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12 : The Power of One DEPARTMENTS By Joyce McCallister 2 Message from the President Meet Ty-Licia Hooker ’12, the force behind a summer academy that helps underrepresented 3 Letters youth envision their possibilities for college 4 Campus Happenings and a brighter future. 10 Bookshelf 14: 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards 24 Athletics By Joyce McCallister 26 Get Connected Recognizing alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their lives, careers and communities 31 Class Notes and in their involvement with Pacific. 40 Back in Time 18: Redefining Town and Gown By Joanna Corman Presidential community forums on six areas of community impact help Pacific redefine On the cover: its strategic role in the community. Downtown Stockton photo by Randall Gee
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pacific review 1 Message From the President
Our Shared Future
By Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck and Stockton City Mayor Ann Johnston
This joint letter exemplifies Joaquin County. Working University of the Pacific’s for the public good is also new level of community working for Pacific’s good. engagement. From the Pacific has been committed Beyond Our Gates kickoff to regional stewardship for event in December 2009, to a long time. The University the forums in spring 2010, to educates our region’s young the announcement event last people and returning November, we are working professionals and prepares San Joaquin County jobs. to ensure a bright future for together to strengthen ties its workforce. One-fourth of Pacific has always been this region. We are ready to between the University and all undergraduates are from a good neighbor, but it strengthen our relationship for the City of Stockton. right here in San Joaquin wants to be great! Beyond the good of the community Pacific was chartered in 1851 County, and one-third of Our Gates first gave the and the University. in Santa Clara, but since 1924 undergraduates are from San University a chance to Here we go: beyond our gates… the University has thrived Joaquin and the surrounding listen to the community’s toward our shared future! here in Stockton. We feel an counties of Sacramento, triumphs and challenges in obligation to this remarkable Stanislaus and Calaveras. its six community forums. community, which is going Seven of the top 10 feeder high Now the initiative is in its Visit my website at through some challenging schools are in Stockton; two action phase. Together with www.Pacific.edu/President times. Helping is the right of the other three are in Lodi. committed community or find me on Facebook. thing to do, especially when The University also has a major partners, Pacific is ready to Send your ideas to the University has the needed economic impact: in 2008 implement new programs, [email protected]. expertise. And, after all, this Pacific’sS tockton campus such as the Tomorrow Project is our home too — 80 percent alone produced a total of $257 and the Beyond Our Gates of the Stockton campus million in expenditures in the Community Council. We are employees live either in the San Joaquin County economy ready to get creative about City of Stockton or in San and supported nearly 2,000 other ways to work together
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Keep Up the Good Work Happy Memories of the Fifty years ago I was a student in College of the Pacific, and A Cappella Choir rather a good student: my name is on a plaque outside the My mother, Harriet (Tidmarsh) chemistry room and I received a merit scholarship for my junior Caton, was a student at College of the year. In the meantime, I was in Italy and later married a Sicilian Pacific on the oldS an Jose campus Protestant minister. when the A Cappella Choir was first It is always interesting to receive Pacific Review, andI hand it formed in 1916. Forty-four years later on to my grandsons so they can get an idea of how your students on the Stockton campus, I heard the LaVerne (Krull) ’52 and Hal choir and decided I wanted to sing Caton ’51, ’53 at Manor Hall in have school spirit and mutual cooperation at heart. The whole idea 1951 (Just six months married) of working together for the good of your studies and especially with it. I was especially motivated for the good of the wider community is totally absent from because I had just met a lovely young Italian universities. Here it is each for himself. There is not even music major named LaVerne Krull ’52, who was singing in the choir. a graduating class or ceremony. All this shows up in the political The choir tours were among my happiest experiences at college, atmosphere, where it seems that the idea of serving the country because I loved music AND because I was falling in love with and not your own interests is not even contemplated. So keep LaVerne. Our three spring Choir tours together were the story up the good work in forming not only intelligent, well-prepared of our romance. The first year we became very good friends. The graduates, but in forming them for the good of the nation. second year we were engaged. The third year we were married! — Margaret (Gould) Bertolino ’58 My final trip with the choir was due to “Mr.B ’s” big heart. The annual Easter Sunrise Service at Yosemite was coming up, and I was Remembering Louis Leiter not chosen for the smaller, select group, although LaVerne was. Still I was saddened to hear in the recent Pacific Review of the newlyweds, we couldn’t bear the thought of being apart. LaVerne passing of professor Louis Leiter. I was one of his admiring described our plight to “Mr. B” and he immediately arranged students in the English Department in the 1980s, and in for me to go along. We were given a small cabin in Yosemite and fact I wrote about his lasting influence on me — along with continued our “honeymoon” there (actually conceiving our first that of his late colleague and my dear friend, professor Arlen child, who naturally turned out to be very musical). Hansen — in my last book, “Cakewalk, A Memoir,” which So, the A Cappella Choir tours (and our wonderful conductor) was published last May. There are a couple of chapters in the brought beautiful musical experiences to the lives of many, book about my time at Pacific, and specifically time spent with and also special, unexpected (and previously undisclosed) new professors Hansen and Leiter. beginnings to at least one very lucky couple! — Kate Moses ’84 — Harold (Hal) Caton ’51, ’53 Look for more A Cappella memories in the fall Pacific Review. Kudos for Dr. Beauchamp — Ed. I was happy to see that Dr. Ken Beauchamp was recognized with the alumni award. He is well-deserving of the reward. We’d like to hear from you! Dr. Beauchamp was one of the main factors in my decision to Pacific Review welcomes signed letters of 200 words or less change my major to psychology as a sophomore at Pacific. He from readers. We reserve the right to edit all letters. Please send encouraged me to study what I was interested in. He was also correspondence to: my academic advisor throughout college and helped me stay Mail: Pacific Review motivated, graduate and successfully go on to graduate school. University of the Pacific — Christina Bluck ’05 3601 Pacific Ave. Stockton, CA 95211 Fax: 209.946.3111 Email: [email protected]
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Runaway Success Math Steeplechase the Biggest Yet More than 900 schoolchildren came from Stockton, volunteers from Benerd School of Education, the Math Club Sacramento and Modesto schools to compete in the 7th Annual and PacificA thletics. TheM ath Steeplechase was established seven Math Steeplechase on Friday, April 8, at Alex G. Spanos Center. years ago by Tara Runnels ’07 who remembered a similar event The event was hosted by the BenerdS chool of Education and when she was in high school that helped spark her interest in PacificA thletics. During the competition, teams of five and six math. Runnels is now an elementary school math teacher. The solved mathematical problems that were then scored by referees. event is organized by education professor Gregory Potter and Pacific athletes hosted recreational activities during breaks in has grown every year since its inception. This was the first year the Janssen Lagorio Gymnasium. that schools outside of Stockton participated. TheS teeplechase was supported by more than 100 student
Cruz Reynoso Senior Prom Reprise “Sowing Seeds of Justice” celebration of César Chávez Better the Second Time Around Day. A longtime civil rights Nearly 100 senior citizens from Stockton-area senior living advocate, Reynoso is the and community centers came to Pacific onM arch 4 for “Senior first Latino to serve on the Prom.” The event was hosted byP acific’sA merican Society of California Supreme Court. Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP). Pacific’s Janet Leigh Theatre Guests were escorted into the DeRosa University Center Ballroom was packed with turn-away where they were welcomed with hors d’oeuvres and danced the night crowds for the film and panel away to the music of the Pacific JazzE nsemble. Ladies received discussion with guest Cruz corsages donated by local Stockton florists and each guest Reynoso; the film’s director, received a framed keepsake photo. Pacific collaborated with Abby Ginsberg; and Maurice One attendee said it was better than the Stockton Mexican “Mo” Jourdane, who fought her first one 59 years ago. Heritage Center to present the to outlaw the “short-handled ASCP provides a variety of services screening of the documentary hoe” in a celebrated court case to seniors, including screenings film “CruzR eynoso: Sowing involving improving working for bone mineral density, falls the Seeds of Justice” in conditions for farm workers. prevention and memory decline.
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“Heroes' Salute” A Musical Tribute to Veterans Current student Petra Anderson ’12 presented an inspirational and poignant Veteran’s Day concert with her production of “Heroes' Salute: A Musical Tribute to Veterans.” The concert featured Anderson’s original compositions and spoken vignettes based on stories and interviews about service members and their families. Anderson raised $12,000 to fund the performance and recruited an 11-piece orchestra, seven vocalists, two narrators, a conductor and costume designer for the production. Inaugural Faraday Lecture The musical was based on Children, Don’t Try This at Home her research on the lives and A British tradition came have been held annually sacrifices ofA merican heroes to Stockton on December 21 in London, except for four and their families, and the when chemistry professors years during World War II. inspiration their stories provide. Balint Sztaray and Liang Sztaray and Xue, dressed Proceeds from the event Xue delivered the Faraday as 19th-century scientists, benefited the FisherH ouse Lecture, a reenactment of demonstrated the wonders Foundation and Blue Star the Christmas Lecture of the of chemistry to a delighted Families, two organizations Royal Institution of Great audience of more than 500 that support military men and Britain. Founded in 1825 children and family members. women and their families. by renowned chemist and With the dubious assistance physicist Michael Faraday, of Power Cat, the duo made the fun-filled, demonstration- things spontaneously combust, Center Stage packed lectures for children change color and explode. Barrio Grrrl! Charms Young Audiences In February, The Kennedy Center Theatre for YoungA udiences Water Matters on Tour made its seventh appearance at University of the Pacific. Pacific Takes Lead on Delta Plan More than 6,000 local elementary school children enjoyed Pacific will lead a team of distinguished economists, planners the performance of “Barrio Grrrl!” an original musical play by and engineers in developing an Economic Sustainability Plan award-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes. for the Delta Protection Commission. The research will review Former Regent Dea Berberian and her husband Ron Berberian ’65, the potential impact of proposed Delta plans on agriculture, have partnered with the University to bring the Kennedy Center’s recreation, local governments and other aspects of the Delta world-class performing arts productions to Stockton since economy to develop recommendations for flood control, public 2002, reaching more than 24,000 schoolchildren. Other major safety and the sustainability of the Delta’s legacy communities. sponsors include the Cortopassi Family Foundation and Bank of Pacific’s Business Forecasting Center will lead the research and America. University of the Pacific is the only school in the nation development, assisted by Pacific’sN atural Resources Institute and that offers these performances to schoolchildren free of charge. the Jacoby Center. Other partners include Berkeley Economic Consulting; TheD angermond Group; Economic and Planning Systems; Mogavero, Notestine and Associates; and Sapper West. The research will assist in the creation of a comprehensive management plan for the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta currently Chris Wilson as Oscar, Natascia Diaz as being developed by the Delta Stewardship Council. The one-year The Amazing Voice, agreement has a maximum award of $1,162,500. Ana Nogueira as Ana, Erika Rose as Odette and Vishal Vaidya as Sandip in “Barrio Grrrl!” Photo by Carol Pratt.
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Back to the Feminist Future Women’s History Month With the support of Multicultural Affairs, a group of students, faculty and staff brought theN ational Women’s History Project to campus in March and April to showcase women’s achievements on campus, across the nation and around the world. Events included films, an art exhibit, discussions and guest speakers, and the annual “Take Back the Night” rally and march. A benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s “The VaginaM onologues” raised $3,500 to support the San Joaquin Women’s Center and $600 for Haitian relief. A highlight of the month was the panel discussion”Women Smile Savers and the College Presidency: Gender and Leadership in Higher Dental Students Reach Out Education.” Panelists were PacificP resident Pamela A. Eibeck, Hundreds of Bay Area families gathered at two University of President Heather J. Knight of PacificU nion College; President the Pacific clinics onS aturday, February 5, to participate in Give Emerita Dale R. Marshall of Wheaton College; and Brenda Kids A Smile, a nationwide event sponsored by the American Barham Hill, former CEO of the Claremont University Dental Association. Consortium. Panelists reflected on different approaches and At Pacific’s Chan FamilyH ealth Sciences Learning Center in paths to leadership, challenges for women in positions generally Stockton, nearly 300 children received treatment and more than held by men, and balancing career and home life. The event $100,000 in donated dental services. Hosted by Pacific and the was co-sponsored by Pacific Women’sR esource Center, Gender San Joaquin Dental Society, the event drew roughly 250 volunteers, Studies and TheH umanities Center. including dental students from the San Francisco campus. Pacific’sU nion City Dental Care Center treated nearly 50 children through a partnership with dental professionals from Reaching Out the Southern Alameda County Dental Society. They provided Workshops Target screenings and procedures such as fillings, crowns and extractions. Underserved Youth Attending families received oral hygiene instructions, free toothbrushes and entertainment. About 75 volunteers More than 3,000 collaborated to make the event a success. students and families attended the 8th Annual Bilingual Awards and Accolades 0 -$-, Financial Aid and College Awareness Workshop on January 30, Dental School Honored for Vision ' .. A. THE '· cosponsored by Pacific and theS an Joaquin County Hispanic TheA merican Dental Education Association .:..T G I ES "'~ Chamber of Commerce. College officials from nearly every Gies Foundation honored Arthur A. Dugoni ,."'AwARDS ".,.,.,. university in the region were on hand to assist attendees in School of Dentistry in March as the winner ...:tVIS I ON applying for college financial aid and provide information on of the 2011 Gies Award for Outstanding Vision — Academic college preparation and high school graduation requirements. Dental Institution. The school was honored for its commitment Pacific also hosted its firstA frican-American Financial Aid to vision and excellence, including curriculum enhancements, and College Awareness Day on leadership, community involvement and international partnerships. February 5. The inaugural event The school’sA merican Student Dental Association Chapter drew more than 100 students and recently received an Ideal ASDA Award for Outstanding family members. The goal of both Membership and Communication during the ASDA Annual events was to encourage continued Session held in March. Dean Emeritus Arthur A. Dugoni also education for underrepresented received ASDA’s inaugural Paragon Award. The new award, youth by giving them the tools recognized Dugoni for his advocacy on behalf of students, they need to be successful. excellence in clinical practice, innovations in dental education and dedication to organized dentistry.
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It Takes a Village Black History Month 2011 The monthlong celebration ofA frican-American heritage and history in February is designed to educate and enrich the campus and local communities. The 2011 theme, I“ t Takes a Village,” reflects the understanding that it takes an entire community to unite and work together to progress as a people. Activities included round table discussions; a film series; a heritage fair; and a poetry reading by Camille Dungy, an African- American poet who delves into the historical experiences of blacks, Seen and Heard from slavery to the present day. Bart Ehrman Author and actor Hill Harper challenged the audience to Who Wrote the New Testament? “Build a Foundation for Your Life,” in his keynote address on February 26. Best known for his role on the CBS television series Best-selling author and “CSI: New York,” Harper is the author of inspirational New York New Testament authority Times Best Selling books “Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Bart Ehrman spoke on the Camille Dungy and Your Destiny” and “Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny.” Hill Harper topic of his book “Forged,” surrounding his research into the true identities of the writers Appealing Success of the New Testament, as part Moot Court Teams Shine of the Colliver Lecture Series PacificM cGeorge completed the Bernard E. Witkin Award TheH ague, Netherlands; a on March 24. Currently a its most successful moot court for Excellence in Appellate second-place overall in the Saul professor at University of North season ever in April with a Advocacy in the Roger J. Lefkowitz IP Moot Court West Carolina Chapel Hill, Ehrman second-place finish in theA BA Traynor California Appellate Regional; a Best Brief award has written 20 books about National Appellate Advocacy Moot Court competition. in the National Entertainment the New Testament and early Competition national Other season highlights Law Moot Court Competition; Christianity, including three championship in Chicago. include a second-place finish in and a second-place finish in a New York Times Best Sellers: Kim Bowman Jr. ’11, Jeremy the North American regional regional of the ThomasT ang “Jesus Interrupted,” “God’s Ehrlich ’12 and Conness of the International Criminal International Moot Court Problem” and “Misquoting Thompson ’11 won five straight Court competition and a trip Competition and trip to the Jesus.” His books have received matches at the prestigious to the championship finals in national finals. national attention on “The event before suffering a narrow (l. to r.) Leo Moniz ’12, Kim Bowman Jr. ’11, Caitlin Urie Christian ’11, Colbert Report,” “TheD aily defeat to Duke University Jill Larrabee ’12, Conness Thompson ’11 and Jeremy Ehrlich ’12 Show with Jon Stewart,” and School of Law in the National Public Radio. championship finals. The lecture drew a large The team of CaitlinU rie audience in the DeRosa Christian ’11, Jill Larrabee ’12 University Center Ballroom, and Leo Moniz ’12 received followed by a lively question- the Best Brief award. McGeorge and-answer session. The was the only California law Colliver Lecture Series, school to make it to the sponsored by the College of the national championship. PacificR eligious and Classical Brandon Esraelian ’11, Studies Department, brings Corrie Erickson ’11 and Brad prominent speakers to campus Coutinho ’12 took second each year to discuss aspects of place for best oral argument religion and society. and best brief among state competitors. The team won
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Triple Play 1. Civil engineering major Brianna Juhrend ’13 4 was one of 15 college students and young environmental professionals from around the world selected for a highly competitive Across the Pacific Tahoe-Baikal Institute Summer Environmental 4. Stephen Lee ’12, a double major in Eberhardt Exchange program. During the eight-week School of Business and College of the Pacific, experiential leadership development program, received a $10,000 grant from the Fulbright- she will learn about watershed protection, Hays Group Projects Abroad Program to help sustainable development and cultural exchange pay for expenses while studying at the Council from global environmental experts. She will study on International Educational Exchange Study the ecosystems of Lake Tahoe, 2. the Selenga River Center’s Intensive Chinese Language and Culture in Mongolia and 3. Lake Baikal in Russia program in Taipei this past spring. Lee studied while participating in hands-on research and at Reitaku University in Japan last fall. restoration projects. Check out his blog at saltraveltv.tumblr.com.
Create! Brubeck Festival 2011 “Create,” the theme of the 2011 Brubeck Festival the first weekend in April, recognized creativity as a hallmark of Dave Brubeck, who has created new music for mare than six decades and has continually moved musical art Maria Schneider Tiger PRIDE forward, challenging himself, his Goes to School fellow musicians and his audiences to explore new territory. Students in College of the Pacific’sS port Pedagogy program Concerts showcased contemporary musicians, composers and have taken their Tiger PRIDE into the playground. During fall creative artists that push the boundaries of the art of music. 2010, sport sciences professors Lara Killick and Darrin Kitchen Featured artists included Trio M, the piloted a new after-school physical activity program at nearby Capital Jazz Project and the Maria El Dorado Elementary School. Schneider Orchestra. The event TheT iger PRIDE program, (Physical activity, Recreation, culminated with a concert by the Inclusion, Development and Enjoyment,) received a $25,000 Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet and grant from the Health Plan of San Joaquin’s Community a showing of Clint Eastwood’s new Wellness Funding Program. The program aims to improve documentary about Brubeck, “In children’s physical fitness level, improve their understanding His Own Sweet Way.” Pacific film of the importance of leading active lives and promote the studies professor Patti McCarthy, enjoyment of physical activities. Killick and Kitchen hope to the film’s coproducer, led a expand the program to all 42 schools that make up Stockton discussion following the viewing. Unified School District as well as permanently integrate it into the Sport Pedagogy program. Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, former Brubeck Fellow
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New Faces Welcome Four New Regents Four Pacific alumni were appointed this spring to theU niversity’s Armando Flores is director of Community Board of Regents: Fawzi M. Al-Saleh ’62, Kevin Huber ’86, Armando Relations and Administration for the Arizona Flores ’71 and Noël Ferris ’79. They will join the board July 1. State Baseball Program. Prior to joining Fawzi Al-Saleh is a graduate of Pacific’s Arizona State, he spent nearly 18 years with School of Engineering and Computer Science. Arizona Public Service Company, retiring He is president of Musaad Al-Saleh & Sons, as executive vice president of corporate a holding company involved in investment, business services. banking, real estate development and Flores serves has been active in more than a dozen civic construction projects, considered to be organizations, including the Children’s Action Alliance board, the one of the leading construction companies Phoenix Art Museum board and the Governor’s Council on Diversity. in the Middle East. He founded the nonprofit FawziaS ultan He was chair of the BCS Fiesta Bowl Board in 2005–2006 Education Co., owner of Al Bayan Bilingual School and Fawzia In 2002, Flores received the PacificA lumni Association’s Sultan International School for learning disability. Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service. He is vice He is a strong supporter of Pacific and has helped recruit many president of the PacificA lumni Association Board. students from the Middle East to Pacific.A l-Saleh has served on Noël Ferris a partner in the Sacramento the Engineering School’s Dean’s Council since 2002 and was law firm ofN oël M. Ferris, representing named the School’s Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 1999. clients who with serious personal injuries. Kevin Huber is president and CEO of In 2001, she was the firstS acramento area the Grupe Company, which has created lawyer to be inducted as a fellow into the 10 master-planned communities and more International Academy of Trial Lawyers than 50,000 homes in 35 cities nationwide (IATL), an organization that preserves in its 44 years of business. He also is and promotes of the rule of law internationally. She serves president of Grupe Real Estate, which on the IATL Board of Directors and is a trustee of the IATL manages more than 400,000 square feet of Foundation. Ferris has been inducted into the American Board office and retail space.H uber is active in civic and professional of Trial Advocates, the International Society of Barristers and organizations, includingthe San Joaquin Partnership and the the American College of Trial Lawyers. She has been listed as a Urban Land Institute, and served on the board of the United “Super Lawyer” of Northern California since 2005, is listed in Way of San Joaquin County from 1989 to 1999. “Best Lawyers of America,” is listed by Martindale-Hubble on He is a graduate of Eberhardt School of Business with strong their list of Preeminent Women Lawyers. connections to Pacific.H is mother is a Pacific graduate, his daughter Ferris has served on the PacificM cGeorge Dean’s Council and is a current student and his father-in-law is a former regent. Huber PacificM cGeorge Alumni Board. She also has volunteered to served on the Eberhardt School of Business Advisory Board from judge or coach teams in law competitions at the school. 1997–2006.
Alternate Spring Break Athletes Volunteer at Local Schools While many students take vacation during the spring academic break, for Pacific softball players, games and practices continue. This spring these athletes also volunteered at Don Riggio School and the Walton Special Center. At Don Riggio School, they read to the children in several classrooms and joined them at recess. The WaltonS pecial Center, is a school for special education kids ages 3 to 22 with severe disabilities. TheT igers took part in the school’s annual Day in the Dirt, a two-mile fun run/walk down the levee, with students from adjacent Kohl Elementary School.
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Fiction Literature and Film First Folio: A Literary Mystery Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, By Scott Evans, Benerd School of Education The Relationship Between Text and Film Fast-paced thriller based on the controversy over who really By Courtney Lehmann, English authored the Shakespeare papers. A close study of the relationship between text and film versions AuthorHouse, November 2010 of Romeo and Juliet and how the film versions influence our readings of the original text. History, Politics and Culture Methuen Drama, March 2011 Dubai: The City as Corporation Memoir By Ahmed Kanna, School of International Studies Kanna explores the role of cultural and political forces in Cakewalk: A Memoir shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. By Kate Moses ’84, San Francisco, CA University of Minnesota Press, June 2011 Moses recounts her life’s journey, planting its mileposts by the foods that have figured in her personal history. As emphasis, The Moral Rhetoric of Political Economy: she provides a relevant recipe with each chapter. Justice and Modern Economic Thought The Dial Press, May 2010 By Paul Turpin, Communication This book examines the effects of the moral rhetoric of the Wing Wife: How to Be Married to a market concept of justice on our understanding of justice. Marine Fighter Pilot Routledge, January 2011 By Marcia J. Sargent ’74, Laguna Beach, CA This memoir spansS argent’s first few years of marriage to a jet Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918–1946 jockey and describes the laughter, love, tears and risks of being By Ronald H. Limbaugh (emeritus), History the wife of a military aviator. Its release coincides with the This history reveals the role that tungsten and other critical Centennial of Naval Aviation. metals play in national and international politics and in the CreateSpace, November 2010 world economy. University of Nevada Press, September 2010
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Law Physics Contracts in a Nutshell, 7th Edition Dynamical Symmetry By Claude Rohwer and Tony Skrocki (emeritus), By Carl Wulfman (emeritus), Physics Pacific McGeorge School of Law Wulfman introduces the reader to some of the roles played Succinct summary of the fundamentals of contracts; covers by hidden symmetries that govern much of the behavior of forming contracts, restitution, statute of frauds, contract physical, chemical and biological systems and a surprising interpretation, modification, remedies, performance and behavior mathematically allowed to light waves that, if third-party beneficiaries. observed, will alter theories of the expansion of the universe. Thomson West, July 2010 World Scientific Publishing Company, December 2010
Global Issues in Patent Law Education By Amy Landers, Pacific McGeorge School of Law Chronicles from a Watershed: An approachable and engaging entry point to the world of Consideration of Place and Pedagogy international patents for students of patent law and intellectual Edited by Thomas Nelson, Benerd School of Education, and property. Co-authored with Martin J. Adelman, Shubha Ghosh Carol Brodie ’06, Research and Graduate Studies and Toshiko Takenaka. West Academic Publishing, December 2010 In what ways does learning about the natural world influence what teachers do with students in the classroom? This series Nature and Conservation of essays by doctoral students in Benerd School of Education documents their personal discoveries of the ways a sense of Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future place informs teaching and provides a context for learning. of National Parks Contributing writers: Larry Grimes ’12; TheresaS tovall ’11; By William C. Tweed ’71, Three Rivers, CA Marilyn Kae Gowen ’98, ’14; Roxanne Ferguson ’14; In this provocative walking meditation, forest ranger and writer Teresa Vail ’07 ’11; Janine Fisk ’13. William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra University Readers, July 2010 to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary facing dramatic changes. University of California Press, October 2010
pacific review 11 The Power of One One student’s energy and passion opens the door of possibility for others. by Joyce McCallister
Ty-Licia Hooker ’12 is just Stanford University, are both The comment was just what staff in those departments to trying to keep up with herself. graduates of Stockton high she needed. Hooker applied to organize the program. Hooker Among other activities, she schools. They were concerned 20 colleges and was accepted and Tubbs recruited other is a Student Ambassador and about high school students at 19. She chose Pacific. college students, including former president of the Black like them who come from “I felt that Pacific cared program director Raymond Student Union and served tough neighborhoods or about me as a whole person,” Zulueta ’11, to help mentor the on the Provost Selection difficult family situations she says. high school students. Committee. She talks very and may not see college as “Ty-Licia is the model of Every Wednesday and fast and has big ideas and big a possibility. the committed student,” says Saturday for six weeks, nearly plans to follow through on Hooker was a 4.0 student political science professor 30 Stockton teens came to those ideas. She is determined at Stockton’s Cesar Chavez Bob Benedetti, director of Pacific to experience college to hold Pacific to its four-year High School, determined to the Jacoby Center for Public life. They ate at the DeRosa guarantee, carrying 16 units be successful but not really Service and Civic Leadership. University Center, exercised each semester. She has things to considering college. One day “I am particularly impressed in Baun Fitness Center, do, places to be, people to meet. Tubbs stopped to tell her that with her ability to network; she learned about financial aid A junior in Pacific’s Harvard University had just knows how to get very different and applying to college, and Community Involvement posted its application process. people to work together.” experienced real college courses. Program, Hooker gained a “I wondered what he was That quality served Hooker At the beginning, Hooker certain legendary status when talking about,” she says, well in making Success asked the students how many she and a friend from high and she told him she had Summer Academy a reality. wanted to attend college. school began the Success no intention of applying to She secured financial support Only two raised their hands. Summer Academy last college. “He just said that our from Admission, the School of As the program progressed, June. Hooker and Michael friendship was over, because I Education and Student Life, new possibilities began to Tubbs, now a junior at was throwing away my talent.” and worked with faculty and emerge. Near the end of the
12 summer 2011 “When your program she asked again. All heart tugs, future beyond what I could “When your heart tugs, the hands shot up. have thought.” you’ve got to go with it.” “SSA has opened my eyes,” you’ve got to Hooker says she has a love- says Lincoln High School go with it.” hate relationship with politics. graduate Elijah Nevarez, 18. And yet she can see that it is Now a psychology student — Ty-Licia Hooker ’12 the way to get things done. Opposite page: Ty-Licia Hooker '12 (center right) talks with high school at Delta College, Nevarez “I see myself activating the students about their experience in continues, “It showed me city and using the voices and the 2010 Success Summer Academy. I could do better than I leadership development and experiences of the people to Below: Ty-Licia with Mayor Ann was doing.” community action, Success learn truth and fight for what Johnston (l.) and Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck (r.). Amanda Estep, 17, a senior Summer Leadership Academy they want and at an alternative high school, continues this summer as a need,” she says. says what she learned through one-week residential program “I will always her time at SSA last summer with 50 students. Long term, work in the “has shown me that even Hooker hopes to expand the community, though the odds are stacked program to other colleges and always give to against me, I can still do it if universities. Stockton. I put my mind to it and just A political science major take little steps at a time.” She with minors in education wants to teach mathematics policy and ethnic studies, and has applied to Pacific. Hooker spent the fall 2010 This spring, Estep received a semester in Washington, D.C. leadership award and served She took classes at American Another Success Story as an intern for Families and University and interned for Pacific’s Community Involvement Program is Fathers of San Joaquin. the Children’s Defense transforming Stockton and San Joaquin County. “I think the thing that I Fund. There she helped Commonly referred to as CIP, the Community Involvement missed out on was having plan the Youth Advocacy Program was launched in 1969 to increase diversity at Pacific somebody young who looked Leadership Training (YALT) and reach out to students in the Stockton community who like me tell me this was an for the country’s leaders are the first in their families to attend college. Like Success option,” Hooker told reporter in child advocacy and Summer Academy, CIP came about as a result of a movement Roger Phillips of The Record community issues. led by students. (Stockton) last summer. “During the YALT The program provides substantial tuition scholarships and Hooker also founded STORM conference, I met other youth a number of housing grants to qualified students. Academic (Students Striving Together and leaders who are just as on fire support services such as tutoring and counseling are also Overcoming with Resilience about issues in their community available to help students succeed. Graduation rates for CIP and Motivation), a mentor as I am,” Hooker says. Guest students are 20 percent higher than the national average. group of Pacific students to speakers included political help underrepresented teens figures, members of the media CIP has grown every year, with current enrollment for reach their full potential. and political activists. 2010–11 at 176 students. CIP students like Ty-Licia Hooker contribute hundreds of hours of community service throughout Through STORM and SSA, “The speakers who had the their time at Pacific, fostering a community activism that she is extending that help to most impact were the average continues into their lives and careers. More than 1,000 other young people like her. citizens: prison guards, police students have graduated from Pacific through the CIP program Hooker’s ideas for the officers, individuals from the in its 40-plus years. More than 60 percent of CIP alumni live academy have received support homeless shelter,” Hooker says. and work in the Stockton and San Joaquin County area, giving and excitement from Pacific “This was by far one of the back to the community that nurtured them. faculty and administration. best experiences I’ve ever had; With some shifts to emphasize it impacted my life and my Find out more about CIP at go.Pacific.edu/CIP.
pacific review 13 2010 Distinguished
Alumni Awardsby Joyce McCallister
They epitomize the best of President’s Award Pacific, those achievers who Alex A. and Geraldine (McCarl) follow their hearts into the Vereschagin ’57
world; who become pillars Alex and Jeri Vereschagin were of society and business; who very active Pacific students. Alex, give back to the University a business major, played in the Pacific Marching Band and was of their time, talent and president of Omega Phi Alpha. Jeri treasure; and who give majored in elementary education, because others have given was president of Alpha Theta Tau and served on the PanHellenic to them. The 2010 class of Council, and was on the staff of Pacific Distinguished Alumni the Naranjado yearbook. Award winners, recognized After graduation, they returned to Alex’s family farm in Orland, at the awards dinner on Calif., to raise a family and build November 6, 2010, includes the family business in real estate many caring graduates and and banking. One of their sons, Robert ’85, is also a graduate of friends of the University who the Eberhardt School of Business. The Vereschagins have given to Pacific in have given their best. various ways: recruiting new students to Pacific from Northern California, serving on reunion committees, helping to restore the Feather River Inn, serving on the Pacific Alumni Association Board and helping out at Family Camp. Alex was president of the Pacific Alumni Association, and during his term helped align the Association with the mission and vision of the University. He was the first PAA president to report directly to the Board of Regents. Not only have the couple given their time to Pacific, they’ve also given their resources, including the lead naming gift to fund the Alex and Jeri Vereschagin Alumni House, scheduled to open in August.
14 summer 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service for Volunteer Service Allene C. Zanger ’77 Albert M. Irwin ’42
A llene Z a nger Al Irwin was the s ay s her c h a nc e first member of his encounter on the family to attend Pa c i f i c c a m p u s college, coming to changed the course Pacific on a football of her life. While sc hol a r sh ip. He in high school, she remembers having attended a mock his family’s help political convention and support through at Pacific and was college, and says that by Joyce McCallister impressed with the after he graduated idyllic campus and “it was time to start the dedication of giving back. It’s been faculty and staff. a great privilege to She decided to apply give back to everyone to Pacific instead of who supported me.” U.C. Berkeley. Irwin also met his “I’ve never once regretted that decision,” she says. “Pacific may wife, Lois Bugbee ’42, at Pacific. The couple married in 1942 and have been smaller than Cal, but it opened up the world for me.” their daughter, Marcia ’69, graduated from the Gladys L. Benerd Zanger was active in speech and debate, held elective office, tutored School of Education. special needs children in local schools, joined a sorority, participated Irwin began a 70-year career of volunteer service serendipitously in the model United Nations, and studied abroad in Vienna, Austria. when he happened upon a beach rescue at age 14. A recognized, Following graduation, she studied law at Hastings College and influential leader in water safety, he has trained thousands of embarked on a successful career as an attorney. She was a deputy lifeguards, firefighters and police officers in water rescue, including attorney general and later general counsel for Tejon Ranch Company. being invited by Jacques Cousteau to train police officers at the She left the corporate world to spend two years with the Peace Corps, renowned oceanographer’s dive center in southern France. where she worked with the Ministry of Education in Panama to In the Navy during World War II, he supervised swim programs design and implement an environmental education program. for the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. After the Continuing her work with disadvantaged youth back in the States, war, he coached high school and college football and swimming, Zanger cofounded the Central Valley Communities for Children and has continued teaching water safety and rescue as a volunteer. AmeriCorps Program and later became the director of School- While in Hawaii in 2003, at age 86, he made an unassisted rescue Community Partnerships in the Kern County Superintendent of of a swimmer in trouble. The Irwins also give back to Pacific Schools office. She also served in the Peace Corps national office. As through two endowed scholarships in Education and Athletics. regional director of operations in 25 countries in the Inter-Americas “Al Irwin is someone whose entire life has been about giving and the Pacific, she oversaw one of the Peace Corps’ largest divisions, back,” said Benerd School of Education Dean Lynn Beck. “What with a budget of more than $58 million and oversight of 2,300 makes Al special is that he gives with such joy.” volunteers (about one-third of the total number in the field). Today she is the executive director of the Bay Area’s Stewardship Council, a nonprofit organization that oversees long-term strategies for more than 140,000 acres of watershed lands in California. She “It’s been a great privilege to give has returned to campus to speak to Pacific students about public back to everyone who supported me.” service and plans to serve on the School of International Studies — Albert M. Irwin ’42 advisory board.
pacific review 15 Distinguished Alumni Award Honorary Alumni for Professional Service Award Scott D. Boras ’77, ’83 E. Leslie Medford, Jr.
Scott Boras is one Les Medford, who of the most powerful celebrated his 90th people in Major birthday in May, is League Baseball, just the third person negotiating millions ever to receive this of dollars in contracts award. A long- f o r t h e b i g g e s t time Pacifican, he names in the game. began his 26-year The Scott Boras career at Pacific in Corporation consists 1962 as assistant of four companies dean of Admission, that work to simplify and served his last the complex issues 14 years as dean t h a t c o n f r o n t of Admission. He baseball players and is recognized a s their families on and a n a t i o n a l off the field. l e a d e r a m o n g At Pacific, he was “Scotty B,” outfielder and captain of the baseball admissions professionals for his focus on students, team. Boras was scouted by the minor leagues and played for the St. Louis ability to build relationships and meticulous Cardinals in 1974, while still pursuing his pharmacy degree. He credits recordkeeping. his upbringing on an Elk Grove, Calif., farm for his indomitable work Medford was awarded the Order of Pacific at his retirement in ethic. Boras also played for the Chicago Cubs and the Cardinals until 1988. He is a founder and past president of Pacific’s Emeriti Society, 1978, when knee injuries pushed him out of the game. serves as an advisor to the School of International Studies and has Boras returned to Pacific to earn a law degree at Pacific McGeorge been active with Pacific’s Library Associates. He still comes to School of Law and launched his law career in Chicago with a campus every day to eat lunch in the River Room. pharmaceutical defense firm. He maintained contacts with baseball “My life has been tied to Pacific through so many years,” he said. friends and relationships in the Majors, getting calls from players He is grateful for the support of his wife Marie and his children, asking for his advice when they became free agents. Negotiating some who are also Pacific graduates. with owners was an art for which he was particularly suited. In 1985, Boras negotiated his first multimillion-dollar contract for Bill Caudill, who became the seventh-highest-paid player in the “This is a compliment Major Leagues for that season. In 1987, he negotiated one of the of the highest order.” game’s biggest contracts for New York Mets first baseman Keith — E. Leslie Medford, Jr. Hernandez. Boras is recognized as a trailblazer for Major League Baseball’s salary dialogue, winning more arbitration hearings and negotiating up to $300 million in contracts for players. Boras says Pacific gave him “a stepping stone and an opportunity. It really turned out to be home.” He has continued to give back to Pacific, contributing to the baseball program and serving on the baseball advisory board. In 1994, Boras was inducted into Pacific’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He was named Pacific McGeorge Alumnus of the Year in 2002.
16 summer 2011 Outstanding Family Award The Dugoni Family
Little did a young Arthur A. Dugoni realize when he graduated Dugoni family alumni and students: Front Row (l. to r.): in 1948 that his alma mater, then the College of Physicians and Emily Dugoni ’13 LAW, Karen (Kersey) Dugoni ’91 PHS, Arthur A. Dugoni ’48 DEN, Lisa (Rand) Dugoni ’05 PHS, Surgeons, would one day bear his name. Part of Pacific since 1962, Marianne (Cauwet) Dugoni ’77 PHS, Bert Rouleau ’82 DEN the School was named the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in Back Row (l. to r.): Steve Dugoni ’81 DEN, Aaron Rouleau ’11 2004, honoring the outstanding leadership of its dean of 28 years. DEN, Matt Hoffman ’03 ENG, Brian Dugoni ’05 COP, ’08, ’10 DEN, Jim Dugoni ’86 BUS, Arthur A. Dugoni Jr. ’87 COP Today the school is known for its excellence, its humanistic approach to education and patient care, and its commitment to student success. Over the last 62 years and three generations, the Dugonis have Dental School. Mike and Marianne’s daughter, Christine, married raised a family of Tigers who have contributed significantly to Pacific Tiger Matt Hoffman ’03, who owns Data Decisions in the University. Eldest son Steven Dugoni ’81 received his degree Manteca, Calif. in orthodontics and is an adjunct professor at the Dental School. Arthur and wife Kaye’s eldest daughter, Mary, wed Mountain Steve’s daughter, Emily ’13, began her first year of law school this View orthodontist Bert Rouleau ’82. Their son, Aaron ’11, is a fall at Pacific McGeorge School of Law. second-year dental student. Karen (Kersey) Dugoni ’91 married Art Dugoni Jr. ’87 graduated from College of the Pacific with Art Dugoni’s nephew, Tom. a degree in art, which he credits for his success as art director at At the awards dinner, Arthur shared how his extended family, ASC Profiles in Sacramento. Eberhardt School of Business graduate with roots in Northern Italy, built into him the importance of Jim Dugoni ’86 is associate director of Athletics and has been on family. Their Pacific legacy is a natural extension of that value, he Pacific’s staff for 15 years. His wife, Lisa (Rand) Dugoni ’05, earned said. “The pure essence of family is at this University,” Arthur said. her master’s degree from Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and “Make every day your masterpiece; make your priorities family Health Sciences. She is a speech-language pathologist and visiting and friends.” clinical instructor at Pacific. Mike Dugoni’s wife, Marianne (Cauwet) Dugoni ’77, also earned her degree in speech-language pathology. Their son, Brian “The pure essence of family is at this Dugoni ’05, ’08, ’10, played water polo at Pacific and served as University.” — Arthur A. Dugoni ’48 ASuop president before continuing his studies in orthodontia at the
pacific review 17 Redefining Town and Pacific redefines its strategic role Gown in the community.
by Joanna Corman
18 summer 2011 An important part of President Pamela A. Eibeck’s Listening Campaign during her first year in office focused on the University’s community involvement and regional impact. During six “Beyond Our Gates… Into the Community” forums, she heard from local leaders and regional experts about community concerns and needs. This information became the foundation of the University’s new, collaborative, strategic approach to community partnership.
When Pamela A. Eibeck became Pacific’s University presidents often get involved in 24th president in 2009, she launched “Beyond the community, “but usually that is focused Our Gates… Into the Community,” as part of a on community elites with the purpose multipronged listening campaign. The series of of fundraising,” says Robert Benedetti, six community forums aimed at finding out how professor of political science and executive the University can work most effectively with the director of the Harold S. Jacoby Center for city and San Joaquin County to help address the Public Service and Civic Leadership, which region’s most pressing challenges. organized Beyond Our Gates. Beyond Our Gates is unprecedented in the “Her focus was much broader, was open to University’s history, says Ted Leland, vice the public and the purpose was partnerships. president for external relations and a key Beyond That’s bold,” Benedetti says. Our Gates organizer. Community involvement Community leaders, outside experts and has been a matter of individual heroes, he says, other members of the public contributed with faculty, staff and students taking their own ideas to University leaders in the six forums. Six presidential community forums initiatives to perform community service. on health, education, diversity, Steering committees made up of community “Pam Eibeck has changed that equation to say the economy, energy and the members and Pacific faculty and staff that as part of the mission of the institution and environment, and arts and culture formulated recommendations for President were part of a multipronged listening the culture of our learning community, we’re campaign this past year. Eibeck from the 108 ideas that emerged going to reach out to Stockton,” Leland says. through the forums. The ideas were then The University has often battled the evaluated based on their potential community perception in the community that it is aloof, a impact and how well they complement the place where outsiders get educated before returning home and University’s mission. In November, Eibeck announced the results where many local high school students feel they could never to a standing-room-only crowd. Pacific, she said, would begin afford the tuition. “That’s why Beyond Our Gates has been so with five initiatives and would focus its efforts on K-12 education. powerful, because people see it as a change,” he says. It would launch new collaborative programs while continuing With community leaders in attendance, Eibeck kicked off existing outreaches. Beyond Our Gates in December 2009 with poignant symbolism, “I was delighted by the strong attendance at the ‘Celebrate at the historic Smith Gate entrance to campus on Pacific Avenue. Our Shared Future’ event,” Eibeck says. “The University and the From January to May, the University held six town hall-style community really came together. There was tremendous energy forums addressing topics crucial to the region’s health. The forums and enthusiasm in the room.” covered health care, the economy, energy and the environment, Partnering beyond the campus gates is expected to benefit education, diversity, and arts and culture. both the University and the community. Pacific students
pacific review 19 a n d f a c u l t y District was 65 percent, compared with 78.6 percent statewide. c a n e x p e c t According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 17.6 percent of i n c r e a s e d adults age 25 and older have bachelor’s or graduate degrees, opportunities compared with 27.5 percent nationwide. for internships Stockton’s low education level and high crime rate make and research. it hard to attract quality businesses, Johnston says. The city Collaborating of nearly 300,000 has one of the highest foreclosure rates w i t h t h e in the nation, according to RealtyTrac. It hasn't helped that Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston joined President c o m m u n i t y Forbes magazine named Stockton “most miserable city” in Pamela Eibeck December 2010 at the University gates for the kickoff celebration of Beyond Our also can serve as 2009 and 2011. Gates ... Into the Community. a recruiting tool “If we had a better-educated workforce, we’d have lower for faculty, staff crime rates,” Johnston says. “We would be attracting far better and students. jobs to the area.” Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston says many of the city’s Johnston is grateful for a chance to collaborate. “We don’t have problems are related to its low education levels. In 2009, money as a city to help schools out, but we can help facilitate the the high school graduation rate for Stockton Unified School partnerships,” she says.
The five strategic initiatives:
Improve K-12 College scholarships. Both new and existing The University wants to address the Readiness University educational outreach programs “learning loss” disadvantaged children The focus on improving K-12 will be organized under one umbrella, all often experience over the summer, Ieducation — called the “Tomorrow coordinated by Pacific’s Gladys L. Benerd says Lynn Beck, dean of the School of Project” — aims to boost local high school School of Education. Education. She cites a Johns Hopkins graduation and college attendance rates The Tomorrow Project’s centerpiece University study that found that low- and ensure that students are successful in will be a series of academies held after income children lose several months of college. The program will expose children school, on Saturdays and during the learning over the summer, while their and teens to college, help build their summer for K-12 students. The first three middle-class and wealthy counterparts academic skills and raise money for Pacific academies, planned for this summer maintain or increase their learning during and fall, will focus on math and this period. music. Additional academies will “If this continues a couple of years, you be faculty-driven and will launch lose a whole year’s worth of learning,” as funding becomes available, Beck says. possibly one or two a year. The Tomorrow Project has substantial “There is certainly a buzz on outside support. Gary Dei Rossi, deputy campus about the Tomorrow superintendent of the San Joaquin Project,” Eibeck says. “Our County Office of Education, agreed to community’s young people, be a member of its advisory board. He teachers and schools deserve to have says programs that introduce Stockton- area families to college are vital to our energy and passion directed getting families invested in applying. at improving college readiness. Carl Toliver, superintendent of the Each week, Pacific students mentor children in We are all very excited to see this Stockton Unified School District and grades K-3 in reading and literacy activities through initiative grow and develop.” the Book Buddies program. a Tomorrow Project advisory board
20 summer 2011 agricultural workers, to Pacific each summer to study math. It will Pipeline to a enroll about 150 teens this summer. Regent José Hernandez ’85 is teaming up with his alma mater to Better Tomorrow help launch a second Tomorrow Project math academy. Through his Reaching for the Stars Foundation, he will partner with Pacific to How do you get children excited run Reach for the Stars Academy. The summer on-campus academy about subjects like math and is based on the highly successful Texas Prefreshman Engineering science? How do you get them Program (TexPREP), which gives middle and high school students to finish high school and go on intense training in math, science, engineering and technology. to college? How do you prepare The academy will likely begin with 40 sixth graders, who are them for college success? Two expected to attend for the next four to five years. By February, about academies being developed and $40,000 had already been raised from Hernandez’ foundation, enhanced through the Tomorrow Regent Tom Zuckerman and the Cordes Foundation. Project are meant to do just that. Pacific became aware of TexPREP through Hernandez, who One existing program that encouraged President Pamela Eibeck to consider it. A TexPREP will be incorporated into the representative also visited Pacific to share details of the program. Tomorrow Project is the José Tomorrow Project academies Valdes Math Institute, which The program’s goal is to get students to test at proficient and such as Pacific Academia advanced levels in math, a predictor of overall achievement in de Matemáticas will help to Pacific has hosted since 2009. college, says Lynn Beck, dean of the Gladys L. Benerd School of strengthen K-12 education. The Institute, which receives some federal funding, was Education. The hope is to attract an increasing number of young started in 1988 by José Valdes. people to science, math, technology or engineering, careers that Valdes was a math teacher in the San Jose schools who wanted to are projected to experience significant job growth. help minority students improve their math skills and increase their “We said it looked like a great match for our community,” recalls numbers in advanced high school math classes. Beck. “If we have funding, interest and community partners, we Renamed the Pacific Academia de Matemáticas, the program said, ‘Let’s do it.’” brings middle and high school students, whose parents are migrant
member, says his administrators and Make business has also reduced tuition by 36 percent teachers are positive about it. decisions with the for the evening degree program in the “We’re willing to roll up our sleeves and community in mind Center for Professional and Continuing work together to make our community a II During the forums, it Education, which allows local working better community,” Toliver says. became apparent how much the local Stockton Unified students face many business community would value the challenges, he says. Nearly three- University doing more to hire local quarters of the district’s 37,000 students vendors, says Pat Cavanaugh, vice are socio-economically disadvantaged. president for business and finance. About one-third are English language Pacific always has been committed to learners. Only 16.6 percent meet the choosing local vendors, but its policy was requirements to attend a California “de facto,” Cavanaugh says. In the new public university. policy, “local” is defined as San Joaquin, The Tomorrow Project also will raise Sacramento and San Francisco Counties, money for Pacific student scholarships, where each of Pacific’s three campuses including the Community Involvement are located. It also states that 25 percent Program (CIP), which gives financial of hired vendors should be local. “That need-based tuition and housing doesn’t set a ceiling as much as a floor,” All incoming freshmen (more than 1,000 scholarships to local, first-generation Cavanaugh says. The new policy also students) participate in community service low-income college students. More than gives consideration to hiring minority- projects in San Joaquin County and 1,000 students have graduated from and women-owned businesses. Northern California during Welcome Week as part of MOVE (Mountain, Ocean, CIP since its inception in 1969, most The University also established an Valley Experience). of whom live and work in and around $80,000 fund to subsidize room rentals San Joaquin County. for nonprofit community groups. It
pacific review 21 Pacific’s Economic Impact adults to earn a bachelor’s degree in organizational behavior. • 80% of Stockton campus employees live in San Continue current Joaquin County programming Through Beyond Our • Direct Pacific-related Gates, the University expenditures in California Pacific Athletics offers a wide range of sports IIIhas committed to continuing existing totaled $326 million in 2008. skills and social camps and clinics for thousands community partnerships and doing a of young people each year. • These expenditures produce better job promoting them. The Center a total of $736 million in for Community Involvement, for sales in the California economy example, coordinates thousands of hours Council, composed of a cross section of and support nearly 5,000 of volunteer service for Pacific students local leaders, to discuss how the University California jobs. in tutoring, mentoring and other areas. and community can best partner. Other community partnerships include • Pacific is the second-largest Remember the private employer in San Joaquin a program that encourages high school County and is one of the five juniors to pursue becoming math and good ideas largest employers in the science teachers, as well as sports and music There were too many ideas county overall. camps and dental and health clinics. A for Pacific to tackle all at once.V Pacific’s External Relations division complete list of community partnerships • more than 125,000 people will keep track of the ideas that didn’t attend athletics, arts and can be found at BeyondOurGates.org. cultural events at the Stockton make the final list as well as new ones. campus each year. Keep the Those who would like to get involved or dialogue going submit an idea can email Ted Leland: • registered community service The initial six forums [email protected]. by undergraduates at the Theatre arts major Josh Chipponeri Stockton campus alone mark the beginning of Pacific’sIV systematic collaboration with ’11, who was in charge of student exceeds 15,000 hours each year. the community. Eibeck has pledged to participation in organizing the forums, continue the forums twice yearly. She says the five initiatives show the • Pacific’s clinics provide health, also formed a Community Advisory University’s commitment to living out its legal, educational and other mission statement. services to more than 14,000 “That they exist and they are supported people each year. Through programs like “Give Kids A Smile,” and branded by University of the Pacific, Pacific students, faculty and alumni provide from the students to the Office of the • more than 23,000 people thousands of hours of free and low-cost health participate in continuing care and dental services and health education. President, I think that is something that education initiatives: youth very strongly gives this community hope,” and children’s camps, he says. professional development and lifelong learning programs Learn more at www.BeyondOurGates.org for senior citizens.
• Pacific alumni account for approximately one in 10 of all individuals in San Joaquin County with a bachelor’s degree.
View Pacific's full economic impact report at www.Forecast.Pacific.edu
22 summer 2011 Instruments of Change
Taking inspiration from Venezuela’s highly successful El Sistema, a national system of youth orchestras, Harmony Stockton will provide music education for underprivileged and at-risk children to help them improve academic performance and build self-esteem and community pride.
In early 2010, Conservatory of Music Dean Giulio Ongaro traveled to Venezuela with a team from the University at the invitation of Alberto Yanez ’73. The team observed the work of El Sistema, a government-funded program aimed at eradicating poverty through music education. It teaches poor children, from toddlers to teens, how to play in an orchestra. Students begin with singing and rhythm games and learn to play small percussion instruments before graduating to orchestral instruments. On a visit to a neighborhood site to watch children play, Ongaro was impressed with their pride and enthusiasm. “You could almost feel the difference it was making for those kids,” he says. “When I came back, I wanted to know how we could do something like this here, how we could use some of the same principles.” The Stockton Symphony was a natural partner. The “I think this is arts organization and the University have had a long and close relationship, says Jane Kenworthy, something that the symphony’s CEO and executive director. She can make us “We just had to be a part of it,” Prokop says. has been interested in providing music lessons to underprivileged Stockton children because of cuts to all proud.” Retired economist José Abreu started El Sistema public school music programs. in Venezuela in 1975; it serves about 300,000 — Peter Jaffe, children each year. The program has had a Ongaro’s visit, which coincided with the beginning of Stockton Symphony measurable effect on school dropout and crime the Beyond Our Gates initiative, was timed perfectly. rates, Ongaro says. United Way announced in November that it would provide seed money, allowing Harmony Stockton “An important thing to understand about El to launch. The music academy, one of the key components of the Sistema is that it’s not a training system for professional musicians,” Tomorrow Project, is expected to start in the fall. Ongaro says. “That’s almost a side effect of it. It’s a system to change the lives of kids in underprivileged communities.” “An intensive academic program like this can improve a child’s self- esteem, productivity and sense of responsibility,” says Andy Prokop, Harmony Stockton will start with about 75 Stockton third through president and CEO of United Way of San Joaquin County. He says fifth graders, with progressive grades added as funding expands. It Harmony Stockton is the ideal project for his organization. The will be launched initially in one or more elementary schools, most nonprofit committed $35,000 a year for at least five years but is likely in South Stockton. After-school instruction by professional willing to donate up to $50,000 a year if the program can raise the musicians and music educators will take place four or five days a same amount. week. Organizers say the program is designed to enhance existing school music programs already in place and not meant to replace them. Founders hope the students’ involvement in the orchestra will build confidence and help them avoid gangs, drugs and crime. Research Programs such as this provide Stockton a chance to emerge from indicates that studying music can enhance academic performance. the shadow of its negative image, says Peter Jaffe, the symphony’s The ultimate goal is to improve the city’s high school graduation rate music director and conductor. and prepare students for success in college and beyond. “I think this is something that can make us all proud,” Jaffe says.
pacific review 23 athletics
For T.J. Bordeaux ’11, golf is more than just hitting a small white ball with a club and trying to sink it into the cup with the fewest strokes. It brings his family together, develops his talents, challenges his capabilities and opens doors to his future.
“He picked up the club at 18 months old and never put it down,” says Lorrie Bordeaux, T.J.’s mother. “Even after breaking his arm at age 4, he still played.” Remarkably, Bordeaux never had a formal golf lesson. He learned the game watching his dad, grandfather and uncles. When Coach Brandon Goethals recruited Bordeaux in 2007, he was immediately drawn to Bordeaux’s game. “He has an excellent short game,” says The Goethals. “He can putt the lights out. I just knew I had to have him.” As a family-oriented person who loves his Prehistory hometown of Tacoma, Wash., Bordeaux planned to play golf for the University of Washington. Their offer made recruiting of T.J. Bordeaux an extra challenge for Goethals, who attended every high school match Bordeaux had. It was the start of the strong relationship the two have today. Bordeaux “He’s a good kid, and he just gets it. He makes coaching fun,” says Goethals. By Jessica Yee ’12 “I was not very consistent and did not have enough control,” Bordeaux says of his early Pacific golf career. I“ was talented, but very raw. Today I am far more disciplined. I can think my way around a golf course rather than just hit it and hope.” “He has a reliable swing, can hit it a mile and has one of the best short games out there,” says friend and teammate Alex Grieb ’11. “There’s no chance anyone will touch him if his putting is solid.” Bordeaux started his college golf career with an average of 72.38 for 12 tournaments, collecting First-Team All-Big West Honors. In summer 2008, he played in the British Amateur Championship in Scotland, won the Oregon Duck
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Classic and played in the U.S. Amateur do, we’re always laughing and having a great Championship at Chambers Bay. During time,” Grieb says. He says Bordeaux has his the 2010–11 season, he claimed a third all- lighter side when business is finished on the conference selection. course. “Bordeaux is a clown!” A career highlight was leading Pacific to “He’s the biggest nut you’ll ever meet victory at the Stockton Sports Commission and he’s also the nuts and bolts of the PacificI nvitational at Brookside Country Pacific golf team” says teammate Danny Club in November 2010. Among Bordeaux’s Garcia ’12. Bordeaux has acquired the many accomplishments, he names winning nickname “Nuts” from his teammates. the PacificI nvitational as his proudest to For inspiration, Bordeaux draws on “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift,” a saying of legendary date. Sports Illustrated acknowledged his the example of legendary cross-country cross-country runner Steve “Pre” Prefontaine, second round finish of 61 and 15 under runner Steve “Pre” Prefontaine. After is Bordeaux’s inspiration. par for the tournament in its “Faces in the every tournament, every fist pump, every Crowd.” His 61 was both a school and a victory, and even after a bad hole, he recalls “Golf has instilled honesty, discipline, course record. The team’s finish at 25 under Prefontaine’s famous saying, “To give sportsmanship, loyalty and work ethic par topped second-place anything less than your into my life,” Bordeaux says. “In golf a Oregon State by 19 strokes best is to sacrifice the gift.” tiny mistake will cost you a tournament, and set both tournament T.J.’s father, Tim but through hard work and dedication I and team records. Bordeaux, who ran know I can do anything I set my mind Bordeaux currently holds cross country in college, to.” After graduation, Bordeaux plans the best scoring average for introduced T.J. to to attend the PGA tour qualifying the team. Prefontaine’s story when school, where he hopes to earn a tour Goethals is proud he was in the eighth card, enabling him to compete in PGA of the team’s current grade. Prefontaine had a tournaments and play professionally. ranking at 58, up from remarkable running career “Every step of my golf career I have been 200 four years ago. He in the 1970s. A talented lucky enough to have teammates, coaches, says the huge leap is due and dedicated athlete friends and family guide and help me with in part to Bordeaux’s who gave his all during my game,” he says. “I hope to be a role competitive drive and competition, his career was model who provides future generations of determination. This year tragically cut short at age golfers with the opportunities I was lucky the team took home six 24 when he was killed in a to have.” straight top-four finishes car accident. “With the support of Pacific golf, he now and placed second in the T. J. Bordeaux ’11 and Coach “After my dad understands what it takes to get to the next Big West Championships, Brandon Goethals sport individual introduced me to the level,” says Bordeaux's mother. “He pushes and team trophies after record- himself beyond most, because he has such advancing to NCAA West setting performances at the story, Pre has been my Regionals for the first Stockton Sports Commission Pacific hero,” Bordeaux says. “I a passion to play.” time since 2002. Invitational in November 2010. started writing ‘Pre’ on “For the past four years, Pacific and the “Golf is an individual the side of my golf ball Pacific golf program became my family sport, but when you combine five right before I started playing for Pacific.” and my home away from home,” Bordeaux individuals’ scores and compete with the Golfers typically mark their golf balls to says. “I loved my experiences here at Pacific best schools in the nation, it becomes a differentiate them from those of other and will always consider this place as the team effort,” Bordeaux says.H e says the players. Bordeaux says the reminder helps prehistory to my future.” Pacific GolfT eam is like his family. They keep him focused out on the course. “I’m understand one another’s strengths and going to have to pick up the ball out of Jessica Yee ’12, an English major with a weaknesses and motivate each other to every hole. It is a simple way to remind me minor in Pre-Law, plans to go on to law improve their game. to give it everything I have, whether it’s school after graduation. She played varsity “Although we compete in everything we competition or practice.” golf in high school and enjoys playing recreationally with her father.
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President’s Letter
It is hard to believe another school year has What’s Up Pacific? e-newsletter has featured the come and gone and that we now have more progress of this building from artist’s rendering than 1,000 new alumni. Congratulations to the to the actual brick-and-mortar masterpiece that Class of 2011! stands today. From the yearbook archive in the As our newest alumni head out to meet Omega Phi Alpha Library to the Alumni Plaza the world, it is a great time to sign up for the containing more than 500 personalized bricks, Alumni Mentor Network. The network is the Alex and Jeri Vereschagin Alumni House a resource that current students and recent is a wonderful place for students and alumni graduates can use to help build a professional to come and share the rich traditions of the network or aid in the search for jobs or University of the Pacific. internships. Mentors provide general college You still have a chance to add your brick to Allie (Palafox) Baker ’99 SIS with guidance or simply exchange emails with the Alumni Plaza. The plaza will hold 1,100 husband Jeff and son William students describing their careers and offering bricks and we will continue to add additional tips for success. We hope you will consider bricks until it is full of inscriptions! With a sharing your expertise and job knowledge $1,000 donation, you can leave your own with a current student. Online registration is legacy at Pacific. The Alex and Jeri Vereschagin available at www.PacificAlumni.org/Mentor. Alumni House will be open to the community Like many institutions, the Pacific Alumni and available for event rental in the fall. I look Association tries to limit the amount of paper forward to seeing all alumni in our new home! products we use. We have eliminated most of Go Tigers! our direct mail correspondence, but by signing up for our weekly e-newsletter, What’s Up Pacific?, you will get regular updates on alumni Alejandra (Palafox) Baker ’99 SIS events and University news. We are also on Pacific Alumni Association President Facebook and Twitter! Find us by searching for “Pacific Alumni.” Our biggest news is that the Alex and Jeri Vereschagin Alumni House is almost complete! It is such a thrill to know that years of hard work and generous gifts by more than 600 hundred alumni have made this dream a reality. The
Pacific Alumni 2010–2011 Pacific Alumni Association Officers Board of Directors President, Allie (Palafox) Baker ’99 SIS Anthony Bernal ’02 EDU Tim O’Neill ’78 COP Association Senior Vice President, Norm Allen ’88 COP, ’94 LAW Alan Cook ’77 COP Marshea Pratt ’93 COP Immediate Past President, Denny Stilwell ’88 COP Steve Covell ’71 BUS Angela Rosenquist ’00 COP, ’01, ’03 BUS Leadership at Its Best Secretary, Nora (Gong) Hamilton ’78, ’80 COP Linda Crane Cummings ’63 COP Silvina Sousa-Ransford ’95 SIS, ’05 EDU Vice President, Armando Flores ’71 COP Adam Ellison ’08 COP Jim Stavosky ’77, ’79 COP Through alumni leadership, Vice President, Matt Olson ’04 BUS, COP, ’09 LAW Nancy (Robinson) Farnum ’59 COP Jennifer (Banks) Svihus ’87 COP Vice President, Marcie Spencer ’81 COP Pam Gibbs ’92 COP Kathryn Vatsula-Flanagan ’94 BUS the members of the board Vice President, Jim Stavosky ’77, ’79 COP Mary Ann Gomez ’89 COP JoAnne (Mills) Vera ’60 COP provide support for the Vice President, Franz Vaiarello ’74 COP Nancy (Paracka) Grossman ’81 ENG Sarah Wells ’02 BUS Jan (Inglese) Hope ’86 COP University, its students Sally Ly ’02 COP and alumni. 26 summer 2011 get connected
Alumni Around the World
President Eibeck, some alumni visited schools in Ecuador to promote Pacific and share their experiences, while the rest of the group Ecuador toured the capital city and other local relevant in the hearts of these Last October, 27 alumni and friends, sites. One highlight of the Quito tour Covellianos. One Covell businessman along with University President was seeing the Ecuadorian president on encouraged the partnership between Pamela Eibeck and her husband, Bill his balcony at the Presidential Palace. Pacific and the Americas, stating that Jeffery, made the trip to “la Mitad del The group also attended a meeting of Latin America has much to offer in Mundo” (the middle of the world) — FLASCO, an organization of university- terms of natural commodities and Quito, Ecuador. level social science professors, where human talent. The occasion? A gathering of Elbert President Eibeck spoke on promoting Helping organize the event were Covell College alumni in South America inter-American cooperation in an age of Gerardo Borrero ’66 ECC, Ciro to discuss the revitalization of the globalization. Santamaria ’69 ECC and Kurt Freund Inter-American program trail blazed No trip to Ecuador would be complete ’69, ’70 COP, all of Ecuador. Alberto by Covell College almost 50 years ago. without visiting the equator. In a Yanez ’72 ECC of Venezuela and Luis Classmates traveled from Ecuador, symbolic act, Covell alumni straddled Eherlich ’72 ECC of Mexico were Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and the two hemispheres simultaneously, also instrumental during the week’s the United States. While there, alumni illustrating the idea of extending a hand activities. participated in several educational across boundaries. The commitment Special thanks to Kimberly A. Reed Edwards activities and meetings. Along with to an inter-American agenda remains ’73 ECC for contributing to this report.
Kuwait includes Faisal Al-Ragom ’91 (president), In March, key alumni and Mohammad Al-Shayji ’89 (vice administrators, including former president), Bashar Al Awadhi ’98, Hasan NASA astronaut José Hernandez ’85 Khajah ’98 and Abdulaziz Fakhroo ’91. ENG, Rick Nemetz ’62 ENG and During the trip, Hernandez gave Marc Goto ’61 ENG accompanied several presentations to groups of School of Engineering and Computer young people, high school counselors, Science (SOECS) Dean Ravi Jain on a teachers and alumni. The representatives trip to Kuwait. The purpose of the trip from SOECS held many gatherings in Esq. ’62 dedicated staff and resources to was to share news about SOECS with restaurants and private residences during support the success of the trip. the University’s large contingent of the eight-day visit; two of the events The School ofE ngineering and alumni and friends in the Middle East. were hosted by Faisal Sultan Al Essa ’62. Computer Science plans to continue to TheG ulf Alumni Board, established Dr. Ali Dashti ’90, chairman of Kuwait work closely with Kuwait and to hold in 2006, helped organize the trip. and Gulf Links Holding Company, and alumni meetings on a regular basis. The group’s new board of directors new University Regent Fawzi Al-Saleh
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Students from Bidwell Elementary School enjoyed a visit to campus last fall sponsored by the Black Alumni Pacific Club.
Regional and special- Black Alumni Pacific Club interest Pacific Clubs The Black AlumniC lub sponsored a Black have been very busy History Month essay contest. More than the past few months. 90 students from four California schools Here is a recap of participated. Each participant was given a some notable club PacificT -shirt and college literature. The activities. Alumni, club also hosted a group of students from Sacramento’s John Bidwell Elementary parents, students and School on campus last fall. The students friends are always heard from a panel of engineering students, invited to Pacific Club played music with the concert band in Faye events. To get involved Arizona Valley of the Sun Pacific Club Spanos Concert Hall and toured the art gallery. in a Pacific Club, or to Alumni spent a day at Salt River Fields watching see a list of upcoming the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Texas events, please visit Rangers in a spring training match-up. www.PacificAlumni.org. Alumni and Parents Alumni and parents of current students enjoyed a reception at the Reynolds Art Gallery kicking off Parent & Family Weekend and the Japanese Festival. The reception showcased the photography of alumnus Bruce Osborn ’73. Orange County A small group of alumni gathered in Orange County to discuss revitalization efforts for their regional club.
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Los Angeles Pacific Club East Bay Pacific Club Alumni gathered at The Factory Restaurant Bay Area alumni in Long Beach, ready to cheer on the Tigers gathered for an evening men’s basketball team. Restaurant owner and of jazz at Yoshi’s Oakland Pacific alumnaN atalie Gutenkauf ’93 COP in Jack London Square. put together a great reception for the group. Featured guests included Steve Anderson, director of the Brubeck Institute, and the Brubeck Institute Fellows.
Sacramento Pacific Club San Joaquin Club In October, alumni learned wine tasting Biology professor Stacy techniques at Café Michel Bistro in downtown Luthy provided a tour of the Sacramento. Biological Sciences building In December, a group of alumni and their and presented a lecture on children went on a magical journey to the Stockton-area water sources North Pole during the Tiny Tiger Night on and the condition of the the Polar Express. Calaveras River.
San Diego Pacific Club Alumni in San Diego enjoyed a stage performance at La Jolla Playhouse of “Little Miss Sunshine,” an adaptation of the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. The group also hosted a meet-and-greet in January.
Don’t miss Pacific’s 160th Birthday! On July 10, the University will celebrate 160 years since its charter was established. July 10, 2011 Ways you can celebrate: • Wear orange on July 10 • Decorate your work space with orange and black • Request orange and black balloons by emailing the Pacific Alumni Association • Throw your own Pacific birthday party • Attend a Pacific birthday event in your area
For more ideas on how to celebrate Pacific’s birthday or to see a list of Alumni Association sponsored events, visit www.PacificAlumni.org or email [email protected].
pacific review 29 Pacific Adventures tiger treks 2011–2012 An Exclusive Alumni Education and Travel Experience
Antarctica February 15–28, 2012 Sail for nine nights with an onboard exhibition team of naturalists, and watch as normal human scales and reference points disappear amid fantastically shaped icebergs, lively penguin rookeries and breaching whales.
Discover the w o n d ers of the w o r l d o n P a cific Alumni T r a v e l t o u r s !
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Sicily, Italy South American Cruise with Professor Courtney Lehmann November 11–20, 2011 March 8–21, 2012 August 5–8, 2011 Peru, featuring Machu Picchu Music Tour of Spain and Italy with 30 Normandyspring with2011 Paris February 20 – March 1, 2012 Professors Jim Haffner and Matt Krejci September 16–25, 2011 May 16–24, 2012
For more information on these and other trips, including upcoming cruises, contact Kelli (Williams) Page ’87 in the Pacific Alumni Association toll-free at866.575.7229 or visit the Alumni Web site www.PacificAlumni.org and click on Benefits. Don’t be left in the dark.
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Service. He was chosen Ross Price ’52 MUS, Carson out of more than 60,000 City, NV, retired after 32 years What’s New? volunteers in the Pacific of public school teaching. He Send us your class note, wedding West Region for making a received his bachelor’s degree or baby announcements and photos to positive and lasting impact in music from Pacific and [email protected] over 22 years of volunteer his master’s degree in music or mail to service. education from Sacramento Pacific Alumni Association 1950s State. He played orchestral 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211 music for three years in Reno and Lake Tahoe. He still Kurt Mayer ’51 COP, Tacoma, plays the saxophone, clarinet WA, will do a book signing and flute professionally and 1940s in April at the Holocaust belongs to Phi Mu Alpha Beta Al Dauth ’48, ’53 COP, Museum in Washington, Honolulu, HI, is enjoying Chapter at Pacific. Price is Dave Brubeck ’42 COP, D.C. Proceeds from the sales life in Hawaii with his wife, married with three children Wilton, CT, celebrated his of his book, “My Personal Dorothy. As a student he was and four grandchildren. 90th birthday on December 6, Brush with History,” fund an a part of the ERC “gang” that 2010. “In His Own Sweet endowed chair named in his Bill Beck left school in 1943 to serve ’57 COP, Modesto, Way,” a documentary about honor at Pacific Lutheran in WWII. CA, and his wife, Mary, Dave, produced by Clint University in Tacoma. Kurt celebrated their 50th wedding Eastwood and coproduced by and his wife Pamela have been Earl Collins ’49 COP, Seattle, anniversary on June 6, 2010. Pacific Professor Patti married 50 years. He has lived WA, won the National Park McCarthy, aired on TCM in Tacoma since 1955 and is a Service Pacific West Region’s Discover the won d ers of the worl d on Pacific A l u m n i T ravel tours! the day of his birthday. retired builder and developer. George and Helen Hartzog Volunteer Award for Enduring
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Class of 1981 Class of 1996 Black Alumni Reunion Class of 1961 Sally (Sturges) Baum Nicole Bissonnette Rickey Boyland ’79 Jack Bursch Alan Clack Terra (Awalt) Brusseau Pam Gibbs ’92 Karen (Arveson) Clare Lura Dunn Carla Castañeda Joyce (Parrish) Howell ’71 Dick Harrison Robert Hudelson Justin Gingery Norma (Clayton) Ivy ’74 Maggie (Bodley) Harrison Melissa (Director) Jakubowitz Bethany Harris Penelopy Lee ’93 Laura (Roberts) Kelso Ashley Patterson ’06, ’09 Carl Kammerer Class of 2001 Toni (Putnam) Linde Marshea (Jones) Pratt ’93 Pat (Burns) Kammerer Elisa (Orosco) Anders Lori (Best) Sawdon Carol (Johnson) Smith ’86 Thais Kishi Erin (Westfall) Mettler Marcie Spencer Kevin Smith ’83 Donalee (Carlson) McGary Becky (Curry) Perry Sharifa Townsend ’76 Katherine (Knox) Owen Class of 1986 Silky Sahnan Pi Kappa Alpha Class of 1966 Lisa (Ybarra) Arburn Saylor Spare Jason Balatti ’08 Dave Frederickson Jim Dugoni Kelson (Werner) Splavec Joel Harris Andrew Basham ’11 Margaret (Peers) Frederickson Class of 2006 Craig Hope Daniel Bristow ’10 Tom Honey Lisa Caffey Jan (Inglese) Hope Kyle Clark ’05 Clay Pauli Victoria Dorward Brad Loos Tim Dickson ’98 Suzi (Frerichs) Post Donald Mascardo Mary Pietanza Nick Griffen ’11 Silvia Montanez Class of 1971 Grant Reeder Scott Kilpatrick ’97 Suzanne Shenk Nora (Stafford) Clipper LaNor (Miller) Smith Danny Nuss ’02 Erika Vigil Steve Covell Charles Raub ’06 Class of 1991 Armando Flores Residence Life Ricky Ruhlen ’04 Eva (Chavez) Clark Make sure your email address is up to date! Joe Mulligan Richard French ’78 Nathan Wenger ’09 Missy (Scheid) Nance Cathy (Shaw) Dodson Alexandra Froehlich ’10 Society of Women Engineers Meredith (Peterson) Putman Gisella Gigglberger Analucia Lopezrevoredo ’09 Huong Nguyen ’05 Register your email address at Ursula Kleinecke-Boyer Jason Titus ’08 Class of 1976 George Schroeder, Brendan O’Hearn Shauna Young (staff) Mary-Elizabeth Eberhardt Wendy (Pryor) Niebank Professor Emeritus www.PacificAlumni.org/Email Morrison England Fowzia (Ahmadyar) Zaka Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Sue Schroeder Julio Hallack Keith Sanpei ’03 Professor Louise Stark Cecelia (St. Mary) Williams Denny Stilwell ’88 pacific review 31 Class Notes
Robert Rible ’65 COP, Santa Kenneth Marshall Silberberg 1960s Cruz, CA, has retired from 1970s ’73 LAW, Laguna Beach, the Episcopal priesthood and CA, is a principal in the Law is a lay teacher at the Prophet Offices of MarshallS ilberberg Elias Greek Orthodox Church Class of 1971 in Newport Beach. in Santa Cruz, CA. He is also 40–Year Reunion a volunteer member of the June 10–12, 2011 Stephen DeMoulin ’73 PHS, Taxpayer Advisory Panel of Alameda, CA, is the pharmacy the IRS. He retired as a senior Colleen (Yeates) Marsh manager for Lucky/Savemart manager at Deloitte Tax LLP ’72 ECC, Davis, CA, is in the Fruitvale district in Ron Ranson ’63 COP with sons in 2008. Oakland, where he recently Tim and Andrew in Nepal. proud to announce the accomplishments of her received the President’s Award Ron Ranson ’63 COP, children. Her son Sean and for excellence. He is also a Leucadia, CA, returned to his his wife, Nicole, are complet- member of the San Francisco Class of 1966 1964-66 Peace Corps post in ing theses for doctoral degrees Vintners Club and does 45–Year Reunion Nepal with his two sons, Tim in Asian studies. Son Dana educational wine events monthly June 10–12, 2011 and Andrew, in December is working on his master’s in San Francisco. His oldest 2010 where he met with two degree to teach middle school. daughter just graduated from Barry Harper of his former students. ’66 BUS, Santa His wife, Lindsay, is a geologist. nursing school and his youngest Clara, CA, president and chief Son Brian is working on is heading for the Navy. Leo Middleton ’64 COP, Tustin, executive officer of Harper his prerequisites for U.C. Brian Sanford CA, has retired after 15 years Brush, Inc., in Fairfield, IA, Davis. Her daughter, Jean, ’74 COP, as an administrator with the was elected vice chairman/ graduated in May 2009 with Cambridge, MA, has left El Camino Community College chairman-elect of the board of her bachelor’s degree from the Davis, CA, and is working District in Torrance, CA. Prior directors of the International University of Puget Sound and for Genzyme Corporation to his work in community Housewares Association, the works for Apple Retail. Marsh in Boston, MA, as a vice college administration, he full-service trade association has three grandchildren, Avary president for quality. held management positions in for the housewares industry. (10), Ingrid (4) and Quinn (3). James Crockett petroleum, chemicals and high Her husband, Rob, is close ’74 LAW, technology with Conoco Inc. to retirement. Las Vegas, NV, is a principal in (DuPont) and Hamilton/Avnet the Las Vegas firm of Crockett Electronics on the Gulf and Joseph Arellano ’73 COP, Elk & Myers. West coasts and in the Grove, CA, is a prolific book James O’Reilly Rockies. He and his wife, reviewer. He writes reviews ’75 LAW, Sharon, live in Tustin. for the New York Journal of Las Vegas, NV, has merged his Jeffrey Burr Books, San Francisco Book law firm with ’79 Review, Sacramento Book LAW, Henderson, NV. He will Review and his own book blog, direct the elder law division of Joseph’s Reviews. He lives in Jeffrey Burr,L td., in Las Vegas. Elk Grove with his wife, Ruta. Omar James ’75 LAW, Heidi (Erkenbrack) Skidmore Aptos, CA, is a senior partner ’73 MUS, Wray, CO, is an in the Aptos firm of Johnson ordained minister with the & James LLP. Presbyterian Church-USA. In Shawn Keefe 2007, she received her Master ’75 COP, of Divinity from San Francisco Sarasota, FL, was awarded Task Complete TheologicalS eminary in San the Meritorious Service Medal Georgette Hunefeld Marian Jacobs Joan (l. to r.) ’90, ’47, Anselmo, CA, and is serving her while serving as the ground Cortopassi Judith Chambers ’58 and ’58 of the Janet Leigh first call as the pastor of the First operations officer, Current Theatre Committee. This alumni task force worked with the Presbyterian Church in Wray. Operations Center, U.S. family, the trust, the Board of Regents and the University to Marine Corps Forces, Central realize the late Janet Leigh’s ’47 dream of having Pacific’s movie Command. theatre named for her. The beautifully refurbished theatre now displays Leigh’s collection of movie memorabilia.
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Barry Fadem ’79 LAW, Margaret (Reilly) Mackenzie Lafayette, CA, is a nationally 1980s ’80 COP, Portola Valley, Class of 1976 recognized expert in the Harold “Jay” Jacobson ’80 CA, has been married to her 35–Year Reunion mechanics of getting initiatives DEN, El Cajon, CA, is in husband, Bill, for 24 years. June 10–12, 2011 drafted, circulated and private practice and is an They have two sons. Ian is a qualified for the ballot. He assistant professor at Loma freshman at San Francisco Linda (Pope) Philipp ’76 COP, is a partner in the law firm Linda University. He is a State and Alec is a senior at Stockton, CA, has started her of Fadem & Associates. board-certified endodontist Woodside High School. Four new job as CEO/president of and graduated from the years ago she began her own Gerald “Jerry” Connors Jr. the Community Foundation of program at Oregon Health business, Nutmeg Kitchens San Joaquin. ’79 RAY, Vashon, WA, is and Sciences University in Culinary Services. She provides a chaplain for the Federal 2000. He has been married personal chef services to Roy Hashimoto ’76 LAW, Correctional Institute- to his wife, Kathy, for 24 several weekly clients and Castro Valley, CA, was profiled McDowell, in Welch, WV. He years and has two daughters, small event catering in the in the San Francisco Daily and his wife, the Rev. Lynn Elizabeth and Kristin. Midpeninsula area. Journal. He is a judge on the Boettger, recently ventured Alameda County Superior to Cambridge, MA, to see Court. their daughter Meaghan row stroke seat for Clark University Stephen Scott ’76 LAW, at The Head of the Charles Stockton, CA, was appointed Regatta. by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Superior Jake Aller ’79 COP, Promotion Caps Court judge for San Joaquin Alexandria, VA, has left a Series of Firsts County. Barbados and the Eastern Paula Brown ’82 ENG, Ashland, Caribbean for an assignment OR, was recently promoted to Louise Lowe Chiu ’77 LAW, in Madrid, Spain, as the rear admiral in the Seabees. This West Sacramento, CA, was deputy counselor chief. He promotion and assignment caps a elected to the Taft Union is studying Spanish at the series of firsts for Brown, who was High School Hall of Fame Foreign Service Institute also the first female commander and will be formally inducted and will arrive in Spain in of a Seabee regiment in combat. in late spring. An ob-gyn, May 2011 for a three-year She is the first female deputy she served as the chief assignment. During his years commander of the First Naval medical legal officer for with the State Department Construction Division and Kaiser Permanente in he has served assignments the second female in the Civil Northern California until in Barbados and the Eastern Engineer Corps to be promoted to rear admiral. her retirement in 1996. Caribbean, Washington, DC, Brown received a direct commission to the Navy Civil India, Thailand and Korea. Engineer Corps after graduation and reported to active duty Bill Yeates ’78 LAW, Prior to joining the State through December 1986. She entered the Navy Reserves in Sacramento, CA, is a partner Department, he served in the 1988. She has served many reserve component commands, as in the Sacramento law firm Peace Corps and taught ESL well as active duty posts during Operation Desert Shield and of Kenyon Yeates. in Korea. He is married with Operation Iraqi Freedom, and as deputy commander for Naval no children. Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor. Bruce Beesley ’78 LAW, A Seabee Combat Warfare Officer and Fleet Marine Force Reno, NV, has been named to Wendy Slavkin ’79 LAW, Officer Qualified, she has received numerous awards including serve on the U.S. Bankruptcy Los Angeles, CA, spoke at the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Navy Meritorious Service Court for the District of the Pacific McGeorge Alumni Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation and Nevada. Association Southern California Achievement Medals. She is a member of the Defense Acquisition MCLE in Long Beach. She Professional Community and is registered as a professional civil Randall Wilson ’78 BUS, ’98 is a principal in the law offices engineer in both Oregon and California and as an environmental LAW, Sacramento, CA, has of Wendy K. Slavkin in engineer in Oregon. joined Kronick Moskovitz Los Angeles. Brown recently completed her latest assignment serving as Tiedemann & Girard and will deputy chief of staff for Engineering, Naval Forces Korea, run the firm’s new Roseville and is currently assigned as deputy commander, First Naval office. Construction Division.
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Martha (Evensen) Opich ’80 Marian (Baldacchino) Gericke Ronald Shaw ’81 EDU, Christopher Anderson ’82 LAW, Rocklin, CA, was named ’81 EDU, San Jose, CA, has Las Vegas, NV, has been a MUS, Stockton, CA, has been president-elect of the Friends been married to her husband, missionary to India, Bangladesh, a music educator, performer of Sacramento Crisis Nurseries Michael, for 26 years. They Sri Lanka and other Southeast and conductor for more than board of directors. She is a have two sons, Kevin and AJ. Asian countries. During his 25 years. He is a trombonist partner in the Citrus Heights She earned her master’s degree lifetime, he started 30 private and plays for the Singaires, firm of KraftO pich LLP. in communicative disorders in schools, four Bible Colleges, Stockton Concert Band and 1981 and works as a speech- and an Institute for Educational San Joaquin Delta College language pathologist/special Administration, as well as Monday Night Jazz Band. education teacher. For the trained thousands of teachers He has performed with Mel Class of 1981 past 25 years, she has worked and administrators. He also Torme, Dave Brubeck, Arturo 30–Year Reunion exclusively with preschool did service work after the Sandoval and Claudia Villela. June 10–12, 2011 children with special needs. tsunami devastation in India Last June she was named and Sri Lanka. Until recently Robert Brumfield’83 LAW, Sunnyvale School District’s he was training teachers to Bakersfield, CA, has opened Teacher of the Year. help refugees escaping from his own firm, the Law Offices Myanmar into Thailand. He of Robert H. Brumfield, P.C. is currently semiretired and His wife, Lorna Brumfield ’83 Jackson Moves to living in Las Vegas. LAW, is a judge on the Kern Head Coach County Superior Court. Sal Gugino ’81 LAW, Las Vegas, Hue Jackson ’87, Oakland, NV, continues to write his Steven Alm ’83 LAW, CA, was promoted to head monthly “Ask Mr. Lawyer” Honolulu, HI, received the coach of the Oakland column for The Communique, Hawaii State Judiciary’s “Jurist Raiders on January 17, 2011. the magazine of the Clark of the Year” award. He is a Jackson joined the Oakland County Bar Association. judge on Hawaii’s First Circuit Raiders in 2010 as offensive Court, whose highly successful coordinator. He has 25 drug probation program has years of coaching experience drawn nationwide attention. in college and professional football and has been an Robert Green ’84 LAW, Mill offensive coordinator at Valley, CA, is a senior partner both levels. Last year, in the San Francisco firm of Jackson coordinated an Green Welling LLP. Oakland Raiders offense that finished fourth in theA FC Sayer Strauch ’85 COP, and sixth in the NFL, more than doubling their score output Vancouver, WA, recently from the previous year. Prior to joining the Raiders, Jackson spent J. Renee Chapman published two new spiritual two seasons as Baltimore’s quarterbacks coach and helped the Navarro ’82 PHS formation resources that Ravens advance to the postseason in 2008 and 2009. complement his book “High As a quarterback at Pacific from 1985-86, Jackson threw for J. Renee Chapman Navarro Definition Family.” The 2,544 yards and 19 touchdowns. He also lettered in basketball ’82 PHS, San Mateo, CA, has two study guides are “High in 1986 and earned his degree in physical education. Jackson been appointed the first vice Definition Journey for Families” launched his career as a running backs chancellor of diversity and and “High Definition Journey coach at Pacific from 1987-89. Pacific outreach at the University of for Small Groups.” In addition Tigers Basketball celebrated with California, San Francisco. to continuing with Soul Shapes, Jackson on March 3 with Hue Jackson a ministry of spiritual formation Night at the men’s basketball game William Slaughter ’82 LAW, and coaching, he has accepted against Cal State Fullerton. At the Ojai, CA, is a partner in a position as interim pastor with game, Pacific Athletics Director Lynn the Ventura firm of Procter, Tualatin Plains Presbyterian King presented Jackson with a plaque Slaughter & Reagan. Church in Hillsboro, OR. recognizing his accomplishments and gave him a commemorative basketball jersey with his playing number.
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Jack Clarke ’85 LAW, Riverside, Randy Potter ’87 BUS, CA, spoke at the Pacific Class of 1986 Alameda, CA, is the vice McGeorge Alumni Association 25–Year Reunion president of Earth Bound Southern California MCLE in June 10–12, 2011 Homes, a company that Long Beach. He is a partner builds the greenest homes with Best Best & Krieger in Allison McDonald ’86, ’94 in California. They have Riverside. BUS, San Carlos, CA, is built the best Green Point the controller at Ensenta Rated and LEED homes ever Warren Stracener ’85 LAW, Susan Silveira ’85 MUS Corporation in Redwood certified and just finished El Dorado Hills, CA, has been and her daughter Kayla Shores, CA. The company two zero-energy/zero-carbon appointed to the El Dorado runs the funds transfer for homes in Silicon Valley. Susan Silveira ’85 MUS, County Superior Court. He smaller banks and medium Hollister, CA, teaches music to has been deputy chief counsel to large credit unions that about 600 students every week. for the Department of Personnel use check imaging. Administration since 2004, where he previously served as Geoffrey McConnell ’86 legal counsel. He also has served LAW, Boise, ID, is a partner as board counsel for the Public in the firm of Meulemna Employees Relations Board. Mollerup LLP. 5 9 Pacific Baby Album 3
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Karie (Isaacs) Kaufmann ’00, ’01 BUS and Scott Kaufmann ’99 Alicia (McNamara) Stock ’03 COP and Curt Stock, a son, COP, a daughter, Kenzi Ella, 6/19/10, San Diego, CA — 1 Dylan, 6/26/10, Rockville, MD Jennifer (Jensen) Timmins ’91 EDU, a son, Liam Patrick, Brennan Hovland ’97 BUS and Marla Hovland, a daughter, 10/19/10, Santa Clara, CA Kylan Marie, 11/29/10, San Diego, CA — 4 Kira (Mello) Keb ’04 COP and Jon-Paul Keb, a daughter, Shika Gupta ’07 DENT and Pradeep Gomes, a daughter, Kaylee Hokulani, 11/5/10, Mountain House, CA Sonya Marian, 10/23/10, Foster City, CA — 5 Jill (Francis) Mortensen ’02 COP, ’04 EDU and Brian Cherry Charlestham ’03 PHS and David Bao ’01 PHS, a son, Mortensen, a daughter, Payten Jeanise, 9/2/10, Modesto, CA — 2 John T., 11/12/10, San Diego, CA — 6 Allison (Wager) Young ’04 COP and Mark Young ’06 DEN, Denise (Perkins) Griffith ’05 ENG and Gary Griffith, a son, a son, Ethan Mark, 2/8/10, El Dorado Hills, CA Connor Daniel, 9/17/10, Stockton, CA Stephanie Hjelmstad ’09 EDU, a daughter, Estelle, 4/7/10, Jed Sims ’97 COP and Olivia Sims, a son, Diego Marcello, Linden, CA 2/11/11, Anchorage, AK — 7 Laurie (Weil) Greenberg ’91 COP and David Greenberg, Lori (Wood) Cutter ’02 COP and William Cutter ’01 COP, a daughter, Emery, 8/19/2010, Poway, CA a son, William, 10/1/10, Rancho Cordova, CA — 8 Janice Smith-Menor ’92 EDU and Orlando Menor, a son, Diana (Rose) Brennan ’01 COP and Andrew Brennan, a son, Makai James, 10/10/10, San Francisco, CA Jackson James, 10/3/10, Benicia, CA — 9 Maria (Kerr) Sears ’04 BUS and John Sears, a daughter, Adrienne Lorraine, 1/16/11, Cedar Rapids, IA — 3
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Maria Serpa ’87 PHS, Lodi, Janiece Marshall ’89, ’90 Kathy Northington ’92 EDU, Matthew Wilber ’95 LAW, CA, was elected president LAW, Las Vegas, NV, was Copperopolis, CA, was named Carson, IA, was named of the California Society of sworn in as a justice of the the new Calaveras County president of the Iowa County Health-System Pharmacists. peace on the Las Vegas Justice Superintendent of Schools. Attorneys Association. He has She has worked with CSHP Court. been elected to his third term as for many years serving more Darrin Atkins ’93 COP, Pottawattamie County Attorney than 4,000 members across John Demas ’89 COP, ’92 Pittsburg, CA, passed the in Council Bluffs, IA. the state. She recently helped LAW, Carmichael, CA, is a California Real Estate install officers into the CSHP- principal in the Sacramento firm Salesperson examination in Pacific student chapter.S he of Demas & Rosenthal LLP. October. He is licensed and works at Sutter Medical Center focusing on real estate sales in in Sacramento. 1990s Contra Costa County. Elizabeth Trimm ’88 LAW, David Mathias ’94 LAW, Gold River, CA, was appointed John Doering ’90 LAW, Los Sacramento, CA, was appointed senior partner of Hanna Angeles, CA, is the Stanislaus to a judgeship in Tulare County. Brophy MacLean McAleer County Counsel. & Jensen LLP. Valli Israels ’94 LAW, Robert Print Maggard ’90 Modesto, CA, was appointed Mark Meckler ’88 LAW, LAW, American Canyon, CA, as a judge on the Stanislaus Spencer Skeen ’95 LAW Chicago Park, CA, is a is a judge on the San Francisco Superior Court. national coordinator for the Immigration Court. Spencer Skeen ’95 LAW, Tea Party Patriots. The Grass Keith Pershall ’95 LAW, San Diego, CA, joins Fisher Valley attorney was part of a Sacramento, CA, spoke at & Phillips LLP as partner. national tour that made scores the Pacific McGeorgeA lumni Skeen is co-chair of the San of stops across the country Class of 1991 Association MCLE in Diego County Bar Association prior to the November general 20–Year Reunion Sacramento. He is a principal and a member of the Labor election. June 10–12, 2011 in the law offices of Keith E. and Employment Section of Pershall in Sacramento. the California State Bar, the Hank Greenblatt ’89 LAW, Eugene DePrez ’92 ENG, Association of Business Trial Sacramento, CA, is a partner at Upland, CA, is a manager of Lawyers, and the American Bar the Sacramento firm of Dreyer information technology for Association Class Action and Babich Buccola and Wood. infrastructure and engineering Derivative Suits committee. in Los Angeles, CA.
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Jocelyn Ruppell ’07 PHS and Jack Lagier, 8/7/10, Lynette Lansford ’05 COP and Kelly McArthur, 11/20/10, Campbell, CA — 1 Anaheim, CA — 3
Denise Snider ’09 EDU and Robert Renwick, 3/27/10, Kara Raynor ’08 COP and Alberto Sanchez, 10/23/10, Santa Cruz, CA San Diego, CA — 4
Leah Shelton ’07 BUS and Matthew Paul ’06 BUS, 8/1/09, Rory Khan ’07 BUS and Wolfgang Raffety ’07 BUS, 7/31/10, Santa Clara, CA — 2 Stockton, CA — 5
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Daniel Keller ’90, ’95 COP, Kristian Garcia ’09 BUS, ’97 LAW, New York, NY, is a 2000s Class of 2006 San Diego, CA, was recently 5–Year Reunion senior partner in the Tarzana Michael Haven ’00 LAW, hired as a business IT analyst June 10–12, 2011 firm of Keller, Fishback & Carmichael, CA, has been at Forwardslope, one of San Jackson LLP. elected to the partnership at Diego’s top 10 fastest-growing Irene Roberts the Palo Alto office of K&L ’06 MUS, private companies. Gates, where he focuses on Carmichael, CA, joins the complex commercial disputes Metropolitan Opera to cover Class of 1996 2010s and intellectual property cases. the role of Stephano in their 15–Year Reunion upcoming production of June 10–12, 2011 Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette.” Alice van Ommeren ’10 Irene was awarded a scholarship EDU, Stockton, CA, works for the chancellor’s office of Juan Aranda ’97 COP, San Class of 2001 for graduate study at Cleveland Francisco, CA, completed a Institute of Music, where she the California Community 10–Year Reunion College System and is also Master of Science in nursing, June 10–12, 2011 earned her master’s degree in with honors, at San Francisco vocal performance in 2008. teaching a course for CPCE State University in December From 2008–2010 she was a on Stockton history. She Ryan Meckfessel ’01 LAW, recently received 2011 Mertes 2009. He is working as a staff San Francisco, CA, is a partner Young Artist with Palm Beach nurse at California Pacific Opera Company. Award for Excellence in at Sideman & Bancroft LLP. Community College Research Medical Center in San He joined the firm in 2004. Francisco. Somporn Boonsalat ’07 ENG, for her paper “New Transfer Partners: California Community Carlo Pedrioli ’02 LAW, Stockton, CA, was involved in Tad Devlin ’97 LAW, San the Mathematics, Engineering, Colleges and Private for-Profit Modesto, CA, is an assistant Four-Year Institutions.” Rafael, CA, is a partner at professor of law at Barry Science Achievement (MESA) Gordon & Rees in San Francisco. University in Florida. program as a student at Pacific. He was recently featured in Bruce Timm ’98 LAW, Larenda (Burke) Delaini ’03 the latest issue of the MESA Sacramento, CA, spoke at LAW, Davis, CA, has joined the Connect newsletter. He is the Pacific McGeorgeA lumni California Department of Justice currently an assistant engineer Association MCLE in as a deputy attorney general. for the City of Stockton Sacramento. He is an associate Municipal Utilities Department. at Boutin Jones Inc. in Chris Brooke ’05 LAW, Marina (Torres) Aiello Sacramento. Alturas, CA, has served as an ’08 assistant district attorney in COP, Stockton, CA, has been Zackery Morazzini ’99, ’02 the county seat of Alturas for selected by the Association of LAW, West Sacramento, CA, the past five years. Research Libraries Committee is a deputy attorney general for on Diversity and Leadership to the state of California. Patricia Fagan ’05 MUS, participate in the 2010–2012 Joelle Aud ’10 MUS Superior, CO, is getting Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Jana DuBois ’99 LAW, Workforce. This program seeks married in July at Rocky Joelle Aud ’10 MUS, Turlock, Sacramento, CA, has been to attract students from racial Mountain National Park. CA, won the Miss San Joaquin named vice president and and ethnic minority groups She is working on a Doctor pageant 2011. She is a resident general counsel of the to careers in academic and of Musical Arts degree in assistant in Monagan Hall and California Hospital Associa- research libraries. bassoon at the University of a Delta Gamma alumna. tion in Sacramento. Colorado, Boulder. Alan Donato ’09 LAW, Jessica Thoma ’99 LAW, Sacramento, CA, was featured Sacramento, CA, has joined in Valley Community News the California Department of for his role as a youth mentor Corrections and Rehabilitation and assistant baseball coach at as staff counsel. McClatchy High. He is a sole practitioner and operates the law office of Alan J. Donato in Sacramento.
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In Memoriam Patrick Furrer ’71 LAW, Frank Bessac ’43 COP 10/16/10, Portland, OR 1922–2010 W. Gordon White ’38 ENG, 4/10, Alder, MT Frank Bessac was a Fulbright scholar Robert Fairwell ’44 COP, 5/26/10, Hayward, CA studying in Inner Mongolia when Noel D. Price ’47 COP, communist forces 2/13/11, Stockton, CA began organizing Frank Bessac ’43 COP, meeting the Dalai Marion (Brimm) Fechner raids across China. Lama in New York in 2009, 59 years after ’49 COP, ’74 EDU, 12/2/10, He embarked on what their first meeting Granite Bay, CA became an 11-month, Joyce Rollings ’49 MUS, Lorraine (Montierth) 1,500-mile trek to seek asylum in Tibet. His autobiographical 9/23/10, Grass Valley, CA Whitmer ’71, ’78 COP account of the trip appeared in Life magazine and vividly Francis Dillon ’50 LAW, Lorraine (Montierth) Whitmer portrayed his harrowing tale of survival. This included the 9/24/10, Sacramento, CA ’71, ’78 COP, 1/13/11, shooting and beheading of three men traveling in his party. Stockton, CA Before setting off on the last leg of his journey, he received a Lucille (Beggs) Childs ’52 COP, 2/12/11, Fremont, CA Paul McCormick ’73 EDU, Buddhist blessing from Tenzin Gyatso, who later became the th 10/9/10, Novato, CA 14 Dalai Lama. Bessac was born in Lodi, CA. He received a Louis Douglas Null ’52 BUS, bachelor’s degree in history from College of the Pacific before 2/14/11, Stockton, CA Mark Pash ’74 MUS, joining the Army in 1943. He received his master’s degree 10/26/10, Stockton, CA Suzanne (Thorpe) Wirth ’52 in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, COP, 2/11/11, Escalon, CA Paul Loumena ’74 COP, and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. He 5/19/10, Taos, NM Mervyn Kipnis ’54 DEN, taught at the University of Montana, Missoula, from 1967– 6/15/10, Aikens, SC Susan (Coslett) Moulthrop 1989, when he became a professor emeritus. He is survived by ’75 COP, 1/31/11, Alamo, CA his wife of 59 years and five children. Nelson Zane ’59 MUS, 2/26/11, Stockton, CA Thomas Russell ’77 LAW, 1/10/11, Portland, OR William Osgood ’60 COP, Charles Bruce Orvis ’50 BUS 2/28/11, Brentwood, CA Carl G. Knopke Jr. ’78 LAW, 10/16/10, Sacramento, CA 1927–2010 Meriel (Havstad) Alexander After graduating from high school, Charles Orvis enlisted in ’61 COP, 12/4/10, Stockton, Diana Scott ’78 LAW, CA 10/30/10, Beverly Hills, CA the Naval Combat Air Crew Program and served until 1946. Following service, Orvis entered College of the Pacific and was Carlo Michelotti ’61 PHS, Lisbeth Bellet ’80 LAW, the running back on Pacific’s undefeated 1949 football team 9/22/10, Stockton, CA 9/26/10, Gold River, CA quarterbacked by Eddie LeBaron ’50 COP. Orvis and his wife, Waymond Hall Jr. ’62 COP, Paul Hickman ’84 LAW, Roma (Porter) Orvis ’49 COP, were married at Morris Chapel in 9/16/10, Stockton, CA 10/21/10, Reno, NV 1949 and made their home in Farmington, CA. A cattle rancher Leonard J. Terra ’62 PHS, Robert Stephenson Jr. ’85 and founder of Bear Valley Ski Resort, Orvis was an integral 2/2/11, Sacramento, CA COP, 12/17/10, Carlsbad, CA part of the beef industry. He served from 1959–1985 on the founding committee of the California Beef Cattle Improvement Manuel E. Lopes ’69 LAW, 2/12/11, Citrus Heights, CA Association. He also served on the California Beef Council Board of Directors, was named California Beef Cattle Improvement Gary Wright ’70 MUS, ’96 Association Seedstock Producer of the Year in 1993 and 2000, EDU, 8/20/10, Stockton, CA was appointed to the Western States Hereford Committee in John E. Nisby ’71 COP, 1995, and in 2001 was elected to the board of directors of the 2/6/11, Stockton, CA American Hereford Association. He is survived by his wife, four children and 12 grandchildren.
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Milton Lambertson ’57 BUS Genellen (Meyer) Baker ’61 PHS, 1931–2011 1938–2011 Milton Lamberston was born March 17, Modesto, CA, native Genellen Baker broke gender barriers 1931, in Glendale, CA. After his marriage by becoming the first female pharmacist inS tanislaus County. to Virginia in 1951, he left for Italy to She was the first pharmacist to do “relief work” (similar to serve with the U.S. Army during the substitute teaching), which is now a common professional Korean War. Following his military practice, and created a program to teach prescription drug safety service, he attended College of the Pacific to elementary school children. Baker was a lifetime member in Stockton, where he received his BA of Soroptimist and a majority member of Job’s Daughters in business administration in 1957. International. She was preceded in death by her husband, Milton Lambertson ’57 BUS Lambertson worked for University of Rexford Baker ’70 COP. the Pacific for 42 years, retiring with honors as associate dean of Finance for Arthur Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. An Eagle Scout, scoutmaster, longtime member of the United Methodist Church and a school board member for 15 years, Lambertson was dedicated to helping others. His number one passion was spending time with his family.
Honoring the Memory Last Chime for Pacific’s Carillonneur Charles Schilling 1915–2010 Charles Schilling, organist, music teacher, composer and Stockton Symphony in University carillonneur, passed away Christmas Eve at the age the 1970s; and frequently of 95. Schilling had been a part of the Pacific andS tockton performed baroque community since 1956 and was active in the Pacific and music on organ, piano community music scene into his 90s. and harpsichord. Born on April 19, 1915, in Butternut, WI, Schilling Schilling is graduated summa cum laude from Carleton College in 1936 remembered for his and married Sarah Elizabeth intelligence and wit, Hillyer in Minnesota in 1940. and was always decked He earned his master’s and out in suit and bow tie. doctoral degrees in sacred music He was a teacher and from Union TheologicalS eminary mentor of hundreds in New York. of students over his Schilling joined the Pacific more than three faculty in 1956 and became decades of teaching and is remembered the University organist and as demanding but patient and helpful. He was passionate about carillonneur. He retired in 1985, music, especially that of the 17th and 18th centuries, and also had but continued to be active on an unusual variety of hobbies, including caning chairs, growing campus and playing the carillon carnations and breeding canaries. He is survived by his wife, four until 2008. During his tenure children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. at Pacific, he also held the position of chair of applied music and headed the Chapel choir. He served as minister of music at several Stockton churches; played with the
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Wildly ringing the victor’s bell — symbol of rivalry between Pacific and San Jose — the Archites shown below circle the Spartan Stadium after the game November 1949.
At the teams match-up in 1954, Trish Meyers points to the Pacific side of the bell and signifies with her hand that it has been five years since the Tigers have earned the right to the trophy bell. Wade Wilson, San Jose State athletic news director, holds the perpetual trophy awarded to the winning team.
Spartan Rivalry Rings a Bell ollege of the Pacific gained national attention in 1949 The Spartans tied the Tigers in 1950, only to take the bell after when the Pacific Tigers football team went undefeated a 1951 win. The bell returned to Stockton in 1954 and then back against tough competition. TheA ssociated Press ranked to the Spartans in 1961. Archania history records that San Jose Cthe Pacific football program 10th in the nation among larger neglected the tradition for several years in the late ’70s and the universities like Ohio State, Notre Dame and West Point. That brothers “reacquired” the bell in 1981 (details of this were not triumphant year also sparked the beginning of a tradition with provided). They cleaned and repainted it, restarting the tradition Pacific’s longtime rival: the San Jose State Spartans. in 1982. The Tigers entered the 1949 season with a 7–1–2 record, the When Pacific ended its football program in 1995, the tradition sole loss going to the Spartans. When the teams met on the field, shifted to basketball. The first bell presentation at a basketball the Spartans had an 11–7–2 edge and were predicted to defeat game came in 1997. Since San Jose State and Pacific are not in the Tigers. Pacific went on to smash the Spartans 45–7 on their the same league, it is up to the teams’ coaches to schedule the home turf before a record crowd of 19,335. games and continue the tradition. With a few lapses from year At that game, Archania, Pacific’s oldest social fraternity, to year, the tradition continues. unveiled a victor’s bell that would go to the winner of subsequent Where is the bell today? Pacific had the bell for several consecutive Tiger-Spartan games. The bell is about 2 feet tall with a P on one years until the last loss to the Spartans on November 28, 2009. The side and SJSU on the other. On its rolling cart it stands waist high. Tigers did not face the Spartans in 2010. So, it remains for Pacific to The “Belle of Archania” (a female mascot who was selected each win it back the next time around. year by the fraternity from one of the sorority pledges) made the presentation to the winner of the Tiger-Spartan football game. Jeanne Gist ’51, the 1949 Belle of Archania, made the presentation at the inaugural unveiling.
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