Alumni Association
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The $1 million question
Can SCU alumni win the university’s first-ever challenge grant?
Spring/Summer 2013
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Range of motion
Misha Patel Bechtolsheim ’05 studied business and dance at SCU but assumed they were mutually exclusive. She soon learned otherwise.
Spring/Summer 2013
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The mountains we climb
Courage, confidence, and a good trail guide are all invaluable. Bryan Neider ’78 found all three at Santa Clara.
Spring/Summer 2013
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New books by alumni
Joe Frontiera ’97 weighs in on how to turn losers into winners, Lewis Buzbee ’79 concocts a time-traveling tale involving Mark Twain, and more offerings of fiction and non-fiction from alumni.
Spring/Summer 2013
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Burning bright
From building bonfires to businesses, Hall Evans ’51 understands why it's important to support a bright idea.
Spring/Summer 2013
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Obituaries
Remembering Michael Anthony Sweeney, Leonard Napolitano ’51, and others.
Spring/Summer 2013
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The play's the thing
Kurds, Arabs, countrymen: Shakespeare Iraq brings the Bard to Ashland like you’ve never heard him. And you can thank Peter Friedrich '91.
Winter 2013
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Twice as sweet
Celebrating 75 years of back-to-back victories in the Sugar Bowl
Winter 2013
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American legend. Alaskan icon. Santa Clara treasure.
Before Steve Nash. Before Leon Panetta. Before Brandi Chastain. There was Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J.
Winter 2013
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New books by alumni
James W. Douglass '60 researches the murder of Gandhi, Joe Wolff '67, M.A. '72 offers up a delectable guide to the cafes of San Francisco, Gary Keister '62 summons up the landscapes and seascapes of the Northwest, and more.
Winter 2013
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.
