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PHOTO: SUE JOHNSON PHOTO: Truth, Legend, and With Ron Hansen’s novel about Jesse James headed for the big screen, take a look at the charming psychopath behind the coloring book hero of yore. Page 8

Jim Shepard on Building Helen Andy Ackerman 14 violence in the 20 Hayes’ favorite 32 ’78 can’t curb his movies theatre enthusiasm for SCU

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As I’ve shared with folks the Truths and Legends exciting news about donning the hat of managing editor of Santa Clara Magazine, I’ve been intrigued by the number of connections with MANAGING EDITOR the University that people in turn share with me: cousins who happily announce Steven Boyd Saum that both of their children attended Santa Clara, business leaders privileged to LITERARY EDITOR have been members of the board of fellows, fellow Peace Corps vets aware of the Ron Hansen M.A. ‘95 ART DIRECTOR international scope of SCU programs, alumni who are proud of their Santa Clara Nancy Tobler Turek degrees and who harbor a profound affection for their alma mater. PHOTOGRAPHER Charles Barry What makes this university so special? Instead of offering a short explanation, WEB EDITOR let me instead commit that it is part of the ongoing mission of this magazine to Melissa Eckel ’05 answer that question, through exploring the work that’s going on at Santa Clara CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Christopher Bomba ’74 in the realm of ideas, and in matters of the heart and spirit. The University’s rich Adam Breen history, and its strong sense of purpose, also put a special responsibility on the Anne Federwisch George F. Giacomini Jr. ’56 editors of these pages: to tap into the big conversations of our age, and to strive Karyne Levy Jim Shepard for articles with heft and depth of context, carried by writing that is lively, engag- Karen Crocker Snell ing, and surprising. In short, to provide a magazine that is essential reading. Sarah Stanek DESIGNERS Happily, I have an editing partner in crime. Ron Hansen wears the hat of literary Cuttriss & Hambleton editor, and for this issue of the magazine devoted to stage and screen, he has CAMPUS NEWS CONTRIBUTORS Deepa Arora delved into the fantastic legends and sometimes ugly truths about Jesse James, Karen Crocker Snell , and how film and fiction have shaped our sense of history’s colorful ADVISORY BOARD psychopaths. Since Ron’s second novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Margaret Avritt Terry Beers Coward Robert Ford, has just been made into a movie, he also leads readers down Elizabeth Fernandez ’79 Ron Hansen the looping and twisting path of translating fiction into film. As Ron reveals, it Kathy Kale ’86 often starts with a phone call. Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 James Purcell Paul Soukup, S.J. Certainly that’s how my Hollywood debut began. The offer from televisionland came on a Tuesday morning: drive up from San Diego to appear on “Jeopardy!” Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its 8,397 students rigorous under- the following week. Alas, I had to turn them down, since I would be otherwise graduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus engaged; not half an hour before I’d been sworn in as the member of a jury for a master’s and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the third-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master’s universities, California’s oldest trial expected to last three weeks. higher education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu. The television gig worked out all right in the end, though. (Hollywood=happy Santa Clara Magazine (USPS# 609-240) is published quarterly, ending, right?) Merv Griffin’s people called me a few months later to renew their February, May, August, and November, by the Office of Marketing and offer. And, with the help of a daily double (“What are the radius and the ulna?”), Communications, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical post- age paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster I unseated a crossword puzzle editor from Louisiana. send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, c/o Donohoe Alumni House, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1505. With this magazine, we look forward to tackling some questions that might not The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do not be so simple. Nor their answers. Read on, and let us know what you think. And necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2006 by Santa Clara University. when you visit us online, check out the new SCM Tools feature. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.

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contents FALL 2006 Truth, Legend, and Jesse James 8 By Ron Hansen M.A. ’95. Jesse James’ exploits made him a legend even in his own time. Now the author of the novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford reveals what it takes to get beyond coloring book heroes and villains to understanding a charming psychopath and his killer. Plus insights into the making of the forthcoming film starring and Casey Affleck.

Violence in the Movies 14 By Jim Shepard. Movies keep giving us more motion, more mayhem—which is exactly what we want. But what price that desire?

Her Favorite Theatre 20 By George F. Giacomini Jr. ’56. Actress once dubbed Santa Clara’s Mayer Theatre her all- time favorite. Learn how Fess Parker, the Golden Circle, and the legacy of a Minsk-born son of a junkman conspired to give the performing arts a permanent home on campus.

Sailing in The Lifeboat 22 By Christopher Bomba ’74. When Santa Clara’s beloved theatre known as The Ship had to be abandoned, the stage players took to The Lifeboat. And made quite a virtue of necessity.

E XCLUSIVES Inside the Industry On the Web OF HBO PICTURES COURTESY PHOTO: 23 By Sarah Stanek. Aspiring to a career in Hollywood? From Head to Toe Then here are a few alumni you should know. Hope Hanafin’s Gallery Online When Hope Hanafin ’75 works on a movie, she is onscreen every 2 Letters second—or rather, her award-winning costumes are. Visit us 3 Mission Matters online for an exclusive online gallery of some of her work. But hurry—the gallery will only be up for a limited time. 7 Bronco Sports 24 Campaign News Join the Discussion! 27 Class Notes and Bronco Profiles Ten Guidelines for Thinking Catholics Read extended excerpts from a recent talk by Thomas Reese, S.J. 36 After Words Then join SCM’s online discussion and share your thoughts about 37 Calendar conscience and the Roman Catholic life.

God and Diplomacy: An Interview Cover image: with Son of a Baptist preacher and a false messiah for those Southerners still in civil war with the finance compa- How well do Americans understand the role of religion in interna- nies and the railroads, Jesse James appears warts-and- tional affairs? Steven Boyd Saum interviews the former U.S. all on the big screen with Brad Pitt playing the famous Secretary of State, who also offers personal reflections on Pope John outlaw. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Paul II, retooling education, and the virtues of Czech dumplings. Fall 2006 Santa Clara Magazine 1

sscm_0406106_Fall06_r5.inddcm_0406106_Fall06_r5.indd 1 77/31/06/31/06 3:02:313:02:31 PMPM On the Web E XCLUSIVES Read more letters online. Visit www.santaclaramagazine.com lettersletters and follow the “Letters” link. Lorem ispsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ut elit, Emmett Till set diam nomummit nibh euismod tincitduntof Montgomery Lab, at” the engineer- I teach about the murder of Emmett ing building that was located where Till in AP American History. Thank the Mayer Theatre is now. The one I you for Margaret Russell’s article remember best was “Just a Gigolo” by [“Justice Delayed,” Spring 2006]. I Jack Hyltin, an English band leader. will use this as a resource to pique my For the Class of ’37 reunion, I wrote students’ interest. It truly is the awak- to Jack wondering if he still had that ening of the Civil Rights movement! record, as I hoped to play it at that Golden Jubilee event. Sure enough, STEVE ROMANCHUK Jack sent me an audio tape, which he Oakdale, Minn. personalized in voice. In 1994, I nominated Jack Mullin for The San Jose lynching in 1933 the SCU Distinguished Engineering While a student, I drove for the San Award, which also notes that he Jose Ambulance Co., and my supervi- helped develop and demonstrate the sor told the story that he had once first video pictures reproduced from taken one of the leaders of the lynch- magnetic tape, and that he held more In 1956, I prepared a short paper for ing [of Thurmond and Holmes, who than a dozen patents on video and sociology class at SCU. I interviewed had kidnapped and murdered Santa audio subjects. people and scrutinized morgue material Clara graduate Brooke Hart] to the WILLIAM J. ADAMS JR. ’37 at the San Jose Mercury. There was still county hospital. My supervisor told me San Jose much reticence about the matter. that, as they passed St. James Park, the patient had remarked, “This was the ANDRÉ DUBAY ’58 park where we hung those murderers. Las Vegas Corrections I have a length of rope in my house A couple of corrections we need to make to still.” When the lynching took place, For the record (in stereo) the Summer 2006 issue of SCM: Gov. Rolf of California remarked that “The Man Behind the Sound” What a wonderful article Karen the hanging was a justifiable act. Page 11 incorrectly stated that John T. “Jack” Crocker Snell wrote on “The Man Mullin worked for Ampex Corporation. While TOM MCGEENEY ’60 Behind the Sound” [Summer 2006], Mullin consulted with Ampex in developing Surprise, Ariz. the story of John “Jack” Mullin! I was their first audio tape recording device, he was a class behind Jack in mechanical engi- never employed by the company. In the letters section of the Summer neering, so I was well aware of Jack “Celebrating our Mission, 2006 issue, Margaret Russell men- and what he was doing. Transforming Lives” tions the 1936 movie “Fury” as having For his senior thesis, Jack theo- Page 24 incorrectly stated that the William some connection to the 1933 lynching rized, designed, and demonstrated Hannan Foundation has donated to the stereo recording on a record disk, Campaign. The article should have stated that in San Jose. While the incident and the Bill Hannon Foundation has contributed with a single needle instrumented “Fury” have some similarities, they $4 million to the new Commons and Library. are not connected. But “Sound of to use the horizontal amplitudes to Ground was broken for the new learning com- Fury” (later retitled as “Try and Get produce sound in the right speaker mons on June 14. and vertical amplitudes for the left Me”), a 1951 B-grade movie starring Page 25 incorrectly stated that Santa Clara Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges, speaker. And during the noon hour, alumni founded the first alumni association shows the entire incident (names Jack would frequently play high fidel- west of the Mississippi. While not the oldest, altered, of course). ity recording music with a big speaker the association was one of the first alumni out the window of the second floor associations founded west of the Mississippi. To Our Readers: Class Notes The Class Note for Paul Holocher (’90) stated as We welcome your letters in response to articles. We print a representative selection of letters 1990 the year that Holocher helped lead Santa as space allows. Please limit copy to 200 words and include your hometown and class year (if Clara to the NCAA Division I Championship in appropriate) in your letter. Address correspondence to The Editor, Santa Clara Magazine, Santa mens’s soccer. The year was 1989. Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 95053-1500; fax, 408-554-5464; e-mail, [email protected]. We may edit letters for style, clarity, civility, and length. Questions? Call 408-551-1840.

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Speaking out for The March 14 gathering on the steps of the Mission social justice brought together more than 100 clergy and lay leaders, he call for social justice in immi- said Rev. Carol Been, direc- Tgration reform was voiced loudly tor of the Interfaith Council and often on campus this spring. for Religion, Race, Economic, and You can. From quiet reflections with a handful Social Justice, which organized the And you must. of students to a public prayer service event. The powerful collective cry for Commencement is always a on the Mission steps, from the sound justice reflected in the remarks of SCU time of celebration, and the of single voices heard individually on President Paul Locatelli, S.J., and oth- members of the 155th class phone calls to legislators to the collec- ers denouncing the criminalization of to graduate from Santa Clara tive voice of hundreds in solidarity at undocumented immigrants and those University commemorated the who assist them “has made a huge dif- completion of their degrees with style. Along ference,” Been said. with the rights the degrees confer come a few The immigration debate has solidi- responsibilities, underscored by this year’s com- fied the unity among various religious mencement speakers. denominations and ethnic groups Pulitzer Prize-winning author and human rights like no other issue, said Eduardo A. policy expert Samantha Power (pictured above PHOTO: CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: Samaniego, S.J., pastor of Holy Trinity left) encouraged law grads to take on seemingly Church in San Jose and an active insurmountable challenges, and to ask: “Why can’t member of the Interfaith Council. “It we?” She also reminded, “You have a degree that is making the Senate and Congress can help those who cannot help themselves.” Read stand up and really rethink things.” Power’s address in full online at www.scu.edu/ The individual voices of people powerscommencement06. who made calls from the campus to Speaking at the graduate com- “A Day without Immigrants.” Scores of their legislators on May 17, joining mencement, former New York people joined in a walkout and rally on those calling from Immigration Rights Times senior religion correspon- campus May 1 to protest pending Call Centers across the country, have immigration legislation. dent Peter Steinfels (pictured had a similar effect, Been noted. right, taking a call from his That the voices come from a mother) said “Take care of the a campus rally in support of “A Day diverse population has particularly kids,” by seizing opportunities without Immigrants,” opportunities impressed Carlos Jiménez Cárdenas and making thoughtful decisions abounded for students, faculty, and ’06, a program coordinator in the about when, how, and where to help. staff to weigh in on the national issue. homelessness department in the Santa Thomas Reese, S.J., told the thousands gathered “I’m not sure we can sum up exactly Clara Community Action Program. at Buck Shaw Stadium for undergraduate com- what a single stance on immigration “It’s not just Latino students, which mencement that the world was far different than reform is, given the diversity of voices is what is more wonderful and amaz- it was 35 years ago when he attended his first SCU at the university,” noted campus min- ing. We have students saying ‘we’re all commencement ceremony. The former editor of ister Matt Smith, who participated in immigrants.’” America magazine offered as a rule to live by: “Go many of the events. “But I think there’s The support from the diverse SCU fix it.” Read more on Page 5. really a seamless connection between community has impressed Been as the issue and the Jesuit mission, well. Students, she said, are “being because it’s people living out a faith encouraged, educated, and exposed to that does justice. It’s people standing in both the sufferings that go on in our solidarity with those who are affected world, as well as ways that they can do by the issue. The idea of being ‘women something about it.” SCU and men, with and for others.’”

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Making family history attending SCU as a presidential schol- ar. Presidential scholars not only have outstanding academic records but, he odds, many would say, were as Assistant Director of Admission stacked against Giovanni Mata T Alexander Thome puts it, they are

Magana from the beginning. He grew CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: students who make you “jump out of up on what he calls the roughest your seat” when you read their appli- block in East Palo Alto, where crime cation. The presidential scholarship and violence were commonplace and is the University’s most prestigious drug dealers would give Magana small scholarship for incoming freshmen stipends to play soccer in the street and covers the cost of tuition. to slow traffic while they conducted This spring, Thome and a small business. His mother speaks little team from SCU’s undergraduate English and works long hours to sup- admissions office surprised Magana port Magana and his younger brother. at his high school, Eastside College His father is in prison and his brother “He’s one of the best,” says crossword puzzle Preparatory, with the good news. “He has been in and out of jail for years. It guru Will Shortz of puzzle-maker and SCU pro- let out a big sigh of relief when he fessor Byron Walden (pictured), who has a killer would have been too easy for Magana heard he was accepted and was award- puzzle on display in the film “Wordplay.” to follow in their footsteps, but the ed the scholarship,” Thome said. easy road was not for Magana. He the most talked about documentaries Magana had offers from other univer- chose a different path and is now mak- at this year’s Sundance Film Festival sities, but chose SCU because of the ing family history. and one that drew big audiences this campus community, small class size, When Magana comes to SCU in summer. and its close proximity to his family. September, he will not only be the Will Shortz, editor of the New York The other presidential scholars first in his family to attend college, Times crossword puzzle, asked Walden are: Rae Anderson Heitkamp from but the first to graduate from high to create the final challenge for the Victoria, Minn.; Bennett On Wing school. Even more, Magana is one of 2005 tournament. Little did Walden Lee from Kailua, Hawaii; Kristin five incoming freshmen who will be know that challenge would put him Anne Leonard from Milton, Mass.; and his puzzle on the big screen. “The Presidential material. Giovanni Mata Magana and Charlotte Marie Lewis from big climax in the film involves my begins studying at SCU this fall as a presidential Concord, Calif. SCU scholar—and he’ll be the first in his family to puzzle,” Walden said. graduate from high school and attend college. Walden likens the film to Santa Clara “Spellbound,” which follows eight stu- dents on their quest to win the 1999 prof makes big National Spelling Bee. In both films, screen debut the life stories of individual partici- pants are told and their passion for

PHOTO: CHARLES BARRY CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: hen a documentary crossword puzzles and the tournament Wfilm crew showed are shared. up at the 2005 American “Wordplay” has a celebrity element, Crossword Tournament, as well, with Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Byron Walden, a math and and the Indigo Girls trying their hands computer science profes- at crosswords. “Jon Stewart really sor at SCU, did not think knows his crosswords,” Walden said. much of it. If anything, he Walden has only a few lines and he thought, the crew would makes just as many on-screen appear- make a DVD that would ances; even so, he says, the experience be on sale at the next year’s of being a part of something so big and tournament. Well, it didn’t unexpected is enough of a thrill. “It exactly turn out that way. is definitely fun to see your name in The film the crew made the credits and see the puzzle and say, was “Wordplay,” one of ‘Hey, that’s my puzzle.’” SCU

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Conscience and the 4. Know your history—the Church has 2,000 years of tradition and On the Web E XCLUSIVES Roman Catholic life history. Things have been worse, Read more from Fr. Reese’s talk things can get better. and join a discussion online at ot all Catholics agree with the 5. Distinguish between law and www.santaclaramagazine. NChurch all the time, and Thomas doctrine. Laws can change, and com. There you’ll also find a Reese, S.J., will tell you there is no you are not a heretic if you disagree link to the text of his commence- point in denying it. Questioning is not, with them. ment address. however, something most Catholics 6. Understand the level of authority of undertake lightly. These disagreements doctrinal positions, especially if you are often born out of conscience, of disagree with them. genuinely believing in the faith while It is part of who we are and we cannot believing equally something that is 7. Know how to interpret the words in run away from it.” That applies to all at odds with the accepted teachings of doctrinal statements, which are people, not just Americans, Democrats, the Church. influenced by historical and reactionaries, or radicals. Reese, the former editor of the cultural context as well as the Ultimately, Catholics are united in Jesuit weekly magazine America, was intended audience. belief much more than they are divided a visiting scholar at Santa Clara dur- 8. Realize that sometimes the Church by differences—belief not only in ing the 2005-06 academic year, and he uses words that are open to inter- Christ, but in the power of love, rec- delivered the commencement address pretation on purpose, to smooth onciliation, and redemption. As Reese to the Class of 2006. His message in over differences and maintain unity. concluded, “Any survival strategy for thinking Catholics must be based on the June: “Before you are a lawyer or a 9. “Accept what the Church says or virtues of faith, hope, and love.” SCU business person or a doctor, you are a leave” is not the only way to deal citizen.” As citizens, he told the gradu- with your doubts as a Catholic. ates, “We have the responsibility to Italians, for example, do not live fix it. It is your city, go fix it. It is your their faith this way—they don’t state, go fix it. It is your nation, go fix question the Church’s authority it. It is your world, go fix it. It is your publicly, they simply ignore it. church, go fix it.” 10. Recognize that there will always Earlier this spring, in an April 26 be disagreements in the Church talk cosponsored by the Markkula because there have always been dis- Center for Applied Ethics and the agreements in the Church, dating Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, back to the council of Jerusalem. Reese outlined his strategies for Catholics who think, question, doubt Though much of the attention and disagree. In a nutshell, they are: today is on liberal Catholics urging the Vatican to allow female priests or 1. Understand what the Church is birth control, questioning is hardly actually saying. Is your question the limited to one’s political alignment. result of a misunderstanding or a From condoms to illegal immigration, true disagreement? the Church has taken many unpopular 2. That understanding should be stands. Indeed, it would be hard for inspired by sympathy, not sarcasm any organization with hundreds of and cynicism. millions of constituents in dozens of 3. Do your homework on the complex countries to be universally popular. issues that face the Church today. Additionally, as Reese said, “a ques- tioning mind is fostered by our educa- tion and the very culture we live in. ILLUSTRATION: CHAD J. SHAFFER CHAD J. ILLUSTRATION:

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self: He returned to SCU as assistant coach and has taught and served as principal at schools in the Bay Area,

PHOTO: RUSS LEE PHOTO: including at Sacred Heart Nativity School, educating socio-economically disadvantaged boys. He has helped many students learn to believe in themselves, and many of those that Kevin works with have expressed how his passion toward education empowers them to want to work harder. Bannan Award Established in 2000, the Louis I. Bannan, S.J., Award is given once a year to a single individual or couple who has given distinguished and outstanding service to the Alumni Association and University. Judge John McInerny ’49, J.D. ’54 During his undergraduate years as a Bronco, John made the President’s From left: Joseph M. Goethals ’99, J.D. ’05, Honor Roll and was given the Santa Honoring alumni National Alumni Association president; Kevin Barbara Medal for earning the high- Eagleson ’70; Julie Burns Christensen ’70; and SCU ideals Judge John McInerny ’49, J.D. ’54; President est GPA in the ROTC’s military sci- Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 ence courses. Law studies were put n April 29, as part of the Santa on hold to serve in Korea, but John OClara University Alumni leadership at Washington returned to complete his degree, then Association’s 125th anniversary cel- State College, the University of went on to serve as Deputy Attorney ebration, three remarkable alumni Nevada-Reno, Rosemont Alternative General for the state of California, were honored for their service to the School in Oregon, and the University as legal advisor and clemency sec- community and the Association, and of Portland. Today, Julie remains on retary to Governor Pat Brown, and, for upholding the ideals of SCU. her path of service. Her main focus beginning in 1966, as Superior Court Ignatian Award for is the Pilgrims’ Partner Foundation, Judge for the State of California. In Community Service which she co-created five years ago. 1995, SCU benefited from his work as national president of the Alumni The Ignatian Award recognizes It is a nonprofit organization whose Association. He made it policy to alumni who live the SCU ideals of mission is to provide free training personally visit each alumni chap- compassion, conscience, and compe- for nonprofit organizations in the ter, near and far. When he wasn’t tence, and who have been a credit to Western U.S. that serve low-income traveling, he used his legal expertise the University, through outstanding and disenfranchised populations. to update the Association constitu- service to humanity. Kevin Eagleson ’70 As a Bronco basketball player in the tion. Judge McInerny appointed the Julie Burns Christensen ’70 first student to the board, and, along Trading in graduate school accep- late ’60s, Eagleson was part of a talented squad that captured three with Fr. German, he launched the tance letters for the Jesuit Volunteer Alumni For Others program. To this Corps, Christensen found her call- WCAC titles and advanced to three NCAA Tournaments. But Kevin is day, John remains an active board ing in campus ministry. At Gonzaga member, encouraging alumni to make University she became one of the more than just a skilled athlete who contributed to Bronco basketball connections and attend Santa Clara first laywomen to work in campus events. SCU ministry, and she has offered spiritual history; he is an extremely humble man who always puts service before

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A hot winter and Broncos earn Season spring for SCU sports academic honors of firsts

WCC All-Sports Award What makes the consummate scholar- Men’s Golf athlete? That might be a question for GONZALES DAVID PHOTO: The Santa Clara University Broncos • The Broncos these Broncos, who have exhibited the women’s sports teams earned the West turned in the finest mental and physical discipline to per- Coast Conference’s All-Sports Award season in program form well on the field or court while for the 2005-06 season, marking the history and made showing their acumen when it comes third time SCU had clinched the their first-ever to coursework, too. honor in the last five years. Overall, appearance in the Santa Clara finished second in the • Cross country’s Shannon Bell was NCAA West Commissioner’s Cup race to Loyola named to ESPN the Magazine’s Regionals. Guided Marymount, after earning 65 points (in Academic All-District VIII team fol- by first-year men- men’s and women’s sports) in 2005-06, lowing a season that saw her finish tor and WCC Broncos on the links: 2.5 points behind the Lions. second at the WCC Championships Co-Coach of the from left, Michael Nicoletti and John Colyar. Since the All-Sports Awards were while majoring in combined sci- Year Rob Miller, inaugurated in 2001-02, the Santa ences and setting the pace with a and led on the links by seniors John Clara women have finished first three 4.0 grade-point average. “We have Colyar and Michael Nicoletti, Santa times and second twice to establish so many student-athletes who carry Clara captured a program-best four themselves as a leader in women’s outstanding GPAs in our program tournament titles while Nicoletti sports in the WCC. here at Santa Clara,” says cross- turned in six top-five finishes. Coaches of the Year country head coach Tom Service, “but Shannon is the perfect example Women’s Water Polo Reflecting the success and persistence of achieving excellence in the class- • Bronco women made history in of the athletic teams, four SCU head room and also, in her case, on the the pool this spring, posting a 25-8 coaches were honored as conference cross-country course.” record and earning a No. 15 ranking coaches of the year. Volleyball’s Jon in the nation. Santa Clara capped its Wallace, women’s basketball’s Michelle • Tennis players Jan Macek, Bobby stellar year with a third-place fin- Bento-Jackson, and men’s golf’s Rob Rasmussen, and Kim Daniel all ish at the WWPA Championships. Miller all earned WCC Coach of the earned spots on the WCC’s Spring Lindsey Bacolini garnered first-team Year honors—while on the pool deck, All-Academic team. Macek is gradu- All-WWPA honors, Katie Radvanyi women’s water polo’s Keith Wilbur ating a year early with a degree in was named to the second team, and was named Coach of the Year by the finance and a 3.57 GPA. Rasmussen, Kristin Barnes received an honor- Western Water Polo Association. SCU an accounting major, sports a 3.46 GPA—and this is the second able mention. consecutive year that he has been Baseball honored by the WCC for his • Six Broncos earned All-WCC honors, academic prowess. Daniel, also including All-WCC First-Teamers an accounting major, boasts a Daniel Nava and Kris Watts. 3.92 GPA.

PHOTO: DON JEDLOVEC PHOTO: Freshmen Matt Wickswat and Matt • Ashley Graham, Mitch Henke, Long were named to both the All- and Joey Kaempf represented WCC second team and WCC All- SCU basketball on the WCC Freshman team, while Kevin Drever Winter All-Academic team. was named All-WCC honorable Graham, a psychology major, carries mention, and Brady Fuerst garnered a 3.60 GPA, while Henke is work- a spot on the All-Freshman team. ing towards a degree in mathematics • Nava led the WCC in batting with with a 3.58 GPA, and Kaempf, a a .392 average—the first Bronco to political science major, carries a 3.63 pace the conference since 2003. SCU grade-point average. SCU Co-captain and All-WWPA player Lindsey Bacolini.

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The author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on getting beyond coloring book heroes and villains to understanding a charming psychopath and his killer.

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a fiction informed by fact. In it I presented the history My first of the notorious —three brothers and assorted miscreants published who supplemented their miserable paychecks as lawmen in what was not novel was yet Oklahoma by exacting tolls on pioneers, selling liquor to Indians, and then Desperadoes, cattle and horse rustling, a hanging offense. Warrants for their arrest confirmed them as criminals, and they soon were imitating the earlier James-Younger Gang with a daring series of train robberies and bank holdups until October 1892, when their leader, Bob Dalton, decided to try to outdo Jesse James by robbing two banks at the same time in their hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas. The citizens there successfully defended their institutions, just as those in Northfield, Minnesota, had done against the James- Younger Gang, and four of the five outlaws were killed in the gun battle. , the sole survivor, served 14 years in a Kansas penitentiary before his release, at age 35, and he illustrated his rehabilitation by marrying his childhood sweetheart and moving to Los Angeles, where he was an evangelist against what he called “the evils of outlawry” and became, as he puts it in the novel, “a real-estate broker, a building contractor, a scriptwriter for Western movies; a church man, a Rotarian, a member of Moose Lodge 29.” COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OF LIBRARY COURTESY Emmett’s lout of a father often boasted that he’d once sold horses to the infamous James Gang, and the celeb- Jesse Woodson James: rity of Jesse James after his death had so much to do with the trajectory of 5 feet, 8 inches tall, the Daltons from honored marshals to murderous thieves that I became 155 pounds, vain about his physique. He bent an expert in one gang while researching another. And when Bill Kittridge horseshoes, he lifted a invited me to submit something for a special issue on the Old West he was surrey 20 times from a editing for Triquarterly, I told him I would try a short historical fiction on squat, he chopped wood how Jesse James was killed. Thirty pages into it, I told Bill I could not fin- until it pulverized, he drank vegetable juices ish the story by deadline but thought I had a novel in the works. and potions. He waded Along the Missouri River north of Omaha, there was a wilderness park into prairie wheat and with a forbiddingly steep slope called “Devil’s Slide” and near it, a great stared at the horizon. dirt cave that was rumored to have been a hideout for the James Gang at one time. We’d sit in that cave as boys and just imagine for a while. My grandfather would have been 13 and handling chores on a farm in Iowa when Jesse James was killed in 1882, so it’s entirely possible that as a little boy he did indeed once find the James Gang genially watering their horses

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Legend, at his family’s stable trough. The haggard men charming man who could also be a cold-blooded & spoke kindly to him, he claimed, and then, hear- psychopath, and Robert Ford was scheming, yes, Jesse ing hooves on the road, hurriedly galloped away. but his assassination of his friend was in many So until I began researching Desperadoes, my ways an act of self-defense, and he’d been given JAMES sole information on Jesse James was dependent pressure and license to do it by none other than either on hand-me-down legend or on some Thomas Crittenden, the governor of Missouri.

of the 30 or more movie portrayals of him. Even in insignificant details, earlier books PICTURES BROS. WARNER OF COURTESY PHOTO: His own son, Jesse Jr., and Tyrone Power, Roy and movies got the facts wrong. Jesse was shot Rogers, Audie Murphy, Robert Wagner, Robert on a Monday morning, yet because of Billy Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, James Keach, Rob Gashade’s enduring but erring song, the shoot- Lowe, and Colin Farrell are just some of the ing was generally located on a Saturday night. actors who have portrayed Jesse James over Though Jesse’s last words were “That picture’s the years. Often the outlaw was presented as a awful dusty,” editorial cartoons featured him Robin Hood who stole from the rich to give to adjusting a needlepoint of “Home Sweet the poor, or as a good and honorable man forced Home,” and other framed images in the movies into crime by an unforgiving Union Army, ruth- generally avoided what the picture actually less and carnivorous railroads and banks, or the was: a watercolor of the owner’s favorite race- horse, Skyrocket. “Three children, they were brave,” the song has it. Jesse and Zee had two little children, a boy and a girl, and neither knew their father’s real name or what he did for a living, and their bravery was necessary only because of the misery and near destitution they were subjected to after their father’s death. But it was the controversial Bob Ford who intrigued me as much as the murderer he mur- dered, for he seemed not only misrepresented

PHOTO: COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OF LIBRARY COURTESY PHOTO: by history, but motivated by the tendencies of arrogance, envy, greed, idolatry, and self-aggran- dizement of which Shakespearean tragedies are made. On the evening of my 33rd birthday celebration, John Chapman killed John Lennon, the Beatle he deeply admired; and four months later John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, permanently disabling his press secretary and wounding the president and two others, all in order to weirdly impress the actress Jodie Foster. There was a good deal about past assassination attempts in the media that year, and I was drawn to the old newspaper coverage of the trial and execution of Charles Guiteau, a mentally disordered journalist and scoundrel lawyer who, because he had campaigned fitfully Boots and all. The Pinkerton Detective Agency, a forerunner of for Republican President James Garfield, felt display bears Jesse the Secret Service and the FBI. And when he was owed an ambassadorship to Vienna James’ name. But during the Civil Robert Ford was introduced at all it was usually or , and when his crazy entreaties were War, it was under late in the film, as a sly, slinking, serpentine ignored, shot him. All historical novels in some William Clark traitor, or as the song has it, “that dirty little way interpret and comment on the years in Quantrill, third coward that shot Mr. Howard” and “laid poor which they were written. from left, that Frank and Jesse Jesse in his grave.” At the same time that Charles Guiteau was James and the Such a pat formula may have been fine for collecting hundreds of pages of press attention Youngers helped old-fashioned movies with their coloring book for his oddities, a fame that most respectable wage a brutal depictions of heroes and villains, but intensive Americans are denied, Bob Ford was plotting guerilla campaign on behalf of the research convinced me that Jesse James was a the capture of Jesse James with government offi- Confederacy. fascinating, emotionally complex, and frequently cials who promised a reward equivalent now to

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more than a million dollars and, if he was forced recollections of the descendants of family and He smoked to kill the outlaw, full exoneration and pardon. eyewitnesses since those “memories” are the cigars but did most tinged by flattering interpretation. not inhale. Jesse With the grave possibility that Jesse, in his para- James (Brad noia, hoped to kill Bob and his I have been asked why there is no exit wound Pitt), flanked by brother Charley whenever he in the front of his head if Bob Ford (Casey found the likeliest opportunity, Jesse was shot by a revolver Affleck) and Robert Ford just behind his ear. My Charley Ford there must have seemed little (Sam Rockwell). downside to what the Fords answer simply is that there decided to risk. was scheming, was no exit wound and the Often readers of such a novel bullet was extracted from ask me, “How much of this is yes, but his inside his skull—whether true?” It’s a reasonable ques- that is a fault of the gun- tion, since frequent malpractice assassination of powder in the cartridge is has made the historical novel unknown to me, and did not a suspect genre. My rules are his friend was in particularly trouble the jour- fairly simple: honesty and fidel- nalists at the time. ity throughout, meaning no hard many ways an act I have been asked about facts, however inconvenient, the claim that Charles may be dismissed and no cru- of self-defense. Bigelow, rather than Jesse cial scenes, however wished for, James, was killed on April 3, may be turned to ends that may 1882, and whether J. Frank be more pleasing to a contemporary audience. Dalton, who claimed to be Jesse and thus was In other words, I do not budge from the truth 103 years old when he died, was the real thing. as I know it and I firmly root the novel in the Looking at the last item first, J. Frank Dalton 19th century in spite of 20th-century percep- was not the man’s real name but one taken up in tions of what can and should be done or said. I middle age on his first inclination to pretend to relied primarily on period newspaper accounts, be Bob Dalton’s older brother Franklin, and J. secondarily on histories, and not at all on the Frank had almost no resemblance to photo-

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sscm_0406106_Fall06_r5.inddcm_0406106_Fall06_r5.indd 1111 77/31/06/31/06 3:03:073:03:07 PMPM TRUTH Legend, & Jesse JAMES graphs of Jesse; he also It is doing justice James by the Coward Robert claimed an impossible rela- Ford. Within months, Andrew tionship with Howard to the named and produced a wonderful script Hughes, and he seems to that is completely faithful to have been one of the nameless who lived the novel, and on Aug. 29, unknown heroes of World 2005, principal photography War I. A fraud, in other in the turbulence began, with Casey Affleck as words, but a fascinating one. Bob Ford, Sam Rockwell as his Recent medical exami- and violence of brother Charley, Mary Louise nations have proved the Parker as Jesse’s wife, Sam DNA of the remains in the the post-Civil War Shepard as Frank James, and Kearney, Missouri, grave of a host of other interesting and Jesse Woodson James in fact Reconstruction. persuasive actors playing sup- match the DNA in samples porting roles. of other items known to have Alberta, Canada’s wood- belonged to him. Cranks who lands, prairies, the moun- still believe otherwise are not worth the argu- tains near Banff, and the old-town streets of ment. But even before such tests were available, Winnipeg provide settings that look far more the Charles Bigelow conspiracy theory made no like 1880s Missouri, eastern cities, and Bob sense. Were the funeral of Jesse James a fake, Ford’s final home in Creede, Colorado, than it would mean Zee James and Jesse’s mother, the authentic locations do today. Walking Zerelda, were the finest actresses of the century, through the sets, I marveled at the details, and Jesse, the famously loyal family man, was with “Thomas Howard’s” house at 1318 content to witness his wife and children living in Lafayette Street in St. Joseph reconstructed abject poverty until Zee’s premature death. Also, exactly according to the architectural blueprint the corpse photographed and forensically exam- and furnished with real antiques from the ined in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1882 contained period. I had a job as an extra one Wednesday every injury, physical characteristic, and dental afternoon—I played, without flourish, a repair of the famous outlaw. journalist—and was costumed in some long Jesse James became the stuff of dime novels in Those injuries are much in evidence on dead man’s actual 19th-century frock coat, the late 19th century. actor Brad Pitt in the Warner Bros. film stiffly-collared shirt, and carefully brushed adaptation of my novel. Having grown up black bowler hat. in Missouri, Brad was familiar with the The honor that the whole production—cast,

glamorous but false representations of crew, and studio—is paying to this fragment of F CONGRESS F O Jesse James and, like me, was intrigued America’s history is gratifying to the author, of far more by a historically accurate, course, but more importantly it is doing psychologically acute, warts-and-all justice to the named and the nameless who presentation of this shrewd, spellbinding, lived in the turbulence and violence of the and improbably durable celebrity. post-Civil War Reconstruction, and against

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director and screenwriter of the film, derly frontier. SCU PHOT had chanced upon my novel in a used —Ron Hansen is literary editor bookstore in Melbourne, and when, for Santa Clara Magazine and after the success of his stunning first , S.J., Professor in the Arts and PHOTO: CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: film, “Chopper,” Andrew was contacted Humanities at Santa Clara by Brad about the possibility of work- University. A new edition of ing together on a project for Pitt’s his novel The Assassination Plan B production company, Andrew of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is forthcoming suggested The Assassination of Jesse from Harper Perennial.

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he first contact is often draft, and I was stunned by how faithful he was from out of the blue. to the book. Even action descriptions that no Sitting on my sofa one one but the actors and crew would ever read afternoon, grading stu- were whole paragraphs from my pages. “When dent writing, I answered something’s good,” Andrew said, “why mess with the telephone and heard it?” Andrew was also auditioning scores of actors a secretary say, “I have to play Bob Ford and asked me to rent videos in Robert Altman on the our hunt for the right guy, and some entrepre- T line. Are you free to talk neurs were contacting me via phone and e-mail to him?” I was. But the film we talked about was to explain why they were meant for the part. never made. At a book-signing in San Francisco, The role went to Ben Affleck’s younger brother, an investor who owned the film rights to Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test handed me a copy of Atticus for my signature, and then asked, “Do you ever write screenplays?” I do, and I did. But that film wasn’t made either. I fielded a number of inquiries about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford since it was first published in hard- back in 1983, but nothing came of the conver- sations, for as one studio executive put it, “We aren’t interested in horses and dust.” And then my agent phoned me in 2004 to say that Warner PICTURES BROS. WARNER OF COURTESY PHOTO: Bros. and Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company were interested in the novel, and Andrew Dominik was slated to direct from a screen adaptation he was already writing. Because even with the elements of a script, a director, and a major actor, a movie is sometimes Casey. Each week seemed to carry news, some Jesse James not made, studios hedge their bets in contracts of it misinformed, of another supporting actor regretted neither his robberies nor for book rights: A final purchase price is agreed or actress signing on, and production managers the 17 murders upon but is only due once principal photography were scanning the script in order to estimate a that he laid claim has begun; until then, there is an option to probable budget. A prospective crew numbering to, but he would purchase that holds the rights for a year in the hundreds was gradually being assembled brood about his slanders or so and can be, in some instances, as little as and locations in Canada were being scouted. and slights, his 1 percent of the purchase price. Established But we were still without the green light callow need for actors block out their calendars months in from the studio. I had heard of films that were attention, his advance and could miss out on one project while canceled after the first day of shooting, and the overweening vaingloriousness. waiting for another to get to the photography screen adaptation of my novel Mariette in Ecstasy phase, so they normally negotiate a “play or pay” was finished but never released due to the pro- contract, meaning they receive the same money duction company’s bankruptcy. I could be no whether the movie gets made or not. more than cautiously optimistic. And then in late Writers don’t get that insurance, so I found May 2004, Andrew was given the go-ahead for a myself prowling the Internet for rumors about production that would commence in September the upcoming film, and was pleasantly surprised and wrap the first week of December. when a television report on Pitt and his movie Writing is called the lonely art because work “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” ended with the notice on a book is carried out over years in a hermit’s that his next venture would be a starring role as solitude. It’s invigorating now to have hundreds Jesse James. of people equally invested in a project, each of A confident chap, Dominik asked me to read us sharing the same hope for its success. SCU and comment on his screenplay in its fine first —Ron Hansen

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Movies keep giving us more motion, more may- hem—which is exactly what we want. But what price that desire?

Tommy pulls the trigger. The hit man played by Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas” in one of his seminal moments: killing a kid for complain- ing about Tommy shooting him in the foot earlier.

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Early on in David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence,” released in 2005, two very bad men who’ve embarked upon the kind of off-handed sociopathic murderous rampage that’s become humdrum in our movies make the mistake of terrorizing the cowork- ers of the movie’s hero, Tom Stall, played by Viggo Mortensen. Displaying talents unexpected for a short- PHOTO: COURTESY OF NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS order cook but utterly expected for an action movie hero, Mortensen smashes one assailant in the face with a coffee pot, shoots the other in the chest, and then, before the first can recover, shoots him in the back of the head. We’re then allowed a visceral glimpse of the malefactor on the floor with his lower jaw shot away. The sound accompanying that image is particularly arresting: He’s choking on his own blood.

Critics celebrated that moment—as well as a come out of the theater having been given what lot of the squint-eyed soul-searching on the we want. Though Cronenberg does provide, in protagonist’s part that followed it—as evidence the smaller touches, a sense of the perversity of that Cronenberg’s movie was up to something extreme violence, we haven’t really been made to a little more complicated: not just exploiting its pay for our complicity in this mayhem. We haven’t audience’s capacity for violence, but rubbing our been made to think as much as we’ve been allowed noses in it. By the time we get to William Hurt’s to think that we were thinking. We’ve been able cartoonishly over the top and highly engaging to indulge in all of this violence while comforting turn as the movie’s villainous Mr. Big, though, ourselves that what we’ve really witnessed is a state- we know that that’s mostly not the case. For a ment against violence. (Consider how many sup- while, Mortensen has been preoccupied by his posed “anti-war” movies operate that same way.) family’s upset at the revelation of his secret past as brutal killer, but by that point, the bad guys A Brief History of Violence are showing up at such a rate that he pretty Have you ever wondered what an audience in 1930 much has to go into Jackie Chan/Chuck Norris/ would have made of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”? Steven Seagal mode. Which we enjoy watching. Or even what an audience in 1960 would have William Hurt, endlessly deploying more cannon made of Quentin Tarentino’s “Pulp Fiction”? fodder in Mortensen’s direction, is amusing until (Film history reminds us that some audience mem- he’s dead, and he’s killed in an amusing way. We bers fainted and had to be carried from the theater

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during the premiere of 1931’s “Frankenstein,”as was so mainstream that it won the Academy well as the groundbreaking “Psycho” 29 years Award for Best Picture.) The bad news is that Operatic gathering of tension and the drum- later.) Film’s form has been changing—not just changes like that have made us, at the very least, beat of a solemn march in terms of its avant-garde, but also in terms more impatient. Steven Spielberg was quoted build, in “Godfather II,” of what’s been accepted as mainstream—and a few years ago as saying that he didn’t think to the murder itself: American society has been changing along with “Jaws” would be nearly as big a hit today as it young Vito Coreleone (Robert DeNiro) killing it. Those changes can probably be generalized in was in 1975, because an audience today wouldn’t the Don. And the fire- at least two ways: first, as a greater and greater be willing to wait so long to see the shark. As works explode. capacity for movement, in both kinetic and dra- Spielberg put it, “We have an audience now that matic/thematic terms; and second, for better and isn’t patient with us. They’ve been taught, by for worse, as a greater capacity for unpleasant- people like me, to be impatient with people like ness, for brutality on-screen. me.” In terms of that first change, consider that That’s what it’s come to: We’ve become an we’ve not only come a long way from the audience too impatient for “Jaws.” Which brings proscenium staging and fixed camera of early us to that second way I’d generalize a change. silent films; we’re now also used to greater and Remember when what constituted horrifying greater elision in terms of how we construct for violence on-screen was Richard Widmark push- ourselves a film’s narrative, as well as greater ing wheelchair-bound Mildred Dunnock down and greater economy, in terms of what we find a flight of stairs in “Kiss of Death”... and our necessary to work through the progression of mostly only hearing her fall? ideas bound up in that narrative. The good Violence and sadism have always, of course, news is that that change has made us more savvy been a staple in American film, but in a pecu- about more complicated forms. (Think of how liarly repressed, Hays Office kind of way. The structurally baroque a film like Rob Marshall’s two most violent moments in 1931’s “The Public “Chicago” would have seemed to an audience Enemy,” for example, involve metaphor: Jimmy from 1960. And consider that “Chicago” in 2002 Cagney smushing a half a grapefruit into Mae

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PHOTO: COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES OF PARAMOUNT COURTESY PHOTO: renaissance in American filmmaking, was pre- between these three mini-narratives, we notice figured in the ’60s by a more and more explicit the music of the pageant swelling in volume and recourse to violence. New kinds of stories were portentousness: the music building toward that still a little too revolutionary. But violence... violence we’re expecting, in other words. The well, violence the old studio heads certainly still crosscutting between the three mini-narratives understood. And movies such as John Boorman’s is repeated five full times before Don Fanucci “Point Blank” and Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and and Vito finally make their way inside Fanucci’s Clyde” in 1967, and Sam Peckinpah’s “The building, and the music stops. Then, as we hear Wild Bunch” in 1969, kept upping the ante. the prayers of the priest before the icon, we Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, crosscut between the priest, Don Fanucci climb- two of the directors who contributed perhaps ing the stairs, and Vito waiting for him. This, the most to that renaissance in too, goes on for longer filmmaking, took full advan- than we expect. The tage. Their first hits—Coppola’s effect is to make us want “The Godfather” and Scorsese’s This murder, what’s about to happen. “Mean Streets”—were both The excessive crosscut- inconceivable without that new we realize— ting, in other words, not explicitness, when it came to partially only generates suspense; violence. And both directors it also overprepares us have since become known for because of the for the violence, and by the adroitness and the frequency sound cues—has seeming to extend the with which they use violence, delay, it makes the vio- from Coppola’s Wagnerian and been about lence itself all the more ravishing helicopter assault in family values. cinematically satisfying. “Apocalypse Now” to Scorsese’s The culmination of expressionistic vision of the feroc- the violence may not ity of boxing in “Raging Bull.” always be quite what we But Coppola—who, when he’s expect—in this case, for on, has displayed a much surer sense of what a example, Vito shoots the Don in the cheek; the mass audience desires—has been better at deliv- Don remains standing, at first, and it turns out ering bitter-coated sugar pills than his younger that the towel that Vito has used as a silencer Italian colleague. And bitter-coated sugar pills has caught fire; but the actual onset of violence is may be exactly what the Serious Hollywood carefully anticipated. And to that end, Coppola Mega-hit is dedicated to delivering. never stops using sound to reinforce our plea- Vito and Tommy sure, and to surreptitiously mitigate our unease In “The Godfather II,” we watch young Vito about Vito’s action: The festival music, when he’s Corleone, only a few years off the boat, learn on the roof, becomes his theme music, the music the ways of America: His friends can’t do busi- of the intrepid adventurer. After that music ness without kicking a taste back to the local stops, as Don Fanucci climbs closer and closer to gangster. This seems to Vito, perusing his where Vito’s waiting, we hear the band’s drums hungry wife and children, unfair. He resolves start up, alone, in an anticipatory march. In to do something about it. And we watch him, terms of the sound cueing us as to how to feel: during Little Italy’s San Gennaro festival, stalk Once the Don is dead, the music resumes and the gangster en route to his first murder. The there’s fireworks and celebrating. Ding dong, the sequence crosscuts between three little narratives witch is dead. that are, we understand, about to converge: Don Then we cut to Vito, back on his family’s Fanucci, the gangster, making his way along stoop, having completed his killing. And a sensi- the festival; the icon of the Virgin Mary being tive folk guitarist, apparently dropped in from carried through the streets; and Vito, tracking the future, plays for him the movie’s theme: the Fanucci, making his way along the rooftops. famous “Godfather” theme. This becomes the

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background music for Vito’s announcement that There’s a reason that Coppola’s “Godfather” he loves his little baby boy very much. This and “Godfather II” are so beloved. Despite the murder we realize—partially because of the amount of convincing violence that they deploy, sound cues—has been about family values. almost all of the design in each movie is to reas- Compare that to what’s probably the most sure: the violence, when it happens, will be sur- famous scene from Scorsese’s “GoodFellas,” the gically directed, and carefully planned. scene that almost certainly won Joe Pesci his We notice how much more tonally unstable Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: the —and therefore, apparently uncontrollable—the “You think I’m funny?” scene in the nightclub, violence seems in Scorsese’s movie. Sometimes in which Pesci, as Tommy, a probably psychotic it’s comic, sometimes it’s frightening, and some- hit man, entertains the boys with colorful stories times it’s both. We’re often not sure which of beatings he’s endured, before switching gears category we’re confronting. Just as Henry, the and bringing them all up short, especially the protagonist, isn’t. Throughout the movie, like protagonist, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill. him, we find ourselves in the presence of horsing Pesci’s performance, while superb, is around that may not be horsing around. Horsing enhanced in all sorts of cinematic ways to around that can, on a dime, always turn less or maximize the revelation of his out-of-nowhere more serious. The distinctions between play and lethality. The composition is focused around violence are blurred, because that’s what these him, so that he’s the guys do routinely, in order central performer, to live with themselves. As the one who’ll decide Henry puts it, in voice-over what kind of story this narration, “Guys got whacked, is going to be. But We thought no big deal.” Scorsese is also care- we were safe. But “GoodFellas” con- ful to keep the other tinually demonstrates the actors visibly arrayed We thought consequences of those kinds of around him, which blurred distinctions: a guy allows us to see their this show getting a bottle to the face reactions, and their is funny, nothing to worry reactions are what tell was for us. about. Shooting the foot of a us that things have kid who was too slow to bring changed. The silence We hadn’t you drinks is nothing to worry that falls as Tommy about. Killing that kid, when starts his questioning expected it he shows some resentment also alters everything could turn over being shot in the foot, for us, in a visceral is nothing to worry about. way. It’s not just their on us. Robert De Niro’s character, silence: We register Jimmy Conway, says at that that the background point, after having egged noise has dropped Tommy on to get some kind away, as well. We no of revenge for being insulted, longer have that cushion of ambient noise that “I was only kidding around with you.” But Tommy we’re used to, and we feel the difference without answers that he couldn’t tell. And neither could realizing it. Horror films often use sound the we. At one point, before he stomps someone else same way. to death, Tommy says about the guy’s joking, “I Pesci, meanwhile, at such a moment seems don’t know, Billy. Sometimes it doesn’t sound to understand the expressive importance of like you’re kiddin’.” contrast: He usually plays Tommy as all gesture Their horsing around also encourages us, and sound effect, so when he stops, the result is despite what we already know, to repeatedly startling. We’ve already figured out by this point underestimate what these guys are capable of, so in the movie that these guys are all about noise. that we’re continually shocked to see how vio- And when they stop being all about noise, we lent they can be. Which makes for a much more notice. And get worried. What’s most startling unsettling film. Because it makes the transitions to us, though, is that Tommy’s friends don’t know back to normality, for them and for us, not that whether he’s about to turn lethal. easy to pull off. Poor Henry, at one point, has to Which brings us back to where we began, on go from watching Tommy stomp someone to the nature of the violence in these two worlds. death to spaghetti dinner with Tommy’s mom.

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From “GoodFellas”: Tommy wants his Cutty on the rocks, now. Are these guys horsing around, or is this about to turn lethal?

At which point Tommy’s ability to make that transi- “GoodFellas,” then, is littered with the corpses tion so easily (“We’ll go get a shovel at my mother’s. Ma, of guys who thought they were in a movie called can I borrow this knife?”) comes across to us as it should: “The Godfather” but wised up a little too late. And not so much coolly professional as dysfunctional. Scorsese knows that we’re like them: We were enjoy- In “GoodFellas,” violence may not happen when ing this ride with Henry, and then pretty soon we we think it will, and it can happen whenever we were ready to get off. But by then we were in a little relax. That’s part of what’s so memorably disconcert- deeper and associated with people more unpleasant ing about the “You think I’m funny?” scene: We’re than we realized. And the design of “GoodFellas” is with Henry; Henry’s our surrogate; we thought to make us pay for that complicity and enjoyment. we were safe. We thought this show was for us. This is not to suggest that Coppola stands for We hadn’t expected it could turn on us. We hadn’t the selling out of one’s principles, and Scorsese for expected this spectacle to have danger in it. We like a clear-eyed independence of spirit. All Hollywood to know when we’re safe and when we’re not—the movies are in the business of delivering pleasure, way we did in the sequence from “The Godfather finally. Which means that those movies will always Part II,” and “GoodFellas” refuses us that comfort. be letting us off the hook, in some ways, for what we At one point, Henry shouts after waking to find his desire. The best ones, though, wife holding a gun to his head: “In my own house, I will allow us to glimpse our- gotta worry about this?” selves, even momentarily, with The design of “GoodFellas,” in other words, is to clarity. And in doing so, will make you live with the gangster’s inability to draw leave us shaken by what we’ve moral distinctions. There’s a wonderful moment seen. SCU PHOTO: BARRY GOLDSTEIN BARRY PHOTO: when Henry narrates what he believes to be the iron- —Jim Shepard is the author of clad, unshakeable principle of their world. He tells Project X and Love and Hydrogen. us: “If you got out of line, you got whacked.” And He teaches writing, literature, and film at Williams College. then he adds, “Sometimes if you didn’t get out of line, you got whacked.” Oh.

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By George F. Giacomini Jr. he early 1960s shattered more than one tradition at Santa Clara University. In 1961, Santa Clara became the first Catholic university in California to admit women. Within a few years, student enrollment more than Tdoubled, and a building boom would add eight residence

halls, the Benson Center, and Orradre Library. The year VES 1962 saw the passing of another era at the University: the closing of the theatre in College Hall, built in 1871 and

ESY SCU ARCHI SCU ESY known to generations of students as The Ship. URT

Lauded as being “larger and handsomer than any thespian temple in San O: CO O: T Francisco” when it was built, the hall was originally illuminated by elaborate PHO gaslight chandeliers. It was condemned as a fire hazard 90 years later. Forced to abandon The Ship, the theatre department moved to a converted warehouse, aptly dubbed The Lifeboat. Just off The Alameda south of the campus, the temporary structure would serve as the University’s theatre for 13 seasons, mounting nearly 200 productions. Thomas Terry, S.J., took office as University president in 1968, and as part of his goal of developing the campus and encouraging the arts and other pro- grams, he undertook a $10 million fund raising campaign that included plans for a new gymnasium, health center—and, naturally, theatre. Initial funding for the new theatre came from an annual fund raiser that was the brainchild of Fess Parker, the distinguished movie and television actor (best known for his starring roles as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone) and a founding mem- ber of the University’s Board of Fellows. Together with Walter Schmidt, S.J., the board took as its task to rescue dramatics from The Lifeboat by raising money through the Golden Circle Theatre Party. Using their Hollywood connections, Parker and Schmidt succeeded in getting Academy Awards director and Santa Clara native Marty Pasetta to direct the show. They secured Lionel Newman and the 20th Century Fox A big man with a big heart. When the University found itself with- Orchestra for the music, with performances by Jimmy Durante and Rosemary out a theatre, actor Fess Parker Clooney. And in the years that followed, Parker and others were successful stepped in. The actor famed for in attracting some of the biggest names in entertainment: Frank Sinatra, Bob playing Davy Crockett teamed Hope, Bing Crosby, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, and Bob Newhart among them; up with Walter Schmidt., S.J., left, and through the Golden Circle the tradition continues today, with appearances by Dana Carvey and Jason Theatre Party helped rescue Alexander in recent years. dramatics on campus. By the time the theatre opened in 1975, the Golden Circle had raised half a million dollars toward its construction. Acknowledging his role in conceiving and promoting the Golden Circle party, the studio theatre was named for Fess Parker. Another half-million-dollar gift was made by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, thanks to Benjamin Swig, chair of Santa Clara’s Board of Trustees and president of the Mayer Foundation. As construction costs soared, the Mayer Foundation upped its donation to $750,000. Since the Mayer

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sscm_0406106_Fall06_r5.inddcm_0406106_Fall06_r5.indd 2200 77/31/06/31/06 3:03:373:03:37 PMPM What’s onstage? The upcoming season at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre includes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare Directed by Aldo Billingslea A View from the Bridge Foundation’s gift was the largest lead gift, it was decided to name the theater in by Arthur Miller honor of the legendary Hollywood producer and founder of MGM, Louis B. Directed by Fred Tollini Mayer. Born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire, Mayer emigrated to the United States with his family and, after working in his father’s scrap-metal The Importance of Being Earnest business, bought his first nickelodeon in 1907—and parlayed that investment by Oscar Wilde Directed by Barbara Murray into the largest theater chain in the Northeast and, ultimately, into the movie studio that defined the golden age of Hollywood. For a complete list of upcoming per- formances, visit www.scu.edu/cpa. “THIS IS MY FAVORITE.” Ground was broken in July 1973 for the 52,000-square-foot theatre designed by well-known San Francisco architect Mario Gaidano. Inflation would ultimately escalate construction costs to nearly $3.5 million. And although not designed in what had become the almost-mandatory Mission Revival style of campus archi- tecture, the theatre was crowned by a massive sloping roof of 42,112 flat tiles. Intended to be a multipurpose facility, the theatre would contain faculty offices, a costume shop, green room, and even a small classroom. The main auditorium would have both proscenium and thrust-stage capability and seat about 500. The Fess Parker Studio Theatre could be flexibly configured for smaller dramatic, dance, or musical performances. The theatre also contained a scene shop and rehearsal hall separated from one another by soundproof doors. The versatility of the facility was one of its greatest assets; while fac- ulty were holding office hours and a class was being conducted, rehearsals

for a play could be under way; and, as a lecture was being delivered in the LLECTION, SCU ARCHIVES main auditorium, a dance recital could go on in the studio theater, while

hammers and saws could be nosily constructing sets—all without interfer- , S.J., CO ing with one another. The theatre was dedicated at a gala black-tie celebration on Nov. 8, 1975. Among those who filled the auditorium to capacity were represen- tatives of the Mayer Foundation and family, including Louis B. Mayer’s daughter, Suzanne, and grandson, producer-director Daniel Louis B. Mayer Selznick. The program included a recollection of the perform- ing arts tradition at Santa Clara by alumnus and actor Lloyd Nolan and a tribute to alumni including Andy Devine and Max Baer Jr., who had PHOTO: COURTESYWILLIAM REWAK begun their acting careers at Santa Clara; as well as Jackie Coogan, who attended the University in the 1930s. The high point of the evening came when President Terry presented an honorary doctorate of humanities to the “first lady of American theatre,” Helen Hayes. Hayes had been scheduled to receive the degree at the At the christening of the Mayer Theatre, actress Helen Hayes June commencement but had suffered an injury and was unable to attend. Yet was presented with an honorary the evening in the new theatre seemed an even more degree. The First Lady of American fitting occasion to present the degree. The diminu- Theatre noted the beauty and functionality of the new space— tive Hayes was gracious in her comments about the and declared it her favorite theatre. University and lavish in her praise of the new facility: It was the most beautiful and functional theatre she had

ever seen, she said, and of all the theatres she had visited, CHARLES BERRY PHOTO: she insisted, “This is my favorite.” Thirty years on, the versatile Mayer Theatre and Santa Clara’s performing arts continue to receive acclaim for educating and enter- taining both its performers and its varied audiences. SCU —George F. Giacomini Jr. ’56 is associate professor of history at SCU.

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In June 1970, as a [ by Christopher Bomba ’74 ] department flourished. A theatre arts visiting soon-to-be major was established while audacious freshman, I went to productions such as “Who’s Afraid Of the SCU Registrar and changed my major Virginia Woolf?” and “Marat/Sade” were hailed as the from history to theatre arts. Forms completed, most exciting college shows in the Bay Area. I asked for directions to the University By the time I arrived, the heady years of the CSF theatre. I was pointed down The Alameda had passed, but the Lifeboat was still a place of bound- and walked for what seemed like miles to less creativity. Its spirit find a dilapidated warehouse with a faded was embodied by then- “Lifeboat Theatre” painted on the side. I bearded and long-haired wondered if I had just made a big mistake. designer Ron Skolmen, Little did I know. who had been creating PHOTO: MARVWHITE For almost a century, the University’s the theatre’s amazing dramatic productions had been staged in a sets since 1963 and was, venerable 1870s-era edifice known as “The to us, a wizard prac- Ship,” the name an acknowledgement of ticing the magic arts. The 1970 sea- its construction without nails by shipwrights. When it was While seating was now son brought condemned as a tinderbox and torn down in 1962, there fixed, flexibility was “Dark of the was a mad rush to create what was intended to be a “tem- still the theatre’s trade- Moon” to porary” facility. Opening with “Richard III” in the fall of mark—you could hang a The Lifeboat. Buffalo Bill, , and the An American 1962, the “Lifeboat” was still a work in progress—stalls set piece anywhere, the burden history has left on an American stage classic, had not yet been built in the rest rooms. Its warehouse only limit being your conscience—a 1972 production of the Howard origin, however, made for a unique opportunity. In this imagination. There was Arthur Kopit’s “Indians.” Richardson and William veritable “empty space,” you could not just redesign the always the sense of improvisation about the Lifeboat, Berney play is stage for each show, but the entire theater, shifting seating that you were making it all up as you went along and the based on an into whatever configuration (proscenium, thrust, round) building was your partner, sharing in discoveries and mis- Appalachian best served the play. takes. Together we would fashion some- legend. The following year, the Lifeboat thing unique and wonderful on the blank became the home of the summer slate it so generously provided. Together California Shakespeare Festival (CSF). we would tear it down, making room for Founded by SCU Professor Roger Gross the next. and James Dunn of the College of Marin, PHOTO: MARVWHITE Closing with “A Midsummer’s Night the professional CSF never had the large Dream” in the spring of ’75, the Lifeboat production budgets of Ashland or San was eventually demolished to make Diego’s Old Globe, but it often outshone room for a realigned Alameda. As our those institutions with its “blood and graduation neared in 1974, classmates guts” interpretations of the Bard. At its and I would gaze longingly upon the prime, its acting ensemble was arguably construction of the state-of-the-art Louis the strongest in the nation and included B. Mayer Theatre and curse our timing, performers—David Ogden Stiers and not realizing that one day we would look Kurtwood Smith among them—who back and know that we had been the for- would go on to become familiar faces Marya Maddox donned a turban and tunate ones. SCU in TV and film. Not to be outdone by The Lifeboat was transformed into the —Christopher Bomba ’74 is a story analyst at 20th its professional sibling, SCU’s theatre French Riviera in the ’20s for the spring Century Fox and a playwright/screenwriter. 1973 production of “The Boyfriend.”

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sscm_0406106_Fall06_r5.inddcm_0406106_Fall06_r5.indd 2222 77/31/06/31/06 3:03:533:03:53 PMPM t CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: Inside the Industry Behind the board in the television studio for an interview with Andy Santa Clara and Hollywood both [ by Sarah Stanek ] Alumni Association, Ackerman (article on page 32). From boast blue skies and palm trees, hosted a panel for left: SCU students Justin Depositar, Mike Duyn, and Michele Enos. but the sheer size of the Hollywood current students machine can be a big adjustment for students heading interested in careers in the enter- south. Film and television production is the third-largest tainment industry. Bell served as employment sector in Los Angeles County, and the moderator; Madariaga, who works in production and industry as a whole is estimated to employ more than 18 development for television, was joined on the panel by million workers nationally. So it’s no surprise that SCU Marty Ryan ’82, an actor who has worked steadily in alumni are working in almost every corner of the indus- television and films since 1995, most recently in epi- try—acting, directing, writing, working in production, sodes of “Veronica Mars” and “Boston Legal”; Nicole producing, and working in talent agencies to find more Bugna-Doyle ’95, who works in post-production for actors, directors, writers, and producers. And in 2004, a TV production and distribution company Carsey few alumni set out to help one another connect. Werner; and Elizabeth Glotzbach ’03, who is an Jovan Bell ’99 and Blye (Pagon) Faust ’97 founded the assistant at Paradigm Talent and Literary Agency. All SCU Entertainment Alumni Group, and Gina Blancarte stress the importance of internships, which are the ’99 and Elizabeth Madariaga ’99 joined shortly thereafter. best way for interested students to get a foot in the To recruit Southern California alumni, they reached out door. Being geographically close to Los Angeles to members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Alumni makes summer internships a real possibility for SCU Association by hosting networking events and by starting students, and there are plenty to choose from (especially a group on InCircle to promote activities and share infor- of the unpaid variety). “Everyone wants an intern!” mation. The group already has more than 200 members Glotzbach says. with more than 80 signed on to a growing InCircle group. This past spring break, SCU seniors were able to Blancarte, now SCU’s associate director of alumni visit Los Angeles and meet with some of the group’s programs, worked for several years in Los Angeles for the members for a look at life in various corners of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which industry. Students were given the chance to shadow produces the GRAMMY Awards. She knew she wanted employees at several different companies, including to be involved with helping other alumni who were in MTV, Discovery Channel, DreamWorks Animation, the same big boat. “It can be so hard to move away from and some post-production facilities. what you’re used to and get conditioned to the industry,” “The thing about this industry is that there are so she says. “We just wanted to feel connected, to talk with many jobs, and people usually know writing, directing, people who had similar backgrounds and the same kinds and acting,” Madariaga says. “The students really got to of daily struggles.” meet people who did everything.” Bell earned an MFA in cinema and television produc- The group hopes to make the spring break shadow tion from USC. In his work as an editor and as a broad- opportunities an annual event. For the coming year, cast coordinator, he has seen first hand the benefit of a plans are also afoot for more networking events, an networking group for professionals. Cofounder Faust runs actor’s showcase, and a panel at SCU. “Everybody a production company, KB Pictures, which she started wants to hear the Cinderella story,” Madariaga says. after earning a law degree in 2001 and practicing in Los “It’s all about perseverance, in this business especially, Angeles for two years. but you can figure it out.” SCU The group came home to campus last October and, —Sarah Stanek is a writer/editor for the Office of Marketing and together with the Department of Communication and the Communications.

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Don’t try this at home. Community-based Learning, part Movers haul a historic of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Santa Clara house down Education. the street to take its place at the center of the “We wanted to come to a place new Jesuit residence. that would allow us to introduce this idea of community-based learning,” Manuel says. “Santa Clara was willing to allow us to come as faculty with special responsibilities of building this program.” The goal of the partnership is “education for reality,” which means coming to understand the experiences of the poor and marginalized—who constitute the majority of the people in the world. “It was really to broaden, in a sense, the boundaries of the University by involving it in the commu- nity where it was probably most needed,” Manuel says.

PHOTO: CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: The project set out to establish a partnership between the University and the Eastside neighborhood of San Jose. ay was moving month on Franklin Street. And televi- Two decades on, this partnership has yielded community- Msion crews and print reporters were on-hand, because based learning sites at schools, parishes, and agencies across this wasn’t just any move. An enormous 67-year-old Spanish Silicon Valley. Students who participate in these programs Colonial Revival style house was lifted from its founda- contribute their work and interact face-to-face with members tions and, over the course of several hours, hauled down the of the community. street—from 644 Franklin up to the 800 block. “Jesuits are attracted to the values of this University as Why the change of address? The move both makes they have been lived out in real programs and an innova- room for a future business school building, and it allows the tive curriculum,” Manuel says. As examples that embody house, which has served as a Jesuit residence in the past, these values, he cites the work of the Ignatian Center and to become a central part of the new Jesuit residence. The Markkula Center; the diversity of the law school, and the new residence takes its architectural style from the historic involvement of the engineering school in international devel- house, is structurally more open to the community and, in opment work, also draw Jesuits to the University. The attrac- the sense of space it creates, embodies the increasingly col- tion is strong enough that the community is one of the few in laborative work done by Jesuits with essential lay partners. the entire United States that is actually growing. “We’re building a building, but it’s really about animat- And what role do the priests, brothers, and scholars who ing spirit,” says Gerdenio “Sonny” Manuel, S.J., rector of comprise the Jesuit community play at the University? As the Jesuit community on campus. “It’s a building for not rector, Manuel describes his responsibility so: “Focus, ani- only the Jesuit community, but for the community that is mate, and advance the mission and identity of the University, Jesuit—which really includes the whole University.” insofar as it is rooted in its own Jesuit tradition and legacy.... It’s not about the past; it’s about how the Mission and Identity hopes to shape higher education today.” With his youthful looks, his jeans and SCU polo shirt which he wears on some days, Sonny Manuel looks more Want to make a donation to the Campaign for Santa Clara? like a fresh-faced graduate student than rector of the Whether it’s to recognize the impact Jesuits have had on the Jesuit community. True, he has only served as rector since school, or to contribute to the building of the new business 2004. But he came to the University 20 years ago and, school, every single dollar matters, and every person who along with Frs. Dan Germann and Steve Privett, founded makes a gift will be recognized as a part of Santa Clara’s history. the Eastside Project—now the Arrupe Partnerships for PHOTO: LYNN JOHNSON, 1997 JOHNSON, LYNN PHOTO:

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It’s no secret that women’s sports are a big deal at Santa Clara University. From basketball to vol- leyball, crew to cross country, softball to soccer, Santa Clara women have made their reputation regionally, nationally, and internationally.

But imagine, if you will, a country where only one in 27 1999 BIDDLE, GEOFFREY PHOTO: school-age girls plays sports, where women are discour- aged from exploring their mental and physical capabilities through athletics, a country where muscle and sweat are ofen deemed (ahem) unladylike. That country would be the United States, circa 1972, when Congress passed Title IX, a law that effectively mandated equal opportunity for females in schools.

One of the law’s most radical effects was opening up the playing field to everyone. A generation of women has come of age “Little League”— under this law, and old stereotypes about women in sports have fallen away. So Providence, RI this fall, the de Saisset Museum is hosting the exhibit “Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?”—a collection of photographs and personal stories that documents the tremendous impact that sports has on the lives of millions of girls and women. With contemporary photojournalists, as well as , Annie Leibovitz, and Robert Mapplethorpe behind the camera, the exhibit captures the images and stories of top athletes and Little League players alike. “Aimee Mullins”— San Diego, Calif. Mullins The exhibit opens with a special reception on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m., with Santa Clara competed in NCAA soccer star and special guest Brandi Chastain, and runs through Dec. 9. “This Division I track at exhibit identifies the important role women and girls have made in sports, with Georgetown and set the lens focused on the physical and emotional aspects,” says Rebecca Schapp, “Victory Lap”—Atlanta, Paralympic records in Ga. Gwen Torrence, right, 1996 in Atlanta in the director of the de Saisset. “Game Face” premiered at the Smithsonian Institution, with, from left, Inger Miller, 100-meter dash and and the de Saisset is the only venue in Northern California where you can see it. Gail Devers, and Chrystie the long jump. Gaines won the 4 x 100- meter gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. PHOTO: AMY SANCETTA, AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, 1996 PHOTOS, WORLD AP/WIDE SANCETTA, AMY PHOTO: PHOTO: LYNN JOHNSON, 1997 JOHNSON, LYNN PHOTO:

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anta Clara University sets as its Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit semi- RUSS LEE PHOTO: Smission educating the whole per- narian and director for J.P. Morgan, son, so when it comes to the Alumni offered more food for thought with a Association marking 125 years, we talk on “What 21st-Century Leaders thought it only fitting to have a well- Can Learn from 16th-Century Jesuits.” rounded celebration, too. Over the In an age when ethics often seem to be weekend of April 28, festivities included in short supply, Lowney noted that it’s a Friday night barbecue before the St. important to remember that our claim Mary’s/Santa Clara baseball game (the to leadership doesn’t spring from the From left: Bryan Barker ’86, of the St. Louis Broncos dropped one to the Gaels, but position we command, it’s grounded in Rams, with wife Leah and Pat Sende ’86. they won the weekend series 2 to 1), the values we embody. followed by a wonderful anniversary Our Spring Reunion/Homecoming service generating “goodwill and sup- dinner on Saturday honoring the 2006 Weekend May 19-21 was also a huge port for Santa Cara’s Jesuit educational success, with 1,200 alumni returning mission,” and for encouraging alumni to campus to enjoy alumni rugby and to be “ethical, socially responsible lacrosse games, academic programs, citizens who leaven society with the 125th Anniversary Homecoming knowledge, virtue, and faith.” PHOTO: RUSS LEE PHOTO: Picnic, and reunion dinners for the No matter where you live, I hope Classes of ’01, ’96, ’91, ’86, and ’81. you will continue to help us celebrate I was thrilled to celebrate my 20th our 125th anniversary by attending reunion that weekend and had a magi- an alumni event in your local area, cal time reconnecting with classmates coming back to campus, or reaching and dear friends. out to a classmate you haven’t spoken The 125th Anniversary and Spring with in some time. You’ll be amazed at Randy Winn ’96 of the S.F. Giants, right, Reunion/Homecoming Weekends how energized you feel after spending with classmates. recognized the very best of the Santa time with others who share your Santa Bannan and Ignatian Award recipients Clara family. Our Alumni Association Clara experience and Bronco spirit! (see Mission Matters for more on the has a rich tradition of community, honorees) and premiering the new camaraderie and connection, and I am Go Broncos! Alumni Association 125th Anniversary proud to say it has only grown stronger Kathy Kale ’86 video. since 1881. We’re also very proud that, Executive Director, To commemorate 40 years of as part of commencement in June, the Alumni Association women at SCU, we also hosted the Alumni Association was presented with SCU Pioneers’ Luncheon on Saturday. an honorary degree for 125 years of “We had challenges not just with the student body but with some of the Pioneering women from the class of ’64 and ’65. teachers,” recalled Buff Mui, who was among the pioneering coed undergrad- uates in the fall of ’61. Knowing there

would be resistance, “A lot of strong RUSS LEE PHOTO: people came here,” she said, and she credits the Jesuit philosophy underpin- ning the University with giving her and many others “the confidence to go out and make a difference.”

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Undergraduate Alumni

Michael A. Filice and Vern Chase and his wife, Diana (Reimer) Paque Rosario Ungstad retired 43 his wife, Corrinne, cel- 55Barbara, were recently 70is provost of John F. 75from the Fremont Unified ebrated their 60th wedding honored as the Edmonds, Wash., Kennedy University in Pleasant School District after 27 years anniversary on June 1. Citizens of the Year. Hill. She is also president of the teaching the handicapped. Association of Specialized and “Still here,” reports Neil I. 50-year 56 reunion Cooperative Library Agencies, a Elizabeth Wolfe recently 47Gallagher, a retired pro- SEPTEMBER 8-10 division of the American Library returned to Adelante Spanish fessor emeritus at the St. Louis Association. Immersion School in Redwood University School of Medicine. Ronald H. Pacheco and City as the principal after work- 58his wife, Lorraine, cel- His granddaughter Catherine 35-year 71 reunion ing at the San Mateo County Erker is in her third year at SCU. ebrated their 49th wedding OCTOBER 20-22 Office of Education for the past anniversary in August. five years. Joe Pausner and his Kathy (Truxaw) Long and 48wife, Joann, are enjoy- 45-year 61 reunion 71her husband, Wayne, live Daniel Vanderpriem ing retirement and a little OCTOBER 20-22 in Bolivar, Mo., where Kathy 76is the director of The traveling. Last year they went works as an e-learning special- Redevelopment and Housing Hugh F. Mullin III retired to Honolulu for Joe’s 55th ist for Duck Creek Technologies, Agency for the city of Oakland. 64as a judge of the Santa Naval Academy class reunion a provider of software for the Clara County Superior Court on Damien Huttenhoff is and to Alaska for a cruise. En insurance industry. April 28 after 20 years on the director of athletics route, the couple stopped in 77 bench. He and his wife, Anna and activities for the Broward Victoria to celebrate their 54th John Salverson Jr. is retired and (Lorenzi) ’66, live in Cambria. County school system in wedding anniversary. They are living in Placerville. His son, Brian ’98, recently joined the Florida. He oversees the athletic “staying in pretty good health, Jack Macy was elected to the foreign service. programs at 30 high schools all things considered.” North Coast Construction Hall and 42 middle schools. of Fame. A retired engineer, he Frank Britton retired as Alicia (Turner) Foster lives in Santa Rosa with his wife Eldon P. Regua was recently 50a customhouse broker 72is president of the San of 42 years, Jacquelyn. promoted to Brigadier General at the Port of Calexico, Calif., Diego Women’s Foundation. in the U.S. Army Reserve, where after 45 years and is pursuing She lives in Del Mar with her 40-year reunion he serves as the assistant divi- a new career as a licensed pri- 66 husband, Charles. OCTOBER 20-22 sion commander, 104th Division vate investigator. Kathleen Viery is chief operat- Leonard Murphy retired (institutional training), head- ing officer of the Tsunami Relief Jack H. Bartlett works from Mira Loma High quartered in Vancouver, Wash. 66 Program for the AmeriCares 51with Habitat For School and is now a consul- In civilian life, he works in the Foundation Inc. Humanity. tant for the Foundation for customer solutions group for Teaching Economics and for Celestica in San Jose, where he Daniel Connell just cel- Doug Langford is a cattle The Constitutional Rights lives with his wife of 10 years, 53ebrated his 10th year of 73rancher in Montague, Foundation. Cirella Teresa. retirement with his four grand- Calif. He has been married for 34 years. children. Carl Wilkins is the proud Tony Fairhead asks for prayers in support 67grandfather of Santiago Robert Tupa is retired from the 78 Carl E. Bozzo and his wife, of his work with St. Leo’s Wilkins, age 2. Washington, D.C., police depart- Diane, have been married for Roman on ment and has relocated to 50 years. They have seven chil- Carol L. Wolfe’s son Bret eradicating hunger for Smith Valley, Nev. dren and 21 grandchildren. Carl 68Gervasoni is a San Jose children in Cincinnati. is a retired dentist and CEO of firefighter, and her son Mike is National HealthCare Systems. a captain in the Marine Corps. He also is a volunteer professor at Cal State Fullerton. Fall 2006 Santa Clara Magazine 27

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From Head to Toe Brian McDonald recently took Marilyn Vierra is programs and Designing costumes for film and a second company public on exhibitions director at the Hui TV is a big job and a huge joy Nasdaq. No’eau Visual Arts Center in When Hope Hanafin ’75 works on a movie, she Makawao, Maui. She lives with knows she will be on screen every second—or Dr. Jeffrey Fanelli recently her four children in Wailuku. rather, her award-winning costume designs will 79celebrated the 20th be. And though she wasn’t a theatre arts major, anniversary of Westside Family 25-year reunion

Bronco Profile Bronco or even an art major, at SCU, her Santa Clara 82 Vision Center in San Jose education paved the way for her career. MAY 18-20, 2007

PHOTO: HOPE HANAFIN PHOTO: with his business partner Hanafin earned her undergraduate degree in After years in Hawaii, religious studies, which fit with her interest in social activism and peace. Dr. Larry Fabian. “It was the most direct access to politics and the issues I cared about,” 82Germany, and on the she says. She was also a residential assistant in the residence halls and Barry O’Brien is a supervising East Coast, Patricia Driscoll an active volunteer, but theatre was never far from her mind. She studied producer on the CBS television Koberl and her husband are and performed in plays throughout her time as a student. She did little drama “CSI: Miami.” now running EP Koberl at Blue, work behind the scenes, however; in fact, she says, “I only walked into the costume shop for fittings.” a restaurant in San Luis Obispo Theresa Horiye is a —and are “happy to say that After realizing she wanted to work in 80substitute teacher theatre, Hanafin chose to study costume many SCU alumni are regular and a mother of two boys. Her design even though she had no training. guests.” And, attending New York University’s MFA husband, Tom, is a product program on scholarship, she learned the engineer director at Sipex Corp. Nora Curtis is the convey- practical craft along with the more chal- 83ance system department lenging work of designing from a script. Paul Kick married Mary director for Cleanwater Services. “My first year in graduate school was very Kuechler on Feb. 4. She and her husband, Mark difficult,” she says. “I wasn’t a ‘fine artist’ or

PHOTO: COURTESY OF HBO PICTURES COURTESY PHOTO: Arthur, live in Hillsboro, Ore. a technician. In my second and third year, Kelly (Rickon) Mitchell I took off. I had a different perspective on graduated in May from history, on all kinds of things.” She credits 81 Dr. Thomas Lynch is an assis- her classical, broad liberal arts education the University of San Diego tant professor of medicine from SCU as one of the keys to her success. with a master’s degree in non- at Indiana University and an Research is tremendously important, whether designing for contemporary profit management and leader- attending physician at the or period costumes. “It’s not about shopping, it’s not about fashion. It’s ship studies. Kelly works as the Roudebush V.A. Medical Center. about characters and storytelling,” Hanafin explains. Being able to read, development director for the understand, and make decisions about scripts and characters—skills she His wife, Maureen, is a para- gained at Santa Clara—gave her a big creative advantage. San Diego Crew Classic, and she legal specializing in medical lives in San Diego with her hus- Following her graduation, she worked as a costume designer for operas malpractice defense. They and theatre in New York. She then worked as an assistant designer before band and their two sons. have three children and live in becoming the head designer for films and television. Film work has Carmel, Ind. turned her into an almost full-time Californian, although she maintains Matt Nyman lives in the Denver her union status and a residence in New York. area with his wife and four Col. Bart Howard relin- Hanafin has twice been nominated for Emmy Awards, for HBO’s biopic boys, ages 9, 11, 13, and 15. 84quished command of about FDR, “Warm Springs” (above) in 2005 and ABC’s “Geppetto” in 2001. the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry She has been nominated five times for Costume Designers Guild Awards, Lisandro Pena Jr.’s oldest Division (Big Red One) at Fort twice this year in the same category, and won once, for “Geppetto.” In daughter graduated from the 2005, New York Women in Film honored her achievements in costume Riley, Kan., and was named University of San Francisco in design with a retrospective film and exhibition of her work. chief of staff of Combined May, and his youngest daugh- On a set, Hanafin selects every piece of clothing and accessory worn by Forces Command in Kabul, actors and extras, and she coordinates with hair and set designers to ter is a junior at New York Afghanistan. create a fully realized environment—which might be the imagining of University. a fictional village, a recreation of a historic moment from the 1970s, or a J. Neville Shore Jr. retired from portrait of a timeless American town. Kathy Calvo Sgro, executive the East Bay Municipal Utility She says she is truly grateful for her work, which on any given day can be vice president and chairman of District in August. rewarding, competitive, challenging, and uncertain. “I’m responsible for the board for Payless Markets every piece, but the puzzle is different every time.” Inc., was recently named Marci Hastings and her —Sarah Stanek Businesswoman of the Year by 85partner, Kathy, have their First Hawaiian Bank and Guam own business making hand- E XCLUSIVES On the Web Business magazine. Sgro is on hammered sterling silver affir- the board of directors for the Visit www.santaclaramagazine.com and mation bracelets. They live with tour our online gallery of Hope Hanafin’s designs. Bank of Saipan. their two children in Monroe, Wash. 28 Santa Clara Magazine Fall 2006

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James Molinelli and his wife, ing in Web site development the proud parents of a beauti- Mark Grey and his wife, Janice, announce the birth of and management. Their oldest ful baby boy, born at 10:34 p.m. Christina (Fey) ’93, announce their daughter, Olivia Jaline daughter, Kayci, 17, is special- on June 8—just in time for the the birth of their fourth child, Molinelli, on March 26. Olivia izing in event planning and World Cup opener the next day. Audrey Hazel, in November joins older brothers Brandon crafts. The other members of Jaden Chastain Smith’s stats: 2005. She joins older sisters and Jacob. Team MacKay include daugh- 7lbs. 10oz., 22 inches. “Mommy, Lauren, 7, Margaux, 5, and ter Mikayla, 13, a saxophone baby, and Daddy are all doing Kate, 4. The Grey family lives John Patrick Gonzales player and future vet; Charles wonderful,” comes the report in Seattle, where Mark works 86was named Teacher of III, 9, whom the family calls via Blackberry. in commercial real estate and the Year by Whitman College “our little drummer boy,” since Krissy practices orthodontics. in Walla Walla, Wash. He was he is taking lessons from Ron Gregory Govan, his wife, Katy, nominated by a student who Hurst, drummer of the band and their daughter, Maya, Carmen Lombardo is a reg- graduated this year. The theme Steppenwolf; and Madisyn, returned from two years in istered nurse in critical care of his paper was “A teacher that nearly 3. Saipan, where Greg was a psy- at Banner Thunderbird in made a significant difference in chologist for the Saipan School Glendale, Ariz. my life.” Pat was honored at the Roxanne (Barry) Brady System. The family now lives in graduations ceremony in May. 89and her husband, Seattle, where Greg works for John O’Toole develops and bro- Jonathan, welcomed their first the University of Washington kers property in Costa Rica. He also organizes an annual surf 20-year 87 reunion child, daughter Grace Suzanne, and is a behavioral specialist MAY 18-20, 2007 on Oct. 3, 2005, in San Francisco. with the Renton School District. contest that benefits orphans.

Scot Asher will be the Robert “Denny” Huebner Brendan Murphy launched Liz Bricmont married 87game operations chair- recently accepted a position as Professional Impressions Digital 93Matt Jarrett on July 3, man for the 2006-07 Tostitos a Missionary at Rohi Children’s Design in February, providing 2004 in Pacific Grove. They Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1, 2007, and Organization in Nakuru, Kenya, publication, graphic design, and had their first daughter, Molly the BCS national college football along with his wife, Susan. Web design services. Marie, on Oct. 12, 2005. Liz is a championship game on Jan. 8, Denny previously worked at high school teacher and Matt 2007. Scot will oversee all game Lam Research Corp. as product Sergio Ruiz is director of key- is a second grade teacher. They production and pageantry, as marketing manager. After visit- board studies at Sam Houston live in San Jose. well as coordinate all television ing Rohi Children’s Home, a State University School of Music. John Gilroy and his wife broadcast requirements with Fox ministry to AIDS orphans and 15-year reunion welcomed their fourth child, Sports for both Bowl games. Scot destitute children in Nakuru, 92 MAY 18-20, 2007 Edward Phillip “Ned,” on Oct. and his wife, Sheila (Ward) ’86, Denny and Susan said they “felt live in Paradise Valley, Ariz., with 14, 2005. the Lord calling them to Kenya.” Michelle (Anglo) Bea their two daughters, Maggie, 12, 92welcomed the birth of Lisa (Larkin) MacMaster and and Katie, 10. Joseph Dougherty is a her son, Nicholas James Bea, on husband Bill announce the category manager for 90 Aug. 11, 2005. The family lives in birth of their daughter, Tessa Mike Konesky and his wife, the Coca-Cola National Safeway El Sobrante, where Michelle is a Rose, on Dec. 16, 2005 in Jacki, welcomed twins Melissa Team. His daughter, Molly, was freelance graphic designer. Eugene, Ore. She joins big Alyce and Molly Jo on February 11. born on Oct. 21, 2005. brothers Tyler, 7, and Joey, 4. Simon Chiu and his wife, Kristin Boden-MacKay has Sean Kneafsey J.D. ’95 and his Christine, recently welcomed Victoria (Lydon) Ruelos and her moved on from the corporate wife, Susan, live in the Hancock two new additions to their husband, Auvifer, announce world after eight years at Nike Park area of Los Angeles with family: In July 2005, they trav- the birth of their son, Aidan, to create, with her husband, a their three sons. Sean is a part- eled to China and adopted a on Jan. 23. Victoria teaches stu- family business: K+C ATP, LLC ner in the law firm Cathcard, boy, James Peter, who is now dents with learning disabilities (All Things Performance). She Collins, and Kneafsey LLP, for 2. Then, on March 30, Christine in San Francisco. and her husband Chuck own which he practices business and and manage K+C Performance gave birth to the couple’s sec- intellectual property litigation. Kathy Thielke married Automotive and run K+C ond child, Christian Joseph. Peter Chen on May 8, 2004, Digital, which offers consult- Brandi Chastain and her Simon is assistant principal of at Trentadue Winery in husband, SCU women’s instruction at Moreau Catholic 91 Geyserville. Bridesmaids includ- soccer coach Jerry Smith, are High School in Hayward. ed Santa Clara alumni and

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former crew mates Erin (Carr) Kelly Brennan and McMahon, on Aug. 29, 2005. ed the birth of their son, Donald Miller and Jenny Rollins. Other 94Doug Feick are proud to Finley joins big brothers Jake, Wakefield Paxton IV, on April alumni in attendance included announce the birth of a baby 5, and Tommy, 3. Brooks is the 17. He joins big sister, Graciana Carole Low, Susan (Mulheim) girl, Meghan Elizabeth Feick, on vice president of new prod- Olivia, who is 3. Don was Borkowski, Karen (Keenan) Jan. 7. Big brother Grayson, 5, ucts and platforms for Getty recently promoted to director Granger, Christina (Cabe) Bush, and big sister Claire, 2, “adore Images in Seattle. of Maxim Integrated Products Katy Robinson Hatten and John their baby sister and are enjoy- in Sunnyvale. Angelena is a core Hatten ’92, Beckie (Stueben) ing the freedom that comes Robert Pailthorpe and his wife, adjunct professor at National Fanous ’92, and Pat Carr ’66. from slightly less supervision!” Diana (Lorang), announce the University, teaching linguistics The couple honeymooned on birth of a baby boy, Nathan and English. The family lives in a Mediterranean adventure, Sylvanna Falcon and Robert Pailthorpe, on July 17, San Jose. which included sailing in Greece 95her husband, Matthew 2005, in Bozeman, Mont. and Turkey. Kathy and Pete make Lehman, welcomed the birth Suzanne (Senasac) and John Laurie Shermer married Rick their home in Palo Alto, where of their daughter, Aracely Lertora announce the birth of Moncrief on April 2 at Silver Kathy is an attorney. Kathy also Marguerite, on Oct. 28, 2005. their first child, Gianna Marie, Creek Valley Country Club in serves on the Board of Directors The family lives in Westchester on Jan. 16. The family lives in San Jose. for the SCU Alumni Association. (Los Angeles). Mountain View. Sam Partovi and his wife, Stephanie Welsh married Dianna Finocchiaro Gallagher Esther (Zaltsmann) and Janinie (Herpers) ’96, wel- Christopher Foucek on April 22 and her husband, Joe, wel- 98Alex Aronov announce comed boy/girl twins, Max and at Queen of the Snows Catholic comed a son, Leo Joseph, to the birth of their son, Jacob Sydney, on May 12, 2005. The Church in Squaw Valley, Calif. their family on Feb. 28. Leo joins Samuel, on Dec. 18, 2005. The twins join big brother Jack, 3. Broncos in attendance from siblings Frankie, Mary Bridget, family lives in Watertown, Mass. the class of 1993 included Kate and Margaret. 10-year 97 reunion Aaron and Eileen (Briggs) (Burlinson) and Joel Rosenquist, Michelle (Pietrosilli) and Nathan MAY 18-20, 2007 Brinker announce the birth Margaret Anne (Hartman) and Etter gave birth to their second of their daughter, Mia Grace Kevin Sullivan, Anne Reagan Rev. Adel Ghali is a son, Justin Reese, on Nov. 15. He Brinker, on Nov. 26, 2005. Eileen and Nathan Misner, Mary Beth 97chaplain at Our Lady of joins his big brother Andrew. is a clinical nurse at UCSF Allmann, Merilee (Bernauer) Fatima Willa in Saratoga. Medical Center in the Cardiac McDougal, Tom Genoni, Melissa Steve and Gabe (McGonigle) Benjamin German, M.D. mar- Telemetry unit. Aaron is self Marconi, and Patrick Perez. Lucey announce the birth of ried Nicole Marie Porter in employed, owning and manag- Other Broncos participating in John James on Nov. 29, 2005, in Fayetteville, N.C., on Nov. 5, ing three franchises. the celebration were Patrick San Francisco. John joins big sis- 2005. Nicole is a registered ’89 and Kathy (Boken) Welsh ter Clara in the family’s home. Jason Caskey earned his law nurse specializing in hematol- ’88, Donald and Kelli (Ford) Steve is a strategy consultant degree from the University of ogy and oncology. Benjamin is Welsh ’90, Stefanie (Howell) at Stone Yamashita Partners Nebraska College of Law on attending emergency physi- Zilka J.D. ’00 and Kevin Zilka and Gabe is a market growth May 6. He received a certificate cian at Wake Medical Center J.D. ’02, Annaliese (Smith) Dolph and development consultant of concentrated study in busi- in Raleigh, N.C. He is also J.D. ’00, and Frank LaFleur J.D. in small business lending for ness and estate planning, and an adjunct instructor in the ’00. Stephanie is the assistant Wells Fargo. was nominated to the Order of Department of Emergency principal at North Tahoe High the Barristers honor society for Medicine at the University of School in Tahoe City, and Chris Cheri (Giordano) and oral advocacy. North Carolina at Chapel Hill. is an operations engineer at the Christopher Bjork welcomed Tahoe City Public Utility District. their first child, Bridget Joanna Buendia married Oscar John Hogan and Katie The couple lives in Tahoma, Calif. Christine, during the summer Simon Jr. ’00 on Oct. 8, 2005, (Anderson) Hogan announce of 2005. The couple was mar- at the Mission San Carlos the birth of a baby boy, John Jennifer (Hamm) White and ried in October 2002 and lives Borromeo de Carmelo in “Jack” Thomas, on April 17. He her husband, Stuart, announce in Seattle. Carmel. Bridal attendants joins big sister Audrey, 2, at the the birth of their son, Vaughn included Susan (Sy) Cabael family’s San Jose home. Nathaniel, on March 1. Vaughn’s Brooks McMahon and his ’95, Ruth (Vera) Cedro ’01, brother Landon is 3. wife, Kelly, welcomed their Angelena (Sanfilippo) Paxton and Jennifer de la Pena third child, daughter Finley and Don W. Paxton III celebrat- ’99. Groomsmen included

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Christopher Cedro ’99, Franco and writing from UCSD. The Graduate years as a professor of law at Finn ’99, and Edward Manongdo couple lives in San Diego. Empire College. He is also in ’99. The couple lives in Santa Capt. Bob Reilly MBA private practice in the Santa Katie Barlag married Clara. 76is vice chairman of the Rosa firm DeMeo & DeMeo. 01Brian Ackerman on June Continental Airlines Master Melissa (Kolesar) Everest and 19, 2004. Katie and Brian live in Executive Council. Reilly has Robert S. Shepard J.D. her husband, Jon, welcomed Atlanta and are proud to flown for Continental for 23 90was named associ- their first child, Elyse Caroline, announce the birth of a baby years. A former U.S. Naval ate managing attorney for on Jan. 28. The family is relocat- girl, Grace Kathleen, on Feb. 22. Reserve aviator, he retired as a Nationwide Insurance, now ing to Honolulu this summer. commander in 1997. Reilly and known as James & Shepard. Colleen Heisel has returned his wife, Karen, live with their Nicole (West) Perry reports that from Paraguay, where she Shahid Khan M.S. three children in Langhorne, Pa., she is enjoying life in Oregon served as an agroforestry Peace 91writes, “After enjoying where his wife is staff chaplain with her husband, Zac, baby Corps volunteer for the past my early bird program in MS at the Holy Redeemer Hospital. Marion, and Labrador, Luna. two years. Engineering management, I am G. Dana Scruggs J.D. trying to convince my 19-year- Vanessa (Santos) Wong and her Claudia Maria Zepeda married recently received old son to select SCU as his husband, Wayland, announce Dario James Ruiz on Feb. 25 at 80 the 2005 Roland K. Hall college of choice for a B.A. in the birth of their son, Owen St. Rita’s Catholic Church in Outstanding Public Service communication.” Thomas, on Oct. 22, 2005. The Tulare, Calif. Maid of honor was Award from the Santa Cruz family lives in Santa Clara. Rita Alcantara. Claudia teaches Laura M. Guzman Magill County Bar Association. He English and Spanish at Tulare 93J.D. is practicing crimi- Darlene Mendoza continues to practice personal Western High School in Tulare. nal defense with her husband, Flores and Dale Flores injury law in Santa Cruz with 99 Charles. Laura is also president announce the birth of their first the Law Firm of Cartwright, 5-year reunion of the PTA at her daughter’s child, Daphne Anabelle Flores, 02 Scruggs, Fulton & Walther. MAY 18-20, 2007 school. She and Charles have on Nov. 27, 2005. The family Norman R. Agostino MBA five children, ages 5 to 19. lives in Las Vegas. Richard Porter and retired from Applied 03Grace Lee Porter ’04 81 Celia Boyle is control- Angela (Bunting) Nuttman and Materials and is now a volun- announce the birth of their 94ler for CompWest her husband, James, welcomed teer for various nonprofit orga- daughter, Madeline Elizabeth Insurance Co. their first child, daughter Olivia Porter, on April 27. Richard is an nizations. Giovanna, on March 31. The auditor at Deloitte & Touche, Jeff Niebling J.D. was appoint- Charlotte C. Cloud J.D. joined family lives in Belmont. LLP in San Jose. Grace is pur- ed by Chief Justice Ronald Legal Services Alabama as a suing her master’s degree in Moon to the Hawaii Judiciary In December, Judson Werner, director for the northern region. counseling education at San Committee on Uniform DDS, and his wife, Amelie Glon She is actively involved in post- Jose State University. The fam- Probate Code and Probate Werner, spent two weeks in Hurricane Katrina legal issues ily lives in Mountain View. Court Practices, a select group Negril, Jamaica, participating in and “providing access to justice of judges, attorneys, and court a humanitarian dental project for poor Alabamians.” Gilles Bekaert is in officials who make recom- with International Smile Power. 04private practice as a Kenneth A. Wong J.D. is a senior mendations to the Hawaii Along with 30 other volunteers, licensed marriage and family associate specializing in work- Legislature and Judiciary on they treated more than 1,000 therapist in San Jose. ers’ compensation defense changes to the Hawaii Probate patients and provided over $1 at the law offices of Robert Code and Hawaii Probate Rules. million worth of dental care. In April, Kathryn Ortiz received Wheatley in Santa Ana. Judson owns a dental practice her second Excellence in Jeanmarie Derry M.A. is Teaching Award from the in Bellevue, Wash. Amelie is an P. Gregory Giordano J.D. left his 95a co-leader of English 2 University of Arizona, where IT project manager for T-Mobile. former law firm, Lionel Sawyer, and a member of the Gilroy she is an instructor of first-year and joined the Las Vegas office High School data gathering Drew Beck and Debbie composition and completing of Snell & Wilmer LLP as a part- team. 00Hatch will celebrate her M.A., with plans to pursue ner to start up a gaming law their two-year anniversary on a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composi- Julia Wei J.D. and Ken practice group. Aug. 21. Drew continues to work tion. She lives in Tucson, Ariz. 01 Leung B.S. ’89, M.S. ’93, as a civil engineer as Debbie with her husband and son, and Bradford DeMeo J.D. announce their son Caleb was finishes her degree in literature she is active in the immigrants’ 88recently celebrated 10 born on Nov. 12, 2005. rights movement. Fall 2006 Santa Clara Magazine 31

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enough students and courses to between fiction and the reality of David’s offer a bachelor’s degree in Theatre life. David, whom Ackerman describes as Arts, with an emphasis in televi- “one of the funniest men on the planet,” is sion. “I was one of a dozen students also the one to thank for bringing him into who took the very first two or three the “” family. When Ackerman and

PHOTO: CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: classes,” Ackerman says. “And it just David—the show’s creator and writer—met felt like a second home; I had the back in 1994, “Seinfeld” had been on keys to the TV studio and I basically the air for about four years. But already just hung out. It was great.” He says Ackerman was a rabid fan. Bronco Profile Bronco that he had so much fun while at “I kind of jokingly said to Larry, ‘If you Santa Clara being a self-proclaimed ever need help on that little show of yours, “studio rat,” that he decided to pur- let me know,’” Ackerman says. About three sue something fun after graduat- weeks later, David called him, set up a He’s a director. He’s a producer. ing: producing and directing. meeting with Jerry Seinfeld (over break- He’s racked up Emmys through his fast at a diner, naturally), and the rest, as Chemistry 101 they say, is Hollywood history. work on such hit shows as “WKRP His first job in TV came after eight months Though studio production facilities in Cincinnati,” “,” “Seinfeld,” of networking, six hours of sitting outside were only in their infancy when Ackerman “,” “,” and the office of an associate producer for studied at Santa Clara, he made the most recently, “.” And, “Welcome Back, Kotter,” and bluffing and of them while he was here; the reel of despite the fact that he’s basically a then earning his way into a gig as assis- material he’d put together as a student quiet, modest guy, Andy Ackerman ’78 tant editor. And one week before his 24th helped win him a chance to prove himself is a loud spokesman when it comes birthday, Ackerman won his first Emmy— on “Kotter.” So when it comes to offering to Santa Clara University. for editing on “WKRP in Cincinnati.” advice to those aspiring to work in televi- Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, It was with “Cheers” that Ackerman sion and film, he says, “Really believe in for his education Ackerman followed in made the transition from editing to direct- yourself. I can only speak from experience: the path of his uncles: from Loyola High ing. And as director, it’s a sense of family If you really think you can do something, School in L.A. on to Santa Clara University. that draws him to the work. “I like finding then it’s going to happen.” Take advan- His wife, Betsy, is a Santa Clara alumna, a show that you can nurture,” he says. tage of the nurturing environment and too, and Kelan, their oldest daughter—one “Cheers,” “Frasier,” and “Seinfeld” (for wonderful facilities Santa Clara boasts, he of four children—is a member of the class which he directed almost 100 episodes) says. “Develop your talent. Learn by doing. of 2007. But Andy Ackerman didn’t origi- have all been “fantastic ensemble vehi- Learn by making mistakes.” Which is what nally plan on studying communication at cles,” he says. “It’s all about the chemistry.” he has continued doing as director and Santa Clara and making a career in televi- That, and the writing, especially when it producer. “You’re always learning,” he says, sion. In fact, at the time, the major didn’t comes to comedy, as well as having actors “you’re always making mistakes.” even exist. “I started out as an accounting who can find just the twist that will make —Karyne Levy is a writer/editor for the Office of major,” he says, but he decided to forsake a scene click. His mantra: “find the funny.” Marketing and Communications. accounting for a degree in general human- This past year Ackerman embarked on a ities. Why? “I always kid Father Locatelli new project starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus: about this: The moment he taught me “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” accounting, I knew it was a bad idea,” for which he is executive producer. As for he says. “So he takes all the credit for his other hit, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” my career.” when we sat down to talk in May, it Ackerman got involved in the early wasn’t certain whether the show’s star,

stages of the TV program at SCU, becom- Larry David, would be doing another year CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: ing somewhat of an assistant to John or not. Privett, S.J., who offered a single TV pro- For each episode of “Curb Your duction course in the Theatre and Dance Enthusiasm,” there is no script, only an Department. By 1978, that department had outline, and the show blurs the lines

Busy man on campus. Andy Ackerman, right, joins Brian Adams for a conversa- tion in the SCU television studio.

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Obituaries Dr. E.C. “Bill” Lawrence, March of Highways (now known as J. Vincent Maloney, March 2. 11. A native of Salinas, he CalTrans) for 41 years. He is sur- He served in the U.S. Marine Thomas E. Bailly Jr., M.D., earned his medical degree vived by his wife, JoAnn; and 11 Corps during World War II and 33April 4. He is survived by from and, children. later owned and operated Las two children. after serving in the Army dur- Animas Ready Mix in Gilroy. He Gilbert George Wright, ing World War II, established is survived by his wife, Laurel; Feb. 20. After serving Edward “Ed” Cali, Feb. 22 a practice next door to his 49 and three children. in the U.S. Army during World 3 in Saratoga. In memo- childhood home on Race Street 8 War II, he attended SCU before John Matthew Schirle Jr., March riam on Page 35. in San Jose. He practiced medi- entering the Franciscan semi- 21. A native of San Jose, he cine for 51 years, during which nary. After leaving the seminary served in World War II and for Stanley A. Corriea, May 21. In time he served on the staff of he worked a short time for years was associated with the memoriam on Page 35. O’Connor Hospital—including the State of California and the SCU baseball team, both as a a stint as chief of staff. He is Robert “Bob” Ayers, County of Marin. He earned player and a coach. He retired survived by his wife of 62 years, March 4. The former a master’s degree in English as a glazing contractor. He is 39 Betty; and six children. SCU basketball player served literature from Notre Dame survived by his wife, Beverly; in the Navy during World War Victor Stefan, March 9. He is University and later earned a and six children. II, earned a teaching creden- survived by his wife, Nancy; Ph.D. in medieval English from Vern P. Sterling, April 6. The tial from , and nine children, including the University of Wisconsin. Kansas native served in the and was a physical education daughter Suzanne Kuehl ’66. He taught at the University of teacher and basketball and ten- Illinois in Champaign-Urbana U.S. Marine Corps during World nis coach at Menlo Atherton Henry Aiassa Sr., March and was the associate direc- War II and saw combat on High School for 25 years. He is 4217. He is survived by his tor of the university’s Krannert Okinawa. After his discharge survived by his wife of 64 years, wife, Annette. Center for the Performing Arts. he attended Menlo Junior Esther; and three children. He relocated to Lake Tahoe in College and received a football Luis Echenique, Feb. 26. A native 1978 and began a career as a scholarship to Santa Clara Richard J. Lautze, April 30. In of Salinas, he earned a baseball real estate appraiser until his University, where he received memoriam on Page 35. scholarship to Santa Clara and retirement. He is survived by his his bachelor’s degree, was an was a in the U.S. Naval All American football player, John William “Jack” wife, Colleen; and five children. Air Corps from 1941-1945. After and in 1950 a member of the Flanagan, Feb. 24. 40 his tour of duty, he returned to Edward A. Amaral, April 9, Bronco team that defeated After graduating from Heald his family’s ranch in San Lucas 50in San Jose. He was the Kentucky in the Orange Bowl. Business College and the Ohio and entered into the family’s son of the late Dr. Edward A. After graduation he worked Institute of Technology, he farming business with his Amaral ’20 and is survived by as an assistant coach at the served in World War II before father and two brothers. He is his wife of 54 years, Alva; his University of Oregon, served returning to San Francisco to survived by his wife, Mary. sons Edward ’76, Thomas ’78, as the first football coach manage the family business, James, Daniel, and Michael; his at Woodside High School, Home Laundry Co. He was its Joseph M. Vassar, Aug. sister, Rose-Marie Prentice; and headed the physical educa- president for more than 50 25, 2005. 43 brothers Robert ’51 and John tion department at San Carlos years. He is survived by three “Jack” MBA ’64. High School, and completed a children and son-in-law Michael George W. Brown, April 456. He owned and devel- master’s degree in education Donohoe ’75, MBA ’78. Robert De Lorme, May 9. He oped retail tire stores in the at Stanford. He wed his high was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Stephen E. Graham, Jan. 5. He is state of California. He is sur- school sweetheart, Darlene, Guard, serving in the South survived by his wife, Carolyn. vived by his wife, Thelma; and while on leave from boot Pacific during World War II. A a daughter. camp; she preceded him in Lt. Col. Doran L. Kelly, April professional rodeo cowboy in death in 2002. Sterling is sur- 4123. He served 28 years in Frank W. Raymond, the 1940s and 1950s, he went vived by his sister, June Satre; the U.S. Air Force, accumulating 46May 6. A veteran of on to serve as the proprietor his brother, Lee; his daughter, more than 10,000 flying hours World War II, he returned to of the De Lorme, Morgan and Pam; his sons, Gary, Kent, and as a pilot. He is survived by five California in 1950 to work for Curry Advertising Agency in Ward; and five grandchildren. children, 13 grandchildren, and the California Department San Francisco. He is survived five great-grandchildren. by his wife, Marjorie; and two children.

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Patrick B. Carr, March 15. A Robert P. Schultz M.D., Lounge, Silhouettes, and the 51native of Montana, he was 56April 28. A native of Rockin Robin on Haight Street Graduate awarded a football scholarship Michigan, he earned a bache- in San Francisco. Before retiring, to Santa Clara, where he was lor’s degree from the University he was the general manager David B. Jepsen M.E., also a member of the ski team. of Southern California, and a of Castagnolas at Fisherman’s 63April 3. He is survived He later transferred to the doctorate in medicine from Wharf. He is survived by his by his wife of 48 years, Ruth; University of Portland before Creighton University Medical partner and love of his life, two sons; a daughter; and two becoming an insurance agent. School. He moved to Reno in Amy; and by his sisters Jackie grandchildren. He helped form the Portland 1966 and practiced general, Nilan and Geri Pesce. Ronald D. Carver, April Tennis Center Association, thoracic, and vascular surgery 6616, Feb. 25. A native of which made tennis available until his retirement in 2000. He Michael J. Leake MBA ’66, Feb. Kansas, for 35 years he worked to underprivileged children. is survived by six children. 21. He is survived by his wife, at Lockheed Missiles and Space He also was a founding mem- Ligia; and two children. Co. on high-security defense ber of the Blanchet House of Daniel Richard “Dick” Mark E. Merdes, Nov. 15, projects. He is survived by his Hospitality, which provides 57Maher, March 2. The 2005, in Fairbanks, Alaska. wife, Christine; sons Jeff ’83 meals, showers, and clothes Chicago native served 23 years 74 He was a partner in the law firm and Scott ’93; and adopted to the needy. He is survived by in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a of Merdes & Merdes with his daughter Anna Koslova. four children and three siblings. captain. Among his honors are the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, brother, Ward ’85, J.D. ’88. He is Daniel A. Ruskin MBA, John Trembley, Jan. 30. and the Vietnam Gallantry survived by wife, Joan; three chil- 69April 24. A native of A native of Santa Rosa, Cross. After his retirement, he dren; and two grandchildren. 52 Chicago, he served as a com- he pitched for the Santa Clara spent several years working for Ann Orem, April 5. She munications and early warning baseball team before serving in firms that supported the mili- was a certified public systems officer in the U.S. Air the U.S. Air Force. After he was tary in Washington, D.C., and 75 accountant and held a master’s Force. He was later hired as a discharged, he completed his Virginia. He is survived by his degree in taxation. She later communications systems engi- education at the University of wife of 47 years, Judy; and two became a licensed massage neer by Lockheed Missiles and San Francisco. For years he ran children. therapist and aesthetician and Space Co., for which he worked Trembley’s Auto Parts in Santa opened her own massage ther- for four decades until his retire- Rosa before launching a new Louis W. Coyne, March 17. apy business. She is survived ment in 1996. He is survived career in the fishing industry 58 A native of San Francisco, by Keith LeWarne and three by his wife, Nancy; and five at Bodega Bay. He is survived he earned a law degree from children. children. by his wife, Diane Imwalle; and Golden Gate University and worked for the Federal National two children. Roseanne Wallace, Nov. Michael L. Alderson J.D., Mortgage Association in the 12, 2005. 73June 19, 2005. He was Alexander Peter “Alex” early 1960s. He later started 78 an Army veteran and past Quaglino, March 8. A his own mortgage companies 53 Elizabeth “Betsy” president of the Contra Costa native of San Luis Obispo, he before founding a financial 80Gilmore, April 12. She is County Bar Association. He is joined his father in the fam- consulting company. He was survived by her husband, Rob; survived by his wife of 37 years, ily business, County Roofing named chief operating officer and four children. Karen; and two children. Service, which came to be of Kings’ Caribbean Coffee in known as Quaglino Roofing. St. Croix, The Virgin Islands, in Ann M. Sargent, March Fr. Andrew Harris M.A., The family business expanded 2000. 8929. She is survived by 74March 8. A native of to include Quaglino True three children. Ireland, he was ordained into Edward J. “Ed” Creighton, Value Hardware and Quaglino the priesthood in 1953 and Feb. 25. A native of San Properties. In 1999, he retired to 65 taught at Alemany High School Francisco, he was known as Mr. operate his avocado ranch. He is in San Fernando and at Bishop Personality in the bar business. survived by his wife of 53 years, O’Dowd in Oakland. He was He owned and operated the JoAnn; and six children. provincial of the Western Lake Merced Lodge, the Marine Province from 1984 to 1990. He is survived by six children.

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Michael Herschfelt M.E., 75 March 11. He was an In Memoriam George J. Kasch, which is now known as Lautze and electrical design engineer from Lautze Accounting Corp. The company gave SCU President Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60, his first job out of 1968 until his retirement in The Santa Clara University community mourns the college and it continues to fund a scholarship for 2003. He is survived by his wife, loss of three alumni who, in the words of President SCU accounting students. Diane; and three children. Paul Locatelli, S.J., “reflected the best of their Santa Mr. Lautze is remembered by his friends and Clara education.” All three graduated from the associates as a gentle and generous man. He Armando Victor Scott, University nearly 70 years ago. “They were commit- and his brother were awarded the 2004 Louis I. 81March 8. A native of to their families, committed to the University, Bannan, S.J. Award for their “distinguished and Panama, he earned a bachelor’s and committed to being good citizens,” Locatelli outstanding service” to the Santa Clara Alumni degree from UC Berkeley, a said. “They were also leaders in their professional Association. master’s degree from Golden areas, and kind and generous in their relationships The Lautze Brothers were also named “Santa Gate University, and a J.D. at with other people.” Clarans of the Year” for the Peninsula Chapter in SCU. He was the founder and 1966 and were co-winners of the 1997 Ignatian Edward “Ed” Cali ’38, passed away CEO of the Scott and Murphy Award, which recognizes SCU alumni for their out- on Feb. 22 in Saratoga. He was 90. Residential Care Home and later standing service to humanity. The Willits native was a past mem- worked as an attorney and risk Lautze is survived by his wife of 62 years, Lizette ber of the SCU Board of Fellows “Detty” O’Brien; children Christine Hatton ’67, manager for Farmers Insurance. and the national alumni board. Patty O’Neill, Peggy Metzger ’72, Rainy Lautze, He opened an immigration law For more than 40 years, he was Richard Jr., and John; his brother Robert ’39; and practice in 1998 and retired in president and general manager his sister, Elizabeth Ervin. 2004. He is survived by his wife, of R. Cali and Brothers Feed, Grain, Mary; and six children. and Trucking in Cupertino. He was a former Stanley A. Corriea ’38, a long- member of the board of the California Trucking time member of the Santa Juan M. Campos J.D., Association; a former planning commissioner for Clara Board of Fellows, passed 84March 30. A native of the city of Cupertino, and director of First Valley away on May 21. He was 88. Mexico, he was an attorney. He Bank. He earned respect from many through Born and raised in San is survived by his wife, Sonia his business leadership and his commitment to Francisco, he graduated from ethics in his work. Lapizco; and a daughter. St. Ignatius High School and He is survived by his children Janet Arrigotti, earned a political science Marisa Linda Murphy Youce Kelley, and Ronald E. Cali ’72, as well as degree from SCU. He served as a second lieutenant Woods J.D., March 6. She six grandchildren, including Laura Cali ’01 and 93 in the U.S. Army during World War II and for 60 Elizabeth Cali, a current SCU student. Mr. Cali was earned a bachelor’s degree in years was owner of Stanley Produce Co, which he preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Harriet. theater arts before completing and his father built up from scratch. A Mass was held for Mr. Cali at the Mission her law degree at Santa Clara. He was a founding member of St. Stephen’s Santa Clara on March 2. His family asks that dona- She practiced law for two years Parish and was an avid fan of the San Francisco tions in his memory may be made to Catholic Giants (he made a tradition of taking his children in Bakersfield before returning Charities of Santa Clara County or the Diocese of to opening day games) and 49ers. Friends and to the Bay Area and working as San Jose’s Education Endowment Fund. an attorney recruiter for Paul family remember him as a man with a quick wit who always had a story at the ready, for his excite- Hastings, Cooley Godward LLP, Richard J. Lautze ’39, former presi- ment for life, and his love of people. “He had a and Wilson Sonsini. She is sur- dent of the Santa Clara University great sense of appreciation for what people had vived by her husband, Braden. Alumni Association and a lifetime done for him,” said his widow, Lillian Corriea. He member of the SCU Board of also loved to travel the world and he had a way of Regents, passed away on April 30. making friends wherever he went. He was 88. Mr. Corriea was preceded in death by his first A native of San Francisco, Mr. wife of 47 years, Frances; and his daughter Joan Lautze was born 18 minutes after his Brunton. He is survived by Lillian, his wife of 14 identical twin, Robert, with whom he teamed up on years; and his children, Catherine Barrier, Ellen the Santa Clara basketball team from 1936 to 1939. Buller, Laura O’Malley, and Stan Jr. He is also sur- After completing his graduate studies in accounting vived by Lillian’s seven children; 10 grandchildren; at Stanford University, Mr. Lautze enlisted in the U.S. and eight great-grandchildren. Among his grand- Navy and served as a lieutenant commander on the children are SCU alumni Amy J. Hall ’96; Karen E. USS Guadalupe until 1946. Cardoza ’89; and Jill S. Painter ’98. Following the war and their double wedding, A Memorial Mass in celebration of his life was the Lautze brothers joined the accounting firm of held at St. Stephen Church in San Francisco.

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By Michael Whalen

his spring in my television his- cept was simple: follow people as they Ttory course, in the midst of our entered the ER through their recovery discussion of Walt Disney’s first foray and release. The network executive in into television, in 1954, a student charge believed “Trauma Center” was asked if there was any part of the about everyday heroes in the ER: doc- entertainment business that Disney CHARLES BARRY PHOTO: tors, nurses, and EMTs who save lives. didn’t rule. While I share concerns In a twist of fate, many of the stories regarding monopolistic practices and that I was producing seemed to turn lack of diversity in the current age of tragic. The patients all seemed to die, corporate mergers in Hollywood, I which meant my stories were not mak- also believe there is an upside. Look ing it into the show. The show pre- at Miramax’s and Pixar’s recent experi- miered to pretty good ratings, but after ences with Disney—and what emerges about a month, ratings began to drop. is a tale illustrating the benefits of an Either out of frustration (60 per- independent producer knowing how cent of my stories were left on the to work within the system. cutting room floor) or desperation, I Prior to 1994, Miramax made a challenged my bosses: I asked what name for itself through “art” films and they thought the show was about. independent and foreign-language Television writer, producer, and director “Everyday heroes in the ER,” they movies other studios refused to make. Michael Whalen is an assistant professor of answered. I told them they were With the financial backing of Disney, communication at SCU. wrong: The show was about who died, Miramax was able to move more shareholder, joins the Disney board, or could die, and the inherent drama toward the mainstream and produce and is now one of the most powerful was the fight to survive. If the show the Oscar-winning “English Patient” men in Hollywood. was going to be “real,” people needed (1996), “Shakespeare in Love” (1998), Both the Weinsteins and Jobs were to die and we needed to show those and “Chicago” (2002), and the finan- independent producers who worked stories. I lobbied for one of my more cially successful Scream and Scary the system to perfection, combining tragic stories. An elderly woman had Movie franchises. Disney acquired originality with knowledge of the cor- entered the ER with minor injuries the company for $70 million in 1993; porate workings of Hollywood to gain suffered in a car accident. The stress since then, seven Miramax films a stronger foothold in the industry. of the accident caused her to have a have grossed over $100 million. The Both did this while working with the stroke and die in the ER—all in front Weinsteins leave Disney as major play- company that Walt Disney put on the of her daughter, the driver of the car. ers and are reportedly seeking to raise map doing the same thing with his The doctors, nurses, and social work- $1 billion to fund their own “giant original television series, “Disneyland.” ers of the hospital helped the daughter multimedia company.” It’s the way Hollywood works. As deal with the grief of knowing that she Pixar, and Steve Jobs, also benefited an independent producer, you have to caused the accident. In effect, I had from their experiences with Disney. be willing to challenge the accepted found the “hero” in the story. Midway Jobs bought Pixar (then known as conventions enough to get noticed— into the first fall season of “Trauma Graphics Group) from LucasFilm for but not so much as to rock the boat. Center,” its first death story aired— $5 million. Five years later, Pixar signs Television’s history is littered with and the show became the highest rated a $26 million deal to make computer examples, from to Matt episode of the series. animated films, leading to the release Groening, who have tweaked the genre Hollywood will always be open to of the blockbuster “Toy Story” in enough to create a unique show but innovation, I tell my students: Just 1995. Fast forward to 2006: Disney worked with the networks to get and know how to work within the system. buys Pixar for $7 billion in stock and, keep their shows on the air. Independent producers who under- in essence, Jobs’ company takes over My first producing job out of grad- stand this will ultimately be successful Disney’s animation production. Jobs uate school was for “Trauma Center,” in bringing their unique vision to film becomes the single largest Disney a show on Fox. I desperately wanted and television. But creative freedom, to make my mark. The show’s con- and the power it yields in Hollywood, doesn’t come without a struggle.

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“Too often in our fast-paced and media-driven world, we are only expected or given the opportunity to sense our life experiences on a surface level,” says David J. Popalisky. The director of SCU’s dance program, Popalisky is the creator of “Feel Deeply,” a dance that premiered at Images 2006, SCU’s annual dance concert. “This dance was intended to give the 15 student dancers a chance to access a more profound physical and emotional state through dance,” he explains. Pictured are SCU students Karl Kuehn, Robert Daze, Elece Trujillo, Lauren Baines, and Allie Rubin. PHOTO: SUE JOHNSON PHOTO:

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