First Words… his past semester saw stories regarding two deans 232 times in their four books and in Acts. (This is why I of discipline at SI. In August, Br. Douglas Draper, love Wikipedia!) Christ calls us all to be disciples, and the TS.J., announced that this would be the last of his best teachers at SI succeed by being Christ for their students, 39 years as dean of students. Three months later, Leo Hyde laying down the rules in a loving way just as Christ did. ’47, the dean for most of the 1960s (and Brother’s prede- The freshmen teachers, for instance, first teach solid study cessor), died suddenly at 78. habits. Students learn to do their homework each night, to You can read more about Leo in this issue, and look for take notes in an organized fashion and to ensure that their a retrospective on Br. Draper’s career in the summer issue. work is done well and on time. Teachers who know how to discipline fairly find that their students enjoy classes and flourish, just as a pruned tree bears more fruit than some- thing left in the wild. The irony here is simple and profound: Leading disci- plined lives frees us to be our best selves, unshackled by the personal weaknesses that we all succumb to from time to time. (I’m writing this before Christmas, where I’m finding it difficult to maintain a disciplined diet given the cornucopia confronting me at too many parties.) This theme of discipline is echoed in three stories in our feature section. Two of our grads, Conor Johnston ’99 and Pete Jeter ’83 want us to lead more disciplined lives in the way we get from one place to another. Johnston, by mak- ing biodiesel, hopes to wean us from our addiction to fossil fuels, and Jeter designs bus systems that take thousands of cars off the road. Helmut Schmidt ’88 is building the greenest of houses right across the street from SI and hopes to build more to help us live more lightly on this planet. Top: Just like Br. Draper and Leo Hyde, these three ask us to The irony regarding both men is how many people love Students live more consciously, more deliberately, aware of the effects help Br. and respect them not in spite of the discipline they main- of all we do. Draper tained but because of it. None of these men will tell you that doing this is easy, celebrate When Br. Draper announced his retirement to the fac- his 70th just that there’s no other way that makes any sense. ulty at the opening meeting in August, SI’s teachers gave him birthday — Paul Totah ’75 in Oc- a standing ovation, as did the dads at the Fathers’ Club bar- tober. becue and the guests at the Ignatian Guild fashion shows. Right: More importantly, so did the students at each of the convo- Leo Hyde chatted cations on the first day back from summer vacation. with Eda Both Br. Draper and Leo Hyde knew the secret to great Bottini discipline could be found in the subtle and delicate balance outside of justice and mercy. Even some students (though certainly the deans’ not all) who had to leave SI for one reason or another are office in among their biggest supporters. 2004. Leo, for example, made sure that the school didn’t keep discipline records on file for long. He didn’t want any youth- ful indiscretions haunting SI’s graduates. Whoever succeeds Brother next year will find a school filled with students who know and respect the rules, even if, at times, they slip a bit in adhering to our code of conduct. They will find, in short, students who are disciplined — a word that derives from “disciple,” which comes to us from the Greek word for “learner.” I’m not surprised that the Gospel writers used the term Genesis V Th e Al u m n i Ma g a z i n e o f Sa i n t Ig n at i u s Co l l e g e Pr e pa r at o r y , Sa n Fr a n c i sc o , Wi n t e r 2007~08

COVER STORY: 4 Development News Ignatian Guild’s Bon Voyage fashion show sets sail to success • Why SI is in estate plans of Heritage Society members • New regents join board • SI campus expands westward.

17 Cover Stories Healing People, Healing the Planet: Dr. Mark Terry ’71 helps to cure the blind a million times over • Dr. Jack Kerrigan ’75 divides and conquers

PAGE 17: Five grads (like Dr. Jack Kerrigan ’75, to cure rare disease • Conor Johnston ’99 brews a greasy fuel for green left) try innovative approaches to help heal others driving • Helmut Schmidt ’88 builds the ultimate eco-house • Pete Jeter and heal the planet. ’83 takes 6,000 drivers off the road.

26 School News Olivia Schreader bounces her way to success • Laura Owens, champion horseback rider, discovers new skill as equestrian judge • Anna Diaz earns top collie trainer honors for U.S. • Jeraldine Mendoza dances with the stars in The Nutcracker • The Chronicle gives Jefferson Award to Lisa Chan • Abram Jackson puts the ‘more’ in Magis Program.

PAGE 22: Conor Johnston ’99 (right) believes 32 Sports News biodiesel can help slow climate change. Katy Daly speediest girl in Division III West • Girls’ golf teams win 50 straight matches over five years •Sports Round-Up.

37 Alumni News David Schmidt ’74 advocates clean money measure • U.S. Postal Service issues stamp honoring decision made by SI’s Judge Paul John McCormick • Ed McFadden ’82 key advisor to Fred Thompson • Paul Henderson ’85 excels as model district attorney • Fr. John Lo Schiavo ’42 receives Christ the King Award • Leo Hyde ’47, former dean of students, dies at 78 • Keeping in Touch • Calendar.

Cover photo montage by Douglas A. Salin; illustration by Nancy Barisic ’05; model: SI’s Katy Daly, winner of the state cross country meet, division III. PAGE 4: Bon Voyage fashion show a huge hit for Ignatian Guild. developmentNEWS GENESIS V A Report to Concerned Individuals Vol. 44, No. 4 Winter 2007~08

Rev. Robert T. Walsh, S.J. President

Mr. Stephen E. Lovette Vice President

Mr. Charles W. Dullea Principal

Rev. Thomas H. O’Neill, S.J. Superior

Mr. John J. Ring Director of Alumni Relations

Mr. Joseph A. Vollert Director of Development

Mr. Paul J. Totah Editor

Mrs. Katie A. Kohmann Director of Special Events

Mr. Fred L. Tocchini Director of Special Projects

Mr. Arthur Cecchin Sports Editor

Mr. Douglas A. Salin Ms. Nancy Barisic Designers

GENESIS V (USPS 899-060) is published quarterly by St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116-9981. Periodicals Postage Paid at San Francisco, CA, and at additional mailing offices.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to GENE­SIS V, 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116-9981. Guild’s Bon Voyage Fashion CONTACT US: You can send e-mail to [email protected] or reach us at (415) 731-7500 ext. 206. You can also read the Show Sets Sail to Success issue on our web site at www. siprep.org. ST. IGNATIUS, mindful of its mission to be hen Susan Mallen and Dana witness to the love of Christ for all, admits students of any race, color and national and/ Solso, the two chairwomen or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, of the Nov. 3 and 4 fashion programs, and activities generally accorded to W or made available to students at this school. shows, chose “Bon Voyage” for their St. Ignatius does not unlawfully discriminate theme, they didn’t know how apropos on the basis of race, color, national and/ they were. or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability in the administration of educational policies, They had intended the two shows to admissions policies, scholarship and loan serve as a send-off for the senior class. programs, and athletic and other school- Later, when the women heard that Br. administered programs. Likewise, St. Ignatius does not discriminate against any applicant for Douglas Draper, S.J., planned to retire employment on the basis of race, color, national after 42 years at SI (39 as dean), they and/or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability. From left, Ignatian Guild President Heidi Tate with Fashion Show decided to dedicate their show to this GENESIS V is printed on recycled paper, which Chairwomen Susan Mallen and Dana Solso. contains 30 percent post-consumer waste. In addition, more than 30 percent of the ink comes from agriculturally-based, renewable 4 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 sources. developmentNEWS Saint Ignatius Board of Trustees remarkable dean of students. The Nov. 3 evening gala and Nov. Mr. Mark Cleary ’64 The show broke new ground in sev- 4 luncheon also spanned two venues, Chairman eral ways as it raised $158,000 for the with the shows taking place in the Mc- Mr. John Christen III ’61 school’s scholarship fund, with 682 com- Cullough Gym followed by a trip to the Rev. Charles Gagan, S.J. ’55 ing to a sold-out lunch and 325 enjoying Carlin Commons for the dinner or lunch. Rev. Michael Gilson, S.J. a rack of lamb dinner prepared by SI chef This allowed for even more cost savings, Mr. Robert Lalanne ’73 Tom McGuigan ’86. as workers were able to break down the Rev. Michael McCarthy, S.J. ’82 Rev. Gerald P. McCourt, S.J. ’58 Rev. Mario Prietto, S.J. Rev. Robert T. Walsh, S.J. ’68

Board of Regents Mr. Robert Lalanne Chairman Mr. Kerwin Allen Mr. Thomas Bertelsen Mr. Clark Callander Mrs. Catherine Cannata Mr. John Casey Mr. Peter Casey Mr. Al Clifford Mr. Sam Coffey Mr. Jeff Columbini Mr. Don Dana Mr. Joseph Diffley Mr. John Duff Mr. Charles Dullea Mrs. Dana Emery Mr. John J. Fitzpatrick The Hon. J. Richard Fredericks Mr. Lynn Fritz Mr. Gordon Getty Ms. Yvonne Go Mrs. Nanette Gordon Mr. Michael Gorman Instead of parents serving as mod- set right after the lunch show without Mr. John Grealish els along with students, the entire senior waiting for the meal to end, and it also Mr. Robert Guglielmi class was invited to take part, and 110 allowed more room for luncheon guests. Mr. Peter Imperial accepted the invitation. “We wanted to To keep costs down and to engender Mr. John Jack The Hon. Kathleen Kelly make the show as inclusive as possible,” a sense of community, the heads of the Mrs. Mary Lawson said Mrs. Mallen. committees were given smaller budgets Mrs. Mary Kay Leveroni “Also, we only wanted kids who than in past years. “We wanted this to Mr. Steve Lovette truly wanted to be in the show,” added be a fun fundraiser and go back to the Mr. Jeff Maggioncalda Mrs. Solso. “If parents inquired about old-style fashion shows instead of hiring Mr. Curtis Mallegni their children modeling, we asked them a large production company to do all the Mr. Ivan Maroevich to have their senior contact us directly.” decorations,” said Mrs. Mallen. Mr. William McDonnell* Mr. Paul Mohun The result was a high-energy, spirit- Both she and Mrs. Solso praised the Christopher Moscone, Esq. ed show with students giving each other decoration committee — Dianne Shan- Leo Murphy, Esq. high fives and showing off fancy dance non, Mary Casey, Judy De La Torre, Ann Martin D. Murphy, Esq.* moves, clearly having a good time. They Kauffman, Sue Grazioli, Becky Ong, Ji- Rev. Thomas H. O’Neill, S.J. also looked polished thanks to a profes- wana Nasrah and Maureen Byrne — for Mr. Clyde Ostler sional model who spent several hours working magic on a shoestring budget. Mrs. Karen Rollandi showing them how to strut their stuff on They praised Angela Cohan, the Mrs. Anne Ryan Mr. Gerald Simon the catwalk. head of the raffle committee, for raising Mrs. Sara Stephens Halfway into the show, the dance $50,000, more than ever before, and they Dr. Robert Szarnicki moves grew even fancier when sopho- thanked Ignatian Guild President Heidi Mrs. Barbara Talavan more Lucas Talavan and juniors Sofia Tate, SI Director of Special Events Katie Mrs. Heidi Tate Rizzo and Adrienne Arnold came out to Kohmann and her assistant Tricia Brown Mr. Gregory Vaughan perform a breakdance routine. for their support. Mr. J. Malcolm Visbal Rev. Robert T. Walsh, S.J. * Lifetime Members winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 5 developmentNEWS

Father Harry V. Carlin, S.J., The Bon Voyage Fashion Show was dedi- Heritage Society cated to Br. Douglas Draper, S.J., after he announced that he would be retiring this We especially thank the following lifetime friends who have made provi- June. He was greeted with a standing sions in their estate plans — bequests, ovation when he took to the runway at charitable trusts, gifts of life insurance both the dinner and lunch shows. or retirement funds — to support SI’s Endowment Fund. Such gifts provide for the long-term welfare of SI and may also provide donors with valuable tax and income benefits during their life- time. The forethought and generosity of the following is most appreciated:

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stecher ’62 Ambassadors The Doelger Charitable Trust Mrs. Raymond Allender Mr. & Mrs. David Bernstein ’80 Mrs. Helen Bernstein Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bertelsen Mr. Tom Bertken ’50 & Sheila McManus Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blom ’55 Mr. Thomas P. Brady ’31 Mrs. Mallen praised those who Mr. William E. Britt ’36 helped her with the production of the Mrs. Gerhard Broeker fashion show, including Lizanne Suter, Mr. & Mrs. Gregoire Calegari Margaret Moore, Phyllis Bedford and Mrs. Beatrice Carberry Patricia Barulich who managed 110 stu- Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Carroll ’43 dents backstage. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Coffey ’74 Helping the models look their best Mr. James E. Collins ’44 with hair and makeup were Linda Rizzo Mr. Gerald W. Conlan ’47 and Gerry Sangiacomo along with stu- Mrs. Lillian Corriea dents from a cosmetology college who Mrs. & Mrs. Kevin Coyne ’67 donated their time. Alice Seher did a Mr. & Mrs. Hal Cranston marvelous job of getting the kids into the Mr. & Mrs. Leonard P. Delmas ’47 right clothes and making sure they got on Mr. Harold J. De Luca ’29 stage at the right time. Ms. Christine Dohrmann As wonderful as the students were, Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Downs ’73 the two shows belonged to Br. Draper, Ms. Mary Driscoll who received two standing ovations each Mr. & Mrs. John Duff day, the first when Mrs. Solso announced Mr. Frank M. Dunnigan ’70 that the fashion show was dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Enright him and the second when, in tux and Mrs. Myrtis E. Fitzgerald tails, he appeared onstage to the music of Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Fitzpatrick ’60 Andrea Bocelli singing “It’s Time to Say They also thanked Jennifer Morse Goodbye” accompanied by SI President Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gibbons ’37 and Gail Diserens as “the unsung heroes Robert Walsh, S.J., and former President Mr. & Mr. Rick Giorgetti who did everything from invitations and Anthony P. Sauer, S.J. Mrs. Lois Grant fliers to the ad book” and Julie Schreader “Br. Draper was in tears, and we were Former Ambassador for “holding everything together as our in tears,” said Mrs. Solso. “It was a loving Mrs. Linda Grimes wonderful secretary.” tribute to a man who is so dearly loved.” v Mrs. William Healy Dr. Peter Kane ’51

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Father Harry V. Carlin, S.J. Heritage Society continued

Mr. Francis J. Kelly III ’75 Mrs. John Kotlanger Mrs. Lida Lalanne Mrs. Phyllis Lavelle Mr. George D. Leal ’51 Mr. & Mrs. Henry Leidich Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Lovette ’63 Mr. John M. Mahoney ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Maioli ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Mike McCaffery Mrs. Cornelius McCarthy Hon. E. Warren McGuire ’42 Mr. Terrence V. McGuire ’45 Mr. Patrick McSweeney ’55 Dr. Allison Metz Mr. & Mrs. David Mezzera ’64 Mrs. John Mitchell Mr. Fred Molfino ’87 Mr. & Mrs. James Monfredini ’65 Mrs. Frank Mullins Mr. Jeffrey J. Mullins ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Leo J. Murphy ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Martin D. Murphy ’52 Former Ambassadors Mrs. Cecil Neeley Mrs. Bernice O’Brien Ms. Mavourneen O’Connor Mrs. William O’Neill Mr. Charles Ostrofe ’49 Miss Joan Pallas Mrs. Kathleen Paver Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Payne ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Barry L. Potthoff Mr. Emmet Purcell ’40 Mrs. James J. Raggio Mr. & Mrs. Dante Ravetti ’49 Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Reilly ’83 Rev. Vincent Ring Mr. & Mrs. Gary Roberts ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Ryan Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Scollin ’65 Mr. William L. Teglia Jr. ’65 Mr. Michael Thiemann ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tomasello ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Tonelli ’76 Mrs. Elizabeth Travers Mrs. James A. Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Albert Worner ’36 Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Zatkin

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Why SI is in Estate Plans of Heritage Members ome Father Harry Carlin Heritage Donna recalled her son’s participa- He is planning a second scholar- Society members who attended tion in SI’s Community Service Program. ship fund honoring his late maternal Sthe May 17 Lake Merced Golf “He volunteered at the Recreation Cen- grandparents, Edna L. and Sydney C. Club gathering said why they had made ter for the Handicapped (now called the Martenstein of Belmont. “My grandfa- SI a beneficiary of their estate plans. Janet Pomeroy Center), across from the ther did not get past eighth grade, but Helen Bernstein, whose Merced Zoo. That was part of his academic pro- he encouraged higher education.” The Golf Club membership made the gath- gram, not just a semester assignment.” third fund will honor his best friend Pe- ering possible, pointed to four sons who Tim, who retired from the food ser- ter Constantatos of San Francisco who were SI graduates; her husband, Dr. Jo- vice business, and Donna, who retired died at 67 in 1991. seph Bernstein, who was both Fathers’ from human resources management at “The Jesuits were very supportive Club president and SI’s team doctor; San Francisco State, included SI in their of me,” Dr. Kane added. “They pro- her 13 years as an SI regent; and her estate plan about eight years ago. When vided the kick start I needed to go to family’s deep respect and affection for Fr. Anthony P. Sauer, S.J., retired, they college and medical school. He listed Fr. the late Fr. Harry Carlin, S.J. gave him a copy of their SI bequest. Rocky Shaules, S.J., Fr. Pierre Jacobs, “He took SI to another level,” Tim said. S.J., Mr. Frank Doyle and Fr. Richard “These were my parents. A chunk “The product from the school is won- Spohn, S.J., among SI teachers who derful, the best of the best of the best. meant much to him. of stone at Holy Cross Cemetery I’m eager to encourage others to join Carl Blom ’55 and his wife, Jeanie, doesn’t do it.” — Dr. Peter Kane the Heritage Society.” look at their SI bequest as one way of Pediatric radiologist Dr. Peter Kane “helping the school to be the best it can joined the Heritage Society by setting be, and it’s already one of the best Cath- “He was a close and dear friend,” up three SI scholarship funds in his will. olic high schools in the nation.” He also she said. “The children called him ‘un- He has partially funded one which hon- referred to the ease and tax advantages cle.’ One of our grandchildren is named ors his late parents, Elton A. and Mari- of estate gifts to the school. “Planned Samuel Carlin in his honor. In my view, on M. Kane. gifts come after you’ve sailed out of this he epitomized the priesthood. He took “My dad went to SI in the early life,” he said with a smile. “And they’re his ministry seriously yet was easy to 1920s at the old Shirt Factory,” he estate-tax free.” chat with about religious questions. I said. “My mom was active in the Loy- Their Heritage Society membership, knew that whatever he told me was the ola Guild.” The scholarship serves as he added, is not tax-centered. “What more right thing to do, not just the easy thing a memorial to them. “These were my can we give our children aside from edu- to do.” parents,” he said. “A chunk of stone at cation, spirituality, ethics and leadership She had worked on the SI auction Holy Cross Cemetery doesn’t do it.” training? No one else does it like SI.” v with Fr. Carlin. After he retired to the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Ga- tos, the Bernsteins visited him monthly. Scholarship Lunch Mrs. Bernstein, a former nurse, made SI a beneficiary of her IRA. Heritage Society members Tim and Donna Ryan call SI “the heartbeat of the Sunset District.” It’s the neighbor- hood where they grew up, met, married and retired. “SI reaches out to the fami- lies of the Sunset as no one else,” Tim said. A graduate of Holy Names School and Lincoln High, he admires the vi- brancy of SI, the school their son Shaun Patrick ’82, attended. “Whenever you drive by there, the lights seem to be on,” he said. “It is used The annual Scholarship Lunch in September brought together donors with the students who have to its maximum, and the neighborhood been honored with named scholarships. Pictured above are SI Principal Charlie Dullea ’65, St. Ste- is the better for it.” phen’s Principal Sharon McCarthy Allen and freshman Christina Arce, the recipient of the Leo T. Mc- Carthy ’48 Scholarship. Mary Palazzolo ’09 and Ed McGovern ’75 were the featured speakers.

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New Members Join SI’s Board of Regents

Mrs. Catherine Cannata Ms. Yvonne Go Mr. Peter Imperial ’77, Mr. Clyde Ostler Head of Counseling Department, Executive Committee Member, Principal, Saint Mary’s Group Executive Vice President of Sacred Heart Preparatory Bank of the Orient College High School Internet Services, Wells Fargo Bank

Mr. John Casey ’08 Mr. John Grealish ’79 Mr. Van Maroevich ’69 Mrs. Heidi Tate SI Student Body President SI Business Manager President & CEO, President, Ignatian Guild MOC Insurance Services

SI is grateful to all the men and women on the Board of Regents, who offer their wise counsel. Thanks to them, we trust SI will continue to succeed in its mission of developing young men and women of conscience, competence Mrs. Dana Emery, Vice President Mr. Robert Guglielmi Rev. Thomas O’Neill, S.J. ’74 & Trustee, Dodge & Cox Fathers’ Club President Superior, SI Jesuit Community and compassion.

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 9 t. Ignatius College Prepara- and recital space for SI’s many singing Story’s West Campus Expan- groups and handbell choir. sion Project, dedicated at the Jack Gibbons ’37 donated the funds Oct. 13 President’s Cabinet Reception, for this building to honor his mother, brought together 600 of the school’s Charlotte McFarland, who had been supporters for a black-tie dinner, tour orphaned in infancy and adopted by an and multimedia presentation. aunt who was both staunchly anti-cleri- The event also brought together cal and opposed to the formal education a disparate cast of characters, from of women. In the late 1800s, Charlotte Harry Potter to SI founder Anthony contacted SI founder Anthony Maraschi, Maraschi, S.J. S.J., who agree to teach her to read. The new $12 million project includes “She had to hide her books from the Columbus Piazza, named for Monica her aunt, who would burn them upon Devereux and her husband, Christopher discovery,” said Gibbons. “But both Columbus, the filmmaker responsible for Fr. Maraschi and my mother were per- the first two Harry Potter films, Home sistent. She was an extremely bright Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire. woman who, later in life, would read The piazza provides students with the Wall Street Journal and the Racing stunning views of the Pacific and a place Form every day. She thought the sun to congregate at recess, during lunch and rose and set on Fr. Maraschi.” after school. SI Development Director Joe Vol- Columbus, who had one child lert ’84 believes the juxtaposition of the graduate from SI and who has another piazza and the choral room serves as a enrolled, decided to donate to the school poetic symbol for the students. “The for several reasons. “High schools often new rests atop the foundation of the take a back seat to universities,” said Co- old,” he noted. “Mr. Columbus, who dation and Donald White ’42), the Dana lumbus, “but they shape the future for is new to the SI community, helped Family Batting Center (which holds two so many kids. I rarely have seen a high create a piazza that sits atop a facility indoor, underground batting cages mod- school as strong or as committed to each named for a man whose connections to eled after the ones at AT&T Park), the student as SI is.” SI goes back to our founder.” Jane and James Ryan ’51 Weight Room, Columbus also likened SI to Harry The Gibbons Hall of Music holds the and a new concession stand named for Potter’s Hogwart’s School “in that it Doris Duke Wall Choral Room, named the late Steven J. Cannata ’66. cares for and pays so much attention to for the late wife of Dr. C. Allen Wall ’46. Other donors include Ernest all its students. With other schools the The room’s suspended ceiling and tiles and Jenny Go and Terrence V. size of SI, certain kids can get lost. I can’t provide for optimum acoustics for SI’s McGuire ’45, for whom, respec- imagine that happening here.” Chamber Singers and Mixed Chorus. tively, the choral director’s and The new piazza sits atop the Mary The West Campus Expansion Proj- weight room offices are named. Ann and Jack Gibbons Hall of Music, ect also includes new classrooms (named The West Campus project is part SI campus expands westwarD expands campus SI which houses a state-of-the-art practice for the Class of 1977, the Herbst Foun- of the school’s five-year “Genesis V:

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New Horizons” campaign, which also from the rectilinear design of the main room and taking batting practice af- includes a new retreat center and play- campus. “The architects somehow man- ter school. It’s also an absolute joy ing fields and a new goal for the schol- aged to make the new structure different hearing our students sing in the Wall arship endowment. enough while seamlessly wedding it to Choral Room. It’s a testament both “The new campus facilities provide the existing campus,” added Vollert. to their talent and to the generosity for our burgeoning programs in academ- “Devcon Construction expertly of so many in our community.” v ics, athletics and fine arts,” added Vol- built the project into the last unde- lert. “They also change the atmosphere veloped portion of SI’s 11-acre cam- Above: The major donors of the West Campus of the school by opening up the west side pus,” he noted. “The project came in Expansion Project came to the President’s Cabinet for students and for events.” on time and under budget thanks to Reception to help with the dedication ceremony. CSDA Architects, led by Randy De- the collaboration between Devcon Opposite page top: The family and relatives of Voto ’68, designed the buildings with and CSDA. The payoff comes from Steve Cannata ’66. Opposite page below: James and Jane Ryan, Jenny and Ernest Go & the Dana curved walls and barrel rooflines and seeing so many students enjoying the Family. Below: Mary Ann and Jack Gibbons & the included a decorative arch, a departure piazza, working out in the weight family of Dr. C. Allen Wall. developmentNEWS 2,000 square foot facility

Stunning views of J.B. Murphy field and the Pacific Ocean

Open to all students, physical education classes and athletes

Designed especially for high school team workouts

Can accommodate up to 60 athletes at one time Jane and James Ryan Weight Training Facility Photos by Douglas A. Salin

12 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 WEST Campus EXPANSION PROJECT dana family batting center developmentNEWS

Inspired by AT&T’s indoor batting cages using the same materials & vendors as the Giants

2 batting tunnels

Pitching mounds & pitching machines classroom expansion

5 classrooms

Wireless Internet

Designed for math, English, and engineering classes

Stunning views of the Pacific Ocean Photos by Douglas A. Salin

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Doris Duke Wall Choral Room

Wide screen video projection and recording equipment

Acoustical paneling provides optimal sound distribution

Portable risers

Allows for configurations for multimedia lectures, rehearsals and performances

Seats 150

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Gibbons hall of music columbus piazza

Outdoor student center Wireless Internet

Stunning views of the Pacific Ocean Space for up to 150 people

Expected School-Wide Learning Results are engraved on the tiles to serve as a reminder of the mission of the school

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Students Start Scholarship Fund Class Of 1957 Creates Gary Leahy Scholarship to Honor Sablinsky Legacy at SI lass members of the late John hree longtime members of the SI hopes to inspire his students to share in Garrett Leahy ‘57 are spear- staff and faculty announced their his love for music and to pass that love Cheading a scholarship fund to Tretirements in the fall. Br. Doug- on to others. honor this great man. Thus far, they las Draper, S.J., will step down as dean of Mrs. Sablinsky directs the mixed have raised $16,000 but need a total students after 39 years in that office. He choir, chamber singers, combined of $100,000 to endow the scholarship will continue as Fathers’ Club moderator choirs and bell ringers in the new Do- fund fully. and minister of the SI Jesuit community. ris Duke Wall Choral Room. In her The committee includes Fr. John rigorous choir classes, she teaches Bain, Bob Buich, Dr. Gil Dowd, Don sight-singing, harmonizing, a capella McCann, Ed Rothman and John Strain, singing and stage presence. Her sing- all of the Class of 1957. ers perform at both the Winter Pops Leahy, an outstanding student- and Spring Concerts. athlete, was lineman of the year for Like her husband, she also teaches Northern California in his senior what it means to be a musician and year, All-City first team for the 1956 how important music is to the world. football championship team and The senior class traditionally pres- AAA lineman of the year. He also ents the Sablinskys with a gift on clos- earned All American Catholic and All ing night of the Winter Pops Concert. Northern California honors. For this run, we treated them to a nice He received an academic-athletic dinner in the city and presented them scholarship at Stanford and after col- with several small gifts. lege began his teaching career at Jeffer- However, we wanted to do some- son High School in Daly City, where he thing big, something that would last, spent the next 35 years. something that would truly honor them He taught all grade levels within and their lasting legacy to the school the social science curriculum, served as for as long as the school exists. department chair and made significant Nick and Janet Both Janet and Nick Sablinsky The answer: The Mr. Nick and contributions to the school district’s so- Sablinsky at Mrs. Janet Sablinsky Music Scholar- their last Winter ’64, the maestros of SI’s music pro- cial science curriculum. ship will be given to a deserving student Pops Concert. gram, will also leave SI in the spring He was active in both county and after 35 years working with student who demonstrates skill in either a mu- regional organizations in subject and singers and musicians. sical instrument or singing. professional development, and he par- Look for more on these three The musicians and signers who ticipated in the Bay Area Workers Proj- great pedagogues in the summer issue performed at Winter Pops, along with ect, Global Perspective in Education of Genesis V. Susan Abellera and myself, were able to and in the Model United Nations. initiate and donate to this project. He spent many years serving as By Charles Franz ’08 Our goal is to raise $100,000 to class advisor, club moderator and coor- n addition to conducting the SI Or- endow this scholarship fully and per- dinator of the school and district GATE chestra and the Jazz Band and prepar- petually, and we need your help. program. He also found time to coach, Iing them for the Winter Pops concert, Express your gratitude and good serving as both football and track head Nick Sablinsky also teaches the popular wishes to the Sablinskys by helping us coach for a time. music appreciation class. endow this scholarship, memorializing An avid world traveler, he brought Most graduates of this class will tell the Sablinskys for generations to come. back a wealth of resources to his stu- you that it’s the “best class at SI,” and Your donations are tax deductible and dents after summer breaks and sabbati- refer to the 1776 musical or sing a verse will go to this new scholarship fund. cal leaves over his career. from “Rothschild and Sons.” Mail your check to the Develop- Gary died in 2004 after a long ill- Mr. Sablinsky has taught us much ment Office at St. Ignatius College ness. If you are interested in contribut- more than the lyrics to musicals; he has Preparatory, 2001 37th Avenue, San ing to the Gary Leahy Scholarship, con- taught us all how valuable music is and Francisco, CA 94116, payable to St. tact Alumni Director John Ring ’86 at convinced us that it will always be such Ignatius and clearly designated for the (415) 731-7500, ext. 213, or at jring@ an important part of our culture. He Sablinsky Scholarship Fund. v siprep.org. v

16 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 Coverfeature StoriesSTORY Healing People,

Healing the Planet t SI, you’ll hear teachers talk who are curing children with aabout the need to form students neurological disorders and into agents of change and who are showing us ways for the school to be actively we can slow climate change countercultural. Behind this by making better choices language is the understanding in where we live and how we that our world needs healing. move about. These Ignatians weren’t happy with the old On the next few pages, you’ll ways of doing things, and the read the stories of graduates who world is a better place because are working to help the blind, of them. Enjoy their stories.

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 17 featureSTORY Curing the Blind a Million Times Over

Dr. Mark Terry and his wife, Cindy, have twin 9 year olds, Nicholas and Charlie. ” Last June, during a trip to China, they vis- ited the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center where they fed a nine-month old panda.

octor Mark Terry ’71, quite literally, gives sight patch off, she walked up to him and said, ‘Harry, how are you?’ He to the blind. Thanks to a surgical procedure said, ‘You’re more beautiful than I ever imagined.’ She started to cry, he pioneered and first performed seven years and everyone in the room at that point was crying too, including me. ago, nearly a million people around the world I still choke up when I tell the story. Over the course of the following have had their vision restored, 650 by Terry’s week, he saw each of his children for the first time. Stories like this own hands. make you feel as if you’re making a difference.” D He tells the story of one 72-year-old man who walked into his office four years ago. “At 20, he lost his right eye in a car accident, and his left eye was so badly damaged that his doctors told him Thanks to a surgical procedure he would be permanently blind. He learned Braille and how to get Dr. Terry pioneered and first around using a cane. He later married and had four children.” performed seven years ago, nearly Years later, at 72, he heard about Terry’s new procedure. “I a million people around the world thought we had a shot at restoring useful vision to his remaining have had their vision restored. eye,” said Terry, who by then, had performed the procedure successfully on 100 patients. Terry’s remarkable procedure, endothelial keratoplasty (EK), “The morning after the surgery, I took off his eye patch, and is now the surgical standard, replacing full thickness corneal he started to look around and cry. I thought we had failed. Then transplants, which doctors had performed for the past 100 years to he said, ‘I see.’ I asked him what he saw, and he said, ‘I can see my treat blindness caused by damage to the cornea. beautiful wife.’” “The trouble with full thickness corneal transplants is that The man’s wife, four years his senior, was worried that her patients take between one and two years to achieve their best vision, husband might not find her attractive. “He had married her nearly 50 and the procedure often involves serious complications.” Terry’s years ago without ever seeing what she looked like. After I took the procedure, which replaces only a thin layer of cells on the back

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surface of the cornea, offers patients full vision within one week. in Leo La Rocca ’53 and in a young scholastic — Mario Prietto, Because it involves no sutures, EK has none of the complications S.J. — who would later serve as principal of the school. that come with full thickness corneal replacements. Terry played three more years of basketball at Yale “The breakthrough was recognizing that we don’t need while majoring in pre-med and winning Yale’s Angier Prize to take a shotgun approach to this problem. Surgeons used for the most outstanding senior thesis for a research project. to make large incisions to replace knees. Now they perform He then attended his father’s alma mater for medical school

the same procedures with arthroscopic surgery utilizing much at St. Louis University, choosing ophthalmology because “it smaller incisions. That orthopedic surgery advance is analogous offered me the opportunity to treat everyone — men and to what we developed for eye surgery.” women, young and old. I was also able to have an immediate impact on people’s lives, and it gave me both a surgical and

Since his first successful EK clinical practice.” Terry’s skill as a basketball player also procedure in 2000, Terry has helped him choose to be a surgeon, as he wanted to make trained 150 surgeons in the U.S. use of his deft hand-eye coordination. and 100 more in a dozen countries Terry funded his medical school tuition by promising the on four continents. Navy six years of service. He spent those years first in Asia with the Marines and” then in Oakland at the Naval Hospital. During n the 1990s, Terry thought it might be possible to tunnel in that time, he met Cindy Suckow at a party in San Francisco. through the white part of the eye (the sclera) to remove the They married in 1988 and moved two years later to Portland, damaged tissue and replace it with clear tissue. He designed her hometown, where he took over as director of Corneal Ihis own surgical instruments to do just that and other tools Services at the Devers Eye Institute. He continues in that to unfold the tissue and place an air bubble in the eye. “A patient position and is also now a full professor at the Oregon Health lies on her back, and an air bubble that I place inside the eye Sciences University. Mark and Cindy have twin 9-year-old sons, holds the tissue there for a couple of hours until the transplanted Nicholas and Charlie, one of whom is confined to a wheelchair corneal tissue warms up, becoming alive and pumping fluid out due to cerebral palsy. “It’s one of the curves life has given my of the swollen cornea.” family,” says Terry. “But as Fr. Prietto says, God doesn’t give us Since his first successful EK procedure in 2000, Terry has a challenge that He doesn’t expect us to meet.” trained 150 surgeons in the U.S. and 100 more” in a dozen countries on four continents, and those doctors have trained He said, ‘You’re more beautiful hundreds of others. He has given lectures and performed surgery than I ever imagined.’ She started in dozens of countries, and patients have traveled to Portland, to cry, and everyone in the room Ore., from as far away as Australia and South Africa to have at that point was crying too. him do this specialized surgery. Because of EK, the number of people treated for corneal blindness has doubled worldwide to In order to successfully perform EK on his patients, about 200,000 each year. Terry needed to develop new instruments. Rather than name For his prodigious accomplishments, Terry has received them for himself, as is traditionally done by surgeons, he numerous humanitarian awards and served on the board chose to honor his family. He worked with Bausch and Lomb of directors of the Cornea Society. He served with the Eye Surgical to create the Cindy Scissors (and Cindy II Scissors), Bank Association of America and has authored dozens of the Charlie Insertion Forceps and the Nick Pick retraction peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He founded the hook as well as six other specialized instruments. international Endothelial Keratoplasty Group, dedicated Terry points out that these accomplishments happened to to the ethical and scientific development of this field, and him not at an Ivy League university but at a small academic along the way also invented an artificial iris device which program in Portland. “I had an idea of how to improve surgery was awarded a U.S. patent. in my field. I took that idea and worked on it in” my own time Terry credits much of his success to his high school years. A in a small lab long after everyone else had gone home each day. gifted basketball player at St. Emydius, he was disappointed to Through some hard work and a passion to find an answer, find himself placed on the frosh B team at SI. “But our B team this new surgical procedure has now come to fruition. I have worked so hard that we won more league games than the A now taught my EK technique to professors at the Ivy League team and eventually beat the A team for the championship. That schools, UCSF, Stanford and dozens of universities who all experience taught me that if you work hard enough, you can be came to Portland to learn. This is the same lesson I learned number one no matter what life hands you.” as a freshman on the SI basketball B team — if you believe in At SI he found inspirational mentors in Bob Drucker ’58, yourself, you can make anything happen.” v

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 19 coverSTORIES Jack Kerrigan Divides & Conquers to Cure Rare Disease Before this new procedure, surgeons tried to remove tumors using the most direct path, attacking them from beneath the temporal lobe, coming up from the bottom. This procedure carried much risk and had a minimal success rate. “Then C.J. came to us in 2002 when he was 6. We were going to perform the traditional procedure, but the family got on the Internet and learned about Dr. Jeffrey Rosenfelds’s new approach in Australia,” said Kerrigan. “They flew to Australia to have the surgery performed there with amazing results. After we saw how well C.J. did, we invited Dr. Rosenfeld to Phoenix.” Kerrigan and Dr. Harold Rekate, Barrow’s chief of pediatric neurosurgery, then performed six operations with Rosenfeld in 2003 using his innovative procedure. Rather than attacking the tumor from below, they first started at the top of the head, approaching the tumor through a thin divide between the two halves of the brain. This transcallosal Dr. Jack hen Dr. Jack Kerrigan ’75 saw a six-year-old surgery allowed them to see clearly the HH and remove it Kerrigan boy who couldn’t stop laughing, he knew this far more easily and thoroughly than from below. (left) and Dr. was no laughing matter. Harold Re- Given the nuances of the tumor, symptoms differ for kate helped A pediatric neurologist and director of the each patient. Kerrigan tells of one Michigan 3-year-old C.J. recover W Pediatric Epilepsy Program at the Phoenix-based Barrow who suffered from seizures since birth. “It took doctors from a rare Neurological Institute, Kerrigan has seen his share of seizures three years to discover that she had HH. They missed it neurologi- that resemble laughter. This boy’s problem, he later discovered, cal disorder on the first MRI scan, which is pretty common for this that caused came from a rare developmental malformation known as a particular lesion. Her parents have watched her suffer from terrible hypothalamic hamartoma (HH). catastrophic daily seizures and develop so slowly that she seizures. These benign tumors at the base of the brain used to be still wasn’t speaking at 3. Suddenly they discovered that she among the hardest to remove. But thanks to a revolutionary has something that might be treated, and they wanted to fly procedure pioneered in Australia, Kerrigan and his here that day with her. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with colleagues have turned the Barrow Neurological Institute them, and we instantly bonded. It’s exciting to think that we into the one place in the U.S. to go to treat HH and one of might be able to help her.” three centers in the world. Kerrigan also works with patients who suffer from To date, the institute has treated more than 100 people maladies other than HH, including an 8-year-old Phoenix suffering from HH, ranging in age from 8 months to 55 boy who, four years ago, suffered from daily seizures and years who have come from 36 states all. After treatment, who wasn’t responding to medication. “We could only make more than half of those patients were 100 percent seizure him stop seizing by putting him into a drug-induced coma free and another third cited a 90-percent improvement and placing him on life support. Whenever we lightened up regarding the frequency of their seizures. the drugs, his seizures returned.”

Hamartomas (benign tumors) growing on the hypo- thalamus can cause seizures that resemble un- controllable laughter.

20 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 coverSTORIES Jack Kerrigan Divides & Conquers to Cure Rare Disease Kerrigan’s team finally performed a hemispherectomy Dr. Jack Ker- rigan first on the boy, removing his cerebral cortex (about half the developed brain). “You can’t get much more radical than that, but an interest thanks to the procedure, today he is seizure free. He is two in medi- grade levels behind in school, walking and talking and cine when he played participating in his favorite activities.” football Not every case ends in success. “I had a family in the at SI and office with an 11-day-old who started seizing right after befriended she was born. This child has an abnormally formed brain, the team physician,

and she won’t do well. Most kids with this rare problem Dr. Joseph (lissencephaly, or “smooth brain” malformation) will live Bernstein. a year or two and then contract pneumonia and die. The family is already trying to come to grips with this sad reality. All photos and il- You can imagine parents going through pregnancy with no lustrations

signs of complications and having a doctor tell them this courtesy of bad news.” the Barrow Still, Kerrigan sees more happy endings than sad ones. “I’ve Neurologi- cal Institute. spent years treating one young man who suffered from a form of epilepsy. Thanks to his treatment, he now lives an otherwise ” and stimulated with electricity, helped reduce the frequency normal life, seizure-free and able to drive. He played trombone of seizures. “It succeeded with desperately ill patients where in the school symphony and marching band and is in college other treatments had failed.” That discovery may lead to studying music. All he needed was the right medication.” small pacemaker-like devices that will provide intermittent Kerrigan first became interested in medicine while stimulus to the brain. playing for the SI football team alongside Mark Bernstein Today Kerrigan works 60 to 80 hours a week teaching, ’75, whose father, Joe, was the team physician. researching, writing and treating patients. He serves as “Dr. Bernstein somehow found out that I had an interest assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and neurology at in medicine, and he began taking me to the operating room the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine as well as at Mt. Zion to observe him in action. Later, he recommended director of the pediatric epilepsy program and the child me for a California Medical Association scholarship.” neurology residency program at Barrow. Kerrigan is excited when he talks about what the future Rather than attacking the tumor from holds regarding the treatment of HH and epilepsy. “The below, Kerrigan first started at the top brain is a highly electric organ; it’s not surprising that it short of the head, approaching the tumor circuits from time to time. If you study epilepsy, you want through a thin divide between the two to know about the tissue of the HH lesions. The more we halves of the brain. know why this tissue causes epilepsy, the better able we are to design treatments. The question people in my field ask is this: ‘Why don’t more people have seizures, given how much can Kerrigan went to Cal and then to UCSF for medical go wrong?’ We are about five to 10 years away from creating school, where he was drawn to neuroscience. “It’s at a model — a circuit diagram — of how seizures work in the frontier of medicine where the least is known. In the HH lesion. Once we have this diagram, then we’re an comparison, the heart is a simple organ. It’s a pump with important step closer to developing effective drugs.” muscles that contract. Our understanding of the brain is far Even with a partial map, Kerrigan has a head start on more primitive in comparison.” a new drug therapy. Working with a team of physicians, he Kerrigan also did his pediatric residency at UCSF, where is the principal investigator for a research study looking at a his teachers recognized his talent and, early on, asked him medication that is already on the market: a calcium channel to stay on as chief resident, keeping him in San” Francisco for blocker for the laughing seizures associated with HH. another four years rather than the traditional three. Despite all the success and fame that comes with his He studied pediatric neurology at UCLA, where he research and HH practice, Kerrigan gains the greatest began learning about seizures, before moving to Phoenix for personal satisfaction from another source. “Halfway his fellowship in EEG and epilepsy at Barrow. through medical school, I discovered just how much I In 2004 he published an article in Epilepsia regarding enjoy working with children, and that led me to pediatric his work on deep brain stimulation for treating epilepsy. His neurology. I’m excited, now, to be able to help some of research showed that a wire, placed deep inside the brain these kids live better lives.” v

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 21 coverSTORIES A Greasy Fuel for Green Driving onor Johnston ’99 knows an Energy study of emissions released over carbon monoxide by 48 percent, particu- easy way to make green-con- the life of the fuel, from creation to con- lates by 47 percent and sulfur by 100 per- Cscious Prius owners green with sumption, biodiesel releases 78 percent cent compared to petroleum diesel. envy. His method is simple: Use biodie- less carbon dioxide than conventional The grease used in making their sel, which may do more to reduce glob- diesel. The crops used to create biodie- biodiesel comes from local restaurants, al warming than any other automotive sel consume carbon dioxide before they and Johnston appreciates that “the fuel on the market. become fuel, leading advocates to con- biodiesel process takes a waste product Johnston and his friend Eric James tend that a car running biodiesel releases and turns it into something quite valu- have been cranking out 50-gallon about one tenth as much carbon diox- able. It is the essence of recycling.” batches of biodiesel since January 2006 ide of the average gas-burning car and a Biodiesel also helps engines last lon- in James’ Mill Valley garage. They then quarter that of a hybrid. ger than those burning conventional die- pump some in their cars and wholesale A 2002 EPA analysis showed that oth- sel, given the natural lubrication present the rest to a co-op in Sausalito. er pollutants also drop considerably with in the grease-based fuel, and diesel en- According to a 1998 Department of biodiesel — hydrocarbons by 67 percent, gines already far outlast their gas-burning

Conor Johnston (right) and his partner, Eric James, work on a batch of biodiesel in James’ Mill Valley garage. If you have ques- tions about bioidiesel, contact Conor at [email protected]. He can suggest sources of biodiesel but can’t supply any fuel. 22 GENESIS V winter 2007~08

coverSTORIES A Greasy Fuel for Green Driving ” counterparts, argues Johnston. he surprised his parents and friends by in freezing weather, and there just isn’t He and James don’t make biodiesel pursuing another degree, this time as enough grease available to replace fossil to get rich but to help address the prob- an ASE-certified mechanic. He learned fuels. “We use 21 million barrels of oil lems of climate change and energy depen- how to do auto body repair, painting each day in the U.S. alone. That’s 10,000 dence. “I’ve always considered myself an and welding and began buying used gallons a second. We won’t find one sin- environmentalist,” Johnston adds, “and I cars, fixing them up and selling them. gle thing to replace this consumption, but love working on cars, so this was a natu- Two years later, he began work biodiesel can be a part of the solution.” ral step for me to take.” as director of operations for Toucan Johnston took a circuitous route Global, a producer of Internet phones, Grease used in making to his biodiesel operation. At UCLA, he founded by the father of his SI classmate biodiesel comes from a local served as president of his chapter of the John Willenborg ’99. He fits the biodie- restaurant, saving it from Sigma Chi fraternity while pursuing de- sel production around his day-job. going into landfills where grees in history and political science. He and James started their co-op it would decompose and After earning his bachelor’s degree, by purchasing an $8,000 processor, al- send more carbon into the though they point to other biodiesel pro- atmosphere. ducers who make their own processors from water heaters and tubing. Their biodiesel production begins He expects the biodiesel industry to each week when they collect 125 gal- take off in 2008 when, thanks to new lons of used fryer oil from local restau- technology, car companies will start rants. “The first time we did this, we selling diesel-engine vehicles that meet used the wrong hose, and it sprayed out California’s strict emissions standards. all over us. We discovered that a small If you can’t wait for a new car, buy a amount of grease goes a long way. The used diesel, advises Johnston, who first few times, the smell really disgust- drives an old Mercedes. “You can go ed me. I even stopped eating fried food online to find biodiesel for sale” all over as a result. It reminds me of the dump- the country at stations and co-ops.” ster we clean out every week.” The two love “being part of a so- Back at James’ garage, they pump 50 lution that’s tangible, that’s here and gallons at a time into the processor along now,” says Johnston. His partner, with methanol, lye and sulfuric acid. Two James, agrees. “I love not paying mon- days later, via a process called transesteri- ey to petroleum companies, never hav- fication, they have pure biodiesel, which ing to go to a gas station and getting burns in any diesel engine. Thus far, the 600 miles out of a tank of fuel. I love two have produced more than 8,000 gal- being less a part of the problem.” lons and figure they’ll break even at the It’s true, Johnston adds, that the 12,000-gallon mark. exhaust smells like French fries. “But The two make biodiesel for around that smell means you’re getting two $1 a gallon (not counting the initial capi- for the price of one. You’re using the tal investment) and sell it for $3 a gallon soy grease to fry food and then using it to another co-op, which, in turn, charges again for fuel.” $4 per gallon. This may seem high, but it’s As busy as Johnston is, he has new a bargain, says Johnston, when you fac- plans, this time to buy an electric car and tor in the higher mileage that diesels have power it from home-based solar panels. over gasoline engines. “And that’s not “There is no one answer to the problem counting the real cost of gasoline, which, of fossil fuels. I’m eager to pursue as many considering the military cost, the damage answers as I can. I also hope to motivate to our health, and government subsidies, people to do something — to take action could be $15 or more per gallon.” now. I find purpose in this quote from Johnston admits some downsides to Sydney Smith: ‘It is the greatest of all mis- biodiesel. It has to be mixed with regular takes to do nothing because you can only diesel in cold climates, as it can congeal do a little. Do what you can.’” v

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Building the Ultimate Eco-Home

and through Golden Gate Park. “Those His workers began by gutting the

experiences gave me a deep connection structure and recycling or reusing ev- with my surroundings.” erything they possibly could. “My crew He was also drawn to a love of didn’t like it when I told them they had literature. Half German and half Sal- to save and straighten every nail, but vadoran, he grew up speaking Spanish my goal is not to contribute to the at home, French” at Notre Dame des waste stream.”

Victoires grammar school and German He reinforced the structure with at Sonoma State, where he majored in environmentally friendly materials such English. He went on to Boston College, as recycled steel and fly ash concrete. earning a master’s degree in English Schmidt explains that fly ash “is a by-

and meeting Jamey Maimares. product of coal burning power plants, The two married in 1997 and normally dumped into land fills. We moved back to San Francisco, where use it in our concrete to strengthen it. he worked as an educator. Two years We also use wood certified by the For- later, his father died, and he took over est Stewardship Council, which ensures his family’s real estate investments. that our lumber” comes from forests harvested, shipped and milled using Schmidt is in the process of sustainable methods.” building one of the greenest The finished house will sport pho- homes in the city, a stone’s tovoltaic solar panels and a system to throw away from SI. capture rainwater to be used for land- scaping. “An average roof gets 20,000 In 2006, Schmidt saw Al Gore’s gallons of rainwater that just runs An Inconvenient Truth and “real- down the drain, and our landscaping ized that I could help my tenants live will use drought-resistant plants that more responsibly if I installed energy need far less water than lawns.” efficient appliances, low-flow water Helmut elmut Schmidt ’88 is not systems and fluorescent bulbs. I then Schmidt, How much money does any a track afraid to say that he wants to started using less toxic cleaning agents one person need? We’re coach at SI, Hchange the world. “Why aim and paints. I began to see apartment not keeping score. We’re in is turning low?” he says. “What’s the point?” buildings and homes as systems that serious trouble as a society a Doelger Schmidt hopes to do this one can be shaped through responsible if making a profit is our only home right ” across the house and one apartment building at choices. Someone can make an impact goal. We have to break the street from a time. He manages his family’s vari- simply by turning on a 40-watt bulb existing paradigm. SI into ous real estate holdings in San Fran- that uses 10 watts of power.” one of the cisco that shelter nearly 100 families. Last February, Schmidt took his He plans to insulate his house with greenest homes And he’s in the process of building gospel of green one step further. He blown cellulose made from recycled pa- in San one of the greenest homes in the city, spent $800,000 on a home on 39th Av- per and light it using LEDs, which use Francisco. a stone’s throw away from SI. enue right across from the track. less power and last longer than CFLs “I can make much more money re- (Schmidt, incidentally, joined SI’s and don’t contain toxic materials. “Too modeling this home by putting in cher- coaching staff last year, and now helps many fluorescent bulbs find their way ry cabinets and granite countertops. runners on both the cross country and to landfills, even though they are easy While I don’t mind making money, it track teams.) to recycle, and the mercury they con- can’t be the only thing that drives me. He hopes to transform this prop- tain ends up in the fish we eat.” How much money does any one person erty from a 1,400 square foot, 3-bed- All the water fixtures ”in the house need? We’re not keeping score. We’re room, 2-bath standard-issue Doelger will be efficient with aerators that keep in serious trouble as a society if making home into a 2,100 square foot 4-bed- the flow from the faucet to less than 1.4 a profit is our only goal. We have to room, 3-bath showpiece featuring the gallons per minutes. The toilets will be break the existing paradigm.” latest in green technology. Despite the ultra-low flush, using .8 gallons with Schmidt’s passion for the natural soft market, he expects to get his $1.3 each jiggle of the handle. world began when he joined SI’s cross million asking price when the home Schmidt also stresses the danger country team, running at Land’s End goes on sale this spring. of outgassing from traditional building

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products, “many of which use formal- of volatile organic compounds, which, hopes to feature the home in a 5-min- dehyde that leeches out over the years, along with the efficient ventilation and ute video pod on TV.com. eventually contaminating landfills.” heating systems, will make the air in the “This is a test project,” he stress-

For his cabinets, Schmidt is us- house as pure as possible. es. “If it goes well, I hope to build ing bamboo, which is a sustainable, Schmidt also hopes to find an old two or three of these green houses fast-growing grass. “It looks gorgeous; barn and build a deck made from its each year. I’m banking on the fact what’s even better is that we’re buying recycled wood. that people are environmentally con- it from a local factory in San Rafael.” He is keeping an online journal of scious and want to live in a home The bamboo, paints, sealants and the construction, with photos on Face- that will leave a small footprint on adhesives will have only small amounts book documenting the remodel, and he the planet.” v How to Take 6,000” Cars Off the Road magine a bus system that runs on The system spans 35 miles, from time. You walk onto the bus, and the Elk Grove’s southern border near I day’s newspaper, individual reading Galt to its northern reach at Rancho lights and wireless Internet service await Cordova. Despite the distance and you. On hot days, you grab a free bottle the number of commuters, the bus of water. Riders waiting for bus service system has a 99 percent on-time can check text messages for any alerts. record, according to Jeter. And, no matter how fast your city grows, the bus system keeps pace. Jeter, the vice president Pete Jeter ’83 is the magic man of operations for MV who made this happen in Elk Grove, Transportation, also runs just south of Sacramento. This trick bus systems in eight other earned him the Transit Operator of the Central Valley and East Bay Year Award from the American Public cities. Transportation Association. “If we’re late, people won’t ride with Jeter, the vice president of operations us,” he adds. “We also believe in giving for MV Transportation, also runs bus great customer service. It’s the little systems in eight other Central Valley things that keep passengers happy.” and East Bay cities. He faced his greatest Jeter also points to all the other challenge in Elk Grove, the nation’s benefits of keeping 6,000 people out of fastest growing city, which saw its cars and onto buses. “If they drove, they population multiply from 26,000 to would just be adding to the congestion 130,000 over the last five years. and pollution. Now they get to work People living in this bedroom faster and much more efficiently than of his work involves collaboration with Pete Jeter community drive to Sacramento for by car, often saving up to 45” minutes on city councils to meet their transportation and his wife, Amy, work, clogging Highway 99. In 2004, their commute time.” needs. He and his colleagues design bus and their city leaders asked Jeter’s company to The buses all use compressed natural routes, stops and schedules, maintain the children, design a bus system, which debuted gas, which burns clean with very low fleet of buses, upgrade dispatch systems Ryan, 7, and in 2005 with 21 buses carrying 1,000 emissions. Jeter’s next job is to convert and do community outreach to see Cole, 4. passengers a day. Today, more than all of MV’s buses in Northern California where they need to improve or grow. 50 buses carry 6,000 people daily, to clean fuels, and he plans to explore “Without buses, the 6,000 people making it the fastest growing system a variety of possibilities, from electric we serve in Elk Grove would get in the in the country. buses to liquid natural gas and diesel way of each other on Highway 99 each APTA praised Jeter and his particulate traps. day. One bus carries 50 people, and company for achieving a “better bus” Jeter majored in public administration that’s 50 cars’ worth of carbon dioxide that connected effectively with other at USF and contemplated entering law we’re not sending into the atmosphere transportation services, putting “90 school. “But I was drawn to the business and 50 cars’ worth of fuel we’re not percent of Elk Grove residents within a of government.” Even though the burning. That’s fantastic. That’s what walkable half-mile of an e-tran stop.” company he works for is private, much charges me up.” v

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 25 FourschoolNEWS Students Excel Outside SI a diving meet at Mitty where she quali- Academy’s exhibition team at 10, per- fied for the CCS meet. forming floor exercises at Great Amer- That evening, she went to her gym ica, at A’s games and at other venues. to practice her routine on a double mini Two years later, she joined her gym’s trampoline in preparation for the state artistic team and “did the whole floor, meet in San Diego two days away. vault, bars and beam business.” “I just finished my last pass of the She found success as a tumbler,

night when my coach asked to see one taking first place in 2004 at the level more to get my flip a little higher. I ran 7 state competition. “I was shocked to down the runway and overcorrected. place so high. We didn’t even have a My flip went straight up and down.” tumbling floor at MEGA.”

Schreader landed with all of her At 13, she fell in love with trampo- weight on her left foot atop a metal lines thanks to a friend’s father, a com- beam, fracturing four bones in her foot, petitive skier, who used one to help him dislocating two other bones and tearing train for aerial tricks. her arch. “I love trampolines because they The pain” was so great that she give you a sense of floating,” she went into shock. “My coach heard the said. “All my other sports were team- noise — it wasn’t a good sound — and based, but this was the first ‘show- ran to get my mom and an ice bag. I off’ sport that demanded I be as close couldn’t compete for nearly a year.” to perfect as possible.” That didn’t stop Schreader from While she’s a big fan of the tram- training. She returned to the gym with poline, she warns parents not to buy her hot pink cast to continue her con- one for the backyards. “I practice in ditioning. She did, however, give up a gym surrounded by mats and work the double mini in favor of the tradi- with a coach who teaches me how to tional trampoline. do tricks safely.” Schreader confesses to feeling ner-

Reed Photography Photo by Kelly I love trampolines because vous when she competes before a table they give you a sense of judges. “I have to stay as straight as Olivia Schreader of floating, possible through my routine and clench Bounces Her Way to Success all my muscles as tightly as I can. But Schreader credits her start on the after the routine, I relax and feel a sense ou’ll find senior Olivia trampoline, in part, to a ballet instruc- of relief and accomplishment.” Schreader bouncing all over tor who told her, at 4, that she wasn’t Schreader hopes to compete in Ycampus, playing golf, diving built for ballet and that “I would be level 10 when her competition season on the swim team, serving on student wasting my mom’s money.” begins in February and qualify for the council and playing saxophone for the She switched to gymnastics and July nationals in Kansas City, Mo. jazz band and orchestra all while tak- joined the Marin Elite Gymnastics Her season overlaps with the ing five AP classes and maintaining a WCAL spring diving season. In her ju- 4.16 GPA. nior year she placed third in the WCAL But if you really want to see her as SI’s top female diver. “Twisting in bounce high, go to one of her trampo- ” the air is really the same, whether for line competitions, where you will see diving or for trampoline competition. her perform a routine that includes 10 Just don’t try to land on your hands or flips and twists. head on the trampoline.” Schreader finished eleventh at the In the fall, she golfs for SI and has 2007 Nationals in Memphis, Tenn., last helped her team to an undefeated sea- June, competing in level 9 with girls 15 son. She credits her busy athletic sched- and older. ule to her father, Greg, who played This accomplishment shines even hockey, football, baseball and golf as a brighter given a bone-shattering injury kid. “I got my whole ‘let’s try and play she suffered in April 2005 as a fresh- a bunch of sports all at once’ philoso- man at SI. She had just returned from phy from him.” v

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Laura Owens Shines as a Welsh Pony named Tiffany, and now Equestrian Rider & Judge owns two others — Rumor Has It, a quarter pony, and Seventh Heaven, a hen senior Laura Owens, a thoroughbred former racehorse that Ow- champion horseback rider, ens nicknamed “Clyde.” After his days on Wbroke her foot in January of the racetrack, Clyde was trained for equi- 2007 after slipping on the sidewalk in tation and hunter competitions (different front of school, she knew it meant that skills from the ones Clyde needed to win she couldn’t compete for half a year. Not races), and he is now ranked seventh in one to be idle, she discovered a new pas- Northern California. Owens plans to sell sion and talent as a riding judge. him and Rumor Has It and use the prof-

While reading In Stride magazine, it to purchase a new horse on which to published by the U.S. Hunter Jumper As- compete for the Maclay and United States sociation, Owens saw an article about Equestrian Federation Finals. a new internship program designed to tion Horsemanship Finals in Woodside ”I’ll miss them,” she admits. “I love teach young riders how to judge. She ap- several months before her injury and Clyde, but I have to move beyond his plied and was” the first person selected in is now ranked third in California and level. He can only jump so high.” the country for the one-day program. Nevada, along with her horse, in the Riding, she adds, “has been a part of Last May 6, she sat with judge and hunter category. my life for so long, that I don’t remember steward Penny Carpenter at the Wood- She hopes to qualify for two national what I did before. I love forming partner- side Spring Classic Horse Show. For five championships — the Maclay, held in ships with my horses. They will do things hours, Owens watched equitation riders New York, and the United States Eques- for me that they won’t do for other riders (judged for how well they sit in the saddle trian Federation Finals in Pennsylvania. because of that partnership.” as they ride) and hunter riders (who are Even though she stands at 5 feet, 4 Owens also loves all the accoutre- Laura judged on how well they lead horses in a inches, her long legs make her look tall in ments that come with the sport, includ- Owens competed variety of jumps). the saddle, a key quality judges look for ing “the clothes — the breeches, boots on Seventh in equitation riders. and ratcatcher (the name for the shirt). Heaven in Owens began riding at age 8 at When I’m in the show ring, I feel as if I the $3,000 She hopes to qualify for two Golden Gate Stables while a student at belong there.” Children’s Hunter national championships — the Kittredge School. As she improved, She adds that she’s not sure if she Classic at the Maclay, held in New she trained at San Domenico, and at wants to compete professionally or stay the Pebble York, and the United States Burgundy Farms and Silver Lining, as an amateur. “I do know that my ca- Beach both in Petaluma. reer, whatever it is, will involve horses Equestrian Equestrian Federation Finals in Classic last At 13, she bought her first horse, in some way.” v Pennsylvania. July.

Owens and Carpenter scored each rider separately and then compared notes. “Penny told me how impressed she was by how close our scores were,” said Owens. “She told me I had a good eye for judging and encouraged me to get my judging license once I turned 18.” While Owens enjoyed judging for the day, her first passion remains riding, and she has already made a name” for her- self with a string of victories, including winning Grand Circuit Champion hon- ors last July in the Green Pony Hunters competition for the Pebble Beach Sum- mer Shows, which are among the most competitive on the West Coast. She also won the first round of the California Pacific Horseman’s Associa-

schoolNEWS Four Students Excel Outside SI

she attended the Del Valle Kennel Club and signals them with a clicker or Dog Show in Livermore where she squeaky toy. found girls her age being judged on Her weekend shows also give her how well they presented their dogs. time with her parents, who accompany After putting Shamu through pup- her and help” groom dogs for competi- py training classes, where he learned to tion, which includes blow drying them sit, stay and lie down, Diaz entered her to get their hair standing just right. first show in 2003 in Santa Clara where In teaching her dogs new tricks, she took fourth place. “But there were Diaz has also picked up a few les- only five of us competing in my age sons. “I’ve learned the meaning of group. Eventually, I got better.” hard work, and I know that I’ll be In addition to Shamu, Diaz also rewarded for all the effort I exert. owns three other collies: Chloe, Emmy I’ve also learned that luck is some- and Monet. She spends nearly every times on your side and not to be a weekend at dog shows, competing sore loser when it isn’t.” with them and showing other breeds, such as Great Danes, Rottweilers and Dalmatians, as favors to her friends. Sometimes people get Her dedication to her craft has competitive and will step on given her recognition beyond the world a dog’s foot ‘by accident,’ or of collies. Two years ago, she earned throw food on the ground. an 11th place national ranking among juniors for all breeds. Diaz also says intuition plays a She spends 10 minutes a day role in deciding which of her four dogs with her dogs teaching them to stay to show. For the 2007 Collie Club and how to stand symmetrically in Anna Diaz of America Show, she spent a month Anna Diaz Earns a stance known as “stacking.” She and Shamu training Monet. Her father drove all at the Sac- also teaches them to run with her in Top Collie Trainer Honors four dogs to North Carolina, as Diaz ramento a circle and not lag behind or leap still wasn’t sure which dog she would Kennel Club t the tender age of 15, sopho- ahead. She uses hot dog treats and Show where use. “Emmy has a nice coat, but not more Anna Diaz is already leashes to train her dogs as puppies, she won best quite nice enough. Monet is still young junior trainer. a national champion. Go to A and soft, and I didn’t know how she her home, and you’ll find, among her ” 70-plus first-place trophies, one for would react to a big show. Finally, I Best Junior Handler at the 2007 Collie decided to show Emmy.” Club of America Show. Diaz’s intuition paid off. “The She won that title last March in whole day felt perfect. I felt as if I did Concord, N.C., where she was also everything right. Then, at the very end, recognized as being the number one the judge walked to me with the ribbon Junior Collie Handler for 2006 in the and trophy and said, ‘Ma’am, you’re U.S. for the second year in a row. the best junior.’ It felt amazing.” She attributes her success to three The shows have a dark side, Diaz factors: hard work — she spends every admitted. “Sometimes people get com- day training her four collies — the qual- petitive and will step on a dog’s foot ‘by ity of her dogs, and a little secret. accident,’ throw food on the ground or “You have to catch the eye of the make noises outside to create distrac- judge during the show. That gives you tions. Still, I’ve made many friends a competitive edge. During the Nation- ranging in age from 9 to 70 whom I see als, I gave the judge a ‘I’m the best one, every weekend at the shows.” pick me’ kind of look.” When people ask her what she Diaz began showing dogs at 9 af- wants to do after college, she tells them ter buying her first collie, Shamu, and that she doesn’t know. “Dogs will al- discovering that he had papers and a ways be a part of my life, but I’d never championship lineage. A month later, want to do this as a full-time job.” v

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Mendoza reached the pre-profes- satisfied with my effort. I realized that I sional level at 14 when she also developed should not have taken my anger out on a passion for ballet. “One role made me him or on the others at the rehearsal. The love dancing,” she noted. She performed following Sunday, I tried my hardest, and in Symphony, choreographed by Yuri Yuri told me how much he appreciated Zhukov, who had danced with the Kirov that. I still need more self-control and and San Francisco Ballet companies, and discipline. Hearing him criticize me made performed with San Francisco Ballet star me want to work harder to impress him, Gaetano Amico at the Cowell Theatre. Galina and the audience.” “I enjoyed working with a major For her role as the Sugar Plum Fairy, dancer who was known worldwide. I Mendoza worked hard to perfect the fou- was so nervous that I cried after my first etté, a dance movement where one foot performance. I thought I had made too whips around as it passes the supporting many mistakes,” but both Possokhov and foot. “It took me an entire year to perfect Alexandrova reassured her that she had the fouetté, but I finally managed to do Jeraldine Mendoza danced well. it. I had to do 16 of them for The Nut- Dances with the Stars In 2006, City Ballet cast her as the cracker, and I was nervous about that.” Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, and in Mendoza, who trains 35 hours a f you want to know just how good Jeraldine Mendoza can dance, just Iask Yuri Possokhov, a former dancer for both the Bolshoi and San Francisco Ballet and a world-class choreographer. “Jeraldine will one day become a lucky director’s treasure,” he says about this SI junior. “Right now, her potential has no limit.” For two days in December, the 16-year-old Mendoza tested those limits dancing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in City Ballet’s produc- tion of The Nutcracker at the Cowell Theater in Ft. Mason. She performed alongside Kirill Za- retskiy, who has danced with the Mos- cow Classical Ballet and the San Fran- Jeraldine cisco Ballet, and she trained with artistic Mendoza has director Galina Alexandrova, another performed Bolshoi veteran, and Lupe Calzadilla, a alongside Kirill Zarets- master Cuban teacher. kiy, who has As good as she is, Mendoza remem- danced with bers a time when she begged her parents the Moscow to let her quit ballet. “At age 5, I didn’t Classical Bal- let and the mind the lessons because I was following San Francisco in my sister’s steps. Later, in grammar Ballet. school, I just wanted to hang out with my friends and play volleyball and bas- 2007 she danced in a San Jose Ballet pro- week, does wish she had more time ketball. My training regimen didn’t give duction. “With each major production, I for her friends. “They understand me the time to do this.” grow a little less nervous,” she says. why we can’t just hang out on week- Looking back, she’s glad her parents As successful as she is, Mendoza still ends or after school. They are just encouraged her to stay the course, and has her meltdown moments. “I was upset glad that I haven’t left SI to be home- next year, she hopes to apply to the San that we had to rehearse on Thanksgiving. schooled, which is what nearly all Francisco Ballet Company and advance After the rehearsal, Yuri said he wasn’t pre-professional dancers do.” v to the professional level.

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directing local high school students who emails all the time from teachers and PTA Jefferson Award go to nearby grammar schools where they presidents asking how they can bring the ask fourth, fifth and sixth grade teachers to program to their schools.” for SI Senior choose one novel for their students to read. She hopes to expand her program by Later, after they have read the book, asking companies to donate school sup-

Lisa Chan’s Bay the high school students return to discuss plies and by organizing a charity gala. the text and its lessons and values. The Jefferson Award isn’t the only Area Strive Students follow up with an essay one now decorating Chan’s room. She relating the novel’s values to their own. was a national finalist for the Bentley

isa Chan felt bored in grammar Chan and her team then award a $200 Tomorrow Award (for juniors chang- school, where the work left her scholarship to the student with the best ing the world) and won the Congres- Lfeeling unchallenged. essay. Two months later, the process re- sional Award, given by Tom Lantos Last April, she did something to en- peats itself. for her public service, the Leo of the gage current grammar and high school “If I were in sixth grade, and a Year Award (for her work with the Li- students in their studies, extracurriculars high school ” student came to me as a ons Club) and Target’s Young Leader and community service. She created Bay mentor and encouraged me to excel Award (given to eight girls nationally Area Strive and helped it to earn 501(c) academically, I would have jumped at in honor of their volunteer work). the chance,” said Chan. She was also recognized by the She came up with the idea for Bay Bank of America Excellence Initiative Area Strive last year while working as and was named Miss San Francisco’s an intern for State Senator Leland Yee, Outstanding Teen in the Teen Division helping D.J. Canepa, Yee’s legislative of the Miss America Pageant for her aide. He asked her to think of a project skill as a violinist, academic talent and to help Bay Area public schools, and her work to empower youth. Chan responded enthusiastically. She has also been nominated for the San Mateo Young Woman of Excel- If I were in sixth grade, lence Award and the Soroptimist Mak- and a high school student ing a Difference Award, and she will came to me as a mentor represent San Mateo County in this year’s Miss Teen California Pageant, and encouraged me to excel vying for a $10,000 scholarship. “If academically, I would have I win, I’ll put the money towards my jumped at the chance. non-profit organization,” she notes. At SI, she serves as editor of the “I knew it would involve much yearbook, plays violin in the orchestra, work, including getting 501(c)(3) cer- serves as academic representative on tification to get grants to fund the pro- the student council through her role as gram,” added Chan, who received do- CSF president and is a student ambas- nations from politicians, such as John sador on the World Affairs Council. Burton, and from the Bridges Founda- Last summer, she interned at the Pub- tion and other similar groups. lic Interest Office at Stanford Law School Much of the inspiration for the and took political science courses there as program came when she entered SI as well. Next year, she plans to major in phi- a freshman. “I saw the difference” in my losophy and political science. academic performance thanks to the rig- “The summer program opened my Lisa Chan created an innovative program to offer enrichment orous competition here,” she noted. eyes to the importance of international opportunities to grammar school students. Chan felt shocked when she heard relations. I hope to go to law school, but that she had won the Jefferson Award where that will bring me, I don’t know (3) nonprofit status. For her efforts, she and even more surprised when CBS 5 yet. Perhaps I’ll earn a doctoral degree in won the Jefferson Award, sponsored by asked to come to SI to film her. “I didn’t philosophy or work in politics. Or both. both CBS 5 News and The San Francisco expect instant recognition, but it’s helpful Either way, I want to pursue my work in Chronicle. now because more people know about philanthropy and one day make my orga- This year, she is continuing her work, us and more want to get involved. I get nization an international one.” v

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Abram Jackson Puts More into Magis Program

s Magis Director Abram Jackson tacks a sophomore’s A“A+” research paper to the “Wall of A’s” in his office, he reflects on how far the student has come since her first semester at SI. If Magis is a family, then Jack- business management know-how Magis works “She had an extremely difficult time son is its undisputed patriarch. He and the analytical tools to look at with first- transitioning into SI, both socially and generation is equal parts teacher, mentor, coun- the intersections of race, class, gen- college- academically,” he notes. “Her response selor, advocate and role model. der and ethnicity.” bound was to act out. Her grades suffered, and SI senior Elena Castillo sums up Jackson’s determination comes students she was in and out of the dean’s office. Jackson this way. “Mr. Jackson has from his family. “Whenever my resolve from lower As a student of color whose experience income com- made me a better person. He influ- wanes, all I have to do is think of a munities didn’t extend far beyond her working- ences me to do the right thing even if at picture on my mom’s wall of her at her and students class neighborhood, she felt out of place, times I am stubborn and unwilling. He high school graduation, holding me as whose back- overwhelmed and misunderstood.” is there for me when I need help with an infant in her arms as she accepts grounds Jackson counseled the student, have tra- schoolwork, social issues, racial issues her diploma. A teenage single mother ditionally reminding her of the need to be open and even home crises. He has guided accomplishing that? Now that’s deter- been under- to new people and experiences. He me to be a person with and for others, mination. That’s inspiration.” represented advocated for her in discipline meet- and through him I have learned the im- Jackson also credits as role models at SI. ings and connected her with tutoring portance of gratitude and giving. He has his stepfather and his late grandmoth- in the Academic Support Center. taught me through his actions that it is er, “who stepped up when I was young He also introduced her to Magis, important to give back to my communi- and helped rear me. In fact, she named a program that provides socio-cultural ty, especially because I am so fortunate me before I was born. She said, ‘God support to students who are first-gen- to go to an amazing school like SI.” told me you were a boy.’ She named eration college-bound, low-income or Senior Lucy Gonzales simply notes me ‘Abram’ because of its meaning: traditionally underrepresented students that “Mr. Jackson is the bomb.” ‘man of integrity.’ And believe me, she at college preparatory schools. Jackson’s passion for social justice did everything she could to make sure “The Magis juniors and seniors, and diversity began at James Logan I lived up to that name.” especially the girls, stepped up and took High School in Union City where, as a John Moriarty ’51, volunteer direc- her under their wings, advising her and junior, he and his U.S. history classmates tor of the Rebirth of St. Charles Project, relating the challenges they faced and watched Hoop Dreams. has the “greatest respect for Abram. He overcame as freshmen.” “That film really awakened my has ratcheted Magis up to a new level. With the encouragement of her Ma- social conscience. I remember feeling The program couldn’t be better, and the gis peers, Jackson and the SI women’s frustrated and angered by the way administration seems very supportive. I crew coach, the student reluctantly tried things were. At the time, I didn’t have am thrilled with the work being accom- out for crew. She made the team and ex- the tools to properly articulate or ana- plished in Magis.” celled, winning the Wildcat Award for lyze the systemic nature of it all. I look Jackson adds that he is “humbled best exemplifying the Ignatian spirit. back at Hoop Dreams as motivating by the experience of the Magis Pro- Her grades also improved signifi- me to pursue an education that would gram. Working at SI has allowed me cantly, and she now feels much more a allow me to be part of the solution.” to make a career out of making a dif- part of the larger SI community. Jackson earned a bachelor’s in man- ference. Many college preps don’t have “That’s the beauty of the Magis agerial economics and a minor in social programs like Magis; however, SI sees students,” says Jackson. “They create and ethnic relations at UC Davis and a the importance of closing the oppor- community while also encouraging each master’s in ethnic studies at SFSU. tunity gaps of our world, as Ignatius other to step out of that comfort zone. “Combining ‘man econ’ and of Loyola has taught us. In my own They all look out for one another; it’s ethnic studies provided me a some- small way, I hope to contribute to this very much a family.” what unique set of skills, including Ignatian tradition.” v

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Alumni Basketball Games At the annual homecoming game the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, SI alumni returned as both spectators and com- petitors, with the boys’ alumni taking on the boys’ varsity team, and girls’ alumni playing against the girls’ varsity team.

Vince Legarza Signs with Miami, Ohio Senior basketball player Vince Legar- za signed a letter of commitment in No- vember to play at Miami University in Ohio as head coach Tim Reardon ’86 looked on. Legarza, at 6-foot, 9-inches and 240-pounds, currently plays cen- ter for the SI varsity basketball team.

Alumni Soccer Games SI held its annual alumni soccer games Nov. 24 on J.B. Murphy Field pitting soccer alumni against the current varsity teams. Photos by John Stiegeler.

32 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 WILDCAT SPORTS Katy Daly Speediest Girl in West

hen junior Katy Daly began this season than any other because of Daly trains with her team both running cross country as a the competition. She and Rachel work during season and over summer, run- Wfreshman at SI, her coaches well together and push each other in ning between 30 and 40 miles a week. were amazed. They couldn’t believe the the best sense. They seem to have so That kind of devotion helped her finish unflagging speed of this 5-foot, 2-inch much fun running together and are the ninth in the state in her freshman year dynamo. first to congratulate each other as they and third last year. This year, Daly’s speed it was Daly’s runs in the fam- turn to be ily a bit, as her a m a z e d uncle Bernie as Rachel used to race at Hinds, a carnivals in new frosh phenom, Ireland. Daly, dogged her heels all season and however, never started run- overtook her at the CCS meet to ning seriously until eighth grade when take first, leaving Daly with sec- she joined St. Cecilia’s track team com- ond-place honors. peting in the mile and two-mile events. Daly didn’t mind. In fact, it’s The summer before entering SI, she took just this competition that helped her third in the 3,000-meter race at a junior two weeks later at the state meet national meet in Indianapolis. where she finished first among all Last year, she expanded her run- division III girls, seven places ahead ning repertoire to track, and she plans of Hinds. The two helped SI finish to race on the team this year as well. seventh at the state meet, the team’s As successful as Daly is, she is one best finish since 1996 when the team of the most unassuming athletes you’ll took fourth. find, according to Kennedy. “She is “It felt good competing with humble and hates having attention lav- Rachel all season,” said Daly. “She’s ished on her. But she deserves to be rec- cool, and it’s fun working out with ognized for her tremendous talent.” someone as fast as she is. I like Daly’s victory isn’t the having her on my heels, as we only SI cross country news. push each other at the races The CCS named the SI and during practice.” varsity boys’ cross Daly did get mad at country team as a Hinds once. “She slowed scholastic champion, earn- down during one race so ing the highest collective GPA of that I could keep up. We talked all the boys’ cross country teams in about it afterwards, and she never did traded places all season as the varsity’s the section. The SI varsity girls’ golf that again.” top runner.” team also took fourth in that listing. Daly’s coaches praise her as being Daly attributes her success, in part, the ultimate team player. “Others might to her competitive nature. “I push my- In her three years on SI’s cross country have been threatened by the presence of self so that by the end of the race, I team, Katy Daly has finished ninth, a new, fast freshman,” said Tricia Ken- want to be spent. I want nothing left. If third and first at state meets. Photo nedy. “But Katy responded in the ex- I think I could have raced harder, then I montage by Douglas A. Salin. act opposite manner. She had more fun get mad at myself.”

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Chris Delaney, Gino Benedetti Glen (3–0) in first round and Saratoga League Record: 0–5–1 in quarter finals (3–0) and Aragon in the Overall Record: 4–5–1 semi–finals (3–0) before losing to SHC in Highlights: SI opened the season with a the CCS championship game. decisive win over rival Jesuit high school League Awards: All-WCAL second team: Verbum Dei (52–0) and then defeated Sa- Erin Grady cred Heart Cathedral (44–14) to win the Team Awards: Fighting Spirit Award: Bruce–Mahoney game. Sarah Taggart; Coaches’ Awards: Claire League Awards: All-WCAL first team: Christian, Jacqueline Taylor. Ryan Falvey and David Schaefer; All- WCAL second team: Roy Lang Team Awards: J.B. Murphy Award: Ryan Falvey; Outstanding Back: David Schaefer; Outstanding Lineman: Ed Hes- selgren; Journeyman of the Year: Kyle Bell, John Halloran. Photo by Paul Ghiglieri GIRLS’ GOLF Coach: Julius Yap, Assistant: Bill Olinger League Record: 10–0 Highlights: WCAL Champions; third place CCS; Jari-Lee Tolentino finished second in the WCAL Tournament (75) at Popular Creek and tenth in the CCS Tournament (76) at Rancho Canada East; Victoria Student was third in the WCAL Tournament (82). League Awards: WCAL first team: Jari Lee Tolentino & Victoria Student. BOYS’ WATER POLO Team Awards: Wildcat Medalist Coach: Scott Dumas Award: Jari-Lee Tolentino; Wildcat Assistant: Rob Assadurian Award: Victoria Student; Spirit Award: League Record: 0–6 Olivia Schreader. Overall Record: 6–18 Highlights: John Butler led team with 14 BOYS’ FOOTBALL goals in WCAL play and 38 goals. League Awards: All-WCAL second team: Coach: Steve Bluford Jack Ostler and John Butler Assistants: John Regalia, Paul Tonelli, Team Awards: Wildcat Award: John But- Rob Unruh, Brian Kelly, Parker Gregg, ler; Coaches’ Award: Jack Ostler; Most Improved Player: Paddy Dunne.

GIRLS’ WATER POLO Coach: Paul Felton

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL Coach: Louie Valiao Assistant: Karen Cota Overall Record: 22–12 Highlights: CCS tournament qualifier for sixth consecutive year; defeated Willow

34 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 League Record: 3–3 to win City Cham- SPORTS NEWS Overall Record: 14–10 pionship. Highlights: In CCS tournament, defeated Team Awards: Santa Catalina before losing to Sacred Wildcat Award: Ol- Heart Prep, 20–3. Leading scorers: Lau- ivia Narvaez; Most ren Padilla, 43 overall and Susannah Inspirational Player: Groh 11 in WCAL league play. Toni Hall; Most Im- League Awards: All-WCAL first team: proved Player: De- Lauren Padilla; all-WCAL second team: nise Rollandi. Nicole O’Dea, Susannah Groh Team Awards: Wildcat Award: Lauren Padilla; Coaches’ Award: Susannah Groh; BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY Most Improved Player: Nicole O’Dea. Coach: Chad Evans Assistants: Jerilynn Caskey, Helmut Schmidt Highlights: Finished second in WCAL and Central Coast Section; individual finishers: Greg Innes 11th, Peter Birsinger 13th, Alex Esparza 16th. At the CIF DIII State Championship, SI finished 11th; in- dividual finishers: Greg Innes 11th, Peter Birsinger 33rd, Alex Esparza 52nd. League Awards: All-WCAL first team: Greg Innes, Peter Birsinger, Devin Dunn; all-WCAL second team: Michael Reher Team Awards: Riley Suttoff Award: Rian Dineen; Wildcat Award: Alex Esparza; Most Outstanding Runner: Greg Innes; Most Improved Runner: Peter Birsinger.

GIRLS’ CROSS COUNTRY Coach: Elizabeth Regalia Assistants: Tricia Kennedy, Anne Strich- GIRLS’ TENNIS Coach: Craig Law erz, Kate Couch League Record: 10–4 Highlights: WCAL Champions (un- Overall Record: 18–6 defeated in three league meets); CCS Highlights: At the CCS Tournament, Champions; individual finishers: Ra- the ’Cats, seeded sixth, defeated Notre chel Hinds 1st, Katy Daly 2nd, Hannah Dame Belmont 6–1 and Sacred Heart Farr 9th; CIF DIII State Championship: Prep 5–2 before losing to Mitty 2–5 in finished seventh; individual finishers: the semi–finals. Katy Daly 1st.

Photo by Ed McGovern ’75 League Awards: All-WCAL first team: League Awards: All-WCAL first team: Natalie Dillon; Natasha Mendoza, Katy Daly, Rachel Hinds; all-WCAL sec- GIRLS’ FIELD HOCKEY Carmen Lam ond team: Hannah Farr Coach: Kori Jenkins Team Awards: Artie Lee, S.J. Award: Na- Team Awards: Julius Yap Award: Moni- Assistants: Amy Harms taly Mendoza; Magis Award: Natalie Dil- ca Coen; Most Improved Runner: Abby League Record: 0–9–1 lon; Wildcat Award: Janice Lam. Otto; Outstanding Runner: Rachel Hinds; Overall Record: 3–10–3 Coaches’ Award: Maddy McDonnell. Highlights: Defeated University High

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 35 sportsNEWS SI Girls Unbeaten in Five Years of League Golf in the CCS with junior Jari-Lee Tolen- “build them into a community as an tino going on to the NorCal competi- Ignatian team.” tion where she missed qualifying for He wants them to “think their way the state meet by two strokes. around a golf course. If we’re on a par “I’ve been blessed with many tal- 4 dogleg right that’s 350 yards long, I ented young ladies over the years,” want them to know that a driver would said Julius Yap ’74 who formed the put them onto the rough and to use a first girls’ golf team in 2000 and has 3-iron instead. I want them to be re- coached them ever since. laxed and go shot-to-shot. That makes As an assistant to boys’ golf coach the difference between a good golfer Bob Drucker ’58, Yap worked with and a great golfer.” Carolyn Thamkul ’03 and Elaine Har- Yap also credits the team’s suc- ris ’04, who played on the boys’ JV golf cess to how close the girls are. “They team. “We’ve had girls on the boys’ look out for each other and will of- team going back to Annie Donnelly ’95 ten play golf on weekends. I can’t be and Judette Tobes ’98, and I wondered with them all the time, so they work why we didn’t have a girls’ team. I put on each other’s games. They really in an announcement in 2000 and 35 are a family.” girls showed up.” Aside from Jari-Lee Tolentino, the Current college standouts now varsity includes seniors Courtney Chan, include Harris, the number one play- Olivia Schreader, Katie Dineen, Hanna er at Indiana University who led her Milani-Walker and Melanie Mistica, team to the NCAA championship juniors Victoria Student and Cammy meet for the first time in 20 years, Loback, and freshmen Claire Kelly, Mad- and Keiko Fukuda ’06, who com- eleine Student and Angela Tolentino. The girls’ riving to their matches, the petes at Brown University. Team captains Jari-Lee Tolentino varsity golf girls on the varsity golf team Yap works with the current team and Victoria Student finished, respec- teams, have a tradition of singing coached by D on course management skills, tries to tively, second and third in the league Julius Yap, “We Will Rock You” by Queen. On keep the girls relaxed and works to and earned all-league honors. have racked the way back, they always sing “We up 50 Are the Champions.” straight vic- This might seem a tad presumptu- tories over Field Hockey Team Climbs Half Dome to Support Former Teammate the past ous, but consider their record: 50 con- Colleen Clifford ’06 five years in secutive wins and five straight WCAL was diagnosed with league play. championships, unprecedented in SI Langerhans cell His- athletic history. tiocytosis two years This winning streak is even more ago, and to support her and raise mon- surprising given the short history of the ey for the Histio- team, which was founded only seven cytosis Association years ago. In their first season, the girls of America, 200 of finished second. The following year, her friends, family and SI classmates they took first in the WCAL despite hiked to the top of three losses, and they haven’t lost a Half Dome Sept. match since. 30. In all, the group Along the way they have done raised $200,000. Several current well in CCS competition, with one members of SI’s first-place, two second-place and one field hockey team third-place finish. The girls also took went to support first in NorCal play and fourth in the Clifford, a veteran field hockey player state in 2003. at SI, including This year, the team finished fourth Coach Kori Jenkins, Chelsa Tonelli ’06 and Claire Kane ’10.

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Boston and New York Alumni Chapters The Boston (top) and New York (second from top) Chapters of the SI Alumni Association met in November for their inaugural events. In all, 60 East Coast grads, representing six decades, attended these two alumni dinners where they heard the latest news about the West Campus Expan- sion Project and scholarship campaign from Development Director Joe Vollert ’84, Alumni Director John Ring ’86 and Alumni Coordinator Genny Poggetti ’97.

Business Lunch Features Peter Casey ’68 Peter Casey ’68, creator of Frasier and Wings and the recipient of the 2007 Spiritus Ma- gis Award, spoke at the annual Downtown Business Lunch in October at the Westin St. Francis. He regaled the audience with stories of how he and his partners came up with the idea for Frasier and how they cast the actors for the show. Casey (first row, third from left) poses with his classmates who attended the lunch.

Germany Honors Vic Rollandi ’68 Capt. Victor Rollandi, Sr. ’68, U.S. Navy Retired, was awarded the German military’s Cross of Honor last fall in an official Ministry of Defense ceremony in Berlin. His distinguished ser- vice on the German Presidency Team of the Confederation of Interallied Reserve Officers (CIOR,) a NATO support committee, paved the way for this honor. The Cross of Honor, or Ehrenkreuz, was awarded to Capt. Rollandi for his service to CIOR since 1993 on such re- serve issues as training, legal, medical, public policy and public affairs. Pictured at right are Capt. Rollandi, his wife, Karen (an SI regent), and their four children: Tory ’98 (Victor, Jr.,) Ella ‘01, Anne ’05 and Denise ’09.

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money talks, but clean money walks

and leads to good government by David D. Schmidt ’74 hat if they gave an election ing, make the HMOs look small by com- both the Democratic and Republican that money can’t buy? It’s parison. See the pattern? candidates for governor received equal Wa matter of life and death. If thousands of new homes are amounts of campaign” funding from the About 7 million Californians have no built on below-sea-level islands sur- state. To get the money, they had to col- health insurance. For most, it’s not a rounded by aging, crumbling levees lect $5 from each of more than 4,000 choice: They can’t afford it. So they in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, voters, and agree to take no large con- avoid getting medical care until it’s when the levees inevitably fail, people tributions. With equal spending, it was too late. And thousands needlessly die will die. Adam Mendelsohn, Governor a fair election, and Democratic Gov. Ja- from preventable illnesses. Schwarzenegger’s communications di- net Napolitano (Santa Clara University People ask why the U.S., alone rector, said in June that although the valedictorian, Class of ’79) won re-elec- among the world’s developed nations, Governor wants flood-safe homes, he tion by a wide margin. It was her sec- fails to provide health care for everyone. does not want to shut down construc- ond gubernatorial victory using “Clean It’s a long story, but the root cause, na- tion, and “everything is being debated.” Money” public financing. tionally and in Sacramento, is political: And the Sacramento Bee reported that campaign contributions from hospitals, “any bill [on new homes in flood zones] The campaign becomes HMOs and drug companies. is likely to face fierce opposition from a contest of ideas, For decades, they have beaten back major developers, who also happen to rather than a race for all attempts to pass universal health care be big donors to legislators’ coffers.” laws. Over the last three years, as the leg- The Bee neglected to mention that the most money. islature and Gov. Schwarzenegger have land developers were also big donors to gotten closer to passing one — and possi- Schwarzenegger, as well as his Democrat- et me make this perfectly clear: bly passed it by the time you read this — ic rival in the 2006 election. Both the Democratic and Repub- health industry lobbyists have funneled And so they all fiddle as housing Llican candidates for governor, $2.25 million in contributions to legisla- tracts are built in flood zones. This is most statewide offices and half the Ari- tors and campaign committees controlled typical of how big money contributors zona legislature, took no large contribu- by the Governor. They’ve strategically di- thwart the public interest on a daily ba- tions from any person, group, or corpo- rected the largest amounts to the Gover- sis at all levels of government. As Gov. ration. None. Maine has a similar Clean nor and legislative leaders, who are in the Schwarzenegger himself famously said Money system that’s been working since driver’s seat on negotiating the details. during the 2003 recall campaign, “The 2000. Once elected, Clean Money can- The result, say many health care special interests have a stranglehold didates don’t have to jump” when big advocates, is a bill that’s “a license to on Sacramento. Here’s how it works: money interests call in seeking favors, gouge,” because it has no limits on The money comes in. The favors go because they don’t need and don’t take what HMOs can charge, while low- out. The people lose.” Most people their money. The promise of democracy income people will be forced to buy in- know this instinctively, but now there’s — that each of our votes counts equally, adequate coverage that doesn’t include proof.* Yet even professional politicos regardless of our financial wealth — is preventive care. like those who discussed the problem finally being fulfilled. But the health care industry is far in Genesis V last year, can’t seem to Campaign-contributing lobby from the biggest political campaign come up with a solution. But there is groups are no longer the puppetmasters spender. That distinction goes to energy one, and it’s just across California’s of politics in Arizona and Maine. Most companies, whose windfall profits and southeast border — in Arizona. candidates don’t take their money. And environmental impacts, like global warm- In the 2006 election in Arizona, when they do find a politician that ac-

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cepts their money — since public financ- working with volunteers throughout ing is voluntary for candidates — it can the state to build support for Berke- backfire: One privately-funded candi- ley Assemblymember Loni Hancock’s date in Arizona had President Bush fly AB 583, cosponsored” by San Fran- in for a fundraising event. Once the take cisco’s Mark Leno, State Senator Car- was tallied up, the public-financed op- ole Migden and many others. The bill posing candidate received dollar-for-dol- passed the Assembly in 2007 and is lar matching funds for the full amount currently being considered in the Sen- raised at the event. The President might ate. AB 583 would give Clean Money a as well have stayed home with Laura test drive in California by using public and their dog, Barney. campaign financing just once for the in Arizona and Maine, as well as the David D. Clean Money levels the playing field 2010 gubernatorial campaign, as well experience of every parent who has Schmidt has volunteered thanks to the matching funds provision: as campaigns in one Assembly district ever reared a child. on political When a privately-funded candidate ex- and one Senate district. Why parents? Every parent knows campaigns in ceeds the public-financed candidate’s that if a child gets a reward for bad California and grant from the state, the public-financed behavior, that behavior will never end. Washington, California Clean Money D.C., since candidate gets matching funds. The cam- Campaign has been Similarly, after “the money comes in” to 1974. He is the paign becomes a contest of ideas rather working with volunteers elected officials and “the favors go out,” author of Citi- than a race for the most money. throughout the state to even more money comes in, reinforc- zen Lawmak- Public-funded candidates and elect- ing the bad behavior. Clean Money, in ers: The Ballot build support for Berkeley Initiative Revo- ed officials spend their time meeting with stark contrast, rewards candidates who lution (Temple voters rather than dialing for dollars and Assemblymember Loni do the right thing — refusing all money University Press, attending fundraisers with high-rollers. Hancock’s AB 583. from big campaign contributors, who 1989) and the And since they’re not fundraising all the are usually seeking favors in return. forthcoming Secrets of the time, they actually have time to spend To qualify for Clean Money in the If we want government that’s re- San Francisco with their families, something you rarely California gubernatorial race, a candi- sponsive to the voters, not big money Bay Area’s Envi- find in California’s superheated political date would have to get $5 contributions contributors, we have to start rewarding ronmental His- fundraising environment. from 25,000 people. Senate candidates good behavior, not bad. Clean Money tory (University of California The Maine and Arizona Clean would have to get at least $5 from 1,000 does that, at a cost of less than $4 a year Press, 2008). Money campaign financing laws were district residents, and Assembly hopefuls for each of us. Let’s give it a try in Cali- passed by the voters in 1996 and 1998, would need $5 from 500 residents. Total fornia. It’s time to have elections that respectively. And Connecticut’s Repub- spending would be capped at $3.65 per money can’t buy. We can start by asking lican Governor Jodi Rell signed a Clean year for every adult California citizen, our Senators and Gov. Schwarzenegger Money campaign financing law that is less than 0.1 percent of the” state budget. to pass AB 583. v taking effect this year. Similar laws are Matching funds would not be unlimited, *The non-partisan, Berkeley-based MAPLight.org (Money being debated in many other states, in but are high enough to have equalized And Politics: Illuminating the Connection) analyzes campaign Congress, and in the current Presiden- campaign spending in 98 percent of the contributions and how legislators vote in Sacramento and tial campaign. comparable races from 2002 to 2006. in Congress, providing an unprecedented window into the connections. Their latest study, published in October 2007, In California, the small, scrappy While AB583 is still being debat- showed that on five of seven key healthcare bills, California non-profit California Clean Money ed, Clean Money’s success is proven legislators’ votes correlated closely with the source of their Campaign (www.caclean.org) has been by the last four statewide elections campaign contributions.

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40 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 alumniNEWS U.S. Postal Service Honors SI Judge McCormick

By Fr. Michael Kotlanger, S.J. Judge Paul John Judge McCormick’s decision in Mendez v SI & USF Archivist McCormick’s Westminster, as one that forecast the ra- legal decision tionale of the Warren Court in Brown v paved the way Board of Education. he U.S. Postal Service issued a for Brown v Board of 41-cent commemorative stamp Education. Searching the Archives at the Santa Ana California T first began my research into Judge Postal Station entitled “Toward Equal- McCormick last November when a ity in Our Schools” on Sept. 14, 2007, graduate student from University of remembering the 60th anniversary of I Nebraska-Omaha contacted the school the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap- archives and asked for confirmation of peals upholding the U.S. District Court the “dates of attendance” of a student decision in Mendez v Westminster that named Paul John McCormick at St. was handed down in 1946 by Judge Ignatius College. Paul John McCormick, an SI alumnus. The inquirer was finishing a Master In 1945, a group of Hispanic par- of Arts thesis about the Wickersham Com- ents filed suit against the Westminster, mission (i.e. National Commission on the Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and El Observance of Law and Legal Enforce- Modena School Districts on behalf of ment, 1929-1931) on which a prominent their children and 5,000 others who The Decision Upheld Federal District Judge Paul J. McCormick were denied entrance into the public hen the U.S. Ninth Circuit of California was a member. schools and forced to attend “separate Court in 1947 upheld the Mc- A check of student rosters printed but equal” Mexican schools. Cormick ruling, the Orange W in the annual college catalog books con- Historian Vicki Ruiz of UC Irvine County school districts decided to desegre- firmed that Paul J. McCormick was en- wrote that Judge McCormick, after tak- gate and drop the case. The case assumed rolled as a student at the third St. Ignatius ing almost a year to make his decision, national significance by way of connections College campus on Hayes Street and Van “ruled that segregation of Mexican to Brown v Board of Education because it Ness Avenue from 1891 through 1893. youngsters found no justification in the changed the civil rights organization’s legal The initial request for information laws of California and furthermore was strategy in arguing cases. about a former student who was ap- a clear denial of the ‘equal protection’ According to Ruiz, Judge McCor- pointed by President Herbert Hoover clause of the 14th Amendment.” mick had relied “not just on legal prec- to serve on a national commission deal- He ruled that “merely providing edent but also on social science and educa- ing with the effects of the 18th Amend- the same textbooks, courses and com- tion research.” The judge had allowed the ment piqued my curiosity. parable facilities in separate schools plaintiff’s attorney to call in expert social During the next 10 months I con- does not give the students equal pro- scientist witnesses, who challenged the tacted archivists at record repositories on tection under the law, and that social school superintendent’s contention that the federal, state, and local level as well equality is a ‘paramount requisite’ in the Mexican children were “inferior in as legal, educational and ecclesiastical ar- America’s public school system.” personal hygiene, ability and in their eco- chives plus numerous historical societies The school district immediately nomic outlook … and were handicapped that maintain collections. I have been able appealed the decision and based its in ‘interpreting English words because of to cobble together from the public record argument on the states’ rights strategy their cultural background’.” a partial portrait of Paul John McCormick that a federal court had no jurisdiction The McCormick ruling was the first as a result of the research effort. in the matter. time that a federal court had concluded Some hoped this would be the test that the segregation of Mexican Ameri- case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Civil cans in public schools was a violation of Discovering a rights activists recognized the importance state law and unconstitutional under the Contemporary Ignatian of McCormick’s rulings and filed Amicus 14th Amendment because it denied due n the process I discovered a former stu- curiae briefs. Included among the filers process and equal protection. dent who in his adult life and profes- were the American Jewish Congress, the The outcome of the legal decision was Isional career represented everything the National Lawyers Guild, the Japanese the passage of the Anderson Bill in 1947 by contemporary institution seeks to instill in American Citizens League, the ACLU, the California legislature (and signed into our graduates. Paul John McCormick was the NAACP (prepared by Thurgood law by Gov. Earl Warren) that repealed intellectually competent, open to growth, Marshall) and the California Attorney California school district codes mandat- loving, religious, a promoter of justice, and General, who filed a supportive brief. ing segregation. Professor Ruiz described a leader in collaboration. He was a man

winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 41 keepingINTOUCH 34 Henry Fagundes was hospitalized in early May with broken ribs and a collapsed lung caused by a fainting spell. In early June, Henry was released to go home to continue rehab and, with the help of God, has fully recovered. Henry has been re- tired since 1986 from Aero TV Co. in Pa- cific Grove. He is 91 and trying for 100!

35 Fred M. Jackson and his wife live in a re- who was engaged in every aspect of life. Coolidge nominated McCormick (a life- tirement community in Cupertino. Paul John McCormick was born in long Republican) as Judge, U. S. District New York City in April 1879 to Daniel Court, Southern District of California, and 37 and Mary (Corcoran) McCormick. His he received his confirmation and commis- Leland D. Duffield retired after 61 years father had come from England in the sion in 1924. of practicing medicine. Most of his service 1860s to engage in “mining enterprises.” McCormick became chief judge of was private practice through St. Luke’s During his childhood the family relocated the district court in 1948 and assumed Hospital. Lee may be the first Catholic to San Diego, California. He “graduated” senior judge status in 1951. McCormick to be admitted to and to graduate from from the old Los Angeles High School in remained active for several more years as Stanford Medical School. His son, Robert 1890 and then attended the newly estab- a jurist in the U.S. Court of Appeals and Duffield ’80, is serving with the SFPD. lished All Hallows College in Salt Lake various district courts in the 9th Judicial City, Utah Territory. He remained at the District until his death in 1960. boarding school for only a year and then Los Angeles historian Michael Engh, 44 transferred to SI where he completed two S.J., of LMU, which awarded Judge Mc- James E. Collins, Jr., attended his 60th academic years of study. Cormick an Honorary LL.D. in 1939, class reunion “amid ancient mariners” at Like many students in the nineteenth wrote that “McCormick was one of a the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in century, McCormick attended SI for only a small but significant circle of progressive King’s Point, NY. few years and then moved into the work- Catholics in LA at that time, leaders who force. Throughout the remainder of his believed it was possible to be Catholic, life, he always claimed Saint Ignatius Col- American and supporters of the Wilsonian 47 lege as his alma mater. approach to Progressivism.” Michael Ryan took his family (27 peo- He relocated to southern California, Judge McCormick died following a ple) to Ireland last June and enjoyed two and in 1898, went to work as assistant short illness in early December 1960. His weeks of great times and good pubs. librarian at the Los Angeles County Law funeral Mass at St. Vibiana’s Cathedral in Library. At the same time he “read law” Los Angeles was attended by a who’s who 50 under the preceptorship of the head librar- of the hierarchy and representatives of Bertram Kenny has five grandchildren ian and then was admitted to the Califor- every level of the legal profession. Bishop and three great-grandchildren. nia Bar in 1900. Alden Bell celebrated the Solemn Requiem Mass and James Francis Cardinal McIn- Rise as a Jurist tyre presided and gave the final absolution. 51 e engaged in private practice be- He was buried at Calvary Cemetery. Ralph Anderson, Jr., and his wife, Dolo- fore becoming a deputy district Even this cursory review of Judge Paul res, celebrated their 50th wedding anni- Hattorney of Los Angeles County. John McCormick’s life seems to demon- versary with their eight children and their In 1910, McCormick was appointed judge strate that despite his short 24-month stay spouses and eight grandchildren in their of the California Superior Court for Los as a student during the nineteenth century, pleasant Napa Valley garden with more Angeles County and served in the post for he was a product of the Jesuit educational than 100 friends and relatives. 14 years; although he never earned an offi- system at Saint Ignatius College that has, The Class of 1951, at its Dec. 7 luncheon, cial academic degree, he taught “Law and for 152 years, attempted to form students announced that 2008 will be its Diamond Procedure” at the USC Law School from who are intellectually competent, open to Jubilee Year to celebrate the 75th birth- 1912 to 1924. growth, loving, religious, promoters of jus- days of the members of the class. At 75, During his superior court tenure, Mc- tice and leaders in collaboration. members will be installed into the “Dis- Cormick also served as an associate justice For even more on Judge McCormick, tinguished Diamond Club.” As of Jan. 1, (pro tem) of the District Court of Appeals go to http://www.siprep.org/news/mccor- 2008, 14 have earned this distinction; an of California. In 1924, President Calvin mick.cfm v

42 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 Ed McFadden ’82 Key Advisor keepingINTOUCH additional 85 will receive this honor in to Candidate Fred Thompson 2008 and another 22 in 2009. 55 Robert Lynch was admit- ted to the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America, at the group’s annual meeting in Denver. He has been a senior partner at Lynch, Gilardi & Grummer in San Francisco since 1978 and has more than 40 years Ed McFadden (right) sits in Fred of trial experience. He is the Thompson’s dining room during the first informal meeting to discuss a former president of the Asso- potential Thompson candidacy. ciation of Defense Trial Attorneys and Photo by Jim Rydell the Edward M. McFetridge American d McFadden ’82 would be the spends 40 hours a week writing speech- Inn of Court. last person to call himself a es, working on blogs and helping to Ekingmaker. But if Fred Thomp- give voice to Thompson’s message. son makes it to the White House next Those may seem like unusually rea- 57 All 1957 grads of SI, SH or Riordan are year, many in Washington might speak sonable hours for someone working on invited to the Feb. 22 Lunch at Caesar’s of McFadden that way. a presidential campaign until you real- Restaurant at noon. For more informa- A longtime Washington insider, ize that this isn’t McFadden’s day job. tion, email Don McCann at donmccann@ McFadden has written speeches for He puts in another 40 hours a week as sbcglobal.net. Cost is $35. Attorney General John Ashcroft and vice president for executive communi- Dan Flynn has been named as a new President George W. Bush. cations at Verizon, writing speeches for faculty member and managing partner A year ago, communications consul- his CEO. at Bourget’s Office of Education and tant Mark Carallo asked McFadden to A native San Franciscan and dis- Training in Brussels, Belgium. A busi- help produce a radio show for Thomp- tant cousin to the late Fr. Ed McFad- ness and legal English trainer, Dan’s son, who was replacing Paul Harvey. den, S.J., SI’s principal in the ’60s and expertise ranges from corporate human McFadden wrote commentaries ’70s, McFadden went to USF where he resource management to professional for Thompson and “helped to create gained fame and notoriety as the editor English language coaching. some buzz for the show.” of the Foghorn. His paper won nation- One day, he and Carallo discussed al awards, but the conservative editor the possibility of Thompson running found himself at odds with what he and 60 for president. “We didn’t want to be other students viewed as an increasing- Michael Corrigan had one of his short involved with the campaigns of the ly liberal campus. “I almost got kicked stories nominated for a Pushcart Prize. other Republican candidates,” said out of school at one point. I suffered The story “Free Fall” is set on an Indi- McFadden. “None of those other guys from youth and hotheadedness. It was an reservation outside of Pocatello. He interested us. Half in jest, we floated the perfect storm.” is the author of Byron, Confessions of the idea of Fred running. It didn’t take After USF, he moved to the East a Shanty Irishman and The Irish Con- long for others to jump on that idea, Coast. “I knew I wouldn’t be writing nection and Other Stories. and we found ourselves in the middle for The San Francisco Chronicle any- of the ‘Draft Fred Thompson for Presi- time soon with my politics.” He found dent’ movement.” a job with The American Spectator 68 McFadden first became a true be- Magazine when it was still “a sleepy, Gerald L. Hobrecht is the city attor- liever in Thompson after meeting him. non-controversial publication. It went ney for Vacaville. He lives in Davis “I came away with the impression that off the rails long after I left.” and saw his 1964–65 Latin teacher, this is the guy. If he wanted to run for That job taught him an important Fr. Richard Blinn, S.J., at Sunday president, then I’d be in. That sense has lesson. “I thought I was a hotshot writer mass at St. James Church in Davis be- only gotten stronger. I’d go through a and editor. After three weeks there, the fore Fr. Blinn’s move to Sacred Heart wall for him.” managing editor handed me a manu- Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. Now, as Thompson’s senior strat- script and asked me to edit it. No name egist on communications, McFadden appeared on the galleys, so I sat down winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 43 Ed McFadden (3rd from right) keepingINTOUCH wrote speeches for John Ash- croft & 69 George Edward Gallagher was appointed by His W. Bush. Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Swe- den to be Commander of the Royal Or- der of the Polar Star in recognition of his service in promoting Swedish-American relations. Ed has served as president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation since 1996 where he oversees the foun- dation’s extensive program of fellow- ships, grants, professional training and publications as well as the operation of Scandinavia House, the preeminent cen- ter for Nordic culture in the Americas. Ron Lagomarsino directed The Imagi- and started editing. I didn’t really read was best for the country. As an evangel- nary Invalid at ACT, Snow Globe for it. I just started tearing it up, rewriting ical Christian, he had a profound faith, ABC Family and episodes of Side Or- and restructuring it. Two hours later, but he never brought it into the office der of Life and Big Shots. I handed it back to my boss with less despite what people had you believe.” than 100 words intact from the origi- Ashcroft wasn’t one to leave a nal. I told him that I thought it needed speech alone. “He actively worked on 70 a lot of work. He smiled, looked it over them, reviewing each draft and adding Sean O’Reilly and his brother Tim and said, ‘Congratulations. You have his own text. He would ad lib when O’Reilly ’72 (president of O’Reilly Media) just rewritten Tom Wolfe.’” he delivered the speeches, but not too launched redBrazil.com, a new booksell- That experience taught McFad- much. Everything had to be vetted by ing site with lower new book prices than den “to be patient, to take in the work the lawyers because the media parses Amazon and more than 1 million new slowly and think about it and to respect every word.” book titles available. an author’s style before I start editing. It took McFadden time to learn Years later, editing work by authors Ashcroft’s pace and voice. “He was a 72 and writing speeches for John Ashcroft, huge Abraham Lincoln buff, and I’d that lesson served me well. Editors and structure a speech knowing when to Tom Dwyer works as a lawyer in Wash- speechwriters have to be seamless and throw in a Lincoln quote.” ington, DC. Tom, his wife, Ellen, and unnoticed collaborators.” The transition from editor to speech- their three children belong to Holy Trin- At the tender age of 23, McFad- writer proved an easy one for McFad- ity, a Georgetown affiliated Jesuit parish. den left his magazine to serve as a den. “As an editor, your name is never Kevin Hanratty is married to Candy; Brussels-based editorial writer for the on a piece. All you want to do is to help they have two children, Connor and Wall Street Journal during the fall of the writer and help the reader. I have no Mary Rose. the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. desire to have my name attached to any Martin Roger and his wife, Char- “I still have a big chunk of the Berlin speech. Ultimately, those are the words lene, retired last June. They will be Wall somewhere in my home. It was an of the speaker, not mine.” traveling more often, pursuing per- amazing time to be a journalist.” sonal interests and hobbies and en- After a stint writing for Thomp- joying new experiences. Class of ’69 Reunion son Financial covering tax policy on Capitol Hill, he worked as an editor for 73 Reader’s Digest starting in 1992, help- Rodney K. Chin, Pharm. D. is pharma- ing authors such as Frank McCourt and cy manager at the Kaiser Permanente Robert Novak and condensing articles Carlsbad office pharmacy in San Diego he found in other magazines. County. Ten years later, McFadden got a call Robert Mason is now working as the offering him a job as Ashcroft’s speech- staff attorney for the San Francisco writer, thanks to the recommendation PUC district. The new PUC commis- from Ed Gillespie, a senior advisor for sioner from this district is his classmate President Bush’s 2000 campaign. Tim Simon ’73. Ashcroft received his share of criti- cism, “but we all took that in stride,” said McFadden. “I found him to be an honorable man who wanted to do what

44 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 keepingINTOUCH McFadden came close to inserting him- rizon. “I promised my wife I wasn’t 75 self into a 2003 speech Ashcroft gave going to get involved in something Terry McAteer, after 18 years as Nevada to a gathering of 300 law enforcement like this, but she has had the chance County Superintendent of Schools, is personnel at a Detroit convention. to spend some time with Fred and his retiring to teach high school full time at “Someone who snuck in with the me- family and understands why I believe Bear River High School, where his wife dia started screaming out a question in him. Our children are now friendly teaches and his son, Gregory, attends. midway through Ashcroft’s speech. He with his kids.” The district honored him by naming a lo- was a Lyndon LaRouch-ite angry over McFadden’s 12-year-old son Sam cal school after him on Sept. 28 — the an alleged conspiracy in Switzerland. even helped Thompson during a Cath- Terence K. McAteer Family Resource As soon as I heard him, I came charg- olic prayer breakfast where President Center, formerly Champion Mine School. ing from the back of the room toward Bush was speaking. “This was before (Terry, a former member of the SI faculty, him, not running but moving fast. Here Fred announced he was running, and joins his father, State Senator J. Eugene I was, surrounded by 300 cops and the media was swarming over Fred. As McAteer, in this regard, as McAteer High Ashcroft’s own security personnel, and we left, my son cleared the way to let School was named for him.) I was the only one doing anything. Just Fred, his wife, Jeri, and their daughter Stephen Baccari left his 28-year career as I’m about to reach this guy, I hear, come through.” in the airline industry in July to pursue ‘No Ed. Don’t hurt him!’ It was Ash- Beth McFadden, Ed’s wife and a his lifelong dream of teaching religion. croft, shouting from the dais. The guy graphic artist, also lent her support He is at Salesian High School in Rich- eventually ran out of the room. After by designing a bumper sticker for mond, Calif., teaching New Testament, the speech, Ashcroft said to me, ‘You the campaign. sacraments, and Salesianity to all 155 were going to kill him, weren’t you?’ I McFadden’s wild ride through sophomores. He is also completing his was embarrassed by it. From then on, politics has thus far left him with master’s degree in catechetics in the John would ask me if I was planning to some wonderful memories. “I once School of Pastoral Ministry at SCU. kill anyone at the next stop.” met Margaret Thatcher in London Mark Lloret and his wife, Melinda, are When Ashcroft was hospital- and President Reagan while he was in the proud grandparents of Malia Rose, ized with pancreatitis, the Bush White office. I saw rock bands playing atop born Oct. 18, 2005, and Jack Edward, House asked McFadden to help write the Berlin Wall as it fell. I’ve seen East born May 25, 2007. a few anti-terrorism speeches for the Germany before and after unification. President, including one delivered in As I think back on all my years, it’s Buffalo and another in Hershey, Penn. these little moments, the ones that 76 “Those speeches went through so many make up history, that are part of Michael Neary is living in Glen Park rewrites, that only bits and pieces of the payoff. The other part is helping with his wife, Xiomara, and daughter, what I had written remained. When someone get elected in whom I believe. Monica. He is the deputy director in you’re involved in a presidential speech, Thompson is sincere in his belief in bi- charge of engineering for Oakland. you should have no ego whatsoever.” partisanship and unity. The only way McFadden clocked 80-hour weeks our country can address the challenges working as a speechwriter. The hours we will face over the next 20 years is 77 are similar now working with Thomp- if we put aside all party warfare and Matt Campi was promoted to the rank son and attending to his duties at Ve- coalesce around a leader.” v of commander with the San Bruno Po- lice Department. He is a 26-year vet- eran of the department and will oversee the Field Services Division. John Casaudoumecq moved to Lon- don from New York with his wife, Pamela, last year. He has worked for Citigroup for more than 20 years in a variety of trading and sales positions in San Francisco, Toronto, New York and now London.

78 Richard Murphy works at AT&T as a credit analyst. He and his wife, Eliza- beth, have a daughter, Rose, 8, who at- tends St. Gabriel’s School. The Class of 1969 held its annual holiday luncheon at Tarantino’s last December, and nearly 50 came to see old friends and to honor their late classmate Kevin Hardiman, who began this tradition many years ago. winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 45 keepingINTOUCH Paul Henderson ’85 80 Excels as Model District Attorney Robert Plotkowski was honored by the Century City Bar Association as the Real t’s easy to say that Paul Henderson agement, which also employed Kimberly Estate Lawyer of the Year in Los Ange- ’85 is a model lawyer. After all, he Guilfoyle. Later, the two shared an office les. He is a co-founder of Advisors LLP, Iput himself through SI and college as DAs in San Francisco. a business law and consulting firm, and by modeling, and his handsome face At UCLA, Henderson switched his lives in Brentwood with his wife, Megan, graces the fall 2007 issue of San Fran- major from pyschology to history and a molecular biologist at UCLA. cisco Attorney magazine. joined the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Emmett Quigley received the NASA After being voted one of Northern while continuing to model and act a lit- Ames Honor Award for 2007 in the California’s top Super Lawyers, Hen- tle on the side. He appeared in a made- technician category. This center-spon- derson was featured in Super Lawyers for-TV movie starring Susan Sarandon sored award is peer nominated and is magazine in 2004, and you can see him called Fight for Jenny. He also went on considered one of Ames’ most presti- on TV commenting on legal issues on tour with GQ, modeling clothing across gious honors. Emmett is the manufac- Fox News and CNN. Last November, the country. He appeared in numerous turing team leader on the Low Cost San Francisco District Attorney Kama- catalog ads for Sears, typically dressed Rapid Response Satellite project. la Harris appointed him as managing in a hardhat and holding a shovel. head of administration, one of the top UCLA even used an image of him for posts in the DA’s office. the school’s catalog dressed in a football 82 Fueling this meteoric rise is his de- uniform and throwing a football. Oleg Bolshakoff is living in San Francisco sire to protect victims of violent crime, “Modeling was just a means to an and works in the service department at many of whom live in the poorest part end. It paid the bills, but at some point, ACCO, a California-based mechanical of the city. He knows these parts well, working and auditions started getting in contractor. His daughter, Victoria, is a as he was raised by his grandmother the way of my studies. I had to make a freshman at Mercy High School in San down the block from San Francisco’s decision, and I chose to stay in school.” Francisco; his son, Alec, is in the 6th grade DoubleRock projects. Henderson went to Tulane in New at St. Cecilia’s. Oleg has been married 18 Before he became a DA, his col- Orleans for law school but upon arriv- wonderful years to his wife, Tanya. leagues in law school encouraged him to al, found that his paperwork request- become a public defender. ing a student loan had been misplaced. “Even though this is an important He spent weeks sleeping in his car and 84 role, I was offended by the presumption showering in the school gym, with an Marty Kilbridge teaches in the religious that my skills as a minority could be best occasional night in a cheap motel. “I studies department at McQuaid Jesuit served representing people charged with never really considered myself to be in Rochester, New York. crimes. I wanted to represent victims. Peo- homeless. In my mind, I was just wait- ple don’t realize that, proportionally, you ing for my scholarship and loan money will find more poor and minority victims to come in so I could get settled. Mean- 85 of crime than minority criminals. I want while, I worked hard at my classes. I Keith Harper attended NYU School of victims to have a voice in the courts.” kept all my books in my car and spent Law after graduating from UC Berkeley. Growing up in the Bayview-Hunters most of my time in the library.” He lives in Washington, DC, and is mar- Point District, Henderson saw his share His classmates elected him presi- ried to the former Shelby Settles. They of crime. “It wasn’t uncommon to see dent that year. “They never knew that have two children, Nailah, 13 and Arlo, people selling drugs by the liquor stores I was living in my car. Despite all this, 1. Keith is a litigation partner at the law that were on every block or people hang- I stayed focused on school to build a firm of Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP and ing out drunk all the time. I learned to career for myself.” head of the Native American Practice stay away from folks who made poor After he passed the State Bar in Cali- Group. See www.kilpatrickstockton.com choices and to make better choices for fornia, he worked in the San Diego DA’s for more about his work. myself. My ticket out was education.” office and then left to work for a venture Tim Totah is a real estate investment ad- At SI, Henderson joined the Black capital firm in San Francisco. In 1995 he visor with North Point Group helping Students Union and found mentors in Ka- joined the San Francisco DA’s office, in- clients build wealth through investing in tie Wolf and Steve Phelps, who inspired terning under Phil Kearney ’76. appreciating markets outside of Califor- him to study psychology in college. “I love litigation because it’s the great nia. He helps clients start their real estate Henderson had little money and equalizer. It doesn’t matter what school I portfolios or helps them structure and eventually found a job at I. Magnin’s went to, who my parents are or what my build existing portfolios. Feel free to con- for $20 an hour helping set up a fashion race is. The only things that matter are tact him at [email protected]. show. “I thought that was good money the skills I bring to the table, including until I found out that the models were my ability to persuade a jury by argu- 86 making $100 an hour.” ing eloquently. I want to use my skills to Matt Miller has joined the San Fran- He signed on with the Grimme represent communities that don’t have a Agency and then with Look Model Man- voice in the courtroom.” 46 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 Paul Henderson ’85 keepingINTOUCH cisco law offices of Carroll, Burdick & Excels as Model District Attorney McDonough as a partner practicing in the areas of commercial litigation, real estate and construction litigation. Matt is a member of the SI Alumni Board and lives in San Francisco with his wife, Tanya, and daughters Doran “Dory,” 4, and Grace, 2.

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The Class of 1987 reunion brought to- gether old friends who had lost touch over the years. Pictured from left are George Chavez, Antonio Mercado, Robert Petrini and Rick Cruz. Dr. Anthony Marcos celebrated his sec- ond year practicing dentistry in beautiful San Carlos in August. After practicing for Paul Henderson is one of the top Assistant District Attorneys in San Francisco. more then 10 years in Milpitas, he moved In his 12 years with the DA’s office, derstand a topic’s importance. to San Carlos to be closer to home and Henderson has worked in every depart- Eventually the calls for clarification spend more quality time with his wife and ment, from misdemeanors to hate crimes. turned into requests to appear on camera. three children. Check out his website at Part of his job is to act as liaison among He made his first national TV appearance www.MarcosAndMarcosDDS.com. community groups, the DA’s office and the after Guilfoyle invited him to appear with SFPD. He likes the fact that so many of her during a Fox News broadcast, and his colleagues both in the DA’s office and that led to several appearances on CNN 89 Al Madrigal is now filming a new pi- on the police force are SI grads. “That fa- with Nancy Grace. In all, he has been on lot for CBS titled The Captain with miliarity and common background often national TV nearly 50 times, sometimes Raquel Welch. help the office run smoothly,” he adds. flying to New York or Los Angeles to of- As one of the top managers for the fer his legal commentary. DA’s office, Henderson has objectives He came close to hosting his own 90 that reflect his varied experiences. “I’m reality law show on Court TV called Andrew Morris is the new owner of a working hard to introduce new levels of Power of Attorney, but lost out to local transportation service in South community justice reforms. San Francisco Christopher Darden, one of the O.J. Lake Tahoe. His shuttles service the is already at the forefront of developing Simpson prosecutors. He wouldn’t hotels, ski resorts and suburban areas. innovative programs and courts that do mind another opportunity, but “I’m Tim Nevin married Katie Spiering at An- more than just sentence people to cus- really big on being a voice and face of nunciation Catholic Church in Waimea tody. Without meaningful rehabilitation professionalism. You’ll never see me on on the Big Island of Hawaii on Oct. 13. programs in criminal justice, we won’t Nickelodeon getting slimed.” The reception took place at the Mauna ever be able to address recidivism in any Henderson knows that viewers won’t Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala Coast. meaningful way.” find too many African Americans as legal Including the groom, 22 SI grads attend- Henderson began appearing on TV experts on TV. “You tend to remember ed. Tim and Katie live 10 blocks from in the late 1990s. First, reporters called me. I’m the black guy on Fox. I’m excited SI. Pictured here are, top row, Bob Hue- to ask for help understanding compli- that I can help people think about legal gle ’61, Bob Drucker ’58, Ed Nevin ’59 cated rulings or esoteric parts of the issues and offer my perspective as well. I and Brendan Kennedy ’90; middle row, law. Henderson excels at making com- also hope that others from my own com- Bo Radanovich ’80, Bill Moore, Sr. ’62, plicated subjects understandable, and munity will be inspired to be experts and Bill Moore ’90, Tim Nevin ’90, Chris- he gave the press the sound-bites they to work in upper management. This only wanted to help people on the street un- adds to the richness of discussion.” v winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 47 keepingINTOUCH Fr. John Lo Schiavo, S.J. Receives Christ the King Award SI presented its Christ the King age, vision, purpose and change. Award — the highest accolade the Today we gather to honor John Lo school bestows upon a graduate — to Schiavo, S.J., as the recipient of SI’s high- Fr. John Lo Schiavo, S.J. ’42, the for- est alumni honor, the Christ the King mer president of USF. Attending the Award. A member of SI’s class of 1942, Nov. 18 Mass and reception at SI were Fr. Lo Schiavo has served the Society of his friends and family who heard the Jesus, his Church and the City and Coun- citation, below, being read. ty of San Francisco with dignity and grace tian Groh ’90, Katie Spiering Nevin, Joe for more than half a century. Drucker ’90, Msgr. Peter Armstrong by John Ring ’86 He was born in San Francisco on ’46, Jack Powers ’59, Audrey Danielson Feb. 25, 1925, to Joseph and Anna Lo Tognotti ’93, Jim Nevin ’66, Michelle n the Spring of 1990, the University Schiavo, Italian immigrants from the is- Nevin Levine (SI faculty), Mike Nevin of San Francisco received a letter land of Salina, off the coast of Sicily. As Sr. ’61 and Meaghan Donohoe ’97; Ithat spoke of the school’s rich legacy sand dunes gave way to new homes on front row, Tom Harlan ’90, Paul Gius- and identified the great challenges that the west side of a rebuilt San Francisco, to ’90, Shane Hawkins ’90 and Kevin lay ahead: “Catholic education is more John’s family settled in the Richmond Donohoe ’01. Not pictured are Mike relevant today than ever before…. The District, where John and his beloved sis- Nevin Jr. ’86 and Dan Cronin ’61. need for moral and ethical standards ters, Lina and Josephine, were reared. in every sector of modern society has John attended Star of the Sea Gram- never been more evident…. The USF of mar School and then matriculated to SI, 91 the future must resolutely continue its where he formed life-long friendships, Dennis Melka and his wife, Petra, Catholic mission in the Jesuit tradition became an All-City basketball player and moved to Bali, Indonesia. Dennis com- if it is to provide the unique services to prepared to enter the Society of Jesus. mutes weekly to Kuala Lumpur (Ma- society which it has faithfully served Upon graduating from SI, John en- laysia) to oversee his businesses: tune- for the past 135 years.” tered the Jesuit Novitiate in Los Gatos. hotels.com and tunemoney.com. With those words, Rev. John Lo His studies continued over the course of Eric Reulla is married with two chil- Schiavo, S.J., retired from his position as the next few years as he earned bachelor’s dren. He’s working as an operating president of USF, closing a chapter in the and master’s degrees in philosophy from room nurse at Seton Medical Center school’s history that was marked by cour- Gonzaga University and an STL in theol- and is a partner at Project Rem web design and apparel printing. Fr. John Lo Schiavo prepares to receive the Christ the King Award while Yvonne 92 Sangiacomo looks on. John Duggan, a former SI basketball great, has opened Fish and Farm Restau-

rant on 339 Taylor Street (at O’Farrell) Photo by John Enriquez featuring new American seafood and artisan meats. His father, John Dug- gan ’59, and mother saw a fire destroy much of their Original Joe’s Restaurant; look for it to reopen later this year.

93 Trevor Buck married Billie Lynn Gold- man Sept. 15 in Squaw Valley. Grooms- men were Darren Buck ’96, Brian Fos- ter ’94, Karim Kaderali ’93, Sean Mur- phy ’92 and Michael Virk ’93. Derek Calios moved from Sausalito to his new loft in Manhattan last year. He relo- cated to the Big Apple after accepting the position of director of operations for a

48 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 keepingINTOUCH Fr. John Lo Schiavo, S.J. ogy from Alma College in Los Gatos. basketball program in 1982. Not long John returned to the Hilltop in 1950 after he became president, he learned popular New York advertising company. Receives Christ the King Award when he became a professor of philoso- that the once-proud basketball pro- Clients include Fortune 500 companies phy at USF. After his ordination in 1955, gram had received repeated warnings American Express, AT&T, Microsoft, Fr. Lo Schaivo was drawn toward school from the NCAA on a variety of issues. The Gap, NBC, Proctor & Gamble and administration, serving as vice-principal With a cloud of suspicion hanging over The New York Times. Campaigns hit the at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoe- the program, Fr. Lo Schiavo, supported top 10 urban markets such as New York, nix from 1958 to 1961 and as president by the Board of Trustees, suspended the Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. of Bellarmine College Preparatory from men’s basketball program on July 25, Derek’s latest projects include launching 1968 to 1975. 1982, citing concerns about the “integ- a new Microsoft MSNBC campaign in In the intervening years, he always rity and credibility of the university.” Portland, Ore., and a Chicago Tribune found his way back to USF and the city In doing so, Fr. Lo Schiavo set an campaign in Illinois. that he loves, serving as USF’s dean of example for universities throughout Tom Golden is currently working in students from 1962 to 1966 and as vice- the country, as his decision was based San Francisco for Star Brand Imports, a president for student affairs from 1966 squarely on high ethical standards and company that specializes in the import to 1968. Fr. Lo Schiavo returned to San his refusal to compromise his Jesuit ide- and sale of European brand beers. Francisco for good in 1975, when he als. Though more than 20 years have Andy Reid has recently moved from New York to Washington, D.C., and “As his great work continues, we now see clearly that this man was named the president of the Market of God has set an example for generations to come.” Intelligence Division of Hanley Wood, a media company serving the housing was appointed rector of the Jesuit com- passed since Fr. Lo Schiavo’s suspension and construction industry. munity at USF. In January 1977, Fr. Lo and reinstatement of the USF men’s bas- Mike Virk completed his doctoral de- Schiavo ascended to the position for ketball program, the groundbreaking gree in neuroscience and will complete which he is best known, assuming of- decision is still being referenced in ar- his medical degree next year. fice as the 25th president of the Univer- ticles and books that address the topic sity of San Francisco. of ethics and sports. During his 14 years as president, Fr. After 14 years as president, he 94 Alexander Alioto was one of the three Lo Schiavo faced many financial, academ- stepped down to become USF’s chan- lead actors who recently won the New ic and ethical challenges, and he proved cellor, a position he still holds today. At York Fringe Festival with his perfor- to be the right man for the job. When he the age of 82, Fr. Lo Schiavo remains mance in Lights Rise on Grace. The took over the helm in 1977, USF had an active, regularly playing golf and swim- New York International Fringe Festival endowment of only $4.6 million, a fiscal ming at the Koret Center. He also has (FringeNYC) is the largest and most deficit for the prior school year of $1.7 kept in contact with his SI classmates prestigious multi-arts festival in North million and an unmanageable system of and the school itself, arranging biannu- America, with more than 200 compa- accounting. By the end of his term, USF’s al lunches at the Spinnaker Restaurant nies from all over the world performing endowment had grown to $38.7 million, with his ’42 classmates and helping to for 16 days in more than 20 venues. the long-term cumulative debt of the uni- establish multiple scholarships at SI for Brendan Jacobson married Chris- versity had been erased and two capital students in financial need. tina Tuegel at St. Helena’s Church in campaigns had raised enough funds to As his great work continues, we Photo by John Enriquez St. Helena on Sept. 29. Nora Jacob- add a new wing to Kendrick Hall, pur- now see clearly that this man of God son Parente ’98 was one of the bride- chase the Lone Mountain College prop- has set an example for generations to maids. Groomsmen included Nate Bar- erty and build the Koret Health and Rec- come, having established a solid and ulich ’94 and Sean Jacobson ’96; Chuck reation Center. lasting foundation for the future of Je- Eggert ’94 was best man, Greg Pignati As financial stability was achieved, suit education in San Francisco. ’94 was an usher and Jeff Cecchin ’94 enrollment grew, and the need to create Fr. Lo Schiavo has often expressed an and Mike Mulry ’94 served as lectors. unique and diverse academic programs admiration for President Harry Truman, Carol Trauner married Selim Berker ’94 at USF became apparent. With the sup- a fundamentally honest, tough and hard- last September in Watertown, Mass. Ni- port of the faculty and administration, working public servant. It was Truman cole Dobroski ’94 was a maid of honor. Fr. Lo Schiavo created the College of who said, “I studied the lives of great men Professional Studies, the Center for the and famous women, and I found that the Pacific Rim Studies and the Hospitality men and women who got to the top were 95 Management and Telecommunication those who did the jobs they had in hand Will Gray married Vanessa Leigh Programs in the McClaren School of with everything they had of energy and Humphers at the Palo Alto Hills Golf Business and Management. enthusiasm and hard work.” and Country Club on Sept. 2. Fellow SI Perhaps no issue during Fr. Lo Schi- For more than 50 years, Fr. John Lo graduates in attendance included Paul avo’s presidency received more national Schiavo has done all that and more, tireless- Menicucci ’96, Tony Zanardi ’95, Vince attention than his bold and courageous ly serving Catholic San Francisco with en- decision to suspend USF’s Division I ergy, enthusiasm, grace and compassion.v winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 49 keepingINTOUCH The Greatest Generation Puccinelli ’95, Ryan Jackson ’95, Jack Hart ’95, JT Stephens ’95 and Sarah Ste- phens ’96. Will has been working for an Looks at the Modern SI investment firm for the past seven years Fr. Lo Schiavo delivered these re- Those of us who are present today and purchasing real estate around the marks at the Christ the King ceremony in from the classes of ’41, ’42 and ’43 grew up country. The newly married couple lives November. in a different time, in a very different era. on the peninsula with their four cats. It was the Great Depression of the Paul Virk is in the master’s program in By Fr. John Lo Schiavo ’42 ’30s. Our parents struggled to raise us foreign service at Georgetown University. with dignity. Tuition was $9 per month, Michael Walsh, youngest brother of am honored and deeply grateful for and many of us couldn’t afford that. We Sean ’75, married Ana Valle at St. Ag- the Christ the King Award, which my didn’t need a parking lot. At most, three or nes Church on Sept. 2. Brother Peter Ihigh school alma mater is giving me four students drove to school and found ’87 was best man. today. I want to thank you, Fr. Walsh, easy parking on Stanyan Street. The rest Jennifer Yamate’s mother, Virginia, died and I want to thank the Alumni council of us rode the Muni for the student rate of unexpectedly on Sept. 13 from lympho- who made the decision to choose me for 2 ½ cents per ride. ma. Jennifer can be reached by email at this honor. I am not unaware that there World War II broke out in our se- [email protected]. are a number of USF graduates on that nior year. Within six months of gradua- council. I want to thank all of you for tion, our classmates were in the Army, the your presence here today, especially my Navy or the Marine Corps. They fought 96 classmates of the class of ’42 and friends in the Pacific Islands, and on the high Riquelen (Manlucu) Ngumezi and of the classes of ’41 and ’43. seas. On D Day, some landed on Omaha Okem Ngumezi When Fr. Walsh told me I was receiv- Beach and went on to fight in the Battle of married Aug. 11 ing the Christ the King Award, the first the Bulge. Ten members of the class of ’42 at St. Gabriel image that came to mind was that of Fr. died in World War II. Church. Alumni James King and Fr. Gerald Leahy in heav- When the War ended, the classes of who celebrated en, gnashing their teeth. I can hear Jim ’41, ’42 and ’43 returned, finished college, with the couple King saying, “My pshaw, Gerry, didn’t married, started their families and began included Angela you suspend Lo Schiavo three times? And their careers. With the rest of their gen- Delgado ’96, now, they’re honoring him?” eration, they began the task of rebuilding Tina Banzon ’00, Recently, I attended a frosh football the nation. Tiffany Banzon game on the SI field. As I walked onto the As members of “The Greatest Gen- ’03, Heather Mao field, Judy Garland’s words inThe Wizard eration,” which is what Tom Brokaw ’00 and Jamie of Oz came to mind. “Toto,” she said, “I named us, we are proud of the accom- Wong ’00. Riquel- don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” plishments of our classmates. Nine en completed As I looked at the new field with its green members of the class of ’42 became her master of so- turf and track, I knew I was many miles doctors, six practiced law, one became cial work degree and many years away from the old SI a judge, several taught in public schools at USC and cur- field on Parker and Turk. That field was and 11 entered the priesthood. One, Jim rently works as a nephrology social more mud than grass. The bleachers were Gill, became an internationally known worker in the Bay Area. rickety and dangerous and there certainly priest-psychiatrist. Another, Ed Big- Dan Reid, now living in New York, was no press box or announcer. lieri, became an internationally known graduated from USF’s School of Law Athletic fields are not the only differ- medical researcher. And one, Charlie in May and passed the California State ence between and the old and the new SI. Silvera, present here today, became a Bar Examination. Dan is recently en- At Stanyan and Turk, we had no theater; major league baseball player with six gaged and will be married to Amanda the new SI has two theaters. Our bas- World Series rings for ten fingers. Kurnos in July in Healdsburg. Other ketball team had to travel across town In war and peace, we served our na- SI grads to pass the California State to practice because we had no gym. The tion, our families and our Creator, and Bar include Matt Stratton ’96, Ross new SI has not one but two gymnasiums. we served well because that’s what we Naughton ’96, Kate McMonigle ’97, Today SI students can swim in their own learned at SI: to be men for others, though Kevin Allen ’98, Paul O’Keefe ’98 and pool. We had a fantasy pool, which we we had not yet heard that term. Molly Denning ’98. told the new freshmen they could find on Our Jesuit mission today is described Michael Selig married Carolyn Kolling the roof of the building. as the service of faith through the promo- ’00, daughter of Mark ’70 and grand- Most importantly, today SI enjoys an tion of justice. It’s the language of the Sec- daughter of Walt ’44, Oct. 27 at St. excellent reputation for academic stand- ond Vatican Council. It’s the teaching of Brendan’s Church. Kathleen Kolling ing. It seems every parent wants to send the Gospel. We learned it in our classes. ’02 was a bridesmaid and Jim Kolling his or her son or daughter to S.I. We learned it in our annual retreats. We ’06, a groomsman; Matt Selig ’99 was We alumni rejoice in the great strides learned it in our First Friday liturgies in our school has made and we are proud. St. Ignatius Church. 50 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 The Greatest Generation keepingINTOUCH his brother’s best man and Kimberly Selig ’97 was in attendance. Looks at the Modern SI Rayfil Wong is the founder of Leaddr.

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97 Kavan Reece married Brandy Howard on June 8 in Pasadena. Grads in atten- dance included Bevan Lew ’97, Matt Monroe ’97, Chris Monroe ’99, Joe Talmadge ’97 and Trevor Jackson ’97.

98 Michelle Devencenzi, daughter of David ’69, married David Timothy Rhein, son of Timothy ’58, Sept. 22 at St. Stephen’s Church. Danielle Deven- cenzi ’97, SI social studies teacher, was maid of honor. The numerous brides- maids included cousins Elisa Rhein Marcaletti ‘96 and Kimberly Bohnert ’93. Cousin Tony Rhein ’91 was one of the many groomsmen. Lisa Medina received her master’s degree in occupational therapy from USC last spring. She has since completed her in- ternship at Stanford Hospital and clinics “As I looked at the new field with its green turf and track, I knew I and is currently working as a registered and licensed occupational therapist in was many miles and many years away from the old SI field on Parker the South San Francisco, Jefferson and and Turk. That field was more mud than grass.” — Fr. Lo Schiavo San Mateo School Districts. Greg Teshara is the new president of We were strongly influenced by the mouths on a global scale. We will join the alumni board at St. Mary’s College young scholastics who taught, coached our classmates in believing we can make in Orinda. and spent hours with us in class and out war, genocide, malnutrition and violence of class. We have few scholastics in our distant nightmares relegated to the past. schools now. But SI and our other Jesuit Instead, ‘equality,’ ‘justice,’ and ‘compas- 99 schools are blessed with dedicated, char- sion,’ will reverberate through the world Alexandra Catherine Tredinnick mar- ismatic lay teachers. They are the scholas- from the mouths and through the actions ried Daniel Curtis Mallegni ’99 Dec. tics of today, as the former principal of SI, of our classmates.” 1 at Notre Dame Des Victories. Proud the legendary Fr. Ed McFadden, S.J., used With those words, Mimi described Dad Curtis ’67 and Dan’s sister, Fran- to say. There are differences, of course. the meaning and the mission of the Feast cesca ’02, SI’s admissions coordinator, Today’s students will always remember of Christ the King, which we will cel- were also in attendance with family the energetic and dynamic teaching of ebrate next week. It was the mission of and many friends. Elizabeth Purcell, whose daily greeting is: St. Ignatius High 65 years ago. It is the Drew Virk is in his second year as head “Good morning my beloved students.” mission of SI today. lacrosse coach at Stanford University. Not the sort of greeting you were likely to We old grads are fully aware that hear from a scholastic. the shadows are growing longer, that Let me close by asking you, my class- our days on this planet are numbered. 00 mates and schoolmates, to read the vale- Nonetheless, we are confident that our Leah Pimentel has been accepted to the dictory talk printed in the last Genesis. A school is in good hands and that today’s Domincan University’s Sustainable En- very bright young lady, Mimi Smith, de- students have heard and are answering terprise MBA program. livered the address to the class of 2007. the call of Christ the King, just as we Elise Stevens has gone back to her Jesuit “Our social justice activities,” she did decades ago. roots and now teaches social studies at said, “will quell unrest and feed hungry Thank you and God bless you all. v winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 51 keepingINTOUCH Leo Hyde ’47, Former Dean Boston College High School in Boston. She is part of the new Arrupe Division, the 7th and 8th grade addition to the and Vice Principal, Dies at 78 high school. eo Hyde, a former vice principal at medical form. To us, it looked like a Misha Villa-Popescu is a full-time special SI, died Nov. 21 after suffering a random expulsion.” education teacher for grades 4 through 6 sudden heart attack. He was 78. Devine’s classmate, Fred Tocchini ’66 at a school in Daly City. L For SI grads from the 1970s to the (now SI’s director of special projects), re- present, Dean of Students Douglas Drap- calls that Leo “was a tough but fair Jesuit 01 er, SJ, is synonymous with discipline. But Katharine Ashley married David Vel- for those who attended SI in the 1960s, leman in Ithaca, NY, Fr. Hyde holds that distinction. He was in on June 30. Her broth- charge of keeping discipline, of punishing er, Daniel ’99 was a offenders and, at times, of showing mercy groomsman and Pat- when it was most needed. rick Kelly ’01 was a In one sense, Leo Hyde’s SI history reader in the ceremo- mirrors that of the Stanyan Street campus. ny. She teaches seventh He and his twin brother, Robert Hyde and eighth grade math ’47, were born at St. Mary’s Hospital on at The Hamlin School Oct. 16, 1929, across the street from SI’s in San Francisco. fourth campus (the Shirt Factory), which Patrick Kelly began his had just been vacated as students left for first year at Harvard the fifth campus on Stanyan Street. He Law School in the fall. was also instrumental in supervising con- Michele Porter, a resident minister at struction of and transfer to SI’s sixth cam- Leo Hyde in the 1950s. SCU, went to Mexico in December pus in the Sunset District.. disciplinarian in the historical way people along with students from her dorm to As a student at SI, Leo Hyde was a think of the Jesuits. He made us all adhere help build houses. Among those who member of the Sanctuary Society, which to the rules but had a big heart and was went were Lauren Totah ’07 and Ariel Fr. Harry Carlin, S.J., moderated; through always in touch with his charges.” Estevez ’06. that organization, he grew friendly with Leo did impose what he called many priests such as Fr. Ray Buckley, S.J., Martial Law during fire drills. “If a and Fr. Charles Largan, S.J. Leo joined teacher reported a student to me for 02 the Society of Jesus upon his graduation fooling around or talking, then that Christine Abalos has been promoted to from SI and was ordained in 1960. He boy was automatically and instantly the position of Broker at Cypress Retail returned in 1962 and served as prefect of suspended from school.” Group. This past summer, she volun- discipline and as assistant principal until Leo made a point of not keeping the teered as a camp counselor for UCLA 1970 when he left SI. He left the Society discipline records on file for long, as he Unicamp and was put in charge of the of Jesus in 1971 to wed. did not want to see students damaged camp’s annual volunteer appreciation “Students were a bit afraid of me by youthful exuberance years later. “By banquet where she received an award when I came to SI,” Leo noted. He was state law, it was automatic suspension for for being one of the top fundraisers in tough but fair, and as one student wrote smoking within three blocks of a school,” the program. She currently holds the to him years later, “You were never an said Leo. “I didn’t feel a suspension for position of vice president of events for SOB. You always let us talk and explain that reason or for serving JUG should go her sorority alumni chapter. why we were in trouble. You might send into a permanent file.” Antonia McInerney was accepted to us to JUG, but we always had a chance to During the construction of the USF’s two-year counseling psychology explain ourselves.” Sunset District campus, Leo would visit master’s program with an emphasis in Peter Devine ’66, who has taught every Saturday with plans in hand to in- marriage and family therapy in July, at SI since 1975, recalls his first day spect the work. “I knew all the contrac- and she began her graduate curriculum at the Stanyan Street campus. “There tors and all the architects. I had always in August. She finished her first semes- was nothing more frightening than Fr. been interested in construction and was ter with straight A’s. Hyde. He lined us all up in back of in charge of all the maintenance at the Jack Sheehy entered the master’s pro- the north schoolyard, military style. Stanyan Street campus.” gram in education and digital media at He walked down the line looking at Leo stayed on as assistant principal USF in January. He is currently teach- each boy, shouting out his infraction: for one year when the school community ing seventh and eighth grade science ‘Shirt!’ ‘Tie!’ ‘Haircut!’ Every so often, moved to the Sunset District campus, and and math at Aptos Middle School. he would tell one boy to go to the of- Br. Draper, who came to SI in 1966, suc- Kat Van Sciver spent the 2006–07 year fice. He looked as if he were throwing ceeded him as dean of students. someone out of school. We didn’t know After leaving SI, Leo worked at the 52 GENESIS V winter 2007~08 it, but that boy was simply missing a Provincial’s office for one year before de- ciding to leave the order. He then found for AARP and St. Clare Catholic Church keepingINTOUCH work with his classmate George Millay in Canyon Country near his home in San- as a Jesuit Volunteer in Bridgeport, ’47, the founder of San Diego’s SeaWorld, ta Clarita. This past year, he helped his Conn., working with the Connecticut as a construction supervisor and, later, as church as project manager for additions Juvenile Justice Alliance. She now lives manager of planning, construction and to the church property. in Gig Harbor, Wash., working as a facilities for Magic Mountain, which Leo is survived by his wife, Gail; by naturalist at YMCA Camp Seymour, Millay helped create. He retired from his daughters Jennifer (Matt) Stebleton teaching environmental education to that job in 1992 after 21 years with the and Kimberly (Christopher) Sorensen; 5th and 6th graders. company and then worked as a volunteer and by three grandsons. v Paul Wildermuth is living in Spokane, Wash., after graduating from Gonzaga University. He’s currently living in a Peter Brusati ’43, former Christ the King downtown apartment and working as a software engineer for Inland North- Recipient and Regent, Dies at 82 west Health Services, which provides eter J. Brusati ’43, a longtime sup- worked for Standard Building Com- computer services for 38 hospitals in porter of SI and a recipient of the pany from 1947 to 1987 while also the Northwest. PChrist the King Award, died Dec. earning a bachelor’s degree from 21 peacefully at his San Francisco home. Golden Gate College in 1953. He was 82. He worked for the Gellert Foun- 04 Ryan McQuaid will graduate from the Mr. Brusati’s support of SI over the dations from 1958 through 2001 and Haas Business School this May. years was both personal and institutional. took great pleasure in his extensive ser- He and his late wife, Alberta, gave of their vice to a variety of non-profit organiza- time, talent and treasure to SI through tions, including St. Matthew’s School 05 Pete’s service on the Board of Regents and and Church in San Mateo, Notre Dame Phil Donnici is in his second year as cap- the SI Fathers’ Club and through his wise de Namur University, Seton Health Ser- tain and starting goaltender of SCU’s counsel during SI’s Genesis III: Building vices Foundation, USF, Old St. Mary’s men’s lacrosse team. Donnici started 13 for the Future campaign. Cathedral, St. Francis Memorial Hos- games in 2007, posting an average 9.08 One of the tennis courts built during pital, and Immaculate Conception goals against and a .566 save percent- that campaign bears his family’s name as Academy as well as SI. age. He earned second team all-WCLL a testament to Pete and Alberta’s per- honors in 2007 and honorable mention sonal giving during SI’s transition to a status in 2006. coeducational campus. Bobby S. Kane is spending his junior Institutionally, Mr. Brusati helped year abroad at the Gonzaga-in-Flor- SI immensely in his role as secretary, ence program. He celebrated his 21st director and foundation manager of birthday on Nov. 1 in Medjugorje with the Carl Gellert Foundation and the his parents, Anna and Barry Kane ’75, Celia Berta Gellert Foundation. climbing Apparition Hill, where the The new counseling center at SI, ded- Blessed Mother appeared to local chil- icated in 2002, was named “The Carl and dren. Celia Berta Gellert Counseling Center in honor of Peter and Alberta Brusati” as a tribute to Pete’s efforts securing founda- 06 tion funding over many years. Rex Brown, Jr., made the Dean’s List “Pete was always there for SI,” re- Peter was proud of his service as at San Diego State University. He is the called former SI President Anthony P. the president of the St. Ignatius Fathers’ founding CEO of Baskets 4 Hope, a Sauer, S.J. “Perhaps his most significant Club and was honored to receive the nonprofit organization, which had its achievement at SI beyond his Christ the Christ the King Award, the highest rec- first event Dec. 8. Go to www.baskets­ King Award was the naming of the new ognition given to SI alumni. 4hope.org for more information. counseling center after him and his be- Mr. Brusati was predeceased by David Morse is a second-year BFA play- loved wife, Alberta.” his wife, Alberta, and is survived by his writing major at DePaul University’s SI’s Vice President Steve Lovette children Christine, Celeste and Peter theatre conservatory. David’s play Plas- ’63 echoed that praise, noting that ’75 Brusati and Victoria Vandenbusch tic Trophies and Mediocre Daydreams “over the years Pete had as much fun as well as by six grandchildren. was chosen by the Tony-Award-winning on the tennis court as he did advancing In lieu of flowers, the family re- company Victory Gardens Theater to be SI and so many other worthy causes. quests contributions in Peter’s memory included in its series of staged readings He leaves a big hole in the best of San be sent to SI, 2001 37th Avenue, San by up-and-coming Chicago playwrights. Francisco philanthropy.” Francisco, CA 94116 or to the Little David is also a member of the Drama- After graduating from SI, Mr. Sisters of the Poor, 300 Lake Street, San tists Guild of America. Brusati served in World War II and Francisco, CA 94118. v winter 2007~08 GENESIS V 53 keepingINTOUCH

named one of the top 20 rowers in the both received Youth Leadership Awards 07 world under the age of 20. She is now from the San Francisco Human Rights John Townend is attending San Diego rowing at UCLA. Commission last June 14 for their com- State University and is loving it. munity service work at the Human Rights Elise Wilson finished her summer with Commission office. a bronze medal in China with the U.S. 08 Junior National Rowing Team. She was Chadid Conley and Rodrigo Williams BIRTHS

ter, Anya Margaret, born Dec. 14, 2007. 77 Steve Grochol and his wife, Robin (Har- 96 John Casaudoumecq and his wife, Pamela, Diana (Lauretta) Leonida vey) Grochol ’93, a daughter, Reese Ma- a daughter, Emma, born May 2, 2006. and her husband, Philip, a rie, born Aug. 14, 2007. Reese joins sister daughter, Harley Rose, born Ryan Elizabeth. Aug. 17, 2007. 84 Janine (Doerner) Keenan, and her hus- Will Lucey and his wife, Beth, a daugh- band Karl, a daughter, Cassandra Jane, ter, Chloe Judith, born Nov. 9, 2007. She born May 19, 2007. 97 joins siblings Megan and Cooper. Amanda McRitchie Park and her hus- Sean Pailhe and his wife, Anna (DeVoto) band, Bill, a son, Matthew Richard, born Pailhe ’97, a son, Oliver Patrick, born July Oct. 19, 2007. They live in Dallas. 16, 2007. They live in Novato. 86 John Regalia and his wife, Elizabeth (both Marielle (Schlueter) Ritchie, a daughter, Patrick Cronin and his wife, Leizl, a boy, of the SI faculty), a son, Dominic Dante, Marlowe Anaïs, born Feb. 11, 2007. She Brendan Soriano, born Dec. 5, 2007. He born Oct. 21, 2007. joins older brother Joseph. (Corrected.) joins older brother Nicholas, 3. Kim Wilson-Maes and her husband, Kurt, Ruth Vera-Cedro and her husband, Christo- Jad Joe Jaber and his wife, Dawn, a son, a son, Carson Williams, born June 29, pher, a son, Joshua Anthony, born Feb. 18, Shan Jad, born Nov. 17, 2007. 2007. He joins older brother Conner Wil- 2007. He joins brother Justin Michael, 6. Daniele Maraviglia and his wife, Margaret, a liam, 3. They live in Scottsdale, Arizona. son, Paolo Eoghan, born Dec. 1, 2007. Thomas McGuigan (SI chef) and his 98 wife, Veronica (SI faculty), a son, Joaquin 94 Lindsey (Notario) Tsuboi and her hus- Thomas, born Dec. 19, 2007. Joe DeLucchi and his wife, Kim, a son, band, Steven, a daughter, Lia Rose, born David William, born Dec. 12, 2007. Peter July 26, 2007. She joins sister Kady. DeLucchi ’96 is the godfather. 91 Frank Murphy and his wife, Marie, a 99 daughter, Ella Rose, born Sept. 13, 2007, 95 Jaclyn Diaz and her husband, Brandon near Geneva, Switzerland. Tenielle (Thompson) Comerford and her Picchi, a son, John, born Oct. 7, 2007. husband, Robert, a daughter, Olivia Ma- rie, born Oct. 14, 2007. 93 Tina (Gualco) Davis and her husband, 00 Tim Cecchin and his wife, Sara, a daugh- Tim, a son, Zachary O’Hara, born July 22, Stephanie (Shannon) Virardi and her hus- ter, Clara Jane, born Sept. 21, 2007. She 2007, in San Francisco. Grandpa is Joe band, Brendan, a son, Salvatore Benicio, joins big brother Joey Ignatius. Gualco ’63. born Oct. 16, 2007, in Honolulu. Sal joins Tom Golden and his wife, Dawn, a daugh- big sister Gabriela, 16 months.

inMEMORIAM 27 Joseph Tinney 38 Robert I. McCarthy 47 W. Alden Anderson, Jr. 57 Ronald Tognoli 30 Adam A. Morgan 39 Robert “Bob” Cavender 47 Eugene R. Erigero 58 Alan F. Ravella 31 Richard “Bud” Carpenter 40 James J. Duryea 50 James A. Clancy 60 Eugene E. Marty 36 Harry J. Meisel 40 George L. Tournahu 50 John F. Petrin 63 Thomas P. Mannion 37 Leland “Lee” D. Duffield 41 Michael A. O’Hanlon 52 Richard E. Moore 69 David L. Newsom 38 Blair A. Erigero 43 Peter Brusati 57 Richard Bovone 74 John E. Kelly 38 Roger Garety 44 Francis G. Carrade 57 Michael C. Dowling 83 Bill Disse

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January 11 Spring Musical, 8th Grade Preview, Bannan 7 p.m. 12 Class of 1967 Reunion,SI 1967 Reunion 5:30 p.m. 13 Golden Diploma, Chapel & Commons 1958 Reunion 10 a.m. 17-19 Dance Concert, Wiegand 7 p.m. 14-16 Spring Musical, Bannan 7 p.m. 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 15 General Parent Meeting, Commons 7 p.m. 22 Freshman Parent Night, Commons 7 p.m. 17 College Fair, Bill Graham Auditorium 24-26 Dance Concert, Wiegand 7 p.m. 18-19 Spring Musical, Bannan 7 p.m. 24 Fathers’ Club Crab and Cards, Commons 5:30 p.m. 20 College Case Studies Program 1 p.m. 27 Ignatian Guild Day of Recollection, Orradre 9 a.m. 22-23 Spring Musical, Bannan 7 p.m. February 25-26 Spring Musical, Bannan 2 Fathers’ Club Day of Recollection, SI 9:30 a.m. 25 Magazine Drive Holiday 5 Sophomore Parent Night 7 p.m. 26 International Food Faire 4-8 p.m. 7 ALAS Applicant Meeting 7 p.m. 28-29 Class of 1953 Reunion, Embassy Suites, Napa 1953 Reunion 10 Mother-Student Communion Breakfast 9 a.m. May 13 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 1 Father-Son Dinner, Commons 6:30 p.m. 13-15 Student Arts Showcase 7 p.m. 4 Grandparents’ Day 11 a.m. 18 President’s Day Holiday 6 Counseling, Transition to College Night 7 p.m. 20 Board of Regents Meeting, Gibbons 4 p.m. Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 23 Mother-Daughter Dinner, Commons 6:30 p.m. 14-15 Spring Choral Concert, Bannan 7 p.m. March 14 Board of Regents’ Meeting 4 p.m. 1 Fathers’ Club Auction 6 p.m. 15 Ignatian Guild Installation Mass & Reception 11 a.m. 5 Board of Trustees Meeting 4 p.m. 16 Fathers’ Club Barbecue, Commons 5:30 p.m. 6 Faculty Inservice (no classes) Faculty In-Service, no classes 7 Quarter Break 19 Senior Day Off 11 College Night 7 p.m. 20 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 21 Father Harry V. Carlin, S.J., Heritage Society Lunch 11:30 a.m. 14 Father-Daughter Night, Commons 8:30 p.m. 22 Transition Liturgy, Holy Name Church 8:30 a.m. 20 Easter Break Begins 23 Awards Assembly 8:30 a.m. Holy Thursday Service, Orradre 7:30 p.m. Class of 2007 Alumni Lunch 11 a.m. 21 Good Friday Service, Orradre 7:30 p.m. 27-29 Final Exams 8:30 a.m. 22 Easter Vigil Service, Orradre 8 p.m. 29 Baccalaureate Mass, St. Mary’s 7:30 p.m. 31 Classes resume 8:30 a.m. 31 Graduation, St. Ignatius Church 10:30 a.m. April June 5 Mother-Son Night, Commons 6:30 p.m. 2 Fathers’ Club Installation Lunch 11:30 a.m. 8 Ignatian Guild Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. 6 All Class Alumni Reunion 11:30 a.m.

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Nick and Janet Sablinsky staged their final Winter Pops performances in the fall, featuring nearly 200 talented singers and musicians in the jazz band, orchestra, handbell ringers, mixed chorus, male quintet, chamber singers and combined chorus. Both began working at SI in 1973 and are retiring in June. Look for more on this talented husband-and-wife team in the summer issue.

For the fall play, SI’s Fine Arts Department staged Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes in Wiegand Theatre, directed by Candice Milan with assistance from Ted Curry ’82. The play featured two casts of talented student actors, backstage and lighting crews, costumers and sound operators. Several faculty also got into the act with Kevin Quattrin ’78 serving as set and lighting designer, Meredith Galvin ’97 as sound designer, Maureen Sullivan as house manager and Janet Sablinsky as box office manager.

In October, SI Live performed two sold-out shows of sketch comedy acts written by students.