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The Makers Atelier: Mark Alsterlind ’76 at work.

Features

Bella vita 14 By Ron Hansen M.a. ’95. After 66 years, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. He’s imparted to generations of Santa Clara students an understanding of Italian language and culture—and how to live a beautiful life.

The sporting life 18 By ann Killion. From when women first arrived on the Mission Campus 50 years ago and athletics was a dirty word—to internationally known programs and penalty shots heard ’round the world.

Respect the game 20 By BRitt yap. They’ve been national champs and the subject of dreams-may-come- true movies. But in the beginning, they were women who just wanted to play soccer. 32 The Makers 22 By Jesse HaMlin. What does it mean to teach the arts—and to create art in all its forms— here and now? By that, we mean here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching out to the rest of the world.

Elemental 32 By steven Boyd sauM. Fate and design, weather and the story of beauty: painting as a way of life for Mark Alsterlind ’76.

Medicine at 13,000 feet 34 By MiKe laRReMoRe ’08. A photo essay from a medical aid expedition in the mountains of Peru.

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Santaclaramagazine.com carries new stories every week. Find stories organized by channels—plus videos, slideshows, class notes, and much more, including … y ARR B S le AR Ch Reviving our destiny The SCu Gospel Choir moved the Mission during Gospel Fest 2012. See photographs of the celebration. y B e Col RAC yg AR /M S

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2 FROM THE EDITOR SCU A 3 LETTERS Run, swim, volley, kick As part of our series on 50 years of women on 6 MISSION MATTERS campus, see sports snapshots from across the 31 BRONCO PROFILE: decades: the stars who’ve played on the BRIAN THORSETT ’00 Mission Campus, as professionals, and in the 11 World Cup. 36 BRONCO PROFILE: TARA MACKEN ’08 49 AFTERWORDS: THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN JESuIT EDuCATION

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SantaClMagazineara Volume 54 Number 1 Imagine you are here:

E d i t o r Steven Boyd Saum It’s a Monday afternoon in May and the Mission Campus is [email protected] bathed in a golden light, dappled shadows on the lawn,

L i t E r a ry E d i t o r the breeze picking up. There’s poetry in the air—and for Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 good reason: Dana Gioia is at the de Saisset Museum.

C r E at i v E d i r EC t o r Writer of verse and essays, former business exec, and head of the Linda Degastaldi-Ortiz National Endowment for the Arts until 2009 (“the man who saved P h o t o g r a P h E r the NEA,” Businessweek called him), Gioia is talking to a room full Charles Barry of students and faculty and staff about what he calls the element E d i t o r i a L i n t E r n s of magic in poetry, both in the meaning of the word poetry in other Holly Hanbury-Brown ’12, Jon Teel ’12, Liz Wassmann ’13 tongues (akin to enchantment in Romance languages) and in how we encounter this thing in our lives. d EPa rt m E n t C ontributors Deepa Arora, Connie Coutain, John Deever, Mitch “Most of us are weighed down by responsibility,” Gioia says. “That’s Finley ’73, Christine Cole Harden, Chris O’Brien, the human condition: We’re distracted, we’re burdened. What a poem Sam Scott ’96, Katie Sells ’13, Heidi Williams ’06 does is arrest your attention for a moment, give you the pleasure C L a s s n o t E s & o b i t u a r i E s of the language, of the imagery, of the musicality of the form. And Christine Cole Harden, Marisa Solís suddenly you realize there’s something odd about this pleasure, www.scu.edu/alumupdate because this pleasure is linked to a kind of insight … You begin to see a s s o C i at E E d i t o r , s a n ta CL a r a m a g a z i n E . C o m something essential about the world. It could be something small … It Clay Hamilton could be something gigantic. And then it’s gone. That’s the experience of

C o P y E d i t o r s beauty, the experience of art, the experience of poetry.” John Deever, Jeff Gire, Marisa Solís, The occasion for Gioia’s reading is a publication celebration for the new Sarah Stanek edition of The Santa Clara Review, the student literary journal whose origins Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton as The Owl give it the oldest pedigree of any literary journal this side of the Mississippi. There is new writing from students who hail from South s a n ta C L a r a m a g a z i n E a d v i s o ry b o a r d Carolina to Indonesia; there is photography, painting, and ink on paper. Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing And there is a nod to the past with a whimsical excerpt from the 1874 Owl. Terry Beers—Professor of English Earlier in the day, a poet who teaches at Santa Clara talks with Gioia Michael Engh, S.J.—President about living a life of listening and the role of imagination. “I don’t think Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist of that as a luxury,” she says. “That gives us leaders who can make the Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, best decisions. These are qualities we associate with the arts in highly Marketing and Communications pragmatic ways.” Robert Gunsalus—Vice President for University In Greek, the word poet is, literally, a maker. Yet, in our feature on Relations “The Makers,” conspicuously absent is creative writing—the poems and Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., creative nonfiction, the novels and the stories and screenplays. That’s not to Professor of Arts and Humanities say that writing or filmmaking is divorced from the artistic sensibility that Kathy Kale ’86—Executive Director, Alumni Association animates the other makers who populate the pages of this edition of SCM. Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of Communication But it is to say that we have more stories to tell than we can possibly exhaust in one edition about what it means to make art and teach the arts here and now, and the myriad ways they stretch mind and muscle, and how Update your address and the rest of your contact info: www.scu.edu/alumupdate they summon you to: Imagine. [email protected] Santa Clara Magazine 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Keep the faith, The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2012 by Santa Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Steven Boyd Saum Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara Editor University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500.

2 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 Letters “It was not enough to dig deep enough to prove that you were right. You had to be willing to dig deep enough to find out if you were wrong.”

a good sport, as Committee at Santa Clara Eleanor Long taught me glam as a mascot to pay for Ben’s “room and that when doing research, it can be, and a good board” at Alum Rock Stables, was not enough to dig deep colleague for us and to spring for horse trailer enough to prove that you cheerleaders. She got rentals when we conveyed were right. You had to be more attention than him to football games. I willing to dig deep enough we did and certainly “blanket broke” Ben—but he to find out if you were Bucky confidential could get the crowd going. was high-strung and strong. wrong. A lesson worthy to My most fond memory Being Benny probably helped He could tow an entire be remembered in all walks involving Benny Bronco: a her prepare for her job right section of folded, empty of life. U.C. Davis/SCU football after college, which was bleachers across the stadium JOSE R. LOPEZ ’75 game at Buck Shaw, entertaining on a cruise ship. unassisted—as proven one Fernley, Nev. circa 1984. After a UCD The article was a fun read. night when I tied him to a touchdown, a couple of GRETCHEN KING ’80 bleacher section and went Working with Janice their male cheerleaders Redwood Estates, Calif. to the snack bar to get a Edgerly-Rooks of the came over in front of the hot dog, only to be alerted biology department got me SCU student section to do Thanks for a great article on by the roar of the crowd interested in research, and pushups for every point they Bucky Bronco. It conjured as I returned and saw him her mentorship inspired me had on the board. Benny, memories of the fleeting charging across the field. to apply to graduate school. in good spirits, sat on one era of “Benjamin B,” to PAT CARR ’66 I love the path my life has of the cheerleaders’ backs. my knowledge the only Cottonwood, Calif. taken, and I owe so much The cheerleader, thinking live equine mascot in the of that to Janice. Now that there was a male inside the history of the University. Why women I’m also a professor here costume, came up swinging. The photo here, from the professors? at SCU, I try to model 1966 , shows Benny Janice’s passion for science Witnessing this, Rich Redwood Thank you for your article Bronco and yours truly and similarly pass the joy “psycho” Genoff, the head on the women professors scooting across Buck Shaw of research along to my groundskeeper at Buck Shaw, [in the spring SCM]. As Stadium during one of the students. starts pounding the UCD an undergraduate and law football games. cheerleader to the resounding student, I had wonderful MICHELLE MARVIER ’90 I had bought a young delight of the SCU student professors of both sexes. Chair, Dept. of Environmental quarter horse colt from my cheering section. I don’t Some favorites were Studies at SCU grandmother, originally a remember if UCD scored Eleanor Donohue J.D. ’84, cowgirl from Saskatchewan. again, but their cheerleaders M.A. ’85, Sister Gemma I arranged with the Rally stayed on the other side Neunzling M.A. ’69, Marcia of the field for the rest of Frederick, and Cynthia the game. Mertens. Write us! GREG ANTONIOLI ’87 I served as an adjunct We welcome your letters Acton, Mass. professor in the ’80s, in response to articles. teaching family law. I love I was a cheerleader for SCU the students and their santaclaramagazine.com [email protected] 1978–80. At that time Mary enthusiasm; they offered a McFarland ’80, a.k.a. “Mary wonderful challenge and gave Mac,” was Benny Bronco. great insights into common She was indispensable in perceptions about legal entertaining the crowd. She rights. was extroverted, entertaining, We may edit letters for style, LYNNE YATES-CARTER clarity, civility, and length. ’72, J.D. ’76 Live Bronco: Benny and Pat Carr ’66 San Jose Questions? Call 408-551-1840.

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Barbara Kelley ’70 is in the ongoing transition $1,000 per year, including compulsory ROTC, wearing a wonderful magazine of Eastern Europe from a room and board. Our woolen blouses and breeches journalism professor I had closed, socialist system to an class started with 150 and from World War I and during my time at SCU. open, democratic one. She graduated 100. Eighty wrap-around leggings. The She showed genuine interest explored psychology, history, percent boarded, and the two French 75 cannons were in my improvement as a economics, and art through whole student body had never fired, but we did a lot journalist. Her enthusiasm the lens of political science. dinner at 7 p.m. in Nobili of marching. We all went for the trade is one of the Her insight has had a great Hall. It was prepared and into the armed services. reasons I am at the U.C. impact on how I see the served by local Portuguese About a dozen did not Berkeley Graduate School complexities of the world. women. At the far end were return. Of flyer fatalities, of Journalism today. Also, DANIEL ROMANSKI ’98 “training tables” for 45 four died during training, since graduating, I—and a Campbell football players. If we had a a statistic not known to the ton of other women—have glass of milk, they received general public. particularly benefitted from At santaclaramagazine.com, a pitcher, and everything Our small classes taught her book and blog that she visit “Why women professors?” else was in proportion. by dedicated professors writes with her daughter, to read many more tributes After classes, they spent two provided an excellent Undecided. It’s an excellent from SCU alumni. —Ed. hours of strenuous practice education. The most ongoing conversation about on Ryan Field under coach valuable subject I ever the trials of women in the Opening new doors Buck Shaw. They were studied was a course in modern world and the in the Philippines mainly Irish from the logic taught by Fr. Austin choices that haunt and Beautiful, just beautiful. I Mission District and Italians Fagothey. I hope logic is hoist us. cried watching the video from North Beach with a still a required subject for all MAGGIE BEIDELMAN ’09 and looking at the photos smattering from around Santa Clara students. Berkeley from the Philippines [in the state. They regularly JAMES H. FLIPPEN ’41 Mission Matters, Spring defeated Stanford, Cal, Cupertino Jagienka Drweski was my SCM]. That wall mural UCLA, St. Mary’s, USF, and freshman acting teacher. is fantastic, and such an visitors from Oklahoma, She was able to pierce affirmation of the dignity of Nebraska, and Texas, straight to the heart of a the people of Manila. And climaxing as Sugar Bowl person, situation, idea, or Suzy’s comfort of Thelma— champions. motivation with ease, all bless you all. We also had a great while having a smile on her REGINA STACK KANE basketball team, coached face. She was much more by George Barsi. The Rockport, Mass. than an acting professor; she “Magicians of the offered a great example of I’m one of the Filipino staff Maplewood”—Bruce Hale how to live with sincerity here at SCU and I’m very and Marty Passaglia, the

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at guard. rte a declared major and signed that you showed her. Feerick U up for an introductory LORENZO SABADO Ours was the last class Co political science class as part with organized freshman Grand reunion: Becky Villarreal and Information Specialist, William F. Cahill ’61 of my overall requirements. University Library hazing. I wore a beanie When Professor Jane Curry for six months, which I would start a lecture, the Reunion reflections didn’t mind at all, but While at Santa Clara for the Class of 1961’s 50th, I people, places, and events The recent 70th reunion there was also physical found myself at the corner came alive; she actually of the Class of ’41 will harassment. Two sensitive of Franklin and Lafayette did know many of the probably be our last. It was fellows dropped out as a looking south and trying to Eastern European power a unique class: The total consequence. re-create in my imagination brokers throughout the student body was about We were the last class to the wonderful looming form region and flew there 500 during the Great graduate before World War of The Ship—a building regularly to participate Depression; tuition was II. There were two years of that, in a heavy wind, during thunderstorms, Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university Santa Clara Magazine is printed on Forest located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley. Santa Stewardship Council™ (FSC®) certified paper by during earthquakes, etc., Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs a printing facility certified to FSC standards. in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s degrees in a creaked and groaned like an number of professional fields, law degrees, and engineering and theology From forest management to paper production doctorates. Distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all to printing, FSC certification represents the U.S. master’s universities, Santa Clara educates leaders of competence, highest social and environmental standards. old wooden sailing vessel. conscience, and compassion grounded in faith-inspired values. Founded The paper contains 30 percent post-consumer I remember how, in 1958 in 1851, Santa Clara is California’s oldest operating institution of higher recovered fiber. education. For more information, see www.scu.edu. I was onstage there and

4 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 became conscious of the Valley. He was the seventh A connection receive her copy of Santa great array of ropes, lines, child in a family of 12. He she treasures Clara Magazine, that will curtains, and panels that was born and raised in the I am writing on behalf of be awesome! Thank you hung down above and to the little town of Picayune, my mom, Rose Jones. She for such a well-established left and right of the stage. Mississippi. From the stories recently mentioned to me publication that we enjoy A complex set of apparatus he told, his boyhood rivaled that she missed receiving reading and sharing with hung high above the stage: that of Tom Sawyer or Huck the wonderful Santa Clara others. great wooden wheels, Finn. Once his father made Magazine in the mail each My dad’s younger brother, pulleys, and gears. From the him a shoeshine kit to help quarter. At 94 years young, P. T. (Patrick Thomas) vantage of the second floor, earn a little extra money. He she takes pride in that my Jones ’39, also was at SCU the theatre auditorium and would take his shoeshine dad, J.M. (James Moran) when my dad was. I grew stage seemed a great ship’s kit to the local barber in Jones ’38, graduated from up Bronco, as when we were hold. The huge wooden Picayune and polish shoes. the School of Engineering. kids, my dad would bring walls bounding the hold He had a raccoon in a cage Though he’s been deceased us to the campus—and in to the west and to the east to attract customers. He for several years, and Mom those days, the highlight was were the hull, the doors on mastered the shoeshine rag— is afflicted from age-related the huge cross in front of Franklin the prow, the stairs he got to where he could macular degeneration, the Mission, with the hedge rolling up to those doors pop a boogie-woogie rag that she has looked forward to shaped in the letters of SCU were the waves of the sea. not only shined the shoes of receiving and reading the in front of it. We have lots The ropes, lines, curtains, his customers but also made magazine. (“The print isn’t more family history with and panels suspended there them feel like dancing as that small that I can’t read Santa Clara—this is just the seemed a great set of sails, they walked away. it.”) This says a lot about tip of the iceberg. for a caravel maybe, stored During the Great being part of the Bronco MAUREEN JONES vertically in the hold from Depression, he sewed a $20 family. So, if we can get her STANDIFER M.A. ’72 where they would be shot bill into the lining of his back on the mailing list, to Santa Clara up fully masted into the sky coat and hopped on a freight somehow when the right train headed for California. time came. In San Luis Obispo he After the William Gianera worked for his aunt; there F e at u r e C ontributors Society luncheon in October, was a football team, so Kelly Detweiler (cover, Jesuit seal for “AfterWords”) chairs the I fell in with some members grandpa joined and would Department of Art and Art History at SCU. His work has been shown in museums and galleries in the Bay Area, Japan, Korea, Germany, and of the Class of 1956, and play after work. One day a elsewhere. And it graces a few of the buildings on the Mission Campus. in their company also was scout from the University Pamela Feinsilber (“A big, beautiful voice”) is a freelance book editor Becky Villarreal, the 2011 of Santa Clara offered him and writing consultant and contributing writer to San Francisco Magazine. Louis I. Bannan, S.J., Award a scholarship to go to Santa This is her first piece for SCM. winner. As she and I talked, Clara. So he enrolled in the Jeff Gire (“The stuntwoman”) is a writer/editor for SCU’s Office of it came out that in the Mission University. When Marketing and Communications. fall of 1957, when I—as a Buck Shaw took his team Jesse Hamlin (“The Makers”) has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, and other publications over the past 30 years freshman—bought my Santa to New Orleans to play in on a wide range of music and art. This is his first feature for us. Clara jacket, she was the the Sugar Bowl, my father Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 (“Bella vita”) is the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., one who had sold it to me! had his own rooting section Professor of Arts & Humanities at SCU, the author of 10 books, and the I wore that jacket, leather because so many of his literary editor of this magazine. arms much patched, to the family were there. We heard Maeve Louise Heaney, VDMF (“Beauty and beast”) has been a 2011–12 Gianera luncheon and still many stories of that game; Bannan Fellow at SCU. Since 1984 she has been a consecrated member of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, a contemplative-active had it on. I used to think there might community dedicated to evangelization. WILLIAM F. CAHILL ’61 be a little exaggeration. Ann Killion (“The sporting life,” “In the zone”) has covered sports for two Long Beach However, one day he came decades, writing for Sports Illustrated, the San Jose Mercury News, and back from a Santa Clara other folks. For this magazine, she’s covered soccer and SCU Olympians. reunion with a videotape of Mike Larremore ’08 (“Medicine at 13,000 feet”) is a Denver-based Sugar Bowl photographer. His photo essay of medical relief efforts in Haiti appeared sweetness the 1937 Sugar Bowl game. in the Summer 2010 SCM. Then we saw that all those My father was Frank Mark Purdy (“Storybook season”) is a sports columnist for the San Jose “Mississippi” Smith, [part stories were true. Mercury News. For the Winter 2012 SCM he wrote a piece on the new album by Hot Tuna. of the 1937 Sugar Bowl CAROLE SMITH DUNCAN Yountville, Calif. Britt Yap (“Respect the game”) is an avid soccer fan and a writer/editor team mentioned in the for SCU’s Office of Marketing and Communications. winter magazine]. He died in 1999 in California’s Napa

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Missionmatters Service and Spirituality night meals dedicated to the scholarly study of early Franciscan documents. Contemplative preparations were ramped up in early 2010 with the Shine a light first of three annual retreats to the eight hundred years ago, clare of assisi traded a life of privilege for one Franciscan retreat center in San Juan of religious devotion. this year the university celebrates this woman Bautista. Students and faculty were and saint whose name it bears. accompanied by Jean Molesky-Poz, a lecturer in religious studies, and Keith t was on Palm Sunday in the as the Poor Clares. Today, the order Warner, a member of the Franciscans year 1212, when 18-year-old hosts more than 20,000 women who and director of education for the Clare of Assisi slipped away in follow the Form of Life that Clare Center for Science, Technology, and the night to established. Society. Groups reflected on how to join St. Francis Clare means “light” in bring the life, memory, and message of andI the Franciscan Her mother was Italian; when Clare’s mother Clare to campus. friars. What she was was pregnant with her, she As for naming—and the founding told that Clare running away from heard a voice say the child of the Mission of Santa Clara de Asís— was wealth and an would “illumine would “illumine with greater that was in 1777 on the banks of the arranged marriage. clarity the entire world.” She Guadalupe River. The Franciscans had with greater clarity What she was running was canonized in 1255. And established a mission in San Francisco toward was a radical the entire world.” this year Santa Clara University the year before. Because of her close life of worship, has been celebrating the 800th relationship with St. Francis of Assisi, poverty, and service. anniversary of the year that St. St. Clare was chosen to grace the Her rebellious piety and devotion led Clare, its namesake, found her calling. eighth Californian Mission, serving as her to start the first monastic order for The Year of Clare has been some symbolic companion to the mission to women within the Franciscan tradition: time in the making, beginning in the north. the Order of Poor Ladies, also known 2009 with faculty gatherings and late-

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Arts and letters her daughter, This year at the Mission Campus, McConahay saw that celebrations of St. Clare included these people were killed exhibits at the de Saisset Museum and because they were Harrington Learning Commons unwavering in their featuring artifacts from St. Clare’s life— faith—a quality she says most notable, a replica of the St. Clare modeled so 13th-century St. Clare tavola, a well. painting on wood panels depicting On the evening of Clare’s life. Retreats, lectures, and May 10, the Mission scholarly symposia have broadened and Church hosted a special deepened awareness of St. Clare, as musical tribute to well. Two members of the Poor Clares, Clare, featuring both Beth Lynn from the Minneapolis 200-year-old music Monastery and Dianne Short from the written for the Mission

Cincinnati Monastery, took part in and the world premiere nne Lee A various events. The year’s observances of the St. Clare Vespers Jo culminated in an afternoon and Concert, composed by evening of celebration on May 10, Leslie La Barre ’10. Conductor and composer: Elisse and Leslie La Barre titled “Reclaiming and Celebrating St. The new work was Clare of Assisi.” A keynote address by inspired by Clare’s letters to Agnes of Estébez ’10; and baritone Matthew scholar Bill Short, OFM, and panel Prague, the daughter of the King of Peterson ’09. The chamber ensemble discussions offered an overview of Bohemia, who had decided to join featured performances by nine current centuries of scholarship. Writer Mary the Poor Clares. Leslie’s sister Elisse students as well. Jon Teel ’12 SCU Jo McConahay ’68 shared her La Barre ’09 conducted, with vocal experience as one of the first journalists performances from Santa Clara faculty Web on the scene of the 1989 Jesuit and alumni including soprano Nancy Exclusives massacre in El Salvador. In that tragic Wait Kromm , associate professor of At santaclaramagazine.com hear the moment looking over the lifeless bodies music; mezzo soprano Lilian Cromer, St. Clare concert and see more photos. of Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and who teaches voice; soprano Ariel

Santa Clara Snapshot:1962

1st woman to speak at commencement at Santa Clara: Eunice Kennedy Shriver 15 percent is the limit for the number of freshmen and sophomores who can receive failing grades—until 1961–62, when the flunking limit is removed 25 cents is recommended donation for receiving anti-polio vaccine as part of the “K.O. Polio” campaign in September 73-year-old Jesuit Bernard Hubbard dies. He earned the moniker “the Glacier Priest” for his explorations in the arctic— S and exploits that included rowing the Bering Strait in a kayak. und M d e damage done to O’Connor Hall by “one fine, young

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er freshman” who plugged all the drains of the 2nd-floor showers M and ran the showers full force 8,000 seats in planned Buck Shaw Stadium, with construction y Mary So y Mary S begun in summer 1962 signing bonus for Bob Garibaldi ’64 to join the Courte $150,000 San Francisco Giants after his sophomore year—and after being She led the way: Mary Somers Edmunds ’62 becomes the first woman named MVP in the College World Series (see p. 37). to earn an undergraduate degree from Santa Clara—despite the fact that more than a few of her classmates chipped in $1 each to pay her $250 not 350,000 volumes will fit in the soon-to-be constructed to walk in commencement. Orradre Library Holly Hanbury-Brown ’12

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EDUCATION institutions in the way we focus on human development and how we work with communities,” Garcia says. In Colombia, her approach included a Innovation and collaboration focus on ethics and value systems and A Fulbright to Colombia builds on years of Sara Garcia’s work incorporating those into all facets here and in Mexico. of education: teaching, assessment, and research. or educational psychologist The drought in Chihuahua Sara Soledad Garcia, when While this was Garcia’s first trip to South Fit comes to finding the right America, it wasn’t her first Fulbright. models for teaching and learning, In 2001, she was one of two scholars context matters: the human selected for the U.S.–Mexico Border dynamics and the knowledge that Program. She developed a nine-month we construct as members of a project in the Chihuahua region for society, in our particular place and teacher development in the public time. “Innovation comes in many schools, working in collaboration with forms,” she says. biodiversity researchers at the Instituto And often collaboration is key. In de Ecología there. She helped assemble her case, collaboration meant, this teams of teachers who could build past academic year, a short-term, a model for teaching concepts related intensive working visit to a university to the devastating drought faced in Bogotá, Colombia, through the in the region. Fulbright Specialist Program. “My work also focused on how Garcia is an associate professor NAFTA was changing the society of the of education in SCU’s School desert that I worked in,” she explains. of Education and Counseling Maquiladoras—factories in the free-trade Psychology, where she created and zone of Mexico—were dumping toxins co-directs the master’s program that seriously polluted the water. in interdisciplinary education. In The long-term Fulbright was also a October, her Fulbright grant took needs of host institutions. kind of homecoming for Garcia. “I’m her to Universidad Colegio Mayor de Colombia is emerging from decades Mexican born. My parents immigrated Cundinamarca, a major public university of narcotics-fueled civil war; recent years when I was a child, so I was raised in in Bogotá. The specialist program, have been a time of important transition, California. To go back to Chihuahua was which supports visits of up to six weeks, so Garcia’s work in Bogotá comes at a a big deal for me, since I had not been promotes linkages between U.S. scholars key time for a university taking stock and back for more than 40 years even to visit.” and their counterparts overseas, with a adapting its programs to a shifting society. The outcome of the work included focus on supporting the development “We are changing constantly as collaboration for years following the fellowship. It led to a book, published in 2005 by the Instituto de Ecología: CAMPUS In Celebration of Family Ecological Education: Reflection and Praxis in the Context of Drought in Chihuahua. ew to campus this February is a bronze sculpture of the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus by artist A. Wasil. In Celebration of Family was the last Future hopes work by Wasil, whose larger-than-life bronzes also grace the Vatican and Garcia hopes that the short-term

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Diana Brutoco ’74, and the Brutocao Family Foundation, with special C support from Malcolm Cisneros Law Corp. public education system. Longtime supporters of SCU, the Brutocos and their extended While in Bogotá, in addition to her family’s contributions to SCU include the establishment of work at the public university, Garcia met the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching with officials of Pontificia Universidad Excellence and the Brutocao Family Foundation Javeriana, the Jesuit university in Award for Curriculum Innovation; Rudolf Brutoco Colombia. She hopes that her work will is also a member of the University Board of augment the connections already built Regents. Deborah Lohse SCU there by Luis Calero, S.J., an associate Web professor of anthropology at Santa Clara, Exclusives who hails from Colombia and has taught At santaclaramagazine.com at the Pontificia’s campus in Cali. SBS SCU see more photos. Missionmatters

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Truth, justice, and A new dean for coping with atrocities the Jesuit School Legal scholar Beth Van Schaack tapped for State Department post of Theology tackling war crimes—from Cambodia to the former Yugoslavia. Santa Clara’s Jesuit School of Theology welcomed a distinguished moral theologian n March, Professor of International committed in the former Yugoslavia, and ethicist as its new dean on July 1: Law Beth Van Schaack took Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. Thomas Massaro, S.J., who comes to on new responsibilities outside Her state department appointment will the graduate I AN the classroom: as deputy to the U.S. extend for up to two years; she is on rr school’s Berkeley U Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, leave of absence from SCU while C campus from ANK

Stephen Rapp. In her new position, serving in Washington. Fr Boston College’s Van Schaack will be part of the team Last year, the more than 15 years of School of Theology advising Secretary of State Hillary work Van Schaack has done with and Ministry, Clinton on responses to atrocities Cambodia yielded a new book that she where he taught as committed throughout the world. co-edited, Cambodia’s Hidden Scars. a professor of Van Schaack’s portfolio includes Published by the Documentation moral theology. New dean: Thomas Fr. Massaro is working with international tribunals, Center of Cambodia, the volume looks Massaro, S.J. nongovernment organizations, and at ways that the Extraordinary the author or edi- foreign governments to ensure Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia tor of five books, a regular columnist for accountability for international crimes. can better accommodate witnesses who America magazine, and a sought-after That also entails support for hybrid are traumatized by the horrific crimes public intellectual. He lectures frequently courts trying persons responsible for in that nation’s past. SBS SCU on the moral evaluation of public poli- genocide and crimes against humanity cies regarding domestic and international issues such as foreign policy, anti-poverty efforts, and globalization. His teaching interests include Catholic social ethics, theories of economic justice, sociology of religion, and the history of Christian politi- ENG KOK-THAY cal thought. In coming to JST, he says, “For decades, it has been preparing men and women for learned ministry in a distinc- tive way, one that is culturally aware and intellectually rigorous. What a privilege it is to help prepare Catholic lay and reli- gious leaders for tomorrow’s church.” Fr. Massaro takes the leadership baton at JST from Associate Professor of Systematic Theology Kevin Burke, S.J., who played a key role in the integration of the school into Santa Clara University in 2009. Deepa Arora SCU Web Exclusives At santaclaramagazine.com read JST’s Bridge magazine and more.

Family portrait: 9-year-old Phan Srey Leab holds a photograph of her grandmother, killed by the Khmer Rouge—an atrocity recounted in Cambodia’s Hidden Scars.

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 9 Missionmatters

SportS In the zone First Julie Johnston ’14 was freshman of the year. Then All-American. Now the Under-20 World Cup is calling.

hen Julie Johnston ’14 here, I felt comfortable,” Johnston says. was 7 years old, her mother “I called my mom and told her, ‘I think el

D turned on the television this is it.’ I told Jerry [Smith] that I was or W C and told her to come watch. With that ready to commit right now.” simple act, Johnston—along with more s Con Johnston was named the WCC I

Den than 40 million other Americans— freshman of the year after her first participated in one of the biggest stories season. Last season, she scored a team- in the history of women’s sports. high nine goals, was a first-team All- She was part of the unprecedented American, and was a semifinalist for television audience that saw the the Hermann Trophy, awarded to the U.S. women’s soccer team defeat top female player of the year. China in the 1999 Women’s So far, so close World Cup. Johnston feels that—thanks to her When Brandi Chastain ’91 experience at Santa Clara—her big buried the winning penalty kick, dreams are getting closer to reality. though, Johnston never imagined “When I was young, players like Brandi that more than a decade later and Mia Hamm seemed so far away,” she’d be following in Chastain’s Johnston says. “But this new generation footsteps. “I didn’t really know of national team players isn’t that far much about Santa Clara,” away. I played against Alex Morgan at Johnston says. “When I came on Cal last year. Sydney Leroux played on my recruiting visit and met Brandi, it my sister’s team. The national team is seemed insane.” more of a reality, an expectation that Johnston, a rising junior, “We have a you can set for yourself and have it reputation from the is hoping to compete this be a possibility.” past to uphold. summer in the U-20 World Johnston is optimistic that the People left their Cup in Japan, which begins sweat and tears on Broncos—who finished ranked 11th Aug. 19. She is the latest the field, and I don’t in the nation last season—can land a Bronco to continue the want to let them 24th NCAA appearance next fall and tradition of raising Santa down.” make a serious push to get back to the Clara’s profile while playing College Cup. for the U.S. national team The one downside for Johnston, program, a legacy that began with if she makes the U-20 World Cup Chastain back in 1989. Squad: She may miss several of the As a teenager in Phoenix, playing early-season games. for the Gilbert Soccer Club, Johnston Midfield menace: In her two years at Santa Clara, with knew she wanted to play Division Julie Johnston is tutors like Chastain, Danielle Slaton ’02, I soccer. She knew she headed for the and other former Bronco stars, wanted to play for a top- Under-20 Women’s Johnston has learned to embrace the World Cup in August. 25 program and have a school’s rich legacy. She is driven by the shot at both a national desire to uphold Santa Clara’s tradition. title and a spot in the “I talk to people who go to other national team pool. schools and the word tradition isn’t But Johnston didn’t even there,” she said. “But we have a know that Santa Clara reputation from the past to uphold. was the perfect fit until she People left their sweat and tears on arrived on the Mission Campus the field, and I don’t want to let them for her recruiting visit. down.” Ann Killion SCU “Literally, from the second I got

10 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 ENGINEERING People, prosperity, and the planet A new fuel cell design brings top honors to student engineers. Some 1.6 billion people around the world lack access to electricity. So a team of SCU student engineers has come up with a robust, off-the-grid solution that could make a difference, combining solar- and fuel-cell technology. What they came up with—the proton exchange Charles Barry membrane fuel cell (PEMeFC)—is a design innovative enough to P3 Champs: Red shirts are Ross Pimentel ’12, left, and Sutyen Zalawadia ’12. bring top honors from the Environmental Protection Agency’s P3 Standing left to right are: Sandeep Lele ’12, Mike Sizemore ’12, Sapaan Shah ’11, competition in Washington, D.C., this past April. M.S. ’13, Jeffrey Schwartz ’12, and Aitor Zabalegui ’10, M.S. ’13. SCU students led by senior Michael Sizemore ’12 developed “a brand-new clean-energy system designed solely by us,” he The team devised a fuel-cell system that generates electricity says. They competed against 40-odd colleges and universities, from hydrogen and oxygen source tanks. Photovoltaic panels earning bragging rights and a $90,000 award from the EPA to help provide power for electrolysis, running the fuel cell in reverse to advance their design and move it into the marketplace. The team resupply the fuel tanks—and simultaneously to provide power. The began its work under the guidance of engineering faculty member plan is to implement the system in SCU’s Solar Decathlon houses Dan Strickland, who was tragically killed in a car accident and to work with BlueEnergy in Nicaragua to provide rural, last fall. Shoba Krishnan, associate professor of electrical off-grid power. Connie Coutain and Heidi Williams ’06 SCU engineering, then stepped in to serve as faculty advisor.

ADMISSIONS last three years,” he says, adding that this year alone, the admissions office reviewed 1,000 more applications than last year—with no additional staff Introducing Early Decision support. Early Action applicants are Santa Clara offers a new option for students who know also on the rise—up 47 percent in the right off that this is where they want to be. last three years. (See box below.) In terms of being binding, early eginning this fall, prospective elsewhere if not accepted. decision does offer one exception: students who rank Santa Clara There is a trade-off with early According to the agreement on the Bas their No. 1 choice—and decision: Students cannot apply to Common Application, if the financial want the University to know it—will other schools’ early action or early aid package offered by a university have a new option when applying for decision programs, though they can won’t permit an admitted student to admission: Early Decision. It’s a apply to regular-deadline programs. attend, they may decline the offer of binding program with a Nov. 1 If admitted to SCU early decision, admission and be released from their deadline—the same as the University’s they must withdraw their applications commitment. Early Action program, which is elsewhere nonbinding. and commit As for Early Decision: Students to Santa There’s already Early Action—and it’s on the upswing who are ready to make a commitment Clara. (The 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 need to talk with their parents and nonbinding Applied 2,068 2,507 2,531 3,029 3,729 high school guidance counselors Early Action Admitted 1,509 1,698 1,752 2,202 2,431 about it, as all three parties must option allows Enrolled 392 389 360 549 528 sign an agreement on the Common students to wait Application stating the intent to until May 1 to commit upon acceptance. What commit.) are the benefits? A shorter waiting For the University, the new And, of course, if Early Decision period for a decision; time and program is a helpful enrollment and Early Action aren’t routes that money saved on submitting multiple management tool, notes Michael students want to take when applying, applications; more time to make Sexton, vice president of enrollment there’s still the regular admission housing arrangements and prepare for management. “We’ve seen a 41 percent process. Christine Cole Harden SCU college if accepted; and time to apply increase in applications during the

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 11 G n Fun ATHA n O y J BOOKS S e T ur

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FILM BUSINESS: PlUg IN, EarN thE trUSt, aNd watch that lIqUIdIty Advances in technology are changing the Expose the nature of our work at an accelerating pace. relying on the skills and processes darkness that worked in the past is no longer opti- mal. But how, then, does anyone keep with a new short film, Jonathan Fung pace with the need for constant change? turns his lens on human trafficking. This is the question explored in The Plugged-in Manager: Get in Tune To pay his debts: With Your People, Technology and Trafficking as a way out Organization to Thrive (Jossey-Bass, 2011) by terri l. griffith. A professor of management at the Leavey School of Business, Griffith focuses on the way technology impacts people and organiza- all him a modern-day by Fung’s own daughter, second-grader tions. Here’s the bad news: There’s no abolitionist, Jonathan Ayla Rain Fung. The film then explores single program you can magically apply. Fung says. Because what happens when a man who hasn’t Instead, the key is for managers at any what we’re talking lost all of his scruples confronts what level to deepen their about when we’re talking he is doing—and has to reckon whether observational skills and about human trafficking is it’s too late to stop. open their minds to Cslavery—mostly women or children, often For Fung, the film is ultimately one that what they see and for sexual exploitation. By some reckoning, tries to open the possibility of sacrifice, hear. It’s important that as an illegal industry, it’s second only to the redemption, and forgiveness. “I believe we this mindset be adopted drug trade in terms of profits. And it’s that can use the arts to bring a consciousness not just by individuals, lucrative side, as well as the to modern-day slavery,” he but by their companies appalling moral compromises says. “We are a visual culture, and organizations, so they can create a flexi- at stake, that are at the heart and film and the arts can serve ble culture that can of Fung’s new film, Hark. as a scholarly medium to identify change, understand it, and adapt Fung is a lecturer in the educate, challenge, and to it. The elements of this approach are communication depart- mobilize a community.”

g easy to grasp: Observe closely (“stop-

ment at Santa Clara. He UN The film also draws upon look-listen”), mix different approaches to F first learned about human the contributions of alumni create a balanced solution, and share trafficking in depth through Brian green ’11, who filmed a NATHAN information and insights throughout the a conference several years behind-the-scenes documen-

y Jo organization. Griffith acknowledges that S ago. The father of a daugh- e tary about the film; grip and these are harder to put into practice, given ter who was 4 years old at URT driver alex Pelfrey ’11; and that they require managers and organiza- Co the time, Fung found that casting director Katie galli ’11. Heart-wrenching: Ayla Rain Fung tions to let responses emerge from his awareness of this Students involved with produc- these observations, rather than imposing scourge wasn’t something tion included costume designer solutions based on their own beliefs or that he could let go of. He first crafted grace Kinder ’12, key production assis- traditions. The book includes some helpful his visceral reaction into an art and tant chloe Fitzmaurice-Shean ’12, assessments and guides to getting started. video installation in the heart of San production assistants ali aslam ’12 and Its best advice, however, is to just dive in, Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Titled Sandy Navarro ’12, and drew Kells ’12, see what happens, start learning, and Down the Rabbit Hole, that 2009 work who served as a stand-in for Seth. make course corrections. While mistakes presented a shocking, heart-wrenching Hark premiered June 1 at SCU’s recital might be made along the way, it gets look into child sex trafficking. hall, followed by a discussion with a panel managers and companies moving away With Hark, filmed in San Francisco of law enforcement personnel and others from the far more fatal mistake of standing still. last year, he brings to bear the director’s involved with work to prevent human traf- Chris O’Brien capacity for empathy, tackling a dilemma ficking. Fung wants to bring the film to of a man pushed to extremes. The char- middle schools, high schools, and churches acter Seth, played by Canadian actor to broaden and deepen the dialogue— Aaron Blake, is a man so deep in debt and, he hopes, erode something of this that he turns to human trafficking as a scourge on society. Katie Sells ’13 SCU way out—purchasing a young girl, played

12 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 BOOKS Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Got milk? concern.” The CDF cited deviations New from SCU faculty Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Pharmaceuticals? What from official Catholic teaching and stated Great Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2011) by about blood supplies? that the LCWr promotes “radical feminist John Hamm makes the case for enduring If it has an expiration themes incompatible with the Catholic ideas. Hamm is a general partner at VSP date—or if it just decays faith.” Individual nuns have expressed Capital in San Francisco and a lecturer over time—and you dismay at the report, saying that it in management at the Leavey School of want to keep track of misunderstands their work for social Business. He has also been a CeO, board it, then it falls within the justice. Mitch Finley ’73 member, executive advi- purview of Perishable sor, and mentor. So his Inventory Systems With Standing Together in the thoughts on leadership (Springer, 2011) by Steven Nahmias, Community of God: Liturgical have been formed by professor of operations and management Spirituality and the Presence of Christ experiencing it, observ- information systems. Nahmias has taught (Liturgical Press, 2011), Paul A. Janowiak, ing it, and practicing at SCu since 1979, and his books have S.J., aims to address the concerns of it from several differ- been translated into Spanish, Hebrew, and those who charge that the post-Vatican II ent perspectives. His Chinese. SBS reformed Catholic liturgy is devoid of overarching mission is mystery and has little to get readers to focus spiritual depth. An on basics; the nine skills are things we ProPHETS, THE LiTurGy, associate professor of already know, and he drives home why ANd MySTiCAL SENSuALiTy liturgical theology, they have stood the test of time. Plain- Three recent books by faculty at the Jesuit Fr. Janowiak writes, spoken attributes such as being “authen- School of Theology show that “catholic” “I believe a deeper tic,” “trustworthy,” and “compelling” are belongs high on the list of adjectives appropriation of the illustrated with strong anecdotes from describing the fields of study tackled by trinitarian foundation of Hamm’s own experiences and those the school’s scholars. worship provides a way of his colleagues. Plus there are fun to speak to the hunger lessons he draws from his status as a Sandra M. Schneiders, a member of and thirst for a eucha- scratch golfer. CO the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate ristic spirituality in these times, especially Heart of mary (IHm), is professor emerita acute among many young people today Brilliant investors, financial profession- of New Testament Studies and Christian who long for the mystery seemingly so als, and fiscally savvy folks in pursuit Spirituality. Her recent Prophets in apparent in former ages.” MF of understanding how financial crises Their Own Country: Women Religious affect the economy will all find food Bearing Witness to the Gospel in a east meets West in Perceiving the Divine for thought in The Global Economic Troubled Church (Orbis Books, 2011) Through the Human Body: Mystical System: How Liquidity Shocks Affect began as essays pub- Sensuality (Palgrave macmillan, 2011), Financial Institutions and Lead to lished in the National co-edited by Thomas Cattoi, an assistant Economic Crises Catholic Reporter professor of Christology and cultures. (Financial Times Press, in the months fol- essays illuminate “how the teaching of 2011). Three of the lowing the 2009 the spiritual senses four authors have SCu announcement of a has shaped the credentials: George Vatican-led Apostolic spiritual practice Chacko is associate Visitation of Institutes of early Christian professor of finance; of Women religious writers, medieval Carolyn L. Evans is in the united States. women mystics, associate professor of (Schneiders prefers followers of Daoism economics; and Hans the term “Vatican in China, and Tantric Gunawan MBA ’09 is senior financial ana- investigation.”) This slim volume explains practitioners in India lyst at Skyline Solar. They cover at length and defends the kinds of renewal that and Tibet,” Cattoi the risks and shocks associated with have taken place in communities of writes. The book may hold particular liquidity, sharing lessons from the Great the Leadership Conference of Women interest for those on the lookout for ways Depression, Great recession, and Japan’s religious (LCWr) in the united States to overcome the body/soul dualism that lost decade. There are lessons learned since the Second Vatican Council in the early Christianity adapted itself to in and some prescriptions on policy—since mid-1960s. Her arguments retain particu- Hellenistic culture, and that continues an ounce of liquidity prevention might be lar interest following the announcement in to have a significant impact on Christian worth a gallon of cure. That said, they April 2012 by the Vatican’s Congregation spirituality today. MF SCU caution, “It may be the case that liquidity for the Doctrine of the Faith that the “cur- crises go hand-in-hand with an efficiently rent doctrinal and pastoral situation of the functioning economic system.” SBS [LCWr] is grave and a matter of serious

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 13 honor since1962. ceremonies, Victor Vari hasheldthat Leading theprocession: For academic

Photo by Charles barry. Inset by WIllIam C. eymann/sCU arChIves. After 66 years, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. He’s imparted to generations of Santa Clara students an understanding of Italian language and culture—and how to live a beautiful life.

By Ron Hansen M.A. ’95

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arry S. Truman was president. The Nuremberg trials were in process. Bikinis had just gone on sale in Paris. The Lakers played basketball in Minneapolis; the Giants and Dodgers played baseball in New York; the San Francisco 49ers were just being formed. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American saint. Stateside, Albert Camus published The Stranger, H Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited, and Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men. The movie It’s a Wonderful Life had not yet been released. And Victor Vari, a 26-year-old graduate student at Stanford University, was hired at a salary of $1,600 to join a faculty of 85 at Santa Clara University in order to acquaint some of the 952 undergraduate men with elementary French. That was in 1946. And now, after 66 years in the classroom at Santa Clara, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. Vari was born in San Francisco in 1920; his mother was a homemaker and his father was a waiter who also proved savvy in the stock market. When young Victor was age 9, his relatively affluent family moved to Italy, stayed on through the financial reversals of the Depression, and returned to California in 1936. Starting at age 17, he taught the

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 15 elementary-school-age children of Italian immigrants; later, when the Italian schools were closed during the war, he hosted a radio show in Berkeley, broadcasting news, big band music, and opera. He graduated from Galileo High School and San Francisco State University, and enlisted in the Army, serving as a linguist and military intelligence agent in England and France during World War II before pursuing graduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and Lausanne University in Switzerland. Even while earning a master’s degree in comparative literature from Stanford in 1952, and a Ph.D. from the University of Madrid in 1961, he taught a full-time load of courses in Romance languages, married his “We studied to wife, Julia, chaperoned at dances, and served as Santa Clara’s fencing coach—guiding the team to victory in the Pacific Coast Championship learn but also to for novices. After leading multiple European tours for students and please him. We tried alumni, he originated the international immersion programs in Florence to live up to his high and Assisi, and some 50 years later helped found the Casa Italiana expectations and residence hall. He has published major scholarship on the poet and critic not disappoint him Giosuè Carducci and co-authored a four-volume work on the history because he gave so and culture of Italy, for which he was named a Knight Commander by the Italian government. much of himself.”

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The greatest satisfaction Were that all, it would be a fine career, but for 20 years he also chaired the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, in 1981 he was named the Harold and Edythe Toso Professor there, and he and his wife have recently established the Dr. Victor and Julia Botto Vari Italian Studies Initiative, a foundation for recognizing the historical and international contributions of Italians. Plus, six decades on, you still found him teaching elementary Italian, alongside courses including 19th-century Italian literature. “I think this is one of the advantages of Santa Clara, that you have full professors who teach

tor Vari elementary courses, even to freshmen,” he said C not long ago. A former student remembered him as “the

Courtesy Vi very best teacher I had during my four years at Gaining the Measure: Rapier wit, and handy Santa Clara. It was completely obvious at all with a foil, Victor Vari is second from right. times that he truly loved what he was doing. He was fully engaged as a teacher, friend, mentor, and advisor.” While Victor and Julia Vari never had children of their own, Victor avers that his legions of students and alumni are his extended family. His relationship with them and their families, he says, “gives me the greatest

16 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 satisfaction.” He keeps multiple scrapbooks of letters, mementos, and important correspondence from and to students. Typical letters express boundless gratitude for how Vari introduced a student to the abundance and richness of Italian culture and language. One young man wrote how Vari “influenced some of my life’s greatest moments,” adding, “you have become like a member of the family to me, and the thought of ever letting you down stings, with the same bitterness as does the thought of failing the rest of my family.” The music of words: He loves to tell stories about his students, even better if the story Vari in the classroom involves a student poking a bit of fun at him—like the young woman who looked at her watch one too many times during Vari’s reading of Italian poetry. “I asked her, ‘Lauren, am I boring you?’” The student replied, “No, Professor Vari, you are scintillating, and I just want to know how many more minutes of enjoyment I have left.”

Teaching his students’ children— and grandchildren For years, even students who never set foot in his classroom have seen Vari leading the commencement parade of faculty in their academic robes. Resplendent in his pale blue gown and cap, Vari has carried the University mace—a duty and honor he has borne since 1962 as the longest-serving member of Santa Clara’s faculty. Professors who teach for several decades sometimes have the pleasure of teaching the children of students they once had in class. Vari has taught their grandchildren as well. “There is this warmth, this respect,” Vari says of Santa Clara, which is “something unique.” Francisco Jiménez ’66 was Vari’s student in the early ’60s and recalls that: “We studied to learn but also to please him. We tried to live up to his high expectations and not disappoint him because he gave so much of himself.” Now Jiménez is his colleague and is the Fay Boyle Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; Vari has translated some of S

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Steven University Chancellor. At Vari’s retirement Park place: A small way to say Grazie! dinner at San Jose’s Fairmont Hotel in March, Fr. Rewak spoke of the culture of a university and said one of the questions an institution of higher learning has to face is: “Does it value the intellect, the sound of words, the intricacy of language, the heft of debate, the sly genius that creates all kinds of beauty throughout all of our disciplines— in other words, the sophistication of culture that produces maturity? Web That is one of the great gifts you have given us, Victor—how you have Exclusives facilitated for us the sophistication of culture, the maturity of mind that At santaclaramagazine.com share and read memories of Victor Vari—and see discerns well the good, the true, and the beautiful.” SCU photos from across the years. Deborah Lohse and Jessica Rice ’10 contributed to this report.

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 17 50 YeArS The SporTing Life of Women From a pair of castoff tennis rackets—to nationally known in AThLeTicS programs and penalty shots heard ’round the world. AT ScU By Ann Killion

hree hours a week. That’s all the Santa Clara women were asking for: the use of Seifert Gymnasium for just three hours on a Tuesday night. You would have thought they were asking for the moon. And in some ways they were. “The boys had a picket line around the gym,” remembers Marygrace Colby, who was Santa Clara’s T first director of women’s athletics. “They were upset that we had the gym one night a week from 7 to 10.” Women playing sports was an alien concept back in 1964, only three years after the first female students were admitted to the previously all-male university. Women not only didn’t have the keys to the gym, few understood why they could possibly want them. The embryonic athletic activities Colby oversaw weren’t considered competitive sports but “play days” that included serving punch and cookies to opponents. Female students donned coats when Pick-Flip: The they left the tennis court so that no one would see acrobatics of them in their tennis outfits; pants were allowed in the Kim Pickup ’00 bowling alley but not on campus. Completely incomprehensible was the vision of a world in which a female Santa Clara grad was on the cover of every magazine and newspaper in the country, stripped down to her sports bra and celebrating a world sports championship. Her story To tell the story of women’s athletics at Santa Clara is to tell the history of women’s sports in America. The humble beginnings, the now-laughable restrictions, the growth, the struggles, the triumphs, and the occasional complacency. In 1963, a 30-year-old Colby was hired to “direct and instruct women students in various recreational and athletic pursuits. Recreation was the emphasis,” Colby says. “Athletics was a dirty word.” It was a vague description of a job with even vaguer resources: a $500 budget and two broken tennis rackets that Colby plucked CS from the garbage can of the Sacramento-area high school where she SCU Athleti

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Ar receiving federal funds. That law, ing Life u SC Title IX, was meant to open up high school and collegiate athletics had taught physical education. to women on terms equal with Colby supplemented her budget men. Colby—who had to learn to with funds from her $7,000 annual salary. tape ankles and minister to injuries In the beginning was tennis, volleyball, and because women didn’t have access to trainers—saw basketball. But the women’s basketball team had to the future possibilities. practice in the parish hall at nearby Saint Clare’s, until “Male coaches accused me of being a ‘women’s Colby gained the rights to a Tuesday female-only libber,’” she says. “But I preferred the term “gym night”—when the male students were locked ‘advocate.’ I challenged the administration to out to prevent intermingling. The basketball team develop the programs that they have today.” started out with a 13–0 record; however, it took three Empowered by the new law, Santa Clara women’s years to compile the record because it was so difficult athletics began to expand. By 1974, 700 Santa to schedule games against other opponents. One Clara female students were involved in 75 different weekend those opponents included Cal, Stanford, and activities that fell under the “recreational and San Jose State. Santa Clara women beat them all. athletic pursuits” umbrella, including Powder Puff Next up: Swimwear football, sewing, bowling, and traditional sports like basketball and golf. The women’s intercollegiate Colby’s mission wasn’t universally popular. The student soccer program wasn’t started until 1980, but within newspaper, The Santa Clara, ran an editorial saying a few years it became one of the University’s most that the women “were a detriment to the spirit of successful programs and emblematic of the potential Santa Clara athletic events” and that the school could for women’s sports. (See following story.) It also do without them. Women weren’t initially allowed arguably created a ripple effect of excellence in into the male rooting section at football games or women’s athletics that extended to other sports. into the swimming pool, because the men wanted With increased interest and opportunity came to swim nude. inevitable struggles. There was a contentious push Despite the opposition and budgetary constraints, for female athletic scholarships in 1978. In 1988, Colby’s program steadily grew and she began to hire four coaches filed a Title IX complaint against the other coaches. By 1969 there was a swim team—the University after they lost their jobs. Title IX was also swimmers wore swimsuits—that tapped local talent part of the conversation in the most difficult choice at the world-renowned Santa Clara Swim Club, such in the history of Santa Clara sports: the decision to as Olympian Cathy Jamison ’69, who competed at drop football in 1993. Mexico City in 1968 and led Santa Clara to national NCAA legislation passed in 1991 required championships in 1969. schools to play all sports at the same division level. In 1971, Santa Clara became a charter member of Santa Clara played most sports at Division I level, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, but not football: That was Division II—a distinction the new governing body for women’s sports. The Santa Clara shared with only seven schools NCAA absorbed women’s sports programs in 1982, nationally. Administrators deemed that football was and, at Santa Clara, men’s and women’s sports programs not financially feasible for the University; still some were brought under one director in 1986. critics chose to blame Title IX and the growth of women’s athletics for its elimination. In that way, too, Santa Clara is a microcosm of women’s sports, illustrating the ongoing friction between advocates for the growth of women’s sports and those desiring to protect THE REDWOOD, 1968

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of Women in football—which, despite widespread belief, athletics does not always support itself or other athletic Respect at scU programs, as was the case at Santa Clara. She shoots, she scores Santa Clara is also the springboard for the most iconic the game moment in women’s sports history. In 1999, internationally known soccer star Brandi Chastain ’91 knocked home the winning penalty kick in the Women’s World Cup final, a Now they’re the subject of dreams-may-come- watershed event for women’s sports that packed the nation’s true movies. But in the beginning, they were largest stadiums with fans and drew enormous ratings. women who just wanted to play soccer. The movie Bend It Like Beckham put Santa Clara women’s soccer squarely on the world stage: In that film, By Britt Yap Jesminder Bhamra, the daughter of Punjabi Sikhs in West London, dreams of attending SCU. It was released in 2002, he place: Dallas. The date: Dec. 9, 2001. The time: during an era when women’s athletics were expanding less than five minutes before the half in the NCAA quickly around the globe. As other countries followed women’s soccer championship. Perennial favorite the lessons of Title IX, Santa Clara became shorthand for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking female athletic opportunity. to secure their 17th national title in 20 years. But On the volleyball court, Santa Clara women took Santa Clara’s women—0 for 7 in previous Final Four opportunity to the bank in 2005 with their first appearances—haveT other ideas. appearance in the Final Four—and their first-ever All- Jessica Ballweg ’05 steals the ball from a Tar Heels player American, Cassie Perret ’06. To get to the tourney, SCU’s and passes upfield to Leslie Osborne ’05. Osborne passes attackers were in double-digit kills in upsetting defending back to Ballweg. She slides a pass to Aly Wagner ’03 near the NCAA champion Stanford. top of the box. The moment of truth: Wagner shoots into the upper-right side of the net. Gooooal! It’s the first on the board— What do they play? and a world-class shot, the Tar Heels’ coach later acknowl- Under the aegis of SCU Athletics, there’s basketball, cross- edges. In a very physical game—33 fouls and a pair of yellow country and track, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis, cards—it will be the last point made. The Bronco defense, led volleyball, and water polo. For softball, a state-of-the-art by defensive MVP Danielle Slaton ’02, hangs tough. The Tar facility is scheduled to be completed next year, and women Heels do push one ball past goalie Alyssa Sobolik ’05 with won’t have to ask permission to use it. less than a minute to go—but the goal is called back on an off- The world has changed in the past half century, since the side. When the clock runs out, there’s a new champion in town. request for three hours of gym time almost caused a riot. The victors are welcomed back to the Mission Campus The woman who started the ball rolling and dribbling—and with a raucous celebration. Kids line up for autographs. It’s who earned an M.A. from Santa Clara in 1991—hopes that a glorious moment—and the culmination of something long today’s Santa Clara female athletes can appreciate how lucky in the making. Because before there were first-class facilities they are—and what went before them. and scholarships, before there were sponsorships from Nike, In recent years, Santa Clara had its first female Rhodes Adidas, and Under Armour, before there were fans in the Scholar—when cross country runner Noelle Lopez ’08 stands, there were students who simply wanted to play. was named a recipient in 2008—and its first female athlete jersey retirement ceremony. In 2009, Melissa King ’93, “But we loved it.” the basketball team’s all-time leading scorer and arguably Thalia Doherty ’79, MBA ’82 was one of about 15 women greatest player, was honored at the Leavey Center. This who organized the first intramural team for women’s soccer. past May, Katie Le ’12 became the first Bronco to compete “We basically wore rugby shorts—and I don’t even remember in NCAA women’s tennis singles. what we had for the tops,” she says. “We had no skills per But progress still isn’t always smooth. June marks the se. But we loved it.” 40th anniversary of Title IX. This spring, when Brandi During the 1978–79 school year, women’s soccer became Chastain was being honored by the California State a collegiate club team and began playing against other uni- Assembly as part of a celebration of the federal law, a versities in the Bay Area. They acquired their first coach, Mike Southern California lawmaker used the occasion to criticize Sheehan ’77, a player on the men’s soccer team. By 1980, Title IX’s mandate of gender equity, saying it was unfair to they were in the big leagues: an NCAA Division I team. Two men. Chastain attempted to object. As usual, Santa Clara years later, the NCAA sponsored the first Women’s Division I was a part of the larger story. SCU Soccer Championship with a 12-team tournament. Web Exclusives At santaclaramagazine.com find many more photos 20 S a n tfrom a C lacross a r a Mthea years, g a z i nas e well | as Summer links to club 2012sports like rugby and lacrosse—and SCu’s Division I teams. Kathy Kale ’86, now assistant vice president of alumni relations at SCU, played on the team as an undergraduate. “There were about 30 people in the stands,” she says. “Only parents who lived in the area came.” There wasn’t a single scholarship, regular budget, or even enough money to pay a full-time coach. When Jerry Smith joined the women’s soccer program as head coach in 1987, he said that they had the most important thing of all: fantastic players—thanks in part to Smith’s predecessor as coach, Mark Narcisso. How good were they? The world is watching In 1989, women’s soccer became the University’s first More than a dozen Bronco women have gone on to play women’s program to advance to an NCAA Tournament. The pro soccer in the United States. On the world soccer stage, following year, star player Brandi Chastain ’91 earned admi- 14 have represented the United States in international competi- ration from opposing coaches as the “Maradona of women’s tion. Ten Broncos have participated in World Cups representing soccer.” Acknowledging the compliment, Chastain said, “We three countries, and four Broncos are Olympians. Some have win at Santa Clara as a team.” also played in soccer leagues overseas. And not only win. In 1996, Santa Clara both advanced to Perhaps the single most iconic moment in women’s soccer the Final Four and hosted the NCAA Women’s College Cup. history belongs to Brandi Chastain. In the 1999 FIFA Women’s Buck Shaw Stadium was packed to the gills. With additional World Cup, before 90,185 fans at the Rose Bowl, Chastain led seating brought in for the two-day tournament, the event set the U.S. team in a penalty kick victory over China. She whipped a record for the most attendance ever at a women’s outdoor off her jersey in celebration and fell to her knees, fists clenched collegiate sporting event. in victory. Smith made the case to increase the number of scholar- So what about women’s soccer today? “My goal is to be the ships for the program to 12—the maximum allowed by the best women’s soccer program at the Division I level in the coun- NCAA—and said, in return, “We will win a national champion- try,” Smith says. “That’s the goal we’ve had since I’ve been here, ship. We will beat UNC more times than they will beat us. and that’s the goal we continue to have.” And we will have Academic All-Americans. And we did win Standout players in recent seasons include Bianca a national championship. We have beaten UNC four times, Henninger ’12—the 2011 WCC goalkeeper of the year—who and they’ve only beaten us twice since then. And we have was chosen in the Women’s Professional Soccer draft by the Academic All-Americans.” Philadelphia Independence. Julie Johnston ’14 is playing with After winning the national championship in 2001, Aly the U.S. Under-20 team. (See page 10 for a profile.) Wagner was named national player of the year. And Santa But none of it happens today—and none of it would have Clara soccer became the stuff of the silver screen: Bend It begun in the first place—without women who love to play. SCU Like Beckham cast Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley as two 18-year-olds from the U.K. who get scouted by SCU and are awarded soccer CS scholarships. They head off to California to

pursue dreams of being a big-time soccer Athleti u star—just like David Beckham. SC Today, inspirational sayings, framed newspaper clippings, autographed soccer balls, and tournament trophies adorn Coach Jerry Smith’s office. They announce, in no uncertain terms, a tradition of success in a nationally known program. Santa Clara has been to the Final Four Tournament 10 times. Only UNC–Chapel Hill and Notre Dame can boast more than that. The women’s program has had 14 NCAA quarterfinal appearances, 22 NCAA tournament appear- ances (there are now 64 teams in the tour- ney), eight WCC championships, 17 teams Victory is ours: 2001 ranked in the Top 5 nationally, and six teams national champs that ranked No. 1 nationally.

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e22 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summerr 2012 s What does it mean to teach the arts— and to create art in all its forms—here and now? By that, we mean By Jesse Hamlin here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching T h e out to the rest of the world.

ldo Billingslea was panting, demonstrating the palpitating diaphragm to his Shakespearean It was a typically engaging performance by an artist acting students on a sunny spring who brings the same passion and commitment to the ler I morning. He got them focused on classroom as he does to the stage. Like artistic colleagues etwe d the breath that carries the sound of across campus—whether they are splendid pianists Hans elly elly

k laughter and weeping. Boepple and Teresa McCollough, irreverent printmaker “It’s a good thing to know where and multimedia artist Kathy Aoki, or vital dancer- I, and that breath is,” said Billingslea, a commanding 6-foot-4 choreographers Kristin Kusanovich ’88 and David aok actor, director, and associate professor of theatre at SCU, Popalisky—Billingslea strives to give students professional athy athy k speaking in the rich booming voice that has brought the skills while deepening their sense of the art form,

ee, A l Moor, the Elephant Man, and many other characters to themselves, and their relationship to the larger world. life on stages across the country. He let out a belly laugh, Embracing the Jesuit tradition of educating the whole then offered up a pained phrase from Othello, which he’d person, these artist-teachers aim to nurture minds, bodies, arry, Joanne arry, b performed a few nights earlier during a starring run at and spirits at a time when the desire for instant results and Marin Theatre Company. The Moor tells Desdemona he an endless onslaught of images and information make it could handle shame or mockery, Billingslea explained, more challenging than ever to teach subjects that require but not “to be discarded thence!” from her heart. time, patience, and imagination. “That’s a palpitating diaphragm,” said the actor, an “Our society has an attention span so short that intense and funny man who suddenly became a 6-year- the phrase ‘instant gratification’ takes too long,” said M a k old boy, whimpering for his mother. During the next Billingslea, 47, lunching on a chicken breast in the Adobe hour, Billinglsea talked in lofty and street-wise parlance Lodge with his wife, Renee Billingslea, a photographer Photos and artwork by Charles about Shakespearean meter, language, and meaning; and mixed-media artist who teaches in the Department the need to always bring your best self forward; and the of Art and Art History, and their friend J.B. Wells. He’s importance of supporting one another. He gently chided a white-haired actor who’s been performing Shakespeare the class for not fully focusing on the young woman at San Quentin with Aldo Billingslea since 2005, when performing Mercutio’s Queen Mab monologue from Billingslea began bringing in SCU students to meet with Romeo and Juliet. inmates performing the Bard’s work. (He and the others “When she struggles, we struggle. Feed each other. all cried in the prison parking lot after their first visit.) Awright then?” Billingslea called out. “AWRIGHT “Slow down and focus” is a refrain you hear from the THEN!” came the response. Billinsglea turned back Billingsleas and many SCU faculty artists, who continue to the performer and suggested that she bring out the to push themselves creatively while bringing their best music in the phrase “Moonshine’s watery beams.” It’s a selves into the classroom. For them, teaching art in 2012 beautiful image, he said, “and you’ve got those vowels means communicating core skills and values to students that allow you to open it up. Moooonshine’s watery living in a pressured, high-speed culture that doesn’t beeeams,” he intoned, luxuriating in the sound. encourage the deep Ignatian inquiry and reflective spirit “I’ll take two!” he added in a piping comic voice. that suffuses the fragrant, rose-filled Mission Campus. “I didn’t know what a Jesuit was until I came here. e r s S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 23 Slow down and focus: Acting class with Aldo Billingslea

Then I realized that I am one,” Billingslea said with a smile. He arrived as a guest artist in 1994, filling the faculty chair endowed by Frank Sinatra, another guy with a great voice. the meaning behind imagery,” Renee said, “the ethics (No, the chair come with a case of Jack Daniel’s.) didn’t and responsibility behind making an image and putting it Renee deals with aesthetics and involves her students out there.” in community projects that look at society through Aldo, who’s appearing in Spunk this summer at the photography. Their pictures of local homeless people were California Shakespeare Festival, demands the real deal from Barry

S exhibited this year on campus at the de Saisset Museum, himself and his students. He’s played Othello several times and they work with a studio in San Francisco’s beleaguered at Marin Shakespeare and elsewhere to acclaim, but it Charle Tenderloin district, making portraits for people in shelters wasn’t until this last run that he really felt he was hitting it. and nursing homes. In her funky fine arts building studio, In those previous performances, “I was too focused on me,” Renee makes images and objects that have been widely he said, “on how I looked, or how this line sounded, as exhibited around the Bay Area. Some come out of her opposed to just saying, ‘Let go, do less. Do less.’” research on racial violence, including the potent hand- When it comes to teaching, he went on, “you’ve got made suits and hats that refer to lynchings. Others are to nurture all of your students,” whether they’re actors more personal, like the ones she’s making now with clothes, or business majors or students in his Shakespeare for pencils, and other objects belonging to Aldo’s great uncle, Engineers course. He wants to prime the actors to pursue Herod Carpenter, a spirited educator who died in 2009 theatre careers or graduate school; the others, to appreciate at the age of 97. artistry and open eyes and ears and hearts to the world. Many SCU alumni who studied visual and performing “What they’re doing while they’re here is finding out arts at Santa Clara go on to thriving careers in the arts, what makes their heart sing, but also taking their focus among them Broadway performer and producer Adam outward, finding out what’s going on in the world and Zotovich ’97 and Mariana Galindo ’06, who’s at what the world needs. And that point of intersection, DreamWorks, creating hair and clothing animation for where your greatest gifts meet the world’s needs—that’s movies like and . But most of the students Shrek Megamind your calling. The Jesuits were the first ones I heard say that who take arts classes are majoring in something else, some a calling wasn’t just for the clergy, it was for everybody.” simply fulfilling the University’s art requirement. (The addition of that requirement to the Core Curriculum in 2009 underscored the centrality of the creative arts to the What a Stranger May Know rigorous liberal arts education envisioned by Ignatius.) A few days earlier, on a crisp April morning with dew Teaching people digital and darkroom photography “is still on the roses, Aldo Billingslea and hundreds of others an opportunity to enrich their view of the visual arts and gathered on the St. Ignatius lawn to participate in a performance of What a Stranger May Know, an immersive, multilayered play by Erik Ehn commemorating the 32 people killed in the Virginia Tech shootings exactly five

24 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 Charles Barry the publicrecord. sketching themwithscattered factsandimagesculledfrom massacre, thepiecepoeticallyconjures eachvictim’s life, where Ehn teaches.Ratherthanrecounting thegruesome dozen othercampuses,includingBrown University, play concurrently received itspremiere atSCUanda ofSCU’sas part Justice fruitful Initiative, intheArts the Kusanovich andtheatre professor off by thesoundsofwoodpeckersandtrainwhistles. of voices thatwouldsuddenlyfallsilent,thenriseagain,set years before. The airwasfilledwithafloatingcacophony engineering at Virginia Tech. Librescu diedblockinghis Jewish Holocaust whotaughtaeronautic survivor memorialized LiviuLibrescu, a76-year-old Romanian- Sophomore eachother.and facultycongratulatingcomforting he said. a theatre ofsocialengagementandspiritualengagement,” is issues andaudiences.“This connecting tocontemporary linesand to seemore endeavors crossing arts disciplinary community atSanta Clara,isatheatre historianwho’d like Be withme,asIamyou.” “Look, Ijustdon’t know. Look,you willnever know … recurring musicalmotif, camearefrain inlooseunison: through thewatch.”At theendofeachsection,likea words,” onestudentsaid—withbluntimageslike“bullet of study—“Iwantedtobetakenupoutthisworldby fanciful pictures andphrasesinspired by eachvictim’s field moved amongtheactors,whosemonologuesmerged Kusanovichunder construction,” saidlater.) The audience oflife (“I wantedthesenseofthingsunderconstruction, whilestandingorkneelingonladdersandsawhorses. parts their the palm-shadedlawn,simultaneouslyperforming orange andmaroon of Virginia Tech, were spread across A collaborative effort directedA collaborative effort here by Kristin Scattered around himwere smallgroups ofstudents Fr. asrector Zampelli, oftheJesuit whoalsoserves dressedThe studentandfacultyperformers, inthe Nick Manfredi , anaspiringactor, hadjust Michael Zampelli, S.J.

, seduced by thecallofstage.During springbreak, atthe to Santa Clarafrom Redding tomajorinmathbutwas Michelle Cloyd, who,likehim,wasaredhead. Jones came fallen after portraying Virginia Tech French studentAustin Lorca’s director from whohasbrought tothestageeverything Tollini, S.J. tell anIraq War story. It wasdirected by thebeloved play by Jesuit Bill CainthatdrawsonDante’s Billingslea in andperformed quarter, Manfredi uphisShakespeare brushed withAldo Now politicalscienceandactingoccupyhim.Spring Santa Clarafrom Las Vegas intendingtobecomeadoctor. saidManfredi,important,” atrim,seriousguywhocameto justbecamethatmuchmore seven peoplethere. “This student atOikos University inOakland shotandkilled with suchapurpose.” Itof sorts. feelsunbelievable todosomethingofthiscaliber, out thewindows. one ofhisstudentstomakeitsafetyby climbing classroom doorfrom thegunman,allowing allbut where mypathcouldlead.” the Wardrobeand Initiative project), helpingkidsperform Villa Catalina,Nicaragua (anotherJustice andtheArts Jones joinedtheUniversity’s theatre outreach program in suggestion of Theatre andDance Chair Tall, lanky Midway intorehearsals fortheproject, aformer Manfredi “a calledthisenveloping performance baptism “It changedmylife,”Jones said.“It openedmyeyes to Blood Wedding , thelongtimeSCUtheatre professor and S Tennyson Jones ’14 a t n a inareal theatre forthefirsttime. C to theBard’s a r a l M Nine Circles

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Above,children’s Charles Barry Inferno Summer 2012 Fred Fred to to . , 25 Shadow and light Kelly Detweiler found his path 40 years ago, studying ceramics and painting with original Bay Area funk and pop artists Roy DeForest, Robert Arneson, Clayton Bailey, and Mel Ramos. A fine painter and sculptor who was really look at something,” said Detweiler, who has also seen honored this year as a Santa Clara County Artist Laureate, attention spans shrink in recent years. “We have to respond Detweiler began teaching at SCU in 1982 and now to that, and really consciously tell students to focus.” For chairs the Department of Art and Art History. Working him, being an artist in 2012 means staying attuned to the in his campus studio, Detweiler paints the fantastical and times and to his muse, which carries him to “that weird amusing pictures that draw freely on everything from edge between naive and refined.” German Expressionism to ’60s cartoons, Mexican folk art, Over in the sculpture room, which was filled with the and Picasso’s deep African vein. tart smell of just-sawed wood, Sam Hernández encouraged One April morning, he was teaching the basics of his students to loose their imaginations as they made form and color to beginning painting students. They sculptures from furniture they’d disassembled. were making still-life pictures of the tableaux Detweiler “Don’t be afraid to establish those first moves. Once had laid before them—flowers, teapots, fake rabbits, and you’ve established that first move, you’ll feel more plastic lemons (“I prefer real fruit, but it rots in here pretty comfortable,” said the wiry, mustachioed sculptor, who fast,” Detweiler noted). Making the rounds, he focused joined the faculty in 1977. Hernández walked into his little engineering student Stephany Contreras ’12 on essentials. office, where his late father’s barber chair shares space with “Shadow and light, shadow and light,” he told her, a Moses kachina doll made by a student. Known for his gingerly borrowing her brush to dab a line. He pointed to wood sculpture, he’s making more stuff now with recycled the inside of the cup she’d painted. “You need to darken materials. that. How do you darken that? Probably with some umber. Most kids these days, he said, “don’t grow up making You made it yellow, which makes it jump out, rather than things with their hands. One of the things I’ve been telling lay back in.” them lately is we’re here to teach patience.” Hernández, 64, Those are the sort of invaluable craft lessons that doesn’t give many C’s. “I work my ass off for the students Detweiler didn’t often get when he was studying in the so they get a good grade.” early 1970s, the heyday of conceptual and minimalist art. So does David Pace, a photography lecturer who, for “Sometimes you’d take a drawing class from someone who several years, has been bringing SCU students to Burkina didn’t know how to draw, who wanted to do conceptual Faso, one of the poorest places on the planet, as part of the problems,” recalled the painter, a gentle, silver-haired man University’s Reading Africa program. Pace’s soulful portraits whose work has been shown at scores of Bay Area museums of village life have been shown often at the de Saisset and galleries. “I want to make sure these guys go away Museum—itself a vibrant and vital link in not just making from here with the basic artistic skills, and have an art but bringing students and the community face-to-face understanding of art and what goes into it.” with shows that connect the campus with the wider world. That means getting students “not to “We need to show work that speaks trust what you think you know, but to to that social justice, as well as showing the work of important individual artists, whether recognized or under-recognized,” said Rebecca Schapp, the director of the de Saisset. Museum staff also work with art historians on campus to train students in the business and art of running a museum— including putting on shows such as the figurative artists exhibition that opens in August. It was curated by Katie Cronin ’12. The de Saisset, which has one of the country’s finest avant-garde video Charles Barry Charles Barry

Color and form: Left, Michael David Nelson ’07 with portrait in progress. Above, Kelly Detweiler leads a critique. Charles Barry

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collections, mixes potent and challenging shows—such as The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, the 2011 exhibition that explored the veiling of men, women, and sacred places across time and cultures—with exuberant and Inside the music whimsical art of the kind Kathy Aoki creates. An associate Hans Boepple likes to plunge into his world by 6:30 a.m. professor who joined the art faculty in 2003, she teaches He sits down at one of the two Steinways in his Music and digital imagery and flash animation. Her satiric work Dance Building office and makes music for the next three often riffs on “girlie” consumer culture, celebrity, and or four hours. He warms up his big hands—“Sometimes gender politics—she calls herself a sneaky feminist. they’re too big,” he said with a bemused smile—with Aoki was working in her SCU studio one afternoon, scales and such before losing himself in the language of crafting pieces for a forthcoming show at Oakland’s Beethoven and Brahms. This spring, he was preparing for Swarm Gallery. One was a faux-Egyptian stone figure a June recital at Indiana University featuring such “juicy carved with hieroglyphics about Gwen Stefani, the singing stuff” as Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Opus 90, some and fashion empress whose weird, contrived world has Brahms and Rachmaninoff. given Aoki much material. “The practicing is the absolute core. It’s the golden part “I use advertising formats or cartoon formats—some of my day,” said Boepple, a tall, soft-spoken gent who’s kind of look that people know—so that even if it’s angry spent his life absorbed in making and teaching music. “It’s feminist work, people think, ‘Hey, I’ve seen stuff like that like being married,’’ added the prized pianist, who’s been before,’ and they get sucked in,” Aoki said. Several years happily married for 40-something years. “It’s a sort of ago, she filled kiosks along San Francisco’s main downtown steady state. But it’s a glorious state.” artery with her Champions of Market Street, images of her A prodigy who debuted with the Los Angeles comic-book heroes like Daring Door Holder performing Philharmonic at age 10, Boepple has taught piano, valiant acts of simple courtesy. musicianship theory, and more at SCU since 1978. He still For Aoki, what matters most in the classroom is performs as a soloist with top ensembles around the Bay teaching students “the lexicon to express things visually. Area and beyond. “This job has allowed me to have the We’re surrounded by all these manufactured images, and a best of both worlds, because I love teaching as much as I lot of people don’t understand how they’re made and how do performing,” said Boepple, a Los Angeles native who they can be manipulated. Making images makes you more studied at Indiana with the esteemed Sidney Foster. “He in control of your visual understanding of the world.” taught people not only how to play in a relaxed fashion,

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 27 Mission Music: Paying homage to St. Clare. From left, voice instructor Liliane Cromer with Kirsten Petersen ’13, John Towers ’13, Genevieve Kromm ’13, and Grant Leimbach.

but how to think about music, how to understand it, how to shape it—and to value one’s own point-of-view about it, and not copy anyone. I try to bring the best of those a day for 192 days, giving McCollough the freedom to qualities to my teaching.” summon Togo or Turkmenistan through improvisation. As for his own artistry these days, Boepple seeks, as “I love the improvisational feeling,” said McCollough, Joanne Lee always, that indescribable state of being inside the music. who directs SCU’s far-ranging Music@Noon series and the “It’s a realm that’s not easy to penetrate. It’s like looking Santa Clara New Music Festival, sitting at her desk with the way into someone’s eyes, and understanding what they’re morning light filtering in through the camphor tree outside about. Music to me is a living thing, like a flower coming her window. As an artist, what matters most to her is out of the ground. Nobody understands life. Music is the “creating new music, creating new sounds—and creating an same way. The fact that 12 tones and some rhythms can audience to appreciate it.” As a teacher, that means giving give rise to musical works that could fill this building, that students “an understanding of why art and creativity are there isn’t a human emotion that can’t be expressed by such important to the human condition. We’ve gone far away simple materials, that activate these things inside us—my from that because there’s fear out there, of competing in the God, it’s miraculous. On the one hand, it’s physics, just global market. Much of the recent educational legislation physics. On the other hand, it can tear your heart out.” in this country has been created out of a sense of fear or His music department co-chair, Teresa McCollough, has competitiveness.” Still, McCollough is upbeat about the a Steinway in her office, too, but she prefers to practice at arts, particularly in a hospitable environment like SCU. home, undisturbed. “Thirty-five years ago, new music was taught in a very McCollough, who’s been teaching here since 1991, academic and detached sort of way. Now we’re living in is a major-league interpreter and creator of new music. a time that’s like the Romantic period. So many diverse She’s premiered works by Lou Harrison, George Crumb, sounds are being accepted and coming together. For me to and other maverick composers, including many pieces be able to explore that, and teach that to my students—to commissioned and composed for her. Lately, she’s been say, ‘Hey, isn’t that cool?’—is really rewarding.” composing and improvising more of her own music, an Across the lawn, in the basement of the Louis B. urge fueled by her continuing involvement in composer Mayer Theatre, Barbara Murray sat in her office taking Steve Heitzeg’s “World Piece.” It consists of musical care of Department of Theatre and Dance business. Being fragments or simple pictures suggesting each of the 192 department chair, the noted costume designer doesn’t get to countries in the United Nations. Heitzeg wrote a piece spend as much time working with the Children’s Theatre Outreach Program, which she created on campus in

28 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 1982. As an artist, in her work with Santa Rosa’s Summer Repertory Theatre and many other companies, her focus Jesuit education. Everything we do is based in some way continues to be “on the integrity of costumes,” she said, on the exercises of Ignatius. It’s a form of prayer where “and helping the actors develop their characters through the you imagine yourself in the presence of God. It’s a way clothing they’re wearing.” of hearing the spirit in your life. The exercises end with a After years of starved school arts budgets, Murray sees great hymn of joy and wonder at God’s creation.” “a significant lack of creativity” among adult students and So what did Fr. Fred learn the night before, the thing young kids. “They’re not used to the freedom,” said the he strives for as a teacher? He pondered for a spell. straight-talking woman with a great laugh. She grew up “Well, I didn’t learn this last night, but I was reminded seeing theatre at the Old Ship, the huge 19th-century SCU of it: Allow the actors to really search and find things for dormitory that became a theatre seating 2,000 people until themselves. A director is not one who dictates but who it was razed in 1962. Her father, R. Ian Murray, taught points a certain way. That’s good and it’s bad. The good mechanical engineering at Santa Clara beginning in 1951. thing is if it grows, you know the student has found As kids did in slower times, she and her siblings made up something right.” What’s changed in recent years? “In plays and performed them for whoever would watch. general, young people don’t know how to read,” the priest More than ever, she said, “I want to give my students said with a laugh. “They don’t know how to read.” He passion. I want to give them a sense of the magic about it paused. “The word,” he said with delight. “The power of all, like you’re a little kid, creating new worlds and being the word.” able to see new possibilities. Imagining new worlds, you can look at reality and say, ‘Hey, it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe we can change it.’” World in motion A few doors down, Fr. Fred Tollini was in his office, Bumbling. That was the word that David Popalisky tossed preparing for that evening’s rehearsal of Nine Circles. It out to his beginning dance class one afternoon. Students was the latest of the 60 or so plays he’s directed since were improvising movements that slipped, slid, and tripped, arriving at SCU in 1971 from Yale, where he earned his bobbing and stumbling and gliding across the rehearsal Ph.D. in theatre history after serving as an Army chaplain studio floor. Now Popalisky, a tall bouncing bean of a man, and studying acting at the ancient Greek amphitheater at asked them to bumble, “whatever a bumble is,” he said. Delphi. A big, graceful man with a warm voice and white “Have you ever met a bumbling person?” he asked his mustache that makes you think of some handsome old students, getting an answer then firing off other questions screen star, Fr. Fred, as he’s affectionately known, thrives like ping-pong balls. “What does it feel like to bumble? on teaching actors. He shares techniques he developed How is slipping different from tripping? How do you take directing everything from a hip 1970s production of the slip and artfully expand it?” Euripides’ The Madness of Herakles that tapped into Popalisky wants to shake his students loose of self- the radical ideas of experimental Polish director Jerzy consciousness and reconnect them with the deep and Grotowski—“It was tremendous fun,” he beamed—to Neil profound pleasure of the body in motion. “I want them to Simon’s Lost in Yonkers more recently. think of their bodies in a fresh way and develop an appetite “I love working with actors and being involved in their for motion, to do that extra jump, to skip like we did growth,” said Tollini, 78, a native San Franciscan whose family owned the fabled restaurants Vanessi’s and Bardelli’s. “I have a very creative time, intellectually, academically, and directing-wise. I’m learning a lot. I learned a lot last night,” said Tollini, who praises the priests running SCU in the 1960s for choosing to respond to the cultural revolution and “engage with the world … Imagination is central to

“We live in an era that’s more and more disembodied.” —DaviD PoPalisky

Working leg: Dancers David Popalisky and

Katie Thies ’04 Charles Barry

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | summer 2012 29 Y Barr S Barred from Life: A dance

Charle performance in collaboration with the Northern California Innocence Project

before we got constrained by adulthood,” said Popalisky, who teaches everything from choreography to aspiring dance pros to community workshops like “Dads Don’t See how we are Dance,” and a Physics of Dance class co-taught with SCU That evening, the campus was full of music and art. The Physics Professor (and “Dads Don’t Dance” graduate) sound of the school big band, swinging standards in the Rich Barber. rehearsal hall, merged with the regal melodies of Bach and “We live in an era that’s more and more disembodied,” Copland coming from the airy Mission Church, courtesy said Popalisky, who is also committed to connecting his of the musicians from Valley Christian High School in San motion-filled world to the wider universe. In June he led Jose. Over at the de Saisset, the famed tattoo artist and his innovative new class, Walk Across California, on a printmaker Don Ed Hardy was talking about the ancient two-week trek from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to the roots of his rogue art. glorious peaks of Yosemite. The course invited students Kusanovich came over to the dance rehearsal hall to to commune with the state’s diverse natural environments work with the cast of Shakuntala, the ancient Hindu and meet people as varied as artists, Miwok Indians, and mythological play that was being directed here by George urban organic farmers. Drance, S.J. An acclaimed New York actor who leads his “A lot of it is about understanding place and people’s own company and teaches at Fordham University, he was connection to it,” Popalisky said a few mornings later, on campus this spring teaching master classes and as a walking with his students at a brisk clip beneath the giant fellow through SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. sycamores along The Alameda. They were taking one of During the previous five weeks, Drance had taught the cast their 5-mile training walks to prep for the trip. ( Rebekah more than a hundred mudras, the symbolic hand gestures Bloyd, the poet and essayist who lectures in the English that accompany the telling of stories. department and loves walking California, signed on as a “Think of the energy flowing out of the fingers,” said chaperone.) “We’re going to be observing our environment, Drance, as he and the cast chanted in Sanskrit and made which we usually don’t do because the pace of life has their mudras. “Listen to the song of the bird,” he suggested. picked up so much.” Drance was keen to present Shakuntala because of its Kristin Kusanovich is throwing herself into a solo influence on Western theatre, most notably the work of dance project that also demands the kind of sustained Goethe and Coleridge, and because of its contemporary involvement that runs counter to our fast-cut culture. political relevance. She’s stretching artistically by choreographing a 45-minute “The general theme of the play is awareness and work set to the second movement of Beethoven’s massive forgetfulness,” said Drance, a quietly charismatic man. “We Symphony No. 7. She was always taught that it was seem to live an age when you can excuse anything if you musically too big for a solo piece. say you don’t remember.” To be an artist now, he went on, “I haven’t seen a lot of dance lately that makes bold “is to call people to reflect, to invite them to slow down, choices about music, or that doesn’t cut music to shreds,” and savor and dream. And perhaps even change things for said the lively dancer, after teaching a modern dance class. the better.” “I was thinking about the integrity of music and longing The arts feed the Ignatian spirit of inquiry, which, “if to see that.” we follow it and don’t stop short and accept conventional What matters most to her as a teacher is “opening answers, will always lead us to a deeper reality, which is up the arts for people and letting them understand in some way God’s reality,” Drance said. “We can’t really what it means to be an artist, at least for 10 weeks,” said notice that presence if we’re rushing by every moment. Kusanovich, a zealous educator who runs her own studio Being on this beautiful campus invites you to look around and created a course at SCU on how to teach dance, music, and consider God’s grandeur.” SCU and other arts to kids. Why did she take on that? “I was schooled by the Jesuits,” she said. Web Exclusives You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. at santaclaramagazine.com find more from these artists and others.

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Brian Thorsett ’00 led to gigs that led to slightly bigger roles each year. By 2005, he was singing in 10 to 12 productions a year. Today, A big, beautiful voice Thorsett has more than 100 highly diverse works in his repertoire. This tenor who performs everything from Mozart to Britten didn’t always He’s sung everything from Tamino seem destined for the stage. For starters, he couldn’t match pitch. in Mozart’s Magic Flute to Captain Vere in Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. By PaMela FeinsilBer He’s performed in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Orff’s Carmina Burana, eeing how comfortable excellent at creating a give-it-a-go Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, and the classical singer Brian atmosphere, so that, in Thorsett’s case, requiems of Schumann and Verdi, Thorsett ’00 is on stage, “it always felt fine to make ugly sounds.” to name a very few. “He’s quite an hearing how his rich tenor They told their students, “Look, no one amazing tenor, with a big, beautiful inhabits solos in Mozart’s dies. Maybe the composers will be voice,” says McCollough. “He has total Mass in C Minor or offended if you sound terrible, but control over the vocal and technical Britten’sS War Requiem or, one afternoon they’re mostly dead.” commands of almost any score he in May, Beethoven’s great Ninth “I always use him as an example to comes in contact with.” Symphony, with the Marin Symphony my students,” says McCollough. “He This summer, Thorsett is orchestra and chorus, it’s hard to didn’t have a voice when he first arrived performing the title role in Rameau’s believe that just a dozen years ago he on campus. He couldn’t match pitch. Pygmalion, with the American Bach was planning to become a math teacher When someone told me he’d won a big Soloists, in San Francisco; in Britten’s or insurance actuary. vocal competition, I said, ‘Brian?’” Serenade, at the Bear Valley Music Thorsett was always intellectually If he didn’t know how to do Festival, near Fresno; and in the curious, he says, about how music is something, however, he would learn it. premiere of On the Wings of Love, a put together, and he studied piano He continued taking voice lessons after song cycle for tenor, clarinet, and piano from a young age. Born in New Jersey graduating. A “mind-numbing” stint by British composer Ian Venables, in and raised in Half Moon Bay, he chose in computer-component distribution San Francisco. Santa Clara for its good mathematics helped him decide what he really Santa Clara students see him program and fine piano teachers; he wanted to do; James Schwabacher, more frequently than that; in 2011 earned degrees in math and piano. He the renowned Bay Area music patron, he returned to campus as an adjunct thought he might play for a church helped him get into the San Francisco lecturer, teaching classes in beginning choir on weekends. He only took voice Conservatory of Music. He earned voice and opera workshop. And he lessons to pass a sight-singing exam. a master’s and an artist diploma in brings to the classroom a sympathy for “I was good at the theory and history voice, then went to Opera Works in those to whom things don’t necessarily part,” he says, “but putting me onstage Los Angeles. come easy. was not a good idea.” What spoke to Thorsett more than “I think the best teachers in the Then again, in college, exploring— what used to be called grand opera, world are people who struggled at and making mistakes—is part of the however, was concert singing. He got a something,” Thorsett says. “I struggled learning process. Teresa McCollough, lot of work, too, in part because “I was with singing for a long time before it Thorsett’s piano teacher, and Kathy always prepared, always on time, always clicked.” SCU Ludowise, his voice teacher, were a good colleague.” Recommendations

Elixir of Love: Thorsett has

Dan Donovan what they want in Donizetti’s opera. ElementalFate and design, weather and the story of beauty: painting as a way of life for Mark Alsterlind ’76

Above: Outil III (2008). Below: exhibit of Alsterlind’s work at Jas de la rimade in Carcès, 2010—one of the leading galleries of contemporary art in France. nd I terl S rk Al mA y S urte CO

32 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 OS t O Ph ER g CHWERTFE S IM T BY

HOTO P Elemental St. Romain (2010). he paintings Mark Alsterlind ’76 creates nowadays are becoming more and more like objects, even turn- ing into sculpture. And they have something to do with the geography of memory, nourished by sketch- books: tales of rivers, rocks, and trees. The physical Tworks themselves are even shaped for months or years by the elements, at least when Alsterlind works outside—something he began doing decades ago out of necessity. The young artist was offered a place to live and paint in Provence—an empty house with no electricity and no windows—so he began working in the outside light. That has meant, as his works take shape and stories unfold, twigs and pine needles might find their way in; animals might walk across. But theirs won’t be the only footfalls; in animating and enlivening his work, Alsterlind has said, “Often, I find myself dancing with my canvases. Even on them.” France has been Alsterlind’s home for three decades; he still has a studio in Provence, another in Paris, and normally he’s working on 150 or so paintings at any given time. There’s the quality of endless pursuit in what he does. But also, he says, “There’s always the element of serendipity to wing me along.” His work has been shown scores of times—from Paris to San Francisco, Basel to New York. A 2007 book, Perspectives (Lucie Éditions), offers a 20-year retrospective. At Santa Clara he studied European history and interned at the de Saisset Museum—which, indirectly, led him to discover that, for him, painting is a way of life. As an apprentice artist, he was enlisted in a project to create a replica of the famed Lascaux cave paintings. Along with his daily work, there’s a newer, delicious endeavor that asks participants to violate a fundamental rule: Don’t eat paint. With chocolate and colored cocoa butter, Alsterlind creates edible art. This scrumptious idea was inspired by an exhibit of Alsterlind’s paintings at a three-star restaurant where he decided, “I’d rather work in a plate than on the wall.” That’s also led to collaboration with San Francisco chocolatier Michael Rechiutti. Nesque (2010). This enticing evolution stems from a fire that has kindled Alsterlind’s work as a whole for years: “I like playing with light, color, and paint. It keeps me alive.” Steven Boyd Saum SCU

Web Exclusives At santaclaramagazine.com read our profile of Alsterlind from 1988, and savor more of the visual feast of his work.

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 33 Eye inspection: At this altitude, the sun is viciously intense, and it takes its toll on vision. This image also distills so much of what the medical mission brings together.

In August 2011, I traveled with a medical-aid expedition to Huancavelica, Peru. High in the Andes, it’s an area blessed by rugged beauty and plagued by poverty. I was along to document the mission, a collaborative effort among doctors from Medicine at Peru and the United States that not just brought medical help to the region but also brought people from remote villages to the area’s major hospital. For some patients, the doctors could offer a simple fix and reassurance that everything 13,000 feet would be okay; for others, they provided life-altering surgery. At santaclaramagazine.com see more of Larremore’s work, By MIke LArreMore ’08 including his 2010 photo essay from Haiti.

Paying attention: Peruvian doctor Marco Lazo listens intently while family members discuss plastic surgery to repair a boy’s ear. The doctor is clearly attuned to what they’re saying.

34 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | SuMMer 2012 He’ll walk again: A doctor trims a metal pin to secure a plate for a broken leg. The patient fell off a cliff and broke both legs at the femur and tibia. At the hospital there was no compressed air for power tools, so doctors had to cut and set screws by hand.

The world outside: First of triplets. Portrait of a woman in Huancavelica. Delivery of breakfast cereal to the hospital.

Lircay street scene: Picturesque city, but treacherous roads make access difficult. Bronco Profile Tara Macken ’08

initial difficulty fitting in to a culture and campus completely foreign to her, by her second year she was beginning to find her stride in the theatre and dance department. s Agency T is

T “I loved the teachers. I loved the The classes,” she says. “I really got the DDO Ar chance to learn a lot and to learn stuntwoman about myself.” As fans of The Hunger Games know, She credits a ballet class taught by this gal goes down fighting. Karyn Lee Connell as being especially formative. “Karyn’s approach was, By Jeff Gire ‘You’re a good person, even though you’re the worst ballet student.’ And, yeah, I was horrid.” Upon graduating with a double major in dance and political science, Macken had one year left on her visa, and a car. She decided to give L.A. a chance. With her background in gymnastics and theatre, stunt work was a perfect fit. Now, a few years later, Macken is getting noticed. Her role as one of the 24 competitors in a deadly, televised death match in the hugely popular The Hunger Games this spring meant he’s been thrown “I’ve died so Macken’s biography reads red carpets, media attention, and through a bookcase. like the sum of several of fan mail from places as far away as SShe’s been stabbed, many times, those lives. The story she Finland. Next year she appears in GI Joe: both by a sword and a therefore I’ve tells: She was born in a car in Retaliation as the stunt double for Jinx, broken mirror. Justin Kuwait to a Filipino mother a ninja. She also landed a coveted role Timberlake, Jessica Alba, lived so many and Irish father. Throughout in the Star Trek sequel, currently and even The Fonz different lives.” her early childhood her family filming and also due out in 2013. have done her in. She’s kept up with her father’s work She can’t say much about her role kicked the bucket in a around the Middle East as an in Star Trek; actors even had to wear straight-to-the-web video, and she’s engineer for Shell, before settling in robes between sets to hide their exact met her maker in a half-billion-dollar the Philippines for her school years. roles from the prying eyes of a rabid blockbuster. Growing up in the Philippines, fan base. So it can’t be said for sure For stuntwoman Tara Macken ’08 Macken had a passion for gymnastics whether it’s a phaser blast, explosion, there is no role too gruesome that hasn’t and loved to watch professional or an unfortunate run-in with an piqued her interest. “This one time I wrestling. “I was a good gymnast, but open air lock that punches her ticket. was a cannonball or something and I I wasn’t the greatest,” she confesses. “I Or—who knows?—for this rising star was covered in blood … Most people had a lot of learning to do and I fell a in the world of stunts, maybe this time hate stage blood. It’s just messy and lot—a lot. So, that probably helped my around, she lives. SCU gets in your hair.” But that doesn’t faze stunt work.” Macken. “It’s just a lot of fun,” she says. Her first trip to the States was to Web She’s also philosophical about her attend Santa Clara University. And Exclusives on-screen exploits: “I’ve died so many the first time she stepped foot on the More from Tara Macken at times, therefore I’ve lived so many Mission Campus was exiting the bus santaclaramagazine.com different lives.” that brought her to SCU. Despite the

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The 1962 Broncos pitched, ran, and t swatted their way to being the top-ranked team in the nation and to the College Storybook World Series. Then they battled it out in a Courtesy grueling 15-inning title cruncher that was season one for the record books. By Mark Purdy

ifty years later, ron Calcagno ’63 clings to one very appetizing memory of his trip to the College world series. “they gave us all meal money,” says Calcagno. “and they’ve got a lot of good beef in omaha.” FCalcagno was the catcher on santa Clara’s first—and still only—team to reach the collegiate championship game of a sport that has been played at the university longer than any other. Baseball at santa Clara began in 1883. yet the 1962 Broncos, who came so close to winning the NCaa title before losing it in extra innings, stand alone in school history. all of them can tell you it was an unforgettable experience. well, some of them, anyway. “I can’t remember much,” admits John Boccabella ’63, the team’s all-american first baseman. “the whole thing was just such a big ride. we really enjoyed it. But when you’re a young kid, how much do you know?” you know that it’s pretty darned cool to get up every morning and prepare for the biggest game of your life— for three straight weeks. that’s what you know. you just keep playing and see what happens next. anyone can read the numbers and facts about those magical weeks. Continued on page 38

InsIde 38 Class Notes 39 BroNCo News: FroM the aluMNI assoCIatIoN 41 saVe the date: VINtaGe saNta Clara 42 lIVes JoINed 43 BIrths aNd adoPtIoNs Web 45 IN PrINt: New BooKs Exclusives By aluMNI 46 oBItuarIes 47 IN MeMorIaM: MIChael l. haCKworth ’63, larry hauser, Safe! Infielder and All- edwIN h. taylor American Ernie Fazio ’63 48 aluMNI eVeNts CaleNdar Continued from page 37

How the Broncos blitzed though he does recall several ClassNotes through the regional qualifying SCU classmates making the trip tournament and went to Omaha to Nebraska and sleeping on the as the tournament’s top-ranked floors of players’ hotel rooms. remaining team. How they lost Paddy Cottrell, the team’s their opener to Florida State, coach, didn’t seem to mind. UndergradUate 1968 albert Chen MBa putting them in peril of being According to Calcagno, the ’70 writes: “Returned at the eliminated with just one more loss. large Italian-American community end of 2011 to San Francisco How they clawed back to win four in Omaha also turned out in big 1937 Bill adams writes with after four-plus years working straight games and face Michigan numbers to back the Broncos news about the Class of 1937 in Beijing, People’s Republic for the championship trophy. because of the heritage reflected Endowed Scholarship. Started of China. Was chief risk officer How they lost, 5–4, in 15 on their roster. Besides Calcagno during the 1986–87 school of CCB Financial Leasing innings to the Wolverines. and Garibaldi and Boccabella, the year, the fund has provided Corporation, a joint-venture How pitcher Bob garibaldi ’64 lineup featured shortstop ernie more than $370,000 in leasing company between kept throwing heat day after day Fazio ’63 and pitcher Pete scholarships in five categories: Bank of America and China and set World Series records Magrini ’66. Calcagno was the arts and humanities, social and Construction Bank.” natural sciences, business, with 38 strikeouts and 27 1/3 only one of the five who failed engineering, and intercollegiate 1969 Mark Janlois is a innings pitched, records that still to reach the Major Leagues; athletics. partner in Janlois Partners LP, stand today. tim Cullen ’64 also played ball which owns and manages The Broncos’ games were in the majors. 1940 William a. “al” Wolff commercial properties in Contra broadcast on radio throughout the writes: “At 94+ enjoying life in Costa County. South Bay. One person listening the best he’d ever seen beautiful Santa Barbara at a to every pitch was tom Mcenery In January 2012, the 1962 team senior living residence.” 1970 Bruce Bottini J.d ’74 ’67, M.a. ’70, then a senior at held one of its frequent reunions. writes: “I am a trial lawyer in But this golden anniver- 1949 Joseph a. Portland, Ore., specializing in sary get-together took rechenmacher, in September personal injury law, in practice place on campus before 2011, received a certificate with my wife, Marianne, and a Santa Clara basketball of appreciation for 52 years son John for over 25 years.” game, where the players of service from the state norm Matzen retired in 2004 were introduced to the of California’s Board for from Etymotic Research doing crowd. Seventeen of the Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. R&D for the ear. Matzen still 19 living players attended. does consulting and expert After all the previous witness work. He and wife Terri reunions, you’d think 1952 REUNION OctOber 11–14, 2012 live in El Dorado Hills, Calif. no new stories would nancy a. (Battaini) CS surface. But one did. 1953 Leslie r. Webber 1971 It seems that a few writes: “My wife, Clarine, of 50 del Colletti is the executive years ago, Garibaldi was years died in 2009. I now live director of Rainbow’s End Athleti u on an ocean cruise. He in a suburb of Nashville. For Recovery Center in Challis, SC struck up a conversation anyone traveling nearby, stop Idaho, a new substance abuse We were there: the ’62 Broncos with a man from Omaha and touch base with an old rehabilitation facility that she who said he’d attended classmate and the new lady in established. my life.” Bellarmine Prep who knew he nearly every College World Series since the event moved 1972 REUNION would be attending Santa Clara OctOber 11–14, 2012 there in 1950. Garibaldi never 1957 REUNION that autumn. McEnery, a future OctOber 11–14, 2012 mayor of San Jose, recalls that introduced himself or spoke of ed rockdale writes: “Exciting the entire South Bay was riveted his own exploits. But he did Brent Britschgi and ron news? Nah, but I found a great to the every game. ask the Omaha fellow about the rader encourage all the Boys job (civilian Navy at China Lake) “It was pretty electric around best players and teams he might of ’57 to come to SCU for their out of college (thanks, SCU), town,” McEnery says. “You’ve have witnessed. 55th reunion in October. married (still am), had kids (love got to remember, the Giants had Without prompting and within ’em), lost hair, retired recently, and am enjoying life after work.” only been in San Francisco for seconds, the man offered that 1962 REUNION the 1962 Santa Clara team was OctOber 11–14, 2012 four years. This was still a sports- John Fox writes: “I am the best he’d ever seen—and 1973 crazed but largely sports-deprived 1966 Jim Charkins, a foreign service officer for the area. People were really caught up recounted how the Broncos had U.S. State Department, now on lost that grueling 15-inning title professor of economics at CSU in that team.” San Bernardino and executive assignment to the U.S. Army cruncher. It’s still tied for the lon- Meanwhile, as they bunked director of the California Council War College in Carlisle, Pa., gest game in World Series history. out in Omaha and ate sirloin, on Economic Education, was as a professor of international the Broncos were largely unaware The Boys of ’62 have that. And, granted the highest honor relations.” of the fuss they were creating in addition to sharing memories, of the California Council for risë Pichon J.d. ’76 was back home. they are puzzled about why no the Social Studies: the Hilda honored with the Santa Clara “We didn’t have an entourage subsequent SCU team has made Taba Award. Last October Law Social Justice and Human it to Omaha. They are rooting Charkins received the Bessie or a posse,” jokes Calcagno, Rights Award in October in hard for one to return soon. SCU Moore Award for outstanding honor of her work for equality leadership in economic and human rights. In April, education. Jim and his wife, Web she was named among Linda Jackson Charkins ’66, Exclusives this year’s 100 Women of live in Wrightwood, Calif. At santaclaramagazine.com see more Influence by the Silicon Valley/ pics from that storybook season. San Jose Business Journal. 1967 REUNION Pichon has been a California OctOber 11–14, 2012 Superior Court judge of the County of Santa Clara since 38 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 BronCo newS

From the SCU AlUmni ASSoCiAtion That common bond A few things have changed on the Mission Campus over 40 years. But as I’ve learned, we’re part of an unfolding story here at Santa Clara—one we can be proud to tell. BLAINE JASMINE COURTESY

y path to Santa Clara was a the Sacramento Chapter of the little different from most: I was Alumni Association was also a Moffered the opportunity to enroll great place to forge ties to Santa here out of high school but chose to Clara. I attended events and go somewhere else. It took until my became involved in the leadership sophomore year—after a few semesters of our local chapter, the national of being not particularly focused on alumni board, and this past year academics, changing majors several as national president. times, and playing a lot of golf—to realize Among the activities this year: that Santa Clara was a better fit for me. We implemented an alumni event I called the admissions office asking for survey system, created a brochure an application and for information on the that offers an overview of the due date. The turnaround was short and Alumni Association, and estab- the office was closing for the day, so the lished an Alumni Speaker Series for person with whom I spoke suggested that students. Perhaps most rewarding she could leave the application outside, in was recognizing a graduate from the a large potted plant. class of 2011 as the recipient Things were a bit of the Alumni Board Service less formal in those Thanks to each Award. Jasmine Blaine, who days. I picked up the studied economics and envi- Show your guns: Jasmine Blaine ’11 and application, filled it of you who have ronmental studies at SCU, received colleagues dig in. out, and submitted it given back to $2,000 from the Alumni Board as the next day. Santa Clara, both financial support while she helps opportunity to have a Santa Clara educa- I was accepted to build an aqueduct and water col- tion and become part of an unfolding story. the business school. with your time lecting receptacles for a village in So let me say thanks to each of you Dean Charles Dirksen and financially. Panama as part of her two-year who have given back to Santa Clara, both sat me down and Peace Corps tour. Jasmine is with your time—by volunteering or attend- mapped out a patch- clearly a get-her-hands-dirty kind ing an event—and financially. Through your work curriculum of lower- and upper-divi- of person who does not shy away from support we want to ensure that current sion courses that allowed me to graduate tough, back-breaking work to improve the and future students continue and improve on schedule. The time the dean spent with lives of those around her. B.T. would be upon this tradition of excellence. For those me and the personal care he took made a proud of her, too. of you who have not been involved, I great impact on helping me focus on aca- And so we begin encourage you to reacquaint yourself with demics. I enjoyed classes, played NCAA the University. Once you become involved, Commencement exercises took place at golf, and was part of a vibrant campus life you will find yourself celebrating old friend- Santa Clara just a few weeks ago—and that included student occupation of the ships and developing new friendships with that special occasion is a very good Administration Office, streakers, and an those who share the common bond of reminder that nurturing the connections occasional bowling ball or shopping cart Santa Clara University. we have with Santa Clara may just be hefted out of a Swig Hall window. So, thanks again—and go Broncos! I continued at Santa Clara for law beginning. For me, the connection has school, where I befriended B.t. Collins now spanned more than four decades; ’70, J.D. ’73, a sort of larger-than-life last October I celebrated my 40th reunion. man who had been a Green Beret in Certainly when I picked up an application Vietnam and later served in administra- from a potted plant an evening long ago, I tions of both Democratic and Republican did not expect to be serving as president governors of California. In many ways, of the Alumni Association. B.T. was an inspiration to me and many When I talk to folks now, particularly other Broncos. He was a tremendous high school students and their parents, I tell them about the educational opportuni- ambassador for the school and constantly James m. Schiavenza ties that I had and what Santa Clara did drummed into anyone who would listen ’71, J.D. ’74 for me. There are different ways as alumni the need to give back to the University Immediate Past President that gave so much to its students. For me, we can make sure that the most important of the National Alumni tradition continues—giving students the Association ClassNotes

1998. She is currently the Kurt Rambis was inducted into Times’ “Small Business Gregory Lynn MBA assistant supervising judge of the West Coast Conference Entrepreneur Profile.” His 1985 ’05 writes: “Now working at the Superior Court’s Criminal Hall of Honor, joining eight company comprises “engineers PARC (Palo Alto Research Division, the chairperson of the other WCC legends inducted in who specialize in the exterior Center) on the Meshin Project, Superior Court Jury Standards March in Las Vegas. elements of buildings as well which seeks to bring order to Committee, and is a member as energy conservation” and is electronic communications of a number of other court headquartered in Palo Alto. 1982 REUNION chaos!” committees. OctOber 11–14, 2012 Benedict Fuata, a Hawaii Silvia L. López was Tina Caratan decided, Joan Banich writes: “After Army National Guard colonel, 1986 1974 promoted from associate after 37+ years, to redirect her being diagnosed with a bone was selected as the next civil professor to professor of career path. She left public marrow disease in 2003, I had defense administrator for the Spanish at Carleton College, accounting and is currently an to undergo a bone marrow County of Hawaii. Fuata, 50, where she started in 1997. adjunct professor at SFSU and transplant from an unrelated has been the commander of López teaches courses that doing freelance consulting for donor in June 2011. Celebrated the Army Aviation Support explore the modern literary and the not-for-profit industry. She our 25th wedding anniversary Facility in Hilo since 1993. He cultural worlds of Latin America, ultimately would like to take on last August. Living in Campbell, is also the Guard’s director for as well as Spanish language. the role of a CFO for a major Calif., and looking forward to logistics. not-for-profit in the greater returning to work as a brand Bay Area. strategist at Cisco once I am Peter Verbica J.D. ’99 is now 1987 REUNION fully recovered.” at Merrill Lynch’s Global Wealth OctOber 11–14, 2012 James Baker J.D. ’80, Management Group in Silicon 1975 Daniel G. McBride is the vice described by Chambers USA Kathleen Burroughs works Valley. His oldest daughter president, general counsel, as “an ERISA legend on the in the Office of Advancement serves as an IT petty officer and chief risk officer for The West Coast,” has joined Baker for St. Martin of Tours School. with the Navy. His second Cooper Companies, based in & McKenzie as a partner in the Married to Tim Lenihan ’83, oldest daughter is a ballerina, Pleasanton. Dan and his wife, San Francisco/Palo Alto office, she has three children: Maggie, graduating from Walnut Hill Maya, live in Orinda with their adding 30 years of experience Brigid, and Aidan. She also School for the Arts in Nadick, three children, Aidan (12), Liam in the entire spectrum of volunteers at SCU Law Alumni Mass. (9), and Kieran (5). employee benefit and executive Relations and Development. David Wells joined RETTEW, compensation matters. John Turner was appointed Linda Castillo was named an engineering design firm, as a senior vice president of sales division manager of Catholic senior engineer in the land and 1977 REUNION at TriNet, a provider of PEO Charities’ El Programa Hispano, development division. In the OctOber 11–14, 2012 services to small businesses the largest social service Mechanicsburg, Penn., office he and entrepreneurs. Lisa “Lia” Cacciari is program operated by Catholic is responsible for administering publishing the literary historic Charities in Oregon, which RETTEW’s quality-control/quality- 1988 Michelle Myers was novel Hieros Gamos later this supports more than 20,000 assurance standards on all of named head coach of the LMU year. Cacciari, a medievalist and low-income Latinos annually. RETTEW’s land development women’s soccer program, anglophile of longstanding, Previously Castillo worked as a projects. Wells has 30 years where she has been for more plans to follow with publication program manager at Bienestar of construction and land than a decade. She helped of the saga Fyr Boren. Both de la Familia Social Services in development experience, which the program to its first NCAA works are set in the north of Portland, where she spent more includes his managing a variety College Cup appearance in England during the Middle Ages. than 16 years. projects involving highway and 2002. As a senior at SCU, transportation facilities. she helped the Broncos to a Victor P. Republicano Jr. Pete Dunbar writes: “I have 10-4-3 overall record and a writes: “Linda and I have been tremendous memories of my Lewis Chew was 1984 No. 17 national ranking, the blessed with eight amazing years at Santa Clara. Been appointed executive VP and first national ranking in program sons, including three in the doing public service in law CFO of Dolby Laboratories, history. Santa Clara family: Joseph ’09, enforcement for almost 30 leaving National Semiconductor M.S. ’12, Michael ’10, and years and the light is at the end as senior VP of finance and Dennis Polk was appointed Victor ’13. Linda is director of of the tunnel! I met my wife on CFO. He has been recognized to the board of directors Business and Administration at a cruise 26 years ago and have five times as one of America’s at SYNNEX Corporation, a a San Francisco law firm, and two great kids.” best CFOs by Institutional business process services I am the director of a forensic Investor magazine. In 2009, company. accounting and consulting firm.” Tony Mirenda, currently Chew was a finalist for Bay president and CEO of TBI Area CFO of the Year. 1989 Robert Colaizzi Rob Uyttebroek is now the Construction and Construction has joined Atlona, a global director of finance for the City of Management, has joined Blach Shelley (Simmons) Kapur is manufacturer of cutting-edge Newark, Del. Construction Company as a working for TEKsystems Global digital connectivity solutions, as project executive. Mirenda’s Services as a project manager the CFO. 1980 Robert James Higgins renovations include Basilica in Portland, Ore. J.D. ’92 has been appointed Cathedral of St. Joseph, Eileen Silva joined the to the Navajo County Superior Old Santa Clara County Thomas M. “TJ” Spear Jr., Department of Surgery at the Court. A former deputy county Courthouse, and the Portola a lawyer in Bend, Ore., with U.C. San Diego Medical Center attorney, he has practiced Valley Town Center, which was a private practice focusing on as a senior editor in March. civil and criminal law there voted one of the nation’s top 10 criminal defense and litigation, for 17 years. His expertise most sustainable projects. announced his candidacy in 1990 Michael Okada was encompasses estate planning March for Oregon’s Circuit named VP, chief accounting and contractual issues, child 1983 Karim Allana, CEO Judge of the Deschutes County officer, and interim CFO of dependency cases, personal of Allana Buick & Bers Inc., Circuit Court. Spear had been Cereplast Inc., a manufacturer injury matters, and forcible was recently featured in the a deputy district attorney in that of proprietary bio-based, detainer actions. San Francisco Business state for more than 12 years. sustainable plastics.

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Eric Steuben MBA ’95 joined 1997 REUNION Asante Solutions Inc., a medical OctOber 11–14, 2012 device company focused on diabetes care, as VP of Perlita R. Dicochea published operations. an article in the Journal of Environmental Justice about 1991 Peter Friedrich, the Cal/EPA’s Pilot Project for along with his group of drama the New River in Southern students from Sulaimaniyah, California. She is an assistant Iraq, will be performing at the professor of ethnic studies at SAVE THE DATE Oregon Shakespeare Festival SCU. this summer. Last summer, Friedrich directed what is Richard Douglas Matthews believed to be the first-ever was profiled in the article “Like Shakespeare production Father, Like Son,” on www. in English in a public theatre newsreview.com. Matthews in Iraq. completed a six-year residency at the University of Utah, then 1992 REUNION a year-long colorectal surgery OctOber 11–14, 2012 fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center before Simon Chiu was elected becoming a colorectal surgeon, to serve on the executive just like his father. committee of the National Catholic Education Association, Jeff Perry was promoted to representing Catholic high VP of Enterprise Hardware at schools in California, Nevada, Oracle, where he manages Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 Hawaii, and Guam at the sales teams. His position has 1:30-5 PM national level. He will be brought him back to the SCU Support the Dreams of responsible for continued campus, where he recruits and Future Broncos leadership in the ministry of hires recent grads. Jeff and Catholic secondary education. Jessica Perry ’97, J.D. ’00 have three children and reside Join us for the Alumni Joseph Anthony Flynn was in Redwood City. Jessica was Association’s signature food named one of Silicon Valley’s 50 among this year’s winners of and wine festival, featuring most influential Irish-Americans the San Francisco Business in the tech world in 2012 by Times’ 40 Under 40 award, alumni vintners and the Irish Technology Leadership which honors “the best and restaurateurs, a silent auction, Group. Flynn is the CEO and brightest young leaders who co-founder of Lavante Inc., a are shaping our region’s vibrant and an afternoon of fun! profit recovery and supplier future.” information management Proceeds benefit the company. 1998 Mary Reding is featured in a joint-agency Alumni Family 1994 John Bankovitch has report announced by First Lady Scholarship Program. joined Portsmouth Financial Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Services in San Francisco as and Defense Secretary Leon a registered representative. Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63 on the tickets go on sale He becomes a part of “The employment challenges facing august 6, 2012 Bankovitch Team,” which is military spouses who work in composed of his dad, Walt, and licensed professions. Reding www.scu.edu/vintage his brother, Chris. and her spouse formed The Deborah Hinds writes: “After Military Spouse JD Network, nine years in Florida, our the organization focused on Kansas City, Kansas. I am a Organized Investment family has moved back to implementing a solution to the mentor at Cristo Rey Kansas Network advisory board. Teat California. I started a position licensing problems faced by City high school, which is a also serves on a variety of as a management consultant military spouses in the legal Catholic college-prep school community-based boards and for ROI Communication. I’m profession. that incorporates an innovative commissions. currently managing several work-study program for Amin Zoufonoun J.D. ’01 communications projects for students with economic need.” 2002 REUNION was profiled in the SF Gate Hewlett-Packard.” OctOber 11–14, 2012 article “Meet the Iranian 2001 Enrique Flores M.A. 1995 Carlos Manuel Musician Who Hammered Out ’06, through his nonprofit East Jose Alvarez and brother Chavarría is the director of the Facebook’s $1 Billion Instagram Side Heroes, coordinated Unity Gino ’08 have started theatre program at Bellarmine Deal In Zuckerberg’s Living Day II in East San Jose, in JEA Specialties, based in University in Louisville, Ky. He Room.” Facebook’s director March, to promote peace in Sacramento, specializing in recently published his one- of corporate development has gang-troubled communities. He purchasing material for self- man show La Vida Loca: An been at the company for a little is also director of the nonprofit performing general contractors. Apolitical In-Your-Face Odyssey more than a year. Before that, Corazon Project. Unlike traditional suppliers, the of a Mexican Immigrant and he worked for Google. brothers charge a 10 percent Darrell Teat, an associate is in negotiations for an edited markup above cost for Division 1999 Aimee Hagedorn VP at Nehemiah Community anthology of Chicano plays. 10, 11, and 12 items. writes: “My husband, Travis Reinvestment Enterprises, was Hagedorn ’99, and I recently appointed to the California moved from Philadelphia to

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | Summer 2012 41 LiVES JOinED to protect citizens from the Semsa, a Salinas native, will harmful effects of coal mining focus on voter education Gina Blancarte ’99 and ’04, Bruce Martinez Broncos in attendance and natural gas extraction in and will be a resource for the Brian Millard on Jan. 21, ’04, Greg Flanagan were: Maria Sandoval southwestern Pennsylvania. He bilingual community and voters , , 2012, in San Francisco. ’03, John Hinman ’06, ’98 Anna Carroll ’07 lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, at large. The wedding party includ- Jessica Frank ’05, Kerry Vann ’07, Greg ed fellow Broncos Katya Katy Shumm Tuttle Phipps ’07, Omid Olivia, and dog, Boone. 2010 Sarah Esparza (Morales) White ’99, ’05, Kristin Belanger Faghiri ’07, Ira is working in Chicago at Keryun (Su) Dukellis ’05, Tara Bussiere Movshovich ’08, Courtney (Dimpel) Shipman Thresholds, a social service ’99, and Jackie Salcido ’04, and Katie Virginia Suarez ’08, is one of the newest members agency serving persons with (Santos) Lopez ’99. Carlson ’03. The happy and Sara Garcia ’10. Liz of the women’s racing team severe and persistent mental The newlyweds live in couple lives in Long works for XOOM Vanderkitten-Focus. This famous illness. Esparza is a community Southern California. Beach, Calif. Corporation in San international bicycle racing team support specialist in the Francisco. The couple comprises women from New Justice Program working with Valerie Trinidad ’02 Keely Nelson ’05, M.A. individuals in the criminal justice resides in Newark, Calif. Zealand, Australia, the East and Justin Maggard on ’06 and Christopher Berg system. Sept. 10, 2011, in San on June 26, 2010, in Galen Smith ’07 and Coast, and the Bay Area. Jose. The wedding party Soquel, Calif. The wedding Jeffrey Young ’07 on 2011 Kevin Klasila, one Belen E. Gomez included brother Mark party included maid of Aug. 26, 2011, in Seattle. 2006 of the most accomplished Trinidad ’04 and friends honor Shuryn (Riggins) The wedding party includ- MBA ’12 has been appointed goalkeepers in SCU men’s Beverly Cabrera Barnes ’05, M.A. ’06; ed maid of honor Claire program director for Board soccer history, was signed Galang ’02, Lorraine bridesmaids Kelly (Burns) Smith ’11, bridesmaids Recruiting & Professional by the Charleston Battery for Leonardo ’01, and Sjolund ’05, M.A. ’06 Mary Swift ’07 and Mentoring Services for XCEO the upcoming United Soccer Jennifer Ramones ’01; and Kristi Anderson Gabriela Flowers ’07, Inc., a governance consulting Leagues pro season. He more alumni were in ’06; and reader Chanel and groomsman Michael and board recruiting firm. becomes the 55th Bronco attendance. The couple McCreedy ’04. Other Pellicio ’07. Other Gomez will manage XCEO’s men’s soccer alumnus to play in currently resides in Broncos in attendance Broncos in attendance board recruitment process, professional ranks. Fremont. included Jessy Wray ’05 included Robert Rose and professional mentoring and Emmalisa Sparrow ’85, Philip Johnson programs and leadership Margaret Lender writes: “Let’s Roxanne Brusa ’05. The couple purchased ’04, Matthew development services. Prior go Broncos!!” (Aguilar) ’03 and Ernesto to 2006, she worked for SRI their first home in Meyerhofer ’06, Scott Justin Hester writes: “‘To be Brusa on Jan. 7, 2012, at San Jose and are Clark ’07, Amy Potter International researching the Mission Church. They behavioral development and great is to be misunderstood.’ expecting their first child ’07, Christina Vaninetti —Ralph Waldo Emerson.” live in Santa Clara. this summer. ’07, and Jonathan education. Wahl ’07. The couple Matthew Oehler writes: Michael Pittman ’04, Scott Dougherty ’06 Jasmin Llamas M.A. ’09, lives in Washington, D.C. “Finding ways to make the J.D. ’08 and Alexandra and Marian Dalmy ’08 a grad student in the U.C. payments, support my family, Perazzelli ’05, M.A. ’09 on Feb. 18, 2012, in San Daniel Soares ’07 and Santa Barbara Department of and still have fun have made on July 9, 2011, at St. Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Casey Butzberger ’08 Counseling, Clinical, and School postgraduation interesting. The Monica’s Catholic Church on Dec. 31, 2011, in Psychology, has received two struggles have really honed in Santa Monica, Calif. Elizabeth Sandoval ’07 Dallas. research grants: a Chicano The wedding party includ- and Joewel Pascual on Studies Institute (CSI) Grant and my budgeting skills, and my ed Josh Griffin ’03, Dec. 17, 2011, at the Sridhar Karnam M.S. a Graduate Research Award for decision skills. I feel more Ryan Auffenberg ’03, Santa Clara Mission. The ’10 and Namrata, his Social Science Surveys. capable than ever that I am a Justin Little ’06, ceremony was presided by sweetheart for seven qualified businessperson, that I Christopher Garber Matthew Carnes, S.J. years, on Dec. 10, 2010. Jennifer Sbicca and Joshua could survive in any field.” Sbicca ’05 are returning to read more (and see photos) at santaclaramagazine.com Santa Clara this summer. 2012 REUNION Jennifer graduated from OctOber 11–14, 2012 Mariel Caballero was Bay and surrounding areas. University of Florida College recently promoted to a senior Stay active, have fun, and meet of Medicine in May and starts management analyst for the people!” an internal medicine residency Office of the Public Defender at Santa Clara Valley Medical in Santa Clara County. She 2004 Amielynn Abellera Center for one year. Joshua will GrADuAtE received her master’s degree appeared in the premiere of be performing research for his the play Buffalo’ed, which tells Ph.D. in sociology throughout in public administration from Jean H. Carter MBA Golden Gate University in 2010. the tale of Buffalo Soldiers California. 1977 stationed in the Philippines writes that she is enjoying the Justin LaMettry writes: during the Spanish-American 2007 REUNION challenge of learning a new skill, “Married, two kids.” and Philippine-American wars. OctOber 11–14, 2012 after a career as a business The production opened in April analyst. Creative writing is 2003 James Crowe joined at San Jose Stage Company. 2008 Viktor Petersson her new passion, requiring Faegre Baker Daniels as an is co-founder and CEO of a whole new approach to associate of the firm’s corporate Amanda Villegas works in YippieMove, a product from communication. practice in Denver. Crowe marketing at Carnegie Hall startup WireLoad that makes comes from Lathrop Gage, and was just named executive the email migration process Steve Gomo MBA was where he practiced in the director of MetroWest Opera, as easy as possible. He was appointed to the board of corporate department. based out of Boston. recently featured in an article on NetSuite Inc., a provider of Tech Crunch. cloud-based financials and Brandon Hummel writes: “I 2005 Patrick Grenter was ERP software suites. He also started Dynamic Sport & Social named executive director of Melissa (Lomeli) Sesma is the serves on the board of directors Club (www.dynamicssc.com), the Center for Coalfield Justice new bilingual services program of SanDisk and Enphase a premier club for coed adult in Washington, Penn. He is manager at the Monterey Energy Inc. sports leagues in the South leading that organization’s fight County Elections Department.

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BiRTHS AnD ADoPTionS Tim White J.D. writes: Council for our Congregation, “Married, four children, three since 2005. I have been thrilled grandchildren, employed to meet up with Barry Burns, Holly (Mallory) Fidrych ’88, Bob, Olmstead on May 27, 2011. Micah (3) by PNC Bank as EVP/chief FMS.” and sister Mallory—Robert John (RJ) loves being a big brother. The family operating officer–multifamily, on Dec. 5, 2011. The family lives in lives in Sacramento. Michael Milward J.D., Campbell, Calif. Calabasas, Calif., residing in 1981 Mark A. Davis ’01 and Rachel— has been hired as the new chief Thousand Oaks.” —Ivy Leila Magdalene Antoun Davis on July executive for Hospice of Santa Jenni Brandt Rowen ’92 Elizabeth on Dec. 13, 2010. She joins 14, 2011. Mark is a partner at Davis 1978 Jim Hartnett J.D. is Cruz County. Milward, 57, is a sister Hailey Lynne (9) and Dylan Enterprises in Phoenix. serving on the California High principal with Sierra Trial Group, Michael (8). Speed Rail Authority Board, which specializes in personal Sarah (Petersen) Hicks ’01 and appointed by state Senate injury cases. Heather (Martin-Ruehle) Forer ’93 husband Dave—their first child, daugh- President Pro Tem Darrell and David Forer—Avery Rachel Forer ter Carsen Rose Hicks, on Jan. 24, Steinberg. He maintains his 1982 Jay Shore MBA and on July 19, 2011. 2012. They live in San Jose. litigation and dispute resolution Victoria “Vicky” Shore MBA practice at Hartnett, Smith and write that they are now retired. Dan Madsen ’94 and Francine Ryan Monger ’01 and Janet Paetkau in Redwood City. Shore ’94, M.A. ’98—Olivia Dean (Nissen) Monger ’02—twin boys, Rebecca Veltman J.D. writes: Madsen on March 30, 2012. She joins Andrew Kenneth and Henry Lloyd, on Paul Tai M.S. had a book “Enjoying my retirement— Ryan, age 4, in Los Gatos. Francine is Jan. 13, 2012. signing in May at San Jose traveling, reconnecting with old working hard at home with the kids after State University for his new friends and family, and my new teaching elementary school for 16 years. Annie (Shea) Weckesser ’01 and book, Happy Thoughts, which granddaughter, Mikayla, who Dan is a wealth management advisor in Josh Weckesser MBA ’11—their says “shares a message about joined her 5-year-old brother, San Jose with Northwestern Mutual. first child, a girl, Shea Bailey Weckesser, the importance of Happiness Roman, in December. I am on March 25, 2012. The family resides in in our lives here now on earth, happy to have both daughters Nicole Bugna-Doyle ’95 and E. Los Gatos. and our lives in the future Living close by.” John Doyle IV ’95—twin boys, Colin and Thomas Doyle, on Nov. 19, 2011. Lisa (Mrkvicka) Mudgett ’02 and Dimensions in another world. It Dan—Joshua Graham on Jan. 17, also introduces the concept of 1983 Simao “Sim” Avila The family lives in Los Angeles. J.D. was named a Diversity 2012. Big brother Owen (3) loves his combining or accepting today’s Michelle (Despres) Jaeger ’96 new friend. The family lives in the Ballard Energy Frequency world in our Champion Finalist in the 2012 Bay Area Corporate Counsel and husband Jens Jaeger—Madison neighborhood of Seattle, and Lisa is religious beliefs to achieve a Camille on Feb. 9, 2011. The family working as a consulting health care actuary. 21st Century Belief.” Awards publication, a joint production of the San Francisco lives in San Francisco. Michelle is a Realtor on the Peninsula. James Goodnow ’03 and Erin 1979 Paula Amanda J.D. Business Times and the Silicon (Ryan) Goodnow ’03—their daugh- was named associate chair Valley/San Jose Business Blye (Pagon) Faust ’97 and Aaron ter, Kelly Claire, on March 6, 2012. The of the moving image arts Journal. In October 2011, he Faust—Benjamin Pagon Faust on Oct. family lives in Phoenix. department at the Santa Fe earned the Santa Clara Law 20, 2011. They moved back to the Bay University of Art and Design. Social Justice and Human Area (Belvedere) after a five-year stint Emily (Moody) Wilcox ’03, MBA She continues her role since Rights Award. in Santa Barbara. ’09 and Lee—their first child, Abigail 2009 as director of Garson Wilcox, on Aug. 18, 2011. The family Studios on campus. She’s 1984 Sylvia Alvarez J.D., Cate (Bloem) O’Reilly ’97 and Rob lives in San Jose. the president and co-founder a 43-year resident of the O’Reilly—their third child, Chloe Clare Evergreen District of San Jose O’Reilly, on Jan. 26, 2012. Chloe joins Stephen Chesterton ’04 and of nonprofit New West Emily Sargent Chesterton ’03— Media Foundation, and is and an Evergreen School brother Shay Louden (3) and sister Board trustee, has been named Sophie Catherine (1). They live in San Peter William on Oct. 17, 2011. The in postproduction on her family lives in Rockville, Md. documentary, The Headman. Woman of the Year for the Diego, where Cate is taking a break 13th Senate District. Alvarez is from medical social work to be at home Matt Lee ’04 and Sara (Pfaff) Lee Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson president of the school board with the kids, and Rob is a manager for ’04—their first child, Parker Scott Lee, J.D., a Superior Court of Guam and taught for 26 years. Mercedes Benz. on Dec. 12, 2011. The family lives in Judge, is retiring. Since 1998, Los Altos. her contribution to the Guam 1987 Barry Rudolph MBA Maureen Bermingham Postigo Judiciary includes her work in has been appointed to the ’98 and Javier—Francesca Elizabeth Stephanie (Flint) Shaire ’04 and developing Guam’s therapeutic board of directors for Dot Hill on June 8, 2011. The family resides in husband Michael Shaire—Elliot on court approach to address Systems Corp., a provider of Walnut Creek. June 2, 2011. SAN storage solutions. family violence, drug- and Judson Werner ’99 and Amelie Chris ’05 and Megan (Koppes) alcohol-related crimes, and Laura Draxler Glon Werner ’99—their second child, DeMartini ’05—a future Bronco, juvenile justice. 1988 M.S. writes: “This is my fifth Gisèle Aven, on Jan. 11, 2012. She Abigail Maryann, on Oct. 11, 2011. joins their 2-year-old, Tristan Alan, in Randolph E. Breschini MBA year working in the clean Kirkland, Wash. Catherine M. Kelly M.Div. ’06, is CEO of Rift Valley Group technology/energy industry with early-stage companies and at husband Andrew, and son Michael— with headquarters in Harare, Erik Bergstrom ’00 and Leslie-Ann Rafael James on Oct. 3, 2011. Zimbabwe. The Group consists the Cleantech Open. My son is (Holt) Bergstrom ’02—their first of 18 agro-industrial companies hoping to attend Santa Clara child, Stella Grace, on Jan. 28, 2012. Scott Potter ’06 and Stephanie with more than 20,000 University!” Blocker Potter ’06—their first child, employees, 1 million acres of Jill (Blasi) Olmstead ’00 and Zack Savannah Grace, on March 18, 2012. Mark Stone J.D. is a county land, 14 factories, and revenues Olmstead—Eleanora (Ellie) Grace The family lives in Lake Charles, La. supervisor, representing the fifth of nearly $200 million. district of Santa Cruz County, Josephine Kashemeire- and the vice chair of the Send us your notes! Beebwa, DMJ, who completed California Coastal Commission. Keep your fellow Mobile: m.scu.edu/classnotes the ISW program at the Jesuit Mark Silacci MBA Online: www.scu.edu/alumupdate School of Theology in 1979, 1991 is owner of Swenson & Broncos posted on By snail mail: Class Notes • Santa writes: “I now live in Rome Silacci Flowers in Salinas and what’s happening. Clara Magazine • 500 El Camino Real as a member of the General Monterey. The award-winning • Santa Clara, CA 95053

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business opened in 1945; Mark Franco Mormando STL, technology companies related SoHee Shin, RSCJ, MTS oversees the operation, but his associate professor of Italian to employment disputes. writes: “After I returned to Seoul father still remains active in it. Studies at Boston College, gave from the Philippines, I have a lecture at San Francisco’s 1999 Marwa Elzankaly been invited to give retreats and 1992 Michel Courtoy Instituto Italiano di Cultura J.D., a partner at Northern workshops on spiritual direction MBA, EDA entrepreneur and on the Roman Baroque artist California trial law firm McManis or discernment for other orders. verification expert, has joined Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his Faulkner, was honored as one I decided to do a doctoral Breker Verification Systems’ new biography of Bernini in of the most influential women program in Religious Studies board of directors. Courtoy February. by the Silicon Valley/San Jose (Christian Spirituality) at Sogang has worked for Intel, Cadence Business Journal’s fifth annual University (Jesuit university Design Systems, Silicon Frank Nguyen J.D. was “Women of Influence” awards in Seoul). I continue to give Perspective, and Certess. among 27 finalists in the Best program. retreats and workshops during IP Lawyer category at the school breaks.” Kristen Thall Peters J.D. was 2012 Best Bay Area Corporate 2000 Dylan Cornelius elected to the management Counsel Awards, honored by MBA writes that he continues 2008 Margaret Aringo, committee at Cooper, White the Silicon Valley/San Jose to enjoy his role in technology FSJ, STD is the chairperson & Cooper LLP. Peters is Business Journal and the San finance and security with Dun of Association of Consecrated currently the chair of the firm’s Francisco Business Times. & Bradstreet. He competed in Women in Eastern and Green Practice Group, which Nguyen is VP of IP and licensing his first 5K race and two sprint Central Africa, an organization focuses on green, energy, at Intuitive Surgical Inc. triathlons last year. This year he of African religious women environmental, pipeline, real completed a half-marathon (in focusing on fostering leadership estate, and land-use law. Damian Barry Smyth, who under two hours). skills, communication studied at the Jesuit School of techniques, and a continued Andrew Vu J.D. Michael Joyce J.D. 1993 Theology in 1994, published 2002 centering on human rights and was named the Community joined Sidley Austin LLP as “Dr. Newman: Non Angelus sed social justice issues. Champion Winner at the 2012 Anglus” in the May/June 2011 a partner in the firm’s Los Best Bay Area Corporate edition of the journal Doctrine Angeles office. Joyce focuses Nitin Gambhir J.D. has Counsel Awards, honored by and Life. his practices on the use joined international law firm the Silicon Valley/San Jose of complex and innovative McDermott Will & Emery LLP Business Journal and the San 1995 Quinten Dronet M.A. structures to finance projects in as an associate. Gambhir’s Francisco Business Times. Vu writes: “I have been working the renewable energy field, as practice focuses on patent, is assistant general counsel for for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s well as in fossil fuel and other trademark, copyright, and trade SAP AG in Palo Alto. Office for the past year as a infrastructure assets. secret litigation. mental health professional. Roy Yih MBA was featured My primary duties are with Kristina Daniel Lawson J.D. J.T. Service J.D., founder of in the San Francisco Business the Reentry Program, part was among this year’s winners Soul Focus Sports, organized Times’ Entrepreneur Profile of the Louisiana Department of the San Francisco Business the San Jose 408K Race to series. He is CEO of Biocare of Correction’s rehabilitation Times’ 40 Under 40 award. the Row, in March. The 8K run Medical, a cancer diagnostics program.” Lawson is a partner for Land, raised funds for the Pat Tillman business based in Concord, Environment, and Natural Foundation and its programs, that he started in 1997. Yale Kim J.D. has been elected Resources Division, Manatt, including one that provides to the firm partnership Allen Phelps & Phillips. Lori Ciano MBA joined financial support for active 1994 Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & and veteran service members Conceptus Inc. as executive Steffan Tomlinson MBA Natsis LLP, a leading California and their spouses to complete VP of human resources. Prior, was named CFO of Palo Alto real estate, business, and degree programs. Ciano was senior VP of human litigation law firm. Networks, a Santa Clara–based resources for Affymetrix Inc., network security company Mike Sweitzer-Beckman where she directed the strategic 1996 Allan Evans MBA known for its Next Generation M.Div. ’08 writes: “Back planning and administration of has been appointed CEO of Firewalls. From 2005 to 2011, in 2002, I began collecting the company’s 1,100-member Samplify Systems Inc., provider Tomlinson served as CFO of letters from people who were workforce worldwide. of intellectual property for Aruba Networks, playing a key serving prison sentences computing, consumer, and role in the company’s IPO. Rian Jorgensen J.D. joined for committing acts of civil mobile device markets. disobedience at the School of Ahern Insurance Brokerage, Kelly Cowan J.D. 2005 the Americas (now the Western which specializes in the Amanda Groves J.D., a joined Denver-based defense Hemisphere Institute for insurance needs of law firms, partner in Winston & Strawn firm Grund-Dagner P.C. as an Security Cooperation). My goal as senior VP and counsel in its LLP’s San Francisco office, joins associate attorney. Prior, Cowan was to show the commitment San Francisco office. Drawing its Charlotte office. A veteran worked with Sinunu Bruni LLP, by these peace activists toward upon 25 years’ experience, he commercial litigator, Groves in San Francisco. will be responsible for launching has represented consumer- a nonviolent alternative. I am the In House Risk Management product companies in complex 2006 Peter Castle J.D. donating these letters to the Program and Services. commercial litigation and is joined Peak Vista Community Swarthmore College Peace noted for resolving state-wide Health Centers as manager Collection.” Jacklyn A. (Smith) Karceski of business development and and national litigation involving Olvin Veigas, S.J., STL is MBA, global general financial institutions’ loan partnerships. manager for GreenPoint director of the St. Thomas origination transactions and Institute of Philosophy, Theology Global, was the keynote collection practices. 2007 Alan D. Khalfin J.D. speaker at NYCwomen. was named managing attorney and History in Moscow, Russia. connect, a networking series 1997 Kristen Garcia of Vaksman Law California. A He started the school year with that showcases female Dumont J.D. has joined native of the Bay Area, Khalfin 60 new students. has vast experience in estate entrepreneurs to those Goodwin Procter’s litigation 2009 Ndol Jean-Pierre committed to promoting and department in its Silicon Valley planning, asset protection, and start-up law and strategy. Luzolo, S.J., STL is the supporting women in business. and San Francisco offices. She director of Parlons SIDA/ will focus on defense work for

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Kisangani (PSK) in Democratic New books by alumni Republic of Congo and the Sunday Vicar to Christ the King parish in Mongobo. PSK is a work of mercy and hope that brings assistance to the sick, especially those affected by the AIDS epidemic. John Van Metre MBA ran in the Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon, a 26.2-mile race held on a point-to-point course from Calistoga to Napa, in March. It’s his fourth Talk abouT Tough! heads. He once threw a baseball clear over marathon, but first since 2009. The legacy of Dante “Dan” Pastorini ’71 Swig Hall. His talents led the Oilers to make 2010 Gina Carnazzo MTS lies just beneath the surface every time an him the third pick of the 1971 draft, which is a volunteer English teacher NFL quarterback takes a snap. Pastorini, proved to be a curse as much as a blessing at a mission school in Lome, who played 13 years in the National Football for the young quarterback. Togo, through the Canossian League, mostly for the Houston Oilers, In the early 1970s, Houston was a Daughters of Charity. She was renowned for gritting his way through football-mad boomtown full of temptations writes: “I did not come to crushing injuries. During Pastorini couldn’t resist— Africa to convert anyone—just chiefly an endless list of to share Christ’s love with the his career, he suffered 12 people here. I am not bringing concussions, 16 broken noses, women undeterred by his Christ’s love, though, because and 10 separated shoulders—to shifting marital status. His love is already here.” name just a few of the maladies “I had eight years of listed in his new autobiography, Jesuit Catholic education, Emmanuel Foro, S.J., STD is Taking Flak: My Life in the but it didn’t stick,” he teaching theology at Hekima Fast Lane (AuthorHouse, 2011), writes. College in Nairobi, Kenya. co-written with John P. Lopez. On the field, Pastorini Mark Luedtke, S.J., M.Div. In 1978, he faced one of always brought his A-game, has been elected president by the most consequential of leading the Oilers to Loyola High School in Detroit his setbacks. Laid up with consecutive conference and the board of trustees. For three broken ribs, Pastorini championship games and the past three semesters, Fr. was looking doubtful for a within one famously blown Luedtke has been interning crucial game when two men call of the Super Bowl. at Jesuit high schools in The mistake helped lead Sacramento, San Francisco, walked in his hospital room and New York City. with a baseball bat and a bag. to another of Pastorini’s Pastorini feared they were legacies: instant replay. Christopher Trinidad MTS is gamblers intent on meting But off the field, director for campus ministry out punishment. Instead, one pulled out a Pastorini’s life was star-crossed, as he and director of vocal and choral vest that looked like a tiny life-jacket, put details in the candor that gives Taking Flak music at Saint Mary’s College it on, and stood there unperturbed as his its most arresting and wincing details. He High School in Berkeley. companion swung at his ribs. dated Playmates, starred in movies, and 2011 Fulgence “I want one of those,” Pastorini recalls posed in Playgirl. But his fast-lane lifestyle Ratsimbazafy, S.J., STD telling them. set him on a path of five failed marriages, writes from Madagascar: “I The next Sunday Pastorini was back on two bankruptcies, and a host of heartbreaks, will be in charge of the School the field guiding the Oilers to their first ever including estrangement from his daughter of Social Communication and play-off appearance, his ribs swaddled by a and run-ins with the law. Journalism (a four-year program Kevlar flak jacket that was soon to become Even his competitive gifts brought that delivers a master’s degree) the rage across the league. Today modern anguish. In the mid-’70s, a successful turn until the director returns from tertianship. I will be the delegate versions of the vest Pastorini pioneered as a professional drag boat racer ended in a for formation of the Province.” bulge under the jerseys of virtually every NFL bizarre accident that killed two spectators, and college passer in the country. including a 10-year-old girl. Rev. Seong-uk Choi STD If only Pastorini had found similar buffers “I’ve been called Barabbas,” he writes. writes: “I am teaching a special against the slings and arrows off the field, “And I often felt haunted the same way, like ethics course, including sexual he’d have had a much easier life, though I didn’t deserve the gifts I had.” ethics and professional ethics, Taking Flak wouldn’t be nearly so interesting. But Taking Flak is also a tale of at the Catholic University of Pusan Theological College. Freakishly gifted as an athlete, Pastorini redemption, as Pastorini tells of his journey I am so happy to share my turned down larger schools like UCLA to sobriety, reconciliation with his daughter, experiences at the Jesuit to follow his brother, and fellow football and lasting love. School of Theology with Korean player, louis ’66, from Bellarmine College “I ran hard for a lot of years, but now I seminarians.” Preparatory to Santa Clara. have direction,” he writes at the end of the The younger Pastorini’s booming kicks book. “I can’t put my finger on exactly what

ranked him as the best punter in school it is, but there’s a comfort that I feel every history, but it was his arm that truly turned morning when I wake up.” Sam Scott ’96

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Below are obituaries of Santa Clara alumni. At Army Air Corps. The Merced SCU student body president santaclaramagazine.com/obituaries you’ll find obituaries County Superior Court in Los and Nobili medal winner published in their entirety. There, family members may Banos is named in his honor, managed Great Western (Best) also submit obituaries for publication online and in print. and he was bestowed the until retirement in 1991. honor of Papal Knight of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope 1951 Henry Mariani J.D., Bench Foundation and the Paul VI for his civic and religious March 12, 2012. The longtime OBITUARIES Jesuit Community. Survivors activities. Survivors include San Jose attorney was rooted in include sons Stephen Santucci children Michael R. Falasco the old guard of the San Jose bar, specializing in real estate ’68 and Russell Santucci ’70, ’73, MBA ’75, Joan LaSalvia and probate law. He was known 1943 John Anthony and Russell’s wife, Lauren ’75, Anne Norton ’75, and as a generous man. Chiment, Feb. 21, 2012. Santucci ’69. Sally Perry ’78, M.A. ’80; Retired Lt. Col. Chiment was brother Dominic Falasco ’51; Harold C. Pagendarm, born in Dunsmuir, Calif., in 1921, James E. Delehanty, 1944 nephew Dan Falasco ’90; March 3, 2012. A resident of and he earned academic Feb. 21, 2012. Delehanty was grandchildren Dominique Belmont, he served in the degrees from SCU, Princeton, born in San Francisco in 1921. Norton ’05, M.A. ’11, James Medical Corps during WWII and Western State University. Though the Navy veteran was J. Norton ’08, and Christine and worked for Western Gear, After a 21-year career in the trained as a civil engineer and LaSalvia ’09; and son-in-law Ampex, and Edward Enterprises Army, he worked with Gulf ran his own roof decking before retiring. Survived by General Atomics and Hughes business in Texas, he later Charles Norton ’76. many family members, Network Systems until his worked as a manufacturer’s Thomas Francis Griffin ’48, including nephew Lawrence retirement in 1991. representative and a property March 19, 2012. Born in San J. Pagendarm ’71. developer in California. Francisco, the cherished Albert R. Santucci, Jan. 12, Survivors include daughter 2012. Born in 1921 in San grandfather of 23 worked for 1956 George Charles Meghan Delehanty MBA ’90, IBM and was a proud member “Chuck” Wiswall, April 1, Francisco, he was known at son Brian Delehanty ’76 and SCU as “Snooch” and was an of its Quarter Century Club. 2012. Born in 1932 in daughter-in-law Mary Lee All-American football player and Survivors include children Sacramento, he was a funny, Delehanty ’77, and grandson became a member of the Kathleen McCaughey ’73, engaging man who saw humor Colin ’09. Athletic Hall of Fame. After Sheila Griffin Whiteman ’81, in all walks of life. Wiswall and Timothy Griffin ’88. referred to himself as the “Fly ROTC training he served in the Robert M. Falasco 1948 Man” as a tribute to his business Army, was wounded, and was ’48, J.D. ’51, March 30, 2012. William “Val” Molkenbuhr Jr., of cleaning dairy barns and killing held as a POW in Germany. He The retired Merced County March 16, 2012. Born and flies. His biggest joys in life were worked in the family business, Superior Court Judge and Los raised in San Francisco, he his wife and their six children, Peerless Linen, until 1997. Banos native was 89 years old. served in the Marine Corps and spouses, and grandchildren. Among his favorite philanthropic In addition to his 26 years as a was commissioned as a 2nd Survivors include daughter Katy recipients were the Bronco judge, Falasco served in the lieutenant in WWII. The former

GIFT PLANNING

The storyteller In retirement, Anne Middleton ’71 follows her passion.

“What would you do if you could do anything?” was the best thing I’d ever done. I discovered Anne Middleton ’71 heard that question that it’s good for people, no matter what age, to y first from her father, as her career went from tell their stories.” ARR

B teaching to journalism to university fundraising. As part of Middleton’s training to become a When Middleton retired, she asked it once guided autobiographer, she wrote about a turning

HARLES more of herself. point in her life. She immediately thought of Santa C Both as a journalist and in working for Clara University. the University of California, San Diego, At Santa Clara, Middleton met “the best friends she always told stories. Some of her I’m ever going to have.” Middleton and her most rewarding years were writing classmates still travel together, celebrate birthdays, in-depth, personal profiles for and keep their “Santa Clara connection” alive at newspapers. Middleton wanted reunions and frequent get-togethers. to tell those kinds of stories again. This is why Middleton made a bequest to Santa “That’s what I do now, I teach Clara for scholarships. Now that she helps craft people how to write autobiographies, she knows just how important autobiographies,” those first chapters of a life story can be and she says. “When that “there’s no greater gift you can get than a I wrote my dad’s first-class education.” memoirs a year For a no-obligation rate quote, please contact: before he passed Office of Gift Planning • 408-554-2108 away at nearly 87, it [email protected] • www.scu.edu/giftplanning IN MEMORIAM

Wiswall-Hestad ’89 and brother 1974 Paul Nicholas Ilacqua, Michael L. Hackworth ’63, a Silicon Valley Bill Wiswall ’55. Feb. 16, 2012. He was born entrepreneur and philanthropist who had the IMAX and raised in San Francisco. theater at the Tech Museum of Innovation named 1957 Frederick B. Maguire after him, died April 21 at the age of 71. He was , May 29, 2010. He With mathematics degrees from J.D. ’60 a 40-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, was 74. SCU and Stanford University, the math scholar helped many working for Motorola, Fairchild Semiconductor, 1962 Richard “Dick” young people excel in the and Signetics. His greatest claim to fame was as Harding Tourtelot, Feb. 26, subject. He was the loving a co-founder in 1985 of Cirrus Logic, a supplier of 2012. During the course of his husband of Janet (Noordhoff) high-precision analog and digital signal processing business career, the Army Ilacqua ’75 and a devoted components for audio and energy markets. He served in several roles veteran developed many father. there, including CEO and chairman of the board. He also served on award-winning residential and several private high-tech company boards and coached entrepreneurs commercial real estate projects 1975 Agnes “Aggie” Hor- in their company formation phases. Hackworth was a strong believer and developments. He enjoyed vath Potter, Feb. 21, 2012. A in hard work, community service, and ethics, taking a leadership role in spending time with his extended resident of Los Gatos, Potter several local nonprofits. He also served on many boards, including the family, especially cooking for was born in 1953 in Hun- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, where he created the Hackworth them. He died after a long, gary, grew up in Ohio, then Fellowships 10 years ago. courageous battle with cancer. moved to California, where Survived by brother Robert she earned degrees from SCU Larry Hauser, part of the Broncos coaching staff Tourtelot ’56. and Pepperdine University. She from 1983 to 1997, died of complications from held corporate and divisional internal injuries in December. He was a highly 1966 Alan William Simila management finance positions successful high school basketball coach in Illinois MBA, Oct. 4, 2011. Born in for ROLM Corporation, Sohio and California prior to coming to SCU, where he 1940, Simila earned a full Petroleum, and Ampex Corpo- recruited current NBA all-pro and two-time MVP scholarship to Stanford ration. The outdoors enthusiast Steve Nash ’96. He subsequently coached University and later received an and horse lover founded the men’s basketball for California State University, MBA from SCU. He enjoyed an Gorilla Search Group, which Dominguez Hills, until 2004. extensive career at Pacific Gas specialized in senior financial and Electric Company. He was executive searches. Born in 1939, Edwin H. Taylor, an adjunct a resident of Brentwood, Calif. professor at SCU’s School of Law for 10 years, , 1977 James M. Rhine J.D. passed away March 10, 2012, after a battle with Mollie Rachel Lee, Oct. 6, 2010. He lived in 1969 cancer. He earned several degrees and served in Feb. 4, 2012. Born in Berkeley Rohnert Park, Calif. the Air Force. His career in law began when an in 1947, she created an inviting intellectual property firm asked him to prepare and and engaging learning environ- 1978 Jack Nellany M.A., prosecute patent applications for what was then ment in her many roles in Jan. 3, 2012. A third-generation a small technology company—Intel, which Taylor education during 30 years: Santa Barbaran born in 1931, teacher, librarian, library media Nellany served in the Air Force continued to represent for more than 40 years. specialist, and principal. during the Korean War and later Clients included Apple (since its inception), eBay, and Echelon. raised a family—and orchids 1970 Gary M. Horgan, Jan. and dahlias—in San Jose, 20, 2012. The San Francisco where he worked for the city. native was 64. He was a devoted and loving husband, 1981 Mark A. McAtee, March 26, 2012. Born in husband John Powers ’83, veteran had a 20-year career in father, and mentor. The brothers Tony Scurich ’81 and retail before changing to respected banking attorney of San Rafael, McAtee entered SCU to study electrical Mike Scurich ’84, sister Mimi property management and 37 years established the firm Scurich ’89, and sisters-in-law commercial real estate, primarily Horgan, Rosen, Beckham, and engineering and play football for Coach Pat Malley ’53. He was Julie ’82 and Jennifer ’83. Her for Blackhawk Real Estate and Coren. Survived by niece father, Luke “Bud” A. Scurich Coldwell Banker-CB Richard Kimberly A. Blanton ’97. named an Academic All-American in 1981. He worked for ESL ’54, died two years ago. Ellis in the Silicon Valley. Jain O’Mara Light, Jan. 16, in Sunnyvale, and TRW and Survivors include wife Mikell 1995 Nathan C. Hearn, Feb. Kelly M.S. ’96. 2012. Having lived her entire life Northrop Grumman in Colo- 14, 2012. Born in 1973 in in the Bay Area, the avid cyclist rado. Survivors include his wife, Tillamook, Ore., Hearn spent 2008 Brian Edward Drocco, enjoyed parenting and more Mary (Mastro) ’81. his youth in Portland. After Feb. 24, 2012. He grew up in than 22 years as a paralegal, 1982 Kathryn Lisa Garcia, earning a B.S. in physics from Cupertino and was a member office manager, and personal SCU and a Ph.D. in theoretical of the first—and very success- assistant. Jan. 30, 2012. A resident of San Jose, she was born in physics from the University of ful—Solar Decathlon team at 1972 Bernard J. Heavey Jr. 1960. She graced many stages Illinois, he did his postdoctorate SCU. Upon graduation, Drocco J.D., Jan. 23, 2012. Born in with her beautiful dancing but is research at Washington State and a few other engineers from 1927 in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was best known by her students for University and the University of that team founded Valence an engineer, lawyer, community her teaching of dance, and of Chicago (Flash Group), followed Energy (recently acquired by activist, brother, father, grand- life. Survivors include daughter by employment at NCAR from Serious Energy), where he was father, friend. He served his Veronica ’12. 2009 to 2012. Survivors include working. He loved technology community, he cared for his wife Sandra M. Kelly ’96. and music, and he had a joyful friends, and he loved his family. 1984 Elizabeth Julie optimism for life that he shared Powers, Jan. 15, 2012. Called 1996 Stephen Lawrence with his family and countless Numerous survivors include son Nichols M.A., Aug. 29, 2011. Michael J. Heavey J.D. ’76. “Missy” by friends and family, friends. she passed away due to Born in 1934 in Cleveland, complications from breast Ohio, he was a resident of cancer. Survivors include Twain Harte, Calif. The Navy

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July 21 Chicago Jesuit Alumni Mass & Reception August 9 Chicago Night at Wrigley Field Goodbye inCircle … 11 Santa Clara Valley San Jose Earthquakes Game & BBQ

18 San Diego Alumni Night at the Padres Hello LinkedIn September The social media landscape has changed—so the Alumni 9 Vintage Santa Clara XXIX Association is saying farewell 12 New York Fall Kick-off Reception to inCircle. We look forward to 13 Washington, D.C. 2nd Annual Career Networking offering even more networking Reception with St. Mary’s opportunities to the Bronco community through 14 Alumni Association 9th Annual Bronco Legacy BBQ the Santa Clara University LinkedIn group, including the ability to: 15 Santa Cruz AFO Beach Clean-up • connect with 9,500+ alumni, current students, 15 African American New Student Reception faculty, and staff 15 Asian Pacific Islander New Student Reception • search for jobs posted for Broncos, by Broncos 15 Chicano/Latino New Student Reception • network across industry, interest, and location 20 Marin 79th Annual Dinner 27 Peninsula AFO at St. Francis Center 27 Seattle Dinner with Kirk Hanson Join today! www.scu.edu/linkedin October 5 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch 7 Seattle Day at the Sounders 11–14 Grand Reunion Weekend

KICKOFF EVENt FOR GRAND REuNION

2012 President’s Speaker Series SERIES Seven

Save the date to hear Reza Aslan ’95 The Next War: Iran, Israel, and the U.S. at the Crossroads

October 11, 2012 in Mayer Theatre (tickets go on sale soon.) AfterWords

Beauty and beast The role of the arts in Jesuit education arry. b By Maeve Louise Heaney, vDMF

eauty is to theology as the arts has to do with how we hoto by Charles p are to higher education: on inhabit and interact with the margins but moving to the world, each other, Bcenter stage. Why? Because in and God—whom we can this rapidly changing world, the kinds encounter in and through of questions we are faced with demand all things, if we have eyes, genuinely creative answers. ears, and senses awake and ulpture by Kelly Detweiler. ulpture by Kelly

In Erik Ehn’s compelling play free enough to perceive. Here C s performed at Santa Clara this April, is where beauty and the arts come C

What a Stranger May Know, one center stage: Beauty is not indifferent Cerami character says: “Build with diamonds to us, and it has the capacity to awaken and your work will never decay. How formerly paralyzed visions and ways do I do that?” It somehow echoes the of perceiving the world. The arts can ugliness of your city as an excuse for concern expressed by Adolfo Nicolás, mediate our experience of beauty. their crimes.” the Superior General of the Society There is a field in theology that Life is beautiful. God is beautiful. of Jesus, about whether Jesuit higher has re-emerged during the last 50 We are beautiful, even amid the ugliness education offers the kind of “genius” years and is drawing the attention of that at times surrounds and touches us. future generations need to address the scholars across the world: theological Christian faith does not shy away even challenges they face. I am convinced aesthetics. Although it is developing in from that; the vulnerable, poorer aspects that music and the performing arts have many directions, origins are important, of our lives can also be a place in which an indispensable role to play in what and its main forerunner, Hans Urs von to encounter the God who inhabits Nicolás describes as “promoting [the] Balthasar, realized that one essential all things—the God who, through the depth of thought and imagination” that characteristic of “who God is” had been Incarnation and continued presence our students will need to be leaders— neglected by Western thought—beauty. among us is, upon assuming things in and, particularly for those studying in Balthasar writes: God’s self, beauty and beast. The arts the Jesuit School of Theology and the Beauty is the disinterested one, without can help us access that beautiful God. pastoral ministries program at SCU— which the ancient world refused to A university such as Santa Clara ministers and pastors, for the future. understand itself, a word which both has amazing resources for exploring The danger lies in thinking that imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has the arts in this way. I had the pleasure art is accessorial, for the “elite,” or at bid farewell to our new world, a world of learning this firsthand as a visiting least secondary, only to be considered of interests, leaving it to its own avarice Bannan Fellow at the Ignatian Center after more urgent matters of economic and sadness. for Jesuit Education this past year. From growth, technology, and even ethical early on, conversations with colleagues concerns are dealt with. And yet if the In a world without beauty ... in a in the musical arts and the Jesuit School role of the arts in education, in the world which is perhaps not wholly of Theology set the scene for what words of Jesuit theologian Bernard without beauty, but which can no became a lecture and performance— Lonergan, is to “explore the possibilities longer see it or reckon with it: in staged on both the Mission Campus of fuller living in a richer world ... such a world the good also loses its and in Berkeley—involving music, [which], instead of being considered attractiveness, the self-evidence of why dance, theatre, words, and prayer, with superfluous or illusory could rather it must be carried out. the added collaboration of many gifted be called more real and more true,” In a world without beauty, the good students and alumni. Through their then perhaps we need them more and true become harder to defend, to generosity and giftedness, I believe a than we realize. Perhaps they’re want, to desire … As Oscar Wilde once space was opened in which we not even indispensable. said to a journalist, talking of a city only talked about but experienced the The heart of the matter is Ignatian whose name I shan’t reveal: “I wonder arts as an access point to the beauty and theological: Christian spirituality your criminals don’t plead the of Christ. SCU

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Paint and serendipity Read how light and color and the hazards of nature have shaped the life and art of Mark Alsterlind ’76 erlind ’76 on p. 32. ST l a Mark