Alumni

  • Future imperfect

    Future imperfect

    Gen-Xers and Millennials unite! As journalist Barbara Kelley '70 shows in the book she co-authored with her daughter, you have nothing to lose but your angst over not having it all.

    Winter 2012 | BOOKS

  • Sweetness

    Sweetness

    On New Year’s Day 1937, a team from a little Jesuit school in the Santa Clara Valley stunned the sports world with an upset that won them the Sugar Bowl. And put their home on the map.

    Winter 2012 | HISTORY & TRADITION

  • May the road rise up to meet you

    May the road rise up to meet you

    A journey to Northern Ireland in search of peace and hope. For the Winter 2012 SCM, Martha Suto '70, who has lived for nearly 40 years in Derry, talks with Alumni Association Executive Director Kathy Kale '86 about surviving decades of The Troubles—and what lies ahead.

    Winter 2012 | BRONCO NEWS

  • Alumni Books

    Alumni Books

    Mary Jo Zenk '80 on understanding city budgets, Bill Kelly '68 on kindness and masculinity, and J. Michael Gospe Jr. '85, MBA '91 on the high ground in marketing.

    Winter 2012 | IN PRINT

  • Let me lay it on you

    Let me lay it on you

    Hot Tuna is back with their first studio recording in 20 years. Jorma Kaukonen '64 has tunes and hard-earned wisdom to share, writes Mark Purdy.

    Winter 2012 | ALUMNI ARTS

  • ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

    ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

    Kiki Bosio '06 and Brittany Klein '08 (left) win a national soccer championship with the Orange County Waves. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer MBA '87 announces the company's highest quarterly earnings ever. And Julia Minerva '99 earns props as a star among K Street's new generation of lobbyists.

    Winter 2012 | ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

  • Peace of mind

    Peace of mind

    Sylvia Tellez '79 gives back to the Santa Clara community by supporting the scholarship she once received.

    Winter 2012 | GIFT PLANNING

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries

    Remembrances of engineering professor Daniel Strickland and Constance “Connie” M. Ridder J.D. ’85—and recent obituaries of Santa Clara alumni.

    Winter 2012 | OBITUARIES

  • How can you defend those people?

    How can you defend those people?

    As public defenders on the Homicide Task Force, Robert Strunck '76 and Crystal Marchigiani '78 have some 40 years between them representing accused murderers—many of whom faced the death penalty.

    Fall 2011

  • Together for the long haul

    Together for the long haul

    Laurie Laird '87 honored as a California leader in service learning.

    Summer 2011

Spring/Summer 2013

Table of contents

Features

Walk Across California

An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.

Miller's Tale

To tell the story of Bob Miller ’67 is to tell the coming-of-age tale of Las Vegas itself. And it’s the chronicle of a man who served a decade as governor of Nevada. Quite a journey for the son of an illegal bookie from Chicago.

Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.

Nina Acosta ’82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD’s SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?

Mission Matters

When justice is kidnapped

The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

Double trouble

Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble ’13 and John Lamble ’14. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.

Keep the door open

For teaching and advising and a ministry that’s blessed this place for 48 years—paying tribute to Charles Phipps, S.J.