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a new downtown caMpusOne of the few downtown structures to survive the 1906 earthquake, the Folger Coffee Building at 101 Howard St. is a San Francisco landmark. The 100,000-square-foot, steel-framed brick building occupies a choice spot on the National Register of Historic Places and will be home to the University of San Francisco’s new Downtown Campus—just a short walk from the site of the university’s first one-room schoolhouse at Fourth and Market streets. The new campus will open its doors to some School of Management graduate programs in the summer of 2012.

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Back to the FUtUre by Monica VillaVicencio

The opening of its Downtown Campus places the university in the center of the city’s high-tech boom, just a short stroll from its original Gold Rush-era home.

Plus, Corey Cook, politics professor, on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for San Francisco.

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FroM thiS Day ForwarD: MarrieD in St. ignatiUSStudents mark the beginning and end of their time at USF at the landmark church. Hundreds of alumni have returned to celebrate another important rite of passage.

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iMMerSionS teach that Service BeginS with UnDerStanDingby edward carpenter

Whether half a world away in the Philippines or across the Bay Bridge in the “Harlem of the West,” the USF classroom extends far beyond the Hilltop.

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David Vann, associate professor in USF’s MFA program, has sunk, swam, and traveled many nautical miles on the road to rising international literary star.

32JUStice For the JeSUitSby peter Kornbluh

A transnational legal battle is bringing renewed hope for justice in the case of the 1989 murders of six priests and two women during El Salvador’s civil war.

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hank you for embarking on this adventure with us that is the new USF Magazine. Not only does the

magazine have a sharper, more eye-catching look; it literally feels different. That’s because we’ve

invested in heavier paper that is more environmentally friendly. We’re now using paper that contains

30 percent post-consumer recycled content rather than 10 percent.

And, thanks to you, we’ve doubled the number of Class Notes. From news about marriages to births to the

expansion of a frozen yogurt business in Mumbai, India, the notes are a joyous read. Please keep them coming.

We’ve also aimed for more provocative features. The cover story, “Back to the Future” (page 12), takes the

reader on the university’s 150-year geographic journey throughout the city, ending, for now, with the purchase of

our new Downtown Campus in the shadow of our original one-room schoolhouse. Also part of the feature is an

interview with politics professor Corey Cook about the state of the city with which our university is so intertwined.

“Justice for the Jesuits” (page 32) has the latest on the international legal battle to bring to trial the accused

perpetrators of the 1989 murders of six Jesuits and two women in El Salvador.

Of course, we’re also here to have some fun. For that, turn to page 24, where you will find photos and stories

of alumni who were married in St. Ignatius Church.

In addition, we’ve revamped the online version of the magazine with numerous Web Extras, including videos,

photographs, and articles. Just visit www.usfca.edu/magazine, or see the back cover of this issue for links to

specific features.

Now we’d like to hear what you think. Please send your letters to the editor to the postal or email address

listed to the left of this column.

During my first nine months as editor of USF Magazine, I have enjoyed learning about USF and all that it has

to offer. As a graduate of and former magazine editor for a Jesuit school just down the Peninsula, this is a home-

coming of sorts for me.

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Edward CarpEntEr is an award-winning journalist who worked for a number of San Francisco Bay Area newspapers before transitioning to online publishing, magazine writing, and Web content production for USF. he lives to tell stories using words, images, maps, videos, and social media.

pEtEr Kornbluh is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit research group that specializes in obtaining declassified documents. he has authored numerous books, and his work has appeared in The New yorker, The New york Times, and The Nation, among other publications.

lindsay MEisEl is product and communications director at Edupath, an educational technology company in Berkeley. She has picked spinach at sunrise as an or-ganic farmer, written about Nietzsche and environmen-talism for the Breakthrough Institute, and saved things instead of selling them at Underground Advertising.

david vann is an associate professor in USF’s MFA in writing program and a bestselling author, writing both fiction and nonfiction. A 2011 guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to complete his fifth book, a novel, “Dirt,” published in April. An excerpt of “Dirt” appears in this issue of USF Magazine. During his fellowship, Vann also completed another novel, “goat Mountain,” scheduled to be published in 2013.

MoniCa villaviCEnCio is a writer, editor, filmmaker, and happy new resident of San Francisco. She is a former National Public radio kroc Fellow, and, as a multimedia journalist, she has covered a diverse array of stories, from post-election violence in kenya to the U.S.-Mexico cross-border drug trade. Villavicencio recently became a copywriter and a news and feature writer at USF.

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The University of San Francisco is re-introducing itself to the city it has called home for more than 150 years with a visibility advertis-ing campaign meant to set San Franciscans on their collective ear.

Kicked off April 2 with slogans such as “University of the Best City Ever” and “Academics More Challenging Than Finding a Parking Spot in North Beach,” the campaign consists of 14 provocative headlines that emphasize the university’s commitment to academic excellence, a culture of service, and a passion for social justice, as well as its deep ties to San Francisco.

The effort is called the Higher Standard Campaign, a reference to USF’s distinct brand of education that joins critical thought with purposed action.

The bold ads blanketed downtown San Francisco in April and May and will do so again in September and October.

“The University of San Francisco is deliberately, loudly, and finally tooting its own horn,” said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. “It’s past time for the world to know the great stuff we are doing with and for our students, our city, and the entire global village.’’

The campaign follows the university’s launch of a new logo and tagline. The new tagline, “Change the World From Here,” is a call to action that is contemporary, urgent, and personal. The new logo, a cross formed from arrows pointing both outward and inward, reflects the ongoing dialogue and exchange between the university and an increasingly interconnected world.

Web e x tra For more information on the campaign, visit www.usfca.edu/higherstandard . For more information on the new logo and tagline, visit www.usfca.edu/communications/logo .

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USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., travelled with other Catholic university presidents to Rwanda and Burundi in January prior to the launch of a new initiative led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S. The program, Scholars in Global Solidarity, is a pilot that aims to cultivate faculty expertise on international social justice issues, create curriculum focus-ing on social justice as part of college courses, and develop social justice-related research.


Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, assistant professor of politics, has been honored by the White House as one of its Champions of Change—part of President Barack Obama’s Winning the Future initiative.

The Kenyan native was honored this year as one of 14 Champions of Change who are leaders in American diaspora communities with roots in the Horn of Africa.

“These men and women are American leaders we want to celebrate,” said Denis McDonough, deputy national security adviser. “We com- mend the innovative practices, achievements, and leadership these change-makers bring not only to their communities around this country— but also to the development of and diplomacy with their countries of origin.”

Kamau-Rutenberg is the founder and executive director of the international nonprofit Akili Dada, a leadership incubator that pairs prominent female Kenyan business people, politicians, educators, and activists with underprivileged high school girls as mentors and provides the girls with scholarships to stay in school.

Previously honored by the United Nations for her work

with Akili Dada, and the recipient of the Foundations for Change Thomas I. Yamashita Prize and the African Interna-tional Achievers Award, Kamau-Rutenberg was selected as a Champion of Change because of her passion for promoting a synergy between rigorous academic analysis and social entrepreneurship, the White House said.

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The School of Nursing has changed its name to the School of Nursing and Health Professions, reflecting the school’s recent expansion to include a master of public health (MPH) degree.

The MPH program is attracting recent graduates and profes-sionals interested in careers in fields such as health promotion, community organizing, and healthy lifestyle leadership, allowing them to choose an emphasis in community health, global health, or health promotion education.

“Advancing health professions programming at USF has become a university priority,” said Judith Karshmer, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions. “Our goal is to expand health professions options that are mission-centric and built upon the strategic goals of USF 2028.”

The move, bolstered by President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.’s ap-pointment of a 35-member commission to study how the univer-sity can best grow its health professions education at the graduate level, takes into account projections for rapid growth in the health care industry in coming years.

The committee, made up of Bay Area leaders in health care and a wide array of other industries, was charged with expanding the scope and depth of USF’s health professions education at the graduate level to best serve students and meet community needs. Much of the focus was on emerging fields, high demand areas for local, national and global health priorities, and areas that link edu-cation and health-related services in innovative and sustainable patterns of outreach, Karshmer said.

Among the new programs recommended by the commission, which concluded its work in May, were nutrition; lifestyle medicine and integrated health care; and health care management and clinical analytics.

The school also expanded its student base when it began to offer its popular RN-to-MSN program online in January, allowing registered nurses from across the country to earn master’s degrees in their field.

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Two architecture professors recently won national and state awards for their design of a flood-proof house that was built to withstand hurricanes and tsunamis.

Designed by Matt Peek and Renata

Ancona, adjunct professors of art + architecture, the house in Stinson Beach, about 45 minutes northwest of San Francisco, won the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s best practice award

and a 2011 American Institute of Archi-tects, California Council Merit Award for Small Projects.

“The Japanese tsunami occurred just one year after the flood-proof home’s construction and demonstrated how high-strength buildings, typically commercial, resisted the flood waters while under-designed structures succumbed to the flooding,” Peek said.

For the Stinson Beach house, Peek and Ancona added on to an existing mid-century beach house in a designated flood zone, constructing an attached master bedroom, bathroom, and four balconies on concrete stilts. The stilts connect below ground to individual concrete foundations. The addi-tion’s frame is made of steel. The flood-proof house was built to resist tsunami-force waves up to 12 feet high, Peek said.

The house design also incorporates sustainable elements throughout, includ-ing drought-tolerant landscaping, cedar walls, and bamboo flooring—components that helped it achieve the highest sustain-able design certification, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum, from Marin County’s green building program.

Many of the design techniques and technologies used in the Stinson Beach house have found their way into Peek and Ancona’s curriculum, particularly classes on building technology.

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At press time, commencement exercises celebrating newly minted graduates were scheduled to take place on the University of San Francisco campus, with a number of high-profile leaders speaking at the ceremonies.

BiLL CoSBy, comedian, actor, and educa-tor, was scheduled to speak May 18 at the College of Arts and Sciences ceremo-nies for undergraduates in the arts and social sciences.

San Francisco Mayor ED LEE was sched-uled to speak May 18 at the College of Arts and Sciences ceremonies for humanities and sciences undergraduates.

HoLLy PEtrAEuS, the assistant director of the Office of Servicemember Affairs in the Treasury Department’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was scheduled to speak to College of Arts and Sciences graduate students May 18. Petraeus is the wife of retired U.S. Army general and CIA director David Petraeus.

U.S. Under Secretary of Education MArtHA KAntEr EdD ’89 was scheduled to speak to School of Education graduates during the school’s exercises, also on May 18.

KEn HACKEtt, former president of Catholic Relief Services, the official inter-national relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., was scheduled to speak to School of Manage-ment undergraduates on May 19.

Other scheduled speakers included:

• U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey;

• Goodwin Liu, associate justice of the California Supreme Court;

• Michael J. Sheeran, S.J., Regis Univer-sity president; and

• Ralf Hotchkiss, director and chief engineer of Whirlwind Wheelchair International Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at San Francisco State University.

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Sonam Gill MSEM ’13, MBA ’13 didn’t think twice about giving up her summer vacation last year to research San Joaquin Valley towns that showed high rates of health defects in children, poor air quality, and pesticide-contaminated water.

For Gill, the research was more than theoretical—she has relatives in the San Joaquin Valley. Environmental inequalities associated with such factors as geography, race, and ethnicity can lead to increased cases of asthma, cancer, and birth defects, Gill said. She saw her research, part of an internship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as a steppingstone

to a career in raising awareness about low-income, minority, and child popula-tions living in polluted and toxic areas.

“Exposures to insufferable conditions endured on a daily basis are not normal and are a breach of justice,” Gill said. “Many of these environmental issues have a synergistic effect on the health of the communities in the valley.”

Gill was part of a select cohort of 40 university students chosen from across the nation to intern with experts from the EPA and NASA’s Ames Research Center. Students worked on projects to improve environmental and earth science research,

as well as environmental decision-making by politicians and policymakers, by apply-ing earth science data and technology to local problems.

After the internship, Gill landed a part-time position with the EPA as a research assistant for the environmental justice program.

“Before the internship, I worked at a biotech consulting firm, and I would stare at the clock waiting for it to hit 3, 4, and, finally, 5 o’clock,” Gill said. “At the EPA, I often get so wrapped up in my projects that I lose track of time.”

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What began for Kristen Dyer ’12 as a quick $5 donation by text message two years ago has grown into a personal campaign to help children infected with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and has led to her being cast as a subject in a Showtime documentary about the effects of the disease.

The “thank you” text she received in reply to her donation invited her to enter a

contest by visiting the nonprofit To Keep a Child Alive’s (KCA) website, where she was asked to describe what Africa meant to her in a word.

Dyer chose “strength.” It’s a term, as it turns out, that some use to describe Dyer herself, having been kicked out of her mother’s house at 17 (See the related story, below.)

From 24,000 people who submitted entries, Dyer and four others were chosen to spend a week traveling with KCA co-founder and R&B star Alicia Keys to see the nonprofit’s work in South Africa, where it provides antiviral drugs and care for chil-dren and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

For Dyer, an aspiring professional photographer, spending a week in South Africa the summer between her sophomore and junior years reaffirmed her belief that photography wasn’t just for galleries. It could change people’s lives.

Since her return, Dyer’s efforts have included using her photos in presentations

to USF students, encouraging professors to broach the topic of HIV/AIDS in Africa in class, and hosting a USF screening on World AIDS Day 2011 of “Keep a Child Alive With Alicia Keys”—the Showtime documentary about the group’s trip to South Africa.

Photo Philanthropy, a nonprofit connect-ing photographers with causes, published some of Dyer’s South Africa images online. The same images helped lead to her recent acceptance as a freelancer for Cavan Images, an online stock photo site.

“South Africa changed everything for me. It’s still changing things, opening doors, reminding me of what’s important,” Dyer said. “I wouldn’t trade my time there for anything.”

Web e x tra To watch an interview with Dyer and view a clip of the Showtime documentary, as well as some of Dyer’s photography, visit: www.usfca.edu/magazine/keys .

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kristen Dyer ’12 flipped open her cell phone after soccer practice on her 17th birthday and found a picture of her belongings lined up on the sidewalk in front of her mom’s house. “your stuff is ready for you,” read the text message from her stepfather.

There was Dyer’s guitar, carefully placed on its stand; there was one of her board games, Battleship, peeking out from a box; there was a pile of clothes, indignantly listing to one side—all in front of a neatly trimmed adobe home framed by a bright blue sky.

Dyer, a newly minted international studies graduate, keeps the photo as a reminder of the beginning of a new direction in her life.

After leaving home, an event Dyer avoids discussing, she lived in her best friend’s garage

while she completed high school. her aunt then moved Dyer to her San Francisco home and encouraged her niece to apply to college.

Dyer didn’t love the idea. “hardly anyone from my high school goes to

university. So, when my aunt had me start college applications, I was intent that no one would move me anywhere again,” Dyer recalled. “I looked at the college across the street and said, ‘I’ll apply there and that’s it.’”

The college across the street turned out to be USF. Dyer was accepted on scholarship, a turn of events that felt foreign to her—having grown up so much an outsider. She took the opportunity to remake herself, a way of taking control in her eyes. Upon enrolling, she changed her name (not legally) to Isa, short for Isabella, instead of

kristen. It’s now the name that her family and others know her by.

“In a way, I guess this transition helped me keep the past in the past,” Dyer said.

Dyer became a standout student, earning straight “A”s last fall while taking six courses.

During her time at USF, Dyer worked multiple jobs, traveled to Brazil and South Africa, and gained the confidence to overcome obstacles that might have stopped others in their tracks, all without parental support. She is the first in her family to graduate from college.

laleh Shahideh, USF associate vice provost and dean of student academic services, whose office reception area Dyer staffed since her fresh-man year, sees a bright future ahead for Dyer: “She’s one of the strongest people that I have met.”

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New software applications created by com-puter science students forgo the “gotcha” moment of Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” but are designed to help police capture child sex predators just the same.

Three programs, developed by Chaoyi Du MS ’12, Chengzhi (Calvin) Liang MS ’12, and Xinli Feng MS ’11, crawl the Web hunt-ing for child pornography. The programs then track the files and compile dossiers on suspects.

A fourth program, a wireless network analysis application developed by Simon Piel ’12, uses information gathered by the three-program suite to more closely link culprit computers to specific individuals who share such files over peer-to-peer networks.

The programs were designed with guidance from the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children (SVICAC) Task Force, which includes the 11 Bay Area

counties, the FBI, and others. “As a CS professor at USF, I believe we

should be utilizing technology in the service of humanity,” said Patricia Francis-Lyon, assistant professor of computer science, who advised the three graduate students.

SVICAC plans to fine-tune the programs through beta testing in the coming months and then, hopefully, share them with simi-lar task forces throughout the nation, said SVICAC commander Sgt. Greg Lombardo.

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In a city of tweeting food trucks and Michelin-star restaurants, it was only a matter of time before San Francisco’s fusion-food culture found a way into a chemistry class.

After all, chemistry is what we taste when we bite into a chocolate-drizzled double scoop of destabilized fat globules and Fragaria ananassa. We just call it a strawberry ice cream sundae.

Tami Spector, professor of chemistry, introduced the class, called Molecular Gastronomy, in spring 2011. It focuses on the physical and chemical processes of food and drink preparation.

The idea of the course is to introduce non-science students, many of whom find memorizing chemical formulas and reactions mind-numbing, to the intricacies of molecular chemistry using an acces-sible and interactive approach. Michelle Cancellier ’12, an English major, said the class helped her and other humanities majors understand the abstract concepts that underlie chemistry—such as polymers, ionic charge, and chemical bonds—which can make the subject so challenging.

Spector incorporates common foods into

the science lessons, including an in-class experiment that separates caffeine from tea to illustrate solubility and extraction. Another lesson has students whip up a batch of mayonnaise to learn about emulsions. Working with a palette of

flavors from sweet to savory, students have isolated clove oil, created ice cream, pickled vegetables, and baked soufflés.

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Juliet Spencer, associate professor of biology, has been awarded a $412,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for cancer research.

Spencer’s latest research expands on earlier work that examined a variant of the herpes virus (HCMV), deter-mining how it is able to lay dormant and go undetected in humans, sometimes for decades, before attacking the immune system.

Using the three-year NIH

grant, Spencer will study the effect of the HCMV virus, which infects up to 80 percent of Americans, on cancer cells. Specifically, she’ll examine whether a substance that HCMV cells secrete weakens healthy cells’ defenses— thereby opening the door for pre-cancerous cells to grow.

“We don’t think the virus needs to infect the cells to cause cancer,” Spencer explained. “We think that infected cells may produce a

substance that causes healthy cells to be more likely to be-come cancerous.”

If Spencer is able to dem- onstrate the connection between HCMV and breast cancer tumors, the discovery could lead to changes in the treatment of cancer to include antiviral medicines in addition to chemotherapy.

“There’s still a lot of work to do,” Spencer said. “But the potential for human health benefits is tremendous.”

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In addition to launching its first-ever visibility campaign and a new logo and tagline, the University of San Francisco has been busy remaking itself in more fundamental ways.

In July 2011, the School of Business and Professional Studies became the School of Management (SOM), followed in September by the School of Nursing expanding its mission and becoming the School of Nursing and Health Profes-sions. (See story, page 5.)

In August, USF purchased the historic Folger Coffee Build-ing at 101 Howard in San Fran-cisco’s Financial District, creat-ing the Downtown Campus,

where graduate management courses will be held beginning this summer. (See story, page 12.) Shortly afterward, USF’s Cupertino Campus relocated to downtown San Jose. The uni-versity also relocated a campus from San Ramon to Pleasanton.

The moves are intended to bolster USF’s success at deliver-ing a high-quality education in urban settings that invite partnerships and draw on the sites’ proximity to visionary leaders, pioneering nonprofits, and cutting-edge businesses.

“The changes reflect in-novation in our educational programs and delivery,” said Jennifer Turpin, USF provost

and vice president of academic affairs. “USF is determined to offer the highest quality, most relevant educational programs in locations where we can best leverage the dynamic resources of the Bay Area as part of our curriculum.”

The SOM name change responds to the fact that man-agement careers today run the gamut from for-profit business-es and nonprofit organizations to the government sector.

In more SOM news, the school’s master of public ad-ministration is now also being offered as an online program and is accepting applications for fall 2012.

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It’s typical for a pitcher to aim for a high strikeout total, but Bob Mott ’12 set a target for himself and the rest of the 2012 season’s pitching staff—400 strikeouts—for an unusual reason.

The goal is part of a campaign that business major Mott started last year to raise awareness and funds to purchase bed nets to help prevent malaria, which kills nearly one million people a year worldwide. Mott and USF teammates Cameron Love ’12, Nik Balog ’12, and Jared Denham ’12 created “Home Runs for Health” as part of a service-learning project for their Management and Organizational Dynamics class.

Through donations from USF baseball players and pledges from other sources, the USF baseball team raised $10 for every home

run hit during the 2011 season, enough to purchase one insecti-cide-treated net through Nothing But Nets, a global grassroots campaign that purchases bed nets for families in malaria-risk areas of Africa.

Last year’s campaign was a success; after just one season, the USF baseball team was able to help purchase 110 nets.

Now in its second year, Mott’s campaign has been renamed “Strike Out Malaria” because “there are more strikeouts than home runs in baseball,” Mott noted. This year, the Dons set a goal of rais-ing $3 every time a USF pitcher strikes out a batter, estimating that USF pitchers would log 400 strikeouts by the end of the season and raise $1200—enough to purchase 120 nets. At the time of writing, the team was averaging more than $4 per strikeout and had raised enough to purchase 150 nets with weeks left in the season.

Hung above beds, insecticide-treated nets are an effective way to stop the spread of malaria by protecting people from malaria-carrying mosquitoes while they sleep and preventing the mosqui-toes from flying on to infect others.

Writer Jaime Diaz ’75 recently won the 2012 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journal-ism after nearly three decades covering sports for some of the nation’s most prestigious publications.

The San Francisco native earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of San Francisco, where he also played for the men’s golf team all four years.

“I’m one of the lucky people who has been able to do what

he’s loved for a living,” Diaz said.In March, Diaz became

editor-in-chief of Golf World magazine. He has been writing for Golf World and its sister publication, Golf Digest, since 2001. Diaz has covered more than 100 major golf champion-ships. He previously wrote for Sports Illustrated, where he launched the Golf Plus section. Before that, Diaz covered golf for The New York Times. He started in newspapers working as a copy boy at the Oakland

Tribune in the 1970s.He is a six-time winner of

the Golf Writers Association of America writing contest. “My heroes, even more than the golfers, have been the journal-ists whose work continues to both humble and inspire me,” Diaz said. “Following them has been an honor, and following many of them as a recipient of this award has been the biggest honor of all.”

Diaz collaborated with golf coach Hank Haney on “The Big

Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods,” which was published in March and quickly climbed to No. 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

He is the author of the book “An Enduring Passion: The Legends and Lore of Golf” and the co-author of several others.

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Back to the Future

In the century and a half since its founding, the University of San Francisco has established itself as an educational institution of and for the city—through times of bounty, transformation, and disaster. The recent purchase of the Folger Coffee Building, which will house graduate management programs and comprise USF’s Downtown Campus, is just a short walk from the site of USF’s first schoolhouse and marks a new chapter for the university and the city. Moving into an area with neighbors like Twitter, Google, and Salesforce.com places USF at the center of downtown’s high-tech renaissance and deepens ties between the city of San Francisco and its oldest university.

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masonic avenue

Color key:

Former USF buildings

Current USF buildings

1855: First location,

St. Ignatius Academy

Market Street, between Fourth

and Fifth streets

(Now Westfield San Francisco Centre)

1880: Third location, St. Ignatius College

Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue

(Now Davies Symphony Hall)

1862: Second location, St. Ignatius College

Market Street, between Fourth

and Fifth

streets (Adjacent to first lo

cation)

1906: Post-earthquake

location, St. Ignatius College

Hayes and Shrader streets

1912: St. Ignatius School of law

Grant Building, Market and Seventh streets

1927: kalmanovitz Hall

Fulton Street between

Cole and Clayton streets

1962: kendrick Hall (USF School of law)

Fulton and Shrader streets

1991: USF School of education

and Presentation Theater

Turk Boulevard and Masonic Avenue

2000: 281 Masonic

Masonic Avenue and Turk Boulevard

2012: Downtown Campus

Folger Coffee Building

Howard and Spear streets

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There’s an old Latin saying about the saints who founded four of the Catholic Church’s long-standing orders: “Bernard loved the valleys, and Benedict loved the hills, Francis the towns, Ignatius the great cities.”

It’s no accident that St. Bernard and the Cistercians and St.

Benedict and the Benedictine monks elected to live in the valleys and

hills, the ideal backdrop for their lives of contemplation. The Franciscans

traveled from town to town, serving the poor from the peripheries. But

for St. Ignatius, the Jesuit mission of social and pastoral outreach was

best carried out in the heart of 16th-century Rome. Close to the center of

power, as well as the disempowered, the ministry extended to hospitals,

prisons, orphanages, and schools throughout the flourishing metropolis.

That distinct brand of engagement brought St. Ignatius’ followers to

the boomtown of San Francisco during the Gold Rush. The academy they

established, the city’s first, bore his name and embodied his ideals. St.

Ignatius Academy has had a handful of homes in the city with which it

would eventually share a name. In that time, San Francisco transformed

from a fledgling port of arrival for fortune seekers to one of the world’s

most dynamic, entrepreneurial urban centers. USF has contributed to

and been shaped by the city’s metamorphosis, enabling the two to form

a symbiotic bond that continues to evolve.

Downtown Roots in the heaRt of a GReat City � When

gold was discovered near Sacramento in 1848, thousands left their

homes throughout the U.S., and from as far away as Europe, Asia, and

Latin America, in hopes of striking it rich. Many docked in San Francisco,

fueling an unprecedented population boom that saw the city’s ranks

swell from fewer than 1,000 people to almost 35,000 in just five years.

The frenzied growth brought chaos, with the city’s streets and saloons

rife with gambling, brawling, prostitution, murder, and thievery.

“The Jesuits said early on, ‘We want to be where the action is. We want

to be where the cities are,’ and San Francisco—that was where the action

was,” said Alan Ziajka, author of “Legacy & Promise: 150 Years of Jesuit

Education at the University of San Francisco” and director of institutional

research at USF. “So the Jesuits came to San Francisco because that was

their mission; that was their philosophy.”

The Jesuits believed there was a place for education in the midst of

the disorder and sent Anthony Maraschi, S.J., to build a school. When

he selected a patch of sand dunes on Market and Fourth streets, he

proclaimed, “Here, in time, will be the heart of a great city.”

St. Ignatius Academy opened in 1855. The small wooden schoolhouse

provided more than enough space for the three students who enrolled. It

was the city’s first institution of higher education.

In little more than five years, the college outgrew the space, as student

enrollment approached 150. The recently renamed St. Ignatius College built

a three-story, state-of-the-art brick structure adjacent to its original site.

Equipped with large classrooms and a theater, the college was one of the

city’s largest when it opened in 1862. Its scientific labs, added later, were

renowned throughout the city, and in 1874, Joseph Neri, S.J., a professor of

natural philosophy, staged the city’s first demonstration of electric light

before an amazed audience. The college’s student body, largely Irish and Ital-

ian Catholic immigrants, was very much a reflection of the city it educated. >

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fulton street

1914: St. Ignatius Church

Fulton Street and Parker Avenue

1991: USF School of education

and Presentation Theater

Turk Boulevard and Masonic Avenue

2011: Presidio Building

Mason Street, next to

Crissy Field

1978: lone Mountain Campus

Turk Boulevard between Parker and Masonic avenues

Downtown Campus

Folger Coffee Building

web extRa To watch a video of a presentation by Thomas Lucas, S.J., on Jesuits in the cities, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/city_2012.

parker street


‘With the Folger Building, For

internships, joB intervieWs,

For getting a sense oF

What’s going on, you can

cross the street. despite

the rapid communication

oF our age, there’s

something to Be said For Being right

across the street.’

Alan Ziajka

the “GolDen aGe of olD st. iGnatius” � Rising property taxes and enrollment pushed the Jesuits to search for their third home in less than three decades, and, in 1880, the college reopened at the corner of Hayes and Van Ness, the current site of Davies Symphony Hall. One block from the present-day City Hall, the building was a major civic landmark, serving as a center for community outreach. The move marked the beginning of the “Golden Age of Old St. Ignatius.”

“St. Ignatius College produced many of the people who occupied key positions—the movers and shakers of the city,” Ziajka said. “They were the group that wanted to build parks around the city, end corruption, bring more social services, and increase outreach to the community.”

Strong ties between the city and the college were further cemented throughout the early 20th century, first when the great earthquake of 1906 decimated much of the city, including St. Ignatius College. Speaking at the dedication of the college’s new site at Shrader and Hayes less than three months later, College President John Frieden, S.J., said, “Three months ago, no one would have thought that we would be ready to build a new St. Ignatius upon this site, but, undaunted by disaster, we are ready for the new work. We have never lost courage, for we know that it is God’s work and He has provided. If San Francisco is to live, we live with it; if it passes, we pass with it—but not before.”

Six years later, St. Ignatius’ first law school opened in the Grant Building at Market and Seventh—an elevator ride away from the courts, where many alumni would have successful careers.

expanDinG westwaRD � In 1927, the entire college moved to present-day Kalmanovitz Hall and within a few years became the University of San Francisco. Being near Golden Gate Park boosted its athletics programs and broadened its student base, then entirely com- muters, to include residents of the suburban western neighborhoods.

Over the following decades, USF expanded throughout the area. The School of Law got a new home with the construction of Kendrick Hall in 1962. The 1978 purchase of the former all-women’s Lone Mountain College, with its picture-perfect views of the city and the bay, almost doubled the size of the campus. In 1991, the School of Education took over the Presentation High School complex. Nine years later, the 49,000-square-foot, three-story Dorraine Zief Law Library was built. That same year, USF leased 281 Masonic Ave., formerly Lincoln University, where some university offices and the Fine and Performing Arts Program are housed. In 2011, USF relocated several graduate programs to the Presidio.

Concentrating much of its academic and extracurricular pro-gramming and residence halls on a 55-acre site enabled USF to nurture a rich campus life—but some of the urban immediacy conferred by a downtown address was lost.

“It wasn’t like you could walk across the street to City Hall or walk two blocks to a major business,” Ziajka said. “With the Folger Building, for internships, job interviews, for getting a sense of what’s going on, you can cross the street. Despite the rapid communication of our age, there’s something to be said for being right across the street.” /////

corey cook: The State of our City As USF readies for its downtown return, so, too, is the city of San Francisco embarking on a new chapter with the election of its first Asian American mayor, the largest surge in technology jobs since the dot-com boom of the late ’90s, and crushing budget woes. Corey Cook, USF associate professor of politics and director of the leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, is an expert on urban politics and public policy. He sat down with USF Magazine to discuss the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead for San Francisco. The following is adapted from that discussion.


conflict between progressives and moderates. It was a pretty

remarkable election.

usf MaGazine: What are some of the other ways San Francisco has changed during the past 20 years?

CC: Well, you’ve seen some significant changes in how people live

and work in the city: the decline of the middle class and the precipitous

decline in the African American population, and also changes in

the primary economic drivers in the city. Just in the past decade

we’ve experienced a dot-com boom and bust and a housing boom

and bust, and more recently a tech boom.

And the leading industries in the city have changed. Aside from

construction, we don’t make things in San Francisco very much.

The leading industries are typically talked about as knowledge

generation and experience generation. Knowledge generation includes

things like information technology, biotech, and digital media.

Experience generation includes things like arts, retail, tourism, and

hospitality. So much of what people do in San Francisco falls into

these broad categories.

The challenge is that there isn’t much “middle” in either of these

areas. There are a lot of high-paying jobs and a lot of low-paying

jobs. So you see these growing disparities in the city and in the region,

which has become one of the most disparate regions in the country

in terms of income.

usf MaGazine: What are the biggest challenges and opportu-nities for Lee’s administration?

CC: As I mentioned, San Francisco has gone through a period

of divisiveness in City Hall. I think the mayor was elected,

in part, because he has worked effectively across

the political spectrum—as a civil rights

leader and as city administrator. And as

acting mayor, he dialed down the

rhetoric and worked collaboratively.

That’s not to say there aren’t still

significant disagreements over a

range of issues, but in his year as

usf MaGazine: Let’s start with the San Francisco mayoral election. Can you talk about the ways in which it was significant?

CC: Obviously, the election of the city’s first Chinese American mayor is historic, particu-larly given the history of Chinese exclusion and discrimination in San Francisco and Cal-ifornia. Mayor Ed Lee’s election is the culmi-nation of decades of activism and organizing in the Chinese American community.

But there was an historic field of candidates. Among the top-tier candidates you might have had a lot of firsts—the first Latino mayor, the first openly gay mayor, the first Japanese American mayor. USF hosted the first of the many mayoral forums in 2011, and, in May, well before then-acting Mayor Lee jumped into the race, you could sense that this might be an historic election.

usf MaGazine: What accounts for such a diversity of candidates?

CC: Part of that is the growing diversity of the city—in particular the increasing proportion of the population identified as Asian and Asian Pacific Islander and Latino. But part of it is the result of institutional and political changes. The city has undergone some fairly dramatic political shifts.

In the wake of the dot-com boom, and growing public concerns about rising housing prices and gentrification in the South of Market neighborhoods, the city adopted district elections for the board of supervisors. Not only have district elections helped ensure that neighborhood interests are represented on the board of supervisors; they have also diversified the board and helped bring about what has been called the progressive move-ment in the city.

We’ve had about 10 years of conflict over land-use issues, social services, and the city budget between these two broad camps—a moderate mayor and a progressive board of supervisors. But with Mayor Gavin Newsom heading to Sacramento and a complete turn-over of the board of supervisors because of term limits, I think there was a sense that this election marked a new political era in the city.

So you had nine or 10 serious candidates running for mayor reflective of various neighborhood interests, the socio-economic diversity of the city, and also this ideological


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acting mayor, Lee was able to negotiate a consensus

budget agreement and a near-consensus agreement

about public pension reform.

So he’s displayed the ability to bridge some of

those differences because of his governing style, his

experience in city government, and his ability to draw

from both the progressive and moderate camps. But

the challenge is that it is a fragile coalition. The mayor

only appeared on about 44 percent of ballots cast. In

other words, 56 percent of voters did not mark Ed

Lee as their first, second, or third choice in the

election. So while on one hand, he well outpaced

his rivals, the election shows that he still has a lot

of work to do to build a stable governing coalition.

usf MaGazine: What are some of the issues the city will face in the next few years?

CC: I think many of the issues this administration

will tackle are connected to land use, economic

development, and the improvement of the city’s

public schools. There are some big development

projects like California Pacific Medical Center,

the Central Subway, and Bayview redevelop-

ment. And, of course, the budget, particularly

this year as public employee contracts are

renewed.

These are complex issues that oftentimes become highly divisive

and can pit neighborhoods against each other, different ethnic

communities against each other, and economic interests against

each other. The challenge for the mayor is to try to maintain a

broad coalition, and that’s remarkably difficult in a city as diverse

and politically sophisticated as San Francisco.

usf MaGazine: Relative to other American cities, San Francisco has a very small population of residents under 18, and the school district has lost almost 7,000 students over the last decade. Is San Francisco a family-friendly city?

CC: I think so. But in full disclosure: My family just moved to San

Francisco from Oakland several months ago, in part because we

think San Francisco is a great city to raise a family.

If you look at the Census data, one of the things that I think

would surprise a lot of people is that there are more households

with children under 18 in San Francisco today than there were a

decade ago. But the average household size has shrunk. So people

are having fewer children, and that’s part of a broader national

demographic phenomenon, but it’s not the case that families with

children are fleeing the city in droves.

That said, it’s certainly the case that San Francisco has far fewer

children and youth than other large cities, and it’s a topic that was

much discussed during the last election. And the consensus is that

in addition to employment, the key determinants of the number of

children and youth who live in the city are the quality of schools

and the affordability (or lack thereof) of housing.

The McCarthy Center did a Bay Area Regional Survey last June,

and one of the questions we asked was, “How

would you rate the schools in your city?”

We asked this of everybody and aggregated

the responses by county, and San Francisco

was rated abysmally in comparison to the

others—something like 4.9 on a scale of one

to 10; much lower than other counties. But

later in the same survey, we asked people

with children in the schools how they rate

their own child’s school. And it turns out

that people in San Francisco rate their own

schools more highly than do folks in Marin

County. So part of it is perception.

Still, there are significant disparities in

student opportunity and achievement in

the schools. African American and Latino

students are less likely to graduate and

have access to the courses needed to be

eligible for college admission. There was a

great panel at USF this spring that addressed

this, and there are some innovative solutions

being proposed, including creating community

schools to focus local resources, like wrap-

around services [individualized community-

based intervention services], directly in

these school settings. One community

school plan is being implemented in the

form of a federal Promise Neighborhood

grant in the Mission District, a cradle-to-

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‘a mccarthy center survey Found that san Franciscans Were much more likely to perceive that the city is headed in the right direction than the state as a Whole.’

college community development program. A lot of people, including several faculty members in the School of Education at USF, and many of the organizations we work with at the McCarthy Center, are working with the school district to ensure that the schools are effectively preparing all students.

I’m less optimistic about affordable family housing. Rental prices are increasing in San Francisco and across the state. And there has been a profound loss of federal and state funding for affordable housing. In addition, the bursting of the housing bubble has affected housing developments that were in the pipeline and decreased the viability of affordable projects. In one of his first acts, the mayor initiated a task force to develop an Affordable Housing Trust Fund proposal. They are developing a proposal for the November ballot to fund affordable projects. It’s complicated policy and an early test of his political skill to hold together this coalition.

usf MaGazine: What should businesses expect from Lee’s administration?

CC: When he was running for mayor, he proposed a 17-point jobs plan that was bal-anced between business recruitment, small business assistance, lowering payroll taxes, and cutting regulations, and a focus on workforce development and enforcing the local hiring ordinance, which suggests that he has a more nuanced view than the “pro-business” or “pro-worker” archetypes. That said, I think the first 100 days or so have seen a focus on the Mid-Market area and trying to nurture a high-tech cluster there, and we’ve seen that business interests have a strong voice within the administration.

usf MaGazine: How seriously are Cali-fornia’s budget woes affecting San Francisco?

CC: It would be hard to overstate the effects. The UCs and the CSUs have been ravaged, and San Francisco State University, like USF, is one of the anchors of San Francisco socially and economically. So far, the state legislature and the governor have been able to insulate K-12 education from significant cuts, and the governor is putting some proposals on the ballot this upcoming year for revenue increases that, if enacted, will forestall further budget cuts.

However, if these measures do not pass,

we will see massive cuts in K-12 education, including cancelling parts of the school year, which will have enormous consequences in San Francisco. There are also a whole host of cutbacks in the social safety net that have directly affected people living in the city, like seniors dependent on in-home supportive services, and a substantial number of nonprofits in San Francisco have gone out of business because of these cutbacks.

The consequence of eliminating the Redevelopment Agency has been profound. About half of the city’s affordable housing budget disappeared with the stroke of a pen when the Redevelopment Agency was eliminated in California. And the state is returning formerly incarcerated persons to their home counties, which ultimately means that San Francisco is facing an influx of ex-offenders. Supporting these individuals as they search for job opportunities and reintegrate into society will be a significant challenge absent adequate state funding.

At the same time, that McCarthy Center survey found that people in the Bay Area were, on the whole, far more optimistic about how things were going in their localities than in the state, and San Franciscans were much more likely to perceive that the city is headed in the right direction than the state as a whole. I think people’s perceptions are pretty much in line with the objective indicators.

usf MaGazine: There’s a lot of buzz in the city about the latest tech boom. Is it actually a boom or a bubble?

CC: In many ways, that’s the million-dollar question. On the one hand, this period seems like a replay of the tech boom of the late ’90s. It’s been reported that there are more tech jobs in San Francisco today than at the height of the boom in the ’90s. But I think people around here remember how so many ideas that seemed so good at the time went bust.

So while the city is very much attempting to nurture a tech revival in the city, and build on its highly educated and creative workforce and physical advantages on the Pacific Rim, at the same time, there is some wariness. There are many economic lessons from the last dot-com boom. For policymakers, one lesson is that when there was enormous wealth being produced in the city, if you don’t figure out ways of having that wealth broadly shared, you’ll have considerable gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods and the loss of vital community, arts, and nonprofit organizations that can’t afford to stay.

While the city has certainly invested a lot in trying to create a tech cluster around companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Zynga, and Salesforce, at the same time there is concern about building a strong and innovative workforce and in creating vibrant, stable communities, rather than just attracting a transient workforce to the city. So you have the local hiring ordinance and a variety of proposals emanating from San Francisco’s state and federal office-holders to invest in primary, secondary, and higher education— in private, independent colleges, in Cal grants, and in public institutions like the California State University system and the community college system—to ensure greater sustainability than we saw a decade ago. /////


web extRa To watch a video of Cook answering select questions, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/cook_2012.


StudentS learn from

gritty reality

injuStice in the blueS

Looking out the window of the Revolution Café on Seventh Street recently, Patrick Duffey ’14 studied a trash-filled lot

surrounded by graffiti-tattooed fences. It was hard to imagine that the area, near the West Oakland BART station, was once

a center of the West Coast blues and jazz scene.

story continued on page 22 photography By BarBara ries

Returning to the Philippines to study this past spring, Teresa Cariño ’13 anticipated a kind of homecoming. The Philippines

is her parents’ homeland, after all. She had visited many times. What she found were families crowded into shanties

and children living on the streets—scenes she had previously only glimpsed from the security of her family’s car.

story continued on page 20 photography By Kerwin go

i m m e r s i o n s t e a c h t h a t s e r v i c e b e g i n s w i t h u n d e r s t a n d i n g b y e dw a r d c a r p e n t e r


i m m e r s i o n s t e a c h t h a t s e r v i c e b e g i n s w i t h u n d e r s t a n d i n g b y e dw a r d c a r p e n t e r

Christina Solitaria ’15 (left) with Nazarene Cordero

Musician Carl Green


‘It’s been intense. There is no other way to describe it,” Cariño, a theology and religious studies major at the Univer-sity of San Francisco, wrote in an email from Manila. For Cariño, Casa

Bayanihan has thrown back the curtain on a

world of injustice that she knew little about

from family vacations.

Thanks to an anonymous donor, six

other USF students were with Cariño during

the spring semester—all studying tuition-

free and accompanying members of under-

privileged communities as part of the Casa

Bayanihan program.

The study abroad and immersion program—jointly administered

by USF, Santa Clara University, and Ateneo de Manila University in

Manila—just completed its second semester. Unlike other study

abroad programs, Casa teaches by immersing students in margin-

alized communities and pairing those students with residents

or nonprofits working for change. The pillars of the program

are accompanying residents of marginalized communities; rigorous

academic study; community living, including eating simple

meals, washing clothes by hand, and taking cold showers; and

spiritual formation.

Students study the Philippine economy, culture, and society;

gender equality; Tagalog; and more. Two days a week, and occasion-

ally on weekends, students take what they’ve learned in the class-

room into the field at praxis sites, learning from locals about the

realities on the ground. The richness of the

program lies in the combination of what

students learn in the community and in the

classroom, and the dialogue that ensues.

Indeed, Casa isn’t about students “para-

chuting” in to aid needy Filipinos. Histori-

cally, that approach has damaged cultures.

Students are taught to resist that impulse

and reminded that, prior to using the bene-

fits of privilege and power to help others,

they must walk humbly with them, and

be instructed by their daily reality, said

Mark Ravizza, S.J., the Jesuit-in-residence at

Casa Bayanihan.

Gritty reality [continued]


(Left to right) Kyla Santana ’13 helps prepare a meal in Sitio Payong, a farming community in Manila; J.L. Osh sits in the window of a house; Teresa Cariño ’13 tutors students in English.

“We aren’t here to help. We are here to

learn,” said Cariño, recalling a quote that

was recited during her Casa orientation: “‘If

you have come here to help me, you are

wasting your time. But if you have come be-

cause your liberation is bound up with mine,

then let us work together.’” (Lilla Watson)

For Cariño, accompaniment meant build-

ing friendships with disabled Filipinos, who

often face discrimination, and learning how

they manage daily tasks such as cleaning,

cooking, and traveling around town. Cariño

also tutored special education students and

packaged medications from a local pharma-

ceutical company. For other students, ac-

companiment meant improving the con-

struction of shanty homes in squatter

communities, helping nonprofits educate

street children, or learning how micro-loans

are administered to small business owners.

Class assignments, community-based

research, films, and weekly discussion

groups all relate to students’ experiences in

local communities. The program’s integra-

tion of classroom, real-world, and spiritual

lessons are key to students developing an

awareness of and compassion for those who

experience harsh realities, to advancing a deeper knowledge of themselves, and to living more justly with others, said Grace Carlson, Casa co-director.

Casa challenges students’ thinking about poverty and privilege, the role of faith, the factors that give rise to the suffering they see, and what it means to “help” people. Students stepping outside of their comfort zones is what Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., the 29th superior general of the Society of Jesus, had in mind in 2000 when he issued a new imperative for Jesuit higher education: “Students,” he said, “must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so that they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering, and engage it constructively.”

Colleen Curry ’13, who completed Casa in fall 2011, said the realities she encountered in the Philippines broke down barriers that let her close herself off from others’ problems. “It exposed me to a new way of living,” said Curry, an English major. “No longer do I just exist in my California bubble, but in the greater world reality.”

Filipina American Tara Peithman ’12, who also completed Casa in 2011, called the program the most valuable part of her USF experience. “It changed what I want to do after graduation,” said Peithman, who accompanied families living in a squatter community, helping to build homes, teaching art to children, and painting church pews.

Peithman plans to apply for work as an advocate for the Asian community. She’s also pursuing opportunities for development work in the Philippines. “Living in community with others in solidarity and developing a spiritual dimension has completely empowered me,” Peithman said.

Peithman’s experience illustrates Casa’s transformative power. Through the “gritty reality,” Fr. Ravizza said, students witness the

beauty, hope, and faith that, in spite of immense struggles, can re-main strong in a broken world. /////

‘No loNger do I just exIst IN my CalIforNIa bubble, but IN the greater world realIty.’

Colleen Curry ’13

(Left to right) Hazel Calaycay, Angela John, and Jhon Christian pose under an umbrella in the squatter community of Tribu-Gawad Kalonga.


injustice [continued]

‘It was called the Harlem of the West,” said guitarist Ronnie Stewart, executive director of the nonprofit Bay Area Blues Society, who has devoted

himself to preserving Seventh

Street’s history as a mecca of the

blues and its outgrowth, jazz.

How the Seventh Street scene disappeared and where the Oak-

land musicians who performed there went was the subject of a

recent two-week service-learning immersion course—Injustice,

Healing, and the Blues—at the University of San Francisco. The phi-

losophy course is one of dozens that USF undergraduates can

choose from to fulfill their service-learning class requirement of

spending 20 hours learning from and giving back to a community

organization or the disadvantaged.

Working with the Blues Society, Duffey, an English and philoso-

phy double major, and the rest of the class mapped out the clubs,

recording studios, and restaurants that once made up the Seventh

Street scene. In the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, the Seventh Street strip was

home to famous clubs such as Esther’s Orbit Room and Slim Jenkins

Supper Club, where Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday played, as did

Oakland-born blues stars Saunders King and “Terrible” Tom Bowden.

The students also visited musicians’ homes, interviewing the

performers with the idea of preserving their oral histories.

Abrol Fairweather, the adjunct professor

who developed the course as part of USF’s

Arrupe Justice immersion program, called

the class a two-week glimpse into the roots

of the blues—a unique musical form closely

tied to a specific historical injustice.

“The blues came up from field hollers,

call-and-response, and Bible spirituals sung

in the fields during slavery in the South,”

Fairweather said. “Slaves weren’t allowed to

speak to each other so they communicated

by singing.”

Meeting and interviewing musicians

who grew up in the scene put a human face

on one of America’s greatest injustices, said

Maria Peeples ’15, a politics major. “Before

the class, I only thought about the blues as


‘before the Class, I oNly thought about the blues as a form of musIC. Now, I see the blues as a beautIful Cultural expressIoN that Came out of a dark tIme IN amerICaN hIstory aNd helped people Cope.’

Maria Peeples ’15

a form of music. Now, I see the

blues as a beautiful cultural

expression that came out of a

dark time in American history

and helped people cope.”

Peeples, Duffey, and other students in-

terviewed Stewart, vocalist Bowden, and

saxophonists Geneo Landry and Carl Green

at their homes and in cafes in West Oak-

land, hosted them and their band mates for

performances at USF’s Crossroads Café, and

invited them to speak in class. The per-

formers grew up during the time of Jim

Crow laws and the Civil Rights Movement,

so who better to tell students about the

blues? Fairweather asked.

Bowden—in a tailored suit, a giant of a

man carrying a bead-emblazoned cane—

recalled sneaking out of the house on week-

end nights when he was 9 years old to shine

shoes, hustle for a buck, and sing on Sev-

enth Street corners. “The blues is a way of

life, not just 12 musical bars on a keyboard,”

said Bowden, who played on the same stag-

es as the legendary Count Basie, B.B. King,

and Aretha Franklin.

The musicians told students about white

nightclub owners who tried to stiff them,

record label tricks that cut them out of a

lifetime of royalties, and their own home-

town, under the guise of redevelopment,

turning against them. Seventh Street, once the center of so much musical culture and an economic engine, was knocked down in the name of progress.

For some students, the class stirred feelings of guilt or responsi-bility. What could they do? And yet, just asking that question was a signal that the course’s approach worked.

“Arrupe Justice immersions are not about sending students into a community to offer a quick fix—to feed the hungry, or build homes for the homeless. It’s not about students feeling good about themselves for helping others,” said Enrique Bazan, associate direc-tor of social justice and community action for USF’s University Min-istry and the director of the Arrupe Justice program. “It’s about stu-dents walking in someone’s shoes that has been a victim of injustice; it’s about students grappling with fairness, right and wrong, privilege and poverty, hope and hopelessness.”

Indeed. “Even taking this class, where there wasn’t a single per-son of color enrolled, caused a lot of conflict for me when exploring injustice within a Jesuit context,” Peeples said.

Stewart nominated Injustice, Healing, and the Blues for a West Coast Blues Hall of Fame education award—which it won. “We need more classes like this that shed light on the injustices,” he said, “and bring attention to the institutions that caused them.” /////

(Left to right) Carl Green shows students a promotional photo of himself in the 1970s next to producer Bob Geddins; Oakland blues vocalist “Terrible” Tom Bowden; Carl Green in silhouette at his home; Patrick Duffey ’14 plays piano at Oakland’s Revolution Café.

Web ex tra To view additional photographs, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/blues_2012.

FromForward

This Day

MARRIED IN ST. IgNATIuS

F rom its fifth home at a hilltop corner of Fulton and Parker streets, St. Ignatius Church

has established itself as a San Francisco and University of San Francisco landmark. Dedicated in 1914, the church was the city’s largest for more than half a century—its 213-foot twin spires visible from many corners of San Francisco. USF students mark the beginning and end of their studies with convocation and commence-ment at St. Ignatius, and some even return to celebrate another important milestone: Hundreds of alumni have been pronounced husband and wife at its altar.

USF Magazine invited those alumni to share photos and stories from their special day at St. Ignatius.

Russhel (Del Rosario) ’06 and Marcus Sysum, Aug. 28, 2010

USF MAgAzine spring 2012 2524 sUMMEr 2012 USF MAgAzine

WEb ExTRA To view more photographs of alumni married in St. Ignatius Church, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/married_2012.


The timing of Matthew ’85, MS ’95 and Joyce McCarron’s wedding was exceptional on several

fronts. Theirs was the church’s first wedding in 49

years, three days before the 1989 Loma Prieta

earthquake. Matthew McCarron writes, “We got

married, and the earth shook.”

Tim ’83 and Ellen Kelly Daley were married in a private ceremony, where

their daughter Patricia was also baptized. Ellen Kelly Daley writes, “We felt so

blessed to celebrate two sacraments in the same Mass. We had waited a

long time for this day and there was much to celebrate!”

Ana Maria (Mendez) MSiS ’04 and emmett Johnson Jr., Aug. 27, 2005

Rene ’89 and erica Campos, Feb. 14, 2004

Tim ’83 and ellen Kelly Daley, May 29, 2010

Jazmin Rodriguez-Jordan ’05 and John Jordan, July 11, 2009

Britt (Mcnany) ’08, MAT ’09 and Blake nelson ’06, MBA ’08, Dec. 3, 2011

gabriel Kong MBA ’00 and Athena Wu, May 16, 2009

Matthew ’85, MS ’95 and Joyce McCarron, Oct. 14, 1989

Merve Lapus ’01 and Marietta Cinco, Sept. 27, 2008

married in St. IgnatIuS


Voltaire Villanueva MA ’06 and his new wife, Jeanes, were already walking back down the aisle after their

wedding ceremony when they realized that Jeanes

had left her bouquet at the altar. “I had to run back

and get it and eventually walked down the aisle with

it,” Voltaire Villanueva writes.

Janelle Bones Dilsaver ’06 and John Dilsaver Jr. ’06 met in Professor Horacio

Camblong’s astronomy class. Bones

Dilsaver writes that her one-day hus-

band “was always ditching, so I’d take

notes, hoping he’d ask for them.” Her

roommate introduced them, and they

started dating during their junior year,

right before Halloween. Six years later,

they were married.

26 sUMMEr 2012 USF MAgAzine

Terri (Moore) ’98 and eric Mozilo ’99, Sept. 28, 2002

Voltaire Villanueva MA ’06 and Jeanes Luna Villanueva, April 18, 2009

Kellene (Johnson) JD ’96 and Matthew P. McMillan JD ’96, Oct. 23, 1999

Taryn (Torgersen) ’06, MA ’08 and greg Moore ’99, MA ’00, Aug. 1, 2009


Mae Brana-Reyes MBA ’07 and her

husband, Robby, officially became a couple

on USF’s sesquicentennial anniversary and

married almost four years later. Brana-Reyes

writes, “On the day of our wedding, my girl-

friends said we should take a picture of us

carrying the groom, but it turned out that I

was the only one who was really carrying

the groom—and boy was he heavy!”

Mikee Gildea ’92 and Sean Beatty sealed their wedding with more than a

simple kiss. Gildea writes, “Our kiss was

scandalously long. And here you can

see Alison Richardson MA ’94 (left) and

Anita Gildea-Phillips ’81 laughing with

relief that the kiss has finally ended.”

Donna Bargetto Mohr ’90, MA ’97 and greg Mohr ’81, June 17, 2000

Jennifer gamble MA ’10 and Michael Horta, Aug. 15, 2009

Ces-Marie Benitez Hilo ’07 and narciso Hilo, Dec. 16, 2007

Charlene Lobo Soriano edD ’01 and Cary Soriano, Dec. 4, 2004

Mae Brana-Reyes MBA ’07 and Robby Reyes, June 14, 2009

Mikee gildea ’92 and Sean Beatty, Aug. 8, 1992

Janelle Bones Dilsaver ’06 and John Dilsaver Jr. ’06, Oct. 30, 2010

Taryn (Torgersen) ’06, MA ’08 and greg Moore ’99, MA ’00, Aug. 1, 2009

Barbara Ann Caulfield JD ’92 and Alden Cramer, March 29, 2003

Jolivette enriquez-Leano ’01 and Albert Leano, Aug. 19, 2006

28 summer 2012 USF Magazine

David Vann’s life has not gone the way he planned it. Raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, and educated at Stanford and Cornell universities, Vann had a story in the Atlantic Monthly by the time he was 25. It was a prom-ising start for a young writer, and it gave him confidence

that he would soon find a publisher for the novella and short story

collection he had been working on, “Legend of a Suicide.” But its

unconventional style and dark title made it anathema to publishers,

and the manuscript sat untouched for years. Broke and dejected,

Vann borrowed money and bought a sailboat, planning to build a

charter business that combined afternoon cruises with morning

tutorials in creative writing.

Ten years after his story ran in the Atlantic, he still hadn’t found

a publisher for his book, but things were going relatively well. His

charter business took him to beautiful places and still left time to

write every day. He was even working on a memoir about his idyllic

life in the Caribbean. But then, as if cued by fate, a freak storm sank

his 90-foot ketch, which happened to be loaded with most of his

belongings—while he happened to be on his honeymoon.

The event, of course, had a significant impact on his memoir. “It

made for a much more interesting ending,” Vann, 45, muses. It also

made a compelling enough story for publishers to finally bite. “A

Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea,” as it came

to be titled, was Vann’s first published book

and a best seller. After spending years just

trying to get by, stressed about finances, and

haunted by a painful past, he has become a

rising star in the international literary scene

and a professor in the University of San

Francisco’s MFA in writing program.

A Sinking LegAcy � Vann comes from

a family of sinkers. His grandfather sank one

boat; his uncle, the same boat twice. His father

forgot to put the drain plugs in a brand new

fishing boat on the night of its launch, and

the next morning it lay 30 feet below the

surface. It might appear that Vann was simply

reenacting the poor decisions of his fore-

bears, but the colossal failure of his boat

sinking liberated Vann from the weight of

another family legacy—suicide.

Five members of Vann’s extended family

have taken their own lives, including his

father, when Vann was 13. For years, Vann felt

certain he’d meet a similar end. But when his

W A L K I N G I N

W A T E RThe associate professor in USF’s MFA in writing program and rising international literary star

is accustomed to wading through the adverse and unlikely

By Lindsay MeiseL

DAVID

VANN

boat sank, he was surprised to find his will to live still very much intact. And though he is inclined to dwell on the morose—“Even if things are improving, I’m still closer to death than I was last year”—his tone and manner reveal unflagging cheer. For who but the most ardent optimist could pursue a career at sea with such a foreboding family his-tory? Or wake up to write each day after years of rejection?

“I’m resistant to learning,” Vann said of his tendency to repeat the same mistakes. His doggedness may not have served him well at sea, but it’s essential to his writing. Much of his work draws inspiration from the mistakes and misfortunes of his past, using literary form to turn trauma into beauty. “Legend of a Suicide,” which was finally published in 2008 to critical acclaim, builds its narrative arc around the loss of Vann’s father. The book has won ten prizes, including the Grace Paley Prize, a Calif-ornia Book Award, and awards in

Photo: Diana Matar


France and Spain for best foreign novel (the Prix

Médicis étranger and Premi Llibreter). It was

selected for The New Yorker Book Club by Lorrie

Moore, who called its writing “heart-wrenching

and gorgeous”—and recognized by the New York

Times and 40 other newspapers and magazines

as one of the notable books of the year. His first

novel, “Caribou Island,” was an international best

seller and short-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan

First Novel Prize. Both books are being published

in 18 languages.

His much anticipated recently released novel,

“Dirt,” centers on 22-year-old Galen, a New Age

enthusiast with bulimic tendencies. Vann wrote

“Dirt” with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allows mid-

career professionals to work for a year with as much creative freedom

as possible. Vann chose to spend his year in New Zealand, where he

and his wife, Nancy Flores, are building a house together. At the

same time, he finished not only “Dirt,” but a second novel as well.

That book, “Goat Mountain,” is scheduled to be published in 2013.

A Writer’S Life � Vann has a protestant work ethic when it

comes to writing: He’s produced a book a year for the past four

years, moving expertly between fiction and non-fiction. (His book

“Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter,” about

the Northern Illinois University student who, on Valentine’s Day

2008, killed five and wounded more than a dozen before killing

himself, was published in 2011 and won the AWP Award Series in

Creative Nonfiction.)

Vann writes for two hours every morning, whether he’s wind-

surfing in New Zealand, teaching in San Francisco, or touring through

Europe to promote his books. The daily practice is an essential part

of his process, and one of the most important lessons he believes he

can convey to his students in the MFA program. “Any activity that

feels like a gift actually comes from structure,” he said.

The lesson isn’t lost on his students. “He was at times brutally

honest about what it takes to be a ‘successful’ writer in today’s current

publishing climate, which can be disconcerting to a bunch of new

MFA students,” said Jenny Chu ’12. “But at the same time, against all

He hopped a little as he sang, arms raised up, but then went back to a slower stride. That felt more real, more ceremonial.

And then suddenly he was in the open, in the full moon, the dirt road white and luminous and the wide pool of water shining before him. The moon straight ahead, beckoning. He felt pulled toward

it, felt acknowledged by the moon, recognized. The song had become a moon dance, and the moon had listened.

The moon was offering him a gift, this water. This was why he had been drawn here. The surface of the water always in motion, the light never still, but evolving in pattern. This is what Siddhartha had seen. In the passing of the water was the passing of self, of attachment, and in the shapes on the surface one could find the face of all things. Every longing, every pain, all of it would form for a moment, a trick of the light, and then dissolve. It was when we looked at water that we dreamed, and re-membered the tug of previous incarnations, and what we longed for was our true form beyond this body, beyond this incarnation, beyond this world of illusions.

Galen understood now what he was meant to do tonight. The moonlight a path across the water, the proof, finally, of what he was. He walked toward it, or was walked toward it by the universe. The stream of beautiful sounds, the bubbling and coursing, a voice reassuring, the light soft, and he had lost his feet. They had become one with the light and would cross the surface in the same way that the light lay upon the water.

Galen ecstatic, his entire soul rushing with love. His foot at the surface, cold, the breath of the water, and that was all right, it was happening, but then his foot plunged through and he tilted, trying to keep his palms up, trying to save this, trying not to lose faith. The next step could hold, so he threw his other foot out there, but it plunged, also, and his ankle twisted on rock below and he was falling forward, hit the water face first in an icy shock, all his air gone. He breathed water and pushed against rock and sand to get up, thrashing with his arms. He was coughing, stumbled and fell again, his ankle twisted and too difficult to stand on, so he propped on his butt and arms and pulled himself backward toward shore. He crawled out of the water and just lay in the dirt. What the hell, he said. When is it going to happen? /////

From Dirt © 2012 by david Vann, reprinted by permission from HarperCollins Publishers.

“DIRT”AN ExcERpT fRom vANN’s LATEsT NovEL

‘When everything in real life feels incidental and

unconnected, Writing puts it all together in a

Way that feels redeemed.’david vann


odds, he reminded us about the possibility of

it as well.”

That possibility is something that USF has

been investing in through its overhaul and

professionalization of the MFA program

over the past decade. Vann, who has also

taught at Cornell and Stanford, was hired in

2009 as a recent step in the program’s

dramatic transformation, which includes an

increase in the number of full-time faculty,

more publishing success among graduates

and faculty, and the ability to attract top

student applicants from across the country.

One such student, Donna Laemmlen ’12,

appreciated Vann’s presence in the class-

room. “One might expect David to be a bit

morose, but one of the great surprises about

him is that he is consistently upbeat,” she

said. “I think his attitude is a direct reflect-

ion of how much his craft has provided

catharsis for him.”

DrAWn to trAgeDy � That catharsis is

a formal element of much of Vann’s fiction.

He’s drawn to tragedy, he said, for the way it

allows him to explore not just his own life,

but “whether we’re good or bad as people.” In

“Dirt,” Vann explores what’s most basic—and

base—about human nature, especially where

the two intertwine. The book follows the

relationship between a mother and son,

rewriting Vann’s own history in the process.

Galen’s world is composed of details drawn

from Vann’s mother’s side of the family—

and the book is Vann’s first time writing

about them. Vann doesn’t just air family

secrets; he exagger-ates them, creating

something that looks like his own history,

only more shameful and scandalous.

Galen, Vann said, is a version of himself—

the worst possible version of himself. Like Galen, Vann considered

himself part of the New Age movement as a teenager. Drawn by the

way it emphasized detachment from the physical world, Vann be-

came so intoxicated by the religion that he wound up believing he

could walk on water. Galen shares this belief, and in one memorable

scene, he makes an attempt that leaves him wet and disappointed.

Vann used to seek out mountain lakes or even hot tubs to test

himself. He would take step after hopeful first step, plunging into

not just water, but his family’s legacy of sinking.

Writing AS SpirituAL prActice � Today, Vann has long

since eschewed religion of any kind. The problem with New Age

spirituality, he says, is its selfishness. It preaches that other people

aren’t real, and that their sole purpose is to teach the believer a

cosmic lesson. But “Dirt” isn’t simply a diatribe against the New Age

movement. It’s also a work that tells us something about Vann’s

own form of religion: writing. “When everything in real life feels

incidental and unconnected, writing puts it all together in a way that

feels redeemed,” Vann said. Real life blindly metes out pain and

misfortune, and trying to make sense of it is as hopeless as trying to

walk on water. But with fiction, Vann can weave the events of his life

into an underlying structure that supports him as he walks across

the surface. In this sense, writing gives Vann the same thing that

New Age gives Galen: a story. “Fiction,” Vann said, “lives the fantasy

of the New Age that everything in the world is there for you alone.”

When Galen falls prey to this belief system, it enables him to com-

mit an unthinkable atrocity against his mother. Vann, on the other

hand, is all too aware that his mother is real. Midway through writing

“Dirt,” he realized that she might be less than thrilled about having

her family history exposed in such unflattering light. “I got really

depressed,” Vann said, “because this thing I hadn’t even planned on

writing was going to get published, and my mother would read it and

never talk to me again.”

In the end, it’s not clear whether “Dirt” is meant as an allegory or

a mirror. That tension is probably fine by Vann, who says that the

best writing advice he ever got, from his former teacher Grace Paley,

is that every good story is at least two stories. Meaning, he elaborated,

always comes from two things in collision with one another—past

with present, allegory with mirror, or man with water. /////

felloWships:

• GuGGenheim felloW, 2011

• national endoWment for the arts, literature felloW (prose), 2008

• John l’heureux felloW, stanford university, 1995-96

• Wallace SteGner felloW, stanford university, 1994-95

prizes and aWards:

• Prix médiciS étranGer (French prize for best foreign novel), 2010

• Premi llibreter (spanish prize for best foreign novel), 2011

• aWP Prize For creative nonfiction, 2009

• caliFornia book aWard, 2008

• Grace Paley Prize for short fiction, 2007

• Prix deS lecteurS de l’exPreSS (national readers’ prize in france), 2010

• Prix du maraiS (readers’ prize in lille), 2011

• henField/transatlantic revieW aWard

• 1St Place, FiSh stories best fiction contest

• 1St Prize, river city Writing aWards

• eSquire contributor’s aWard, 2008

• Prix deS lecteurS de la maison du livre de rodez (local bookStore Prize), 2010

• Prix de la librairie nouvelle de voiron (local bookStore prize), 2011

Vann’s fiction and non-fiction writing has garnered literary prizes in the United States and in Europe. He is the author of 8 books, three still forthcoming, which have been published in 18 languages. In addition, he has authored dozens of short stories, essays, and magazine features.

JUSTICEFOR THEJESUITS

32 summer 2012 USF Magazine

(Top row left to right) Amando López, S.J.; Joaquín López y López, S.J.; Celina Ramos; and Julia Elba Ramos (Bottom row) Segundo Montes, S.J.; Juan Ramón Moreno, S.J.; Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J.; and Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.

JUSTICEJESUITS

On Aug. 7, 2011, nine former senior Sal-

vadoran military officers turned themselves

in at an army base outside San Salvador,

rather than face the humiliating prospect of

being arrested in public. They did so after

Interpol, acting at the behest of a Spanish

court, issued an international warrant for

their arrest as alleged perpetrators of one of

the most shocking human rights atrocities

ever committed in Latin America: the assas-

sination of six Jesuit priests, their cook, and

her daughter in November 1989.

The officers expected that their former

military institution would protect them. But

instead they were kept in custody at the

garrison for 20 days while civilian author-

ities processed their case. The Salvadoran

Supreme Court eventually ordered the officers

to be released pending a formal extradition

request from Spain. But even their temporary

detention marks a major milestone in the

continuing pursuit of justice for this crime

against humanity—as well as countless

other atrocities committed by the Salvadoran military during the

civil war between 1980 and 1992.

The crime, the cover-up, and the pursuit of justice extend as far

away as the Spanish court in Madrid that indicted the alleged

perpetrators and as close to home as San Francisco, where a legal

advocacy group is building the case against them and where one of

the accused, until recently, had worked for the Transportation

Security Administration (TSA).

The Jesuits and the two women were among the 70,000 victims

of a brutal era of repression, during which the military government,

backed by billions in U.S. monetary and military aid, waged a deadly

counterinsurgency campaign against a leftist guerrilla movement,

known as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).

Thousands, mostly the poor and activists pressing for economic

and political justice, lost their lives at the hands of paramilitary

death squads and in military massacres.

But in the two decades since the U.N. brokered a peace agreement,

almost no one has been prosecuted for the military’s rampant

human rights violations, which included the rape and execution of

four American nuns and the assassination of Archbishop Óscar

Romero. Behind the courageous effort to break through that wall of

immunity is a San Francisco-based legal rights organization called

the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and the Jesuit order

by peter kornbluh

A Transnational Legal Battle Cracks the Wall of Immunity for Former Salvadoran Military Leaders

USF Magazine summer 2012 33


with a shot to the head; another was shot

inside. Their cook and her daughter were

killed lying with their arms around each

other in their bedroom.

Besides Fr. Ellacuría, the Jesuit community

lost Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J., head of UCA’s

psychology department and polling institute;

Segundo Montes, S.J., head of UCA’s sociology

department and human rights institute;

Amando López, S.J., and Juan Ramón Moreno,

S.J., both theology professors; Joaquín López

y López, S.J., the director of UCA’s low-income

children’s education project; Julia Elba

Ramos, the cook; and Celina Ramos, Julia’s

16-year-old daughter.

THE COVER-UP u Almost immediately,

the military initiated a cover-up, destroying

weapons, shredding meeting log books, in-

timidating legal authorities, and killing

potential witnesses. “All these officers…took

steps to conceal the truth,” states the U.N.

report, “in order to conceal the responsibility

of senior officers for the murders.”

Their obstruction forestalled any real

legal accounting. But international outrage

prompted a U.N. investigation. In addition,

congressional demands for answers about

how the George H.W. Bush administration

itself, led by priests with close ties to the University of San Francisco,

among them, the late Dean Brackley, S.J., who served on USF’s Board

of Trustees, and Stephen A. Privett, S.J., president of the university.

Recent progress in the case has been “quite remarkable,” says Fr.

Privett, “given the history of impunity in El Salvador, and the military

being a power unto itself.” There is “historical justice and judicial

justice” in this case, he observes. And the present time “is the best

shot” for both to move forward.

THE CRIME u The Jesuits and the two women were murdered in

the early morning hours of Nov. 16, 1989. The decision to eliminate

them came amidst a forceful offensive in San Salvador by the

FMLN. Embarrassed by the strength of the insurgency, senior

Salvadoran military officers decided to kill as many activists, labor

leaders, and “subversive elements” as they could find, according

to a U.N. investigation.

Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., a Span-

iard who had gone to El Salvador

at age 19 and risen to become

rector of the Jesuit-run University

of Central America (UCA) in San

Salvador, topped the Salvadoran

military’s enemies list. With his

fellow Jesuits at UCA, Fr. Ellacuría

had established himself and the

university as a leading voice of

the poor, advocate of social jus-

tice, and mediator for civil peace.

Indeed, in 1989 he was quietly

meeting with right-wing Salva-

doran President Alfredo Cristiani

and leaders of the FMLN in an at-

tempt to broker an end to the

bloody civil strife.

Often denounced by the Sal-

vadoran right as a Marxist-Leninist,

Fr. Ellacuría was fond of pointing

out, “I’m a Christian, and a Chris-

tian is much more radical than any communist.”

According to the report of the U.N. Truth Commission, “From

Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador,” the order to kill Fr.

Ellacuría “and leave no witnesses” came from the chief of staff of the

Salvadoran Armed Forces, Col. René Emilio Ponce, during a meeting

of the high command on Nov. 15, 1989.

Ponce ordered Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno to use a

military unit from the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion for the

assassinations, the Truth Commission found. At 2:30 a.m., some 30

soldiers forced their way into UCA’s Jesuit residence. “The soldiers

searched the building and ordered the priests to go out into the back

garden and lie face down on the ground,” according to the Truth

Commission report. There, five of them were executed, one by one,

Military defendants hear the verdict in the Salvadoran trial for the 1989 murders of the Jesuits and the two women. Only two mid-level officers were convicted. They were released 15 months later under an amnesty law.


could use U.S. tax dollars to support such

cold-blooded killers forced the U.S. Embassy

to reluctantly file almost daily cables on the

fallout from the assassinations. Years later,

those cables would become evidence against

the accused.

But the U.S. defense and state departments

withheld explosive, damaging evidence from

Congress—including videotaped testimony

by a U.S. military officer implicating senior

members of the Salvadoran military.

Faced with growing pressure to hold

someone accountable, the Salvadoran mili-

tary hierarchy offered up some scapegoats:

Benavides, as well as 13 soldiers from the

Atlacatl Battalion. In what was widely per-

ceived as a sham trial in 1991, all of the

soldiers were acquitted because they had

just been following orders. In late January

1992, Benavides and one other military

officer were convicted and sentenced to 30

years in prison. They served only 15 months,

however. In April 1993, the Cristiani govern-

ment pushed an amnesty law through the right-wing National

Assembly; the only two mid-level officers judged accountable for the

Jesuit massacre were then released.

PURSUING JUSTICE u “Their situation is not ours,” Fr. Privett

noted in a poignant eulogy for his colleagues the day after they

were killed. “But the mission is the same.” One American Jesuit to go

to UCA to sustain that mission was Fr. Brackley, then a professor of

theology at Fordham University in the Bronx. (See story, page 37.) The

late Charles Bierne, S.J., of Santa Clara University became academic

vice-president. The new leadership at UCA renewed the commiment

of the murdered priests to speak the truth in the face of economic

and political injustices and human rights violations.

Fr. Privett, along with Fr. Brackley and Fr. Bierne, also began to

focus on the mission of justice for the Jesuits and the two women.

They quietly helped to relocate two

witnesses to the crime, the Jesuits’

housekeeper and her husband, to

San Jose. They worked closely with

a U.S. congressional task force and

with U.N. Truth Commission inves-

tigators. Along with their fellow

Jesuit members of the Association

of Jesuit Colleges and Universities,

they pressured the first Bush admin-

istration to change U.S. policy in El

Salvador, and the Clinton admin-

istration to investigate the U.S. role

in supporting atrocities there.

But no real progress was made

in prosecuting the killers until a

tenacious Spanish lawyer named

Almudena Bernabeu began trav-

eling to El Salvador in 2004. There

she met repeatedly with Fr.

Brackley about the case; she also

made contact with Fr. Privett at

USF—which is located not far from

CJA, her office in San Francisco.

CJA is a unique human rights legal organization; its litigation

team, led by Bernabeu, specializes in identifying and locating human

rights violators who have managed to make it into the United States

and filing civil suits against them on behalf of their victims.

As a Spaniard, Bernabeu also has established close ties to prosecutors

and judges in Madrid, which, in the wake of the famous case against

Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet in the late 1990s, has

In El Salvador, almoSt no onE haS bEEn proSEcutEd for thE mIlItary’S EgrEgIouS, rampant human rIghtS vIolatIonS.

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emerged as ground zero for international human rights litigation. In

2006, Bernabeu filed briefs in Madrid to indict Guatemala’s former

military dictator, Efraím Ríos Montt, for crimes of genocide—pro-

ceedings abroad that recently led to a stunning decision by a

Guatemalan judge to charge Ríos Montt in his own country. At age 39,

Bernabeu has emerged as arguably the most dynamic international

human rights lawyer of the 21st century.

“How would it be if we do the case?” Bernabeu recalls asking du-

ring her early conversations with Fr. Brackley and Fr. Privett. The

Salvadoran military’s immunity, bolstered by the amnesty law, made

it difficult to prosecute members of the high command in El Salvador.

So why not bring the case in Spain?

Initially the Jesuits “were not positive about taking the litigation

out of El Salvador,” she remembers. “They hoped the rule of law

would someday prevail there.” But she soon persuaded them. Five of

the slain Jesuits were Spaniards; that gave Spain legitimate grounds

to hear the case under its “universal jurisdiction” statute—which

allows Spain to prosecute crimes against humanity committed

beyond its borders. Moreover, proceedings in Spain could influence

the legal situation in El Salvador. “You have to do it the best way you

can outside,” she argued, “with the hope that it will work inside.”

With the support of Fr. Brackley, Fr. Privett, and others, in 2005

Bernabeu began to compile a case for prosecuting the Salvadoran

military high command. The first hurdle she had to overcome was

the law against double jeopardy, which forbids defendants convicted

or acquitted of a crime from being tried for that same crime again. In

a gutsy move, Bernabeu used the original trial in El Salvador to her

advantage: Rather than being a legitimate trial, it was part of the

cover-up, she argued in court papers.

The Jesuits put Bernabeu in touch with the housekeeper, Lucia

Barrera de Cerna, and her husband, Jorge Cerna, in San Jose and an

additional “very important” witness whose identity continues to be

protected. “They handed me three witnesses on a silver platter,” she

recalls.

For additional evidence, she drew on the meticulous research of

Stanford scholar Terry Karl, who has written widely about the Jesuit

case, as well as thousands of pages of formerly top-secret U.S.

intelligence records compiled by the National Security Archive, a

nonprofit research group that specializes in obtaining declassified

documents. “That treasure trove of information on the Jesuits was

central to building the case,” said Kate Doyle, the archive analyst who

has traveled to Madrid to authenticate the documents for the

Spanish court.

On Nov. 13, 2008, CJA, in association with the Spanish Human

Rights Association, filed a 126-page com-

plaint with the Spanish National Court. It

identified 14 former members of the Sal-

vadoran Military Command and the Atlacatl

Battalion as responsible for executing the

Jesuits. The complaint also named former

President Cristiani, in his capacity as civilian

commander of the armed forces, as responsible.

For the next 18 months, the CJA team

continued its investigation, finding new evi-

dence to bolster and expand the case. In June

2010, Bernabeu presented Spanish National

Court Judge Eloy Velasco with a secret

witness—later identified as Maj. Carlos Cam-

ilo Hernández Barahona, the former deputy

director of El Salvador’s military academy

and, according to the U.N. report, a lead op-

erative in the murders—who named specific

members of the high command as having

participated in the conspiracy.

On May 30, 2011, Velasco issued a 77-page

indictment—and arrest warrants for those

indicted. His ruling excluded Cristiani, pending

further evidence, but accepted six additional

defendants, who, the new evidence presented

by CJA suggested, had engaged in a conspiracy

to murder the Jesuits that reached to the

highest levels of the Salvadoran military.

The case took another dramatic step for-

ward when Bernabeu’s sources in El Salvador

gave her an important tip: Two of the defen-

dants resided in the United States. One of

them, Lt. Hector Ulises Cuenca Ocampo, was

living in San Francisco and working for the

TSA. In the wake of the court filing, he went

underground. But Bernabeu’s investigators

located the other, Col. Inocente Orlando Mon-

tano, in Everett, Mass.

Working quietly with a special team of

lawyers and agents from the U.S.

Department of Justice and

Immigration and Customs

Enforcement, CJA deter-

mined that Montano

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had lied repeatedly on immigration docu-

ments, falsely claiming he had never served in

the Salvadoran military. In fact, he had spent 31

years there. In February 2012, Montano was

indicted in a federal court in Massachusetts on

charges of perjury and falsifying immigration

documents. It is possible that the U.S. could

extradite him to Spain.

HISTORICAL AND JUDICIAL JUSTICE u Whether the rest of the defendants will ever

be extradited from El Salvador, where they

are still protected from prosecution, re-

mains to be seen. But their brief detention

last year offers great hope and a degree of

satisfaction that justice is moving forward,

slowly but steadily. “The victims’ side of the

story is getting told,” says Fr. Privett, refer-

ring to the “historical justice” being advanced

by the case. “We have had a significant

vindication of the truth. That is a major

achievement.”

And more judicial achievements are

expected. In the coming months, Bernabeu

plans to produce a new witness for the judge

who will bolster the evidence against the

high command and conceivably implicate

former President Cristiani as well. CJA is also

working hard to press the United States to

eventually extradite Montano to Spain, after

his immigration fraud case runs its course,

which would make a full trial on the Jesuit

murders a reality.

And Bernabeu holds out the hope that the

case in El Salvador itself “is still very much

active” and could someday result in a trial

there. Even if the Salvadoran Supreme Court

denies Spain’s petition for extradition, she

says, pressure from the Spanish proceedings

could force the Salvadoran judiciary to indict

the former high-ranking military officers in

their home country.

“That would be a victory to me, to be honest,”

Bernabeu says, even if in the end the defendants

are not found guilty. Any form of legal pro-

ceedings would have a “transformative effect”

on El Salvador. “There is never a way back after

these cases go forward,” she notes. “There is a

strength, a sense of freedom, that comes from

overcoming the impunity of these crimes.” ////

Dean Brackley, S.J., had been teaching theology at Fordham University and working at a com-munity center in the Bronx in 1989 when the six priests and two women were killed at the University of Central America (UCA).

The murders sent shock waves throughout the Jesuit community, but the atrocity also strengthened Jesuit resolve around the world to continue the moral mission of the mur-dered brother Jesuits, says University of San Francisco President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.

“It really heightened our sensitivity to our responsibility to educate our students about the realities of our world, to tell them the truth, and to challenge them to inform themselves about the prevalence of injustice at home and abroad.”

Fr. Brackley felt called to continue his slain colleagues’ work at UCA: educating students by opening their eyes to the economic, political, and social injustices around them, and serving as a voice for the marginalized in civil war-ridden El Salvador.

In early 1990, he moved to San Salvador and joined the faculty at UCA.

“They wanted a Jesuit. They wanted someone who had a PhD in theology. They wanted someone who spoke Spanish,” The New York Times quoted Fr. Brackley telling a friend. “I started looking around and realized there weren’t that many of us.”

Although he promised his colleagues in New York that he would return in a few years, Fr. Brackley spent the final two decades of his life in El Salvador, where he died of pancre-atic cancer Oct. 16, 2011, at the age of 65.

“El Salvador did for him what he hoped it would do for his students,” Fr. Privett says. “It broke his heart and put it back together.”

Fr. Brackley did continue to travel to the United States. In 2003, he became a USF trustee. “He was the conscience of the board,” Fr. Privett remembers. “His was a gentle, persis-tent, strong voice on behalf of the poor and vulnerable.”

Fr. Brackley was also a champion of what he called “higher standards” in Jesuit educa-tion, marrying rigorous scholarship, social analysis, and service. In a widely read article published in America magazine in February 2006, Fr. Brackley argued that speaking un-comfortable truths to persons of influence and pursuing justice were critical for Catholic colleges and universities. He wrote that UCA’s slain rector, Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., “used to insist that reality is the primary object of study.” Promoting justice for those deprived of it, Fr. Brackley wrote, was a central component of the heritage of Catholic higher education.

His legacy remains a powerful reminder of the central mission of Jesuit universities like USF, which established a scholarship in Fr. Brackley’s name last year.

Fr. Brackley “really did walk the talk,” says Fr. Privett. “There was an absolute congruity between what he said, what he wrote, and who he was. He stood with the poor and lis-tened to the poor. That is why his was such a powerfully persuasive voice.”

—Peter Kornbluh

REMEMBERING DEAN BRACKLEY, S.J.Moved To eL SALvAdor AFTer 1989 MASSACre To SuSTAIn uCA’S MISSIon

WEb ExTRA To read the full text of Fr. Brackley’s “Higher Standards” article, published in February 2006 by America magazine, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/brackley_2012.


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reunion year

The Face of USF’s Alumni Association Retires After Decades of Service

classnotesWhether negotiating a room of half-remembered faces at a reunion or

milling about before a Dons game, University of San Francisco alumni searching for a familiar face at events over the past two

decades could count on one above all others—that of Alumni Relations Director Annette Anton ’69, MA ’83.

With an inquiring “Hiya. How’s it going?” or a “Hey there, stranger. I haven’t seen you in a while,” Anton had a way of putting USFers at ease and making them feel welcome.

Anton retired from USF in February after more than 20 years of service. She will be dearly missed.“Annette is second only to Chancellor John Lo Schiavo, S.J., as the face and

the heart of USF for countless alums,” USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., said during Anton’s retirement reception, acknowledging the magnitude of her role at the university.

How apropos then that it was with Fr. Lo Schiavo that Anton formed one of her earliest, closest, and longest-lasting USF relationships. By Fr. Lo Schiavo’s recollection, he met Anton on the first day of her freshman year, 1965. As USF’s dean of students at the time, Fr. Lo Schiavo was charged with providing stu-dents with IDs. As he prepared to open the door to a snaking line of students waiting to have their photos snapped, he realized that he needed help reconcil-ing the list of students’ names with those who had already been photographed.

“I looked around and I saw this young lady sitting there kind of watching me,” Fr. Lo Schiavo said. “So, I went over and I asked her, ‘Would you mind helping me?’”

Anton graciously agreed. After that, Fr. Lo Schiavo received a phone call from Anton the day before registration every year volunteering to help. It was the beginning of a friendship now in its 46th year. “She always puts herself out there for everyone,” Fr. Lo Schiavo said.

A native San Franciscan, Anton has lived, studied, worshipped, and worked within sight of St. Ignatius Church for much of her life. She was born at St. Mary’s Medical Center, across the street from what is now the School of Law, and raised in the Haight. She attended Presentation High School (later purchased by the university), earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in education from USF, then returned to Presentation High School to teach social studies for 22 years, the final 10 of which she was also an assistant principal.

Fr. Lo Schiavo and others often benefited from Anton’s encyclopedic knowledge of USF’s 93,000 living alumni. “She’s a walking, talking alumni directory,” Fr. Lo Schiavo joked.

Anton’s list of accomplishments as alumni director is too long to spell out. Just as examples, she and her staff established the Alumni Association’s Thanksgiving Food Drive, helped to develop USF’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2005, led USF’s award-winning St. Patrick’s Day Parade trolley float tradition, and produced the popular Spring Gala—which honors alumni, including the alumnus of the year.

She also expanded USF’s seven regional councils and supported the councils’ efforts to increase local alumni engagement through events, service projects, and the establishment of scholarships for USF students.

Anton is so well liked that it is impossible to go out on the town with her and not be approached, said DeDee Sammut ’74, past Alumni Association board president and Anton’s friend of 20 years. “At any bar or restaurant in San Francisco, somebody would always come up and talk to her—a student who worked for her, an alum she mentored, a professor, an athlete, a golden alum,” Sammut said.

Sammut, who attends Dons basketball games with her husband, Joseph Sammut ’75, and often joins Anton in the bleachers, can testify that Anton isn’t shy about getting her “Go Dons!” on. “She will definitely cheer, boo the referees, wave her green and gold scarf, whatever it takes,” Sammut said. “She’s definitely not a timid fan.”

Anton is also a regular at volleyball, soccer, baseball, and other athletic matches. She even went on the road with the USF’s women’s basketball team twice, most recently in 2009 for a summer European tour.

So how did Anton do it? It can best be summed up in the words, “She gets it,” Sammut said. “As an alum, as a USF neighbor (Anton lives in University Terrace, between upper and lower campus), as somebody who bleeds green and gold, she brought her love of USF into everything she did for the Alumni Association. And we love her for it.” /////

Former Alumni Relations Director Annette Anton ’69, MA ’83 (right) with Gail Callan at the President’s Ambassadors Brunch in recognition of donors.


UndergradUate

’43 William larkins recently celebrated his 90th birthday

and is working on his 10th book, “Sea-planes in California.”

’51anstell (Daini) ricossa lm is retired after running the

Albert Daini Furniture Co. with her husband, Ronald. She became a great grandmother on her last birthday.

’56 The Shanghai Municipal Government has granted at-

torney tom klitgaarD ’56, an adjunct professor of Asian law and trustee emeritus at USF, the Magnolia Silver Award, conferred annually

on foreigners who make significant contributions to socio-economic devel-opment and international exchange in Shanghai. Klitgaard, one of 46 award recipients from 19 countries, and one of only six Americans and the only at-torney, was recognized for his work on a business management training pro-gram for select Chinese managers, in partnership with Shanghai educational institutions and the Shanghai Munici-pal Government and later with China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

al tWyforD is keeping busy in Walnut Creek with his part-time transporta-tion and warehouse consulting business, and when not consulting, with travel and spending time with his grandchildren. He looks forward to celebrating his 78th birthday this June with his wife, Helene. He writes, “It seems like yesterday that I graduated from USF in 1956. We get together with three other USF grads—BoB king ’56,

carl Pimentel ’56, and eD thieDe ’58— every few months for lunch.”

’61terrence callan celebrated 47 years with the law firm of Pills-

bury, Madison & Sutro, now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He was honored as the 2012 Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by the Antitrust & Unfair Competition Section of the State Bar of California.

richarD salvi writes, “At the ripe age of 72, I have just ‘retired’ since the company I worked for in Rancho Mirage has just been liquidated. Undaunted, my fiancée and I have just returned from three weeks in Rome. ... My minor contribution to my church community is accompanying the choir on piano at the 7:30 Mass on Sunday. I play several pieces before Mass, one of which is ‘Let There Be Peace on Earth.’ I find over my 72 years that that has been the most elusive of concepts. ... May the under-

graduates gain the wisdom, determi-nation, and love to make this world a better place.”

’62 William De funiak was re-cently elected clerk-treasurer

of Long Beach, Ind.

thomas kelly wrote in to reminisce about his time at USF: “I attended USF starting as a sophomore in 1955. I returned to [the] USF Evening Division after a tour with the Marines in 1958. USF was then the only place a person ... could get a degree at night. I miss all the people I was associated with at USF. I received a first-class education. I hope to make the next reunion and see all your smiling faces … and hope to recognize some. God bless you.”

After a 38-year career heading nonprofit agencies, BoB ralls retired in 2006. Since then, he has served as a volunteer management consul-tant, executive coach, and trainer in leadership development for execu-tives and board members. He and his wife, Linda, enjoy their six children and eight grandchildren and travel throughout the U.S. and abroad. They remain active in their Palos Verdes community and with several Los Ange-les inner-city education and children’s service organizations.

’63 mary miller and her hus-band, John, live in Northville,

Mich., where she has a private clinical counseling practice. The couple has eight children and 13 grandchildren.

’64 Brian coughlan lives in Carmel, where he enjoys vol-

unteering with friends in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Carmel Valley Village.

The Alameda County Board of Supervi-sors appointed larry ratto to the Al-ameda County Planning Commission.

merl simPson retired as associate pro-fessor of business at Pacific Lutheran University. In June, he plans to attend the American Marketing Association’s Services Special Interest Group Confer-ence in Helsinki, Finland, to present a two-country study of attitudes about business decision-making ethics.

’65 roBert michael Berntsen retired from his position

as multilingual collection develop-ment librarian at Baker & Taylor, an international supplier of books and entertainment products. He and his wife, Joyce, hope to enjoy leisurely travels in the U.S. as well as Europe and Latin America.

raymonD coates JD ’67 retired in 2010 after 43 years of practicing law. Among his many pursuits in retirement is working as a tournament official for the Northern California Golf Association.

’66 Pete league fully retired in 1999 and returned to Austin,

Texas, where his son, Tim, lives. He’s actively involved in volunteer golf-related activities and continues to do pro-bono job search coaching with a local parish. He and his wife, Lynn, re-cently became first-time grandparents to Cassidy and Calliope League.

Joanne BuoB martin retired in January 2011 with emeritus status from the Indiana University School of Nursing after 26 years there. Now a consultant with Goodwill Industries, evaluating the implementation of a large nurse-family partnership program in Indi- anapolis, she is serving a three-year term on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Ad-visory Committee for Infant Mortality. She has been on the executive board for the Indiana State Department of Health for the past nine years.

’67 vic BerarDelli is a politics and elections analyst on the Fox

TV morning news in Bangor, Maine, through the November 2012 elections. A political consultant, he is the author of “The Politics Guy Campaign Tips: How to Win a Local Election.”

Denis BinDer JD ’70 is serving as chair of the environmental law section of the Association of American Law Schools for 2012-13.

’68 eDuarDo DoPomBolot retired in 2006 after a 35-year career

in the insurance industry. He is a father of two and a grandfather of one and lives in Füllinsdorf, Switzerland.

Bruce egneW moved back to California after retiring from his 15-year post as associate general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C.

anDreW kneier ma ’70 drew on his years spent working with cancer patients at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to write “Finding Your Way Through Cancer,” which was published in 2010. He is married with two children. His son is a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, and his daughter is completing her master of arts degree in school counseling at USF. Kneier recently completed a novel and is working on finding a publisher. He lives in Grass Valley and would be happy to hear from old friends and colleagues through his website, www.findingyour waythroughcancer.com.

Peggy o’DoWD lm, JD ’81 has her own law practice in San Francisco and is a certi-fied specialist in estate planning, trust, and probate law.

BoWman olDs ma ’75 is an emergency operations manager at Science Applica-tions International Corp. in Arlington, Va. He recently completed a nine-state rolling tornado tabletop exercise and was a speaker at the National Hur-ricane Conference in Orlando, Fla.

colleen chiPP oWen lm became a proud grandmother in September 2010 with the birth of her grandson, John Joseph. She retired from teaching in order to take care of him.

grant ute co-wrote “San Francisco’s Municipal Railway,” a book that cel-ebrates Muni’s centennial. He and his wife, Janice cantu ’70, have established an endowed scholarship at USF.

’69 carlos carl writes, “I am now a 71-year-old retired widower

who has been living large in Las Vegas for the past 15 years. I make two an-nual trips to San Francisco to attend retiree luncheons given by my former employer, the California State Automo-bile Association (AAA) and always visit the USF campus.”

’70 kevin DoWling and his wife, Kathy, are mostly retired

and living aboard Penny Lane on the waters of the San Francisco Bay. He writes, “It’s tight quarters, but at least the kids finally moved out. Three grand- dogs, so far, and the clock is ticking.”

Bill gaBriel has joined McGuire Real Estate as a broker associate and also coaches basketball at the San Fran-cisco Olympic Club.

ranDolPh guthrie is retired after serving as managing director of the Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and president worldwide and chairman of the Americas at Le Méridien Hotels and Resorts.

timothy hannan is a lawyer based in Santa Rosa. He and his wife, Mary Gavin, have a 17-year-old son at Marin Academy.

BarBara menarD was awarded the National Association of Perinatal Social Workers (NAPSW) Award for Excellence in May 2011. She plants to present a workshop on “Issues in At-tachment” at the 36th annual NAPSW Conference in Little Rock, Ark., in May and will receive the Loyola Univer-sity Chicago’s Damen Award as the Outstanding Alumna of the School of Social Work in June.

maureen molloy tilley is a professor of theology at Fordham University and was named a St. Augustine Fellow at Villanova University for the fall of 2011.

classnotes golden reunion



vicki (chaPPell) vierra recently completed a PhD in education with an emphasis in teaching and learning and a specialization in mathematics education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a K-12 math specialist for the Ventura County Office of Education and teaches math methods courses in the School of Education at California State University Channel Islands.

’71Paul cool JD ’74 was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Prize

for the best paper presented at the 2011 Arizona History Convention.

maureen Johnson-guBernath and her husband, Lawrence, live in the town of Paradise. They recently celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary.

gerDenio manuel, s.J., writes, “After many wonderful years at Santa Clara University, I began a new assignment teaching psychology at the University of San Francisco. I return home to USF after 40 years!”

Dennis martin is the author of “Celubri-ous: A Celebration of Life,” a book of-fering daily inspirational reflections.

carol rosenBlatt JD ’78 writes: “After a great nursing career and a satisfying legal career, it’s never too late to reinvent ourselves once again.” She and her psychologist husband, mikol Davis edD ’80, started AgingParents.com, “a consulting, mediation, and coaching practice for those of us with problematic aging parents, located in San Rafael.”

’72 tom hally lives in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, with his

wife. Now retired, he volunteers as vice president of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry and foreign language editor, as well as poetry and prose editor, for its journal, Telicom. Since May 2007, he has been writing a regular monthly column on intelligence for The Mensa International Journal. His first book, “Concepts of Intelli-gence,” is being translated into Spanish.

After many years as a professor at the Texas Medical Center and Rice Univer-sity in Houston, anDreW lustig is the inaugural holder of the Holmes Rolston III Chair in Religion and Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. He continues his research and writ-ing on bioethics, with several recent publications on ethical issues posed by developments in synthetic biology.

maureen o’hara has been an oncology nurse at Stanford University Hospital for the past 40 years. She serves on Dean Judith Karshmer’s USF School of

Nursing and Health Professions Advi-sory Board and on the USF Peninsula Silicon Valley Regional Council. She was awarded the 2011 National Oncol-ogy Certified Nurse of the Year.

After retiring as a nurse practitioner six years ago, nanette magrath

sagastume has maintained a private practice in holistic healing in Chico and published a book, “We Also Serve: A Family Goes to War,” last year. She and her husband, Mario, will celebrate their 40th anniversary later this year. They have four children and nine grandchildren.

’73 Daniel Bonnet retired in January as chief deputy

district attorney in San Joaquin County, where he enjoyed a 34-year career. He writes, “Since my wife, nancy (freeman) Bonnett ’73, ma ’75 retired in June 2011 from her position as director of the Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Stockton, we will have time to visit Scandinavia, spend more time at our mountain house in the Sierras, and unexpectedly pop in to annoy our children.”

John Donohue will be inducted into the San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame in May. He is now in his 30th year as Lowell High School’s varsity baseball coach, with more than 650 wins.

roBert D. hickok retired after 28 years of service with the Lane County Sher-iff’s Office. He lives with his wife, Mary, in Eugene, Ore., and has two children, Jeffrey and Sandra.

Denise salisBury retired from the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in 2004 and is now living happily on Whidbey Island in Washington. Salisbury writes, “I remember my USF years with great fun and fondness. It was my first great adventure, and I have no plans of stopping!”

’74 thomas alkazin has been married for 32 years and has

three children: Chris, 28; Brad, 26; and Amy, 22. He is the owner of Alkazin and Associates, a sales and marketing company in the nutritional supplement industry.

Patty o’graDy is an author and profes-sor of psychology and education living in the Tampa Bay area. Her book, “Positive Psychology in the Elementary School Classroom,” will be published in August. Her son earned his CPA and is now a professor of accounting living in the Tampa Bay area. Her daughter was recently married and is a practicing attorney at a civil litigation firm in New York.

’75 timothy kay will celebrate 35 years of marriage to Marianne

Herning in August. They have one daughter, Elizabeth, who has two chil-dren, 4-year-old Hazel and 1-year-old Emmett, and they all live in Orange County. He works as an estate planning lawyer, and his wife is an artist.

maura loughlin carley is president and CEO of Healthcare Navigation, a patient advocacy and consulting firm. She recently published a book, “Health Insurance: Navigating Traps & Gaps.”

’76 vanDa koloDzieJczak-high lives in Manhattan, where she

owns an event-planning company that specializes in private events. She has two daughters and two grandchildren.

charles morton and his wife, Veronica Pisani Morton, are the parents of five and grandparents of five. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a colonel in 2006, he was appointed head of pediatrics at Carle Foundation Hospital and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign.

’77 After 22 years flying heli-copters around the U.S. and

Europe, DaviD farley retired from the U.S. Army. He now works as operations manager for Warrior Hall, the world’s largest helicopter simulation facility, outside Fort Rucker, Ala.

Patricia frost was appointed director of emergency medical services for Contra Costa County and is working on efforts to support pediatric and neonatal disaster and medical surge preparedness. She and her husband, Douglas amis ’71, live in Danville.

DeBorah (skalko) morrison retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves after 23 years of service and is now chief nurse anesthetist at Kaiser Perman-ente in Santa Clara. She is also a proud grandparent of three.

christoPher t. von holt retired from the U.S. Secret Service and is now proprietor of Von Holt Wines in San Francisco.

’78 Jack BolanD was recently appointed chairman of the

annual Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

charles “skiP” goulD joined the San Mateo Daily Journal in 2011 as business development manager.

mitch kim retired from the San Jose Fire Department in June 2011 and is now a substitute teacher, a public address announcer, and a baseball and foot- ball coach.

huang-an lu (noW hiroyoshi moriyama) is the international marketing and technical consultant of MTI, Inc., which he established in 1992. The company specializes in the development of functional food and cosmeceutical

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educatiOn livinG in the tamPa Bay area. her BOOk, ‘POsitive PsychOlOGy in the

elementary schOOl classrOOm,’ will Be PuBlished in auGust.


ingredients, collaborating with various institutes and universities. He obtained his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Hoshi’s College of Pharmacy in Tokyo, Japan, where he became a naturalized citizen.

Justin mccarthy is a management consultant with Crane Consulting, working with Bay Area nonprofits.

nancy mcginnis mhroD ’88 is a lecturer at San Francisco State University.

’79 stePhanie lacarruBBa owns BayTree Wellness Center in

San Mateo, which specializes in acu-puncture and Chinese herbal medicine for women and children.

William k. Wesley is an adjunct profes-sor at the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University. He recently published a book, “Full Life Balance: The Five Keys to the Kingdom.”

Paul yonamine and his wife, Lynda, have three children and live in Tokyo, Japan, where he is the general manager of IBM Japan Ltd. He writes, “There’s a fair number of USF graduates in Japan, and I look forward to the school hosting an alumni get-together here one day.”

’80 kevin Buck is a collaborative leadership consultant and

executive coach and principal of the consulting firm Emergent Success Inc.

al galinDo relocated to New Orleans last spring after accepting a new posi-tion with Entergy and enjoyed his first Mardi Gras season.

After having been widowed in 2007, Janet gooDall remarried last year. She lives in the U.K., where she is a re-search fellow at the Institute of Educa-tion at the University of Warwick. Her two adult children also live in the U.K.

raymonD martin, f.B.s., o.s.f., D.s.f., is developing a European Union business and arboretum as well as aiding in the ex-situ conservation, development, and study of plants and trees in the northernmost latitude (58 degrees North). A Franciscan priest who was consecrated bishop in the Old Catholic Church in 2010, he is also assisting in the re-establishment of the Old Catho-lic Church in post-Soviet Hungary, the first since the 1940s.

’81roBerta cunningham works as a general pediatrician. She

has been married for more than 20 years and has three sons.

louis DelzomPo is chief technology officer of Parchment Inc. and splits his time between the corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the company’s software development center in Roseville.

’82 cornelius DemPsey is the owner of Dempsey & Associ-

ates Wealth Management in Los Altos.

DeBorah harDing mhroD ’86 is the founder of Shey-Harding Associates, an executive recruitment/human resources consulting firm specializing

in transportation positions worldwide. The firm was awarded the recruitment search contract for the executive direc-tor positions for the ports of Tacoma and Hueneme in 2011 and recently for the Port of Longview.

kim kovasala recently relocated to Tucson, Ariz., where she works with inner-city children. She would love to connect with former classmates through Facebook.

susan (roussellot) meagher lives in Grass Valley with her husband, Dai, and 13-year-old son. In 2002, she re-tired from corporate retail to be home with her family and in 2009 started Nana’s Artisan Bakery, offering made-from-scratch baked goods.

michael menDoza launched MM Safety Consulting Services in June 2004. The company assists small and large companies in complying with Califor-nia Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards, regulations, and training requirements. His family-owned corporation, MiLo Real Estate Investments Inc., owns properties in California, Nevada, Texas, and Pennsyl-vania and plans to expand to Arizona and Ohio in 2012 and 2013.

’83 tom askins is a stockbroker, motivational speaker, and

author of “Open the Lid … and Explore the Possibilities.”

karen haWes is a nurse practitioner in internal medicine in Manhattan, Kan. Her son, Ben, will enter the University of Kansas in the fall.

’84 liz gately, who is retired and living in Baja, served as prin-

cipal analyst in the School of Dentistry at UCLA until 1985, then ran her own company, Cogswell Real Estate Ser-vices, for three years. She writes, “I was whisked away to the altar by a colonel on a white horse in 1988 and began a most amazing life in Washington, D.C. … After that, I went back to school and studied art, a lifelong wish, and have been painting ever since, mostly in Mexico—in Guanajuato and Sinaloa.”

BenJamin Joe and his wife, Tracy, reside in Stockton, the proud parents of Brenna, 16; Francisco, 16; Noah, 4; Jonah, 4; Keira, 4; and McKaylah, 1. Joe is the clinical coordinator of pharmacy services at Doctors Hospital of Man-teca and is in the deaconate formation process for the Diocese of Stockton.

’85mattheW mccarron ms ’95 has spent the past 22 years

working with the California Environ-mental Protection Agency and helped implement two first-in-the-nation laws on electronics recycling and green business in California. He works with state agencies and local government to implement the California Green Business Recognition Program. He writes, “After getting married in St. Ignatius Church in 1989, I have two boys, one studying art, like his mother, and the other starting a marine biology program this fall.”

scott D. true was appointed appeals settlement officer at the Internal Rev-enue Service in San Diego.

The daughter of a financial planner, Stephanie Bruno ’11 had a childhood peppered with lessons on budgeting and setting financial goals—lessons that were not always welcomed, says Bruno, who has a self-professed aversion to numbers.

Bruno, a media studies major, immersed herself in journalism and social media while at the University of San Francisco—but it was in collaboration with her mother that an unexpected career path started to take shape.

Her mother wanted to create an evening financial literacy class for women, whom she noticed often lacked the knowledge to take charge of their financial health. With Bruno’s media savvy, however, the two women realized they could reach a wider audience.

Six months after Bruno’s graduation, the two launched DivaCFO, a blog disseminating important information on personal finance, specially tailored to women. Written by Bruno with input from her mother, its posts run the gamut from the heavy (“How to Talk to Your Elderly Parents About Their Finances”) to the practical (“Tricks to Reduce Your Spending”) to the more light-hearted

(“The Price of a Puppy”). Still in its infancy, the blog is already winning over readers with its accessible style.

“I make it clear that I’m navigating this just like our readers. I can definitely relate to the people that might come to our blog and be looking for an answer,” Bruno said.

From her home in Austin, Texas, Bruno is working on expanding DivaCFO’s reach, collaborating with a developer to create an iPhone app—which would send users on a scavenger hunt for vital financial documents—and doing her part to impart the DivaCFO message: “Be prepared, not scared.” /////

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’86 maureen Doherty is director of nursing standards at the

UCSF Medical Center, where she has worked since graduating from USF. She and her husband, Ed Franco, are the parents of John and Claire and live in San Mateo.

Paul norcross joined the boards of the Howard N. Lee Institute for Equity and Opportunity in Education and the High Point Public Library Foundation.

’87magnus loftsson com-pleted his MBA at Reykjavik

University in 2008. After 20 years as the managing director/partner in a large advertising agency in Iceland, he started his own marketing and design agency, Ord & Myndir, in March.

’88 steve counelis JD ’92 is en-joying his assignment to the

Family Law Court of Riverside County as a superior court judge.

ernest kent Jones Jr. received a doctorate in education from Walden University in Minneapolis in February and married Renee Martinez in March in Mendocino.

lisa hughes lynch is a nurse anesthe-tist at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., and is married with two children, Bryan, 15, and Lauren, 13.

After 20 years of service as a U.S. Army aviation officer, kevin sullivan retired from active duty. He has served as president of Leading Points Corp. and was elected chairman of the board for Operation Homefront of Colorado.

helen yu and her husband started Discovery Station Assisi, a nonprofit or-ganization based in Assisi, Italy, offer-ing science and technology educational programming for children.

’89 margaret Barrett ma ’94

retired after 22 years of work at USF and is enjoying the time she now has to garden, paint, and quilt.

’90 JosePh gleichenhaus expects to be promoted to

colonel in the U.S. Army and graduate from the U.S. Army War College with a master’s degree in national security studies. He has served tours in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq and remains on active duty. He and his wife, Lori Groover, have two sons: David, who is 6, and Noah, who is 2.

al Parso has been elected to the Board of Directors of San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disaster (SF CARD) and is serving as secretary/treasurer. SF CARD provides

free disaster preparedness services and resources to San Francisco human services nonprofit agencies and faith-based organizations.

virginia tomasian is an associate trans-portation planner in the California De-partment of Transportation’s Division of Mass Transportation and remembers her time at USF fondly. She writes, “One of the most memorable moments for me was upon my graduation from the USF School of Management; I had the opportunity to sing the national anthem at the St. Ignatius Church at my actual graduation ceremony. I will cherish this memory forever. USF made an indelible mark on my view of organizational development and my role in managing change within my own organization.”

’91BrenDan Barth mat ’00 published a children’s book,

“Andrew’s Christmas.”

William Beckett is entering his 10th year in business for himself after retiring from Hewlett-Packard in 2002. He writes, “It has been great! Nothing has really changed except that I have another grandchild. They still live in Ireland, but the new grandchild will be visiting in May and June.”

DaviD Bonacci opened California’s first FirstLight HomeCare office in Walnut Creek. The company provides in-home caregiving for seniors.

elaine amo kafle is pursuing a PhD in education, specializing in adult/post-secondary education, at Capella University. She writes, “It’s been an awesome journey thus far. I recently completed my first residency in Atlanta, and I’ve also been working as full-time faculty and coordinator for Evergreen Valley College’s nurse assistant training program in San Jose for the past two years. I thoroughly LOVE my job! Between work, school, my husband, and two toddlers, life is extremely busy!”

evan kletter and his wife, Alicia, recently welcomed the birth of their daughter, Talia.

’92 Dan Brake runs a private investigation business

specializing in U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cases and teaches human resources and manage-ment at two universities. He writes, “The latest campaign that USF is rolling out on the ‘University of the Best City Ever’ makes me homesick!”

chris carDoza recently moved back to California and accepted a posi-tion as vice president of quality and

continuous improvement at Composite Engineering.

melinDa comBs co-wrote “In Service to the Mouse,” a memoir by former Disney executive Jack Lindquist.

Purificacion P. garcia retired in 1997 as systems analyst from Pacific Bell in Northern California after 26 years. She moved to Las Vegas in 2003 and worked as a Realtor in residential sales, but quit the business in 2008. She was re-cently hired as a licensed guest teacher by the Clark County School District in Northern Nevada and now enjoys working as a substitute teacher with a concentration in grades K-5. She writes, “I am now in my sixties, but I am (still) aspiring to earn a master of arts degree (or equivalent) in education within the next two years, God willing!”

After 28 years in law enforcement, mike guerra mhroD ’95, edD ’01 retired as chief of the Atherton Police Depart-ment in April. He is now the dean of faculty at Lincoln University in Oak-land, where he has been an associate professor of business administration for the last 11 years. He also remains involved with USF as an advisory board member of the School of Management’s International Institute of Criminal Justice Leadership.

kevin mullin is a councilmember in the City of South San Francisco and served as the city’s mayor in 2011. He and his wife, Jessica, were married in November 2011.

kevin reilly is pursuing his doctorate in education at Pepperdine University. His cohort will meet in Beijing and Shanghai in May.

’95 kennerly clay lives in Wayne, Pa., with her

husband, Kirk, and two kids, 7-year-old Cooper and 4-year-old Bo. She works as a digital editor at Lincoln Financial Group, leading a team of editors on a massive web content migration effort. She also has an anti-aging business and has been an independent representa-tive for Nu Skin Enterprises since 2005.

Diana lynn kaysen has met the 2011 requirements set by the National Certi-fication Council for Activity Profession-als for the credential National Certified Activity Director with Specialization Designations in Assisted Living Facili-ties, Memory Care, Adult Day Programs, and Educator.

For the past 10 years, michael nguyen has been with Winston & Strawn’s San Francisco office, currently as attorney resources and recruitment manager. In April, he was a panelist on social media and legal recruiting at the annual Association for Legal Career Professionals Education Conference, moderated by Marina Sarmiento

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alUMni eventS

CalendarJUne 20123 alumni Day at at&t park

9 parent Leadership council event, Greenwich, conn.

23-24 alumni board retreat

JUly 201214 student send-off:

santa rosa, peninsula, beverly hills

15 student send-off, hawaii

21 national Jesuit alumni event, chicago

29 student send-off: seattle, sacramento

aUgUst 20124 student send-off,

orange county

5 student send-off, san Diego

18 student Move-in Day

tBD south bay Wine tasting

september 201228 nursing reunion cocktail

reception

29 nursing reunion brunch

tBD afternoon with the president, north bay

tBD evening with the president, Menlo circus club

tBD east bay regional scholarship event

OctOber 20125-7 parents and family

Weekend

6 Golden reunion, class reunions

21 Lone Mountain reunion

nOvember 201212 california prize Dinner

for more information about the events listed, please contact:

Bridget Lane special events Manager (415) 422-2553 [email protected]


Feehan, assistant director for employer relations at the USF School of Law.

’96 After living in San Francisco for almost 20 years, tommy

morahan returned to Ireland with his wife, Anna, and their two young children. They set up an online store for gifts with an Irish twist, www.IrishThings.com.

catherine mozingo has been appointed to the faculty of the University of Colo-rado Denver School of Medicine as an instructor in the Department of Pedi-atrics, Division of Emergency Medicine. She will continue her clinical practice in pediatric emergency medicine in the Network of Care at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver.

tara (forkum) Patanian and her husband, Wayne, were married in August 2011.

melisa tintocalis was appointed director of economic development for the town of Lexington, Mass.

’97 After working nine years at Barclays Global Investors and

three years at Algert Coldiron Inves-tors, both in a client relationship role, valerie gorostiague montalvo is now a stay-at-home mother to her 3-year-old daughter, Madeleine, and 1-year-old triplet girls, Violet, Sophie, and Juliette.

kristin nelson msoD ’09 is starting a new position as director of leadership giving and events at the Committee for the Shelterless in Petaluma.

Brian PhiliP JD ’03 is a sergeant with the Palo Alto Police Department and supervises a midnight patrol team and the regional SWAT team. In July, he plans to return to the Investigative Services Division, where he will man-age property crimes detectives and the evidence department. He and his wife, Bridget, who is a pediatric anesthesi-ologist, live in Burlingame with their two daughters, 6-year-old Sabrina and 3-year-old Olivia.

mike roBerts completed the require-ments for his FINRA Series 65 license in 2008 and began working as an investment adviser representative with PGR Solutions. He also earned his FINRA Series 63 license.

katherine shumate mPa ’10 started a new position as director of scientific programs administration at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in October 2011 and is the mother of Owen Quade Shumate Strongheart, born in January.

’98 catherine miskoW completed her PhD in French at the Uni-

versity of California, Davis and pub-

lished an e-book translation of Pierre Loti’s “The Third Youth of Madame Plum.” She returned to USF in March to give a presentation sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages titled, “What Do Language Majors Do After Graduation?”

nick rugai published a book, “Computational Epistemology: From Reality to Wisdom.”

’99 lt. michael J. Quigley recent-ly accepted an assignment

to the Pentagon on the Joint Staff as an intelligence and policy analyst on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force. He also purchased his first home in Arlington, Va., after serving overseas in Stuttgart, Germany, and embarked aboard the USS Mount Whitney, the command ship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, during combat operations in Libya last year.

Donnaluci Williams lives in Nashville, Tenn.

’00 carlos gonzalez earned an American Bar Association

Paralegal Certificate from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill and is now a member of the San Francisco Paralegal Association. This May marks his fifth year running the Bay to Breakers race and his son and daughter’s second run. “We hope to make this a lifelong tradition in our family,” he writes.

angela gavin maJic married Tomislav Majic at St. Gregory’s Church in San Mateo in July 2009 and is a full-time yoga instructor in Los Gatos.

Jeffrey zilahy teaches at a community college in the suburbs of Philadelphia and recently published a book, “A Cul-tural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics.”

’01 In April, laura morrill Di

giovine and her husband, Michael, welcomed their second son, Sebastian Matteo Di Giovine, in Chicago.

mattheW koch has relocated back to San Francisco from New York City with his wife, Brianne, to join Wells Fargo’s principal investing team as a credit analyst. He also completed his MBA at Columbia University.

After three years as director of campus ministry at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, catherine mifsuD plans to be-gin a new position as director of cam-pus ministry and service learning at Ursuline Academy in New Orleans this August. As a member of the school’s administration, she will oversee the service-learning program for grades eight to 12, integrating Catholic Social Teaching into the curriculum.

Oct. 21, 2012, lOne MOUntain

Annual Lone Mountain Alumnae Reunion Honoring classes of ’42, ’47, ’52, ’57, ’62, ’67, and ’72. Send any contact information updates to Polly Mullin McMullen ’68 at (415) 422-4340 or [email protected].

Save the dateS

Upcoming Class ReunionsSept. 28-29, 2012

All Class Nursing Reunion

Oct. 6, 2012

Golden Alumni Reunion Special recognition will be given to classes celebrating landmark reunions:

Class of 1937, 75th Class of 1952, 60thClass of 1942, 70th Class of 1957, 55thClass of 1947, 65th Class of 1962, 50th

Additional activities are being planned by the Class of ’62 Reunion Committee.

Oct. 6, 2012

Classes of ’72, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’02, and ’07To participate in the planning for the above reunions, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at (415) 422-6431, (800) 449-4873, or [email protected].



’02 Jasmine (DefielD) BerJikly is a tax manager at a regional

accounting firm, working mostly with entrepreneurs, executives, and others in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. She married Armen Berjikly in May 2011.

alston laWrence leW is a candidate to receive a doctor of jurisprudence at Golden Gate University School of Law this May.

steven D. roBinson has relocated to Antwerp, Belgium, with CEVA Logistics to become global director of supply chain architecture.

laarni Domagas russell lives in Louisville, Ky., with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She works as a clinical informatics analyst and ex-pects to complete a master of science in nursing at Loyola University New Orleans in December.

Jo (Dinglasan) Wycoff mat ’04 is a founding teacher at the Alliance Acad-emy Middle School. She writes, “My cohort and I used to joke about estab-lishing our own school, and I actually became a part of a design team that did just that. We are a small school serving East Oakland and thriving.”

’03 alexanDer ayzner finished his PhD in physical chem-

istry at UCLA at the end of 2010 and is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.

colin mccusker recently started a new position as beverage manager at the Ritz-Carlton in Doha, Qatar.

After eight years as a cheese monger in San Francisco and London, colin shaff moved with his wife, Julianna

lassleBen ’04, to Los Angeles. He is a law student at the University of Southern California and president of the American Constitution Society. This summer, he has an externship with a magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court.

’04 In January, alicia augsBurger became president of the

Green County Bar in Wisconsin, the youngest person to hold that position in the county’s history. She is engaged to marry Michael Parsons in October.

Printace anne Broughton-clark

mat ’07 lives in New Orleans with her husband, Sean Clark, and works at the Social Security Administration.

sonia caamano ms ’09 and her husband, Wilson Lee, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Adeline Eva Caamano Lee, on Nov. 5, 2011.

caroline (tuBan) conWay married her husband, Jay, last year and recently started a new position as manager of marketing projects at USF’s Office of Communications and Marketing.

After receiving a master’s in public administration and NGO management from New York University, Jessica

gunDerson worked as a senior planner at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York before returning to the Bay Area. Now at the Partnership for Children and Youth, she oversees policy efforts to expand out-of-school learning op-portunities for low-income youths.

eric hemeDes works in New York as an account supervisor at an ad agency, where he and his colleagues recently shot a documentary on HIV with an Academy Award-winning director. His agency is working on publicity for the International AIDS Conference in July, which will be hosted in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years. He writes, “Besides work, I’m just enjoying NYC, traveling, and meeting new people and looking forward to vacationing in Barbados this summer.”

aPril maDDy was accepted to Harvard University’s Graduate School of Educa-tion to complete a master’s degree in mind, brain, and education.

april actiOn day

(Two left photos) USF students weeded, planted, and turned over compost and mulch at a teaching garden at the June Jordan School for Equity with the San Francisco Urban Sprouts program; (right photo) Josh Altieri MA ’02 and girlfriend Britany Rae were part of a contingent of East Bay alumni who packaged food at the Alameda County Community Food Bank.

JOsePh harris’ ’09 siGnature yOyO,

“unleashed,” was released in aPril 2011

By his sPOnsOr, yOyOJam. in the Past year, he has used the

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elena (Diaz) mcalPine has worked in the ski industry in Lake Tahoe since graduation. She is currently running SnowBomb.com, a Lake Tahoe skiing and snowboarding guide, with her hus-band of five years, and she is expecting her second daughter this June.

After six years as a legislative aide to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 1, cassanDra (costello)

mcgolDrick now works as a property manager at San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department. She lives in San Francisco with her young son and husband.

ersinan mohammeD joined Jones IT Consulting, a start-up offering outsourced information technology consulting services, in 2009. He writes, “We went from two guys working in the garage of a friend’s house to a six-person team in Dogpatch, S.F., serving the entire Bay Area with several clients throughout the West Coast and even in China.” He has traveled all over Europe in the last couple of years and spent last summer in Hungary, Turkey, Armenia, and the Republic of Georgia.

After graduating from USF, tyler

renaghan played one season of profes-sional soccer with the Italian team Sanremese. He now lives in Chicago with his wife and has been working at Groupon since August 2010.

eamon sylvester is director of fitness at CrossFit RXD, the top-ranked fitness studio in Orange County.

Jesse vasQuez was recently promoted to senior public relations specialist at Expedia Inc. He also was appointed marketing chair for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s 10th anniversary.

’05 After 26 years at UCSF, mary

DickoW mPa ’07 retired to take on a new role as statewide director of the California Action Coalition, part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Future of Nursing initiative at the Institute of Medicine. “It’s a great job and one I am very passionate about,” she writes. “In addition, I have been en-joying time with my husband, Tod, and our three beautiful grandchildren!”

PhoeBe eustis received her JD from Santa Clara University in 2010 and now works as an assistant district attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, currently assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit. She lives in Potrero Hill.

After graduation, nilmini kumari

fernanDo returned to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to help her father with the group of companies he founded there. She writes, “Seven years down the line, I am running two companies and two departments in the group. It’s been

a journey full of ups and downs and many, many trying times. The most memorable moment thus far was when I was featured in the Wall Street Journal write-up, ‘Dynasty Daughters,’ which was published in late summer 2005. It was all thanks to my USF pro-fessor Lou Lucaccini and the assistant dean in the School of Business, the late Eugene Muscat.”

This fall, Jennifer geeslin plans to begin a master’s degree program in psy-chology at The New School in New York.

leslie (muelDer) gruettner married her husband, Jim, earlier this month at Mission Ranch in Carmel. She is pursu-ing a career in nursing and works with Jim at his San Francisco restaurant, Marengo on Union.

’06 micaela mcDonagh has been working at Kaiser Perman-

ente in San Francisco as a neonatal/pediatric nurse. She is pursuing her lactation consultant certification and plans to return to school for a graduate nursing degree.

elena (BalinBin) neufelD mat ’10 and her husband, Jason, welcomed their second child, Ava Grace, into their family in February.

anDreW smith is playing his second season of professional baseball in Heidenheim, Germany.

’07 Jessica Diaz expects to graduate in May with a

master’s degree in social work from San Francisco State University. She is the recipient of the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement for her academic work and service to the community.

James han completed a joint DDS/MBA program through the UCSF School of Dentistry and the USF School of Management. He is pursuing postdoc-toral residency training in pediatric dentistry at New York University.

chelsea hunt has been working as a marketing manger for Internet kiosks for Pacific Telemanagement Services and, along with her fiancé, has been very active in the Denver sports scene, playing soccer, softball, dodge ball, and volleyball for coed competitive teams. The couple planned to move in early May to Manhattan, where her fiancé has accepted a new job. “This is rather exciting and scary at the same time, but it’s the perfect opportunity for me to become a full-time student and begin making connections with schools in NYC. ...I am extremely excited for what the future holds and really feel like I’m following my dream now,” she writes.

Danny ma started a new career promoting ViSalus’ 90-Day Body by Vi Challenge, a program that helps participants lose weight and achieve their fitness goals. He writes, “I was overweight before so I understand how difficult it is for people to get their health back on track.”

eDWarD samayoa was recently ap-pointed assistant director of student awards in the Financial Aid Office of Stanford University.

’08 leonarDo Burgueno received his MBA from Golden Gate

University.

kanika chhaBra is an assistant general manager for the Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley and expects to complete a master’s degree in nutrition and food-service management at San Jose State University in May.

After graduating, aDam grant went into the Israeli army for two years and is now in his first year of law school.

kenneth han is pursuing his dental doctorate at New York University.

Jason kenJi P. higa co-wrote two articles published in the peer-reviewed journals Cytokine and the British Jour-nal of Nutrition. Last year, he received the Ellen M. Koenig Award in Medicine and was named the 2011 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar of the Year for the Honolulu Chapter of the ARCS Foundation. After passing his comprehensive exams, he plans to earn his PhD in cell and molecular biology this year. He writes, “The education I received at USF and the mentoring I had from Dr. [Chris-tina] Tzagarakis-Foster played a huge role in working toward these accom-plishments. The Biology Department may be small, but there is good science being done there and made for a great environment toward cultivating skills in research.”

shayne mason graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, San Francisco in June 2010. He recently accepted a position as an instructor at the USF School of Nursing and Health Professions and works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Dore Urgent Psy-chiatric Care in San Francisco. He also is the co-host of “Nurse Talk Radio,” which airs in San Francisco, Boston, and internationally on several online syndication networks.

’09 oscar arauJo moved to New York to work for the produc-

tion company NBTV.

BenJi canning-Pereira is pursuing a master’s in interaction design at New York University’s Interactive Telecom-munications Program.

JosePh harris’ signature yoyo, “Un-leashed,” was released in April 2011 by his sponsor, YoYoJam. In the past year, he has used the yoyos in competition to win back-to-back California state titles, a regional title, and his second National YoYo Championship title.

Danae moore is completing her MFA in design at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

carolyn reilley is a public relations and advertising graduate student at DePaul University in Chicago.

stePhanie Whitney moved to Los Ange-les, where she became part-creator of a new Internet start-up company and worked on iPhone apps and for several talent agencies.

’10 In the fall of 2011, James

Barela started graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a fellowship to the MFA program.

New Peace Corps volunteer katie

BoWen-Williams is moving to Mongolia to work in community and youth development.

Jonathan garcia celebrated his recent employment with Moody’s Investors Service with a trip to Los Angeles. He has been living in New York since graduating.

morgan henDerson combined her interests in design, science, and nonprofit organizations to work at the Discovery Science Center in Orange County. She is also an AS3 developer and designer for an online educational game set for PBS.

frank malifranDo is chief develop-ment and public affairs officer at Catholic Charities of the East Bay and was named Alcade of Vallejo (honorary mayor of Vallejo) by the Vallejo Task Force.

catherine monDoy works as a graphic design and production assistant at Tori Richard Ltd. in Honolulu. As assistant to the head art director, she provides graphic and marketing support through print and web, tailoring each of their projects from head to toe.

As a Teach for America participant, natalie nakai is incorporating art and design into second-grade classrooms in Hawaii.

linDa Bella o’hara works in the mobile apps development industry at Copper Mobile Inc.

Jamie rey writes, “Although San Fran-cisco has my heart, I just finished my first year as a mother-baby nurse at Cedars-Sinai Hospital [in Los Angeles] and [am] loving every minute of it.”

mohsen zavieah salehi is executive vice president of corporate develop-

reunion year



ment and management at Eastern Medical Center in Pleasanton and is in the process of establishing Golden Eye Global Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm.

ravi yoB works for a biotech firm.

’11 sahar Bala is a staff assistant with the National Asian Pacific

American Bar Association (NAPABA). NAPABA represents the interests of more than 40,000 Asian Pacific American attorneys and works on a number of policy initiatives, including combating xenophobia and racism and advocating for equal opportunity in ed-ucation and the workplace. She writes, “So far, I’m loving life as a young professional in D.C., and I would highly encourage other USFers to consider coming out here after graduation!”

stePhen cramer’s service learning project on restorative resources and ju-venile delinquency in Sonoma County was selected for publication through Columbia College of South Carolina’s International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. He is completing two master’s degrees: a master of sci-ence in organization development at USF and a master of arts degree in leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California.

taylor giroux, maDeline flooD, anD Quentin nathaniel foster have been named 2011-2012 Capitol Fellows. The yearlong program offers graduates hands-on work experience in policy-making and development with the California state government.

kate matsumoto was hired by the USF Office of Communications and Market-ing, where she designs promotional publications for the university.

katharine mary mccaBe works in busi-ness administration for Bonhams, an auction house, in Los Angeles.

gradUate

’62 James risser JD recently completed a nine-year term

on the board of directors, including two years as president, of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He and his wife, Sandra, live in Ashland, Ore. He is a retired newspaper journalist and former director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University.

’66 A professor of nursing for 22 years, mary anne anDerson

Bailey ma recently retired. She remains active in the nursing community and has been published in the June 2011 edition of the All-In-One Care Planning Resource.

russ martin mBa works for the VA Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D.

’68 g. martin lively JD and his wife, Jean Ivins Lively, live

in Atenas, Costa Rica, where they raise coffee beans, black pepper, and vanilla orchids and enjoy visits from friends and from their four children, George, Coryne, Geoffrey, and Jonathan.

’71 Since July 2011, JosePh shah-

Par mBa has been enjoying retirement. He was recently elected a board member of his community’s homeowner’s association.

gene szarek, c.r., ma was a theology professor at Loyola University Chicago for 20 years and is provincial superior for the U.S.A. Province of the Congre-gation of the Resurrection. He writes, “I think of my USF classmates frequently and fondly.”

’73 PhiliP BoroWsky JD has an active litigation and appel-

late practice, based in San Francisco, handling complex civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout California. He’s been designated a Northern California Super Lawyer every year since 2006 and a fellow to the Litigation Counsel of America.

clare e Wherley mBa was named one of the Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners in New Jersey by Own It Ventures and New Jersey Monthly magazine for her work at Lassus Wherley and Associates, a fee-only financial planning firm.

’75 Don PaPa ma teaches economics, politics, and

U.S. history at Galileo Academy in San Francisco, where he also coaches varsity baseball and basketball.

’76 sr. BarBara DaWson, r.s.c.J.,

JD will be the next provincial of the U.S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Previously, she served as president of St. Martin de Porres School in Oakland.

Peter logan JD practices law part time while pursuing his music career. His blues band, Catbone, recently scored its first gig at Plough and Stars in San Francisco.

’78 kathleen lagorio Janssen

ma is the owner of Ace To-mato Co. Inc. She was recently elected chair of the board of regents at the University of the Pacific.

Jin kim ma is president of the Pacific Rim Education Network, which links Asian educational institutions with U.S. colleges and universities.

In August 2011, stan tosello JD moved back to Florida to join Citigroup’s Latin America Regional Wealth Management team.

’79 lynn Duryee JD recently published her fourth book,

“Mastering Mediation: 50 Essential Tools for the Advanced Practitioner.” She has served as a judge in Marin County for 19 years, where she has successfully implemented settlement programs in her civil, family, and criminal assignments.

’81 Jayne kelly (roBerts)

norDstrom JD is the sole proprietor of a San Francisco law firm focusing on family law. She and her husband, John, have six children and nine grandchildren.

’82 roB lansley mBa joined MYCOM-USA as a program

manager.

ken Parks JD is president and CEO of CouldB Entertainment, which produces television programming and provides music to such shows as “America’s Next Top Model,” “Swamp Wars,” “Last Comic Standing,” “Million Dollar Decorators,” “Bar Rescue,” “Real Vice Miami,” and others.

’83 John sesek mPa is chief financial officer of Positive

Education Program, a nonprofit that provides alternative, therapeutic education for more than 600 children and youths in northeast Ohio who are severely emotionally disturbed and often the victims of trauma. In 2009, he was named Cleveland’s Chief Finan-cial Officer of the Year in the category of nonprofit agencies. He writes, “My wife, Mary Jane, and children, Sam (attending Oberlin College) and Sarah (Cleveland State), are the joys of my life. I enjoy commuting to work by bike through the industrial landscape of Cleveland.”

’84 BraDley gage JD was recently selected to join the

American Board of Trial Advocates and has been chosen as a Southern Califor-nia Super Lawyer seven years in a row. He has three kids, the oldest of whom hopes to attend the USF School of Law.

freDeric a. ranDall Jr. JD recently resigned from his position as chief strategy officer of United Online, which owns a number of well-known Internet brands including FTD, Classmates.com, Interflora, NetZero, Juno, and MyPoints. He intends to travel and fly fish while exploring new opportunities.

’85 carl Bozzo ms is a retired dentist and retired CEO of

sara rectOr ma ’89 is a marriaGe and

family theraPist at the circle Of life center in thOusand Oaks, a cOunselinG center

she fOunded in 2008.


National Health Care Systems. In 2011, he was awarded the Alumni Merit Award from Saint Louis University’s School of Dentistry.

After 28 years at the same firm, stePhen

JuDson JD has joined the Ramsey Law Group. He writes, “I look forward to working in this veteran law firm envi-ronment, with litigation, corporate, and business expertise. Contacts welcome at [email protected]. Let’s get back in touch!”

alan Wilhelmy JD was elected manag-ing shareholder of Rogers Joseph O’Donnell in San Francisco, emphasiz-ing construction and real estate law. He serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and is married to linDa yee Bsn ’81, JD ’86 a Kaiser critical care nurse and consul-tant to Gordon & Rees.

’86 francisco J. griJalva edD plans to retire this July after

17 years as head of The Overlake School in Redmond, Wash. He and his wife, Susan, plan to return to San Francisco.

This year, carol m. langforD JD will publish the fourth edition of her

nationally adopted textbook, “Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law.” She continues to specialize in attorney conduct matters.

kathryn martin edD retired in June 2010 after 15 years as chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, during which time university enroll-ment increased and its facilities were upgraded and expanded.

’87 rachel (ralston) Baxter practices environmental

law with the Department of Justice in Ottawa, Canada. She and her husband, who practices civil litigation, have two daughters.

’88 PJ husack ma launched the Workshops At Work

staff development series and recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Lead Life Now leadership workshops for women, which she plans to facili-tate in Spain in 2013.

muhammaD iJaz hussain ma lives in Lahore, Pakistan, where he serves as senior chief in the Planning and Devel-opment Department of the government

of Punjab. He and his wife, a lecturer in physics at a private college in Pakistan, have one son who is a graduate student at a local university in Pakistan.

Jan melsen mBa continues to work as a management consultant in Brus-sels and teaches in various business schools in Europe. Every year, he and a handful of USF MBA alumni meet at a different location in Europe. This year’s meeting will be held in Ghent, Belgium, in the spring.

’89 At the end of the school year, Wayne maDDen ma plans to

retire from teaching but continue to do volunteer work, helping students with reading and math and teachers with field trips. He writes, “This winter I spent all of March in sunny, warm Palm Springs, enjoying the company of several friends I made while studying at USF in the 1980s.”

sara rector ma is a marriage and fam-ily therapist at the Circle of Life Center in Thousand Oaks, a counseling center she founded in 2008.

’91 Joel Davis mBa is in his 19th year of marriage to Lisa

Goorin Davis. They live in San Carlos and have a 6-year-old daughter, Jadyn. For the past five years, he has been working at Open-Silicon Inc. in Milpitas.

Jennifer (holDer) monaghan mhroD,

edD ’99 lives in Baku, Azerbaijan, and leads English language conversation classes part time.

Dianne marie hofner saPhiere mhroD is creator and principal at Cultural Detective, an educational methodology and comprehensive set of materials for improving personal, interpersonal, and cross-cultural effectiveness. She writes that she is “currently living on the west coast of Mexico with my partner and global nomad teenager. Would love to hear from old friends or have you check out what we’re doing, www.culturaldetective.com/welcome.”

mons stange mBa and his wife, Michi-elle, have a 6-year-old son. He works in his family business in Norway.

’92 teresa cooPer mBa is a pro-fessor at EMLYON, a leading

business university in Europe.

Aaron Horn’s accountability chart—a multi-page matrix outlining goals, tasks, and an hourly schedule—would make all but the most hyper-organized a little nervous.

But Horn EdD ’08, MFT ’12 is convinced that his chart is exactly what the youths at San Francisco’s Youth Guidance Center, the city’s juvenile detention facility, need. A therapist trainee for the Youth Justice Institute and student in USF’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Horn works primarily with male youths at the Youth Guidance Center.

“They always tell me, ‘My father’s in jail’ or, ‘My father died.’ A lot of these boys don’t have reliable men in their lives. There’s a lack of integrity, consis-tency, and organization,” Horn said. “What I try to do is bring consistency to their lives.”

As part of the exercise, Horn has the youths identify accountability part-ners—people who check in and make sure they do what they say. For many of the youths, Horn plays a hybrid role as accountability partner and therapist, a delicate balancing act, but one to which he is particularly well suited.

Like many of his clients, Horn grew up in Bayview-Hunters Point, a pre-dominantly African American neighborhood plagued by violence and poverty, and was raised solely by his mother and grandmother. That shared back-ground, he says, has been key to nurturing relationships with the youths.

“When they see me come into therapy and I say I grew up in Bayview, that trust almost builds automatically,” he said.

For Horn, the path to becoming a therapist has been circuitous, with stops at local nonprofits and public schools and a five-year stint as an airborne

ranger in the U.S. military, which, he says, taught him his signature focus and attention to detail.

It was his passion for educating underserved youth that brought him to USF, where he completed a doctorate in international and multicultural education. His research on the importance of father-like care in the education of young black males underscored what he had observed during his years in the classroom—the lack of available black men to serve as tutors and mentors.

Horn will graduate from USF’s MFT program in July with a new set of tools to serve the youth of his community on a one-on-one level.

“And that’s where I really want to be—working with youth of color as a black male therapist, teaching them to hold each other accountable,” Horn said. /////

aaron horn edd ’08 teaching accOUntability

Monica viLLavicencio



gayle soWles loPez JD is a tenured faculty member at Ferris State Uni-versity in Big Rapids, Mich., and was promoted to professor of law this past academic year. She lives in Whitehall, Mich., with her husband, Jim, and her two children, Christopher, 17, and Lauren, 14.

steven Pomerantz edD has coordinated and taught in the MA in Counseling Psychology Program at the USF Sacra-mento Campus since 1992 and in May will complete 29 years as an adjunct faculty member at USF. Over the past 15 years, he has taught the required 80-hour supervisory training course to more than 3,000 state of California supervisors and managers and contin-ues to teach and consult through CPS HR Consulting. He has been married to BarBara l. Pomerantz mhroD ’98 for 27 years.

’93 gary Baker JD is completing his first year as owner and

managing director of the Quine IP Law Group.

keiichi ogaWa ma received a PhD in comparative international education and the economics of education from Columbia University. He teaches human capital development and development management at Kobe University in Japan.

harry tagomori edD founded the Pacific Shotokan Karate-Do in Hawaii, where he serves as director and chief instruc-tor. He has also managed the fitness center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is the proud grandfather of 4-year-old Jayden and 1-year-old Maya, who live in New York.

’94 Last fall, artist Diego marcial

rios, Certificate in Paralegal Studies, exhibited his latest collection of paintings, masks, and prints at a two-day Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) show at the NewPark Mall Cultur-al Corner in Newark. He is scheduled to have another show there in May.

’95 leonarD enniss ma lives in Ajo, Ariz. He writes, “Since

my heart surgery, my main concern has been to try and regain my health. So I have adopted a less physically demanding lifestyle and have taken a much less stressful job, using my engineering skills as a field inspector on local infrastructure projects funded by Freeport-McMoRan Americas Co. Of course I can’t stay away from ministry activities. I’ve been working with the Rev. Dr. Gary Stacy of Saint Titus Church here. I just finished writing my first book after a hiatus of more than 20 years, have started working on another book as well, and am trying to start a Bible-teaching ministry.”

milton mattox edD just published his first book, “RAIDers of a Lost Art: Re-inventing the Art of Business Process Excellence.”

’96 Joanne escoBar mhroD is general manager of

Rockefeller Group Business Centers, where she is responsible for sales and marketing, leasing offices to small and medium-size businesses, start-up companies, and other local, national, and international clients.

’97 Paul thomPson JD recently became managing partner

in the Sacramento office of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP.

As vice president of people and opera-tions at Primitive Logic, anisha WeBer

mBa is charged with talent acquisition and management, mentoring, training and development, and people enable-ment. She also serves as president of the USF Alumni Association Board of Directors and is on the USF Board of Trustees as alumni representative.

’98 veronika Briggs Benion JD practices family, personal

injury, and juvenile law at her private practice in Arizona. She is a mother and grandmother, and her niece, Tayannah, recently completed her first year at the USF School of Law.

iWao hosokai llm is a lawyer at Hosokai Law Office in Niigata Prefecture in Japan.

hervé thevenet mBa and rachanee

royer thevenet mBa launched HT Localization LLC, a worldwide transla-tion and localization services company offering high-quality multilingual services. They live in Madrid, Spain, with their two children and would love to hear from other USF alumni at [email protected] or [email protected].

’99 craig gee mBa writes, “It is nice to touch bases! I hope

everyone is doing well. My team and I at Chevron Energy Solutions in San Francisco just recently completed some pretty intense renewable and clean energy and smart grid work. ... I am presently taking time away from the work world to focus on some other matters, but I look forward to re-engaging in the renewable and clean energy industry later this year!” He would like to hear from other USFers at [email protected].

yumi moriguchi-mccormick edD is an adjunct professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at USF.

eric steinhofer mBa works in product management at PG&E, focusing on sus-tainability products such as the Winter

Gas Savings Program. He and his wife, Tanya, and their two children— 5-year-old Brendan and 3-year-old Ash-lyn—live in Mill Valley, where Tanya runs her financial planning practice, Redwood Grove Wealth Management, helping women with children and investors interested in socially respon-sible investing. The family traveled to Vietnam for two weeks in April.

eric strain JD was promoted to partner in the San Francisco office of the inter-national law firm Nixon Peabody LLP. His practice focuses on representing foreign and domestic aviation clients in U.S. litigation.

’00 greg anDerson ma recently graduated from University

of California, Los Angeles with a PhD in political science and is the owner of Pacific Rim Advisors, a political risk and business strategy consultancy. His book, “Designated Drivers: How China Plans to Dominate the Global Auto Industry,” will be published by John Wiley & Sons this spring.

After graduating from USF, rachel

(garcia) huvelDt mPa became a certi-fied medical compliance officer and founded EMR Consulting Solutions in 2010.

ryan James edD is coordinator of the journalism and writing specializa-tion at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Through the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, he has traveled to Macedonia and Bulgaria to conduct teacher trainings and has written travel guides on Hungary. He and his partner run a bed and breakfast called BudaBaB in Budapest.

’01 Dennis langhofer edD lives in Spokane, Wash., where he

is a faculty emeritus at Fresno Pacific University and teaches marketing at Whitworth University. He also enjoys his time with his granddaughter, Olivia.

russ Wright mBa is vice president of sales at Zimmer Fegan & Maloney.

’02 vikki lynn (van horn)

atkinson ma, edD ’07 is a lecturer in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and teacher training at the Open University in Cambridge, Oxford, and Birmingham in the U.K. She also plays the violin in three orchestras, including the Cambridge Philharmonic. She writes, “My husband and I are making our plans for our next visit to Ghana, where we will work to deliver instruction to teachers attempting to change from teacher-centered ap-proaches to child-centered approaches. It’s always amazing to do our work down there, especially since we learn so much as well.”

miltOn mattOx edd ’95 Just PuBlished his first

BOOk, ‘raiders Of a lOst art: reinventinG

the art Of Business PrOcess excellence.’


svetlana fortner henDerson ms lives in Pasadena, where she is a stay-at-home mom to 11-year-old Jacob and 6-year-old Martin. She is expecting her third child, a girl, in July.

lois merriWeather

moore edD was elected vice president of the Gates Millennium Schol-ars Alumni Associa-tion. She writes, “The

Gates Millennium Scholars Program came out of a $1 billion educational grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The intent of the grant was to fund historically underrepre-sented scholars to serve as Leaders for America’s Future.” There are currently 9,500 alumni members.

noreen scott mna ended her working career as administrator at a center for developmentally disabled adults. She writes, “Reaching retirement, I began some serious travel, visiting Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Holland, South America, and almost all the islands in the Caribbean. During the last two years, I visited Thailand twice and spent a lot of time with nonprofit orga-nizations that assist women and girls who have been trafficked. Because of that experience I have become a quasi-expert on trafficking and do a lot of presentations on that issue for churches, community groups, and others.”

’03 Pamela anDreatta edD is an associate professor of

medical education and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michi-gan Medical School.

kevin graziano edD was awarded the Regents’ Teaching Award for his work as associate professor of education at Nevada State College.

k. alexa koenig JD was recently award-ed a contract from the University of California Press to co-write “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Politics of Pursuing War Criminals in the 21st Century,” with Eric Stover and Victor Peskin. She was also awarded two fellowships: an American Fellowship from the Ameri-can Association of University Women and a Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Representation, part of the In-stitute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Both fellowships were awarded to support completion of her dissertation, which analyzes the definition of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, based on the experiences of former Guantanamo detainees.

Jong ho lee ma, edD ’08 teaches at Anyang University in Anyangsi, Korea.

Spring gala hOnOrS USF alUMS and SUppOrterS

Alumni and other community members were honored at the Alumni Association’s Spring Gala in March. Among the award winners and other notables to attend were (front row, left to right) Anisha Weber MBA ’97 (Alumni Association Board of Directors president), USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., Bernard Orsi (Cable Car Award), Carol Williamson LM ’65 (Cable Car Award), Suzanne Giraudo ’71, EdD ’89 (Alumna of the Year), and Herman Papa ’58 (Alessandri Service Award); (back row, left to right) Timothy Alan Simon ’79 (Professional Achievement Award), Mary Hile-Nepfel ’81 (Professional Achievement Award), Matthew Lawrence ’96 (Alessandri Service Award), and Cortés Saunders EMBA ’00 (Alumni Relations interim director).

T he Alumni Association held its annual Spring Gala March 31, honoring outstanding alumni and supporters for their commitment to the university.

The awards ceremony and banquet were at the San Francisco Olympic Club, America’s oldest athletic club and host to the 2012 U.S. Open golf tournament in June.

This year, the Alumni Association chose former USF Trustee Suzanne Giraudo ’71, EdD ’89 as Alumna of the Year. Giraudo, who was a trustee from 2002-11, is a psychologist at California Pacific Medical Center’s child development center, specializing in treating autism, and served on the USF President’s Commission on Health Professions Education. She—along with her husband, Louis Giraudo ’68, JD ’74, the Daughters of Charity, and the De La Salle Christian Brothers—founded San Francisco’s De Marillac Learning Academy, a tuition-free Catholic elementary and middle school.

The Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award went to California Public Utilities Commission

Commissioner Timothy Alan Simon ’79 and basketball great Mary Hile-Nepfel ’81, director of Student-Athlete Consulting.

Herman Papa ’58, a trial attorney and active member of the Alumni Association’s San Francisco Regional Council, and Matthew Lawrence ’96, founder and owner of Camp4040 Consulting, received the Alessandri Service Award, honoring alumni who have made a lasting impact on the university community.

The Cable Car Award, presented to USF supporters who didn’t attend the university, went to Bernard Orsi and Carol Williamson LM ’65. Orsi is a longtime supporter and a Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation trustee. Williamson, a Lone Mountain College alumna, has carried on a 50-year family connection to USF established by her late husband, Raymond Williamson ’59, JD ’63—a former San Francisco Superior Court judge, who was a member of the Dons baseball team and longtime supporter of the program.



’04 regina aguilar ma works part time for the Oakland

Athletics and is homeschooling her son.

sonya smith mfa plans to walk 13.1 miles in the Mayor’s Marathon in Anchorage, Alaska, in June.

’05 Daniel J. BenDer edD was promoted to assistant dean

for academic affairs at the University of the Pacific’s Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco.

Last winter, charlie

costello ma spent three-and-a-half weeks travel-ing Myanmar (formerly Burma) as part of a trip organized by the Rural

Development Society, which sponsors infrastructure and development proj-ects in villages in Myanmar. He writes, “It was an auspicious and exciting time to be in Burma because the country is on the verge of democracy. I am hope-ful that they will gain the freedoms we sometimes take for granted in this country.”

mark gooDman JD is the founder of the Goodman Law Center, focusing on debt relief, patent and trademark counsel-ing, and family law.

stacy martin mBa married Justin Wood in September 2011 in Seattle, Wash.

nikki therese myres ma is a certified sexual assault counselor at Women Escaping a Violent Environment (WEAVE) in Sacramento. As a CARE (California Access to Recovery Effort) provider, she provides assessments and case management to youths and veterans in need of drug and alcohol early intervention and treatment. She expects to become a grandparent this June, when her daughter, Nicole, and her husband are due to deliver their son in Roseville.

’06 At the end of 2011, ronDa

coston evans ma and her hus-band, James Evans, moved to Richland, Wash., where he works at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. They enjoy golfing, cycling, salsa dancing, and quiet nights at home with their two dogs and hope to start a family soon.

After years working as a construction attorney, kelly kang JD transitioned into a career in real estate and is excited to join the Paragon Real Estate Group in San Francisco.

sr. kathryn klackner edD serves as director of teacher education and chair of the Educational Studies Department at Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc, Wis. She was recently promoted to associate professor.

Woo Jin lee mBa is pursuing a doctorate at the Graduate School of Entrepre-

neurial Management at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. He recently started his own business.

craig santos Perez mfa received the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for his poetry collection, “from unin-corporated territory [saina],” which was recently published by Omnidawn Publishing.

A wife and mother of four, makia

White-goines msn works at a labor and delivery department in the East Bay.

’07 ruth ramsey edD is an associ-ate professor and chair of the

Department of Occupational Therapy at Dominican University of California.

smaDar yusem-segale ma is a bilingual, Spanish-speaking psychotherapist with a private practice in downtown San Francisco specializing in cultural transitions, grief and loss, trauma recovery, and anger issues. She also provides clinical case consultation for licensed and pre-licensed therapists and is a clinical supervisor at the Fred Finch Youth Center in Oakland on is-sues relating to childhood trauma.

’08 karan Bahl mBa launched a frozen yogurt business in

Mumbai, India, that has expanded to three stores.

christina gagnier JD and stePhanie

margossian JD opened a new San Fran-cisco headquarters for their law firm Gagnier Margossian LLP, an Internet law boutique firm. The pair recently spoke at the Southwest by Southwest Interactive Festival on cybersecurity.

In March, Jesse zitrin ma started a new job as sales manager at Market Me-trix’s global headquarters in Larkspur. Market Metrix provides the hospitality industry with customer satisfaction strategies and tactics and other busi-ness intelligence solutions.

’09 e. michael chelsky mat is a substitute teacher for the

San Francisco Unified School District.

’10 nancy caPPelloni edD works in private practice as an edu-

cational consultant and is an adjunct in the Teacher Education Department at the USF School of Education. She’s in the process of publishing a book based on her dissertation research on kinder-garten readiness with Corwin Press. In her free time, she enjoys paddling in the Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club.

Joshua Del Pino ma has been teaching English in Japan since August 2010 as part of the Japan Exchange and Teach-ing (JET) Programme. This summer, he expects to start a new position as the Shimane Prefecture adviser and will be responsible for counseling

assistant language teachers on the JET Programme, planning orientations and trainings, and sharing critical information with the JET community in Shimane. He writes, “I hope to be to-tally free of student loan debt by 2013! Yeah! If you are in Japan or planning to go to Japan, you can’t stay at my place because it’s too small, but I can give you some words of advice.”

Since graduation, cali gilBert ma has launched a photography collection, the Cali Collection, and published two books, “It’s Simply ... Sausalito: An In-spirational Journey” and “It’s Simply ... GOLDEN: 75 Years of Inspiration.” She is working on three more book projects.

’11thomas g. aPPel JD is an associ-ate at the Appel Law Firm LLP.

The Walnut Creek-based firm focuses on personal injury litigation.

sheryl evans Davis mPa serves on the San Francisco Human Rights Commis-sion and recently chaired the com-mission’s hearing on the human rights impact in San Francisco of U.S. drug enforcement policies and practices.

sara hughes ma plans to start her doctoral studies in political geography at University of California, Los Angeles in the fall.

kunal samPat mna joined the board of Sunday Friends, a nonprofit based in San Jose whose mission is to empower families in need to break the cycle of poverty.

herman semes Jr. ms launched a new career as the owner of Wehi Global, a project management consulting firm. He is working on a Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) migrant survey proj-ect, for which he is surveying emigrant Micronesian households to gauge their economic wellbeing, the degree to which they depend on U.S. federal and/or state government support, and their contributions to their local communi-ties, as well as to their home islands in the FSM.

karan Bahl mBa ’08 launched a frOzen yOGurt Business in mumBai, india, that

has exPanded tO three stOres.

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1930sJohn Buffa ’34Andrew J. Farren ’34John A. Kincanon ’34Lewis B. Levin ’34Alfred F. Maggini ’39

Joseph P. Scattini ’36

1940sHenry H. Block ’44Warren D. Cain ’48Lucy C. Cannarozzi ’48Jules A. Carvalho ’49Richard K. Cavanaugh ’48Robert De Lacy ’49E. Richard De Rosa ’49Walter W. Derr Jr. ’46James K. Donohue ’47Max J. Engel ’47John W. Ferrill ’43W. Ray Helbig ’43Charles Kimes ’43Walter D. Kolling ’48Joseph S. Lopez ’41William J. Maring ’42Felix S. McGinnis ’40Daniel J. Mc Namara ’49Robert L. Muenter ’46Raymond W. Nicholls ’49Gerald J. O’Connor ’43Louis W. Parente ’49Ben F. Petrini ’43Miles C. Pipal ’42Eugene P. Sheehy ’49Kenneth J. Starrett ’41James C. Triggas ’49Robert E. Watson Jr. ’43Joseph A. Zarri ’49

1950sHugh A. Alderdice ’52Frank Apecechea ’53William E. Arata Jr. ’57Richard E. Arnoldy ’55Richard L. Bechelli ’55Edwin W. Beedle III ’56Robert F. Begley ’50Norman W. Berryessa ’50Angelo J. Carmassi ’51Joan L. Cave ’53Richard L. Celli ’54Harold Clark ’54Thomas E. Clark ’57Charles H. Clifford ’51Carter J. Corey Jr. ’50Gordon Costa ’50

Richard M. Costigan ’55Maxine P. Coutts ’58John G. Crocker ’53Joseph M. Digeronimo ’59James J. Donohoe ’51Patricia Doyle ’57William J. Fallon ’51Roger H. Farrell ’50Thomas A. Fell ’50Edward J. Ford ’50Harold J. Freemon ’55Edward J. Gallagher ’51James E. Gallagher ’50Eugene L. Gartland ’50James J. Glennon Jr. ’58Caesar C. Grolemund ’52Sophie Guichard ’51Albert Gurewitz ’51Thomas W. Hawkins ’50Roger V. Hoy ’56Louis O. Hutson ’51James G. Keller ’59Richard T. Kelly ’50Rosemarie M. Larse ’58Louis Legerton ’50Robert J. Lovejoy ’55Catherine Lyons ’51Anson P. Martinelli ’50Albert J. Massucco ’54James S. Mc Cann ’51Emmett V. McCourt ’51William T. Mc Craith ’57John J. McNamee ’50Elizabeth M. Mee ’58Leonard A. Miskel ’57Riccardo P. Molinari ’54Wayne A. Narron ’58Gilbert F. Naumann ’53John J. O’Brien ’57Charles B. O’Neal ’55Thanos Panagoulias ’50Donald Panciera ’51Frank S. Petersen ’51James W. Power ’50Edward K. Purcell ’51Thomas A. Putkey ’55Aileen E. Regan ’55Donn E. Rogers ’58Albert V. Rollandi ’51Edward L. Rommel ’52Edward M. Stocker ’56Jane E. Stroth ’57William R. Thomas ’53Donald E. Travers ’59Joseph C. Walsh ’51Harold R. Wilsey Jr. ’51Frank L. Yost ’50Joseph J. Zucca ’50

1960sCharles E. Aguilar ’60Richard M. Alford ’61Daniel J. Arritola ’65Restituto D. Baraan ’68Rodney J. Blonien ’68Frederick W. Carlson ’64Walter R. Chenchik ’60James G. Connor ’60James P. Cordova ’64Peggy Darnall ’65John A. Doherty ’65Timothy J. Egan ’60John T. Fleming ’63Joseph M. Forte ’69George H. Friemoth ’69Alfred B. Gordon ’69Nola A. Haggerty ’65Alfred M. Haro ’66Raymond Hattam ’60William J. Hoy ’61Josefina I. Inserto ’62Robert L. Johnson ’62Eshai S. Joseph ’69Raymond F. Jurasin ’63Emmet B. Keeffe Jr. ’64Herbert G. Ketring ’69Michael J. Lee ’66Louis Leibowitz ’69Patrick R. Lynch ’64William J. Martin ’60Amiram A. Milanov ’65Edward W. Oldham ’60Vincent Palmini ’69Frank A. Perry ’63John A. Ramirez ’61John G. Raphael ’64Eugene Robinson ’61Robert L. Schouweiler ’65Robert F. Schwarz ’66Zachary Shore ’65Stewart H. Steere ’64M. Carmen Sugiyama ’65Rawley M. Tandy ’69Danielle N. Thouvenin ’69Philip E. Thygeson ’68

1970sMichael K. Abe ’78Richard Ames ’70Philip L. Antle ’74Margaret Bailey ’76Angelina M. Bell ’79Georgene Bradshaw ’77Isabel V. Brown ’70Paul A. Bruemmer ’76Robert D. Bryn ’78

Thomas J. Connolly ’70Victor M. De Kalb ’74Julio De Sanctis III ’71Norman Dorosin ’79Sharman L. Esse ’70William A. Evans ’77Oswald A. Ferry ’72Jerry W. Fletcher ’76Elaine C. Fong ’75Robert M. Gabriel ’76Michael T. Gallagher ’76Hartley L. Halunen ’78Eudora M. Harris ’75Charleen O. Hendry ’77Robert H. Holm ’79George B. Ice ’78Rita M. Klinge ’71Kathleen B. Lackey ’70Barbara J. Ledesma ’79David F. Lee III ’76Larry E. Lulofs ’79John E. Maxwell ’77Kathleen M. Maynard ’72Constantin D. Mazas ’72Helen V. Mc Donnell ’78William T. McGivern Jr. ’70John J. McCartney ’76James E. McCutchan ’71Glendon W. Miskel ’70Maria M. Moffat ’74William P. Montgomery ’77John W. Murphy ’72Lynn G. Muth ’79Stephen W. Owens ’78Claudette V. Paz ’70Lawrence K. Petitte ’71William D. Petrovic ’75Kathleen F. Phillips ’75Brien H. Pope ’78Ile E. Reyes ’76Calvinetta Rivers ’78John J. Russi ’77Gary K. Tyler ’76Jon M. Van Dyck ’75Weldon C. Waller ’79Joan A. Wanamaker ’79Carol A. Westberry ’78Kenneth H. Wong ’79

1980sJohn J. Aveggio ’89L Robert Bertram ’83John Biggins Jr. ’87Karen L. Bocard ’86Edward L. Buchanan ’81Joan E. Burcell ’83Stephen C. Butler ’86R. Derek Cadman ’81

Charles D Canez ’82William G. Carnahan ’86Haig Charshaf ’82Rosemary G. Cunningham ’88Jeffrey P. Edwards ’80Brenda Eisenhauer ’87Mirna Hard ’86Joy L. Henry ’81Mary A. Hodges ’86Margaret T. Jones ’81Carol L. Kelley ’84Barbara E. Keyes ’89Miriam S. Mann ’84Gary A. Mattison ’83Mary J. Mazzariello ’86Cheryl T. Miller ’86Danell W. Nedom ’84Larry G. Nernes ’88Patrick D. O’Brien ’81Vivian B. Price ’80Leland S. Prussia ’84Esther A. Reyes ’87Margaretta E. Rosamond ’80Alice Scheid ’81Kathleen B. Shephard ’80Renee R. Van Dyk ’83Annie F S Webber ’83Nancy White ’82

1990sPaula H. Carlton ’97Michael Collins ’90Stefanie G. Dugan ’96Gracelyn J. Evans ’90Sue A. Gershenson ’92Virginia Gessner ’92Barbara L. Hoffman ’92Eva M. Killoran ’95Bonnie A. Kimbrough ’95Carol M. La Salle ’93Mary C. O’Riley ’98Carol Schell ’99Andrew W. Sears Jr. ’94Gregory D. Thompson ’98Sofie M. Wonderly Hosford ’96Glenn F. Zurawski ’92

2000sKaren Bell ’08Elsaree D. Murray ’01

2010sAnn M. Barbero ’11Alexander W. Urban ’11

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1 In the book, you write that in some religious circles, there’s a belief that faith and a sense of humor are incompatible. Where did that belief come from? I think in Christian circles it

comes from a belief that Jesus was primarily a man of sorrows.

One of the reasons is that the Gospel spends so much time on the

passion, death, and resurrection because they had to explain to

their readers why Jesus had to have been crucified. That big part

of the Gospel tends to overshadow the more joyful parts. … What

I’m trying to do is restore a little balance.

2 You also point out that the Bible is actually, at times, funny. Where are some of those humorous moments, and why are they often lost on contemporary readers? The one I always

point to is the story of Nathaniel in the Gospel of John. Nathaniel

is sitting around, and two of the disciples of Jesus come by and say,

“We have found the Messiah. He is Jesus of Nazareth.” Nathaniel

says, “Can anything good come of Nazareth?” That’s a little bit of

a dig at Nazareth, which was a backwater. … It’s like a joke [we’ve]

heard over and over that we just sort of pass over and forget that

it’s funny. So, the first reason is that we’re too familiar with the

stories. The second reason is that we don’t understand some of

the humor of first-century Palestine because we’re 21st-century

Americans, and humor is very culture– and time–bound.

3 What is the difference between a secular and a religious understand-ing of joy? The secular idea of joy,

if you look at dictionary usages or just common usages, would be an intensified happiness; joy as in “I’m really happy,” “I’m blissful,” or “I’m elated.” But in a religious context, joy is really about a relationship with God. Joy is happiness in God. That’s why people can actually maintain a sense of joy even though they’re in difficult situations. They might not be happy, but they still have that kind of Christian joy.

4 What would you say to someone who is struggling to find a sense of joy in the face of sadness or

injustice? It’s natural to be sad from time to time; you would be a robot if you weren’t sad. Even Jesus Christ wept at the death of his friend Lazarus. So the idea that if you’re Christian or if you believe in God you’ll never have sadness is kind of false. So that’s the first thing—not to feel guilty about it, that you’re some sort of bad person or don’t have enough faith. I think, though, part of it is expressing your emotions to God, being honest with God in prayer about what you feel. But if you’re always sad and always negative, it may be a case of trying to look for things in your life that give you gratitude. So grounding yourself in gratitude, which is a very big Jesuit and Ignatian idea, sometimes jump-starts people and can move them out of their sadness.

5 What do you read, watch, or do when you need a good laugh? I find TV shows funny a lot of times. I find

“Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” pretty funny. I read funny authors like David Sedaris, Fran Lebowitz, Jean Shepherd, and people like that. But mostly my friends make me laugh. Just looking at life’s ab- surdities, laughing at myself, and hanging out with funny people is a good way of regaining your sense of balance. /////

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Web ex tra To watch a video of the interview with Fr. Martin, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/martin .

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Wait! Your enjoyment of USF Magazine doesn’t have to end with the last of these pages. You can read additional articles and view videos and photos at the online version of the magazine, www.usfca.edu/magazine.

Go to the site directly, or visit specific features here:

Videos To watch a video of our interview with Kristen Dyer ’12 about her trip to South Africa with Alicia Keys, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/keys. There you can also view a clip of the Showtime documentary about the trip as well as some of Dyer’s photography.

To watch a video of a presentation by Thomas Lucas, S.J., titled “From Space to Place: Landscapes of Jesuit Higher Education 101,” visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/city_2012.

To watch a video of our interview with Corey Cook, politics professor, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/cook_2012.

To watch a video of our interview with James Martin, S.J., the official chaplain of “The Colbert Report,” visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/martin.

Articles To read and watch videos about the USF undergraduates who, as the first in their families to go to college, received aid from the Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship Program, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/coca-colafirst.

To read the complete text of “Higher Standards,” the America magazine article by the late Dean Brackley, S.J., visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/brackley_2012.

Photos To view more photos of Bay Area blues legends, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/blues_2012.

To view more photos of alumni married in St. Ignatius Church, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/married_2012.

To view photos of the 2011 Lone Mountain Alumnae Reunion, visit www.usfca.edu/magazine/lm_2011.

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