GENEThe Quarterly Magazine of St. Ignatius College Preparatory,SI San Francisco, SSpring 2013 The Quarterly Magazine of St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, Summer 2013 celebrating 140 years of service LIVING WELL BALANCE • SERVICE • COMMUNITY • PERSPECTIVE • STEWARDSHIP genesis 1 Ted Curry ’82 directed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the spring musical at SI, with muscial direction by Chad Zullinger. The show featured the work of the SI orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Gillian Clements, and two separate lead casts as well as a talented student ensemble. At right, the Spring Concert featured the work of singers and instrumentalists. This fall, many student-artists from the Class of 2013 will study at prestigious schools, including Phoebe Boosalis, NYU (Photography); Mary Rose Branick, Willamette University (Theatre); Leah Gallagher, NYU (Musical Theatre); Keyara Milliner, NYU (Theatre); Emma Roos, Syracuse University (Musical Theatre); Hanna Turley, USC (Theatre); and Victoria Vallecorse, UC Davis (Dramatic Art). 2 genesis genesis A Report to Concerned Individuals Vol. 50, No. 2 Summer 2013 Administration Mr. John M. Knight President Mr. Joseph A. Vollert Vice President for Development Mr. Patrick Ruff Principal Mr. John J. Ring Director of Alumni Relations Ms. Marielle A. Murphy Director of Development Mrs. Terry Dillon Chief Financial Officer Mr. Fred Tocchini Director of Special Projects Rev. Thomas H. O’Neill, S.J. Superior Editorial Staff Mr. Paul J. Totah Director of Communications Ms. Anne Stricherz Sports Editor Mr. Arthur Cecchin Sports Writer Mrs. Nancy Hess Layout & Design GENESIS (USPS 899-060) is published quarterly by St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116-9981. Periodicals Postage Paid at San Francisco, CA, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to GENE SIS, 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116-9981. CONTACT US: You can send e-mail to [email protected] or reach us at (415) 731-7500, ext. 206. You can also read the issue on our website at www.siprep.org/genesis. ST. IGNATIUS, mindful of its mission to be witness to the love of Christ for all, admits students of any race, color and national and/or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded to or made available to students at this school. 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If you wish to receive it only online, send an email to [email protected] to be removed from the mailing list or write to us at 2001 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116. genesis 3 I worked with my great friend Jim Dekker ’68 both in First Words the English Department and, starting in the late 1980s, in We have a running joke in the Development Office that the Development Office, where he served as the school’s Saint Ignatius John Ring is taking careful notes on much of what we say first alumni director. We collaborated on how to teach Board of Trustees and do, as he is planning to write a script about all of us T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and how to craft a brochure Mr. Curtis Mallegni ’67 based on The Office. I just hope I’m not cast as Dwight. to encourage alumni giving. I taught his son, Joe ’98, and Chair In my quarter century editing Genesis, I have worked watched his daughter, Danielle ’96, grow into a skilled with some remarkable colleagues, who, as we all do, have social worker – she even interviewed my daughter for a job Samuel R. Coffey, Esq. ’74 their quirks, ones that make it easy to laugh with each recently. Jim also taught both my children, offering them Mrs. Nanette Gordon other and at ourselves. I was reminded of this watching the same blend of humor and wisdom that has been the Mr. John M. Knight the series finale of The Office, especially with its emphasis hallmark of his classroom since 1972. Rev. Michael McCarthy, S.J. ’82 on co-workers as family. SI is definitely a family. And that’s why so many of Rev. Thomas O’Neill, S.J. ’74 That certainly is true at SI, and not just for the faculty, us were saddened when Rev. Anthony P. Sauer, S.J., Rev. Mario Prietto, S.J. staff and students. I like to write about the “SI family,” announced that he was leaving San Francisco to serve Mr. Stanley P. Raggio ’73 because it is a fact. I feel a kinship with so many of my as a parish priest in Phoenix. Tony is pater familias to so Nancy Stretch, Esq. classmates and fellow alumni and certainly with my many of us, including me. He hired me, asked me to edit colleagues here, four of whom are leaving. Genesis, heaped praise on me throughout his tenure as Board of Regents I still remember my first year teaching at SI in 1985. president and invited me to see plays at ACT every year. Mrs. Nanette Gordon My wife, Kathy, and I bought a house in Pacifica. Given So many of you have similar Tony stories. Within my starting salary of $16,500, we could afford to furnish minutes of the announcement of his leaving, hundreds Chair it only with a donation or two from relatives and one sofa of grads sent stories, tributes, anecdotes and well Mr. Claude Perasso, Jr. ’76 that we bought with our hard-earned money. wishes through our website. Graduates and parents Vice Chair Mary Husung came to visit us one night along with her told stories about his calls to colleges to help with Mr. Joseph Allanson ’81 fiancé, Perry McCarty. We sat on that sofa in front of the acceptances and scholarships and his late night trips to Mrs. Marlies M. Bruning fireplace and chatted for hours. She was key to welcoming hospitals to bless the sick and dying. Tony celebrated Mrs. Tina Butler me into the SI family, and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing thousands of weddings, baptisms and funerals, often Mrs. Catherine Cannata her two sons, Christopher ’05 and Andrew ’08, make their quoting Keats as he delivered sermons that became Mrs. Susan M. Carter mark on the school along with Mary, who refuses to think known as the “hour with Sauer.” Mrs. Mary Casey of Latin as a dead language. She breathed life into the Go to Genesis’s online site, too, to read one of the best Mr. Paul N. Cesari ’75 program and lit a fire in the bellies of so many students, tributes – Bobby Gavin’s moving talk, one he delivered Mr. Sherman Chan ’85 asking them to dress in togas – and sometimes laurels – as at a faculty meeting that honored each of these retiring th Mr. Jeff A. Columbini ’79 they greeted parents and 8 graders at our Open Houses. teachers. Read Fr. Sauer’s interview in this issue to Also leaving this year is longtime admissions director discover the kind of Jesuit priest he is – one who stays true Dr. Antonio Cucalon, Jr. ’75 Kevin Grady, one of my closest friends. He and I worked to his vow of obedience as he prepares to leave for his new Sr. Cathryn deBack, O.P. hand-in-hand on the marketing of SI in the early days of home in September. Mrs. Dana M. Emery coeducation to figure out how to best express the kind of Each of these four will join an elite club, one that Mr. Robert D. Enright ’76 school SI was becoming. We did more than simply report: gathers every year. This group of retired SI faculty goes Mr. Tom F. Fitzpatrick III ’64 we hoped. We used our marketing tools to craft a vision by “the Pillars,” a testament to the support they offer to Mr. Gordon Getty ’51* for SI to help it grow towards that ideal. our current faculty and work. (Read the story in this issue Ms. Yvonne M. Go Kevin often invited me to take my mountain bike off the about another form of support SI will be receiving with Mrs. Kathryn A. Hall hooks in the garage, dust it off and ride with him on the the addition of six new Jesuits to the SI community.) Mr. Peter Imperial ’77 Peninsula or through the City. He’s a champion athlete; I SI’s Pillars return not only for lunch, stories and Mr. John M. Knight am not. But I’m glad for all the times I said yes. We would company but also to help out from time to time, Mr. Gregory Labagh ’66 plan our routes so that we’d stop at a burger joint and quaff evaluating new coaches, serving as immersion and a brew or two before hopping back on our bikes. As a result, Kairos leaders, emceeing events or working on various Mrs. Louise R. Lucchesi the return trips were always a little harder for me. committees. Mr. Ivan M. Maroevich ’69 Kevin and I also learned to be fathers together, as his Our school is stronger with the addition of our four Mrs.