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Baseball Wins National Championship

Out in Front

The voice P PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

erforming his one-man show this June in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, George Steeves ’12 was not just trying to make an acting and singing career happen.

Magic 8 Ball: My Life with Asperger’s, the show, started out as a song Steeves wrote at Cal Lutheran. The fortunetelling black ball, with its unpredictable shuffle of answers, became his symbol for emotional states: “I can be one thing one day, and completely opposite the next day,” he says.

In the one-man show, the eight ball leads the audience through the story of his life on the autism spectrum.

After moving from small-town Virginia to Philadelphia at age 11, the high-functioning Steeves spent two years in a special education class among children with severe learning difficulties, a poor fit. Until that year he’d not been diagnosed and had never been led to believe he was different. The sudden sense of not belonging hurt.

Now Steeves embraces the autism spectrum and performs with others on it in mind. He’s even returned to his Philly special ed class as a guest to teach drama, after writing an original play about the solar system for the students.

“I just want to be a voice for people who have a hard time speaking, who have a hard time lifting their voice. I just want to be a voice. And I want to help as many people as I possibly can. I’m hoping this show will possibly save a life.”

As the Fringe Festival wrapped up, Steeves was nominated for two awards and won both: the Larry Cornwall Award for Musical Excellence and the Soaring Solo Artist Award for Excellence in Solo Theatre. For the latter he gave a two-word acceptance speech: “Autism sings!”

Hear Steeves sing “Magic 8 Ball (That’s My Life)” at goo.gl/3WmZxG and view his recent work for the mental health website The Mighty at goo.gl/s19jo6.

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Lynda Paige Fulford, M.P.A. ’97 EDITOR

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Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

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Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

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14 ELLA CALAME'S RESCUE MISSION

She came all this way to acquire and to use life-saving skills.

4 ZOO OUT THERE

Emily Chebul ’17 sees the life all around her. Be like Emily.

6 KINGSMEN WIN THE SERIES

A baseball team that stays loose finds redemption as NCAA champ.

Plus: timeline on program history.

18 HERE COME THE GUERREROS

Owned and managed by Kingsmen, an expansion soccer club is making its mark on Oxnard.

22 CLASS NOTES

10 HIGHLIGHTS

25 RETIREMENTS

Economist's water-saving scheme • Seminary moves downtown.

11 IN MEMORIAM 12 Q&A: RAY PICKETT

The point of church is not to get people inside. The point is to make a difference.

Five stars who taught for 160 years.

30 MILESTONES 32 VOCATIONS

Mail from your English professor, Sig Schwarz, H’10, now emeritus.

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for alumni, parents and friends.

Views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of Cal Lutheran or the magazine staff.

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Ella (Ismanescu ’96) Calame problemsolves from her office at Compass Dermatopathology in San Diego.

Photograph by Brian Stethem ’84.

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Zoo out there

The main campus is full of life, in more shapes than we knew.

One recent graduate uses her spare time to document it. PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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he tour begins at my guide’s favorite bench, by the spine facing the creek that runs through campus. During her time at Cal Lutheran, Emily Chebul ’17 sat there three or four days a week “for anywhere from half an hour to upwards of two hours” to watch animals, mostly birds.

“That’s an American robin, just hopping around,” she says, trying to wake me to the surroundings. “Let’s see, there’s a black phoebe that’s flying in between that little electrical unit.

There’s another robin in the creek….”

“That’s an Allen’s hummingbird. They’re more orange-tinted than the Anna’s, which are more green.”

I see most of this. We walk upstream toward the Centrum Café and she points out a mallard which, otherwise, I’d have taken for a rock – “right there” in the shadows, with “one eye opening and closing.”

Anyone with peripheral vision can take up Chebul's hobby, anywhere on Earth. While earning a degree in environmental science, she added the campus boundaries to the collaborative citizen science platform iNaturalist. She has posted observations of mice, moths, beetles and bees from around Los Angeles, including near her volunteer job at the La Brea Tar Pits.

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hills above Olsen Road, be aware of ticks and know what a rattlesnake looks like. Download apps to help narrow down birds and other species by shape.

Chebul taught herself to spot living things while catching snakes and lizards in Santa Clarita from age 5 or 6.

“Everything’s in a pattern, and whatever breaks the pattern is generally an animal,” she says. “So, it’s either motion or something is off.”

She was excited this spring to find a western kingbird in pursuit of a butterfly, since she’d never seen one.

For almost two years, she watched a pair of red-shouldered hawks bring in material and build two nests high over Memorial Parkway. On my tour, she also showed me a whitecrowned sparrow’s nest by Ullman Commons.

Chebul is a little self-conscious about being seen staring into bushes. She puts her birdseed out at night.

“I just want other people to notice, too, and I hope that doing an article like this will open people’s eyes,” she says. “There’s so-o-o much life here, and I really want to get that across.”

—Kevin Matthews Find the Biodiversity of California Lutheran University page at iNaturalist.org or direct your browser to goo.gl/YaDEKG.

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Kingsmen ballplayers go fishing,

CATCH NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP For the second time in the university’s NCAA journey and the third time in its history, a Cal Lutheran team takes a national championship — without a lot of stress.

BY JIM CARLISLE // PHOTOS BY D3PHOTOGRAPHY.COM

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his wasn’t Marty Slimak’s first rodeo.

The longtime head baseball coach had been to the NCAA Division III College World Series five times before and had helped lead teams to the national championship game twice.

None of it had ended well. Slimak was an assistant coach in 1992, and the head coach in 1996, when CLU let late-inning leads slip away in championship games, both times to William Paterson College of New Jersey.

Here were the Kingsmen again, at the College World Series in Appleton, Wisconsin, but this year they would pull through to the very end. On May 30, they defeated Washington & Jefferson College (Pennsylvania) in the best-of-three series and earned the program’s first national championship.

It is the second Division III title won by a Cal Lutheran team, joining the 2015 women’s volleyball squad. The football team won the NAIA Division II championship in 1971.

At 40-11, the baseball team finished at the 40-win level for only the second time in school history. The Kingsmen began slowly with a 3-4 record and Slimak certainly had no thoughts of an NCAA title at that point. “Not in my wildest dreams,” he said.

But after an early period of experimenting with different lineups, the Kingsmen won 37 of their last 44, including a three-game sweep in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament and four games in the NCAA West Regional at Tyler, Texas. CLU served notice it was the team to beat in the regional, ending its first game against Concordia (Texas) by turning a triple play.

CATCH AND RELEASE The Kingsmen went into the World Series determined not only to win, but to enjoy the experience.

“Five of us took fishing rods to Appleton,” senior center fielder Brad Fullerton said. “It was fun catching some smallmouth bass in the river. It was super fun.”

Knowing his team, Slimak simply went with it.

“Normally, I would say, ‘Guys, we’re here for one reason,’ but they’d been

fishing the whole season,” the coach said. “Win or lose, they’d go night fishing, they’d go early-morning fishing, or they’d go surfing, one of the two. So I said, ‘Why change it now?’…

“My wife and I, we drove one time by and I see three of our guys. I see Fullerton, I see [Cortez] Espinoza and I see Nick Cohan, and they’re out there on a bridge at a little inlet that they found and all of a sudden, you see Cortez pulling up a big black drum, like a big bass, and he’s looking at us. ... I just looked at my wife and I said, ‘We’re going to win this thing.’”

Fullerton said fishing was the perfect pregame ritual.

"Win or lose, they’d go night fishing, they’d go early-morning fishing, or they’d go surfing."

“You don’t want to be sitting in your hotel room before a huge game thinking, ‘Oh, man, this is the biggest game of my life,’” he said. “Obviously, it’s good to focus up, but if you do too much of that, you’re going to be getting anxious and all that stuff. I think that it’s therapeutic in a way. It helps us stay loose, stay relaxed and have fun in as many ways as we can.”

FLASHBACKS The Kingsmen started off strong in the World Series, beating Wheaton (Massachusetts) 4-2 and taking 14-5 and 10-8 decisions over North Central (Illinois). That put CLU into the bestof-three championship series against Washington & Jefferson.

But the second game against North Central went nearly 3½ hours, not ending until 12:35 a.m., and CLU was sluggish in Game 1 on Memorial Day in the series against W&J. “We didn’t get from that field back to the hotel till probably close to 2 o’clock,” Slimak recalled. “We got to bed about 3.

There was no food, there was nothing open, so our guys went to bed without dinner or anything. It was tough. It was

really, really tough. Then the next morning ... I think half our guys were still sleeping.”

Washington & Jefferson’s Presidents took advantage and won 12-2. Suddenly, Slimak was having flashbacks to the missed opportunities of the ’90s.

“It took me a whole year the first time in ’92 to get over it,” the coach said. “It took me, gosh, two, three years in ’96 to get over it. It’s just something that will always be with you. We were so close and if you get there, you’ve got to win it.

Then when we lost that first game in the World Series this year, I started going, ‘Oh, my God, are we going to do this all over again?’ But you know what? This was the first year I felt very confident, even though we lost the first game, I had a very good peace about it.”

COMEBACK Slimak decided his players needed a pep talk after Game 1 – and his players decided he needed one, too.

“I had them all out in center field,” the coach said, “and I just said, ‘Look, they don’t crown the national champion today. They crown the national champion tomorrow and you’ve still got to win two games.’

“And I’ve got to tell you something. Our guys were so confident. They kept on saying, ‘No worries, Slim. We’ve got this.’

They were probably less stressed and way looser than the coaching staff was.”

Attitude, as much as ability, was key for the Kingsmen.

“Our team, collectively, we’re just a bunch of jokers,” Fullerton said. “Slim called us ‘jackwagons.’ We actually just kind of balance out that nervousness from the coaching staff.”

As senior relief pitcher Miguel Salud would say of the opening loss: “It was a minor setback to a major comeback.”

CLU came out the next day and won Game 2 by a score of 12-4 with junior right-hander Nate Wehner (10-3) pitching a complete game and striking out eight. The Kingsmen racked up 22 hits against the Presidents, including a 3-for-5 performance by sophomore first baseman Weston Clark with two doubles and three runs batted in, and a 4-for-5 showing by Fullerton.

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second baseman Max Weinstein and the postgame celebration was on.

Jimmy Jauregui

"We were getting alumni from the area driving in to Appleton, Wisconsin ... to see the games."

Fullerton had a team-leading .478 batting average (11 for 23) in the College World Series with six runs and six RBIs. SEALING THE DEAL The pitching start for Game 3 would be given to a freshman, right-hander Scott Roberts. Roberts (6-1) pitched strong six innings, striking out four and allowing two runs and five hits. When he left with a 3-2 lead, the ball was given to Salud, who was looking to earn a school-record 14th save and his third of the Series.

“I was nervous because the score was very close,” Salud said. “Usually I pitch better with a lot of cushion from our offense. But when my name was called, this was the World Series, seventh inning, 3-2, you’ve got to embrace that. You want the ball at that point. So I just made sure I came in, didn’t change anything, stuck with my same approach, hit my spots and knew everything was going to work out.”

Salud, the SCIAC Newcomer of the Year, is a transfer from Glendale Community College. He was born in the Philippines and played one year of college ball there.

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“He came out of the blue. He’s still learning how to pitch. He is a hero back in Manila right now. He’s almost like a little [Manny] Pacquiao, man,” said Slimak, comparing him to the Philippines’ famous boxer.

Salud has been celebrated by media in the Philippines. No Filipino has ever been drafted by Major League Baseball.

“I guess you could say that for baseball, definitely, I’m a star for the baseball community out here,” Salud said by phone from the Philippines. “I came back with so much love and so much support from everyone and it was the craziest thing. It makes me so proud to be a Filipino.” (See Page 35.)

Salud pitched the final three innings, striking out three while allowing four hits, two walks and one ninth-inning run. In the meantime, his CLU teammates were making things easier for him, scoring one run in the seventh inning and three more in the eighth.

With the Kingsmen leading 7-3 in the ninth and two runners on base, Salud got the last batter to pop out to junior

FOR TEAMS PAST “I never had a team like this, ever,” Slimak said. “Never once were they tight, never really once did they not believe they were going to win the national championship.”

Salud was named the Series’ Most Outstanding Player with a 1.23 earned run average, nine strikeouts and just one earned run in four appearances and 7⅓ innings.

“Honestly, when they were announcing the awards at the end of the game,” Salud said, “I was talking to someone and I couldn’t even hear what the announcer was saying, so when they first called my name, I was the last one called and didn’t even hear that they gave me the Most Outstanding Player award.... I really couldn’t believe it.”

With the title safely in hand, Slimak could rest.

“The night that we won it,” he said, “it was the first time that I went to bed with a big smile on my face regarding the national championship.”

Especially gratifying, the coach said, was the support the Kingsmen got from every segment of the campus and from those who made the trip to root them on.

“We had alumni fly in there just to see the games,” Slimak said. “We were getting alumni from the area who were driving in to Appleton, Wisconsin, who lived out in that area. I don’t know what the distance was, a hundred miles, 200 miles, whatever it was. They would come and see the games and introduce themselves to us and say, ‘I’m an old alum and just coming out to support you guys.’ That was very meaningful in a lot of ways.”

It is also clear that this national championship belongs to more than just the 2017 team.

“We did this for all the teams that came before us that bled the purple and gold,” Slimak said. “They paved the way to make it possible.”

Jim Carlisle is a former sports columnist and reporter for the Ventura County Star.

He has been the public address announcer for Cal Lutheran football since 2001 and lives in Simi Valley.

Full Count

Cal Lutheran may have just won its first national championship in baseball, but the program has a long and rich tradition. Team accomplishments in italics: 1960s 1962: First season finishes 5-9-1 under coach Luther Schwich (1962-64), also the college's first athletic director and basketball coach. In three baseball seasons, he compiles a 34-33-1 record.

1962: Jim Huchthausen wins CLC’s first Outstanding Player team award. Among his highlights: a seven-RBI game.

1965: Legendary football coach Bob Shoup takes the reins of the baseball program for one year; he is followed for the next two seasons by Ron Mulder.

1967: Three-sport star Al Kempfert pitches a one-hitter against Cal Western and a two-hitter against Pepperdine.

1968: Richard Papenfuss coaches for one season and George Engdahl for three.

1969: Second baseman Robert Fulewider is the school’s first major league draft pick, chosen by the St. Louis Cardinals.

1970s 1972: CLC finds coaching stability with Ron Stillwell, who is the first coach to win 100 games and compiles a 139-100-1 record in seven seasons.

1972: Right-hander Jeff Brock is drafted by the California Angels.

1976: CLC wins a then-record 28 games and Stillwell is named NAIA Coach of the Year.

1977: Catchers Gary Ledbetter and Steve Trumbauer are both drafted by MLB teams.

Ledbetter, the earliest-ever pick out of Cal Lutheran, is selected in the first round (ninth overall) by the Giants while Trumbauer is drafted by the Angels.

1979: Jim Cratty coaches one year.

1980s 1980: The Al Schoenberger era begins. In eight seasons as coach, he has a record of 178-170-2.

1980: Kingsmen advance to postseason play for the first time.

1981: Right-hander Kevin Gross is drafted in the first round (11th overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Fillmore native would become Ventura County’s first MLB All-Star in 1988 and pitch a no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1992.

1981: Lefty pitcher Mark Butler is a seventh-round draft choice of the Baltimore Orioles.

1981: Mark Butler and Tom Ginther become the first NAIA All-America selections, earning Second Team honors.

1982: Catcher John Westmoreland is a 15th-round pick by the San Diego Padres.

1983: Mark Bush is an NAIA Second Team All-America selection.

1985: Catcher Todd Dewey is drafted in the sixth round by the Atlanta Braves.

1988: Rich Hill replaces the retired Schoenberger. In only six seasons, Hill becomes CLU’s winningest coach to date with a record of 198-80.

1989: Shortstop Daren Cornell is a 12th-round draft pick by the Milwaukee Brewers.

1989: CLU tops the 30-win mark for the first time (31-18).

1990s 1990: In its last NAIA season, CLU wins the District 3 tournament out of the Golden State Athletic Conference and advances to the regionals in Portland, Oregon.

1990: Outfielder Blake Babki signs a free-agent contract with the New York Mets.

1991: Bob Farber is a CoSIDA Academic All-America 1991-92.

1992: Now in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and NCAA Division III, the Kingsmen are runners-up at the College World Series, losing to William Paterson (N.J.) 3-1. CLU wins a school-record 43 games.

1992: Four players earn ABCA All-America with two First Team selections Steve Dempsey and Darryl McMillin, Second Team Dan Smith and Third Team Pat Norville.

1993: CLU makes a secondstraight World Series appearance, finishing seventh.

1993: Jeff Berman is a First Team ABCA All-America honoree. Joe Cascione, Eric Johnson and Mike Winslow named to Second Team.

1994: Marty Slimak becomes the 10th head coach. In 24 seasons, Slimak has a 688-323-8 record (.679) with a national championship, 13 NCAA West Regional appearances and 12 SCIAC titles.

1994: John Becker and Scott Sebbo are named to ABCA Third Team All-America.

1996: In its second trip to a Division III championship game, CLU falls again to William Paterson, 6-5.

1996: Andrew Barber pitches a no-hitter and is named to ABCA Third Team All-America. The righthander signs a free-agent contract with the Colorado Rockies.

1997: Tom McGee earns ABCA Second Team All-America and Richard Bell is ABCA Third Team.

McGee, a catcher, signs a freeagent contract with the Orioles.

1998: The Kingsmen finish seventh in the College World Series.

1998: Joseph Jauregui earns ABCA Third Team All-America.

1999: In a second consecutive CWS appearance, Cal Lutheran places third.

1999: Pitcher Adam Springston (34th round, Braves) is the fourth CLU player to be drafted in the ’90s, joining outfielder Darryl McMillin (60th round, Royals, ’92), right-hand pitcher Marc Weiss (26th round, Reds, ’94) and lefthand pitcher Richard Bell (28th round, Dodgers, ’97).

2000s 2000: A year after right-hander Tom Canale is ABCA Third Team

All-America, he goes in the 10th round to the Cleveland Indians.

2003: Three-year starting pitcher Jason Hirsh is the first draft pick (2nd round) of the Houston Astros.

The right-hander goes on to pitch three seasons in the majors.

2003: Catcher Taylor Slimak, the coach’s son, is drafted in the 23rd round by the Dodgers.

2005: Christian Hariot earns ABCA Second Team All-America.

2009: Second baseman David Iden is drafted in the 35th round by the Dodgers, capping a decade that saw a record eight CLU players drafted, including lefthand pitcher Justin Keeling (25th round, Twins, ’02), second baseman Brian Skaug (20th, Astros, ’03), right-hand pitcher Matt Hirsh (30th, Astros, ’05) and outfielder Lee Ellis (46th, Orioles, ’07).

2010s 2011: Nick Boggan earns ABCA Third Team All-America.

2013: CLU wins the first of five regular-season SCIAC titles (201317), along with four of the first five SCIAC postseason tournaments.

This year, it leads Division III in batting average (.340), scoring (8.9 runs per game) and on-base percentage (.430).

2013: Jake Peterson earns ABCA First Team All-America and Aaron Roth earns ABCA Second Team All-America.

2014: Lefty pitcher Jake Petersen, the only two-time ABCA First Team All-America utility player, is the most recent Kingsmen draft pick (33rd round, Angels), joining right-hander Ian Durham (28th, Phillies, ’11) and second baseman Garrett Smith (37th, Indians, ’13).

In all, 24 Kingsmen have been drafted by MLB teams.

2017: Cal Lutheran wins its first national championship, defeating Washington & Jefferson (Pennsylvania), two games to one, in the NCAA Division III College World Series in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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IN WATER WARS, PEACE GETS A CHANCE An economist sells his market-based approach, making Ventura County a new laboratory for conservation. BY COLLEEN CASON // PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

Over more than a year and against the backdrop of a withering drought, about 50 Ventura County farmers, municipal water providers and environmental stewards put aside their traditional rivalry to launch an experiment in sharing the West’s most precious and contested resource.

With Cal Lutheran economist Matthew Fienup leading the way, they created a new market where individual growers can buy and sell groundwater. The only exchange of its kind in California, the concept is drawing interest from water Fienup agencies as far away as Kansas. The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded a $1.9 million grant to expand the pilot project later this year.

Rolled out as a pilot program in January, the market caps how much water a grower can pump to irrigate crops. The system rewards conservation by permitting farmers to sell their surplus to another user who is running on empty. And when the resource grows particularly scarce, as in times of drought, sellers can ask a higher price. That helps repay them for the costs of installing more efficient irrigation systems.

When “an academic from the ivory tower meets guys with mud on their shoes,” things don’t always go well, said John Krist, CEO of Farm Bureau of Ventura County.

But Fienup, a specialist on local land use policies who serves as executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, quickly grasped the complexities of farming on the Oxnard Plain, among the priciest and most fertile farmland in the world.

“Matt is the animating force behind the whole thing,” Krist said.

The idea for the water market flowed from a conversation between Fienup and Edgar Terry ’81, MBA ’83, a fourth-generation farmer and senior adjunct professor of finance at CLU. Terry’s credibility in the local ag sector opened doors for Fienup, a 42-year-old former rock-climbing instructor and adventure photographer.

“I ate chicken pot pie at every country kitchen in the county,” he said.

The farmers he met embraced the idea of a water market, but almost to the person they told Fienup the regulators would never allow it.

Terry and Krist then set up one-on-one meetings with board members of the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency, who oversee aquifers beneath the Oxnard Plain.

Fienup smiles as he shares the upshot of those meetings: “They said they loved it but the farmers would never go for it.”

The need to collaborate intensified in late 2014 after the state legislature passed a law requiring most water basins to assemble stakeholders and devise a sustainability plan.

To meet this mandate, the Fox Canyon Water Market Group was formed with Fienup chosen as the chairman, in part because of his affiliation with Cal Lutheran. The university was seen as a neutral party with no financial stake in the outcome, according to Krist. Terry took on the vice-chair role.

For seven months, the group met bimonthly in a classroom at Cal Lutheran’s Oxnard center. Representatives from a

The farmers said the regulators would never allow the water exchange. The regulators said the same thing about the farmers.

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In Memoriam

SEMINARY MOVES On the

pioneering Australian water market provided nuts-and-bolts guidance on how to build the exchange from the ground up.

The County of Ventura sponsored a website where members could share information.

This working group was plowing new ground, Krist said.

“They were talking about water and money in a way we never had before.”

Things did not always flow smoothly, Fienup notes. But the parties worked through their strong disagreements bit by bit, until the plan was approved unanimously.

To keep everyone honest, the farmers themselves specified each market member install a high-tech device with a solarpowered cellular modem that monitors in real time the quantity of water they are using and sends that data to the cloud. Cal Lutheran’s economic forecasting center was selected to administer the exchange.

Rolling out the pilot program after a record-rainfall winter has had one drawback. So far, none of the early adopters has needed to initiate a trade.

A larger, yearlong test of the market that will expand to include municipal water agencies and environmental users will begin in October. The Nature Conservancy, one of the stakeholders that provided input, will administer the $1.9 million federal Conservation Innovation Grant funding this next phase.

Krist, who has headed the Farm Bureau for nearly a decade, observed the heaviest lift for Fienup and the working group was not figuring out how trades would work or procuring the technology to monitor usage.

“The hard part,” he said, “was getting people with competing issues to lock in on shared interest and not get sidetracked by differences on side issues so they could work toward the common good.”

Colleen Cason is an award-winning journalist and longtime columnist for the Ventura County Star. A Thousand Oaks resident, she has served as adviser to The Echo student newspaper and currently edits Central Coast Farm & Ranch magazine.

last Saturday in May, Master of Divinity student Marc Mougeot Mohr, holding a cross of wood, and about 80 members of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary’s community in Berkeley made a symbolic trek from the decommissioned campus at the top of Marin Avenue to a new home at 2000 Center St. near the downtown BART station. The seminary, which had used the hilltop site since 1952, became a graduate school of Cal Lutheran three years ago. (See Page 12 for an interview with the new rector.)

Fogel

TOP PROF A committee of past honorees chose associate professor of mathematics Karrolyne Fogel to receive the 2017 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence and $2,500 in April. Fogel, who joined the faculty in 1998, works with everyone from advanced math students to nonmajors and aspiring schoolteachers. She doesn’t teach math, she has said, but uses math to teach people.

Elwin D. Farwell May 1, 1919 – May 5, 2017

Elwin Farwell, the first dean of California Lutheran College, died at age 98 at his home in Decorah, Iowa.

Farwell came to Cal Lutheran in 1961 with wide-ranging responsibilities for the faculty, the registrar’s office, the curriculum, the catalog and the admissions program.

During his short tenure as dean, the college received accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. In 1963, he left Cal Lutheran to become the sixth president of Luther College, where he served for the next 18 years.

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Michigan State University, a doctorate in education from UC Berkeley and a bachelor of divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II and later worked in faculty and staff positions at Michigan State and Berkeley.

After ordination in 1959, he served as a parish pastor for two years before finding his calling in Lutheran higher education.

He is survived by his wife, Helen, two sons, two daughters, 11 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

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‘THE POINT IS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

IN THE COMMUNITY’ A scholar of the New Testament and the incoming rector of Cal Lutheran’s theological seminary in Berkeley, Ray Pickett has been watching local organizing efforts change the church. PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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CLU ADMINISTRATION Rev. Pickett, what does it mean to think of Jesus as a community organizer?

Basically, this is a way of responding to an idea of Jesus as an abstract figure who hovers above time and space. I think we have removed him from his context. What if we put him back in his context and ask what he’s doing?

What he’s doing: He’s gathering people and galvanizing them around a shared vision he called the kingdom of God, he’s forming leaders – this is a kind of community organizing practice – and he’s responding to circumstances. Mainly economic oppression and social marginalization.

Was the apostle Paul an organizer?

Again, if you ask what Paul is doing, he’s basically forming communities. We obsess about Paul’s theology, but I’m trying to retrieve a kind of practical dimension and say that Jesus and Paul are both about community.

And when they talk about community, they aren’t just talking about the church. Jesus is talking about all the villages around Galilee.

He’s talking about the whole community.

Is this what you see some Lutheran pastors doing recently?

Yes, in a way. It’s a model that’s a little out of the box. You start by building relationships in the community and then you build something from that. It’s not the traditional model of starting a worshipping community and then trying to market it.

Traditionally, we developed churches on the growing edges of suburbs, and a lot of times the churches grew because they were strategically located.

So is the newer approach mainly for cities?

It often is. About five years ago, when I was reconnecting with community organizing in Chicago, I discovered there is somebody in the ELCA* who is in charge of faith-based community organizing. Her name is Sue Engh. Sue invited me to a meeting of a network of pastors and leaders from all over the country who were adapting the principles of community organizing to engage the larger community, most of them in urban contexts.** They all are using the arts of community organizing in very different, creative ways.

They’re gathering people, not only in the church but outside the church, on issues that affect their communities. It could be economic issues or environmental issues or whatever.

Some examples?

Two alumni of PLTS, John Cummings ’05, M.Div. ’10, and Meghan Sobocienski, M.Div. ’07, started something in Detroit called Grace in Action. They moved into a working-class section of the community (they’re married), and they started a Bible study. But they also started a co-op of youth. They have a T-shirt printing business and a technology business and more.

Another is in Portland, Salt & Light Lutheran led by Melissa Reed, M.Div. ’08. They have a congregation, but then they have a not-for-profit. They were attracting people who either didn’t have faith or were discerning what their faith was and wanted to be a part of what the congregation was doing. And now they have a unique structure with a joint board that oversees the two parts of the organization.

There’s not one formula for this. But instead of saying that the point of church is to get people in the church, it says, “No, the point of church is to make a difference in the community.”

What would you want to know about a community before starting a church or something like a church?

Who is this community? What’s the profile of this community? What are the concerns of the community?

Precisely what you would do – and these are skills that people can learn – you would do demographic research, you would do asset mapping, you would learn about and begin to talk to institutions that serve people in the neighborhood. So you would do community research on a number of fronts, and that would be a basis for how you’d engage.

Will PLTS be training people to do this kind of work?

I think that change may be on the horizon, but I need to have many more conversations.

PLTS is doing some of this already. The people I mentioned were exposed to community organizing in seminary. So I think we want to teach people those practices and maybe get them involved while they’re in seminary.

That’s my hope anyhow. * Cal Lutheran and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary are affiliated with the Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ** With two Cal Lutheran co-authors, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda (PLTS) and Victor Thasiah (Religion), Pickett is researching a book about the network, which is known as the Organizing for Mission Cohort.

Chris Kimball, Ph.D. President Leanne Neilson, Psy.D. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, M.Div. ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, Ph.D. Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing R. Stephen Wheatly ’77, J.D. Vice President for University Advancement Gerhard Apfelthaler, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Management Michael Hillis, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Raymond Pickett, Ph.D. Rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, M.Div. ’95, Ph.D. Dean of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary BOARD OF REGENTS Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88, Chair Jim Overton, Vice Chair Bill Camarillo, Secretary Linda Baumhefner Glen Becerra The Rev. Jim Bessey ’66 Ann Boynton ’83 Wallace Brohaugh Sue Chadwick Dennis Erickson, Ph.D. Paul Fields ’18 Veronica Guerrero, Ed.D. The Rev. Mark Hanson The Rev. Mark Holmerud Jon Irwin Chris Kimball, Ph.D. William Krantz Judy Larsen, Ph.D. Jill Lederer Rick Lemmo Malcolm McNeil The Rev. David Nagler, M.Div. ’93 The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70, M.Div. ’74 Carrie Nebens Kären Olson ’83 Debra Papageorge ’12 Dennis Robbins ’86 Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 Mike Soules Mark Stegemoeller Nick Steinwender ’19 Deborah Sweeney Jim Swenson George Ullman Jr. ’76 CAL LUTHERAN MISSION The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

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ELLA CALAME’S RESCUE MISSION Specialists in skin disorders don’t often get credit for saving lives. This one traveled a long way to do it. BY KEVIN MATTHEWS // PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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ntoanella (Ismanescu ’96) Calame found herself in some tight spots before she left Romania, her birth country. Now, as often as she can, she gets others out of danger.

A highly trained physician, Calame owns a practice in San Diego diagnosing disorders of the skin under a microscope.

She employs more than 30 people, trains medical residents and owns the building where Compass Dermatopathology has two floors of labs and offices.

She lectures and publishes, has won medical school teaching awards and is affiliated with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. She also works directly with patients as a dermatologist, with past experience performing Mohs surgery to precisely remove cancer without harming healthy tissue.

Samples arrive daily for her team at Compass to stain, fix and analyze. Calame started the business after seeing a need for faster turnaround times. She developed a time-saving process for logging the results of analysis, in which samples are matched with thousands of coded diagnoses.

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Skin doctors and skin pathologists have life-saving skills.

They get called into dramatic situations. They see emergencies that others miss. They stage rescues.

(Jerry Seinfeld learns this in an episode of his old TV sitcom, right after sneering at a female dermatologist: “You call yourself ‘life saver.’ I call you Pimple Popper, M.D.” Go check that out on the web.)

While a medical resident at UC San Diego, for example, Calame saw an elderly patient, a gentle man with a foreign accent, who was in tears throughout the visit. He was suffering acutely from something called erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp. (Do not check that out on the web.)

The thing is, that was the first time in six years of doctors’ visits he’d been correctly diagnosed. The man had gone through plastic surgery, biopsies and changing treatment plans, often on the assumption that the wounds covering his whole scalp were from horrible sun damage. He came in saying he was ready to kill himself.

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During the same visit, Calame and others determined that the man needed a high-potency topical steroid, that is, a cream.

Two weeks later, the skin on his scalp was clear and he could begin to recover his well-being.

In a case this year, Calame was called on as a second opinion to look at a biopsy from the forearm of a 5-year-old boy. A top East Coast medical center had labelled it a myeloid sarcoma, which was devastating news.

But as his doctor and parents were discussing a bone marrow biopsy to see precisely what kind of leukemia he had, Calame phoned to inform them that he had nothing to worry about.

Instead, the boy had “an absolutely harmless, self-limiting, self-resolving growth that requires no treatment.” He was misdiagnosed partly because the laboratory had checked only the slide, and not inquired about the young patient’s general health.

“When things like that happen, you remember them for years,” she said. “You get to change the life of this family.”

with real people” for Calame and converted the fantasy of escape into something she could see herself pulling off.

So after Ceausescu’s death, when Romanian authorities stopped caring who left the country, she got her first passport and started applying for a U.S. student visa. Suddenly, she says with a laugh, the problem for people who wanted out was that no one wanted you in.

Calame struggled to win the student visa because she had no intention of ever returning to Romania and also no intention of lying about this to the kind, blue-eyed American official who spoke such good Romanian. She would have been starting the rest of her life with that lie. Over the course of one year, she was interviewed three times by the same official, who finally granted her wish.

The neighborhood's first satellite dish made America real for her and the fantasy of escape a possibility.

Calame’s world changed in December of 1989 when she was 18 and beginning her university career in the western cultural capital of Timisoara. The small town girl from Deva, in the region once called Transylvania, found herself right where the Romanian Revolution was starting.

“We couldn’t believe it was happening,” she says. “We started hearing there was some unrest, and the next thing we knew, within the course of a day, there were shots that were being fired. We didn’t know: Should we stay inside, should we go outside? We definitely wanted to be part of it because we wanted the Communist government to be overthrown.”

By the time students went home for winter vacation, it was clear that the mostly bloodless revolution – one in a wave that year crossing Central and Eastern Europe – was rapidly succeeding and that Ceausescu and the government would indeed fall. On Christmas Day, the dictator and his wife were executed on national television.

Almost immediately, young Ella started thinking about how to get to America. From one side, the United States had been a fantasy home for her as long as she could remember. Romania, apart from the government and the steady diet of propaganda, was a wonderful place to grow up, she said, but America still “epitomized everything you couldn’t have.” From the other side, she was convinced that the Communists would retake power in a matter of months.

A few years earlier, around the time she began high school, her neighborhood got its first satellite dish; everyone tapped in and promptly started singing ’80s hits in English. She caught up with her dream country’s culture, temporarily deciding that she didn’t care for Madonna because too many others did.

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One thing you could say for Communism: Girls had the same opportunities as boys. Calame arrived in California with such a strong foundation in math and the hard sciences that she was unable to find courses on her level at Moorpark College.

(She brought a blank application with her to America. It had been mailed to someone back home.)

After transferring to Cal Lutheran, she took science courses almost exclusively and graduated as the Class of 1996 co-valedictorian with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

The Los Angeles Times featured Calame in an article on Cal Lutheran’s Commencement, noting the self-assurance that allowed her to excel at academics and, though she never held a racket in Romania, play varsity tennis. The story quoted her organic chemistry professor: “She does everything she’s asked to do, does more than she’s asked to do and does it earlier than she’s asked to do it,” said Michael Wiley. “She doesn’t want to just get an A, she wants to be the best person in the class.”

And wants to help. Calame was drawn to dermatology at UC San Diego because it was challenging and complex, and simultaneously permitted “instant diagnosis,” an art she perfected during a dermatopathology fellowship at University of Texas, Southwestern, in Dallas. Some skin conditions speak volumes: “You walk into a room and see a skin-colored 2-3 millimeter (tenth of an inch) tiny little growth on someone’s nose and tell them that they have already in their family colon and breast cancer … and they say, ‘How could you possibly have known?’”

The day before we first spoke for this article, Calame had seen a patient transferred to Scripps because of a rare drug eruption, or rash. Not surprisingly, other doctors didn’t know that the drug reaction could be fatal, and none of them had ever administered the intravenous medication needed right away to control it. Another save.

“They’re always so surprised when it’s derm that does it,” she said.

Dr. Calame assists Cal Lutheran’s Science Initiative as a Commission for the Sciences member.

Generosity, year over year Craig Shuipis ’73 is a big believer in compounding, the process that makes even small investments grow large.

Educational experiences can promote personal growth in a similar way. The guidance of longtime sociology department chair Dr. Mary Margaret Thomes (Locke), H’03, had such a powerful influence on him, Shuipis says, that he likely would not have graduated without it. His mentor helped him to build sound critical thinking skills that he used throughout his long and successful career. After earning a bachelor’s in sociology, Shuipis finally dedicated himself to finance in the aerospace industry. His love for the liberal arts never faded.

Today, Shuipis makes sure the problem-solvers of tomorrow will have access to the same quality liberal arts education by supporting Cal Lutheran’s Presidential Scholarship fund through his estate plan. His planned giving strategy will allow his assets to work purposefully over time. Shuipis believes it’s important for each Orville Dahl Society member to act as an influencer, and to get started as early as possible for maximum impact.

In his travels around the world, Shuipis learned that the things we accumulate are gifts. “As stewards, we also have a responsibility to pass it all on,” he says.

“That’s how we can compound our purpose for a better world.”

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT Rich Holmes ’98 Director Office of Major and Planned Giving (805) 493-3586 holmes@CalLutheran.edu

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What’s purple and gold all over? Guerreros’ staff and players. From left are general manager Robb Bolton ’96, PR director/former student Salvador Orozco, owner Ty Otto ’15, forward/current student Cristian Yepez, and team photographer Tyler Shepard ’15.

Here come the

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Owned, managed and partly staffed by Kingsmen, the professional expansion club is looking to make a little noise in the National Premier Soccer League and give a little something to the community in Oxnard. BY FRED ALVAREZ // PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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he sun is slowly sinking behind Oxnard’s Del Sol Stadium and the hometown Guerreros have taken the field, zipping through their pregame soccer warm-ups.

A boom-ch-boom-chick reggaeton beat bumps through the loudspeakers, and the souvenir shop – a table set outside the players’ locker room – is open for business, selling beanies and jerseys and long soccer scarves.

In the stands, the black-and-green colors of the hometown team dominate the fashion choices of a small but loyal fan base that has arrived this Saturday evening to watch the Guerreros take on an undefeated club from Phoenix, Arizona.

But there’s something distinctly Kingsmen purple-and-gold at work here too.

A Cal Lutheran undercurrent propels this first-ever push to establish a professional soccer presence in the already soccercrazed city of Oxnard.

The founder and owner of the Guerreros fútbol club is a Cal Lutheran grad, as is the general manager. A couple of the players are CLU alums, and a host of staff and interns either graduated from Cal Lutheran or are working toward degrees.

It’s like Cal Lutheran west at Del Sol Stadium. And that goes right down to the philosophy that guides the formation and development of a club whose mission it is to put local soccer on the map while building an institution that will serve as a source of civic pride.

“Community building is a huge part of what we are about,” said Oxnard native Salvador Orozco, who as the Guerreros’ PR director serves as the public face for the club.

Before attending Cal Lutheran and playing a couple seasons on the Kingsmen soccer squad, Orozco played plenty of soccer around these parts, both at the club level and as a standout at Channel Islands High School.

He knows too well the depth of soccer talent that has long existed on the Oxnard Plain and across Ventura County, and he knows that too often that talent has either been overlooked or squandered because players have lacked opportunities to compete at a higher level.

Now come the Guerreros, a first-year expansion club looking to make a little noise in the Southwest Conference of the National Premier Soccer League.

“There’s definitely always been a deep talent pool in the Oxnard area but it has been more or less ignored over the years,” Orozco said. “This is something where, if the Guerreros hit it right, we can create a pathway to a club that our young players can aspire to play for. It’s such a positive thing for our city.”

That’s exactly what Ty Otto ‘15 had in mind when he launched the club late last year.

A marketing communication major at Cal Lutheran, Otto flirted with various ventures upon graduation, but soccer, his first love, kept calling.

Like many fútbol enthusiasts, Otto began playing at an early age, first in AYSO, then with a high-powered prep team at the Dunn School in Los Olivos, and most recently with a recreational soccer club he started at Cal Lutheran.

But perhaps unlike his soccer-playing peers, while he harbored dreams of playing at the professional level, he also developed at an early age the idea of one day starting his own soccer team. A quadruple ligament tear ended his big league soccer dreams. But a blog post by tech entrepreneur Dennis Crowley, co-founder of the Foursquare “check in” app, put Otto’s other dream within reach.

The blog entry provided a roadmap for launching a professional soccer team, something Crowley did in 2015 in New York’s Hudson Valley. Late last year, Otto decided to follow suit, tackling every phase of building the Guerreros from the ground up.

IT WAS A TIGHT SQUEEZE. Because NPSL approval didn’t come until November of last year, Otto essentially had four months to pull together the whole project in time for the Guerreros’ first game in March.

“It was pretty hectic there for a while,” said Guerreros general manager Robb Bolton ’96, another former Kingsmen player and one of Otto’s first hires.

Since graduating from Cal Lutheran, Bolton had accumulated extensive experience with business startups revolving around athletic training, sports medicine and coaching. He was able to put that experience to good use, spearheading the Guerreros’ push to change the soccer culture in the Oxnard area by providing good mentorship and direction to local players looking to make the often-bumpy transition from amateur play to the professional ranks.

“This was more than an opportunity to start a soccer club.

This was an opportunity to give back to the community and create opportunities that a lot of young kids in that area didn’t have,” Bolton said. “It was a challenge, but it really came down to Ty’s vision, how much he believed in it and how much he was willing to support it.”

Tapping proceeds from some profitable post-graduation business ventures, Otto quickly assembled a management team, which got busy hiring coaches, holding tryouts and signing players.

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the hardest part of the whole process was finding a place to play.

The team did not secure Del Sol Stadium until about 10 days before the Guerreros’ first home game on March 25.

And somewhere along the line, even without meaning to do so, Otto said he began to tap Cal Lutheran connections to get his new venture off the ground.

“I didn’t intentionally plan for that CLU pipeline to be as big as it turned out to be, but it didn’t really surprise me,” he said.

“One thing you can say about Cal Lutheran students is that they’re go-getters – they see something they want to pursue and they go after it. It just made sense that they would be the ones to come on board to help make this happen.”

Indeed, a large part of what the Guerreros are about dovetails with the university’s community- and service-oriented mission.

Already the Guerreros have improved the bathrooms and locker rooms at Del Sol Stadium, and have laid plans to improve stadium seating and install a public address system. They’ve invited youth soccer teams to watch games and practices, and have recruited young players to shag balls at home games.

Yes, the formation of the Oxnard club is about mining local soccer talent, Otto said. But it’s also about contributing to the community and shining a positive light on an area too often the focus of negative attention.

“We set out to involve ourselves with the community as much as possible,” Otto said. “It’s not just about being good on the field; it’s about being good off the field and representing the best of Oxnard.”

ALL THE LOVE THE GUERREROS ARE GIVING, THEY’RE GETTING IN RETURN. A community meet-and-greet in early spring at Oxnard’s Plaza Park drew dozens of fans, who took photos with players and collected autographs. Team members handed out complimentary game tickets and ran through soccer drills with those in attendance.

A month later, players, coaches and staff were invited to Oxnard City Hall, where the Guerreros were proclaimed the city’s official professional soccer team.

“Obviously, whenever someone puts so much effort into an undertaking that is meant to show what is positive about Oxnard, the city is going to get behind it 100 percent,” said Oxnard Mayor Tim Flynn, who attended the Guerreros’ first home game and was impressed by the high caliber of play on the field and the outpouring of community support in the stands.

On the field, the Guerreros have done their share of winning.

They won their first home game of the season, and in their sixth match they racked up their biggest win of the year, an 11-1 rout of fellow expansion squad City of Angels FC. But it’s not easy being an expansion team. Despite hard play at every turn, by midseason the Guerreros had lost more games than they had won, including a tough defeat at the hands of FC Arizona.

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NOT THAT IT MATTERED MUCH TO THOSE IN ATTENDANCE. A small cadre of passionate, knowledgeable fans followed every play, hooting at bad calls and cheering the Guerreros’ shots on goal. Otto was everywhere, handing out raffle tickets before the game and sitting with fans during play, every once in a while bellowing: “Let’s Go Guerreros! Come on boys!”

The ball boys were plucked from local schools, invited by coaches to come out and be part of the team. Halftime was highlighted by a goal-shooting contest, where kids were invited onto the field to compete for Guerrero decals and tickets to the next home game.

In the stands the same evening was Raul Yepez ’13, a Guerreros player who in many ways embodies what this upstart venture is all about.

Since arriving in Oxnard with his family from Mexico at the age of 10, Yepez has been a soccer star. He was a standout at Pacifica High School, and turned down offers to go pro when he enrolled at Cal Lutheran.

He led the Kingsmen in goals for two seasons and twice earned first team All-SCIAC honors.

He graduated with a double major in business and accounting, and then went to work shouldering the responsibilities of adulthood and family. His competitive soccer career was all but over when the Guerreros came to town.

Yepez tried out for the team and once again has emerged as a star player, although he has been plagued by injuries this season. That is how he found himself on the sidelines this evening, supporting his teammates instead of barreling into the thick of the action.

For Yepez, who fittingly scored the club’s first competitive goal, the Guerreros represents perhaps one last shot at soccer glory.

But he also knows that what’s happening on this field and in this hometown stadium is about more than his own personal soccer journey.

“Right now, in our first season, it’s not all about winning,” said Yepez, who knows the local soccer landscape better than most and knows just how valuable this venture can be.

“We’re trying to build something for the long term, something that all those young players coming behind us can aim for and benefit from,” he added. “Oxnard has so much soccer talent, and I think with the right support from the city and the community, this can go far.”

“I didn’t plan for that CLU pipeline to be as big as it turned out to be, but it didn't really surprise me."

Fred Alvarez is a high school history and journalism teacher who lives in Ojai. For more than two decades, he was a staff writer for daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Introducing Cal Lutheran’s

2017 ALUMNI HALL OF FAMERS

MEREDITH (BUTTE ’11) SHIRK

BRIAN COLLINS ’98

ERIC FLORES ’12

Women’s Water Polo

Men’s Soccer

Men’s Track & Field

BRITLYN GARRETT ’12

ALLISON KERR ’11

DONALD PRICE ’87

Women’s Track & Field

Women’s Volleyball

Men’s Track & Field

SAVE THE DATE Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 For tickets and details, visit CalLutheran.edu/hof or call (805) 493-3170

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IT’S YOUR YEAR TO CELEBRATE! Homecoming & Family Weekend 2017

Are you celebrating a reunion this year? Join your fellow alumni for Homecoming & Family Weekend to be held Oct. 13-15.

Special reunion activities are planned in addition to a wide array of Homecoming events. Save the date and we’ll see you this fall!

Homecoming & Family Weekend Oct. 13-15, 2017 CalLutheran.edu/homecoming | alumni@CalLutheran.edu | (805) 493-3170

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TAKE CAL LUTHERAN WITH YOU Alumni got together to hit the links at Lake Sherwood Country Club during Homecoming Weekend. Special thanks to our alumni volunteer organizers: Jeff Lindgren ’88, Brodie Munro ’91, Krister Swanson ’89, M.A. ’96, Brian McCoy ’95 and Eric Jensen ’84.

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Solupiscitat audi cum est, to et assit quaspidessit velecate debis velitio nectur maionseris aut aut quae plaborio di num eos aborenesto initature proreror antiore ctotatus escipsam enis accusda ecatemqui at.

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Rati debiscim diciuntur, cus que nosandus re nonsequi occupta tiistiandit fugitatem dolendel et venecae. Lorem fugit doluptatur, quat doloreptatio et minvendem ullorro magnim lam renimol orepuda epellabo. Busa dolorporum fugia dolorep eritio. Rehentem aboreris demporeptas id esti ressincto conseditium ulparis secusda cuptaqui blabo. Ita dolorporum ad et experov itaturibusam et eicimin torepro estrunt.

1980s

Ipis magnihicitam harum natqui ut mossequia cus ate ommolup tatiur solorer escit, sint et lam rem quatibus eicid molendant, intempo renetur itiossincti illor sus, que

ped que quae. Ita incidestiis eicipsunt, sunt que nis dis aperum quuntecerae corem. Nequam, cumque eatem re pellab ideliantem quos es a vollibea quiant eiunt et voluptasit aut offictiume et fugit ad que liquod quis dolluptas venemporit latur?

Ficat volest, simus estore apel ipid quatibus amus rem et mil ma qui torpore

Abo. Itatur magnis volor mil inctus doluptasinci ommoluptibus eium eost, officiliquam commolum dipsae. Nemossit,

Ficae aut prehendion rem is dolorpo repudi doluptur reperem. Ut odis recab inveles simi, quatur, ommodis sam res qui quae conserc hilibus, comnia parunt offic to conetur sint rerunti ut ex eligenda non event dit volorro volorpostrum lacea coremolor ad magnis adit fugiatur?

Hendi optior autet et qui te vellabo. La que nulparum, odicias quam latecus rem.

Itaquibus volorum ipsa di bla int errovidestem unt omnihil modipsunto consequam

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inveliqui vellore min es unt antibearum ium num ini doluptiatio. Ictiae. Sapienit il idenimi litatio et ma quiae cum suntibu scipid qui ut es et iur, cone ma sedit autectatur simusandicia volut aut dellamus eles doluptatem que esediatiis erias aut inum hitas et int reperferiat occuptae perspel estruptas is re, sed quid quo coratis est, cuptam consequis arum anda con corro tem simus apis doluptur receptatem harciet lam, same volenda ad ut pos dolenduntia nonecuptae verovit iustrum quaersp iducimaios est, omnihil liquam, occum sunte ent qui bla quos anissit vernam libus aut vel eossi omnihitate con repta ipsa aliscia volorem voluptati non core provide bitibus estisquatur arum eossita turepero maionet int.

Evellectatus alictiorent harum ulloreperum natquates siminciat occus sit, sit laccat ex etus, simet quibus, simincient eossintia essime doluptas quam quiduciet omniamusda id quiberum ilique volest moditatecte enecto to optiuscium sam nobisit, aspedit ventur? Qui ulparupta vent, incto ist, aditae veniminihil illesed quis volum quodiae laboreh enducias voluptium ullaut provid quia sunt porem et faceris in core cor am simo bere elicate nditaspitam que pe exped qui omnim as coresti alis si doloreseque sim et eius sitate nonetur seditaquo magnis eriatqui aliquun tiatinv elliquatas repreped que

verum venieni mincia diatiur? Gia volupta sundellabore di offic totaesciis quiae. Ferrum ernatectum ad et ad quiam rehenitas audaestor sima qui officipis iliquas reribus corem ut plam, sintem fugit fugiam, quidignam solorrovit aut hit rem. Xim esto est ulparcid ut pedio temque apit fuga.

Et fugia nis reribus apidendignim rereper aectur autat eressin vellatur moluptati

1990s

laudit omnis est iuntur? Qui ommos sapic t ota culparum faccati audaessitius excea dolut et vollibus ipsaperum quo ide voluptur aut modigent.

Demquid exped que nobit optam, quas apienih itessi cum, quis re nobit officiet vendellamus.

Cum quam faceataque consequia cus, voloreicium rem. Quid quaerrunt, omnihillias maio. Et intur si nest quidest, conseque venis sitat estibus ea verum quia simporibus aliquid ea cus il entior sequias pelest, et in corit mil incil molor sim es es ipsam ipsa voles vit fugit utate comnis es evendit quiaerumet aceaque quias re, nitatqui sernat plis essin nam, quam remperepra velentur, omnitat uritat.

optaquia doluptas ipicil essumenia dolum alis diat quam, qui debit qui ut ute veles eum sitate minto bea core dest pratiam, offic torro minimin corum enem quo berum sum cus dempe dolendes sum

Pudaecae dolor assit voluptat et experum num sum voloriberum nonsequ atectur aceped quis ad maiorro minctur min es in nulpa sa qui a corum quostrum, idi vit untibus dandae rehenderum faceperiam facita nus dolor aceriberfera conet estenti odignis iunt lias doluptae dolorporem. Um autemquidebibist, uteni idictur? Enector iatium quo erchit, ute molupta de sandignitis qui quis arcipsapis ut ipsapid eliquam, sunt.

Et que quae voluptiam que poreceatur? Qui soluptat autem que net essimo ditium untia eostinu llabor aspere dolupta tibusda eriates totatur?

Tint dipiet eum vit et, serae. Ut voluptatur?

haruptatatur molupti ssinulpa volorem rem hici odiam et eum exerunt eossend aepedis enimaio velitat usapis aborem qui cum volore oditatus idusam, sustis dolor aliquate conseque nem volum fugit accat. sum fugiame ntusameni omnias accae.

Itaquae rroviti umquidi omnis voluptur?

Emporeni corest, con porro ex eosa perati omnime num quam sitaquam quae esti to dellacias rerro millaut ut ea quiditatia volum conemporepro doluptiae min-

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Is quoditatium, odipic tenitius ipsa nonseque volenditibus sita dellabo. Ferumqui dellorem et in essiminti oditatia soloreptas qui bea destias impori reperovidi doluptam nit, solorio eniam dit poreceatusam qui bea destias impori reperovidi dolup

Peruptat magnatioria qui cum qui quati optur asiminc totatenim harumquam, netur sitas re coribus doluptur, occumque ari oditiatatet labori nonsequi to il escitiunt odit, voluptati quia vel magnatis iniet et quisci re cumquo illacer ionempos nulpa voluptate quunt voluptatia adi opta dolorec aborist emquam et exerem int ex eic tem ra dit verum ulpa volores trumeni nos sitas nulparumquis etur?

In repuda id quidebit et pori inte vercidus, officitiost et re, to et volecto doluptas sectotates etur sed quiasita consequi as endis mosaper ferspernam quasperis cores

Retirement claims 5 who served

160 YEARS Big names in the university’s history

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n 43 years at Cal Lutheran, Karen Renick cultivated a love of French language and francophone culture in generations of students. Cynthia Cardona ’07 remarked on a social media post that she learned French not only from Renick, but, before that, from a high school teacher trained by her college professor. Another French major, Clarice (Hammett ’06) Mohammadi, responded, “I don’t even know where to begin – Dr. Karen Renick has been such a driving force in my life choices – I would not have had such an amazing college experience without her, nor would I have decided to pursue the Peace Corps, teaching or a master’s at Middlebury….”

Then there are stories. “I can still picture her asking, où est le professeur?

while climbing on top of her desk or standing outside the door,” wrote Melissa (Ruby ’81) Dugan. And: “I’ll never forget how she came running into French 101 the fall of 1975, speaking French a mile a minute, then looking to us for a response,” wrote Joel B. Gibson ’79. “I was panicked, thinking I’d wandered into the wrong class” before she put everyone at ease.

To retirement, that cheerful reaper, Cal Lutheran this year has lost not only Renick, but, in all, five full-time faculty members who contributed 160 years toward the university’s cause, winning awards and helping others to better see the world. The longest-serving is Sig Schwarz, H’10, 47-year veteran of the English department (see Page 32).

Thirteen years is the shortest stay among this year’s retirees – that’s the tenure in which Sandy Grunewald won students’ admiration through her tax, auditing and accounting classes.

In fact, the School of Management’s three outgoing faculty members together taught for 70 years. Carol Coman arrived in 1986 and dedicated herself to assessment and, increasingly, efforts to foster cultures of academic integrity at institutions of higher education. Chuck Maxey, who was hired in 1991 as dean and served 22 years in that role, has now also stepped down from his research and teaching duties in human resources and organizational behavior. All gave in abundance. All already are missed.

Former assistant professor Sandy Grunewald (left) and emeriti professors Sig Schwarz, Carol Coman, Karen Renick and Chuck Maxey.

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2000s

reped magnihitas expelitia doluptianis volorro odit autemquo consequis aut litatquia velendi cum ium earum id ma ipsuntus et et ad maximinis maio elici de quam et ut omnis moluptas ulpa quo ilictate consequi is exerovi tatqui aut es es accusant quo conetur emperiorem volore net faccusda cum quis ma dunt aut ipsuntia con et ea dus eum eossi aut ullabore ma nus volum ex et que que corempe raeceatem consectiat faccusdae in res auda pedi remquis in ne porum ratur sequasp icilitiberum iuriore remporeptas si omnis imendit, volut fuga. Itatemporiat magnis acessit, sin eni simentia voloris ma consequae ped que consequi derepta sperum dolores sequo cus.

Occulluptate eaquatiatium voluptas ex et pos endi sedit atiunt et re ipsam rerundenim et landam, natibus vellaborecae vent magnis dolecum vellaborepro beaquaturia peruntion et omnit quaestis dunt aut

aperror magnis dest eosam, solupis vitiam iduci occatiatur repel il molorro voloreh enducil eturibusda sequid et aborerum volore cus alis aut hit exeribus, sam quia nullorr ovitia venima qui omnim nus, quamus, quiatae disciatem aliquatusant re volent, quia platem que dolumque incti bla doluptatur?

Giationsequi doluptatat.

Pereroribus, aliquam necatumendae occatemo modition restotat.

Ore eostius, solore aditiis etur?

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voluptatur? Qui vit a volluptatate volorest dipsa nim ipitas quas esciusa pitatibusam ius minumquunt etur, ipsaper iossimi, sit et quae sunt.

Me pos eium lignimi, totat assimilibus ari-

od millace rnatiam rest, aut prae delligendam, aboriandenit et autate omnimint rerro tecta nobita serumquatium eum erias volorepuda volorum fugia ventiassi tore inus, sam et est, endae ilit laborpor ad earchil laccum susam que nist, quo mi, solor atem eosa verio delesti omnimente delenis molest as remolore nestio. Itatem reptus voloriore sim assi commolupiet laciis repudis imusdae cone duntemque dolorest, sit quisciu mentorio maxim quatiusto blam esectet apitat volorehenis eum alique magnatistia volorionem quam et, iditio. Nequiasimus alis eum dolent, sit quaepedi necea estrunti officip sandus eatectu ribusandias apelent iusdae nobitium derferum quam rest odi none cusantint et esti ipsam, conempernam fuga.

Nem ant etur sapistium fugit etusaped magnimincto et occulpa cus maximag natur?

Um aut ut autas pla qui cum que nus sandeles mo cum est essus invenihit dolupta turesto tem quam duciis ad mostrum facil inulparum fugit pligni berume nonsequaspit id qui ium quibus exceperit peritet essit iniet qui quo verro eni omnis ressim aut qui am, omnia aut liquibusam aut velendis aut ut ut audis asperov iducium nient, quis et od ex esequis dolum facita ex evenisci dercid ma que enis et praepe alit, ani cone es quia doluptatur?

Quis doluptur, ut aspellaboris doleni que aborem dolo volor sit ditatur rest omnis et eos ad quat ea vernate nihilitium a nis ea doloremque estem a net arciure lam, tectestrum adi ditia voluptatium ad que nimpore ptatusant harum fuga. Nequia pera ernatur molo et faccupta ped magnimil et offic tempell oribuscia am aut ut eum comnim ex eatqui bero dollanis et officia prorrum reptiusciis dolumet et quassite

oreribust et essitate postrunt eossum ipiet, comni untur re parum et harchil luptatem que sum vellaut la vention porem erat restion sequae magnatium quid el estio et fugitas dolorec tiores et quasit odit faccus maximinulpa id molupturia voluptatias qui dollupta peditis truptatendi consendi il invent dolessint.

Sam iumqui ressunt quo te doleceat.

Natemquid quamusani ut volenti quid quidi quiates vitium quam aut enihillab ipsamus poratet veniendebit volore nat ei-

usciu ntusciamus, se natur si bea sim sitiis veliqui que laborumenda nosaperae in et que est ut quam enempos nusam sunt pore parition est ut omni dolum ad utet laborep erorem hil ipsam de sunt postotas eliti nos aut ma que et estotatquame

parum sus senihit, cus soluptam, sequam, ut occusa pore ped eni as de sit pratum fugiam lam fuga. Olendi tem ad expelitate sitaquo consequunt apis et voluptatur, voloratem quatium, cupitas eium acia dolorepro ea sit aperum illestota volupit omnient volupidit exera desequi aspitat emporempore nimet aut explabo ritiberiam liqui init ut audanda exerum fuga. Nem nest volorit dolectore, volut parum volore sitat etur anihita con cusda quidunt etur ma cone molupis eos explabo. Net, quia delectae inciet ipsantio beriti reruptio invendae vel ipsanda volo tem quaessenim il ium voloreratur, sincta debit dollatistio. Neque lab inti sintur as videm incilit offic te reiusto reprehe nditest enisquunt eatisti usandist aut exerupti utasi cus enis dit, omnis es antus, nus, qui berio te omnis eum vidusda esecae. Ut evenderate re non re, estionet venimust esediat atia delendi re peresenis as rem nos am volestr uptions eriasit iasperum qui cus moloriatur? Qui cuptur sitem volupta sam nihilit ationet qui con repudio quaspel essimus, quae.

Cupta dunda evel imus remporum atur

sitatis quae iur sequia est, seque voluptur sinciant ipit quostissum evendi doloribus est veneceptam vellacearum et velenda nonsed eaquam fugitam que lant quoditiissit liquis moluptatem resequa tusdae.

Ore landi berenda mentori tatemporrum eumquod itatior aut fugit fugiasi omni dolorit ut lit ad excepereped quibeat rae nistiun teculla borios consequ odipsae consequae ressit laccaborem voluptiore

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OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD When this year’s Outstanding Alumni Award recipient, Judith (Judi) Quentmeyer ’69 Irvin, first set foot on the California Lutheran College campus, she was 14 years old. The road to campus was not yet paved and the chicken coops were being refurbished as classrooms. Little did Irvin know at the time that she would spend her college years at Cal Lutheran and that those four years would lead to a stellar career as an educator.

Judith (Judi) Quentmeyer ’69 Irvin Outstanding Alumna

Irvin is a professor emerita in the College of Education at Florida State University, where she served as a professor of educational leadership and policy studies. Throughout her career, she wrote and edited numerous publications on adolescent literacy, most significantly a set of books on literacy action plans developed as part of a Carnegie Corporation–funded project.

She currently serves as executive director of the National Literacy Project, a nonprofit organization she and colleagues founded in 2000. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the NLP is involved in implementing literacy-rich modules of instruction for civics education.

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At Cal Lutheran, people cared about my academic performance, and that made all the difference.

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Irvin credits Cal Lutheran with helping to build a firm foundation for her career.

Support and encouragement from faculty, small class sizes and the excellent instruction she received as a psychology major prepared her academically and gave her the self-confidence to pursue her educational goals, including a master’s degree and a Ph.D. “At Cal Lutheran, people cared about my academic performance,” Irvin said, “and that made all the difference.”

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2010s

maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem. Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur?

Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat.

Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur?

Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur?

Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo.

Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur?

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat.

Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur?

Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant.

Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet

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moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat.

Seque porum et arundit, occum lanturit doles ipiendi sectur ratur rehendestem sinum qui dolupiti ationserit unte suntios escias earibus qui consecto et officip issequatae am el min cusaectam, ant eveni quaeperorae volendest, invelignihic temoluptatis sumqui dolent molum endaepedi voles nienihita volupta velendusam rehenis est velendere parum, simendi voloriandae conse prat.

Itaturitatin conem qui tessusaperio maximil luptas molupis et adis pro eostium excestrum que volorro voluptaquo duciam voluptium facessus sin plibus apidell aborend itiaerorro officilla soloreriatem remporem ipsam, quistiae pero cuptasp erspisitatur adipsum ex eatesti acipsa qui quo ma conestest, simillo corem fugia vident ant il endis et laccaep elenim eturiam

dolupidelita dolorer natiuntiunt que velesequae. Itatist otatis autem ra cum quo temquidem ad quianim perunt od quam, es et endustrum destrum fuga. Rionserati sequi dolor si cus as dolupta volupta ipsantiisqui ra aut ea volorit haritinistis si conseque mosapit invent optia simus mo volorep eribus seris incium voloruntum culpa quiae rem eatemquid quame volorrum aut omnis id quossimint.

Busaper ferovides mollorum quae nobita nonempost, coruptasi quostium sinturibusam quisqui omnihil il ium volupti aboreic tentori tecatur sin rehendae perum aligenimpos ma consendaes quatiame illecti si accate siminciur?

Aborehentius andionsed mi, ipiet untisci umquidis dolest, eossimust, et lab illest audae dolore praturi quis rerias alique optaero ma dolore, suntem. Sum voluptus, si corro conseditas eaquis et ellecup tatios que nos quist, qui blaborrunt quias seri cust, occae que idit eumet adi consecus

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nobitaturio. Arit dolupta vit reste reria venistiberi recullu ptatur, te nis nusam vellati orepror amus secus explatestiis aut velloria nosa as quiatist anti reseribus

accae. Ut eaquiae pliquisitia cus quam voluptur sitatem. Itatur re aut alita eos eate nihil ero id modipsunt ut assi dit late mos nobis magnis imoluptur, quia pernat fuga.

Nam que enis nullore vellatiis accumquid

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Milestones 1

2

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MARRIAGES 1 Katelyn Phillips ’15 and Mike Mulligan Jr. on Sept. 2, 2016, in Del Mar, California.

Sandra Abarca ’15 was maid of honor.

2 Melinda Wright ’03, M.Ed. ’08, and Justin Medlen on Aug. 14, 2016, at the Ventura Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet Center. The wedding party included Samantha Loe ’12, left, Karissa (Faulconer ’07, M.S. ’09) Oien, third from left, and Kimberly (Barclay ’03, M.Ed. ’08) O’Hara, fourth from right.

BIRTHS 3 William Howard Clark on Dec. 10, 2016, to Lana (Howard ’06, MPPA ’13) and Matthew Clark.

Alumni Board of Directors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 President and Regent Representative Kami Niebank, MBA ’15 Vice President, Alumni Involvement and Recognition Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon Vice President, University Relations Andrew Brown ’09 Vice President, Development VOTING MEMBERS Mike Calkins ’08 Julie (Heller ’89) Herder Mark Marius ’92 Sally Wennes ’88, M.A. ’01

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Hayes Remington Kaczowka on March 22, 2017, to Elizabeth and Mike ’04 Kaczowka.

DEATHS Maxine Mary Gamboni, T.C. ’82, on May 17, 2017.

Don Haskell ’70 on April 23, 2017.

Ananda Nallathambi, MBA ’83, on March 2, 2017.

Doris Jean Rarick, M.Ed. ’77, on April 19, 2017.

Kristopher Toy Wong, M.S. ’82, M.A. ’84, on Feb. 28, 2017.

AT LARGE MEMBERS Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, M.A. ’74, Jean Helm, MBA ’00, Karsten Lundring ’65, Brian McCoy ’95, Mario Rodriguez ’86, Sal Sandoval ’78 REPRESENTATIVES Nick Steinwender ’19, ASCLUG President Andrew Castro ’16, GASC Chair

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LETTER TO ALUMNI From Sig Schwarz, H’10, professor emeritus June 3, 2017

Schwarz became an honorary alumnus in 2010 and retired this spring after 47 years of service to the English department and students in all majors.

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HELLO ALUMS FROM 1970-2017!

Yikes. That sounds like a ridiculous period of time, especially since I started at Cal Lutheran only 11 years after the school was founded. I won’t take you down too much of a memory trail but it does strike home to me how many of you are out there. Since my retirement was announced, I have had many wonderful messages and I want to share one of them with you. This young man graduated about 10 years ago I think and writes with the brevity of a Zen master, “I saw that you were retiring.

I cried. Many things to say.” Many of you will remember the quotation I used for some of the writing assignments I threw at you. It’s from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There: “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.”

So, yes, there is much to say, but there is also the power of silence.

That’s why I love the tears. I accept them as the most appropriate of joyful, existential gifts. But I shall attempt to say something, namely a few thoughts on what you have been teaching me as I have been teaching you. I often think of the Langston Hughes poem, “Theme for English B” which concludes with the black student saying to his white prof, As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me— although you’re older—and white— and somewhat more free.

This is my page for English B.

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BRIAN STETHEM ’84

You changed the way I taught, encouraging my own natural orientation to mentor the soul, not just the intellect or even the heart.

And in those few lines of poetry hides a secret. In ways that are both liberating and terrifying, we as human beings are defined both by our interconnectedness and by our degrees of separation. My students taught me about the “somewhats” in the classroom and more generally in life. You made me a better person, less ego involved and more empathetic with all differences by insisting on your own pages for English B. You gave me faith that learning is inevitable, awakening to greater consciousness is an arc always in the process of becoming, though I did sometimes have to get out of your way, ... and, perhaps, sometimes I had to get in your way. In any case, you changed the way I taught, encouraging my own natural orientation to mentor the soul not just the intellect or even the heart. I never burned out on this profession of a liberal arts education because you helped me keep the faith in that journey.

LEARNING MY LESSONS Let me give you examples of what you taught me through three kinds of assignments I learned to give. The first kind of assignment was to approach your reading of literature as a lens through which to more clearly see and imagine and process your own story. The great critic M.H. Abrams suggests that this lens is both “mirror and lamp” reflecting our own subjectivity and illuminating a more objective geography as well. I reminded you that each individual story matters. You responded with years of autobiographical story telling that humbled and inspired me. I have my own mentors for these ideas, Peter Elbow for example, and it was a privilege to share their insights with you. In Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg indicates that writing from your experience develops a psyche as well as skills and Robert Coles says “the call of stories” is inextricably linked to the “moral imagination.” Autobiographical processing in writing made many of you better writers and, as it turned out, psychology majors. Oh no! There are so many individual examples, as many as there are stories of course, but one that stands out to this day for its starkness and purity is the student who wrote about his army experience in Grenada.

A second kind of assignment was to focus on the interdisciplinary connections that you brought into the classroom or discovered there. I reminded you that the world of ideas is always interconnected and that language becomes our tool for understanding both the ideas themselves and their relationships to one another and of course to ourselves. You taught me not to love language too much. There are other ways to integrate our learning. You helped me craft assignments that incorporated 34 CLU MAGAZINE

music, painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia, the body into the “telling” of how you understood something or how an insight came to life. I did insist on some words (how does what you created without words speak back to you now, what does it say?), but you gave me so much more. There was the woman who did an interpretive dance based on Sandra Cisneros’ poem “Four Skinny Trees.” She went on to Broadway. There was the painting by the Vietnamese immigrant who had experienced the horror of war and flight as a child who was at last able to speak through a surreal painting that still haunts me. She became an art teacher. There was the man who created a metal sculpture out of materials from his auto shop to reflect what he had taken with him from his immersion in Holocaust studies. It spoke volumes through its terrifying beauty. He is a police officer. There was the woman who sang in the choir and realized that Dr. Wyant Morton, our amazing choir director, had put music to the words of “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” which is a collection of found children’s writings from the Holocaust, which we were reading in class. She wrote a paper on the illumination she experienced in that synchronistic moment where melody and words and performance and story met and exploded into meaning. One more: I remember the runner. Poetry in motion. Five hundred carefully honed pages of a semester’s writing from the sacred space of a runner’s high. I was in awe. I have no idea where this person is now. But I know their favorite song/lyric, Bob Dylan’s version of “Forever Young.”

A third kind of assignment was the infamous “state of mind” essay/project. Perhaps that’s overstating it, but I recently received a letter of recommendation request with the heading “Dear State of Mind Guy.” Hmmmmm. Too late to change now. This was usually an end of semester exercise in which through an autobiographical, thematic, research or creative lens you could express a central, focused insight or perspective that you could take with you from the course material which would be useful to you in the future. I reminded you that change and transformation are the great constants of learning. And you taught me … to love my students. I am so grateful to have been given the opportunity to mentor generations of alumni. I wanted you to have a sense of how much you gave to me. I wrote a poem for the Honor’s Day Banquet this year which I will share with you now as my farewell to this letter and to the career I will always cherish, thanks to you. The poem was inspired by one of my godchildren, an extraordinary woman, I say! It occurred to me after I finished the poem and allowed it to speak back to me that the surfer really is all of you as well. And I am riding the waves along with you.

GRATITUDE I watch her My godchild The surfer It’s her first time Yet she strides across the sand Yellow board tucked under her arm Like an arrow, The wood alive with its own pulse Ready to erupt, ready to leave her behind Should she lose courage No chance of that Suddenly she is past the surf A water gazelle (there should be such creatures) Dancing among friends She has always heard things I do not, Will not know…

Child of God I listen to her.

Her body movements become speech As she measures it coming Far off shore This rift in the horizon On it perhaps A portal, A wildness entering where oceans explode into language Through the looking glass Violence and Calm Everything and Nothing She rises on her board And rides the chosen wave home (as they say) As if she had always done it Knowing full well that next time might be different (the water has told her so) There is always just too much to bear.

Still…

Departures and Arrivals make us free Daring the waves of earth and sky and sea So this day she rises Burning with Infinity I raise my fist in solidarity A young man paddles over And hugs her Adam and Eve I think Ancient Chumash rising from the deep She is telling him what she heard All of it “Thank You,” says the Sea.

LINKS After helping the Kingsmen to an NCAA championship, closer Miguel Salud does an interview back home.

The Philippines has a baseball tradition dating from the period of American colonization, with ups and downs in popularity. Kingsmen pitcher Miguel Salud played four years of high school and a year of university-level ball there, winning championships and a string of MVP awards.

Soon after this year’s NCAA Division III College World Series win (see Page 6), the Most Outstanding Player returned to his native country and spoke with a reporter for the Manila Bulletin. He touched on the lessons kids can learn from the sport.

“The thing about baseball, it’s a very, very humbling sport…,” he said in English. “It’s a sport of failure. You don’t really succeed a lot. The team that makes the most errors loses. It’s not the team that does the best things; it’s whoever makes the mistake, is going to lose.”

In the Philippines, players were not expected to maintain the fields they used, he said. But at Cal Lutheran, both before and after practices, “we take care of our field. It’s like our baby. We have to rake it, we have to put the sand, and all the players are doing it…,” he said. “Doing that for the past four years – the little things make a big difference.”

Manila Bulletin story and video at goo.gl/ThpKbj

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