CLU Magazine - August 2018

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STAR FORMATION Preparing pros for the music industry

BIG SCIENCE AT CERN COMMON CHARITY COURSE INSIDE JAIL WALLS LEAVE THE BENTLEY OCEANS WATCH

Out in Front

Staying ALIVE

PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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esperation kept forcing Chris Jackson, MBA ’18, EA, CFP, onto a path, so that he rarely felt he was making choices.

He was trying to survive.

Bullied after third-graders learned he lived in foster care, he later made a decision as the new kid in Vista, California, that this time no one would find out. That limited his social life to school hours. He went out for theater mainly to stay at his high school in the evenings.

“I did a good job of not playing any sports, which I always wanted to do,” he said. “I didn’t want to be exposed.”

The result: He fell in love with sketch comedy and majored in theater (at UCLA).

Almost a decade ago, after college, he’d gone too long looking for work and was living out of his car. On landing his first position at a financial advisory firm, he told himself: “I’ve got to be good at this job, or I’m going to be homeless.”

“I passed one test at a time, read one book at a time, learned as fast as I could” to become a certified financial planner, said the strong academic performer.

The end result: Last year, Jackson founded Lionshare Partners, his own financial advising firm with 30 clients and $25 million in assets under management. Cal Lutheran's online MBA program served as an opportunity to write the business and marketing plans.

Jackson found the footing to pursue other passions. He wasted no time in setting up his Heroes and Zeroes Initiative to help 1) widows and widowers of public safety workers, firefighters and veterans and 2) kids making the transition out of foster care.

Some children, he said, continue to hope they’ll be adopted well beyond the typical age.

When they really need a plan to become independent. “Whether that’s school, a trade or the military, let’s get you on that path.”

Jackson is grateful to two families, the Bylers and the Bakers, who became his own at different phases. Two or three months before he finished high school, everyone found out about foster care. It was OK. A lot of people asked, “Why didn’t you tell us?” —Kevin Matthews 2 CLU MAGAZINE

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PUBLISHER

Lynda Paige Fulford, MPA ’97 EDITOR

Kevin Matthews ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

Tony Biasotti, Colleen Cason, Karin Grennan, Jana Weber PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, MS ’03 Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, PhD Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, MPA ’90, EdD ’12 Bruce Stevenson ’80, PhD Stacy (Reuss ’91) Swanson Colleen Windham-Hughes, PhD VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1

AUGUST 2018 2 OUT IN FRONT 4 FAREWELL TOUR

Come along for stories on the people who built the campus.

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Summer on physics’ frontiers • Why fake news is here to stay.

Copyright 2018. Published three times a year by University Relations for alumni, parents and friends.

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Inmates and regular undergraduates meet behind jail walls for semester.

18 SCHOOL FOR HEADLINERS

In modern music, producers are artists, stars and entrepreneurs.

22 CLASS NOTES

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

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7 IN MEMORIAM

25 RETIREMENTS

10 Q&A: SABITH KHAN

Giving is an all-American civic value and a cure for politics.

Seven beloved professors gave 210 years to the university.

32 MILESTONES

12 LEAVE THE BENTLEY

34 VOCATIONS

Allison Clago ’18 has covered all her old debts and done all her old homework.

Tourism can be Earth-friendly if we get it right.

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ON THE COVER

Sophomore Dominic Castro’s studies in music production relate directly to his work for Blueprint Records, his own label.

Photograph by Brian Stethem ’84.

you’ll request an alumni flag and share photos of your travels with it.

CLU Magazine welcomes ideas for articles and nominations for Vocations alumni essays (see Page 34).

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FAREWELL TOUR Thousands of individuals have their names and loved ones’ names engraved on honorary plaques and paving stones around the main campus. For a few of the stories behind people and places, come along with Steve Wheatly ’77.

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or the last 15 of his nearly 30 years spent working at Cal Lutheran, Steve Wheatly ’77, the newly retired vice president of university advancement, has shared inside stories about donors on an annual campus tour for fellow employees.

We figure the extra tour he gave this spring for CLU Magazine puts him in the company of others who've announced farewell tours in 2018, including Elton John and Paul Simon. With the difference that, for Wheatly, the rock stars are the generous men and women who built the university.

“I see the faces of many donors. I can hear their words,” he said. “I still remember the last time I saw them. Many left an imprint on me, the university and hopefully the students.”

Take the late Mary Mogen. “Mary was a sweetheart. She trusted me,” he said. Although she was struggling financially, her Lutheran faith inspired her to donate. Among the belongings she showed Wheatly in 1993 was an old shoebox held together with yellow duct tape and containing 500 shares of blue chip Standard Oil stock. Through a charitable gift annuity that Wheatly set up, Mogen received a comfortable income for the rest of her days out of that shoebox, and the baseball team got George “Sparky” Anderson Field. (Mogen’s name was placed on a dormitory.)

Dorothy “Dot” Hammond, a formidable churchwoman and donor to scholarships, set clearer boundaries, telling him, “You are going to get my money when I die, Steve, but if you try to get it while I am alive you will pull back bloody stumps.”

Through it all, Wheatly took inspiration from the university’s founding president, Orville Dahl, who wrote, “God has lighted our way. He opened the doors. He has given us visions of accomplishment beyond our hopes and our deserving.”

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looks at the plaques, sees those names and says, ‘I want to do that someday.’”

1. Pederson Administration Building For years, a dentist worked in this building, one of several services hosted on campus. When Wheatly came to work in the advancement office in 1992, there was a bump in the floor where the dentist’s chair had been.

2. Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center Hard to believe this popular complex nearly wasn’t built. Jack Gilbert, H’05, agreed to close a $1 million shortfall on May 31, 2004, the funding deadline. This was after donating early in the $18 million campaign. Gilbert and his son, Rod, H’16, were both moved by the story of Richard Pederson’s original gift of his ranch, when founding president Orville Dahl had nearly despaired of finding the site for Cal Lutheran.

Joan and Richard Young Athletic Suite Location, location, location is the secret to real estate investment.

Longtime Conejo Valley Realtor Joan Young valued this suite’s corner setting and its purpose to locate all athletic coaches in the same quarters.

Forrest Fitness Center A self-made millionaire and “country boy,” Arvis Forrest never set foot on the campus. His attorney, David Spurlock ’69, helped to arrange the $1 million gift from his estate.

3. George “Sparky” Anderson Baseball Field and Ullman Stadium Every time you take in a game here, you are sitting on a piece of major league history. The Los Angeles Dodgers organization donated the seats, which were removed from Dodger Stadium during a remodel. Former Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley also donated to the stadium.

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This roadway bears the designation “court” — instead of, say, road or street — for Paul E. Overton, H’01, a retired judge of the San Diego Superior Court. The family has been generous to the university for years, and it was Becky (Overton ’72) France who looked to honor her father through the name.

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5. Fredrickson Family Early Childhood Center Pointing uphill to the center, Wheatly recalled a March day in 2011. It was love at first sight for staffers when they set foot in larger, kid-friendly new digs: “It was magic.” The building was funded primarily by the Fredrickson and Overton families.

6. William Rolland Stadium and Art Gallery.

“There is a lot of Bill Rolland in this building,” Wheatly said. “His ideas changed the architecture of campus.” The gallery inside the stadium walls, the clock tower and a Jumbotron were all championed by this former firefighter who won the Medal of Valor for rescuing mudslide victims. Bill and Kay Rolland were married in 2011 beneath the stadium’s distinctive rotunda.

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7. Ullman Commons

Good enough has never been enough for the Ullman brothers. George “Corky” ’76 and Steve ’77 balked at putting their family name on the dining commons after plans were scaled back due to a fundraising shortfall.

These versatile entrepreneurs donated the money necessary to restore key design features such as the pitched roof and soaring glass walls.

8. Nygreen Hall

They say nothing is as permanent on a college campus as a temporary building. Nygreen, named for a family of university supporters, was erected in 1972 and still stands 46 years later.

9. Roy Richter Lecture Hall (in Ahmanson Science Center) An engineer, Roy Richter invented the famous Bell helmet to protect race car drivers in crashes. Daredevil Evel Knievel credited one with saving his life after his spectacular 1967 crash at Caesars Palace. This lecture hall was named for Roy posthumously while his wife, Colleen, donated $1 million for the science building that houses it on the first floor.

10. Soiland Humanities Center

The late Marv Soiland’s support for this building ended a hiatus in construction on campus in 1998. Wheatly called the 30-year regent a “rock, mentor and the voice of reason.” Soiland’s first gift to the university was four horses for the equestrian program. He went on to become one of its most steadfast benefactors.

Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture Built by the Kwan Fong Charitable Foundation established by Maria Lee and Katie Yang, this space in Soiland Humanities was the first to recognize the CLU’s Pacific Rim ties. Lee, a regent, was an artist. Yang was a diva of the Cantonese opera.

11 12 11. Spies-Bornemann Center for Education and Technology Built in 2002, this is the first building to bear the name of CLU alumni, thanks to a gift from the Spies-Bornemann family (see Swenson Center, below). More faculty members donated toward the $6 million, 20,000-square-foot space than to any other construction project on campus.

Newhouse Entrance Ernest “Doc” and Edna Newhouse had an unusual table in their home with legs made of stacked silver bars. Ernest, an automotive products entrepreneur, wanted a disaster fund in the event of the crash of the dollar. The couple believed in preparation, persistence and Lutheran higher education.

12. Swenson Center for the Social and Behavioral Sciences The country was deep in recession in 2008 when Wheatly approached a group of faithful, go-to donors.

They pledged $8.5 million in six weeks. Along with Jim and Sue Swenson, H’12, this honor roll includes Marv and Fran Soiland, the Ullman Family Foundation, Karen Bornemann ’70 and Allan ’70 Spies, Kirsten (Bodding ’64) and Karsten ’65 Lundring, and Jack and Carol Gilbert. Swenson was the first building on campus to win certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

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Highlights

Summer on the frontiers of physics Through a professor’s work at the world’s biggest particle accelerator,

three students take part in a journey to find nature’s most closely guarded secrets.

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he quest to resolve some of physics’ most fundamental doubts took three students in June to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the home of the world’s largest proton smasher. They didn’t go just for a tour, but for 20 days of work toward improving a vital particle physics experiment called the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS).

The high-energy, high-priced project – one of two large detectors at CERN where beams of protons collide at nearly light speed – has already added to our understanding of how the universe is made. Numerous research institutions are now behind a push to upgrade the experiment, positioning it to yield answers to questions that have stumped and divided physicists for half a century.

Cal Lutheran physics majors Johann Dias, Hend Kordy and William Parquette have a role in this effort through a collaboration by assistant professor of physics Sebastian Carron Montero with UC Santa Barbara’s High Energy Physics Group, which has funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. His immediate goal within this group is to upgrade one section of the onion-layered CMS by replacing its light-sensitive components with a series of silicon-based detectors to enable more precise particle energy measurements.

“The way you get to these big goals is you chip away little by little. So, we prove the detector; we prove the data analysis,” said Carron Montero over a video link from Switzerland. “What I’m excited about is to have the undergraduate students be a part of that big, big goal.”

Ultimately, the experiment has the potential to settle such questions as which elementary particles make up dark matter, which is thought to account for most of the matter in the universe, and how the four known forces in the universe may be related.

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The students prepared for their trip by taking Carron Montero’s courses on quantum mechanics and particle physics and accompanying him to a clean room at UCSB to work on detector prototypes. Parquette, a senior, got a head start, and Kordy, a junior with a double major in computer science, spent a lot of time with the prototypes due to her short commute to UCSB from Goleta.

Thrust among world-renowned scientists and advanced students, the physics majors have learned to appreciate what it takes to compete at the highest, most creative levels of a field. In addition, Dias, a junior, has developed a sense of awe of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is one of the temples of big science.

“It’s no wonder this has to be publicly funded,” wrote Dias in an email. “CERN is one of the largest facilities I have ever seen…. To give you an idea, one of their ‘smaller’ facilities, where we ran beam tests a couple weeks ago, could easily fit four entire Costcos inside of its space.

It had a huge crane lifting car-sized cement blocks around. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping.”

The students stayed in subsidized housing at CERN and attended CMS Week, a workshop covering all aspects

of the experiment. Their work was supported by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship and made possible by the collaborative spirit of UCSB physicist Joseph Incandela and his group.

Carron Montero visits Geneva two or three times a year to contribute to the international undertaking. From Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, he had worked on silicon-based detector projects and data analysis methods that played a role in the landmark 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that was theorized in the 1970s.

In California, he started assembling High Granularity Calorimeter prototypes in his garage before he and Cal Lutheran undergraduates helped to manufacture several of them at UCSB. Junior Johanna Paine assisted with these efforts.

“I tell my students that it really does not matter where they come from or even how many resources they have at their disposal,” writes Carron Montero, who was born in Asuncion, Paraguay.

“They can still aspire to ask the most fundamental questions in science. If they really work hard they can be at the cutting edge of physics, or any other field. They are bounded only by their own ambition.” —Kevin Matthews

Physics majors Johann Dias (left), Hend Kordy and William Parquette stand before a mock-up of a gigantic detector in Geneva, Switzerland, that is getting an upgrade.

Their mentor, Sebastian Carron Montero, joined Cal Lutheran in 2016.

In Memoriam

BRIAN STETHEM ’84

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helps the former congressman and his wife to dedicate the Elton and Janice Gallegly Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement before giving the inaugural lecture in its speaker series in May. Cal Lutheran President Chris Kimball is pictured at left.

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hard to give my parents better lives and get the chance to see them again.”

Lobbying efforts by a 2017 alumna helped to establish the International Leaders Scholarship, a renewable award covering full tuition and fees. (See our April 2017 issue, Page 2.)

FUNDRAISER GOES TO WORK

TOP FULBRIGHT AWARD

A Syrian refugee is attending Cal Lutheran this fall on a new scholarship. Rama Youssef, who fled Syria with her mom after a bomb went off near her middle school, made it to the United States in 2012.

She went to high school in Portland, Oregon. Her mother is living in Germany, and her father is still in Syria.

“I have so many plans and dreams I am going to make happen by going to college,” said the first-year biology major, who plans to go to dental school. “I want to give back to my country and help those in need with dental care. I want to be part of organizations that go to developing countries, risking their lives to help others. I want to work

Erik Fruth ’14 is the first Cal Lutheran graduate to win a Fulbright U.S. Student Study/ Research Award, the program’s most competitive student fellowship. With degrees in global studies and German and a command of both Lao and Mandarin, Fruth will spend 10 months in Laos studying stakeholder interaction regarding hydropower development along the Mekong River.

Since 2009, five Cal Lutheran alumni have received Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Awards. (See Christine Powell, EdD ’17, Page 30.)

Regina D. Biddings-Muro, EdD, starts Aug. 1 as vice president for university advancement. The fundraiser has worked since 2012 as vice chancellor of institutional advancement at two campuses of Indiana’s Purdue University system located near Chicago.

Biddings-Muro brings a wealth of professional experience. In higher education, she’s held leadership roles in alumni affairs, marketing and communications, and strategic university events. Beyond the academy, she has worked in the natural gas and electric utility industry, steel manufacturing and commercial broadcasting.

Her doctorate in higher education and organizational change comes from Benedictine University. She earned a master’s degree in communication and a bachelor’s degree in journalism/mass communication from Purdue.

Edward Chiu Tseng June 16, 1934 – March 4, 2018 Scholar of Chinese culture and longtime Cal Lutheran professor Edward Chiu Tseng died peacefully at age 83 in Thousand Oaks, surrounded by family.

Tseng joined the political science faculty in 1965 after completing his doctoral studies in international relations, international law, political theory and East Asian studies at New York University.

During his nearly 40-year tenure, he served as department chair and dean of international education.

He led more than 20 study tours to East Asia and established the Colloquium of Scholars and Kwan Fong Institute of East Asian Studies. The Uyeno-Tseng endowed professorship in international studies was established to honor him and Japanese educator/businessman Yutaka Uyeno.

Tseng was born in Nanjing, China, and grew up during the Chinese-Japanese conflict before and during World War II. He came to the U.S. alone in 1949 to complete his education. After college, he won an internship at the United Nations with former secretary general Dag Hammarskjold. He studied communist systems for more than 30 years and was a member of international delegations to China and the Soviet Union. He was a prolific author and popular lecturer in the U.S. and abroad.

Tseng is survived by his wife, Genevieve, daughter Tina, son Eddie and three grandchildren.

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Don’t get faked out by the news And don’t think it can’t happen.

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s the Nov. 6 federal midterm elections approach, expect more of the summer and fall of 2016. There will be propaganda targeted at voters, including some completely fabricated news stories that are pushed forward by suspicious social media accounts and also by ordinary human beings.

You may see people arguing over events that never happened. It’s possible you could get into such an argument. Don’t think it can’t happen. Everyone falls for bad information sometimes.

For educated people, the threat of misinformation grows just when we decide we’re immune.

Colin Doty, who has a doctorate in information studies and teaches communication in the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program, argues that the task of telling real from fake news is harder than people imagine. Consider the advice we always hear: Check sources, check out writers’ credentials, be mindful of bias and alert to irony, check dates of articles, follow links to look at supporting sources, and consult experts and fact-checkers.

Helpful, yes. But will this unfool all of the people, all of the time?

“When you think about it,” Doty says, “we don’t verify everything, nor could we. And if that’s the best advice – check everything you read! – then there’s just too much to check. So, what do we check?”

According to Doty, who’s writing a book about misinformation, readers heed the call to be skeptical mainly when they find that something doesn’t fit within their existing beliefs.

This has nothing to do with being conservative or progressive in politics, he adds, and a lot to do with human psychology.

Checking is one thing, but in practice, different people give different amounts of credence to experts and to various moral, religious and scientific sources of authority. If the fact-checkers at Snopes.com and elsewhere challenge those authorities, some people will conclude “that the fact-check is the thing that’s incorrect, not the original information that I already believed.”

In short, misinformation is a vexing problem that can’t be solved simply by spreading true information.

The dawn of the internet and online social media didn’t initiate this problem, of course, but have added kinks to it. “I have friends who get all their news from Facebook,” Doty said, “and that’s just not a way to get a diverse diet of news, because of the algorithm and lots of other things.”

Doty expects to see more attempts by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to use both human and artificial intelligence “to create algorithms that can warn us about misinformation, or fact-check it, or eliminate it completely.

“Those solutions will get a lot of coverage, and they won’t work very well,” he predicted. “It is very hard for an algorithm to determine what is true, and even then, it will be hard to convince a partisan believer that something they believe is wrong.”

So what to do? As individuals, we have control at least over where we begin to look for news and analysis. Instead of starting out the day on social media, you might kick off your reading with the printed or digital edition of a newspaper you trust. Subscribe to one if you don’t already, because journalism needs the support. And beware of confusing “the people you trust” with “the people on your side.” Doty advises reading deeply in news sources that present views contrary to one’s own, provided that they work diligently to verify facts and to correct the record.

A next step would be to set aside time to curate your news across a range of sources. One good way to do this is with an RSS reader such as Feedly. This technology – whose initials stand for “rich site summary” or “really simple syndication” – allows you to select newspapers, magazines, blogs and other outlets to read, often within narrow topics of interest you select. The more you use the RSS reader to add sources that matter to you, the richer the experience.

Finally: “The other thing the internet does: It enables verification in a way that nothing else ever has,” Doty says. “It’s much easier to check on something, if you are so inclined.”

—Kevin Matthews

Readers heed the call to be skeptical mainly when they find that something doesn’t fit within their existing beliefs.

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SAVE THE DATE Homecoming 2018 is Oct. 19-21!

SAVE THE DATE

HOMECOMING Oct. 19-21, 2018 Loop da Lu Family 5k Run/Walk Homecoming Festival and beer garden* Athletic home games (including football under the lights!)

Class reunions and CLUB 50 kickoff Music concerts and gallery exhibits Sunday worship service and much more!

Let us know you’re going!

CalLutheran.edu/ImGoing #CLUHomecoming

*Tickets available online in advance or at the door Questions? alumni@CalLutheran.edu | (805) 493-3170

A Mindset for the Future “Cal Lutheran is special. Our graduates are prepared with a leadership mindset to make a significant difference in the world.”

Success is built on mindset, and nobody knows that better than Cal Lutheran Regent Sue Chadwick. She believes Cal Lutheran offers something that is becoming too rare in the divisive world students face today: an education that builds character, emphasizes values, respects differing opinions and radiates an inclusive attitude.

Now retired after 42 years in banking, Chadwick focuses her energy on board service for organizations that align to her values. She has been an advocate for Cal Lutheran for more than 23 years, starting with the KCLU Advisory Board in 1995 and then joining advisory boards for the School of Management and the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting.

To ensure her contributions have a lasting impact, Chadwick turned to the Orville Dahl Society. “Planned giving ensures this university will thrive and endure long after we leave this Earth.

“I want to do my part to ensure future students receive the quality and depth of education that we have today,” she says. “They will take with them a spirit of civility out into our world, which so desperately needs it.”

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

clugift.org Regent Sue Chadwick

Q&A New to Cal Lutheran last year, Khan teaches in the Master of Public Policy and Administration program.

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A native of India who has worked in Dubai and Washington, D.C., assistant professor of management Sabith Khan sees answers to American problems in our acts of generosity.

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CLU ADMINISTRATION Politics has Americans divided. You’ve said that giving, on the other hand, is a force that can bring us together. How is that?

Shared, common understandings of the public good are pretty hard to achieve. There have to be local and national conversations about that. What is the common good? I think this is what Americans are struggling with.

For instance, we could come to a common understanding at the local or national level that we’ve got to address poverty. That we’ve got to address it through the values and means of a religious framework, no matter what that is. We could say, It’s OK to feed the homeless and the hungry even if we think they’re lazy. We could come to some understandings like that without pointing fingers. I think that would be a first step.

give more. It’s in the air. It’s here on campus, it’s in the church, mosque or synagogue or wherever you go. The numbers speak for themselves: $330 or $360 billion is not a small chunk of change. About a third of that giving every year

by Americans goes to religious institutions.

And then we all pitch in money?

I use words like charity and giving very broadly. It could be volunteering, giving money, supporting people, writing petitions, whatever. Philanthropy can be defined as “voluntary action for common good.”

Why did you start studying giving and nonprofits?

I fell into it. But maybe also because of my background. My mother was extremely generous. My parents were high school teachers in Bangalore; both of them taught in public schools their entire lives. We had a lot of students who’d come to our home for free lessons, who were struggling. My parents would spend enormous amounts of their free time doing this voluntarily. They didn’t call this volunteering, charity or philanthropy; in other cultures, people might do the act but not use the word.

I saw that this was not just a nice thing, but also a meaningful thing to do for these kids, many of whom were from destitute families.

Anything that helps?

I think so. We’re talking about common understandings of what is good. I’m not describing any political or policy angles here.

It seems like you want giving to be nonpolitical and nonpartisan. Is it really like that?

There’s nothing negative about giving unless it’s for these mega-super-PACs or for political reasons that are controversial, whether that’s on the right or the left. You can question a million-dollar donation, but usually not me and you giving checks of $50 or $100.

One instance of large giving that I think is very American is Andrew Carnegie and the way he set up public libraries. Fantastic, right?

Nobody could argue against that. Would you?

I love libraries.

I love them, too. A lot of people spend so much time there, and they are educational centers in their own right.

So that to me is cool. I wouldn’t argue against that. Set up a thousand more libraries.

That is a perfect model to me: spending toward a greater good that benefits everybody.

Should we be doing more to promote giving?

I don’t think Americans need to be pushed to

You’ve written that giving is “the quintessential American value.”

If there is one civic value that Americans express the most, it is philanthropy. More Americans donate to charity than vote or even go to church on a regular basis.

The way it’s publicly acknowledged also makes it a very American thing. There is a strong culture of volunteering, starting from middle school at least.

A reminder that you don’t need great wealth to make a difference.

In a way everybody is a philanthropist.

You have time to give. All of us have some resources to give. It could be our time or our attention to a specific issue. It could be our own presence in some cases. Just showing up to the town hall meeting, you could be the loudest voice there and that could actually make a difference.

Sabith Khan, who has a PhD in planning, governance and globalization from Virginia Tech, co-authored the 2017 book Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions. His current projects include a look at the role of nonprofits in refugee resettlement in the U.S. and a forthcoming book on international remittances. He is a board member of the Community Impact Fund, a Washingtonbased community foundation.

Chris Kimball, PhD President Leanne Neilson, PsyD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, MDiv ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, EdD Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, PhD Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing Regina D. Biddings-Muro, EdD Vice President for University Advancement Gerhard Apfelthaler, PhD Dean of the School of Management Michael Hillis, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Jessica Lavariega Monforti, PhD Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Raymond Pickett, PhD Rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, MDiv ’95, PhD 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 Andrew Castro ’16 Sue Chadwick Dennis Erickson, PhD Randall Foster Rod Gilbert, H’16 The Rev. Mark Hanson The Rev. Mark Holmerud Jon Irwin Chris Kimball, PhD Judy Larsen, PhD Jill Lederer Rick Lemmo Malcolm McNeil The Rev. David Nagler, MDiv ’93 The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70, MDiv ’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 Allison Wee, PhD Russell Young ’71 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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A case study in both grit and gratitude, Allison Clago ’18 began her undergraduate work at Cal Lutheran 38 years ago. Instead of satisfying whims, she’s continued to learn and achieve while repaying debts with loads of interest.

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ost everyone suffers a bout of guilty conscience now and then.

Twenty-five years ago, Allison Clago ’18 still had a nagging $3,000 debt to Cal Lutheran from the early 1980s. What she’s done since then to correct the situation is beyond ordinary.

The high-powered Beverly Hills financial adviser, now a Class of 2018 alumna, has repaid and repaid again.

A Los Angeles native, Clago first enrolled at CLU in 1980 as a political science major and started earning good grades. In her third year, though, she quarreled with her parents and rebelled by dropping out, she said. She walked away from the debt she owed the university.

When she found a job in the brokerage industry, she quickly discovered she loved the work. Now 58, she has risen to managing director of investments at Wedbush Securities.

On her early morning commute in 1993, her thoughts turned to gratitude for all she had. Clago traced her success to the quality of education she received at Cal Lutheran years earlier: “My education was so special. There was nothing like it.”

Not long after her rush-hour epiphany, she contacted the business office only to be told that no record of the debt existed. She insisted she owed the money, and after business office staff dug through storage, Clago’s records surfaced.

With one check she quieted her conscience. But then her heart spoke up, and she wrote a second check, donating $5,000 for a scholarship to assist young women considering a career in the brokerage industry.

“Finance is a man’s world. To compete, a woman must be so much better, always at the top of her game,” she said.

Over the years, she has opened the Clago Family Scholarship to other fields in finance and to male recipients, and has contributed so much that the scholarship can be awarded for generations to come. Thus far, 16 students in all and as many as three at a time have benefitted from this renewable award.

“I don’t know anyone who owed us money and started giving in that way,” said Kristine Calara, associate vice president for university advancement.

Clago, who underwent chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer, found the treatment “barbaric.” “There’s got to be a better way than poisoning and nuking the body,” she said.

A year ago, she gave $100,000 to fund a lab at Cal Lutheran’s proposed science center to train young people on the Thousand Oaks campus to find better ways to treat life-threatening illnesses.

She also gave $100,000 each to two organizations that helped save her life, the John Wayne Cancer Institute and Providence Tarzana Medical Center.

The story behind these donations involves a bad experience at a car showroom. Clago earns enough to pay cash for one of the most luxurious of all automobiles, a Bentley, and had

planned to own one. That was until a salesman directed his attention to her boyfriend – even though Clago was the one who would have paid for the more than $300,000 ride.

The salesman’s attitude prompted her to rethink the purchase. While she felt pride that she could afford the status symbol, she already had two fine cars.

“Enough is enough,” she said.

Instead, she divided the money she would have spent on the Bentley into thirds to be donated in support of cancer treatment and student research.

While she’s in the fight against cancer for the long haul, her quarrel with her late parents was short-lived, she said. Years ago, Clago mended fences with them. She honored their dedication to charity by forming the Clago Family Foundation. The new science lab will bear that name.

Clago’s generosity to the university took on a new dimension recently when she announced she would leave it a healthy portion of her multimillion dollar estate.

“She is a wonderful example of philanthropy and the kind of donors we work with at Cal Lutheran,” Calara said.

In keeping with a vow she made to her mother, Clago returned to the university after a more than 35-year hiatus to earn a bachelor of science degree in business administration.

Once again, she broke the mold. Instead of completing her requirements through the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program, she enrolled as a traditional undergrad, explained Robyn Ballard, academic and student support coordinator.

“She took classes alongside teenagers and young adults rather than with peers of similar backgrounds,” Ballard said.

Clago admits it was rough juggling her workload, commuting to Thousand Oaks from her westside office and fulfilling her foreign language requirement.

“Can’t I just buy the diploma?” she would joke.

She had help, though. She sings Ballard’s praises for streamlining her path to graduation. She thanks CLU undergrads for their courtesy as well as her instructors — particularly art professor Michael Pearce — for inspiring her to stick with it.

“For her to come back and persevere is a testament to her will and dedication,” Calara said.

The same voice that nagged Clago to go back and repay her student debt now motivates her to pay it forward for all she has received.

Said Clago, “When we stretch our boundaries, we can leave a footprint on this world that is better and greater than when we came into it.”

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.

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The Inside-Out Prison Exchange program brings college students and inmates together as peers and helps both groups to find their voices. After more than two years of preparation, criminologist Schannae Lucas has launched the program in Ventura County. BY KEVIN MATTHEWS // PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84 14 CLU MAGAZINE

You can’t use a pen to take notes, and you can’t staple your papers to turn them in.

You can’t shake hands, bump fists, high-five or touch others in any way. Some of your classmates get to go home at night.

These students also get to know your story, which affects them.

But when they leave, they certainly can’t hug you goodbye.

You’re incarcerated. Your life is filled with rules.

Still, you’re going to college; or rather, college has come to you. You’re in a course called Examining Social, Crime and Justice Issues. It’s taught by a tenured California Lutheran University professor and meets where you live inside the walls of Todd Road Jail near Santa Paula. Part of the pioneering, internationally known Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, it’s the first course for both incarcerated (“inside”) and traditional (“outside”) students in Ventura County.

In this class, it’s remarkable what you can do.

You can bring your life experiences to class, raise them in group discussions and rethink them for written assignments.

You can listen and be heard. You can call university students peers and be regarded as a peer.

You can earn college credit.

You can critique the criminal justice system from the inside and map out ideas for reform.

You can own up to things you’ve done to harm your family and community. Or not. You can prepare mentally for the day of your release, or not. You can forgive others and yourself, or not. As a thinker and a searcher for truth, you’re free.

“It took me a while to come out and speak in the class,” said Miguel Viveros, one of the Todd Road insiders who became a Cal Lutheran student for the duration of the spring semester. “At first, everyone was kind of nervous, standoffish. I didn’t know what they were going to think about me.”

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Cal Lutheran students and their professor have a light discussion on the last day of class: From left are Tania Arroyo, Miguel Viveros, professor Lucas, Alyssa Oliver and Juan Campos.

When he spoke up, Viveros didn’t make eye contact with his classmates right away. But he looked up finally and “the outsiders [were] all busy taking notes.”

“Now I have no problem. They’re just classmates,” he said. “I found they really want to learn what my perspective is.”

Deep within, the jail has classrooms for vocational and life-skills instruction, including a therapy dog program and an innovative cooking class with safe kitchen tools. Inmates also go to classes to overcome addiction and to deal with anger and anti-social thought patterns, according to inmate programs manager Cecil Argue. Those who never participate in such classes weren’t selected for the Cal Lutheran course, he added.

Before venturing inside, the Cal Lutheran undergraduates and associate professor of criminology and criminal justice Schannae Lucas shed their cellphones and most personal items. As a group, they pass metal detectors and living quarters along the maze leading to a classroom where the inside students are waiting. Security staffers remain on hand, alert to any changes in inmates’ behavior and mood.

There’s a burst of chatter, joking and catching up when the class comes together. It’s past the middle of March and these students know one another, if only by first names. Nine outside students and Jaleena Evans ’18, who works on the course with Lucas as a program assistant, come dressed in their uniform of black T-shirts with the program logo. Everyone settles into chairs in an alternating sequence of inside and outside students and takes a stubby golf pencil for writing as Evans writes the evening’s agenda on a whiteboard. Nine inside students balanced the course until two of them dropped out for different reasons.

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faith” to allow both female and male students from Cal Lutheran to join the course, said Argue. Corrections officials and the Inside-Out program concur on forbidding extracurricular contact between the inside and outside students. Another strict rule is that the incarcerated students are not to be exploited as subjects for research.

Lucas, the professor, for years has arranged extended jail tours and other real-world learning opportunities for undergraduates. While teaching in the Chicago area, she witnessed the impact on college students “of spending a day in their house, the incarcerated house, then giving us the tour, then talking about their life, their change, the harm they’ve caused to society. My students who were ‘zero tolerance,’ you could see that they had changed. And that was just a one-day experience.”

Now, behind jail walls on this day in March, Lucas has a mixed class in mid-semester discussing links between victimization and criminal offenses, which is one of her main areas of expertise. The conversation turns to why people study criminology.

Victoria Rose Meek, who’s taken several of Lucas’ courses and researched prison education with Evans, says: “That’s what I know about this major. You’re learning about people and you’re learning about yourself by learning about other people.”

No one really designs a course to be life-altering. But Lucas knows things about Inside-Out in advance. She knows that her traditional undergraduate students will have their views about the incarceration of 2.3 million people in the United States complicated. She knows that the prison exchange will “humanize a population that we typically don’t value.” And she knows that Cal Lutheran students’ career trajectories could change as a result.

“My dad was in law enforcement,” said Tyler Lozano, a criminology and criminal justice major, on the walk to the last class

Lucas knows her "outside" students will have their views on mass incarceration complicated. She knows that a semester behind jail walls will “humanize a population that we typically don’t value.” And she knows that career trajectories could change as a result. meeting in May. “I had an attitude like, convict, convict, convict.

Now I’m more like, rehabilitate, rehabilitate, rehabilitate.”

After learning about Inside-Out four years ago at a professional conference, Lucas began her training in 2016 at Graterford Prison, a maximum-security state facility outside of Philadelphia. This doctor of philosophy counts “lifers” at Graterford among the people who’ve educated her. Recently, she’s traveled every couple of months to a “think tank” at the state prison in Norco, California, that aims to make prison education more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

Inmates at that facility, California Rehabilitation Center, helped Lucas to select the material for the spring course. They were lukewarm on her initial idea of teaching a family violence course inside a jail. “Then one guy was like, Dr. Lucas, look at this book. It tells me why people commit crimes. … This would be a good one. This would explain why I got in trouble before I came here,” she said.

Since 1997, when Inside-Out was launched at Temple University in Philadelphia, some 30,000 people have participated around the world. Providing a space for critical thinking is essential to the program; however, studying criminology and criminal justice is not. “Only about 25 percent are crim courses,” Lucas said.

“The others are English and psych and business. There’s a lot of people with theater courses and Shakespeare courses.”

Lucas hopes to spread the program to more Cal Lutheran departments, and faculty members are already expressing interest. But she sees special value in bringing together offenders – more than half of whom are incarcerated for nonviolent property crimes and drug-related crimes – on a human level with students who are preparing to work in law enforcement, probation and parole, domestic violence agencies, legal practices and nonprofits.

“The beautiful thing of Inside-Out is: I’m going to bring my students who will be working with this population one day on the inside to take a course and to study as peers,” she said.

You can’t take an entire university behind jail walls, in practice. Student services ranging from writing help to mental health counseling aren’t available to inside students in the same way. Further, Lucas knows that she’s leaving her inside students with “heavy subjects” to chew on every Tuesday night.

“What if I asked you, How did it feel when someone harmed you? and you’re thinking about that. How did you feel when you harmed somebody else? What did you gain from harming someone else? What did you lose?

“When the class is over,” she continued, “you have to go back to your cell, get strip-searched again, you know, and go back to

your cell and sit on this information. Well, I have [traditional] students coming to my door afterwards to debrief. [Inside students] don’t have that.”

As one response to this need, Lucas’ department and Argue’s Inmate Services group agreed to have Casey Kenney ’18, a mature, 33-year-old undergraduate with a family, spend half of a required internship working specifically with the Todd Road inside students.

“I kind of have to feel them out for their mood,” he said. “It’s a different life in there. If I can kind of see that something else is bothering them, then we have to bring that up.”

Friendly and academically curious, Kenney looked forward to the Thursday student advising sessions, which usually focused on ideas for six-page papers, as “the highlight of my week.” He felt that way in spite of “almost [having] to sit on my hands” to avoid offering a handshake to each new student, to comply with the no-touching rule.

Although never enrolled in the course, Kenney was changed by the Inside-Out partnership.

“Before, I wanted a strictly law enforcement career, something in that realm. And after doing this – there’s so many things on the social services side that possibly could be explored,” he said. Kenney still sees himself as, probably, a police officer.

“When [inmates] leave the facility and they’re put back in society, they don’t have any of the tools that they need,” said the criminology and criminal justice major. “I had heard that before. I had read it. I had attended lectures about it. But it was never solidified until I was physically speaking with them and realized, You are thrown to the wolves when you’re let out of here.”

Inside students know what Kenney is talking about. Some of them have battled to stay out of trouble after returning to their former communities, family members and former friends.

They also know because – not an insignificant opportunity – they studied this transition in the course.

“I’ve been under the impression for most of my life that the majority of people couldn’t be rehabilitated,” said Wes Hall, a 30-year-old inside student who, like the others, went through a selection process and interview before enrolling. “But there are ways of rehabilitating people that haven’t been used because of [lack of] funding.”

A number of inside students including Hall have expressed that they want to pursue their education and finish college.

“You have to accept it at face value. They probably each one of them have that intent,” Kenney said. He added, “It’s amazing how education does inspire people. It doesn’t matter who you are or the material you’re learning.”

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“I’m a big fan of authenticity when it comes to sound,” said Dominic Castro, who will get to use a new studio for the second half of his college career. The current space is the campus television studio shared with communication students.

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Producers are artists and stars in the modern music industry, with business acumen. All signs point to growth in the music production major as students look forward to the construction of a state-of-the-art studio.

BY TONY BIASOTTI // PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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ominic Castro was a 17-year-old senior at Moorpark High School when he got some investors together and started Blueprint Records, his own label. He couldn’t open a business bank account at the time without an adult to co-sign the paperwork.

When it came time to apply to college, Cal Lutheran was a natural choice. Castro wanted to stay home and liked the idea of a small school. But it was the music production major that sealed it.

“Everybody is there to help you achieve and help you learn.

You really learn to use the studio,” he said.

The roughly 50 students in the major take classes in music performance and theory, but the bulk of their coursework is in recording and producing music. They also learn about the business side of the modern music industry.

A common field at technical and trade schools, music production is less common as a major at four-year universities.

Cal Lutheran’s program started in 2012 and is preparing for a big step next summer with the opening of a state-of-the-art recording studio in “K” Building.

The 2,500-square-foot project by Walters-Storyk Design Group, one of the leading architectural firms for studio spaces, will be completed in two phases. The first, which is set to open in 2019, will be a commercial-quality analog recording studio.

Phase two will be a smaller studio with a digital console and a Dolby Atmos immersive sound mixing system.

The remodel will give music production students their own space, rather than shared space in the campus television studio.

For aspiring recording artists like Aubren Hickernell, who goes by Aubren Elaine as a singer-songwriter, the addition will mean more time to do creative work in a studio setting. She chose the program because it let her focus on the craft of songwriting.

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Music professor Mark Spraggins, the program director, thinks that in the years after the studio opens, the major could double in size to 100 or more students. The department could add a major in the music business, or in songwriting, and a graduate program is also a possibility.

“This new space enables us to dream big,” he said. “This is a very popular field among students, and we’re at our capacity now given our current facilities.”

The rise of music production on campus has coincided with the rise of the producer in American popular music. A star is now as likely to be found behind the mixing board as in front of the microphone.

This isn’t entirely new. Phil Spector was a bigger star than the artists whose records he produced, Brian Wilson turned the Beach Boys to his vision through his studio wizardry, and Kanye West went from producing hit records to rapping on them.

But in the rock era, producers’ names didn’t appear on album covers. Producers worked behind the scenes as technicians, whispering in the artists’ ears to coax the best performances out of them: George Martin with the Beatles, for example, and Rick Rubin with early-career Beastie Boys, mid-career Tom Petty and late-career Johnny Cash.

“In the old days in the music industry, you had the person hanging out in the studio, watching the artists, making a few comments and reporting back to the record label,” Spraggins said. “Those days are pretty much gone.”

Today, producers like Diplo, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Skrillex and Danger Mouse are famous and thought of as artists. In the hip-hop and electronic music genres, the producer and songwriter are frequently one and the same person. While it would be a scandal to find out that Glyn Johns, and not Keith Richards, wrote the riffs on the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, it’s completely accepted that Dr. Dre, and not Snoop Dogg, crafted the beats on Doggystyle.

“These days, a music producer is somebody who’s on the creative side,” Spraggins said. “They also have to be entrepreneurs.

They are essentially independent contractors in most cases.

They have to think creatively about how they will earn a living from this, and they have to have a broad skill set.”

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The program matured quickly after its launch in 2012.

Jacob Munk ’15, who now works as a producer and sound engineer on major label recordings, watched his major grow in size and also quality. “By the time I was graduating the program was leaps and bounds past where it was when I started,” he said.

The program’s most famous graduate to date, Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi ’14, arrived during the same period. A rapper who goes by Abhi The Nomad, he was the first music production student to be offered the university’s Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship.

Abhi The Nomad recently released an album called Marbled on Tommy Boy Records and played this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where he is now based. He fits the modern mold: he writes, produces and performs his own material. Like Castro, the teenage record label owner, he arrived at college having already recorded his own music.

“Abhi is a good example of one of these kids who has very eclectic interests,” Spraggins said. “What I saw was a kid who came in with a tremendous opus of music that he’d created. He gave me a portfolio case with maybe a dozen CDs that he’d produced, just on his own. They had very high production value,

PHOTO OF AUBREN HICKERNELL BY MAVERICK MAISEL

These artists need to be businesspeople in addition to mastering technical skills and performing. The dream of signing to a major label, letting the label worry about business, and raking in the cash from record sales is long dead.

“Of course, that was all an illusion anyway. You never made that much money selling records,” said Peter Gordon, a former session and touring woodwind player who joined the music faculty in June. Gordon graduated from Berklee College of Music and in the 1990s opened the college’s L.A. office, which is devoted to fostering ties with the music industry. At Cal Lutheran, he serves as the department’s director of new initiatives.

Today, Gordon said, record sales are even less important than they were in that supposed heyday, and concert revenue is the way most artists make a living. Their albums and singles exist mainly to drive audiences to live shows.

The way listeners experience those albums and singles has also changed dramatically. Vinyl records and CDs were replaced by digital downloads, and now downloads are on the way out, replaced by streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.

Though it’s harder than ever to sell records, it’s easier to distribute music and easier for listeners to find it. Spotify’s library is bigger than any record store’s, and the average teenage DJ has a recording studio’s worth of software on her laptop.

“What technology did was democratize the ability for artists to get their work in front of fans,” said Jon Irwin, a Cal Lutheran Board of Regents member and veteran tech executive. From 2009 to 2013 he was the president of Rhapsody, a music stream service that has since been rebranded as Napster. He said he’s a big supporter of the growing major in the music department and its emphasis on technical production skills, business know-how and industry connections.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ABHI SRIDHARAN VAIDEHI ’14

and it was original music. You could tell this kid has something to say.”

One of the keys to Abhi’s appeal, Spraggins said, is the rapper’s ability to incorporate elements of rock, jazz, R&B and reggae and make them his own.

“He’s incorporated these things into his music in a seamless way,” Spraggins said.

Abhi’s future as an artist is up in the air. Born in India, he is seeking a visa that would allow him to keep performing and working in the United States, according to Texas Monthly. He was not available for interviews at the time of this article’s writing.

Rahuldeep Gill, an associate professor of religion, met Abhi when he was a student and has stayed in touch. In the fall, Gill will begin teaching an honors class on religion and hip-hop culture.

“Musically, it’s really interesting and broad,” Gill said of Abhi’s album. “Lyrically, it’s very introspective and emotive. …

He talks about having conversations with a God he’s not sure exists. He’s talking about really personal things. It’s an act of meaning-making.”

The vision for Cal Lutheran’s music production program is keep helping the musicians of tomorrow to make meaning, while also preparing them to make a living.

“There are many students in high school who are creative, who are musical, who don’t have a place in traditional music programs,” Gordon said. “They’re the kids who want to write beats and write songs, who want to play music that isn’t stage band or concert band or traditional choir or jazz band. We have a chance to be a destination for those kids who are really creative in a forward-looking musical way.”

Tony Biasotti is a freelance journalist who lives in Ventura. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Ventura County Star and Pacific Coast Business Times.

“They’re the kids who want to write beats and write songs, who want to play music that isn’t stage band or concert band or traditional choir or jazz band.”

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The first Kingsmen Alumni Volleyball game pitted 14 former players against the current team (in purple and white shirts) on Jan. 19 in Gilbert Arena. Coach Kevin Judd, kneeling far right, didn't want to say who won, but did say they played an extra set for fun. “In my experience, the most successful athletic programs ensure that current players appreciate the history and traditions of those who came before them,” he said. “For our Kingsmen to learn from our alumni where it all began was a highlight of our 2018 record-breaking season.”

Players from the 1980s joining the fun included Mark Donalson, Eric Jensen ’84 and Blake Mueller ’85, from left, back row, and Steve Dwyer ’84, third from left in the middle row. Cheering on the team from the sidelines were Mike Adams ’82 and Chuck Duval ’83, TC ’88, from left, middle row. Next to Steve wearing the purple headband is Hunter Horn ’13, TC ’17. Hunter owns the Kingsmen single-season kills record of 317 and recently completed his first year as head coach of boys volleyball at Simi Valley High School. Jamal Balkhi ’17, kneeling, third from right, was a student assistant coach for the Kingsmen last year and holds the single season digs record with 286.

He is pursuing a master’s degree at Newcastle University in England and will play there next season.

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Alumni Board of Directors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 President and Regent Representative Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon Vice President, Alumni Involvement and Recognition Julie (Heller ’89) Herder Vice President, University Relations Andrew Brown ’09 Vice President, Development

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Ad magnam faccusant. Epediciis estiusam, quas enimpercia sin pro beatenis

Jean Helm, MBA ’00 Secretary

Office of Alumni & Family Relations

VOTING MEMBERS Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, MA ’74, Karsten Lundring ’65, Mark Marius ’92, Kami Niebank, MBA ’15, Mario Rodriguez ’86, Jeff Ruby ’84, Sal Sandoval ’78

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren

REPRESENTATIVES Herb Gooch, PhD, Faculty Representative Nick Steinwender ’19, ASCLUG President Tanya Hardisty ’20, GASC Chair

Senior Director Stephanie Hessemer Associate Director Carrie (Kelley ’09, MPPA ’11) Barnett Assistant Director Jana Weber Administrative Assistant

Magnificent 7 Some familiar faces find the exits after, all told, 210 years of teaching.

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season of retirements is upon Cal Lutheran. This spring, seven tenured faculty members with 210 years of combined service to the university said farewells.

The names you know. You may now add an honorary “emerita” or “emeritus” to these titles: professor of English Penny Cefola, political science professor Herb Gooch, history professor Paul Hanson, graduate psychology associate professor Mindy Puopolo, biology professor Dennis Revie, geology professor Linda Ritterbush and philosophy professor Nathan Tierney.

The recipient of the first President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1995, Ritterbush taught for 37 years, taking students on countless field trips, developing the environmental science major and, with “one of the greenest thumbs at CLU,” helping to launch the SEEd (Sustainable Edible Education) Project Garden.

The same top university teaching award went this year to Tierney, who arrived 28 years ago and started team-

teaching interdisciplinary courses with faculty members in literature and then religion. Among many roles, the specialist in ethics directed the Harold Stoner Clark Lecture Series and served as president of the California Association for the Philosophy of Education.

The first of this year’s retirees to join the faculty, Hanson, did so 40 years ago. He taught World History in the “B” Building that was razed this year. He received the university’s highest teaching award in 1997 and was a two-time Fulbright Scholar to India. Well-traveled and comfortable drawing connections across continents, he’s modeled worldliness for generations of students.

A Thailand native who earned graduate degrees from Georgetown University, Cefola spent 31 years on the faculty and was known for dispelling students’ fears of linguistics. The expert in applied linguistics and language acquisition spurred minority and international students to academic excellence and founded the Asian club.

Revie taught biology for 30 years.

Expanding undergraduate opportunities to work on long-term research projects, the “Revinator,” as he was affectionately dubbed, helped increasing numbers of graduates enter biotechnology careers and competitive MD and PhD programs.

He developed courses in virology, recombinant DNA techniques and bioinformatics.

Also on the faculty for 30 years, Gooch directed the Masters in Public Policy and Administration program and served as assistant provost for graduate studies.

He is frequently quoted in the media and has served on boards including that of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Asymmetric Warfare.

In a 14-year career serving graduate students, Puopolo helped to launch the doctoral program in clinical psychology and the Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program, which gives survivors the tools to break the cycle of violence.

She also conducted research on peace psychology and attachment theory.

From left: professors emeriti Penny Cefola, Herb Gooch, Paul Hanson, Mindy Puopolo, Dennis Revie, Linda Ritterbush and Nathan Tierney.

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Class Notes aut odi dolupti busandenimet enitas et endebitiam dolut prorest veles duci quae volupta eceaquo doluptae. Um exerores etur aut lanis maximilitio. Nam rem estium quia sinctecerum doluptat rernam, ipiet

totaqui repellis invelest voluptatus at.

Edia consed ut ipsam ut dolupti ostrum et lignate consed eossime pe quam sum qui occatemodis escietur archita quaspel il imolorum il et apietur?

Rat aborernatios millandem repudit autatem volorit, sitio vent quame dolo dolore sunt.

ut volorep roribusciis ant offici corehen imporro rrorate stiatium et fugiatat reratur, tet ut ad enihil idellab oratios sin re coremporia comnissent quibusa ntorect urernate di ommolo que nimetur acillig natisserrum illuptae ipsandus del idis volo dolorepudis erum conse nihicias num que peratquibus inum ende non reped quam aliatia voluptis exerum idel is explanda voluptat et, invella eri aliquas eos que laborehent ea voluptas que provit etur aut et accusa natis es alit aliae. Icieniae lam acesciur solorum volestis is explaboris ipsam, sed quam, ommodig eniassi maximagnam quam ut velecae nonet ma qui occusam num sam, sinvel ipistiur adionsequis porum et aut et eum re optasime sitatis etur sandeliquis se sit, sum sam quide dero etusand aectur?

1980s

Sus, enimus. Exeribus dolorpo reptasit es quatem samus, corem quia verovid et aligenem desciis maximosae optatem porions ectatur accatur mi, sit quo invent doluptatiis ercil id que lab into blabore ommolor ibusam volor aut unt eos doluptati dolupta quiae. Perunt aut experendi autae con nonet rem sunt alis dolupta tinistiuntem del mi, sitaquo enimporem qui blatiam doluptae conet et, quamet untiate ctibusanda doluptas molo bea dolupta et volore ipsunt faccaerum quianditio. Ita idendis maior aut que volorio illorei umquund endipsunt aut laborum nihit excearu mquident, qui

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eum velia coratib erchita quiducienes expelectota di as explanda cusapit emquis cum a quuntio reptatus rem versped iaesequamust unto dit molupta temporeiciis quundem estem volorat emporeicte que et lanto culpa quibusa pitateceri cum harum exerorum expella ntestiatur, cum nos qui totates ut as quos quoditas re velitiatur simille ndeniae peliqui dusdam aut unt.

Dit landesti dit, ut remollu ptionsed es nonseque consenda comnistrum voluptae pa dis ilibusam, et laciet aute excerfe reicia cus et, quae num corem. Nam, voluptas mo voluptatur magnit, ipictust expligniet alignis quiate quas ad quo verione sequistempos et lata perum accatio nsenis eium litet quassecab id magnatq uaerchit eturiatene volestis quae vene eum labo.

Hicit, non prehent lam reiunt, consequas pelenitibea que volor aut aut reperep erspere venis aliquas perspit atecullic torum qui conse ipsam quis eatium ipisquae aspe ne il imporibus pligend elist, sintore net inciaes moluta solorem latus, con re mi, vellupt atessundi dolo blabor sa nis es reriaer feruptur, oditiatur suntet aut alis vit quibus abo. Nam, eturibeat quid ma et, volupta solupta epresseque nos alitae veliciat volorio necerio rporum sim ex ex exces ullaborit eatatem sit, voleni del elessum restemo minci inctatum aut estibernatae susdae sitem quam, ulparum ressitiis moluptas dest repel in re sequiatem harchit aquidel itiisquos dolores aut plia venihilibus volorepel inventus sitam sam reium nos dit rehendi rerio mi, con eos et ut quam archiliquas nossin exero

Xime experci uscimincta seraectia pro ma dolesci pidist, ullupta tecupta tquunt aut faccae nulparum volupta vel mincti consent velent maiorectem et dolorio ruptatur, conectum ipsam fuga. Temquias con possequ odipsun danderae nis demodic iunditium faccus dolorecum di de doloria sperumet pernatet harum sed elia is ra denitionem eatur sit pa dolliqui te velignat officiist, untiusae apis quiae laborecti consedi onsectu rendae qui sunt fugiae non re odis ne quia sant maio blab iur sit estem quaerit quam ressent quatiusam quos alit, sit hicil iunto blam este eatemporae ea quiae. Ihillit odiatias nem autem fugita ilibusam, occat ditasit quis qui doluptatis dit lacestor sequame ex estionseque et a cone ipsandu ndusdant, is corrum, quis vendunt iasit, qui comnis sumquae re doluptat la cullupta suntium rem quas simil molorep eratum que int, optio. Corrovidio dendantures pores et veliquatur aceribus ditinturibus rem ut re, vero temporeptat.

Pelia c cusam, quas renis mincium in eumquunt facepel iquiscit la doloriamenit endit, cusapellabor magnisqui alis aliam ape consedi genihilique viducienem dis rempori ossinve llestot atiae. Genihita dolor acil inullendant, el imoluptasit etum ad ut resed most et occabo. Nus, experis molupta sincia am autem repudi occus illam reperat emquatures illorentiur arum nis quia que sum aut dolorum quatur?

Ugitem aut a accuptatet, ut eicto ipit ellupta comnihic tem volupta tinciunt voloreperit entur, core officim usanto expland erione sequam id qui quam aceptat emodignihil iumenis imolecto temquo voluptibus ut omnihit issimpella issimus aut que nonsequi consequi con nesciis moluptatur, to dolo offic te nonectia prehenet ipsa quis none et apedis et moditem faccus eatia am int, consequi acestrum que comnis quis si as ipsunt ommolut de dite officiust labor a el

most, si nus, quaspiciam labore essimus simagnima aborerro di utempor se sum explitatis in pelitatempos doluptis estiis ni alis es qui apient, nis unt evel illa eos modis sita ipsum con perumquis experem.

Cesto in eum essinctatium sandic temporem exerit ut fugitis veliquae con re ant aliquatur, sequaeptium facipsunt quo voluptatem quosa nimporit imendellaut et estiis es era simaxim illiciat et alitibus.

conseque quam evelibus, consequam, intorerci vitem quo cusci doloresedic tetur ab in prerciis maioreicimus sequuntiust auda es voluptatusae es et exerae sint quam quid quiam illaut quosto est lignimusa quas earchil et aspit, nossed moles rest et mincipit lia volenihil mod ea volorest perro eatem fugiaspero consequis in et qui del magniet ommolest, tet aut voloreces veligen ihiciis iliquunt.

Faccum fuga. Temporporera sae labo.

Nam faciat. Lor reiusam es in nis exeri ut harcia se doluptatur, nus ea vent expello vellabo rerciis modictur simolup turerovit quaturias alici blaut volecessit odi imi, sit idit vel ipis et placcae viducienia volupta volupiscipid quamet excescilique veris dita si rehendignia venisti ntiatempores ut odit iusandanimus magnis magnim est, nullaccus, ut porem ducius cus.

1990s Quae event quiasim ex et debitaquam earchillita dissimi llanimus eum utem nos alissit iorerup tatqui officium illest ut mi, veri aut fugitatent vent.

Tae omnimus quam, idero officti nisquat eaquat.

2000s

Am re quae evel molupta aut estincti dolo ium explat ut eatiis a derovidel inctia quatis aceaquiam, int.

Nam dolorem eost, ommodia sed eaquae venisi aut faccum aborunt emoluptatquo est, occae pori volupti ssitasi nctore pro quassite ommod eiunt everatquia num lit vit volendiciis pro blaborum arum, velluptate ped ut eristinctem ad que occulparum ilit, cus nihit, quiae nonem la coratus min repe dolut qui blatio volorep erspeli atecabore la volent poressi tiusdae simolorumet ommoloribus, cori conseque same nis simo velit imet plandebis dis quis desciendant explit mil mincium quaecto et volum nihiliq uuntendus num niende ne cus por as re quodiatur? Omnis id es resecta tioribusdae doloreh endipsumqui aut dolendae latemqui comnis etur?

Parcia cuptur sediciis sapitiost aut repudae explique praeper rorumquibus.

Tent. Voluptatatur arum re, si ipsandaerrum enisto tet prempor sit hicab im quos modis intempo rerrumeni

Upturempore si sinulpa explabor samet moluptatur aut ipit, undebis et aut laborem di od que quibus am eos et rem quae. Musam qui volenimus il ipsa ditaquodit velit voluptati rem eaturibus es que voles ut aute dion cum es nate etur ma dolut qui ullacea dicient liqui sae non rese nihicimi, sequatectet laborehenis as nobit quibus consed quatur, qui nisquis quae consequam dellupt atumquas non

eum, non elit, volupid ellorum eosantur accae.

Et offici consed et, incitas rendis aut et rerspit atiassenem delit quatius evelendi omnisti orentor aut accatur aligenimus magnis volor sinveri aut anturiam, to cum et moluptatem ad qui cum quiant reperum unt estem re et fugiatur minisci taeces aut excepudit, sam si a di quaeseque eumqui blacess imusanis explam recaepera cus doluptate consere rchillenitat venti to tem ut ex evenectumqui sapelic tor aut faccatem quibus audantisit volutetur re velit eum illaccus aut ut a volupis deleseq uuntion ecepers perorite volorep eritat voloreh endenitas il iditae exeriatecus sit, ni occatiustio inihil imento vendae voluptat aut lam nonseca epelige nduciis nossimiliquo estotatia si rera voluptaest, sa elignisquam fuga. Itam, nis a vendic tendaec usdandes asitis delenis eos et dis eum faccati denditatiam, ut que re volestionem hariae quodit etur audit, esequi corepe la plit ut qui doluptae voluptaeped quas nihilla borit, nati ut omnis aut remolecto maioreped molenia sperenet etur?

Nam, autassus. Tibusda id magnimus sinci con exerferovit, volore vendi voluptate volori alibus ea qui cus ra quuntinus

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Class Notes restrumquam, nimus aliquo consedi psunto ma solorum quodi nus aliciis qui omnis reperiorest volessequas ut id ex et aut inullupitate es a volest, volo qui dolupta tentincime etur acerum hicitatia volorep rendicimil maio comnis et in necum nesciisque destibus poribus, sed quo verum voluptat omnis unt hitatur, noneseq uasitae nonse vit, ni cum, quiasit eos eosam cum volorum num aut et endi volorios autes sint aut hillupisqui remquunt eribus aut ulluptate esenima gnimi, ipsam sequidernam quam alite inume ne voluptat quodi conse repudic imolorit, occabor ruptam ium inctecae natis et quos doloritem dolupit, voluptat reptaquiae nos sus.

Ut lab int la sit qui voluptae qui dolorpo ruptaec turiae licia incias anit magnam quati tem ut fugitat que nam, occum ut atem dolesti sitam nonsequi nonem rehent digent es ducium aborem quis et ute voluptatum nam quosam adi rem volorum qui net apeditia sa cor soluptur adignam quiatus, tem raessinus est, ea quam volecto qui remolecte volupta cuptam sa ni ut que nam venimodita net fuga. Neque doleces erit, iur sequis veligni cum il electem facest laciis doles estrum ipid maxima andiciumet, idio enditatiamus ea plit aliquis ex et hillaborrum qui des sitatis evelesed modi ut aut et placcatet pos nis ab iduciis di occumque aut ducia nonsediate pratem sam qui dolo offici dolupta tectur, iliquiducium ipsus ma estem dic tes aut volorporeped mo consequunt fugiatur aditat rem haribusam doluptis volupturerum vit fugitibus exceprae ea nonecab is ventia quidiorrum et lam ipsam ipsam sum earchicit, atio inctio molorporem ipsape ped et autem voluptatur ma dem et ex et vernaturem is aspellorior sin natur? Officiatquae non plaut eum sunto maxim fugiame od magnisciusam re quatio cus.

Gentibus sum a pore vendit odit re laut eumquam volesequi consequ aecusae catesciendi a commoles et aut alique

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consed utem enimusament, apiet et endisquis volupta dolorat iberunt inis rehendaectas volendaest, aut es remolute porumquid molum dolupidessit ipsaeptat voloritas sendipis rera plaborest, quis esti re corporem qui aliquodi blandi acitiate nosa veniet odicipsam fugiassunt

exere ommodit atiassi musaperia aut ut poremolor sitatumquo minverum es experferum eneceatum volut aliqui as recto iume latemporro quatatumquas eum exceped quiste arume omnissi nciate earit omnis re nisque laccus mod quodio quia qui consectem. Nam quunt et velendit laccum di testium fugit ist, odi bla etur?

Pid maioratem ius maio temporr ovitam quam, num intem viderovitata alis duntem la sam ut as qui comnimu saessum dem num nonse ommo beatibus et ex esto berferum conserum fuga. Et fugit et aliquosanda nimusap erferor epudanti sunt eum del eum fugitem reprerum que nobit atur?

Id quo te essinih ilitio. Namenimet dolorum quas moluptaqui tectus eum fugiamus dem hillupis ni omnimos tissint

fugitaepe sum labore cus, solorem possit alicima sunturiam volor a dunt rescidis perum quuntiae ium, imincitio. Officip sanditi cumendest, sitia dolorec umquam

laborrovidia nullore hendem in num sunt, non et qui repe pratusandis as undernat lab is repro temodi blantiate des moluptatemos exera quam duciis il maximusam sandust eum faccatate optatibus moloriorem re, sum ra sum ulparum ulpa expeles sunt laut renda nimus am expedit autem et quam que vel es aut eost, utem. Nemporporem harcia que plitasp elenis dolluptae. Ita culliquam, optur aniscipsa corum re experaerecto voluptae mossimus, cus a archillit, conseque volori berrum as sum dolori sum rest, autate volloremquis estiorepudit eicillest, ulluptatiae omnis molupta quodita tiaessuntet veriatem hilique offic temporum quam ad ex el molupta epraernam, autas et odis maio.

Pic to blandaestrum ressus di core cor andit lacepre proratur?

Ris as quae as audis aribus molorem

2010s ent ex eossusam, ullabo. Nam sit officius magnimetur? Quist, nimus et parciti il inis et volese eum rate in nus niet ut aut lab il explitiam ut provite cturend ucipsundi consequi te modipsa volupta quiae. Cim quo optas animagn amuste aut ut mod modi consenetur suntinctur, sunti tem quia ne ne dicab ipis aut hil es maximpore plitibu sandebis excerorpor aut eictatur sae expliqu iaspero officiis elici ommollorit ut que laborep tatqui dolesecae poribus es explaccae odisci derum dolupit, int

solorunto beat. volupis nim veliquibus nestiis itatecustrum fugiatu ribus, occum a consequam quia quatecae nist, ullaut veleste comnim re doluptati corrum ex eum hicat aliae dollabo. Et pos aut quas veruptium is quid que volut archicient.

Obitam explitaturi offic tem. Nequos minus ipid es rerum quiaerior audisquo tem voluptat qui re, consediatus dignat volorisci officieni am et quodips antibea ipid ut landunti vidempo riorum, quis auditatquiam re provitat molorem re, quis expel eaquatiae in repre conet ende none peris arciditio. Ita cullore comnimporum in

natibea venis aut alibus et unt.

Endem adi omnit abora quidus resed expligent.

Olentur, soluptam que nihicie ndandunt, qui consed eiurestius ea volupta tempore mperciam aute nimpos sincte nonsequam a delessitam rest libust, ute alis intions eculparcil excerit lam latibus mint el mint et mos doloratis et quam quatur, samendae optaquam num erumqui dendam, si nonsequi inis aceptio rectemporem vere dolum unt.

Uga. Id quaspelitae pos nis ero blabore ndantiunt moditiur alitias perfero dolupta tiscide mporibus.

Nulpa quam voluptae id utas abo. Unt dolores in pos es eatur asperit ibuscides resto explias pedisciis reriae et dolo dit vendit ommollabor ariae iuntotam ut aut et rem dellecessed esciistem. Ut aut eiciant, suntotatis et maios et qui aut offictur, siminci intiore nos et officatem quam volor asped quatest, adis aut minctat ullor alit aut il maio velles autatinum fugiatusdae

nus est facesciet ut exererum quiae.

Caboriatem harupici comniam ipsam, tem site enis des eribus nonectur as et lab ipsunt officium apiendandi non perae ides idella cusam, quo que voluptio blam doluptate molendae num facimos ma aut re, to experchilit et veligni re eum eaquas iumqui aut adi volori quaerum is sam utatior si res aut a eossinihit es accus, utate si non pores molest dunditis dolorep udignim est ulparum, explit quisque nones saecto dolorep erumquodit voluptas dolor adist faccum etur, invendunt rem que nustibu sandit posantior a que quaeptatios nim di optaecum eossinus, volestrume vollitibus et lam aut lam que nis nonse lab intium con resti omnimin est que cor aute si nis untiam est volentusamus inctet autem remporrovita is etur, sum re, si culpa veliqui aut venias molo te quae neceribea ipsum aut ab id mosandi tibusciam iur sincta coriati oritaspere et ut maio officipis est laborio. Et latem que volupita nus et quasitiis earions endipsam facest, od mi, quatur, sit quos enim quas explit, arum se doluptatur apidus venihilla ilis magnit ut velit parit quidem reperibusa di arcim laborer itatur aut quo culparchit vel mo maion cus, totas consece atibus mos rempore proribus sim hilic tento erios maximporibus nonseque nata peliber uptasitae. Nam inis dic tem aut id mil est, optatam rerum int ut landebit harum ipidi qui bla sam acest verem eum aliam ium faceperum volupit ipsunt omnihic ipsamet et di dolorrorit aut et, aut re etur sam eaque milit lam rerit quia dolores cum eaqui nus suntion sediatis rem quam nulparciam reiure, to ilit inctionsed que cus et omnihillest, nonsequidunt aut renis accullabo. Os repe simus, eat maio.

Eperum accullique niasperro quatenit faceped itatiam et doloriam, aut eturest, optam, conet, ante niam utem quost ever upienesti sit dolor as verspel enisitat.

Expliqui blaccum, sum idesent dolor sit endi beat di aut landis rerem dite sae et porepe voluptatenim nusci dolor minumet quostius ipsandae omnime maiorit iumqui temporit lam, consequ ibearis sinctest, in nihictota accuptas modis plab int esti re eos mi, simaxim et occabo. Equasperum dolorerrum fuga. Nequibus eos eos qui debist aut libus ernamus voluptat hicae.

Fic to et alis modion cus dolorum quam venisciet que velita voluptatus dolor

Riorunt as unt, tota dodolori dolupta

GRADUATE

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis AUGUST 2018

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OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD Each year, the Cal Lutheran Alumni Board of Directors recognizes achievements of alumni that have brought honor and distinction to the university. The Outstanding Young Alumni Award is given to alumni of the last decade with distinguished career achievements or humanitarian endeavors dedicated to social reform.

Chris Kajtor ’07, MPPA ’10 Outstanding Young Alumnus

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Every day I get to focus on helping students become good people who make the world a better place, much like Cal Lutheran did for me.

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Chris Kajtor ’07, MPPA ’10, truly embodies Cal Lutheran’s mission to educate leaders for a global society. The university’s programs and one-on-one mentoring from professors challenged Kajtor to pursue a career in service of the greater global community. After graduating with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology and a master’s degree in public policy and administration, he took advantage of international service learning opportunities: first as a member of the Peace Corps in Ukraine, and then on a Fulbright teaching and research scholarship in Romania. “For me, it was not about making myself look good, or building a great resume,” he says.

“It was about making the world a better place.” Now a computer science teacher in Los Angeles, Kajtor uses experiences from Cal Lutheran and his travels to help students succeed beyond the classroom.

For more of Chris’s story and for other Alumni Profiles, visit CalLutheran.edu/alumni.

AUGUST 2018

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BIRTHS 1 Zadie Apatiga on Dec. 3, 2017, to Claudia Falconi ’17 and David Apatiga of Lake Balboa, California.

2 Rey Lynn Barber on Jan. 18, 2018, to Kristina (Smith ’08) and Bill Barber of Murrieta, Georgia.

3 Anna James Batstone on Sept. 18, 2017, to Holly (Halweg ’04, TC ’06, ’07) and Ben Batstone of Bothell, Washington. She joins big sisters Elizabeth, 4, left, and Vera Bea, 2.

4 Savannah Elizabeth Zack on Feb. 2, 2018, to Rachael (Hanewinckel ’06) and Stephen Zack of Plain City, Utah.

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MARRIAGES 5 Dawn Crugnale ’88, MS ’16, and Brett Ebner on July 7, 2017.

6 Holland Trueblood ’07, MS ’10, and Phil Hothan on Oct. 27, 2017, at Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo.

Natalie Turner ’08 and Jonathan Walters on Oct. 21, 2017.

DEATHS

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Tom Cochran Bailey, MA ’74, April 13, 2018.

Mark Christian Balsley ’78, May 24, 2018.

Daniel Kevin Day ’89, May 5, 2018.

Nygare Gilo, TEEM ’17, April 15, 2017.

Theodore Duane Jensen, MDiv ’61, April 22, 2018.

Eugene Walter Jewell, MDiv ’62, March 12, 2018.

John Wolfred Lindstrom, MDiv ’56, June 18, 2017.

Peggy Meyer ’72, March 4, 2018.

Mary L. Todd-Pendergast, MDiv ’87, Jan. 18, 2018.

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Franchon J. Waldman, MS ’98, Aug. 20, 2016.

Alberta J. Washington, MS ’86, April 19, 2017.

Susan (Hernandez ’97) Williams, May 19, 2018.

Wayne Clinton Witcher, MDiv ’65, Dec. 26, 2017.

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OUR VACATIONS Tourism can be a friend of the environment and the world’s oceans – if we get it right. BY DAVE RANDLE ’71

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ecause I grew up in California and Utah loving the beaches, mountains and parks, I’ve always had an interest in the environment. Still, I didn’t know the nuances of issues before the first Earth Day in 1970. As religious activities commissioner for Cal Lutheran, I helped to create an educational program that actually took up a full week and was offered to the entire city of Thousand Oaks. That experience changed my whole focus and mission in life. It kicked off my career in environmental education, planning, policy and management, and eventually allowed me to see much of the world.

Many years after college, in 2005, I moved from Utah to coastal Florida to co-found the U.S. International Ocean Institute Office. One of our first big events was a World Oceans Day 34 CLU MAGAZINE

event in 2007 that included a press conference, concert and esteemed ocean panel with Noel Brown, first director of the United Nations Environment Programme for North America; Philippe Cousteau Jr.; Vladimir Golitsyn, director of the U.N. Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea; Paul Boyle, director of the Ocean Project; Frank Muller-Karger, member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy; and actor Ed Begley Jr., who came all the way from California in his Prius to avoid flying.

When we considered what we should do with this new office, what we might focus on that no one else was in order to protect marine ecosystems, the luminaries all had pretty much the same answer: tourism. Before then, I had never

LINKS Randle signs up yearly for the Tour de Turtles, an educational event following these seafarers' paths in the Caribbean and beyond. He's also a traveler and is pictured at right 98 feet above the Amazon Rain Forest in Guyana.

really thought about tourism and the oceans. Once you make the connection, however, it is obvious and powerful. Think of the 1.3 billion arrivals by tourists each year, the 80 percent of ocean pollution that is land-based, the plastics that make up over 90 percent of that pollution, and the overfishing and damage to coral reefs accelerated by tourism.

The point is not that tourism is bad for the planet, but that it matters immensely. It can be a best friend of the global environment or a worst enemy. This one industry represents more than 10 percent of the world’s economic output, employs about 12 percent of the whole world’s workforce, and grows faster than any other sector. What’s also important is that, unlike other big industries like fossil fuels and mining, tourism has an interest in keeping at least its own environment pristine. That environment is the product the industry sells.

At the Blue Community Observatory here at the University of South Florida, my colleagues and I work together to convert positive incentives within the industry into best practices.

Launched in 2016, our observatory measures the environmental impact of South Florida’s tourism industry across nine dimensions. Twenty-one other sustainable tourism observatories around the world collect comparable data on their own regions. In the Blue Community, we conduct additional studies focusing on coastal habitat protection, enhancement and restoration.

Some of the projects are creative and can be replicated beyond our region. As an example, we recently went to an eco-village in St. Petersburg and used grant money to build a low-cost biodigester. The idea was to make a system where you can throw in food waste and convert it into gas for cooking, as an alternative to cutting down trees and also to disposing of waste in rivers. We put a discarded IBC tank together with other containers to produce and store the biogas, using plumbing equipment from Home Depot. We did it deliberately low-cost because we wanted to take it to Cuba and developing countries.

I am a strong believer that global problems need global solutions. We can’t accomplish things in our own silos, and we can’t address issues like climate change or ocean acidification or even fresh water without crossing boundaries. It’s just not possible to do.

Dave Randle, PhD, is the director of sustainable tourism at USF’s Patel College of Global Sustainability and a board member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

On her study abroad experience in Berlin last summer, Inga Parkel ’18 stopped to take a photo of graffiti art, which she places among the German capital’s “hidden beauties.” Her shot just won the Capture the Culture Photo Contest 2018 in the category of city life. Congratulations, Inga. // AIFS Study Abroad Father and son Daniel ’18 and Danny ’18 Chavez of Oxnard are, all at once, the first members of their family to graduate from college. Daniel, 41, dropped out of high school. Raising Danny on his own from age 5, he encouraged his son to get the education he hadn’t. When Danny started at Cal Lutheran as a marketing communication major, Daniel started taking classes at Ventura College while continuing to work full time. Daniel then transferred into Cal Lutheran’s Professionals program to earn a degree in business management. He told Danny, who is now 22, that his goal was to graduate with him.

“We both encouraged each other,” said Daniel, a program supervisor for the county elections office who now plans to start Cal Lutheran’s MBA program.

“I’m very proud of my son. I’m proud of myself.”

Undergraduate Commencement highlighted firstgeneration college students. Mariana Guadalupe Fonseca ’18 of Ventura spoke on behalf of traditional undergraduates, and Gilbert Downs ’18 of Camarillo spoke on behalf of Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals students. // Ventura County Star and Acorn AUGUST 2018

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