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TabLe of ConTenTs 18: 24: 14: 12 : The Power of One DEPARTMENTS By Joyce McCallister 2 Message from the President Meet Ty-Licia Hooker ’12, the force behind a summer academy that helps underrepresented 3 Letters youth envision their possibilities for college 4 Campus Happenings and a brighter future. 10 Bookshelf 14: 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards 24 Athletics By Joyce McCallister 26 Get Connected Recognizing alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their lives, careers and communities 31 Class Notes and in their involvement with Pacific. 40 Back in Time 18: Redefining Town and Gown By Joanna Corman Presidential community forums on six areas of community impact help Pacific redefine On the cover: its strategic role in the community. Downtown Stockton photo by Randall Gee Doing Our Part In keeping with Pacific’s commitment to sustainability, the Pacific Review was printed on paper containing 10 percent post- consumer waste by a local printer certified Check out Pacific Review online at by the Forest Stewardship Council for its www.Pacific.edu/PacificReview green printing processes. pacific review 1 Message FroM the PResidenT Our Shared Future By Pacific President Pamela A. eibeck and Stockton City Mayor Ann Johnston This joint letter exemplifies Joaquin County. Working University of the Pacific’s for the public good is also new level of community working for Pacific’s good. engagement. from the Pacific has been committed beyond our gates kickoff to regional stewardship for event in december 2009, to a long time. The University the forums in spring 2010, to educates our region’s young the announcement event last people and returning november, we are working professionals and prepares san Joaquin County jobs. to ensure a bright future for together to strengthen ties its workforce. one-fourth of Pacific has always been this region. We are ready to between the University and all undergraduates are from a good neighbor, but it strengthen our relationship for the City of stockton. right here in san Joaquin wants to be great! beyond the good of the community Pacific was chartered in 1851 County, and one-third of our gates first gave the and the University. in santa Clara, but since 1924 undergraduates are from san University a chance to Here we go: beyond our gates… the University has thrived Joaquin and the surrounding listen to the community’s toward our shared future! here in stockton. We feel an counties of sacramento, triumphs and challenges in obligation to this remarkable stanislaus and Calaveras. its six community forums. community, which is going seven of the top 10 feeder high now the initiative is in its visit my website at through some challenging schools are in stockton; two action phase. Together with www.Pacific.edu/President times. Helping is the right of the other three are in Lodi. committed community or find me on Facebook. thing to do, especially when The University also has a major partners, Pacific is ready to Send your ideas to the University has the needed economic impact: in 2008 implement new programs, [email protected]. expertise. and, after all, this Pacific’ss tockton campus such as the Tomorrow Project is our home too — 80 percent alone produced a total of $257 and the beyond our gates of the stockton campus million in expenditures in the Community Council. We are employees live either in the san Joaquin County economy ready to get creative about City of stockton or in san and supported nearly 2,000 other ways to work together President Pamela A. eibeck Pacific Review Editorial Staff Pacific Review is published three times a year Provost Maria G. Pallavicini Managing Editor Sheri Grimes by University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific 2 011 Avenue, Stockton, CA, 95211. Readership Vice President, Get Connected and Becky (Curry) consists of 58,000 alumni, parents, friends, Business and Finance Patrick Cavanaugh Class Notes Editor Perry ’01, ’09 faculty, students and staff. Material herein Vice President, Contributing Writers vanessa Connolly ’11 does not necessarily represent the official Development Chris Johnston mmer Joanna Corman Joyce McCallister position of the University. Material in this u Vice President, Jessica Yee ’12 publication may not be reproduced in any S External Relations ted Leland ’70, ’74 Art Direction & Design Cuttriss & Hambleton form without permission. | Postmaster: Send any address changes to Vice President, Contributing Pacific Review, Advancement Services, . 2 Student Life elizabeth Griego Photographers Jon Draper Hand Hall 3rd Floor, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Randall Gee Patrick Giblin Vice President Stockton, CA 95211-0197. no and Secretary to the Gary Jones Jessica Lucas | Board of Regents Mary Lou Lackey Steve Yeater How to Reach tHe RevIew: Executive Director, Email: [email protected] 9 7 Pacific Alumni Voice: 209.946.2311 Association Bill Coen Fax: 209.946.3111 me Send Class Notes to u Associate Vice President, Marketing and university [email protected] Communications Richard Rojo vol 2 summer 2011 LetteRs From Our Readers … Keep up the Good Work Happy Memories of the fifty years ago i was a student in College of the Pacific, and A Cappella Choir rather a good student: my name is on a plaque outside the My mother, Harriet (Tidmarsh) chemistry room and i received a merit scholarship for my junior Caton, was a student at College of the year. in the meantime, i was in italy and later married a sicilian Pacific on the olds an Jose campus Protestant minister. when the a Cappella Choir was first it is always interesting to receive Pacific Review, andi hand it formed in 1916. forty-four years later on to my grandsons so they can get an idea of how your students on the stockton campus, i heard the LaVerne (Krull) ’52 and Hal choir and decided i wanted to sing Caton ’51, ’53 at Manor Hall in have school spirit and mutual cooperation at heart. The whole idea 1951 (Just six months married) of working together for the good of your studies and especially with it. i was especially motivated for the good of the wider community is totally absent from because i had just met a lovely young italian universities. Here it is each for himself. There is not even music major named LaVerne Krull ’52, who was singing in the choir. a graduating class or ceremony. all this shows up in the political The choir tours were among my happiest experiences at college, atmosphere, where it seems that the idea of serving the country because i loved music AND because i was falling in love with and not your own interests is not even contemplated. so keep LaVerne. our three spring Choir tours together were the story up the good work in forming not only intelligent, well-prepared of our romance. The first year we became very good friends. The graduates, but in forming them for the good of the nation. second year we were engaged. The third year we were married! — Margaret (Gould) Bertolino ’58 My final trip with the choir was due to “Mr.b ’s” big heart. The annual easter sunrise service at Yosemite was coming up, and i was Remembering Louis Leiter not chosen for the smaller, select group, although LaVerne was. still i was saddened to hear in the recent Pacific Review of the newlyweds, we couldn’t bear the thought of being apart. LaVerne passing of professor Louis Leiter. i was one of his admiring described our plight to “Mr. b” and he immediately arranged students in the english department in the 1980s, and in for me to go along. We were given a small cabin in Yosemite and fact i wrote about his lasting influence on me — along with continued our “honeymoon” there (actually conceiving our first that of his late colleague and my dear friend, professor arlen child, who naturally turned out to be very musical). Hansen — in my last book, “Cakewalk, a Memoir,” which so, the a Cappella Choir tours (and our wonderful conductor) was published last May. There are a couple of chapters in the brought beautiful musical experiences to the lives of many, book about my time at Pacific, and specifically time spent with and also special, unexpected (and previously undisclosed) new professors Hansen and Leiter. beginnings to at least one very lucky couple! — Kate Moses ’84 — Harold (Hal) Caton ’51, ’53 Look for more A Cappella memories in the fall Pacific Review. Kudos for Dr. Beauchamp — Ed. i was happy to see that dr. Ken beauchamp was recognized with the alumni award. He is well-deserving of the reward. We’d like to hear from you! dr. beauchamp was one of the main factors in my decision to Pacific Review welcomes signed letters of 200 words or less change my major to psychology as a sophomore at Pacific. He from readers. we reserve the right to edit all letters. Please send encouraged me to study what i was interested in. He was also correspondence to: my academic advisor throughout college and helped me stay Mail: Pacific Review motivated, graduate and successfully go on to graduate school.