2000
Diane (Chiolo) McKie and her husband, Bruce, a son, Colton Edward, born April 1, 2009. He joins his brother, Jackson, and sister, Gracie.

1946
Dr. C. Allan Wall, Dr. Robert R. Wall ’50, and Richard J. Wall, Esq. ’52 were honored as Alumni of the Year by USF at its Spring Gala in the St. Francis Hotel April 18. Dick spoke on behalf of his brothers and family.

1947
William McDonnell and his son Timothy ’71 have been named the Gellert Family Business Award Winners for 2009 by USF’s School of Business and Management. The award recognizes extraordinary business achievement and community service by family owned businesses in the Bay Area.

1948
Br. John Samaha, S.M., and his son celebrated his 60th anniversary in the Society of Mary (Marianists). His work in education included teaching elementary, secondary, and adult education and various diocesan administrative assistantships in California and Washington and abroad in Lebanon. Though retired, he still offers adult religious education and serves as a volunteer adjunct staffer at the University of Dayton’s Marian Library and International Research Institute. he lives at the Marianist Center in Cupertino and writes on various religious topics.

1949
Bill Gosland and his wife, Ginny, visited George Butler and his wife, Catherine, in Mesquite, Nev., last April. Bill had a heart transplant 8 years ago and is doing well. he still continues his interest in flying, though limited to soaring and by the new FAA regulations on Sport Flying. George is enjoying retirement and golf.

1950 & 1951
The lunch for the 1950–51 championship basketball teams (varsity, 130s and 120s) is scheduled for Ceasar’s Restaurant in San Francisco Dec. 1, 2009. For more information call Mic Kelly at (650) 697-9376.

1951
Gordon Getty launched Cade Winery.

1952
George Giacomini, longtime history professor at SCU, received the coveted Rev. Paul, Locatelli, S.J., Award at the fourth annual SCU Alumni Awards dinner on May 16.
Richard J. Quinlan retired June 5 after 44 years in the securities industry. His son, Greg, will take over the business.

1953
Norman Boyd continues to recover from stroke and enjoys pool therapy.

1958
Ron Wilson has great-granddaughter, Brooklyn Lou, born April 16 in Omaha. He assisted in the birth and cut the cord. He also achieved the master level in Kung Fu San Soo along with his daughter Lorraine, a dean at Santa Rosa Community College. PHOTO

1967
Kevin Hanley has served two years as president of USF’s Alumni Board of Directors.

1968
Chris Collins’ second play, Song of St. Tess, entertained audiences and received great reviews last spring at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood.

1970
Dr. Eric Goosby was nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. This post was created by Dr. Joseph O’Neill ’71 (brother of SI Superior Rev. Tom O’Neill, S.J. ’74) when he was AIDS Czar under President Bush.

1971
Tom Torriglia’s Italiano band, Bella Ciao, released its second album called Festivus Italiano. The CD contains retro-Italian classics from the 1950s and some of today’s hottest Italian-American hits.

1972
Rob Hickox retired from coaching after 30 years leading the boys’ soccer team; his assistant coach John Stiegeler ’74 retired as well. The two men finished one of their best seasons, winning both the league and CCS.

1973
Douglas Husbands has practiced holistic health care for the past two decades. He is trained in functional medicine, clinical nutrition, chiropractic and anti-aging health care. Since 2005, he has returned to the Bay Area and practices on the Peninsula at Athens Chiropractic Clinic in San Carlos. He has been accepted to teach at the 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine this September in San Jose. At 51, he still is involved in bodybuilding for personal health. He and his wife, Rosette, have been married 15 years and have a 3-year-old daughter.

1976
Jon Leonoudakis released a trailer for his forthcoming documentary about the 1989 Loma Prietta Earthquake and the Giants game.
Ed Reidy, Denis Squeri, Dan Costello and Dan Buick ’75 work at Farallone Pacific, with offices in Novato and, coming soon, in San Francisco. Much of the firm’s business is done in the non-profit sector in human services, education, the arts and affordable housing. and others. The firm is developing alliances with the Bob Enright ’76 at the Burton Enright Group and with Brendan Lund ’89 at Carr McClellan law firm.

1977
Phil Bennett, former Washington Post managing editor, will teach journalism at Duke.
Bart Sher received his fourth Tony nominee for Best Director; his show, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, was nominated for five Tonys and won two. President Obama even took his wife to see Bart’s play for an official date. Bart’s production of South Pacific is coming to San Francisco this fall.

1980
Richard Ennis has taken a new position as vice president of retail sales for Bumble Bee Foods. His territory includes the 35 Northern United States. Although traveling 90 percent of the time, he still finds time to coach his daughter’s soccer team. He and wife, Valerie, live in Concord with children Marissa (6), Mike (a freshman at De La Salle High), Mark (a senior at De La Salle) and Nick, who is graduating from Auburn University in December.

1981
Francis Jue has the lead role in Yellow Face at the Public Theatre in New York.

1982
Jonathan Moscone, artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theatre, will stage a play about his father, Mayor George Moscone ’47.

1983
Chris Krueger was appointed Chief Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
David Wall has been director of Buena Vista Manor, San Francisco, a residential care facility, for 18 years.

1985
Maj. Ed Marcelino and Lt. Col. Jim Farrell ’86 have worked with each other for two years at Fort Hood, Texas, in the 407th Army Field Support Brigade. This summer, Ed goes for training and then to Iraq as part of a Military Transition Team, and Jim goes back to Operational Test Command.

1987
Maxwell Leung completed his doctorate in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University in 2008. For the 2008–2009 academic year, he held a position as a visiting assistant professor in Sociology and American Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. He now works at the California College of the Arts in San Franicsco as assistant professor in Critical Studies.
Bill Storti married Meagan Moore May 21 in St. Monica’s Church. His
Cremen nephews, Casey ’09 and Joe ’10, did the readings. His brother-in-law, Jack ’79, was also present with many Stortis and Cremens.

1992
Joe Hallisy received a Cable Car Award at USF’s April 18 Spring Gala.

1995
Marisa Cappiello, M.D., married John Brunello in St. Ignatius
Church on April 4. Classmates Lisa Tresmontan and Dana Reynolds participated in the ceremony.

1996
Kelly Elena Lynch married Kevin Thomas Henschel June 20 at All Saints
Catholic Church in Twain Harte. The bride was given away by her father,
 Leonard ’68.
Emily Kiely O’Keeffe, since earning a master’s degree in ethnic studies at SFSU in 2003, has been teaching at an international school in Barcelona and will attend Harvard University Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2009.

1997
Matthew Monroe and Chris Monroe ’99 were present at the St. Francis Hotel April 18 when their mother, Eva, received the Alessandri Service Award from USF.
Jennifer (Urbina) Sims married Jesse Sims at the Marin Civic Center. Only immediate family were present.

1998
Keefe Reuther received his doctorate in biology from Saint Louis University and works as a lecturer in the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Deptartment at UC San Diego.

1999
Phil Downs married Sara Bagheri at St. Ignatius Church June 6. Family included Phil, Sr. ’73, brothers Patrick ’03 and Kevin ’09 and sister Katie Grace. Groomsmen, in addition to many Marines, included Phil’s  classmates
 Drew Virk, Tripp Jones, Pete Ellis and Elliott Geidt, plus Kelly Turbin 
’00.
Alfredo A. Dela Rosa, DDS, MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School last June with his medical degree. His sisters, Drs. Alnette ’98 and Jackie ’94, were also in attendance. He currently lives in Boston where he is completing his residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Harvard.

2000
Michael Abendroth and Vikki Potthoff are engaged and will be married in April 2010.
Igor Olshanksy signed with Dallas Cowboys.

2001
Danielle Bisho finished the Boston Marathon in the top 4 percent of her gender, the top 6 percent in her division and the top 17 percent overall with a time of 3 hours, 16 minutes, 57 seconds. Her proud father is Dave Bisho ’68.
Joseph O’Malley starred in his first short film, Calendar Confloption, directed by Andrew Jimenez of PIXAR Studios. The film was shown at the Sonoma Film Festival in May and continues to be shown on the Film Festival Circuit throughout the U.S. Joe is in the MFA Acting program at USC and is one of nine actors in the Class of 2011.

2004
Tracy Cosgriff received the University Medal, recognizing scholastic excellence as well superior achievement in all areas of university life, at her commencement exercises from UC Davis. She chose Davis after being inspired by her SI Latin Teacher Grace Curcio, another Davis alumna.
John Hughan proposed to Corey Pallatto ’02 on the evening of April 21 under a spotlight in an otherwise dark Bannan Theater, where they first met seven years ago working on The Pajama Game. John gives special thanks to Grace Curcio for providing access to Bannan and to Ted Curry for his help literally setting the stage.

2005
Ryan Carter was a standout on Hofstra’s lacrosse team.
Greg Mangan received the Andrew Family Award from Oberlin. He also became the all-time leader in career completions, passing yards, passing touchdowns, completion percentage and total offense, and made Second Team, All-NCAC.
Jack McGee, a student at Willamette University was named Northwest Conference Student-Athlete of the Week.
Katie Moran, UCSB Lacrosse Captain, was named WDIA Player of the Year and selected as All-American.

2007
Renee Eligio, who will start her junior year in the fall at SCU as a biology major, enjoys being the goalkeeper for SCU’s woman’s lacrosse team. She received the 2009 WDIA Goalie of the Year and First Team, All American Goalie Awards.
Cyrena Giordano continues to excel as a Cal pole-vaulter.
Alex Ohanessian and Joey Moore ’06 are both playing rugby in college. Alex is a sophomore at St. Mary’s in Moraga. He played “prop” on the B-side of St. Mary’s nationally ranked rugby team and traveled with the team for the national championship tournament to Atlanta, where his team lost to Army. Both men started playing rugby as high school freshmen at the San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby Club on Treasure Island, competing with the team in Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

2008
Roy Lang and Alex Capretta were highlighted in the San Francisco Chronicle for their college athletic success. Roy helped Cornell upset Virginia for a shot at the Lacrosse National Championship. Cornell lost to Syracuse for the championship May 25. But during the game, announcers singled out Roy, noting his SI and California roots, as an example of how lacrosse is expanding across the country. Roy also scored an unassisted goal in that game.
Dionne Licudine entered her first season with the Women of Troy as a member of USC’s women’s varsity rowing team, which had a successful day at the Charles River Challenge in Boston on April 25 defeating Harvard, Boston University and Tennessee. The varsity four boat Dionne coxed finished first with a time of 8:11.8. On May 2 at UCLA, Dionne’s boat won by two minutes.

2009
Kevin Downs has been named a lacrosse All-American.

The entire world was not watching on Aug. 22, 1989, but it very easily could have been: CNN sent a television crew to 2001 37th Avenue that morning, and other local reporters had been similarly dispatched. It was freshman orientation at SI, and for the first time since the school’s founding in 1855, girls enrolled as students and walked the halls of the San Francisco institution, the first Jesuit school in the California province to turn coeducational.

The class of 1993, comprising 175 girls and 200 boys— many following the path of their fathers, brothers, uncles and cousins—streamed toward campus from all directions. Now, 20 years later, from their homes throughout the U.S., they remember that day vividly, especially the way everyone referred to them as “pioneers.”

The decision to open SI’s doors to girls did not come easily for the four Jesuit trustees, who debated, discussed and prayed over the issue. The class of 1993 felt none of this anguish. They were like freshmen everywhere on their first day of school: They cared about where and with whom and exactly how they would spend the next four years of their lives. They were 14 years old, they were headed toward Orradre Chapel, and they were about to lay the groundwork for generations of Ignatians to come. But first, they had to learn everyone else’s names.

Brian McCann stepped off the Marin bus and walked up to the front doors that morning. “Chrissy Drucker was the first person I saw,” said McCann. “We had seen each other just a few weeks before in Tahoe. Our families are friends. We walked into Orradre [Chapel] together. SI forms an immediate bond.”

The excitement that day was palpable, he added. He had graduated from St. Patrick’s in Corte Madera, chosen SI over Marin Catholic, and now represented the third generation of McCanns at the Prep. Today, he and his wife, Patricia, have a pre-school-age daughter and another daughter on the way. “That’s one reason I’m glad SI is coed. I look forward to sending my girls there,” he noted, adding that many of his closest high school friends have daughters as well.

Bill Duggan now makes his living doing what he has always loved: acting. (You can see him on the Discovery Channel’s Doing DaVinci).

His classmates remember him pouring his heart and soul into and excelling in everything he did at SI, from theatre to student government. Duggan, however, remembers struggling with his classes. “I’m dyslexic,” he says. “I couldn’t read [well]. I can’t thank my English teacher Matt Barmore enough. I was learning disabled, and [teachers] were just starting to give us extra time on exams. Mr. Barmore made it possible to understand the material. I was embarrassed, but he was encouraging, and he didn’t speak down to us. He prepared me well for college with confidence and pride in my SI education.” As student body president in his senior year, Duggan spoke at the awards assembly and told his classmates that it was their turn to pass the torch to the next generation. SI, he reminded them, would always be their home, a beacon, a lighthouse in the foggy Sunset.

Few seniors would guess how often they would see each other after high school graduation. They stood up for each other at weddings and baptisms, laughing at the thought of explaining to their children how long they had been friends and disbelieving how much flannel they had worn despite all the photographic evidence that gave witness to this weird sartorial trend.

And they came back to SI. Some joined the faculty and staff, some coached and counseled, and others connected at reunions or at impromptu gatherings. Some, like McCann, came back to watch the new crop of SI athletes at games and to greet his former teachers. “We enjoy seeing each other,” says McCann, who is proud of the way they made the difficult transition to coeducation.

Brenda Lamb Lewis, now a dentist on the Peninsula, recalls that she and her friends were less interested in thinking about being trailblazers than they were with everyday life at the Prep. “We didn’t know anything different,” she recalls. In retrospect, she finds it interesting “that we were the ones who made that change. But SI made it so easy for us” both through the support of the faculty and the fact that “our class had such a good dynamic. At the time, none of it felt abnormal.”

The only abnormal part of campus, many noted, was the girls’ locker room, which had been painted a shade of pink not found in nature. SI alumnae of a certain age (this writer included) cannot see a bottle of Pepto Bismol without thinking of that room and of the commendable intentions behind that paint job. After all, everyone at the Prep bled red and blue.

Roy Reyes remembers how hard he worked as a student, as he rose to meet the expectation of great teachers, such as Rev. John Murphy, S.J. ’59, Dave Lorentz, Don Lippi and Kevin Quattrin ’78, his calculus teacher. “His way of teaching was casual, but effective,” said Reyes. He wasn’t an enforcer. If your shirt was untucked, he would just tell you to tuck it in. He influenced me and he taught me a lot.”

When Reyes went on to UC Santa Barbara, he was almost unable to function normally during math tests as he missed the whale songs Mr. Quattrin used to play during exams. Reyes sent his former teacher an email asking where he could find a CD of whale music, and Mr. Quattrin shared with him his favorite vendor. Reyes, now a systems engineer, managed to make it through his graduate courses without an accompanying soundtrack. Blair Wilde Westblom, who lives in Phoenix with her husband and two daughters, made it a point to forge her own path at SI. She and Emily Behr were the first girls admitted to the Service Club in their sophomore year. Westblom played the flute in the orchestra, rowed crew and was active in student government.

“At SI, I developed a respect for spirituality and service and for creating beauty for someone else.” She grew to value the importance of helping people, she adds. “SI was a great training ground for creating new opportunities for yourself and for the community.” She continues that service today as she volunteers with the Junior League and Children’s Museum of Phoenix.

For Westblom and her female classmates, the women administrators, faculty and staff became role models. “All the women there played a part,” she says, noting that, for girls, the irony of having a Jesuit education is the dearth of historical role models. And the Jesuits did not always understand what the girls needed. She recalls telling one priest that she was having a tough day. He told her that “‘to whom much is given, much is expected.’ And who, really, can argue with St. Luke?”

That’s where the women teachers proved valuable. She and the other girls knew they were not alone. “Donna Murphy was the main female administrator [who] took our entire class under her wing.”

Lewis played soccer all four years for Coach Jan Mullen, another mentor for many SI girls. “It was so nice to have a coach who was much better than all the players. We wanted to do as well as she did and played hard for her.” Erin Nantell Pasero and her husband, Jason, owe more than most to SI. The couple met in a junior theology class and started dating in their senior year. They went their separate ways to college: she to UC Davis and he to the University of Kentucky. Married 10 years, they live in San Mateo with their two children.

“The business world is still predominately a man’s world,” Pasero notes. “Those formative years [at SI] were, too,” and she is grateful for them. Now, when she finds herself the only woman in the room, she remains unfazed. “SI has much to do with that.”

SI also helped to foster a sense of community for her and her classmates thanks, in large part, to Rev. Mario Prietto, S.J., SI principal at the time and the main architect of co-education. At freshman orientation in August, “he told us to look to our left and to our right and to take care of those next to us. And we did look out for each other. We took that to heart.”

Sean Elsbernd graduated from SI 30 years after his father and 60 years after his grandfather. A fourth generation San Franciscan, he was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2004.On his first day at SI, he felt immediately welcomed. “To this day, I feel welcome there,” he notes. Elsbernd felt committed to a life of public service early on. After graduating from Claremont-McKenna College and earning his law degree at Hastings, he worked as a legislative aide at City Hall before being elected to represent District 7. “The spirit of what I do is rooted in [my] Jesuit training,” he says. “There is definitely a code among Ignatians. We are able to speak the same language.” A star cross-country and track runner at SI, Elsbernd doesn’t dwell on his own achievements; instead, he recalls the lessons taught him by coaches like Julius Yap ’74, who proved a mentor to both young men and women athletes and who helped bridge the gender gap in the athletics department. “He was thrown in the deep end, but you would never have known it.”

Melissa Riego Martin marvels at the brilliance and success of her classmates while at SI and since graduation. She describes the feeling among her classmates as “a brotherhood, a sisterhood … a wonderful thing.” She recently started a new job, and it took about a day for her to realize that four of her new colleagues were SI grads. “I meet many people who are amazed that I am still so close to my high school friends,” she says. “But that’s part of being an Ignatian.” She recalls SI fondly but adds that it wasn’t always easy being the first of firsts. “Everything was new every time we started something. We paved a new path each time we did anything.”

Duggan appreciates the unique nature of his class. “I doubt the students [at SI] today can even imagine … what it was like when we were there. [Coeducation] is common ground now.” The one thing his classmates have in common with students who came before and who have come after them, he adds, is this: “SI inspires people to be the best they can, and I am proud to have gone there.” Devi Kane Zinzuvadia ’95 holds a bachelor’s degree from USC and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has spent most of her career in television news, working as a writer and producer. She has worked at 60 Minutes, at ABC’s This Week and, most recently, at KPIX-CBS5 in San Francisco.

What have you been up to?  Post a message below to let us know!

It’s my honor to present you this report of our recently completed school year, 2008-2009. Hard to believe that it was the 40th year on this campus, and with the opening of this school year of 2009- 2010, this 37th Avenue campus becomes the venue where S.I. has been located longest, surpassing all of our five previous campuses.

The face of St. Ignatius has changed many times and in many ways over these 154 years, and last year was no exception. The Orradre Courtyard received an entirely different look and for the first time, a translucent roof. The 40 year-old kitchen of the Carlin Commons was entirely gutted and redone. Then, the summer not only brought the fog to the coast, but the newly-leased Fairmont Field in Pacifica: completely redone so its 8.5 acres will now be home for a multitude of S.I. teams less than 20 minutes away from campus. Finally, the face of St. Ignatius (see page 71) was enshrined between the school building and Columbus Piazza on campus. The face of S.I. continues to change. But even more profoundly, the face of St. Ignatius is seen in the faces of many Ignatians and friends who cherish S.I. In our students, faculty, administrators and staff, the vision of Ignatius shines. In our alumni, scholarship donors, benefactors, parents and friends, the spirit of Ignatius, who served God and others, is alive and well. The face of St. Ignatius is not just captured in beautifully sculpted bronze. It is captured in the faces of the S.I. community.

This past year also saw economic times hard to face and difficult to navigate. It is because of your generosity that we are surviving. It is also due to the diligent work and planning of our administration and boards that we are weathering the storm. We were able to offer a modest salary increase for faculty and staff (2 percent). We kept our tuition increase to the lowest increase in 40 years. A very Spartan budget helped us ease our parents’ burdens and retain our superior faculty.

It is because of your giving that we have been and are able to change the face of the St. Ignatius campus. It is because of your donations that our financial aid recipients are able to continue at S.I. Your continued generosity is needed more so than ever with the requests for aid increasing. Thank you for your goodness to our students in need. Thank you for your generosity. I am abundantly grateful. Please know that my brother Jesuits and I keep you in our prayers and Masses. May God reward you for your many benefactions now and in eternity.

Devotedly yours in Christ,

(Rev.) Robert T. Walsh, S.J. ’68
President