University of San Diego Digital USD USD Magazine USD News Winter 1999 USD Magazine Winter 1999 14.2 University of San Diego Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine Digital USD Citation University of San Diego, "USD Magazine Winter 1999 14.2" (1999). USD Magazine. 20. https://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine/20 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USD News at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in USD Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSl:r:t' O F: S ~N DIEGO --~~ D E P A R T M E N T S '4.AHAC 2 Now Boarding: USD Surf Team ... USD Launches 50th Anniversary Celebration ... Blueprint For The Future: Five Major Projects Planned ... Top 10 Influential African Americans AI.U 21 Jim Hennessy '71 wrote his way into an L.A. Story, page 25 ... Rhonda and George Ostertag '83 have bikers following in their /'• r. ,J/ . ,,:,.~ . --- footsteps, page 28 ... Bobbi Hammack '95 moved from keyboards I - to keypads, page 33 ' . -- . ' --~- CIU.EMUAA 37 I' 51# .. ~~· .~ ··~~JJ Homecoming 1998 .,.,,. t\l~~ , USO MAGAZINE Gary Pay,ie '86 Susan Herold 1!..LU5t1iAl'llkS 66 T each Your Children Well" is more .. I rGRS Charles Glaubitz than just a song lyric to Grammy Michael R. Haskins Joel Sotelo Award-winning singer David Crosby. Jill Wagner '91 Crosby served as the keynote speaker for John Titclien 'IV1SDRY BOARD USD's Alcohol and Drug Awareness Week Arian E. Collins '87 Nov. 2-6, telling the near-capacity crowd in Laura Hale '92 Visual Asylum the Hahn University Center Forum of his Tho= Scharf '72 (M.A. '73) many years of drug addiction, his experi­ T David Sullivan ence in jail and drug treatment centers, and Jim Coit the effects it had on his family and friends. Rodney Nakamoto " All I can tell you is go visit rehab centers or jails," Crosby said when asked UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO what to say to students who are doing drugs or alcohol. Now nine years sober, the 57- 1111: year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Farner says, Alice Bourke Hayes " I have my time back." CL L1EI John G- McNamara HU': r a :;tQ UC IELATIDHS Jack Cannon on n-01 o ,UJOH RELATIONS John Trifiletti '78 VSD Magazine is published quarterly by the University of San Diego for its alumni, parents and friends. Editorial of£ices: VSD Magazine, Publications Office, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492. Third-class postage paid at San Diego, CA 92110. USD phone number: (619) 260-4600; emergency security: (619) 260-2222; disaster: (619) 260-4534. Postmaster: Send address changes to: USD Magarine, Publications Office, U niversity of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Sao Diego, CA 92110-2492. Winier 1999 Volume 14 Number 2 ONTENTS :J-e a u r e s THE PARENT TRAP A CHORUS OF LOVE Few issues are as difficult these days Changing students' lives through music than finding the proper balan ce between and words is what A nnette (Russick) child-rearing and career. And experts Welsh '79, the recipient of the 1998 predict it will get tougher as a new Mother Rosalie Hill Awa rd, accomplishes generation of workers demands more as USD's director of liturgical music. time with their families. PAGE 5 PAGE B DORM ROOM CHIC Feng Shui may be the hottest trend in karmic decorating, but college students on a budget can bring character to their rooms, too. With limited space and the need to compromise with roomies, USO students come up with creative ideas to make their rooms comfortable and fun. PAGE 16 GOD LIVES HERE A lesson in faith for Shelley Foco­ Mecum's rural H awaiian students turns ON YOUR CASE out to be a lesson in book publishing for Law students tackle real life disputes by the 1985 USO graduate. working in the USD Legal Clinic, where on-the-job training not only helps create future lawyers, but gives a voice to the community's voiceless. PAGE 12 U S D MAIIAZ ff I! 1 ALCALA ·-:,r;:- -~ •'4, JJ?); ... ~--' --·1 _ ,._: -_,.:.d.l&,_;,;.~~,,~,_c-'.!!-..J rides an 8-foot, round-nosed board. Surfers collect points OW IOARDING: USD in each round, and the In this sport, you hit the lip hard, stand he grew up in Hawaii and Fiji, and if chool with the most tall and crui e, or maybe cut loose with a that' not enough, check out points wins. backside snap. the last name - Fish is one of "There is a lot of There's no team uniform, no bench only two females on USD's luck involved when you're dealing to pull from, no time out . If you make a surfing team, which is expect­ with the ocean, a lot of variables," bad play, there's no penalty flag - only a ing a great ea on. acknowledges Peterson, who killer wipeout that can leave you gasping "At least on paper, this is the best says some of the best surfers for air on the sand. team we've had in four year ," says may get bumped out of the competition "It definitely takes a special kind of Todd Peterson, team captain and a senior because of lousy waves in their set. person to be a surfer," says shortboarder busine s major. A club sport, the surf In Fish's first competition at and freshman Willow Fish. "This is not team receive financial assistance from Huntington Beach in October, he some girlie sport." the university to help cover tournament advanced to the semifinals, but fell to Fish should know. Not only was she fees and dues. fifth after failing to catch a wave. born to the sport - her dad is a surfer, "Surf team" may seem like a trange ''I hadn't competed before, and I moniker for a sport that relies on olo was shocked at the high level of comp t i · skill, talent and guts. USO has two tion out there," Fi h says. teams of eight members each, yet surfer lntere t in surfing is running high. compete individually in the five monthly Peterson had more than 30 people try competitions held by the National out for the 16 spots on the team, the Scholastic Surfing Association. most he's seen in his four years of ridin Six surfers participate in each heat, waves for USO. with the top three surfers who ride the For students like Fish, surfing for largest and most critical part of the wave the USO team serves two goals. advancing. The majority ride shortboards "Surfing i my bigge t love, and it' - 6-footer with pointed noses that can a nice outlet to be involved in school react quickly - yet each team mu t Life," she says. include one longboarder, a surfer who The UNIVERSITY OFFICE PARK, composed of four buildings located on a The University of San Diego plans five a state-of-the-art fitness center, a sports two-acre site below the lower west parking major building projects in the next five to medicine clinic and a meeting and recep­ lot, was acquired by the university two seven year with a schedule that includes, tion area. The three-story building will years ago. A three-story building currently in chronological order of construction, the be home to USD's varsity basketball and houses School of Law legal clinics, engi• Jenny Craig Pavilioo sports and activities volleyball teams and will host a wide array neeriog labs and faculty offices, while complex, the Monsignor I. Brent Eagen of recreation and intramural activities, two single-story buildings are leased to Memorial Plaza, the remodeled University cultural events, academic gatherings and private business tenants. Office Park site, the Joan B. Kroc Institute conferences. A two-story building on the site will for Peace and Justice, and a new Center The MOMSICNOR I. BRENT be razed this summer and rebuilt as part of for Science Education and Outreach. EACEM MEMORIAL PLAZA, a gateway the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Ground breaking for the JEMMY connecting the Jenny Craig Pavilion to Science' planned physical therapy prOk>rnm. CRAIC PAVILION is expected to take the campus, will be constructed simulta­ The design proposal include an anatomy place in the first half of this year, with a neously with the new athletics facility. lab, a skills lab, faculty offices and other 14- to 16-month construction schedule. Named for USO' late vice president for research facilitie . The reconstructed The new sports and activities facility - mission and ministry, the plaza will serve building will face the lower west parking sited on the parking lot above Torero as an outdoor gathering place for cultural, lot, where a new pedestrian walkway i Stadium - will include a 5,100-seat arena, athletic and community events. already in place and eventual vehicle access to the building is planned. M USD LAUNCHES 50TH CELEBRATION On the eve of the new millennium, the A special convocation in January, the traditional time to celebrate USD's University of San Diego is celebrating its featuring a speech by President Alice B. founding leaders, Bishop Charles Francis golden anniversary. Hayes to the USO community, kicks off Buddy and Mother Rosalie Hill. Events throughout the 1999 jubilee the year. An icon, shown here, will be the sym­ year will honor 50 years of educating The San Diego community will learn bol used on anniversary correspondence, young adults to be generous business more about USO and its contributions to invitations, brochures and campus banners people, compassionate nurses, ethical the city through a pullout ~ection in the to celebrate the past and future of USO.