. In 1969, in Hollywood entertainers, musicians, and ing throughout Northern California to work today. Add to the San Francisco na- they opened Smith Andersen Gallery in stage crews, all of whom donated their ser- hear felony cases in the Assigned Judges tive’s 50-year career his passions for Catho- Palo Alto, along with the fine arts press. vices. Marty is survived by his wife, Elise; Program. He passed away Nov. 10, 2015, in lic education, the California Missions, and The gallery became a hub of cultural daughter Debbie Palacio ’84; sons Marty Reno, Nevada. He will be greatly missed by traveling; he also helped restore the La activity. Artists working in residence could experiment with different methods of Jr. and Gregory; and five grandchildren. many, including wife Patsy Williams. Loma Adobe. He went to India and Ma- printmaking. Smith Andersen Editions The 82-year-old died on May 21, 2015. lawi to administer polio vaccinations and represented artists from all over the world, For a collage of some of the stars Marty Pa- Thermodynamics to drill water wells, and he vacationed with yet never neglected local artists, thanks setta recruited for the Golden Circle, see our professor Cornelius his family in Maui and Tahiti, Italy and to Paula’s efforts to connect them with 1960 friends who could support their work. Spring 2016 edition. —Ed. Timothy Moynihan will be remembered Norway. He is survived by his brother; chil- Philip passed away five years ago, but by family and friends as a kind and moral dren Kelly Morgan ’91, Brendan Morris Paula carried on operations of the gallery Forever a Portland- man with an impish sense of humor. He ’92, Kerry Morris ’98, and Patrick; five and print studio herself, and hosted exhi- er, William Martin was the center of many a party thanks to grandchildren; and two nephews. bitions. She died at her home on the first 1955 of April, surrounded by family, two days Brunkow enjoyed family activities, golf- his guitar repertoire, ranging from folk shy of her 82nd birthday. ing, volleyball, and travels to the Oregon songs to bawdy ballads. Connie’s academic Robert Bachmann At her memorial service, Chancellor Coast. Bill studied civil engineering and career took him to Princeton for graduate 1963 was born in Los Ange- William J. Rewak, S.J. asked, in a poem served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- study and then to California State Univer- les to Swiss immigrants. He studied mechan- he composed in her honor: neers in Newfoundland, then worked there sity, Los Angeles, Catholic University of ical engineering and worked at Northrop What does it take, this bright beauty as a civilian before moving back to Port- America, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- Grumman and later taught at the Monterey that turns the wings? land with his wife, Elizabeth Lowell. He tute. There, the professor emeritus special- Naval Post Graduate School. He passed The University’s former president, Fr. enjoyed an almost 40-year career in home ized in amorphous materials (molten salts away Jan. 9, 2016, at home with his family by Rewak had known Paula for decades. The poem’s answer to the question: building and construction for Douglas and inorganic glasses) and helped create his side. He was a lifelong skin diver and cy- Lowell Inc. Fond of his own four dogs, Bill a popular equation that bears his name: clist, and he loved cooking for family gath- A deep center of grace where color and form create your days. always had a treat in his pocket for any dog “The Narayanaswamy-Moynihan-Tool re- erings. He is survived by his wife of 48 he encountered. Bill died on Jan. 28 and is laxation formalism.” He hailed from Ingle- years, Beverly, his sons and grandchildren. An exhibition to celebrate Paula Kirkeby’s gifts is being prepared for spring survived by his wife; three children; three wood, California, loved wildlife conserva- Although he left SCU in the middle of his 2017 at the de Saisset Museum. granddaughters; and his sister. tion, animal welfare, and science fiction. senior year, Martin Ziegler always identi- , 1980S, INK ON PAPER, DE SAISSET MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTION, 2012.2. PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOANNE LEE. JOANNE BY PHOTOGRAPHED 2012.2. COLLECTION, PERMANENT MUSEUM SAISSET DE PAPER, ON INK 1980S, , Patrick Ford J.D. ’58 passed away on Spaceship and alien movies were at the fied himself as a Bronco. Marty finished his This blue cross: a Feb. 13. He was preceded in death by his top of his list. He passed away on Dec. 22, degree in Southern California and passed work by artist Sam

UNTITLED Francis, given to the brother James Ford ’62 and is survived 2015, in Albany, New York. His children, away on Dec. 6, 2015. Survivors include de Saisset by Paula by his wife Cynthia Ford, brother Ter- sister, grandchildren, and his partner of 30 wife Lynda, sons Erich and Christian, four Kirkeby in memory rence Ford ’57, J.D. ’59, and children years, Maria, survive him. grandchildren, and nephew Travis Martin of President Paul L. SAM FRANCIS, SAM Hillary and Glenn. John J. Rocha ’60, from Manila, Philip- Hagedorn ’99. ’18 YOUNG ESTHER BY WORDS Locatelli, S.J. ’60

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Carol Albert Kearns— of nieces and nephews. As she passed away, “Have fun every day” for contributing to conscious living and pos- 1965 an avid book group Mary, surrounded by her family, smiled 1973 was the special motto itive social change. She was born in Pennsyl- member, bridge player, and cook—passed gracefully and was beautiful beyond belief. of Maureen Rose Murphy, who died peace- vania and leaves behind her children, four away April 22 in Cincinnati. She spent fully surrounded by family on March 20. grandchildren, and life-long friend Edward many years on the Kenton County Foster Friends, former stu- Mickey loved teaching, dancing, golf, and Frost M.A. ’74. Care Review Board in Kentucky, earning 1969 dents, and family will bunco. She kept “the book” at every base- statewide recognition for her work. Carol’s miss Arthur C. Gatto M.A. The San Jose ball game she went to—from Burlingame Remembered for love of traveling took her to all 50 states, resident, born in 1925, served two years in Little League to the World Series. Hostess 1983 connecting people, as well as to Europe, Africa, Canada, Mex- the Army as a chemist in Baltimore and a of the Murphy Family Easter Brunch and finding ways to make peace, and solving ico, and the Caribbean. The 73-year-old medical technician in Korea before enter- Hunt, Mickey always had the iconic Gold- problems, 55-year-old Marion Tavenner enjoyed life, loved people, and made a ing the education field. He served the Mil- en Bunny Eggs and Mystery Bag, which Hose had a lengthy career in commer- wealth of friends. Survivors include her pitas School District for three years as a her family will never forget. She leaves be- cial real estate. Her markets were first in husband of 52 years, Thomas J. Kearns teacher and 11 years as a curriculum devel- hind two children; four grandchildren; sib- San Jose and then Reno, where she and ’62; three children, including Daniel F. opment coordinator. After Arthur received lings Geri Murphy ’69, Pat Murphy MBA her husband founded and owned AMH Kearns ’94; seven grandchildren; and a his master’s in counseling from SCU, the ’73, Dennis Murphy ’77, and KC Murphy Properties. Growing up in Massachusetts, sister. U.S. government sent him to Hawaii to be- ’81; and friends. Her father was Francis Maryland, and Okinawa, Japan, Marion come a reading specialist. Following his re- J. Murphy ’43. She will be missed by her touched people far and wide. Among Patent attorney tirement, he continued to teach until he was family; friends from school, work, and the those who will miss her laughter and wel- 1966 Brian Peter “Pete” 76 years old, but this time: roller-skating. community; and first friend and final care- coming spirit are her husband, son, moth- Barndt passed away on April 27, 2015, in taker, Barb. er, and two siblings. Marion passed away Allen, Texas, at age 69. Recently retired Former SCU Board on Feb. 3 in Reno. from Texas Instruments after more than 25 BRONZE 1970 of Regents member The different hats years, the Santa Rosa native loved such so- BRONCO and Bronco Bench supporter John “Jack” 1974 that former class Albert Hopkins cial activities as golf and travel. He also en- Dedicated and Previte Jr. passed away unexpectedly president William Everhart MBA ’86 1987 M.A. served in the joyed history, art, poetry, and music—from hard working, but peacefully on March 5. The 67-year- wore throughout his life brought him merchant marine and in the Navy in the Mathematical in the history department, first woman in Jamaican ska to opera. Pete leaves behind Jack Previte ’70 old resident of Santa Clara was a devoted many close friendships. During his junior Pacific in World War II and worked for Faculty and planes: Jean Pedersen the College of Arts and Sciences to receive his wife of 45 years, Barbara McWilliams always strived to husband, father, and grandfather who es- year, he was “the cool RA” on 8th floor a mining company in South America. an endowed chair, and the first woman ’69, and his children, Brian and Elizabeth improve on what- pecially cherished his Sicilian heritage. Be- Swig and was elected student body presi- In California, he worked in construc- faculty member to serve on the Board of Barndt ’01. ever endeavor he sides visiting friends and relatives in Sicily, dent by a landslide, thanks in part to his tion before starting a career at Lock- Staff Trustees. Since 1992, SCU has awarded the undertook. And Jack’s passion was golf. After graduation, “Vote for Bill Everhart” T-shirts with the heed in Sunnyvale. Albert was active in Mary Gordon Essay Prize for excellence in Fondly referred to as he was the lead Jack served as an Army officer during the Mr. Peanut logo. He and his band, High community affairs, including leader- Long-time professor of mathematics at feminist scholarship. Gordon spent her final 1967 “Captain Doughnut” Bronco on efforts Vietnam War. Since 1990, he had been Tide, once opened for comedian Steve ship positions with the Boy Scouts and Santa Clara, Jean J. Pedersen died on years living in a cottage behind the Santa for his love of boating and circular pastries, that brought the the general manager of CGB Investments Martin in the Pipestage venue beneath Little League. After his first wife, Meri- New Year’s Day. After earning degrees from Monica home of her daughter, actress Eve James Cronin MBA ’69 died from cancer bronze Bronco in San Jose. Jack is survived by his loving Graham Hall. Bill later became assistant lyn, passed in 1981, he became a hospice Brigham Young University—where she Gordon. She died Christmas Eve, surround- on March 18. Jim was born in San Fran- statue (below) to wife, Valerie; two sons; daughter Elisha VP for Finance at SCU, commuting from volunteer for terminally ill patients and abandoned home ec after discovering the MEMORIES ed by her family as they sang “Silent Night.” cisco and lived for 34 years in Hillsbor- campus in 2014. Spanton ’98; and a granddaughter. the redwoods of Felton because he didn’t a part-time member of his church’s pas- beauty of mathematics—and the Univer- Janet Napolitano Professional machinist Stanley Tharaud ough. He served as a first lieutenant in the want to give up the outdoors and back- toral staff. These inspired the Los Altos sity of Utah, Jean moved to San Jose with ’79, president of worked closely with faculty and students, Army and worked as an insurance broker. packing. He became “LA Bill” when he resident to get his SCU degree in coun- her husband, Kent. She started part-time at the University of and masterfully kept SCU faculty research He owned and operated Nobert Cronin & took a position at Mount Saint Mary’s Col- seling. Albert passed away on Jan. 5. He SCU and proved such a spectacular teacher California system, and lab equipment in fine working order, Company. Devout family man and Catho- lege and later Claremont Graduate Uni- is survived by his three children, a sister, that she was transferred to the rank of full says of Mary designing and building many apparatuses lic, he was a lifelong philanthropist whose versity. In his final career act, Bill moved four grandchildren, and three great- professor by 1996. Her specialty was poly- Gordon: “There for them. He retired in November 2012 af- efforts to help family, friends, and neigh- to Sweetwater, Tennessee, to start Purring grandchildren. hedral geometry, combinatorics, and num- weren’t many ter nearly 34 years of service to the Univer- bors were legendary. He was a member of Dog organic food farm and continue his ber theory, and she worked with Stanford’s women professors sity. He died Jan. 10 at age 88. San Francisco’s Olympic Club for 61 years music pursuits, including his solo CD, Dif- Santa Clara resident George Polya and British topologist Peter J. at Santa Clara in He was born in Santa Cruz to Italian and continued to water-ski, cycle, and play ferent Hats, and This Way with Knoxville- 1993 George Ambrocio Hilton, who helped crack the enigma code those days, and immigrant parents, and Andrew Joseph competitive basketball into his final year of area band Exit 62. Above all, Bill loved Martinez Sr. M.A. died on Feb. 9 at 76. at Bletchley Park. A popular lecturer, Jean she served as Locatelli always had a larger-than-life per- life. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, being dad to Caitlin. The Houston native He married Rosalie G. Martinez in 1959. was often asked to speak at meetings, rang- an important role sonality and contagious smile. Andy was Nancy; three sons; two grandchildren; two died Feb. 2 at home in Farragut, Tennes- He is survived by his four children, including from departmental colloquia to regional model for me. the coach of many successful local basket- sisters, including Sheila Marko ’70, MBA see. He is survived by sister-in-law Cyn- ing Stephanie Martinez ’99, six grand- meetings to international congresses, from She challenged ball teams, including the undefeated Wil- ’72; and numerous nephews and nieces. thia Everhart ’76 and brother George children, and three great-grandchildren. Singapore to the Netherlands to Israel. She me to do my best low Glen High School “Team of Destiny” in Mary Kelly (Moroney) Basso of Menlo Everhart ’69. is survived by her two children, six grand- work and to ap- 1968–69. The following year, he began his Park passed away on April 1 following a Jacqueline Anh Thu children, and daughter-in-law Suzanna proach the study 30-year career with SCU. He was assistant graceful and tenacious battle with lung can- Long-time Watson- 2017 Pham Huyen was Pedersen ’85. of history with coach to Carroll Williams, facilities di- cer. After earning her teaching credential 1976 ville resident Signe born on a sunny fall afternoon in 1995. When Mary Gordon arrived at SCU analytic rigor and rector, and director of programs and club when her youngest daughter was in fourth “Seena” Frost M.A. passed away peace- She was in her third year of studying biol- in 1975 as a professor of history, the num- an appreciation of sports. He played basketball at San Jose grade, Mary taught third grade and Mon- fully on Jan. 13, at home with her family PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLES BARRY ogy and a member of the Vietnamese Stu- ber of women faculty could be counted on divergent points of State University and, after earning two de- tessori. A devout Catholic, she spent years at her side. She was 83. Educated at Pomo- dent Association. She had a passion for one hand. By 1980, Gordon had created view. I carry those grees there, joined the military in the 1950s, as a Eucharistic Minister to the sick and as na College and Yale Divinity School, Seena the arts, particularly drawing. She adored the first women’s studies program. Born in values with me to working special services at the Pentagon. an English teacher to immigrants at the attended SCU while raising four children. working with children at the Community Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, she this day.” The 82-year-old San Jose resident enjoyed Catholic Worker House. Just a few weeks She served as director of the Family Services School of Music and Arts in Palo Alto. She was one of only two women in her class at spending time with his three grandchildren, shy of her 71st birthday, Mary left behind Association of Watsonville. She published loved animals, especially the neighbor- University of Sydney. She decoded messages doing yard work, and playing golf. He died the love of her life of 48 years, Raymond the books SoulCollage® and the sequel Soul- hood cat, Carter. She was a beloved and in World War II for Australia and then ac- on April 16. Andy is survived by his loving Basso ’67, MBA ’70; four children; five Collage® Evolving, which earned a Silver cherished daughter, sister, niece, cousin, cepted a fellowship to Radcliffe College. wife of 54 years and two sons, along with siblings; seven grandchildren; and dozens Medal in the 2011 Nautilus Book Awards ARCHIVES SCU COURTESY PHOTO and friend. She died on May 20. At SCU, she was the first tenured woman extended family.

68 SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 69 LAST PAGE THE CATALA CLUB WILLOW TREES Willow Tree Oasis. Find it on a grassy plaza where The Alameda—a four-lane paved highway splitting campus—once ran. Three trees were planted in 2005 by the Catala Club to provide a place for shade and respite, and as a tribute to their namesake, mission-era priest Magin Catalá, who two centu- ries ago planted willows in the same space to make a leafy tunnel leading to the Mission Church. FIRST THE CLUB The Catala Club was DATE formed in 1930 for women interested in becoming a part of the The Mission Church has been the site Santa Clara family. For decades of thousands of weddings. But how they have provided financial as- many people have gone there for a sistance and scholarships. The first date? “Joe asked me to go swing willow tree project was proposed dancing, but I was going to Mass by former club president Betty Ford to mark the club’s 75th an- that morning,” says Cathy De Maria niversary and to ensure that this ’70. “He said he’d meet me for Mass.” group—engaged in quiet, heartfelt ¶ “That’s when you thought, maybe work on behalf of SCU—had a he’s not too bad,” Joe De Maria says. ¶ special place on campus both for Cathy and Joe continued to see each THE ROAD Willow trees them, and for all to enjoy. other, and in 1992 they made another were planted in rows lin- date at the Mission—this time to get ing The Alameda in 1795. married. For Cathy, the choice of ven- The last was removed in ue was easy because Santa Clara is, 1982. The road itself ran in many ways, her “first love.” Cathy

through campus until it TREE PHOTO, CENTER BY JOANNE LEE. CLUB PHOTO BY JIM GENSHEIMER. CRUCIFIX PHOTO COURTESY SCU DIGITAL COLLECTIONS. ROAD PHOTO COURTESY

SERVING THE INTELLECT: A PORTRAIT OF SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY. was the first in her family to attend was rerouted in 1988. “The [horse] cars college and “wasn’t just learning aca- roll along between demically, but also emotionally, spiri- these two rows tually,” she says. ¶ Cathy taught in San of trees; and in Jose schools before coming to work in summer, when the willows have their the University’s business office and in leaves on, they form the administrative offices. She joined a vast arch for long and ultimately became president of distances, only here the Catala Club, an SCU fundrais- and there letting in the sunbeams.” — ing group for women that supports student essay, 1870 scholarships. When she made plans for her estate, Cathy was sure to include the Catala Club. It’s her way of passing on an experience that shaped This tree, variety Salix matsudana, stands near the her life. After all, the University pro- Patricia A. and Stephen C. RIVER PHOTO COURTESY SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY. WORDS BY GRACE OGIHARA ’16 vided her spiritual fortitude, intellec- Schott Admission and En- tual curiosity, and a passion to help rollment Services Building. others. And Santa Clara didn’t do such a bad job screening her dates, either. Could you join her and other THE PRIEST Magin Catalá THE RIVER The Río de Nues- friends of Santa Clara in supporting was born in Montblanc, tra Señora de Guadalupe is scholarships? scu.edu/give Catalonia, Spain, in 1761. the name bestowed on the wa- He joined the Franciscan terway by the Juan Bautista de Order and in 1794 arrived Anza Expedition. The Virgin of at Mission Santa Clara, Guadalupe was the principal where he served for the patron saint of the expedition. next 36 years. The intensity The river flows north, 14 miles of his faith was such that, from its headwater creeks in it is said, as he kneeled in the Santa Cruz Mountains prayer before the church down to the San Francisco crucifix he would levitate Bay. Fr. Catalá took willow above the floor. His beatifi- trees from the banks of this cation started in 1884 and river in 1795 to plant along the was completed in 1909. mission path. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLES BARRY CHARLES BY PHOTOGRAPHY

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