Jesuit High School • Portland, Oregon • Summer 2009 Age Quod Agis Graduation Issue Michael Walczyk ‘09 plays the trumpt at a JHS band concert in spring 2009, the last concert for the seniors. Many seniors found a piece of music, taught it to the band, and directed the piece at the concert. Highlights included the use of a taiko drum in a Japanese folk song, violin players from the orchestra club, and choir students who added to the night’s unforgetable performance. The seniors presented Mr. Kato with a gift of a ham as their thanks for four years of patience, friendship, and donuts. Features 24 Departing Faculty BY PAUL HOGAN, JHS ACADEMIC VICE PRINCIPAL 28 The Class of 2009 Graduation Awards & Statistics 32 Honorary Graduation Awards Awards Given to Alumni, Friends & Supporters of JHS 38 Career Day BY KATHY BAARTS, ALUMNI DIRECTOR Departments 4 President’s Message 6 Campus Corner 10 Student & Educator Spotlights 12 News of JHS Jesuits 13 Spirit Store Update 14 Student Diversity 18 Athletics 19 The Legacy Club 20 Development News 36 In Memoriam 44 Class Notes ©2009 Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon ADMINISTRATION This magazine is for and about alumni, President John J. Gladstone parents, and students of Jesuit High School. Principal Sandra L. Satterberg It is published three times a year by the Vice President for Development communications office. Opinions expressed Michael J. Schwab ‘86 in specific articles are those of the individual Superior, Jesuit Community authors. If you would like to author an article, Fr. J.K. Adams, S.J. please contact the communications office. cover Photo: Anthony Blake ‘09 and Kathryn AGE QUOD AGIS Olson ‘09 share in some post-graduation Letters and correspondences Layout & Design are welcome and can be emailed to Erika Tuenge ‘94, Matt Graff ‘00 excitement. Anthony’s mother, April Harris, [email protected] Copy Editor Dan Falkner, English teacher and little sister, and Kathryn’s mother and or mailed to Contributing Photographers Age Quod Agis Magazine - Jesuit High School Photography students, Erika Tuenge ‘94, JHS Yearbook father, Lisa and Dr. Kevin ‘79 Olson, also 9000 S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. class, JHS students, Hillary Currier, Fr. John Whitney, enjoy the excitement of graduation day. Portland, OR 97225 S.J., Claude Pelletier, Jeff Hall, Lee Bellamy Printer Printing Today, Tyrone Stammers ‘92 extraordinary. We—along with you— have prepared them to make the world a better place. And, yes, we expect them to do that. We are counting on that. I believe it was Bobby Kennedy who once said: “The future is not a gift. It is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.” When I came to Jesuit four years ago, I read in the “Interim Report” of the Sponsorship Review (the purpose of which is to assess and re-affirm our Catholic and Jesuit nature) that there was a certain sense of entitlement that existed in a small segment of our community. I recall addressing that with the search committee as I sat for interviews for the position of president. The committee was honest in its response, and that caused me to reflect more deeply on the issue. As good and strong as Jesuit was, I thought we could be better. At that time I realized that there should be a sixth Profile characteristic—gratitude. I believe that even more strongly today. As a community built on faith and strengthened and enriched by a commitment to service, Jesuit has changed and grown in many ways. President’s Message Today, more than 20% of our students are students of color—a higher In recent years at Jesuit High at graduation. Ideally, our graduates percentage than that of the general School, we have often discussed should already be, to a significant population of the five-county region the relevance of the “Profile of degree, intellectually competent, from which we draw. And now more the Graduate at Graduation.” This open to growth, religious, loving, than 23% of our students are receiving document has been a guidepost for all and committed to doing justice. need-based financial assistance, which Jesuit secondary and middle schools Certainly unfinished on that day, will total more than $1.5 million in across the nation. Our school is no these characteristics should continue the coming school year. How these exception. The Profile notes in very to grow in our graduates as they make students enrich the lives of our entire clear terms the qualities we hope and decisions based on their faith, their school community! expect to see living and thriving in conscience, the way they were raised, The class of 2009 completed on all of our students at the time of their and, we hope, all they gained in their average of 127 hours of Christian graduation from high school. These years at Jesuit. service per student—almost doubling qualities or characteristics are life- Life is not easy, and we as flawed the 65 hours of service required after changing; and they help our graduates humans were never promised that it their sophomore year. In many ways make the right decisions (and not just would be. A school like Jesuit, with our students and our school are the easy ones) as they head off to strong and purposeful support from saying, “Thank you.” There is that college, into adulthood, and into a parents, alums, and others, gives, sixth characteristic... world that will greatly challenge them I think, our students a significant I’m sometimes amazed as I along with their values. edge in life because we truly expect watch our students “high-fiving” and The Profile delineates five them to live the traits of the Profile smiling at each other and at teachers characteristics deemed important in their everyday lives—and to make between classes, at break, or during for students stepping onto the stage the ordinary happenings in life lunch. They wait to hold a door open • 4 • extraordinary. We—along with you— for a classmate they might not even Children of Five JHS Board of Trustees Members have prepared them to make the world know, and they say, “Good morning,” a better place. And, yes, we expect and really mean it. They share hugs Graduate in Class of 2009 them to do that. We are counting on and smiles at Mass each Friday, not that. I believe it was Bobby Kennedy because they have to or “it’s cool”; who once said: rather, I think, it is to show their joy “The future is not a gift. It is an and gratitude for being where they are achievement. Every generation helps at that moment. make its own future. This is the essential At graduation this year, three challenge of the present.” seniors (Samantha Oduro, Mollie When I came to Jesuit four years Moore, and Alpha Tessema) spoke ago, I read in the “Interim Report” of eloquently to their soon-to-be fellow the Sponsorship Review (the purpose alums and to their parents and relatives of which is to assess and re-affirm our (even, I think, to little brothers and Catholic and Jesuit nature) that there sisters). Many of their words noted was a certain sense of entitlement the touching, funny, and sometimes that existed in a small segment of sad moments of their Jesuit years. our community. I recall addressing They talked too about how far they that with the search committee as I had come, their college hopes, exiting sat for interviews for the position of careers on the horizon, and where president. The committee was honest their dreams were taking them. Each in its response, and that caused me one of these young people spoke too to reflect more deeply on the issue. of gratitude to those who had made As good and strong as Jesuit was, I a difference—a classmate, a teacher, thought we could be better. At that God, a parent, or simply a push from time I realized that there should be a an unknown friend along the way. sixth Profile characteristic—gratitude. They were saying out loud what they JHS Board of Trustees members and their children who graduated in the class of 2009 share a I believe that even more strongly were carrying in their hearts. moment of joy and celebration on graduation day with President John Gladstone. Pictured: Ryan today. As adults, how often do we say Kalez ‘09, David Kalez ‘77, Zachary Krahmer ‘09, Donald Krahmer, Kathryn Olsen ‘09, Kevin As a community built on faith “Thanks” more than in a perfunctory Olsen ‘79, John Gladstone, Peter Maletis ‘09, rob Maletis, connor reiten ‘09, and Patrick reiten. and strengthened and enriched by way? Have we become so calloused a commitment to service, Jesuit has and detached that we just sometimes changed and grown in many ways. lose the meaning? Are we so busy with Today, more than 20% of our students our everyday lives that we fail to see Alumni & Students Partner on Spring Food Drive are students of color—a higher the goodness and importance of the percentage than that of the general little things that God has given to us? population of the five-county region What will it take for us to trust God from which we draw. And now more and to tell the ones we hold most than 23% of our students are receiving dear, “Thank you,” “I need you,” and need-based financial assistance, which “You really made me a better person will total more than $1.5 million in today?” the coming school year.