CLU Magazine - December 2017

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DECEMBER 2017

OPENINGS New views & fresh starts

OXNARD POWER HOUSE TOUCHING STRINGS DOCTOR KNOW COACHING ADJUSTMENTS BUILT TO CODE

Out in Front

Power house PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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ast year, at the ages of 32 and 28, a brother and sister alumni duo became two of the youngest elected leaders in the City of Oxnard. In the first generation of their family to attend college, they hold two degrees each from Cal Lutheran.

Oscar Madrigal ’06, MPPA ’10, was elected to the city council on his fourth attempt, and Monica Madrigal Lopez ’10, M.S. ’13, ran for school board and won.

Both kept their full-time jobs. Oscar teaches Spanish and coaches soccer at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, and Monica works as a counselor on the staff of a federally funded Cal Lutheran program supporting first-generation, low-income and disabled students.

They have two more sisters, and the youngest, Leslie, is a CLU sophomore majoring in criminal justice and Spanish.

This summer, Monica helped Cal Lutheran to host some 500 Oxnard-area students in grades 3 through 8 in a series of half-day visits. She wants “a college-going culture” for Oxnard kids, who should be aware of the option by the time they start high school.

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Participants “got to run on the field” and work with undergraduates in real private-university classrooms, Monica said.

“They imagine a college classroom being something you see on TV, like a full lecture class.”

Although it’s a short drive, she observed, some youngsters had never been up the grade to Thousand Oaks.

Oscar has been working on housing issues and improving parks, and looks forward to tackling homelessness.

Given that brother and sister live together in the family home in La Colonia, a certain amount of city business gets heard there.

“Sometimes it bleeds over,” Oscar confirmed.

“It makes my parents excited to hear what’s going on, and my little sister when she’s home,” said Monica.

Also helping with the summer program for Oxnard youth were Elena Jaloma ’03, M.S. ’08, MPPA ’15; Katie Garza, M.S. ’13; Victoria Garcia, T.C. ’14; 2016 graduates Andrew Castro, Jaynessa Lopez and Veronica Ramos; and current senior Carolina Zuniga-Mejia.

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BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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

Kevin Matthews ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

Jim Carlisle, Colleen Cason, Karin Grennan, Tracy Olson, Jana Weber PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, M.S. ’03 Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, Ph.D. Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, M.P.A. ’90, Ed.D. ’12

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Bruce Stevenson ’80, Ph.D. Stacy (Reuss ’91) Swanson Colleen Windham-Hughes, Ph.D.

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5 COMMENT

On Hurricane Harvey, day by day.

6 NEW ERA FOR VISUAL ART

Art and multimedia students are under one roof.

8 HIGHLIGHTS

Dean on Dreamers • Campaign for science • Female football player.

11 IN MEMORIAM 12 Q&A: YOSHIKA MASUDA

The fourth director of the University Symphony gets emotional.

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MBA in Europe student Nora Pötter works hard for team harmony.

Tracy Downs ’88, foe of cancer and friend to diverse students, offers advice in the correct doses.

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

CORRESPOND WITH US

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Tom Herman ’97 (above) took a winding road to a top job in football.

24 CLASS NOTES 26 KINGSMEN BOMBERS

Band of alumni in WWII remake.

36 MILESTONES 38 VOCATIONS

Learning to code gives people with autism an entry to the job market.

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Harvey diaries

The hurricane striking Texas marked the first in a line of floods, tremors and fires that affected alumni late in 2017. The alumni office sent out a message of support as record rains were falling around Houston. Replies are shared with permission: Aug. 28 Julie Moss ’72, Kingwood Thank you for your prayers and concern. We left our home of 25 years to go to a safer place in our neighborhood this afternoon.

Basically, we are islands. Hopefully things improve in the next two days. Rising water will continue as it works its way south to the Gulf.

Robert Lung, MPPA ’10 Richmond My son Lucca, wife Andrea, and I are doing as good as can be expected. The last few days have been highly stressful and emotional for our family. Our street continues to flood and the water continues to rise. But we are dry, safe and blessed. There are many other Houstonians who have not been so lucky. Please continue to pray for our region and our people. The city of Houston is known as the most diverse city in America and the LOVE and COMPASSION of our beautiful city has been put on display.

Neighbors helping Neighbors!

Carol Berger, M.A. ’83 Montgomery

We were blessed to stay dry, but helped neighbors who weren’t so lucky. We are north of Houston so didn’t get as much rain…. The water

rose to 2 feet from our foundation but is starting to recede.

needed to stay home and begin the arduous clean-up process.

Dave ’82 and Connie ’83 Puls Kingwood We are safe and dry. So many in our community are suffering and our hearts go out to them. We will see what the next 24 hours bring.

The outpouring of support has been inspiring – we were turned away at donation sites because they had too much. At the downtown shelter there were too many people helping!

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Growing up in California, you prepare for earthquakes, but there is little you can do aside from some emergency prep long ahead of time.

With a hurricane, you see it coming – you wade through the miserably crowded grocery store only to find it devoid of water, bread, milk and poptarts. You make sure your vehicles all have full tanks of gas and maybe a few extra gallons for the generator. You dig out the flashlights, the batteries, some candles, and a good book or two. You even fill your bathtubs and large pots with water in case the city has to shut down the water systems. And then you wait.

Rebecca Cardone ’13, Katy

I’m helping my dad’s business, a fitness center, get cleaned up so we can open tomorrow. We will be providing free showers to first responders, and hopefully I can get a blood drive coordinated for the weekend – still waiting on the blood center to call back to discuss feasibility. Once our house was deemed safe yesterday, we took in another family.

Sept. 22 Lora (Breeden ’10) Luckenbach Houston

We returned to work on Tuesday, Sept. 5th – over a week out of the office. Most people have been in and out for volunteering, while others

The storm hit hardest on Saturday.

On Sunday morning, I woke up and immediately turned on the local news, which was filming from a second-floor conference room.

About an hour later, when they evacuated the building because the water was getting too high, the fear truly set in. To the best of my knowledge we would be safe; being the geologist I am, I had looked at FEMA maps and topographic maps before I bought my home sitting on a local high spot (thank you, Dr. B.). We were, however, locked in by two main bayous cutting off all routes just a few blocks away on three sides. You can go nowhere.

The fear is sustained over days, it is exhausting. It wasn’t until Tuesday afternoon that the rain lightened up a bit and by Wednesday morning the sun came out. We, and most of the city, stayed inside for five days. No grocery stores were open, no gas stations near us, only a local bar that opened up Tuesday afternoon. Our two main airports completely shut down except for “Humanitarian Efforts.” It was as if we were watching the world end over those five days.

Sept. 25 Debbie (Henderson ’85) Maestas, Houston

We had an awesome church service this morning at Gloria Dei Lutheran with all three services combined into one. Great to see a fully packed church praying and worshipping together! Then the afternoon was spent doing more demolition/clean-up for homes affected by Harvey. I should sleep pretty good tonight! Keep sending prayers for all those affected.

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Well-equipped, quiet, well-lighted place starts

NEW ERA FOR ART Visual arts students in two majors now have the kind of modern building they always wanted. PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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nder one roof for the first time, the multimedia and art programs now offer undergraduates gallery space for their own work, the latest equipment and plenty of natural light.

Visual arts students at Cal Lutheran have never seen anything like the $8 million, two-story, 20,000-square-foot William Rolland Art Center located west of the stadium along Olsen Road. Each of the art center’s interior spaces has its own character and vibe, with views of the riparian corridor and the rocks on Mount Clef Ridge brightening the studios on the back half.

Builders and project managers considered the acoustics of every room. As one result, the art center has 48 distinct wall types, according to capital projects assistant Christine Cano. Power tools in the sculpture studio are muffled by 14-inch double-stud walls with a cavity. Throughout much of the building, plywood panels finish walls rather than drywall, so that you need not locate studs to hang displays.

While art draws attention left and right, eyes do wander to high ceilings that have their beams, insulation, wiring and other structural innards exposed, for a touch of postmodern swank. A few visitors have asked when those ceilings will be finished, Cano said.

Larkin Higgins, a professor of art who started in 1985, loves one airy 6 CLU MAGAZINE

top-floor drawing studio that reminds her of “a chic industrial-inspired café setting with the overhang, like an amazing open café that greets me in the morning.” She points out independent switches for lights, window coverings and climate: “You have no idea. It’s heaven.” For 30 years, Higgins didn’t have an office window.

Now, with the art center in place, alumni will have to tell us how we went so long without it. According to an official Cal Lutheran history published in 1984, the first studio art classes were held “in the remodeled Pederson garage adjacent to the ranch house.” For most of the university’s history, the art facilities were kept in former chicken coops and a long metal-roofed building.

The high ceilings have beams, insulation, wiring and structural innards exposed for a touch of postmodern swank.

Until this fall, working with a gasfired kiln at Cal Lutheran meant making guesses about its operation based on

sight and sound, according to Janet Neuwalder, the adjunct faculty member who teaches ceramics. A few years ago, she helped to acquire two modern electric kilns that will continue to get plenty of use. And now, with the purchase of a propane-fired model from Huntington Beach–based Geil Kilns, students have a range of options for developing the colors of their glazes in oxygen- and carbon-rich air.

The flue where heat escapes the new kiln is positioned at its floor, a downdraft design that saves energy and produces lovelier results, Neuwalder said. While some older kilns are set up for computerized diagnostics, the new model also has “an automatic dampener so you can actually program the kiln and go home, go to sleep, and it shuts itself off.”

Ceramics students share working space with printmaking, and the art center has studios for drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and watercolor/design. Art history classes, among others, meet in a lecture room with seating and equipment suitable for film screenings and with walls to isolate the noise. —Kevin Matthews William Rolland of Malibu, whose donations made the athletic stadium and adjoining art gallery possible six years ago, gave $4 million for the art center.

Art professor Larkin Higgins is excited to be working and teaching in natural light.

Highlights

‘Dreamers’ know something:

THEY BELONG One percent of all Cal Lutheran students arrived in the United States without legal

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papers as children. They are certain about their identity, but not their future.

Jessica Lavariega Monforti, the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, speaks at Opening Convocation in August. When her book on the DACA program came out in 2014, Lavariega Monforti was teaching at the University of Texas–Pan American a few minutes from the Mexican border.

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he tale begins with children who grow up in America and call it home.

They’re not trying to fit in. When you grow up here, you already fit in.

Frequently, they’re not prepared for a shock that comes in high school: that they lack a social security number. This bad news often breaks when it’s time to get a driver’s license or apply for college.

No one had told them they were born in another country and still could be forcibly sent away to it.

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When political scientist Jessica Lavariega Monforti, the newly hired dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and two co-authors published Living the DREAM: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth in 2014, some of their readers were surprised to learn about the strong sense of belonging felt by so-called Dreamers. A majority of the 101 young people in four states who were interviewed for the book had at one time simply assumed they were U.S. citizens.

What’s more, the sense of American identity sticks with these young people after they learn about their legal status.

“If you ask them, Where do you feel most comfortable?” said Lavariega Monforti, “it’s in that hometown where they grew up.”

The book came out two years after the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allowed some qualified undocumented immigrants who arrived as children to remain in the country, essentially in exchange for registering with the government. The administrative program served as a temporary substitute for a legislative solution such as the Dream Act, which was never passed by Congress.

In September of this year, the Trump administration announced the end of DACA and informed Congress that it had until March 2018 to do something

about the status of nearly 800,000 young people who risk deportation.

At Cal Lutheran, a few dozen undergraduate and graduate students are – for now, while DACA winds down – still permitted to work and study under the program. It’s a sizable group, right at one percent of all of our enrolled Kingsmen and Regals.

At this alumni magazine, we’ve elected so far not to contact DACA recipients from the student body to avoid drawing additional attention to individuals. Nor have we internally requested data that might identify them.

However, based on government numbers and the gleanings of Lavariega Monforti and her colleagues, we can say quite a bit about them. In the observations below, we assume that Cal Lutheran’s DACA-protected students are no different from others enrolled at universities around the country and especially in Southern California, the region with the largest number by far of approved applicants.  Most of these students were born in Mexico, and a few arrived from a country in Central America. (There might be a DACA student or two at Cal Lutheran originally from South America, Asia, Africa or the Caribbean.)  On average, they arrived at age 6.

 Many have U.S. citizen family members, such as a sibling born in California.  About a third speak only English. For the two-thirds who are bilingual, English typically is the dominant language.  They probably have never been back to their countries of origin. Compared with undocumented students, young U.S. citizens with family members in Mexico make more trips where they can pick up the language and culture.  Nearly all of their families settled within driving distance of Cal Lutheran, and most of them now commute.  Given DACA’s requirements, they’ve all stayed in school, were honorably discharged from any military service, have never committed serious crimes, passed a background check, and paid fees for initial and renewal applications.  In many cases they hold multiple jobs and do “heroic levels of work” to

support family members financially, Lavariega Monforti says.  They major in all academic disciplines, but are sometimes drawn to teaching, pre-law and business with a focus on entrepreneurship.  A high proportion will pursue graduate school, sometimes earning multiple advanced degrees, partly because of impediments to building careers.  “Because there is an attempt on their part to really prove that they belong, they do over and above what the average student is doing in terms of community service and community engagement, and are active in their churches,” according to the new dean.  Some have challenges heaped on them. Nationally, one in four DACA participants is a parent. In some cases, their own parents or other family members have been deported, and they could be taking on the responsibility of parenting siblings.

 Their undocumented status haunts them. Sometimes they must “come out” as noncitizens to friends and romantic partners. They are especially unlikely to report sexual harassment and abuses by employers. Someone has threatened to call immigration on them or a family member.

After the announcement of DACA’s fast phaseout, Cal Lutheran President Chris Kimball expressed support for the most vulnerable one percent of students in an email to the campus community, writing that this support is “tied not only to our respect for them and appreciation for how they enrich our campus but also to our commitment to service and justice and our mission to educate leaders for a global society.”

Anyone inclined to lend a voice to their cause, Kimball noted, will find resources online for advocacy, including from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. —Kevin Matthews

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ANNUAL REPORT CalLutheran.edu/annualreport

YEARLONG

William Rolland Art Center built with high-tech studios and classrooms

Years from now, we’ll remember 2016-2017 as a time of rapid advancement for Cal Lutheran. We won major grants to help low-income and Latino students stick with majors in science, technology and math, named a dynamic new dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, started building the William Rolland Art Center, raised most of the funds for a game-changing science building, and found innovative ways to

JULY 2016

Two centers launch to aid regional charities and youth with autism

engage and serve communities.

The milestones are highlighted in the Annual Report, available online. I invite you to review it and join us in celebrating our progress as we live out Cal Lutheran’s mission to educate leaders for a global society.

SEPT 2016

Federal grants for science education and diversity total $6.1 million

Chris Kimball President

MAY 2017 For more details on our year as well as the Honor Roll of Donors, please visit CalLutheran.edu/ annualreport.

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Kingsmen baseball wins NCAA Division III National Championship

In Memoriam

News briefs

Three stories, 47,000 square feet and a skybridge are planned.

SCIENCE CAMPAIGN IS ON More than two-thirds of the $30 million needed for a gamechanging science building has been raised in Cal Lutheran’s largest campaign to date for a single facility.

A donor wall will show gifts of $500 and up. For more, visit science.callutheran.edu.

ANGEL INVESTORS The School of Management’s annual New Venture Competition (NVC) has a brighter future than ever, thanks to a generous $300,000 gift from Dave and Dawn (Robertson ’91) Gross.

Dawn’s degree was in business administration and Dave is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for education. Past NVC winners include Coding Autism (see Vocations, Page 38).

Salzwedel

Science majors on campus have doubled since 2005, and increased research opportunities have put a squeeze on lab space. The National Science Foundation just awarded two chemistry professors $195,000 for research with undergraduate students, and last year the university received a $4.63 million Hispanic-Serving Institution grant to support students in science, math and tech fields.

So far, the largest donations for the new building have come from the Gilbert and Swenson families, who have a long history of supporting the university. The Fletcher Jones Foundation, Lakeside Foundation and more than 75 individuals have contributed.

1ST FEMALE IN FOOTBALL The first woman to play football for Cal Lutheran has put 11 points on the board as of this writing, converting on every one of her extra point attempts in two wins and one loss.

Kicker Morgan Salzwedel’s football career began near the end of her first year in high school when, as a star centerdefender on her girls soccer

team in Morgan Hill, California, she was approached about using her right leg on the gridiron.

She made her first tackle in high school, saving a score when a member of a rival team evaded the other defenders.

“Playing a male-driven sport as a female is extremely empowering,” said the freshman, who also plays junior varsity women’s soccer. “Being able to show that women have the strength, determination and talent to do anything that men can do means a lot to me.”

Salzwedel is the fifth member of her family to play a Division III sport at Cal Lutheran. Her parents, Dave ’90 and Jenifer (Larson ’90), played soccer and volleyball, and her uncle Joel Larson ’92 and aunt Jodi Larson played basketball and soccer. A marketing communication major, she envisions a career connected with sports.

“Working in a major sports market … with a successful football, soccer or basketball team or network would be a dream job for me,” she said.

LEADING LIGHTS Faculty members are winning awards and publishing work, such as Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions, the first book by assistant professor of management Sabith Khan. For an annual rundown of their accomplishments, read At the Leading Edge on the web at goo.gl/JUvTbF.

Eugene “Gene” Lee Meyer March 22, 1934 – July 14, 2017

Eugene Meyer, Cal Lutheran’s first director of alumni relations, died at age 83 at his home in Blair, Nebraska.

Meyer came to Cal Lutheran in 1968 and served as alumni director until 1972. He was named an honorary alumnus in 1969.

He is survived by Susie, his wife of 60 years, two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren.

Peter Henry Ulrich Nov. 24, 1922 – Sept. 14, 2017

Former Cal Lutheran regent Peter Ulrich died at age 94 at his home in Arcadia, California.

Ulrich was first introduced to Cal Lutheran by President Raymond Olson in 1971 and soon began nearly 30 years of service to the university, including three terms as a convocator. He served as a member of the Board of Regents from 1981 to 1990 and on the CLEF Board of Trustees from 1989 to 2001. He and his wife, Carol, were members of the Orville Dahl Society.

He is survived by two daughters and a son, five granddaughters, 11 great-grandchildren and three greatgreat-grandchildren. His wife of 70 years preceded him in death.

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Q&A

Fourth Movement

Assistant professor of music Yoshika Masuda – master cellist, director of string studies at Cal Lutheran and the fourth director of the University Symphony – feels the emotional weight of every performance.

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CLU ADMINISTRATION Tell us, Yoshi, do you have physical, emotional reactions when listening to music?

Yeah, definitely, I can get quite emotional.

What’s a piece of music that does that for you?

One of my favorite symphonies is Tchaikovsky’s Sixth. He wrote it almost like a requiem to himself. I think a week after it premiered, he died.

Tchaikovsky’s life is actually very sad. Numerous documents and letters express that he was dealing internally with his sexuality.

In the 19th century and in Russia of all places, being gay was not something that was discussed or accepted, and he was never happy.

In the Sixth Symphony, that is so evident and the opening is so gloomy. The somber quality is evident right from the beginning. He finds these textures that are just – it just makes you think of hopelessness in this world.

Even the happy parts in that symphony feel like he’s trying to be happy. He’s writing happy music, it’s in a major key, and yet, you can sense this underlying sadness. I can’t explain how he does it.

The third movement ends in a huge finale, as if it’s the end of the piece. Often people start clapping. Then there’s a fourth movement with a completely different texture. He goes back into his shell.

So yes, listening to that kind of music stirs me in ways nothing else could.

Does playing have a similar effect on you?

It can. Probably the most profound experience I’ve ever had, to this day, was playing for someone when I was about 14. My family lived in Australia by then, but we visited Japan quite frequently.

We had a family friend with a daughter about 10 years older than me who was hospitalized with a bad case of multiple sclerosis.

We decided to go pay her a visit and I brought my cello. She was kept in bed at this point.

She’s conscious, but she can’t blink, can’t move, and can’t speak.

The piece that I played for her, Kol Nidre, is usually sung at Yom Kippur, which is considered to be one of the holiest days of the year in the Jewish tradition, where one seeks forgiveness from God. A 19th-century German composer made this into a piece for cello and piano. It starts off solemn, but in the middle section it becomes this happier, hopeful music, as if God’s granted forgiveness to you.

Anyway, I played this piece for her, which is about 10 minutes long. I finished and everyone else is like, “Oh, thank you so much. Isn’t that nice?” We talked for about three minutes and, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something on her face. Her mother also looked at her. And then we saw a single tear drop from her left eye. That was all. She had no other way to express herself.

For me that made such a strong impact.

When I realized that music could produce that powerful of an effect on people, I thought, “If I have some talent in this, I really want to pursue it, and I really want to do this for the rest of my life.”

And here you are, with a very long list of awards to your name.

I’ve played for bigger occasions with more people and for important events, right, but nothing’s meant more to me than this particular performance I gave for this one woman.

What are you playing at your faculty recital?* I often like to give a varied program, something that spans 200 or 300 years, just to show the scope of the repertoire we have.

But this fall I’ve decided to focus in on the Romantic period. I’ll be playing with a very accomplished pianist, Wojciech Kocyan, who is a former colleague, and we’re actually going to be tackling two gigantic works for cello and piano, one by the Polish composer Chopin and the other by the Russian composer Rachmaninoff. Both are the pinnacle of Romantic playing, but also very different in their own distinct ways, and I want to put them side by side for people to hear those differences.

This is for me my favorite period of music, the Romantic period, because that’s when people were most expressive through their music. Composers had things going on in their lives and they really expressed that. Not just in music, but in art and literature as well.

For some reason right now, at this moment, I feel very in touch with that. *Masuda’s faculty recital took place Nov. 3 in Samuelson Chapel. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, Western Europe and the United States. He has won national competitions in Japan, Australia and the U.S.

Chris Kimball, Ph.D. President Leanne Neilson, Psy.D. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, M.Div. ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, Ph.D. Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing R. Stephen Wheatly ’77, J.D. Vice President for University Advancement Gerhard Apfelthaler, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Management Michael Hillis, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Raymond Pickett, Ph.D. Rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, M.Div. ’95, Ph.D. Dean of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary BOARD OF REGENTS Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88, Chair Jim Overton, Vice Chair Bill Camarillo, Secretary Linda Baumhefner Glen Becerra The Rev. Jim Bessey ’66 Ann Boynton ’83 Wallace Brohaugh Sue Chadwick Dennis Erickson, Ph.D. Paul Fields ’18 Randall Foster Rod Gilbert, H’16 Veronica Guerrero, Ed.D. The Rev. Mark Hanson The Rev. Mark Holmerud Jon Irwin Chris Kimball, Ph.D. Judy Larsen, Ph.D. Jill Lederer Rick Lemmo Malcolm McNeil The Rev. David Nagler, M.Div. ’93 The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70, M.Div. ’74 Carrie Nebens Kären Olson ’83 Debra Papageorge ’12 Dennis Robbins ’86 Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 Mike Soules Mark Stegemoeller Nick Steinwender ’19 Deborah Sweeney Jim Swenson 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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MBA in Europe student Nora Pötter (center, in light-toned coat) and her 12-person staff at Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm Artists Management handle the details for classical musicians in Austria and beyond.

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Cal Lutheran’s MBA in Europe program helps working professionals like Nora Pötter broaden their perspectives and skill sets for leading teams. BY COLLEEN CASON 14 CLU MAGAZINE

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he tempo of Nora Pötter’s life is decidedly prestissimo.

As managing director of Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm Artists Management, Austria’s largest classical music representation agency, Pötter leads a staff of 12, guides the careers of maestros and virtuosos, travels for business four days a week, practices Russian during her six weekly jogs and plays the violin at every opportunity.

All of this activity makes study challenging, but it’s also one of the reasons that the 35-year-old German native is enrolled in Cal Lutheran’s MBA in Europe. The program’s key demographic is working professionals from central and eastern Europe who want to receive an American MBA while keeping up with the demands of their careers.

“My business is international, so I wanted to understand how people from different parts of the world approach things,” said Pötter, who expects to graduate in May 2018. She took over the artists management agency in 2013 from the then-90-year-old Böhm, who for four decades had burnished its reputation along with the founder, Raab.

The agency represents big-name musicians, including Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, a frequent and acclaimed guest conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Since childhood, Pötter has been surrounded by the sound of music. Born in Münster, she picked up the violin at age 4 and started the piano a year later. Although her family members were mostly doctors, her parents were keen on education in music.

When she was 12, they moved to Vienna, billed as the music capital of the world, and fresh opportunities presented themselves.

“I like playing music with other people and all of a sudden the possibility to do it as a profession opened up. In a small town in Germany, that was not on my mind,” she said.

To win acceptance into the Vienna Music University, she woke up daily at 5 a.m. to practice the violin for two hours.

Once admitted, she continued to study the violin but added French and music education, which turned out to be practical.

“A musician’s life can be hard, and if you are not the best of the best and very lucky, it’s better to find a way to combine music with another way to earn a living,” said Pötter, who is married to Russian-born Innokenti Grabko, a viola player for the Vienna Philharmonic.

After graduation, she honed her project management skills by putting on cultural exchanges for youth throughout the European Union. In 2006, Raab & Böhm hired her to organize and accompany orchestral tours. Crisscrossing Europe with elite artists may sound glamorous, but did not leave time for sightseeing.

“For a tour of two weeks, you arrange transport for 120 people by train, plane or bus, and for a truck to haul the instruments,” Pötter explained. “You are constantly communicating with conductors and soloists.”

Teri Thompson, a former broadcast executive who teaches marketing management in the European MBA program, has seen Pötter’s energy and efficiency at work in the classroom.

“I was impressed with her drive, her thirst for knowledge and her ability to organize her own career and that of her clients, who range in age from their 90s to their late 20s,” said Thompson, a CLU adjunct professor and co-author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing. After a few years at the agency’s helm, Pötter decided she wanted to up her game in business management. She spotted a newspaper ad for the Cal Lutheran program in Graz, Austria, and decided an English-language program taught by U.S. professors would broaden her mind.

That’s already happening. She now realizes the value of an onboarding process for new employees. Although she hasn’t become a tech expert and has no desire to do so, what she learned at CLU allows her to ask better questions of her IT person.

“When [students] can apply what they learn directly to their work, they grow in self-confidence,” says Thompson, who has been an instructor on the ground in Austria for six years.

Most importantly, Pötter believes what she is learning will help her keep up with the relentless drumbeat of change.

“With arts budgets being cut,” she said, “we have to develop creative ideas to attract audiences and keep the public on our side.”

When Pötter was 12, the family moved to the world music capital of Vienna, and her career opportunites opened.

The degree program in Austria, formally known as the MBA for Experienced Professionals (Europe), is now delivered in Vienna, Graz and Linz.

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 now edits Central Coast Farm & Ranch magazine.

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This former Kingsmen running back and Truman Scholar, now a University of Wisconsin–Madison surgeon specializing in urologic cancers, is at the top of his game.

PHOTO BY JOHN MANIACI/UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, MADISON, WISCONSIN

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here’s a clarity that people have when they hear the word cancer. Suddenly, the difference between small potatoes and big potatoes in life is really clear.

In our clinical research experience, we have discovered things that allow us to predict the aggressiveness of a cancer and advise a patient whether to go right to surgery or whether we think they’d benefit from chemotherapy beforehand.

As a urologic oncologist, I get a front row seat each day to see the power of the human spirit. Many of my patients have to make tough decisions about which therapy to pursue for the treatment of their cancer. Each of these individuals has an “extra gear” or ability to dig deeper inside of themselves. I see them demonstrate this resiliency on a daily basis, and I guess I am their biggest fan. I hope I have that gear.

My mom was awesome, just really loving. She didn’t say you have to do this or that as a career. But you knew that you should do well in school.

Once as a junior in high school, I said, Mom, you know, they let you have a C average and you can still play sports. I’m still eligible. And she looked at me pretty firm, kind of like, Don’t test me.

I’m 100 percent sure that I wouldn’t be doing what I am now if I didn’t go to Cal Lu. It was a school where I could go and speak to a Dr. Barbara Collins and say, I know it doesn’t look like I’m trying, but I really am. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong to prepare for your exams? And she would tell me, and I would do it, and I saw the results.

At the annual Association of American Medical Colleges meeting, I heard Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), tell a similar story about his experience at a small historically black college, and right then I just said, That’s it. Had I gone to a larger school in California or an Ivy league school, and gotten those same grades at the start, I probably would not have had access to a professor, maybe just a teaching assistant. If my grades didn’t improve, then I would have defaulted to my natural strength, which was math.

I’m a big proponent of getting the right-sized school, because it’s a long journey. You think college is the be-all-end-all, but you just have so many more years ahead of you. I share that with a lot of students: Pick something that’s the right size, that’s a good fit. It’s OK. Build from there. Don’t overstretch yourself.

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Probably 1 ½ or 2 percent of all full professors in my specialty are of African descent. So becoming a professor of urology mattered to me.

I would look at that number and be mad. And if you’re mad at that number, then do something about it. I was glad I was able to hang in there and reach that level. It usually takes over 10 years. Between two institutions, it took me about 14 years.

I haven’t gotten so old that I don’t remember what it felt like to be applying for medical school or what it was like to hope to become a doctor.

I was by no stretch the kid who in the fifth grade or the third grade said, I want to be a doctor when I grow up. I’m glad I wasn’t, even though I admire the people who were.

As an associate dean, I speak with a lot of undergraduate students about their aspirations. I can’t share all I know because it’s a lot for a person to take in at a single point in time.

It’s like a quarterback who’s new and can’t tell the coverage: Are they in zone or are they man-to-man, and why is that linebacker dropping back? After a while you see it all and you know how things are going to unfold.

God doesn’t tell us everything because we probably couldn’t handle it. I look back and see how things unfolded and, wow. This October, my wife and I have been married 25 years. We have a 16-year-old son. We adopted a little girl at birth; she’ll be 4 in January.

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.

Maybe their GPA is off by 0.2 points. Maybe their test scores are not in the top 10 percent. But if you just want the top 10 percent and are not willing to give the promising late bloomer an opportunity, you will not be admitting an incoming class that is demographically and socioeconomically diverse.

When that person does come with those scores, maybe they’re not going to close the gap in four years. I’d be a prime example. But look at how they did when they went to the next four years and then once they got out; look how they did at that point. It is hard to close a gap in a short period of time, and individuals in higher education need a long view.

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

Things I’ve Learned:

TRACY M. DOWNS ’88 DECEMBER 2017

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NOBODY REMEMBERS THE GOOFS 18 CLU MAGAZINE

Tom Herman has been injured on the football field, confused on the sidelines, and fired for eating on the job. Through all that, the new head coach at Texas has become one of football’s leading lights.

BY JIM CARLISLE // PHOTOS COURTESY OF UT-AUSTIN

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t age 42, Tom Herman ’97 has what many would call a dream job: head football coach at the University of Texas.

This season is only his third as a head coach, and the casual observer might think of him as an overnight success. But the journey has been a long one.

Herman’s quest began more than two decades ago, when he was an all-conference wide receiver at Cal Lutheran.

“I remember sitting out in Mount Clef Stadium with him one day,” said former Cal Lutheran football coach Scott Squires, “and I asked him, ‘Well, hey, what are you going to do when you graduate? Because you’re a smart guy; you could probably go to work for anybody, virtually.’”

Herman already had his answer. Right after getting his business administration degree, he drove 1,400 miles to Seguin, Texas, to join former Kingsmen assistant coach Bryan Marmion in starting an NCAA Division III program from scratch at Texas Lutheran University. After one season as receivers coach, Herman networked that job into a graduate assistant position at Texas under Mack Brown.

From there, Herman went to Sam Houston State and Texas State, then to the next level as offensive coordinator at Rice University, where, in 2008, he helped the Owls to their first bowl victory since 1954.

Three seasons as offensive coordinator at Iowa State (2009– 11) led to two bowl appearances for the Hawkeyes. That caught the attention of Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who hired Herman to be the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2012 to 2014. In that final season, injuries forced Herman to play third-string QB Cardale Jones. Jones led Ohio State to the national championship over Oregon, and Herman won the Frank Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach.

The next year, Herman’s reputation as a “quarterback whisperer” landed him his first head coaching job at any level, at the University of Houston. The Cougars immediately went 13-1 in 2015, winning their first conference title in four years, and then 9-3 in 2016.

So, at the end of last season, with a record of 22-4 as a head coach, Herman was on the A-list for top colleges looking for a new coach. He opted for familiarity with Texas, signing a fiveyear contract reportedly worth $5 million a year.

Definitely successful. Definitely not overnight.

“I’ve moved my wife and family six times in the last 11 years, if that’s any indication of the instability as far as a family life and home life can be in this job,” Herman said. “In 2006, 11 years ago, I was a [Division] I-AA coach. I’ve coached at a lot DECEMBER 2017

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Herman’s first coaching job at Texas Lutheran paid $5,000. His furniture consisted of rejects from the university housing department. of different levels: I went from Division III receivers coach to Division I graduate assistant to I-AA assistant to I-AA coordinator to Group of Five coordinator to Power Five coordinator to top 10 coordinator to Group of Five head coach and now Power Five head coach.

Herman said his NCAA Division III experience at Cal Lutheran had elements he wishes he could implement at Texas.

“My experience playing Division III and coaching Division III was great,” he said. “I didn’t know any different. I think there’s a lot of things that can be taken from the Division III model. I had a lot more free time then than a lot of the players I coach, so I was able to be active in student government. I held internships and jobs and was active on campus. I think with a lot of our student-athletes [at Texas], it’s school and football and that’s about all they have time for.”

Now considered one of football’s best brains, Herman was known for his sense of fun as a student.

“Initially, I would say goofy,” Squires said. “Let me rephrase that. Let me say charismatic. He was a fun guy to be around, always had a smile on his face, a prankster a little bit. He was just fun and I know a lot of our team gravitated toward him because he was that way. He even used to be an announcer at the basketball games in the old gym and he’d get everybody going” — Herman was known to jump onto the scorer’s table and dance during timeouts — “and next thing you know, you’d see him at a dance, or at least I would hear of him at these dances, doing the same kinds of things. So he could get people to gravitate toward him because he was kind of an electric personality that way.

“As a football player, he could be goofy and all of that, but he’s incredibly smart, a really great business student when he was there, like off-the-chart kind of smarts. Just a really headsy guy, and that carried over to our football team and the football field. So when Tom would come to me as a player and say, ‘Hey, I think if you did this or that,’ I knew he’d put in the time, saw the film; he always had educated things to say. So, his football IQ was high.”

Just as evident were Herman’s determination and energy.

As a player, he endured 13 knee operations and four shoulder surgeries. In addition to public address announcing for basketball, volleyball and baseball, he also did an internship for a sports talk radio show in Los Angeles and worked as an NFL highlight coordinator for Fox Sports. Another of Herman’s odd jobs was working at a Subway restaurant. He recently told Fox it didn’t last very long.

“I ate myself out of that job,” he said. “They had this big walkin refrigerator and I went in there and I just started pulling cold pastrami out and just shoving it in my mouth.”

The owner showed up unexpectedly, found Herman with pastrami dangling from his lips and told him to get out and not come back.

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Herman’s first coaching job at Texas Lutheran paid just $5,000. His furniture consisted of rejects from the university housing department. During that time, Michelle, his wife-tobe who already had an MBA from UC Davis and a job in L.A., supported him financially. “She was my sugar mama,” Herman would later tell the Houston Chronicle. “She was my rock. She would send money, even though we weren’t married, to help me pay rent.”

When he maneuvered his way into a graduate assistant job the very next year at Texas (where he slept in the locker room), he hedged his bets by making sure he also earned his master’s degree in education. Good thing, too: In his very first game with the Longhorns, he forced the team to use a timeout by misreading a play chart.

The journey has taken him back to Texas, where he’s running the whole show and trying to make it his own, balancing the desire to win quickly with the desire to win for years to come.

“Our goal continues to be to develop a culture that is sustainable,” Herman said, “so when this season is over, you’re into next season and the season after that and 10 seasons from now, that we’re able to continue to compete for championships on a regular basis. That takes time, but we are sensitive to the fact that everybody wants to win, no more so than the people in this building. So we accelerate the process as fast as we can.”

The most thrilling early highlight in Herman’s first season turned out to be a loss — a 27-24 double-overtime defeat to No. 4 USC that impressed many people. Texas had a No. 23 preseason ranking, but Herman had downplayed it. Sure enough, the Longhorns started out with a 51-41 loss to Maryland.

“One, we hadn’t done it,” Herman said. “This is a program that’s had three straight seven-loss seasons and so we haven’t proven anything. And two, I was really concerned about our depth. Obviously, I had a little bit more to be concerned about [like] making sure that we eliminate mistakes and play some clean football without as many penalties.”

Despite the spotlight his new job brings, Herman wants to maintain the humility of his early days.

“You surround yourself with great people,” he said. “I’ve got my wife, Michelle, and my two closest confidants — my head strength coach, Yancy McKnight, and my chief of staff, Fernando Lovo. When I first got this job, I said, ‘Your job is to make sure the split second you see me change in whatever direction, you tell me and you point it out to me,’ because I think the way that we’ve been able to do things throughout our journey up the ladder in coaching, if we stay the course and do our things our way, the right way, then good things will eventually happen.”

Jim Carlisle is a former sports columnist and reporter for the Ventura County Star. He has been the public address announcer for Cal Lutheran football since 2001 and lives in Simi Valley.

CLU STAMP ON FOOTBALL GOES WAY BEYOND CALIFORNIA

BY JIM CARLISLE

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school with only four head coaches in its 56-season football history, Cal Lutheran has produced a remarkably fruitful coaching tree. It started with Bob Shoup, the program’s founder, who coached from 1962 to 1989.

During that time, 186 of his players would go on to coach at some level, nearly one-fourth of all his players.

The subsequent coaches — Joe Harper, Scott Squires and current coach Ben McEnroe — have all done their part to extend the program’s influence, from high schools to the NFL. Two friendly and fierce competitors on this football coaching tree are Tom Herman ’97, the head coach at Texas, and Dave Aranda ’00, the defensive coordinator at LSU. Herman is in charge of one of college football’s highest-profile programs, and Aranda is the highest-paid assistant coach in the nation. They were CLU roommates for one semester before Herman graduated.

Want to see them go head to head? You’ll have to wait until 2019 when the schools start a two-year home-and-home series in Austin. However, Herman and Aranda met twice before as assistant coaches. The more recent meeting was the 2014 Big Ten Conference title game, in which Herman’s Ohio State offense bested Aranda’s Wisconsin defense.

Among the coaches to branch out from Cal Lutheran are:

• Mike Sheppard ’72, TC ’78, retired after more than 40 years as college and NFL coach (most recently, Jacksonville Jaguars wide receivers coach)

• Rod Marinelli ’74, TC ’74, defensive coordinator, Dallas Cowboys

• Mark Weber ’80, most recently, offensive line coach, Utah State • Pete Alamar ’83, special teams coordinator, Stanford

• Steve Hagen ’83, most recently, special teams coach, New York Jets • Eddie Gran ’87, offensive coordinator, Kentucky

• Cory Undlin ’94, MBA ’07, defensive backs coach, Philadelphia Eagles

• Will Plemens ’97, M.S. ’01, defensive line coach, Sacramento State (formerly Toronto Argonauts, CFL) • Brian Smith, M.A. ’13, offensive coordinator, Hawaii

In addition, Squires notes, there is a former Cal Lutheran player on nearly every area high school’s coaching staff, including head coaches Tim Kirksey of Westlake and Ryan Huisenga ’97, TC ’04, ’06, of Moorpark.

Herman is thankful for his Cal Lutheran Division III experience and says he still draws from it.

“I had great people around me,” he said, “great coaches in Joe Harper; then Scott Squires, our head coach my last couple of years; and [current head coach] Ben McEnroe was our offensive line coach when I played. Mac and I stay close to this day, and Michelle and I support the program as well and we’re proud of that…. They taught competitive skills, they taught me, really, how to go from being a boy to being a man. I credit those people, those coaches, that were there for me. But also the Cal Lutheran community was very inclusive; it was one that had a lot of pride and a sense of community and we were very close.

“Being at a small, liberal arts community at Cal Lu, I knew every professor, they knew me by first name. I was able to ask questions and I was able to branch out and experiment a little bit without fear of failure because your professors, and a lot of times, the administration, knew you on a personal level and so they had a very vested interest in you.”

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William Rolland Art Center Dedication

Student Research Symposium 9 a.m. | Saturday Ahmanson Science Center

11:45 a.m. | Friday William Rolland Art Center

HOMECOM

Highl

The Cal Lutheran spirit that lives within us throughout the year is bro and new memories are made. Thank you for celebrating Home

Loop da Lu - 5K Run

Football Game

8 a.m. | Saturday Kingsmen Park

1:00 p.m. | Saturday William Rolland Stadium

Homecoming Festival

Worship

3:00 p.m. | Saturday Pepper Grove

10 a.m. | Sunday Samuelson Chapel

SAVE

THE DATE

2018 Homecoming Oct. 19-21

MING 2017

lights

ought to life at Homecoming, where old memories are reflected on ecoming 2017. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

Carnival

Homecoming Concert

7 p.m. | Saturday Memorial Field/Kingsmen Park

2 p.m. | Sunday Samuelson Chapel

KEVIN JUDD

Senior Molly Holloway, second from left, faced former teammates Nicole Tetherow, Sarah Pappas and Monica Lundgren, left to right, all 2017 graduates, in the alumni volleyball game on Aug. 25. About 20 players from the past 11 or 12 years came home to challenge this season’s squad. “The alumni fought well, but the current Regals were able to win the 5-set thriller, 3-2!” reports assistant coach Kevin Judd.

CLASS NOTES NOTICES RECEIVED AS OF SEPT. 6

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‘KINGSMEN BOMBERS’ PAY TRIBUTE TO

Their Fathers’ Service Members of alumni families remember the Greatest Generation at Bomber Camp in Stockton, California. They also salute veterans now enrolled at Cal Lutheran.

L to R: The Kingsmen Bombers are Gary Spies ’67, Karsten Spies and 1970 grads Tim Pinkney, Karen Bornemann Spies, Al Spies and Lane Ongstad.

Karen Bornemann Spies and other campers shot live rounds from a 50-caliber gun.

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uring World War II, the B-24 was designed to carry fuel and bombs more than people. The crew of eight to 10 people simply worked inside them.

In late spring, while riding a few thousand feet above northern California in the world’s only operational B-24 bomber, Al Spies ’70 took in a scene like something from 1944. Wires hung down around him. There was no bathroom and everything was metal, without padding.

When he recalls this for an interview many weeks later, he still has a scar from hitting his head on something.

The Bomber Camp, as it’s called, lasted 3 1/2 days, including abbreviated training in everything from flight navigation to radio communications, how to ditch an aircraft in water, gunnery and bomb site operation. Volunteers organized this year’s eighth annual camp for the Stockton Field Aviation Museum, working in conjunction with the Arizona Ground Crew Living History Unit and the Collings Foundation.

Spies attended the camp along with his wife, Karen Bornemann Spies ’70, and their son, Cmdr. Karsten Spies, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate (’98) now serving in Denmark. Al’s brother Gary ’67 came

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from Seattle for the camp. The two were on a mission to remember their father, an engineer who helped to design aircraft stateside for Hughes and Northrop.

Dubbed the “Kingsmen Bombers,” the group also included two alumni with military flight experience, Tim Pinkney ’70, a retired commander in the Navy, and Lane Ongstad ’70, a retired Air Force colonel.

Living at Bomber Camp for a few 14hour days offered the Kingsmen group “some sliver of awareness” of the demands on young WWII pilots and crew members, whose average life expectancies were too short and enlistments too long.

Second Lt. “Pinks” Pinkney, Tim’s father, co-piloted missions to push the Germans up the Italian peninsula in 1944. As the American occupation of Japan began, 1st Lt. William E. Bornemann flew a B-24 in sight of the grim remains of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and once hauled office furniture from Long Beach for Gen. MacArthur.

“After the war, he married, moved to Southern California and supported the idea of building a Lutheran college in California,” explains Karen, the eldest of Bornemann’s children at Cal Lutheran, before Jim ’74 and Barbara ’76.

At the Bomber Camp, the group grew fascinated with the work of volunteer reenactors who remained in character throughout as WWII airmen, smoking all day and meaning Roosevelt when they said “the president.” Al has now joined the board of their organization, the Arizona Ground Crew. The group of Cal Lutheran friends also got up close with the four-engine B-17, a two-engine B-25, “and a whole bunch of little guys” such as P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers.

The camp culminated in a mission in the B-24 to destroy an imaginary German factory. The group dropped four 250-pound, bomb-shaped hunks of painted concrete on a field near Stockton. Later, Tim actually flew the WWII B-25 on a sightseeing tour over the Golden Gate Bridge at 1,200 feet.

“It was an experience of a lifetime,” said Lane, whose father served with the Marines in the invasion of Iwo Jima, “to see in some small way the challenges the Greatest Generation faced in the war; to pay homage to what they did for our country (and for the university); and to tip our hats to the current connections CLU has to past and future veterans.

What an honor to place the Kingsmen logo as B-24 nose art.”

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

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 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 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 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.

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 DECEMBER 2017

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Class Notes 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.

Faccum fuga. Temporporera sae labo.

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Bit, aris eum restiunt, voluptium cum et hitatem ipsapis as est, tem. Remod maionecercil iuntiberum event, soluptia sum fugiasp ediatur, te cus eium alis nonsequiant maximinus pedit am, accum quo deliciis autene voluptur suntini squibus alitio estium acerit odionsed ea inctia de eaquae vendi in exped et la ni idebissitat ulparib usciiss incita dollabore pore volo dolorporerum quiant litatem faceatur magnisciente perum eatiur sam int plabo. Et autaspiente ius imi, voluptatiis dolore, cus restia quo odigent in platetur reperrunt ut quo intum conseque voloribus ea illenia sit omnihit iorioressi que simil es endicient quiatur?

Quia exped mo mi, nonest ipiet imus enda dolorit, quosti quas arciet occae. Nam solut volorrorrunt lab imin reped quatint ad magnissi occuptur, volut accuptatem quos consent.

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

Piet ea sunti rerovitas dipistius magnien tioria nobis et aut reperrum etus, volore, qui re volupidus.

1990s

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.

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

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

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

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A charitable gift annuity creates a win-win situation for you and Cal Lutheran.

To create a charitable gift annuity, a donor contributes an asset to Cal Lutheran in exchange for a partial tax deduction and an annual income for a lifetime. The interest rate is determined by the age of the designated recipient.

rates for gift annuities AGE

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Class Notes 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.

Tae omnimus quam, idero officti nisquat eaquat.

2000s

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

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

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 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 DECEMBER 2017

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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

nis essundunti utet mod utemporum coribeatenda voluptatquis qui temod es et laborupta delia pliquid que nullacc ullatur? Ti in rehenec ullitat urepernam, cum quideri buscium inus, cus, sam vel

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Class Notes

ratur am utaspie nisciliae. Iliqui derchitatur acepuditem estion nonsenimus, quat.

Usciis ersped quam fugit, sum estest, ant.

Si conse et vendi que voluptatem aut pe non pe nus.

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 evellatat utaerci pienimus aut lantota pro veri sequatur, sum voluptasit volori quam doluptati odi aut liquod ullab is molum, apis eatum aut ra at ipsa

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

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moluptatur aperrun diorepernam hicipsam rerrum cor rerae vel ipsum non re cori doluptiorum sequatem quos ut dolorib usande consenisi ditatasit, quid ute rem ad que cullis num dolupta tectur, quiam reperiatia desto cus, voluptasped que pores quam, ex et fugit officii scillupta doluptatur, verecul lenisti tempore pernam et qui beatur audamus, cus ellupta turior am intet pra quam voloritat aut pratur

Nam dolo magnam intiat a adissum, consequ atibus ipitis ad minctiat am doloreperis unt, quia ad quam derum fuga. Itatempor sitasit ad es repere quis voloritibus exerion sequibus am quam, ut quiam aut et eium quam sequatem hiciduciet aliquatiatur re re cusdae volor aspid mi, omnissum que preria consequi doluptat laboreium quiatum cus, nisimus, sequam quae voluptur, aut dis enienie niatiun totate volorio quae iusam assed et ipsanimus commo tecum endae. Alignam, simi, te nis rem faceribus.

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

Office of Alumni & Family Relations Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren, Senior Director Stephanie Hessemer, Associate Director Carrie (Kelley ’09, MPPA ’11) Barnett, Assistant Director Jana Weber, Administrative Assistant

Accum fuga. Itatur, inctempor sanisque ped mint as es idelecum et, sit di as id maio enimus mini ut asped quiatem quat molor aut et prae perere eicabor epernatatur, odionessimet ant explis aut il illuptatur, te con re, qui doloreratus, odit quo volupta tiuntio ssimusdaecum autet officiendi omni tet re occum quis vernatiis nonet poreperum si odi qui nonsed quiant molorepero omniscipsam quos dolorumqui ut et officto dolestibus et qui quiatur sint es rae vel et vendaectur, qui cum rehene nimin net litatempor as eritas res ipsum es mossinctium rae

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 solorunto beat.

Riorunt as unt, tota dodolori dolupta tioriorum quundam inist duciis doluptae pero omnihic iassimaiosti veles cuptaque dolorro occupic aborest am nihilignimus as mo esciaspiti doluptatius ipsus es denditem quame sum ratempostem idenducil int od qui autem con ressumquid maxim fugiatin coria commolo rpossit, omni dolorpost, sit voloriore pos seque sum quiae nihilique net pliquatur, quatiam quam, to qui conesse ditempe restorpos doloratist, quatem consecessit, totatiissi nest, unt, quia nonsequam veles arcil iur sitio consequi ant volum doluptae dent erum quas debitat.Et remquaerspis aperat qui odipitaquae experferum la quiae consequi re, necti tem quibea

poria sunt aut doluptas magnihita volupid quibea dissitas ad quo blabore henesci que od quaspe pelicae dolecerores cum rae volore, ut quas magnimint, ut et alite nem. Bit odiscipid moloribus et que veliqui vellam sandis eaque omnis aligendici autae nim alitia volorissi destiatur?

Et remquaerspis aperat qui odipitaquae experferum la quiae consequi re, necti tem quibea dem facearchilia aut lam lamendis dest rempore pedignam audaectur moluptios ditiatur atem facepelias qui torestion con cusam, quasinti dollatem rerfernatet lautem numquis incilia quam qui aceped eum latem ex explab int, tem reperum ra expliquat quatinihit apel essimus.

Ximinie ndandisque plis ma quiatisimus quam fugit eniste odis ma non parum autempo riamus rectur alitam facestr 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

dem facearchilia aut lam lamendis dest rempore pedignam audaectur moluptios ditiatur atem facepelias qui torestion con cusam, quasinti dollatem rerfernatet lautem numquis incilia quam qui aceped eum latem ex explab int, tem reperum ra expliquat quatinihit apel essimus.

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HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD Former Cal Lutheran dean of education Carol Bartell has made a difference by “influencing the future.” In the first of her two stints as dean, she helped raise funds for the $6.5 million Spies-Bornemann Center for Education and Technology, saw the building to completion, and led the Graduate School of Education to its first national accreditation. She takes pride in having launched the university’s first doctoral program that now offers degrees in educational leadership and higher education leadership, and has 168 graduates. She also created and contributed to a fellowship and a scholarship for future teachers.

Carol Bartell, Ed.D. Honorary Alumna

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Working in education is influencing the future.

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Apart from her 10 years at Cal Lutheran, the former classroom teacher and author has been a dean at three Cal State schools, a faculty member at two other universities, and has worked for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing in Sacramento. In retirement, the grandmother of five pursues interests in music and the arts. She works with the New West Symphony, the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company and Cal Lutheran’s Community Leaders Association, where she reviews scholarship applications. She and husband Ted attend many music performances and events on campus, and are active with Ascension Lutheran Church.

Alumni make a difference, she says: “Stay connected to your university and continue being an active part of that community.”

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BIRTHS 1 Harper Ann Lorentson on April 26, 2017, to Sally (Sagen ’03, M.S. ’05) and Kyle ’04, M.Ed. ’10, Lorentson. Harper is pictured with her parents and big brother Sawyer.

MARRIAGES 2 Anna Potter ’08 and Terrell Clifford on June 24, 2017. Pictured at the reception, from left, are Jaclyn (Newman ’07) Dorn, Julia Chappell, Chris Chappell ’07, Terrell, Anna, Nate Johnson ’07, Ben Hengst ’07, Jessica (Placas ’07) Hengst and Chase Linsley ’08.

3 Liz Ehly and James “Jimmy” Sweeden ’15 on June 3, 2017, in Jimmy’s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Pictured, from left, are

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Milestones Andrew Rothans ’15, Kartsten Lundring ’65, Logan Cone ’16, Troy Spencer ’15, Tyler Pascoe ’15, Jimmy, Liz, Matt Hubbard ’15, Kelsey Johnson ’15, Yann Moore ’15, Kirsten (Bodding ’64) Lundring, Steven Davis ’14 and Natalie Stone ’15.

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4 Savannah Robinson ’16 and Trevor Gilmore on April 1, 2017.

5 Melissa Kihneman and Spencer Kelley ’11 on April 15, 2017, in West Hills, California.

6 Mikayla Avrea ’10 and Jake Hall ’10 on May 6, 2017, in Durham, California.

Pictured, from left, are Antoine Adams ’10, Roland Jenkins ’10, CJ Barillas ’11, Scott Jackson ’10, Miray (Iskander ’09) Jackson, Alexandra Butler ’10, Nicole Nathanson ’09, Jake, John Barley ’10, Mikayla, Paul Hartmann ’10, Hector De Alba ’09, Theresa (Harrington ’10) Hartmann, Clarissa (Blake ’11) Burton and Bridget Nurding ’12.

DEATHS Thomas Christian Berckes ’95 on Aug. 10, 2017.

Donald DeMars ’64 on July 15, 2017.

Judith Ann Graves, M.A. ’76, on Aug. 15, 2017.

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Eugene Lee Meyers, H’69, on July 14, 2017.

Roslyn (Boatwright ’88) Porter in June 2017.

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Adele (Broas ’88) Trent on July 4, 2017.

Tracy Lynn (Boren ’84) Wygal on July 11, 2017.

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LET’S MOVE THIS NEEDLE

Coding Autism, my startup business, came into being because I was inspired by my brother and shocked by the underemployment rate for people with autism. BY OLIVER THORNTON ’16 My older brother spoke individualized education his first words at 7 years old. programs until we graduThey went like this: “I ated high school, and I wish that I could fly/Into included Trinity in everythe sky/So very high/Just thing. My friend group belike a dragonfly.” came his. Trinity went on You might recognize them to earn a real estate license as the lyrics to singer Lenny and is studying to go to arKravitz’s “Fly Away.” Trinity chitecture school. listened to that song maybe As I began thinking of a a thousand times. When he career, I knew generally I formed those words he was wanted to improve the lives singing in front of a mirror, of individuals with autism. probably unaware anyone I considered going into the was listening. entertainment business It was a beautiful day for The potential and work ethic of people on the autism spectrum, and had an internship with my mom and dad. Mom including Oliver Thornton (left) and his brother Trinity, are not a record company. was crying with joy and say- the things holding them back.

Then, in a capstone class ing, “Trinity talked. Trinity during my last semester at talked.” The doctors had said that he probably never would.

Cal Lutheran, I received the assignment of developing a startup Not long after Trinity’s diagnosis with autism at a young age, business to enter in the CLU New Venture Competition.

I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (which is on the auI researched issues affecting people on the spectrum to build tism spectrum). Fifteen months younger than my brother, with out an initiative that met a real need. autistic traits less pronounced than his, I was inspired by Trinity. His life taught me to embrace living with Asperger’s and to One statistic set me on my path: Eighty percent of adults believe I could accomplish anything I put my mind to. with autism — regardless of intelligence or academic achieveOur parents enrolled us in the same school. We took part in ment — are either unemployed or underemployed.

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On the positive side, I discovered tech companies like SAP and Microsoft had autism hiring initiatives. Why? Because there is a positive correlation between stereotypical characteristics of a person on the autism spectrum and those of a successful software engineer. Beyond that, technology professions with average entry-level salaries of $40,000 a year have more job vacancies than any other industry in the United States.

Tech businesses want to ramp up hiring people on the spectrum, but individuals often are so poorly trained that elite companies simply can’t hire them. I wanted to build a business model around training and job placement for people with autism.

Everyone on the autism spectrum manifests differently, but we tend to prefer individualized attention in smaller groups.

And in a traditional educational system, students have to learn every subject from biology to math to business to chemistry. People on the spectrum hyper-focus on a few things, and this can weed out autistic adults from graduation. But in the tech industry if someone has a skill set that is highly desired, they don’t need a Harvard degree or to graduate from a top UC school to get hired.

Knowing that, my cofounders and I designed a boot camp where students learn an entry-level coding skill set in a way specifically tailored to the autism demographic.

I pitched the company, Coding Autism, to 150 people at CLU’s New Venture Competition in April 2016. It took the top prize of $2,500 to go toward making this company a reality.

Since then I’ve given many talks to interest investors. As a kid, I had difficulty with speech and now I’ve trained myself to feel comfortable on a stage. It’s a practice-makes-perfect situation.

We have raised $52,855 on our StartSomeGood crowdfunding campaign as well as roughly $47,000 through private investment.

In September, Coding Autism won the Crowd Invest Summit Pitch Competition in Los Angeles, our fifth competition victory. Later that month, we were one of 16 companies invited to pitch our ideas on improving brain health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solve Global Challenges competition at the United Nations. We didn’t win, but I plan to reapply in a more suitable category.

All this effort will yield real dividends when we launch our first cohort of students late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2018.

I stay encouraged because parents of kids with autism call to say “you can change my son’s or daughter’s life.” That’s what lights my fuel and makes me want to dig in day in and day out.

I’m also fortunate to have cofounders who are just as passionate as I am and who have skill sets I don’t have. Without Austen Weinhart and Andrea Vu Chasko, Coding Autism would not have reached the level of growth we have achieved.

Ultimately, I want Coding Autism to be the reason that the 80 percent under- and unemployed statistic begins to drop.

I firmly believe everyone on this planet has a specific purpose, and all of us have the potential to soar.

For news on the New Venture Competition, see "Angel Investors," Page 11. For more on Coding Autism, visit codingautism.com.

LINKS Ferguson hugs his wife, Samantha, after receiving the surprise honor.

PHOTO BY JUAN CARLO FOR THE VENTURA COUNTY STAR

“Pure disbelief,” said Aaron Ferguson ’07. That’s what the Pacifica High School teacher felt on Oct. 12, he told the Ventura County Star, when he was surprised at a school assembly with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award, an honor that’s been bestowed on 2,700 people over 30 years by the Milken Family Foundation. State education officials participate in a confidential process to select the winners.

Ferguson teaches chemistry, Earth science, social entrepreneurship and introduction to entrepreneurship to some of Pacifica’s 3,000 students. He also heads up a career pathway as director of the experiential and projectbased Academy of Business. A high school senior told the newspaper, “Everything he does is for us and for the Academy of Business. ... He’s just one of those teachers who puts in extra hours of work outside school. He’s just a great teacher, a great man.”

Katrina Hannah ’16 was one of the seriously wounded Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. She was shot twice in the shoulder and neck. After 17 days in a hospital there, she was transferred to a California rehabilitation facility and was getting “stronger by the day,” according to her mother, Loreto. Follow her steady progress via social media updates at facebook.com/Pray4Katrina.

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