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Jordan Palamos’ resumé reads: Member of the team of international scientists that confirmed Albert Einstein’s 100year-old theory of general relativity. Not bad for a 26-year-old. Palamos ’12, a physics grad and a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, conducts research at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Obser vator y (Advanced LIGO) in Richland, Washington. Earlier this year, LIGO recorded the first-ever evidence of strong gravitational waves, proving space and time are interlaced and that humankind is physically connected to the farthest reaches of the universe. It also confirms the existence of black holes — one of the most frightening consequences of Einstein’s theory because of their ability to gobble up solar systems. The team’s breakthrough made

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the front page of The New York Times and appeared in Nature magazine. “LIGO has the potential to revolutionize astronomy in the same way Galileo’s celestial telescope did,” says Palamos, whose job at LIGO is to ensure that the observatory’s sensors can distinguish terrestrial events, such as earthquakes, from vibrations caused by gravitational waves from space. “It offers us a new way to discover things that we didn’t even know to be looking for, using gravitational-wave astronomy.” The LIGO team confirmed gravitational waves by measuring minute ripples in space-time — ripples that were caused by the merger of two black holes more than a billion light years away. The collision of such massive objects shook space-time with a force 50 times greater than the energy created by all

the universe’s stars combined and sent a gravitational wake spiraling into deep space where it was detected by LIGO. In addition to studying gravitational waves, Palamos uses LIGO’s data in his doctoral research to examine huge f lashes of gamma ray light in space. Observing gravitational radiation in conjunction with gamma ray bursts could help scientists understand what causes these mysterious events. “There’s no question that my USF education played a key role in preparing me to contribute to LIGO’s research,” Palamos says. “But even more important, my professors really wanted me to succeed, not just earn good grades. They encouraged me to pursue an advanced degree, offered advice, and wrote letters of recommendation. That’s probably why I’m still in contact with several of them to this day.”

Golden State Warriors fans will be thrilled to learn that the team’s “strength in numbers” approach extends to a teamsized contingent of USF alumni working for the championship-winning organization. USFers coordinate media coverage, cater to corporate clients’ luxury suite needs, build local partnerships, and more. “It was so surreal being at all the games last season and witnessing the team’s historic 73-win season,” says sport management alumna Natalie Bohonsky MA ’15, who does public relations for the Warriors and the San Francisco 49ers. “It’s something I’ll never forget.” Paul Ratner MA ’08, who started as a Warriors sport management intern while at USF, is the team’s director of suite and hospitality solutions. Public Affairs Coordinator Sebastian Conn MA ’16 spent much of last year as an intern building partnerships and educating city leaders and residents about the advantages of the Warriors’ new Mission Bay arena, which is currently in the planning stage.

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USF Alumni Bolster Warriors’ Strength

Strength in numbers: Paul Ratner MA ’08, Tom Sweeney MA ’13, Nick Bisho MA ’03, Stevie Gray MA ’04, and Joel Kretzinger MA ’10 ( from left).

Nick Bisho MA ’03 works in suite sales, Stevie Gray MA ’04 works in ticket operations, Theo Ellington MA ’16 is public affairs director, Joel Keylon MA ’15 is a partnership development coordinator, Joel Kretzinger MA ’10 works in ticket services, and Tom Sweeney MA ’13 is an account executive.

“Attending the 2015 championship parade with my parents was the most exciting experience I have had so far working for the Warriors,” says Keylon, a sport management alumnus who chose the program for its location in one of the hottest sports markets in the country.

Former Foghorn Editor Leads Bleacher Report Before Rory Brown ’05 was president of one of the most-read sports websites in the country, he spent his days cranking out copy and assigning stories to reporters working for USF’s student newspaper. It’s been more than a decade since Brown was the San Francisco Foghorn’s editor-in-chief, but the lessons he learned continue to inform his work at Bleacher Report, a sports news site that launched in San Francisco in 2007 and was bought by Turner Broadcasting four years ago. The site reaches more than 200 million people a month. “The best skill I started to hone in college was leadership and management, and I did a lot of that at the Foghorn,” says Brown. “I managed a pretty small staff, but

had to put out a product we were accountable for.” Brown, a media studies major, published his first article in the Foghorn his sophomore year and rose to editor-in-chief by senior year, drawing inspiration from some of the media professionals he met in his USF classes. “That’s a big part of what makes USF great: You can take a class and a week into the semester your professor brings in the theater critic of the San Francisco Chronicle or a writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,” he says. “At other schools, you might have pretty compelling speakers, but you’re not going to be able to sit there and shake their hand and ask questions. You’re sitting there with a couple hundred people.”


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ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL PARKS

PRESERVING AMERICA’S BEST IDEA Giant sequoias, towering granite slopes, and black bears draw an estimated four million visitors to Yosemite National Park each year. As the country celebrates the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, park ranger Heather Boothe MPA ’04 leads an 11,000-strong volunteer effort to give something back to America’s best idea and preserve the land for generations to come. The master’s in public administration alumna heads the volunteer program at Yosemite, coordinating thousands of tourists each year to pick up trash, build trails, and root out invasive plants like dandelions and bull thistle. “To be here this year, the centennial of the park service, is really exciting,” says Boothe. “I feel like I’m part of


something much bigger than myself or even Yosemite.” The 25-year veteran of the park service says studying at USF gave her insights into management best practices that she still draws on — like how to standardize volunteer procedures across the National Park Service. “I was attracted to the university’s culture of promoting public service,” she says. “I really liked having professors who had worked or were still working in the public sector and had real-world experiences to share.” After graduating, she was promoted to manage rangers at the Curecanti National Recreation Area in Colorado and then put in charge of Yosemite’s volunteer program.

Since then, she’s expanded the number of volunteers at Yosemite by nearly 40 percent, says Boothe, who led the team that literally wrote the National Park Service manual on how to grow and manage volunteer efforts. She’s also taught classes on the topic at parks across the nation. Boothe has worked as a ranger in 10 parks, where she’s encountered everything from bears to mountain lions. But there’s something particularly special about Yosemite, she says. “I work in a place that other people spend their whole lives dreaming of visiting, and I get to see some of the world’s most beautiful wildlife and forests every day,” she says. “It’s an incredible opportunity.”

A Musical Warning Climate captures the sound of planetary catastrophe What sound does a planet make as it spirals toward extreme weather events and sea level rise that could displace 760 million people? That’s what Stephan Crawford MSEM ’11 set out to learn when he brought a team of climate scientists and musicians together to create a kind of musical warning to the world. “It is science-inspired art,” says the master’s in environmental management alumnus of the 30-minute composition Climate, which follows the ups and downs of hundreds of years of climate data. Crawford’s 10-member Climate Music Project collective — made up of scientists and musicians from around the Bay Area — have performed Climate live at Grace Cathedral

in San Francisco, the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, and The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The group’s music has also been highlighted on KQED public radio. Using deft instrumentation, Climate tells the story of rising temperatures and carbon levels, and spreading ocean acidity from the time of the industrial revolution to 2300, when parts of the planet could be uninhabitable for humans. “Our mission is to create and perform science-guided music to awaken, educate, and inspire a broad and diverse audience to engage actively on the issue of climate change,” Crawford says.

Scientists and musicians give voice to Earth strained by climate change.

WATCH AND LISTEN usfca.edu/musical-warning

Laurel Kleiber Harrop ’10 runs an award-winning recycling company she founded to keep hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste out of landfills, including some that’s toxic. The business administration alumna’s company, Laurel Environmental Group, oversees the streetlamp recycling program for PG&E’s entire 70,000 square-mile service territory and also works with Caltrans to recycle its lights along California highways. “As PG&E converts its outdated streetlamps to more efficient LEDs, we’re managing the process of dismantling and recycling approximately 180,000 streetlights for them,” Harrop says. “More than 95 percent of each fixture is recycled as scrap metal, plastic, and glass.” A few internal components and the light bulbs, containing a small amount of mercury, are all that remain in the end — those go to the dump or a hazardous waste facility, respectively.

COURTESY OF LAUREL KLEIBER HARROP ’10

How to Build a Business and Save the Planet


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A NEW HOME FOR THE MEXICAN MUSEUM

CHAMPIONING LATINO CULTURE When San Francisco’s The Mexican Museum dedicated the cornerstone of its new building across from the Museum of Modern Art in July, it was the culmination of more than three years’ work by Andrew Kluger JD ’78. Kluger led the $63 million effort to construct a new home for the museum, which comprises one of the premiere collections of its kind in the nation —

Andrew Kluger JD ’78 is building a permanent home for thousands of artworks.


including works by painters Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. The museum is a labor of love for Kluger, who believes it will contribute to San Francisco’s diversity as well as enhance residents’ and visitors’ knowledge and understanding of Latin American and Chicano culture. “In particular, I think the new museum is going to help second- and third-gen-

eration Americans learn about their heritage,” says Kluger, who’s chairman of the museum’s board of trustees as well as a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. When completed in spring 2019, The Mexican Museum’s 16,500 pieces of pre-Hispanic, colonial, Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano art will fill four stories and span 56,000 square feet in a new building at the heart of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Garden Arts Center. It’s expected to draw thousands more visitors and exhibit hundreds of additional works, compared to its current 11,000-square-foot Fort Mason location. Kluger helped guide the museum’s Smithsonian accreditation and won support from art and philanthropy luminaries such as Guadalupe Rivera Martin, Diego Rivera’s daughter; Ann Rockefeller Roberts, daughter of Nelson A. Rockefeller; and actor and director Edward James Olmos. Kluger was born in Mexico City and moved with his family to San Francisco when he was 13. He graduated from Marina Middle School and Lowell High School. He’s the founder and CEO of Early Bird Alert, a medical technology company; a managing partner of Bluegrass Assisted Living; and CEO of Medical Business Systems, a medical billing company. During his tenure as museum chairman, he’s built bridges to USF. The Thacher Gallery, for example, has displayed some of the museum’s works, and USF museum studies students have curated those exhibits. Some students have even interned at The Mexican Museum itself. “Much like the Jesuits, I am a big believer in giving back and working to repair the world,” Kluger says.

Inspiring a New Generation of Rights Activists U.S. Congressman John Lewis visited campus and called on a new generation of activists to organize and fight for minorities’ rights, at a speaking event and book signing in August. Lewis was promoting March, a graphic novel trilogy about his life that occupied the top three slots on The New York Times bestsellers list for paperback graphic books this summer, when the third book was released. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate to stand up and do something! Speak up. Sit in. Or find a way to make a difference,” said the Georgia lawmaker, who Martin

U.S. Congressman John Lewis (right) challenges young people to speak up, sit in, make a difference.

Luther King Jr. nicknamed the “Boy From Troy” — a nod to Lewis’ hometown. March portrays the struggles, sacrifices, and

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successes of the civil rights movement, with the congressman as a main character. At USF, Lewis, his congressional policy adviser and co-author

Andrew Aydin, and illustrator Nate Powell discussed the ability of the comic series to reach young people.

Alumna Continues MLK’s Dream Taylor Jackson ’14 wasn’t alive when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. But today, she receives career advice from USF Visiting Diversity Professor Clarence B. Jones — friend, legal counsel, and speechwriter to King, and the person who most helped King craft the speech. “I’ll be telling my grandkids about getting the opportunity to learn from him,” says the theology and religious studies grad, of the civil rights icon. Jackson, now a consultant for the California State Legislature’s labor and employment committee, took Jones’ class From Slavery to Obama her junior year

— coincidentally, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Jones’ lessons of changemaking inspired Jackson to work in politics when she graduated. Her first job was working as a legislative aide for California Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, D–West Covina, where she advised on laws that legalized physician-assisted suicide and created a state Native American Day holiday. “Even if I don’t work in government in the future, I know I want to be in a field where I’m making a positive impact,” Jackson says.


On the set of Rocket, the short film that beat long odds.

MEDIA STUDIES ALUMNAE JOIN ELITE FILMMAKERS

ROCKETING TO AN ACADEMY AWARD Brenna Malloy ’13 and Sarah Hulsman ’13 have won a Student Academy Award for their short film Rocket. The prize — from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars — puts the two media studies graduates in elite company with previous Student Academy Awardwinning filmmakers, including Robert Zemeckis, John Alan Lasseter, and Spike Lee — who went on to direct Forrest Gump, Toy Story, and Malcolm X, respectively. Rocket won bronze in the narrative short film category, and took home top prizes from festivals in Los Angeles and London earlier this year. Directed by Malloy and produced by Hulsman, the film is a coming-of-age tale set in the world of 1950s dirt track car racing. “Rocket was two years in the making, so the recognition it has received is something of a relief and feels amazing,” says Malloy, who completed the film for her master’s project at Chapman


University’s top-10 ranked Dodge College film school. But the filmmakers aren’t basking in the glow of their win. In fact, Malloy is hard at work on two new feature scripts. Hulsman, also a Dodge College graduate student and a producer at Burbank, California-based digital media company CreatorUp!, is producing a short horror film. The two knew each other at USF but didn’t join forces as director and producer until graduate school when they created another award-winning short film Nisei (2015). Nisei tells the story of a multi-ethnic couple torn apart by the American government’s Japanese internment actions after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Director of film studies Danny Plotnick and media studies Professor Bernadette Barker-Plummer were big inf luences on both Malloy and Hulsman during their time at USF, they say. “Danny taught me how to

write a script, how to light a scene, how to edit. The list goes on. Most importantly though, he taught me how to tell a compelling story,” Hulsman says. Malloy, who grew up in Orange County, California, came to USF at the recommendation of her father Kevin ’85 and grandfather Tom ’61. “After I visited, I knew it was the place for me. San Francisco is an incredible place to spend your college years,” Malloy says. At USF, Hulsman learned that everyone has a story to tell and that it’s important to practice inclusiveness with everyone you meet, even if you don’t agree with their point of view. “USF helped me decide that I want to work to make the world a more positive, more inclusive place, namely through film,” Hulsman says. “That’s something I look for in the projects I take on. It’s at the heart of the person I want to be.” WATCH THE ROCKET TRAILER usfca.edu/rocket-movie

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Fundraising for Fashionistas Christena Reinhard’s online clothing store is about more than looking good — it’s about doing good too. Union & Fifth sells donated luxury goods, from gently used Gucci handbags to Burberry summer dresses, and gives the proceeds to a charity the customer chooses. It’s the first nonprofit of its kind in the country, says Reinhard MBA ’08, who credits her master of business administration education with helping her launch the big-hearted shopping site in 2014. “It’s a win-win for women who love both shopping and helping their favorite cause,” Reinhard says. At USF, Reinhard learned the skills to be an entrepreneur, including how to write a business plan, pitch investors, market, and coordinate logistics. When it was time to launch Union & Fifth, she drew on support and advice from former professors and classmates. “So many people stepped up to help,” she says. “Professor Mitchell Friedman talked public relations with me; Professor John Durham talked advertising with me; classmates who work at huge marketing companies helped me plan marketing strategies.”

Today the nonprofit has 15 employees in California, Ohio, and Massachusetts and partners with brands like Eileen Fisher to expand its business and distribute overstock merchandise. Its innovative approach has garnered attention from magazines like Women’s Wear Daily and Redbook.

First-of-its-Kind Gym Welcomes Diversity When customers sign up for Nathalie Huerta’s gym, they’re asked two questions: “What’s your name?” and “What’s your preferred gender pronoun?” It’s one way Huerta ’05, who is gay, makes The Perfect Sidekick an inclusive and safe space for everyone. The East Oakland gym is billed as the first LGBTQ gym in the country and it has a significant transgender client base. CNN and Latina magazine are just two of the national media outlets that have interviewed the first-time entrepreneur. “Had it not been for a class I took at USF, I would never have gotten into the fitness industry,” says Huerta, who won a Stanford Latino Business Initiative fellowship to help her grow her 6-yearold business. The kinesiology major was drawn to

personal training after taking a class with Professor Christian Thompson that taught students how to create personalized workout routines. After graduation, she quickly found work in Los Angeles as a trainer. But Huerta often felt uncomfortable working out with men and decided to found her own gym in 2010. The Perfect Sidekick requires employee sensitivity training, offers specialized exercise regimens for people undergoing gender transition, and provides gender-neutral locker rooms where members can change in stalls. “For me, The Perfect Sidekick is more than just a gym,” Huerta says. “It’s a group of people working and supporting each other through life’s many phases.”


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Molly Goodenbour returned to the Hilltop this fall, accepting the women’s head basketball coaching job after Jennifer Azzi stepped down in September. It’s Goodenbour’s third time coaching at USF. She was previously an assistant coach for the 1994–95 and 2005–06 seasons. She played college ball for Stanford University as a guard and was a Final Four MVP in 1992. “I am extremely excited to be back at USF and have the opportunity to lead the women’s basketball program,” Goodenbour said. She came to USF from California State University, East Bay, where she was named head coach in June. Before that, she led California State University, Dominguez Hills to a 77–34 record over four seasons. Under Goodenbour’s leadership, Dominguez Hills won two California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament championships, clinched two regular season titles, and made three NCAA Division II appearances. Goodenbour began her coaching career in 1994 at USF. She transitioned

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Goodenbour Named Women’s Basketball Coach

to playing professionally in Sweden, the American Basketball League, and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1995–99, before suffering a career-ending ACL injury. In 2002, she returned to coaching. Goodenbour replaces Azzi, who

stepped down after six seasons at USF. In her final season, Azzi steered the women’s basketball squad to a West Coast Conference tournament championship and returned the team to NCAA tournament play for the first time in 19 years.

Provost Stresses Jesuit Values

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New Provost Donald E. Heller believes USF’s Jesuit values of educating the whole person, teaching students to be men and women for others, and helping students to cultivate a moral center, underpin the USF advantage. So he asks how those values guide each university program and project — even those still in the works. “The university is talking about starting a college of engineering,” says Heller, who came to USF in January 2016 from Michigan State University. “How could we do that in the USF tradition? What would it mean to teach engineering for the common good?”

USF has hired nationally recognized enrollment and communications expert Michael Beseda as the university’s new vice provost for strategic enrollment management. Beseda joined USF from Willamette University in Oregon, where he was vice president for enrollment and university communications since 2013. He overhauled Willamette’s recruitment, admissions, and financial aid processes, which resulted in an incoming class that was academically stronger and more ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse.

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HOW BIASED ARE SLOW-MOTION REPLAYS? In an age when acts of violence are caught on video and uploaded to the internet within minutes, slow-motion replays in courtrooms might be biasing juries, according to new research by Zachary Burns, an associate professor of organizational behavior who studies the psychology of judgment and decision making. Burns’ study found that watching a slow-motion video of a shooting during an armed robbery made viewers more likely to see the act as premeditated and more likely to convict the accused of first-degree murder. The findings made headlines in the Los Angeles Times and BBC News for their potential to affect an untold number of cases centering around the intentions of those who commit a violent act. Burns and fellow researchers from the University of Virginia and University of Chicago published the results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August.

“Judges have an extremely difficult job in deciding what evidence should be allowed in trials,” he says. “We hope that the research provides some empirical evidence that judges can consider when making this decision.” His personal hope is that slow-motion

evidence never be shown in trials where the main question is of someone’s intention. “But that should still be decided by judges on a case-by-case basis,” Burns says.

Student Named to State Teaching Commission USF sociology and dual degree in teacher preparation student Grace Wakefield ’16, MAT ’17 beat out other top California students earlier this year to win a student-liaison seat on the state’s teacher credentialing board. The 21-member California Commission on Teacher Credentialing sets teacher standards and oversees testing and certification. The appointment puts Wakefield at the center of state discussions on how to reverse shortages of bilingual, special education, and STEM (science,


technology, engineering, and math) teachers. She’s also involved in a new initiative to ensure teachers can demonstrate competence on socioemotional and cultural issues as well as in academics. “I’m a voice for teaching candidates, which is critical because the credentialing board’s decisions directly impact what we have to do in order to become teachers,” Wakefield says. A multiyear USF President’s Merit Award Scholarship recipient, Wakefield is co-president and co-founder of the

Future Teacher Association club on campus, a social and professional support group for aspiring and current educators. She’s also a co-researcher, with communications professor Brandi Lawless, studying how students perceive teachers’ communication of emotions and how it impacts their performance. Wakefield was drawn to the dual degree program for its critical-pedagogy approach, its embrace of social justice, and because she’ll be able to graduate in five years with a teaching credential.

A Breakthrough Medical Website USF nurses and educators have teamed up to create a groundbreaking website to help health care professionals identify and treat environmentrelated health illnesses like lead poisoning, asthma, sickness from oil and gas fracking, and cancers from dry-cleaning chemicals. The EnviRN-Evidence website puts the latest research, lists of symptoms, and possible tests and treatments at nurses’ fingertips as never before. It also includes a library of video tutorials. “The environment is one of the primary determinants of individual and community health,” says Claire Sharifi, nursing and public health reference librarian at Gleeson Library. “Unfortunately, most health care providers, including nurses, are inadequately prepared to identify or respond appropriately to environmental hazards or conditions.” The website was created by USF’s Barbara Sattler, a nationally known public health nurse, and Sharifi, with help from graduate and undergraduate nursing and education students who transcribed lectures, created webcasts, and recorded and edited audio. The project was funded by a National Library of Medicine Express Outreach Award.

From Homeless Youth to High School Grads While Nina Torres ’16 was studying human rights law and globalization in USF’s Master in Human Rights Education program, she was also working full-time at San Francisco’s Larkin Street Youth Services, tutoring at-risk and homeless youth for the GED exam and teaching them job interview skills. The alumna, who now works at the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, came back to San Francisco in July to celebrate the high school graduations of five of her former students.

IN THE MEDIA “Of course I’d like to believe the so-called achievement gap could close, or I wouldn’t be in the business of education. But it would require a much more humanizing approach to education.” Patrick Camangian, associate professor of teacher education, discussing the achievement gap for underserved students. (San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 24)

“This has put us on the precipice ... of more chaos and a return to the violence we saw in the 1960s.” James L. Taylor, director of African American studies, discussing police shootings of unarmed black men. (San Jose Mercury News, July 8)

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THE PEOPLE’S POPE

COVERING POPE FRANCIS AS A VATICAN REPORTER By Katia López-Hodoyán ’02


For almost five years, I was one of the lucky ones. I left my flat on Via Gregorio VII strada in Rome each morning and walked to St. Peter’s Square. During those years, the square was like a second home to me. I was a Vatican news correspondent for the independent news agency Rome Reports, from May 2011 to January 2016. Wherever the pope went, I followed. I had uncommon access to Christianity’s most influential governing body. I also had a front row seat to history. I covered Pope Benedict XVI for two years, and was there when he resigned. It was the first time a pope had stepped down in 600 years. Even us

insiders never imagined the 85-year-old pope, who cited advancing age and poor health, would make such a decision. When Pope Francis was elected, most reporters, like the public, didn’t know him. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was not a socalled ‘papabili,’ or papal frontrunner. But he was the first pope from the Americas, the first non-European pope since 731 and, perhaps most remarkably, the first Jesuit — a semi-autonomous congregation of priests known for establishing schools and colleges (like USF) around the world since St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the order in 1540. If we wondered whether so many firsts would carry over into how the church was run, we received our answer a month into Pope Francis’ papacy. He planned to live in the Vatican’s unpretentious guesthouse, he told us, instead of the papal palace. It was unheard of. The first Jesuit pope marches to the beat of his own drum. He leaves prepared speeches aside and ad libs. He sets his own protocols and has an uncanny ability to communicate a message without uttering a word. His smile emits joy, and his approachability resonates with Catholics and atheists alike. He is known for cracking jokes and for a boundless energ y that belies his 80 years and leaves decades-younger reporters out of breath. He ends his private meetings with heads of state and everyday families with a humble request: “Please pray for me.”

SLUMS: AN IMPROMPTU VISIT Many moments stand out from my days covering the Vatican. But one still manages to move my heart. Pope Francis was on his way to celebrate Mass in a parish four miles from the Vatican. With a full security entourage, a three-car convoy, and members of the media in tow, he asked his driver to pull over. He had seen a shantytown from his window and wanted to visit. About two dozen immigrant families,

mostly from Latin America and Eastern Europe, lived there in homes patched together from scavenged bricks, plywood, plastic, and metals. The narrow passages between the hovels were mostly dust and trash. When the pope entered, the residents stopped in their tracks. Then about 50 people ran to meet him, as if to prove to themselves he was flesh and blood. He posed for selfies and hugged toddlers. Then he asked the group to pray with him. Cell phone cameras were set down, smiles turned to reverence and joy to devotion. Everyone huddled around him in a circle and bowed their heads. The pope began: “Our Father, who art in heaven … ” The group joined him. It was only 10 minutes, but it set him apart in my mind. He was completely comfortable with the people he met there. In fact, he had a reputation for visits like this in his native Argentina, I later learned. The next day, I retur ned to that shantytown to interview some of the immigrants. One man couldn’t stop smiling; another was on the verge of tears. When I asked the second why he was so moved, he said he was convinced that the pope’s humble heart had led him to their humble settlement. Another man told me of a friend in the encampment who’d just been diagnosed with cancer and didn’t have money for treatment. He couldn’t have asked for a better sign, he said, to show that his friend wasn’t alone on her painful journey.

A BLESSING FROM THE POPE I covered the pope’s visit to the slum as a reporter of course, but as a Catholic and a USF alumna, I found it touched me personally. It was a reminder of my days at USF, where serving others and social justice were ever present — from chasing articles about how fair trade helps impoverished communities for the San Francisco Foghorn to peacefully protesting against the training of international

militar y personnel at Fort Benning, Georgia (formerly the School of the Americas) with University Ministry. Those immigrants lived so close and yet so far from the celestial ceilings of the Sistine Chapel. But at that moment, the pope chose to be with them, to just be with them: the marginalized, the poor, the excluded. With that visit, the pope showed them they are part of society and that they matter to the church and to him. And he reminded us all that in a world in which we’re all outsiders of one kind or another, those who live on the fringes are just as worthy of our time and respect. Seeing Jesuit values come to life in such a way was moving, even awe-inspiring. Covering Pope Francis for three years, I witnessed many of his little and notso-little acts of humility and kindness. Yet he continually surprised me. Perhaps I should have expected the unexpected then when I came face-to-face with the pontiff in October 2015, while I was covering the Synod of Bishops on the Family — a meeting of church leaders to reflect on how the church can better serve families. While rereading my notes in a quiet Vatican corridor between meetings, I noticed people passing quickly and mumbling. I looked up to see Pope Francis walking 10 feet from me. I wanted to approach him. But I hesitated. Who was I to barge into his space? Besides, his bodyg uards were beside him. Then our eyes met and he smiled. That was all I needed. I went to him and asked to be blessed. His bodyg uards didn’t stop me. He invited me close, then reached out and touched my forehead and made the sign of the cross. I bowed my head and thanked him. Looking up, I realized he too had a request. “Please,” he asked, “remember to pray for me.” And ever since that day, I have. /////



IT WAS A FRIDAY AT THE END OF MARCH 2015 WHEN A STAFFER RUSHED INTO TONY SCOTT’S OFFICE. “THERE’S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF,” SCOTT ’88 REMEMBERS HEARING, AS HE LOOKED UP FROM HIS DESK IN THE EISENHOWER EXECUTIVE BUILDING NEXT TO THE WHITE HOUSE …

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Scott was told that U.S. government computers were under attack and had been for some time — likely the work of a foreign state. It was worst-case scenario stuff. Four million U.S. gover nment employees’ records at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had been hacked, including sensitive employee background checks. But that wasn’t the worst of it. He eventually discovered the number was closer to 21 million, the largest hack of American government information ever.

TONY SCOTT ’88 GUARDS OUR NATION’S SENSITIVE INFORMATION Scott, the nation’s third chief information officer (CIO), told his assistant to gather the crisis response team. The problem, he learned, was that no such team existed. Or at least none with standing members and a vetted stepby-step plan for how to secure affected systems and files, analyze what data had been compromised, trace how the intruders had gained access, and work with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to track down and bring to justice those responsible. “It was a wake-up call,” Scott said. “I realized then we weren’t well organized internally or well coordinated with other government agencies externally, including law enforcement.” The breach was hardly the welcome Scott might have hoped for to his new position, a job he'd started just seven weeks earlier. “It’s not a job I ever thought I would do,” said Scott, who graduated from USF with an information systems degree and went on to earn a law degree at Santa Clara University. He was working in IT at Sun Microsystems when he enrolled in evening classes at USF, with the goal of finishing a


degree he’d started in his native Illinois two years earlier. He immediately felt at home. “At USF, I found myself in an environment that was adaptable to my work schedule; I was learning with peers about my same age who, like me, already had some working experience to draw on and added to the course; and I found the instructors to be world class in their knowledge, g uidance, and wisdom,” Scott said.

PROTECT THE NATION'S DATA When the Obama administration tapped Scott, he was CIO at VMware, an industry leader in cloud computing headquartered in Palo Alto. He’d spent 30 years working as a top technology executive at companies such as Microsoft, Disney, and General Motors. He was first approached about the government position in September 2014 at the Techonomy Detroit conference where he spoke about the need to increase diversity in the tech sector. “I turned them down a couple of times,” Scott said of the White House’s offer. “But the ask got stronger and stronger each time, and every objection I had they figured out a way to neutralize — so in the end, I had no choice but to say ‘yes.’”

"IT W AS A W A KE-UP CALL." On Feb. 5, 2015, President Obama introduced Scott as the new U.S. CIO — a position the president created six years earlier to get a handle on the federal government’s sprawling civilian IT infrastructure. The move to hire Scott was part of a broad effort to bring more top tech talent from private firms to Washington to speed the transition to digital government and fix the fallout from the healthcare.org launch — when thousands of Americans couldn’t sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act because the website didn’t work.


As CIO, Scott oversees technology for the American government’s 24 cabinetlevel departments, manages an $84 billion IT budget, leads the federal government’s move from paper to digital records, and manages dozens of federal teams working to protect the personal information the government stores — whether that’s veterans’ health data, Social Security payments, or tax records. Ultimately, Scott accepted the post because he wanted to serve a bigger purpose and give back in some way. The inclination had grown as he weighed the move and reflected on the values behind his USF education, growing up Catholic, and the death of his father a year earlier. “The more I thought about it, the more it intrigued me,” he said. “I’d been through the digitization move at several places. And it occurred to me that it was a time in the government transition when leadership and experience in the position would probably make a difference, and I thought there was something I could contribute.”

CYBERSECURITY SPRINT Less than two months into the job, 21 million federal employees’ personal information was hacked. It didn’t come as a complete surprise. “When I first came on board, one of the things I had a strong sense of was that cyber was one of the areas we were going to have to double down on and really pay a lot of attention to,” Scott said. “You could look around and see in the retail sector, in the banking sector, in the media and entertainment sector, to name a few, that there had been a series of occurrences. To believe that the government was somehow immune to that was not credible.” If anything, the OPM hack put an exclamation mark on the work he already thought needed to be done, Scott said. The good news was the attack was discovered and shut down thanks to recent cybersecurity improvements. So, things were moving in the right direction. He used the breach to deliver a stark message to Obama administration insiders and lawmakers that they were going to have to spend money to secure the government’s information and to update old technologies to prevent similar attacks in the future — attacks such as the suspected Russian hacks of Democratic National Committee computers in July. “One should never waste a good crisis,” Scott said. “They’re great motivators and help everyone row in the same direction, which is extremely helpful when you’re trying to make big changes.” By June, Scott and his newly formed crisis management team initiated a 30-day

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THE U.S. CYBERSECURITY NATIONAL ACTION PLAN WAS RELEASED IN FEBRUARY, THE FIRST SUCH PLAN IN THE NATION’S HISTORY. cybersecurity sprint, requiring government agencies to identify all vulnerable systems, patch critical holes, review and begin to limit the number of users with access to crucial operations, and dramatically accelerate the implementation of two-factor login authentication — requiring a user ID and personal smart card. “Basically, I had them set aside everything they were working on to focus on this for a month,” Scott said. “The vast majority of fixes boiled down to basic house cleaning and maintenance that hadn’t been done for years.” In fact, two-factor authentication had been a federal policy for a decade but only 28 percent of civilian agencies had adopted it. After the sprint, 75 percent had implemented it and more have since. Before the OPM hack, thousands of security holes were past the 30-day period when they should have been fixed. Today, 99 percent are patched. “I’m very happy with the improvements Mr. Scott has implemented, including two-factor authentication and limiting workers’ access to the minimum resources necessary to do their jobs,” said E.J. Jung, a computer security and privacy expert who teaches computer science at USF. “It’s about time the government followed through on industry-standard practices.” At the same time, she’d like to see those and other fundamental security protocols implemented 100 percent government-wide. Thousands of employees can still log in with just a password, Jung said — which means hackers only need a list of stolen passwords to break in.

50-YEAR-OLD COMPUTERS Scott has directed government IT leaders to begin using the Department of Homeland Security’s cuttingedge cybersecurity software EINSTEIN, designed to detect and thwart intrusions from the outset. Plus, President Obama, with Scott’s guidance and support, released the U.S. Cybersecurity National Action Plan in February, the first such plan in the nation’s history. The plan calls for a 35 percent increase to the current cybersecurity budget to $19 billion, along with a list of additional security enhancements.


“WE CAN CRITICIZE THE CYBERSECURIT Y STATE OF SYSTEMS IN THE FEDER AL GOVERNMENT, BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE SYSTEMS WERE CREATED IN AN AGE WHEN THEY DIDN'T FACE THE T YPES OF THREATS THAT EXIST TODAY.”


“At USF, my classmates and the faculty came from every cross section of America, with different ethnic, economic, and global backgrounds,” Scott said. “It was a huge factor in my USF experience. In my classes, we had such insightful discussions that I was able to take ideas from there to work and apply them directly.”

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If cybersecurity has consumed much of Scott’s attention since the OPM hack, updating antiquated technolog y and recruiting a new generation of IT experts have been close behind. When Scott was hired, he learned some government computer systems were 50 years old. One Defense Department system that sends emergency messages to U.S. nuclear forces still runs on 1970s IBM machines and uses 8-inch floppy discs. Maintaining the government’s aging technologies consumes $67 billion of the U.S.’s $84 billion IT budget. “We can criticize the cybersecurity state of systems in the federal government, but the truth is that the systems were created in an age when they didn’t face the types of threats that exist today,” Scott said. In addition to improving security, new technology will support the shift to digital government. All agencies need payroll and human resources systems, many make and receive payments for goods and services, others do case and/or patient management. Today, such services can be accessed in the cloud, making them more

secure, cheaper to expand or shrink based on agencies’ needs, and less complex to run compared to departments buying or developing their own. “It’s a completely different concept than the government's used before,” Scott said.

THE NEXT GENERATION The digital shift requires recruiting a new generation of techies to government. For Scott, that means hiring more women, minorities, and employees who speak multiple languages, as well as hiring from different regions of the U.S. “We want to make sure the people in our workforce represent the people in our national population,” Scott said. “We think that richness of spectrum contributes to a much better dialogue and more inclusive and successful IT policy.” Scott saw the benefits of diversity at USF. As someone who worked in IT, he’d run up against gaps in companies’ knowledge when they attempted to expand abroad or market a product to a different population — occasionally running afoul of cultural values.

Scott’s expertise on recruiting, the digital transition, and cybersecurity are examples of the knowledge USF information systems graduates gain from the program, said Mouwafac Sidaoui, chair of the Department of Business Analytics and Information Systems. Graduates include Spotify Vice President of Engineering Craig Butler ’08, former California Chief Information Security Officer Michele Robinson ’05, Nike Director of North America Systems and Data Kelly Madigan ’99, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Brian Tippens ’96. “Our program provides students with a foundation in both the functional areas of business and in computing technologies,” Sidaoui said. “This blend enables graduates to appreciate the strategic role of technology, formulate a vision for information systems, and communicate that vision.” Recruiting techies to D.C. requires a different approach than hiring in Silicon Valley, particularly since the private sector pays more — a fact Scott knows firsthand, having taken a salary cut to work at the White House. “Sure, I’d like to see these roles pay better,” Scott said. But his pitch isn’t about money; it’s about helping recruits find a profession that resonates with their values. He wants employees who are driven by the challenge of “working on the hardest problems at the biggest scale with the greatest impact,” as he’s fond of saying. “If that’s what they’re looking for, there’s no better place than the federal government,” Scott said. “For me, this has been the challenge and the opportunity of a lifetime.” Enough of an opportunity, he said, that he’ll consider staying on under a new administration if asked. /////


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AS HE ALT H CARE SHIFTS, USF LE ADS Sabin is one of 141 recent grads to benefit from T2P, a multi-year test program funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. The program has a 98 percent job placement rate and internship partnerships with 80 Bay Area clinics, schools, and hospices. And it’s just one of a handful of initiatives being piloted by the School of Nursing and Health Professions and its alumni. Each of the programs puts students and recent graduates on the front lines of compassionate care and provides bedside training in clinics and outpatient health centers. That training is vital, because health care under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is undergoing a major shift — moving toward personal and preventative outpatient care and away from hospitals for nonemergencies. The change is meant to improve outcomes, cut costs, and reduce deaths from hospitalrelated errors and infections. The result? Nurses are needed in doctors’ offices and outpatient clinics now more than ever. Treatments that used to require hospital stays — like chemotherapy, blood


transfusions, and many surgeries — can now be handled in facilities that discharge patients the same day. While some nursing programs have been slow to adjust, USF has led the way, developing bedside nurse-training programs for outpatient care that have won support from regional and national funders, opened doors to jobs for graduates, and raised the standard of care for Bay Area residents. The approach has been so successful that students in these programs average 250 clinical outpatient-training hours, nearly triple the 90 hours required in California. “At USF, we continue to provide hospital-based nurse training, but we’ve also expanded the student learning experience to include senior care, home health care, and outpatient care — making them integral parts of our nursing and health curriculum,” said Associate Dean Scott Ziehm. “We incorporate community health care at many levels, not just in one class like many nursing schools.” While gaining career training, students and alumni also serve communities from San Francisco to Oakland and from Marin to Sacramento, where they reach low-income families, the homeless, veterans, and other vulnerable populations — channeling the university’s Jesuit mission. At Ward 86, Sabin learned to conduct psychiatric and physical assessments, discuss patients’ diagnoses with supervisors, and practice motivational interviewing to encourage patients to open up about their health and histories. Her mentor, a 20-year nursing veteran, also helped her network for jobs. After completing T2P, Sabin started at Westside Community Services HIV clinic in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, caring for HIV/AIDS patients. She later worked at California Pacific Medical

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OAKL AND: TAKING TIME WIT H PATIENTS At La Clinica De La Raza in Oakland, bilingual nursing students make sure patients — many of whom are low-income immigrants — receive the most from their doctors visits. About 12 USF graduate students a semester guide mostly Spanish-speaking patients through their appointments and spend extra time making sure they understand all the instructions and take their medications. It’s a crucial role since doctors spend just 15 minutes with each patient, in order to see as many as possible. Many clients of La Clinica suffer from diabetes and hypertension, living examples of the epidemic of chronic illnesses that affect almost half of all Americans and comprise 86 percent of U.S. health care costs. By taking time to get to know her patients, master’s-level intern Daniela Vargas MSN ’16, MPH ’17 can help stabilize their blood sugar levels and decrease their hypertension — reducing the likelihood of a trip to the hospital where treatment is riskier and more expensive. To educate them on the importance of regular checkups and prevention, she makes sure patients schedule their next appointments before they leave the clinic and asks them to show up, even if they feel fine when the date arrives.

“Before ACA, many of our patients were uninsured and didn’t regularly see a doctor. They waited until their diseases were so out of control they were forced to go to the hospital,” Vargas said. “Now, we work with them to prevent or manage their chronic diseases by creating individual action plans for each, and educating them on exercise, weight loss, and proper nutrition.” Being part of La Clinica’s intern program is a dream come true for Vargas. She’s wanted to be a primary care nurse since working as a nursing assistant at a doctor’s office after high school. But when she looked into graduate nursing programs, few offered to train her in a primary care setting. “I looked nationwide. I was willing to move anywhere. I couldn’t find anything, until USF,” Vargas said. “At La Clinica, we learn to talk to and connect with our patients. We have more one-on-one contact in a primary care setting than at a hospital, and we get to know the patients. I feel like the outcomes for them have been life-changing.”

M AR IN: HEL PING T HE HOMELESS Just across the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, Rita Widergren ’66 is improving health care for another marginalized population — the homeless. Many of Widergren’s patients struggle with alcohol


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and drug abuse and suffer from chronic mental or physical health issues. They’re what nurses and doctors call “frequent fliers,” because they cycle in and out of hospitals, exhausting resources and bouncing from one crisis to the next — often as a result of running out of medication, injuring themselves, or passing out from an overdose. Widergren, an award-winning public health nurse, has developed a solution to that revolving door. She calls it Opportunity Village Marin (OVM). It’s one of the few programs of its kind in the nation that accepts patients without requiring them to enter a detox program, a major deterrent for some patients. Launched with support from Kaiser Permanente and Marin General Hospital, the nonprofit provides the county’s homeless with 21 days of free housing when they leave the hospital — a welcome respite of safety and stability. During that period, OVM’s tiny staff of Widergren and half a dozen volunteers — including several USF graduates, faculty, and students — connect them with doctors, social services, and long-term housing. Since 2014, OVM has assisted 46 homeless patients, finding all of them a “medical home” where they receive ongoing care. None returned to the hospital in the 90 days after discharge, and 88 percent were placed in permanent housing —


saving taxpayers and insurance ratepayers approximately $1.5 million by keeping them out of emergency rooms. Of the 12 patients with substance abuse issues, four voluntarily completed detox and now live in sober group homes designed to facilitate the transition to living on their own. “OVM’s mission is to raise the voices of the most vulnerable and mobilize resources to stabilize their health,” Widergren said. “It’s the Jesuit Catholic tradition at work, supporting a culture of caring that respects and promotes the dignity of every person.”

S ACR AMENTO: CAR ING FOR VETS Indeed, Jesuit values drive all the programs, said Margaret Baker, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions. “These programs, in which our students work with some of our most vulnerable community members, promote care of the whole person,” Baker said. “These students truly learn what it means to be women and men for others.” A good example is USF’s partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care that started a year ago to address a nursing shortage felt by another population with distinct needs — veterans. USF’s VA partnership, a fast-track two-year program, places transfer undergraduate nursing students in veterans clinics and hospitals to learn how to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries, Agent Orange exposure, and other battle-related illnesses. About 20 students are admitted to the program at USF’s Sacramento Campus each year, ensuring a small student-to-faculty ratio and

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WESTERN ADDITION: USF’S OWN CL INIC In the past six years, T2P, La Clinica, OVM, and the USF-VA partnerships have assisted hundreds and maybe thousands of vulnerable patients, as well as prepared a new generation of nurses for careers in an evolving industry, produced new evidence-based nursing practices, and built trusted community partnerships. But that’s only scratching the surface, said Judy Karshmer, who was dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions for the past 10 years until she stepped back from that role this summer and began a one-year sabbatical. Over her sabbatical, she’s leading a campus-wide effort to realize the boldest idea in the school’s history. The school plans to establish a community health center and teaching

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clinic in San Francisco’s Western Addition, a neighborhood close to campus whose residents struggle with poverty, frequent emergency room visits for preventable diseases, and poor prenatal care and birth outcomes compared to the rest of the city. The clinic, which will also treat university students, staff, and faculty, will be a one-stop shop for primary care and mental health needs. The University of San Francisco Integrated Health Clinic and Lab, as it’s being called, could also be a home for research on topics such as chronic disease management and environmental health — drawing on faculty experts from across campus in psychology and health informatics, Karshmer said. She hopes to have the health center up and running by 2018. “It’s the logical next step in the school’s effort to serve those most in need while also preparing the next generation of health professionals,” Karshmer said. “Ultimately, our goal is to close the health gap between the Western Addition and other parts of San Francisco.” /////


THIS IS YOUR USF Visited campus lately? See what new students see when they arrive on the Hilltop.

This fall, 1,570 freshmen and 405 transfer students converged on campus and started their new adventures together as the Class of 2020. These students come from 46 states, 87 countries, and all walks of life. Their average GPA is 3.40. They make up the sixth most diverse campus in the country, and one-third are the first in their families to attend college. Here, in pictures and in words, is USF today.

CHANGE THE WORLD FROM HERE For students in the Class of 2020 . . . There have always been two “first” Star Wars movies. Hybrid cars have always been mass-produced. And Google has always answered their questions instantly.

Like the 1951 Dons football team that stood up for racial equality when others did not, today’s students continue to challenge the status quo — and to remind us that grace can arise in unlikely places.

Lone Mountain’s 142 thighburning steps remain a metaphor for the rigors and rewards of a USF education. Today, USF offers 44 undergraduate majors and 46 minors, from accounting to nursing to urban agriculture, plus more than 60 graduate programs.

Students still study in the Del Santo Reading Room, even late at night when the ghost of Lone Mountain is rumored to roam. The beauty of such campus sights, plus our views of downtown San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, drew a Google photographer to campus earlier this year. He took a

series of 360-degree panoramas, some featured here and others as part of Google Expeditions. USF VIRTUAL VIDEO TOUR usfca.edu/virtual-tour GOOGLE EXPEDITIONS google.com/edu/expeditions

A s much as ever, USF is t he universit y of and for San Francisco. From our campus in t he hear t of t he city, students explore neighborhoods like North Beach and the Mission District. They soak up the city’s spirit of innovation and optimism. They tutor schoolchildren and treat patients in health clinics. And in ever y field, from technolog y to f inance to t he ar ts to nonprof its, USF helps t hem f ind inter nships and careers. Yes, it helps to have roots in the city that invents tomorrow.

While the campus evolves, from new buildings to new social movements, USF holds fast to its Jesuit values. Students come here for the small classes and personal attention. They come to join a community of sharp minds, big hearts, and independent spirits. They lear n that good de ed s a re as i mp or t a nt as go od g r ades, t hat success means more than a salary, and that the pursuit of social justice is the work of a lifetime.

classnotes Batter up! Students blow off steam with a little hall ball (1973 online yearbook).

FEELING NOSTALGIC? USF YEARBOOKS ARE ONLINE! CHECK THEM OUT: usfca.edu/library/dc

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his w ife, MARCIE NOLTER LEACH ’65, to go to Monterey, Hawaii, Canada, etc. Together, they have traveled to Egypt, Jordan, Aust r ia, Eng land, Spa in, and the Netherlands, wanting to see as much of the world as they can. He also teaches Quit Smoking clinics for Kaiser.

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EDWARD IMWINKELRIED JD ’69

authored "Determining Preliminary Facts Under Federal Rule 104," included in the most recent update of American Jurisprudence Trials. MARY JO (DUMMER) CLARK retired

from the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego after teaching there for 29 years. She is currently providing curriculum and accreditation consultation for schools of nursing as well as chair ing a national committee for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. In December, her Peace Cor ps cohort will celebrate their 50th anniversary of entry into Peace Corps training. NANCY NAU SULLIVAN is a graduate

of Sa n F r a nc i sco Col leg e for Women, Lone Mountain, whose alumnae are members of USF’s alumni. She recently published her memoir, The Last Cadillac. Sullivan was a writer and editor on the college newspaper and studied in Madr id, Spain her junior year. Following graduation, she worked in publishing in New York. She lives in Dune Acres, Indiana.

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BILL FUSCO MA ’95 is the senior director of intercollegiate athletics at Sonoma State University. He has been selected as one of 28 athletic directors in the nation to earn the 2015–16 Under Armour Athletics Directors of the Year Award, which honors men and women who are v isionar y leaders in college athlet ics.

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REV. DEBRA LOW-SKINNER

became the priest in charge at Christ Episcopal C hu r c h S e i Ko K a i i n S a n Francisco in February 2016. Th i s 120 -yea r- old pa r i sh serves primarily the Japanese American community, but welcomes all spiritual seekers.

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DUPI GOMEZ COGAN MSN

’13, DNP ’15 is committed to lifelong learning, and completed her doctorate and achieved FNP National Certif ication at the age of 62.

JOHN GHERINI JD ’71

authored a two-volume book, Santa Cruz Island, an Illustrated History, which was released in August 2016. The book contains nearly 600 images, some of which have never been published, and a comprehensive history of the island that is now a part of Channel Islands National Park.

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cont inent s f rom t he soc iet y ’s inter nat ional headquar ters in Rome. She is also a member of the bar in both California and Missouri, and has served on the board of trustees for various academic institutions.

SR. BARBARA DAWSON JD ’76

is the provincial of the Society of the Sacred Heart United States–Canada province. She was elected as the superior general of the International Society of the Sacred Heart in August 2016. The third superior general from the United States in the society’s 216 years, she will oversee the communities and ministries of her religious order in 41 count r ies and si x

JOHN W. MEYER MA ’79 was recently promoted to ch ief operat ing of f icer at Stemtech, where he is celebrat ing 10 year s. He has very fond memories of the USF campus, which he v isited last Februar y. THOMAS OERTEL will retire from Grossmont College after teaching nursing for more than 29 years. His wife, Susan, and their two adult daughters live in San Diego. He received his doctorate in nur sing in 2010 f rom Case Western Reserve. He is going to spend t ime w r it ing and doing research on nursing. His clinical background is in the emergency department and as a family nurse practitioner.

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MARY E. LEW had a rewarding career as a Foreign Service officer and would love to share her overseas exper iences w ith t ho se who a re i ntere sted . Cur rent ly, she is enjoy ing beautiful San Francisco with her family, volunteering for several org an izat ions, and keeping fit at Koret Health & Recreation Center.

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FRANK DUNNIGAN is a

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CLARA MCINERNEY is

historian and wrote Growing Up in San Francisco’s Western Neighborhood.

carr ying on the USF Jesuit tradition with her daughter, SHANNON , who is currently a USF senior.

JEFFREY MINDHAM MA ’80 was

recently appointed chief marketing officer of buyerprice.com, a tech-enabled real estate company that guarantees home buyers pay the lowest pr ice or buyer pr ice.com makes up the d if ference. The company has of f ices in New York C it y and t he U.K. Jef f rey ’s son Ian just g raduated f rom Stel lenbosch University, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Ian now works at Barrows Worldwide, an ad agency in New York City.

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FRANK DUNNIGAN '77 IS A HISTORIAN AND WROTE GROWING UP IN SAN FRANCISCO’S WESTERN NEIGHBORHOOD.

PAMELA KOCKOS

MERCHANT announces t he publ icat ion of her new cookbook, Tradition! Recipes, Tales, and More from My Greek American Life.

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MARY LEIGH MULLIGAN is

living in San Francisco again, and would love to reconnect with old schoolmates.

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JANIE PANSINI RONCHELLI

is enjoying working at Roseland Pediatrics in Santa Rosa, California with a tremendously caring and very professional team of pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and support staff.


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KIM KOVASALA is teaching physical education for Atlantis Academy in Coral Springs, Florida.

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CARLOS RIVERA retired

from Cox Communications after 22 years of service as a TV producer. He covered local and regional sports.

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ALEXANDER R ADICH

ret ired f rom t he California Highway Patrol in July 2015. He is currently the assistant freshman coach for basketball at Moreau Catholic High School in Hay ward, California, and is the Catholic Youth Organization’s athletic director at Holy Spirit Parish in Fremont, California.

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M. AMOS CLIFFORD MA ’88

travels internationally, training forest therapy guides. I n Ju ne 2016, he del ivered a keynote address at the European Forest Medicine Symposium in Belgrade, Serbia.

HILDY SCHELL-CHAPLE was awarded her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. Her area of research is body temperature alterations in critically ill patients, with a focus on fever management. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband Mike Chaple and their two sons who attend Bellarmine College Preparator y and Burlingame Intermediate School. PHING THONG joined Millennium

Partners as an asset manager in the hospitality division.

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CHRISTINE RAHER MSOD ’95

was the 2015 Woman Bowler of the Year of the San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club, Golden Gate Park.

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STEVE M. ANGLIN will be

publishing his 500th book in 2016, as an executive editor at Apress Media of Springer Nature. Prior to Apress, Steve was a publisher of two web-zines for O'Reilly Media.


NATHANIEL ANTHONY "TONY" HAYES

recently completed his first year of teaching vocational English as a Second Lang uage (ESL) at the Sacramento International Rescue Committee (IRC). Tony previously taught ESL courses in Myanmar (formerly Burma) as a Christian missionar y and has taught English in Thailand. Tony love s teac h i ng se condlanguage learners, especially refugees at the IRC.

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IWAN SASTRAWIGUNA

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CHARLES "TOM" CASTRO

would like to reconnect w ith others who were par t of USF’s BFA cooperative programs with the Academy of Art in the 90s.

returned to Dell computers in Texas, where he is leading the DSG divestiture after t wo years at Microsoft in Redmond, Washing ton.

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ROBERT HENDRICKS was

recently named director of sales at the King George Hotel, part of Greystone Hotels, in downtown San Francisco. He has over 20 years of experience in the hotel and hospitality industries, and is excited to join the Greystone team in San Francisco.

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SHARRON JOHNSON-

WILKINS has been a tax preparer and consultant for 20 years. She is an activist and very involved in var ious women's organizations, currently working with Women Inspir ing Women (WIW ).

DENNIS MARZAN entered the

Society of Jesus as a novice on Aug. 21, 2016.

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NOEMI PEREZ has advanced her career to education management after 14 years of classroom instr uction. She oversees teaching staff, curriculum development and desig n, and student achievement.

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MARYA DAVIS is happily

settled as the human resources director at Creating Behav ioral and Educat ional Momentum, a g rowing agency that is looking for dedicated and qualified staff to join their team.

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LUIS A. QUINONEZ MPA ’07

has moved to Zenefits to ma nag e t hei r g over n ment relations and public policy after 10 years as chief of staff to Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla.

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CARLA GUZZETTI PEARSE

has moved f rom international marketing for Lonely Planet, USA, to global head of sales for Immediate Media Co., working with 75 brands from London and Bristol, U.K. CARISSA F. SANTOS is a fourth-year

medical student at UCSD School of Medicine, and concurrently part of PRIME, a small cohort of selected students with a focus in underserved populations. They receive special training via focused electives and a scholarship to complete an accelerated master's program of their choosing. She chose the joint UCB-UCSF master’s in translational medicine program, where she started this August.

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ROB FISCHER earned a

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ERIC FLEMMING MA ’08

master's deg ree in philosophy from the London School of Economics and worked on the editorial staff of the New Yorker and as an editor at Men's Journal since leaving USF. He is now a senior editor at Rolling Stone, where he assigns and edits feature stories.

and h is w ife welcomed son Jackson in December 2014. Eric works as the coordinator of Minor Leag ue operat ions for the San Francisco Giants.

JAMIE FOSTER is pursuing her PhD at the Universit y of Illinois, Chicago, where she studies communication and technology. ELIZABETH GREENWOOD'S nonfiction book on death faking and disappearance, entitled Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of D eath F raud, w a s publ i shed i n Aug u st 2016. BRADLEY KELLOGG recently moved back to the Bay Area after working in Sydney, Australia for three years. He is doing freelance work while he looks for a job in digital marketing.

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JULIANNE FAZIO HOBIN

welcomed son Turner in March 2015. Julianne’s husband, TAYLOR HOBIN ’08 , is also a USF alum. Julianne works as a speech language pathologist in the East Bay.

HEATHER SCOTT ARORA married Arjun Arora in October 2015 in Newport Beach, California. Heather is the founder and CEO of Purple Plant.

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MARK KILROY recently

accepted the position of junior scheduler with Suffolk Construction, which is ranked as the 27th largest contractor, according to Engineering News-Record's 2016 list of top 400 contractors. He started his career in construction after serving two AmeriCorps terms with Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley. He has also worked for WE Lyons Construction and WL Butler Construction on the Peninsula.

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KATE WONG thanks USF for g iving her the opportunity to discover that every small feat is just as impactful as the next for the goal of serving her community.

ANTOINETTE MALVEAUX ’81

ALUMNA OF THE YEAR LEADS WITH HEAD AND HEART Antoinette Malveaux ’81 is USF’s alumna of the year for a career spent fighting for foster children and serving the university.

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ERIC GARCIA is the

co-director of Detour Dance and Tiny Dance Film Fest. He serves as production coordinator with Fresh Meat Productions, Sean Dorsey Dance, and SF Transgender Film Fest. He has held administrative, development, and production positions with Dancers' Group, Quinn Associates, Z Space, and CounterPulse. Er ic has also per for med works w ith Project Thrust, LEVYdance, and FACT/SF.

KIRA N. SCHNEIDER completed her

master of public health degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2016.

Malveaux is managing director of Casey Family Programs, a Seattle-based nonprofit that aims to improve the foster care system. The nonprofit provides services like counseling, job training, and foster care to more than 1,000 children and families. Since its founding in 1966, it has invested more than $2.1 billion nationwide to bolster programs and policies that benefit children in the child welfare system. “I was raised in a family that believes in servant leadership and building supportive communities,” says Malveaux, who is a university supporter and whose father Paul Malveaux ’52, MA ’70 is also a USF graduate. “The University of San Francisco, with its focus on social justice and educating hearts and minds, helped to reinforce, enhance, and empower what was already seeded. My professors pushed me to reflect and further understand leading with my head and heart.” After graduating from USF, Malveaux earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She spent 11 years as president of the National

Black MBA Association and helped grow the organization to 39 chapters across the country. She previously worked in strategic planning for American Express’s international banking division. The economics alumna served on USF’s Board of Trustees for nine years, and on the board of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good for two years. In addition to saluting Malveaux, USF recognized five other honorees at the annual Alumni Awards Gala Oct. 1. • J ack Boland ’78, who advises USF on communications, received an alumni service award. • N aomi Kelly JD ’01, San Francisco’s city administrator, received a professional achievement award. • T he Alumnae of the Sacred Heart Lone Mountain Board of Directors won an award for their work raising $2 million in scholarships. • F oreign Service Officer Margaret Boehly ’05 was recognized for her dedication to the poor abroad. • Fran Streets, the first African American to serve on San Francisco’s Chamber of Commerce, won an award commending leaders who aren’t USF alumni but promote the university’s values.

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master of public policy deg ree from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

HYDER ALIKHAN graduated with his master’s in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, and has transitioned his career into leadership advisor y with Heidr ick & Str uggles. He is based out of the Houston office and works w ith clients in the energ y and natural resources sector. He is eager to connect with other Dons in the region.

MIRABAI COLLAMORE works in a fourth grade classroom at Wade Thomas Elementar y School in San Anselmo, Califor nia.

R. THOMAS CURL passed the bar

AMBER CAVARLEZ works as a

ALLIE KHORI produced a stage

and opened a criminal defense and civil r ights practice in Boise, Idaho.

mental health rehabilitation counselor with the nonprofit Progress Foundation. She works primarily with clients who come in off of the street from hospital

In September 2015, ADDYSEN TRUMPER married CAMERON CLARK ’11 , whom she met during the

f irst week of classes at USF. Addysen manages the Céline business at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC.

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MICHELLE CORDI received a

inpatient units and psychiatric acute care units. Many of her c l ient s su f fer f rom v a r iou s types of mental health issues inter t w ined w ith substance use. Much of her work revolves around the social rehab model.

series that was written by FREDDY GUTIERREZ ’10 titled

A Glass of Water.


////////classnotes ALYSSA MICCHICHE i s en rol led i n the Master of Arts in Teaching + Teaching Credential program at Santa Clara Universit y. She is currently a student teacher in a second grade class.

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EUNICE MARIE ALMADEN is working as a registered nurse in the medical /surg ical and mother and baby units at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Santa Clara, California. ALEXANDRA BARCHUK moved to

Wash ing ton D.C. to apply al l of the knowledge she gained as an undergraduate international studies student at USF. She works as an executive assistant for a sen ior D emo c r at i n t he U. S. Senate. It has been an invaluable experience. She is grateful for the opportunity to see the country's politicians hard at work each day.

ANDREW ANTES '15 JUST RETURNED FROM A RELIEF TRIP TO ECUADOR WITH DR. EDUARDO DOLHUN THROUGH THE NONPROFIT DOCTORS OUTREACH CLINICS. THEY PROVIDED TREATMENT AND SUPPLIES TO CHILDREN AND BABIES SUFFERING FROM DEHYDRATION AND DIARRHEA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE APRIL 2016 EARTHQUAKE.


BRENDON CONFER recently accepted an offer from Abbott Laboratories in diagnostic distribution sales. He lives in Seattle and is covering Northern California up to Alaska. This is a major career step, and he is excited to be mak ing a difference in the health care industr y w ith a company like Abbott behind him. COLLEEN COOPER-ALJUNDI and her

husband welcomed their son Alexander in November 2014. Colleen works as a recruiter at UrbanEngineer. SABRINA GUNN AVALIN mar r ied

Daniel Avalin in Lake Tahoe in October 2015. Sabrina works as a grant researcher and writer for Susan G. Komen. XANDER SCHULTZ , along with his fiancé, started a venture to aid refugees fleeing war in the Middle East. Zoë Bands are bracelets made out of the life vests refugees wear on their raft journeys into Lesvos, Greece. The funds generated from Zoë Band sales are used to buy food and clothing for the refugees.

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STEPHEN RYAN ANDREWS

became a reg istered nurse shortly after graduating. He was promptly interviewed and hired by Kaiser San Francisco's medical-surgical/telemetry unit.

ANDREW ANTES just returned from a relief tr ip to Ecuador with Dr. Eduardo Dolhun through the nonprofit Doctors Outreach Clinics. They provided treatment and supplies to children and babies suffer ing from dehydration and diarrhea in the aftermath of the April 2016 earthquake. ZEINA SEIKALY is headed to Columbia University to pursue a master of science in communicat ion sc iences and d isorder s. She hopes to become a speech language pathologist.

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JAMES P. FOX was elected

president of the State Bar of California for 2016 –17.

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PAUL SPERANZA retired as Wegmans’ vice chairman and secretary, after 40 years with the grocery store chain.

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LORENZO ARREDONDO was

featured in a NewsExaminer article for his role as the keynote speaker at the Fayette County Democratic Party's annual Jefferson / Jackson Day dinner. He was also featured in The Journal Gazette for his candidacy for Indiana attorney general.

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ROBERT SLATTERY has joined Judicate West's Northern California team. MARY JANE THEIS is an Illinois

BRITTANY TINALIGA is enrolled in

the Master's in Asian Pacific Studies program at USF.

GRADUATE

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NORMAN SAUCEDO

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DONALD C. CARROLL

received the La Raza Lawyers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

aut hored “The National Pension Cr isis: A Test in Law, Economics, and Morality” in University of San Francisco Law Review. He is an adjunct professor at USF's School of Law and president of the Law Off ices of Car roll & Scully.

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JACK CHARLES SEVEY has

been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (A BOTA) for 4 0 year s, br ief ly ser v ing as president of t he Sacramento Valley chapter. He was awarded Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1995, and also received the Sacramento ABOTA Civility Award in 2011. He has been married for 55 years, and is a proud father and grandfather to five children and 18 grandchildren.

Supreme Court justice. She gave the commencement address at Valparaiso University Law School.

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EUGENE BROWN was named a 2016 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. Brown is a partner at the San Francisco off ice of Sedg wick, working in environmental litigation. WILLIAM "BILL" MONNING was

featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, discussing his political and legislative accomplishments as a California state senator.

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LORRAINE BANNAI spoke

at the Commonwealth Club about her book Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice in August 2016 in San Francisco. Bannai was part of the team that successfully challenged Korematsu's conviction, and is currently a professor of lawyering skills and director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law.

RICHARD DAL BELLO, vice president of business development and gover nment af fa ir s at Virg in Galactic, presented the talk "No

One Has Traveled Here: The Stor y of Virg in Galactic" at the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business. He discussed the history of Virgin Galactic and its potential to democratize access to space. JOHN MICEK III has been appoint-

ed to the board of directors of Jag uar Animal Health in San Francisco. He is chair of its audit committee. GARY NADLER presented

"Request for Admissions" to students at the Sonoma County Bar Association in October 2016. BILL SCHUETTE is the attorney

general of Michigan. He was featured in multiple national news sources, including The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post, after he announced the first criminal charges in the Flint lead contaminat ion water cr isis. He was also featured in the Detroit Free Press for attending the 2016 Republican Convention and hosting a party in downtown Cleveland.

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RODNEY O. FONG was

elected to the board of trustees of the Law School Admissions Council. SUSAN MENDELSOHN co-authored the chapter "Foreig n Direct Investments in Vietnam: Investment," published in the fifth edition of Laws of International Trade.

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FRANK PITRE is a member

of the USF School of Law Board of Counselors, and w a s na med pre sident of the San Francisco chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

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MONICA BAY is a fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. She is also a freelance journalist for Bloomberg Big Law Business, a columnist for Above The Law, and co-host of the podcast Law Technology Now (Legal Talk Network). STEVEN ROLAND was named a 2016 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is a partner at the San Francisco office of Sedgwick, working in business litigation.

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MARK BOSTICK was named a 2016 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is a bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean. AUDRY LYNCH won honorable

mention in the Holly wood Book Festival 2016 for her biography Garth Jeffers Recalls His Father, Robinson Jeffers. JILL SPERBER joined Visa's

compliance department as program manager with the business conduct office, specializing in investigations. BEVERLY WOOD co-authored the article "The Interdisciplinary Conference: A Grassroots Alternative for Resolving High-Conf lict Parenting Disputes in Lean Times" in Family Court Review.

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MATT BEAUCHAMP is the chief deputy district attorney of Colusa County, and was named the 2015 Wildlife Prosecutor of the Year by the California Fish and Game Commission. ELIZABETH BERKE-DREYFUSS was

KATHRYN RICHTER joined

Sedgwick as a partner in its San Francisco office, practicing business litigation.

named a 2016 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. She is a bankruptcy and creditor/ debtor rights attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean.

JAMILLAH MOORE EDD ’99

COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENT SERVES THE UNDERSERVED Jamillah Moore EdD '99 is the new president of Cañada Community College, where she sees a lot of herself in the school's 7,000 students. About one-third of the students at the Redwood City, California community college are the first in their family to attend college, and many have full-time jobs and families of their own. Night and weekend classes are popular and almost half of the college's students take only one course at a time as they juggle their many other responsibilities. “In community college, our students have high potential but low resources,” Moore says. Moore, who was a student and later a teacher at the community college level, understands the students' struggles. She was raised by a single mother who had six daughters, and resources were scarce. Three of the girls made it to college, but only Moore, the youngest, earned advanced degrees: a doctorate in international and multicultural education from USF’s School of Education and a master's in intercultural communication and public policy from California State University, Sacramento. Moore’s passionate about increasing access to college for underserved students. “It can change a person's life, benefit the entire family, and open up so many more opportunities for them,” she says. That passion was stoked at USF, especially during a course on education theory taught by Denis Collins, S.J. One book assignment in particular moved her deeply: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. “We learned about the power of education to help people out of poverty,” Moore says. “For so many students in community college, that really is the story.” She still has her original copy of the book and refers to it often. Moore is a published author herself. Her 2005 book, Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action, is based largely on the research she conducted for her doctoral dissertation at USF. Moore worked previously as senior vice chancellor for governmental and external relations for the California Community Colleges system, and she served as interim president of El Camino College Compton Center, president of Los Angeles City College, and chancellor of the Ventura County Community College District. She credits her success to the people who helped her along the way. “I feel so blessed, and so fortunate, to be in the position that I'm in,” she says. “USF changed my life and put me on the path to a real understanding of social justice. Had it not been for mentors, the wonderful experience I had at USF, and people in the community, I wouldn't be sitting where I am.” Now as president, Moore wants to pay it forward as an advocate for the students at Cañada. “You have to lift others as you climb the ladder,” she says.


////////classnotes MICHAEL COOPER was named

a 2016 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is a bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean. TRACY GREEN was named a 2016

Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. She is a bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean.

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SUSAN BORG was t he f ir st woman to receive t he Eugene Mar ias Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA). She was honored for her dedication to justice, her professional accomplishments,

her work on behalf of her clients and CAAA, and for her integrity, wisdom, and leadership exemplifying CAAA’s ideal of true professional humanitarianism.

CAROL LANGFORD was featured

MANNY FORTES was a panelist at

the Marin County Bar Association's forum on racial injustices. He is a staff attorney at the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints.

GREGORY ROCCA will receive the 2016 Pomeroy Humanitarian Award from the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center to honor his commitment to community service.

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KAREN BALLACK was

named a top woman lawyer by the Daily Journal. She was also named a 2016 Woman Leader in Tech Law by The Recorder. She is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office and a member of the firm’s management committee.

in a Daily Journal article for her support of the proposed change to California's Rules of Professional Conduct.

SADHANA NARAYAN was

installed as president of the San Mateo County Bar Association.

GREGORY WOOD has been elected to

the board of directors of Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT 1, Inc. He ser ves as an independent

director and as a member of the board's conflicts committee.

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MICHAEL GUINGONA , a candidate for San Mateo County super visor, was discussed in a San Mateo Daily Journal letter to the editor outlining his career and political achievements. ROSEMARY LA PUMA authored

"De-Categorizing Child Abuse — Equally Devastating Acts Require Equally Solicitous Statutes of Limitations," which was published in the summer 2016 issue of the University of California, Davis School of Law’s Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy.

GIVING

MAKING THE MOST OF A SECOND CHANCE, AFTER AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT Alfonso Garcia was 15 years old when his liver stopped working. Doctors gave him days to live, unless he received a transplant. Things looked grim. Then a 22-year-old man, an organ donor, died unexpectedly. Garcia received the young man’s liver — and a second chance at life. “I think about him every day, how he saved my life, and how I can continue his legacy of giving,” says Garcia ’16. That’s why the communications alumnus spends his free time volunteering with the nonprofit Donor Network West, which helps connect donors to recipients. It’s also why Garcia chose USF. It offered him the chance to contribute to something bigger than himself. “At USF, we learned to be men and women for others, to be selfless in helping others in times of need,” says Garcia, who received the USF James F. Kenney Memorial Award for his grace, courage, and


strength in overcoming difficult circumstances. After graduating, Garcia landed a paid social media marketing internship with the San Francisco Giants, a foot in the door to an industry he hopes to start a career in. None of it, says Garcia, would have been possible without the generosity of that young man or without the generosity of donors to USF’s scholarship programs, which funded much of his education. “Scholarships were one of the big reasons I was able to stay at USF, and I’m grateful for that,” Garcia says. “It’s difficult for a lot of families to afford college, especially families of first-generation students like me. Helping someone attend has a bigger effect than helping just that student. One student will go out and help others. There’s a ripple effect.” GARCIA TELLS HOW SCHOLARSHIPS MADE A DIFFERENCE: usfca.edu/magazine/alfonso-garcia

DARRELL SCHRAMM ser ves on the national board of Heritage Roses Group and edits its quarterly newsletter, The Rose Letter. He also ser ves on the board and edits the newsletter for Friends of Vintage Roses, and is the president of the North Bay Rose Society. As a master gardener and rosarian, he grows about 225 roses and gives talks to garden clubs and rose societies. ANNE MARIE SCHUBERT, the district attorney of Sacramento County, was featured in the Sacramento Business Journal article “Anne Mar ie Schubert: A Prog ressive Approach to Crime,” discussing her legal career and success in the development of criminal treatment programs.

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awarded a master of studies in literature and arts degree from the University of Oxford, England, in October 2015. JONI REICHER was appointed vice

president of people at Mesosphere.

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BR. EDWARD M. BRINK

has begun a three-year term as the rector of Chaminade University of Honolulu. His responsibilities include deepening the Marianist-Catholic identity of the university. He is very grateful for his education at USF’s Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership. It has been invaluable in his other ministry positions and he will carry the lessons learned into his new work.

Charter Schools in New York City. She is now working on a project to transform professional development for teachers and leaders at Success Academy, with plans to eventually expand to schools and educators everywhere.

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CHICO ADHIBASKARA EKANANDA HINDARTO

is working for his family’s business in the ser vice industr y, and also teaching at graduate schools in Jakarta.

KENNETH A. FEINGOLD relocated his

practice to Nicasio, Marin County, California. He continues to serve his real estate clients and serve as a mediator in Southern and Northern California.

ROBERT BROWNSTONE

MICHAEL W. COBURN continued his

education throughout his years, receiving an ND, PhD, and JD. After 35 years in health care, law, and education, and nine years w ith the United States Coast Guard Academy, he is enjoying retirement and spending time with his wife and three sons, Travis, Justin, and Joshua. The latter is in his second year at USF's School of Law. MINETTE KWOK was named a top Northern California attorney in immigration and nationality law, and one of the Top 50 Northern California women attorneys, by Super Lawyers Magazine. JAMES MOLINELLI JR. , Northern

California managing attorney for Progressive Insurance, was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates. MARY MAHONEY was

promoted to senior v ice president and general counsel at Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Massachusetts.

AISLING GILLILAND wrote "How

My Dinner's Story Has Helped to Shape My Own" in Food Safety News.

in Alameda County Super ior Court. Garcia previously worked as the associate general counsel and senior director for global integrity at Gap.

GAYLE LOPEZ received the

Outstanding Institutional Representative Award at the Michigan American Council on Education Women's Network annual conference, for her work in promoting women's leadership. CHRISTOPHER VIADRO was featured

in the Daily Journal article " Worker's Advo cate s," highlighting his boutique personal injury firm Butler Viadro. TERRELL R. WINN has retired

and is writing children's books in Sarasota, Florida.

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ROBERT ALLARD was

featured in The Mercury News for his work in protecting young athletes ag a inst sex ual predator s within the sports system.

MEGHAN MACKAY has been working in education reform across the country since graduating. For the past few years, she has been a principal and superintendent of sc ho ol s for Succe s s Academy

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SR. BRIDGET DICKASON is

the new director of Keeler Women's Center.

JOHN GARRISON recently published

a new book titled Glass. The short book explores the hidden life of glass, a material that surrounds us everywhere we look.

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MICHAEL FRESE was elected to the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, where he serves as the representative to the California Board of Psychology. He continues to have a thriving private practice in Los Angeles, where he specializes in geropsychology. JAY LEIDERMAN was featured in

LUPE GARCIA was appointed a judge

co-authored the chapter "Privacy Litigation" in Data Security and Privacy Law published by Thomson Reuters, 2016.

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CATHARINE O'SHAUGHNESSY was

SYLVIA LUKE , seven-term Hawaii

state representative, was featured in the article "Da Sistahs: Look ing Out For Your Money" in MidWeek.

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ROCHELLE EAST, San

Francisco County Super ior Cour t judge, was featured in the Daily Journal article "No Fear" for her extensive law career, vast e x p er ience s, a nd t r avel s a rou nd t he g lob e.

AVA DASYA RASA is a poet-scholar. Her poem "Koromo," or “The Robe,” was published in the Santa Fe Literary Journal, September 2016 issue. Having lived in Japan and India, she says her poetry is informed by contemplative engagements with both Zen Buddhism and Catholic monast icism. Ava holds a master’s in theolog y and a carpenter certificate in religion, gender, and sexuality from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

the news article "FBI's Role 'Swept Under the Rug' in Case of Hacker Jeremy Hammond" in Today's Zama. MICHAEL NORTON was featured

in the Marin Independent Journal discussing his candidacy for chief of the Central Marin Police Authority. MARY CATHERINE WIEDERHOLD

introduced the keynote speaker at the Lawyers' Club of San Francisco Inn of Court at the California Supreme Court luncheon.

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SUZANNE FOLEY has

been named partner at the law firm of Gizzi Reep Foley in Benicia, California. JEFFERY LEVI was named a 2016

Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is an estate planning and probate attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean. RAYMOND RAZA has been in Costa

Rica since 2008, where he has been teaching English as a second language and building a cabin.

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CUPCAKE BROWN launched her own f irm, The Law Off ice of Cupcake Brown, in San Diego.


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ANNE DUFFY has been promoted

GERALD HEPPLER was appointed

JOHN HAMASAKI appeared in the BASF Bulletin after attending the Barristers Club open house.

to partner at the San Francisco office of Ernst & Young.

interim director of admissions at Seattle University School of Law.

workers' compensation judge in the San Francisco district office of the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

JOHN HENDRICKS , founding partner of HendricksMurry, announced the certification of his firm as an LGBT Business Enter pr ise through the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Supplier Diversity Initiative.

JASON HORST was named a 2016 Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is an intellectual property and litigation attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean.

MEGHAN M. MELAUGH joined Legal

DEVIN KINYON JD ’11 has been

Aid of Sonoma County as staff attorney at the Family Justice Center.

promoted to associate clinical professor of law at Santa Clara University, where he has worked for the past five years. He oversees academic support at Santa Clara Law, and is part of the team that helps prepare students for the bar exam.

RICHARD PIO RODA was featured on

CHRISTIAN CLIFFORD published his

the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center's website for his involvement with the center and his role as auctioneer at its annual blue ribbon luncheon.

second book, Who Was Saint Junípero Serra? He has wr itten articles for Catholic San Francisco, California Teacher, Today's Catholic Teacher, The Stanford Daily, and the online publication Crux.

’02

TRAVIS BARRICK provided

legal assistance to a prisoner in a civil rights case in Las Vegas, while working with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Pro Bono Pilot Program. EUGENE GOGERMAN was appointed

LOIS MERRIWEATHER MOORE attended

the Harvard Women and Power Alumnae Leadership Summit at Queensland University in Brisbane, Australia.

KRIS RODRIGUEZ runs an organizaJOSHUA SCHULTZ continued his

career in public education after USF, shifting to the administrative side — first at Sonoma State University and then at the Napa County Office of Education for the past eight years. His two older kids have graduated from college and his youngest is in middle school.

’03

YESENIA GALLEGOS was

named one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanic Lawyers in the U.S. by Latino Leaders magazine. Gallegos is a partner at Fox Rothschild and serves as co-chair of its diversity committee. ABEER Y. HOQUE published the

linked-stories collection The Lovers and the Leavers in 2015. His memoir Olive Witch is forthcoming in 2017.

’04

JASON E. FELLNER was promoted to shareholder at Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney. He represents individual and corporate clients in professional liability defense and business litigation.

NICHOLAS BOOS was

named a Top 40 Under 40 lawyer by the Daily Journal.


tion, consulting, and leadership development business, Clear Path Communications. Her consulting work centers on organization design and change management, and her coaching practice develops new leaders and leaders undergoing change. She and her family live in San Francisco where she enjoys focusing on family, fun, community, and work.

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ON LU joined the Polsinelli intellectual property practice in San Francisco.

GONZALEZ was sworn in as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.

ANTHONY D. PHILLIPS has been named a 2016 Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine. HANNAH SEIGEL PROFF was awarded the 2016 American Graduate Champion award by PBS.

MICHAEL ZAIDLIN presented

JEFFREY PRIMO WILSON founded

"Social Security Claiming Strategies and the Estate Plan" at the Estate Planning, Probate, and Tr ust Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Drankgon, an online business selling dragon-shaped liquid storage devices. He has joined Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in the San Francisco office as a member of the litigation services department and product liability and sports law practice groups.

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LINDSAY (WESTBY) CARON

recently moved to Portland with her husband, James, and boys, Luke and Levi. She launched her Etsy shop, mycatholichome.etsy. com, and published her first book, The Little Way for Parents of Little Ones, which is available on Amazon. She works as a family faith formation consultant and blogs at inspiredforthejourney.com. JASON CLARK was elected

chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.

SUZY LOFTUS , president

of the San Francisco Police Commission, was featured in San Francisco Magazine discussing SFPD reforms, and in the San Francisco Examiner article "SF Police Commission President Suzy Loftus: Reformer or Politician?"

ROSARIO TORRES

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JOSUE FUENTES was selected as one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 for 2016. Fuentes works for the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

JENNIFER LOEB is an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

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NICHELLE HOLMES is the deputy district attorney in Contra Costa County and won the 2015 Minority Bar Coalition Diversity Award.

TIAGO COSTA ALVES is leading

the expansion of a Portuguese startup in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to connect w ith other USF alumni in the region.

ZUZANA MALEK joined Berg &

MARC DENISON w a s n a me d partner at the Bakersf ield law f irm Clifford & Brown.

AARON MARIENTHAL , previously a sen ior assoc iate at Reed Sm it h i n Sa n F r a nc i sco, joined the commercial and intel lect ual proper t y f ir m Tyz Mar ton Schumann.

KRIS WEIDLING is living in Apex,

North Carolina with his wife, Jennifer, and daughters Madison, 9, and Brooklyn, 4. He recently accepted a new position with CSL-Behring as senior director of global change management.

McLaughlin as an associate attorney focused on family law and litigation.

JESSICA THERKELSEN was named one of 2016’s Top 40 Young Law yers on the Rise by the American Bar Association. She

is the director of advocacy and commun icat ions at A sylum Acce s s, a n i nter nat iona l ref ug e e r ig ht s nonprof it , as well as an adjunct professor at USF's School of Law.

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JENNIFER CAMPBELL credits her USF education and training for her success in breaking internal organizational silos and building connections that elevated businesses. She graduated with an MBA in international business and organizational development in the accelerated track. DANA ISAAC was quoted in The Associated Press article "State Program Gives Poor a Break on Traffic Tickets" about her work as an attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. The article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and other media nationwide. ADANMA IMEOBONG OSAKWE has interned at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission; the Trademark and Patent Office, U.S. Department of Commerce; and the Whitaker Group, a think tank whose focus is on U.S. foreig n investment in Afr ica and the impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Osakwe has also worked for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, and the Northrop Grumman Corporation, and is currently a COPPER CAP program contract specialist with the United States Air Force Civilian Service, stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. JACK TYLER is working as a

prog ram manager with an organization that develops a more diverse health care workforce by helping refugees and immigrants get jobs and training in health care.

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ALEXIS KATIBAH BINAZIR

was named a 2015 Outstanding Volunteer by the Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco for her work with the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. ADRIAN TIRTANADI appeared in the

BASF Bulletin after attending the Barristers Club open house.

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RACHEL MARIE BRUNSON

was promoted into her current student services manager position after coordinating the University of South Carolina's Supplemental Instruction prog ram for two years. As the assistant director of peer learning, she now oversees all course-specific support and peer leadership initiatives within the university’s student success center. She shares memories from USF every chance she gets. JENIFER FRUDDEN has been named

the vice chair of the Alameda County Bar Association's family law executive committee. LING WEI is happy to have

graduated from the School of Education and says USF changed her life.

’14

SHAUN GREER joined the

board of directors for QLaw, the LGBT Bar Association of Washington.

MARCUS MCELHENNEY appeared

in the BASF Bulletin after attending the Barristers Club open house.

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IRIS KOKISH authored the Daily Journal article "California Blunders in its Haste to Win the $15 Minimum Wage Race."

CAROLE SANTOS is happy to be teaching master's entry nursing students at USF’s Orange County campus.

GIVING

HELPING MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES AFFORD COLLEGE Students from middle-income families often find themselves caught in the middle — not able to qualify for many scholarships and not in a position to pay their entire college tuition tab. Marcia Syufy, mother to five USF alumni, knew she could help and decided to donate $1 million to fund an endowed scholarship. The Syufy Scholarship will support undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need. Preference will go to middleincome families — who will be automatically considered as part of the standard financial aid process. “For the middle-income student who is a good student, there isn’t a lot of help, certainly not without taking on enormous debt,” Syufy says. “My hope is that they will be able to get a fine college education without accruing the kind of debt that can be crushing.” Her sons, Raymond Jr. MBA ’91 and Joseph MBA ’98 attended the School of Management and oversee Syufy Enterprises, the family’s privately owned entertainment and leisure company. Daughters Michelle JD ’97 and Elizabeth JD ’90 attended law school, and Victoria ’90, MA ’97 studied communications and counseling psychology. Two sons-in-laws also attended USF. Syufy grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley and moved to LA to study fashion merchandising in college. She relocated to the Bay Area and met Raymond Syufy, the son of Lebanese immigrants and a movie business pioneer. He owned Century Theatres and successfully challenged the anti-competitive practices of the movie distribution system from the 1940s−60s, opening up the market to independent theaters. Raymond developed his love for movies as a teen in Berkeley, where he worked at a local movie theatre. He died in 1995.

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MEAGAN SINGER appeared in the BASF Bullet in after attending the Barristers Club open house.

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BRIAN HEGLAR started his career in biotech just seven days after graduating. He is currently working at BioMarin as a research associate, researching rare diseases. In his spare time he practices crockpot recipes from the SkinnyMom blog and wrestles his one-year-old.

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inmemoriam 1930s

Laura J. Pate ’55

Maureen A. Tilley ’70

Gloria M. Garcia ’81

Noel J. Dyer ’36, JD ’39

Margaret Rouse ’55

G. Kathleen Wallace ’70

G. David Kirk ’81

James T. Breslin ’56

Karen R. Hedrick ’71

Elizabeth D. Elkin ’83

Alvin G. Buchignani ’56, JD ’60

Christie D. Young ’71

Robert K. Hines ’83

Roberta Enright ’56

Amelia C. Urbeck ’83

Daniel G. Powers ’56

Catherine B. EarecksonMacNally ’72

Jeremy T. Harrison ’57, JD ’60

James P. Giovannoni ’72

Charles W. Ashford ’85

Mary Burns ’58

Vladimir Sobichevsky ’72, MA ’82

Lonnie Long ’85

Hugh J. Miles ’39 Margaret O'Brien ’39

1940s Richard G. Fazakerley ’43 George E. McDonald ’43, JD ’49 Mary Elizabeth Sutherland ’44 Norma Bardsley ’45

Donald B. Halog ’58 Ellen Radday ’58 Dennis C. Hurley ’59

Robert C. Kendrick ’73 James R. Nelson ’73 Anne M. Renckens ’74

Elizabeth S. Fox ’84

Patricia L. Messer ’85 Donald N. Nash ’85 David Neubacher ’85 Beatrice C. Schwab ’85

1960s

Deborah G. Woodall ’74

Edmond P. Browne ’60

Arvilla Gaines ’76

Joan E. Gallagher ’60

Victoria Jeung ’76

Stephen Gallagher ’60

Michael M. Keating ’76

Walter P. Harrington ’60

Lucinda J. McBurney ’76

Warren J. Hinckle ’60

Karen K. Colby ’77

Russell R. Miller ’60

Tiffany Gin ’77

Sr. Ann D. Plourde ’60

Robert F. Lutes ’77

Carolyn Z. Giannini ’61

Richard Min ’77

Adolphus Thomas ’61, MA ’76

Adriana Simmons ’77

Robert L. Abegg ’62, MA ’64

Robert P. Spiering ’77

1990s

Stanley R. Atkinson ’63

John H. Vuletich ’77

Gloria M. Andres ’90

Herbert A. Maricle ’63

Helen M. Bartholomew ’78

Janet Laufman Farmer ’90

1950s

Maureen P. McKibban ’63, MA ’80

Sr. Gemma Fisher ’78

Carol A. August ’91, MA ’99

Hideko Endo ’64

James L. Imerzel Jr. ’78

Karen L. Sulenski ’91

E. Joan Bear ’50

Thomas E. Malloy Sr. ’64

Philip Mac Bain ’78

J. Wisecaver ’91

John P. Murphy ’50

Charles R. Tunley ’64

Michael L. Sullens ’78

Valkyrie K. Choy ’93

George A. Garibaldi ’51, MA ’64

Harry J. Quinn ’65

Richard K. Yamada ’78

Martha L. McClintock ’94

Frank C. Heggli ’51

Lorraine M. Rogers ’65

James W. Book ’79

Fred C. Klingbeil ’95

Harley E. Sullivan ’51

Robert M. Willard ’65

Marjorie F. Lishman ’79

Taggart T. Leonard ’95

Annette Warren ’51

Willa D. Arntz ’66

Terence L. Loughlin ’79

Pamela J. Tweedy ’95

Carroll A. Wright ’51

Don M. Covello ’66

Earl B. Ward Jr. ’79

Jimmie W. Mccoy ’96

Roy Giorgi ’52

Frances Maser ’66

William M. Herbert ’52

Sherman E. Anderson ’67, MA ’71

John R. Isnard ’52

John H. Garzoli ’67

Richard J. Jensen ’53

Eugene A. O'Rourke ’67

Daniel J. Moriarty ’53

Edward R. Brenner ’68

F. Keith Varni ’53

David M. Goldstein ’68

Lilian Kimble ’54

Michael R. Griffin ’68

Theodore Harris ’46 John Kennedy ’46 Vera L. Hannon ’47 Robert E. Kinney ’47 Jerry F. Jones ’48 Armand J. Clavere ’49 Raymond C. Crawford ’49 Joseph J. Hurley ’49 F. Walter Johnson ’49 Bernard M. Krieg Sr. ’49 Margaret C. Power ’49 Charles H. Roach ’49 David J. Spowart ’49

Harold H. Sachs ’54 Felice Sauers ’54, MA ’65, EdD ’82 J. Carter Witt Jr. ’54 Katherine M. Griffin ’55

Jean S. Johnston ’75

1980s Warren Fischer ’80 Karen C. Kis ’80 Marilyn M. Lorenzen ’80

Ben A. Benson ’86 Rosa M. Moran ’86 Ann M. Press ’86 Nedra R. Kirkpatrick ’88 Linda A. McCay ’88 Larry W. Payton ’88 Sandra E. Gorter ’89 Cynthia M. Spann Nattrass ’89 William F. Wimberly ’89

Lucille J. Pendola ’96 Joanne L. Jeffords ’98 Ellen I. Lacayo ’99 Charles Lynch ’99

Dee D. Roshong ’80

2010s

Rose R. Sauer ’80

Barry P. Martin ’12

1970s

Sylvia B. Stella MA ’80

Eduardo M. Venzor ’12

Charles H. Beck ’81

Spencer M. Baker ’13

Margaret P. Robles ’70

Nancy T. Brady ’81

Sherri Norris ’13

William J. Schmitt ’70

David K. Costello ’81


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FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY WITH SUPARNA CHAKRABORTY

The 2007–09 financial and subprime mortgage crises sent middle-class Americans’ net worth back to 1992 levels, effectively wiping out two decades of accumulated wealth. Many still haven’t recovered. Suparna Chakraborty, associate professor of economics and a former Federal Reserve Bank of Boston fellow, explains why the middle class continues to lose ground compared to the rich.

1

How does the current economic recovery compare to the past?

The recovery has been very slow. Slower than any past recoveries, except perhaps after the Great Depression. U.S. economic (GDP) growth has averaged about 2 percent per year. During prior recoveries, U.S. growth averaged 2.5 percent — significantly higher in economic terms. The good news is that in looking at the data there's no indication of a looming widespread tech or housing bubble, as some have speculated.

2

Stocks are up almost 200 percent in seven years. Yet the benefits of that wealth haven't reached middle- and low-income families for the most part. Why?

The purchasing power of the typical American family is 3.1 percent lower than it was five years ago. Economists don't have an iron-clad answer for why. It might be due in part to slow growth in manufacturing, which affects the middle class most because they typically benefit from job creation, not necessarily from a hot stock market.

3

Corporate capital investment is near an all-time low. Why aren't companies investing to grow out of the recession?

They're being conservative. The government's generous bailout package, coupled with a slowly rebounding economy, means corporations are coming out of their "red days" with large cash reserves. The general economic outlook, however, is still not robust enough for corporations to gamble on big investments.

4

Is the growing wealth disparity in America a symptom of a deeper problem?

Yes. As Warren Buffett is fond of pointing out, our biased tax laws are to blame. The rich win because most of their income comes from investing, which is taxed at a 15–20 percent rate. The middle class, on the other hand, loses because most of their income comes from wages, which are taxed at a 25–39 percent rate, depending on income. It's a bias that leads to incongruent outcomes, such as Buffet's secretary being taxed at a higher rate than her boss — one of the world's richest men.

5

You teach Corruption, Ethics, and Crisis — The American Economy Today. What do students learn in this and similar courses about economics?

They learn that ethical economics need not be a detriment to growth. And that real, long-term growth cannot be achieved by cutting ethical corners. Students meet and hear from guest speakers like Professor Anil K. Kashyap of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Jeremy Wilson, Cisco Systems' award-winning ethics officer, about the importance of ethical thinking in economics.


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