CLU Magazine - August 2019 by California Lutheran University

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AUGUST 2019

CLUMAGAZINE PUZZLES! SCIENCE BUILDING’S BONES COLLEGE’S GENDER GAPS GROUND CONTROL TO CAPT. ROD MACHINES LEARN, WE STUDY

Lacrosse Goals

REGALS TEAM READIES LAUNCH

Out in Front

NOT IN KANSAS BY TONY BIASOTTI / / PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

arrin Peschka, MPPA ’18, hadn’t been in the Ventura County Star newsroom long before she thought she might like to run the place. She was hired as a copy editor in 2002, a couple of years out of college, and had a “what do you want to be when you grow up?” conversation with a former editor of the paper. “I said, ‘I want your seat. I want your office. I would say it’s been a goal of mine for a long time.’” 2 CLU MAGAZINE

Her office and her chair aren’t exactly the same as that former editor’s. Last year, the Star moved to a new office on Daily Drive in Camarillo, just across Highway 101. Peschka is the news director, a title equivalent to “editor,” which means she runs the 20-person newsroom. She’s the second newsroom leader in a row to hold an advanced degree in public policy from Cal Lutheran. Peschka, 41, is from Wilson, Kansas, a town in the middle of the state with

a population today of around 700. Her grandparents were farmers, but her parents were both “town kids.” She never wanted to do anything but journalism. “My parents got two newspapers every day: the Salina Journal and the Wichita Eagle, plus we had a weekly paper in Wilson and we had that, too,” she said. “I’ve been reading newspapers since I could read.” She studied journalism in high school and at the University of Kansas, where she worked for two years on the copy desk. “I was a reporter for one summer, but editing has always been more to my interest,” she said. After college, she went to work as a reporter for the nearby Ottawa Herald, which was then one of the last of its kind: an afternoon newspaper. “I’d go to the county commission meetings in the morning, go to the newsroom, write up a quick story and it would be in the afternoon paper that day,” Peschka said. Over 15 years at the Star, she’s been the wire news editor, a supervisor on the copy desk, community news editor, business editor and city editor, and discovered a knack for management. When John Moore ’01, MPPA ’03, retired in March 2017, she became the first woman to run the newsroom in its 94-year history. (Some of her peers at Gannett newspapers are women, including both the editor and the publisher of the chain’s flagship, USA Today.) As a student in the Master of Public Policy and Administration program, Peschka had two goals: to learn how policy is made and to become a better leader. “I’ve had people say to me, ‘Oh, you’re not using your master’s degree,’ but I think I am using my master’s degree,” she said. “I use it every day, as the leader of an organization.” Tony Biasotti worked for the Star as a reporter from 2005 to 2010, and has occasionally freelanced for it since 2011.

BRIAN STETHEM NASA ’84

CLUMAGAZINE PUBLISHER

Lynda Paige Fulford, MPA ’97 EDITOR

Kevin Matthews ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

Tony Biasotti, Karin Grennan, Monica Kane ’19, Nikki Notthoff ’19, Jana Weber PHOTOGRAPHERS

Michael DeTerra, Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

Jonathan Gonzales ’04, MS ’07 Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren

Swenson Science Center will be the largest and most advanced structure on campus.

7 HIGHLIGHTS

Sidewalk art • Big day of giving • National awards for columbinus • Professor Eva Ramirez retires.

7 IN MEMORIAM

Bruce Stevenson ’80, PhD Stacy (Reuss ’91) Swanson

VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1

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Swept up in the sport's rapid West Coast expansion, Cal Lutheran readies women's lacrosse.

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Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, PhD Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, MPA ’90, EdD ’12

Paloma Vargas, PhD

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Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, MS ’03

14 GROUND CONTROL TO CAPT. ROD

Under constant watch, a crew of four makes a long stay in Houston and a quick trip to Phobos, moon of Mars.

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30 VOCATIONS

10 Q&A: DAN TILLAPAUGH

How do we support and develop men in college?

How do we change education for a world with smart machines?

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In protective gear, the Regals lacrosse team will take the field at William Rolland Stadium in the spring of 2020. Photograph by Brian Stethem ’84

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SCIENCE BUILDING’S BONES Who watches the clock all day, but never grows impatient? Who stands still when the ground shakes? The Swenson Science Center, soon to be the largest and most advanced building on campus. PHOTO BY MICHAEL DETERRA

wo lonely, three-story staircases stood in the academic corridor in April, like a pair of diving platforms gone searching for a pool. Then, over just 10 days, they were joined into a rigid 300-ton structure of steel beams and columns. Erecting the steel frame was one of the quickest phases in the estimated 19-month construction of Swenson Science Center, and also one of the most important for the scientific research and teaching that will take place there starting in the fall of 2020. The advanced building technology distributes stiffness up and down the structure. Combined with a pile foundation descending 30 feet underground, the bolted moment frame system (as it’s called) will not only protect against strong earthquakes, but also prevent light shaking from corrupting experimental data. This way, laboratories can do without special vibration-reducing tables for sensitive instruments. Both the frame and the foundation are the first of their kind on campus. Connecting to Ahmanson Science Center over a bridge walkway, the 47,000-square foot building will showcase cutting-edge technologies in laboratories visible to visitors from a central hallway on each floor. “The building is science on display,” said Valerie Crooks, senior project manager for Cal Lutheran. Targeted for LEED Silver certification, the new science center will have a variety of energy-saving technologies. A hybrid HVAC system, similar to one used in a science building at CSU Long Beach, combines VRF (variable refrigerant flow) heating and cooling technology with outdoor units that pull fresh air into the building using the latest heat exchanger technology. Actual hour-by-hour schedules for classes and labs are part of this equation: They’ll be updated to ensure that the HVAC and the lights consume the minimum energy possible. —Kevin Matthews For more about the Swenson Science Center and a camera on the construction in progress, visit science.callutheran.edu. 4 CLU MAGAZINE

This photo was snapped on May 2 from a drone hovering northeast of Swenson Science Center, shortly after the structural steel beams and columns were stood up and bolted into place. Inset is a screen capture from architectural modeling software showing underground features: the concrete pile foundation in yellow and an electrical duct bank in blue leading away from the building.

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Highlights

CAMPUS LEADER’S GIFT On April 3, Cal Lutheran Giving Day, university provost and vice president of academic affairs Leanne Neilson and her husband, George, announced a $100,000 gift to establish an Emergency Support Scholarship Endowment for students who need financial assistance to continue their education. In all, the day of philanthropy on campus and on the web raised more than $670,000 for a range of programs. “After 25 years working, learning and leading in this community, Cal Lutheran has a deeply meaningful place in my heart,” said Neilson. She has been the university’s top academic officer since 2008. NATIONAL AWARDS FOR PLAY ON COLUMBINE In the first such national recognition for a Cal Lutheran production, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival awarded columbinus a

In Memoriam THE CAMPUS AS CANVAS

Allan Dean Buchanan

Down the spine from the Enormous Luther statue and up the steps toward Overton Hall, professional artists put chalk to pavement April 1-2 in an outdoor festival sponsored by Cal Lutheran’s Artists and Speakers Committee. At least 13 colorful, shoe-level creations depicted fantastical scenes and imitated portraiture by Rembrandt and others, and might have remained underfoot past Commencement but for this year’s unusually heavy rainfall. Ahead of the festival, artist Lori Escalera briefed small classes of students on the joys and pitfalls of street art – how to choose chalks, how to layer them, which pigments fade last of all, and how a sidewalk and an audience figure into the choice of subject matter.

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Distinguished Performance and Production Ensembles Award and a Citizen Artist Award. The ensembles award went to eight U.S. college productions from the pool of more than 50 invited to perform at regional festivals early this year, and the award for advancing urgent conversations was bestowed on 10 of them. Cast members from the play about the 1999 Columbine massacre were featured in a Q&A in CLU Magazine’s April issue.

the United States from Vietnam as a toddler in 1975, “is building strong relationships with students, inside and outside of the classroom. Without a rapport with students, it doesn’t matter how prepared I am to teach or even the course content.”

Former California Lutheran University vice president A. Dean Buchanan died from pneumonia and congenital heart failure on March 11, 2019, in Santa Barbara, California. He was 92. Buchanan came to Cal Lutheran in 1974 as vice president of financial and business affairs and served for 15 years, having held the same position at Pacific Lutheran University the previous 12 years. Before that, he served four years as treasurer and business manager of the Augustana Lutheran Mission field in Tanganyika, East Africa. During his tenure in higher education, he served on the executive board and as president of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers, and as a board member of the National Association of College and University Business Officers. After early retirement, he operated his own consulting firm specializing in private college and university financial planning. He is survived by Marilyn, his wife of 72 years, three children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Melvyn Haberman 1936 – 2019

TOP TEACHING HONOR GOES TO HOANG Political science professor Haco Hoang in May won the 2019 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Each year, a committee of past honorees selects the recipient. Since joining the faculty in 2005, Hoang has challenged undergraduate and graduate students to understand local problems and identify solutions. “The key to teaching,” said Hoang, who came to

SPANISH PROFESSOR RAMIREZ RETIRES After 22 years of teaching undergraduates, associate professor of languages and cultures Eva Ramirez has retired and been granted emerita status. A world traveler and expert in the literature of the SpanishAmerican world, especially her native Mexico, Ramirez recently has researched the role of women in the Cristero Rebellion of 1926-29. This spring, she was once again the faculty mentor for a range of student projects at Festival of Scholars, on topics from child prostitution in Costa Rica to how the agave plant ties into Mexican identity.

California Lutheran University professor emeritus Melvyn Haberman died on March 16, 2019, from symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82. Haberman joined the English faculty as an assistant professor in 1981. For 26 years until 2007, he taught courses in British and American literature, cinema and humanities, and wrote and lectured on topics from consumer culture in literature to violence in film. He had a special interest in Charles Dickens and completed a full-length manuscript on the novels of the famed author. After earning a PhD from Harvard University, Haberman was a faculty member at UC Santa Barbara for seven years before joining the Cal Lutheran faculty. Haberman is survived by his wife Margaret Bragg ’75, TC ’89, two children and five grandchildren. AUGUST 2019

Puzzle

TILE BY FIVES

One shape completely covers the blank squares.

onica Kane ’19 likes the strategy board game Blokus, but doesn’t play by the rules. “What I like to do is just take the pieces and fit them together like a puzzle, which is precisely what you’re not supposed to do,” said the mathematics graduate. “So I was wondering if there was any math behind it, and it turns out there is.” In her capstone project, Kane shows exactly what kinds of rectangles can be tiled, without gaps, with one of the pentomino shapes used in Blokus. She also looks at the tiling of “deficient” grids that are missing one or more squares, including the puzzles shown below. Note: These puzzles don't follow the rules of a board game. Here, it's OK to fit pieces together!

YOUR TOOL • The L-pentomino • Rotated and flipped, L-pentominoes can be oriented eight ways. Use any position shown at right to tile over the squares. • Use pencil and have an eraser handy. • Tip! One L-shaped line at a time shows your work. No need to fill in squares. • Hint! Joined in the right way, two L-pentominoes form a 2-by-5 block. The mirror image of this rectangular shape is a distinct configuration. That means that any puzzle containing a 2-by-5 block has at least two possible solutions.

YOUR CHALLENGE A This puzzle has at least two distinct solutions. B This puzzle has only one solution (as far as we know). C How many ways can you solve this one? Solutions on Page 31 8 CLU MAGAZINE

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Q&A

BRIAN STETHEM ’84

MEN MISSING, NOT ALL GONE FISHING

Tillapaugh researches social contexts of higher education. His co-edited book on supporting college men's development was published this summer.

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Fifty-six percent of U.S. undergraduates are women. Is there something about college today that’s deterring men? These fears about how men are doing in college are sometimes unfounded. If we look at overall statistics for white men, white men are still going to college and succeeding in the same numbers that they historically have been. It’s really men of color, particularly black men, Latinx men, and men from native American indigenous populations, who are not being retained at the same levels. So that becomes more of my concern. And while it’s true that women are going to college and persisting and getting especially undergraduate degrees much more frequently, there still are problems with women being retained and successful, particularly if we look at graduate degrees. Men have a leg up in terms of getting master’s degrees and doctoral degrees, and then also staying in those fields.

The original beneficiaries of college, men now lag behind women in enrollment, and the gap is gradually widening. But a 50-50 gender balance wouldn’t address deeper issues, says associate professor of counselor education Dan Tillapaugh. What’s a legitimate goal for balance? To me, a 50-50 split isn’t necessarily ideal. We get hung up on numbers and say, Well, if it’s 50-50, then we’re equal. But not every student is going to come here or want to go to college. We should be asking, How are we serving our students? If we had retention data that showed men are leaving at an increased rate, then certainly, we’d need to focus our attention and understand that. There’s a sort of paradox here, because we know that institutions of higher education in the United States were really formed to educate men. Do college men face special challenges? A lot of the research on men in college by gender studies scholars shows that men are disconnected. They’re playing video games and are staying away from the classroom. They are hearing and internalizing that to be

CLU ADMINISTRATION academically smart is actually to be more feminine. Men do take being perceived as feminine as a slight. Even in my research with sexual minority men – gay men – although they want to reject the beer-and-football notion, they want to be seen as holding up some sort of masculinity. College men are also less likely to engage in help-seeking behaviors than their women peers. They’re not going to counseling. They’re not going to health services or talking to a doctor about medical issues. Do these things hurt them academically? The higher the sense of belonging you have in a campus community, the more you’re going to have positive outcomes in terms of retention, your GPA, your academic success. We just know that a lot of men are not finding that connection except in small pockets and small groups. Did you see that when you worked in student life? I had a lot of women who were involved in student leadership roles as orientation leaders and as leaders of clubs and organizations. Often, men would not find that to be their space. They would maybe get involved in student government. But if we had a program, predominantly women would show up. We would have a few men, but not many. And so that was always a conversation: How do we get more men involved? Well, we need to go to them. Men are in their rooms, they’re playing video games, they’re playing online poker. When I was at UC San Diego as an assistant dean, one of our biggest events every year was a video game contest held over MLK weekend. Hundreds of people, but predominantly men, played video games for three days nonstop, tournament-style. It was one of our most successful programs. You’ve been critical of some programming for men. We need to have dialogue around masculinity and what it means to be a man, both among students and among professionals working with them at colleges. Sometimes in student life offices, they just decide: We’re going to do camping and hiking and these really manly things. Ultimately, that’s programming for a type of man in mind, but it’s not programming for men’s development. It’s not getting us closer to

talking about issues with masculinity and being deeply introspective about them. It’s not helping men see how ideas of masculinity play out – in how we connect with other men, how we connect with women, what it means to be a father and so forth. Have activities for men helped you? One of the most pivotal things that happened to me, when I was doing my dissertation at the University of San Diego, was that I joined a rugby team. I had never played rugby in my life – I am very uncoordinated. But we had LGBT, gay, bisexual, queer-identified folk, and also straight guys and Navy guys who were active military, and we all came together because we enjoyed playing this game. I never would say that I was great at rugby, but I had a lot of fun and it was the first time that I was ever part of a men’s group where it doesn’t matter how you identify, as long as you’re here for the brotherhood. There were bad things about it too – including one sexist song we sang that I had to call out – but for a gay guy who has had negative experiences with a lot of straight men, it was a really interesting experience where the good stuff outweighed the bad. What’s the trouble for men at college, that you’re addressing through this book and your research? If I had to say what was my soapbox or cause, it’s less about gender parity and who’s enrolling and more about how can we do better to serve those men who are not finding higher education to be affirming or to be important for their goals. Some of that is discernment. Some people may come to this institution and find it is not the spot where they want to do their degree. Or maybe they figure out, I’m not a person who is going to do a typical four-year degree. I want to go into a trade. That’s great, discerning what you want to do with your life. But we have to be thoughtful about it. If folks are just leaving because of something that is happening here that is not conducive to their education and we could fix it, we need to address that. In the fall, Tillapaugh will collaborate on the men of color initiative of Project CHESS, serving underrepresented and low-income students at Moorpark College and Cal Lutheran.

Chris Kimball, PhD President Leanne Neilson, PsyD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Regina D. Biddings-Muro, EdD Vice President for University Advancement 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 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 Deborah Sweeney, Vice Chair Bill Camarillo, Secretary Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon John Basmajian ’20 Linda Baumhefner The Rev. Jim Bessey ’66 Ann Boynton ’83 Wallace Brohaugh 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 Jim Overton Genessis Palacios ’15, MBA ’20 Debra Papageorge ’12 Dennis Robbins ’86 Mike Soules Mark Stegemoeller 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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LACROSSE GOALS

Swept up in the sport’s rapid West Coast expansion, the university assembles a Regals squad for spring 2020. BY KEVIN MATTHEWS / / PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

hen Cameron and Sarah Mendez, now going into their junior year, get to talking about lacrosse, they finish each other’s sentences like two players passing a ball. The 20-year-old twins don’t waste time. After beginning club lacrosse in seventh grade, they joined with other students and parents to lobby their Conejo Valley private school for a high school varsity team and then played on it for four years. Sarah became a midfielder and attacker. When their club team goalkeeper went off to high school, Cameron answered a call to train for that position. “Ever since I said, ‘I’ll try it,’” Cameron began – “She’s been stuck with it ever since,” said Sarah – “and I wouldn’t like it any other way,” continued Cameron. “I love it, the pressure.” The Mendez sisters intended to play college lacrosse, possibly in different states, before both decided on Cal Lutheran for academic and financial motives. Promptly, they commenced a new campaign for a team and found a receptive audience in administrators and a Board of Regents seeking to balance football with an 11th women’s NCAA sport. In January, head coach Laura McIntyre arrived to begin building toward an inaugural spring 2020 season and beyond. The seventh team in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), which added women's lacrosse a decade ago, the Regals are part of a suddenly sizable West Coast tradition. Invented by Native Americans, lacrosse grew up on the East Coast and summers in Canada. With rare exceptions, NCAA titles go to teams in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. But competition is rising in the West, Midwest, Southeast and pockets of Texas, according to McIntyre, who watched lacrosse grow for five years as an assistant coach at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. In California, 8,880 girls played for 257 high schools in 2017-18, compared with 1,834 players and 55 schools just 15 years prior, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, which tracks student activities. That puts populous California at No. 3 in varsity girls’ participation, after New York and New Jersey and ahead of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Recent rule changes have sped up Division III play, adding to the excitement, McIntyre said. A 90-second shot clock and self-starts after fouls, similar to soccer and field hockey, ensure

a more fluid game. The continuous movement requires endurance from players and suits McIntyre’s coaching style. “I’m very much a coach that wants to have that spread offense,” she said. “I really want to utilize every player and their strengths as opposed to having one player who we rely on for everything.” McIntyre was a goalkeeper, one of three seniors, and “the mom” on Gettysburg College’s first-ever Division III national championship team in 2011. Next, while completing a master’s in counseling, she served as a graduate assistant coach for three years at McDaniel College in Maryland. “I’ve had some amazing female mentors, and ever since I was little, I always knew I wanted to be like them,” she said. “I knew I wanted to have that same impact on someone else in the future.” She and her older sister had started lacrosse in Pennsylvania because T-ball didn’t give them enough action. Back in Wisconsin, their parents had never witnessed “the fastest game on two feet,” as lacrosse boosters style the sport. “I don’t think my dad ever realized that it would become my career,” she said. Now that she’s charged with launching a program, McIntyre’s objective is to assemble about 18 women for the spring season, with a maximum roster of 28 or 30 over time. She has a day of nonconference competition scheduled for Oct. 19. Recruits will likely come both from afar and from the fast-growing high school scene. Girls' lacrosse spread to nearly every Conejo Valley school while Steve Omlor ’09, a former Kingsmen pitcher, was helping to build the program at Agoura Hills. He departed as head coach in 2018. Throwing and catching, the basis of lacrosse, take practice but can be mastered by soccer and basketball players who’ve never lifted a stick. High school and Division III teams poach athletes from field hockey and track, and bring on first-timers. “Explaining the movement of the game is a lot easier to someone who understands basketball – how to set a pick, how to set a screen, how to roll off of a screen, how to do a zone defense, how to slide for help, all those little things,” said Omlor. The Mendez twins don’t want anyone to be afraid to try out their sport. “I mean, it’s fun to pick up and once you’re at it—” said Sarah. “Once you get it, it’s just an instinct at that point,” put in Cameron. Concluded Sarah: “It’s addicting.”

A 90-second shot clock and self-starts after fouls have sped up play. That suits the Regals.

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Active participants in the sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth, sisters Sarah (left) and Cameron Mendez pushed to start lacrosse teams at their high school and now Cal Lutheran.

NASA

Compared with previous missions aboard the mock spacecraft at Johnson Space Center in Houston, HERA 18 allowed its crew less privacy and less free working space. Rod Borgie ’93 is second from the left.

Mars mission could take astronauts three years or longer, with the outbound and return flights of about nine months each. Navy Capt. Rod Borgie ’93, MD, a flight surgeon and pilot, would gladly give the time to NASA, hanging his laundry in the hygiene unit, hydrating his meals with a syringe, and fulfilling a lifelong fantasy of going into space. The neuroradiologist made the final 450 of more than 18,000 astro-aspirants. He’s not finished with this at age 48. He’ll try again. Through a separate NASA application process, the San Diego native and Naval Base Coronado officer recently won the chance to contribute to space exploration and to scratch his starperson itch. The space agency judged him to have the right stuff for a 45-day simulated mission to Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, that played out entirely inside Houston’s Johnson Space Center. Along with three crewmates, Borgie took up residence in the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) on Feb. 15, behind schedule due to the federal government shutdown, and emerged on April Fools’ Day. Rather than the expanse of space, HERA missions explore human limitation, including team dynamics, conflict resolution and the effects of confinement on the body. Although crew members conduct their own experiments, growing hydroponic lettuce and triops shrimp on mission No. 18, they are conscious of their role as the primary research subjects under observation, as they leave behind family and friends. Borgie is married with a boy and girl in high school and another son in elementary school.

For the first mission in HERA campaign 5, privacy was hard to come by. There were no separate sleeping quarters, no door on the hygiene unit, and nowhere to hide from the cameras – except for the toilet, the shower and Borgie’s weekly call to his family from the airlock. Luckily for the crew members, there was also no sleep deprivation study this time and no collection of stool samples; they took their own urine, blood and saliva. Challenges included setting the humidity for the right balance between dry, raspy throats and too much wet laundry. Sleep was surprisingly easy. Without any way to replicate weightlessness on the ground, crew members climbed into beds instead of upright restraints. “I slept more than I do at home,” Borgie said. Otherwise, they simulated space flight as closely as possible during 16-hour workdays, to the point of changing out cannisters of carbon dioxide scrubbers that weren’t really needed on the ground, and holding for messages to and from mission control, with the delays growing longer the farther their capsule was supposed to be from Earth.

Dishes. Laundry. Feed shrimp. Change carbon dioxide cannister. Hold for Earth transmission.

Like an unscripted TV show set in a tiny, three-story house, the 45-day mission was an intensive test of roommate compatibility. Stays in HERA started at seven days in 2014, then crept up to 14 and 30 days in length before settling at 45, which is sufficiently long for fissures in group cohesion to show, Borgie explained. Before boarding, the three men and one woman had about two weeks to get acquainted and finish team-building tasks. They had already designed an official patch for the mission. Borgie AUGUST 2019

A traveling jar of peanut butter memorializes the friendship of Borgie and five college roommates (search "Skippy Kingsmen" on Facebook). A Navy pilot, flight surgeon and neuroradiologist, Borgie is pictured amid Blue Angels squadron members.

was put in charge of the crew’s custom uniforms, which ended up black with a burnt orange stripe. Finally, they produced a mascot on a 3-D printer, a statuette of Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Inside the closed habitat, the crew kept the atmosphere light, turning the assignment of chores into a game. You could call dibs on dishes first thing in the morning. Another morning ritual was to wish Borgie happy birthday, since the date, his secret, would fall sometime within the mission. (The oldest crew member, he had everyone watching DVD episodes of Cheers over lunches.) After digesting the day’s electronic Houston Chronicle, the crew submitted predictions on March Madness college basketball games to mission control. This spirit of fun, shared by all, was something that Borgie has used since his Cal Lutheran days to relieve stress. During college, a core group of roommates including Kevin Charlston ’93, Mike Clarke ’93, Eric Rutlin ’93 and Eric Weeden, who finished college elsewhere, made a jar of Skippy brand peanut butter into its mascot. The peanut butter traveled to Oregon and Japan at milestones in their lives. On his wedding night in 1995, Borgie found it in his San Diego hotel suite. “Throughout, humor has been a big part of our lives,” he said. “It helped mitigate the stresses of living together. The same principles have carried me through for 25 years and even to NASA.” Joking aside, the HERA mission 18 crewmates openly aired and addressed interpersonal issues. They stored up positive comments about one another to recall later. It helped communication that three of them were medical professionals and that all had military backgrounds, Borgie said. They continue to trade memes on a group chat that they started after being introduced last Thanksgiving. Borgie’s Navy flight training, which he received partly to flesh out an aerospace medicine specialty focusing on pilots, culminated in landing a McDonnell Douglas T-45 on a carrier at sea, the day he won his wings of gold. But it was his next flight, the return to base, that stands out in his memory. For one fine moment, the trip felt a bit like solo space exploration. 16 CLU MAGAZINE

“I remember just getting to be where the carrier’s behind you, it’s gone, it’s out of sight, and the land’s not in front of you yet. You just have your instruments, but you’re just flying about 500 feet over the ocean, the water, just alone,” he said. “It’s like, ‘This is awesome!’” He was also airborne when he got the call from his wife, Dr. Suzann K. Pia, a pediatrician, announcing her pregnancy with their second child, Emma. Subsequently, he qualified to fly the S-3B Viking based in San Diego, making day and night carrier landings, and was an instructor pilot in addition to the squadron’s flight surgeon. A Lutheran preacher’s kid without many family members in the military, Borgie gained the confidence for these pursuits at Cal Lutheran. He came with scholarships covering his tuition, a little sorry not to continue with lacrosse. Instead, he enjoyed club rugby and even went out for track, finding himself at meets next to towering athletes from larger schools. He was elected president of the senior class, and the biology program propelled him to medical school on the first try. Deciding on the Uniformed Services University in Maryland was a “leap of faith,” he said. A seven-year commitment to the military would pay for medical school and could help him become a pilot and astronaut. He met his wife there, too. Borgie’s experiences have convinced him that studying STEM offers the greatest range of opportunities for work “outside of the box” of a 9-to-5 schedule. “Take a chance,” he tells his daughter, who is strong in math. “Take a risk to fail. It will pay dividends.” On the HERA mission, he was evaluated on his control of the Canadarm within the same simulator used to train International Space Station astronauts. The team worked together to execute a Martian moon landing. “It was fun to do (the mission), but when you come back you realize how much fun you have being involved in your kids’ activities,” he said. “I think my wife was glad to have me back to get stuff done around the house.” Borgie has orders to become the force surgeon of Commander Naval Air Forces Reserve with the opportunity for continued flying and adventure.

Are we there yet?

This year’s multimedia graduates offer retro takes on the Space Age.

Clockwise from left, Stardust Diner Retro Posters is a series by Valerie Krepel ‘19. “You Spin Me” by Kiera Rodgers ’19 depicts two personal tractor beams in a 1980s style. Nikki Notthoff ’19 created the Mars Travel Branding Project for a fake space agency.

pace is usually presented as a promise, a distant dream, even when we get there. Take Mars. There are eight active, operational missions from international space agencies currently on or orbiting the Red Planet, numerous completed missions and a slew of noble failures. NASA hopes to get humans there in the 2030s. But it sure feels 140 million miles away, on average. Multimedia graduate Nikki Notthoff ’19, who created the artwork on Page 14, has been to Vandenberg Air Force Base to see SpaceX rockets lift off. In future missions, the private company proposes to begin setting up infrastructure for a Mars colony. To bring the rest of us a little closer to this vision, Notthoff creates digital art that recalls the excitement of the Space Age’s start. Valerie Krepel ’19 and Kiera Rodgers ’19, also just out of the multimedia program, share this interest in the artistic style known as retrofuturism, which has been around at least since the 1970s. For Notthoff, retrofuturist art shows “what the future was going to look like back then.” She takes inspiration from WWII propaganda posters or Disney’s Tomorrowland, giving some pieces a “faded paper look” like “something that would be plastered on a brick wall in 1940s New York.” In a different twist, Krepel likes to project viewers into a future that has “adopted styles of the past.” Her promotion for virtual reality technology mimicks 1970s art without looking quite like something produced back then. At Krepel’s Stardust Diner, introduced in a series of ads, the “all new” shake flavors are “Glargian Ruuzzle, Moicren Pie, and Raspberry.” Sounds like the place to pull over and refuel. —Kevin Matthews AUGUST 2019

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VIEW FROM MY OFFICE Christina (Cherry ’11, MBA ’13) Hochberger, San Diego, shares this view from her office at Classy, an online fundraising platform for nonprofits. Christina is a business operations associate for the tech company. How’s the view where you work? Share your photo using the hashtag #CLUalumni or send it to alumni@callutheran.edu.

UNDERGRADUATE '60s

'70s

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1980s

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KALLAS SCHOLARSHIP

James and Darlean ’67 Kallas

Shawn ’78 and Susan (Bloemer ’81) Howie and Karsten ’65 and Kirsten (Bodding ’64) Lundring, all of Thousand Oaks, have established the Dr. James Kallas Scholarship for Christian Leadership, in recognition of Kallas’ 17 years of service at Cal Lutheran and his commitment to furthering Christian education. A member of the original faculty and the first chair of the religion department, Kallas, now 90, taught from 1961 to 1978 and served as chaplain and backfield coach for the Kingsmen football team. He also led many tours of the Holy Land and spoke at numerous churches. The purpose of the scholarship is to support undergraduate students who exhibit dynamic and outspoken Christian leadership in the church and in their communities. Donations to the Dr. James Kallas Scholarship for Christian Leadership may be sent to 60 W. Olsen Road #1625, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, or made online at CalLutheran.edu/ kallas. For information, contact Lana Clark at 805-493-3163 or lclark@CalLutheran.edu.

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HOMECOMING 2019 October 11-13 | Join us for a weekend full of friends, family and fun! View the full schedule at CalLutheran.edu/homecoming Questions? Call (805) 493-3170 or email alumni@CalLutheran.edu

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Introducing Cal Lutheran’s

2019 ALUMNI HALL OF FAMERS

STEVE BLUM ’77, MA ’90

KYLIE McLOGAN ’14

MIKEY McGINN ’14

Men’s Track & Cross Country

Women’s Volleyball

Men’s Golf

JACKIE (RUSSELL ’13, M.ED. ’16) GRIFFIN

ERIC ROGERS ’13

LAUREN (STROOT ’06, M.ED. ’10) REYNOLDS

Football / Men’s Track & Field

Women’s Volleyball

Women’s Basketball

SAVE THE DATE Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 For tickets and details, visit CalLutheran.edu/hof or call (805) 493-3170

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2000s

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School of Management

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AUGUST 2019

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2010s

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luptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur? Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur? Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo. Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur? Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant. Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat. Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat. Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur? Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat. maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem.

Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur? Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat. Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur? Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur? Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo. Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur? Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant. Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep

udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat. Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur? Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat.

verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat. Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Seque porum et arundit, occum lanturit doles ipiendi sectur ratur rehendestem sinum qui dolupiti ationserit unte suntios escias earibus qui consecto et officip issequatae am el min cusaectam, ant eveni quaeperorae volendest, invelignihic temoluptatis sumqui dolent molum endaepedi voles nienihita volupta velendusam rehenis est velendere parum, simendi voloriandae conse prat. Itaturitatin conem qui tessusaperio maximil luptas molupis et adis pro eostium excestrum que volorro voluptaquo duciam voluptium facessus sin plibus apidell aborend itiaerorro officilla soloreriatem remporem ipsam, quistiae pero cuptasp erspisitatur adipsum ex eatesti acipsa qui quo ma conestest, simillo corem fugia vident ant il endis et laccaep elenim eturiam dolupidelita dolorer natiuntiunt que velesequae. Itatist otatis autem ra cum quo temquidem ad quianim perunt od quam, es et endustrum destrum fuga. Rionserati sequi dolor si cus as dolupta volupta ipsantiisqui ra aut ea volorit haritinistis si conseque mosapit invent optia simus mo volorep eribus seris incium voloruntum culpa quiae rem eatemquid quame volorrum aut omnis id quossimint. Busaper ferovides mollorum quae nobita nonempost, coruptasi quostium sinturibusam quisqui omnihil il ium volupti aboreic tentori tecatur sin rehendae perum aligenimpos ma consendaes quatiame

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Class Notes illecti si accate siminciur? Aborehentius andionsed mi, ipiet untisci umquidis dolest, eossimust, et lab illest audae dolore praturi quis rerias alique optaero ma dolore, suntem. Sum voluptus, si corro conseditas eaquis et ellecup tatios que nos quist, qui blaborrunt quias seri cust, occae que idit eumet adi consecus nobitaturio. Arit dolupta vit reste reria venistiberi recullu ptatur, te nis nusam vellati orepror amus secus explatestiis aut velloria nosa as quiatist anti reseribus accae. Ut eaquiae pliquisitia cus quam voluptur sitatem. Itatur re aut alita eos eate nihil ero id modipsunt ut assi dit late mos nobis magnis imoluptur, quia pernat fuga. Nam que enis nullore vellatiis accumquid quati sime verum nus ut modipsandunt quam di officiatur minia nostrum eum eoste sinulla tioriatur ante occaborro qui nam doloribus ut verite vent harum dolluptatur ant ist, as ea prernati ut quam cone il idi beruptatur, aut restiost, venti ut ut vid que renihil inctist eveliqu ibusamus,

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.

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

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

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 26 CLU MAGAZINE

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 maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus. Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus sentur mi, omnias ad quo

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.

gent 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

OUTSTANDING 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 Alumni Award is given to alumni of the last decade with distinguished career achievements or humanitarian endeavors dedicated to social reform.

Tracy M. Downs ’88, M.D. Outstanding Alumnus

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I’m 100 percent sure that I wouldn’t be doing what I am now if I hadn’t gone to Cal Lutheran.

”

From Cal Lutheran running back to hardworking medical student to accomplished physician, Tracy M. Downs ’88, M.D., has never been one to shy away from a challenge. As associate dean for diversity and multicultural affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he works towards increasing the number of underrepresented medical students, faculty and medical researchers in the field. Dr. Downs praises Cal Lutheran’s efforts in promoting diversity, noting that there is a critical time frame in college where students can all experience inclusivity. “I’m 100 percent sure that I wouldn’t be doing what I am now if I hadn’t gone to Cal Lutheran,” Dr. Downs reflected. “If we can be more inclusive about who has the opportunity to enter our undergraduate institutions, this can lead to a wider group of people being successful in all domains of society.” For more of Dr. Downs’ story and for other Alumni Profiles, visit CalLutheran.edu/alumni.

AUGUST 2019

Milestones BIRTHS 1 Daisy Jean Garrettson on Feb. 6, 2019, to Heather (Peterson ’04) and Paul Garrettson.

2 Finley Rosalie Kaneen on Jan. 10, 2019, to Heather and Steph (Saindon ’11, MS ’14) Kaneen.

3 Thembi Moyo ’00 and Kevin Price on April 28, 2019, at Mission Inn Hotel and Spa in Riverside, California.

4 Lyndsey Ratto ’04 and Elliot Strankman on Nov. 24, 2018, at Empire Polo Club–Medjhool Lake in Indio, California.

5 Molly Clancy ’11, MS ’11, and Edward Park on April 13, 2019, in Sedona, Arizona. Pictured from left are Janine Fabro, Kole Tanouye ’11, Russell Oka MA ’14, Kimi Yokota, Nicole (Sparkman ’11) Gobert, Amy (Shibel ’11) Flores, Edward, Molly, Grant Berg ’10, Chelsea Linsley, Krista DeGroot, Tyler DeGroot ’10, Janyne (Piche ’09) Brown and Scott Brown ’09. 6 Shannon Cordes ’13 and Zachary Zabo ’13, MPPA ’14, on Feb. 2, 2019, in Westlake Village, California. The couple

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon President and Regent Representative Andrew Brown ’09 Vice President, Alumni Involvement and Recognition Julie (Heller ’89) Herder Vice President, University Relations

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7 Giselle Fernandez ’14 and Derek Field ’14 on Aug. 4, 2018, in Mammoth Lakes, California.

8 Jenna Hartmann ’14 and James

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met in Intro to Law 105 during their freshman year. “We are forever grateful to Cal Lutheran for bringing us together and being the source of so many happy memories,” Shannon writes.

Duus ’12 on May 11, 2018, at Camarillo Ranch in Camarillo, California. Pictured from left are Alex Parke ’12, Julie Griffin ’15, Courtney (Vendetti ’15) Jusko, Sarah Liebig ’13, Lauren (Masterson ’14) Parke, Theresa (Harrington ’10) Hartmann, Callie Paul ’14, Paul Hartmann ’10, Jenna, James, Elisa Duffy, MEd ’14, Steve Santos ’14 and Ali Alhatrashi ’14.

9 Christina Helm ’14, MBA ’16, and Wesley Tierney ’14 on Jan. 12, 2019, at Los Robles Greens in Thousand Oaks. Pictured from left are Leanne Blackwell ’13, Mike Frieda ’14, Adara Groves ’14, officiant Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, MDiv ’81, Christa Price ’14, Christina, Wes, Elena Schink ’16, Kacy Cashatt ’15, MBA ’18, Marilyn Arceo ’14 and Chris Kurtenbach ’14. “There were many more alums in attendance that were too shy for the picture J,” Wes writes.

DEATHS Endre B. Anderson ’66 on Jan. 16, 2019. Paul Ernest Christ ’65 on April 1, 2019. Linda Ann (Gulsrud ’64) Harris on Feb. 6, 2019. Erik Robert Helgoth ’87 on Aug. 29, 2018. Eleanor H. Johnson, MDiv ’89, on May 2, 2019. Lisa (Ilkanic ’91) Knowles on Jan. 10, 2015. Ronald Brett McDougall ’91 on April 30, 2019. Dorothy F. Miners, MS ’78, on July 2, 2014. Annette (Meyer ’67) Mooneyham on May 16, 2019. Teresa E. Phillips, MS ’99, on April 10, 2019. Laurie Lynn Richardson ’80 on Dec. 29, 2018. Manuel David Ruiz, MA ’76, on Jan. 27, 2017.

Office of Alumni & Family Relations

Jean Helm, MBA ‘00 Secretary

AT-LARGE MEMBERS Sergio Galvez ’03, MPPA ‘09 Irene (Tyrrell ’00) Moyer Reggie Ray ’92, MBA ’04 Brandi Schnathorst, MBA ’10

Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 Immediate Past President

REPRESENTATIVES John Basmajian ’20 ASCLU-G

Stephanie Hessemer Associate Director

VOTING MEMBERS Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, MA ’74 Sal Sandoval ’78

Jennifer Jones McIntyre ’17, MBA ’20 GASC

Karsten Lundring ‘65 Vice President, Development

Angela (Namba ’02) Rowley, MS ’05 Faculty

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Senior Director

Carrie (Kelley ’09, MPPA ’11) Barnett Assistant Director Jana Weber Administrative Assistant

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Vocations

This year, Sheckley’s daughter Breda enters the third grade at Up Academy, and her son Keller starts kindergarten. Their dog’s name is Harold.

WHAT TO STUDY AS MACHINES GROW SMARTER

Our school is poised to be part of a change in which all people are viewed as capable, valuable and able to contribute meaningfully in the world. BY TANYA SHECKLEY, MBA ’09 // PHOTO BY BRIAN ORLOV (BRIANORLOVPHOTO.COM)

hen our oldest child, Eliza, started kindergarten, our family was still looking for a primary school that would give her the life skills and education she needed to be successful. We had worked with international specialists and learned about brain development, child development and basic neuroscience. We’d considered what personal attributes were likely to be valued in coming decades, as artificial intelligence eliminates most current jobs and brings new ones into being that are difficult to imagine. With no school offering the type of education we were seeking, we set out to create one. 30 CLU MAGAZINE

Eliza was born with cerebral palsy, which meant that she couldn’t walk, talk or participate meaningfully in most activities without help and support. It did not mean that she lacked intelligence or curiosity. She was observant and remembered small details from everything she’d heard and read. She was kind and strong and always did her best. Tragically, she passed away before the school would open. There are many ways to honor a life. As I’ve written elsewhere, I struggled to function again after losing Eliza, and I honored her first of all by allowing myself time and space to grieve. Having founded our organization in 2015, the year before Eliza’s

death, we ultimately chose to honor her by continuing our work toward a school for students with and without physical disabilities. Our goal had always been for it to be a place for all children to thrive, and her younger sister and brother are helping us to achieve that goal as students at the academy. Up Academy, an elementary lab school for the inclusion of students with physical disabilities in San Mateo, California, began working with its first students in September 2018. In the early planning stages of the school, I went to a conference on brain injury and heard a talk by Ramona Pierson, former CEO of Declara. Years ago, she was struck by a car, stayed in a coma for 18 months, and was totally blind for a period of 11 years until experimental surgery restored her sight. At that time, she noticed that everything around her had changed – business, technology, design – everything except schools. In contrast, most schools remained as Sir Ken Robinson described them in his book Creative Schools (2015). They still operated on a model meant to produce workers for industrial assembly lines, with their hours adapted to agriculture so that students could do their chores and then go learn what they needed for jobs in manufacturing. How do we change education for our changing world? According to the World Economic Forum 2022 Skills Outlook, abilities such as creativity, analytical thinking and emotional intelligence are and will be in increasing demand. At Up Academy, we focus on student agency and on skills, not content. Our students learn to find and analyze information, to create their own projects around areas of interest, to work together to solve problems, and to influence action in their school and community. Perhaps most importantly, we encourage students to use their emotional intelligence, supporting their growth and humanity. The majority of people with disabilities are of average or above average general intelligence, just like the rest of the human population. Today’s advances in technology, the most rapid in history, mean that people with disabilities increasingly will be able to demonstrate their strengths without special accommodations. That is, a person who cannot walk soon will be able to take a driverless car to any destination, no longer limited to the routes of public transportation. Using a virtual reality headset, she may be able to perform surgery regardless of her manual dexterity – robots are already doing surgery by remote control – if she has the right education. Our school is poised to be part of a change in which all people are viewed as capable, valuable and able to contribute meaningfully in the world. We are working to create a world where humans can work together to address our biggest problems, and where they can design architecture, business and community for the benefit of all. They will be equipped with the critical thinking, problem-solving and ideation skills necessary to be successful in middle school and beyond. It starts in kindergarten.

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In February, actor Carly Schroeder ’13 told her Instagram followers that she had joined the Army. Best known for her role as Melina Bianco alongside Hilary Duff on Disney's Lizzie McGuire, the 22-year entertainment industry veteran wrote that she was interested in a career in military intelligence. She gave “three BIG reasons” for her choice, shortened here: 1. College opened my eyes to global injustices. 2. Serving my country will give my voice more validity. 3. My brother is a Marine and my Papa was a Green Beret... There is no way I am going to let the boys have all the fun.

As she later explained to TMZ Live, “I also learned in college about human trafficking, and I think going into the military will actually teach me skills that can help me help others who have been affected by this.”

Coming Up Celebrate KCLU’s 25th anniversary KCLU Radio is bringing Ask Me Another, NPR’s and WNYC’s Brooklyn-based public radio game show, to the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara on Saturday, Oct. 19. Tickets are $180 a pair at KCLU.org (click Donate) or 805-493-3471.

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