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Root and bloom Our house: Peekaboo with three kids in Tepecoyo, . Laura Chyu, who lectures in public health, recently visited the village with colleagues for SCU’s Web new Casa de la Solidaridad Silvia Arriola Exclusives Summer Program. Santaclaramagazine.com carries new stories every week. Find video, slideshows, class notes, Features and much, much more, including …

Hearing the cry of the poor: 14 The Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador BY RON HANSEN M.A. ’95. Their murder in November 1989 marked a turning point in the country’s civil war. What do they have to say SPORTS MANNY RUBIO / USA TODAY to us now? What makes a champion? Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott in conversation with Jerry Smith, head coach of SCU women’s soccer. From the 2014–15 The open window President’s Speaker Series. 25 BY LUCÍA CERNA. A first-person account by the housekeeper in the Jesuit community at the University of Central America. She witnessed the killing of six Jesuits by government soldiers, and telling the truth about that night cost her dearly. 33 LAURA CHYU What do you stand for? 29 BY MARY JO (HULL) IGNOFFO ’78. The historian who has brought Lucía Cerna’s story to the Football returns to DEPARTMENTS page in the new book La Verdad writes how tragedy 36 Santa Clara in El Salvador bound Santa Clara to the battered 2 FROM THE EDITOR country more deeply than ever. BY ANN KILLION. Six decades ago, Tony / USED UNDER CREATIVE JDPASCHAL COMMONS LICENSE Morabito ’31 brought pro football to the Bay 3 LETTERS A man of character Area. Now the 49ers have come to 6 MISSION MATTERS What’s in a name? In 2006, Mike Carey ’71 play where that dream began—and where they’ve 36 made the call that he would no longer referee 56 FAREWELL games for Washington’s football team. “If you’re been training for the past 15 years. respectful of all human beings, you have to CLASS NOTES decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.” Build it and they will come 45 STAGE WRITE 43 BY SAM SCOTT ’96. Raising the first football 10 stadium in California in 50 years—and making it 47 CALIFORNIA TWANG a Silicon Valley icon—was both a marathon and 48 HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE FACT a sprint for Jonathan Harvey ’91 and Devcon 48 Construction. 49 LIVES JOINED 49 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS Use your head 51 BRONCO NEWS: Surprise. Delight. Educate. 44 BY JACK BOWEN. Examining the ethics of football concussions. 52 OBITUARIES

56 MIKE MOZART / USED UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE ABOUT OUR COVER: Our colors: Roses bloom in the Who’s responsible for tech Mission Gardens at SCU and where eight martyrs died industry ethics? in El Salvador 25 years ago. Remembrance and hope The field of software engineering is woefully lagging and beauty, yes? Photo by Todd Schorr. on the ethics front. SCU’s Internet ethics program is going to change that.

santaclaramagazine.com FALL 2014 “In terms of content, design, From The Editor photography, and—most important of SantaClMagazineara Volume 56 Number 1 Letters all—an ability to convey the texture and meaning of a great institution, your E d i t o r Steven Boyd Saum magazine is at the top of its game.” [email protected] By any other name,

A s s i s ta n t E d i t o r Kristen Intlekofer the rose would smell just as sweet, so we’re told. L i t e r a ry E d i t o r But let’s ground the flower in earthy specificity, is the correlation between the the obvious Kerouac, Dante, I loved the Summer issue. Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 where the roots of this woody perennial take hold. sorry state of Catholic letters Chesterton, and O’Connor. The Dalai Lama, the C r eat i v e D i r ec t o r Family Rosaceae, genus Rosa, leafing and blooming and the sorry state of the The other two are complete photographs, the articles— Linda Degastaldi and perfuming here, for instance, in the Mission Church itself, grown ever mysteries: the attractive lady everything was just right. As P h o t o g r ap h e r Gardens, along the paths—or circled by benches, where more fragmented and with the cigarette and the I think of myself as a writer, I Charles Barry mighty trunks climb up and clusters drape a trellis between partisan since Vatican II. The puffy-faced pen holder. (I especially enjoyed the article E d i t o r i al I n t e r n s great renewal that we just realized that sounds like by Dana Gioia. Leah Gonzalez ’14, Danae Stahlnecker ’15 the Adobe Wall and the Ricard Observatory. “But the blossom, the blossom there—who can it be?” asked a poet and experienced at that time has a species of bird.) If this isn’t MARY JEAN (SELEGUE) D epa rt m e n t C ontributors Faith and culture RIVERA ’66 Jeff Gire, Sam Scott ’96 a Jesuit by the name of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A captivating question persisted only in certain areas a contest, can you tell me? Congratulations on the (the vernacular Mass, Keep up the good work! West Linn, Ore. C la s s N o t e s & O b i t u a r i e s to ask, which brings us back to the name, doesn’t it? Not just in terms of Summer 2014 issue. The ecumenical relations) and Marisa Solís the namesake of the antique variety or hybrid tea (my mother’s favorite: lead articles—“A Day with JIM WALKER ’63 santaclaramagazine.com/classnotes languished in others Tucson, Ariz. Loyal companion Double Delight)—but who would you associate with this rose, right here? the Dalai Lama,” “The A s s o c i at e E d i t o r , For instance, a flower and stem right in front of the lovely Mission Santa (strengthening of lay I’m intrigued by your S a n tacla r a m a g a z i n e . c o m Catholic writer today,” and A couple readers joined Jim involvement, devolution of invitation to visit one of Clay Hamilton Clara de Asís herself, where it’s one of the floral companions to eight simple the interview with Marilynne Walker in wondering which white crosses. Those crosses bear names—of two women and six Jesuits authority to national the dogs who traveled to C o p y E d i t o r s Robinson—testify to the writer was which in the pics. churches). In fact, the the Arctic with Bernard John Deever, Patrick Dutcher, Alicia K. Gonzales ’09, killed by a government-ordered military hit squad a quarter-century ago at growing importance of the The two he didn’t ID: with a Marisa Solís universal applause that has Hubbard, S.J. [“Seven the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. It is good to remember magazine as a vehicle for cigarette, Muriel Spark (“comic greeted the words and actions writer of genius,” not such high things you might not know Designed by Cuttriss & Hambleton these innocents murdered amid a civil war—and to remember not only for humanistic discourse. In of Pope Francis testifies to marks as a mother), and with about the SCU Alumni the tragedy of their deaths but also, in a way, for an act of martyrdom that terms of content, design, S a n ta C la r a M a g a z i n e A d v i s o ry B o a r d how easy it has been to renew a pen, Polish poet Czesław Association,” Summer SCM]. became a turning point (along with the end of the Cold War) that led at last photography, and—most the hope of Vatican II against Miłosz. —Ed. Fr. Hubbard was a delightful Michael Engh, S.J.—President to that civil war’s end. important of all—an ability efforts, even by previous man who maintained James Lyons—Vice President for University Relations It is good to remember here, at Santa Clara, where the work and lives to convey the texture I can’t put my finger on it, popes, to roll it back. an office in the Ricard Rich Giacchetti—Associate Vice President, of women and men were already intertwined with the work and lives—and and meaning of a great but this last issue was one Marketing and Communications Meanwhile, a third of Observatory and was often then deaths—in another country in the isthmus of the Americas. And not institution, your magazine is of the best I’ve ever seen. Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.—Executive Director, American Catholics have left willing to talk to anyone just remember but to realize the way that the relationship bound together at the top of its game. Perhaps it’s a layout change, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education these universities in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Santa Clara, USA. It’s the Church, and many of the or style, or something. But KEVIN STARR Kathy Kale ’86—Assistant Vice President for fair to say that a different sense of identity began to crystallize here. So it rest are once-in-a-while Alumni Relations Doctor of Letters (Honoris keep it up. I even enjoyed is good to remember and understand how that’s shaped who we are, what Causa), 1995 Catholics. Things fly apart; reading the editorial! Margaret Avritt—Director of Marketing the center will not hold—to the people of Santa Clara have done there: as engineers working on water San Francisco RICH NICHOLS ’66 Elizabeth Fernandez ’79—Journalist or solar projects, as lawyers studying democracy building and human rights, the extent that it may have in Beach, Ron Hansen M.A. ’95—Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., and those from across the disciplines who built and nourish the Casa de la My compliments on the the golden age admirably Calif. Professor of Arts and Humanities Summer issue, and especially described by Gioia. Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77—Silicon Valley’s Solidaridad for students from here and other farther flung places. It’s not professor emeritus only students who travel to El Salvador to study; every year faculty and staff Dana Gioia’s essay on the RICHARD W. JONSEN ’55 sorry state of Catholic writing Paul Soukup, S.J.—Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of from the Mission Campus participate in immersion trips that startle and Broomfield, Colo. Communication illuminate and change the way they see the world. This September, for the today. I’m an avid reader but first time, a delegation of university leaders from the UCA, including the so eclectic that I had not Just finished reading the Summer issue and, as usual, Update your address and the rest of your contact info: rector, Andreu Oliva, S.J., came to Santa Clara to meet with colleagues in law reflected on these ideas before www.scu.edu/alumupdate and engineering, administration and fundraising, among other fields. Santa reading Gioia’s admirable it was interesting from cover [email protected] to cover. Even though it was Santa Clara Magazine Clara President Michael Engh, S.J., will lead a delegation to El Salvador in essay. Surely the topic 500 El Camino Real deserves a fuller discussion, not original to the mag, , CA 95053 November for official ceremonies marking the martyrdom. Naturally, one of the places they’ll visit is the garden on the UCA campus where the Jesuits were and perhaps SCM could get piece by Dana Gioia was The diverse opinions expressed in Santa Clara Magazine do one of the best articles ever not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the official gunned down. It’s a peaceful and lovely place. Roses bloom there. the ball rolling in a point- to appear in it. It raises very policy of Santa Clara University. Copyright 2014 by Santa counterpoint roundtable with Clara University. Reproduction in whole or in part without some SCU faculty from the important questions, not only permission is prohibited. Keep the faith, English and religious studies about Catholicism in the arts Santa Clara Magazine (USPS #609-240) is published quarterly but about the state of English by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Santa Clara departments. University, Santa Clara, CA. Periodical postage paid at Santa One point that surely literature in general. Clara, CA, and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send I have a question: Why no address changes to Santa Clara Magazine, 500 El Camino Real, Steven Boyd Saum could be elaborated on, captions on the photos? I got Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-1500. Editor which Gioia largely overlooks,

2 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 BRIAN STAUFFER Letters “If you have a dog who ‘traveled to the Arctic with Fr. Hubbard,’ you have a very old dog indeed.” Write us! We welcome your letters in response to articles. from my student Charles McDermott Rest in peace, what a distinguished and (at santaclaramagazine.com days is that The ’71. Our father, Thomas Fr. Blake the time) unpredictable career [email protected] Owl occasionally J. McDermott, was El So Fr. Phil is dead (Philip for that ninth grader of 1941. published one of Presidente of Old Spanish C. Blake, S.J. ’50). May he rest in peace. my poems, usually Days in Santa Barbara in Appropriately, that middle R. L. NAILEN ’50

written in the poetry 1954 and Santa Barbara initial stood for Church. West Allis, Wis. ISTOCKPHOTO/NARVIKK We may edit letters for style, classes of Professor airport commissioner until The brief obituary in your The Stick clarity, civility, and length. Walter Schmidt, he passed away in 1969. Summer issue couldn’t do Giving rugby its due S.J., or Edward “Jack” and “Mac” were justice to his remarkable In the Summer edition, Closing the Cave die a happy man!” I now live Questions? Call 408-551-1840. Shipsey, S.J. lifelong friends. life of service to God and while two and a half pages of the Winds in the San Diego area and MARVIN PEIXOTO KATE MCDERMOTT ’76 country. Awarded a Bronze were devoted to the excellent In response to an essay by follow the Chargers; however, ’52, J.D. ’56 Port Angeles, Wash. Star while serving as an basketball and golf programs, Khaled Hosseini ’88 that nothing can replace my ALASKA STATE LIBRARY, FATHER BERNARD R. HUBBARD, S.J., FATHER LIBRARY, ALASKA STATE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, 1891–1962, ASL-P302-1056 FOLLOW @santaclaramag Carmichael, Calif. Army chaplain in Vietnam there was no mention of Santa ran in the digital mag in dedication to the SF 49ers! Great minds and Cambodia, he taught, Clara men’s rugby, a team that January, readers said good-bye to Sorry about the Stick but Lab on a chip , former home LIKE facebook.com/ think alike preached, and traveled finished the season ranked happy about Santa Clara. santaclaramagazine A Mageik moment: the sled dog at Thanks for the The Santa Clara Snapshot in worldwide. He later served No. 8 in Division 1A and No. of the Giants and, until January ROBERT HALE M.S. ’71, Fr. Hubbard’s side for nearly all of coverage of this cool project SCM as spiritual director and 2014, the . M.S. ’79 LOVE THE MAG SCU his Alaskan journeys. After Mageik the Summer featured a 17 in the nation, losing in [“How’s the water?” Summer Carlsbad, Calif. santaclaramagazine.com/give passed away, Fr. Hubbard had the dog photo from the ’64 Redwood retreat master at a Jesuit the D1A quarterfinals to St. My first memories of the preserved and mounted. Visit him at SCM]. It is really exciting to of students hoisting a car up center in Los Altos, and in Mary’s College of California, Stick were strangely enough Donohoe Alumni House. watch as it develops! One of the steps of Kenna Hall. 2011 he was honored by the eventual D1A national about the condiments. the key leaders of the project In the latest Santa Clara the California and Oregon champions. Nothing like slathering is Unyoung “Ashley” Kim, provinces for 50 years in Gulden’s mustard over F EATURE C ONTRIBUTORS he encountered on campus Mag, I couldn’t help but A top nationwide ranking assistant professor of priesthood. As ninth grade those giant franks. Just the Charles Barry photographed “Hats off to you” and has told the story of during all of the years I was notice something strikingly (as both the men’s and bioengineering, who has been classmates in San Jose (where memory of the ballpark the University in pictures for more than 25 years. a student at Santa Clara. The familiar. As a member of women’s soccer programs a driving force behind the we briefly shared interest vendors coming out of the Jack Bowen wrote “Use your head” and is on the board of SCU’s dogs were very handsome the Class of 1968, and in are well aware) harks back technology development and possession of a camera (those in the same girl), Phil was to the glory days of SCU catacombs of the Stick with Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) and writes regularly for the ISLE animals, and they lived in a blog. In September he hosted the closing session of the Sports Law and field testing of the arsenic just one of the crowd, apt to those steaming franks, ah! kennel near the observatory were the days!), I took the football and the notoriety that Ethics Symposium at SCU. His books include If You Can Read This: The testing device, as well as sing “How I Love the Kisses But yes, the swirling winds in those days. They have photo below. I’m guessing accompanies the press coverage Philosophy of Bumper Stickers. He teaches philosophy and coaches publishing journal articles of Dolores” in the hallway. and the constant thought of water polo at Menlo School. apparently improved their it was in 1968. An original of a successful sports program. and pursuing provisional I saw him only once after trying to keep warm even at Lucía Cerna tells her own story—of life in El Salvador and the United lodging and can now be prank? Guess not! Coverage for the rugby team patents. For more that, on the SCU campus the late-inning day games. States—in full for the first time in the book La Verdad: A Witness to the found at Donohoe Alumni PETER GALLAGHER ’68 down the road would be great. information about this during our years there. But Never forget the Giant greats Salvadoran Martyrs, written with Mary Jo (Hull) Ignoffo ’78. “The open House. But if you have a San Rafael, Calif. RON LAWSON window” is an excerpt. project and other work she is before the game warming dog who “traveled to the Proud parent of an SCU student, Denis Concordel photographed Katie Le ’14 for “Big serve” and doing, please visit scu.edu/ Class of 2016 up—Mays, McCovey, Jim Arctic with Fr. Hubbard,” Spider men? Giving the ol’ Alfa Romeo a push Sonoma, Calif. our back cover. The Summer magazine featured his shot of basketball engineering/bioengineering/ Ray Hart, Gary Matthews, players Nici Gilday ’15 and Jared Brownridge ’17. you have a very old dog kim.cfm. even ex-Giant George indeed. Such a dog would Kelly Detweiler created the collage of beloved colleague Victor Vari for Food scene Foster. And the sight of the “Nota bene.” Detweiler has taught and made art at Santa Clara for more have to be more than 52 ELIZABETH SWEENY ’12 Program Manager, I always love knowing the otherworldly artificial turf than three decades. years old, since the “Glacier Frugal Innovation Lab story behind a restaurant, when it first arrived, probably Diane Dreher writes farewell to colleague Betty Moran in “Leading with

Priest” passed away in 1962. PETER GALLAGHER COURTESY and a recipe, so I enjoyed the unfortunate reason Willie heart.” She is a professor of English at SCU. This is, however, a very Remembering reading about Houston chef McGee broke his leg as the Ron Hansen M.A. ’95 wrote “Hearing the cry of the poor: The Jesuit picayunish and trivial matter martyrs of El Salvador.” He is the author of novels, essays, poems, and Jack Rickard David Cordúa ’04 and Niners were on a probable considering the excellence of more, and he is the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in the Arts the adventures that took playoff run. Sad to see it go, your wonderful magazine. My family knew John and Humanities. He’s also the literary editor of this magazine. His most him from the Bay Area to though, it had character. recent book is She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories. I am extremely proud of T. Rickard ’36 [“Santa Texas and everything before Mary Jo (Hull) Ignoffo ’78 wrote “What do you stand for?” and draws from Santa Clara and especially Barbara’s native son,” JERRY WOYTUS ’85 Summer SCM] and his wife and after and in between Saratoga, Calif. the work she did in writing La Verdad together with Lucía Cerna. She teaches Santa Clara Magazine. [“Américas cuisine,” Spring history at De Anza College and is the author of five previous books. One of my proudest and sons well. He was the godfather of my brother, SCM]. The brown butter I have been a 49ers fan since Ann Killion wrote “Football returns to Santa Clara” and has covered personal achievements béarnaise looks like one to 1956. I, too, have suffered sports for more than two decades for publications including Sports Illustrated and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she’s now a columnist. try, for sure. Five stars. through many critical losses. John Parra created the opening illustration for “Hearing the cry of the Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university Santa Clara Magazine is printed on Forest ALLENA BAKER In 1981 I was skiing in poor.” He is an award-winning illustrator, designer, teacher, and fine art ® ® located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley. Santa Stewardship Council (FSC ) certified paper by a Santa Barbara, Calif. Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs printing facility certified to FSC standards. From Sun Valley and settled in to painter, living in Queens, N.Y. This is his first work for us. in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s degrees in a number of professional fields, law degrees, and engineering and theology forest management to paper production to printing, watch the Super Bowl on Sam Scott ’96 wrote “Build it and they will come” and has won regional . Distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all FSC certification represents the highest social and U.S. master’s universities, Santa Clara educates leaders of competence, environmental standards. The paper contains 30 TV. The 49ers won and I and national awards for his newspaper and magazine writing, including conscience, and compassion grounded in faith-inspired values. Founded percent post-consumer recovered fiber. for his features appearing in our pages. in 1851, Santa Clara is California’s oldest operating institution of higher said to myself, “Now I can education. For more information, see www.scu.edu. Sustainability is a top priority as Santa Clara University strives for carbon neutrality by the end of 2015. Learn more about SCU’s efforts at www.scu.edu/sustainability.

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Words weighty and buoyant from commencement speakers. And on Hats off some of our favorite mortarboards. to you PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY

On “A civilization to humanize a gravely ill world” Jon Sobrino, S.J. | Theologian During his final days in 1989, devoid of all youth- ful exaltations, Ignacio Ellacuría [the rector of the University of Central America assassinated that November] said tersely that “our civilization is gravely ill” … Myopic, misleading, or hypocritically maintained tributes to globalization cannot hide the disease that threatens our world, and Ellacuría warned of the dangers of “a fateful and fatal outcome” … What can heal this world is what Ellacuría calls “a civilization of poverty” … In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius presents two paths, one which leads to salvation and the other to condemnation. One starts with poverty and means that the person following this path, like Christ, will also experience insults and humilia- tions. We recognize this path as one of humility, one which leads to authentic good. Jesuit School of Theology Commencement | May 24, 2014

On education and childhood development Frederick Ferrer ’80 | CEO of the Health Trust Pope Francis, the Jesuit, was talking to the Catholic bishops, and he reminded them of their roles as pastoral shepherds of their flock. And as he reminded them of their role as shepherds, he had an incredible insight. He said to them, “Remember that shepherds smell like sheep.” And then he asked them the question, “What do you smell like?” To be able to be in touch with people—the people who are on the margins—is our call, is our vocation, is our great quest. SCU Graduate Commencement | June 13, 2014

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On falling in love with the game Brandi Chastain ’91 | Olympic gold medal–winning soccer star and kicker of a goal that won the World Cup My plan was not to go on to be a soccer player and make that my career. My plan was actually to play in the NFL. As a young girl, I envisioned myself as a line- man on the . I was a really great flag football player in sixth grade, probably the best on my team. Well, maybe second to Steven Robertson ’90, also a proud alum of Santa Clara University in men’s soccer. I didn’t know that I was different from those football players, and I think why that sticks in my mind is that everyone around me gave me the strength, the support, and the encouragement to do whatever it was that I thought was possible. And I feel that that is something that I’ve lived my life going forward with. But I realized that I wasn’t going to be 6-foot-5, 300 pounds. So, things changed a little bit. It just so happened that in my neighborhood in south San Jose, a girls’ soccer league started. Neither my father nor my mother knew anything about soccer, but we walked down and we signed up. I have to tell you that as soon as that ball hit the ground and I kicked it the first time, I fell in love. SCU Undergraduate Commencement | June 14, 2014

2 On litigating for human rights in El Salvador Almudena Burnabeu | Attorney, Center for Justice and Accountability I studied the Jesuits’ case for years and knew about an employee at the UCA who was an eye- witness to the assassinations and who, as a con- sequence of her testimony, was forced to flee El Salvador with her husband and daughter. I had been told that the Jesuits at Santa Clara had been key in helping her and her family. Not only had Santa Clara housed Fr. Jon Sobrino, a dear friend and one of the Jesuits at the UCA to sur- 3 vive the massacre, but [people from Santa Clara] also provided for employment and a sustainable 6 situation for the witnesses. Barely four months into the litigation, Santa Clara University offered to help me. When I asked about this witness, they did not hesitate, and within a week, I met Mr. Jorge and Mrs. Lucía Cerna, who are sitting right now in front of me, and to whom I dedicate today my work, my efforts. SCU Law School Commencement | May 24, 2014 SCU

1 Frederick Ferrer ’80 2 Brandi Chastain ’91 3 Graduate students, commence! 4 Left to right, they’re Amy Thomas ’14, Ali Nelson ’14, and our intern (now graduated!) Leah Gonzalez ’14 5 Karla De La Torre ’09, J.D. ’14 6 Purple parade: law grads and jacarandas in the Mission Gardens 7 Law school Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, Almudena Burnabeu, and President Michael Engh, S.J.

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ATHLETICS Take the game to another level Build a new state-of-the-art soccer training

center. Upgrade the stadium. Erect a plaza DEVCON CONSTRUCTION, INC. to honor sports greats. We got this. Coming soon: Construction should be completed spring 2015.

n June 10, the shovels hit the Call it a watershed moment. Call and former partner in the Silicon earth alongside the soccer it a catalyst to ensuring that athletics Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Opractice fields and work will continue to play a key role in Capital, serves on the University’s began on something wonderful: a state- animating what is finest about Santa investment committee. “I see Santa of-the-art soccer training center unlike Clara. And call it a building block Clara as the best Catholic institution anything Broncos have ever enjoyed. of Santa Clara 2020, the integrated in the Pacific Rim,” he says. “This gift Thank Mary Stevens ’84 and husband strategic plan that will shape the is an investment in future leaders who Mark Stevens—who together made University’s next capital campaign. will have the advantage of a strong a $7.7 million gift to support SCU’s A vibrant force grounding in academics, athletics, and scholar-athletes. On hand for the groundbreaking in global human values.” Along with the new training center, June were, naturally, men’s soccer coach We like the sound of that. We also from the Stevenses there’s fuel to Cameron Rast ’92 and women’s soccer recall that the Stevenses gave $7 million upgrade Stadium and to coach Jerry Smith. This spring, Smith to build the Paul L. Locatelli, S.J., help build a new plaza to recognize and inked a new contract with Santa Clara Student Activities Center. The new honor the importance and history of (much to the chagrin of the Fighting training facility is next door. sports played on that field—including Irish, who were courting him to head Carry on the tradition women’s and men’s soccer, as well as the the women’s soccer program at Notre Finally, there’s a ritual that soccer legendary SCU football program. Plus, Dame). This fall saw the launch of players know well: At the end of the gift will further fund scholarships the Jerry Smith Coaching for Life a match, as a sign of respect, they for students from Mary’s high school , a program to teach life skills exchange jerseys. That bit of knowledge alma mater—St. Mary’s Academy in through sports. (See page 50.) sets the stage for what occurred at Portland, Ore.—to attend SCU. Also in store for athletics: a new undergraduate commencement on Call it a watershed plan, produced by the president’s June 14, when Mary Stevens was Big serve The Stevenses’ gift is the largest gift ever blue-ribbon athletics task force, that onstage for the ceremony and soccer PHOTO BY DENIS CONCORDEL to SCU athletics. “Coupled with two of calls for “a new level of resources to star Brandi Chastain ’91 delivered the From lobs to labs, Katie Le ’14 had the the best coaching staffs in intercollegiate commencement address. reach our goal of having an athletics magic touch. In four years at Santa Clara, soccer, the sky is the limit now for our program that is nationally prominent, To wrap up her address, Chastain the tennis star racked up 101 singles Bronco soccer programs,”says Dan ethically focused, and a vibrant force stoked the new grads’ excitement by victories, the most in school history for Coonan, director of athletics on campus,” in the words of President taking off her ceremonial academic garb men or women, and earned a spot in the programs. Michael Engh, S.J. to reveal a soccer uniform underneath. NCAA national tournament three times— and she did it without taking her eye We got stories “It’s OK if you feel like ripping your shirt off!” she enthused. (As in the off the academic ball. She earned a 3.8 Before Mary Stevens spent 14 years GPA as a computer engineering student in the commercial real estate World Cup, she did; this time she Practice, invest: had another underneath.) “And whip and graduated magna cum laude. “If industry in Silicon Valley, she she were not this really amazing tennis Mary Stevens ’84 it around your head!” (She did; the and Mark Stevens played on the women’s soccer team player, then we would consider her this herself. She has served on the jersey was red and white with No. 21 really amazing computer engineer,” says Board of Trustees since 2012, on emblazoned on it.) “This is the number Godfrey Mungal, dean of the School of the Board of Fellows, and on I wore here at Santa Clara,” she said. Engineering. Sam Scott ’96 SCU the blue-ribbon athletics “I want to give this to Mary Stevens task force. for what she’s given to Santa Clara Mark Stevens, an University as a memento of thanks for active philanthropist what is to come in the future here.” The crowd went wild. SBS SCU CHARLES BARRY

SSaa n n t t a a C Cll a a r r a a M Maa g g a a z z i i n n e e || ff a a l l l l 20142014 1111 Working in higher education for justice and positive change Missionmatters in the world is the right thing to do. Recommitting ourselves to respecting one another to heal wounds is the right thing to do. PEOPLE in ministering to in political science from Stanford, Mission Sharing opposing viewpoints while attempting to hear those the Santa Clara where he also received his bachelor’s in who differ from us is the right thing to do. Discussing our community for 18 international relations. A Jesuit priest Finance and ministry years already—as a since 2003, he was a Jesuit scholar-in- vital personal roles in the mission of the University is the right thing resident minister and residence at Unity residential learning to do. Allowing the needs of others, particularly those most Michael Hindery as associate director community at SCU from 2004 to “ ’76 came on board marginalized, to have a claim on our hearts is the right thing to do.” of campus ministry—and served as 2008 and from 2011 to 2012, and in July as vice acting director of the marvelous Casa de coordinated student immersion trips to president for finance la Solidaridad program in El Salvador. Tijuana, Mexico. Convocation: from the Sept. 16 address by President Michael Engh, S.J. and administration. Read it in full at santaclaramagazine.com A grad of SCU’s program in pastoral He arrives at SCU ministries, she follows in the footsteps of Erick Berrelleza, S.J. from University of California, San Jack Treacy, S.J. ’77, Th.M. ’90, who is serves as a pastoral Francisco, where he served as vice on sabbatical in Rome at present. If we minister at St. Mary– dean for administration, finance, and VISITORS can tear him away from the Eternal City, St. Catherine of Siena clinical programs—and before that, as we look forward to welcoming Fr. Jack Parish, in Charlestown, senior associate dean for finance and as part of the University Relations team Mass., and researches 5. Madeleine Albright | May 5, 2015 | Five+ from the guest book administration at next year. with the Center for Applied Research “Economy and Security in the 21st School of Medicine. He’s also a rower, in the Apostolate at Georgetown Century” as part of the President’s with a medal in the Pan American Who’s spoken and who’ll speak in two signature series on campus University. His previous appointments Speaker Series. The former U.S. Games to his name. He takes the New to the board have included advocacy for asylum secretary of state—the first woman to baton from Bob Warren, who retires seekers with Jesuit Refugee Service in ne of the appeals about the the former 49er—one of the fiercest Matthew E. Carnes, serve in that role—asks how America in December. Warren has served the Munich, Germany, and work in the intellectual life on campus tacklers in NFL history—looks at what S.J. M.Div. ’03 has can retain its leadership role amid University since 1991, as director of Dominican Republic and Uruguay. is the visitors SCU brings— makes an athlete courageous: staying been assistant professor O rapid globalization. Is America truly human resources and then as vice He taught religious studies at Bellarmine for instance, through the President’s in the game at all costs or sitting out of government the indispensable nation? (And as president for finance and administration. College Preparatory in San Jose from Speaker Series and the Bannan Institute when physical safety is at risk? at Georgetown November 2014 marks the 25th 2010 to 2012 and has served on hosted by the Ignatian Center for anniversary of the Velvet Revolution University since 2009 3. Tom Lucas, S.J. | Oct. 21 | “A Jesuit Lulu Santana M.A. ’97 took on special assignment at the president’s Jesuit Education. Readers of a quarterly in Czechoslovakia, we’ll also note responsibility as director of campus and is the recipient of several awards Tragicomedy in Two Acts and an office at SCU. SCU magazine aren’t usually looking to the that Bohemia-born Albright’s most ministry in July. She’s been engaged for outstanding teaching and faculty Interlude: The Suppression and excellence. He received his printed page for lists of events. Email, Restoration Controversy,” as part of recent book is a vivid and compelling the Web, and social media play a bigger the Bannan Institute. On the 200th recounting of her childhood: Prague and better role there. But it is cool to anniversary of the year that the Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance capture the pulse of this place with a Jesuit order was restored, the Seattle and War, 1937–1948.) few snapshots, such as: University scholar details the cultural, +PLUS: Ignatian Leadership Symposium 1. Cornel West | Oct. 3 | “Black political, and religious context of Feb. 21, 2015 | An epic part of the Santa Clara Snapshot: 1989 Prophetic Fire: Intersections of some of the least understood and Bannan Institute, featuring three Leadership, Faith, and Social Justice,” most controversial moments in Jesuit notable Santa Clara University history, when the society was officially 3 members of the Africa Peace Committee visit Santa Clara’s as part of the 2014–15 Bannan alumnae: Multicultural Center in April to increase awareness about the social closed down by the papacy and Institute. West is professor of Zoe Lofgren J.D. ’75 and political problems in South Africa. In August, P. W. Botha philosophy and Christian practice at reconstituted almost three decades later. U.S. representative, California, resigns as president of the country and F. W. de Klerk takes office. Union Theological Seminary and 19th Congressional District 4. Andy Ackerman ’78 | Feb. 9, 2015 | 12 students and three faculty members from Donetsk State professor emeritus at Princeton “An Evening with Andy Ackerman,” as Sharon Kugler ’81 University (now known as Donetsk National University) arrive University. part of the President’s Speaker Series. university chaplain, Yale University in January for a nine-day exchange program at Santa Clara. It inaugurates a bilateral exchange of teachers and students with 2. Ronnie Lott | Oct. 9 | “What A conversation about directing and Janet Napolitano ’79 this city in eastern Ukraine, a nation that is part of the Soviet Makes a Champion?” as part of the producing some of TV’s funniest and president, University of California system; Union until August 1991. President’s Speaker Series—and the most beloved series, including Seinfeld, former governor of Arizona and secretary , of Homeland Security SCU 33 hours of nonstop reading during the English Club’s first book 2014 Grand Reunion. A 10-time Pro The New Adventures of Old Christine marathon, which includes reading 842 pages of Larry McMurtry’s Bowl selection and Hall of Famer, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lonesome Dove.

300 students participate in a schoolwide game of tag, using plastic spoons to tag their assigned targets.

1,400 tons of rock used to fill in the area excavated at the beginning of Casa Italiana’s construction.

$25 million to reroute The Alameda, a process that is completed in April. THE REDWOOD 1 2 3 4 5 Leah Gonzalez ’14 Glasnost and grins: A troika of Soviet militsiya pose with an SCU student on her first visit to the U.S.S.R.

12 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 13 BY RON HANSEN M.A. ’95

In the fall of 1989, the Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino was teaching a brief course in Christology in Thailand when a fellow priest awakened him one night with the news that a Jesuit had been killed in El Salvador. The Irish priest said he’d only half heard it on the BBC’s World Service radio broadcast, so for further information he’d phoned London and Julian Filochowski, the director of an international aid agency and a good friend of the Central American Jesuits. Filochowski, hearing that Sobrino was presently there in Hua Hin, asked to speak to him directly.

Walking to the phone, Sobrino feared the news de Hoy wrote of Ellacuría that shortly “after World concerned his friend Ignacio Ellacuría, the well- War II, a sinister person arrived in the country, and known and frequently threatened rector of the it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if he turned out University of Central America in San Salvador. And to be a KGB agent.”) so when Filochowski told him, “Something terrible After five years of humanities, classical has happened,” Sobrino at once said, “I know. languages, and philosophy at the Catholic Ellacuría.” But he did not know. His friend told University in Quito, Ecuador, Ellacuría returned him that Ellacuría indeed had been killed, and then to San Salvador for his three-year regency, teaching he went on. Also killed were Ignacio Martín-Baró, in a high school seminary. Then he was sent to Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Amando Innsbruck, Austria, for four years of theology, López, and Joaquin López y López. Even a cook, “THE WHOLE having as one of his Jesuit professors there the Elba Ramos, and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina. COMMUNITY, formidable and influential Karl Rahner, one of “My friend read the names slowly,” Sobrino MY WHOLE the principal architects of the aggiornamento, or remembered, “and each of them reverberated like a COMMUNITY, updating, of the Catholic Church in the Second hammer blow that I received in total helplessness. I HAD BEEN Vatican Council. was writing them down, hoping that the list would Ellacu, as he was called by his friends, end after each name. But after each name came MURDERED.” was unhappy in Austria. While he was the another, on to the end. The whole community, my acknowledged leader of his Hispanic peers, he was whole community, had been murdered.” perceived by his father superiors less favorably, Ignacio Ellacuría had celebrated his 59th as an intense, imperative, lofty man with fierce birthday just a week before his murder. He was magnetism and often forbidding intellect. A born in the Basque region of Spain—as was Saint Jesuit examiner wrote of him: “While he is highly Ignatius, the founder of the —and talented, his character is one that is potentially was the fourth of five boys in his family to go into difficult; his own spirit of critical judgment is religious life, entering the Jesuit novitiate in Loyola persistent and not open to others; he separates in 1947. Encouraged to be a missionary by Miguel himself from the community in small groups Elizondo, the novice master who would instruct, amongst whom he exercises a strong influence.” or “form,” five of the six martyred Jesuits, young Ellacuría was ordained in 1961 and, following Ellacuría went to El Salvador with six others a fourth year of theology in Austria, commenced in 1949 in order to found a new novitiate in the work on his doctorate in philosophy at the vice-province of Central America—comprising University of Madrid, writing his dissertation Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and on the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri, a Panama. (Forty years later, a columnist for Diario theoretician of popular political movements whose ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN PARRA ILLUSTRATIONS

From the book A Stay Against Confusion by Ron Hansen. Copyright © 2001 by Ron Hansen. Reprinted by permission of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 15 work investigated, as Ellacuría later put it, “the truth of what capitalism that went far beyond avarice. Eight percent of the Salvadorans who lived in dire poverty. our country. We’ll get the covers and nothing seemed to him to be the fundamentals in human life.” At population owned 50 percent of the gross national product, Unfortunately, three Jesuit seminarians left more, because all its pages are subversive … And last, in 1967, nine years after he left for theological studies, while 92 percent fought to find a fragile subsistence on the order to take up arms against the so-called I fear, my brothers, that if Jesus of Nazareth Ellacuría returned to San Salvador to teach philosophy at the what was left over, getting by, or not, on an average income national security forces that were wreaking returned ... they would arrest him. They would Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas—named of $141 per year. Half the children did not finish primary vengeance on those nuns and priests and take him to the courts and accuse him of being after a 19th-century Salvadoran priest who fought for the school. Two percent of the population owned cars. Life for Protestant missionaries who’d allied themselves unconstitutional and subversive.” abolition of slavery—which was then little more than a the landless majority was one of rootlessness, wattle huts, with the poor. Soon the presence of a New On the afternoon of March 12, 1977, Rutilio handful of courses and a fifth year of high school. filth and illness, and half-mile walks to fetch contaminated Testament in a house was enough to have that Grande got into his white Jeep with an old man, The University of Central America had been funded water in a bucket, hunger forever there with them like a house destroyed by the police. Whole villages Manuel Solórzano, a 15-year-old boy named in 1964 by wealthy parents, politicians, and a Catholic dog at heel. Wish for and want may have been the only were wiped out. Writer and television producer Nelson Rutilio Lemus, and three children and Church hierarchy that wanted an antidote to the toxic necessary verbs. Teresa Whitfield wrote that after the 1979 Young headed for a Mass in the village of El Paisnal, Marxism that was poisoning education at the federally run Officers’ coup, which brought in a civilian- where Rutilio had been born 49 years earlier. National University. Without a site or financial foundation, military junta, “El Salvador had hit and held the Waylaid by heavily armed soldiers on his right with only a few fervent Jesuits, secretaries, and faculty And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; international headlines as a Central American and left in the sugarcane fields, Fr. Grande was members who taught for free as a favor to the fathers, and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the hellhole where death squads ran riot, unarmed heard to quietly say, “We must do as God wills,” the University of Central America at first relied solely on Sabbath day. And he stood up to read; and there was given to campesinos were slaughtered by the score, and and then he and the old man and boy were cold- the high repute of the Society of Jesus for its prestige and him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and unidentified bodies, or parts of them, turned up bloodedly killed. The children in the back of the seriousness. But that was enough. Within a few years a found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord on the roadside each morning.” SOON THE Jeep got away. sloping, coffee-growing plantation in the hills south of the is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news Rutilio Grande was also one of those who los PRESENCE OF A Late that night Archbishop Óscar Romero city had given rise to a palmy campus that housed highly to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives escuadrones de la muerte [death squads] sought concelebrated a Mass for the dead in Aguilares, NEW TESTAMENT regarded faculties in industrial engineering and economics, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who out. In the parish of Aguilares, Father Grande and afterward he humbly begged the gathered finally enrolling 7,000 students who were generally from are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” and his team of three priests officiated at formal IN A HOUSE WAS priests and nuns to tell him what the Church Salvadoran high society, financially privileged young Luke 4:16–19 religious functions and furnished pastoral care ENOUGH TO HAVE ought to do next. The Jesuits there were men and women who, it was thought, would use their as before, but they also worked to form a tightly THAT HOUSE surprised. Although he’d been educated by them advantages to help the less fortunate. knit community of brothers and sisters in Christ DESTROYED BY in San Salvador and at the Gregorian University llacuría once argued that priesthood and religious life Ellacuría, who was put on the university’s five-man that could fashion a new world. Within a short THE POLICE. in Rome, Msgr. Romero had not been friendly board of directors, found that premise troubling. While found its meaning in the Third World, for there the time 300 people there were committed to the to the Society of Jesus in El Salvador, having the institution’s orientation was formally that of providing Eprofessed vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience ministry of the Word, coordinating liturgies gotten its men removed from the faculty of the technicians for the economic and social development of El offered a liberating freedom from First World values of and catechism classes, and stressing the Gospel National Seminary, having warned a pontifical Salvador, he thought it was essentially affirming European wealth, hedonism, and power. At a disputatious retreat for message that God’s will was the building of a commission about their politicization of the values and structures, and fostering prosperity for the Central American Jesuits, Ellacuría spoke compellingly of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. clergy, and having been a longtime follower of prosperous. Ellacuría felt the institution ought to fully engage sin of the province to which he belonged, saying the Society Then the wealthy owner of a sugar plantation the highly conservative Opus Dei movement. the harsh realities of the Third World and, through teaching, of Jesus had collaborated in shoring up unjust structures and in Aguilares was killed outside his estate while, And he was hampered, too, by the fact that when research, and persuasion, be a voice for those who have no oppression in the Third World by favoring the rich with their coincidentally, the ordination of three Jesuit the papal nuncio consulted wealthy businessmen voice, to alter or annihilate the world’s inhuman and unjust schools and ministries in the past, and in the future would priests was being celebrated by the archbishop, 40 and government officials about their choice for structures, and help assuage the agony of the poor. With his need to concentrate on liberating the poor from sin, hunger, Jesuits, and 2,000 campesinos—who were soon the archdiocese, he was the one preferred. forceful guidance and his editing of the monthly magazine ignorance, misery, and persecution. being called “hordes of assassins.” Again the Latin Either they’d got him wrong or he was Estudios Centroamericanos, the University of Central America Older Jesuits felt their hard efforts were being nullified, American Society of Jesus was accused of favoring changed by the office or by grace, for from the would undergo an epistemological shift, orienting its ethos but Jesuits still in formation felt inspired to take a far the rebels and fostering subversion. time of Rutilio Grande’s murder, Óscar Romero in the fundamental option for the poor and in the liberation more activist role in countering injustice, some of them A presidential candidate promised to rid El was a different man, offending the right-wing theology formulated by Gustavo Gutiérrez, a theology joining Salvadoran Jesuit Rutilio Grande and his pastoral Salvador of the Jesuits within three months of his press, the papal nuncio, his fellow bishops, and founded on life in the risen Christ while it was focused “accompaniment” of the campesinos in the parish of election. The Committee for the Defense of the those in high society who’d thought he was one on the institutions of injustice and death to which Latin Aguilares. These seminarians were firebrands in their late 20s Fatherland, the Catholic Association of Mothers, of them. And now his friends and allies were the America’s poor were subjected. and 30s from well-to-do families, for whom Third World and other government front organizations found same Jesuits held in contempt by those in power. There was much to do. El Salvador was a tiny country— poverty became a harsh reality for the first time. They’d their greatest enemies were not hunger and Soon Romero’s press secretary, the president about the size of Israel, or New Jersey—but with 5 million study books like Jon Sobrino’s The Historical Jesus at the misery but liberation theology and its Jesuit of the governing board of the archdiocese, people had the greatest population density in the Western Center for Theological Reflection founded by Ellacuría and teachers. Ellacuría was among those priests exiled the general manager of its radio station, his Hemisphere. Coffee had created El Salvador’s foreign Sobrino, and then go out to the parish, where they’d see from El Salvador for a time; other foreigners consultors and writers, even his confessor were exchange, financed its public works, furnished jobs to its firsthand a crucified people. A few scholastics began to feel a were interrogated with torture or expelled, all Jesuits. And Romero inspired them with his wage earners, and bestowed huge fortunes on 14 families that stronger call to organizing a popular revolutionary movement including a Colombian priest from the parish evangelization of the culture and his serenity, had formed an oligarchy in what was still a feudal society. than to studies for the priesthood, a neglect that Ellacuría next to Aguilares for whom Rutilio Grande prayerfulness, and fortitude in the face of evil, El Salvador did not fit well into the First and Second World criticized, for he felt that academic studies free from ideology filled in at a Mass. In his homily Grande said, giving the university a greater consciousness of models of a free-market, trickle-down, privatized economy, or the encumbrance of politics would be more valuable in “I greatly fear, my brothers, that very soon the its own Christian mission in the Third World. for the wealthy had persisted in holding onto a fierce analyzing and correcting the conditions of the 40 percent of Bible and the Gospel will not be allowed within Ellacuría would say of him, “With Msgr.

16 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 17 Romero, God passed through El Salvador.” rchbishop Romero had walked through Martín-Baró was internationally famous for a psychology headmaster there. But he saw he could do far more good as Leaflets had been floating around San a door that he’d left open for his Jesuit of liberation that eschewed Western scientism, ahistoricism, a social analyst than as a physicist, so he went on to get a Salvador that read: “¡Haga patria, mate un cura!” A friends. In 1979 Ignacio Ellacuría and self-centered individualism in order to orient doctorate in anthropology at the University of Madrid and “Be a patriot, kill a priest!” Eleven would be had been named rector, or president, of the psychology toward service to communities and to the fulfilled his former penchant for numbers with statistics. killed between 1977 and 1980, but also killed University of Central America and became a rights of workers, campesinos, union organizers, and Researching subjects as varied as land holdings, social were four North American churchwomen far more public man. Two years later Ignacio mothers of the “disappeared.” Writing in the International stratification, patronage, and the pervasive theft of dollars and Lutheran, Episcopalian, Mennonite, and Martín-Baró was named academic vice rector, Journal of Mental Health, Martín-­Baró pointed out that the mailed from workers in the to their Salvadoran Baptist missionaries—any of those who imitated Ellacuría’s right­-hand man. Reagan-Bush White House pretended that El Salvador was families, Montes stirred up as many enemies as Ellacuría Christ in opting for the poor. And yet they Twelve years younger than his friend, Ellacu, premier among the Latin American democracies, having, had. In 1980 a high-powered bomb exploded at the foot of stayed on. “We have not remained because Ignacio Martín-Baró, or Nacho as he was as it seemed, a government chosen in free elections, an his bed in the old Jesuit house on Calle del Mediterraneo, we are obstinate,” the Jesuit provincial wrote, called, was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1942. ever-increasing respect for human rights, and a highly blowing out a hole in the floor the size of a trash can lid. On “but because we are thinking of our brothers, In formation he was thought to be hugely professional army under civilian control. What few another night he and Ellacuría left a dinner and found their especially the dispossessed, who have suffered talented but too serious and intense, an uptight problems there were in the functioning of the judicial little white car painted with blood-red swastikas and slogans, more than we … We have remained to make a perfectionist whom his Jesuit classmates finally system, the White House proposed, were in fact fomented including DEATH TO THE COMMUNISTS OF THE small testimony to the loyalty of the church.” humanized to such an extent that friends later by Marxist­-Leninist terrorists. UCA! And in the early 1980s he heard from army officers Archbishop Romero said in a homily, “I characterized Nacho as a “boon companion.” The hard realities were far different. Civil war who’d formerly been his high school students that there am glad, brothers and sisters, that they have HIGH SCHOOL While studying humanities and philosophy had brought not only violence, polarization, and the was a plan to murder Ellacuría first and then himself and murdered priests in this country, because it STUDENTS in Bogotá, Colombia, Martín-Baró became “institutionalized lie” to El Salvador but also psychological the three other men who directed the university. Segundo would be very sad if, in a country where they are WERE NOT engrossed by psychology and filled his nights trauma that would have far-reaching effects on a whole Montes shrugged and told a worried staff member, “What murdering the people so horrifically, there were READING reading whatever books on it he could find. Right generation. Looking at a tiny village used as a hiding place by am I going to do? If they kill me, they kill me.” When no priests among the victims. It is a sign that after his ordination to the priesthood, he was the insurgents of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation a journalist asked in 1988 if he’d thought about seeking MARXIST TRACTS the church has become truly incarnate in the assigned to the University of Central America, Front (FMLN) and periodically wiped out by the Salvadoran freedom elsewhere, Montes told him, “We here are not just problems of the people.” BUT PAPAL where he taught psychology and was a popular armed forces solely for that reason, he found that whenever teachers and social scientists. We are also parish priests, and Ellacuría was with him when he planned his ENCYCLICALS dean of students until he left for the University even a far-off military operation was begun, “the people take the people need to have the Church stay with them in these homily for March 23, 1980. Romero would talk ... THEY WERE of Chicago, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in shelter in their houses gripped by a series of psychosomatic terrible times—the rich as well as the poor. The rich need to about the fifth commandment and the thousands SHOCKED social psychology in 1979, with a dissertation on symptoms: generalized trembling of the body, muscular hear from us, just as do the poor. God’s grace does not leave, who were being slaughtered, and he would BECAUSE THE population density in El Salvador. weakness, diarrhea.” His field workers collected “clear so neither can we.” implore the soldiers and police to heed God’s With his norte americano colleagues, Martín- evidence that government soldiers practice systematic sexual The fourth member of the board at the University of INJUSTICE law, not the godless commands of their superiors. Baró often wisecracked, “In your country, it’s abuse of the campesina women,” and found that campesinos Central America was the Spaniard Juan Ramón Moreno, “In the name of God,” Romero said, “and in the AND POVERTY publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and were afraid to even talk about the civil war. Even when they who was born in 1933 and was known to his friends as name of this suffering people whose cries rise up WERE SHOCKING. perish.” And publish he did, writing frequently were shown crops that had been put to flame or houses that Pardito. A highly intelligent, haltingly shy and sensitive to the heavens every day more tumultuously, I for Ellacuría’s Estudios Centroamericanos on a were pockmarked with bullet holes, the frightened farmers man, his first assignment as a regent was biology classes beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name wide variety of subjects, whether it was the latest insisted on their ignorance of the cause, saying that the in the high school of the San Salvador seminary where of God: Stop the repression!” Early in the evening Nobel Prize for literature or Latin American damage must have happened when they were away from Ellacuría taught, but besides some work in bioethics, that of the following day, while he was celebrating machismo or the problems of marijuana use. home. And when children from the higher economic sectors was as far as he went with his great love of science, and he Mass in a hospital chapel, preparing the gifts for Chair of the psychology department at UCA, were asked what would have to happen for there to be no failed to get a doctorate or even a master’s degree in any the Offertory, a national policeman walked in, vice rector, a member of the five-man board of more poor people, a few answered, “Kill them all.” field, a humiliating oddity among Jesuit priests. Moreno shot Archbishop Romero through the heart, and directors, and founder of the Institute of Public Working in much the same areas as Martín-Baró was held a host of jobs in vice-province service and formation, hurried out. Opinion, which did polling and canvassing of the Segundo Montes, who was famous both in El Salvador having been a novice master, a teacher in the juniorate, a Of course the government offered its people to counteract the government-controlled and the United States for his analysis of exiles, refugees, province consultor, a secretary to the provincial, an editor of condolences and there was an official investigation media’s “public disinformation,” Martín-Baró was and the displaced. Like Ellacuría and Martín-Baró, he the province newsletter, and a spiritual director for a great of the murder, but more than 35 years have passed of necessity a workaholic, getting to his office was punishingly overworked: he was the religious superior number of sisters and priests in religious orders throughout and no one has been charged with the crime. before 6 a.m. and generally staying until 8 p.m., of the Jesuit community—often a full-time job at other Latin America. and often following formal meetings with late- universities—as well as the chair of the departments of Ever tactful and self-effacing, Moreno was named interim What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says night chat sessions at which he’d sing and play sociology and political science, one of the five on the board rector of San Salvador’s Externado San José in 1972 in order he has faith but has not works? Can his faith guitar. Weekends he spent in a parish in Jayaque, of directors, the head of the Human Rights Institute, and a to investigate charges by high-society parents that their sons save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in where he left behind his harried, intellectual life weekend pastor at a parish in Santa Tecla. and daughters were having their heads filled with talk of lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, to become “Padre Nacho,” his trouser pockets full A tall, majestic, passionate Spaniard with a fierce scowl the class struggle and then going on field trips among El “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without of candies for the children, his face lighting up and beard, Segundo Montes was called Zeus by his students, Salvador’s poor, after which they were angrily denouncing giving them the things needed for the body, with love and joy as he ministered and preached for whom he had a fatherly affection. Educated initially their families for being bourgeois, as if it were criminal to what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no to his congregation. “A Cervantes with his pen or in the hard sciences, he taught physics at the Jesuit high strive for economic well-being. Looking carefully into the works, is dead. at the computer,” as a friend described him, “as school in San Salvador—the Externado San José—during matter, Moreno found out that the high school students James 2:14–17 an orator he could have captivated an auditorium his regency, and after his Austrian theology studies and were not reading Marxist tracts but papal encyclicals, and of the deaf.” ordination he went back to be prefect of discipline and that they were shocked because the injustice and poverty

18 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 19 were shocking. Quiet rationality was not what State Alexander Haig so frowned at the affinity Salvador by going to right-wing politicians and the wealthiest Cristiani’s response was to suspend all constitutional was wanted, however, and the pro-government that Latin American Christianity had for Marxist families he knew with the hope of constructing a private guarantees and announce a state of siege and a curfew newspaper Prensa Gráfica hounded Moreno out socialism that they found themselves telling alternative to the radicalized National University, so his humility between six at night and six in the morning. A huge of office with fulminations about him wrapping journalists that four American churchwomen and loyalty were put to the test when the focus on liberation counteroffensive of artillery and aerial bombardments Christ and the Gospels in communism. raped and slaughtered by the El Salvadoran theology offended the very groups he’d depended upon to of presumed guerrilla hiding places in the poorest and The founder in Panama of a magazine for National Guard on the highway to La Libertad found the UCA. Yet for many years he was general secretary to most heavily populated areas of the city trapped families religious called Diakonia, which in Greek means were political activists who’d probably brought it the faculty there and, at Ellacuría’s behest, he joined the Jesuit in their homes without food or water, or forced them to “service,” Moreno brought the publication on themselves—Secretary Haig even offered the community in 1988, knowing the threat of violence to them flee their neighborhoods and face gunfire in the streets. and its library with him to the University of ludicrous suggestion that the four churchwomen was a persistent and gathering force, and knowing, too, he had The government and armed forces seized the radio and Central America, where he was librarian for the were first to engage the soldiers in gunfire. prostate cancer and had few years more to live. television stations in order to have a national channel on Center for Theological Reflection and assistant López found no difficulty in choosing sides, which citizens could report guerrilla activities and find lost director of the new Óscar Romero Center. aligning himself against the tyranny and terrorism When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels members of their families, but the phone-in shows also There, on the night of his martyrdom, in wanton of the former Nicaraguan regime and with the with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him became forums on which to broadcast attacks against what retribution for his crimes of thoughtfulness and progressive, if imperfect, government of the will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them was thought to be the intellectual leadership behind the conscientious administration, soldiers would Sandinistas. Word of his friendly relations with one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the FMLN: Archbishop Rivera y Damas, the “communists” firebomb his filing cabinets and wipe out the them got back to the Vatican Curia, however, and goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the infiltrating the Catholic Church, and, of course, the Jesuits. hard disks on the computers he’d installed. López was sent an official “visitor” from Rome goats at the left. Then the King will say to those at his right “Bring them to the public places and lynch them,” one In the 1970s, when Juan Ramón Moreno AT ELLACURÍA’S who filed a confidential report, the upshot of which hand, “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom radio announcer insisted. Ellacuría, it was said, ought to be was assisting in a nationwide literacy campaign BEHEST, HE was that López was forced to give up his post as prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was “spit to death.” in Nicaragua, Amando López was one of his JOINED THE JESUIT rector and went back to Spain for a sabbatical hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me President Cristiani was a graduate of Washington’s superiors. López was then head of the Central COMMUNITY IN before heading to the University of Central drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked Jesuit-run and was friendly with American University in Managua, having moved America in San Salvador. and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in Ellacuría, but he was also thought to be in the thrall of the 1988, KNOWING there from the post of rector at the Colegio Centro López’s spirit seemed to have been broken for prison and you came to me.” Then the righteous will answer ultrarightist Roberto D’Aubuisson, president of the assembly América. Amando López was born in Spain THE THREAT OF a time by his conflicts with the Catholic Church him, “Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, and founder of Cristiani’s ARENA party, composed of in 1936, studied in Rome, got his doctorate VIOLENCE TO THEM hierarchy, for though he was a forthright and or thirsty and give thee drink? And when did we see thee a paramilitary groups and wealthy industrial and farming in theology at Strasbourg in 1970, and, at WAS A PERSISTENT sympathetic counselor to those who sought him stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? And interests. A “homicidal killer,” as a former U.S. ambassador age 34, was put in charge of San Salvador’s AND GATHERING out, he seemed hidden in the Jesuit residence, when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?” And said of him, D’Aubuisson was said to be an admirer of the diocesan seminary. Within no time the bishops FORCE. and his theology classes, though well prepared, the King will answer them “Truly, I say to you, as you did it Nazis and their holocaust of the Jews, was rumored to have who’d been impressed by his credentials were were frankly thought to be dull. Yet in 1989 to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me.” ordered the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero, was the woefully disappointed. Expecting López to form López found fresh vigor and happiness in his Matthew 25:31–40 chief architect of the political assassinations, kidnappings, the seminarians as they themselves had been Sunday pastoral work in the farming region of and terrorism of the underground death squads, and was formed, the prelates were offended at finding Tierra Virgen, where his parishioners had such officially ostracized by the United States in 1984 when it out that López was instituting changes that affection for him that 25 walked through y 1989, El Salvador’s 10-year civil war had killed was found he’d tried to have Ambassador Thomas Pickering were prompted by Vatican II: The faculty were San Salvador’s killing zones in order to go to more than 70,000 people and caused homelessness killed. Closely allied with D’Aubuisson was Col. René far less aloof, regulations were far less intrusive, his funeral. Band misery for far more. Ellacuría had for a long Emilio Ponce, a shrewd tactician and former death squad soccer was now being played inside the walls, The oldest and most taciturn man in the Jesuit time been urging dialogue between the factions and a member who was now chief of the joint general staff and of old-fashioned cassocks were being discarded, and community was also the only native Salvadoran. negotiated settlement to end the war, and progress seemed a powerful corporate network of brutality and corruption the seminarians were going over to the UCA to José Joaquin López y López, who was called Lolo, slightly more possible when Alfredo Cristiani, a candidate that was financed by the United States. get their philosophy classes from that wild man was born in 1918 to a wealthy family that owned of the Nationalist Republican Alliance party (ARENA), On the afternoon of Monday, November 13, government Ellacuría. In 1972, after heated deliberations, coffee plantations and a famous dairy in Santa Ana. was elected president on March 19 and publicly committed officials established a zone of security around its Joint López and the full faculty of Jesuits were fired Lolo felt called to the Catholic priesthood from his his government to good ­faith negotiations toward peace Command headquarters, the military academy, and the Arce from their jobs. youth, finishing high school in a minor seminary with the rebel forces of the FMLN. But the Salvadoran neighborhood, which were in front of the main gate to the López had taught at the high school in before he was accepted into the Society of Jesus. government was arrogant, even belligerent, in its talks UCA. Three hundred soldiers were stationed around the Managua as a scholastic, so it was a good fit for While teaching upper-class boys at the Externado while—seemingly without Cristiani’s awareness—the High campus, so presumably it was safe. him to be assigned as rector there, and then at San José, he got the idea to hold weekend catechism Command heightened the violence against human rights On Wednesday, November 15, an evening meeting of the the Central American University of Nicaragua classes for the poor, a ministry that finally became organizations such as the National Trade Union Federation High Command was held at the general staff headquarters, after the Sandinista revolution. The U.S. part of the Latin American organization Fe y of Salvadoran Workers, the Committee of Mothers of the estado mayor. Among the 25 present at the meeting Congress was up to then following the urgings of Alegría, “Faith and Joy,” and furnished El Salvador the Detained, Disappeared, and Assassinated, and even were Col. Ponce as well as Col. Juan Orlando Zepeda, vice the White House in financing the governments of with 13 schools and 12 workshops, as well as two a primary school operated by the Lutheran Church. The minister of defense, and Col. Guillermo Benavides, director infamous autocrats like Anastasio Somoza and the health clinics with 50,000 patients. Lolo financed FMLN halted negotiations and on November 11 initiated of the military academy. Worried about the offensive, the shah of Iran if that meant fending off for a few it all in the old-fashioned way, with fund drives, the largest offensive of the war, firing missiles at Cristiani’s officers held hands and prayed for divine intervention, after more years a regime of communism, and Reagan government aid, and highly successful raffles. private home, the presidential residence, and the homes which one of the commanders ordered the elimination of foreign policy advisors like United Nations Early in the 1960s López y López began of the president and vice president of the Salvadoran unionists and known members of the FMLN leadership. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Secretary of campaigning for a Catholic university in San Constituent Assembly. And Col. Benavides, commanding officer of the security

20 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 21 zone between the general staff headquarters and the UCA, hammering noise of bombing was so frightening that their campaign against the armed forces and the Antonio Ramiro Avalos Vargas, whose nickname was authorized to organize a commando unit within the Elba phoned the Jesuits to find out if there was a quieter people of El Salvador. Lt. Yusshy Mendoza, who was Satan, holding a rifle on five grim priests Atlacatl Battalion for the purpose of assassinating Ellacuría place where she and her daughter Celina could stay for a was in charge of the operation, told Pvt. Óscar in pajamas or trousers and shirts, priests whom and the other Jesuits. They were to leave no witnesses. while. Celina was 16 and in the first year of a high school Mariano Amaya Grimaldi, nicknamed Pilijay, other Jesuits called los viejos, “the old men,” Ellacuría was in Spain at the first part of the offensive, commercial course that was rigorous enough that she’d been or “Hangman” in the Nahuatl language, that it because their 15-hour days of hard work and visiting old friends and his 93-year-old father, giving thanks forced to give up basketball and the band. She was having was he who would have prime responsibility for anxiety had hurt their health and prematurely for the $5,000 Alfonso Comín Prize awarded to the UCA for a hard time doing homework. On Sunday López offered the assassinations because of his familiarity with aged them: Ellacu, Nacho, Zeus, Pardito, its commitment to justice for the oppressed, celebrating his Elba and Celina the guest room in the Archbishop Romero the AK-47 rifle, a Soviet-­made assault weapon Amando. Worried that it was five against 59th birthday, and being unanimously elected as president Theological Reflection Center where it was thought they’d wholly associated with the FMLN. When Pilijay two, Sub-sergeant Avalos ordered them to lie of the coordinating council of postgraduate institutions in have more peace and quiet. was finished there would be a flare, at which facedown on the grass, and then was called over Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, at which meeting he Segundo Montes was installing telephones in the time the four patrols would fire their rifles as if by Lt. Espinoza, whose eyes were filling with offered to host the council in his country in two years, “if I residence on Wednesday night, and Ignacio Martín-Baró they were fighting off the fleeing terrorists. tears because he saw that Segundo Montes, am still alive.” took advantage of one in order to call his sister Alicia in Espinoza ordered them to form a column his headmaster at the Externado, was among Ellacuría flew back to El Salvador on Monday the 13th. Valladolid, Spain. He told her he was all right but that San and head toward the university at about 1 a.m. those on the ground. Espinoza impatiently With a curfew in effect and a state of siege having been Salvador was in a state of siege, and he held the telephone on Nov. 16, 1989. Electrical power was gone asked, “When are you going to proceed?” Sgt. declared, the 23 buildings on the shut-down university out so she could hear the bombs. “Oh, Nacho,” she asked, from the area, but there was good light from the Avalos walked back to Pilijay and told him, campus were bleakly empty but for the new Archbishop “and when is this going to end?” “A lot more people full moon. The pedestrian gate was forced open, “Let’s proceed.” Romero Theological Reflection Center, a functionalist will have to die yet,” he told her. “A lot more people will and the commandos hustled past the Chapel OFFICES WERE The five priests were prostrate just as they construction of concrete block that housed offices on the have to die.” of Christ the Liberator to a parking lot where BEING TRASHED were in their rites of ordination when the litany first floor and, on the second, the kitchen, dining room, Lt. José Ricardo Espinoza Guerra was the 28-year-old they feigned a first attack with the FMLN AND of the saints was chanted. And they seemed to guest room, and corridor of bedrooms of the Jesuit residence. commander of the commando unit within the feared by riddling cars with bullets and throwing a COMMANDOS be whispering a psalmody when Sub-sergeant Jon Sobrino had moved in before flying off to Thailand, Atlacatl Battalion and a graduate of the Special Warfare grenade. A few soldiers must have then strayed WERE Avalos yelled, “Quick, quick, give it to them but the six other priests were still shifting their hundreds of Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In fact, only the week off in the wrong direction, because a night quickly!” and Pilijay fired the AK-47 at the books and few other possessions from the old residence when before, 13 Green Berets from the United States had flown watchman heard a voice say, “Don’t go over FIREBOMBING heads of the three men in front of him, thinking Ellacuría got there. in to oversee his company’s training exercises. With the there, there are only offices over there.” THE FILE their brains were the problem, killing Ignacio A half hour later, as he was talking to his friends about exercises called off because of the offensive, Espinoza’s first While some soldiers got on roofs of CABINETS, Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, and Ignacio Martín- Europe, they heard the doors to the Romero Center below assignment—an order hand-delivered by Col. Ponce and neighboring houses to watch, another group WIPING OUT Baró. Avalos fired his M-16 at the heads and them being kicked in. Hurrying downstairs the Jesuits found signed by President Cristiani—had been the Monday night encircled the hillside and the Archbishop COMPUTERS, bodies of the two priests closest to him, Amando 20 soldiers from the elite Atlacatl Battalion rummaging search of the Archbishop Romero Theological Reflection Romero Theological Reflection Center and BURNING BOOKS López and Juan Ramón Moreno, and then Pilijay through the offices. An officer who knew the Jesuits by their Center. A few of the Jesuits there he knew well, having began banging on the doors and windows, and finished off all five with a long burst from his first names but who refused to identify himself told Ellacuría been a high school student at the Externado San José. a high fence of wire mesh was climbed so a first- AND TAPES. fully automatic rifle. Only with difficulty would they were looking for hidden weapons and, given the state of And so he was thought a natural for Wednesday night’s floor door could be unlocked from the inside. friends later be able to recognize the face of siege, needed no permission to do so. After a thorough and assignment. Colonel Benavides had reportedly told him, Sub-sergeant Tomás Zarpate Castillo went Amando López. orderly inspection of the upstairs residence, the two patrols “This is a situation where it’s them or us; we are going to a few steps down a passageway when he heard Sub-sergeant Zárpate heard the gunfire and left, searching no other buildings. begin with the ringleaders. Within our sector we have the a sound in a guest room and found Elba then someone shouting, “Now!” Obediently he Ellacuría was fuming about it Tuesday morning when university and Ellacuría is there.” Espinoza was told Ramos worriedly sitting on a divan bed beside turned to Elba and Celina Ramos and, though his Jesuit assistant, Rolando Alvarado, recalled his teens in to use the tactic of Monday’s search, but this time he was a pretty teenage girl who was lying under the they were far from being communist agitators, Somoza’s Nicaragua and told the rector that the intrusion to eliminate Ellacuría. “And I want no witnesses,” he said. covers. Lt. Mendoza held a lamp up to see Zárpate fired at them until “they no longer was in fact a reconnaissance. Wouldn’t it be wise for the Espinoza objected that this was serious, but Col. them and then told Zárpate to stay there and groaned,” shooting Elba in the vagina in the Jesuits to go somewhere else? Benavides told him not to worry, that Espinoza had his not let anyone leave. Ignacio Martín-Baró was signature style of the death squads. And then he Ellacuría replied that Alvarado was being paranoid, that support, meaning that of the High Command. On leaving, being hauled down the passageway by a soldier glumly walked off. the soldiers found nothing incriminating, and there were no Espinoza asked the colonel’s assistant, Lt. Yusshy René when he saw Zárpate holding his rifle on the In the first-floor Theological Reflection other housing options anyway. “We have fought them from Mendoza Vallecillos, for a bar of camouflage grease so that women. Eyewitness Lucía Barrera de Cerna Center, offices were being trashed and here and here we will stay.” he could paint his face. heard Nacho say, “This is an injustice. You commandos were firebombing the file cabinets, His friend Ruben Zamora would later say, “Ignacio was a Espinoza’s four patrols of 36 commandos assembled at are carrion.” wiping out computers, burning books and tapes. Cartesian, with absolute faith in logic. This time his analysis the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military Academy Pilijay saw a soldier forcing a piece of wood When he heard the gun noise outside, one failed him.” after midnight on Thursday the 16th. With only two beige between a frame and a door when a priest in a inflamed soldier looked up at a framed picture on Elba Ramos was the 42-year-old housekeeper at the Ford 250 pickup trucks to get them to the university, five coffee-colored robe frowned at them from his the wall of a genial Archbishop Romero and fired Jesuit school of theology, a 15-minute walk away, and her minutes away, there would have to be a return trip. The hammock on the balcony. Ellacuría said, “Wait. a bullet at his heart. husband, Obdulio, was a night watchman at the university trucks took the Southern Highway then went uphill to I am coming to open the door, but don’t keep A frail old man in a white undershirt walked when Fr. Amando López, who was in charge of buildings the Mortgage Bank behind the UCA where the patrols making so much noise.” And then Pilijay heard out into the corridor and then to the front of the and grounds, gave the family of four the chance to live in finally were told who they’d be killing: priests who were his name being called and was told the priests building. López y López was in hiding until he a little guardhouse not far from the Jesuit residence. But in on the FMLN’s offensive up to the hilt, furnishing were in the garden behind the residence. heard the gunfire, and then must have felt he had the guardhouse was on Avenida Albert Einstein where the logistical assistance to the guerrillas and even overseeing Pilijay hurried out and found Sub-sergeant to go out. But when he saw his friends massacred

22 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 23 on the grass, fear overtook him, and he said, “Don’t kill me, official investigation of the murders; and the United States because I don’t belong to any organization.” And then he embassy all but stonewalled on the crimes. Word of the turned to go back inside the house. truth was getting out, however, and Massachusetts Rep. Joe Calling him “Campa,” a nickname in the FMLN, the Moakley’s congressional task force finally embarrassed the soldier ordered him to come to him. Lolo walked on. But Cristiani government into action, reflecting an old pattern as he was entering a bedroom, he was hit with a shot and in our relations with El Salvador over human rights issues fell. Cpl. Angel Pérez Vásquez walked into the room to in which, as Martha Doggett of the Lawyers Committee find what was in there. Like Sub-sergeant Avalos he was a for Human Rights put it, “Washington plays the parent Lucía Cerna was graduate of a Small Unit Training Management Course in the to the unruly Salvadoran child. When threats fail to curb a housekeeper in the Jesuit United States. Lolo’s hand took hold of his foot and in his behavior, punishment sometimes follows, though not as a astonishment Cpl. Peréz fired twice at Joaquin López y López. rule.” Eventually the Salvadoran Supreme Court charged community at the Universidad And then, flushed with embarrassment at his surprise, he fired four officers and five enlisted men with the crimes—a half Centroamericana in San Salvador at the old man twice more. measure certainly—and even though there were confessions Walking along a passageway toward the garden gate, from those who committed the atrocities, a jury that was in 1989. She lived in Soyapango, Sub­-sergeant Avalos heard groaning and lit a match to look possibly tampered with found only Col. Guillermo Benavides into the guest room where Elba and Celina Ramos were and Lt. Yusshy René Mendoza Vallecillos guilty of murder, a suburb of the capital, but was still painfully alive and hugging each other in a widening the first officers ever convicted of a human rights violation. forced to flee her home when a pool of blood. The sergeant told Pvt. José Alberto Sierra They would finally serve a little over a year of their 30-year Ascencio to finish them off, and Sierra fired the full sentences. Each and every other member of the Atlacatl guerrilla offensive brought some magazine of his M-16 into them and trudged off, leaving Battalion went free. of the most horrific fighting of bootprints of blood on the floor. But the two-year investigation of the Jesuit murders shone And then they were through. The whole operation had a light on villains in the High Command, put an end to the the civil war to her neighborhood. taken no more than an hour. Pilijay headed back inside the hated security forces and the Atlacatl, focused attention on Jesuit residence, wrecked the kitchen, and helped himself other crimes and inequities in El Salvador, and changed U.S. She turned to the Jesuits for help. to a pilsner beer. Hoping to hide the fact that this was a policy to one of full endorsement of negotiations, resulting That brought her to the UCA The open window formal execution, other commandos were ordered to haul in a peace agreement being signed in Chapultepec. NOVEMBER 12–15, 1989 the bodies back inside, but there was only time for Cpl. At the funeral of the six Jesuits, José María Tojeira, their campus on the eve of tragedy. Cota Hernández to drag Juan Ramón Moreno along the provincial superior, offered a homily in which he ringingly Her story has at last been told in tile floor to Jon Sobrino’s bedroom, the red bundle of his said, “they have not killed the University of Central America e have lived that brains hanging from his head. A book fell from its bookshelf and they have not killed the Society of Jesus in El Salvador.” full, in her own words, through a war in our country. there and into his flowing blood. The book’s title was The And the filled auditorium affirmed that with a two-minute lengthy series of interviews Everything is really Crucified God. standing ovation. true. For example, Two Salvadorans, two , a Mexican, and a by historian Mary Jo (Hull) when Fr. Rutilio Behold, my servant shall prosper, Canadian joined Jon Sobrino to again fill out the university’s Ignoffo ’78 in La Verdad: A Grande was killed, they were on the road he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. Jesuit community, and off the balcony where Ignacio W As many were astonished at him … Ellacuría frowned at the soldiers a building extension was Witness to the Salvadoran waiting for him when he went driving his so shall he startle many nations; constructed to accommodate the growing numbers of Jeep. Soldiers killed him and killed two kings shall shut their mouths because of him; theology students. Martyrs (Orbis Books, 2014). others. This was before Romero got killed. for that which has not been told them they shall see, The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church, wrote Here is an adapted excerpt. The activists were very angry. It happened and that which they have not heard they shall understand. Tertullian. All the faithful do not perish, nor suffer infamy in Chalatenango, about two hours from Isaiah 52:13–15 or risk, but Christians are expected to be witnesses to those who did, and do. And then we will find that like the martyrs the UCA. And Fr. Alas, they tortured him. before them, the two women and six Jesuits murdered in Somebody saw but nobody will say. It is too he official story was that the murders were El Salvador are, as José María Tojeira has written, dead scary to say something in El Salvador. Msgr. committed by the FMLN, and at first even “who continue to be profoundly active and alive ... generating Romero was shot even while he was saying Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney was firm in T human spirit, generating human dignity, generating Mass. Somebody saw, but nobody would saying “there’s no indication at all that the government the capacity for dialogue and humane rationality, say. All those people there, somebody saw. If of El Salvador had any involvement.” Witnesses to the generating a critical capacity, a constructive capacity, slayings were harassed and intimidated by the FBI; Col. and generating imagination.” SCU you say, you will be killed. Simple. René Emilio Ponce, of all people, was put in charge of the Only one of the Jesuits at the UCA was Salvadoran, and that was Fr. López y López. He did not teach, but he was the director of the center for job training for poor people who could not attend school. The people could learn a trade. Everybody knew he had prostate cancer, but he

24 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 25 said, “Ay, I don’t care.” He always said good morning, was a big round table and that is where they sat. and for breakfast he liked to drink a beer. Afterward The two guards disappeared. They went looking he walked to his office in the training center. He was around. I left my trash basket and broom, and I a very good man, very humble. followed them upstairs. They were looking in the Sometimes I did the laundry, but he did not want bathrooms, opening cabinets, and searching. his clothes washed too much. “Every three days I I asked, “Excuse me, sir, what are you looking for?” change my clothes,” he told me. He was very humble, “Nothing, only looking. Sorry—disculpe.” even though he was from a rich family in Santa Ana. “If you are done, go downstairs, please,” I told They had big properties of coffee and fruit near a them. There was nobody to put discipline there. lake. On weekends he went to see his family, and he It was not my property, but I was taking care. The always brought back boxes of oranges for everybody. offices were all locked. If the guards were looking Still in my mind I do not understand, or maybe for something, they did not know that I had the key I do not want to understand, why someone felt the to every office. need to kill them. I knew them. They did not have Later I told both Padre Nacho and Padre Ellacu. guns or bombs or weapons. Their defense was their I commented about the guards and they said, brains. For example, I remember one interview “Están locos.” years ago when Roberto D’Aubuisson wanted to be I insisted, why did they come here? “Fr. Nachito, president. He was interviewed with Fr. Ellacuría on excuse me, but do you think they came with television and I saw them. good intentions?” D’Aubuisson pointed at Fr. Ellacu and said, “You “I think they will give a good donation of are a communist!” books,” he said. Fr. Ellacu answered by saying, That is good, I thought. “No, I “I am not a communist. I am am saying something else. Do you a Christian, and you, Señor “Do you think they are think they are good people?” D’Aubuisson, are a hypocrite. “Yeah, they are.” You say you are for the people good people?” The priests’ error was that of El Salvador, and you are not.” “Yeah, they are.” they trust too much. When the Duarte won as president instead ambassador came to donate books, of D’Aubuisson. That interview The priests’ error was I did not see a good sign. If you made it so D’Aubuisson did that they trust too much. trust, you do not send someone to not win. I think it made him search. From that incident I could hate Fr. Ellacu. immediately identify Ambassador Walker at the airport on the A gift of books day when we had to leave El Salvador. He did not One day the American ambassador, William Walker, speak to me on that day either. That Walker was a came to the rectory to give a donation of books for hypocrite, too. the library at the UCA. It was maybe eight months before the massacre. Walker was one hyper man. He The war comes to Soyapango arrived at the UCA rectory and I opened the door. For us, the worst part of the war was when it came “Buenos días, señor.” He was very unpleasant, and he to Soyapango. A military helicopter flew over the did not say hello or speak to me. He spoke fluent district firing at guerrillas. It was loud, like a roaring Spanish, but he did not take notice of me. Maybe lion. Our house was hit, making a hole in the roof. he did not like Latino people. Or maybe he did not The FMLN opened sides of houses to crawl in speak to me because I was wearing my apron and was and escape the firing. They did not ask permission, therefore a servant. no, they just cut the hole. Guerrillas went in the I showed him and two other men to the psychiatric hospital, and from inside shot at the conference room on the first floor of the rectory. helicopters. The guerrillas killed, too. There is so Two guards stayed out. The guards were Salvadoran much revenge. In the civil war the guerrillas killed military, and they had very elegant uniforms. They and the army killed, they both killed. looked very good and important. Fr. Ellacuría, Fr. Monday and Tuesday, November 13 and 14, Nachito, and Fr. Segundo received the donation from when we slept at night, Jorge put a mattress over me Walker in the big conference room with a glass door. and our daughter. This way the bullets would not hit They closed the door and talked and talked. There us. He did not sleep, but kept watch. We were living

Lucía Cerna, 2014 Portrait by Charles Barry

S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 27 under that mattress! Things got worse and our supply Fr. Nacho took us there to stay. He met my husband of food ran out. There was no water, and the river was that day. My daughter, Geraldina, and I went with him to not close. Soyapango was the town worst hit by the war. the guest room in the new house to bring sleeping mats In our home we had no water or light, and stores were for us to borrow. Father was very happy with Geraldina closed. Every Saturday I went to the market to supply the because he enjoyed children. She was 4 years old then. refrigerator. That Saturday I could not go because of the The house was empty. Geraldina asked, “Are there war. On Tuesday afternoon we baked, and after selling all ghosts here?” the bread, I thought we had to leave. I thought of going “No,” Padre Nachito told her, “we do not have ghosts to my mother’s, but where she lived was too small. I was here.” And we went with him to the guest room where closer, like family, to the priests. We could not get to he took two mats for us. He carried the mats for us back Jorge’s family because of the war. to the other house. Fr. Nachito was excellent, a very good Jorge did not want to leave. We had a lot of supplies, and man. Was it Providence that we were in the old house for at first he refused. But we did not have light, and no candles that night? What and no electricity. I was not worried for myself; I was worried “Our cook did not come today,” he said. “I don’t for the child. If I must fast, I do not care. But for my child, know who will cook tonight.” Their regular cook lived in especially for her, I wanted to go find somebody to help us. I Santa Tecla and she could not get to the campus because had confidence in the priests to give us shelter. of the war. That is what Fr. Nacho commented to me. do you I still remember Jorge standing in the front door. I was “I can cook tonight,” I said. telling him, “Let’s go, let’s go, don’t stay alone.” He stood “Okay. Fine, thank you,” he said and he left. After there with his arms folded, looking at the house. I had our some minutes, Fr. Nachito came back. It surprised me daughter by the hand. “Vámonos.” when he came back. He said, “Lucía, the “I don’t want to,” he said. “The priests wife of the guardian will come to cook stand for? do not know me. I can’t go with you. Go tonight, you stay here and rest.” BY MARY JO (HULL) IGNOFFO ’78 with the child.” “It is okay, I can come.” “No, mujer. “I won’t leave you,” I said. “Come. I I was not worried You stay here, you are tired.” will talk to Fr. Nachito and he will give for myself; I was Father said the wife of the guardian, you shelter.” the vigilante, but he must have meant Finally he accepted. When we left that worried for the child. gardener. I never thought it was Elba morning, Jorge did not completely lock Ramos. Her husband Obdulio was a our home. He only pulled the door closed. gardener, not a guard. We hoped the war would be over soon, no more guerrillas in Jorge went out to buy something to eat and drink. He our colonia, and then peace. We left our home in Soyapango found some bread and cola for us, but he forgot to bring at 6 o’clock on the morning of November 15. We walked and a match. I went to Casa Cinquenta, the provincial house, walked, maybe 20 kilometers. We left our home, everything, to ask the cook there for a match. I was friendly with that everything! I only took the money in my purse; it was heavy cook, and now she also knew we were in 16 Cantábrico with the coins. I put all our wages and all our bakery money that night. We had no lights, just a candle. Before we lay in my purse to carry with me. I also had all the keys to the down we took a shower. Then we lay down to rest. The UCA and to the provincial office, maybe 35 keys. shower was important, because in Miami, when we said I held a white flag high, very high. Some soldiers were we were witnesses, they did not believe we were there. still shooting and it was scary. Jorge carried Geraldina on his There was evidence of us in the shower. They found hair. shoulders all that way. When we got into the city, I called And that proved that we were there. Padre Nacho from a telephone to his private number. I asked After the priests had their dinner, about 7 o’clock, him could he give us some days of shelter, to stay at the UCA I heard Fr. Nachito playing guitar. I told Jorge, for food and water. Padre Nacho said yes, come. A man came “Listen,” and I went to open the window to hear better. driving by in a truck. He yelled, “One colón for each person.” Fr. Nachito was playing his guitar in the dining room, We paid and had a ride almost to the UCA. and he was singing. They sounded like they were having a good time. “Are there ghosts here?” “Let’s go to join them,” I said to Jorge. The murder of six Jesuits and two women forced When we came to request shelter on November 15, the “No, Lucía, remember he told you to lie down. You the couple who witnessed the crime to flee El Jesuits were living in a new house. About two weeks are tired. Leave them. They are enjoying themselves.” Salvador. And the tragedy bound Santa Clara to earlier, the Jesuits moved into a new house inside the We lay down to sleep on the mats he provided us. But campus. This left the twin houses at numbers 15 and I left the window open. I went to sleep to Fr. Nachito the battered country more deeply than ever. playing the guitar and singing. SCU 16 Cantábrico empty. PHOTOS BY CHARLES BARRY

28 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 alternate flight, a military plane coming from Belize, to attorney. They were not allowed to telephone family take the family to Miami. The Americans insisted that members. They subsisted on American fast food he proclamation by a Salvadoran cleaning woman that soldiers—not one of their embassy officials be allowed on the French delivered to them by FBI agents. guerrillas—carried out the shooting that resulted in the deaths of plane “to help with immigration in the U.S.” The couple had never stayed in a hotel and had As the Cernas waited for the alternate flight with never used an elevator. Their 4-year-old daughter had six priests and two women at the University of Central America Fermín Sainz, S.J., the priest became increasingly no change of clothing for the eight days they spent in (UCA) had staggering implications, both personal and global. From disturbed by a growing presence of Salvadoran soldiers. the FBI’s custody. Unaccustomed to air conditioning, the bloodied lawn on the UCA campus to the U.S. Congress, and Suddenly he shouted, alerting the French soldiers the child was cold. that, as Jorge stood looking at a television, a number American Jesuits called the State Department from Salvadoran military headquarters to every Jesuit community of Salvadoran soldiers had closed in around him. repeatedly that week to ask after the family. The State around the world, the meaning was clear. The killers had been The French drew guns on the Salvadorans and Department told the Jesuits that the family was being trained and funded by the United States. The personal cost could be calculated only over corralled Jorge back to safety. For the remaining hours, evaluated to determine if their security was at risk. In Fr. Sainz huddled with Lucía and her daughter, rosary the end, no security evaluation was ever carried out. time.T As Lucía and Jorge Cerna were the only witnesses willing to testify about the night in hand, praying constantly and trying to issue Yet the FBI and State Department allowed a colonel of of Nov. 16, 1989, they themselves became targets. assurances to Lucía. the Salvadoran army, under the pretense that he was a doctor, to interview the Cernas. As was later proved, this Held incommunicado colonel already knew that what the Cernas reported was The role that Upon their arrival in Miami, the tumultuous nightmare true—that Salvadoran soldiers were on the campus and did the shooting on the night in question. The colonel we are called When Lucía showed a woman representative of the they found themselves in only grew worse. The U.S. to play: diocese and a Jesuit brother where she had been when Department of State and the FBI took custody of the was allowed to control the interview process, exerting Stephen A. Privett, S.J., the murders took place, they knew she was in danger. family and detained them in a hotel, removing the enormous pressure and issuing terrifying threats. For three days of 12-hour interrogations, Lucía was accused M.Div. ’72 They took the Cernas to the Spanish Embassy, where telephone, television, and any contact with the outside and crosses they gave sworn testimony. The Salvadoran judge world. They were not allowed counsel by Jesuits or by variously of being a communist, of having guerrilla by the Mission who took that testimony could barely contain his exasperation that they had the temerity to report what they had seen. Jesuits who sat listening and Spanish Embassy officials hosting the impromptu hearing were convinced the lives of the family were in serious jeopardy. The priests explained to the couple that they had to flee the country or risk being killed. “To where?” Lucía wanted to know. The Jesuits offered the couple a choice: Did they wish to go to Spain, France, or the United States? Lucía opted for Miami, because Fr. Ellacuría had told her that it was not far from El Salvador and that there were many Spanish-speaking people there. She mistakenly believed that all parties—Salvadorans, Americans, Jesuits, and Spaniards—wished to solve the crime. She expected that when the truth came out, she and her family could return home. The family was planning to stay that night in the Spanish Embassy. But after hearing their testimony, the Spanish ambassador decided he could not ensure the family’s safety. He dispatched them, with barely enough time to beat the nightly 6 p.m. curfew, in a speeding car careening through the streets of San Salvador to the She expected that more heavily fortified French Embassy. when the truth Meanwhile, American officials accused the Jesuits of trying to sneak the couple out of the country; the came out, she and officials took steps to control the witnesses. When French security forces escorted the Cerna family to the her family could airport the next morning, the commercial airliner on which they were scheduled had unaccountably taken off return home. without them. The French consul arranged for an

30 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 31 affiliations, and of providing sexual favors to the UCA emotionally broken. Years passed before Jorge admitted awarded an honorary degree to UCA theologian Jesuits. Jorge was threatened with being sent back to to his wife that during those nights in Alabama, he Jon Sobrino, S.J.—who would return a few El Salvador, where he feared a death squad might be expected someone to come in the night to kill them. months later, accepting refuge. waiting. Yet the couple believed their lives were more After a brief rest, Lucía agreed to testify before a On Nov. 10, 1989, six days before the murders, seriously threatened in Miami than in El Salvador. congressional committee in Washington chaired by John Fr. Locatelli wrote a letter to SCU’s Board of Whispering to each other late into the night of Joseph “Joe” Moakley, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Trustees inviting them to be part of a delegation the third day of interrogations, the couple decided to After listening to Lucía’s story, he declared to the traveling to El Salvador that upcoming March to recant their testimony. Together they practiced what committee: “These people may be humble, but mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of they would say in the morning. “I was not there,” Lucía they are telling the truth.” Eventually, the Moakley Archbishop Óscar Romero. When news of the reported in the interrogation room of the FBI offices Commission’s report, issued after an investigation that massacre broke on Nov. 16, 1989, Fr. Locatelli the following day. “I don’t know anything. Put me back included 10 commission members and five House immediately invited Fr. Sobrino, who survived in my home.” Her husband said, “We were not there. Republicans traveling to El Salvador, declared that only because he was traveling, to stay at SCU for Send us home. If someone is going to come shoot us, high-ranking military and government officials ordered a time of healing and support in the aftermath of I’ll be ready.” soldiers in the Salvadoran army to kill Fr. Ignacio the loss of his UCA Jesuit community. After they changed their story, they were given Ellacuría and leave no witnesses. The only reason Lucía In the coming months, as Locatelli proceeded TRENA YONKERS-TALZ lie detector tests. The American and Salvadoran and her husband and child survived the night is that with plans for the El Salvador delegation, even Nourish: making soy milk with a community partner from governments issued statements, one personally delivered no one, except the martyrs themselves, knew the family in the wake of the massacre, he signaled a new La Javia, Tepecoyo to the media by President Alfredo Cristiani, that the was there. and more committed relationship between the couple had failed the tests and therefore were not Fr. Tipton sent the Cernas, under assumed names, two institutions. The martyrdom of the men credible witnesses. No one mentioned that the tests were to Texas. The thinking was that the family could and women at the UCA did not kill the kinship, Our house administered after the couple changed their story. A blend into a Hispanic population unnoticed. Within it enlivened it. In March 1990, the delegation A unique study abroad program in El Salvador month would pass before officials of both governments weeks, however, it was clear to Jorge Cerna, a baker by formed by Locatelli before the murders confirmed turns 15: Casa de la Solidaridad. acknowledged that elements of the Salvadoran military trade, that he would not be able to find a job there. its commitment and accompanied Sobrino back to carried out the massacre. In consultation again with Tipton, they were sent to El Salvador.1 Fr. Beirne returned to El Salvador to s origin stories go, this one has a special flavor: the taste of After a week in the United States, the family California, hoping for better job opportunities. stay, taking up duties as a vice rector of the UCA. pupusas—thick, handmade tortillas stuffed with cheese and was released to Paul Tipton, S.J., president of the When they landed at San Francisco International beans—in Pati’s Pupuseria in San Salvador. It was February Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. When Airport, they were greeted by two Santa Clara Jesuits, “I spoke up.” 1999. Two Jesuits—SCU’s Steve Privett, S.J., and Dean he understood what had happened during the preceding , and It’s here ABrackley, S.J., who had come to El Salvador in 1990 after teaching Jim Torrens, S.J. Dan Germann, S.J. Back in the South Bay, the Cernas had help with days in the Miami offices of the FBI, he was outraged. that the family found a home, thanks in part to kinship community organizing in —sat with Kevin and Trena Yonkers- resettlement from Fr. Germann, SCU’s director Talz, who had attended Boston College for graduate school before His loud and angry exchange with the FBI agents was between Santa Clara University and the UCA that had of Campus Ministry during the 1970s and 1980s, unintelligible to the Spanish-speaking couple, but they taken root years before. working with Jesuit Volunteers International in Central America. They ate who recently had co-founded the Eastside Project and talked, and they hammered out how to make a unique academic clearly understood Tipton to be the first American to (now the Arrupe Partnerships for Community- program in El Salvador that could host students from Jesuit universities believe them—and the first to offer protection. Conscience of a nation—or enemy of the state? based Learning, part of the Ignatian Center for and other schools throughout the United States. Building on the strong Tipton arranged for an interview with human As El Salvador convulsed in civil war during the 1980s, Jesuit Education) and Alumni for Others. By connection between Santa Clara and Universidad Centroamericana, Casa rights lawyers. He secreted the family away to Spring associations between faculty and administrators at Santa 1989, despite an advancing case of Parkinson’s de la Solidaridad was formally launched in November 1999. It’s become Hill College in Alabama, where he had formerly been Clara and the UCA deepened. Scholars at the UCA disease, Germann lived and worked in East a model for other programs reaching across continents, including Casa president—and where SCU’s former president, William turned out groundbreaking publications in theology and San Jose as a liaison among the working poor, programs in the Philippines and Argentina. Rewak, S.J., had just become president. Lucía was psychology even while atrocities against campesinos, University students, and SCU alumni. Working For students, from the very first day the emphasis is on convivir—the nuns, priests, and bishops surged. The university that with Spanish-speaking immigrants put Germann Spanish word that means “to live with”—to learn and share the dramatic sought to be a “conscience for the nation” found itself in a good position to guide the Cernas as they events in the recent history of El Salvador, as well as the day-to-day cast as an enemy of the state; bombs exploded on the adjusted to a new country and culture. reality people face now. Along with creative writing and philosophy, there campus and death threats echoed down the halls. Germann solicited help for the Cernas (often are courses on Salvadoran literature, the history of the country’s civil war, SCU President William Rewak conferred an without giving their identity) from his networks sociology, political science, theology, and Spanish. Praxis, though, is what It’s here that the honorary degree on UCA’s President Ignacio Ellacuría, of students, alumni, faculty, members of the truly defines the experience at the Casa: getting involved in real projects with the communities surrounding the university. S.J., in 1982. The renowned theologian thanked Mission Church’s 10 a.m. community, and many family found a For me, when I’ve taught creative writing in El Salvador, it’s an Santa Clara for its “gesture of solidarity and support.” new friends in East San Jose. Together, they found opportunity to help students discover the mystery of joy in solidarity. home, thanks in In 1985, Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J., spoke at SCU’s a place for the Cernas to live; they collected Living in the community, they’re challenged intellectually and spiritually. Institute on Poverty, detailing the plight of the majority household items and furnishings and they found The Casa experience transforms those of us who teach as well. part to kinship of Salvadorans. In the spring of 1988, president-elect doctors; they engaged help from the law school on Personally, I never truly grasped the meaning of the term companionship Paul Locatelli, S.J. ’60 and Academic Vice President immigration issues. Germann fielded employment until I first came to El Salvador in 2004. Here the journey is inner as much between Santa Clara Charles Beirne, S.J., spent Easter in El Salvador to options, took the couple to ESL classes, as outer. Juan Velasco SCU understand what it meant to be among people “weary demonstrated everyday American tasks—driving, Read more: Juan Velasco is an assistant professor of English and modern University and the of the war … desperate for negotiations.” That fall, languages. Read his essay on the Casa, “No simple highway,” from our 1 The 11 members of the SCU delegation to El Salvador SCU Vice President Stephen Privett, S.J., went to El archives. santaclaramagazine.com/elsalvador UCA that had taken were Paul Locatelli, Charles Beirne, Daniel Germann, Arthur Salvador for an extended stay. And the following year, Liebscher, John Mallen, Thomas Farley, Sheri Sager, Creaghe root years before. just months before the murders, President Locatelli Gordon, Lois Gordon, Stephen Privett, and Jon Sobrino.

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Health and home Helping preschoolers—and their families—through Programa Velasco in El Salvador

n the San Ramon, Mejicanos, area of San Salvador, a good child development center like Centro Hogar is a refuge for small children— especially for those of single mothers, the vast majority. The area is plagued with gangs. Parents, if there are two, might be gone from 4 in theI morning to 10 at night, traveling to work, working, traveling home. If the kids aren’t in school, they are in the streets or in the house alone. University students in El Salvador through SCU’s Casa de la Solidaridad have assisted children at Centro Hogar with classroom work, while a health program provides psychological help for abused children, medical consulta- tions, and AIDS treatment and prevention. As a student in the Casa pro- gram, Annie Boyd of Marquette University worked there. After she gradu- ated, she joined the staff at Centro Hogar—which means “home center.” She was there when, in December 2007, the child development center hit a financial crisis: It could no longer support attendance for some 35 kids— and their parents couldn’t afford to pay. Juan Velasco, an associate professor of English at SCU, was teaching in the Casa program that semester. Heartbroken, Boyd came to his office Mission Steps: pumping gas, changing a tire, grocery shopping— Undoubtedly, if the Cernas had fled to Spain or France paying tribute and helped them get to the dentist. The Cernas rather than the United States, they would have avoided asking for advice. His solution: a grassroots fundraising effort, asking friends to the “I spoke up for had a unique immigration status because the Jesuits the treatment meted out in Miami. The scars have not and acquaintances to chip in some small amount in lieu of a Christmas pres- Salvadoran ent. The result, Velasco says, was “like the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life.” martyrs had ensured that they were given political asylum. completely healed 25 years later. Donations from around the world allowed the 35 children to stay. the priests,” The couple’s path to citizenship was long, about 10 The murderers have never been brought to justice. To continue raising support for scholarships, they established a nonprofit years, yet throughout the process they had proof There was a trial, of sorts—but the men who confessed organization. In naming it, the parents who’d benefited wanted to recognize Lucía recalls. that they were in the United States legally. This to pulling the triggers were acquitted, since they were the man who’d led the launch: Programa Velasco was born. allowed them to get good jobs. As a tradesman, just following orders. Two officers were convicted, but For board members, Velasco turned to Luis Calero, S.J., an associ- “I am at peace.” Jorge joined a union. The family had health care they were released within 15 months following a blanket ate professor of anthropology, and Cynthia Mertens, a professor of law, benefits. Their legal status allowed them to succeed amnesty in 1993. among others. Calero has helped lead faculty and staff immersion trips to financially where many of their illegal counterparts In May 2011, though, a new chapter in this tragic the country; Mertens has led trips from the law school and brought experi- cannot. Lucía earned certification as a nursing tale began: Arrest warrants were issued by a Spanish ence in advocacy for children. Boyd serves as executive director. assistant from a community college and worked in judge for top leaders of El Salvador’s military during It’s not charity, Velasco emphasizes. “It’s about educating and empow- health care for almost 20 years. the civil war, accusing them of orchestrating the crime. ering children. And to do that, we needed to educate and empower the In August 1990, only months after the Cernas Lucía testified once more—this time by video. families.” Programa Velasco subsequently launched a microloan program arrived in California, Fr. Jim Torrens interviewed It is difficult for Lucía to separate the trauma of for women to create their own businesses. Lucía and published her account of the massacre losing some of the people she held most dear to horrific “We’re planting the seeds for a better future for El Salvador, and also in America, a national Catholic weekly magazine violence from the interrogation in Miami. Healing from the seeds of a deeper connection,” Velasco says. “We need to look into the published by the Jesuits in the United States. He the first ordeal may have proceeded more quickly if she future … This is not just about what happened in the 1980s.” underscored the importance of her observations had not been subjected to the second. Yet today the Indeed, the recent Central American refugee crisis on the U.S. border and created a timely historical record. He also Cernas live with a sense of serenity, if not freedom from has underscored that all too clearly. “The origin of the program is helping helped Lucía’s healing process through careful fear. “I spoke up for the priests,” Lucía recalls. “I am these children to survive—so we don’t have the border issue that we had listening and respect for her story. at peace.” Jorge says, “A lie is temporary, but the truth in the last few months.” In other words, it’s far better to keep kids fed, in school, with a chance of making it at home. SBS SCU endures forever.” SCU

34 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 35 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED FOOTBALL RETURNS SANTATO CLARA BY ANN KILLION

Six decades ago, ’31 brought pro football to the Bay Area. Now the San Francisco 49ers have come to play where that dream began—and where they’ve been training for the past 15 years.

36 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 37 n some ways, the arrival For the first time in more than 21 years, football gain entry to the but was of the San Francisco 49ers is being played at a level higher than high school in dismissed by the commissioner of the league, which the city of Santa Clara. Six miles east of Buck Shaw was based in Chicago. Commissioner Elmer Layden in Santa Clara is a story Stadium, where the Santa Clara Broncos played their asked Tony Morabito condescending questions about about coming full circle: final football game in November 1992, the 49ers have where San Francisco was located and turned down The team that was started begun playing in their new home, Levi’s Stadium. But Morabito by saying, “Well, sonny, you better go out the 49ers’ team history is intricately intertwined with and get a football first before you come back.” by Tony Morabito ’31, a Santa Clara—the city, the University, and the people— But Tony Morabito was stubborn. When the rival Santa Clara graduate with dating back to the team’s original founder, Morabito, All-America Football Conference was formed with big dreams, has moved and his younger brother, Victor Morabito ’37. eight teams, Morabito jumped at the chance to be Tony Morabito learned to play football on the involved. Ruffo set up the legal framework for the within a stone’s throw streets of San Francisco’s North Beach, where his team, and the 49ers played their first season in 1946. from where Morabito Italian immigrant parents had settled. He was a Ironically, Morabito’s successful launch of pro football first launched those ideas more than six halfback at St. Ignatius College Prep and briefly in San Francisco would eventually damage his beloved I played football at Santa Clara before a shoulder injury Santa Clara’s ability to compete in the Bay Area’s new decades ago. And there’s more than a derailed his playing career. But his time on the Mission football landscape.

touch of irony to the story: The team’s long Campus laid the groundwork for what would be Red jerseys and the Silver Fox JACK MCGUIRE COURTESY quest for a new state-of-the-art stadium has his biggest impact on the Bay Area: the founding Santa Clara’s influence on the 49ers was visible right of the 49ers. Leaping leader: Receiver Alyn Beals ’43 was the ended in the parking lot next door to the from the start—including the red in their jerseys. AAFC all-time scorer. At Santa Clara, Tony Morabito was teammates with The 49ers paired red with gold—for the gold rush, training facility the 49ers have called home another son of Italian immigrants, Al Ruffo ’31, J.D. ’36. naturally. Morabito hired Santa Clara’s former coach, since 1988. While Morabito went on to build a successful lumber Buck Shaw, to lead the team. Shaw, who played under business, Ruffo stayed at Santa Clara, attending law Knute Rockne at Notre Dame and was a member of Tony Morabito handpicked much of the team school and helping to coach football under legendary Rockne’s first unbeaten team, had coached the Broncos and brought in some former Santa Clara players, Lawrence “Buck” Shaw. An undersized but scrappy to back-to-back victories in the Sugar Bowl in 1936 such as lanky receiver Alyn Beals ’43, who scored former lineman, originally from Tacoma, Wash., Ruffo and 1937. Under Shaw, the Broncos 46 touchdowns in four years with the was an enthusiastic presence and a tireless booster of had a 47-12-2 record in the seven years team and was the first in a line of 49ers both Morabito as well as his adopted city of San Jose. before the team was disbanded during legendary receivers that stretches through Local lore has it that the idea for the 49ers was World War II while many players went . Another was two-way born at Ruffo’s kitchen table in his house on Second off to serve their country. lineman Visco Grgich ’46, who became Street in San Jose, where he and both Morabito The tall and slender Shaw earned famous for his rousing pregame speeches brothers gathered. Always a football fan, Tony the nickname the “Silver Fox” for and forearm shivers to the locker room Morabito knew that the growth of air travel after his mane of silver hair and “quietly door at Kezar. Ken Casanega ’42 was World War II would ultimately mean expansion for aggressive style,” as one writer put it. drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in professional sports. He was also convinced that the While the football program at Santa 1942, but instead he served as a Navy Bay Area, a hotbed for , was ready Clara went on hiatus and its future was pilot during the war. for a pro team. Fans packed games—especially on uncertain, Shaw stayed on for two years “I had no intention of playing pro Sundays—for Stanford, Cal, St. Mary’s, University to help with the Army physical training football, but then Tony called me and of San Francisco, and, of course, the very successful program on campus. Morabito asked said he was starting a team,” Casanega Santa Clara. San Francisco was the region’s him to coach the 49ers, and before told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter center, so the Broncos played their home games the team was launched, Shaw coached a few years ago. “He asked me to play at . one season at Cal. When he moved to for him.” Casanega played two seasons, While football was booming in popularity in the professional game, Shaw brought along his Santa worked a career as a school administrator, and at 93 is the years before World War II, pro ball was still Clara staff, including Al Ruffo—a 49ers assistant coach one of the oldest pro football players alive. played only east of the Mississippi. Tony Morabito for two years, a job he held while also serving on the Shaw served as the Niners’ coach through the team’s saw an opportunity to expand the popular sport San Jose City Council and as San Jose’s mayor. Ruffo transition into the NFL in 1949. The team struggled in his hometown, which was also finding a new eventually became a part owner of the team. postwar identity as the economic and cultural hub of the West Coast. Twice Morabito tried to

Founding 49er father: Tony Morabito ’31 The NFL Commissioner turned down Morabito and said, “Well, sonny, you better go out and SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FRANCISCO SAN get a football first before you come back.”

38 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 39 COURTESY JACK MCGUIRE COURTESY through the first season with Broncos come home was born in Santa Clara and raised in San Jose, helped good weather and a location where coaches could a 3-9-0 record, losing every Though SCU was the Broncos to two Western Football Conference afford housing and not have to commute so far.” game on the road. The next intimately involved in the championships. He was chosen in the fifth round Back in those days, Santa Clara met both those few years they fared better, birth of the 49ers, the of the NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers but was conditions. In addition, the city of Santa Clara had but they failed to make the University’s relationship injured in a car accident soon after. Unable to properly available land and was looking to raise its visibility. The championship game. In with the team was compete for a position, he was cut by Pittsburgh, 49ers were able to obtain very favorable conditions on 1954, Shaw was fired. He did complicated. Before pro signed in training camp with the 49ers, and barely their long-term lease for 12 acres: $1,000 an acre, with ultimately coach a team to football came to the Bay made the team. He went on to play 11 years, win a 4 percent annual increase, for 55 years. the NFL crown, however: the Area, the Broncos played three Super Bowls, and be inducted into the College Over the years, though the 49ers played at in 1960. their home games at Football Hall of Fame, the Division II Football Hall of Candlestick on Sundays, Santa Clara became their Without question, Tony Kezar Stadium, and many Fame, and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. home, with most of the coaches and players living Morabito was the force collegiate games were Most of Jones’ teammates were groomed at football near the facility. Despite that, there was never any behind the 49ers until his played on Sundays. After powerhouses like Notre Dame and USC. By the late consideration of moving the team south while death. He ultimately saw his the 49ers became the 1980s it had become increasingly rare to find a player DeBartolo was the owner. DeBartolo was committed goal of being part of the NFL primary tenant at Kezar, from a tiny Division II program at the pro level. So to building a new stadium at Candlestick Point. But realized in December 1949, Two-way and tough: lineman Visco Grgich ’46 the Broncos were forced when the 49ers relocated their training facility to Santa amid unrelated legal troubles in 1999, DeBartolo gave when the AAFC disbanded to play on Saturdays. Clara, Jones finally had a retort ready for fellow Niners up ownership of the team, ceding its control to his and the NFL absorbed three Crowd sizes dwindled. who teased him about going to such a small football sister Denise DeBartolo York. teams, including the 49ers. The 49ers went to court school: “I just told my teammates, ‘Hey, you’re playing Had DeBartolo still been at the helm, he says of When Morabito survived a to secure the Kezar in Santa Clara now, too.’” Candlestick, “Of course there would be a stadium heart attack in 1952, his doctor warned him that he dates of their choice, and Santa Clara became further Jones was well aware that, as a Bronco, he was part there by now. But it wouldn’t be anywhere near as high should sell the team because of the stress involved in marginalized, finally having just one game at Kezar in of the 49ers legacy. “I certainly always heard about the tech, and it would have a retail component … But ownership. Morabito considered his doctor’s advice 1952. The football team became something of a gypsy Morabitos and the Santa Clara connections,” he says. obviously they couldn’t get it done in San Francisco, so but ultimately decided he couldn’t live without the program with no home stadium. By the end of the “I heard so many stories from older alumni.” they had to think off the grid.” game. On Oct. 27, 1957, during the second quarter of 1952 season, the announcement came that Santa Clara That group includes Bill McPherson ’54, who It is ironic that the 49ers, after trying to solve a game against the at Kezar, Morabito would be dropping football. The emergence of the was with the team for 24 seasons. He joined the 49ers the stadium puzzle for so long, eventually found the suffered another major heart attack while sitting in 49ers was a large part of the reason. in 1979 and served as a linebackers coach, defensive answer, quite literally, next door. The team also turned the owner’s box. A priest came to give him his last It turned out that football’s hiatus from SCU was line coach, defensive rites. When news of his death reached the 49ers at relatively brief. Santa Clara resumed football in 1959, coordinator, defensive halftime—when the Bears were leading the 49ers by though the University only committed to a scaled- assistant, and personnel Legendary: Three 17–7—many team members were in tears, including down lower-division program that wouldn’t aspire to consultant. Super Bowl rings and four Pro Bowls for coach , who said the team, “could its past heights. The Broncos fielded a team for the 49ers follow Brent Jones ’85 never find a better owner, even if they got President next 33 years, playing most of those years at Buck In 1971, the 49ers Eisenhower.” The Niners rallied in the second half and Shaw Stadium. The stadium, financed by supporters finally also moved from won 21–17. who wanted to honor Shaw, their beloved former Kezar, to the newly built Victor Morabito remained the primary owner until coach, opened in 1962 as a multiuse facility, also home Candlestick Park. A his death in 1964, but Tony Morabito’s presence lived over the years to the school’s baseball and soccer teams. decade later, after they on for decades. When Edward DeBartolo bought (For baseball, the stadium was completed just as the had become one of the the team in 1977, to be overseen by his son Eddie team arrived on the national stage: They’d just won elite teams in the NFL, DeBartolo Jr., the 49ers were still owned by Jane the 1962 College World Series.) For most of its final they started looking for Morabito, Tony’s widow, and Josephine Morabito, chapter, Broncos football was led by coach Pat Malley a new training facility. Victor’s widow. The sale of the team to the DeBartolos, ’53—a guard on the 1950 Bronco team that won the Their outdated Redwood for an estimated $17.5 million, marked a new era for —and later his son Terry Malley ’76, a City facility was no the 49ers: when the team would become the dominant former SCU quarterback. And the program developed longer adequate. sports franchise in the Bay Area, winning five Super some top professional prospects. “It was anything Bowls and moving professional football firmly ahead of One of those was a tight end who went on to but 20th century,” says the collegiate game in popularity. become a legend with the 49ers. Brent Jones ’85, who Carmen Policy, the former president of the team who helped spearhead the move. “I just told my teammates, ‘Hey, you’re Coach Bill Walsh “had an idea of what was needed playing in Santa Clara now, too.’” —BRENT JONES for a new facility, and we set about making a plan,” Policy says. “We wanted / ALLSPORT ANDY LYONS

40 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 41 to the same firm that had built the training facility— Devcon Construction, headed by former Bronco football player Gary Filizetti ’67, MBA ’69—to build Levi’s Stadium. When the 49ers announced their plans to build the new stadium in Santa Clara, there was outcry from faithful 49ers fans in San Francisco and farther north. “In 2006, we had to make the tough call,” says , who has served as chief executive of the team since 2008. He is also Eddie DeBartolo’s nephew. “Do you keep working on something that may never come to fruition? Or do you build something that might not be in the city of San Francisco but is in the Bay Area and is something our fans can enjoy and be a part of?” York has noted the many natural ties among the city of Santa Clara, the University, and the 49ers. The proximity of the University seems to offer some fine opportunities for partnership, he says. Eddie DeBartolo also acknowledges the dismay of some San Francisco fans about the move south. “I’m fine with it, as long as they have a place to play in that’s as magnificent as this stadium is.” For some, Levi’s Stadium seems like a homecoming. Earlier this year, Brent Jones found himself walking around the stadium and seeing different vantage points that brought back fine memories. MICHAEL ZEGARIS Build it and they will come “I would have loved to be able to leave the [training] facility and directly access the stadium next door,” he says. Jones believes the move will be a good one for the 49ers. “Santa Clara should be very proud,” Jones says. “I was a little bit torn, growing up with the team in Indeed, the groundbreaking for the new stadium San Francisco and playing there,” Jones says. “But I’m took place in April 2012, with Santa Clara President n the end, Levi’s Stadium seemed to rise out of the ground Turner’s home away from home has been a trailer near Gate F actually thrilled that the city of Santa Clara stepped up Michael Engh, S.J., M.Div. ’82 offering the almost overnight. In just two years, workers constructed the on the stadium’s south side. and understood what it would mean for the city and the invocation, asking God to watch over the construction first NFL stadium in California in nearly 50 years, replete “It’s been all-consuming,” he says. whole South Bay.” Silicon Valley, he says, “had been workers while they embarked on the project. Looking with the bells and whistles the world expects from Silicon Meeting the deadline required a mix of grit, guile, and good battling for professionals sports teams throughout my toward the 2014 season, when the stadium would be Valley. From the 27,000-square-foot “Green Roof” atop its luck. The lack of rain during the past year may be bad for most childhood. Now with the 49ers and Sharks, they have a open, he said, “Keep watch and guard over the players, Isuite tower to the 400 miles of digital cable buried in its guts, Levi’s things, but clear weather certainly helped avoid construction wows with aesthetics and digital access. Indeed, there are 1,200 delays. Cranes, crews, and pile drivers worked around the clock. couple of great teams.” (One could add that, in pro the coaches, and staff. Preserve the players from injury; Wi-Fi access points, allowing fans to—among other things—order To gain logistical advantages, the company worked with the city of soccer, the Earthquakes have also made a mark; their inspire the coaches; and bless the office staff and all employees. And yes, Lord, we would be grateful for food and find the restrooms with the shortest lines. (The sprawl- Santa Clara to streamline and phase permitting. Instead of building new stadium in San Jose opens in 2015.) ing concourses also contain 250 more restroom facilities than their the stadium like tiers in a wedding cake, the typical way, they another Super Bowl victory.” And yet, Jones says, the arrival of the 49ers in Santa cramped predecessors.) broke it into separate quadrants, each with its own crew essentially Clara doesn’t take away the sting of the loss of Santa Despite the remarkable speed of construction, the ascent tackling a separate building. Clara football, which was dropped for a final time Web of Levi’s Stadium is only the last leg of a quest that goes back The resulting icon, Harvey says, is a testament to the vision following the 1992 season. After more than two Exclusives decades: a flat-out sprint at the end of a halting marathon. It’s a of the York family and Niners officials, filled with touches of both decades, the absence still feels like a huge hole. Extra points: more SCU football history and fact that few people outside of the team can appreciate. But one of Silicon Valley’s present—including enough solar panels to offset But the arrival of the 49ers may fill that hollow Jed York’s January talk from the President’s them who does is Jonathan Harvey ’91, vice president of con- the power consumed during home games over the course of the Speaker Series. santaclaramagazine.com just a little. struction for Devcon, the Milpitas-based contractor who built the year—and its past. Suites feature reclaimed wood from the old air stadium in partnership with –based Turner. hangar at Moffett Field. The stadium’s open spaces give sweeping Harvey first started work on building a new Niners home views of the surrounding area. 17 years ago, back when the team still imagined staying at It’s fair to say that the stadium is a work of Bronco ingenuity. In the ring Candlestick Point. That notion sputtered after Niners ownership Nearly a dozen SCU grads worked on the Devcon/Turner joint changed, but Devcon’s existing relationship with the team endured, venture, ranging from recently graduated engineers, like Laura Counsel, trainers, personnel: Broncos on the 49ers’ roster span the decades and places on the Skinner ’10, up to Gary Filizetti ’67, MBA ’69, Devcon’s presi- field and in the office. Henry “Schmitty” Schmidt served as SCU’s athletic trainer 1927–77; he leading Harvey to oversee upgrades to both Candlestick and the taped up Niners for years, too, and a park in Santa Clara now bears his name. John Ottoboni ’69 training facilities in Santa Clara. It was never long, however, before dent, a Santa Clara native and lifelong football fan. Harvey himself served as 49ers counsel for a quarter century and is the proud bearer of four Super Bowl rings, talk returned to the big project. grew up a Steelers fan in Pennsylvania before moving to California including the one at left; he’s been SCU’s general counsel since 2007. Edward Alvarez ’60, Those plans hit warp speed in 2011 as the move to Santa Clara in elementary school, just in time to have his allegiances won by J.D. ’65 was part of the 49ers’ legal team 1977–90; he’s now chairman of the board of the National became a certainty. Suddenly Harvey and his counterpart at ’s Niners.You don’t have to support a team, of course, Hispanic University Foundation. And Michael J. Williams ’89 directs pro personnel for the Turner were racing to pull off the construction equivalent of a two- to build its new home, but certainly Harvey wouldn’t mind if the Niners. That’s just a few. SBS minute drill: Build the country’s most advanced football stadium, hard work turns into the stage for the Niners’ next championship. In and do it in time for the 2014 season. For the past three years, 2016, Super Bowl L comes to Santa Clara—and all eyes will be on the house Devcon built. Sam Scott ’96 SCU

42 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 43 been in the ethical spotlight this year for its handling of players who’ve committed violence off the field, the concussion issue Use your head hasn’t gone away. In fact, international soccer star Brandi ClassNotesFALL 2014 Examining the ethics of football concussions Chastain ’91, who was part of the ISLE symposium again this year, has been working to draw attention to the danger of By Jack Bowen concussions that young people are exposed to when heading the ball on the soccer field. She is currently working with SLI The unsung: James n 2007, investigative journalist Alan Schwarz broke the and ISLE on a movement to prohibit headers in soccer leagues Houghton ’81 and Erika story that football causes much greater trauma to the with players younger than 14. Mallin, of New York’s Signature Theatre Company, brain than we realized. Doctors at institutions like the Frame it accept the Regional ISports Legacy Institute (SLI) demonstrated that even Theatre Award at the 68th the minor hits football players repeatedly experience can Here is a snapshot of some of the concepts entrenched in Annual Tony Awards. In accumulate, causing many players to suffer from chronic discussion of the concussion issue in youth sports. their acceptance speech, Houghton named every traumatic encephalopathy, which results in early-onset Consent: Kids cannot give consent to certain forms of dementia and depression—and may even lead to suicide. writer in residence the activity, especially those with great potential for causing theatre has presented. The NFL could no longer deny the connection. A recent harm. This is not only a legal issue—though this explains the settlement of $765 million in a class-action lawsuit between release form parents sign denoting their child might die in the NFL and more than 4,500 retired players is just the said activity—but also a moral one. If someone isn’t capable beginning of the legal action; the cap on the settlement of making a decision for themself, we ought not act in such a amount was even removed this summer. manner that could cause them undue harm. Conflict of Interest: Given the money involved in pro football, to ask those with big financial stakes to police themselves puts them in a tremendous bind. A similar conflict arises in hockey: When a player violently injures another in an excessive manner, the league argues that it should punish the player—with a seven-game suspension, for example—and the legal system remains at bay. Moral Duty: As the science informs us of harms being committed, especially to children, this is no longer a matter of taste or of what’s best for a particular sport. Morality is nothing if not an attempt to address actions that cause harm. So what is feasible? Cutting football programs? Changing the rules? Various proposals exist aimed at maintaining the spirit of the sport yet making changes to reduce concussions—such as eliminating the kickoff, forcing players to stand at the line instead of being in the three-point stance, and harsher penalties for targeting. Similarly, proposals to revise youth soccer would allow kids to enjoy the great benefits of soccer while easily avoiding the repeated head trauma. While the effect on pro players is disconcerting, to say Complicity: Given the above, is a football fan complicit in the least, deeper concern has grown regarding minors who the unethical nature of the institution—just by watching? play football. More than 225,000 children participate in Pop Pro sports require viewers to thrive. So, is the minor act of Warner football—though the number is decreasing due to the sitting on one’s couch watching football “complicit enough” to growing awareness of concussions—and more than 1 million warrant a boycott altogether? high school students play football. Children, whose brains are This is a conversation worth having. Like most philosophical in critical stages of development, are at an even greater risk. issues, examining it not only allows us to act in a more INSIDE At this intersection of science, policy, and moral theory, informed manner and on behalf of society as whole, it provides the philosophical issues become more complicated. This Stage write 46 CLASS NOTES a moment of reflection on our own lives and on what we intersection has been the focus of some of the work being 47 CALIFORNIA TWANG value most. SCU A Tony Award for James Houghton ’81 and done at places like Santa Clara’s Institute of Sports Law and 48 HAPPILY EVER AFTER the Signature Theatre Company in New York. Ethics (ISLE). In 2013, for the fourth annual Sports Law and Jack Bowen is on the board of SCU’s Institute of Sports Law and THE FACT Ethics Symposium, ISLE hosted speakers including journalist Ethics. He is the author of three books and teaches philosophy at Turn the page 49 LIVES JOINED Schwarz and former 49er Ronnie Lott. While the NFL has the Menlo School in Menlo Park. 49 BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS 50 ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR 51 BRONCO NEWS: Surprise. Delight. Educate. 52 OBITUARIES 44 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES FOR TONY AWARDS PRODUCTIONS IMAGES FOR TONY AWARDS THEO WARGO/GETTY ClassNotes

my partner of 26 years, Paul Jesuit middle school, where 1978 Patrick J. Maher 1981 Catherine Mullins in Portland, Ore., where she 1986 Mary Beth Cebedo Kellogg, in the Hollywood Hills she has volunteered for six has been elected as section writes that she is working as works as a delivery manager Lefebvre writes, “I am a of Los Angeles.” years. Her daughter, Erin representative to the board a hospice registered nurse for TEKsystems Global project/program manager Bishop ’03, MTS ’09, served of directors of the State Bar in Greenwood Village, Colo. Services. Kapur recently at Symantec’s sales and Edward Jessen, the longest- with the Jesuit Volunteer of Texas. Maher previously Her son Max graduated joined the Rose City Rollers, marketing operations serving reporter of decisions Corps at the Camden Center served as the chair of the from the Leeds School of a women’s flat-track roller organization. Outside work, I in the history of the California for Law and Social Justice, in bar’s Council of Section Chairs Business at the University of derby league, and skates with volunteer as a board member Supreme Court, has retired New Jersey; Erin now works for the last two years and as Colorado, Boulder, and son their recreational team, the with the Palo Alto Historical after 25 years of public service. in University Ministry at the chair of the bar’s Labor and Joe is at Belmont University in Wreckers. Association and as a yoga Jessen has been responsible . Employment Law Section in Nashville, Tenn., studying for a teacher at St. Elizabeth Seton Artistic director: for supervising the preparation 2010. He is board certified in business degree in music and Marty Mimmack has been School.” James Houghton with and publication of California Larry Bogner MBA ’77 reports labor and employment law and entertainment. inducted into the Cupertino playwright Will Eno appellate court opinions that all is well with him and his a fellow of the College of Labor High School Hall of Fame. 1989 Laura Bertone (12,000 a year) in the California wife, Lynda, in Napa. and Employment Lawyers. He is a motivational speaker GREGORY COSTANZO GREGORY 1983 Thomas Lynch was is director of the Office of Official Reports. recertified by the American and teacher who specializes Worship for the Archdiocese 1974 Rita Beamish is the 1979 Michelle (Massaro) Board of Internal Medicine in in disability awareness and of San Francisco, where she Stage write Kenneth G. Stevens MBA project editor of the newly Tabler is the Alaska regional December 2013. He continues character education. He advises the archbishop on UNDERGRADUATE ’84 writes, “I am retired from released The Upside of Aging manager for the Better to practice in Indianapolis at resides in Hawaii. Mimmack matters of liturgical policy; from page 45 NASA’s Ames Research (Wiley, 2014), a wide-ranging, Business Bureau serving the University School of attended SCU on a speech prepares and organizes all Center and married to fact-based book that reveals Alaska, Oregon, and western Medicine and Indianapolis VA scholarship; as a child, he was large archdiocesan liturgies “ riters, directors, 1959 Clayton Barbeau Catherine Schulbach, who the vast opportunities of our Washington. Tabler retired Medical Center. the Santa Clara County and such as chrism Mass, actors—if we’re stuck writes that he is in private works at NASA. I taught for aging world. “Yes, there is, in in 2010 from a career in national poster child for the ordinations, and Rite of here tonight and run practice in San Jose as a March of Dimes. several years in the School fact, an upside,” she writes. insurance. Peter V. Dessau J.D. Election; and certifies and psychotherapist and marriage 1984 W out of food, that’s the of Engineering’s Early Bird ’88 has been appointed to trains lay liturgical ministers. and family counselor. His DVDs order of whom we eat.” Program.” Chris Bernbrock retired from Patricia Feeney the board of directors of the 1985 Elissa Fink was Coping and Surviving are 1980 Not much has changed in the IBM after three decades of Gallagher joined the St. Anthony Housing Industry Foundation, recognized in the category of Elisa (Eidson) Lotti M.A. ’92 used worldwide in psychology pecking order since Steve Martin 1970 Mary Alice Cerrito fascinating, mostly global roles Foundation as the director of which assists individuals and CMOs of the Year in the 2014 is project specialist at a middle classes, hospitals, and cracked that joke at the 2003 Oscars. Fettis M.A. ’73 was honored with the company. He now development and outreach. In families in San Mateo and Santa PR World Awards. Fink is chief school in San Jose and was recovery programs. The book But, for more than 20 years, one in Monterey by the Italian enjoys long walks; practicing the Tenderloin, St. Anthony’s is Clara counties in remaining in marketing officer at Tableau a teacher for 20 years prior. he began writing while at Santa theatre has aimed to change that. American Cultural Center tai chi on the beach in Orange committed to providing the poor or returning to stable housing. Software, a company making She and George Lotti ’90 Clara, The Father of the Family, James Houghton ’81 founded Foundation for her dedication County with his wife of 37 of San Francisco with basic With 26 years of experience in databases and spreadsheets wed in 1997 and live in the won the Spiritual Life Award in the Signature Theatre Company to the marine environment as years, Yoopin; and being active services as a gateway to construction law, Dessau is a understandable to ordinary Willow Glen area, where they 1961. He is writing two new in 1991 in New York on a simple well as Monterey’s cultural in their Fountain Valley parish reclaiming their sense of dignity partner at Miller, Morton, Caillat people. For more than 20 also run Unconditional Love books. premise: put the writer center stage. past, Italian and Japanese community. and progressing toward stability. & Nevis LLP. years, Fink has held executive Animal Rescue and Placement, positions in marketing, Each season, the theatre focuses heritages, the Catholic Gallagher welcomes her fellow a nonprofit organization that Robert Ponzini writes: business strategy, product on the work of a single playwright, 1960 community, and Fisherman’s Tina Caratan writes, Bronco students and alumni Shelley Simmons Kapur rescues animals from local “I retired in 2003 after 34 years management, and product an idea that has recently been Wharf. “Forty years after receiving to volunteer! and her husband, Vineet, live shelter euthanasia lists. with a small research-oriented my bachelor’s degree at development. expanded to include both one- and military contractor. I worked five-year residency programs for 1971 Linda A. Mills is SCU, I decided to gain my with Kaman Sciences, which now serving on the board of master’s. I proudly graduated writers. The theatre gives context to was acquired by ITT in 1999. a writer’s previous work and fosters directors for Navient, a loan with a degree in nonprofit My wife, Moureen, and I lived management, servicing, and administration (with honors!) premieres from playwrights who in Colorado Springs, Colo., asset-recovery company. Mills from the University of San California twang have included Edward Albee, Bill until just recently, when we is currently corporate vice Francisco. But never fear— Irwin, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, relocated to Las Cruces, N.M., president of operations for once a Bronco, always a Lindsay Bruce ’10 penned her first song when is. Her grandmother plays “banjo, violin … just and Horton Foote. to be near our children.” Northrop Grumman. In 2012, Bronco!” she was 7 years old. She loved writing, but for about everything with strings,” and her mom, Over the years, Houghton’s she received the Federal 100 years she was too shy to sing for anyone else. Katherine Bruce ’76, was in a band in college theatre has grown to three stages, Allen McTighe writes, 1964 Award from FCW; last year she Dave Scott J.D. ’77 writes, “I That changed her sophomore year at Santa then later organized the children’s music for their moved into a new building designed “I’m very happily married to was named one of the 50 Most practiced law until 1981, then Clara, at an open mic night in the basement church when Lindsay was growing up. by Frank Gehry, and fostered work Ginny for the past 42 years. Powerful Women in Business went to work for a subsidiary of Graham Hall, when she performed “August In October, Lindsay Bruce released her first that won a Pulitzer. Houghton has We have two sons and a by Fortune magazine. of NV Philips. I started a small 15th,” one of her own tunes. “That was the first full-length record, Drive of My Life. Her sound also helped keep the theatre open daughter, who are absolute electronics company in 1983, and accessible to all audiences joys. Their combined gifts of 1972 Former Ambassador sold it in 2002, and retired. time I had played my song for anyone,” she says. has been described as “Taylor Swift, but with with an ambitious ticket subsidy seven grandchildren complete Mary Ann Peters has been I now split time between “It was, to me, the scariest thing in the world.” twang”—a comparison not only related to program. Founded in 2005, the the set! I have been in a appointed CEO of The Carter Saratoga, Calif., and Aspen, One of the students in the audience came up her sweet, melodic vocals and acoustic guitar Signature Ticket Initiative is a psychotherapy practice for Center, a nonprofit public Colo., and travel the world with to her and said, “I got chills during the end of but also to the semi-autobiographical nature of 25-year commitment to make all the past 35 years, specializing policy center founded by my wife.” your song.” Maybe she was just being kind. But her songs. in working with adolescent tickets $25 during a production’s former U.S. President Jimmy Bruce felt like she’d just “won a Grammy.” This past summer, a song she wrote about boys and young men who initial run. The theatre estimates that Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Sherri Sager just have been arrested for anger- 1975 That hasn’t happened yet. But millions of the drew the attention of nearly 2 million subsidized tickets Carter, with a mission to “wage celebrated her 20th anniversary viewers did see and hear Bruce this spring as the team and MLB.com, which filmed an artist management issues.” peace, fight disease, and will be sold thanks to this program. at Lucile Packard Children’s a contestant on NBC’s The Voice. That came feature with her in July. It’s a playful take on the build hope” worldwide. Prior, SCU recognized Houghton with Hospital, where she serves after several years of work as a singer-songwriter Giants-Dodgers rivalry, inspired by her time in 1969 Jim Andre writes, Peters served as provost of the as chief government and an honorary doctorate in 2013. And in Nashville, playing in nearly empty bars, Los Angeles and a boy she met there “wearing “Now retired, I completed U.S. Naval War College and community relations officer. in June, Houghton accepted the my third voyage teaching coffeehouses, and the occasional barbecue joint. white and blue.” Her dad’s never really been one Tony Award for Regional Theatre. spent more than 30 years as a for Semester at Sea this Since being on the show (she was eliminated for offering advice, she sings, but there’s one career diplomat with the U.S. recently “I’m one of those funny people past spring. After working 1977 John Kelley Department of State. purchased a home in in March), she’s been busy, splitting her time thing she’s understood: “Don’t bring home a who believes that theatre can in accounting and owning a Victorville, Calif., and works at between Nashville and Northern California, where Dodgers fan.” Kristen Intlekofer SCU change the world,” Houghton says. retail business for a few years, 1973 Retired teacher Julie Time Warner in direct sales. her band is based—and where her musical family And he’s helping writers move up I began my teaching career

(Clinnin) Bishop is an Ignatian DANIELLE JOY PHOTOGRAPHY the food chain. Jeff Gire SCU at the University of Southern Volunteer in San Diego at a California in 1984. I live with

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Maggie Rodee May writes: In 2013, Ana Paz-Rangel of University Women and the GRADUATE 1982 Nancy J. Creveling “My husband, Tony, and I began her graduate studies Santa Clara County Office of MBA writes, “I finally retired Timothy J. Flaherty ’82 and relocated to Silver Spring, Md., at Georgetown University’s Women’s Policy, the meeting from Lockheed Martin. I’m David F. Mira ’82 on Aug. 24, in 2012 after living abroad School of Foreign Service. She featured a series of panel 1968 Korean War veteran enjoying volunteering with 2013, in a backyard garden wedding in Vicenza, Italy, for three is currently pursuing a master’s discussions on economic, John Meyers MBA, was flown Master Gardeners.” at their home in West San Jose. The years. Tony is serving in the in Latin American studies. educational, and health equity to Washington, D.C., with husbands met at SCU and have been for women. Valle is a secretary Honor Flight on May 29. He Army. I am currently enrolled 1985 Miguel Lopez- together 33 years. at the University of , Rochelle Rock graduated from at Our Lady of Grace Nativity was awarded a Bronze Star Pereira MBA writes that Mike DiSano ’84 and Noelle Baltimore, in an adult nurse medical school and entered School for Girls. and a Combat Infantry Badge while in Korea in 1951 and he was encouraged by Concepcion on June 22 in Pleasanton. practitioner program.” a residency in emergency Charles French to continue Happily ever after the fact medicine at the University of 2013 Former SCU 1952. At 86 years old, he plays Former SCU player Becky golf three times a week. agribusiness studies, which “I was raised to be charming, not sincere,” drawls Jeffrey 1992 Michael R. Johnson Connecticut. goalkeeper Larry Jackson led to 12 years serving Potter ’04 and Nick Pecoraro on Brian Adams ’10 to a disillusioned Monique Hafen ’10. M.S. ’93 completed his fourth signed with the MLS’ New with different international May 24 in Pismo Beach, Calif. The audience laughs. The music strikes up. year as a principal at an Kristina Arntz is England Revolution. A native 1973 William Barton MBA 2009 organizations. He and wife Michelle Rodriguez ’06 and This summer, the former theatre majors starred as international middle school in currently attending Vanderbilt of East Palo Alto, he was has been appointed to the Norma have a real estate 14th District Agricultural Antonio Flores on Oct. 19, 2013, in Cinderella and her Prince—with Noelani Neal ’13 as Caracas, Venezuela. He now University working on an MBA named the 2012 West Coast business in Honduras, where Association, Santa Cruz Redwood City. The wedding party Rapunzel—in the San Francisco Playhouse production of holds the same position at in health care. She has been Conference Goalie of the Year they live. at Santa Clara; he was also County Fair Board of included Jessica Clee ’06, Denise Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s Tony the Anglo-American School happily dating Derek Brown named to the 2012 NSCAA/ Directors, by Gov. Jerry Carrillo ’05, Kyra Hanson ’05, of Moscow for the 2014–15 ’09 for the past five years. Ce Cole Dillon J.D. Award–winning musical that casts familiar Continental Tire NCAA Division Brown ’59. Barton, of Aptos, 1986 Paulina Lomeli ’04, Viviana school year. Johnson moved co-founded Student Loan fairy tale characters in new light. Adams I Men’s All-Far West Region has held positions at Granite Montoya-Hernandez ’04, M.A. to Moscow with his wife, 2010 Thomas Akins Jr. 411 LLC, an advisory firm that (pictured at left in the red coat) recently Third Team. During preseason, Construction Inc., Spectra-Flux ’07, SCU Assistant Dean of Finance Christina, and children Danielle came up with the idea for the helps students re-engineer earned his MFA in acting from the New Jackson played with Chivas Inc., and Lockheed Missiles and Administration Elizabeth 14, and Derek, 11. mobile app podStatus, a music their student loan debt to pay USA and the Colorado Rapids. and Space Company. Barron Silva ’01, M.A. ’12, and School for Drama, and Hafen (above, right) player that takes a stab at for their life, not just their loans. has received best actress awards for several Ruben Silva ’01, MBA ’07. The 1994 Karen Phillips music discovery for frequent Dillon resides in Chicago, Ill., couple honeymooned in Punta Cana Bay Area performances. Neal (below), who A former LEAD Scholar at Alvaro A. Reis MBA is Boccabella and John Instagram users (and other with her family. and live in San Carlos. expertly managed 14 feet of hair for the Boccabella ’92 live in Orinda, social networks) who have SCU, Roberto Ramos has retired and enjoying lectures received a full-ride, merit- and Osher Lifelong Learning show, has been teaching dance and acting Calif., with their three boys, songs on their iPhone to share Samuel Viroslav MBA based scholarship to attend Institute activities at SCU, 1988 locally in musical theatre. ages 8, 6, and 4. with friends. It has an algorithm writes that his company started the David Geffen School of traveling in state, catching up As undergrads, Hafen and Adams shared that makes music suggestions up a new 50-megawatt wind Medicine at UCLA—a very rare with family and friends, and the stage in two SCU productions and Rosanna Guadagno based on what users already farm in Tilarán, Guanacaste, have in their music library. honor. Recipients also receive reading Santa Clara Magazine countless improv shows with their troupe, Loewald and her husband, Costa Rica, which entered Tonio Loewald, welcomed special access to faculty and from cover to cover. BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS Inoperable Humor. That shared history lent operation this year. twin girls, Romilly Jane and Catie Barr J.D. ’13 joins the a research stipend of $5,000, an ease to their collaboration when they Jaelle Marie, in March 2008. roster of attorneys at the among other benefits. The 1978 Former Redwood began rehearsing and performing Into the scholars are selected for City Mayor Jim Hartnett J.D., 1989 Karin Bootsma Adriana Cimetta ’94 and husband Rosanna and her family have Redding, Calif., law firm of Barr MBA is now vice president Woods, says Hafen. Which is good, since moved to Dallas, Texas, where and Mudford. Third-generation one of two tracks: Research the current vice chair of the Michael Stevens—a girl, Sawyer or Service to Underserved California High Speed Rail of marketing for RiseSmart, Cimetta Stevens, on Jan. 28. Adriana is they will soon have spent half the year working side she has accepted a tenured north-state born and raised, a leader in enterprise career by side. In rehearsal now, the two will co-star in San position as an associate Barr worked in the Santa Clara Communities. Authority Board of Directors, an educational psychologist conducting maintains his active litigation management solutions, at research at the University of Arizona. Francisco Playhouse’s holiday show Promises, Promises, professor of emerging media County Public Defender Office, its San Jose office. She Sara Broyles writes, and dispute-resolution practice Michael is an OB-GYN. The family lives opening Nov. 18 and running through early January. and communication and volunteered with the Innocence 2014 brings more than 20 years as associate professor of “I’m working at a public as a partner at Hartnett, Smith, in Tucson, Ariz. Danae Stahlnecker ’15 SCU Project, and worked as a clerk of high tech, human capital relations agency in San & Paetkau in Redwood City. psychology at the University of for one of Santa Clara County’s management, and SaaS Jeffrey Tarantino ’99 and Sarah Francisco. I couldn’t be more Texas, Dallas. Superior Court judges. marketing experience with Tarantino—Edward “Teddy” Tarantino on grateful for all Santa Clara has 1979 Andrew Barnes MBA companies including Monster Jan. 23. Teddy joins big sister Katherine. done for me. I feel confident 2004 In January, Alison 2011 Lauren Silk is retired in October 2013 after Worldwide, Trovix, and Entopia. Also this year, Jeff celebrated his 10th R. Christian was promoted attending the graduate in myself knowing that I have a long career in the computer anniversary with Erler & Kalinowski Inc. a solid foundation that will industry. He earned several to shareholder at the law firm program in speech-language 1994 John Kennedy Christian, Dichter & Sluga pathology at University of prepare me for the workforce sales awards including being Therese (DiCola) Henderson ’03 and and the rest of my life! It’s named a Sun Microsystems J.D. has worked in the San Reed Henderson—Lillian Reed on Sept. in Phoenix, Ariz. Christian is Colorado, Boulder. Francisco City Attorney’s a co-founder of the award- always a great day to be a Key Employee two times. 26, 2013. Lily joins big sister Ella, 3. Bronco!” Barnes lives in Mountain View office for the past 20 years. winning “Ladder Down” This past year, Marc 2012 with his wife, Jenny. He served on the boards of Christine (Beechinor) Travis ’03 business development program Trasolini started for Pesaro in directors for the San Francisco and husband Chris—their first child, Benjamin Demaree for women lawyers. Her the top division of the Italian LGBT Community Center, Evelyn Andrea Travis, on Sept. 1, 2013. received a 2014 West Coast practice focuses on insurance Basketball League. The 6-foot- Allene Feldman M.A. received LYRIC, and Bay Area Lawyers The family resides in Bakersfield, Calif., Conference Postgraduate law and bad-faith litigation. 9 rookie averaged 10.4 points her SIT-TESOL teaching for Individual Freedom. He where Christine owns her own Pilates Scholarship and enrolled and 6.7 rebounds per game— certification from the World enjoys water polo, food, and studio, Poise Pilates+Barre. in the U.C. Berkeley-UCSF 2008 At Opower, Agustin an outstanding year making Learning SIT Graduate traveling. Fonts is the international the transition from the NCAA Joint Graduate Program Institute. Along with her staff, Leslie (Maglione) Jensen ’06, J.D. in Bioengineering. At SCU Feldman, who is the owner ’09 and her husband, James—their product manager and Ryan to the pros. Playing for SCU, 1998 David Fisher MBA is Leary ’08 is engineering he blocked 152 shots, third all- Demaree was named Cross- of Argus Publishing Group in first, Samantha May, on Jan. 17. Country Newcomer of the , writes, edits, vice president and business manager for a company whose time best in Bronco history. transformation officer at SRA Kevin Teh ’06, wife Sadie, and big software is transforming the Year in 2010, was an SCU and creates Common Core Provost Scholarship recipient, materials for English-language International Inc., a provider brother Samuel—a boy, Jacob Max, on way the world approaches Maria Valle facilitated was named to the Dean’s learners. of information technology Feb. 4. He made a surprise entrance at household energy conservation. San Jose’s second annual List three times, and was a home where the family lives in Their careers in the energy leadership conference for two-time WCC All-Academic Goodlettsville, Tenn. industry started when young women, “Strong Girls, First Team selection as a they joined the 2007 SCU Strong Women.” Organized sophomore and junior. Solar Decathlon team as by the American Association undergraduates.

48 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 49 JESSICA PALOPOLI BRONCO NEWS solutions and professional software, hardware, and services to government engineering leadership. FROM THE SCU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION organizations, and the author Previously at Brocade, he For details, reservation instructions, and additional events: of Optimize Now (or else!): was vice president of routing, scu.edu/alumni/eventcalendar How to Leverage Processes product management, and and Information to Achieve strategy for its data center Questions? Call 408-554-6800 Enterprise Optimization (and switching and routing Avoid Enterprise Extinction) business. (iUniverse, 2003). Surprise. Delight. Educate. EVENTS CALENDAR 2005 Lindsay Horvath J.D. Sheila J. Henderson M.A. has been retained as a broker writes, “My husband and associate at Intero Real Estate October I moved to New York City, Services in Vacaville. Having fter 11 years of appearing in conflict, and oppression around the world. the executive director of the new Jerry and I published two books, worked as a deputy district Reading with Washington 25 Santa Clara Valley AFO Fostering Inventiveness in attorney for seven years in the pages of this magazine, For a self-professed lifelong learner, Smith Coaching for Life Academy. He is School Students Children and Invention Friday Riverside, Solano, and Napa I suspect there are still a these moments of serendipitous learning also an Illuminate thought leader; below 27 Reno/Tahoe Reception with Dons and Gaels Curriculum: Grades 2–5, for counties, she changed careers couple things you might not and sharing are a quiet joy in my life. I firmly you’ll find an introduction to his insights those interested in encouraging because of her long-standing know about me. No. 1: I love about leadership and sport. children toward interesting interest in real estate. believe exposure to diverse sources of readingA The New York Times on Sunday knowledge and opinions not only expands Read the rest of his first article for November careers and to enjoy learning, inside and outside the 2006 Jacquetta Lannan mornings. No. 2: I hate snakes. our horizons but makes us competent, the blog and explore more bright ideas 6 Central Coast 41st Annual Fall Dinner classroom.” J.D. traded in her career as a So it was a surprise to me when I found conscientious, and compassionate people. from other SCU thought leaders at 7 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch lawyer to launch Chez Franc, myself reading a Times article about snakes Where do you find unexpected scu.edu/illuminate. 1999 Sachi Sambandan a gourmet hot dog eatery 8 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring at St. Bernard MBA has been appointed (and food truck) set to open on a Sunday morning this past spring. The wisdom? Did you know your alma mater So check out SCU Illuminate and High School senior vice president of in Palo Alto in the fall with article highlighted the large number of not only was a great place to earn a degree prepare to be surprised, delighted, and engineering at Gigamon, artisan hot dogs, gourmet (unnecessary) snakebite deaths among but continues to be a place of pride, educated. I just hope there aren’t any a leader in traffic visibility fries, crafted beer, and local rural, poor populations across the globe, as influence, and relevance? With that in mind, articles about snakes. Los Angeles AFO solutions. Prior, he served as wine. In a profile in the Silicon vice president for VMware’s Valley Business Journal, she well as ways to reduce the mortality rate I am thrilled to announce SCU Illuminate, 8 Mass and Lunch with Michael Engh, R&D Hybrid Cloud Services credits the California Program from this neglected medical issue. a new blog curated by the Alumni and spent 10 years at Force10 for Entrepreneurship at the Surprise turned to delight when I found Association. Illuminate will showcase select S.J., at St. Bernard High School Networks. Leavey School of Business for myself discussing this problem with fellow University thought leaders writing on topics helping her get things rolling. Go Broncos! alumna Mary Ann Peters ’72, a career 2000 Michael Clapperton CAPE is a six-month business particularly relevant to you and our Santa boot camp. [Try Chez Franc’s diplomat who was on campus in April for Clara community. The goal is to inspire 13 Santa Cruz Annual Fall Luncheon MBA, chief technology officer of IT Sigma in New York City, Mission Dog with bacon and our Study Abroad Speaker Series. professional conversations and personal guac. Fabulous. —Ed.] 15 Denver AFO Volunteering at Food Bank of the Rockies has been named to the board Ambassador Peters is also the new CEO of development alike. of Etairos Consulting in San Jose. Angie Wilcox M.A. is now The Carter Center in Atlanta, which was Jerry Smith is the winningest women’s Kathryn Kale ’86 December assistant dean in the Student founded to fight disease, hunger, poverty, soccer coach in Santa Clara history and Assistant Vice President, Alumni Relations Affairs division at Stanford 5 Alumni Association First Friday Mass and Lunch 2001 David Doré MTS, the new president of Pima University, after 11 years in 6 Los Angeles AFO Tutoring at St. Bernard High School Community College’s Student Life at the Stanford Northwest Campus in Tucson, Graduate School of Business. 7 Alumni Association Advent Afternoon of Reflection Ariz., comes from Mesa She and husband Nathan 11 Santa Clara Valley AFO Holiday Party for Home Community College, where he Barreras ’97 live in Redwood was the dean of instruction for City. Safe Shelters BRI G H T I DEAS F R O M SCU T HOUG H T LEA DERS career and technical education. A successful sports team 13 San Francisco AFO Serving Meals at St. Anthony’s From 1996 to 2013, Doré 2013 Jaime Saavedra is built on four pillars: tactical, Dining Room served in several positions at J.D. joined the San Francisco San Francisco Community office of Kilpatrick Townsend technical, mental, and physical 13 Boston AFO Volunteering at Greater Boston Food Bank College District. & Stockton as an associate THE STRONGEST MUSCLE skills. Mental skills have typically with the patent team in been undervalued until recently. 2003 Emily Wang Phan the Intellectual Property BY JERRY SMITH January 2015 Department. During law Instead, time is spent on X’s and J.D. was the 2014 reader’s In my 27 years of experience as a Division I soccer pick for Best Criminal Lawyer school, Saavedra was a O’s, skill acquisition, or strength of Silicon Valley, according research editor for the coach, I’ve seen firsthand how habits and lessons and conditioning. The results Alumni Association to the weekly Metro. She Santa Clara High Technology learned in sports apply to many aspects of an of mental skills training may specializes in defending Law Journal. athlete’s life. Learning how to find common ground be harder to see than results 17 Pasta Feed and Bronco cases such as theft, domestic and resolve differences with co-workers to achieve Legends Night violence, and driving under the in other areas, so many tend influence. team goals, or learning to cope with performance to somewhat ignore this area. However, the best anxiety when making a big presentation, are a couple coaches focus more time and energy on the mental Ananda Rajagopal MBA What’s happening, ways mental skills training in sports can apply to pillar—developing leadership, mental toughness, Broncos? Let us know: joined Gigamon as vice one’s work. Watching Aly Wagner ’03 raise triplets president of product santaclaramagazine.com goal setting, teamwork, communication, and stress management, bringing more /classnotes while pursuing her ambitious career goals, I see management skills for our student-athletes. These than 20 years of global her applying skills that helped us win a national will serve them well in the game—and in life off the championship: time management, mental toughness, courts and fields. resourcefulness, teamwork, communication, preparation, goal setting, and leadership. Read more at scu.edu/illuminate. 50 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 SCU OMC 8443 10/2014 91,625 Below are obituaries of Santa Clara alumni. At santaclaramagazine.com/obituaries you’ll find obituaries published in their entirety. There, family members may also submit obituaries for publication online and in print. We publish news of the passing of Broncos as we learn of it.

OBITUARIES 1945 and then came to SCU on a baseball scholarship. He worked for 32 years in various 1942 Joseph Francis electrical industries before Franzoia, April 21. He was born starting his own businesses: in 1920 in Sacramento, served Trendar and Trendcom. In with the Army in Italy during retirement he lived in Nevada World War II, became a partner City, Calif., and traveled with his wife. Survivors include children

ROBERT DURELL / LOS ANGELES TIMES ROBERT in the M&D Service Station, and later a partner at the Rosemount Bill Riddle Jr. ’76 and Nancee Grill. He was married for 68 Beals ’82. The family asks that years and raised five children. He any memorials be made to the enjoyed reading, gardening, and Riddle Family Scholarship at A thunderous presence golfing—with eight holes in one. SCU. in the Capitol 1949 Robert C. Huttlinger, 1952 Carroll Arden Heffer- hen John Vasconcellos ’54, J.D. ’59 died on May 24 at May 6. He was born in 1923 in nan Jr., April 22. An orthodon- tist with a passion for flying the family home in Santa Clara, journalists paid tribute to Ridgewood, N.J., and he served in the Army Air Corps during planes, he often flew to Mexico, W him the length and breadth of the Golden State. The World War II. He was a civil donating his time and dental 82-year-old lawmaker was, as the Mercury News put it, a “famously engineer who fell in love with expertise. He stayed connected rumpled bear-of-a-man who served 38 entertaining and volatile years Alaska while working on the with aviation until his passing, in the state Legislature representing the heart of Silicon Valley.” What Alaska Pipeline; he returned serving as wing commander else did folks say of him? “He was one of a kind.” “Colorful, witty, many times during his retire- with the Northern Nevada Civil Air Patrol and was an honored brilliant, angry, intellectual and elegantly foul of mouth.” “He didn’t ment, fifth wheel trailer in tow. Survivors include son Peter member of the “QBs.” He was Immersed: in literature and life. suffer fools gladly.” What did he say? Among the quotable phrases Huttlinger ’72 and grandson born in 1931 in Reno, Nev. Betty Moran in 1986. posterity recorded: “People are basically decent—and given the right Jeremy Armstrong ’01. kinds of recognition, nurturance, love and support—will live in Bob Koester, Jan. 5. He was GLENN MATSUMURA constructive ways.” He convinced California Gov. George Deukmejian 1950 Edward Alvin born in Pasadena, Calif., in to sign a bill creating the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem Lafranchi, Feb. 5. Born in 1928, and flew jet interceptors over the North Atlantic with the and Personal and Social Responsibility. When he was derided for that Petaluma in 1928, he was one of the earliest employees of Air Force in the 1950s. He in the panels of comic strip Doonesbury, he was unapologetic; he Lawrence Livermore National became a pilot with United loved the publicity and opined that if the commission even slightly Leading with heart Laboratory, where he worked Airlines. He lived an active life of reduced teen pregnancy and kept a few people out of prison, that until retirement in 1991. He deep-sea fishing, snow skiing, would be worthwhile. His mother was Portuguese and his father was enjoyed golfing, except when he and epic bicycle trips around the German, and at SCU as an undergrad he was class president and couldn’t hit the ball; attending world; he volunteered with the lizabeth J. Moran was a teacher, talking about human tenacity, enduring House of Representatives. role model, mentor, and friend to strength, and caring,” our colleague Fred Active in retirement, she helped valedictorian; he was president of his law class, too. He served as an 49ers games, but only when 1984 Olympics as an assistant with cycling events. He had Santa Clara students, faculty, and Parrella once said. establish the Georgia Travis Center, a aide to Gov. Pat Brown before entering the state Assembly in 1966. they won; and sharing a cocktail every evening with wife Ann. three children with wife Frieda. staff. Born in Mississippi in 1918, A natural leader, Betty Moran lived with resource center for homeless women and He chaired the Ways and Means Committee and he carried the first Survivors include grandson she moved to California in 1959, kindness, integrity, and commitment to her children in San Jose, and served as an Ewhere she raised four children, did substi- legislation to ban chlorofluorocarbons; he was an advocate for Daniel Lafranchi ’14; he was 1953 Manlio “Mel” John ideals. When she saw something that elder in the San Jose Presbytery. She once medical marijuana, needle-exchange programs, increased welfare predeceased by brother Arthur Micheletti, May 7. A Bellarmine tute teaching, and taught reading in migrant needed to be done, she put her heart and said that her motto was: “Get involved in payments, and the research and development tax credit. He called Lafranchi ’58. College Preparatory Hall of camps while completing her master’s soul into it. With her personal warmth, something outside of yourself. Find some degree at San Jose State University. concern for others, and faith in possibility, way to make a contribution to your commu- Sacramento “a cesspool of cynicism,” so he stumped for what Famer and a 53-year resident of Los Altos Hills, he owned Miche- When she began teaching English at she exercised leadership on many levels: nity.” She lived that with heart. he called “the politics of trust.” When he was termed out, the 1951 Gordon Joseph Machado, March 17. A father of letti Insurance, contributed to Santa Clara in 1963, there were only two from chairing SCU’s first affirmative action Elizabeth Moran died on June 23 at age Sacramento Bee observed, “No one filled his shoes.” SBS five, Machado was born in Los many charities, and was a 49ers other women faculty members on campus. committee in the early 1970s and being the 95. A celebration of her life was held at Angeles in 1929. After a 36-year fan back to the days of Kezar In 1967 she became the first woman to first woman to head the faculty senate to Stone Church of Willow Glen on Oct. 4. career with the Sacramento Stadium. Survivors include receive tenure in the College of Arts and founding the Teaching and Learning Center. Among her survivors are her four children: County Probation Department, brother Art Micheletti ’50 and Sciences. Professor Moran became known After 10 years of work, she established Santa Raymond Moran, Linda Kelley ’76, Machado said, “I don’t son Jim Micheletti ’88. Mel for her concern for students as well as her Clara’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 1977, Jocelyn Jackson ’72, and Marci Ahlans- understand how people can be and wife Lorna lost their son emphasis on excellence and social becoming its charter president. berg ’74; nine grandchildren, including bored during retirement when Paul Micheletti ’81 when he responsibility. In 1968, the assassination of In 1989, when she retired from the Stephanie Helmbold ’92, Richard there are so many people who was 32 years old. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired her to teach Teaching and Learning Center and was Hansen ’98, and Aleta Hansen ’01; four need help.” He enjoyed SCU’s first African American literature awarded emerita status, then-President Paul great-grandchildren; as well as the many volunteering, music, photogra- 1954 Wilson Kwong Sung course—to help transcend bigotry and Locatelli, S.J. ’60 called her “the Second friends and colleagues whose lives she phy, and dancing. Wong, Dec. 27, 2010. Born in violence by promoting greater understand- Lady of Santa Clara.” (St. Clare holds the No. touched and thousands of grateful Wailuku, Hawaii, he was a ing. After a Danforth fellowship in black 1 spot.) She continued teaching for five more students. She continued to hear from Bill Riddle MBA ’67, Oct. 29, retired GTE Hawaiian Tel studies in 1971, she began teaching African years until retiring completely in 1994—when some of those students over the years— 2013. Born in Welch, Okla., in engineer and an Army veteran. literature as well. she was honored with resolutions from the which, she said, “fills me with great delight.” DOONESBURY © 1987 G. B. TRUDEAU. REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION OF UNIVERSAL UCLICK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1926, he joined the Army in He was 79 and a father of two. “When you talk about Elizabeth, you’re California State Legislature and the U.S. Diane Dreher, professor of English

52 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 S a n t a C l a r a M a g a z i n e | f a l l 2014 53 IN MEMORIAM 1956 Jack Valentine Singer Donal V. Croall, Nov. 29, 2013. 1970 Evelyn E. Roddy M.A., death by his first wife, Susan 1982 Joan Marie Banich, Jr., March 20. The longtime A Berkeley native and 44-year March 21. A longtime resident of Moore Duyn ’74 and is survived May 2. Born in France in 1960, Marin County resident was 79. Campbell resident, he owned Sacramento, Roddy was born in by his brothers Carl Duyn ’84 Banich was a mentor, hiker, He was an accountant with and operated Croall Radiogra- Jackson, Calif. She retired from and Bob Duyn ’79, MBA ’86. entrepreneur, mother, and wife. Joseph “Joe” Young J.D. interests that included dancing, phy for more than 35 years. He the Department of Motor While battling MDS for the past ’64 was born in 1929 and photography, golf, gardening, was a friend and mentor to Vehicles as a manager after 20 James Edward McGhee, May 11 years, she continued working spent his early years in wine, and carpentry—but none many. years. She was 80. 4. After many years in various at Cisco Systems while also Montana. During the Great greater than traveling the world management positions, being involved in Women Depression, economic with his family. Survivors include Charles Joseph Dirksen Jr., Janet Samo M.A., March 7. A McGhee, a resident of San Leaders of the World, The hardship forced his parents son Jack V. Singer III ’77. Aug. 29, 2013. Dirksen, 71, of teacher, high school counselor, Jose, launched the consulting Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, to place him and his Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and therapist, Samo worked in company Integrated Manage- and Team In Training. younger sister in an 1959 John “Jack” F. Quirk Canada, will be missed by his the Fremont Union High School ment Services. He founded the COURTESY MARY LOUISE YOUNG COURTESY MARY orphanage, where he lived III J.D., Feb. 19. Born in brothers Frank Dirksen ’66 and District for more than 30 years. African American Parent 1986 Irene A. Radtke M.A., for six years. At 12, he and Oakland in 1927, he served in Victor Dirksen ’68, his wife and She was born in Fairfield and Coalition and held membership Feb. 20. A Franciscan Sister of his sister traveled to the Army at Far East Command daughters, and others. His known as devoted, compas- in the NAACP as well as many Mary for more than 60 years, she

California to live with their HQ during the war in Korea. He laughter and humor will forever sionate, and kind. She leaves other social-action organiza- served as a nurse, nursing SCU ARCHIVES father. Two years later, he went into private law practice, be remembered. He was behind niece Nicole Norris tions. He leaves behind his supervisor, and executive director traveled in steerage by then was city attorney for predeceased by his father, J.D. ’02, among others. wife, Alison McGhee ’72, and at hospitals for many years. She steamship to Anchorage, Porterville, Calif., for 17 years. Charles J. Dirksen Sr., former three children. was born in Mineral Point, Wis., Alaska, where his mother He was appointed to the bench dean of the business school at 1971 Frank Kazmierczak in 1928. In 1993, she founded Compressive lived, playing poker to earn by Gov. George Deukmejian in SCU. MBA, Sept. 24, 2013. 1975 Gilbert “Gil” Seymour Almost Home, which provides strength spending money along the 1984. He was married to Ann Kazmierczak was born in 1934 MBA ’75, Feb. 17. He served transitional housing and way. In high school, Young Patrick J. McGarry, Jan. 12, four years in the Air Force and A recognized Bay Area business and had four children. in Wheeling, W.Va. A resident of education for homeless mothers leader, John Louis Albanese ’70 became an accomplished ski racer and later competed in the U.S. 2012. McGarry was born on San Jose, he worked at worked for several major firms under 18 and their children. Alpine Championships. Drafted by the Army in 1951, he also skied March 10, 1943. He was 68. in Silicon Valley before retiring passed away on June 26, at the 1960 Lawrence Joseph Lockheed Martin for 30 years. age of 66, after a pulmonary illness. throughout Europe with the Army International Ski Team. At 31, he Callan Sr., Feb. 9. Born in He was an active member of to Anaheim, Calif. Survivors 1993 Margaret “Meg” Joan decided to go to law school. “I woke up and had a wife and a 1965 Kathryn “Kit” P. Islip, include daughter Carolyn He was president and CEO of the 1938, he grew up in Marin and the Kona Kai tennis club, and of Andelman Keller M.A., May 1. Santa Clara–based Jos. J. couple of kids—and all I knew how to do was slide down hills and for more than 25 years owned April 25. A fifth-generation native Tea Timers & Roosters, an RV DePietro ’85. Born in Harlan, Ky., she was a climb poles,” he said. Although he did not have an undergraduate of Marysville, Calif., where she Albanese Inc. construction James L. Callan & Sons club. He had three children. marriage and family therapist company, a business started by his degree, Young scored high enough on his law school admissions Jewelers. He founded Shark’s was born in 1943. Islip was a 1976 Timothy Dunn with a private practice in test to get a waiver to attend law school at Santa Clara. He dedicated teacher for 30 years Cheney J.D., Feb. 9. Born in father, the late Joseph Deli in Tiburon and LJ’s Deli in 1973 Mark McCambridge, Almaden Valley. She also Albanese ’40. Raised in the specialized in representing widows, orphans, and people who had San Rafael. His brother John in Yuba-Sutter area high Jan. 16. A Seattle native, Oakland in 1949, Cheney taught volunteered with various been terribly injured through corporate negligence. He passed schools. She was a parishioner business law at Linfield College industry, John Albanese started Callan ’69, MBA ’76 is among McCambridge spent 20 years in animal-rescue groups. Survivors helping his father when he was just away on April 11. his survivors. of St. Isidore Catholic Church for administrative positions at in Oregon and later at Idaho include daughter Alisha 35 years. Survivors include sister State University. He was an 6 years old, taking the helm of the Oregon State University, Morcate ’93. family business when his father Rosemary Finney Ann Prindiville ’70 and receiving an Honorary Alumni accomplished golfer. Thomas J. Reilly ’65 1961 retired in the early 1980s. He grew Parker, March 21. As a student sister-in-law Maureen C. Award and the Distinguished David Robert Kerr MBA, thrived on his ability to the company and saw it through in the O’Connor Hospital School Prindiville ’68. Service Award in 2013. He Maureen Romano, Feb. 12. March 5. Born in 1962, Kerr console, share positive life numerous concrete construction of Nursing, Parker was among helped the university achieve She was born in Seattle, Wash., enjoyed a successful career in stories, and give advice, jobs in the Bay Area, including the the first women to attend SCU; David Hershel Posner MBA, fourth place in the nation for use in 1954. After a hiking accident the semiconductor industry, with his sly sense of new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara they were hung in effigy near the March 25. He was a Korean War of renewable energy. He is in 1982, she resided at which took him around the humor and Irish smirk. and several buildings here on the entrance on their first day of veteran and a manager at Price survived by his wife, Betsy Providence Mount St. Vincent, a world, most recently with Lam Born in 1942, Reilly was Mission Campus. school. In 1964, at the age of Waterhouse in Manhattan and McCambridge ’74. living care community in West Research, Linear Technology, stricken with polio in his A football player at SCU, 24, Parker was made head later in San Francisco. He retired Seattle. She had a love of Fairchild Semiconductor, and early teens. As an Albanese served in Vietnam for two nurse in the first ICU/CCU in from Levi Strauss & Co. as Dale Schrumpf M.S., MBA languages, travel, tennis, skiing, Microchip Technology. He dearly undergrad at SCU he was years prior to graduating. “He was Santa Clara Valley; later, she corporate systems security ’80, May 5. Born in 1935 in and singing. She leaves behind loved and was extremely proud awarded the Silver Medal; just a very caring guy and had a big worked with pioneering heart manager. He was married to Perryville, Mo., Schrumpf was a large extended family, of his children. he also belonged to the heart,” former SCU teammate transplant surgeon Norman Marty Grant and had two an engineer and entrepreneur. including nephew Henry James Bond Club. He Gary Filizetti ’67, MBA ’69, told Shumway at Stanford Medical children. He worked on the space station Romano ’12. Mary Mabey M.A., Jan. 21. earned a law degree from the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Center and in the cardiac units and attained several patents. He She was born in Los Angeles in Stanford University and for He is survived by many loving at many other area hospitals 1968 David R. Seitz, Feb. 2. was active in evangelism 1978 Sue “Scarlett” 1943 and grew up in Santa two decades was with family members, including son during her 49-year career. The Army veteran spent 25 programs, helped with counsel- Lampson M.A., April 4. Born in Rosa. She led an active and Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, Kevin Albanese ’96, J.D. ’08. Parker’s greatest joy, however, years in the electronics/ ing at Billy Graham events, and, South Bend, Ind., in 1940, she vibrant life with a passion for art, Ariz., before he became was raising her children. She computer industry and another along with his wife, helped was a therapist and public nature, traveling, and education. the proverbial jack-of-all- Rick Blick, was 75. 20 years as a financial planner. Wycliffe Bible Translators in their health nurse for more than 25 Gregarious and generous, she trades at St. Mary’s head coach of He leaves a legacy of courage, recruitment program. years. She enjoyed helping was married with one son. Catholic High School, SCU men’s James “Jim” Baer, humility, and quiet persistence. people and volunteered for both serving as financial 1964 , died July 23, 2009. A native of Survivors include wife Vickey John Gerald Duyn, the Santa Cruz Public Library Kevin A. Fitzgerald assistant, college 1974 2000 suddenly on Sacramento since 1942, Baer Seitz ’69. April 30. Born in 1952, he was and the Senior Outreach J.D., May 17. He was an attorney counselor, and scholar- June 2 due to worked for AK Steel, Rainbow CEO of Carlton Farms and grew Services of Santa Cruz. She had for the Clark County School ship assistance coordina- complications Liquor, Berberian Bros., and 1969 Mary C. Covello M.A., the business during the last 40 two children. District in Las Vegas, Nev., for the tor. He lived a life of from a brain Young’s Market. He was March 7. Born in Renovo, Pa., years. Generous with his time past five years and formerly of charity and used his aneurism. He married to Jackie Marshall for Covello was named one of the and talent, he gave of his Constance “Connie” Peters the law firm Bingham McCutch- real-world experiences was with the 17 years and had a daughter. first female vice principals in the treasures to those less fortunate. Murphy, May 14. Loving wife of en in Palo Alto. He was 46 and and force of will to obtain club team for two years, often Survivors include brother Jefferson Union School District, He found solace in the outdoors Brian Murphy ’77, she is also married with two young children. aid for those in need. suiting up with his players during Max Baer Jr. ’59. followed by a 33-year career as and enjoyed golfing, hunting, survived by her sister Mary Ann Reilly passed away on practices. His contagious, principal at two South Bay fishing, skiing, hiking, and Peters ’72, brothers Robbie April 10. fun-loving personality, his positive schools. A devoted mother of rafting. He was preceded in Bigley ’81 and Mark Bigley ’81, three, she was 94. MBA ’84, and others. She was spirit, and his love of lacrosse and 58 and lived in Alexandria, Va. the team were a gift. THE REDWOOD

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Nota bene SCU ARCHIVES Victor Vari | 1920–2014

COLLAGE BY KELLY DETWEILER WORDS BY RON HANSEN M.A. ’95

he phrase means “note well” in Italian and Latin—a linguistic layup for generations of students whom Victor TVari taught in his 66 years at Santa Clara University. He was 94 years old when he died at home on August 20. At his side was his wife of nearly 62 years, Julia Vari. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Mission Church on Sept. 2; scores of former students and colleagues were there to pay tribute. Victor Vari was a 26-year-old graduate student when he was hired to teach French at Santa Clara. That was in 1946. San Francisco born, he moved at age 1 back to Italy, where his family stayed on through the financial reversals of the Depression, and returned to California in 1936. He taught elementary-school-age Engineering management children of Italian immigrants, hosted a radio show in Berkeley, and leadership and graduated from San Francisco State University. In the Army, he served as a linguist and military intelligence agent in England Robert James Parden was a man with a keen intellect, and France during World War II before pursuing graduate studies charming wit, and warm heart, and he played a trans- formative role as the dean of the School of Engineering at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Lausanne in beginning in 1955 and leading the school until 1982. Switzerland. While earning a master’s in comparative literature He expanded and updated teaching curriculum and led from Stanford and a doctorate from the University of Madrid, he efforts that brought the Sullivan Engineering Complex taught a full-time load of courses in Romance languages, married to the University. He created the nation’s first successful his wife, Julia, chaperoned dances, and served as Santa Clara’s continuing education program for graduate engineer- fencing coach. He led European tours for students and alumni ing, established graduate programs that ushered Silicon and founded international immersion programs in Florence and Valley companies to the forefront of engineering man- agement, and expanded the imprint of SCU throughout Assisi (that’s the cathedral in Assisi at left), as well as the Casa the high tech industry—both in terms of students and Italiana residence hall. He published scholarship on poetry and adjunct faculty, including Intel CEO Andy Grove and co-authored a four-volume work on the history and culture of Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory President William Italy, for which he was named a Knight Commander by the Perry, later U.S. Secretary of Defense. Parden authored Italian government. For 20 years he chaired the Department seminal research in engineering management and founded of Modern Languages and Literatures, was named the Harold Parden Construction. In 1993 he was inducted into the and Edythe Toso Professor, and he and his wife established the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He was born in Mason City, Iowa, and served in the Army before earning Dr. Victor and Julia Botto Vari Italian Studies Initiative. his doctorate in engineering from the University of Iowa. He Beginning in 1969, Vari led the commencement parade of was 92 years old when he died on July 20, at home, sur- professors in their academic robes as the longest-serving member rounded by family. of Santa Clara’s faculty. Those who teach for several decades He is survived by Elizabeth Taylor Parden, his devoted sometimes have the pleasure of teaching the children of students and loving wife of 59 years, and four children: Pattie they once had in class. Vari taught their grandchildren as well. Bradley ’78 of San Jose, Jim Parden of Saratoga, Jack While the Varis never had children of their own, Victor averred Parden ’83 of Redwood Shores, and Nancy Badgett ’85 of Saratoga. Those he leaves behind include nine beloved that his legions of students and alumni were his extended family. grandchildren, who were all wild about their Bop. Victor Vari was back on campus this May with his wife, Julia, He taught many, inspired many more, and was admired for the dedication of Victor B. and Julia Botto Vari Hall—where and loved by all who knew him. A Catholic Mass of the College of Arts and Sciences makes its home. Along Resurrection was held at Sacred Heart Church in Saratoga with decades of service and inspiration, the Varis have given on July 28. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations $8 million to create an endowment for the arts and humanities be made to the Santa Clara University Dean’s Engineering to serve students for generations to come. Excellence Fund.

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PArting Topspin: computer engineer and nationally Shot ranked tennis star Katie Le ’14. See p. 11 for more. Photo by Denis Concordel.