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USD Magazine features www.sandiego.edu/publicati ons Reflections on the EDITOR 14 Life of a President Michae l R. Has kins '02 (M.A.) Mhas [email protected] During her eight years as USD president, Alice Bourke Hayes frequently seemed to CONTRIBUTING EDITORS be more than one person. But while she Cecilia Chan Cchan@sa ndiego.edu slipped effortlessly in and out of so many critical roles, each persona was a reflection Timoth y McKernan Ti [email protected] of her visionary leadership. departments Krysm Shrieve Diary of Discovery [email protected] Campus Almanac Scott Heidler '90 passed up a comfort­ New Views on Religion; Q&A with DESIGN & PRODUCTION 20 4 able career to document life in places USD President Mary Lyons. Also: Grads Barbara Ferguso n [email protected] where war rages, poverty abounds and say goodbye; science center opens; faculty hope often seems beyond reach. Each suggest a summer syllabus. STUDENT INTERN stop on his journey was a rite of passage, Li z Biebl '03 revealing more than he expected about Alumni Almanac PHOTOGRAPHERS the world, its people and himself. 8 Robert Wise '87 is an environmental Fred Greaves Mr. Clean. Also: Homecoming plans; a Scott Heidler '90 Minor Miracles Mars mission; cop reacher in the tundra. Rodney Nakamoto Professional baseball players make the Gary Payne '86 26 Faculty Almanac Brock Scott game look easy, but getting co the major Linda Robinson will document life on in Front cove r: Rodney Nakamoto leagues is a physical and mental struggle. 10 Five former Toreros are in the midst of the from lines of AIDS. Also: law prof l ,, University of San Diego chat struggle, hoping to make their analyzes greed; new nursing dean arri ves; dreams come true. innovative projects for professors. PRESIDENT Ma ry Lyo ns Sports Almanac EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 12 Rower Kelsey Watters sets a frenetic FOR COMMUNICATIONS pace. Also: Toreros send first swimmer AND MARKETING to NCAAs; cough finish for men's tennis. Harl an Corenman 1e. Alumni Gallery/Class Notes to DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS 30 Kathryn Hole '84 makes the golden Michael R. Haskins years shine; Bridget Banner '95 is for USD Magazine is publ is hed quarterly by the birds; kids learn soccer and life the Uni ve rsity of San Diego for its alumni , skills from Carlos Gonzales '97. parents and fri ends. Editorial offices: USD Magazine, Publications Office, Uni ve rsity Alumni Regional Events of Sa n Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Sa n Diego, CA 92 110-2492. Third-class postage paid 37 at Sa n Diego, CA 92 110. USD phone num­ be r (6 19) 260-4600; emergency security In Your Own Words (6 19) 260-2222; disaster (61 9) 260-4534 . 42 John Carlos Frey '85 found success Pos tm as ter: Send address changes to USD by making a film chat nobody wanted. Magazine, Publications Office, Un iversity of San Diego, 5998 Alcal a Park, San Diego, CA Calendar 92 1 I 0-2492. (0703/46000) 43

3 NEW VIE ON RELIG by Krystn Shrieve

Campus Center Promotes Latino/a Perspectives

rlando Espln's epiphany came at a conference, when a speaker won­ 0 dered aloud how the understanding of Catholicism might change if the subject was taught from a Latino point of view. Answering that question became a mission for the professor of theology and religious studies. He worked quickly. In 1996, a year after the conference, Espin opened USD's Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism. He first brought rogecher theologians from around the United Scares ro discuss how Latino perspectives could be better represented in education. The gatherings turned into a yearlong symposium, which crystallized in the Students armed with these insights, he says, And, in April, the center received an award of notion that Catholic theology should better will be more effective as rheology teachers or excellence from the Academy of Catholic reflect the makeup of the Catholic Church. when leading congregations. Hispanic Theologians of the United Scares. "Theology is the systematic reflection on The center hosts conferences and seminars Aquino says the center now is looking inro the faith as it has ro do with people and the with similar centers in Mexico, Puerro Rico, how Latino Catholic faith is affected by che world," explains Espin, adding char nearly the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil and intersection of religion, culture, feminism half the Roman Catholics in the United Europe. Ir also funds research projects to and political power. This year, center repre­ Scates are Latino. ''And if the Church is so study new ideas for the next generation of sentatives will attend conferences addressing dramatically changed by the Latino presence, church leaders and theologians. The work the cultural, personal and religious conse­ it would be suicide not ro think of rheology represents a new school of thought in Catholic quences of migrations, and the effects of from chat perspective." theology, and Aquino says the church sup­ globalization on women. Espin and religious studies professors ports che center's efforts. Espin and Aquino know some answers ro Marfa Pilar Aquino and Gary Macy form the "The bishops with whom we work see our the question char inspires their work likely core team directing the center. They hope work as supportive of the Church's effort to won't come for at lease a generation. Bue they their research will help educators change how respond more efficiendy to the needs of che say the pursuit is as important as che goal. Catholicism is caught in seminaries and uni­ community," she says. "They appreciate what "This type of work must be seen as long­ vers ities. Espfn's goal is ro encourage educa­ we're doing." term," Aquino says. "Social changes cake tors to include che Latino perspective, and ro The center has received other endorsements. a long rime, but if we stop having visions of understand how Latinos interpret religion in Adminiscrarors at the University of Notre these changes, they'll never cake place." their lives and how it shapes their behaviors, Dame scrapped plans to scare their own center For more information, log on to commitments, values and self-perceptions. when they saw the progress made at USD. www.sandiego. edultheollatino-cath. html.

4 USO MAGAZINE A Bittersweet Farewell who designed rhe installation, tided Upward Bound T he 3,500-square-foot lab More than 1,900 srudents - and "The Experiment." Gets Boost opened rhis year at the Alcala West one president - left USO after chis T he interactivity comes from four Just days afrer US D's Upward office park. It includes gurneys and year's commencement ceremonies , touch-screen computers mounted on Bound program, which prepares wheelchairs, blood pressure cuffs held May 24-25. The new alumni rhe lobby walls, each displaying hi gh school students for higher edu­ and IV poles, and all d1 e equipment departed with diplomas in hand, images relared to one of the four sci­ cation, sent two doze n students and instruments used for a typical while retiring President Alice B. ence disciplines housed in the center. onward to colleges, rhe university medical check-up. H ayes told graduates at the week­ Refl ecrion comes from rhe srainless received nearly $1 million to contin­ Beds are fitted with hospital end's rhree ceremonies char she sreel display panels and a stainless ue the program for four more years. sheets - neatly folded with hospital leaves USO wirh "a deep apprecia­ steel floor place. By interactin g wirh News of the $938,496 grant from corners, of co urse. Weighted man­ tion for rhe spirit of community, the screens, visitors can change pat­ the U.S. Department of Educarion nequins help students learn to prop­ of friendship, of faith, of intellectual terns in the lights, which are lin ked followed rh e graduation of 25 erl y lift and move patients. vigo r and academic integri ty you to morion sensors and glow only Upward Bound partici pants from have helped us build in rhis beauri­ when someone is in the space. Kearny High School, many of ful place." Other artistic touches in rhe four­ whom joined rhe program as fresh­ The School of Law graduated 349 story building include a floor mosaic men when it was implemented in students on May 24 at rhe Jenny char shows what a rissue sample 1999. All bur one of the students Craig Pavili on. Activist and philan­ looks like under a microscope, and a will attend co llege this fal l, a success duopist Alec L. Cory, who's practiced concrete patio pattern textured and rate that Upward Bound administra­ law in San Diego for 65 years, gave colored to represent San Diego's tors say proves rhe program wo rks. the commencement speech. Cory is geology. T he accents are designed to "We are delighred with rhe stu­ a fo under of the San Diego Legal Aid make the center less intimidating to dents' success, thanks to their hard Society, which provides civil legal non-science majors who will take work and ch ar of their parents, help for low-income individuals. classes there, says biology Professor along wid1 the dedicated support The following day, the Rev. Sue Lowery, faculty liaison to the of Upward Bound and USO staff," J. Bryan Hehir spoke at the morn­ architects and contracto rs . says Cynthia Villis, USO associare "The lab allows us to do an even ing commencement for rhe College provost and executive director of the berrer job of teaching basic nursing of Am and Sciences. Hehir, former university's PreCollege lnsrirute. and assessment ski lls," says Professor head of Harvard Divinity School, One of?00 such programs Mary Jo Clark, who adds that stu­ is the president and CEO of nationwide, USD's Upward Bound dents previously practiced in make­ Carholic Charities USA, a network offers 50 Kearny High students shift classroom settings. "The set­ of more rhan 1,400 social service academic rutoring, twice- monthly ring is more real istic, which makes agencies nationwide. wriring and grammar academies, ski lls eas ier for facu lty to reach, and In rhe afternoon ceremony, for conflicr mediarion and career plan­ for students to learn." business , diversified liberal am, ning workshops, and assistance with The lab, featuring exam roo ms, education and nursing, graduates college applicarions and fin ancial observation rooms, offices, confer­ were addressed by Dennis Collins, aid forms. ence areas and a co mputer center, former president and CEO of the Zulma Olea, a four-year Upward cost more than $500,000 and was James Irvi ne Foundarion, a private, Bound student, says the progran1 funded by a combination of grants nonprofit grantmaking foundation The 150,000-square-foor center fulfilled her dream to attend USO. and university funds. dedicated to enhancing the social, was dedicated June 28 and will open "Without Upward Bound, I It was built primarily to accommo­ economic and physical quality of for classes chis fall, housing the doubt I would be going to USO,'' date rhe needs of students in d1e life in California. chemistry, biology, phys ics, and says the 17-year-old, the first in her school's new Master's Entry Program marine and environmental studies family to graduate from high school. in Nursing, launched last year for Light Show Lesson departments. It contains more than "I vowed chat some day I'd go rhere, people wirh bachelor's degrees in 70 reaching and research laborato­ bur I had no idea how to do it. I orher fields who opt to change careers Walk into rhe lobby of the new ries, two aquariums, an astronomy started doing community se rvice, and pursue nursing. In rhe lab, rhey'U Donald P. Shiley Center for Science deck, a greenhouse, and a Geographic learn basic skills from scratch. and Technology, and you'll be greeted heard about Upward Bound and got Information Systems lab. involved. It changed my life. " Clark says other nursing students wirh a dazzling light show. But the Students also will benefit from - who have nursing backgrounds atrium's interactive art installation high-speed computers, a digital and are raking graduate level courses - which features 128 fiber opric Nursing Lab is telescope camera and a high-tech to further rheir careers - also are cables flashing red, blue, green and Totally Fab instructional gadger called a smart eager ro use the space. She already yellow - is more than jusr enter­ Students entering rhe School of board, which allows class notes to has a list of 12 different courses for tammenr. N ursing's new skills lab are so elated be saved, prin red or posred to a which faculty plan to use the lab. "I tried to create a work of arr that that their pulses race and their Web site. "Ir's turned into a much more would underscore rhe relationship blood pressures rise - and now integral part of our entire program between science and arr in a way rhat rhey have the instruments to meas­ than we'd originally anticipared," involved interacriviry and refl ection," ure their excitement. C lark says. says USO arr Professor David Smith,

SUMMER 2003 5 Expanded Horizons Suggestions For Your Summer Syllabus USO will reach our to international students and help them thrive at Bringing a book to the beach or on Anne Hendershott, Sociology Yi Sun, History Alcala Park through a new English that long vacation plane ride? Well , Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum Blowback: The Costs and program that launches this fall. toss our that cechno-thriller or trashy "Although ir is nor exactly 'light' Consequences ofAmerican Empire The English Language Academy romance, and cake some recommen­ reading for summer, ic is the first Chalmers Johnson is a full-rime program to teach inter­ dations from our facul ty, who plan book to co mprehensively address "This book should provide some national undergraduate and gradu­ to cackle good reads that are thrilling, the history of the Soviet prison very insightful and enlightening ate students about the uses of inspirational and occasionally - dare camp sys tem." analyses of American fore ign policy­ English for academic, technical and we say it? - ed ucational. making during the last few decades, professional purposes. In addition to Gary Macy, Theology and especially wi th regard to East Asia." Bethami Dobkin, read ing skills, research writing and Religious Studies Communication Studies Robert Phillips, oral fluency, students wi ll be accli­ The Ornament ofthe World: What Liberal Media? The 7iuth Business Administration mated to American culture through How Mwlims, Jews and About Bias and the News Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett field trips to cultural events. Classes Christians Created a Culture Eric Alterman "This book cakes up in derail the wi ll be caught by USO professors of Tolerance in Medieval Spain "Alterman cakes on popular pundits question of free wi ll , responsibility and other instructors. Maria Rosa Menocal and media icons like Ann Coulter and ethics from a Darwinist per­ T he expectation is char the stu­ "I thought it would be nice to read and Bernard Goldberg, and since spective. Dennett's remarkable style, dents, whose language difficulties about a rime when Jews, Christians they gee so much press, I'm looking a keen interest in che subject matter might prevent chem from being and Muslims worked together, forward to a credibl e and entertain­ and a favorable cover blurb from my admitted to USO, will be able to instead of killing each ocher. " ing analys is." former professor, Richard Rorty, apply for admission after scoring make me eager to read it. " better on the Test of English as a Tom Minnich, Foreign Language. Qualifying stu­ Business Administration James Anderson, Philosophy dents who successfully complete The Crimson Petal and the White The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen their academy studies may petition Michael Faber "If I ever get to it ... because my to be admitted into USO courses, "For a book to be a good beach wife raves about it." and could be admitted to the book, it must have a good story that university. completely engrosses you. The story "The academy will fill the gap has been likened to some of the between the students currently able work by Charles Dickens, so that to be admitted and students who means a fascinating plot peopled have the motivation and academic with intriguing characters." record, bur not che TOEFL score," Tammy Dwyer, Chemistry says che academy's academic coordi­ Cadillac Desert: The American West nator, Deborah Sundmacher '95 and Its Disappearing ~ter (M.A.), an English as a Second Marc Reisner Language consultant for the USO "It's a history of the use and misuse Writing Center. of natural resources in the western Academy administrators say the United Scares, especially California. international students will bring I chink it's a timely issue." added dimension and diversity to the campus. Sister Mary Hotz, English "T he academy will bring us a Good Poems, Garrison Keillor new cross-cultural experience, and a "Nothing complex, brilliant or new academic program for students luminous, terms English teachers from all over the world," says often use to describe worthy works. Jennifer Preimesberger '85 (M.A. '89, J use good poems, poems that stick Ed.D. '00), the program's director. with you." "By allowing them to have time Elise Prosser, with us, it's warming them up to Business Administration the culture and the university Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean atmosphere." American Writings, Elaine H. Kim and Laura Hyun Yi Kang "As an Asian-American faculty Professor Bethami Dobkin, member here at USO, I enj oy read­ Communication Studies ing Asian-American literature, even though I don't teach ethnic studies."

6 USD MAGAZINE USD President Mary Lyons

Mary Lyons joined USD as president on July 1. rake an appropriate position as a good citizen She was president ofthe College ofSaint and a good representative of the university. Benedict Ji'om 1996 to 2003, and before that was president ofthe California Maritime What do you think are some of the Academy for six years. A retired captain in the challenges facing USD? PHOTO BY RODNEY NAKAMOTO Naval Reserve, Lyons, 55, also was a professor My first impression is char USO is well­ ofrhetoric and homiletics at the Graduate positioned co sec an example for how Catholic Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif She higher education can be made available to What is the role of USD among taught at the University of California, Berkeley, che widest array of students, especially chose Catholic universities? and San Jose State University, and was a com­ who are academically prepared bur need There's a huge variety among Catholic col­ munity college, middle school and elementary financial assistance. We need to find the leges and universities, and USO is especially school teacher. resources to help these students, and we also important because there are relatively few need to ensure we have resources for the pro­ Catholic universities on the West Coast. What attracted you to the position of grams char are at the center of new facilities, Our role is to bring rhe best of the Catholic USD president? such as the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Church's intellectual tradition to debates and I lived in San Diego in the 1970s, so I've been and Justice and the Donald P. Shiley Center dialogs char affect the very diverse popula­ following USD's evolution over the years, and for Science and Technology. Our priorities tion of our state. We do char by graduating I know char USO has a reputation as a uni­ should always be guided by a commitment students who will bring their USO values versity where people are very committed to to our students, which means promoting and experiences to bear on issues of public creating an environment where students can better educational opportunities, providing policy, science, law and ocher timely issues. thrive academically. The riming was right for research opportunities across the curriculum, me, because I felt char at Saint Benedict I had and hiring the best and brightest faculty and How has your management style been accomplished enough and wasn't leaving with administrators. shaped by your work experiences? anything unfinished. Being a university presi­ I loved reaching, bur I also found char dent gives me the opportunity to do the work Greater diversity among the student body administrative work was very exciting. I like I love, and being at USO brings me back to is a university goal. How would you work the idea of finding our what an institution my home stare, where there's so much vitality, to increase campus diversity? needs and where it wants to go, and then diversity and challenge. I've been in several positions where diversity going our and crying co make char happen. was a very important priority, and much of I also was fortunate in char the Navy pro­ What do you hope to accomplish in your it depends on creating access for students vides exquisite leadership training and first six months at USD? who have financial need. Beyond char, we opportunities. I've found that no matter I believe char a leader should always be lis­ need to ensure the campus climate is wel­ what the organization, the principles of tening, bur in the early stages I chink I'll go coming and hospitable to a multicultural good management are usually the same. through a period of very intense listening and mulrierhnic student body and staff. Our I chink good leaders should be clear about and of immersion into the culture of the goals in chis area should be specific and real­ what they expect, then lee people do their university. I expect to work with trustees, istic, and we need to enlist the help of part­ jobs while working to sustain the positive alumni and the entire campus community to ners in che business world and rhe commu­ momentum. As president, I want to be the come to a mutual understanding ofUSD's nity to help us find and support a diverse person who can keep an eye on the horizon strategic priorities, and I wane to become as campus population. while working with ochers to map the course familiar as I can with rhe San Diego region. for getting there. In char way, I'll best understand how I can

SUMMER 200 3 7 ALMANAC

"I was nervous the first rime I went in," recalls Wise, who at the From Space Shuttle to rime worked for the Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team, contracted by the EPA for hazardous material responses. Anthrax,Alum Cleanses "There was contamination there, bur what you saw on CNN is what we knew. All we knew was to go and sample these particular places." Environment Last December, Wise joined rhe EPA as one of two on-sire coordina­ tors based in Sourhern California. He oversees toxic cleanups and orher by Cecilia Chan emergencies from Kern County, north of Los Angeles, to rhe U.S.­ ust yards from an oil well blowout, Robert Wise '87 monicors a Mexico border. When he's nor doing paperwork in his office, Wise is hand-held analyzer and measures elevations of hydrocarbons in giving and receiving training, checking on rhe cleanup of contaminated the air, which reeks with the pungent odor of petroleum. Four sires or responding to accidents such as rhe Columbia explosion. Jdays earlier, rhe well went our of control, spitting hot oil 10 feet Two days after the Feb. 1 shuttle tragedy, Wise was deployed to inro the air, staining rhe earth black and forcing evacuation of busi­ Texas as an operations chief for one of four command posts directing nesses in an industrial area of El Segundo, southwest of Los Angeles. ground searches for shuttle debris. "The danger is vapors from the oil," says Wise, who works for the "People wanted to go out and do their job and get as much material U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "In a worst-case scenario, recovered as possible," says Wise, who went out with search reams there's a danger of fire." when extra hands were needed. "The NASA people were amazing. Danger is nothing new for the 38-year-old Wise, who in February What would look like a piece of burnt-out scrap material to us, they helped recover debris from the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, could tell exactly what part of the shuttle it came from. " and in 2001 responded to the anthrax scare in Washington, D.C. In Wise, who isn't permitted to specifically identify what was recov­ rhe nation's capital, Wise, outfitted in protective clothing and a gas ered, says rhe size of materials found ranged from less than an inch to mask, went into congressional buildings and the Supreme Court to 8 feet in diameter. Although rhe fue l used on a shuttle is "pretty rest for anthrax contamination.

8 USD MAGAZINE Robert Wise surveys the scene of a recent oil well explosion.

nasty," he says, the bigger hazards for the search teams were poison Calling All Alumni ducrion methods using agriculture ivy, rattlesnakes and wild boars. Alumni are invited to come home and aquaculture. He eve ntuall y Wise learned his skil!s on the job. After earning a master's degree for this year's Homeco ming and wants to initiate research projects to in environmental science from Loyola Marymount University, he reunion celebrations, Oct. 10-12. help developing countries improve food production methods. began his career as a high school biology teacher. When his contract The weekend's events include a golf tournament and welcome reception, wasn't renewed, he landed a job with a Long Beach environmental a tailgate parry and football game, a Top Teacher in consulting, testing, engineering and design firm chat did contract luau and cas in o night, and the the Tundra work for the EPA. Alumni Mass with presentation of For Elizabeth (Davenport) Kirby '77, "It sounded pretty interesting, and the environmental field at the the Mocher Rosalie Hill award for teaching kindergarten in Homer, time was new," says Wise, adding chat the job allowed him to use outstanding service to USD. Alaska, is no different than in the his USD biology degree and to travel. ''And I was really broke and Invitations wi ll be sent in August, lower 48 states - except for the 5 5 needed a job." and reunions are planned for the inches of snow in winter, and the 19 classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, hours of daily sunlight in summer. Since then, Wise has been at every major catastrophe in California, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993 and For her outstanding work, Kirby including the Northridge earthquake and the derailment of two dif­ 1998. To join the Homecoming last year netted a BP Teachers of ferent trains carrying deadly chemicals, one at the Cajon Pass, near planning committee or to help plan Excellence awa rd, given annually by San Bernardino, Calif., and one in the Sacramento River. Bue chose yo ur reunion, cal l th e alumni rela­ the oil and petrochemicals co mpany incidents, and the anthrax scare, rank low on his danger scale. tions office at (6 19) 260-48 19. to educators from Alaska's Kenai "I've done a lot more For up-to-dare information , log Peninsula. T he recipients are hon­ ored for dedication, crearivi ry and dangerous things," says on to http:/ /alumni.sandiego.edu. See page 37 for an events schedule. inspirar.ion in the classroom. Wise. "We cl eaned one "What is neat about teaching si te (in San Bernardino Man on Mars here is we real ly get into the native County) that had in the John Gonzales Jr .'s research is out of Alaskan culture," says Kirby, 49. In neighborhood of 25,000 this world. Gonzales, a 1998 ocean addition to learning their ABCs and gallons of hazardous science graduate, recen dy won a 123s, Kirby's students learn geogra­ waste and 41,000 pounds NASA fellowship to work on a five­ phy by pretending they're part of a dog sled ream and mapping the of explosives." year project to determine if life can be sustained on Mars by recycl ing state's 1,000-mile Idicarod race. Wise has had a few was te into food and energy. close calls, including the "Ir's a huge mathematical equa­ time when the dome lid tion where zero equals zero," says of a truck's tank exploded, Gonzales, 27, a mas ter's student covering him in oil and focusing on fi sh nutrition and phys­ chlorinated solvents. iology at Purdue University. "You'd Because he wasn't in the be amazed at how much al l the ele­ ments of life are in our waste." so-called hot zone, his Gonzales is researching how the only protection at the cichlid, a fresh-water fish, repro­ time was his orange hard hat. Co-workers used scissors to snip off his duc~s and feeds on bacteria and clothes and boots. He was decontaminated with soap and water and plant waste while creating essential checked over by a medic before he was sent home for fresh clothes. nutrients for crop production. His Elizabeth Kirby and students. Despite the hazards, Wise can't chink of a better career. job is to see if the fi sh - a hardy A native of Peru, Kirby relocated "I love it," he says, "It's not sitting in an office (and) not doing the species that ears everything from to Alaska 19 years ago at the urging bacteria to vegetables to meat - of her husband, Gary, who earn ed a same thing every day. " could be used to provide nutrients reaching credential from USD in His wife, Victoria (B iagiotti) Wise '86, calls the job "very unusual," for plant growth. If so, the cichlid 1977. The couple and their rwo but says her husband wouldn't have it any other way. could be key to sustaining human children serri ed in quaint Homer, "He loves hi s job so much, and is so passionate about ic," she says. li fe on Mars. population 4,000. Afrer an initial "I have to say that sometimes I'm a bit uneasy with respect to his The project is part of NASA's adjustment, Kirby came to treasure work, but I know he cakes al! the necessary precautions. What settles Advanced Life Support System life in che frozen north. "le was a really good place to raise my mind is that he is very careful and he is with other very talented Program, which researches technolo­ gies enabling longer space missions our kids, and we love ic," says Kirby. people. I'm more worried when he's out riding his Harley." and eventual travel to the Red Planet. "You don't really gee the feel until Afrer fin ishing his master's you come up here and see the beauty degree, Gonzales plans to pursue a of America." doctorate on sustainable food pro-

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Greed Is Not So Good "I chink (corporate officers) are research or co buy our a portion Once they were the darlings of scared ... for now," he says. "There of their reaching load co free up Wall Street. Now Enron, WorldCom will be a brief period of remorse. research rime. and Arthur Andersen, among coo Whether they change their behavior McCosker, an art professor, will many och ers, are synonyms for a will likely depend on whecl1 er or nor travel co Australia this summer co new and criminal brand of business chey think they will be punished. If document the Royal and Country mismanagement. In his latest book, nor, we'll see the same situation in a Shows, a centuries-old tradition char Infectious Greed, law Professor couple of years. " may be coming to an end. He says Frank Parn10y traces the path of the the shows are much like state fairs in complex trading instruments and Moving In the United Scares, and me face meir financial structures that brought so T here's a leacn ing curve for anyone Nursing Dean Sally Hardin futures are in jeopardy says a lot many corporate giants to their knees. new on a job, bur the transition for about modern culture and values. A one-rime financial analyst, Sally Hardin, USD's new dean of H ardin has held teaching posi­ 'T m not raking pictures ac che Parrnoy says the atmosphere that the Halrn School of Nursing and tions at T he University of Illinois ar fair," he says. 'Tm making photo­ paved the way for the Emons of the Healch Science, was eas ier than Chicago, the University of South graphs about a culture in the throes world began co flourish sometime in most. H ardin, formerly a professor Carolina and the University of of a majo r shift. T he shows used the 1980s. and Ph.D. program director at the Massachusem, so relocating is co be a major shaping force in "There has been a wave of muta­ University of Missouri, Sr. Louis, fa miliar territory. Bur the move west Australian li fe, but much as hap­ tion co perfectly sound financial Barnes College of Nursing, was has had its challenges. Hardin and pened in rhe U.S., people are mov­ cools sin ce that rime," he says. al ready well aware of the high cal­ her husband, Thomas, also an edu­ ing co big cities and char bucolic, "Derivatives, for example, when iber of US D's facu lty research. cator, were happy co join their chi l­ rural world is becoming a ming of used correccl y, are a very useful cool. "I am a reviewer for the journal dren Jess ica and Christopher on the the past. My goal is make a record What happened is they evolved - Advances in Nursing Science," says West Coast, but were surprised by for future generations co understand or devolved - into something some Hardin, who succeeds Janet Rodgers rhe ferocity of me San Diego hous­ me price of what we call progress." very unprincipled people could use at the nursing school helm. "I've ing marker. Alexandrowicz, an education co hide some very unprincipled read several articl es by USO facul ty, "We expected it co be expensive," professor, is developing a Web site business practices." and been very impressed with born she laughs. "What we didn't antici­ to help immigrant and English-as-a­ Parcnoy says ic remains co be seen the quantity and quality of che work pate is how competitive it is. We'd see Second-Language students acquire if the ve il lifted on corporate crimi­ done mere. T he school has an excel­ a house we liked and before we were English listening, speaking, reading nals will have a lasting effect. lent national reputation." done talking it over, the house was and writing skills. The sire design sold. Bur we finall y found a place, calls for rwo main sections for each and I'm anxious co get co work." of eight linguscic groups: Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Innovate Projects Laotian, Hmong, Sudanese and for Profs Pilipino. One section will address each Viviana Alexandrowicz is going online. Duncan McCosker is going group's unique cultural traditions, which affect cl1e way they learn; the co state fa irs in Australia. And USO oilier includes specific language is going co benefit. assessment memods, lesson plans and McCosker and Alexandrowicz oilier cools for teachers and tutors. are among 16 USO faculty named 2003 University Professo rs by T he array of material available on the si re has a common cl1 eme. President Alice B. Hayes. Ten of cl1 e "T he importance of avoiding winners were recognized for co ntri­ butions over their careers co USD's stereotyping will be reinforced in every lesson," Alexandrowicz says. academi c excellence; fi ve ocl1ers, including Alexandrowicz and For a complete list ofthis year's McCosker, for specific project University Professors, log on to www.sandiego. edulpublications. proposals. One, business Professor Thomas Dalton, was named the 2003 Seeber Professor, an honor reserved fo r a faculty member in either the School of Business or the department of rh eological and religious studies. Awardees receive a stipend mar may be used in almost any way the winners deem fie , including co fund

10 USO MAGA Z I N E Linda Robinson keeps a reminder of the importance of her work on her office wall - a replica of her broth­ er's patch on the AIDS quilt.

by Timothy McKernan magine entering a profession dedicated ro preserving human life. Now imagine Iworking to improve the quality of death. Welcome to the world of the AIDS hos- pice nurse. "It cakes a special person to even want to do chis," says USD nursing Professor Linda Robinson of nurses who care for patients in the final stages of AIDS. "In many ways, administering medical care is the easiest part. You work every day with people who are looking death in the eye. The psychological, social and cultural issues associated with chat are tremendous and vary from patient to patient. Dealing with chat can be very, very tough." expense of extended hospital stays for chronic and complex it simply isn't possible to cake a To help prepare these caregivers for AIDS­ conditions -AIDS-care professionals are generalise and say, 'do chis.' I'm hoping chis care nursing - a specialization woefully compelled to make house calls. research will be a cool nurses can use to cut short of experienced practitioners, yet one "What chat means is chose who provide the learning curve." with an exploding patient population - care for AIDS patients have to be prepared The project is the latest in a series of Robinson chis summer is conducting a to deal with the emotional issues not only of AIDS-related research projects conducted by unique research project. She's equipping San the patient, but also of family members they Robinson, who serves as research chair of the Diego hospice nurses with tape recorders so encounter during home visits," Robinson Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Her they may easily document daily activities says. "It truly is a one-of-a-kind type of nurs­ professional interest stems from a personal chat don't show up on medical records. With ing, and there is simply not enough research tragedy. Her brother, Matthew, died at age 28 the results, she hopes to create a tern plate to in chat area." of the disease in 1985, a time Robinson refers more quickly prepare nurses for the highly In documenting the role of home care­ to as "the dark ages of AIDS.'' She hopes chis specialized and emotionally stressful work givers, Robinson also hopes to change health rwo-year project will continue to shed light AIDS-care demands. care poli cy and demonstrate chat in-home on the disease and chose affected by it. "There are factors associated with AIDS care - an approach many insurance compa­ "There was so much fear of AIDS when chat make it different from ocher chronic nies refuse to cover - is beneficial for the Matt died, so much paranoia," she says. diseases such as diabetes or cancer, and, lee's patient and cost-effective. "Most of that came from a lack of good face it, there is a stigma about AIDS and "I believe what in-home nurses do has a information, and chat's why I am so commit­ associated psychological problems for the profound effect on patient care and ought to ted to research in chis area. victims," Robinson says. 'Tm hoping the be funded by health insurance, because "People with AIDS are often blamed for nurses will put on tape the specific things health care is more than medicine," she says. having it, and it has repercussions for family they do to help in that regard, so nurses in "Managed care is a fact of life, and, unfortu­ members chat are much different than chose the future will have a more clear idea of the nately, AIDS doesn't appear to be going away of any other disease," she adds. "AIDS can things they can expect." any time soon." happen to anyone, and the best way to Robinson says nurses can't be fully pre­ The nationwide nursing shortage is com­ remove the stigma attached to it is through pared for the final stages of AIDS care in a pounding the need to expedite the training education - of the victims, their fami li es, classroom setting. As patients live longer for AIDS-care specialists, she adds. health care providers and the public." with the disease - and with medical insur­ "There aren't enough nurses, period," ers increasingly reluctant to absorb the Robinson says, "and the care is so specialized

SUMMER 2003 II ALMANAC

Untroubl Rower Unfazed by Frenetic Pace

by Timothy McKernan elsey Watters appears co live in a different world from the rest of us - one that has Kmore than 24 hours in a day. Watters, who just finished her junior year, is an honors student in biology and chemistry. She is a resident adviser in the Missions housing complex, where she mentors a cadre of 39 ocher honors stu­ dents. Watters also volunteers at a local children's hospital, and spends summers as a counselor at a camp for disabled kids. She is direccor of USD's Watters' center position in the boat is some­ chapter of Best Buddies, an organization chat pairs times called the "engine room," and is reserved college students with learning-disabled youths, for che strongest rowers. Her coach, Leeanne and spends several hours a week with her buddy, a Crain, says the athlete's work ethic is apparent teen-ager with Down syndrome. While she chinks in a simple face: of the 15 freshman girls Crain about applying co medical school, Watters is cer­ recruited to the team three years ago, only tain the year after she finishes college will be spent Watters remains. in the Peace Corps. "Somewhere she just made up her mind she Kelsey Watters anchors the crew team in is going co excel at whatever she does," says Oh yeah, one ocher thing. Ac 5 a.m., five days a her center position, known as the boat's week, from September co May, you can find "engine room." Crain, who led chis year's squad co a second Watters on Mission Bay, training with the women's place finish at the West Coast Conference crew team. And - no surprise - Watters also championships. ''I've worked with many dedi­ represents the team on the university's Student Athlete Council. cated athletes over the years, but I've never seen anyone like her. " "I like being busy," says Watters, who helped the team win the San Watters, who played soccer at her Lynn, Ore., high school, never Diego City Championships chis year. "Sometimes friends cell me to gave crew a thought until a friend asked her co attend a recruiting relax, chat I'm doing coo much, but it seems the more I do, che more meeting during freshman orientation. It wasn't until after she joined energy I have." the team that she realized crew was in her blood - her mom rowed at Oregon Scace. The women's crew team "That was pretty cool," Watters says. "It's fun co talk with her prepares for competi­ tion with daily 5 a.m. about how the sport has changed over the years." workouts on San Diego's Crain says Watters - who was named co the first team of the Mission Bay. 2003 Western Intercollegiate Rowing Championships - has made significant progress in her relatively shore career, and chat her senior season could be very special. "She has improved so much, it is possible she could become an elite collegiate rower," the coach says, adding that Watters' perform­ ance on the ergometer - an indoor training device - is approach­ ing the level chat commands attention from U.S. National Team coaches. "If she works hard, she could continu~ rowing after college. " Watters is flattered by the attention and by favorable comparisons

12 USD MAG AZ I NE PierrickYsern

Toreros Send First Men's Swimmer to NCAAs Tennis Falls Ashley Swarr has boldly swum in NCAA where no Torero has swum befo re. Tournament In March, the freshman from Blame it on the Honolulu, Hawaii, beca me ch e first Frisbee. USD's US O ad-Jere co participate in the men's tennis team NCAA swimming and di ving cham­ was on a coll in pionships, earning honorable men­ May, ranked 42 nd tion All-America honors at the in the nation and -~ national championship meet, held fresh off an ,,__) at Alabama's Auburn University. impress ive second- ", Swarr posted a 4: 18 .27 mark in place fini sh at th e -.;.. the 400-yard individual medley at West Coast the Pacific Collegiate Swimming Conference Championships. The Conference championships co team earned an at-large berch co the qualify for the NCAA event. At NCAA Tournament, where the Auburn, Swarr bested that mark, Toreros squared off against finishing in 4: 15 .01 , good for 11th­ crosstown rival San Diego State bes t in the nation. University. Swarr, the PCSC's Co-Swimmer T hen Pierrick Ysern , the team's of the Year, already has qualified for No. 1 player, cwisced his knee the Olympic trials in the summer playing Frisbee on campus. Without of 2004. But she's raki ng rh e success the freshman sensation, coach Tom "Somewhere Kelsey just made up her mind she is going in stride. H agedorn was forced co shuffle his lineup, and USO lost the march with to excel at whatever she does," says Coach Leeanne SDSU, 5-0, despite having defeated the Aztecs earlier in che season. Crain. 'Tve worked with many dedicated athletes over "(Ysern's injury) cook a lor of wind out of our sails," says the years, but I've never seen anyone like her. " Hagedorn. "Thar's not an excuse, because SDSU has a great ream and played very well, but we certainly to Ali Cox '01, a USD rower who won a gold medal at the 2002 weren't at full strength." World Rowing Championships and is competing for a spot on the Hagedorn says his team has every reason co count on a remrn trip to Olympic team. But Watters fai ls to see the parallels. the NCAA Tournament next season. "Comparing me with Ali is just crazy," she says. ''Ali is a world­ Every member of the 2003 team class athlete, and I'm a student athlete who's just crying to get a little returns, bolstered by a stell ar bit better with every practice." recruiting class char includes Jeff Ashley Swart is the first USO Watters' view of her post-USD life, in fact, has little to do with swimmer to qualify for the NCAAs. Das, the nation's 17th-ranked high shells and sculls. She would like to combine the camp counselor in school playe r. her with her passion for science. "It was exh ilarating to be in the "We didn't lose co a team outside same pool with Olympians (at the the nation's Top 40 chis yea r," "I'd love to run sort of a Gesundheit Institute like Robin Williams NCAAs)," she says. "I was already Hagedorn says, "and wich more expe­ in 'Patch Adams,"' she says, "a medical facility chat treats the mind training pretty hard, so the physical rience and some great new talent and spirit as well as the body. I chink there is so much more to the part was not a bi g deal, bm now I coming in, we're very optimistic." holistic approach to medicine than has been tapped into so far, and it have a better understanding of rh e USD's women's team, despite a would be great to work in char field ." mental pan of the sport." 6-9 conference record, made a run It makes sense, then, that this dynamo, who does more in a day Before her trip to Auburn, Swarr for a tournament berth in the wee than others do in a month, finds rel axation in the most unlikely was feted with a smprise patty from championships, and fini shed second place. Within the rigorous confines of the "engine room," Watters her teammates in her Maher Hall co Pepperdine University. dorm. lets her busy world melt away and finds a Zen-like state of repose. "They made up NCAA T-shirts "It requires such a focus of mind, body and soul chat I just go kind with big markers," she says. "It was a of blank," she says. "The ocher day I rook a quick glance out of the very cool way to start the trip." boat and saw the sun rising over USD, and it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen."

SUMMER 20 0 3 13

Reflections on the by Krystn Shrieve ,. Life of a President

lice Bourke Hayes stood alone in the center aisle of The Immaculata church on the day the campus said goodbye. Near the end of her farewell Mass, the first A note of a familiar song filled the cavernous church, and she listened to harmonized voices bestow upon her "The Irish Blessing," a time-honored tearjerker. Hundreds of stu­ dents, faculty, staff, friends and family stood in the pews behind her, raised their hands and offe~ d her a final benediction. --Hayes had promised herself she wouldn't cry when this moment came. She bowed her head, closed her eyes and let the blessings wash over her, taking the moment to think back on her eight years as University of San Diego president. She remembered he tri­ umphs and the trials, and how she chased them, faced them and saw them change her life and shape the university. Only the second USD president since 1972, Hayes retired on June 30 at age 65. She leaves behind a legacy of robust academics, topnotch students, winning sports programs, state-of-the-art buildings and a university well-positioned to take the next step into national renown. How she accomplished so much is, at its core, a reflection of her personality. During her time at USD, the president frequently seemed to be more than one person. But while she slipped effortlessly in and out of so many critical roles, the people whose lives she touched know she always was herself The Visionary Leader USD Provost Frank Lazarus is careful to call Hayes a visionary - never a dreamer. Dreamers, he says, have only ephemeral, fleeting thoughts about grand possibilities. Visionaries see where life's roads can lead and have the courage to analyze reality, confront it and negotiate through it to get where they want to go. When she a~rived on campus in 1995, Hayes knew wh~re she wanted to go. Her vision was simple yet grand: to help the

SUMMER 2 00 3 15 Her vision not only gave Hayes the ability ro see the big picture, but also the small details. On Sunday afternoons, after 11 a.m. Mass at The Immaculata, Hayes often hopped in her car and cruised University of San Diego reach its full potential. Early on, she made a around the campus. She checked the progress of construction and list of things to accomplish. Now tattered and worn, the list, which made sure al l was shipshape. When something needed attention, she she checked often over the years, reads not like a got-to-do list, but a sent out what became known to maintenance managers as Monday­ gor-it-done lisr. mornmg memos. One priority was to improve academic quality. She capped enroll­ ment of entering freshmen at 1,000, so that as more applications flooded in the number of new students didn't change. Thus USO could be more selective in shaping a diverse freshman class with high grades, leadership experience, community service involvement and extracurricular talents. Hayes' first freshman class had a mean grade point average of 3.39 and a mean SAT score of 1110. This year's freshmen, by comparison, had a mean GPA of 3.74 and a mean SAT ,of 1162. The improve­ ment was affirmed last summer by The Princeton Review, which added USO to its student guide of top U.S. colleges. The best illustration of Hayes' success in the academic arena, however, was her ability to attract a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Although the decision to grant the campus a charter to the nation's preeminent honor USD expanded its worldwide scope in 1996 when the president signed an society won't be finalized until August, if approved it will give USO the agreement to collaborate with a university in Monterrey, Mexico. highest academic honor obtainable by a liberal arts institution. "It gave me a chance to review things without people feeling like I was Hayes also focused on faculty, increasing the number of professors looking over their shoulders," Hayes says. "It just took 15 or 20 minutes, by almost 20 percent and acquiring the necessary teaching tools. and it was a way to keep up-to-date on how things were going." A few months inro her term, Hayes convinced the Board of Trustees Her bifocal view not only allowed her to see near and far, but to to commit nearly $500,000 for faculty computers, network infra­ inspire chose near and far. Administrators, students and alumni say structure, computer lab improvements and a new computer classroom Hayes kindled confidence in others, and chat she was decisive and in Maher Hall. Now almost all employees have computers, all resi­ quick to show gratitude. At a reception following her farewell Mass, dence halls are online, several buildings have wireless networks and Patrick Drinan, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, noted that when things go wrong, a true leader looks in the mirror and asks, "Where did I go wrong?" But, when things go right, the leader looks through the window and says, "Look at all chose people, and every­ thing they did to make chis happen." Hayes, he said, was such a leader. Drinan's praise is echoed at all echelons of the campus community. From the deans and vice presidents to the students and her personal staff, chose who know Hayes well note how quick she always was to acknowledge that she couldn't do her job,without help. "She's an amazing person," says Elaine Atencio, special assistant to Hayes for three years, who watched the president juggle 300 daily e-mails, countless phone calls and business trips, as well as engage­ ments at all hours of the day and night. "She's warm and magnetic. She always finds the positive, even in the negative, and she's so kind. When people walk up and talk to her she's humble." The kindness shone through especially to students. Jenna Jones '03 I was the most recent president of Alcala Club, a group of students who Bishop Robert Brom offered USD's new president his best wishes escort and assist the president at major events.' Jones, a sociology major, following her November 1995 inaugural Mass, over which he presided. says she learned a great deal from Hayes' work ethic. the university is implementing an all-encompassing computer system "She's probably the hardest working person on campus," Jones to link departments and allow students to pay fees, order transcripts says. "Each year she invited us to her house and talked to us about and register for classes online. her adventures in science or about our future careers. I want to go "Ir's traditional, at most places, that when tuition is increased by, into student affairs, and I hope someday, ifl ever get to run a college say, 4 percent, every department's budget li kewise is increased by campus, that I can rise to her level of leadership." 4 percent," says Hayes, who also helped build the university's endow­ The president's leadership extended beyond USO to the realm of ment from about $40 million to more than $100 million. "But we Catholic higher education and the Catholic Church. In 2002, she had some real strategic initiatives we wanted to pursue, so we directed was appointed as one of 13 lay persons and only three academics that money to goals like technology and increasing faculty." to a board created by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to implement and moniror the Catholic church's zero-tolerance sexual abuse policy. It's a role she'll continue after retirement.

16 USD MAGA Z I NE Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, who created che review board, recruited Hayes carrying a feline cadaver Hayes because of her academic and professional research background. co a science lab or scoring moldy "I cannot chink of a person who has assisted the U.S. Catholic mushrooms, inevitably part of a Bishops more generously on our national review board," says science experiment on fungi, in Gregory, who leads the Diocese of Belleville, in southern Illinois. her refrigerator. "Dr. Hayes has been an active and wise adviser and collaborator in It was fungi , in fact, that led this vital work. I do not think I could have chosen a better-versed her co a career in teaching and person for the board." ultimately blazed the trail co her presidency. The Scholar "I actually wasn't drawn or Her sisters, Gerry Taylor and Joan Bourke, say that even as children called co university life," Hayes they knew Hayes was the smartest in the family. A book was her con­ says. "I had been working in stant companion, even when it was her turn co wash dishes. She'd a research lab and was doing wedge her latest come behind the soap dispenser, remembers Bourke, research in mycology, the study Alice Bourke graduated from who says drying dishes for Hayes was slow-going because she'd wash of fungi . Mundelein College in 1959. a dish, set it in the dish drainer, dry her hands, turn the page and read "I was working with fungi that caused a disease for which there while she washed the next one. was no cure, and my husband was very anxious about me working The daughter of Irish with an incurable pathogen," Hayes says of John, her husband of Catholic immigrants, Hayes 20 years, who died in 1981 . "So, when I was contacted by a former grew up in Chicago as the teacher at Mundelein about an opening co teach at Loyola, I looked third of four children. Her into it. It was exciting co teach. I thought I'd do it for a year or two father, Joe, was a motor­ and now, of course, I'm finishing 41 years." man for the Chicago Hayes spent 27 years at Chicago's Loyola University, and worked Transit Authority and her her way up the ladder from professor to dean to vice president for mother, Mary Alice, academic affairs. She later became executive vice president and worked as a governess provost ac Saint Louis University. before she was married. Throughout her administrative career, she retained her lifetime love Every Sunday, the of science, a passion that shows in achievements both grandiose and family attended Mass in humble. At USD, she helped pave the way for the new Donald P. shifts. Hayes' grand­ Shiley Center for Science and Technology. Bue her botanist's apprecia­ Summer 1941: The family on the porch. mother went co the 7:30 tion for Alcala Park's landscaping also spurred her co photograph and, Alice on Aunt Margaret's lap. Back row, a. m. service, while her with a scientist's precision, document every plant on campus. mother Mary Alice Bourke holding Joan,­ "There are a lot of bright people in the world who excel in just Gerry and father William J. Bourke. father opted for the last Front row, cousins Tom and Helen. Mass and the rest of the one area," Bourke says. "But what impresses me about Alice is the family picked a service breadth of her knowledge. She's interested in everything from science somewhere in between. This faith, planted by her family and cultivated to music. She can play just about anything on the piano, and can by years of working in Catholic higher education, shaped Hayes' life belt out an opera or just as easily sing 'Proud Mary.' " and carried into all realms of her career. When things go wrong, a true leader looks in the mirror and asks, "Where did I go wrong?" But when things go right, the leader looks through the window and says, "Look at all those people, and everything they did to make this happen. "Hayes was such a leader.

Lazarus, who has known Hayes for more than 15 years, says her knowledge, wisdom and leadership sp rings from principles rooted in the Catholic tradition. "Faith helped her get through the worst of life and celebrate the best of life, " he says . "It's part of everything she does. " At St. Gregory High School, Hayes was a class representative co the The president's passion for science, botany and working with students student council, and a member of the national honor society and the remained strong during her 41-year career, which ended in June when, as debate team. A magna cum Laude biology graduate of Mundelein her final official act, she opened the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science College, Hayes quenched her thirst for knowledge by taking a job and Technology. with Encyclopedia Britannica, looking up obscure facts for customers. Always a scientist at heart, it wasn't uncommon to see

SUMMER 2003 17 On the east side of campus stands the Douglas and Elizabeth Manchester Village, the first residence hall built in 14 years. Hayes put a new residence hall on her to-do list when, upon her arrival, The Builder she asked where students live and was cold they lived at the beach. As Hayes looks upon campus growth during her tenure, she recalls one "I asked where they lived on the beach and was cold that they day when a man named William H . Hannon showed up at USD. rent condos from the 'Zanies," Hayes says. "I didn't know what Without an appointment, he talked his way into the president's presence 'Zanies were, I thought they were some sort of cult, like the and unwittingly may have brought the campus a stroke of good fortune. Moonies, bur then I found out they were actually people from Hannon was on a mission. The California real estate developer was Arizona. It was a nice arrangement because students lived in them dedicated to upholding the legacy of the 18th century Franciscan friar during the school year until the owners came back for the summer." Junipero Serra, fo under of California's missions. In Hayes' office, he asked where on campus he could place a scarne of the missionary. Serra Hall, of course, was the perfect spot. At the dedication of the life-sized statue - one of 100 Hannon erected at missions and schools throughout California - he spoke of his wish to start a good-luck tradition. Much like the Irish kiss the Blarney Stone and the Chinese rub the belly of the Buddha, Hannon wanted Californians to rub Serra's big toe. Serra walked across California, he told Hayes, so his toes must be lucky. The quirky donor then talked Hayes into rubbing the statue's toe for luck. A good sport, Hayes rubbed the toe. Later that afternoon, she attended a lunch and cold a friend of the university how the fund-raising campaign for the Jenny Craig Pavilion had hit a lull, and that another major dona­ tion could jump start it. That person gave the university $1 million. "So I rubbed the big toe and I got $1 million," Hayes says with a The men's basketball team this year won the WCC championship laugh. "What luck!" tournament, earning a berth to the NCAA's Big Dance. But chose close to Hayes say her ability to help raise money and con­ One of her fondest memories hails from the Jenny Craig struct new buildings had nothing to do with luck. More square footage Pavilion, where she cheered for the Toreros in 2001 , the first year was added under Hayes' leadership than in any era since the campus was USD hosted the West Coast Conference basketball championship built a half-century ago. During her tenure, the university built seven tournament, and where this year's men's team captured the con­ new facilities, including the Jenny Craig Pavilion, the Joan B. Kroc ference tide and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Institute for Peace and Justice, the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science Hayes was in Chicago visiting family as the home crowd erupted and Technology and the Degheri Alumni Center, slated for completion in a frenzy of celebration over the USD victory. The game wasn't in December. shown on television or highlighted in the Windy City's news pro­ grams, but Hayes' sisters recall that when she finally read the news on the Internet, the president did her own victory dance right there in the living room. Hayes says USD's newest building, the Degheri Alumni Center - now under construction and the first campus building named for an alumnus - is a symbol of the university's successful gradu­ ates. She also has great affection for Maher Hall, one of US D's oldest buildings. A men's residence hall until 2000 and now co-ed, it's where her offices were located for more than a year. During that time, Hayes overheard a few things students proba­ bly wished she hadn't, and, with songs like "Macarena" topping the charts, she becan1e familiar with their musical tastes. Although she couldn't go, one night students knocked on her.office door as she worked late and invited her to the movies. Then there was the time students were suspected of steal ing koi from the patio President Bill Clinton and Sen. Bob Dole traded handshakes and politi­ pond, but a surveillance camera set up to catch the thieves cal jabs in Shiley Theatre during the final presidential debate in 1996. revealed raccoons as the culprits. New or old, for Hayes all the buildings have stories. There's The The funniest moment, Hayes says, came when she heard what Immaculata, where she went to Mass every week. It's the place where so unded like a rewing motor. It turned out to be the synchro­ her presidency began with her 1995 inauguration and ended with the nized whir of every single washer going at once as students rushed farewell Mass, where she got through the "Irish Blessing" dry-eyed. to finish their laundry before Parents Weekend. And Camino Hall's Shiley Theatre, where President Bill Clinton and "What's amusing isn't that they were cleaning up before mom Sen. Bob Dole faced off in the 1996 presidential debates, and where came," Hayes says, "but that I never heard that sound again." she discussed the pros and cons of various debate formats with former Bur the buildings, in the end, are just a physical manifestation President Gerald Ford. of something far more important. They represent Hayes' ability to successfully transition the university into a new era of national

18 USO MAGA Z INE recognition. Such esteem comes not with numerical rankings, she says, but when people throughout che United States instinctively equate USD with a reputation for excellence. Paul Purcell '97, who worked in Hayes' office for three years as a stu­ "She was just awesome," says Damien Minna '03, a communica­ dent, says che buildings - and the programs they house - ensure chat tion studies major and the show's producer. "She showed us her the intellectual and social growth of students and alumni continues. kitchen, her back yard and her spa. I still can't believe she did it. "Is the value of my degree more roday than when I graduated five I was just some random Joe who had the audaciry co knock on her years ago?" Purcell asks. "Most certainly it is . But, what I chink Dr. door one weekend, and she was kind and warm. It really speaks a lot Hayes has done co enhance my degree 20 years from now is what's about her character and what a great person she is." important. When we sic down and have chis conversation -five years In fact, Sunday afternoons were Hayes' special treat. She'd put from now, 10, 15, 20 years from now, when my children are ready co work aside, make a pot of tea, sic on the patio and read. A lifelong go to college - chat's when everything she did will enhance che value learner, Hayes is just as voracious a reader now as she was in the days of my degree." when washing the dishes couldn't stop her from soaking up knowl­ edge like a sponge. The Resident, The Roamer It isn't uncommon for Hayes co read three books at a time - Hayes grew up surrounded by extended family in a home where gather­ whether classical, historical or just something co keep her busy on an ings large and small marked life's milestones. So it was no surprise chat airplane. Recendy, she read The Sage ofMonticello, which describes Hayes, who lived on campus, opened her home co faculry, staff, students Thomas Jefferson's life after retirement. Her post-presidential endt\:av­ and friends co celebrate the universiry's accomplishments. ors, Hayes says, likely will mirror his . The tradition began, somewhat inauspiciously, shortly after her inau­ "He spent his days working in the garden, traveling, reading, visit­ guration. By the time Hayes arrived at the Casa de Alcala, as the presi­ ing galleries and cheaters and sleeping lace," Hayes says. "He served dent's house is known, the guests were already inside. She entered on several boards, wrote some books and built a universiry. through the back door and snuck into the master bathroom co freshen 'Tm going co follow his example," she continues. 'Tm going to up before greeting her guests. When she walked in, a woman, who was continue serving on some boards, do some writing and I'll continue looking in the medicine cabinet, whispered co Hayes chat she loved co co build chis universiry.'' see how "these people" lived. Hayes simply smiled and left. Moments As much as she loved her USD home, Hayes also loved traveling. later, in a receiving line, Hayes and che woman met again. Neither said She's hopscotched around the world co Greece, Germany and England. a word about the Meetings with the presidents of ocher Catholic universities cook her co incident. Rome. As part of the People co People Ambassador Program, she par­ Such is life for a ticipated in botanical delegations co South Africa, the People's Republic public figure who of China and the former Soviet Union. lives in a public Although she'll keep a residence in San Diego and come back often place. Fran Dolan, co maintain ties, Hayes returned co Chicago after retiring. She also plans the social coordina­ co spend rime in Ireland, in a house she built with her sisters in the tiny tor who arranges town ofLahardane - population 169. The town, situated at the foot of all the Casa events, a mountain called Nephin, overlooks a lake called Lough Conn. says more than "My parents lived in chat area, · and the land was owned by my __...;.. _____ 1,000 people come Members of the Alcala Club, a group of students through the home grandfather, so it truly is going who worked closely with the president, said their each year. Students, home," Hayes says. ' goodbyes at a farewell celebration in May. administrators or As she closed the door co the faculry often come for recognition lunches, groups of communiry Casa for the last time, however, leaders arrive for tea or dinner, and each year hundreds of employees Hayes immediately started missing show up to celebrate Christmas. the campus she called home for "Ac first I wasn't sure I'd like living on campus," Hayes says. "But, eight years. But she squared her in face, I do. Ir's convenient. Ic eliminates a lot of stress and it's help­ shoulders and looked ahead, satis­ ful in a crisis." fied chat she's lefr the Universiry of Oh, and there were crises. When a pipe burst in Camino Hall, San Diego a better place. Hayes was on hand co authorize emergency expenditures. And when 'Tm not a look-back kind a scheduling glitch meant she was at home rather than at Shiley of person," Hayes says, ''I'll be Theatre for a concert, she dashed over after a frantic professor called. chinking about the students, the Hayes often made light of her life in a fishbowl. When the Joan B. faculry, the administrators, the ' Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice op_ened and its director, Joyce Neu, alumni and friends of the universi­ moved into an office across the road, Hayes says: "I ceased Joyce, and ry, but I leave feeling very excited Alice B. Hayes took a final glance said, 'behave yourself over there, Joyce, because I can see everything about the things chat are going co around the Casa de Alcala, her you do. She said co me, 'behave yourself, Dr. Hayes, because I can see happen at USD. "+ campus residence for eight years. everything you do.' " And then there was the recent Sunday afternoon when rwo stu­ dents showed up with a camera and an oddball request co tour her "crib" as pare of a funky USD-TV program called "The Loe Show.''

SUMMER 2003 19 Right: Scott Heidler stands on the vast sands of the Kuwaiti desert. from Top: On his travels to the Middle East and Asia, Heidler encoun­ tered Iraqi children with American soldiers, a family of the nomadic Kuchi tribe in Afghanistan's Helmand province, and U.S. soldiers occupying Baghdad.

20 USO MAGAZINE ..

Scott Heidler '90 passed up a comfortable

career to document life in places where war

rages, poverty abounds and hope often

seems beyond reach. Each stop on his

journey was a rite of passage, revealing

more than he expected about the

world, its people and himself

Story and Photos by Scott Heidler '90

the U.S. Congress and D.C.-based media to what was happening in Kosovo and how this leader, Ibrahim Rugova, was crying to change the situation. Seeing and reading about him in a fight for his people ON Tl-It rull.PACt, / HAD A JO~ TO ~t P/1...0VD made my job, what was supposed to be my passion, seem frivolous. The collision of these feelings spurred me to an action chat has for­ OP - uPPt/1... MANAGtfV\tNT IN A ~OVT1Q.Vt ever changed my life and my perspective. I quit my job and, just over NE:w Yo11...K PvH.,c ll.f:1-AT,oNr P1ll.M, A a month later, landed in Skopje, Macedonia, to start a new career - and a new life - as a volunteer for a humanitarian organization. window overlooking Fifth Avenue, cool clients - but there Skopje was where the world's media gathered to cover the endless was something missing. Something big. stream of refugees crossing the border from Kosovo. I volunteered as le was a gloomy March in 1999, nine years after I received my a public relations representative for Mercy Corps, a humanitarian and bachelor's degree from USD. I found myself punching through the development organization chat works to alleviate suffering in crisis ceiling of a career, a life, chat was starting to take on a form of its zones, and to write and snap phetos-for the group's Web site. During own ... and it no longer seemed to be mine. the Kosovo crisis, Mercy Corps ran one of the hllif-dozen camps in The firm I worked for handled travel accounts, primarily in the Macedonia chat provided food and medical services. Caribbean, so the perks were amazing. But I was having difficulty This was the first stop on a trip that has lasted more than promoting these clients, because to me the job was selling a destina­ four years, taking me to Mongolia, e;uatemala, Pakistan tion - beaches, good drink and food, and packaged experiences. Afghanistan and Iraq, where I llQW write this. I've never There were two aspects I thought were misrepresented or left out considered myself an adventurer, but I've always been entirely - the culture and the people. a traveler. People are what make travel enriching and I was house-sitting for a friend who had just returned from a invigorating, not just the sights. I'm fascinated with two-year stint in Bosnia as a freelance photographer and newspaper how people react to me, how differently they live reporter. My first job out of USD was as a journalist at CNN's and how at the same time they have the same Washington, D.C., bureau, and something in me stirred when I saw joys and sorrows. But the biggest reward is my friend's amazing black and white photos and read his articles. what people around the world have caught There he was, in a far off place, watching history unfold and, through me about their lives and culture. I've his wol'ds and imagtl6, celli11g thousands of people what it was like. discovered a world you cannot get from At the time, Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic, was a two-minute news report or a three­ wreaking havoc on the ethnic minority Albanians in the Serbian page magazine article, a world chat republic of Kosovo. Just after my CNN days, I had done some work only comes from being close to with the leader of the peaceful resistance there. At the time, I was at people, sharing a meal, a cup a public affairs agency that was attempting to bring the attention of of tea or a long bus ride.

SUMMER 2003 11 issues of peacekeeping and the notion of recognition for breakaway provinces. If other nations push for an independent Kosovo state, what message will that send to Northern Ireland, Chechnya, and the Kurds in Iraq? Only time will tell.

Mongolia - January-February 2000

AFTH- I fl...ETv/1..NED Ffl...OM K..orovo AND rPENT ( '( A FEW MONTI-Ir 1N NEw YoF--K D01NG Ffl...EE- I ALBAN IA 1...ANCE Wf/...lT/NG FOf/... A DOT-COM/ I wAr AH..E .l GREECE to get a communications consulting job with Mercy Corps that sent me back overseas. This time it was to Mongolia, around the world from Kosovo. My role was to train the group's local team on how to be more media savvy, and to develop promotional materials for the program. Kosovo - May-October 1999 Mongolia has an ancient culture char is trying to catch up to the rest of the world, and before leaving New York I knew very little I HAD L-1TTL-E 8ACKGP-.OUND WHEN I TH/l..EW about it. Ir's smack-dab between Russia and China, and has an inter­ esting history with both. Under Genghis Khan's rule back in the MYrEL-F INTO THI r fTO/lY. )HE PEACEFUl­ 13th century, Mongolia ruled both of the giant neighbors, not to /l..Efl rTANCE OF THE K.orovAll PEOPL-E HAD mention most of the territory from Korea to Hungary. Once Genghis died, Mongolia's territory quickly fell into ocher failed, and the Kosovo Liberation Army started fighting the hands and Mongolia itself ultimately fell to China until the 191 Os . oppressive Serbian force with guerilla tactics. The Serbs responded It then became buddies with the communists during the Russian with systematic ethnic cleansing of chis Serbian province, which Revolution. Many of the country's traditions and customs are rooted was 90 percent Kosovar Albanian. in centuries-old Mongolian nomadic history. I worked for Mercy Corps in one of the smaller refugee camps, My most memorable adventure there was a trip to the Omnogovi just outside of Skopje. One interview session is symbolic of my expe­ province in South Gobi, where I visited a program set up to help nomad riences. I helped a reporter from Salon.com get an interview with a herders market their goods. They were in the midst of a life-and-death group of men who were held in one of the large prisons just outside struggle because of the collapse of their main trading partner, the former the Kosovo capital of Pristina. The group of six men arrived at the Soviet Union. We were there to reach the herders how to better market refugee camp, and I raced out to meet them. Their average age was their valuable cashmere wool and take care of their herds. near 50, but they looked to be in their 60s, with sunken eyes and skin I took a small Russian-made twin prop plane from Ulaanbaatar, the leathery from exposure. We crammed into one of the refugee tents capital. I never thought vast nothingness could look so amazing. The supplied by the United Nations, as the summer heat burned our necks miles and miles of snow-covered low rolling hills of the Gobi Desert through the mesh windows. were blinding white, occasionally cut by piercing light blue sky. They told us stories of how the Serb paramilitary rounded up the Dalanzadgad, Omnogovi's capital, has one paved road. I think it's men from a group of villages in eastern Kosovo and forced them into more for show because as we drove up to it, the driver of our Russian the back of trucks - "loaded like cattle," said one of the men. Some jeep veered off and drove onto the shoulder. Old habits are hard to of the former prisoners recognized members of the Serb paramilitary break. The four days I was there, I never saw anyone drive on the road. forces carrying out the roundup. Once neighbors, now enemies. Ir's hard to say how Mongolia's transition from a controlled socialist During all of this, just a few hours after getting off the bus from society to a market-led economy will eventually impact the nomadic the border, they insisted we eat some of the food that had been given herders, who make up almost half the population and travel to differ­ ,, to them, dry high protein biscuits and sweet fruit nectar. I was floored ent regions depending on the season and the needs of their herds. The by their hospitality. After the hell they just lived through, they hadn't herders don't own the land where their animals graze, and the owner­ lost faith in humanity, and stuck to their traditional belief that having ship is still a gray area. To gain some insight, we visited a man named a guest is always an honor. Tumur, a herder who was participating in this Mercy Corps program. .I After six months in the region, my eyes were open to the complex­ Being the honored guest, I rode shotgun. After about two and a half ities of conflict, and I hoped I was able to convey my experiences to hours of driving on worn jeep tracks, we approached a little valley at least a few people back in the States. But I needed to get a reality between two low breaks in the hard desert floor. When you approach check of my own, so I headed back home ... for a while. a ger, a round rent-like dwelling made out of thick wool felt, you Four years later, Kosovo is still in the news. Many refugees have never just hop out of your car. There are usually a minimum of five returned to face a land devastated by war, an economy in shambles dogs that don't rake kindly to strangers. Even in the cities, the cus­ and a rebuilding process that will rake years. The province remains tomary Mongolian greeting is "Nohhoi Khrio" - "hold the dogs." part of Serbia for now, as the international community struggles with

22 USO MAGAZI NE After six months in the region, my eyes were open to the complexities of conflict, and I hoped I was able to convey my experiences to at least a few people back in the States. Heidler visited nomadic Kuchi familes in the mountains of Afghanistan. After a traditional Mongolian "handshake" - arms t• I , extended in from of you, grabbing the top of the 1 ocher person's arms wh il e touching cheeks and making a sniffing so und - yo u enter the ger. I was give n the I. first stool at the back, next to the family photos and Buddhist sh.ri nes. Tumur explained rhar when che USSR was sci U kicking, he and his feUow herders received veterinary services and were able to exchange cashmere for food and supplies. Thar all came to a hale when the Soviet Union coll apsed. He now knows the real marker value of his valuable cashmere, but faces problems with vet services and has little money to buy good white male breeders, which produce the most valuable cashmere. Mongolia is nor going through violent change like Kosovo, bur it is a deep change all cl1e same. People like Tumur are dealing with what seems to us like mild improvements in their lifestyle, but to a people who have lived cl1e same way for centuries, it's revolutionary. My job lasted only rwo months, so I was soon on my way. As I climbed aboard my plane in me freezing Mongolian winter, I felt char I had witnessed, rasred, a nation and people in uansition. After a few hours of talking to the teachers and giving instructions on the new lot of books, we headed back ro our base. Guatemala -April-May 2001 Buses only swing by chis remote area a few times a day. We missed all of chem. So we had no cho ice bur head to rhe road and start Arro. . /l...ETu11..N1NG P/l...OM MoNGOL-1A1 hiking. After about 30 minutes a rickety Coke uuck stopped. It was I rPENT roME T1ME 1N PH0EN1x wHE/l...E a ride. While we clanked our way down the mountain in the open 1 back of the truck, Robb looked at me and said, "There's no ocher I G/l...Ew uP. I wArN'T THE/l...E PO/l... L-ONG. way I would like to be spending my birthday." Robb admits char cancer played a role in spurring her to start Books Before I knew ir, I had me opportunity ro volunteer for a woman who fo r a Berrer World, bur says char ir only expedited the process. She has scarred her own organization to provide books to ch ildren in rural, a saying char she uses to ger through the rough times and to celebrate poor communities of Guatemala. the triumphs - "chis moment, perfect moment." The chain of events chat paved the way for Kae Robb to embark on chis project is a uue case of turning something bad inro some­ thing good . In the four years leading up ro her fou nding of Books Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2001-September 2002 For a Bercer World, Robb bear breast cancer, sold her home and quit ArrE/l... AM&L-ING A/l...OUND THE wo/l...L-D PO/l... what she says was a perfect position as a sixcl1-grade Spanish teacher at Phoenix Country Day School. My mocl1er teaches at the same A PEW YEA/l...r I I THOUGHT I'D T/l...Y L-1v1 NG school and insisted we meet. &Ack IN THE ~TATEr. / v1r1TED fOME Two months lacer, I met Robb in a low-rent hotel in Guatemala City. I was there to travel with her and shoot photos so she would friends in Austin, Texas, and was booked on a B.ight back to New York. have images to help her with fund raising. She began piecing rogecher Ir was September 2001. Because I was already dreaming about being the program after several trips to Guatemala ro visit her daughter in back in New York, me Sepe. 11 terrorist attacks smacked me in me face. the Peace Corps. Spurred by her love for books, Robb began the I was more determined to get back mere, and as quickly as possible. children's lireracure program in the rural area of Baja Verapaz. After rwo weeks of living on a boat on me Hudson River, I volun­ I was lucky to see just how stro ng her love is. After rwo weeks of teered for anomer Mercy Corps program, one mac helps underprivi­ book deliveries, on Robb's 56tl1 birthday, we hiked up a dire moun­ leged kids deal with lose loved ones. A week lacer, they asked me to tai n road to check on a school where she had earlier delivered books. go co Pakistan.

SUM M ER 2 0 0 3 23 In Kabul,Afghanistan, Heidler was present as young women attended school for the first time in their lives.

On my flight, I switched sears and ended up sirring next to Sayed freelance as a producer for CNN. Ir was surreal being in a gorgeous val­ Yunis Badshah, a very sharp and engaged Pakistani-American who ley along the river Jhelum in the dusty capital of Muzaffarabad, while has lived in New York for 22 years. We talked for almost the entire Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and India's Prime Minister Aral trip from JFK airport to Islamabad. He was headed to his home vil­ Bihari Vajpayee exchanged verbal jabs with nuclear undertones. lage for a wedding, bur also was intent on educating the vi llage about After Kashmir, ocher freelance jobs rook me to Kabul, Kandahar the American perspectives on 9/11. He was very interested in my and the northern territories of Pakistan. The experiences were enrap­ thoughts about the situation, and why I was traveling to Pakistan. In turing. I saw girls in Kabul going to school for the first rime, traveled return, he helped me adjust to Pakistan before I even landed, with a with an American doctor to his village in the remote area of Helmand, rundown on the culture, rhe political climate and impressions of how and joined a pagan festival in northern Pakistan. I began to have the Pakistanis feel they have been treated by America. same feelings for this region of the world char someone would have I spent a year in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and my work with for their home. Mercy Corps opened doors to many cultures. These two countries are Bur almost a year without seeing family brought me back to my a complex mix of ethnicities: Pakistan, partially because of how the roots. When I returned to New York, I paid Sayed a visit at his British divided up irs India colony, and Afghanistan, because of the Khyber Kebab shop in New York. I was spinning from culture shock, many tribes that rule slices of the country. and he helped me deal with it. Sirring in his dingy shop, earing greasy Pakistan was created in the late 1940s as the British pulled our and Pakistani food on Styrofoam places and drinking milky sweet tea, created a home for Muslims living in the subcontinent. Drawing bor­ brought me back to what had been my home for a year. ders and shifting families, however, proved to be a difficult and vio­ We talked about South Asia politics, what it was like for him when lent task. Thar violence is still very present in the disputed territory he returned from Pakistan the previous winter, and what ir was like for of Kashmir, which drew world attention last year as Pakistan and me to be back. He made me feel at home ... in New York, my home. India, which both claim the region, tossed threats back and forth. My friendship with Sayed helped me enter my life in Pakistan and This story enabled me to put my journalist hat back on. After helped me re-enter my life back in New York. All this happened I finished with my Mercy Corps assignment, I went to Kashmir to because I switched sears with an elderly woman on a plane.

24 USD MAGA Z INE Iraq/Kuwait -April 2003-Now I W~tTE THE:rE vvoP-.Dr IN A &AGHDAD

HOTEL. ~00/\1\1 jVfT A MONTH AfTE~ THE WO~/...D WATCHED THE rTATVE OF (ADDAM

Hussein come crashing down. Ir happened 100 yards from my room. I was sent to the region as a freelance producer for Fox News, and spent five weeks on the outskirts of che srory, in Kuwait. I covered the gas arrack threats and the missile slamming into a tony mall on the Destroyed Iraqi currency at Baghdad's shores of the Arabian Sea, bur I felt as though I was on the sidelines. Iraqi Central Bank, in May 2003. I got my wish to be closer on April 21, and have been in Baghdad since, producing for Fox News and writing for National Geographic On previous visits we let the troops use our phones when we did not Channel's Web page - rwo very different jobs. need to coordinate live reports with New York. This guy never asked As a producer for Fox, I work with correspondents in piecing together the other days, but needed it that day. "Thanks sir," he said, "I hare to their stories - going in to the field and working with a camera person bother you, but my wife just had our first child last nighr." to get the visual elements for the report and interviewing officials or I've talked with Baghdad locals to discover how they feel about for­ witnesses. Ar its longest, the average story on Fox News is about rwo eign troops on their soil. While an overwhelming majority are happy minutes. For National Geographic, I hunt down stories, then report to see Saddam gone, some are uneasy to have another country's ranks and photograph them. There's much more room ro cell the story. rolling down their streets. It's clear that the next few months will be I drove into Baghdad from Amman, Jordan, because the road from very delicate time for American foreign policy and a very challenging Kuwait - the main supply route for coalition forces - was still very time for the people of Iraq. As one Baghdad collection of artists dangerous and a bit crowded. Crossing the Tigris River for the first called The Najeen Group puts it: "Taking freedom from someone rime and seeing black holes punched in skyscrapers is a feeling I wi ll who walks down the street is easy, but giving iris hard for sure." never forger. Najeen, in Arabic, means survivor. As I look our my window, I see The damage I saw in Kosovo and then in Afghanistan was no less the group has designed and started construction on a sculprure char devastating than in lraq, bur there was more of a disconnect in those wiII stand in the place where the famous Saddam statue once stood, other areas. Most of the damage in Kosovo was in villages, and the in Freedom Square. destruction in Prisrina was nor as severe. Kabul had seen decades of war, and most of the city has been in ruins for years. In Baghdad, city blocks The Future are missing, and high-rise buildings have floors missing, with concrete K..£:f:P1NG MY /V\IND WOTtD IN TH1r vAGA&OND and steel guts spilling our. This devastation is more in your face. As part of my job with Fox, I spent a lor of rime with U.S. troops 1..-lf't HAr P/l...OVtN TO &f A CHAl..-1..-tNGt. )Hf in Baghdad. My first impression? These people are young, damn young. Ir was amazing to spend rime with them, hear their stories, r1TvAT10Nr A/l...t W tNG/l...orr1NG THAT f POU/l... see how they live and get a small idea of what they went through. everything I have into experiencing them, and in the moment they I worked on the story of Saddam ordering $1 billion ro be taken eclipse everything else. It's great while I'm there to feel like I'm part of a from the Central Bank story or a new culture, but it's easy to lose touch with the outside world of Iraq just hours before and a bit of myself rhe first cruise missile Every time I head back home, I go through a little culture shock. hit Iraqi soi l. I had been So far my best cure for that has been to check in with the fami ly in to rhe bank several Arizona for a few weeks and then ... head back our on the road and rimes reporting on the continue to taste a new slice of the wo rld. looting of rhe Iraqi If there is one thing I have learned from all of these experiences, Museum. It is believed it's that it is inappropriate to judge someone's life in the context of that some of the antiq­ your own. There are so many factors that go into our life choices, and uities were stashed in in some cases there is such lack of choice, that it's arrogant to assume the underground vaults. our lives are better than others. I gor to know the 3rd Ir's a small lesson, but a very important one. I hope to continue Infantry Division troops this journey and turn up many more stories, so that I can see, and guarding the site. One show others, the rest of the world and its people. + day a private came up

and asked if he could - ~ C OTT f--1 t I D l- t 11... use my satellite phone.

S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 2S

INOR IRACLES Professional baseball players make the game - and life - look easy. But getting to the major leagues is a physical and mental struggle that can wreak havoc on a young man's dreams. Five former Toreros are in the midst of that struggle, battling to be among the few who make their childhood fantasies come true.

learned char while the step from college to a For the Toreros, some hard decisions had professional career in the minor leagues is to be made immediately. Third baseman formidable, it is only a small step toward David Bagley and pitcher Ricky Barrett were achieving the major-league dream. taken back-to-back in rhe seventh round, USD has sent players to the professional Bagley by the Los Angeles Dodgers and ranks in the past, but never five from rhe Barrett by the Minnesota Twins. Infielder by Timothy McKernan same ream. The achievement is more remark­ Mike McCoy was tabbed in the 34th round "If there is a guy who played organized base­ able given the nature of the wee, a confed­ by the Sr. Louis Cardinals. ball at any level and tells you he never eration of small schools that commands rela­ wanted to play in the major leagues, I'll tively Ii tde attention from pro scouts. bet you he's lying," says Sam Assael '02. "We're in the shadow of the major confer­ "Even guys who only play pick-up games at ences, no question," says USD coach Rich the park chink about it; guys who have never Hill. "Winning the WCC helped bring played chink about it. If you've put on a attention to the caliber of athlete we have Little League uniform, you've dreamed of here, bur it's tough for any player who comes purring on a major league one." from a smaller school without a long history Each year, tens of thousands of high of winning." school and college players rake that dream Just how tough it is became clear during onto the baseball diamond. For the vast the five players' freshman year in professional majority, it is left there. Most are never even baseball. Each of USD's Fab Five has a dif­ looked at by a professional scout. But last ferent story to tell. One grabbed a starring year five Toreros - Assael, fellow senior Joe spot against great odds, another coped with David Bagley's road to the big leagues included Li ma and juniors David Bagley, Ricky a difficult adjustment to the next level of the stops in Columbus, Ga. - and a surgeon's office. Ba rrett and Mike McCoy - signed profes­ sport. Two faced debilitating injuries and The draft forced the three juniors to sional baseball contracts. months of arduous rehabilitation. And for decide whether to forgo their scholarships In 2002, the quintet led the USD ream to Assael, his first professional season became and their senior years at USD. All three say the West Coast Conference championship, a his last. they never seriously considered passing up feat never before achieved by a Torero squad. the chance to play professional baseball, but Bur that pinnacle stood in the shadow of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of all three also negotiated contract stipulations much taller peaks. Shortly after their tri­ The 50 rounds of the 2002 Major League saying their clubs will pay for the remainder umphant victory, the five players found Baseball Amateur Draft were held over two of their schooling. themselves assigned to minor league reams, days in June. Exactly 1,482 players heard "I gave up my scholarship, but I covered toiling in small towns light years away from their names called by one of the 30 big my bases," Bagley says. "I can go back and the glamour of the big leagues. They soon league franchises, who hold exclusive rights complete my degree any time, and I plan to to sign their drafted players. High school do it, but I'm getting an opportunity that is Five members of USD's 2002 WCC seniors and co llege players who are not just too good to pass up." championship team left Alcala Park selected became free agents, eligible to sign McCoy, whose name was called so lace in fo r fields of dreams. with any club. the process, says he had almost given up

SUMMER 2003 27 Another day at the office for Mike McCoy.

hope of being drafted, and was mentally "Playing professional preparing himself to return to USD for his baseball has always been sen10r year. my dream," he says. "Ir "(Round) 34 is down there, but I have would have been nice to always wanted to play pro ball, and who have been drafted, but I knows? If I had gone back for my senior year would have joined an and got hurt, the chance is gone," he says. independent league or "I never thought about not going for it after figured something else I was drafted." out. I knew I was going Even though he was picked, for Barrett, to try to play profession­ the most talented ream ever, but we all draft day was something of a disappoint­ ally. I grew up in San Diego and have been a pulled for each ocher. In the pros, yo u're try­ ment. The Torero pitching ace was heavily Padres fan all my life, so when I signed with ing to win gan1es, but you're also competing scoured and cold by representatives of several them ic didn't even matter I wasn't drafted. " against the guys on yo ur ream for the eye of teams they intended to select him as early as What does matter in the draft, however, is che coach or for the general manager in the the second round. the amount of bonus money a player receives stands. Guys come and go - get moved up to sign his contract. First-year minor league or down, gee cue - so there's not the same players receive a salary of $850 per month, team atmosphere. Ir really is a business." so the signing bonus is the only opportunity And like any job, minor league baseball a new professional has for a windfall. Barrett can get tedious. Whether it's in Florida or and Bagley received bonus checks of about Tennessee or Illinois, the routine is the same. $135,000, while McCoy cook home $15,000. "Yo u gee up and come to the field, have For che non-drafted players? Lima cashed meetings or drills or work out, play the a check for $1,000 for signing with the Padres. games at night, then go home and crash," Assael asked the Tigers for a similar sum. McCoy says. "Then you get up the next day "They said no," he laughs. "I got nothing and do it again." for signing." The minor leagues were in midseason by the time the five USD players joined their The Long and Winding Road teams, after the Toreros were eliminated The long rehabilitaion process is just a minor The long road to the major leagues begins in from the 2002 NCAA Tournament. In chat detour, says Ricky Barrett. one of 20 officially recognized minor leagues, shore time, they demonstrated chat they which are scattered from che Appalachians co belonged in professional baseball. "I expected to go much higher, and chat's Venezuela. The entry-level of professional Among the USD juniors, David Bagley not my ego talking," he says. "I was getting baseball is the rookie leagues. From there, hit an impressive .337 for Montana's Great phone calls from scouts who said chis or chat players progress through Single A, Double A Falls Dodgers, mosdy as a designated hitter. team had me on their boards for che third and Triple A levels coward the goal of joining Pitching for the Twins of Elizabethton, round, but they'd be surprised if I was still the elite fraternity of 750 athletes in the Tenn., Ricky Barrett was named the there. When the Twins cook me in che sev­ major leagues. There are seven independent Appalachian League's pitcher of the year, on enth I didn't jump for joy, but I knew it was leagues in the United States composed of the heels of being recognized with the same my chance to do what I had always wanted teams with no major league affiliation, filled honor in the WCC. Mike McCoy's play at to do. I cold my family I'll complete my with players hanging onto their big-league second base for Tennessee's Johnson City degree - they'd probably kill me if I didn't dreams by the slimmest of threads. Cardinals - where he faced ex-teammate - but they know how much I wane this." Minor league fields look about same as For the seniors, the wait was even more chose in college stadiums - the bases are Joe Lima who holds a dual-major degree from nerve-racking. Although the draft came and 90 feet apart and the pitching rubber is USD, turns two for the Fort Wayne Wizards. went without Lima and Assael being called, 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate - but each fittingly was on USD's Cunninghan1 there is something different about the game Stadium field when their cell phones rang when one is paid to play. Almost every player with the news they had not been overlooked. was at some point dubbed all-conference, all­ Assael, the Torero catcher, was standing on league or all-star. Even in rookie ball, the the pitcher's mound during a baseball clinic subbasement of the professional ranks, the when the Detroit Tigers called. Lima was in game is pl ayed at a more incense level - an the batting cage when hi s mom called to say intensity that goes beyond faster pitchers and the San Diego Padres were crying to find him. better hitters. And the competition is fierce. A scarcer at four different positions over "The most significant factor in USD win­ his Torero career, Lima was undeterred by ning the 2002 championship was the sense being passed up on draft day. of team we had," Assael says. "We weren't

28 USO MAGAZINE Barrett - earned him a promotion this year this far. Quitting has never entered my mind. Toreros Claim Se,ond to rhe organization's A-league ream, rhe I'm going to work hard, ger this our of the Peoria, Ill., Chiefs. way and give it my best when I get back." . Conseiutive WCC McCoy has struggled with the bar since The shoulder problems - a common ail­ Championship the move, a development he finds as perplex­ ment among baseball players - continued. ing as he does frustrating. Bagley first had shoulder surgery before his Ir was, as Yogi Bera might say, like "Ir's not like the pitching is char much sophomore year at USO; his second surgery deja vu all over again. better," he says, "bur for some reason the hits came on Halloween 2002. Soon after, Assael As they did in 2002, rhe 2003 Torero aren't faUing. The ream has been great, also had shoulder surgery. After seven months baseball ream got some eighth,inning celling me they know I can hit, and they are of rehab, Bagley joined the A-league South heroics in the deciding game against going ro keep me in rhe leadoff spot, bur it Georgia Waves. The Waves are easing him Pepperdine to wrn ~e West Coast gets frustrating ro come our, day after day, back, using the third baseman primarily as Conf(:fence tide and the automatic and do my best bur go O for 4. Ir rakes a lot a designated hitter for now. berth in the NCM Tournament that of mental discipline nor to get down, and For Assael, however, rhe surgery speUed .got;s 'with it. This year, tt was a Josh I'm working hard on that." rhe end of his playing career. The Tigers had Hansen home run d1ar-gave US,Q the The seniors also fared well. Sam Assael's signed other catchers, and suddenly there .margin of victory; and ag-ai n USD cele- bar elevated him ro the power-hitting No. 4 was no room for an old man of 23 with a brated a championship on the M.ilibu spot for the Lakeland, Fla., Tigers. Joe Lima bum shoulder. Assael says he was nor sur­ field of their archri als. earned a starting job at second base for the prised or disappointed when a Tigers official Unfortunately, the NCM Tourna,.­ Idaho Falls Padres, a rare achievement for an called with the news he had been released. ment was also reminiscent of 2002, undrafted free agent. Lima moved up this Now working in San Diego as a represen­ when USO was forced to play a year to the A-league Fort Wayne Wizards of tative for Gallo wine, Assael says he doesn't perennial powerhouse on their- own Indiana, then closer to home with the Lake consider his wish to be a dream denied. His field. This year, Toreros defea ted Elsinore, Calif., Storm. body didn't hold up, bur he proved he had Arizona in the double-elimination Lima says college ball helped him make rhe ability to play professional baseball. format, bur fell ro seventh-ranked Cal rhe rough adjustment to rhe professional "I had surgery scheduled for the week State Fullerton and to Notre Dame. level. Ar 23, he is considered a senior citizen after I got the call the Tigers wanted to sign Coach Rich Hill says the program is on his ream, bur he says the hard-throwing me, bur I didn't tell them that," he says. stronger because of the tough defeats. A-league pitchers, most of whom are in the "I knew my shoulder would never hold "We had tht, winning run at the plate 19-ro-21 age range, are the same type he up, but I wanted to test myself at that level late in both games we lost," he says. faced while at USO. and prove I belonged there, and I did that." "Now'we've been ro the tournament "Some of the pitchers throw harder, bur For Bagley, Barrett, Lima and McCoy, rhe rwice, know what to expect and how there's nothing here I haven't seen before," chase continues. The roads they travel may, better to prepare for it, and we're very he says. "I just try to have a short memory like Assael's, end abruptly, or may wind for excited about next year." at the plate, focus on each at-bar, nor worry years and ultimately go if I struck out the last rime and nor get over­ nowhere. Or they may co nfident ifl gor a base hir." lead to the big leagues. Bur for now the end of Two Down, One Out the road is irrelevant; the T he early success led the players ro hope that journey is what matters. their major league careers might nor be far And Assael has a message away. Bur the long first season exacted a for his former Torero physical roll. teammates, who are still Among the victims was Barrett, whom reaching for rhe brass ring. the Twins wanted to play in an instructional "I wish them aU the league over the winter. After nine months of luck in the world and I am hard labor, however, his once powerful left rooting hard for them, but arm needed a rest. This spring, after several even if none of them plays uncharacteristic outings for the Quad City, in the majors, I think we Iowa, River Bandits, he sought advice - nor have done so mething very from his pitching coach, but from the ream important" he says. "We Sam Assael now bats for Gallo Wine. physician. In May, Barrett underwent shoul­ had a dream and we went for it. We played der surgery. After a long rehabilitation professio nal baseball, and there are a lot of process, he hopes to be ready for spring guys who never get that opportunity. I feel training next year. blessed I go t a shot and I'm comfortable that "Rehab is about the most boring thing in I gave ir everything I had. I'll never look back the world, doing the same exe rcises over and on basebaU with regret. " + over, bur it's worth ir," Barrett says. "There is no way I'm going ro give up after coming

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Class Notes Please note that Class Notes submitted participates in senior sports events. re tired and now enjoys traveling, arr athryn (Knowlton) after May 1, 2003, wi!L appear in the Other interests include the careers classes, lectures, concerts, plays and Holt graduated from Fa!! 2003 issue of USD Magazine. of his fo ur children , and his efforts raking ri me to be with her three USD in 1984, jumped to fi nish his memoirs. He also serves grandsons, Samuel, Michael and on the USD Alumni Board .... Andrew... . Peggy (Everett) right into her dream Simone (Gennette) Ostrander Yingling vo lunteers at Huntington job as an elementary (M.A. '66) and husband Gary are Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, school teacher, and looked for­ bu ilding a house for their single­ Calif., hel pi ng wi th fund raising. ward to a long career of educat­ parent daughter, and she reports rhar ing students, planning lessons and her entire family, incl uding grand­ 1966 children, are participating. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI meeting with parents. She taught Frank Cherry retired from 1953 full-time fo r nine years, then 1963 Lockheed Marrin in 200 I. He now switched to part-time when she SO-YEAR REUNION 40-YEAR REUNION writes software at home and works HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0-12 HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0- 12 wirh special ed ucatio n students. gave birth to her first daughter. But Holt's idyllic life was 1957 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI 1967 Sister Maria de Guadalupe Diaz turned upside down in 1996, UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Sister Virginia Rodee (M.A. '74), (M.A. '67) is a semi-retired catechist when she suddenly found herself at San Antonio de Padua Parish in Diane (Gallagher) Canedo assistant to USD's vice president of bought a historic home in San Diego's with a new and nearly over­ Barranquiras, Puerto Rico. She mission and min istry, reports that Mission Hills neighborhood. The whelming responsibility - her Homecoming 2002 attracted about regrets that she cannot attend al umni activities, bur says she remembers her house is a 1926 Spanish colonial from grandmother. Born in 1902, Faye 140 members from the classes of rhe the Whi rn ey esrare. She is retired from alma mater wirl1 much love and Needham was still as sharp as 1950s and 1960s. Mary (Jimenez) real es rare and is a volunteer docent app reciation for all she received at Steckbauer '57 and Marion and new board member at the San the day she graduated college, Alcala Park. ... Ralph Fear is a (Rogers) Schmitt '57 conracred Diego Historical Society. She also is at age 18. A bad fall , however, retired San Diego deputy district other al umni, and Patricia (Friel) a "cuddler" at the UCSD Medical meant she needed constant Seiber '57 and her husband, Joh n, attorney, and lives in the University Center neonatal intensive care unit. medical attention. hosted a brunch for her class at their City neighborhood of San Diego . ... home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif Veronica (Nutting) Guthrie is 1968 The family tried a nursing semi-retired, bur still reaches English JS-YEAR REUNION home, but after nine months it 1958 as a fo reign language. She and hus­ HOMECOMINGWEEKEND, OCT. 10-12 left Needham depressed and dis­ 4S-YEAR REUNION band Benjamin have paid off the UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI oriented. So Gram, as she was HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0-12 ho use th ey bought in 1972. They William Bachofner is completing UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI have three grandchildren, all boys, his 32nd year as a professor of psy­ affectionately called, moved in Theresa (Sanocki) Rimkus ages 5, 16 months and 13 months. chology at Victor Valley Community with Holt and he r family. (M.B.A. '86) noted the beautiful 1964 Co llege. He also is completing his On her own, Holt was unable new construction on rhe USD cam­ 16th year as the college's golf coach. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI to provide the round-the-dock pus during a visit last year. She and ... Daniel Wilson still reaches at Mary E, Fipp is the principal of care that Needham required. She her husband, Donald, have fo ur University of San Diego High School Serra Mesa High School after having children and eight grandchildren, after 35 years. explored other options, and dis­ and live near Seattle. been vice principal for two years . covered the Adult Day Health She reports she is "working long 1969 Care Center of Ramona, Calif. hours." ... Laurie Massa Jr. retired UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI from the Internal Reven ue Service in M, Estela (Gomez) Ruiz repo rts For three years, the center gave 1999, having wo rked at the agency that she has kept busy at EGR Real Needham a place of social inter­ for 33 years .... Mary (Tamulonis) Estate Services worki ng on mortgages action and activity, and offered Smith, who helped create the and home sales. Her daughter, Holt daily respite from her full ­ mosaics of Matthew, Mark, Luke and Patricia, graduates this year from time care responsibilities. John in Founders Hall in 1963 and Sama Clara Un iversity, and daughter 1964, now has four ch ildren and Gabriela is in the Class of 2004 at the When the family moved south 1960 seven grandchildren. She has li ved in University of San Francisco. to San Diego's Scripps Ranch UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Alaska since 1967, and has owned neighborhood, however, they lost John Bowman (M.A. '73) retired and operated Action Apparel since that support system. Needham from reaching in 2002 and now 1985 .... Catherine Whelan is

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passed away in 1999, just days to incorporate an intergenera­ center serves more than before her 97th birthday. tional program, and with a pre­ 20 senior citizens The experience sparked an school located next door to the every day. idea in Holt. Recognizing the need new center, she knew it was in her area, she took a giant leap meant to be. The preschoolers of faith , ended her teaching career join the adults three times a and founded the Poway Adult week for an hour, to enjoy learning continue throughout the hospital network. The organiza­ ;- Day Health Care Center. She games, stories, puppet shows and day, with breaks for a catered tion also agreed to give $5,000 had little background in business, activities. Holt hopes the kids lunch and an afternoon snack. this year and next year as so her brother, an accountant, will grow up with a greater The center now has 55 fami­ "scholarship" money for those lent a hand with the financial appreciation for their elders. lies enrolled. Some clients attend who cannot afford to attend the le side of the venture, and Holt "The interaction is tremen­ the center primarily for social­ center, where fees run between < soon found herself designing a dous," Holt says. "The adults ization, but others need more $40 and $70 a day. 1e 6,000-square-foot building in a don't want to feel like they've assistance. Holt is prepared for Holt also is in the process of s- renovated strip mall. been dropped off to be babysat. anything with 12 full-time staff starting a nonprofit organization, After careful planning, the As people get older they need members, including a registered "Friends of Adult Day Healthcare center opened on June 27, 2002, to be given ways to feel they can nurse, two certified nursing Centers," which will raise funds to just one client, Virginia, who help and still contribute." assistants, a licensed social work­ to further enhance the center. still faithfully visits the center Holt designed the center's er, and physical, occupational and Her dedication to the center, fi ve days a week. programs to alternate physical speech therapists. and the ideal of maximizing the I- "She is our good luck charm," and cognitive activities. Days Once a month, the center time and quality of people's lives, Ho lt says, laughing about the often begin with discussions of holds an informational support is summed up by a needlepoint 1th fi rst few weeks, when Virginia current events or news, followed group with a speaker from pillow in the center's entryway, had a full staff all to herself. by exercise or physical therapy. Palomar Pomerado Behavioral which reads: "Don't cou~t the :>St Holt's ambition was bigger than A half-dozen activities focused Health Services, a senior health years, _r:n ake the years count." just a building and a program for on games, fitness, music and and assessment arm of a local - Liz Bieb/ . ,.> . . J. ..,.., UMMER 2 00 3 31 GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Joanne (Shannon) Culley (M.Ed.) and husband Laron Culley '76 traveled co Cabo San Lucas and England in 2003, co China in 2002, to Africa in 2001 and arou nd the world for three months in 2000. 1970 1976 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Carol Frey is nearly finished wirh Warren Patch has two daughters her eighth historical genealogy book. and two sons. His elder daughter is She reports chat the work cook up in her firsr year at UCLA, and his rhe lasr two years of her life, and younger son is in kindergarren . will be at least 1,200 pages long. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI In addition, she pcovides care for her Maren (Malhas) Hanson Q.D.) 92-year-old mother. Carol's husband practices intellectual property protec­ retired from Texas Instruments, but tion law in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is now back at work with Lockheed with her husband, Mohamed. The Marcin. She adds chat one son grad­ couple recendy published an articl e uated from rhe University of North in che California International Texas wi th a crim in al law degree, Practitioner and have built a country and her daughter is a Auce and sec­ house about an hour south of ondary ed ucarion major in the same Riyadh. They travel frequendy to university's College of Music. Carol ocher Persian Gulf countries, Europe is crying co gee in couch wirh and the Far Easr. Lasr year, they Donata Luberski '71 and can be went to China for the first time and reached at [email protected]. were raken by their niece ro many 1971 places "off the tourist crack." ... UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Ruth (Armstrong) Sewell Charles Gibb published a novel, (M.Ed.) reports she is "burning the Murder on the Cocktail Circuit, which candle at borh ends and enjoying is available online ar Barnes & mosr every moment." Noble's Web site, bn. com, as well 1978 as ar Amazon.com and Buy.com. 25 -YEAR REUNION 1973 HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0- 12 JO-YEAR REUNION UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0-12 Barbara Kendall has raken her three grandchildren to preschool for 1974 rhe past three years and assisted as a UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI volunteer at the schoo l. She also is a Mark Zecca is a captain in the U.S. member of the Navy Nurse Corps Coast Guard Reserve and just complet­ Association and looking forward co ed a tour of deployment in Korea. He the Corps' annual convention next recently was named commanding offi­ year in Williamsburg, Va .... Col. cer of Harbor Defense Command 110 Roy Alan Pearson (M.B.A. '97) in San Diego and commander of Naval is in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Coastal Warfare Squadron 30. He is as a liaison with the Naval Reserve one of the first Coast Guard officers ro Read.iness Command. He Aies hold a Navy squadron command. Boeing 757 and 767 jets out of Los 1975 Angeles for Delea Airlines. He and UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI wife Jessica, a full-time homemaker, John Angus has been promoted co li ve in San Diego. the position of dean in the newly formed School of Marhemarical Sciences ar Claremonc Graduate University in Claremonr, Cal if ... Robert Lamont Jr. (M.Ed. '80) is a resource specialise at Lewis Middle ~rilLU School in San Diego. His wife, Pam, 1980s is a registered nurse and avid scuba djver. Their son, Joshua, is direcror 1980 of communications for an educa tion GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI supporr nerwork in New York City. Jeannine (Kleszcz) Ballister (M.Ed. '82) and husband John cele- brared rheir 20th wedding anniver- GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI She is an internationally recognized of San Diego with their 9-year-old sary last August. They continue to Cheryll LeMay (M.Ed.) was expert in renal and liver support sys- daughter, Jamie Catherine.. .. live in the South Bay area of Los appointed dean at the San Ramon terns, and is co-investigator on sever- Karen (Karnowski) Wheeler is Angeles. She teaches children ages Valley campus of Diablo Valley al research studies on the use of con- a stay-at-home mother with two 3 to 6 with orthopedic disabilities. College in Pleasant Hill, Calif., in tinuous renal replacement therapy. children, Anna, 4, and Ben, 1. July 2002. She was elected to her Jeannine and John have two

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1987 with Westlaw, and is recipient of the plans ro open a practice in Visalia, UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI President's Club Award for outstand­ Calif. ... Victoria (Renshaw) John LaPlante is putting his com­ ing performance for the second Caron and husband Daniel wel­ puter science degree to work as the straight year. He lives in Portland, comed a daughter, Haley Alexandra, chief information officer at Salt Lake Ore., and is account manager for on April 9, 2002 .... Laura Evans Community College. John lives in three law schools. He reporcs that he li ves in rhe Washington, D.C., area Park City, Utah, with his wife, Laurie, loves being involved with legal infor­ and works for WTTG, rhe area's and 8-month-old son, Nicholas, as mation solutions/technology consult­ local Fox News affi liate. She is the well as the family's 13-year-old ing, education and marketing .... 1990 weekend anchor on rhe 10 p.m. German shepherd, Pete .... David Thornsberry has been UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI newscast . ... Navy Lr. Cmdr. Jeffrey Barker Christine Lea is married with two married for 2 ½ years and works started a company Derrick S. Johnson parricipared children, Daphane, 6, and Parker, 3. as a location manager in rhe morion called Rhino Sporn, wh ich builds in Operation Iraqi Freedom wh ile She is a marketing manager for a picture industry. Most recently he high-end sport tennis and basketball assigned ro rh e amphibious assault high-tech toy company in Encinitas, worked on the Jim Carrey film co urcs and synthetic putting greens sh ip USS Tarawa, homeporred in Calif. The fam ily enjoys camping and "Bruce Almighty." ... Gail Wh~te•s in the greater Sacramento area .... San Diego. The ship launched AV­ traveling, and Daphane will start surf­ book Haunted San Diego has just Barbara Biery parlayed her Ph.D. SB Harrier attack jets into Iraq ..... ing this summer, a sport Christine gone into an eighth printing. She into a job as a technical writer for a Scott Marshall is general manager says she picked up at 37 and loves .... reporrs rhar tourists love to learn of Baltimore biotechnology company. for Cenrerplare at Qualcomm After growing up in Cali forn ia, she is Eric Musselman is head coach of San Diego's history and ghost stories. Stadium. He and Nicol (Stratis) the Golden State Warriors. enjoying her life on the East Coast. '92 celebrated IO years of marriage 1989 ... Craig Cottrell just started a in March. The pair live in GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI new career and new adventure as a Escondido, Calif., with three girls, California Gov. Gray Davis appointed Elizabeth (Korander) Franco wealth management consultant .... David Cohn (J.D.) Judge of the Taylor, 9, Madison, 7, and Riley, 6. Bradley was married in 2000 to Hanley Dawson IV and Bridget ... Tina Mickelson is a golf profes­ Superior Co urt of San Bernardino Wally Helmick, and continues to (Conway) Dawson have two chil­ County. Cohn was sworn in in Apr il , sional at Riverwalk Golf Cl ub in San work as an attorney. She chairs rhe dren, Em il ie, 4, and Hanley "Duke, " Diego, and writes a nationally syndi­ and will be sitting in a civil depart­ Beverly Hills Bar Association Solo 2 .... Adriano Fumo and Beth ment in the Victorville, Calif., court­ cated golf column. She also is work­ and Small Firm/Practice Manage­ (Psomas) Fumo had a third child, ing with Deepak Chopra, editi ng his house .... Rev. John Pejza (Ed.D.) ment Section, and is president of the Jul ia, in December 2001. .. . Anna stepped down as president of book Golffor Enlightenment, and Los Angeles chapter of U.C. (Carlson) Joslin is staying at home accompanied him on his book tour. Villanova Preparatory School in 1 Hastings College of the Law. She has with 2 /z-year-old son Jack. . .. Michael Rababy is publishing Ojai, Calif. , after 14 years on the two daughters and a 5-year-old job. He is teaching several classes in GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI his first book, American Bachelor, this grandchild .... Michael Grant Amy (Abdo) Anderson (J .D.) summer. ... Katharine (Pierce) world religions. He reporcs he had a starred a commercial and residential knee rep lacement in August. was promoted ro shareholder in the Smith and Ray Smith '90 have mortgage and real estate company, Phoenix office of Fennema re Craig. been married since 1994. They 1988 doing business in Pordand, Ore., Anderson practices in the areas of recen tl y moved back to San Diego, and Vancouver, Wash. He has two IS-YEAR REUNION labor and employment, professional and Ray is a firefighter wi th the city daughters, ages 3 and 1 HOMECOMINGWEEKEND,OCT. 10-12 ½ ½.... liability and business litigation. She of Chula Vista, Calif. Kacey stays at Mary (Stollenwerk) Matthesen UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI has published articles in legal jour­ home with rhe couple's four chil­ Eugene Gutierrez IV and wife and fami ly have been enjoying their nals and lectured on employment dren, Raymond IV, Courtney, Tamara have two girls, including tour of duty in Gaeta, Italy, and are law, legal malpractice and eviden­ Isabella and Colman . In her spare Sarah Elizabeth, born Feb. 14, 2002. looki ng forward to returning to the riary issues .... University Press of rime, she is a substitute reacher at ... Lisa (Broussard) Han started Washington, D.C., area in Fall 2003. America in December publ ished the elementary schools and sti ll plays back to work as a substitute reacher .. . Lori (Sluss) Midson re pons book On the Nature ofLeadership by soccer. ... Brad Weinstein works afi:er divorcing last year. She currently that her freelance journalism career Richard A. Barker (Ed.D.) .... for Sempra Energy Uti liti es. He is in the credential program at is raking off. She is restaurant critic Michael Johnson Q.D.) married recently was elected as president California Stare University, San at 5280 magazine, writes regularly wife Kim in 2000 and, in 200 1, of the San Diego Junior Chamber Marcos, and reporrs she is enjoying for Sunset, Colorado Avid Go/fer and opened Johnson and Johnson LLP in of Commerce and invites other being a teacher as we ll as a student City Search magazines, and is the San Juan Capisrrano, Cali f. They also USD alumni to log on to sandiego­ again .... Keli (Smith) Harold Colorado editor for rhe Zagat Rocky had a daughter, Katherine Rose, that jaycees.com .... Sarah Wilde has recently starred a business, KKH Mountain restaurant guide . ... same year and, in 2002, had a second worked at Marchan Eyewear for the LLC, which offers various adminis­ Shannon Rorabaugh lives in daughter, Hannah Britt. His law firm past 5 ½ years as a sales representa­ trative services. Her husband, Ron, Huntington Beach, Cali f., with her emphasizes business and real estate ti ve and manager. She li ves in Long is still on active duty as a li eutenant husband and twin boys. She is direc­ transactions and related litigation. Beach, Calif. , where she purchased commander in rhe U.S. Navy. The tor of marketing at Leiner Health a home two yea rs ago .... Karen couple's children are Abigail, 5, R.J ., Products .... Greg Tibbitts and 1991 Wood had her fourth child, Audrey 3, and Maggie Kate, 1. ... Jeffrey wife Jonell (Galik) Tibbitts '95 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Rose, in August 2001. Audrey joined James Alexander Koller Q.D. '9 1) is general counsel have two beautiful girls, Cassie, 2, lives in sisters Cassidy, 9, and Faire, 3, and and business development adminis­ and Caroline, 6 months. Both par­ Highlands Ranch, Colo., with wife brother Clayton, 6. The fami ly lives trator for Hutchings Court Reporters. ents are accountants. Greg works for Christy, daughter Emil y, 6, and son in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo He reaches at the University of Elitra Pharmaceuticals after many Jackson , 3 .... Gina (Cherundolo) neighborhood. Phoenix and lives in Miss ion Viejo, yea rs with Ernst and Young. The Beall and husband Shawn had their Calif., with his wife, Luann, and couple live in Carlsbad, Calif. second daughter, Juliana Grace, on Lori (Marconi) 2-year-old daughter, Mia .... Dinyar June 23, 2002 .... Boken completed her obstetrics/ Mehta Q.D. '93) is in his 10th year gynecology residency in June, and

34 USD MAGAZ I NE fan ostrich is your idea of raising ostriches 20 years ago a pet bird, then you're as a hobby. "We used to play used to thinking big. forms into small planters. racquetball close to where Oscar That's certainly the case "At USO, I took a class from was, and anytime the ball went for Bridget (Stehly} Donna Barnes on how to teach over the fence, he'd eat it.We Banner '95 (M.Ed.}, who's made art to children, and she taught knew we had about one minute big business with the big bird. me how to paint," says the for­ to run and get mom, who would Banner, who lives on a 25-acre mer education major and teacher, squeeze the ball back up his neck The farm not only allows the agri cultural preserve in Escon­ who last year sold nearly 200 and out his mouth. If we waited hundreds of weekend patrons to dido, Calif., minutes from the eggs, and has her own Web too long, it was gone forever." expand their experiences with San Diego Wild Animal Park, has site, www.bannerexotics.com. Visitors to Wholesome the exotic, but also to watch a wild animal park of her own. "I started painting the ostrich Heritage Farm usually are lured African spur-thigh tortoise races, Two years ago, she leased some eggs, they sold like crazy at the by the lanky birds, which may buy fresh fruit grown on the land and hatched a plan to pass local farmers market and they're date back to the dinosaur. But grounds, pick produce from the on her love for the gangly giants. just as popular here." the farm also is home to other garden, and cuddle with the ani­ At Wholesome Heritage Farm, The mother of three engages exotic animals, including emus mals in the petting zoo. Banner not only sells ostriches, customers with her vast knowl­ and rheas, lesser known cousins "I consider all of these animals whi ch can go for $500, but all edge of ostriches. The 4-pound of the ostrich, as well as camels, our pets;' says Banner, who lives things ostrich, including ostrich eggs, she says, are equivalent to llamas, sheep and African Watusi on the premises. "They're all so jerky and raw ostrich meat from 24 chicken eggs and can feed I 0 cattle, which have larger horns beautiful, and I'm lucky to live her brother's company, fresh people. Ostrich meat is low-fat than any other breed. The current this lifestyle. It's something we eggs, and purses and wallets poultry, but looks and tastes like star attraction is Lucy, a baby can do as a family. Our 4-year­ made of ostrich leather. Even the beef. Contrary to popular belief, camel the family bottle feeds. old, Jacob, helps with the farming feathers are used for elaborate the 9-foot-tall birds don't bury "We've always got lots of and the feeding and loves being ost ri ch feather boas and hats their heads in the sand. They are babies for people to see," says part of it all. Maybe someday made by her husband, Chris. the world's second fastest animal Banner, who has hosted field he'll be the next generation of Three years ago, he won a grand and tan run 45 mph.Their kick trips from nearly 70 local ostrich farmers." prize for one creation that can kill. And they eat anything, a schools. "We've got baby doll - Krystn Shrieve turned heads at the Del Mar lesson Banner learned early in life. sheep, baby donkeys, goats, Racetrack, where opening day is "When I was growing up, my llamas and even baby tortoises. traditionally a hat extravaganza. family had an ostrich named In the spring we've got baby The fastest sellers, however, Oscar," recalls Banner, whose geese, ducks and chickens. The are empty ostrich eggs, which father, an obstetrician, started kids love them all."

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GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI East Haradin received a master's national student navigators. He chat after playing baseball in Prague, Kathleen (Quinn) Krohne of traditional oriental medicine in recently was promoted co the rank Czech Republic, for the 2002 season, (Ed.D.) reporcs that her business 1999. She keeps a foot in the busi­ of major, and plans co retire from he stayed aro und and stumbled into centers on executive coaching, lead­ ness world by working at Callaway the military at the end of his current a position with Benson Oak, a bou­ ership training for corporate clients Golf in Carlsbad, Calif. .. . cour .... Lance Seymour moved tique investment banking firm spe­ and consulting, including expert Rosemary Malcolm (M.Ed. '95) co New York City in 1994 co join a cializing in mergers and acquisitions witness work in the field of sexual and husband Le. Cmdr. Kenneth sofrware start-up company called and venture capital. He completed a harassment and discrimination. Gilbert live in Puerro Rico, where Take 2. In 1999, he started a public CFA program in 2002, and also Re~ent corporate clients include she spends her days writing and car­ relations agency with a partner called serves as interim chief financial offi­ Dell Computer, Cascade Natural ing for the couple's !-year-old High Water Group. They have since cer for Body Basis, a retail chain of Gas, ConWay Transportation and daughter, Natalie Marguerite. grown co become the largest provider personal care scores based in Prague. the Center for Creative Leadership. "Parenthood is awesome," she writes. of public relations services in the .. . Eve Fromberg-Edelstein ... Sandra Lindberg (M.F.A.) ... Tamara (Harris) Malik and video game industry and, in 2002, graduated from California Western received tenure and promotion co husband Steve had a daughter, moved into DVD and home video School of Law in 1997. She moved associate professor from assistant Lauren Nichole, on Feb 4, 2002 . ... markets wi ch their new office in Los co Palm Springs, Calif., in 1999, and professor in cheater arts at Illinois Heather Meyer and husband Angeles. Lance married in 2001 and married husband Mark on Nov. 10, Wesleyan University... . Diana Scott have been living in che Naples the couple plan co have children in 2001. She has scarred a legal practice, (Dudolt) Raiche (M.A.) has been neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., the near future. and her husband is an attorney prac­ named executive director of the for nine years. They have a daughter, GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI ticing in Palm Springs. The couple Department of Religious Education Kennedy, 3 ½. Heather is a stay­ Merrily J. Allen (D.N.Sc.) is in live in Rancho Mirage, Calif.... for the National Catholic Educational ac-home mother after working for phased retirement from Pacific Elizabeth Ganse recently returned Association. 10 years in the insurance industry. Lutheran University School of Nursing, co che Bay area after teaching second 1991 ... Mark Moyer graduated from and practicing mind/body medicine grade for a year at an American University of San Francisco Law school in Venezuela. She was able co UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI at MulciCare Health Systems. School in June . ... Catherine travel all over South America as she Le. Cmdr. Rick Adside, a Navy (Guffey) Pattenglll and husband 1994 worked on her Spanish. She ran in Supply Corps officer, presently is Peter "Derby" Pattenglll Jr., UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San stationed at the Special Operations who attended USO from 1987 co Juan Alfonso and Michelle Diego, and is teaching second grade Command, Pacific, in Hawaii. His 1992, celebrated the first birthday (Watson) Alfonso were married in in San Jose, Calif. She will start wife, Lt. Cmdr. Laurie Porter of second child Lily, who joins older San Francisco in May 2000 and have working on her second master's '91, is a human resources officer in brother Pete, 2 ½. Peter is a scay-ac­ lived in New York City for the past degree in psychology in the fall. ... the Navy, stationed on the staff of home father and Catherine reporcs two years. Juan is an account super­ Keith Koszuta is a manager at the commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, chat her obscecrics/gynecology prac­ visor for Ogilvy and Mather, produc­ the management consulting firm in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii . .. . After tice is going well .... David Schorn ing national television advertising for Accenture, focusing on health insur­ three years as a therapist at Children's is currently the lead front-end Miller Lice. Michelle is the controller ance clients. He recently explored Hospital, Sibet (Hyder) Alspaugh designer for the 989 Sports video for Screenvision, a cinema advertis­ Italy and just bought tickets to began working in private practice in game, "NBA ShoocOut 2004." ing company.... Gertrude explore France, Spain and Portugal the La Jolla neighborhood of San He recently attended che NBA All­ Atchison reporcs chat she loves in the summer. He reporcs chat he Diego, at The Family and Learning Scar Game in Atlanta as 989 Spores' teaching ... . Le. Cmdr. WIiiiam had a pool installed and is ready for Center. She and George Alspaugh representative. Boggs and Kathryn Otto '83 Arizona's 110-degree heat . ... '94 (J.D) celebrated seven years of were wed in 1985. Their first daugh­ Deanna (Del Castillo) Lewis marriage in June .... Emilie 1993 ter, Danielle, was born in August married Charles Lewis on Oct. 7, (Oswald) Archuleta is a school 10-YEAR REUNION 1998. The couple had twins, Timothy 2000, and the couple live in Poway, social worker, working with elemen­ HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0-12 and Helene, four years later. The Calif. She has worked for San Diego tary school students who have severe UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI children keep Kathy busy at home Gas & Electric for nine years and behavioral and emotional disorders. Andrea (Myers) Cabrera lives in while William works as the air opera­ recencly has begun to celecommuce She is married co Greg Archuleta, a Spring Valley, Calif., with husband tions officer at the Point Mugu, from her home office. Her son is in spores reporter. The couple have Humbert and children Ariel, Hannah Calif., U.S. Navy base. The family the ninth grade at Poway High "three canine children and plan on Terri Oanlcek) and Erica .... plans to be there for two more years School. ... Sandra McEvoy is pur­ having human children soon." ... Gainor worked for several years in with che goal of returning co San suing a doctorate in women's studies Genoveva (Boccardo) Dubey the banking industry. She married in Diego . ... Scott Curtner is an at Clark University in Worcester, has been living in Paris with husband 1995 and has two boys, Grant and e-mail architect for Bank of America Mass. She intends co work for a Franck and 1 ½-year-old son Adam. She has been a full-time while living in San Francisco .... position with a non-governmental Thomas. She held a sales manager mother for the past 5 ½ years . "I Nicole (Gibbs) Dabney and organization or women's advocacy job with a large multinational com­ must say it is the hardest job so far, husband Doug live in Spring Valley, organization .... Elizabeth pany, Saint Gobain, specializing in but the most rewarding as well," she Calif. They have a son, Drake, 4, Oacobs) Michka (M.Ed. '95) is an glass and construction materials. writes .... Grace Heckendorf is in and a daughter, Jordan, 1 ½ . .. . organizational and career transition Franck was offered the opportunity the process of building a new home Eric Decottlgnles reporcs chat son consultant with Right Management, co be relocated by his company ro with fiance Ken Huskey.... Garret Alex turned 2 in November and is in addition co running a successful U.S. headquarters in Cleveland, and Martin reporcs he is happily mar­ learning co put sentences together in real estate firm since relocating co Genoveva is excited about being ried co wife Laurie. The couple have English as well as in Serbian. Alex Minnesota. Husband James is owner back in the United States .... Peter a 2-year-old son, Connor. ... Sean can count to 100, "but skips a few of Napa Valley Homes. The couple Fajkowski is a national mortgage Riggs is a flight instructor in numbers between 22 and 87," his have three sons, James, 17, Brice, 4, broker and banker, and originates Pensacola, Fla., teaching U.S. Navy father writes. Eric and wife Stella and Zachary, 2 ½. ... Dr. Tanya residential and commercial mortgage and Marine Corps student naval celebrated six years of marriage in (Luglianl) Stewart and husband loans in several states .... flight officers and air force and inter- April. ... Justin Fancher reporcs Chad Stewart were married in

36 USD MAGAZINE September 2000. Tanya finish ed a In January 2002, she married Paul three-year residency in internal Medure in Palos Verdes, Calif. Paul ALUMNI EVENTS medicine in May 2002 at Legacy is a senior account execu tive at the Health System in Pordand, Ore. George P. Johnson Co. in Torrance, SAN DIEGO Now she is an internal medicine Calif. T he couple li ve in the Belmont OCT. I 0-12 • Homecoming 2003 physician at Kaiser Permanence Shores neighborhood of Long Beach, "Building Foundations For Our Future" Northwest in Vanco uver, Wash. Calif ... Gina (Vergilio) Mock Friday, Oct. I 0 Chad is an information technology caught first grade for three years in • Evening Welcome Reception. time and location TBA and management consultant. ... the Placencia/Yorba Linda Unified Saturday, Oct. I I Diane (Malley) Trus and husband School District. She has bee n a sray­ • Tailgate Party and Reunion Celebrations for the classes of 1953, 1958, Mark have a son Eric, now 1 ½... . ar-home mother for 3 ½ years with 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993 and 1998. I I a.m.-3:30 p.m., Lauren (Riaski) Young grad uated son Joshua, 3 ½, and daughter location TBA in June wirh a master's degree in Rebecca, 1. She has completed her • USD Football vs. Drake University, I :30 p.m., Torero Stadium applied co mmunication from the master's degree at California Scare • Luau and Casino Night, 7-11 p.m., Sports Center Pool Deck and Gym. University of Denver. She also com ­ Univers ity, Fullerton . ... This sum­ pleted her first open water lOK mer, Gina Petelin wi ll celebrate the Sunday, Oct. I 2 swim, in 62-degree water, in Fort one-year anniversary of owning GP • Homecoming Mass, I 0:30 a.m ., Founders Chapel Coll ins, Colo., last summer, and is Pilares, a small pilares studio in San For information, call (619) 260-48 I 9, e-mail [email protected] or log chinking about doing it again. She Diego's beach area .... Melania on to http://alumni.sandiego.edu. says she hopes it is warmer chis rime. (Magoni) Romero Casabosch OCT. 18 • Miramar Air Show and Pedro Romero Casabosch GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Join alumni and friends for a day at the famous Miramar Air Show, '91 Cmdr. Deborah (McCarty) announced char their first one of San Diego's premier civic events. For ticket availability and fee Brigadier (M.S.N.) is retiring in daughter, Natalia Elena Romero information, log on to http://alumni.sandiego.edu. July after having served 20 years as Casabosch, was born Sept. 4, 2001 . a U.S. Navy nurse. She is moving ... Elizabeth Sheofsky is enro lled LOS ANGELES in a mas ter of arcs program at San to upstate New York .... Todd AUG. 31 • A Night at the Hollywood Bowl Huisken (M.A.) is the agency Francisco Scare University. She is an Alumni and friends will gather at the Hollywood Bowl for a reception cl inical supervisor at LOS Family instructional specialise at College of and performance of "The Big Picture - The Hollywood Musical." Services. Previously he was the Marin, and also has been turoring 5 p.m. wine and cheese picnic and reception; 7:30 p.m. performance. assis tant director of disaster mental high schoo l students in English and $22 per person; 30 tickets available. For information, log on to heal th services for the Orange Coun ty writing. ... Tina (Crowle) http://alumni.sandiego.edu. chapter of the American Red Cross. Tedesco married Chris Tedesco on Oct. 6, 2001, in a small church cere­ She earned a master's degree in dent fo r regional operations at 19 95 mony in Lake Tahoe, Calif Attendees school cou nsel ing in December.... National University .... Angela UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI included Mark Maynard '95, as Elizabeth (Mahoney) Eberhard Mullins O.O. '02) was commissioned Angele Farrell completed her we ll as Vivian Attlsha '95 and is living in San Francisco and work­ as an officer in the JAG Corps of the master's degree in inrerculrural Cathy (Cook) Asmann '83, ing as a legal admi nistrator in a top U.S. Navy in August. After passing communication in May 2002 . ... who were bridesmaids. The Tedescos bankruptcy firm . Husband Armin is rhe bar, she attended Naval Justice Brenda Godfrey reporrs she has now live in Sacramento's Natomas in his last year at Has tings Coll ege School in Newport, R.I. She is sta­ been worki ng as a law clerk for Park neighborhood with their two of Law . ... Elizabeth (Hodges) tioned in Port Hueneme, Calif, as a lnnercool Therapies. T he medical Labrador retrievers. Tina is rhe lnzeo married Derek lnzeo in defense attorney at Navy Legal device company has developed a new Nighrside executive producer at June 2002. The pair li ve in the Bay Services Office Southwest. ... technology co cool patients' body NewslO in Sacramento, and has been area, where Bess is teaching kinder­ J. Toby Noblin opened the law temperatures using an intravenous involved in coverage of events such as garten and loving it. She co mpleted firm Adams Noblin Vrararic LLP in catheter. She also is finishing her the Unabomber trial and the death of her mas ter's degree in counseling in Ventura, Calif. T he firm specializes third year of law school at USO, and Laci Peterson . ... Stephanie May.. .. Kassandra (Maniatis) in personal injury, insurance bad plans to work in corporate law.. .. Zamaro received a master's of social Hainline and Jerramy Hainline faith and construction defect litiga­ Gregory Harkless (M.A. '03) work degree from the University of married in 1998 on New Year's Eve, tion .... Catherine Northcutt was assistant director of USO Southern California in 2002. and currendy reside in Phoenix, has two ch ildren and is proud to be Outdoor Adventures from 1995 to GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI where Jerramy runs the Pointe at home givin g chem the education 1999, and now is director. He also is Kristen (Cornett) Kovac Hilton Golf Academy. Jerramy and and love they need to someday make an instructor with Wilderness (M.Ed.) now lives in Noosa, Kassandra fo unded Kassfir, a compa­ a difference in the world .... Medical Associates and an adjuncr Queensland, Aus tralia, with husband ny ch ar produces worko ut videos Kirsten (Strople) Schlosser li ves professor at USD's School of Karl. .. . Markell Steele (M.Ed.) tided "S hadow Spores." Jerramy in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., with Education. He fin ished a master's has established Futures in Morion, handles marketing for the company husband Jeff and 2 ½-year-old degree in leaders hip studies in May. a Long Beach, Calif., firm char pro­ while Kassandra focuses on public daughter Kylyn Marie. She works as ... Christopher Losoya is work­ vides comprehensive career counsel­ relations through live performances a business development manager. ... ing as a sixth-grade reacher in ing and job search assistance for and med ia appearances in the south­ Anne (Harbison) Webber earned Whi tti er, Cali f, and just celebrated professionals in career transition. Her west. Currendy Kassfir is preparing her master's degree in curriculum rhe pu rchase of a new home and the Web sire is futures-in-morion.com. for rhe launch of "Shadow Spores and instruction from California Scare birth of daughter Natalia in June II. " .. . Janet L. Littrell is chief University, Fullerton, and is in her 2002. Natalia joins older brother 1996 executive officer and general manager seventh year of reaching. She has Andres, 4 .... Heather (Miller) UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI of Spectrum Pacific Learn ing Co., a caught grades 2 through 5. Medure returned to California after Cami (Simmons) Arnold is for-profit online course development, working on the 45th annual Grammy reaching English and coaching swim­ training and student service organi­ Awards presentation in New York. ming at Herner (Cali f.) High School. zation. Formerly, she was vice presi-

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GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI reaching credential .... Tawnee KMPR, in Los Angeles .... is a law student at the University of Mary Bowen (D.N.Sc.) was pro­ Burch was married to San Diego Stephanie Sirvent has a new Washington. She hopes to practice mored to associate professor and vice lifeguard Sgt. Eric Care on Apr il 7, position as a bilingual coordinator malpractice defense . ... Whitney chair of nursing at Thomas Jefferson 2002, at rhe Thu rsday Club in San and resource teacher in the Solana (Symington) Morgan and University in Philadelphia. She also Diego's Point Loma neighborhood. Beach (Calif.) School District. Donald Morgan '95 are relocating received a post-master's certificate as She works for SAY San Diego as a GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI to che Los Angeles area, where Don a family nurse practitioner from the marriage and family therapist in the Yosef Yacob (LL.M.) completed wi ll be attending the University of State University of New York at family preservation department .... his Ph.D. in international law and Southern California to finish a doc­ Stony Brook. ... Jeff Clark Q.D. , Heather Huffman is thrilled to be dispute resolution wich a special ty torate in policy, planning and devel­ M.B.A.) became partner of his San going on her sixth year of reaching in international water resources at opment. Whitney is continuing her Diego business law firm , Shenas and for the Diocese of San Diego. She Osgoode Hall School of Law, York work as a marriage and fami ly thera­ Clark, in January. The firm special­ reporcs that alth ough challenging at University in Toronto, Canada. After pist and hopes to continue working izes in corporate and commercial law times, it is very rewarding to see her completing his USO degree, Yosef with adolescents .... Amber as well as mergers and acquisitions. students' eyes light up when infor­ was offered a fellowship to study at Morris and Chris Mills-Winkler He and wife Melissa (Childs) mation finally clicks. She con tin_ues Osgoode Hall, where he served as '91 wed last summer. Amber is in Clark '91 reside in San Diego. to travel as much as possible .... international liaison coordi nator for her second year at University of 1997 Ernie Govea is a captain in the the Center for Refugee Studies. Chicago Medical School. ... Andrea U.S. Marine Corps. He and wife Munoz received a master's degree in UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Sandra have three children, Anyssa, 1999 Stacy Bunten reporcs that she multicultural counseling with a pupil UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI graduated from Yale with a master's 9, Ernest, 7, and Evan, 3. He is personal services credential . She is Elizabeth Banks received a mas­ degree, then quickly moved back to working on an M.B.A. in financial working as a district counselor at ter's degree in special education from the West Coast. She now works as a management at the Naval MacDowell Elementary School in the University of Virginia in January physician associate for a spores medi­ Postgraduate School in Monterey, San Diego .... Nicole Nickoloff­ Calif.... Reynaldo Gualberto 2002 .... Molly Belozer finished cine orthopedic surgeon in Orange Humphry married Tim Humphry is managing a medical office while her master of public health degree County, Calif ... Ashley (Adolph) in 2000. The couple then moved to looking for another job .... Evan with a concentration in health services Farrell is living in downtown the Bay area for one year. She got a management and policy at Tufts Chicago on the lakefront. She is Hlavacek of the Indianapolis job at Nordstrom while he attended Firebirds was named the Arena University School of Medicine in enjoying the city and just got a the California Culinary Academy. In Football League's lronman of the May 2002. She then accepted a Siberian husky puppy... . Kira 2002, they moved to Orange position as an assistant policy analyst Finkenburg is the director of mar­ Week in April. He is in his fourth County, Calif, and welcomed son at Partners HealthCare in Boston . .. . keting for House of Blues Concercs year in the league .... Princeton Cole James on May 30, 2002. Nicole Huang recently started his own Angela (Atkins) Darling married San Diego .... Thomas Mack is is taking graduate courses at USO to husband John on June 15, 2002. married to wife Kasy and has a company called Innovative Lighting obtain a teaching credential and is Soluti on, which se lls lighting systems She reporcs chat they have no chil­ 2-year-old son named Joey. ... Paul otherwise a stay-at-home mother . ... for aquariums over the Internet at dren yet but are happy parents to Niebisch decided to start his own Melinda Anne Peterson is ii-solutions.com .... Rachel two cats, two lizards and a fish. She business in the entertainment indus­ attending dental school at Creighton still is working in the construction try after working for several compa­ (Kowardy) Ireland and husband University in Omaha, Neb .... field. John is a custodian for the San nies since graduating from USO. Justin report that chey are happy to Mirka "Mimi" Radman wi ll Diego Un ified School District. .. . He married wife Heather in 2000. return to California and are residing return to USD's Hahn School of Madeline Doms graduated from He reporcs that he is still playing in the Bay area, wh ile she completes Nursing and Health Sciences to the University of Pacific McGeorge "tons of hockey" and has coached it her three-year residency in pediatrics. receive her master's degree, and plans School of Law in May 2002. She at a YMCA for several seasons .... "We hope then to return to San to graduate as a nurse practitioner. Diego," she says .... Jennifer passed the California bar exam and Rosalba (Perez) Puentes reports ... Peter Sengenberger moved curren tly practices law at a that daughter Rosalinda just turned (Carver) Jones has done quite a to a sub urb of London a year ago, Sacramento firm , specializing in 4. Rosalba recently was promoted to bit of traveling since graduating. She where he is operations manager for water and natural resources law .... manager ac Raytheon Systems IDS, taught Spanish to elementary school Vector Direct, a large Japanese mar­ Courtney Hernandez has been and her husband, Juan, is self­ children for two years through a keting firm. He loves his position nonprofit organization, and now is busy for the past three years teach­ employed . ... Amy Spain wed and travels quite often. ing. This year she teaches a combina­ Todd Evers on May 31, 2002. self-employed and provides massage therapy in businesses and homes tion of fourth-and fifth-grade classes. Matron of honor was Wendy (Lee) around San Diego. She married an She coaches swimming at her old Farley '97. Joan Caratan '98 ' .1',__ . ,\ ' Austral ian, Simon Jones, on May 21, high school, and has started to take and Tami (Barnhart) Barnhart­ 2002, in Hawaii . ... James online courses through USO to Reese '97 also served in rhe bridal V l.~; I _,; : McLean recently married wife clear her teaching credential. ... . J ~ ~ . -- party.. .. Andrea (Malchiadi) Deborah Hutchinson is in her I Jenniffer in Phoenix. He is reaching Tatro graduated from Creighton 2000s economics, government and world seco nd year of a doctoral program in University Medical School in May ecological sciences at Old Dominion and will pursue a residency in history at a high school in San 1000' Francisco, and recently received a University in Norfolk, Va .... anesthesiology. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI master's degree from the University Christina Lavanier is attending Lynette (Gastelum) Delgado of San Francisco .... Marisa Ritts the University of Co lorado School of 1998 has been working for the past 5-YEAR REUNION is a publicise who services clients in Law in Boulder and will graduate in 2 ½ years in manufacturing, HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0-12 the lifestyle and fashion arenas. She 2004 . ... Suzanne Love moved to communications and financial UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI also coordinates logistics and exe­ Boston after graduating from USO services .... Angelina Downing cutes special events, including fash­ and completed a master of public Susan Barnstuble is teaching high markets California peaches, plums ion shows and produce launches. health degree from Boston University. school biology in Costa Mesa, Calif, and nectarines in 13 countries . ... after getting her master's degree and She heads a public relations agency, She then moved to Seattle, where she

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international training for Pro instrumental in helping found Select, a business that offers Goals for Children in 200 I, says camps and clinics for advanced Noah Gins, president of the youth players. group, director of Pro Select and Last year, Pro Select sent director of coaching for Albion. Gonzales and a handpicked boys "As a soccer coach, he's team to compete in Brazil, which extremely committed, extremely after winning five World Cup passionate;· says Gins, who was championships is known as the Gonzales' former teammate on soccer capital of the world. the Flash. "There's a lot that o! Go! Go! " It was an avenue for me to A girls team followed in January. goes into coaching youth soccer, barks Carlos experience more." The kids played at a professional and he goes the extra mile to Gonzales '97, Gonzales was a four-year play­ training facility, and learned how coach the kids." as pairs of teen­ er for the Toreros. After graduat­ Brazilians play the game. In 200 I, Gonzales took over age girls deftly ing, he joined the now-defunct In the midst of his other jobs, training for a girls under-14 maneuver through an obstacle San Diego Flash, a professional Gonzales is a program director Albion team, which advanced to course of flagpole markers. team.When two knee injuries for Goals for Children, a non­ the playoff semifinals for the first "It's for speed and agility," says waylaid his childhood dream of profit group that presents moti­ time. Albion Club players Leigha the 29-year-old Gonzales of the a long professional career, vational talks to disadvantaged Valenti and Brittany Sauls, both fo ot drill. But he knows that for Gonzales turned to coaching as children at schools,YMCAs, 14, were selected for the January kids, soccer is much more than a way to pass on the opportuni­ Boys and Girls Clubs and other trip to Brazil, where their team dribbling the ball and scoring ties he found in the sport. after-school programs in San played four matches and finished goals. On the field, Gonzales gets "I couldn't play for myself any­ Diego. The group reaches 200 with a 2-1-1 record. Both say the best out of his players. Off more, so I wanted to find a way to 300 children a week. the experience was a dream, but the field, he shows them how to to give back to the community "We speak to them about add that their coach constantly get the best out of themselves. and to youth;' says Gonzales, being a college athlete or a pro­ emphasizes the reality of getting "I incorporate not only soccer who began kicking a soccer ball fessional athlete," Gonzales says. good grades if they want to play skills, but life skills that will help in the first grade. "I found that I "We talk about how to set goals soccer in college or professionally. them beyond the soccer field - could give my experience and my if you want to go to college or "He's like an extra dad, he's commitment and compassion for knowledge of the game to kids ." play (professional) sports." very understanding," Valenti says, what they do in life," Gonzales Gonzales is assistant director The group also raises money while Sauls adds: "If he's not says. "I have seen what soccer of the Albion Soccer Club, a to provide recreational opportu­ coaching, he's helping under­ has provided for me. Without consortium of about 20 youth nities. It pays registration fees for privileged kids. His whole life soccer, I wouldn't have had the teams that train and travel to sports, and even covered some is soccer." opportunity to go outside of compete against other club travel expenses for the Brazil - Cecilia Chan (his home state of) Arizona. teams. He also is director of soccer clinic. Gonzales was

SUMMER 2 00 3 39 Rebecca Hayes is an education gliding pilot with the UC Berkeley reaching at Mira Mesa High School with Higgs, Fletcher and Mack LLP, mentor at Fusion Learning Center, a Hang-Gliding Club. He also is pur­ in San Diego, and plans to move to and Heidi Maley Morrow '97 private facil ity char serves kinder­ suing a master's degree in psychology Puerto Rico chis summer and teach Q.D.) an associate with Heller, garten through college-level students from Go lden Gare University in San English in the public ed ucation Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, of both private and public schools. Francisco .... Raphael Harkham system there. were married in January. They own

.. . Shane Helmich reaches sev­ begins law study ac Pepperdine GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI a home on Mount Soledad in San enth-grade math at Olive Peirce University in September. He has Beat Ammann (M.B.A.) recently Diego .... Gioia Wahhab '97 Middle School in the Ramona spent the past two years working at was elected director for the rece ntly (M,B,A, '98) married Jason Bowser (Calif.) Unified School District. ... various positions, most notably at privatized and third largest water Apri l 26 in The lmmaculata. The Jill Hepp finished a stint in the the Peres Center for Peace in Tel treatment facility in Switzerland. couple live in San Diego .... Thomas Peace Corps in Belize in July. She Aviv. ... James Hewlett reports Brown '98 married Angelica Bermejo, traveled throughout Central America chat Oregon has a very soft and whom he met while studying abroad and then returned to the United competitive job marker. ... Eliza in Seville, Spai n.... Karen Edgar Scares to rake a position with the Martin traveled to Australia and ~ I J~l;,,s '98 married Christopher Rand on NOAA Research Office of New Zealand and is pursuing a grad­ May 3 at Sr. Marcin ofTours ,~ ..:::' International Activities in uate degree in history at University ...... Church in La Mesa, Calif. Karen Washington, O.C. ... Zachary of California, Santa Cruz.... Marriages earned her master's degree in educa­ Koucos is a financial adviser with Megan McKernan is in her seco nd tion and is an English reacher in the Morgan Stanley in downtown San yea r of grad uate school , pursuing a Shelly McCune '84 (M.Ed. '86) Grossmonc Union High School Diego. He works with individuals master's degree in physics for busi­ and Brian Henton were wed Oct. 12 District. The couple live in La Mesa, and businesses on their investment ness applications. She plans to gradu­ in Edmonds, Wash. The couple Calif. ... Jeffrey Powers '98 mar­ planning .... Shane Loidolt recent­ ate from University of Southern reside in Everett, Wash. She is reach­ ried Nikki Teufel on May 3 in ly was accepted into Pepperdine California in May 2004 . ... Diron ing math and science to seventh Scottsdale, Ariz. They are purchasing University's graduate program at the Mobley is a case worker for Choice graders .... Walter "Tripp" a McDonald's franchise in Mesa, Graziadio School of Business .... in the greater San Diego area .... Howiler Ill '87 married Paige Ariz., and wi ll li ve in Scottsdale. Christine Owens lives in San Ryan Sims curren tly attends the Oden on April 6. He continues to Jeffrey has played professional base­ Diego and works in the education University of La Verne in a com­ work in sales at GE Capital, and she ball in the Colo rado Rockies and department at Sea World. She also is bined reaching credential/master's of is an artist and director of visual arts Arizona Diamondbacks organizations an animal trainer working with education program. He is a full-rime at Orange County High School of for the past four years . ... Stephen botdenose dolphins as part of the substitute in Sama Barbara area the Arts in Sama Ana, Cali f. ... Arietta '99 and Marisol Macias U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program. schools. ... Steven Slusser is an Brigid Sullivan '91 and Matthew '99 wed in October in Fo unders ... Christy Yoder says her psychol­ outside linebacker coach at USO. Salamon were wed 0cc. 12 at Chapel. The couple now live in ogy and sociology education and Montrose, Calif. Marisol is a first­ 2002 Treasure Island Hotel in Las Vegas. experiences with the American The couple now live in Bishop, grade teacher in Pasadena, Calif. , UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Humanics Program and lnterVarsity Calif. ... Suzanne Lyon '93 and Stephen works for a risk con­ Christian Fellowship worked togeth­ Janeene Arendsen is in Australia sulting firm in Los Angeles . ... for a year, vis iting other USO alum­ (M.B.A. '94) married Bill Milligan er to lead her to a good career. on Aug. 3.... Joseph Tarsha '93 Kelly Keahey '99 married Brian ni. While there, she reports she was Patterson on Oct. I 9 in Fresno. 2001 bitten by che surf bug and appears to married Kathryn Weems outside Nashvi lle late last fall. The newly­ The couple live in Clovis, Calif. ... UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI be on a permanent surfing safari .... Sarah Furar '00 married Greg Rachel Andrase cu rrently is student U.S. Navy ensigns Brandon weds are relocating to chat area .. .. Kevin Barrett '95 married wife Burns on Oct. 11 in Laguna Beach, teaching in a third-grade class at Carlisle, David M. Ducazau, Erika Sep t. Work is good and Calif., and honeymooned in Fiji. Cher F. Harriett Elemen tary School David J. Landeros, Jeffrey B. 29. Terri They live in Encinitas, Calif., with in Santee, Calif. She hopes to find a Lavery and Ronald H. Rumfelt play is good, he reports .... Burges '95 was married in August. their dog, Bud .... Kristin job reaching in San Diego in the fall. Jr. all recently were commissioned ... Debi Huyssoon '95 married McMahon '00 was married July 13 ... Karen (Banks) Child has been upon graduation from the Naval to Eddie Covarrubias. The couple a therapist in private practice for Reserve Officer Training Corps W. Scott Grant in August. They honeymooned on the island of moved to Denver and are loving it. more than a year. She reports she is Program at USO .... Katie Knott She is a bilingual kindergarten busy seeing individuals, couples and is involved with the Jesuit Volunteer Qamea in Fiji. Debi is in her second year of dental school and will gradu­ teacher and he is a manager for families and working under state Program in Detroit. She runs after­ Discount Tire Co .... Laura Wood domestic violence, sexual abuse and school programs for gi rls from ate in 2005. Scott is a computer con­ Michelle Maroot '95 '00 married Isaac LacKamp on foster care contracts .... Allison kindergarten to seventh grade .... sultant .... (M.Ed. '98) married Stan Dieberc Aug. 3 in Sc. Louis. Laura is finish­ Coffman is enrolled at California Mandy Reyes is a third-grade ing her master's degree in education Scare Unive rsity, Fullerton, in the reacher in the Poway Unified School on July 27. Michelle currently reach­ es reading at Anthony Elementary while teaching in the San Diego master's of counseling program with District. She is reaching at the ele­ Unified School District. ... Loren an emphasis on marriage and family mentary school she attended, and School. ... Cherin Brown '96 (M,Ed, Lunsford '01 (LL.M.) and und er­ Francis Dizon '00) married Joh n Agui lar counseling .... is some of her co lleagues were her graduate Amber Gordon were worki ng as a substitute reacher in the teachers when she was a student on July 27 at Fo unders Chape l. She is currently a first-grade reacher at married Jan . 18 in a small ceremony. Los Angeles Un ifi ed School District, there . .. . Shane Rilling plays in the Loren pursues a solo practice special­ and pursuing a master's degree in band Black Feet, and also is surfing, Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary School in San Diego. John is a vice izing in estate planning, asset protec­ school psycho logy and a pupil per­ learning about wine and directing tion and business concerns . ... sonnel credential at Loyola and producing "Feast on the Beach principal in San Diego City Schools. ... Anna Chimowicz '97 married Shaun Sumner '01 and his high Marymount University. He is a Cooking Show." ... Andrea Russo school sweetheart were married reacher's assistant at LMU .... Matt is studying at Arizona State University Clegg Hubbell in September in Founders Chapel. Since obtaining Valentine's Day weekend ac Founders Fennell is in the U.S. Marines and for a master's degree in political sci­ Chapel. After graduation, he accept­ was part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. ence with an emphasis on political her master's in business administra­ tion, Anna has worked with Remedy ed a pos ition in the communication His unit camped in one of Saddam theory.... Blain Watson (M.Ed. and comm uni ty services department Hussein's Baghdad palaces, his father '03) received a Span ish reaching Staffing for more than three years as a project manager . ... Alexis at the Unified Pore of San Diego. Tim reports .... Adalid Garcia has credential in May from USD's He has also been accepted into been working on becoming a hang- Schoo l of Education. He is student Gutierrez '97 Q.D.), an associate

40 USO MAGAZINE US D's School of Law . ... Karrie on hold until the fall. ... Aminta and Associates in Pasadena, Calif ... in The Immaculaca. Shannon will be Watton '01 married Lonis Schultz (Justen) DiMaulo '89 and hus­ Bill Malecki '93 (J .D.) and wife at home reaching afrer instructing in July. She is a teacher with the La band Frank celebrated che birch of Sheri were blessed with Nicholas on fifth-grade and kindergarten classes Mesa-Spring Valley School District. their second son, Matthew James, Dec. 28. The family lives in Irvine, for the past six years .... Jeff '97 ... Denise Dunn '02 married on Feb. 16. Older brother Andrew is Calif Bill is staff counsel for the legal and Selina (Valdivia) '97 Johnathan Bailey on July 6 in Long 2 years old .... Deanna (Schultz) department of the Scace Compen­ Knudson were blessed with Alise Beach, Calif Denise is a second-year Howell '89 and husband Tim sation Insurance Fund in Sama Ana, Marie on March 8. She joins big sis­ grad uate student at the Un iversity of announce die birch of their child, Calif ... Richard Mathews '93 ter Madelynn, 20 months. Selina is California, Irvine, and John works Samantha Michelle, on Jan. 5. and wife Ellie welcomed son William now staying at home with the girls fo r the city of Anaheim. Samantha joins brother Jonathan, 3, in the fal l. Willi am joins older sister and Jeff works for Express Scripts and sister Kristina, 5 .... Stephen Audrey, 8 ½.... Sarah (Kellogg) Inc .... Michele (Nowicki) '98 Stumpfl '91 and wife Mary cele­ Plocher '93 and her husband, (M.Ed.) and D. Adam '9S brate the birch of their second child, Barry, welcomed son Tyler Michael Newton welcomed daughter Zoe Luke Stephen, on March 27. Stephen on Jan. 25 . The couple wed at Elise. The couple were married in reporcs chat old er sister Tara is very Founders Chapel on Nov. 24, 2001, February 1999. Adam is a lieutenant excited co have a liccle brother. ... and now live in Portland, Ore., in the U.S. Navy and Michele is a Lisa (Cheung) Wang '91 and hus­ where Barry works for Nike, Inc. and high school earth science reacher. band David were blessed with a baby Sarah is a stay-at-home mother.. .. The fami ly moved ro Honolulu, Robert Noriega '82 and wife boy, Jaxon Connor, on March 29 in Troy Constein '94 and wife Vicki Hawaii, in April 2003, where Adam Lindy welcomed the birch of their Pasadena, Cal if. The family lives in had their first child, Carlee Ann, on will be the head of the meteorology daughter, Alyse Marie, in August. Monterey Park, Calif, and Lisa is March 7 .... Molly (Cronin) department .... Jennifer Alyse joins older brothers Andrew, still a tax senior manager with Clark '94 and husband David (Roudebush) Mautino '98 and 11, Alex, 7, and Zach, 5.... John Deloitte and Touche .... Kimberlee welcomed their third child, Georgia husband Kevin had rheir first child, Cappetta '83 and wife Nancy Jo (Moravick) Cheng '92 (M.A. Grace, on Dec. 7. She joins brother Connor, on Nov. 24 .... Audrey welcomed son Rocco in 2002. Rocco '94) and husband Mitchell celebrat­ Patrick, 5 and sister Kare, 2 .... Sara (Noriega) Ybarra '01 and hus­ joins Gabriel, 4, Matthew, 7, and ed che birth of their daughter, Jade (Rentz) McKenna '94 and her band Robert Ybarra had a baby boy John Jr. , 10. The fami ly still lives in Grace, in March. The family lives in husband, Chris, welcomed were named Bruce on Feb. 11 . ... Westport, Conn., and John runs the Sacramento and rock climbs as a blessed with a second child, who Shannon Honore '02 had her North American-based business for family throughout the western scares. joins older sister, Madison Marie, second daughter, Leilana Hailey, on AIG Financial Produces from its ... Rebecca (Janik) Hampson I ½... . Casey (Cooper) '94 and Dec. 19. Shannon is working as a Wilton, Conn., headquarters . ... '92 and husband Nathaniel Brian '9S Pozzi welcomed their certified nurse's assistant and is cak­ William Hogan '84 and wife Hampson had their first baby, a second child, Peyton Dyan, on 0cc. ing prerequisite courses for a nursing Michelle anno unce chat a new baby daughter named Ashleigh Claire, in 3. She joins her brother Trent, who program in Arizona. boy, Nick Andrew, born Nov. 8, November. The fami ly lives in turned 2 in June .... Casey Kunde joins sister Haley Marie, 5... . Bosron .... Steven Hood '92 '9S (M.A. '98) and husband Tom Jessica (Guerrero) Camacho and wife Darla welcomed son Austin had their first child, Leah Nicole, on In Memoriam '8 6 and husband John were blessed on Sept. 10. Steven is owner of March 20 .... Valeska Rosanna with a baby girl, Eli zabeth Jestine, on eascislandsrentals.com, a real estate McDonald-Munoz '9S (M.Ed.) Bret Harris '89 (M.Ed. '98) Aug. 25. The family resides in and vacation rentals Web sire .... and husband Efrain celebrated the died July 14, 2002, of a heart attack. Dededo, Guam, where Jessica is a Monica (Rose) Brunner '93 and birch of their fourth child, Valeska He was 37. He is survived by his social worker and an early interven­ husband Tim celebrated the birch of Mercedes, on Feb. 6. Valeska joins wife, Nellie (Correnti) Harris tionist at Guam Early Intervention their second daughter, Carly Rose, brothers Nicolas, 7, Alejandro, 5, '93, and two sons, Patrick, 3 ½, and Systems . ... Nancy (Wheeler) on July 17, 2002. Carly joins 5-year­ and Sebastian, 2. The family lives in Casey, 2. The couple had dated since Smith '87 and husband Blaise wel­ old sister Cezanne Rose. Afrer seven Weston, Fla. Valeska reporcs she Nellie's junior year and been married comed baby number three, Thomas years of junior and senior high min­ coaches AYSO soccer, teaches kinder­ seven years. Nellie reporcs chat Bree's Carson, on March 30. He joins istry work, Monica cook a sabbatical garten religion classes and plays on passing was a "terrible loss ... but bro ther Jake, 7, and sister Sawyer, 3. and now is a full-rime mother. ... the Weston women's soccer team .... every day brings growth, a new ... Erin (Reagan) Lightle '88 Karen (Merk) Buchholz '93 Julie (White) '94 and Chad '9S appreciation for life and amazing and her husband welcomed (M.Ed. '9S) and husband Jeremy Putnam welcomed Taylor Rose blessings from above." achaniel Aaron on Sepe. 14. welcomed their second child, Darby on March 24. Taylor has a sister, He joins brother Drew. The family Lynn, on March 31. Older brother Mackenzie, 2 .... Tiffany lives in Kodiak, Alaska .... Todd Jonathan is 1 ½. Karen scarred (Giardelli) Holmes '96 and Amy McDevitt-Earley '88 and a home business hosting scrapbook husband Brian welcomed their hus band Brian Earley recencly had classes .... Joshua Graham second child, Lauren Ann, on Feb. 5. cl1eir fourth chi ld, Jack, who joins Desilva '93 moved back co Maui, ... Emmy (O'Toole) Martinez three girls, Mara, 6, Shannon, 4 and Hawaii, in 1996 and finished build­ '96 (M.A.) and her husband had Grace, 18 months . ... Carol ing his home in January 2002. He their first child, son Nicholas, on Russell-Durr '88 (M,Ed, '90) and his wife, Robyn, had their first Sepe. 15 .... Holly (Sennes) and Paul Durr '86 welcomed child, Maxwell Maluhia DeSilva, on Shore '96 and husband Kenny Maureen Therese in September. May 25. The boy's middle name is celebrated the arrival of their first Maureen joins two older brothers Hawaiian, and means peace or pro­ chi ld, Sadie Belle, on Apri l 2 . ... and three sisters. Carol is a full-rime tection, Joshua says .... Lisa Krista (Gallia) Anderson '97 mother and Paul is the chief financial (Toole) '93 and Neil '92 Greer and her husband had son Patrick officer of Sharp Communi ty Medical welcomed son Robert Thomas on James on July 3. "He is the greatest Group .... Jennifer (Merriman) July 25 .... Tracy (Bagley) '93 adventure," Krista writes . ... Caxares '89 had a baby girl, and John '93 Lewis in February Shannon (Reidy) Diltz '97 and Sophie, Nov. 30, and got married welcomed daughter Alexandra, who husband Jeff Diltz welcomed daugh­ March 29 in Maui, Hawaii. Jennifer joins sister Madeline, 2 ½. John is a ter Delaney Anne on Jan. 25. The reports chat her catering business is portfolio manager at Dorsey Wright pair were married on July 21 , 2000,

SUMMER 2003 41 ,. -4 IN YOUR OWN WORDS

After several years of rejection, They Said It Would I decided co join the ranks of inde­ pendent filmmakers. I decided co Never Happen make the story I treasured into a movie, no matter what ir cook. The John Carlos Frey '85 grew up near the U.S.-Mexico border. He untold story of a desperate people From a hope, a wish so close to rhe wealth and freedom pursued a successful acting and theater directing career, but his and certainly a prayer dream was to make a film exploring border issues. He felt so of the United Scares, and so close strongly about the subject matter in his original screenplay, co my roots, had co find a voice on or two, what started as the big screen. "The Gatekeeper, " that he financed the entire project himself­ I raised the money myself, if you an idea has taken form. directed the film and played the lead role. The film has received can call raking our loans and max­ critical acclaim and awards worldwide. This is how it happened. ing our credit cards raising money. I put together a group of dedicated individuals who wanted co support my idea. We returned co San Diego, and for $200,000, over 18 days, we made "The Gatekeeper." Then the fear set in: What did we have? Had I made a big mistake? What next? "The Gatekeeper" was completed in January 2002. We entered the project into film festivals throughout the world with the hope of sparking interest. To dare, the film has been honored with 10 major film festival awards. Ir is supported by Amnesty International and contains music donated by Bruce Springsteen. The film overcame the next big hurdle, theatrical distribution co rhe general pub­ lic, in May 2003. We chose San Diego as our world-premiere city because of my personal history and rhe city's assistance with the film. "The Gatekeeper" initially was released to 15 cities in the American everal years ago, I had an idea co make a film . In 1985, after southwest and 10 cities in Mexico. We hope, once again, co gain I graduated from USD, I moved co Los Angeles with my biol­ momentum and release rhe film nationwide and abroad. Sogy degree in hand. Although I was a science major, the lure From a hope, a wish and certainly a prayer or rwo, what scarred of Hollywood seemed more intriguing. as an idea has taken form. The film's success has been gratifying. I wrote my first screenplay, "The Gatekeeper," about migrants Bur who I have become as a result of making rhe film is what's truly searching for freedom in America. Ir was a subject close co my heart important. I listen co an inner voice of reason, and cry co nurture my and mind, because I was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in instincts. I rely on myself more than the court of public opinion. southern San Diego, close co the border. Almost on a nightly basis, I am free co pursue what I find imporranr. I am most at peace when I witnessed the flood of migrants crossing the border, crying find a I follow through with my desires. I want co co ntinue finding better life. I spoke co many of chem, and their stories fascinated me. provocative, untold stories and converting chem into worthwhile What must it be like co leave your home country, your family, and projects for the screen. If "The Gatekeeper" attains box office success, come to a foreign country where you don't speak the language, just I hope to continue to cell stories chat Hollywood is afraid to cackle. co find work? The path I have taken che past few years has been difficult, and "The Gatekeeper," a true-co-life drama depicting the current civil not without numerous setbacks. I have found a greater resolve from unrest occuring at the U.S.-Mexico border, wasn't an attempt co solve within, but I am convinced chat it has value, and char it assures the complex issue of immigration. Its sole purpose was co put a name happiness and true success. on the face of chose so desperate co improve their life condition. Bur For more information, log on to www.gatekeeperfilm.com. my screenplay didn't generate any interest. I was cold it was a small story. I was cold ir would never happen. I was cold there was no mon­ To share an experience "In Your Own Words, "contact Mike Haskins etary value in celling a story about the migrant struggle. for guidelines at (619) 260-4684 or [email protected].

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AUGUST 18 "Electric Counterpoint: 27 Music for Guitar and Clinical Research Program Electroacoustic Tape" "Career Opportunities in Clinical Research." Guest artist Colin McAllister, guitar. Music by Reich, 6-7 p.m., Manchester Conference Center. Free. Davidovsky and Stalvey. 12: I 5 p.m., French Parlor, Call (619) 260-5986 or e-mail Nicole Rooney at [email protected]. Founders Hall. $8 general admission; $6 students, faculty, staff and alumni; free to USD students with ID. For information, call (619) 260-2280.

Family Business Forum 9 Breakfast Faculty Music Recital "Fierce Conversations: Transforming the Workplace Kay Etheridge, piano, with guest Holly Hofmann, and Family Through Courageous Dialogue." flute . Music by Hindemith, Piston, Gershwin and 7:30-10:30 a.m., USD campus. For information, call Sting. 12: 15 p.m., French Parlor, Founders Hall. $8 general admission, $6 students, faculty, staff (619) 260-4231 or log on to www.sandiego.edu/fbf. and alumni; free to USD students with ID. Call (619) 260-2280. Invisible University Lecture "Borders and Boundaries: How Borders Have Influenced Policy Choices in the 20th Century," with James Coyle. I 0-1 I :30 a.m., Manchester Conference Center. Free, reservations required. Call (619) 260-4815 or log on to www.sandiego.edu/ uralumni/iu.

Families of incoming freshman and transfer students are welcomed to campus with parent seminars, IS lunch, a reception with President Mary Lyons and a Invisible University Lecture li tu rgy in The lmmaculata church. Call the Office of Clinical Research "Archaeobotany: The Goddess Hecate and the Parent Relations, ( 619) 260-4808. Associate/Clinical Research Keys to Hades," with Patrick Geyer. I 0-1 I :30 a.m., Joan 8. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. Free, Coordinator Training reservations required. Call (619) 260-4815 or log SEPTEMBER 6-9 p.m., Manchester Executive Conference on to www.sandiego.edu/uralumni/iu. Center. Fee. Continues Wednesdays through Dec. I 0. Call (619) 260-5986 or e-mail Nicole 24-26 3 Rooney at [email protected]. Undergraduate Classes Begin Family Weekend Highlights include a welcome fair hosted by USD OCTOBER deans and faculty, open classrooms, a tailgate I party and football game against Marist College. Invisible University Lecture The weekend concludes with a family Mass and "Women, Power and Authority;' with USD 2 reception. Call (619) 260-4808, or log on to bus in ess Professor Helen Eckmann. 1-2:30 p.m., Invisible University Seminar http://parents.sandiego.edu/familyweekend.htm. Manchester Conference Center. Free, reservations "Estate Planning Basics," with Dennis Lilly. requ ired. Call (619) 260-4815 or log on to I 0-1 I :30 a.m., Joan 8. Kroc Institute for Peace 29 www.sandiego.edu/uralumni/iu. and Justice. Free, reservations required. Call (619) 260-4815 or log on to www.sandiego.edu/ Family Business Forum 17 uralumni/iu. Breakfast State of the University Address "Influencing and Inspiring Others ... Challenges Faculty Chamber Music Recital Faced by Family Business Owners." 7:30-10:30 a.m., and Luncheon 12: 15 p.m., French Parlor, Founders Hall. $8 general USD campus. Call (619) 260-4231 or log on to Join USD President Mary Lyons for a discussion admission, $6 students, faculty, staff and alumni; free www.sandiego.edu/fbf. of present and future plans for the university, spon­ to USD students with ID. Call (619) 260-2280. sored by Business link USD. I I :30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m., Hahn University Center Forum. $20 Businesslink USD members; $30 non-members. Call the Office 4 of Corporate Relations, (619) 260-4690. Metropolitan Opera Auditions IO a.m., Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall. Local singers compete for the chance to participate in audition finals in New York City. $5 suggested donation. Call ( 619) 260-2280.

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