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Menlo College students and military veterans Evan Morsey ‘15 and Jeremiah Dinsmore ‘16 Menlo College Ranked 6th in 2016 US News & World Report: Best College for Veterans

enlo College was recognized Morsey added, “Within only a year of 2010-11 academic year. In addition to as one of the 2016 US News & attending the school, I knew the majority the program entitlement, students may M World Report Best Colleges for of the student body and was able to work be eligible to receive additional funding Veterans. Menlo College is ranked sixth with everyone very easily. I not only feel with a combination of the VA and insti- in the top-ranked schools in the Regional connected to students, but I feel like I am tutional aid. Menlo College students also College West rankings. part of something. Every single person receive VA education benefits through I’ve met has given me some kind of new the Chapter 35 Dependents’ Educational In order to be eligible for consideration insight on life. You get to connect with Assistance (DEA) program. For a more by the US News & World Report, Menlo people from all over the world. Menlo comprehensive explanation of benefits, College had to have been certified for College makes it really easy for students the GI Bill® and participate in the Yellow visit www.va.gov. to get involved. I don’t have anything but Ribbon Program. Journalist Austin Walsh wrote a story in raise for Menlo College.” p The Daily Journal titled "Menlo College The commitment Menlo College has Jeremiah Dinsmore, also a veteran at creates safe space for veterans: Atherton for our country’s veterans was greatly Menlo College said, “I knew I wanted a college acknowledged as top school for assisted by the bequest of Warren Leslie business degree. The friendliness of the those transitioning back into the local Baker ’51, a resource manager with staff, the close student community, and community." In his article he described electric utility Exelon. When Baker the compact size of the campus make Dinsmore, 29, as a vet who served in the passed away in 2013, he left over me feel at home at Menlo. The faculty at Marines from 2005 to 2009, and toured $100,000 for an endowed scholarship Menlo offer their personal time for one- Iraq as a sniper and Evan Morsey, a fund for veterans of the U.S. Military on-one tutoring, and the rest of the staff 27-year-old native of Los Altos as a former who attend Menlo College. is available with absolutely no wait time. calvary scout in the Army who received a Evan Morsey is a veteran attending Having attended an overcrowded com- Purple Heart for the wounds he suffered Menlo College. “I chose Menlo College munity college this was amazing to me. in combat during his tours in Afghani- for several reasons,” explained Morsey. I would recommend Menlo to any vet. stan. “What really helps them is Menlo “Most importantly, I wanted to go to For myself, I am definitely thankful for being small,” said Associate Dean of a college that stands out from other the experience.” Enrollment Management Priscila Casa- schools. I didn’t want to go to a college Menlo College has participated in the nova DeSouza, “Everyone is involved.” just to get some degree. I wanted a Veteran Affairs’ (BA) Chapter 33 Post 9/11 The veterans were also the subject of a future after my military service. Menlo GI Bill® Yellow Ribbon program since the KGO 810 radio news talk show. has always been on the top of my list.”

MENLO COLLEGE 1 EDITOR Darcy Blake

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Richard A. Moran, Terri Givens, Darcy Blake, Melissa Michelson, Pamela Gullard, Linda Smith, Jodie Austin, Leslie Sekerka, Marianne Marrar Yacobian, Tina Fairbairn, Counter-clockwise, Basketball players Jackie Bateman ’16, Aaliyah Sowards ’17, Erik Bakke, Aaron Gillespie, Katie Caliendo, Zach Osborne, Breanna Turner ’17, Alyssa Gable ’19, Emma Pastorino ’17, Lauren Piner ’19, and Sophie Taylor Morrow '16, Enrique Guzman-Alvarez ‘15 Seigning Faumete ’18 at OAKtoberFest 2015 DESIGN Table of Contents Darcy Blake 1 NEWS FLASH | Menlo College Ranked 6th in 2016 US News & World Report PHOTOGRAPHY & GRAPHICS for Best College for Veterans Darcy Blake, Andrey Poliakov, Oakssports.com, Jio Castro, 3 PRESIDENT | News from President Richard A. Moran Katie Caliendo, Tom Haflinger ‘07 4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES | News from the Board of Trustees EDITORS 6 OAKtoberFest | President's Address Pamela Gullard, Linda Smith, Linda Teutschel 6 OAKtoberFest | A Tribute to Dorothy Skala 9 OAKtoberFest | Carlos López Memorial Soccer Tournament CONTRIBUTORS 10 OAKtoberFest | Campus Store Angela Schmiede, Kalea Gabriel ‘16, Phil Durbrow ‘60, 11 OAKtoberFest | Professors Eggers, Michelson, Sekerka Discuss Research Alan Reid ‘87, Joel Harper, Pauline Fatien, Craig Medlen 12 FACULTY | Professor Leslie Sekerka’s book Being a Better Bear Harold Justman, Marianne Neuwirth, Ashley 13 FACULTY | Provost Terri Givens and Professors Fatien, Medlen, and Justman Diamond ‘15, Antonio Maluyo ‘16, Natalie Leesakul ‘16 14 FACULTY | Professor Jodie Austin COLLEGE PRESIDENT 15 FACULTY | Professor Marianne Marar Yacobian Richard A. Moran 16 FACULTY | Professor Jeannice Fairrer Samani BOARD OF TRUSTEES 17 Postmaster Rick Edge and Dr. Marianne Neuwirth T. Geir Ramleth ‘87, Chair 18 Menlo College’s International Connections | Pam Gullard Charles “Chop” J. Keenan III ’66, Vice Chair 19 BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE | A Special Insert by Lee Caraher Professor Pam Gullard, Provost Terri Givens, and Professor Melissa Michelson Andrea Cunningham 26 Menlo Connect Day Howard Dallmar ‘74 29 ALUMNI | Alumni Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Life After Graduation James A. Davlin 30 LIBRARY | Bowman Library Gets a Refresh Chris Garrett ‘94 32 Hawaiian Luau on April 16 Mike Gullard 33 ALUMNI | Women’s Business Society Alumni Car Show | April 2 Richard Humphreys Sr. '67 34 STUDENT AFFAIRS |Kawasaki Welcomed at Women’s Business Society David C. Irmer ‘58 35 STUDENT AFFAIRS | Women Empowered at Menlo College Micah Kane ‘91 36 Steven Lee Myers Discusses The New Tsar and Menlo Oak Press Harry W. Kellogg, Jr. ‘63 37 Writing and Oral Communication Center Expands Support for Students Connor Limont ‘75 39 Zach Osborne Discusses his Role as Director of Internships Jordan Long '09 40 ALUMNI | Notes Larry Lopez ‘84 42 ALUMNI | Spotlight on Phil DurBrow, Alan Reid, and Joel Harper Tom Morehouse '62 45 Honoring Commencement Speakers and Honorees 2000–2015 James T. Rea ‘67 46 ALUMNI | Memoriam Tom Scannell 48 ATHLETICS | Operation Christmas Child and Champions of Character 49 ATHLETICS | Vegas Night April 9 50 ATHLETICS | Hall of Fame The Menlo Advantage, published by the Menlo College 51 ATHLETICS | Brian Brownfield Receives Oakland A’s Bill King Scholarship Office of the President, brings news of the College and its community to alumni, parents and friends. 46 ATHLETICS | Matt Lisle Named Softball Head Coach 1000 El Camino Real, Atherton, California 94027-4301 53 ART COMMITTEE | Flat Worlds and Plein Air Tel: 800.55.MENLO Fax: 650.543.4102 56 STUDENT AFFAIRS | The Best Living Experience at Menlo College [email protected], www.menlo.edu

2 WINTER 2016 FROM THE PRESIDENT

President Richard A. Moran calls the start on the 5K race at OAKtoberFest. My Sophomore Year–Full of Initiatives & Expectations ach semester I welcome new Strategic Planning Library Upgrades students and their families into the We are in the middle of a strategic plan- We just completed a major re-fresh E Menlo College Community. The ning initiative called “Five in Five.” When of the library. [Read about the library day is full of joy (from students), tears complete, it contains the five initiatives upgrade on page 30.] (from parents) and apprehension (from that will be the primary areas of focus for Campus Store and Landscape Upgrades both groups!). I am now in my sopho- the College over the five years: The Campus Store remodel is complete. more year as the President of Menlo 1. Raise the academic profile and areas It is the design of two of our marketing College, and I continue to be impressed of distinction. How do we become a students, Alexa Ledesma ‘15 and Max by our students, faculty, staff, and “premier” college? Wyzard ‘15, under the direction of alumni; their commitment to the College 2. Share the news. How do we build our Professor McCabe. We are also is inspiring. One of my many roles as reputation in higher education? reconfiguring outdoor spaces on President is to be the Chief Expectation 3. Enhance the student experience. campus, developing common areas Setter–to be clear about what I expect How do we educate the well-rounded for study or social life. The new open from students. To that end, I welcome individual for leadership in the area in front of the Library is an example. students with what I call The President’s changing world? Expectations and I want everyone to Our Hollywood Connection 4. Improve our facilities and prioritize take note. I think the idea is taking hold. The spotlight was on Menlo Trustee Andy building for the future. Cunningham when her contribution to The President’s Expectations: 5. Ensure financial stability. the launch of the digital revolution as • Fall in love - with someone or some- The formulation of the plan is still in one of the first employees of Apple Inc. thing while you are a student at Menlo process and it will be rolled out to all was captured in the recent College constituents when complete. film. The release of the movie provided • Stretch yourself – try something new, many opportunities for us to herald the as there will never be a better time Enrollment Stretch convergence of a Menlo College trustee • Go to class - it is the one activity I know The final enrollment count for Fall and Hollywood! that helps with grades Semester 2015 was 768 students. Just • Behave - this should be self explanatory five years ago, enrollment was only 590. Nearly two years have gone by since I • Get to know a faculty member - that’s The Menlo College value is being became President of Menlo College. I am why they are at Menlo recognized. pleased to share some of the initiatives • Stay in touch with your family - but not New Board Members Added I’ve launched to help Menlo become the every five minutes Three alumni have joined our Board of best small college in the West. • Be happy, enjoy the ride - college is a Trustees, enriching the Board and elevat- special time, don’t let it slip by ing Menlo’s profile. Welcome to Chris Sincerely, These expectations are the right fit with Garrett, Connor Limont, and Larry Lopez. the Menlo College experience. [Read about the new Trustees on page 5.] President Richard A. Moran

MENLO COLLEGE 3 Trustee Cunningham Puts Menlo College in the News hree press releases in the fall semester featured Trustee T Andy Cunningham. • Our press release regarding her por- trayal in the film Steve Jobs (“Menlo College Trustee Andy Cunningham Portrayed In Steve Jobs Film”) was picked up by 258 online publications, including The Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and the Star Tribune, as well as local publications such as the San Jose Mercury News and The Sacramento Bee • The College posted a second story Menlo College Trustee Andy Cunningham about an event she produced (“Menlo College Trustee Andy Cunningham Portrayed in Steve Jobs Film Among Women of Influence”) – an event that was packed with legends enlo College Trustee and Palo Watching the film, she revealed that she of the computer world, including Alto resident Andrea “Andy” was, “transfixed, involved, committed, Andy Hertzfeld, , and Cunningham is a strategic and feeling as if I were there again.” M Bud Tribble; on LinkedIn alone, the marketing and communications expert Cunningham is the founder and CEO of article received 3,382 hits. who worked as a publicist for Steve Jobs. Cunningham Collective, an innovation- • Finally, we produced a story The recent film Steve Jobs is a portrayal of to-market consultancy. She has worked about her speech at our 2015 winter the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Writ- with hundreds of leaders similar to Jobs. commencement (“Brand Strategist ten by , the film stars Michael She points to three who embody some Andy Cunningham Speaks at Menlo Fassbender as Jobs. In the movie, actress College Winter Commencement”) Sarah Snook portrays Cunningham and Three [leaders] who that included quotes from her talk shows her pivotal contributions to the embody some of the “think entitled “How will the world be launch of the in 1984. different” traits Jobs had: different because of you?” When Jobs left Apple to form NeXT and • Reed Hastings of Netflix We are grateful to Trustee Cunning- acquire , he chose Cunningham’s ham for providing Menlo College public relations agency, Cunningham • Brian Chesky of Airbnb opportunities that have added up Communication, to represent him. She • Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek” to an extended campaign of good continued to work with Jobs for several branding. years. She has developed marketing, ~Andy Cunningham branding, and communication strategies of the “think different” traits Jobs had: for game-changing technologies and Reed Hastings of Netflix, Brian Chesky companies ever since. of Airbnb and Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek. Cunningham said she was “hired and fired four or five times” by Jobs during the “They are bold and brave and do what SAVE THE DATE 1980s, when she worked with him during it takes to change the world. They don’t Wine Writers the formation of NeXT, and as he acquired care what people think about them and and then transformed Pixar from a hard- they innovate in different ways,” said Roundtable ware company to an animation company. Cunningham. FEB 24

4 WINTER 2016 Menlo College Welcomes New Trustees

Servomation Corporation, where her clients included Florida International University, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. She subse- CONGRATULATIONS MENLO COLLEGE TRUSTEES quently held the position of controller for two advertising agen- Chris Garrett ’94 | Larry Lopez ’84 cies. In 1986, Connor started working in the financial industry, before launching her own company, Limont Financial Services, Mary Connor Limont ’75 which still active. In the intervening years, Connor served on several Palm Desert-area commissions and boards, includ- hree candidates were appointed as trustees of the College ing the Parks & Recreation Commission, the Landscape T effective January 2016. Beautification Commission, and the Planning Commission. Chris Garrett ‘94 Connor has been a board member of Friends of the Desert Mountains, and is active with Menlo College alumni events in Chris Garrett is founder and CEO of Devil’s Southern California. Canyon Brewing Company, a regional brewing Larry Lopez ‘84 company based in San Carlos, CA. His back- ground spans agribusiness, internet technolo- Larry Lopez is a partner at Australian Venture gies, beverage manufacturing, sustainability, Consultants (AVC), a strategic consulting consumer product goods, design, construc- practice. tion, and community stewardship. Larry is also a non-executive director of Chris Garrett ‘94 Over the course of his career, he has held ex- Jolimont Global Mining Systems, an Australian ecutive roles in a number of startup internet ventures, including venture capital company focused on building Disney Internet Group and RealNames Corporation (a Microsoft technology companies that enable mining Larry Lopez ‘84 joint venture). He has also either partnered with or advised operations. In addition, he is a director of ZAP for The Can Van, Pure Energy Group, Half Moon Bay Brewing Technology Ltd., an Australian business intelligence software Company, Mavericks Brewing Company, Hop Dogma Brewing company with offices in San Francisco and London, and Company, Golden Star Tea Company, Curry County Grain SayBubble, a privately-held internet company located in San Company, South City Cider Company, and numerous other Francisco. He is one of the founders of the ANZA Technology green businesses and beverage companies. Network. He is also chairman of the Commercial Advisory Committee of the Australian National Center of Excellence in Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company has been particularly suc- Desalination, and chairman of the Commercialization Advisory cessful, garnering awards for “Best Bay Area Brewpub” in 2015, Board at Curtin University. “Best Bay Area Beer Bar” in 2014 and 2015, “Favorite Bay Area Brewery” in 2013 by Area A-List readers, “Best Following his graduation from Menlo College, Larry graduated Beer” by San Francisco Business Journal readers in 2014, and over from Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washing- 35 commercial craft brewing awards. The brewery was also ton. and interned at the Council for Inter-American Security in awarded first place from San Mateo County for their Culture of Washington, DC. Reutilization Ethics (CORE) philosophy and practices, and was Larry spent 17 years in senior and executive positions at Silicon the San Carlos “Business of the Year.” He currently serves on the Valley Bank before moving to Australia in 2006. board of directors for a material recovery center in Portland, OR Among his many roles in leadership, Larry is the vice-chairman (Greenway Recycling). of the Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and a Chris has been active in Menlo College alumni events on director of the McCusker Alzheimer’s Research Foundation. campus, most recently stepping up to help with the “Corks and Larry is the son of Carlos López, the seventh president of Menlo Casks” event hosted at the President’s house last spring. College (2004-2006), and has claims to Atherton’s history: Mary Connor Limont ’75 Larry’s great-great-great-grandfather was Faxon Atherton, Connor Limont was born and raised in the for whom the town of Atherton was named. San Francisco area. She attended Menlo College for two years before she trans- ferred to California Polytechnic State University. She received her BS in dietetics from Cal Poly in 1979. Following gradu- ation from Cal Poly, Connor worked for Connor Limont ‘75 MENLO COLLEGE 5 A New Tradition: Menlo College OAKtoberFest

t an early morning breakfast on the Menlo College Quad, President Moran predicted that the College will grow in President Richard A. Moran welcomed the audience facilities and faculty. Plans for improving campus facilities A to the festivities at OAKtoberFest, a family and alumni include making more common areas, and otherwise improving weekend at Menlo College. He described the two-day event as the on-campus experience for the entire community. “a celebration of all that is good at Menlo College.” As the “steward of the College,” he vowed to ensure the 2027 The President recalled that every day he hears from students centennial celebration of the founding of Menlo College will be and alumni about how “Menlo College changed my life.” Stories a moment to celebrate all that has been achieved since 1927, as include experiences of “Menlo mergers” where couples meet, well as to celebrate the positioning of the institution to be even and revelations about meeting personal goals, and discover- stronger when we celebrate the 200th anniversary in 2127. ing limits. “I can see lives changing,” he said. “Menlo College He concluded with his expectation that each student and changes lives.” alumnus will be an ambassador. “Your major is minor,” he said, He praised the “world-class” faculty responsible for the meaning that your choice of major does not have to dictate College’s AACSB accreditation, and the internship program your career. “There is no path to a career. What matters is what that augments the in-class academic programs. He recognized you decide to do with your life. And don’t forget Menlo.” the efforts of the admissions department for generating the highest enrollment that Menlo College has ever had. He proudly added that the College has zero debt. SAVE THE DATE OAKtoberFest October 28-29, 2016

The Menlo Community gathered in the early morning for the 5K run at OAKtoberFest.

6 WINTER 2016 A Tribute to Dorothy Skala at OAKtoberFest

L to R, Dorothy Skala, John Rooke, Andreas Strieve, and Greg Sondern give birthday greetings to retired staff member Dorothy Skala.

t the OAKtoberFest celebration, you might have noticed She started out as file clerk in 1957, quickly became Judge several alumni on their knees paying their respects to Russell’s secretary, advanced to the position of assistant, and A Dorothy Skala, an 89-year-old icon of Menlo College. began “sorting out the alumni correspondence” for Russell Dorothy, a retired staff member who worked at Menlo in the 1970s. After decades of work with the alumni, she was College for over 50 years, was accompanied by her son Corey named an honorary alumnus in 1996, and she was appointed and daughter Pat. As she entered the tent, Dorothy Skala was Director of Alumni Relations Emerita in 2008. surrounded by a crowd of alumni, including many players in Dorothy Skala’s wry sense of humor and her ability to remem- the Carlos López Memorial Soccer Tournament. ber the details of stories about the College and alumni have “She made me get down on my knees to say hello,” teased charmed her fans throughout the years. Her birthday tribute at President Richard A. Moran at a special tribute to Skala. “There OAKtoberFest was a delight for her colleagues and the many are probably several fathers of Menlo College, including Judge visitors who made the OAKtoberFest pilgrimage from great Russell and Carlos López , but there’s only one mother of distances especially to see her. If we had to guess from the Menlo College, and that is Dorothy Skala.” smiles and laughter, Dorothy had a good time too.

L to R, The Skala Family: Pat, Dorothy, and Corey, Dorothy with John Rohrer and Alan Reid, the Bowmans with Dorothy | Below L to R, Enrique Ybarra, Maya and Philip Sewald with Dorothy, President Moran, Philip Sewald, Karl Buder and Dorothy

MENLO COLLEGE 7 Above, OAKtoberFest performers, including left clockwise, Anisah Smith ‘18, Katrina Ford ‘16, Natalie Washington ‘18, Tatianna Garland ‘18, and Ibrahima Mobley ‘19. Middle, Tyler Diamond ‘17, Angela Tsung ‘19, Rachel Tabaracci ‘17. Bottom, Nicholas De Josia, adjunct professor and OAKtoberFest master of ceremonies in the Quad, welcomed the community. PHOTOS: ANDREY POLIAKOV, SOCCER PHOTO BY OAKSSPORTS.COM

8 WINTER 2016 Above, Menlo alumni at the OAKtoberFest annual Carlos López Memorial soccer tournament. Below, senior women soccer players including Assistant Coach Barbara Shamoon, Coach Keith Lambert, Jordin Altmann, Taylor Morrow, Raquel DeJesus, Yasmeen Fuentes, Jocelyn Aguilar, Brittany Wisecarver, Maddie Napier, Assistant Coach Stephanie Bloom, and Assistant Coach Natalie Ingram. PHOTO BY OAKSSPORTS.COM MENLO COLLEGE 9 L to R, Professor Deborah McCabe, Max Wyzard, his brother Braun, Alexa Ledesma, Lori Wyzard and President Richard A. Moran at the campus store ribbon cutting ceremony during OAKtoberFest. Students Design a New Campus Store for Menlo College he renovation for the Menlo Talbott provided CAD drawings based To emphasize the branding of athletics, College Campus Store started when on the student designs, and the students Menlo College Athletics Director Keith Professor Deborah McCabe asked T made revisions that included opening up Spataro assigned Director of Marketing if she could use the store as a subject the space and adding new front win- and Promotions Katie Caliendo to help for a marketing class project during the dows. After plans were complete, Talbott with marketing the new store. summer of 2014,” recalled Campus Store and his crew turned the blueprint into a "I am excited to be working with manager Charlene Krakowsky. whole new shopping experience. the Campus Store as we continue to McCabe assigned projects to two market- “Alexa and I met regularly with Professor strengthen the Menlo College brand by ing classes to improve and advertise the McCabe to exchange ideas about the utilizing merchandise and apparel sold store. The students ran extensive surveys design of the store,” said Wyzard. “We in the store and online,” said Caliendo. and led several focus groups using spent a lot of time comparing college “Increasing the marketing efforts and faculty, staff, and students from Menlo stores across the country. We wanted a continuing to obtain market research will College as well as Menlo School to make look that was fitting for our generation. help us fill the need for Menlo College their assessments. First on their bullet list As a fashionista, Alexa had the reins on branded items and grow the visibility of of recommendations was to remodel the the interior, and I focused on the exterior. Menlo both on a local and national level." store! We both adhered to a ‘less is better’ The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new “The marketing research projects were philosophy, because you can’t put out Menlo College Campus Store was part completed in Fall 2014, and the campus everything you have on the shelves to of the recent OAKtoberFest activities on store remodeling project developed the effectively market it,” said Wyzard. “I’m campus. following spring. By summer we were proud of our smooth process. It’s a rare under construction. The entire experi- opportunity when you get to design a The store is now fully operational, and ence provided valuable benefits to the building.” Krakowsky is busy with new display options made possible by the renovation, College,” said Professor McCabe. “I enjoyed working with our team,” said including a new coffee bar feature within Menlo College students Alexa Ledesma Ledesma. “We created something special the store. As she ponders these decisions, ‘15 and Max Wyzard ‘15 designed the and beautiful.” a question has occurred to her –“Is there store from the inside out. They worked McCabe said, “I couldn't be more proud another marketing class project coming with Menlo College Director of Facilities of my consumer behavior and marketing up soon?” and Operations Bob Talbott to create an research class members, especially Alexa inviting shopping experience. and Max. They did a fantastic job!”

10 WINTER 2016 Faculty Notes

Management Professor Leslie Sekerka, Marketing Associate Professor Fabian Eggers, and Political Science Professor Melissa Michelson Professors Discuss Latest Research with OAKtoberFest Community

mong the events that took place the movie Back to the Future, in which the Sekerka quizzed the audience, asking, as part of the 2015 Menlo College memorable characters Marty McFly and “How many of you think you’re above A OAKtoberFest weekend, three Doc Brown traveled to the future – from average ethically?” Almost everyone faculty members shared their research 1985 to 2015. Their exact arrival date was raised their hands. Sekerka smiled and with Menlo alumni and parents of current October 21, 2015. How did the filmmakers nodded. “Yes, everyone assumes they’re students. Political Science Professor Me- in 1989 (the year the movie was released) above average! Scholars have dubbed lissa Michelson, Management Professor imagine the year 2015? this phenomenon the ‘Lake Wobegon Leslie Sekerka, and Marketing Professor The imaginary hoverboards and flat Effect.’ We tend to over-estimate our Fabian Eggers were the featured speak- screen televisions with video call func- abilities and achievements.” ers, moderated by Provost Terri Givens. tionality in the movie became realities by Lake Wobegon is a fictional town that is Political Science – Professor Melissa 2015, whereas self-tying Nikes and men in the Garrison Keillor’s PBS radio series Michelson wearing two ties are not so popular – yet. A Prairie Home Companion. The charac- Professor Melissa Michelson shared her Regarding innovation, Professor Eggers terization of the story is that the town research on voter turnout. Michelson’s has been studying the question “What is where “all the women are strong, all books include Mobilizing Inclusion (2012), makes firms radically innovative?” with the men are good looking, and all the which describes results from 268 ran- four colleagues from Indiana University, children are above average.” It has been domized experiments aimed at increas- University of Liechtenstein, and Asia used to describe a real and pervasive ing turnout in low-propensity communi- University, Taiwan. human tendency to overestimate one’s achievements and capabilities in relation ties throughout California, and Living the Eggers and his team studied a sample to others. Dream (2014), on immigration policies of 1,897 firms to see if they could iden- and undocumented Latino youth. She tify strategic orientations that enable Rather than assuming you’re ethical, has a new book due to be published in companies to be innovative. Their results moral agency means you actually engage 2016 on marriage equality. Michelson is included a fascinating collection of paths in right action throughout your day. “It’s currently working with San Mateo County of innovation that depended on the about choosing to value and apply ethics to evaluate their pilot all-mail ballot collaborative, daredevil, aggressive, or in your regular everyday tasks. This is election. Part of her involvement will cautious behavior of the innovators. Egg- something that we all can work include collecting data via exit polls and ers used graphs of the team’s findings to on improving, at any age,” she said. a post-election telephone survey, both illustrate how different behavior patterns Sekerka has recently published a using student research assistants. “I’m so lead to radical innovation. children’s book to start ethical awareness pleased that Menlo College students will Management – Professor Leslie Sekerka and learning at a much earlier age. Being have a chance to do academic research,” a Better Bear – What it Means to be Ethical “Although you might think ethics and she said. Michelson also noted her is the first of the series. Sekerka has be- business are an oxymoron, when I men- ongoing work to increase participation gun a book tour of community outreach, tion to people I teach business ethics, in Huron, California “the opposite of is creating a children’s reading program, everyone says, ‘we really need that,’” said Atherton,” she explained, “where there and is including Menlo students in these Management Professor Leslie Sekerka. is seasonable 40% unemployment.” activities. She already has plans for her She recently edited Ethics Training in Ac- Marketing – Associate Professor Fabian next bear story, which will focus on tion: An Examination of Issues, Techniques Eggers dealing with ethics and peer pressure. and Development, Ethics in Practice Associate Professor of Marketing Fabian Series, Information Age Publishing. Eggers began his talk with a reference to

MENLO COLLEGE 11 Members of the Business Ethics in Action Club, “TJ” Huseyin Yildirim and Zach Bothelio share key points about “Being a Better Bear” with children at the local Ronald McDonald House. Reading Program “Being a Better Bear” Introduces Young Learners to Ethics

r. Leslie Sekerka, Professor of service among the broad community $12,800 grant to the Ethics in Action Management, has two papers of scholars was honored this year, with Research & Education Center to com- D recently accepted for publication, the 2015 Outstanding Reviewer Award mence this initiative. The Ethics in Action “Positive Organizational Ethics: Adult from Emerald Literati Network Awards Speaker Program brings a variety of Moral Development in the Workplace” for Excellence, recognizing significant Silicon Valley professionals to the campus and “Professional Moral Courage: Foster- contributions to the field. including leaders from Adobe, Google, Driscoll’s Berries, StoneTurn, Visa, and The ing Principled Performance at Work,” to Perhaps the most joyful work that Dr. Gap, to name a few. Menlo students con- appear in management practitioner out- Sekerka has been engaged in this year tinue to hear that more and more leaders lets. Her article with Dr. Marianne Marar is to bridge her scholarship with activi- ardently believe ethics in business is a Yacobian, “A Guide to Doing Business in ties that engage students in community duty, one that’s nonnegotiable. Iran,” appeared in Fortune Magazine. Dr. service. With her “Being a Better Bear” Sekerka was also quoted in a recent Mer- reading program, members of Menlo’s cury News article about Uber, discussing Business Ethics in Action Club visit local the ethics of its aggressive approach. area children’s groups, encouraging Her research on durable moral courage young people to realize what it means to and preventing demoralization has been be ethical. a highly sought-after topic this term, with Being a Better Bear, the book she recently papers accepted and presented at the So- published with Menlo Imprint, is used to ciety of Business Ethics (Vancouver, BC), support this effort. The literary work con- Academy of Management (Vancouver, tinues to gain acclaim and attract positive BC), and European Academy of Manage- press for the College. After her guest ment (Warsaw, Poland). Her paper on appearance on the television program social self-conscious emotions in moral Good Day Sacramento, a variety of charter decision-making was also presented at schools throughout California have ex- the Association for Psychological Science pressed interest in learning about how to (New York, NY). Dr. Sekerka’s book, Ethics incorporate ethics education within their is a Daily Deal: Choosing to Build Moral preschool venues. Strength as a Practice, is also now available The James Hervey Johnson Charitable from Springer Publishing. The professor’s Educational Trust generously awarded a Dr. Leslie Sekerka with her book, Being a Better Bear.

12 WINTER 2016 Pauline Fatien, Associate Professor, Management Last summer, Dr. Pauline Fatien presented her research findings on ethics in coaching to coaching professional associations in France. She was interviewed for the French journal TANK. In France, she also participated in a training program for coaching. This fall, she has just started a research project with a global auto company to study the implementation of coaching in 10 different countries! Her previous case study, at Arcélor Mittal, PROVOST TERRI GIVENS was awarded with the 2014 Best Case Study in Human Resource Management (AGRH). Her 2015 publications include "Ethical ith my first semester Codes and Executive Coaches: One Size Does Not Fit All,” The completed, I feel Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, published with Jean Nizet, fortunate that Menlo W and "Wearing multiple hats? Challenges for managers-as-coach- College has welcomed me es and their organizations,” Leadership International Journal, into this community as the with Ken Otter. new Provost. What is a Associate Professor Pauline Fatien Provost? I often get that Craig Medlen, Professsor, Economics question when I introduce myself. Another name for Pro- Professor Craig Medlen’s article, “Free Cash, Corporate Taxes vost is Chief Academic Officer. and the Federal Deficit” has just been published in the Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics. He shows that if corporations had As part of the President’s paid—through time—the corporate tax rate that they used to cabinet, I work with our pay in the mid-1950s the national debt would have been re- faculty and staff to run our duced to less than 30% of what it is currently. Following Michal academic programs. Previ- Kalecki’s notion that Federal Deficits add to free cash—cash in ously, I was the Vice Provost excess of new investment— he explains that “higher corporate for undergraduate curriculum tax rates give a double-whammy to government stimulants. and international affairs at First, deficits increase spending power. Second, higher corpo- the University of Texas. My rate taxes suck away ‘free cash’ for even more stimulants.” He work with changing curricu- also gave a talk in Hawaii last summer on “The Great Escape: lum across a large university the Multinational Trade Deficit in Historical Perspective” was a great experience, but arguing that some large part of the U.S. trade deficit has to I appreciate the focus on do with the fact that the U.S. multinational presence abroad undergraduates at Menlo, tends to substitute for U.S. exports. Medlen says, “This and the small size that gives perspective contributes to an understanding of why our students the type of exchange rate changes are relatively ineffective in attention that is difficult to correcting trade imbalances.” Economics Professor Craig Medlen find at a large institution. It has been a great pleasure Harold Justman, Adjunct Professsor, Real Estate for me to join Menlo College The Real Estate Program is building upon the success of the where the dedicated faculty “flipped” classroom learning model that was implemented in often go above and beyond to the Real Estate Law class in the Spring 2015 semester. (see the provide superior educational Spring 2015 Menlo Advantage Magazine, page 45.) Andrew Hart, experiences. Our students the President of the Menlo College Real Estate Investment Team, are motivated and engaged, inspired the class to pledge to graduate with a California real taking advantage of oppor- estate license. In August, Hart obtained his license. Professor tunities such as our intern- Justman, who had pledged to the class that he would also seek ship program and business a license, obtained his broker’s license in June. The Fall 2015 plan competitions that make semester class, Introduction to Real Estate, has also pledged Real Estate Professor Menlo College a unique place. to work towards a license. Professor Justman is very proud of Harold Justman The future is bright at Menlo the commitment shown by his real estate students. His article College! “Shared Responsibility Mortgages” coauthored with Henry Chuang and Julia Wei, was recently published in the California Real Property Journal. MENLO COLLEGE 13 WE NEED TO TALK Sex, Consent, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names at Menlo College

Last fall, the common book was NoVi- her own: “He did that, my grandfather” olet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names, a (Bulawayo 42). complex and occasionally graphic novel These scenes from the novel highlight that chronicles a young woman’s journey the reality of oppressive violence as an (Darling) as she navigates the challenges institutionalized un-naming, depicting of poverty, immigration and, perhaps realistic instances in which victims lack most frighteningly of all, girlhood. By the vocabulary to describe their traumas. looking at the way Darling confronts In classroom discussions, such fictional new situations, students were given scenes helped Menlo College students the opportunity to reflect on their own study the difficulty of sorting out new responses to a new environment. sexual experiences and finding the Readers see Darling’s Zimbabwe through words to stay safe and happy with their the eyes of a young girl and her America encounters. through the eyes of a young woman. In many ways, this struggle can be better Thus, the title of the book lends itself to understood through the lens of Miranda an easy interpretation: as Darling moves Fricker, a social philosopher whose work from Zimbabwe to America, her identity deals with real-life instances in which the likewise becomes caught in the no-man’s lack of available terminology related to Dr. Jodie Austin land between nation and culture. She, traumatic experiences renders victims’ like those who made the journey before by Jodie Austin, Asistant Professor, English explanations unintelligible to others. her, is in dire need of a “new name.” How- Fricker points to victims of sexual harass- Dr. Jodie Austin teaches composition and ever, astute readers will also catch the ment who have been forced to describe literature as well as the Transition to College whiff of a more subversive warning: that their mistreatment as unwanted flirting1 course at Menlo College. With a PhD the failure to produce “new names” for As every instructor knows, vocabulary from Brandeis University, her research ineffable and sometimes traumatic expe- matters— not simply in that it makes one interests include early modern literature, riences inflicted upon the marginalized more erudite, but because our language Renaissance drama, and film. and the shunned will often result in their provides a medium for making sense of n September 24, 2014, Governor continued invisibility. Darling’s inability the world around us, both as a means of Jerry Brown signed into law a bill to name her tough new experiences, past understanding and as a literal production unlike any other— SB967, which and present, may be even more impor- O of meaning. quickly became known as the “Yes Means tant than finding a new name for herself. Sadly, in the former we often fail. In the Yes” law on campuses statewide. Among Early on, Darling confronts the tragedy second half of We Need New Names, we other provisions, the bill established of unnamed trauma. Her father dies of see an older, nightclub-attending Darling a definition for “affirmative consent” a disease the villagers will call only “the who still struggles to put a name to expe- between sexual partners as a “conscious, Sickness” (Bulawayo 104). In the most riences as disturbing as they are socially and voluntary agreement to engage in heartbreaking example in the novel, Dar- acceptable. While watching a woman sexual activity.” The law mandated out- ling’s childhood friend Chipo is forced to subjected to a demeaning dance on the reach programming for “every incoming channel the description of her incestuous club floor, Darling finds herself unable student’s orientation” to teach the new rape through analogy. Upon witnessing to find the right response: “I thought it law. At Menlo College, the Transition to the assault of an anonymous woman, strange and wrong, but after a while I College course was quickly adapted to Chipo finds her voice but does not have found myself clapping because that’s include “Yes Means Yes” along with other the words to name her own experiences what everyone was doing” (Bulawayo discussions of campus life. Professors as “assault” or even “rape.” Instead, she 281). The reader witnesses Darling men- used a common book to further the tries to make do with the crude, limited tally reaching for an appropriate reaction, conversations about students’ new materials of her childish language by only to find it voided by incomprehensi- academic responsibilities, changes in comparing the woman’s experience to social life, and sex.

14 WINTER 2016 PHOTO: ANDREYPHOTO: POLIAKOV Professor Marianne Marar Yacobian & Students Raise Funds for Syrian Refugees

r. Marianne Marar Yacobian's their lives. They provide medical and other Dr. Yacobian and her Menlo students Diversity in the Workplace class, critical aid, ensure refugees have access would like to thank the donors who helped D along with members of the Black to legal counseling, and help women and raise thousands of dollars for the cause. Student Union and students campus-wide, girls who are victims of violence. It is not too late to donate. raised funds and awareness for the Syrian Dr. Yacobian and her students mobilized Refugee crisis. in honor of Alan Kurdi, his brother Galip Donations were collected for the Interna- Kurdi, and the countless children who’ve TO DONATE: tional Rescue Committee, an organization suffered because too many good people Write a tax deductible check to: committed to restoring the dignity of stayed silent. Alan Kurdi was the little International Rescue Committee refugees fleeing warfare. Nearly five years three-year-old boy whose image made and please write DIY099 on the after the outbreak of war, the International global headlines after he drowned and memo line. SEND TO: Rescue Committee has helped more than washed ashore on the beach of the Dr. Marianne Marar Yacobian 3 million Syrian refugees and internally Mediterranean Sea, as part of the Syrian 1000 El Camino Real displaced people to recover and rebuild refugee crisis. Atherton, CA 94027

WE NEED TO TALK Continued from page 14 bility. Darling could represent any number the college environment, which demanded things,” with as much awkwardness as can of young adults facing down a tough situ- the ability to speak about language, be expected. ation, often in the company of friends who literature, and life in the dorms with equal And yet, one cannot help but see this dis- find themselves equally in crisis. Adding to amounts of precision, poise, and savvy. comfort as a sign of progress, as everyone this problem, students across the country Likewise, instructors teaching the Transi- in the classroom continues to grapple now face the pressure of responding in tion to College course faced the fraught with the difficulty of new guidelines, new difficult social situations as “bystanders”— task of contextualizing the novel’s content, cultures, and new names. As Fricker would a label that makes individuals sound like pairing it specifically with issues faced by argue, all of the issues covered in SB 967 helpless witnesses to a traffic accident colleges today, including sex, consent, deserve their day in the sun–that is, to be rather than empowered agents. and the sometimes dangerously nebulous spoken aloud, and pronounced in public. Stepping into the classroom in the first quality of the two. Both camps confronted week, both Menlo College freshmen and the task of having to “codeswitch” rapidly 1 Miranda Fricker, “Powerlessness and Social their instructors sensed an onerous task between discourse related to the body, Interpretation,” Episteme: A Journal of Social ahead. The students were being asked to and body-talk; adulthood, and “adult Epistemology 3.1-­‐2 (2006): 98. make the intellectual quantum leap into MENLO COLLEGE 15 Students Try a Hackathon with IBM Bluemix and IBM Watson

tart small, think big,” were the motivational words of Professor Krackeler’s outline for creating a new app or program Angie Li Krackeler, North America Cloud Technical is: S Evangelist at IBM in a welcoming speech at “Breakers • Create your story first @ Menlo College.” The hackathon event for students was co- • Target your audience and market sponsored by IBM Bluemix, IBM Watson and Menlo College. • Use teamwork to collaborate and communicate together IBM Bluemix deals with the cloud development platform for building, running, and managing apps and services. IBM Watson • Define the opportunity in your new product is an artificially intelligent computer system, i.e., it understands • Explain what is unique about your product natural language and is not programmed. IBM Watson is • Ask yourself what benefits you get from it capable of answering questions that are more human-like than a computer. Watson was specifically developed to • Produce a demo answer questions that won Watson $1 million on the quiz As explained by Professor Krackeler, once you follow the pre- show Jeopardy! in 2011. ceding steps, you should write a pitch that is no more than a A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and minute long. Tell a story in the pitch. Don’t just try to sell your graphic designers, interface designers and project manag- product in the pitch. Talk about a subject who used it and how ers collaborate intensively on software projects. Hackathons it made a difference. typically last between a day and a week. The event, created by At the end of the day, the success of your product depends on Professor Jeannice Fairrer Samani, an adjunct faculty member at the impact of the innovation and the value of your product. Menlo College, lasted until nearly midnight and offered students a chance to try invention and pitching ideas.

Top left, Devin Nunez and other students had fun building projects with marshmallows and spaghetti. Right, Professor Jeannice Fairrer Samani’s event, Breakers @ Menlo.

16 WINTER 2016 Rick Edge: Menlo College Postmaster and San Juan Bautista Mayor hen Menlo College Postmaster Currently, San Juan Bautista is facing a Rick Edge isn’t delivering mail drought with the rest of California, and W to the Menlo community, he is has plans to build a fourth well. The town serving as Mayor of San Juan Bautista, also was assisted by local American In- a city with a population of 1,900 in San dians: the LA Times recently reported “In Benito County, California. Edge’s service a weekly rain dance at Mission San Juan to San Juan Bautista stretches back al- Bautista, Native Americans encouraged most 20 years, and includes membership everyone to join in a ceremony to break on the Planning Commission, as well as open the heavens and bring forth water.” membership on the City Council. Edge said he is proud of his ability to “get San Juan Bautista is home to the largest council meetings to move along faster.” of the California missions and the most His advice for facilitating meetings is “Be visited by California’s fourth graders quick and don’t get lost in repetition. studying California history. Edge is also Move from point to point.” active on a committee to preserve the Water and fire are two of many issues that 200-year-old Mission, which was used as will come to Edge’s attention in his term a setting for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo as mayor. Whatever the issue is at hand, nearly 60 years ago. The preservation of Edge will use the same stoic patience Rick Edge, Postmaster of Menlo College and the Mission San Juan Bautista is projected and experience he deploys at Menlo Mayor of San Juan Bautista to cost $14 million. College to keep things moving at San Juan Bautista.

Storytellers from the Menlo College community at the inaugural Open Mic Storytellling event. Marianne Neuwirth Organizes Open Mic Storytelling Event

he inaugural Open Mic Storytelling “orange you glad I didn’t say banana?” a Kepler’s gift card donated by a faculty event, organized by Dr. Marianne one too many times, a Caucasian mom member—and the book or books that T Neuwirth, the new Director of Oral with a beautiful they purchase with it. Communication Programs, attracted 18 daughter from China, and many young Neuwirth hopes to make this a semi- people including students, faculty and poets and prophets who bravely shared annual event. Anyone is welcome, and staff. Among the speakers were a woman about loss and grief. any story is welcome. wrestler, a girl who delivered her baby There were so many wonderful stories sister at home, a camp counselor stuck on that just one winner couldn’t be picked. a stalled bus with 32 youngsters saying, The students are sharing the prize—

MENLO COLLEGE 17 MENLO COLLEGE’S INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS enlo College may be small but it has a global Meanwhile, Menlo College Board of Trustee John reach. Students find their way to the college Henry Felix ’49 helped develop a multi-college ex- M from as far away as the United Arab Emirates, change program, the “Summer Research Program,” Eritrea, the Philippines and Kazakhstan. Menlo which was originally envisioned by Ralph Waller. College also has a link with faculty at Universidad John Henry Felix refined and initiated this program Adolfo Ibanez in Chile, a connection established by through the endorsement of Harris Manchester’s beloved Menlo College President Carlos López, who Board of Regents and personally sponsored four was raised in Chile. universities and Menlo College. Two of the strongest international ties to other Dr. Felix was involved in the establishment of the universities were established in the 1990s. In 1997, relationship between Menlo College and Harris the David and Lucile Packard Foundation funded a Manchester, working with Menlo Trustee Rosemary project to allow scholars from Peking University to Hewlett. Jack Brigham, former Chair of Menlo’s study at colleges in the United States and to create a Board of Trustees and a regent of Harris Manchester, residence at Menlo College for some of them to pursue was also instrumental in the development of the pro- advanced degrees in Western business management gram and a strong advocate for it. The program came here. Through this program, the David Packard to fruition in 1994 when the first two Menlo faculty International Faculty Pavilion was built at Peking members—Dr. Marilyn Thomas and Dr. Eugene University in Beijing to house international visiting Bales—headed to London to teach as guest lecturers faculty. In 1998, 15 Chinese exchange students from and conduct original research. Dr. Felix has gener- Peking University came to Menlo, the first after the ously supported this program from its inception. Cultural Revolution. Menlo College continues to “Menlo has one of the greatest faculty training have a student exchange program with Guangdong programs in the country,” says Dr. Eugene Bales, University of Business in Guangzhou. who spent two semesters at Oxford and a semester Menlo’s connection with Harris Manchester College, at Guangdong. the latest addition to colleges that make up Oxford University in the heart of Oxford, began in 1993. This page is an excerpt from the book Menlo College Trustee Rosemary Hewlett and her Through the Gates: Eighty-Five Years of husband William provided Menlo College with a $1 Menlo College and its Times by Pamela million grant for a Visiting Scholars program, allowing Gullard, Menlo College Lecturer in professors from around the world to study and lecture Literature. Above: David Lamar at Menlo for a semester or a year. Williams-Pinkney ‘02 attended Harris Manchester College in 2000.

18 WINTER 2016 BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE

@MENLO MENLO COLLEGE 19 Front left to right, Menlo College student Braxton Liddell with international students Berlin Xing and Fei Qu. PHOTO: ANDREY POLIAKOV Immigration Experts Drawn to Menlo College, a Multicultural Campus

By Pamela Gullard Immigration Experts at Menlo College Pamela Gullard has written three books with Nancy Lund showing This keen awareness of immigration problems and benefits is how the nineteenth century California economy in three cities led to fostered at Menlo, with two faculty members in particular bring- Silicon Valley. Her short fiction, published by Henry Holt, has been ing specialized expertise to the issue. Political Science Professor reissued by Macmillan in Kindle format. She is a lecturer at Menlo Melissa Michelson has published extensively on her research College teaching literature. She wrote Through the Gates: Menlo regarding Latino immigration and politics in the United States, College and its Times. including coauthoring, with Maria Chavez and Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the n the early 1970s, Menlo College history professor Joe Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth. Provost Terri Givens, who Bertrand told a friend, “If you speak Arabic, French, and joined Menlo in 2015, has just published her intensive look into Spanish, you’ll do well at our college.” He was referring to I the politics of antidiscrimination policy toward immigrants in Menlo’s long tradition of welcoming international students. By Europe, Legislating Equality, written with Rhonda Evans Case. the end of the 1980s, 101 students from other countries, about 10% of the student body, attended Menlo School and College. As political leaders and citizens engage in fierce debates about The number has now climbed to 14%, with students from 34 immigration laws in the United States and Europe, Dr. Michelson countries outside the U.S. bringing their talents and fresh and Dr. Givens provide calm perspective on how immigrants are perspective to the college classroom. and should be treated once they arrive in host countries. Read their latest thoughts on the subject beginning on page 23 of “If Menlo College did not have its international students, it this issue. would be just another small college,” says student Braxton Liddell, a resident assistant and one of the leaders of the Menlo Other faculty members at Menlo College promote multicul- College Black Student Union (BSU). “At Menlo, we learn the tural views in their classes. The curriculum includes classes on benefits of knowing people from other cultures.” He says that diversity in the workplace, global literature, and on international the U.S. is “a land of immigrants” and that Menlo’s multicultural marketing management, finance, and law and organizations. population mirrors that of the country. He is exactly right, as Many faculty members at Menlo instinctively teach from a indicated in a September 28, 2015 New York Times article. Writes multicultural perspective to their diverse audience of students. journalist Julia Preston, “The foreign-born share [in the U.S.] is Upon seeing the reading list for one literature course, a friend now 14 percent, approaching the high point of 15 percent dur- of the instructor remarked, “You must be teaching diversity in ing the great European immigration in the early 20th century.”1 fiction.” Surprised, the instructor explained, “Actually, not— I just picked the best work for this course.” This past fall, Liddell and other members of the BSU raised money to help refugees hoping for asylum in Europe and the Menlo College in Silicon Valley, a Multicultural Hub United States. He says, “We are advocating for the U.S. to raise While Menlo College has a large international presence, it is the quotas of immigrants our country will accept.” He explains located in an area—Silicon Valley—with even greater cultural that the international presence at Menlo College “is huge, and diversity. Statistics on the international creative talent in the we want that attitude of accepting immigrants to spread to Valley are startling. Vivek Wadhwa, an expert on U.S. entre- everyone else.” preneurial activity, concluded from his research in 2006 that

20 WINTER 2016 BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE Silicon Valley Business Leaders Tackle Immigration Law “We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, in an April 10, 2013 op-ed article in the Washington Post. “And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.”6 Zuckerberg and many other Silicon Valley leaders have lobbied Congress, donated millions to new charitable Noe Duran ‘16 PHOTO: JIO CASTRO organizations focusing on immigration issues, and even “over 50 percent of Silicon Valley engineering and technology held a hackathon to try to fix what Ron Conway, an angel startups were founded by immigrants.”2 Two years later, a large, investor, calls “our broken immigration system, which peer-reviewed study by the U.S. Small Business Administration currently stifles . . . growth.”7 showed that throughout California, over 30% of all businesses At first, many of the executives concentrated on more 3 were immigrant-owned. welcoming policies for high tech professionals. Industry And the trend continues. The 2014 review of demographic leaders wished to ease the way for U.S. companies to spon- and business changes in the Valley published in the authorita- sor foreign math and science graduates for permanent tive Silicon Valley Index explains, “The region has benefited residency, create a visa program for entrepreneurs, and significantly from the entrepreneurial spirit of people drawn to expand to 110,000, from 65,000, the number of temporary Silicon Valley from around the country and the world.”4 Foreign workers allowed into the country every year on H-1B visas. immigration to Silicon Valley jumped an incredible 52% higher Such visas are used by high tech companies to attract than the previous year, while jobs grew by 3.4% “particularly in highly educated workers for skilled positions. the areas of computer hardware design, information services, In the Washington Post, Zuckerberg explained the need 5 and the Internet industry.” for more H-1B visas: “The economy of the last century was Creative teams in start-ups, established high tech firms, and primarily based on natural resources, industrial machines accounting corporations come together in Silicon Valley from and manual labor.” However, “Today’s economy is . . . based all over the world. They have joined with native-born citizens primarily on knowledge and ideas . . . In a knowledge to drive much of the innovation that fuels the computer economy, the most important resources are the talented revolution. people we educate and attract to our country. A knowledge Business Students Participate in the Global Economy economy can scale further, create better jobs and provide a higher quality of living for everyone in our nation.”8 Every student at Menlo College completes an internship before graduation and, with the College at the edge of Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg joined leaders “who reflect the breadth and many of them get a close-up view of this multiculturalism at depth of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture” to create work in the Valley. FWD.us, an organization lobbying for immigration reform. Active members include most of Silicon Valley’s movers and The students relish the opportunity to learn from other shakers, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and cultures. Says Drew Nyberg, “My internship was at Kctv5, which Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo! Many of the is incredibly diverse, and I gained a whole different perspective same players banded together to form TechNet, a bipar- on group dynamics. Having the views of many different people tisan group of over 50 executives to discuss and actively strengthens the whole team.” pursue new immigration policies. Senior Noe Duran concurs. “You get better ideas with people Despite all the money and time that Silicon Valley has who come from different places. My internship opened my poured into immigration reform, the politics have remained mind to the way some cultures greet you more. They want to complicated and frustrating. FWD.us attempted to branch know your way of doing things.” out to other political arenas, causing dissension within its If you want to be in the midst of the global economy, Menlo ranks. Reform bills have died in Congress. Abuses of H-1B College is the place to start. James Dinwiddie, Adjunct Profes- visas by out-sourcing companies have been uncovered and sor, Intensive English Program, explains, “Students in college critics from both political parties have voiced concerns that now will be living in an international world and it’s critical that those holding H-1B visas take jobs from Americans. they learn to interact with people from other countries. At But the discussion in Silicon Valley continues to move Menlo College that’s an invaluable part of their education.” forward, recently widening to a new emphasis on allow-

BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE MENLO COLLEGE 21 Immigration issues have a profound effect on all students and “The region has benefited significantly from the especially on Menlo College business students as they learn entrepreneurial spirit of people drawn to Silicon about the changing global economy, become interns in a Valley from around the country and the world.” Valley flooded with immigrants, and ultimately, become business leaders who will face the joys and challenges of Silicon Valley Index, 2015 immigration issues here and abroad.

ing less skilled workers to contribute more easily to the U.S. International Students on Menlo College economy. Ron Conway explains: As an international student, there were lots of obstacles for “Those of us who work in the technology sector have been me, but at Menlo, it was easier to figure it out. Everybody here calling for smart immigration reform for years. In the past helped me a lot. Teachers gave me lots of suggestions. Class- we’ve tried a piecemeal approach, focusing solely on visas mates gave me help on study and residential life. —Fei Qu for advanced degree foreign-born students in STEM I feel I’m surprised because Menlo is so much better than I fields because they are the heart and soul of our industry. expected. Nobody treats me as a foreigner here, no priority, Today, I take a different view, I believe our focus was too nothing unequal either. This makes me get involved in narrow. Our country needs a comprehensive plan . . . to fix American life really quick, and I enjoy it. —Berlin Xing our current legal immigration system—a system that pulls I like the strong connection between professors and students. apart families, forces small businesses to close their doors That connection is very important and seems to be very hard to due to a lack of access to a workforce, keeps 11 million find elsewhere. The easiness and comfortability of the conver- undocumented immigrants in the shadows and leaves our sation that takes place inside and outside the classroom really borders vulnerable.”9 helps as an international student in terms of learning and Zuckerberg and others have also expressed this expanded socializing. —Bac Tran view that includes both skilled and less skilled workers. On As a freshman, student athlete, and an international student, I June 17, 2015, he and his wife Priscilla Chan announced a had a lot of questions in my mind before I came here to Menlo. donation of $5 million toward scholarships for hundreds Questions like whether I’m going to fit in and if I’ll like it here of undocumented students in the Bay Area. This donation were all over my mind. However, after the first couple of days tops an earlier contribution from the couple of $2.5 million here, all of my questions and concerns disappeared. The profes- toward such scholarships in 2014. Zuckerberg wrote on his sors, staff, and of course the students and my teammates have Facebook page, “We ought to welcome smart and hard- been extremely kind and welcoming since day 1. They’ve made working young people from every nation, and to help my staying here both easy and wonderful. —Anders Nymo everyone in our society achieve their full potential.” All classes at Menlo College are ______relatively small scale so it’s a good Notes 1 Preston, Julia. “Share of Immigrants in U.S. Nears Highs of Early 20th environment and good for asking Century.” New York Times. 28 September 2015. questions and communicating.

2 Vivek, Wadhwa. “Immigrants are More Likely to be Entrepreneurs.” At Menlo, I often see people five BusinessWeek Online. 26 November 2008, 1. times a day and so we can make http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/nov2008/sb20081125 a network of friends easily. I have _711355.htm gone to an international school 3 Ibid., 2. in Osaka so I knew English, but I 4 Silicon Valley Index 2014, a publication of the Silicon Valley Community didn’t know American culture. My Keisuke Hara ‘15 Foundation and the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies. 2014, 10. www.siliconvalleyindex.org resident assistant Devin supported me in many ways, including taking me to Target and the bank whenever I needed a ride. 5 Ibid., 14. —Keisuke Hara 6 Zuckerberg, Mark. “Immigrants are the Key to a Knowledge Economy.” Washington Post, 10 April 2013. Being an international student at Menlo for me is fantastic. I http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants- have the opportunity to represent my country and culture as I are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2- 82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html?hpid=z2 never could before. Although I am the only Brazilian at Menlo, I

7 Conway, Ron. “Broken Immigration Stifles Our Tech Industry.” feel at home. Everyone is helping me to make my time wonder- Mashable. 22 May 2013. ful. I’m looking foward to being more involved with everything http://mashable.com/2013/05/22/ron-conway-march-for-innovation the school has provided for us. —Luiz Lodino Nicomedes, Jr. 8 Zuckerberg. "Immigrants are the Key."

9 Conway. "Broken Immigration."

22 WINTER 2016 BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE Luiz Lodino Nicomedes, Jr. ‘18 and Professor Jodie Austin discuss an assignment. PHOTO: ANDREY POLIAKOV

young and well-educated, and refugee resettlement is orga- Comparison of Refugee Flows nized in such a way to avoid placing too heavy a burden on any particular community. Also, the U.S. has had strict measures in in the U.S. and Europe place since 9/11 for screening those seeking asylum from the By Terri Givens Middle East, while there has also been more of a focus on help- Dr. Terri Givens holds a B.A. in international relations from Stanford ing those who are sheltering in camps near the conflict areas. University and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of As noted in the Los Angeles Times, “Since the start of the Syrian California, Los Angeles. She is a recognized expert on the global civil war in March 2011, Washington has provided more than $4 politics of immigration and European politics. In 2015, she became billion for relief to those fleeing the conflict that has displaced 4 the Provost of Menlo College. million people.”2 he November terrorist attacks in Paris once again focused Of course geography plays a major role in where refugees go. the spotlight on Islamic extremists, and concerns that The U.S. is still experiencing flows from Central America, and T they may be finding their way to Europe along with given travel restrictions that make it difficult for those in conflict refugees coming from Syria. However, many have argued that areas to access air travel, most are attempting to go to places we must continue to welcome these refugees, with President they can reach by foot or boat. Children arrive from places like Obama saying that “The people who are fleeing Syria are the Guatemala, often traveling on their own. They face many perils most harmed by terrorism, they are the most vulnerable as a as they cross through Mexico, traveling on the trains where consequence of civil war and strife.”1 many have been injured, or face attacks from armed gangs. These flows have picked up again as these children and Menlo College students are among many who are focused on families try to escape the violence in their neighborhoods. the plight of Syrian refugees. Large numbers of these refugees have made Europe their destination as they attempt to escape The situation in the Middle East is likely to remain unstable for the war that has engulfed their country. As of late 2015, the bor- some time to come, while the U.S. and Russia negotiate their der agency of the European Union (EU) estimated that 700,000 involvement in these conflicts. Supporting humanitarian efforts refuges had entered the EU. Many travel by sea where they face will continue to be critical to the survival of those caught in the many perils and large numbers have drowned in overloaded crossfire. boats. This is the largest flow of refugees since the end of World As I discuss these issues with Menlo College students, it is clear War II. As the situation shows no sign of ending, European that they have a deep awareness of these types of world events, Union countries have struggled to develop a common policy and I look forward to continuing to share my own research and towards refugees. Countries like Germany have shown a willing- experiences on these topics. It is important for our students to ness to take in large numbers of refugees, while countries like understand their place in our global community, as well as the Hungary and Greece have struggled with managing the large impact these issues have in our community and here on our influxes. own campus. In the U.S., President Barack Obama has pledged to take in ______as many as 100,000 Syrian refugees over the next few years 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/obama-says-paris-attacks- (10,000 in 2016), but the numbers entering are more of a trickle, have-stiffened-resolve-to-crush-isis.html?_r=0 2  compared to the flows into Europe. Most of these refugees are http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-us-refugees-asylum- 20150904-story.html

BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE MENLO COLLEGE 23 Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe

By Pamela Gullard Givens points out that Ford, a member of the British Labour A Review of Dr. Terri Givens' Latest Book Party, brought to the Inquiry the long British history of attempts “to devise ways of integrating existing immigrants and especial- eople are on the move across the globe. Some re-locate ly their children, the so-called ‘second generation,’ into British with high hopes and good prospects for highly skilled society.” This integration could only be accomplished through P jobs. But tens of thousands are fleeing civil war or powerful antidiscrimination law. desperate poverty, paying smugglers for places in leaky boats, packed trucks. To survive, many will take almost any job at the With Ford as chair, the first Committee of Inquiry not only con- lowest wage, which can enrage workers in the host country. demned racist speech and hate crimes, but also laid out some Or it can stir up existing racism in bigots looking for an excuse of the first language for creating strong antidiscrimination laws for violence. across Europe. A second Inquiry resulted in the Ford report, which deepened the discussion of antidiscrimination policy. In the last several decades Europe has been rocked by huge migrations. According to a recent New York Times article by The Starting Line Group, an Informal Network Andrew Higgins, about 153,000 migrants tried to enter Europe In Givens’ capable hands, one begins to understand the vital in the first half of 2015, a 149 percent increase over the same importance of an informal network of dynamic actors able to period last year. At least 1,800 died. “move forward an agenda that [European Union] member states Though the 28 members of the European Union spent much of were not necessarily supporting.” the summer of 2015 in fierce debate about what to do with such She explains that in 1992, legal activists Isabelle Chopin, Jan huge numbers, they had already signed a measure to deal with Niessen, and others deeply committed to creating “institutional the question of discrimination that many of the new migrants space” for trans-European antidiscrimination policy, sat down will face—however many there are. and developed a proposed Directive, the “so-called ‘Starting Over twenty years ago in 1993, the Treaty of Amsterdam added Line,’ after which the group took its name.” important amendments to the European Union’s founding The Starting Line Group did not have a formal role in the charter, especially Article 13, which gave the EU explicit legislative process and it was associated with the relatively authority to act with regard to discrimination on a number of weak European Parliament. How, then, did it exert influence on grounds, including race and ethnic origin. the powerful European Commission in the European Union? A new book by Menlo College Provost Terri Givens shows how Through the persuasiveness of individual members and, as this remarkable document—and the subsequent Racial Equality Givens eloquently emphasizes, through the fact that it wrote Directive (RED)—was developed. In Legislating Equality: The the first draft of the Directive. Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe (Oxford Press, 2014), She explains that although other groups had written piecemeal Givens and co-author Rhonda Evans Case show the complex recommendations on antidiscrimination policy, the Starting interactions between politics, informal networks, and Line document “was unique in that it was the first such institutions in forming the antidiscrimination platform of the concrete measure to be proposed.” As she points out, there is European Union. tremendous power in the first draft. Tracing the push and pull of all these moving parts is an exciting That power carried right through the final negotiations story. It is a narrative of committed individuals pursuing the between dissenting European member arguments, even goal of antidiscrimination law in the face of obstacles. though members of the Starting Line Group were not at the European Politics in the Face of the Rise of the Radical Right table. Their original document retained its initial power and in the final antidiscrimination Directive signed by all member Givens writes, “In the 1980s and early 1990s, racist acts of vio- states, much of its language remains. lence and the stunning success of radical right political parties across Europe catapulted the issues of immigration, xenopho- Givens’ book Legislating Equality provides many lessons about bia, fascism, and racism to the forefront.” Alarmed, members of how institutions work and the interplay between tragic events the European Union commissioned the European Parliament to and people with strong ideas. She shows that informal net- define the problem in exact terms and figure out an effective works with little formal power can pull off game-changing shifts response. in institutions. Advocates such as Jan Niessen and Glyn Ford have quietly influenced laws across Europe so that each nation A Committee of Inquiry, under the leadership of European can benefit from the vitality of its immigrants. Parliament member Glyn Ford, began to explore the question.

24 WINTER 2016 BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE Anders Nymo U.S. Immigration: Where We Are Now by Melissa R. Michelson The vast majority of applicants hailed from Mexico, but ap- Dr. Melissa Michelson holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. plicants came from 24 different countries, including many Latin Her research includes studies of voter turnout in ethnoracial com- American countries, South Korea, Nigeria, India, and Poland. munities and political socialization of undocumented Latino youth. Meanwhile, Congress continued to fail to reach consensus on She teaches political science at Menlo College. immigration reform. Instead, debate focused on border security mmigration in the United States is a complex, changing issue and internal enforcement. In 2013, the Senate passed a com- as governmental policies and attitudes shift. The overall un- prehensive immigration reform bill, titled the “Border Security, I documented immigrant population, however, has remained Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” essentially unchanged for the past five years, at 11.3 million (S.744), with bipartisan support, including Republican presi- (about 3.5% of the nation’s population). Many are children who dential candidates Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio. However, were brought to the United States by their families and have conservative Republican members of the House of Representa- lived in the United States as undocumented Americans for tives killed the bill. most of their lives. The next year, House Republican leaders released a blueprint The circumstances of many of these youth were partially for immigration reform, but after a fierce backlash from Tea changed on June 15, 2012 when President Barack Obama Party conservatives, House Speaker John Boehner backed away announced that under his administration the Department of from the plan. In October 2015, Boehner announced that he Homeland Security would no longer engage in the deportation would be stepping down from his post, and from Congress. of certain undocumented youth, and that qualified undocu- Some observers saw his departure as related to disagreements mented individuals would be eligible to apply for renewable, about how the party should move forward on the immigration two-year work permits. This Deferred Action for Childhood Ar- issue. The new Speaker, Paul Ryan, has told the media that he rivals (DACA) program focused on a group that has come to be promised conservative House members that he would not bring called DREAMers, after the Development, Relief, and Education up immigration reform legislation until Obama was out of office, for Alien Minors Act, a measure first proposed in 2001. claiming the President could not be trusted on the issue.2 Although an estimated 1.2 million individuals were eligible, sub- Two years after the initial DACA announcement, on November mission of applications was slow at first. Many undocumented 20, 2014, President Obama announced a new set of executive immigrants were hesitant to submit the necessary paperwork actions on immigration, collectively called the Immigration before they knew who would win the 2012 presidential election Accountability Executive Action. These new proposals sought (and whether the program would be cancelled if Mitt Romney to extend DACA from two to three years and to apply to a larger won). Interest surged after Obama’s reelection, and by the end group of people, and to add Deferred Action for Parents of of the 2015 fiscal year the Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigra- Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), to extend tion Services had received applications from 818,161 individuals deportation relief to undocumented parents of citizens and 1 seeking deportation relief, 681,345 of which were approved. legal residents. Overall, these changes were expected to grant

BUSINESS & IMMIGRATION CONVERGE MENLO COLLEGE 25 deportation relief to 3.71 million undocumented immigrant parents, and to add 290,000 newly eligible individuals to the Dr. Melissa Michelson shines light on DACA program. Previous presidents have also taken executive action on im- undocumented youth migration. In 1986, Congress approved and President Ronald Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), Undocumented Latino Youth (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) authorizing about 3 million undocumented immigrants to By Maria Chavez, Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, and obtain legal permanent residence. In 1987, Reagan used execu- Melissa R. Michelson tive action to grant deportation relief to children of individu- n her latest book, Dr. Michelson and her co-authors look als applying for legalization through IRCA. In July 1989, when closely at the hardships and dreams of young Latinos Congress balked at President George H.W. Bush’s proposal struggling against the uncertainties of U.S. documentation. to also defer deportation of spouses, he implemented the I She explains: program through executive action. Congress approved On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that legislation confirming both changes in 1990.3 under his administration the Department of Homeland Congress has not similarly acted to endorse President Obama’s Security would no longer engage in the deportation of cer- executive actions on immigration; instead, Republicans have tain undocumented youth, effective immediately, and that charged that the policies amount to presidential usurpation of qualified undocumented individuals would be eligible to Congressional lawmaking power. Opponents in 26 states, led apply for renewable, two-year work permits. In the months by Texas, filed suit against the new programs, claiming that they following Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals would negatively impact their states through costs for law en- (DACA) announcement, we interviewed 101 of these young forcement, health care, education, and driver’s license process- people. They represent a group that has come to be called 4 ing, among other impacts. Rulings to date on the case, Texas DREAMers, after the Development, Relief, and Education v. United States, have sided with Texas. On February 16, 2015 for Alien Minors Act, a measure first proposed in 2001. The a federal district court in Texas put the expanded DACA and DREAMers label is evocative of the familiar concept of the DAPA programs on hold. A federal appeals court in New Orleans American Dream, that this country is a land of opportunity upheld the ruling on November 9, 2015. where anyone can achieve economic success and a better President Obama’s Department of Justice asked the Supreme life for themselves and their children. Court to review the case; and certoriari was granted on January Various court rulings have held that undocumented children 19, 2016. Oral argument will be heard in April, with a decision are entitled to the same public benefits as other children, announced by June 2016. This schedule promises to increase including free public K-12 education. Many of these Latino attention on the issue of immigration reform just in time for youth excel in high school and dream of continuing on to the presidential elections, with repercussions for both political become doctors, lawyers, scientists, and teachers; instead, parties regardless of how the Court decides. Until then, they are left with the prospect of working under the table at individuals can still apply for the original DACA program manual jobs or domestic work, or possibly even leaving the (including renewals), but applications are not being accepted United States for a country in which they were born but that for the expanded DACA or DAPA programs. Individuals eligible they do not remember. Many of our respondents arrived in for either program are unlikely to be deported until the Su- the U.S. as small children. Some no longer speak Spanish and preme Court ruling is announced. many do not have any close relatives in their country of birth. Meanwhile, many undocumented youth and their parents They were raised and socialized in the U.S., attending public continue contributing to the U.S. economy while putting schools and immersed in American culture; yet, these young their larger dreams on hold. people are forever marked as outsiders in the only country ______they have ever known. DREAMers are constantly reminded that they are not real Americans. 1 Jonathan Weisman, “Boehner Doubts Immigration Bill Will Pass in 2014,” New York Times, Feb. 7, 2014, A1. Throughout the book, we highlight the tremendous un- 2 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/01/us-usa-congress-ryan-immigration- certainty DREAMers have faced and continue to face, even idUSKCN0SQ1V920151101#X2qpToeyRQkcLomp.97 under DACA. We argue that only by embracing DREAMers as 3 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/21/executive-actions-on- immigration-have-long-history/ full members of our society can the United States stay true to 4 Along with Texas, the 25 states seeking to block DAPA and DACA’s expansion our founding ideals and move toward the goal of becoming programs are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, a successful multi-racial/ethnic democracy. Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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Our thanks to the contributors of this special report Terri Givens Pamela Gullard Melissa Michelson

Cover photo: Tom Haflinger ‘07 MENLO COLLEGE 27 Two-Star Admiral Pete Pettigrew Asked Students, “Do You Have the Right Stuff?”

o You Have the Right Stuff?” was keynote speaker retired In 1972, he was put to the test when a pilot with a wing on Admiral Pete Pettigrew’s topic at 2015 Menlo Connect fire wanted to land the plane. The pilot was flying too fast and D Day. Pettigrew (known as Viper,) a former Navy aviator, couldn’t extend the flaps on the plane to help it slow down for Vietnam war veteran, and Top Gun instructor, served as a a safe landing on the ship. “There are times in your life when technical advisor on the top grossing film Top Gun. big decisions arise with little time to react to them,” he said. A Vietnam vet with over 375 combat missions, Admiral Petti- The plane had to crash into the sea, and the pilot managed to grew downed the top North Vietnamese fighter jet, the MIG-21, parachute to safety. earned the Silver Star, the Joint Superior Service Medal, the “The chain of command is a two-way street. The responsibility Legion of Merit with Gold Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, increases from the bottom up but the people at the top also the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and 33 other medals. have a responsibility to the people below them. The best way As a lieutenant commander, Pettigrew flew F-4J Phantoms with to learn leadership is to emulate good leaders and disregard Navy Fighter Squadron 114 from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk off North poor ones,” he said. Vietnam. In view of the troubles with Syria and the recent Paris attacks, “In the real world extraordinary things can come out of ordinary he noted that he had “mixed emotions about boots on the people,” he explained as he recalled the story behind The Right ground” in Syria. He added that there was a difference between Stuff, which originated from a Tom Wolfe novel about aviators. navy pilots he worked with in the 70s and now. “Pilots fly from ten naval carriers day and night, and although they still have Admiral Pettigrew described one of the difficult decisions the right stuff, they’re a different breed, having grown up with required of him in his service as a landing signal officer (LSO) computers and technology.” on a war craft ship. As an LSO, he helped guide in the planes for landing on the ship. If he thought the plane was going to land When asked what is the greatest life lesson he could share with poorly, the LSO had to “wave off” or get rid of the plane in order Menlo students, he replied, “The doors are open in your life. to save the ship. Don’t be afraid to go through them. No decision is still a decision, so don’t be afraid you will fail. The more you succeed, the easier it will be to cross a threshold. Watch for the doors.”

Ron Kovas and His Entrepreneurship Class Tour Facebook

Professor Ron Kovas and his Entrepreneurship class toured Facebook 28 WINTER 2016 Alumni Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Life After Graduation

ed Cross Business Development Man- What’s a positive surprise you’ve had since ager Hanna Malak ’12, SalesX Inc. Digital leaving Menlo? Marketing Manager Tiare Fuentes ’12, R No more homework. NetSeer Advertising Operations Analyst Eric Tilbury ’12, Liquid Agency Program Coordina- Professional work might be easier than school- tor Erin Bedell ’12, and CEO Addison Marketing, work. Chief Marketing Officer at Auconet, Inc. Frances There are some overall smarts in the work force. Mann-Craik ’76 offered students a glimpse Money. of what the future may hold at “Life After Graduation,” a panel of recent Menlo alumni How did your social media habits change presented at 2015 Menlo Connect Day. once you left Menlo? If you could do one thing over at Menlo Think of who is in your network before posting. College? Use LinkedIn. Work on my time management. New work tips once you leave Menlo? Spend a day shadowing a professional to see Keep your networking positive in case your what their jobs really entail. paths meet again. Find a balance in time spent at Menlo. Dress for the most important meeting of the Seize the moment more. day. What was the most fun at Menlo? Better to dress up than down. Soccer, Soccer, Soccer! Keep an extra change of clothes in the car in case of spills. Using newfound skills like presentations. Don’t get bogged down in the routine, stay on What was the toughest part of life after point. Menlo? Use Albert’s List https://www.linkedin.com/ The work routine. company/albert’s-list Fake it till you make it.

MENLO COLLEGE 29 Bowman Library Gets a Refresh

By Linda Smith And to brighten everything, the Dean of Library Services Library got a paint job in the two n Fall of 2014, a group of main rooms of the Library, the students from a Business group study room, the Library’s ICommunication class made a classroom, and the hallway. A presentation to the librarians on new, more efficient, more modern ways to improve Bowman Library. circulation desk was installed. Anne Linvill, Instruction and Thanks to help from the Security Circulation Services Librarian, Department, Bowman Library has worked with two of the communi- been able to offer extended hours cation class students, Rachael on a regular basis after library staff Gianoli ’15 and Garrett Gemgnani ’16 Jon and Ann Bowman, benefactors of the leaves for the day. A security guard to put together two focus groups to gain Bowman Library, visited during Menlo’s recent keeps the main room of the Library open OAKtoberFest. more insight into what students wanted until 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday from their library. Student suggestions Several spaces were reconfigured so that nights, and until 3 a.m. the last two included: more quiet spaces in the more computers were put in the main weeks of the semester through finals. Library; longer hours; more study rooms; room, which is a non-quiet area, freeing Bowman Library has also been able to and availability of tea and coffee. up space in the Tech Center for more meet students’ request for tea and coffee quiet study carrels. To address the need The results of the focus group motivated and received feedback in a handwritten for more group study space, several large the librarians to hire a library space con- note: “To whom it may concern, thank tables were moved around in order to sultant who visited the Library for half- you very much for maintaining this allow for easier group and project work, a-day in January 2015 and offered ideas station. It means a lot to us students.” on remodeling the Library. Working with and group study rooms got new tables Thanks to ideas from students, Bowman her suggestions and some of their own, and chairs. The Library’s classroom got an Library has been able to provide a better the librarians made some changes to the overhaul, with a large projection screen, study and meeting space for students. Library this past summer. ensuring much easier viewing from all parts of the room and a much improved [Read how students also redesigned the teaching environment. campus store, page ten]

The glistening new circulation desk and newly painted walls make the library look more modern and the workflow feel more manageable for students and librarians Melissa Pincus, Linda Smith, Cheryl Collins, Marie Varelas, Anne Linvill , and Tricia Soto. 30 WINTER 2016 voking issues that students have tackled over the years – advocating for wider diversity among the student body, both protesting and supporting the Vietnam War, supporting Menlo’s move to being a coeducational institution, and decrying faculty dismissals – as well as all the day- to-day rituals that help shape a college community, such as dances, sporting events, and studying. Mixing the old and the new, the exhibit also features a digital display about the new online Menlo Oak Press, featuring its writers and some of their stories. Bowman Library is happy to feature this latest chapter in the strong tradition of news reporting at Menlo. New Library System “Black and White and Read: One of the Library’s major initiatives for News Reporting at Menlo” Exhibit 2015 was the replacement of its former When Cheryl Collins, Technical Services integrated library system with OCLC’s Librarian and College Archivist, and WorldShare Management Services Linda Smith, Dean of Library Services, (WMS). Students and faculty arrived back heard about the new student-run online on campus in Fall to a new online catalog Menlo Oak Press, they knew it was perfect that searches the Library’s book collec- for a library exhibit on the long history tion as well as journal and magazine of journalism at Menlo College. The articles. Much of the behind-the-scenes online paper was founded in 2015 by work of the librarians changed as well, as the Journalism Club, under the leader- they migrated data and learned how to ship of editor Taylor Morrow ‘16, and like run the new system. its predecessors in print, it provides an Some of the most visible changes for opportunity for student activism and students and faculty include the addition community engagement that invokes of book covers in the catalog, automatic the principles and historic traditions of notices when items are coming due, and freedom of the press. the ability to place holds and request Drawing on the College Archives, the items via interlibrary loan directly from exhibit features an array of newspapers the catalog. including the earliest issue in 1928 and discusses the wide range of thought-pro-

Top, During construction, the book cases were wrapped for protection. Above and right, “Black and White and Read: News Reporting at Menlo” Exhibit MENLO COLLEGE 31 THE 25TH ANNUAL HAWAIIAN LUAU | APRIL 16

Top, a past Menlo College Hawaiian Luau. Bottom, Hawaii Club officers Kiyani Punzal ‘18, Vice President, Antonio Maluyo ’16, President, and Veisinia Fale ‘18, Secretary are planning the 25th Luau. Aloha Na Aina Traditional Entertainment by Menlo College Students “Aloha! At the 25th Annual Menlo Luau, we’re featuring special guest Kumu Mark Keali’i Ho’Omalu, featured annually in Hilo’s Merrie Monarch Hula Festival. He was also a songwriter of Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride in the Disney animated feature film, Lilo and Stitch. My Aunty Karla will be flying in from O’ahu to prepare Kahua pig, Lomi-lomi salmon, Squid Lu’au, and her famous Haupia. Earn SERV hours as a dancer or by helping on committees. Contact Veisinia Fale, [email protected] to sign up for SERV hours, and our advisor, Cindy McGrew, [email protected] for sponsorship details. Join us on April 16 as the Menlo Community brings to life Aloha Na Aina.” Antonio Maluyo ‘16, President, Hawaii Club 32 WINTER 2016 WOMEN’S BUSINESS SOCIETY ALUMNI CAR SHOW | APRIL 2

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“If you’re ready for food, fun and cars, then gear up, gas up and get ready for an experience to remember!” ~Blake Barbre, President, Women’s Business Society

MENLO COLLEGE 33 Women’s Business Society Welcomes Guy Kawasaki

oted social media expert and author Guy Kawasaki an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC recently spoke about ways to improve personal Berkeley). He was the chief evangelist of Apple and also the Nbranding at Menlo College. author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Menlo College President Richard A. Moran credited Kawasaki Enchantment, and nine other books. He has a BA from Stanford with popularizing the use of the term “evangelist” to define University and an MBA from UCLA, as well as an honorary the person who builds a critical mass of support for a given doctorate from Babson College. technology. Kawasaki fulfilled that role first at Apple, and his When Diamond graduated from Menlo, the Society leadership career has been notable for ongoing roles promoting the use was assumed by Natalie Leesakul. Leesakul is a bilingual double of a product or technology through talks, articles, blogging, major in marketing and international management who lived and demonstrations. Kawasaki is currently the chief evangelist abroad for many years in Thailand. She was one of the original of Canva, an online graphic design tool. members of the Society. His message to Menlo College students at the Women’s Under her leadership, the Society has grown to 80 members. Business Society event concerned branding in social media. “We’re very selective about membership,” she explained. “Every Personal branding such as Kawasaki’s suggestions are member must commit to active participation and volunteering emphasized by the Women’s Business Society, founded by in the Society.” Under Leesakul’s leadership, the Women’s Ashley Diamond ’15 in 2011. Diamond said, “We started the Business Society has sponsored successful events such as the Women’s Business Society that focused on three pillars: busi- recent Guy Kawasaki presentation. ness, social, and philanthropy. By 2015, there were 70 active When asked why new female students might want to join the members – a huge proportion for a school with less than 700 Women’s Business Society, Leesakul concluded, “Join the students at the time! It was a huge learning experience for me Society if you’d like to be a part of an organization that in volunteer management.” empowers women through mentoring so that they can Kawasaki is also on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia conquer the world.” Foundation, a brand ambassador for Mercedes Benz USA, and

Top and bottom, Guy Kawasaki spoke to Menlo College students about ways to improve their personal branding. 34 WINTER 2016 Female Entrepreneurs Empowered at Menlo College

Women's Business Society Founder Ashley Diamond ‘15, 2015 President Natalie Leesakul, 2016 President Blake Barbre

runchbase, a database of startups, tech companies and gold mine and can really have fun expanding their networks the people who work in them, recently released a report and practicing interactions with senior executives. Menlo Con the number of women founders of US venture- College is a perfect place for that.” backed startups. While female founders are still in the minority, Alumna Ashley Diamond, a marketing manager at Adello, a there has been a rapid growth in the past five years, from 9.5% global advertising technology company in Redwood Shores, of startups with at least one woman founder in 2009, to 18% in founded the Menlo Women’s Business Society in 2011. 2014. “I wanted to get more involved at Menlo College and there were Menlo College is going big to accelerate the growth in women lots of opportunities to start anything you want.” entrepreneurs, graduating women who are destined to boost Marketing Professor Deborah Brown McCabe said, “Menlo the female founder statistic. Menlo students—both female College encourages and supports student leadership, and does and male—are learning to identify promising startups through so in methods that are especially supportive of women’s ways classroom experience and professional business experience. of engaging. Not only does Menlo ‘talk the talk,’ the College Entrepreneurship Professor Ron Kovas puts students through ‘walks the leadership walk.’ Menlo informally and formally trains the challenge of investigating business ideas, validating the our female students to be strong, articulate, confident women, “opportunity” and developing a business plan to seek venture skills that will serve them well in the workplace.” funding. “Launching the Venture,” a capstone class, emphasizes Nita Singh Kaushal, founder of Miss CEO, has been a frequent that an idea is just the beginning of innovation. With the sound speaker at Menlo College Women’s Business Society events. advice of guest speakers from Silicon Valley, including venture Kaushal has also served as Co-President of Yahoo! Women in capitalists, private equity investors and entrepreneurs, student Tech, an organization committed to attracting, developing and teams develop business plan rationale and then present their retaining more women in technical and executive positions. “It arguments before a panel of Silicon Valley investors. “It is is always inspiring to connect with the young women of Menlo definitely hands-on and not just academic rhetoric,” said Kovas. College, who are eager to develop their personal leadership To further promote student entrepreneurialism, every Menlo toolkit by learning essential skills such as negotiation, effective College student undertakes a supervised workplace internship communication, risk taking, and networking. These students in Silicon Valley before graduation. realize that in order to make meaningful contributions and excel The small size of the campus and the close collaboration with in all phases of their lives, it is valuable to learn how to lead and faculty creates a setting for team-building, networking, and explore fearlessly.” preparing ideas for marketing. Recent graduates such as Erin Bedell, working at Liquid Agency, President Richard A. Moran said, “It’s every pair of hands on Google employee Katrina Smith, Facebook employee Emily deck on a small campus. Everyone is valued for what they bring Estes, and MileIQ employee Brittany Olguin, are all beginning to the table.” their professional climb in businesses that range from startups to big players. Political Science Professor Melissa Michelson concurred, “Menlo College is a great place to be a female student because If Menlo’s aspiring female founders have it their way, gender of the small size of our classes. In large classes, men tend to statistics in business will eventually trend on an equal level. dominate the conversation, and women can be overlooked and As Economics Professor Craig Medlen defined it, “Education— silenced. In a small class, that just isn’t as likely to happen.“ here and elsewhere—should be gender neutral.” Alumna Ewa Zwonarz ‘03, marketing strategist and author, said, “Many students don’t realize that they are sitting on a MENLO COLLEGE 35 Steven Lee Myers Discusses The New Tsar at Menlo College

Members of the Journalism Club with author Steven Lee Myers

literary event in November Secretaries of State, most recently Hillary at Berkeley, graduating with honors. featured Steven Lee Myers, a 26- Rodham Clinton and John Kerry. As a Rotary International scholar, he Ayear veteran of , Myers received a bachelor’s degree in received a master’s degree, with distinc- and author of The New Tsar: The Rise and rhetoric from the University of California tion, in literature and art history from Reign of Vladimir Putin published by Al- the University of Reading in England. fred A. Knopf Books. Myers has extensive experience reporting from Russia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and, The Story Behind the Online Newspaper as well, New York City and Washington, D.C. Myers is a correspondent in the Wash- ington Bureau of The New York Times and MENLO OAK PRESS he covers foreign policy and national by Taylor Morrow ’16 In 2014 the decision was made to recreate security issues. He began his career at The The first new publication at Menlo School and reinvent the Menlo College newspa- Times and worked in New York City until and Junior College was published in per in order to provide students with a moving to Washington, where he cov- October of 1928. It was a one-page paper place to pursue the practice of journalism ered first the State Department and then with the title The Menlo???, question and inform the Menlo community. The the Pentagon through the aftermath of marks included. Since its creation, the Journalism Club was formed with a focus the attacks of September 11, 2001. Menlo newspaper has had many to increase awareness and involvement He has reported on conflicts in Bosnia, different titles. with the paper to increase readership. Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Iraq. In 1930, the school decided on the name The Journalism Club surveyed students In 2003, he was “embedded” with the El Roble Blanco after having a naming and faculty asking for title suggestions Army’s Third Infantry Division during the contest. In 1936 the title was changed to and interesting topics. With the help invasion and reported extensively on the Oak and Acorn and it was the first student of the Writing Center, Menlo College division’s experience. He returned to Iraq paper in the United States to be repro- students successfully created an online and became bureau chief. duced by photolithic process. In 1969 newspaper titled Menlo Oak Press. This In Washington, he also covered the the name was changed again to The Oak. semester the Journalism Club helped White House during the presidency of From 1975 to 2009 the Menlo College the Bowman Library with their journalism George W. Bush in 2007 and 2008 and paper was titled The Menlo Oak and was exhibit entitled “Black and White has written on the State Department published on a consistent basis. In 2009 and Read: News Reporting at Menlo.” during the tenures now of five different the paper transitioned to being online [See page 31.] but then slowly dwindled out. 36 WINTER 2016 Writing and Oral Communication Center Expands Support for Students by Erik Bakke, Writing Center and Intensive The Writing and Oral Communication tions with faculty that I wouldn’t have English Program Director Center provides support for all students elsewhere” and “They aren’t in a rush to he Writing and Oral Communica- throughout their years at Menlo College, get it over with. They’ll spend time with tion Center has a new name and including guidance on course, co-curric- you.” expanded focus. Dr. Marianne ular, and extracurricular writing and oral The Writing and Oral Communication T communication needs. The Center has Neuwirth began her first full-time Center continues to support the Journal- semester on campus this past fall as continued to work extensively with stu- ism Club as it and the Menlo Oak Press the Director of Oral Communication dents completing their Senior Capstone grow, with the student paper moving Programs, and Erik Bakke continues in his and Senior Thesis projects, and it has be- from monthly to biweekly publication. role as Writing Center & Intensive English gun training students in effective inter- It is also supporting the resurrection of Program Director. The Writing and Oral viewing and presentation skills, including the campus Radio Club, and for 2016, a Communication Center had a record 1168 the dos and don’ts of PowerPoint. This Multimedia Center is in the works. Dr. visitors to its Bowman Library location in last semester, the Transition to College Marianne Neuwirth and Erik Bakke will be Fall of 2015 and also delivered and spon- course for first-year students included facilitating workshops and educational sored several special presentations, such mandatory visits to the Writing and Oral seminars for students, faculty and staff, as The New York Times reporter Steven Communication Center, the Math Center, supporting their work with digitally- Lee Myers discussion of his 2015 book The and the Academic Success Center. During based communication and various web- New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir a review of their first semester, students based platforms. Training students in Putin. The Center’s other workshops, said the Writing and Oral Communication interpersonal and professional commu- evening events, and classroom lectures Center was very helpful: “The staff is re- nication etiquette to help them be “job served an additional 777 students, for a ally nice and I have one-on-one connec- ready” is also part of the agenda for 2016. record total of 1945 students.

“They aren’t in a rush to get it over with. They’ll spend time with you.” A student review

Dr. Marianne Neuwirth, Director of Oral Communication Programs, and Erik Bakke, Writing Center and Intensive English Program Director, welcome students to the Writing and Oral Communications Center.

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38 WINTER 2016 Zach Osborne Discusses his Role as Director of Internships at Menlo College

MENLO: What types of questions or MENLO: Where do you find new requests do students usually have for internships? you when they pop into your office? ZACH: New internship employers ZACH: We get all types of requests, come from a variety of sources: but the most common are: • Employers approach Menlo to get • How to prepare for and be successful involved as internship employers. in an interview • Students make connections with • Getting feedback on a resume or companies through their own efforts/ cover letter networks, then bring those contacts • How to get approval for an intern- to us for approval as internship ship a student found on their own employers. approved for academic credit • Students identify specific companies/ MENLO: Are students expected to organizations of interest and we work have their own ideas for employers, with them to try to make contact to or does the internship office direct learn about internship opportunities. them? • We approach specific companies ZACH: As part of the preparation that that we feel would be good potential we guide students through before they internship employers and share infor- begin searching for their internship, mation about the Internship Program students are asked to think about the to determine if they’re interested in type of internship they would like to participating. pursue, what goals they have for their • A variety of more general marketing internship experience, and which com- efforts such as emails to all Bay Area panies/organizations they might be employers who have accounts in interested in targeting. Once they’ve CareerLink, posts in professional Zach Osborne, Director of Internships, with his gathered these initial thoughts, they faithful beagle, Maggie. groups related to majors we have meet with a staff member in the Center here at Menlo on LinkedIn, etc. for Academic & Professional Success he Center for Academic & Profes- MENLO: Approximately how many where we work with them to develop sional Success provides a full jobs are in the “stable” of choices a plan that will put them on the right range of career-related services for internships? T track to pursue internships of interest to the students of Menlo College. With- that are aligned with their personal ZACH: We have over 300 approved in the Center, Zach Osborne, Director and professional goals. The plan has internship employers at present with of Internships, specifically focuses on three components: a healthy pipeline of employers who the for-credit internship program. are at various stages of the approval 1. Strategies for approaching com- Zach explained, “I take the lead on process to become new internship panies/organizations of interest that guiding students through the prepara- employers. are not already approved internship tion necessary to search for and be suc- employers. Organizations interested in hosting cessful in an internship. I help students an intern can contact Zach at 2. A review of resources beyond those apply for and secure internships, and [email protected] for more internal to Menlo that would be help- work with interns during their intern- information. ships to ensure they get the most ful for the student to use to identify personal and professional learning and possible internship opportunities of If you’re visiting the Quad, you might experience possible. As well, I hold interest. recognize him with his beagle, Maggie. primary responsibility for building new, 3. Identification of opportunities and managing existing, relationships already approved in CareerLink to with internship employers.” which they might apply.

MENLO COLLEGE 39 Alumni Notes 1960s Karl Buder ’66 and Cissy Cotter just returned from New York City where they celebrated their anniversary and had a fabulous visit with family. Karl, John Rooke ’88, Andreas Strieve ’85, Enrique Ybarra Valdenebros ’91 all worked hard to produce the 7th Annual Senor Carlos López Memorial Tournament over the OAKtoberFest Weekend. 1970s Barbara Sullivan ’75 writes: “Great to hear from you! I have re- located down to Aromas, which is down by San Juan Bautista. I am, for the moment, still working at NetApp in Sunnyvale, while looking for a new position.” Faysal Alaquil ‘79 wrote: “Greetings from Saudi Arabia. I own Alaquil Trading Est. www.alaquil.com , and I’m currently the John Rohrer ‘89 and Alan Reid ‘87 caught up at Menlo Connect. Director of Business Development & “Binaa Wa Amal / Build- ing Hope” Division - Construction Products Holding Company www.cpcholding.com. I am the Chairman of the Advisory 2000s Committee, Architecture Department, College of Engineering, Amit Khatwani ’00. Amit spent February in the Bay Area, plan- member of the “Honorary Advisory Board” at Effat University in ning to relocate with his young family. He came to Menlo for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I am also a member of the World Econom- lunch, meeting with alum D. A. Griscom, Suzanne Evers, and Dr. ic Forum / CPC Industry Partnership, and member of U.N. Pearl Craig Medlen. Amit has extensive experience within invest- Initiative Integration Board www.pearlinitiative.org as well as a ment management and commercial banking spanning over member of various charity groups supporting CSR / Sustainable twelve years. Before founding Optim Group in 2012, he was with Development activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and an Barclays Wealth, Singapore. Here Amit led the Business Support official participant of the UN Global Compact. I have over 38 team aligned with the South East Asia desk. He holds a degree years of experience in the executive management of private in International Management and Management Information companies, I hold a bachelor degree in Business Administration Systems from Menlo College, California. Amit has served as a and a Ph.D. in Business Management.” member of the College’s Board of Trustees. 1980s Cyrus Shahriari ’00 returned to live in the South Bay after many years in Germany and Europe. Always a gifted computer guy, D. A. Griscom ’80 has returned to campus a number of times, Cyrus continues to provide project and technology services in providing his observations and philanthropic support for the the health industry. Bowman Library through the Griscom Foundation. D.A. cherish- es the philosophical and sometimes metaphysical knowledge He and his fellow Menlo alum, Rebecca Wong, enjoyed the and experiences presented by Dr. Diane Harvey, which shaped summer music concerts every other Friday evening. [See page and provided valuable insights for his own life and career in the 38.] They connected with Dr. Craig Medlen whenever possible. venture capital business world. Alan Fernandez’04 says, “All goes well. Busy with much in the 1990s air at the same time. The 2015 World Stem Cell Summit in Dec. is taking place in Georgia in December. The Genetics Policy Jan Schalkwijk ’97 is now in the Bay Area, as a CFA with his Institute is in the process of merging with the Regenerative company, JPS Global Investments www.jpsglobalinvest.com Medicine Foundation, a nonprofit that was established by Dr. (415) 315-9587. He also has investments through the Africa Fund, Tony Atala, one of the most high profile stem cell researchers and readily seeks connections with other alumni who are from in the field who runs the Wake Forest institute for Regenera- the African continent or neighboring regions. tive Medicine in North Carolina. I’m raising money for my music Sean Spanek ’99 is Realtor and Managing Partner of Spanek program that is to launch in December.” Real Estate and Sportstar Relocation. As a member of the Peter Johnson ’04 works as a loan officer for HomeStreet Bank Alumni Council, Sean is now actively helping Menlo by engag- in Pleasanton. Sara Williams Johnson ‘03 works as a nurse case ing others in campus events, suggesting marketing strategies manager at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek. The couple that offer prospective students the opportunity to attend. married in 2005 and live in Pleasant Hill, CA with their two sons.

40 WINTER 2016 Francis Adanza ’05 is now Director of Marketing at Zephyr in some good advice from my brother Frederic: ‘If you don’t know Fremont, CA. He is on the Alumni Council and is interested in what to do with your life just be aware of the people you enjoy participating in an internship club. hanging out with, the people you share the same mind with or the people who have things in common with. Inquire to what Sara Fulp-Allen ’07 was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall they do, and see if that is something you want to make your of Fame. Her father, Lee Allen (Menlo Women’s Wrestling Coach career.’ Had a blast at the festival, decided to explore the world 2001 - 2011) was inducted into the same Hall of Fame in 1998. of acting in LA, where I’ve been living in LA for over two years. She was named 2014 Youth Olympic Coach for USA Wrestling I’ve had a few gigs here, finding a bigger passion for directing. I for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China last summer. have been helping my friends with their ‘demo-reels’ and ‘audi- Stephani Kier ’07 is the international sales manager for Sleep tion tapes’ and learned about creating ads then casting and Innovations which distributes foam mattress products through directing the ads. I was blown away from the idea, so now I’m Costco and other major retailers. She spent time during her torn between acting, directing, and advertising.” business trip reconnecting with her former basketball team- Michael Liguori ’11 wrote: “I am no longer in the Bay Area and mates, including Ashlynn Dolcini. A highly motivated, focused moved to New York City in 2013. I currently work for an organi- leader, Stephani says, “My goal in life is to bring as much as I can zation called The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that to the table through constantly learning and pushing myself to empowers veterans to serve their country in new ways. I enjoy my limits.” She now enjoys snowboarding in the Seattle area. my job greatly and NYC is incredible. As for writing, I currently Jimmy (Gimbler) Escobedo Aliaga ’09 wrote: “My job is to work blog on The Huffington Post and work on projects that will with low income community, family and individuals helping hopefully give more folks an in depth look as to what it is really them start their own family or individual business. It is a difficult like for a veteran here at home.“ You can reach me on Twitter: work due to the lack of resources they can access but when I get @mikeliguori or Blog: medium.com/@mikeliguori Website: there, I do bring all what they need: training, knowledge, capi- michaelliguori.com tal, and additional resources due the networking I built during Yoji Kano ‘14 wrote back to Menlo: “I’m Yoji, glad to hear from the last four years. That is my work and more. Few months back you. I studied in Menlo College for one semester during the I quit my job and I started my own organization and I created spring 2014, and am proud of the experience there. I would like something, a place, a project where those who with entrepre- to join Menlo College Alumni, and also Singapore Facebook neurial spirit can go to get the support and knowledge that page. I still love Menlo, what I did in Menlo, and people and society denied due to filter it has created. I do own dozens of circumstances of Menlo. From April, I have been working at stories to share… Hugs, Jimmy” Taiyo Yuden (Singapore) Pte Ltd as an Internal Procurement 2010s Control Executive, dealing with Japanese electronics materials Adrianna Kinhult ’10 wrote from Hawaii: I received my Bach- such as ceramic capacitors and inductors needed for iPhone, elor’s in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Psychology from and many electronics devices.“ Menlo in 2010. I started working in the Pension Administra- Remember the article about market- tion field in 2011 as a Distribution Administrator (distributing ing major Kumkum Pandey’15 on 401(k) and pension to current and terminated employees of our page 15 in the Spring 2015 issue clients). After giving birth to my son in 2012 I started to think of Menlo Advantage? Kumkum about what career I really wanted to get into. I remembered interned at Plug and Play Tech how much I enjoyed accounting in high school (took 2 years) Center and graduated in May. She and I decided that I could see myself working in the accounting stopped in to visit us with her up- field for the rest of my working career. I went back to school in date. After an intense job search she 2013 to get my Masters in Accounting. I graduated in 2014 and is very pleased to report that she will started working at Boeckmann & Associates, LLC, my official first be working in Santa Monica at Net- accounting job, 2 weeks later. I am currently working toward work of One. Founded in 2013, they getting my CPA Certificate and will most likely start my own ac- Kumkum Pandey’15 are a predictive analytics software counting business in the short future after I get my Certificate.” company. Their mission is to support the web’s most passionate Jordan Winssinger ‘10 reporting from Los Angeles: “I was living independent video creators and transform the monetization of and working in Paris for 3 years then decided on a random busy digital media. Kumkum will be working as a content acquisition day at work that I wanted to make movies, went to NYC then analyst-buyer. Phoenix to see my dad and brainstorm my new endeavor. There, I went to the Idyllwild International Indie Film Festival. I also got

MENLO COLLEGE 41 It Happened at Menlo College for Phil Durbrow ’60

Philip Durbrow is Chairman & CEO of Marshall Strategy, a firm that specializes in developing positioning strategies for a range of national and international clients in finance, technology, real estate, entertainment, healthcare and education. His education clients include the entire UC system with individual strategies for UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Berkeley Law. In addition, he has worked with Georgetown University, Rockefeller University, Fordham University and California Institute of Technology. He began his education on a football scholarship at Menlo, where he was President of the class of 1960. He went on to UC Berkeley, University of Nebraska, and Harvard Business School. None of which would have happened without Menlo College!

by Phil Durbrow ’60 the phone, called someone at Cal and said he had a great guy, with not so great grades, that would be a great addition to the grew up under just my mother in Carmel. We were very poor. student body. He handed the phone to me and the person he I hadn’t even considered going to college, because of the was talking to asked if I was ready to be a serious student. I said cost and was considering the Marines. Then one day, I found I I was, and he agreed to accept me. Pretty extraordinary, but a myself sitting in front of three very nice gentlemen who inter- tribute to Berkeley’s respect for Menlo. viewed me and offered me a football scholarship to Menlo. This was totally unexpected, as I knew (I thought) that Menlo was a Before finishing at Berkeley, I joined the Army and was in a re- college for rich kids.” mote part of SE Asia when I received orders to report to the US Olympic Rowing Coach in Seattle. The Cold War was still on, and The First Thing Menlo did for me was to put me on a track we were competing with communist countries in the Olympics. for a college education. They were putting their athletes in the military, so that they The Second Thing Menlo did for me was to teach me about could train full time. rowing. Duvall Hecht was my professor and an Olympic Gold that Menlo did for me was again done by Medalist. He set up a crew, using Stanford’s boathouse and The Fourth Thing Professor Hecht. He contacted the Army and told them they had equipment, and in our second year we were finalists in the 1960 a talented oarsman in their ranks and that I should be assigned Olympic Trials. for training. But when I graduated, I still couldn’t afford college and I wound This time, my boat won the 1964 Olympic Trials and we were off up doing stunt work for motion pictures and TV in Hollywood. to Tokyo for the Olympics, where my boat won a bronze medal. (I grew up working in a stable, cleaning stalls, grooming and training horses, and teaching riding.) In those days, the early The Fifth Thing Menlo did for me was to enable me to 60’s, every thing on TV was a western, so I got lots of work for a become an Olympian by teaching me the sport and supporting couple years and was able to put some money away. and advocating for me years after I left Menlo. I came back to Menlo and told one of the great professors, I finished college on an Army Officer program at University of Professor Felix Knaut, that I wanted to continue my education. Nebraska and later completed an Extended Advanced Manage- ment Program at the Harvard Business School. The Third Thing Menlo did for me was to get me accepted by UC Berkeley. As I was talking to Professor Knaut, he picked up It all started with that amazing scholarship from Menlo.

42 WINTER 2016 ALAN REID ’87 Invests in His Relationship with Menlo College

lan Reid ’87 has recently sold Forward Management, an asset management firm he founded with Gordon Getty. A Reid’s first call came from his longtime friend Alexan- der Panagopulos ’89. The two had kept in touch since leaving Menlo. Panagopulos appointed Reid director of the Arista Group, an international business and family office that focuses on maritime transportation, hospitality, food and beverage and senior care. Arista Group was founded by Mr. Panagopulos after he sold his ferry business, Arista Shipping. Arista/Panagopulos was featured in the Wall Street Journal as the first ferry operator to be granted a license by the US to offer service to Cuba.

Before his position at the Arista Group, Reid spent 14 years in Alan Reid ’87 at the 2015 OAKtoberFest birthday celebration for investment management as President and CEO at Forward Dorothy Skala Management. From his time at Forward he learned, “We need to tirelessly focus on how we can be better as an industry, Reid’s Menlo story begins in 1981, when he transferred from and as people. As an asset management executive I believe in Ohio Wesleyan after his freshman year at the suggestion of his challenging the industry from within.” Reid credits his critical boss and Menlo alumnus Bill Squires. Originally from New York, thinking learned at Menlo (giving special credit to Dr. Craig he came to California and was working as a lifeguard at the Medlen) for his industry successes. Alan was the first to call out Circus Club to rehabilitate from a swimming accident. While the industry on mutual fund market timing, engaging with the Reid took an extended college route, enjoying a year at art SEC and later with Elliott Spitzer to support his own sharehold- school, he notes that Menlo was there for him when he was ers. A regular on CNBC, Alan points to a business communica- ready, warmly remembering many late afternoon debates with tions class, where the application of academics first jelled. Reid faculty members Brokes, McDonough and Medlen. Reid’s color- was honored when Sungard Expert Solutions formalized his ful college career paid off when he graduated. He was awarded advisory role, by bringing Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz the Faculty Award for leadership, character, and service at in to debate modern portfolio theory applications. Among Menlo - possibly a shock to Deans Munster and Steiner, but an other boards, Reid served on The Investment Company accolade to their and Dorothy Skala’s commitment to students. Institute Board of Governors, allowing him access to regular He remembers his dear friend Rudi Lang, who would let him congressional discussions and a seat on an industry working sleep on the floor after late night study sessions. He fondly group at The Federal Reserve in 2009. recalls his experience rooming with Lord Robin Russell, He is an enthusiastic Menlo College alumnus who has actively and their wonderful January semester experimenting with supported the College as the past President of the Menlo conversational French, the lovely Professor Claudie Hester College Alumni Association. and Elena Lopez. Russell and Reid still stay in touch weekly, and find frequent opportunities to meet in person. Reid has found Menlo alums central to his life. Whether being chided by friends Geir Ramleth, Fran Mann-Craig, John Rohrer, Reid and fellow classmates were saddened by the early passing Glenn Nielsen and Mike Tomars to attend Menlo events, or of his friend Adi Dassler (son of the Adidas founder), but have welcomed to Dean Witter by Tyler Whitten. Menlo friends have arranged reunions in London, Geneva, and Menlo Park. Reid is always been there. On September 11, 2001, he bumped into hoping alumni can join him in the UAE with Menlo’s “Poetress Trisha Roney and Penny Miller (Penelope Ann Miller) in his of Light”, Bahareh Amidi. http://www.bahareh.com/ NY hotel lobby. While an eerie day, they took solace in their On his radar is Thom Dunaway ’87 (class president), founder of reunion, and enjoyed a solemn stroll through Central Park. Wheretostay.com who is a renowned expert on the Caribbean, Trisha had dated Alan’s roommate Robin Russell, and the two promising potential events for Menlo offsite reunions. were among the few Menlo students that Penny had entrusted Reid says he has always reached out to his Menlo friends, with her plan to leave school and wait tables in NY, while she faculty and students, which has given him a network his east tried out for Broadway plays. Over the years Reid’s business coast prep school friends were always jealous of. Today, he stays brought him in touch with many alumni including Amit in touch with Menloites thru email, Facebook, LinkedIn and Khatwani, Dave Stickney, Saed Amidi and Lawry Manna. even Words-w-Friends, but encourages everyone to follow him on twitter @JAlanReid

MENLO COLLEGE 43 “Keeping Fit Starts in Your Mind” Joel Harper ’87

Celebrity personal trainer, fitness author and Menlo College alumnus Joel Harper ’87

elebrity personal trainer and fitness author Joel Harper • For readers who are intrigued by the notion of “tapping ’87 has been developing custom workouts for personal the power of their mind,” to control weight, how would you C training in New York City for 18 years. His clients range suggest that they start? from Dr. Oz to Olympic medalists to 10-year-old kids just Start in nature away from anything man made and by yourself, learning to appreciate their health. He regularly works with so all you have is your own mind. Getting your mind in the right well-known actors preparing for new roles, musicians embark- place is the first step. My new book, Mind Your Body takes you ing on world tours and business executives desiring increased step by step through the 10 core concepts to live an optimally energy and strength. He has created all of the personal workout balanced lifestyle based on my 3-step holistic approach. chapters for the New York Times best selling YOU books series But the first step has to be the mind. Once you have the right and the accompanying workout DVDs with Drs. Mehmet Oz and mind-set, stick to it and the rest will start to fall into place. Be Michael Roizen. The former Menlo College student answered a in control of your weight, or anything for that matter, with a few questions about fitness and his time at Menlo College. positive mind-set. The connection between the mind and all • Were you into fitness and modeling during the time you that we do has a huge impact on our lives and the lives of those attended Menlo College? around us. Yes, fitness has always been a passion of mine. I always took • If someone wants to start out slow, and only has 10 minutes full advantage of the area’s incredible weather which is perfect a day to “mind their body,” what would you recommend that for an outdoor workout and the hills make for a challenging they do in 10 minutes? bike ride. At the time, most of my modeling jobs were in San I would recommend doing body weight workouts-using your Francisco and New York. body as your gym-no equipment. 10 minutes might not seem • Do you have any special memories of your time attending like much time but 10 minutes does make a difference if you use Menlo College? it efficiently and effectively. The JoelHarper YouTube channel has a variety of workouts that take 10 minutes, or less, to do. I went to Menlo not knowing anyone, so I had to start from scratch meeting new people. I was able to connect and create • Any physical activity that you prefer? some lifelong friends that I am still in contact with today. I have Living in New York City, I find that my physical activities change very fond memories of the fun I had with Talley Stewart, Billy with each season but I enjoy it all. I bike everywhere and if there Ryan, Helena O’dell and Peter Longo. is something I have yet to try I am always ready to give it a go! 44 WINTER 2016 Honoring Commencement Speakers & Honorees from 2000–2015

photo exhibition in the Fireside Room pays tribute to some of the global leaders who have been honored at Menlo College commencement A ceremonies over the past fifteen years. Each one of them has touched our community with personal stories of challenge, persistence, and innovation in both the public and private sectors. Collectively, these individuals have under- scored the importance of helping others through contributions to business, philanthropy, and many other endeavors. They have proven the value of giving back by their positive impact across the globe. Carol Bartz Charles “Chuck” Smith It is a fitting occasion for Menlo College graduates to be inspired by the wisdom of such stellar role models as they begin their careers in the world of business. As President John F. Kennedy said, “True leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Commencement Speakers & Honorees: 2000–2015

2000 Earle Chiles ‘57, Earle Chiles Foundation Gavin Newsom Khaled Juffali 2001 Jackie Speier, Congresswoman, California District 14 2002 Carol Bartz, CEO, Autodesk, Inc. 2003 Charles “Chuck” Smith, CEO, SBC West 2004 Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco 2005 Richard Pombo, Congressman, California District 11 2006 Rebecca Cohn, Assemblymember, California District 24 Jane Shaw Guy Kawasaki 2007 Russell Frankel, President, Frankel Family Foundation 2007 T.J. Rodgers, Founder & CEO, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 2008 Richard Li, Chairman, PCCW Limited 2009 Khaled Juffali, Managing Partner & Vice Chairman, E.A. Juffali & Brothers Co. 2009 Steve Westly, Founder of The Westly Group, former Controller & CFO, CA Jed York Anna Eshoo 2010 Jane Shaw, Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation 2010 Robert (Bob) Lurie ‘46, Chairman of the Board, the Lurie Company 2011 Alan Salzman, Co-Founder & CEO, VantagePoint Capital Partners 2012 Guy Kawasaki, Author & Entrepreneur 2012 K.S. “Bud” Adams, Jr. ’42, Founder, Titans/Oilers 2013 Jed York, CEO, San Francisco 49ers John Pritzker Bernard Osher 2014 Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman, California District 18 2014 John Pritzker ’76, Founder, Geolo Capital 2014 Bernard Osher, Founder, the Bernard Osher Foundation 2015 Michael Weatherly ’88, Actor (Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo in NCIS) 2015 Mark Templeton, President & CEO, Citrix Michael Weatherly Mark Templeton

MENLO COLLEGE 45 IN MEMORIAM

Byron Van Alstyne ’42 L&S and Rhodes from 1952 until 1959. In 1958 he was elevated to the Justice Court in the West Valley Area. In 1959, when that Court enlo College mourns the recent passing of Hall of Fame became a Municipal Court, he began to devote his full time to Basketball player, Byron Van Alstyne ’42. Van Alstyne M his judicial duties as a Municipal Court Judge. He was appointed competed as an Oak from 1946-48 as a member of the men’s in 1968 to the Superior Court of the State of California for the basketball team. He was inducted into the Menlo College County of Santa Clara by Governor Ronald Reagan. Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006 alongside his brother Bruce who was a standout football player for the Oaks from 1946- Philip L. Williams ’46 L&S 47. Byron’s on-court prowess netted him Northern California hilip L. Williams ’46 L&S passed away on May 11, after a brief Junior College Conference first team honors during the 1947-48 illness. He was born in Palo Alto and spent most of his youth season and on two different occasions during his tremendous P in Oakland and Berkeley. After attending Menlo College, he sophomore season on the hardwood, Van Alstyne tied the then- attended and graduated in 1949 with a BS in Menlo single game scoring record of 22 points. He also spent Industrial Engineering. While at Stanford he became a member time as a teacher and coach at then Menlo Junior College. of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He received his MBA from the Following his playing days at Menlo he went on to compete for Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1951. In the summer the University of Southern California Trojans for a pair of sea- of 1950 he met the love of his life, Anna Jean Ellsworth of Deer sons and also continued his schooling at Stanford. Van Alstyne Lodge, MT, while they were both working at a soda fountain in is also a member of the Burlingame High School Athletic Hall of Yellowstone Park. Phil began his career as General Manager at Fame and the San Mateo County Hall of Fame. His professional a company formed by his father, Philip Samuel Williams, and Dr. career included 34 years as a P.E. teacher and coach for the Jef- Oliver Johnson in 1928. The company, Johnson-Williams Instru- ferson Union High School District. ments, was based in Palo Alto, manufactured gas detectors (the He is fondly remembered by his students and fellow faculty “J-W Sniffer” was trademarked) and has since been recognized as one of those unique teachers who cared for his students as the first electronics company in Silicon Valley. Following his beyond the classroom and kept in touch with many long after time at Johnson-Williams, Phil decided to pursue teaching and he retired. Byron graduated from Burlingame High School, at- received his credential from San Jose State in 1967. He taught tended Menlo College and the University of Southern California accounting for 26 years at City College of San Francisco before where he obtained his Bachelors and Masters Degrees. retiring in 1994. Phil’s love of jazz started in his youth, and he enjoyed playing the piano. He was an avid Stanford football fan. Frank Foehl Card ’40 L&S Stanley William Hulett ’58 L&S n July 26, 2011, Frank joined his lovely Margery, after cel- O ebrating his 90th birthday. A lifelong resident of the West- tanley William Hulett ’58 L&S passed away peacefully on July side, Encino, CA, Frank was proud of his lineage from General S 1, 2013 with his loving wife Mary Ann at his side. Stan spent John Stark and Benjamin Franklin. He leaves his children, David 10 years in the lumber industry before going to Washington D.C. (Cristine) Card, Thomas (Barbara) Card, and Catherine (Scott) as a legislative assistant in Congress. He later served as Associ- Marquardt. ate Director of the National Park Service and Deputy Director of Interior’s BOR. After government service, he was VP of the Richard Walden Rhodes ‘41 L&S American Paper Institute in D.C. and Executive VP of CA Forest etired Superior Court Judge Richard (Dusty) Walden Rhodes Protective Association in Sacramento, CA. R passed away peacefully, with his wife at his side, at age 91. Frank Leslie Griffith ’52 SBA Judge Rhodes was born in San Francisco, where his parents, Ar- thur Pym and Louise Walden Rhodes, were also born. He spent rank Leslie Griffith passed his entire life in California, with the exception of his tour of duty F peacefully on April 7th, in as a First Lieutenant with the United States Army in World War Reno, surrounded by his loving II. Judge Rhodes received an AA degree from Menlo College Patricia and family. He was born in 1941, Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927, and from UCLA, and graduated from Stanford Law School in the grew up in Highland Park. His Class of 1952. That graduating class included Chief Justice of the family relocated to Auburn, CA in Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, Supreme Court Justice San- the 1940’s. He began his college dra Day O’Connor, and Utah Governor Scott Matheson. He was a education at Northwestern, then partner in the Palo Alto law firm of Moerdyke, Anderson, Evans graduated from Menlo College,

46 WINTER 2016 IN MEMORIAM after serving in the Army during the Second World War. He a cowboy at heart and loved spending time at Rancho de Los spent 40 dedicated years in research and development, and Caballeros in Wickenburg, AZ. was highly respected in his field when he retired in 1985. He James M. Burns II ’75 raised his family in Los Altos, California before retiring to Reno, Nevada. Griff, as his friends and family called him, was a devoted ames M. Burns II ’75 passed and tireless advocate for the wilderness. He and his wife and J away on Sunday, August 9, children enjoyed the mountain home which he designed and from cancer. Classmates reflect- built, bordering the wilderness in Silver Lake, Lassen County. ed on Menlo days, remembering Griff had been an active volunteer at the Marine how those times shaped all of Center, in Sausalito, California, for many years, and was their lives forever. “When we lose instrumental in the successful rescue of Humphrey the . one of our own from those days it is a personal loss,” wrote Anne Ronald Olmstead ’56 Brown. onald Olmstead ’56 a fifth generation Californian, passed away peacefully on May 9, 2015 surrounded by family mem- R James M. Burns II ’75 bers. Born in San Jose in 1934, Ron was proud of his heritage as a member of one of Santa Clara Valley’s pioneer farm families. John Paul Ngiramerand Sugiyama ’03 Ron was a member of the 1950 Paly football team that went ohn Paul Ngiramerand Sugiyama ‘03 10-0 under coach Hod Ray. After graduating from Cal Poly San died in a tragic car accident on Luis Obispo, Ron worked for many years as an engineer in the J December 12, 2015 at the age of 34. aerospace industry before joining his family’s summer training He and Rita Wang had married in July camp business, the United Spirit Association. Ron directed USA John Paul Ngiramerand in Napa. John Paul was born in Palau, Sugiuama ‘03 camps for thousands of young people throughout the Western one in a family of 7 children. His sister Mary Sugiyama gradu- United States. An early proponent of positive coaching, Ron ated from Menlo in 2005. John Paul was a freshman lefty pitcher was one of the founders of the American Youth Soccer Orga- for the 2000 Menlo Oaks. JP listed his Menlo awards for com- nization (AYSO) in the Bay Area and conducted the first AYSO munity service and his good grades as the biggest honors he training camps at U.C. Santa Cruz. Ron played a key role in the received. He was a paralegal at Cooley LLP in Palo Alto and lived production of the Opening Ceremonies for Super Bowl XIX, the in Redwood City. His work ethic, patience, kindness, charming Olympic Soccer Tournament and the 1994 World Cup. personality, thoughtfulness, his families, and friends were sec- David James Williams ’64 L&S ond to none. After a memorial service in Fremont, CA, his final avid James Williams ’64 L&S passed resting place was Negerbechet Hamlet, Koror, Palau. D away in 2014 at the age of 70. He Katherine Gravett ’09 was a resident of Pleasant Grove, UT. atherine Gravett ’09, former resident K of Fremont, CA, passed away on July 2, 2015. Katie was an avid soccer player and loved all that life had to offer. She graduated from Mission San Jose High School in 2003 and Menlo College in David James Williams ‘64 2009. Charles P. Brumder ’72 SBA Gerhard C. Umbreit Katherine Gravett ‘09 harles P. Brumder ’72 SBA, erhard C. Umbreit, married to Margaret Umbreit, was the beloved Charlie passed C brother-in-law of “Judge” John D. Russell (Judge Russell). away peacefully at home in G Charles P. Brumder ‘72 Gerhard C. “Gerry” Umbreit was born on July 4, 1924, in Manila, 2014, surrounded by his wife Philippines, and passed away on Feb. 14, 2014 in Prescott, Ariz. Katie and family. He was “Bumpa” to his grandchildren. A true Gerry came to the U.S. in 1936 and attended Menlo School and family man, Charlie’s life was dedicated to community and graduated from Stanford University. After serving in the U.S. bringing people together. He was a passionate philanthropist, Navy during World War II, he married his beloved wife of 64 committed to supporting University Lake School, Tall Pines years, Margaret, in 1949. Land Conservancy and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He was

MENLO COLLEGE 47 ATHLETICS 343 Gift-Filled Shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child

by Aaron Gillespie In its first year in the conference, Menlo Sports Information Director donated 343 boxes, 43 more than the enlo College Athletics got into entire conference donated the prior year. the giving spirit once again this Servant leadership is front and center in Mholiday season and made a huge the department’s mission statement and impact in the process. Coaches, staff, this initiative provided a great opportu- student-athletes from 15 varsity teams nity to put that on full display. and an on-campus club, Menlo REACH, “Operation Christmas Child was the joined together to donate an impressive perfect opportunity to serve our depart- Five-Star Champions 343 gift-filled shoe boxes to Operation ment’s mission of creating servant lead- Christmas Child. of Character for Sixth ers while helping those in need around Operation Christmas Child is an initiative the world,” said Director of Athletics Consecutive Year by Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenomina- Keith Spataro. “I’m proud of the way our enlo College Athletics was tional evangelical Christian organization student-athletes, coaches and staff joined recently honored as a Five-Star providing spiritual and physical aid to together to make such a huge impact on NAIA Champions of Character hurting people around the world. Since the lives of so many this holiday season.” M Institution for the sixth consecutive 1993, Samaritan’s Purse has collected and In total, GSAC schools packed over 500 year and, for the first time ever, was one delivered more than 113 million gift-filled gift-filled shoe boxes that will be deliv- of 29 institutions in the nation to earn shoe boxes to children in over 150 coun- ered to needy children around the world. top billing as a Gold Institution. tries through Operation Christmas Child. Teams worked together to gather toys, The Champions of Character scorecard “This has been a tradition for many years school supplies, hygiene items, and measures commitment in five key areas, in my family, “said GSAC Commissioner notes of encouragement. and has a possible 100 points. There Mike Daniels. “I was happy to bring this are three levels that are awarded: Gold venture to the conference and have so (90-100 points), Silver (75-89 points) and many athletes take part. I was able to see Bronze (60-74). some of the personal notes written by our student-athletes to these kids and it Menlo College Athletics earned 92 of reminds me of why we do what we do.” the 100 possible points, to claim honors as the only Gold institution within the 2015 marked the second year that Golden State Athletic Conference. Menlo’s new conference, the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC), has encouraged schools to take part in a friendly contest to see which depart- Above and left, Students with gift-filled shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. ment could donate the most shoe boxes. PHOTOS: KATIE CALIENDO/MENLO ATHLETICS

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Live Band, Dancing, Casino Games and a Poker Tournament! The Menlo College Athletics Department will host its annual spring fundraiser in an inaugural "Vegas Night" on Saturday evening, April 9th in the Menlo College Dining Hall. There will be food, drinks, a live band, dancing, and the main attraction - casino games and a poker tourna- ment. All proceeds from the event will be used to directly enhance the student-athlete experience here at Menlo College. For more information and to register to attend, please visit: menloathletics.com/f/VegasNight.php

MENLO COLLEGE 49 ATHLETICS Donnenwirth Honored enlo College Women’s Basketball alum (’15) Laurel Donnenwirth Mdid it all for the Oaks during her four seasons on the floor. She was twice named an NAIA All-American, was a two-time California Pacific Conference (Cal Pac) Defender of the Year and was the Cal Pac Player of the year following her senior season in 2015. In addition, she was named an All-Cal Pac performer each of the four seasons of her illustrious ca- reer and helped Menlo to four consecu- Hall of Fame Class of 2015: Back Row, Justin Trott, John Rooke, and Gabe Amey. Front Row, tive regular season conference titles and Amanda Colon, Kepua Lee, and Christa Hewett Ohia. four-straight trips to the NAIA National Championships. Donnenwirth concluded Menlo College Athletics 2015 Hall of Fame Class her career ranked in the top five of 11 by Sports Information Director Aaron Gillespie different career categories and is the College’s all-time leader in rebounds enlo College Athletics held an process. She still sits in the top 10 in nine (1,166) and games played (119). induction ceremony for the 2015 different career categories including first Donnenwirth was honored by the MHall of Fame class on Friday, in total hits and home runs. October 16th in conjunction with OAKto- Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knox- Christa Hewett Ohia berFest weekend. Six Menlo greats were ville, Tenn. as one of just over a hundred Volleyball 2004-08 players to have their jersey displayed in enshrined into the Hall of Fame for their Christa Hewett Ohia helped Menlo to a the “Ring of Honor”. The Ring of Honor on and off court accomplishments and 70-30 overall record and 54-5 mark in is located in the North Rotunda of the commitment to Menlo College Athletics. conference play in four seasons. The Oaks Hall of Fame and represents some of the Justin Trott won three consecutive conference titles nation’s finest basketball players. The Men’s Basketball 1999-2003 with Hewett Ohia playing libero. She was current collection represents both high Justin Trott helped the Oaks to a pair of named Cal Pac Libero of the Year three school Gatorade State Player of the Year conference titles and still holds a spot in times and is still first in Menlo history in and collegiate All-Americans from the the top 10 in six different career catego- career digs. 2014-15 season. Donnenwirth is the first ries in the Menlo record books. Trott Oak to have her jersey on display in the Gabe Amey remained at Menlo as an assistant coach Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Football 1997-2000 for six seasons following graduation. Amey was one of the most prolific wide Kepua Lee receivers in Menlo history. He finished Women’s Basketball 2004-08 his career with 2,987 receiving yards, 200 In four seasons Kepua Lee helped Menlo receptions and 18 touchdowns and went to a pair of conference titles, was the Cal on to play five seasons of professional Pac Freshman of the Year and was twice football in the Arena Football League. named an NAIA All-American. She is still John Rooke first in Menlo history in career points and Men’s Soccer 1980-86 points per game and is in the top 10 in 10 different categories. John Rooke played for legendary head coach Carlos López as a goalkeeper and Amanda Colon helped the team to over 80 wins during Softball 2002-05 his time as an Oak. Rooke was an All- In four years, Amanda Colon helped the American and all-conference performer Oaks to 72 total team wins and launched who had one of the lowest goals against an assault on the record book in the average of any keeper in the conference.

50 WINTER 2016 ATHLETICS Intern Brian Brownfield ’16 Receives Oakland A’s Bill King Memorial Scholarship The pregame ceremony took place on field prior to the A’s Sept. 8 game against the Houston Astros. Brownfield had the chance to meet with current A’s broad- casters Ray Fosse and Ken Korach and following the check presentation, Fosse invited Brownfield up to the booth to observe the pros at work. On top of all that, the A’s earned a 4-0 lead over the division leading Astros. “The smile still cannot be wiped off my face when I think about the ceremony and meeting the broadcasters,” noted Brownfield. “Ken Korach, Ray Fosse and Vince Cotroneo were all cordial and will- ing to give me advice or helpful hints to get my career launched and I’m forever grateful for that opportunity.” f you have ever tuned in to a Menlo the action is something I always ad- With the $3,500 scholarship from the College Athletics web stream, it is like- mired. Just to have my name in the same A’s Community Fund, Brownfield has Ily you have heard an enthusiastic “In sentence as his is such an honor and a the potential of an internship within the the Net” or “Get outta here baseball,” the blessing.” broadcasting department. While the signature calls of junior student-broad- “Brian’s commitment to the athletics future looks bright for Brownfield, he was caster Brian Brownfield ’16. Brownfield, a department has been highly impactful,” quick to note that none of this would be native of Salinas, Calif., has been an asset noted Sports Information Director Aaron possible if it weren’t for Menlo College. to Menlo’s Sports Information Depart- Gillespie. “From day one he has been “Getting the opportunity to work with ment since stepping foot on campus as a passionate and driven about a career Menlo Athletics and broadcast a variety freshman in 2013 and has put his stamp in broadcasting and has taken a profes- of sports has given me such a valuable on over 100 broadcasts in 2+ years. sional approach to each and every call. experience, and I’m truly grateful for the The hard work he’s put in to honing his He’s more than deserving of this scholar- chance because it doesn’t come around craft recently paid off, quite literally, ship and I couldn’t be more proud of his every day. If it weren’t for Menlo, when he was honored by the Oakland A’s accomplishments thus far.” I wouldn’t be on this path.” as the annual Bill King Memorial Scholar- ship Recipient. The scholarship, given to an aspiring Bay Area student-broadcaster, is given in honor of the legendary voice of the Oakland A’s for 25 seasons, Bill King who is famous for his exclamatory phrase “Holy Toledo.” As a lifelong fan of the Oakland A’s and admirer of King’s work on the micro- phone, the honor could not have been more perfect, according to Brownfield. “Bill King was one of the best radio broadcasters of our time, so to be awarded with a scholarship in his name is pretty exciting. His professionalism, Top, aspiring Menlo College student-broadcaster Brian Brownfield is presented a Bill King Memorial scholarhip, and bottom, Sports Information Director Aaron Gillespie with Brian at a knowledge, and passion for bringing fans baseball game.

MENLO COLLEGE 51 ATHLETICS Matt Lisle Named Menlo College Softball Head Coach

raising it to its second highest mark in He was named the 2007 Bay Shore school history (.255) and helped lead the Athletic League (BSAL) Coach of the Year squad to its most wins in the previous as the head coach at Saint Mary’s High 10 seasons (15). Prior to his work at Santa School located in Berkeley, Calif. That Clara, Lisle was the hitting and catching squad posted the best record (23-1) coach at Cal State University – East Bay and highest state ranking (second) in where he helped lead an offensive turn- the school’s 100-plus year history. around that saw the Pioneer bats go from Lisle spent a year as Associate Head seven home runs in 2013 to leading the Baseball Coach at Patten University in California Collegiate Athletic Conference 2006 after a four-year run from 2002-05 with 48 in 2014. The Pioneers were also as the head baseball coach at Berean second in the CCAA in conference SLG% Christian High School in Walnut Creek, at .455 and RBI with 156. The Pioneers Calif. At BCHS he compiled an overall Softball Head Coach Matt Lisle finished the season ranked No. 36 in the record of 58-28 and led the team to its NCAA in home runs per game as well. first-ever No. 1 state ranking. enlo College Director of Athletics Keith Spataro announced Matt Prior to his stop at CSUEB, Lisle worked “It is truly an honor to be the newest Lisle as the ninth head coach in with hitters and catchers at the University member of the athletic department at M of Oregon as a member of the coaching Menlo College softball history. Lisle, a Menlo College,” said Lisle. “I’ve coached Concord, Calif. native, brings a wealth of staff that helped lead the Ducks to at every level from High School to NAIA experience as an assistant coach, hitting their first ever Pac-12 Conference title. to NCAA Div. I and feel the most at home instructor and scout with him to Menlo Lisle came to the University of Oregon af- at Menlo. Athletic Director Keith Spataro, College and comes to the Oaks after ter spending 14 years coaching collegiate Vice President Steven Weiner and all the serving as an assistant coach at Santa and high school baseball. His previous staff and players have been beyond wel- Clara University in 2014-15. stops include two years as the head base- coming in this process, and my family and I are really excited about being members “I’m thrilled that Matt is on board and ball coach at College Park High School in of the Oak family.” excited about what he brings to the Pleasant Hill, Calif. Lisle was named the department and the softball program,” 2012 Diablo Valley Athletic League (DVAL) In addition to his coaching resume, Lisle said Spataro. “Matt stood out in the Coach of the Year after his team went is a highly-respected hitting consultant interview process through his 11-1 in conference play. That season the to a number of professional baseball preparation and clear knowledge and Falcons advanced to the North Coast and softball players through his website passion for the game along with his Section semifinals and finished the www.coachlisle.com and also serves as understanding of who we are as a season ranked ninth in the state. an associate scout for the Detroit Tigers. College and Athletics Department.” Lisle was named the head coach for Lisle earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in In his first season as Assistant Softball Gallaudet University baseball in Organizational Management from Patten Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at Washington, D.C. in 2008, a position he University in 2006. He and his wife Jessica Santa Clara, Lisle helped to improve the would hold for two seasons. have four children: Alicia, Chappie, Chase team’s batting average significantly, and Presley and reside in Martinez, Calif. PHOTO: OAKSSPORTS.COM PHOTO:

52 WINTER 2016 Artist: Laurie Szujewska, Title: Totem 8, Her Majesty, Year: 2010, Medium: letterpress monoprint, oil on paper

is an exhibition of five artists organized by the Menlo College Art Committee. The artists were chosen from the large group of artists who contributed to the 2014 Menlo College exhibition “85 Years 85 Artists.” The artists are Olaitan Callender-Scott, Karen Chew, Peter Foley, Gale Kiniry, and Laurie Szujewska. The title Flat Worlds plays with at least a couple of notions related to art making and culture: one can be the consideration of the two-dimensional nature of a painting—even when depth is depicted, everything happens on the surface. The exhibit is on display during the spring semester of 2016. The opening reception is February 18, 5-7 p.m.

MENLO COLLEGE 53 ver the past several years, the Menlo College Art Committee has invited plein air painters to come paint our lovely Ocampus. OAKtoberFest, held on Saturday, October 17, seemed like the perfect opportunity to welcome local community painters to take part in the festivities. Six painters scouted out their favorite spots on campus and took part in the event, painting and displaying some of their previous plein air works, as well as talking with attendees who were curious about how plein air painting is done. The work that was done that day (some of it pictured here) is on display in the Menlo College Administration Building.

Top, by Jennifer Jastrab, middle, by Caroline Garbrino, bottom left to right, by Stefanie Sylvester, Eric Greenhut, and Karen Olsen.

54 WINTER 2016 The Brawner Clocktower by Mark Monsarrat, 2015

MENLO COLLEGE 55 THE BEST LIVING EXPERIENCE Students Speak to the Benefits of Living on the Menlo Campus

I like how every building on campus takes less than a 3 minute walk. Anthony Pitini My neighbors are super nice. RAs are wonderful. Peiyao Shen I love how close I’ve gotten Living on campus has made with my hallmates over the years. me more involved in the Ashley Ayala community. Being close to my classrooms and professors has Living on campus makes me feel allowed me to get the most out of more connected to the Menlo Living on campus opens so many my education here. community. Plus, a two minute opportunities for you because Kyle Lubke walk to class is not so bad. the school is strong on putting Andres Camarillo on events for students and you Living on campus is the best decision I’ve made. I have met so Living on campus is convenient to can really feel it. many friends and they all live basi- get to class. Braxton Liddell cally next door to me! Everything I Andrew Hernandez My favorite part of living on campus is seeing all my peers need is within walking distance. Living on campus has allowed Marlana Pierson me to put my education and and community members as Living on campus was new to me social life before having to soon as I open my door. I love last year because I was a transfer worry about cooking or immediately feeling like a student. It has been fun living on commuting. part of the Menlo family. campus. Kai Moreno Katie Lathrop Emma Aklilu Living on campus means there is My favorite part of living on never nothing to do! My friends campus is being able to be are down the hall and the campus a part of the Menlo College provides many different activi- community, a group of people ties. Plus you can get to classes in all committed to bettering minutes! themselves and making an Marissa DeOrona impact. Garrett Spangler Living on campus is fun because you can walk out of your room at any time and find a fun event or people to hang out with! It’s also very convenient for classes and sports. Mary Hall

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Our Resident Assistants (top left to right) Anthony Pitini ’16, Garrett Spangler ’16, Mary Hall ’16, Devin Gaines ’16, and (bottom left to right) Kalea Gabriel ’18, Katie Lathrop ’16, Maya Mogensen ’18 and Regina Hernandez ’17 welcome you to Menlo College.