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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC’S PACIFIC ALUMNI MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2016 REVIEW Preparing Graduates for SUCCESS OPERA ALUMNA HITS THE HIGHEST NOTE | THE LEGACY OF CAROLINE COX LIVES ON ADMINISTRATION President Pamela A. Eibeck Looking Provost Maria Pallavicini Vice President, forward to Business and Finance Kenneth Mullen Vice President, Student Life the future Patrick K. Day Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations G. Burnham Atterbury Vice President, Technology and Chief Information Officer Arthur M. Sprecher Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Regents Mary Lou Lackey Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications Marge Grey Executive Director, Alumni Relations Kelli (Williams) Page ’87 PACIFIC REVIEW EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editor Katie E. Ismael Editor Sheri Grimes Get Connected and Class Notes Editor Janice Wagner Contributing Writers Sheri Grimes Jennifer Langham Keith Michaud Claudia Morain Emily Olson ’15 Art Direction and Design Kärri Johnson Brown Clayton Spowart Contributing Photographers Fabricio Bertín ’19 Jon Draper Randall Gee ’09 Jaslyn Gilbert Craig Sanders Lawrence Tran ’16 Steve Yeater Pacific Review is published three times a year by University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211. Readership consists of 65,000 alumni, parents, friends, faculty, students and staff. Material herein does not necessarily represent the official Contents position of the University. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without 21 permission. Living the dream Postmaster: Send any address changes to Pacific Review, The Alex and Jeri Vereschagin Alumni House celebrates five years of connecting Advancement Services, Bannister Hall, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Pacific alumni to their past and to their future. Stockton, CA 95211-0197. HOW TO REACH THE REVIEW: [email protected] 24 P: 209.946.2311 Preparing graduates for success F: 209.946.3111 Send Class Notes to See how their Pacific experience has prepared these four recent graduates for a [email protected] lifetime of achievement and leadership. Stories by Jennifer Langham and Katie E. Ismael Summer 2016 Volume 102 | Issue 2 Departments Features 2 Letters and Reflections 4 Campus Happenings Working to earn and Bookshelf 20 learn 16 College students who are 18 Athletics working and learning at the same time have become the 34 Alumni News and Notes new normal. By Jennifer Langham 40 Class Notes 48 On Schedule Parents and families celebrate their students’ success as new graduates of the Eberhardt School of Business prepare to receive their diplomas during Commencement ceremonies on May 14. 30 Hitting the highest note Opera alumna Yelena Dyachek ’13 wins the prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. On the cover By Emily Olson ’15 The Key to Student Success 32 Doing our part Caroline Cox—Her history lives on The Pacific Review was printed on recycled A beloved professor’s fourth and final book is published posthumously paper containing 10 percent postconsumer waste by a local printer certified by the through the help of family, friends and colleagues. Forest Stewardship Council. By Katie E. Ismael Visit Pacific Review online: go.Pacific.edu/PacificReview LETTERS & REFLECTIONS From our readers Remembering the live Tiger, and more Thank you for the wonderful story on the Honor Flight (Class From the Notes, spring 2016). Great story and a great experience for all of us. President Your Review is always excellent and a great reminder of all the wonderful love Commencement. What a thrill to share this im- activities that go on at Pacific. portant moment with each of our graduates and One story you might want to their families! I consider is the time we had a real It represents a culmination and a new beginning, the live tiger mascot on campus! Regent start of a new chapter in each of their lives. They will Lowell Berry presented us with a be new dentists, lawyers, pharmacists, biologists, chemists, historians, writers, physical therapists, real Bengal tiger in an air- speech pathologists, teachers, athletic trainers, conditioned cage. It was a beautiful business professionals, musicians and so much more. cat that would be wheeled into I had the privilege of congratulating some 2,000-plus Baxter Stadium for a football game new graduates at our 2016 Commencement celebrations and would roar and then sleep in Stockton and Sacramento in May and in San through the game. Francisco in June. Our great football team of ’47 to It is so gratifying to see how much our new graduates ’50 was ranked 10th in the nation have experienced and all that they have accomplished and was undefeated, untied and during this formative time at Pacific. The tentative freshmen of a few short years ago stand before us with uninvited to a bowl game because confidence and poise looking with anticipation to the no one wanted to play us. And I future. And they have gained training and experience won’t forget the Stockton College that have set them on a path to an extraordinary career game in 1941 that was interrupted and a fulfilling life. when a small plane landed on the It’s a reminder why we, as Pacific faculty and staff, do field during a game, mistaking it for what we do. the Sacramento airport! I was It’s about our students’ success. broadcasting the game on our local It’s about all of them finding their passion, discovering FM station. their potential, exploring their creativity—and, most One year we raided San Jose importantly, becoming prepared to be leaders in their before the big game and they chosen fields and in their communities. returned in two or three Piper Cub This is obvious to me every day, on each of our campuses. planes and bombarded the campus And you’ll see it, too, as you read about some of our with fruit… Oh, the memories stellar new graduates and young alumni in this issue of the Pacific Review. during those years! It’s very personal to us. Stan Lichtenstein ’49 And graduation does not mark the end of our relation- Tommy, the real, live 400-pound Bengal ship. Now as alumni, part of an ever-growing Pacific tiger, was the Pacific mascot from 1950 to family, these graduates join a worldwide network 1952, when he passed away unexpectedly. of Pacificans, some of whom they have met and networked with during their student experience. They are Tigers for Life and will always have a home at Pacific. Editor’s note: Yes, it really happened! On Sept. 27, 1941, a young army cadet got lost on a training flight Visit my website at Pacific.edu/President or find me returning from Fresno to Sacramento and ran out of gas. After several failed attempts, he finally made an on Facebook. emergency landing 200 feet from Baxter Stadium, while more than 3,000 football fans and nearby residents I welcome your ideas at [email protected]. watched in panicked amazement. 2 University of the Pacific | Pacific Review Summer 2016 | Pacific.edu Letters On Soldiers to Students Correction: Thank you for the article entitled “From Soldiers to Students.” In the obituary for Walter Baun ’53 in our spring issue, we mistakenly Great cause and well written. Your editorial staff should consider listed Richard Baun ’86 as the son of Walter Baun. Richard Baun ’86 writing an article entitled “From Students to Soldiers.” Many of is the son of Walter’s brother, the late James Frederick Baun ’54. Michael us who graduated in the ’50s and ’60s had a war facing us upon Baun ’89 and Suzy (Baun) Graves are the children of Walter Baun. graduation. A few of my college friends at Pacific died and are Thanks to Barry Delavan ’81, son of Walter’s sister, Janet (Baun) named on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Many Delavan ’55, for catching the error. became officers in all branches of the services an still to this day carry the physical and emotional scars of war. We’d like to hear FROM YOU! — John E. Thomas ’65, Captain, USMC, retired Pacific Review welcomes signed letters of 200 words or less from readers. We reserve the right to edit all letters. Send to [email protected]. Welcome Connie (Xanttopulos) Arthur Scotland ’74, a graduate Rishwain ’79 catapulted of the McGeorge School of Law, is a new regents the UGG shearling boot into prominent attorney and former University of the Pacific has a global brand with more than presiding justice for the California $1.5 billion in revenue during Court of Appeal, Third Appellate welcomed two new members her tenure as president of District. During his distinguished to its Board of Regents. They UGG Australia. She was career, he has been a law enforcement will serve on Pacific’s recently honored with the officer, prosecutor, appellate governing board for a three- 2016 Distinguished Alumni attorney, policy adviser to a governor, year term that began in July. Award for professional service. trial judge and appellate justice. Dear readers: socialmediamoment Take our survey What do you like about your Pacific Review? What do you wish there was more of in these pages? Or less? Now is your chance to tell us.