Age Quod Agis Magazine – Spring 2018

Jesuit High School • Portland, Oregon • Spring 2018

Age Quod Agis

Celebrating 20 Years

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INSIDE COVER: Manavi Thakur ’20 and other students perform an Indian Fusion dance performance at the 2018 Multicultural Performance Assembly.

FRONT COVER: Title characters brought to life on the Marilyn Moyer Theatre stage (clockwise from left): THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Brandon Gille ’17); THE MUSIC MAN (Miko de Leon ’04); SHREK (Jon Matter ’15); and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’s Belle (Maddy Bennett ’07).

PETER PAN (Brittany Cope ’03) hovers in the distance.

Features 22 A Community of Storytelling

Celebrating 20 years of Performing Arts Center

30 A Path to Serve Fr. Paul Grubb, S.J., '91 takes final vows at JHS

32 Alum Takes on Federal Post

Kate O'Scannlain '95 confirmed as federal labor solicitor

34 Building More Than a Court

Students travel to Dominican Republic for service work

40 Alumni Near and Far

Connecting at regional alumni events

Departments 2 President’s Message 3 Campus Corner 1 0 Student Spotlight 11 News of JHS Jesuits 12 Faculty Spotlight 14 Athletics 16 Diversity Update 18 Financial Aid Luncheon 19 Auction News 20 Legacy Club 42 In Memoriam 44 Class Notes © 2018 Jesuit High School, Portland, OR — This magazine is for and about alumni, parents and students of Jesuit High School. It is published three times a year by the communications office.

Opinions expressed in specific articles are those of the individual authors. If you would like to author an article, please contact the communications office.

Letters and correspondence are welcome and can be emailed to age@jesuitportland.org or mailed to JHS Age Quod Agis Magazine 9000 S.W. BeavertonHillsdale Hwy. Portland, OR 97225 Photo/Michelle Leis Foley ’06

ADMINISTRATION President Thomas D. Arndorfer Principal Paul J. Hogan Vice President for Development Diane L. Salzman Superior, Jesuit Community Fr. J.K. Adams, S.J.

AGE QUOD AGIS Layout & Design Erika Tuenge ‘94 Copy Editor Dan Falkner, Journalism/Photography Teacher Contributing Photographers Photography and Yearbook students Printer Image Pressworks

President's Message Dear Jesuit High School community members, As we turned the page on a new year in January, I was excited to begin 2018 as it contains several important milestones that provide us an opportunity to celebrate as a Jesuit family.

On January 5, we recognized the 20th anniversary of Jesuit’s Alex L. Parks Performing Arts Center with a memorable, theatre-packed celebration.

Nearly 50 Jesuit alums returned to the Marilyn L. Moyer Theatre for a magnificent evening of entertainment and gratitude that few will soon forget. Throughout the last two decades, the Performing Arts Center has been the central place for countless students to explore the cultural arts and home to annual productions of our talented drama, choir and band programs. We are grateful to have these kinds of facilities and for Ignatian educators like Ms. Elaine Kloser, Ms. Carol Young and Mr. Jeff Hall, who allow these programs to flourish at such a remarkable level.

President Arndorfer distributes ashes to Josie Peterson ’18 on Ash Wednesday.

and Fr. Frank Masterson, S.J., Fr. Adams has been one of the very foundations of Jesuit High. He has been an educator, a chaplain, a collaborator, a counselor, a spiritual adviser, a superior, a brother, a friend. More than anything, he has been a beloved Jesuit priest who has faithfully followed in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, serving as a role model for Catholic values and embodying the Jesuit mission.

Twenty-five years ago, in September 1993, the course of Jesuit High School’s legacy was permanently changed for the better when the school opened its doors to 260 young women. This single step of coeducation, which required countless years of discernment and planning, was the catalyst for a complete renaissance in the school and was the most transformational decision ever made at Jesuit. Also arriving that first year were several new teachers who remain with us today – Ms. Erin DeKlotz, Ms. Carol Young, Ms. Teresa Zimmerlee and Mr. Steve Fennah. We look forward to telling you more about how we will be celebrating this momentous occasion throughout 2018.

One of my greatest joys at Jesuit these past 19 months has been to sit down with Fr. Adams every Monday morning for our regularly scheduled weekly meeting. Sometimes our meetings have dealt with serious issues about which I needed his sage counsel; sometimes I have quizzed him on weighty topics within the Catholic Church or the Jesuits. Sometimes we simply banter about items of little significance. But, to me, he has been a loving, thoughtful companion in all of those human moments. His presence will be deeply missed by so many of us.

Fifty years ago, Jesuit held its very first auction. This event has proven to be an extraordinarily successful initiative to raise financial resources for the Jesuit High community. The last several years, it has yielded more than $1 million in annual net proceeds to the school. We are deeply grateful to all of the volunteers and internal staff who spend an enormous amount of time making this such an annual highlight on our campus. This year’s auction theme is “Fiesta del Sol: Radiate Love,” and it will take place on May 5, 2018. We hope that you can join us for an energizing celebration of the Jesuit mission.

In the weeks ahead in this year of milestones, I hope that you will thank Fr. Adams for all that he has done for this school, our families and our students. His contributions to Jesuit are too many to count and his impact has been too significant to measure.

May God’s peace and blessing be with you and your family. I hope to see you on campus in 2018.

Finally, 12 years ago, our community was fortunate to welcome back a remarkable educator, Fr. J.K. Adams, S.J., to the school to teach theology. Since then, he has established himself as an indispensable institution at Jesuit High. Recently, with a great deal of heartache, we announced that Fr. Adams will be transitioning in the summer to Gonzaga Prep in Spokane.

A.M.D.G.

In the tradition of fellow Jesuits who have meant so much to this school like Fr. Bill Hayes, S.J., Fr. Larry Robinson, S.J.,

Thomas D. Arndorfer, President

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Campus Corner

Jesuit High School’s very own Jesuit Teach-In. Front row: Britney He, Amanda Mitchell, Kennedy Hering, Haley Hummelt, Archita Harathi, Grace White, Sona Sridharan, Natalie Pernas, Alexa Scott. Back row: Caroline Glaser, Adikus Schmahl-Waggoner, Stacey Escobar, Anna Rask, Kate Tobin, Lauren Williams, Sylvie Martin, Grace Preble, Dechen Yehshopa, Jules Gist, Josie Donlon, Claire Devine.

Teach-In Provides Opportunities for Civic Action On the afternoon of Saturday, November 4, Jesuit High School hosted the Jesuit Teach-In for Social Justice focusing on immigration and racial justice. The event featured keynote speakers from the Portland metropolitan area and a live-streamed speaker from the national Teach-In that occurred the same weekend in Washington, D.C. “Students who could not attend the A group of Jesuit students also attended the Ignatian Teach-In in Washington, D.C. Front row: John Yanosy, national conference decided to host Luke Stream, Eliza Randall, Georgia Gray, Katie Amann, Olivia Osborne, Ava Joseph, Cameron Calverly, one at Jesuit High School for the McCall Delaney. Back row: Andrea Casey, Iesha Comia, Brigitte Mepham, Megan Gorman, Josie Peterson, larger community to learn about Kate Thompson, Skye Blount, Reema Salhi, Sydney Evans, Aimee Lutz, Gabby Reiten, Judy Pacheco, Taylor Dischinger, Andrea Bian, Ermias Estube, Chantal Reyes, Scott Powers. these important issues,” said Scott Powers, Christian service director at Following the Teach-In, participants were encouraged to lobby Jesuit. Student leaders Josie Donlon ’18, Anna Rask ’18, Archita elected officials to pass legislation that will reform our immigration system and our criminal justice system.

Harathi ’18, Claire Devine ’18 and Mandy Mitchell ’18 led the effort to organize the first-ever Teach-In at Jesuit.

The Jesuit Teach-In occurred in conjunction with the Ignatian Teach-In in Washington, D.C., an annual gathering that “Both the Jesuit Teach-In for Justice and the national Teach-In provides opportunities for attendees to learn, reflect, pray, are wonderful opportunities for our students to engage in real network and advocate in the context of the Catholic faith traworld civic action,” said Paul Hogan, Jesuit principal. “Students dition. A significant portion of attendees were young people, who have studied about immigration in the classroom and ages 16-22, representing Jesuit and other Catholic institutions have done service with migrants are able to speak passionately from across the U.S., as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico with members of Congress about why humane immigration and El Salvador. The 2017 Teach-In theme, “Rowing into the reform is needed. Our students both here in Portland and those Deep,” invited participants “to think more deeply about issues who traveled to D.C. are living the Jesuit mission to practice a of immigration reform and criminal justice reform.” The pro‘faith that promotes justice.’” gram is sponsored by the Ignatian Solidarity Network.

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Campus Corner State Championships Abound for the Crusaders Congratulations to our dedicated, hard-working student-athletes and coaches!

A Soccer Season for the Record Books The Crusaders ended their remarkable 2017 soccer season on a high note on Saturday, November 11, with the number two nationally ranked women's team taking home the class 6A Oregon State Championship title and the men's team finishing second in the state. Both teams played with heart and a fierce determination throughout the season.

The valiant Crusader women broke more than a few records in 2017. The undefeated, untied women's team scored 86 goals this fall – the most goals ever scored by a women's team in class 6A Oregon history. The women also allowed only two goals scored by any opponent all season long, another classification best.

State champion women's soccer team

Reporter Amanda Miles covered the women's championship match for The Oregonian: Jesuit has produced more than its fair share of top-notch girls soccer teams over the years.

The 2017 edition should probably go up there among the best of them. The Crusaders (19-0) put on a composed and masterful display of team soccer Saturday at Hillsboro Stadium, dusting Metro League rival Sunset 4-0 to claim the Class 6A state title. It was the Crusaders' second championship in the past three seasons and 12th overall.

"It never gets old," said Jesuit coach Steve Fennah, who has coached the Crusaders to seven of those titles. "That's one thing for sure. Every time's different, but every time is special as well."

The Crusaders earned this one in convincing fashion, using sophisticated movement off the ball and combination play to come at the Apollos defense in waves.

"We knew that it was going to be a tough game, because it's always a tough game against Sunset," said Jesuit senior Emma Treasure, who scored her team's second goal. "They'll always be our rivals. It meant a lot to be here again and play them, because in the semis last year we lost in PKs to them and that was pretty rough. We came back wanting to get another state title."

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The men’s soccer team placed second in state.

Crusaders Swim to State Title The Jesuit men’s team swam their way to an incredible fourth-consecutive state title at the OSAA championship meet at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham February 16-17. The Crusader women’s swim team mounted an epic comeback on day two of the competition. Starting the day at a 32-point deficit, the women’s team finished only 1.5 points behind top rival Sunset High School. It was a thrilling, close competition to watch!

The Crusaders also took home a couple of key individual event wins. Junior Trent Martinez placed first in state for both the 200 and 500 yard freestyles, posting times of 1:39.00 and 4:32.39 respectively. Junior Elise Kreutzer won the same event on the women’s side, setting a time of 1:50.88 for her 200 freestyle victory. The Crusader men’s team also bested the competition in the 200 yard medley and 400 freestyle relays.

Elise Kruetzer '19 placed first in state for the 200 freestyle event.

Photo/Chase Allgood, OregonLive.com

Double State Titles for Crusader Cross Country On the afternoon of November 4 at Lane Community College in Eugene, the Crusader women’s and men’s cross country teams both earned overwhelming victories at the 2017 high school state championship meet.

Behind junior Makenna Schumacher’s individual win with a time of 17 minutes and 45 seconds, the women’s team scored 47 points to runner-up Sunset’s 85. In the men’s race, Jesuit blew away the competition with five runners placing in the top 11. The men finished with a score of 35 points. Runner-up Central Catholic had 127.

In their neon-gold singlets, both teams ran together and executed long-time Head Coach Tom Rothenberger’s game plan to perfection, ending a great season on a high note.

Principal Paul Hogan, President Tom Arndorfer and Head Coach Tom Rothenberger with the state champion women's cross country team

Men's cross country team celebrates their win at state

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Campus Corner Students Win Scholastic Art Awards This January, 16 Jesuit students were recognized as Portland Metro Scholastic Art Awards recipients.

The top Portland Metro award winners move on to compete at the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which recognize student achievement in the visual and literary arts in 29 categories, including editorial cartoon, poetry, graphic design, fashion, science fiction, video game design and more.

“We are so proud of all of our fine arts students, regardless of whether they entered or placed in the Scholastic Arts Awards contest,” says fine arts teacher Sascha GordonManning. “Fine Arts is not competitive in nature, but the process of applying for and entering Scholastic is valuable.”

Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Scholastic Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students, including renowned alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Sylvia Plath, Ken Burns, Stephen King and Lena Dunham.

The Scholastic Awards offer opportunities for creative teens to earn recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships of up to $10,000.

Of the 16 Jesuit students recognized, seven were identified as submitting the very best work in their category (Gold Key winners) and will automatically compete at Nationals.

Jesuit Gold Key award winners include:

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Edward Banker '19, Photography Miyako Barnett '21, Painting Ziggy Berkoff '21, Photography Skye Blount '19, Painting Andy Johnson '18, Mixed Media Astra Medeiros '19, Photography Courtney Pedersen '20, Photography

Top: Artwork by Andy Johnson ’18 Bottom: Artwork by Skye Blount ’19

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Ethics Team Takes Home Title Is it morally acceptable for affluent persons to move into neighborhoods experiencing gentrification? How should a driverless car decide to act when it has to choose between endangering the lives of occupants or those outside the vehicle?

Jesuit High School’s Ethics Team members have answers for those questions and more. On February 10-11, the Crusaders took home the state title at the Oregon Ethics Bowl, a competitive yet collaborative event in which students discuss real-life ethical issues. In each round of competition, teams take turns analyzing cases about complex ethical dilemmas and responding to questions from the opposing team and a panel of judges.

Photo/Angela Steiert

This marks the second year that Jesuit has taken home the top honors at the state-wide competition. The Crusaders won their first state title in 2015. Now, they move on to the National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where they will compete with the top 24 high school teams from across the country on April 20.

Pictured left to right: Jack Jensen ’19, Lauren Haines ’20, Theology teacher and Ethics Coach Angela Steiert, Ria Debnath ’20, Shawna Muckle ’20

“I have been privileged to see these students’ dedication and heartfelt reflection of these timely questions,” says Jesuit Theology Teacher and Ethics Team coach Angela Steiert ’97. “We have challenged, listened and learned together and it has been our openness to new ideas that has allowed us the achievement of winning the state title.”

An ethics bowl differs from a debate competition in that students are not assigned opposing views; rather, they defend whichever position they think is correct, provide each other with constructive criticism, and win by demonstrating that they have thought rigorously and systematically about the cases. Teams must also engage respectfully with all participants.

Data from NHSEB surveys shows that this event teaches and promotes ethical awareness, critical thinking, civil discourse, civic engagement, and an appreciation for multiple points of view.

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Campus Corner

Saying Goodbye to Fr. JK Adams, S.J. Beloved Jesuit priest, educator, chaplain, counselor, spiritual advisor, brother, friend friend. More than anything, he has been a beloved Jesuit priest, who has faithfully followed in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius, serving as a role model for Catholic values and embodying the Jesuit mission.

A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TOM ARNDORFER:

Fr. JK Adams, S.J., after 12 years, will be leaving Jesuit this summer to serve as theology teacher and chaplain at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington. Fr. JK will bring a wealth of knowledge, a breadth of experience, and his unwavering dedication, steadfast faith, and calm and prayerful presence to the community of Gonzaga Prep.

Fr. JK has made an indelible impact on us, both personally and as a whole. He will leave Jesuit High School a much better place when he departs.

Although our hearts are heavy that Fr. JK will be leaving Jesuit, we understand that he will be in a position to serve the Gonzaga Prep community in meaningful and important ways in the years ahead.

I speak on behalf of everyone at Jesuit High School when I say that we will greatly miss Fr. JK’s presence.

AN EXCERPT FROM THE JESUIT CHRONICLE, MARCH 2018, WRITTEN BY KESHAV SIDDHARTHA '19:

Many students love having Fr. Adams as a teacher and feel he truly cares. Students described the unique nature of his classroom environment and how much he connected with us.

Throughout these roles, Fr. Adams has maintained a constant presence in our Jesuit High School community and impacted hundreds of lives through his daily interactions and co-curricular activities. He embodies the life of St. Ignatius and serves as a constant reminder of Christian morals. The Jesuit High School community will miss him dearly.

In addition to teaching, Fr. JK has served for two different times on Jesuit’s Board of Trustees, assisted the campus ministry program in numerous ways and served as chaplain for many teams and retreats. He has been an educator, a chaplain, a collaborator, a counselor, a spiritual adviser, a superior, a brother, a

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Simple Meal Raises Hunger Awareness “It leaves you feeling hungry, I so badly wanted to purchase more food although I realized that those facing hunger don’t have that choice,” Braun said. “I was left feeling empty and found myself thinking about food in my afternoon classes. It was much harder to focus on my school work.”

BY SYDNEY COLLINS ’18 (JESUIT CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE)

Every day in third or fourth period, students may turn to each other and say, “I am starving.” While seemingly innocent, perhaps it is time that we as Jesuit students step back and truly experience the effects of hunger for one afternoon. After all, thousands of people in Oregon struggle with food insecurity.

Each year during the Food Drive, Jesuit students and faculty are given the opportunity to participate in the simple meal.

The simple meal is sold for one dollar at lunch and consists of a small bowl of chicken noodle soup and a roll. The goal of the simple meal is to make a conscious decision to stand in solidarity with those facing hunger, as the meal provided will not fulfill the average high school teenager.

For Christian Service Assistant Director Ms. Andrea Casey, the simple meal serves as a reminder that many people face hunger on a daily basis. “For me, participating in the simple meal is a reminder of what it feels like to be even just a little bit hungry by the end of the day,” she said.

The simple meal serves as a tangible learning experience for students to live hungry for an afternoon. It also adds context and meaning to the purpose of the Jesuit Food Drive. When experiencing hunger for a day, hopefully students will be more encouraged and passionate about their canvassing.

“Simple meal is something that we have done here at Jesuit High School during the food drive for around thirty years,” Christian Service director Mr. Scott Powers said. “We hope to raise awareness throughout our school that there are people in our own community here in Portland that are struggling with food insecurity.”

“I can tell you about hunger but if you get a glimpse in to it, that’s going to be something that has the potential to educate you in a way that a book or a PowerPoint cannot,” Mr. Powers said.

For many Jesuit students, when the bell rings for lunch, they have the option of unpacking a full meal or ordering whatever food they would like from the cafeteria. Many have the luxury of fueling up for the end of the day, leaving the thought of hunger out of their mind. When experiencing the simple meal, senior Sophie Braun acknowledged the side effects that being hungry entails.

According to the Oregon Food Bank, 16% of Oregonians do not have access to affordable, nutritious food. These numbers mean that 644,000 Oregonians are food insecure; of those, 223,480 are children.

Although this act serves as an eye-opening experience, it is not a solution to end hunger. It is simply a meaningful simulation that gives hope for the future, and that one day everyone will know where their next meal is coming from.

“I see it really as kind of a sign, a sign of hope, a sign that we care,” said Ms. Casey. “Even though it’s not providing a solution, it’s that courageous choice to be in solidarity.”

The simple meal, sold for $1 during the Jesuit Food Drive, helps students stand in solidarity with those facing hunger and raises awareness about the issue.

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“The simple meal is important because Jesuit students sometimes live in our own bubble and forget the struggles that other people endure every single day,” Braun said. “We worry about such trivial things and sometimes forget that some people don’t even have food to eat.”

Student Spotlight

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Student-Athlete By Day, Concert Pianist by Night

Last spring, Natalie won the Metro Arts Young Artists Concerto Competition and had the chance to perform with musicians from the Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. In the summer, she attended the Jacob’s School of Music Piano Academy at Indiana University. Her resume also includes wins at numerous other classical competitions and attendance at master classes held by musicians Paul Roberts, Julia Lee, and Dean Kramer, among others.

BY MICHELLE LEIS FOLEY '06, COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Most days, Natalie Tan is a lot like other teenagers.

She likes hanging out with her friends, getting her homework done, and spending time with her family. Outside of class, she competes on Jesuit’s basketball and Mock Trial teams, and in the summer, she enjoys flexing her “science brain” as an intern at an OHSU research lab.

“Natalie fully embodies the spirit of our school motto, Age Quod Agis, which means ‘Do Well Whatever You Do,’” says Jesuit Principal Paul Hogan. “Natalie is one of those people whom the poet Marianne Williamson would say was ‘born to make manifest the glory of God that is within all of us.’ Natalie is not only an incandescent talent, but also simply a terrific human being. She makes all of us more hopeful for humanity.”

Speak to Natalie’s teachers, and they will tell you about her humble, positive attitude and strong work ethic.

Talk to one of her classmates, they’ll tell you Natalie is more than a well-rounded student and good friend, she’s also a brilliant pianist.

All this success has led to some exciting opportunities for Natalie. In the past year, she’s appeared as a guest on the radio station All Classical Portland and was invited to speak and play at a TEDx Portland event held at the Weiden+Kennedy headquarters.

It’s true. Natalie has an exceptional talent and passion for playing the piano. You may have seen her name on the billboard outside Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall last November.

With the backing of the Portland Youth Philharmonic’s orchestra, Natalie performed the solo in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 to thousands of Schnitz spectators.

So, what does the future hold this renaissance woman? “I want to become a doctor,” Natalie tells radio host Christa Wessel.

“As a doctor, maybe I could help the world so that it could be a better place.”

“It was nerve-wracking, but uplifting,” Natalie says about the experience. “I’m incredibly grateful.”

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News of JHS Jesuits A Time of Transition and Transformation provincial that he would transition his work from Jesuit High School to Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane. Fr. Adams has been at Jesuit since 2006 and has been superior of the Jesuits at Jesuit High since 2008. This transition will happen on July 31st (the Feast of Saint Ignatius).

A MESSAGE FROM FR. JK ADAMS, S.J., SUPERIOR OF JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL CANISIUS COMMUNITY

The Jesuit Community has undergone quite a transformation this past year. Several Jesuits who have made a crucial impact on both Jesuit High School and our community received missions that carried them away to other places.

On a happy note, two excellent Jesuits are coming into the community and will serve at Jesuit High School.

Fr. Pat Couture, S.J. returned to the school last October. It was a great gift to us all. Fr. Pat has been assigned here at Jesuit twice before. He came for a novice experiment in 2009. He returned to us for two years as a regent from 2011-13. And now, after his ordination in 2016, he has returned to us once more as a priest. He was able to help in the Theology department by taking some Freshman Faith Formation classes while Mrs. LeClaire was on maternity leave. He has also been an incredible help to Father Adams by assisting with daily masses, student masses, Encounters, freshman and sophomore Overnight Retreats, and much more. Fr. Pat is an incredible gift to the school and to the community.

Father Larry Robinson, S.J., who has been stationed at Jesuit High almost continually for 50 years, was missioned to The Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. His mission is what we call, “Orat Pro Soc.” This Latin phrase indicates that his job now is to pray for the Church and the Society of Jesus.

I am certain that his prayers also include petitions for Jesuit High School. It is important to know that it is not a euphemism for retirement. He has always been prayerful, but now it becomes his primary mission.

And finally, joining the team here at Jesuit High School this summer will be Fr. Christopher Calderón, S.J. Fr. Calderón was ordained in 2017. He is currently completing his Master of Education degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education through the School Leadership program. He will join the community during the summer and will assume his duties in the theology department and assist in various priestly ministries around the school.

Mr. Billy Biegler, S.J. was approved for advancement to the next stage of his formation. He will be studying graduate level Theology for the next three years at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He will be ordained at the end of that process.

Mr. John Guyol, S.J. was also missioned to the next step of his formation. He is studying French for a school year in Yaoundé, Cameroon. When he completes that project he will move on to Theology studies.

At the heart of the Jesuit mission is to follow Jesus wherever he leads. We have every confidence that the many changes in Jesuit presence here is in the divine mind and in His divine providence. We can trust that the Spirit that led to the founding of our school and guided it with such a steady hand ever since, is continuing that work now as we enter into this new and heightened time of transition.

Mr. Eddie Ngo, S.J. has also transitioned to a new ministry in the province.

Father Kevin Clarke, S.J. who has lived with us for the last seven years, retired from his work as a hospital chaplain at Providence Medical Center and has moved across town to the Colombiere Community to begin a new ministry in parish work around Portland.

Fr. Paul Grubb, S.J. ’91 has been living with us for three years as he does his excellent work as a vocations promoter around the Jesuits West Province. In November, due to additional responsibilities, his base of operation shifted to Della Strada Jesuit Community in Spokane on Gonzaga University’s campus. Fortunately, he stays with us often since he has so many family and friends in the area. He also has maintained connections to Jesuit by way of the ski team and is often able to ski with the team and provide ministerial support for them.

In late January, Fr. Adams received word from the

Fr. Christopher Calderón, S.J.

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Fr. Adams with Fr. Pat Couture, S.J.

Faculty Spotlight

Campus Ministry Maestro Don Clarke, lighthearted yet devout, has helped create an in-demand faith life at Jesuit “Mr. Clarke makes it seem like our faith is something that was made for us,” said John Rutledge, a senior. “He understands what the Catholic Church is teaching and he understands what his population is here at Jesuit. He’s made a lot of things more digestible.”

BY ED LANGLOIS, CATHOLIC SENTINAL

Each Friday at Jesuit High School, optional Masses draw a thousand teens. Students are lining up to lead retreats. Some freshmen choose the Southwest Portland school specifically for its campus ministry.

Clarke admires Pope Francis and applies papal wisdom to campus work. “When [the pope] talks about the new evangelization, his first concern is to welcome with warmth,” said Clarke, who served at Portland-area parishes as a youth minister and pastoral associate before being hired at Jesuit. “If people walk through the door and are told, ‘By the way, you are a sinner,’ or ‘You are suspect,’ then people usually don’t return.”

Don Clarke, the man who has overseen Jesuit’s ongoing eruption of faith life since 1995, is a witty, candid, stout and tireless guitarist whose main message to students is this: God exists in each of you.

Clarke is “one of Jesuit’s greatest and most selfless heroes,” said John Gladstone, former president and now executive vice president of Jesuit, a co-ed school with almost 1,300 students.

“Because of Don, it is really cool to be involved in campus ministry at Jesuit.” Every Jesuit freshmen gets the message quickly from older students — go to Friday Mass, don’t miss retreats.

Clarke has added retreats for younger students and created a wildly popular pilgrimage, during which seniors hike 12 miles to a 180-year-old mission in Washington state. He attends them all, working many weekends.

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Despite long hours, Clarke makes sure to tend to his own spiritual life, praying when he wakes and sitting in the school chapel when he gets a moment. He finds silent minutes when on retreat with students at places like McKenzie Bridge in the Cascade foothills. Then he’ll be asked a question or get hit by a snowball and get back to work.

“He is such a very clearly faithful man,” said Molly Shields, a senior who helps at school Masses and retreats. She commends

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Clarke for trusting in student leaders, since he knows that peers are more powerful witnesses of faith among teens.

said Paul Hogan, principal. “Ask any of them. They will tell you that they have really and truly met the Holy Spirit at Jesuit, and most of them were introduced to that Spirit by Don Clarke.” Hogan credits Clarke for working in concert with the Jesuit priests to keep the school in rhythm with the pulse of the church.

“I am really fortunate that the community here does not back down from this being a Catholic institution,” said Clarke.

“People may point toward athletics or point toward the plays — that’s because those are the ones that seem to make the press the most. But students will say, ‘Yeah, that’s there and it’s an important part of who we are, but it’s not who we are.’”

“Don has a huge heart for teens and it shows in his ministry,” said Jason Kidd, director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life for the Archdiocese of Portland. Kidd said that Jesuit’s retreats connect youths to God and to each other.

Clarke grew up in Minneapolis, where Jesuit novices led his parish catechism classes. He attended Catholic school through third grade, transferring to public school, where he learned about secular life.

Retreats, Clarke said, show students that everyone needs healing and growth, no matter how composed they seem in the hallways or on the sports field.

But he is at home with Jesuit spirituality. A formative moment came in the 1970s when he was a student at Jesuit-run Gonzaga University. He read an essay by the Jesuit superior general Father Pedro Arrupe, who explained that the Gospel impels us to be people for others.

One of the biggest changes he’s observed in family life is that fewer parents of students are regulars at Mass. That makes it harder to convince teens that they must attend their parishes, but Clarke encourages them constantly.

“When I started reading it, I was one person,” Clarke said.

“When I finished reading it, I was another person.”

His advice to youth ministers: Show up at your students’ games, plays and concerts. That can open their hearts to your message. As for designing retreats, make sure to include some popular music, or the teens will never sing the religious songs.

After graduating from Gonzaga, he worked for a volunteer program in Seattle and was formed further by Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, who spoke out against the military industrial complex in Washington state. Clarke came to see the church as a vital force for good in public life.

There is a lot on Clarke’s list of duties in addition to a mountain of Masses and retreats. He coaches an entry-level Jesuit softball team, but won’t have games or practices on weekends.

When tragedy strikes — like the death of a teacher or student — Clarke organizes the speedy response for everyone.

Brigitte Mepham, a senior, said she appreciates Clarke’s authenticity about faith and its demanding implications.

“He will tell you what he is thinking, definitely,” Mepham said.

“He cares enough about you to tell you what he thinks is good for you or important.” Mepham will remain involved in church life in large part because of Clarke’s influence.

Clarke’s wife, Mary Jo, just retired after 30 years as a family doctor. They have two grown children, both of whom graduated from Jesuit. Clarke’s parents, Pat and Cartan Clarke, live in Georgia.

Luke Stream, a senior who is a sacristan at school Masses, said Clarke is lighthearted and serious in the right proportion. “You know the importance of things, but he has a good time with us,” Stream explained, adding that Clarke’s reverence for the Eucharist has helped students see the Mass in a new way.

“What Don has really meant to Jesuit is the spiritual transformation of every student and staff member who has walked these halls in the past 23 years,”

Celina Poppe, in Clarke’s youth group and choir at St. Therese Parish more than 30 years ago, is now campus minister at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City. Poppe said that Clarke inspired her vocation.

Don Clarke, Jesuit's campus ministry director for the last 23 years, has been an integral force in the growth and popularity of the school's multitude of campus ministry offerings.

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“My favorite thing about him is that he is real,” Poppe said.

“He was not preaching to us. For him, it was us going through life together.”

Athletics College Scholarships: Shimmer and Shadow

BY MIKE HUGHES ’79, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

This past February, twelve talented, healthy and dedicated student-athletes signed letters of intent to attend outstanding colleges and universities across the nation. While a few were signing partial scholarships, most were earning full rides to Division I universities. The ceremony was a celebration of years of effort, determination, resiliency, sacrifice, grit, and tenacity by these motivated and gifted student-athletes.

Fittingly, there were many smiles, hugs, balloons, college sweatshirts and photos to mark the occasion. Delighted parents with cameras flashing were rightfully proud of the hard work and commitment by their children that led to this profound moment. school wrestlers receiving a college scholarship. Depending on the sport, the majority of high school athletes will never receive any financial support for playing sports in college.

College athletes embody many outstanding values and character traits that we admire and honor. Beyond natural physical talents, no one excels at that level without years of training and sacrifice. Renowned writer and sociologist Malcolm Gladwell coined the phrase, “the ten-thousand-hour rule” to describe the amount of deliberate practice that is needed to be world-class in any field. Most college-bound athletes have invested thousands of hours into school practices, club practices, weight training, watching film, cross-training, rehabilitation, conditioning runs, and countless other obligations. Beyond the physical training, there are highly regarded emotional and mental attributes needed to succeed at this rare level: resiliency, especially in the face of injuries and constant soreness; the constant choice to live a healthy lifestyle; time management and the juggling of homework and social time with a demanding training and competition schedule. All have embraced suffering, sacrifice, hard work and commitment to reach their goals of a college scholarship. They should be honored, praised and emulated.

More than one parent has joked with me that the amount of money they spent on club traveling teams in the attempt for their child to earn a college scholarship would have been better invested if they simply put that money into a savings account for college. And those comments were by parents whose children were receiving an athletic scholarship!

It is important that parents and athletes realize the narrow odds when making choices about their high school season. It is my belief that if your son or daughter is talented, the right college will find them, and they will have a beautiful college experience. I find it disturbing that in search of the almighty college scholarship, some high school athletes are making unfortunate choices. Many middle school students are forgoing playing multiple sports by focusing on just one sport as early as 5th or 6th grade. They – or their parents – feel they must specialize early in one sport to become the best. This excessive focus on one sport may have short-term gains, but often leads to burnout, repetitive use injuries, and a lack of overall athleticism that college scouts desire. Many college coaches now actively recruit multi-sport athletes because they find them more mentally focused, joyful about their sport, and less injury prone.

Paralleling this insight is a recent study that showed that 88% of all football players drafted into the NFL played multiple sports in high school.

But there is a shadow side to the almighty college scholarship.

Trends among some high school students and their parents are troubling. As the cost of college increases, the lure of free tuition produces a gravitational force that sometimes pulls athletes and their families in a direction that is neither healthy nor life-giving. Others have written about the increase of performance-enhancing drugs by those seeking a college scholarship, but I find the issues we face at Jesuit are more insidious than steroids and can result in a breakdown of the Jesuit community and harm the student-coach relationship.

The proliferation of profit-making clubs and private coaching can also cast shadows on the college scholarship quest. There are many talented club coaches (including Jesuit coaches who work for private clubs in the off season), and many Jesuit students have made huge gains by playing a club sport. But, like most things, balance is the key and some have crossed the line.

Several clubs, like Timbers and Thorns soccer academies, forbid their athletes from playing high school sports. Other private coaches are encouraging their athletes – whose families are pay-

Statistics indicate how rare and unlikely college scholarships really are: according to 2017 NCAA statistics, the probability of a high school athlete receiving a college scholarship in volleyball or women’s basketball is 3.9%. In football it is higher at 6.8%, but in men’s basketball it is lower at 3.4%. The highest opportunity is in women’s ice hockey where 24.1% of those playing in high school will receive a college scholarship, and the lowest opportunity is men’s wrestling with only 2.8% of high

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Left: Students sign college letters of intent. Middle: Cam Mahoney '18 (signed to Central Washington University, football). Right: Sydney Collins '18 (signed to University of California, Berkeley, soccer) and Caroline Lee '18 (signed to Cornell University, fencing).

ing them thousands of dollars each year – to forgo their high school experience in order to train year-round with their private trainer. These academies and private coaches have turned sport into a business and athletics has now become a full-time job. Gone are the pep assemblies, team dinners, games in your school gym, silly bus rides, and playing in front of the home town crowd. Instead, sports becomes year round training, conditioning, recruiting videos, and showcase travel tournaments with no variety in the sport and little rest for the body or soul.

training in her workout routines. Most importantly, this fall she will be playing high school volleyball. She’ll be training and competing with her high school friends, some whom she has played with since grade school. She will be playing in Knight Gym in front of hundreds of her cheering classmate. She’ll have sleepovers with her teammates. She’ll laugh and cry in the back of the school bus on the way home from local games. She will stand proudly with her team in front of the student body at pep assemblies. She will eat pre-game team dinners in our cafeteria.

She will win games and lose games with the love and support of her friends, teachers, parents and community members. In short, she will be a high school kid.

The parent and high school coach relationship has also become strained by the gravitational weight of college scholarships.

Many parents feel that if their child is not a varsity starter by sophomore year, in just the right position, there is no hope for that $200,000 to $300,000 tuition prize. Some parents have pulled their children out of Jesuit because they didn’t like the position the coach assigned to their child. Gone is the value of teaching athletes to sacrifice for the team and promoting community and the common good. For some it becomes primarily about getting the best stats and the right recruiting video footage. Misunderstandings happen in all communities, but tensions between coaches and parents seem to be on the rise as the cost of college tuition and the financial value of a college scholarship increases.

This fall we will host another college signing ceremony in Jesuit’s Knight Gym. I will stand proudly by our athletes as they shine in their deserved spotlight, rewarded for their efforts in the classroom, on the court and in the community. I hope you will also stand by me in promoting the values of the Jesuit community and avoiding the shadows of the college scholarship quest. Encourage your sons and daughters to fully immerse themselves in their high school sports. They must train hard, but they also must laugh bountifully and play the sports they love with passion and joy.

In full disclosure, I must reveal that while I am writing this article, I am on a college athletic visit with my junior daughter who is a volleyball player at Jesuit. This is the fifth college athletic visit in the past four months. Tomorrow she is with her team in Washington at a club volleyball tournament. Next weekend, she is in Salt Lake City at a showcase volleyball tournament where several college coaches will be watching her.

But as we embrace this college scholarship quest, we are trying to navigate it with balance and perspective. For example, next weekend my daughter is arriving late to her club tournament because she wants to participate as a leader on Jesuit’s sophomore overnight retreat. For the past two years, we have encouraged her to participate on Jesuit’s track and field team and in CYO basketball to maintain both the joy of sport and cross

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Many often misquote 1 Timothy 6:10 in the Bible by saying, “Money is the root of all evil.” But the actual quote is much more instructive: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

Money is not the issue; rather, it is the obsession with money and the disordered attachment in priorities. I think it is true with a college scholarship. A full ride can be a wonderful blessing if approached with balance and grace. But we must avoid falling in love with a college scholarship. Instead, we must fall in love with sport; fall in love with play; fall in love with health, fitness, teamwork, honor, sacrifice, comradery, and joy of the game. If your children do that, then for the elite few the scholarships will take care of themselves.

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Diversity Update

A Year of Conversation and Critical Thinking crimination or violence because of who they are. This fall, faculty and students filled the chapel as students read from Corinthians. Students left us with questions to think about throughout the day. The prayer service included a description about Matthew Shepard and what happened to him, as well as student reflections about their experiences being gay at Jesuit.

Many were heartbreaking, while others were hopeful and inspiring.

BY MELISSA LOWERY, DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

What a great year it has been for Jesuit’s Diversity and Inclusion program! We have grown with the help of more students and faculty participating in opportunities that enhance our understanding of each other and the world around us. This year we’ve focused on issues of race and identity. Our focus has led to many productive conversations that have encouraged critical thinking.

U of O Student Initiative Admissions Visit

Welcome Back Picnic

This is the second year we have had the opportunity to bring a group of African American students to the UO to participate in their African American Opportunities Program, an accelerated effort to recruit African-American students to the university, and the hiring of African-American faculty members, including the launching of a new African-American studies cluster in the College of Arts and Sciences. We spent the day visiting with UO students and listening to faculty speak about admissions, financial aid opportunities, and campus life and getting detailed insight on the college experience from the perspective of being African American. This has become one of the year’s highlights for many of our students.

We kicked off the school year with our annual Welcome Back Picnic in August, which was a huge success. For the first time, we had one big event instead of separate events. Families of color came together and joined in fellowship, food and small group discussions. We had student speakers introduce new students and families. It was a great space for networking for new families and catching up for our older families.

Matthew Shepard Prayer Service Every year our Unity Club hosts a prayer service for Matthew Shepard, where we pray for anyone who has experienced dis-

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Assembly On January 11, students and faculty honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a special assembly. Mike Hughes began the assembly with a prayer which included a reading from Dr. King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail and a personal reflection of growing up in the 1960s. Students then presented about civil rights activists whose stories may not have been talked about or well known, including Muhammad Ali, Elizabeth Martinez, Septima Clark, and Erin Braden (to name just to name a few!). Maya Williams ’19 performed a slam poem entitled USA Today and ended with a standing ovation. Students then watched a video about the work that Georgetown University has begun in sustaining a longterm process to engage the historical role of the university in the institution of slavery and its legacies in our nation. It was a “This trip helped me look at the University of Oregon as a place I could see great example of a Jesuit school leading the myself going to school. I learned about the diversity and campus life for charge on making peace with their history black students and faculty.” – Amyr Lowe ‘18 and creating a legacy of truth, love and reconciliation. The assembly ended with a performance by a group of students singing Sam Cooke’s A Change Gone Come accompanied by a slide show of In November, we continued the conversation around the defiimages from the Civil Rights Movement to current movements nition of the terms, “Diversity and Inclusion.” Many students like the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter. appreciated the open and honest conversation that brought to light awareness around race and diversity specifically. Unity Club then hosted a Brown Bag on Gender Identity. The club leaders discussed LGBTQ issues, gender norms and stereotypes and how to have conversations around those issues.

Creating spaces to share and grow Creating spaces for students and faculty to share their thoughts and feelings about the current climate and views in this county and in the world is an important priority for us as a school. The importance of acknowledging the various effects our society has on us as an Ignatian college prep school and as individuals is a crucial part in preparing our students to be men and women for others. In addition to our yearly events, Brown Bags have been a great tool we have utilized to support this effort.

At the end of the month, we had the pleasure of hosting Native American activist and storyteller Ed Edmo, who blessed us with stories on Northwest tribal culture and a walk through his own history as Shoshone-Bannock.

In December, Gender Equality hosted a Brown Bag for the non-profit organization Girls Inc. Subjects included women’s empowerment, self-identity, sharing personal stories and coming up with ideas to improve our school environment. Gender equality is looking forward to hosting an event for our Jesuit community in the spring.

In October, we had a Brown Bag on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). This event was hosted by our Orgullo Latino Club members. Subjects included the nuts and bolts of DACA, who it was for, how it works, and how as a community we can help. We had the pleasure of welcoming alum and immigration lawyer JJ Gonzalez ’97 for this discussion.

“I thought the MLK assembly was very informative and creative. I liked the slam poetry and how it highlighted different issues that are going on in our society today.

I thought it made our student body uncomfortable in a good way."

– Farida Abdelmoneum '20

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Financial Aid Luncheon

Thank You for Your Support!

Thank you to everyone who attended our Financial Aid Luncheon on November 28, 2017. Our keynote speaker, Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J., delivered a riveting and passionate talk about the power of radical kinship and captivated our audience of nearly 700. We were also blessed to have Chantal Reyes '18 share her Jesuit journey and convey her gratitude for the generous donors who make it possible for her to attend Jesuit. Learning about 1995 alumnae Lisa Varela Boli's strong desire to give back to Jesuit from a young age and her commitment to paying tuition for a student was another highlight.

We are grateful to everyone whose generous support helped us raise over $515,000 for financial aid at our Financial Aid Luncheon.

Your generosity makes it possible for 330 students to attend Jesuit. Thank you!

Thank you to our 2017 Financial Aid Luncheon Committee Members!

Chairs Gigi Van Rysselberghe & Tammy Wilhoite Andrea Arnot Desiree Baldocchi Chris Barhyte Nancy Bolton Kristin Kaden Dreyer Leslie Ganz Karl Glaser Marni Goodman Naomi Inman Kathi McCoy

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Auction News The Greatest Auction on Earth Turns 50 Since the first Jesuit High School Auction was held in 1968, the world has changed significantly. Communication has been revolutionized by technology and the internet, the economy is global, and people have become more environmentally conscious.

Jesuit High School has changed, too. The student body has Jesuit High School's Auction, originating in 1968 and named "The increased in number and diversity. Male and female students Greatest Auction on Earth," is celebrating a 50-year tradition of play on state-of-the-art fields and perform in high-tech generosity at this year's event. theaters. They communicate wirelessly throughout the campus, perform thousands of hours of Christian service, and worship by the hundreds each Friday.

One thing that has not changed in all these years is Jesuit High School’s incomparable mission to graduate academically competent students dedicated to serving others. Another is the generosity of the school community in ensuring this success.

The Auction remains Jesuit’s largest annual fundraiser. Our success is built on our shared belief in the Jesuit mission and that an education grounded in Ignation principles changes not only the students it impacts, but also those whom the students come in contact.

Auction Fun Facts • The name of the auction, The Greatest Auction on Earth, remained unchanged for 22 years.

• The JHS Auction is one of the first auctions in the state of Oregon.

Thank you to all our sponsors, donors, advertisers and volunteers who have helped us reach our goals year after year. This great continuum of generosity has contributed to changing lives then, now, and into the future.

In keeping Jesuit accessible, affordable, and diverse, Molly and Matt Bordonaro, along with Randi and Pat Reiten, are serving as this year’s event chairs. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the JHS Auction is on Saturday, May 5, 2018 where we will radiate love with an amazing Fiesta del Sol. Please join us to honor the many reasons why we love Jesuit and to support the school's mission to form “men and women for others.”

2018 JHS Auction Presented by:

• In the early years, the live auction was proceeded by a three-day silent auction where admission was free and open to the public.

• In 1983, the Auction was split over two weekends with the addition of “Sunday Fun Day.” • A 2000 red Jaguar purchased at the 1999 Auction is the single highest grossing item, bringing in a whopping $46,500.

• The Auction has always taken place on campus.

• Ticket for Tuition, instituted in 2015, has raised $59,350.

• The highest grossing special appeal, honoring John and Gina Gladstone in 2016, is $1.8 million.

• From 1968-2017, the Auction has contributed $24.9 million to the school.

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Legacy Club Finding Comfort in Faith and Family

BY DIANE SALZMAN, VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT

Craig and June Cooley’s story together began in 1970 in San Francisco, where they first met and began dating. June was from San Francisco and Craig’s family laid down roots five generations ago in the Northwest’s Willamette Valley. The couple chose Oregon as the place where they would raise children and establish their careers.

Craig pursued a career in the real estate profession as agent and broker. He was Stan Wiley’s #1 sales person and was named Washington County Realtor of the Year twice. He started Craig Cooley Company Realtors in 1978 with a 30 person sales team.

Craig sold Craig Cooley and Company and finished his real estate sales career with Prudential NW. He now manages Cooley Investments.

June began her career in the packaging industry selling retail paper packaging in 1973 for Zellerbach Paper Company and was Zellerbach’s first woman outside sales representative. June went on to co-found her first company, Bonita Packaging. She sold her interest in Bonita to start another business, Mack Cooley Marketing, with her business partner Anna Mack. They created bags, boxes, and gift wrap, bringing Passport Gift Wrap and Kolor Kollars to the marketplace. At their new company, they also developed specialty packaging for a little company at the time, called Amazon.

The Cooleys raised their sons, Aaron ’94 and Chad ’96, in the Portland area. Aaron was an actor from the age of three. He hosted his own TV show, Popcorn, a weekly series featuring a panel of pre-teens addressing topics of relevance to children.

Since Aaron wanted to pursue acting, he knew that Jesuit would be a great fit and he became great friends with Jeff Hall, Jesuit’s Drama Director.

“Aaron’s class is a tight knit group,” says June. “Aaron bonded with the guys from his class and they still meet regularly, coming from all over the U.S.” June attributes Aaron’s enduring friendships with his Jesuit classmates to the school’s closeknit community. “The retreats, especially the junior Encounter, were instrumental in Aaron’s life and created an environment where he and his friends could develop deep, interpersonal relationships.”

After graduating from Jesuit, Aaron studied at Yale. He soon realized that he enjoyed writing more than acting and pursued a career as a screenwriter and author. Aaron currently is Head of

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Development and Associate Producer for Joel Schumacher, film director, screenwriter and producer. Aaron just completed writing a TV series for Netflix, and has written Shaken, Not Stirred, Guns of Ridgewood, and Four Seats.

Chad, the Cooley’s youngest son, chose Jesuit because “Chad wanted an environment where there were like-minded students,” says Craig. “He developed a passion for running crosscountry and track. To this day, Chad keeps in touch with Coach 'Roth,' Tom Rothenberger."

Chad graduated from Colgate University with a degree in political science. He decided to pursue a career in commercial real estate and is now a principal at AWH Partners—which owns Spire Hospitality, a top-tier national hospitality platform, and AWH Partners. Included in Chad’s holdings is the Washington Square Embassy Suites.

In 2002, Chad offered to speak with Jesuit students about the impact of 9/11. A year prior, he narrowly escaped the second World Trade Center Tower with his life. The students were captivated by his presentation. In 2011, a month after the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack, Chad spoke at Jesuit’s Financial Aid Luncheon, sharing his terrifying account of helping others out of the South Tower as the building was crumbling around them. Chad attributed his desire to help those in need that Continued on page 21

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Building Bridges JHS Hosts Leadership Training for Middle Schools

BY KATIE AMANN '18

This February, members of the Jesuit High School Student Government hosted eighth graders from St. Ignatius and St. Andrew Nativity Middle Schools for the first-annual Ignatian Leadership Training Day (ILTD).

Students spent the day listening and learning from speakers and from each other. Activities included icebreaker games, which enabled students from different schools to make connections and learn about each other’s communities.

Jesuit students led activities and presentations focused on diversity and inclusion, attention to detail, and collaboration. The high schoolers also set up a makerspace designed to encourage innovation and creativity.

Julie Nguyen ’20 led a thought-provoking discussion on the importance of diversity and guided students through a language barrier activity designed to acknowledge the importance of inclusion. Katie Amann ’18 gave a presentation on attention to detail and gave students the opportunity to plan a school spirit week. The day ended with Mitch McCullough ‘18 challenging students to use their creativity, ingenuity, and engineering skills to race robots across an obstacle course.

The purpose of ILTD was to strengthen the Jesuit community in Portland and work together to improve students’ leadership skills. Members of the Jesuit student government look forward to building on the success of this year’s event, hopefully expanding it to other middle schools in the future.

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Photo/Kristin Hiefield '02

Eighth graders from St. Ignatius and St. Andrew Nativity team up to race robots across an obstacle course.

Craig and June believe in giving back to Jesuit and their community. Craig served on the Parent Board while his sons attended Jesuit. He volunteers his time every year as a presenter for JHS Career Day. June was a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) NW Board of Directors for six years, chairing the organization for two years. “Social justice and service for others are important to our family,” states Craig. “Jesuit emphasizes giving back. Prior to our affiliation with Jesuit 25 years ago, we weren’t hearing much about that concept from our children’s schools.”

dreadful day and his sheer will to find a way out of the building to his Jesuit education and Coach Roth. “Coach Roth would tell the students to just keep putting one foot in front of the other as they grew weary running a race or participating in a meet,” stated June. “Perseverance is the key to success.”

“Jesuit emphasizes giving back ...

Social justice and service for others are very important for our family.“

The Cooleys thank God every day for the health and safety of their two sons and their families. They credit Jesuit High School with helping to develop Several years ago, Craig and their sons spiritually, academi– Craig Cooley, Legacy Club member June Cooley became Legacy cally, and athletically. Jesuit Club members by making a High School has provided a foundation of support for Craig and June over the years. When planned gift that will benefit Jesuit in the future. “We are Legacy faced with medical challenges in their lives, their faith and the Club members because we want to make a difference in the lives Jesuit community provided necessary comfort and reassurance. of many families,” says June. “Helping to ensure that a Jesuit Craig converted to Catholicism in 1978 and deeply believes in education is available for years to come is one of the best legacies we can think of.”

Ignatian pedagogy and philosophy.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP JESUIT LIKE THE COOLEYS AND HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON OUR JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY, PLEASE CONTACT DIANE SALZMAN AT 503-291-5497 OR DSALZMAN@JESUITPORTLAND.ORG.

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BY JEFF HALL, JHS DRAMA CO-DIRECTOR • GALA PHOTOS BY LOIS O'HALLORAN

On January 6, more than 85 alumni returned to the Alex L. Parks Performing Arts Center to celebrate its 20th anniversary, reprising moments from all 29 musicals (and more than a few plays) that have been produced there since its construction. Performers ranging from industry professionals to closet hobbyists joined cast members from Jesuit’s latest theatrical outing – Disney’s NEWSIES – and a full house of enthusiastic audience members in the Marilyn Moyer Theatre, to honor the community that was given a new home when the PAC officially opened in January 1998.

The result? More than three-and-a-half hours of entertainment, featuring members of nearly every graduating class since 1993.

The scope of the event, though, went well beyond its marathon performance, or even the 20-year history it was celebrating. Isaac Lamb ’98 served as one of the evening’s emcees. He explained, “I think it’s clear that we’re not just celebrating a building tonight, we’re celebrating a place that many of us – all of us – called home … a safe place for us to come and figure out who we were, what we wanted to be, and how we wanted to change the world.”

Lamb, who has gone on to a successful performing career, was in all three of the productions presented in the PAC during its inaugural year, including the first musical in the building, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, presented in the E.L. Wiegand Studio Theatre in the fall of 1997, before the Moyer Theatre was completed.

Lamb was joined by five additional principal cast members from that first show – Matt Dunne ’98, Courtney Freed ’98, Abby (Irwin) Guildner ’99, Robyn Powell-Herbold ’99, and Marianna Thielen ’00. Together, they kicked off the second half of the evening by launching a medley of memorable moments from the past two decades.

Thielen performs professionally today with her husband, Reece Marshburn—who provided piano accompaniment and musical direction for the evening—as The Bylines. Guildner, who was the first leading lady in the PAC’s now storied history of star turns, is probably most familiar to audiences in her uncredited role as “the voice of the PAC.” Before every performance, it is her voice – recorded in 1998 – that delivers the somewhat outdated request to silence “all watch alarms, mobile phones, and pagers.”

“We’ve talked about updating that announcement,” explains Jesuit Drama’s co-director Elaine Kloser, “but we can’t bring ourselves to do it. We even planned to have Abby record a new one to commemorate the 20th anniversary, but it’s a piece of history we just don’t want to let go.”

A seventh member of the ONCE ON THIS ISLAND cast appeared via a pre-recorded video, as Lisa Ferris ’01, was flanked by her siblings Kirby ’97 and Jill ’07, in a greeting from Australia. Combined, the Ferrises count involvement in 24 JHS productions among them.

Other well-represented shows included a majority of the cast members from 2015’s HANDS ON A HARDBODY, 2013’s 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, and nearly all of the principal characters from 2010’s LES MISERABLES, which brought the audience to its feet with the show’s rousing “One Day More.”

Top: Abby (Irwin) Guildner ’99 provides a rare live rendition of her nowfamous “Welcome to the Marilyn Moyer Theatre” announcement that plays before every JHS Drama Production, asking audience members since 1998 to silence their “mobile phones, watch alarms, and pagers.”

The two-hour medley that comprised Act Two was preceded by a 90-minute introduction to the alumni cast, in a series of cabaretstyle performances that offered a glimpse of where they are now.

This ranged from current college students, such as Casey Collins

Bottom: Stephen Beard ’09, Paul Danowski ’18 and Mike Wenrick ’96 don their “amazing technicolor dreamcoats” once again, as a trio of Josephs face off from across more than two decades of performances.

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’14 and Jack Levis ’16 – whose dueling renditions of “Taylor the Latte Boy” and “Taylor’s Rebuttal” brought down the house – to professionals from inside and outside the entertainment industry, such as real estate developer Matt Edlen ’05 or Nike Production Manager Mike “Tuba” McKinsey ’97.

McKinsey sang a moving tribute to Fr William Hayes, S.J., who considered the PAC to be a crown jewel in the list of achievements and resources he brought to JHS. McKinsey graduated the year before the PAC opened. “I’ve only performed here at these alumni events,” he mused. Though his first JHS Drama production was not until his senior year, he credits his high school participation in theatre and choir for the success he had as a professional actor and vocalist, before moving into production work. “I would not be the person I am today without my JHS arts education. From choir to theatre arts, it was transformative.”

While McKinsey was one of a handful of alums who graduated before the PAC was opened, he was not the oldest member of the alumni cast and crew at the event. That honor went to Aaron (Gniewosz) Leatherwood ’93, whose wife Amy (Bernel) Leatherwood appeared on stage with him, though she is not a Jesuit alum.

The two met during the production of a JHS musical, GROWING PAINS, while JHS was still an all-boys school, partnering with St Mary’s Academy for its drama productions. This was in 1992, the first year for Jesuit’s very new 29-year-old drama director, and the first opportunity for the duo that would soon be known as “Jeff and Elaine” to work together on a show.

“I was never a stellar student,” Leatherwood claims, “struggling through grade school, junior high, and high school, I felt drawn toward art classes while trying to get by in English, math, and other core courses. I had ‘played’ with lights as a kid, saving up lawn-mowing money to purchase discounted strings of lights after Christmas and using them to endlessly change the look of my bedroom, even hooking them up to old stereo amplifiers to make them blink to the beat.”

“Amy could not have been more different – she was a top performing student, frequently took advanced courses, always did her homework on time, and was generally irritated by arts and crafts classes. I’m not sure we would have even met if it wasn’t for theatre.”

Top: Elaine Kloser and Jeff Hall have been working together since 1990.

In 2004, the two were named JHS Educators of the Year, and in 2016 (as pictured here) were awarded the President’s Age Quod Agis Award at Commencement.

He continues, “Tech Theatre quickly became my favorite class of all time, and I naturally gravitated toward theatrical lighting. I frequently stayed late into the night and on weekends to work on sets and focus lights.” Today, Leatherwood is a certified lighting professional, working as Program Manager and Lighting Specialist for Evergreen Consulting Group, LLC.

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Bottom: Aaron (Gniewosz) Leatherwood ’93 and his wife Amy (Bernel) Leatherwood represented several married alumni who can trace their relationship to meeting while working on a JHS Drama Production. Amy graduated from St Mary’s Academy. Two of their three children also performed in the January 6th performance.

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Mike Wenrick ‘96, Isaac Lamb ‘98 and Kathleen Hooper ’10 were among more than 85 alumni on stage and behind the scenes who helped create the Performing Arts Center’s 20th Anniversary Celebration.

when it was produced two decades ago. “On this island,” Kieran proclaimed, “we tell the story.”

“That production of GROWING PAINS literally changed my life,” he says. “Not only was the cast and crew very inclusive and collaborative, but I met Amy who quickly became my soulmate, lifelong partner, and mother to our three wonderful children.”

Indeed, January 6, was a night of rekindling old stories and creating new ones, as the JHS performing arts community celebrated a legacy of Jesuit theatre and storytelling that extends back to the earliest days of Ignatian education’s 470-year history.

The two were married in 1999. The Leatherwood family today consists of Aaron and Amy, their 6th grade son Kieran, 3rd grade daughter Claire, and two-year-old daughter Elise. Kieran and Claire performed in the 20th anniversary event with a chorus of other alumni children on the anthem, “Look At The World,” a song that was sung at the building’s Opening Dedication, as well as its 10th Anniversary.

In this ever-expanding community (some members of the night’s cast weren’t yet born when others among them were in high school), the Alex L. Parks Performing Arts Center has come to represent a creative, collaborative community of storytelling. Those stories, of course – like the countless alumni who tell them – can’t be contained within the walls of the PAC alone.

In fact, it was Kieran who was given one of the evening’s final lines, circling back to ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, which served as somewhat of a mission statement for the building

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Growing Up in the PAC and Coming Full Circle

BY KATHY BAARTS, ALUMNI DIRECTOR

As the children of Jeff Hall and wife Koleen, Kelsey '09 and Michael '11 grew up in Jesuit High School’s original Creative Arts Center (CAC) and the Performing Arts Center (PAC). Musicals were often reenacted in the family living room because they knew the lines after watching hours of rehearsal.

During the PAC’s 20th anniversary celebration in January, Michael commented, “On stage were my babysitters, my classmates, and younger alums that I have been a counselor for at camp. It’s amazing to see your whole life on the stage at one time.”

For the Hall children, the JHS drama program did indeed provide babysitters, cool “big kid” role models, best friends and now, through the camp program Young People’s Theatre Project, Kelsey and Michael are coming full circle by serving as mentors. Kelsey even taught a few of Jeff and Elaine’s classes during the anniversary event!

Kelsey and Michael learned the lessons that every student in the drama program learns – that theatre is about connection and community. "It is really exciting (and sort of surreal) to see how the PAC and the events that take place inside of it continue to provide a home and opportunities for connection for current students,” says Kelsey.

This special program has touched innumberable lives, from those onstage, backstage, and for all of those who have witnessed the breathtaking performances. It is a huge part of why Kelsey and Michael have both pursued careers in theatre.

Kelsey started a graduate program this year, working toward an M.A. in Theatre Education at Catholic University of America. “I don’t ever see myself filling my dad’s or Elaine’s shoes – that would be way too daunting,” says Kelsey. However, she does hope to help young people form lifelong bonds of connection. Kelsey has been involved with orgaSiblings Michael ’11 and Kelsey ’09 Hall surprised their parents – JHS Drama Director Jeff Hall nizations such as Imagination Stage, Young Playand his wife, Koleen – as well as their fellow theatre alums, with a specially selected duet at wrights’ Theater, Round House Theatre, and Everythe January 6 celebration. man Theatre (with Brianna Letourneau McCoy ’07, Education Director). She teaches storytelling through playwriting, improvisation, musical theatre, and creative drama to students of all ages and abilities in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

Michael is a scenic carpenter at Portland Center Stage and continues to be involved with the The Young People’s Theatre Project. “The program and the community that my Dad and Elaine foster at Jesuit had a huge hand in making me into the person I am today," says Michael. "I carry the lessons I learned into every project I am now involved in. Having the chance to return to that community on full display was an incredible gift, and a truly unforgettable experience."

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A 20-Year Snapshot of

JESUIT DRAMA

1998: The Wiz

2010: Les Misérables

2008: Little Women

2001: West Side Story

2007: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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2012: Singin’ in the Rain

2018: Newsies

2013: The 39 Steps

2015: In the Heights 2014: Shrek

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A Path to Serve After making that decision, Paul’s life changed radically as he continued to search for ways to strengthen his faith. He joined the Knights, was a Eucharistic Minister and Sacristan, and led many retreats. Greg Allen also had a tremendous influence on Paul’s spiritual life. As Greg taught teenage boys moral and ethical perspectives, Paul found himself reflecting on his life daily.

BY KATHY BAARTS, ALUMNI DIRECTOR

Paul Grubb ’91 remembers three specific moments at Jesuit High School that transformed him and paved his path to becoming a Jesuit.

The first was an Encounter during his junior year as a transfer student. Fr. David Oliver, S.J., encouraged Paul to participate in the October Encounter to help him adjust to a new school, strengthen his prayer and welcome in the loving community around him. During that powerful experience, Paul felt a true connection to God.

“The 80s wasn’t a time of deep reflection, but for me, this was mind blowing,” Paul said. “Greg’s class helped me to choose wisely in high school.”

The final moment that served to reaffirm Paul’s decision to become a Jesuit took place at a fundraising dinner held in the Student Center. Paul was a server that evening, and after the meal he was elbows deep in dishwater when Fr. William Hayes, S.J., walked into the kitchen. Though Fr. Hayes played an important role during the fundraising event, he took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and started scrubbing the dirty dishes with Paul.

Several weeks later on November 16, Paul experienced a second profound moment. During class that day, Principal Dick Gedrose’s voice came over the intercom and asked the school community to meet in Mary’s Way. After students and staff congregated together, Fr. Bill Hayes, S.J., and Fr. Tony Harris, S.J., informed the student body that their Jesuit brothers, their housekeeper and her daughter had been murdered in El Salvador.

As the community bowed their heads in prayer, Paul was overwhelmed and his head flooded with questions. Who would murder a Jesuit? These were men Paul admired and often thought of as superheroes. As he stood next to his Encounter brothers, Bill Kennedy and Zach Jones, Paul opened his heart in prayer. It was in this moment, deep in prayer, that he knew – without a doubt – that he wanted to volunteer his life as a Jesuit. He wanted to feel the joy, selflessness, heroic integrity, alacrity and perseverance that he had witnessed in the Jesuits who surrounded him each day.

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“As a Jesuit priest, they just go to work. I knew at that moment that this was what I wanted to do,” Paul said.

Since his path started in the halls of Jesuit High School, Paul requested that his final vows take place at JHS on October 17, 2017, at the Mass of St. Ignatius.

“I decided to have the Mass at Jesuit because this is where it all started – being a happy, holy, healthy student. This is where my initial ques-

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Paul Grubb's Path to Jesuit Formation August 1998 Entered novitiate, a chance to determine if Jesuit life is the right choice

August 2000 First vows of poverty, chastity and obedience

June 2003 Earned Masters of Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago

Paul Grubb ’91 leading Mass at Jesuit in 2009.

tions of, ‘Could I do that? Would I be happy?’ began,” he said. “And as a vocation promoter, it is always good when students can see what a dedication to religious life looks like.”

During that special Mass, the joy in Paul's heart radiated in his smile as he wore a stole that was handmade for his ordination in 2008. Grandma Nellie Speelman, an elder and mentor to Paul, blessed him with a Native American tradition of sweet grass and burning cedar to “burn away anything that you need gone.”

“My final vows at Mass felt like being home, because there were so many people there who have loved and supported me. I taught here for so many years, and I feel like I am in a relationship with the faculty and students … I felt like I was in a room with my closest friends.”

People often ask Paul how it feels now that he has taken final vows.

2003 Started regency, teaching at Gonzaga Prep from 2003-05

May 2008 Earned Masters of Divinity from University of Toronto, Regis College

June 2008 Ordination at St James Cathedral in Seattle

2008 Ministry at Jesuit High School

“Fr. James Martin said it best. With a Jesuit taking final vows, it is like an affirmation that you are now a member of the family – for better or worse. I love being a part of the Jesuit family. I have a tremendous amount of gratitude, and I want to give back every day.”

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After the Alumni Food Drive this past year, Paul stayed until the very end, sweeping floors in the Student Center. It brought him back to the day Fr. Hayes helped him wash dishes. The simple act of sweeping truly epitomizes Paul’s life as a Jesuit – one of helping others. And he couldn’t be more honored to serve.

Final vows taken at St. Ignatius Mass at JHS

Tertianship in Australia

October 2017

“I love being a part of the Jesuit family.

I have a tremendous amount of gratitude, and I want to give back every day.”

– Fr. Paul Grubb, S.J., '91

Left: Fr. Paul Grubb, S.J., and Grandma Nellie Speelman (Northern Cheyenne in Montana) after his final vows in October 2017. Right: Paul's senior photo (1991).

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Alumna Takes on Top Federal Post At confirmation hearing, Kate O’Scannlain ’95 tells U.S. Senators that her journey began at Jesuit High School

BY MICHELLE LEIS FOLEY ’06, COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Jesuit alumna Kate O'Scannlain '95 received a prodigious and humbling gift this Christmas.

On December 21, 2017, the U.S. Senate confirmed her appointment as the new Federal Labor Solicitor. O'Scannlain now holds the thirdranking position at the Department of Labor, where she leads as chief in-house counsel overseeing one of the government's largest legal shops with nearly 500 attorneys.

As Labor Solicitor, O'Scannlain is tasked with enforcing federal workplace statutes. She also plays an instrumental role in shaping national policy and reviewing labor regulations.

O'Scannlain At her confirmation hearing last November, O’Scannlain spoke about her experience transferring into Jesuit shortly after the school went co-ed in 1993, and she revealed the formative role that Jesuit played in her life:

“You might say that my journey to this appointment began my junior year at Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon in Father Larry Robinson’s U.S. History Class,” she told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. “I remember vividly the day Father Robinson wrote the name ‘Frances Perkins’ on the chalkboard and called on me to answer what was unique about the spelling of Frances—an ‘e’ instead of an ‘i’ —a woman’s spelling.”

Now confirmed, O’Scannlain goes to work every day in a building named after Frances Perkins, who served as the first-ever female cabinet member under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Perkins

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was also the longest serving secretary of labor and the first woman in the presidential line of succession.

“Kate is a very talented hard worker,” Father Robinson told Portland’s Catholic Sentinel news. “It was nice of her to remember me like that [at her confirmation].”

Father Robinson, who retired to Los Gatos, CA in June 2017 after 50 years at Jesuit High School, has remained in touch with O’Scannlain over the years. He celebrated at her wedding and wrote her a letter of recommendation for the University of Notre Dame, where she attended as an undergraduate and law student.

O’Scannlain received her B.A. cum laude with a degree in economics and a public policy concentration in 1999. After undergrad, she worked as a financial consultant at Arthur Andersen, LLP in Chicago before returning to the Fighting Irish for law school in 2003. O’Scannlain now sits on the board of the Notre Dame Law Association.

Above: Alumna Kate O’Scannlain ’95 with her four children Nolan, Cormac, Bowen and Jane, and husband Matt Johnson. Below: Kate (left) helps sort cans at Jesuit’s 1994 student food drive along with classmates Brooke Wheary, Kristin Jorge and Erin Bissonnette.

Prior to her appointment as Labor Solicitor, O’Scannlain worked for a dozen years as an associate and litigation partner at the Washington, D.C. offices of powerhouse legal firm Kirkland & Ellis. At Kirkland, she specialized in employment and labor law with a focus in mergers and acquisitions. There, her work representing businesses such as Nationwide Insurance and the Blackstone investment group landed her on Reuter’s list of “Super Lawyers.”

jority Whip John Cornyn, R-Tex. O’Scannlain’s four children Nolan, Cormac, Bowen, and Jane also attended the hearing along with five of her seven siblings, including fellow Jesuit High School alumni Sean ’82 and Kevin ’88.

O’Scannlain’s parents, members of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in Portland, were also present.

“We are all very proud of her!” said O’Scannlain’s sister-in-law Melinda.

According to Bloomberg News, O’Scannlain’s former Kirkland colleagues describe her as gregarious and open-minded with a “penchant for fair, expedient resolution,” which they say even won her compliments from opposing counsel.

Armed with a top legal résumé, O’Scannlain says she is prepared to take on the duty of protecting U.S. workers.

“We are at a critical time in history for the American Worker as our employers and labor force face increasingly complex issues,” O’Scannlain told senators last November. “I pledge to tackle these challenges with the thoughtfulness and care that they merit.”

O’Scannlain comes from a strong family tradition of legal practice, and she isn’t the first in the family to have a presidential appointment under her belt. Until this past year, her father Diarmuid O’Scannlain served as an active U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Ninth Circuit. O’Scannlain senior was appointed

by President Reagan back in 1986.

At her confirmation hearing, she pinpointed more than a dozen challenge areas that would likely require her attention as Labor Solicitor in the coming years, including the rise of the gig economy; rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence; an aging workforce; more women in the workplace; the challenges of seasonal and agricultural workforces; revelations of sexual harassment and predatory behavior; a decline in organized labor; the opioid epidemic; and higher compliance costs for small businesses.

Now confirmed, O’Scannlain is the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Department of Labor, a responsibility which she says she does not take lightly.

“It will be my honor to go to work every morning in the Department of Labor Frances Perkins Building,” says O’Scannlain. “I pledge … to bring the totality of my experiences to bear upon the unique challenges facing today’s modern workplace.”

There to support O’Scannlain at her hearing were members of her family, including her husband Matt Johnson, lobbyist for the Klein/Johnson Group and former chief counsel to Senate Ma-

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BY JENNIFER AND PAUL HOGAN

After a bumpy six-hour bus journey from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, we arrived in La Jagua, a remote village tucked into the country’s mountainous midsection. Because the bus had left the airport late, we arrived in La Jagua at 9:45 p.m., two and a half hours behind schedule.

Much to our surprise, about 35 La Jaguans were still waiting for us at the local elementary school. It was very dark, as the electricity had shut off for the evening. As 20 jet-lagged JHigh students stumbled off the bus, the villagers and the gringos stood for a moment in awkward silence until Anderson, La Jagua’s Peace Corps volunteer, introduced us under flickering flashlights.

We exchanged tentative “holas” and, at the insistence of Lucia, the local matriarch, signs of peace. After a few words of welcome translated by Anderson, the villagers quietly dispersed. They must have wondered whether this shy band of American teenagers was really going to be able to help them build the all-weather court they so desperately desired for their community.

As we hauled our gear into the classrooms that would serve as our home for the next 10 days and checked under our mosquito nets for spiders and other creepy crawlers, we too wondered what this adventure held in store.

JHS students and “little kids” take a break from mixing cement to work on their friendship bracelets.

There was so much that we didn’t know – including that these warm-hearted folks, and this village, would prove a crucible of hard work and immense joy, and a source of metanoia (a change of heart) for each of the Jesuit students fortunate enough to have embarked on this journey.

The two of us were certainly eager to get to know the people of La Jagua. But as the adults representing Jesuit on a project so impor-

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tant to this community, we were also determined to get the dang court built.

Imagine our frustration when we walked the 1.5 miles to the work site the first morning in La Jagua to discover that the sand and gravel had not yet arrived, despite the mayor’s promise to deliver them.

In addition, the region’s Catholic priest, who serves 18 villages, had not shown up with the “trumpo” – the cement mixer into which we were supposed to shovel all that gravel and sand.

So, what were 20 able-bodied students and 25 villagers, ranging from 7 to 47 years old, to do after gathering at the work site, gloves in hand? The answer, of course: Emergency Dance Party! Fortunately, Anderson was in possession of a massive bluetooth speaker and an iPhone packed with dance tunes.

Christian Service directors Scott Powers and Andrea Casey make it clear to Jesuit students that the most important part of any service experience is not the project they are working on, but rather the building of authentic friendships with the folks they encounter, and looking hard for Jesus in these relationships.

The first three days in La Jagua found Anderson and Natalie, our terrific in-country Courts for Kids manager, tracking down construction supplies, wheelbarrows and skilled workers. While waiting for materials, the teenagers held at least four more dance parties, one yoga session in the rain (ably led by Diana Nistler ’18), and spent hours braiding friendship bracelets with the children of La Jagua. It was not hard to find Jesus’ smiling face in the midst of such joy, on what did indeed seem the margin of our world.

Taylor Dischinger ’19 describes one way we passed the time: “We hung out with the Dominican kids, some of us kicking soccer balls in the street and others playing dominos. Lacking phones, we were forced to actually talk to each other. Unfortunately, none of us except Jack Chesnutt really speak Spanish, so talking points were

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EDP! (Emergency Dance Party!) Gigi Tresvant ’19 works on her dance moves with a new friend.

Top photo: Matt Hodges '19 plays Roberto's "towel game" in the streets of La Jagua.

quickly exhausted.

“Then a 17-year-old named Roberto left and came back with a towel. Roberto explained that we would use the towel to play a game.

Roberto counted us off, placed us in teams 15 meters apart, then called a number (‘Tres!’), whereupon both teams’ third player would run to the middle, try to snatch the towel and escape, or tag the other side’s towelgrabber. I could spend weeks with a thesaurus and still not accurately convey the joy of that experience.”

JHS delegation, with local leaders Anderson (far left) and Natalie (far right) and La Jagua’s matriarch Lucia (center), celebrate the completion of the court amidst La Jagua’s lush tropical beauty.

ter or Internet access. At first they believed that the locals’ joyfulness came because of this “simple lifestyle,” not in spite of it. But after a few days of building friendships, the JHS students began understanding the corrosive effects of corrupt government officials, which deprived our new friends of basic necessities like water and electricity.

Thanks to Anderson’s and Natalie’s persistence, the materials did eventually show up, and we dug in. We were astonished to see 8-year-old boys, some barefoot, hauling cinderblocks to the worksite. The JHS students joined the local men in shoveling gravel into the trumpo, mixing 50-pound bags of concrete and hauling wheelbarrowloads of wet cement through a jungle path to the court.

We learned the complex history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and the roles that Spain, France and the United States had played in enabling the poverty into which we had entered so deeply. Along with our sore muscles, we could also feel our paradigms shifting. As Jordyn Turner ’19 explains, “The people of La Jagua are impoverished, so you would think that they don’t have much to give. They suffer under a corrupt government which limits their opportunities, despite the villagers’ immense potential. They face injustice every day. But they offered us such an abundance of acceptance, love and selflessness. Despite their poverty, they are rich in spirit.”

Once we started working, we worked HARD. Though we still danced a little at lunchtime, for six straight days the villagers and students sweated together, helped each other haul wheelbarrows, and shoveled sand under the hot sun.

There is nothing like a bath at the end of a hard work day.

Haley Hummelt ’19 recalls a hilarious part of our daily routine – our group bath in the river: “At the end of each day, everyone would head to the river, trying to find a spot with current to get the best stream-flow on our mudcaked bodies. This late-afternoon ritual led to many funny moments, as 22 of us tried to get as clean as possible, while holding on to our soap. It turns out all you need is a river, and you can actually get clean!”

Once we really got into the work, it became clear that the gringos’ and the La Jaguans’ understanding of gender roles were not exactly the same. Several times, we witnessed young men of the village attempt to wrest a shovel or wheelbarrow from the hands of one of our strong young women, only to be shaken off (“It’s ok; I got this!”).

We would then hustle back to the school in the dusk.

One of the most significant portions of our day was yet to come: the nightly debrief, including reflections on where we found Jesus and the Holy Spirit in La Jagua.

Our group grew much closer, and the students’ worldviews started to shift.

Eventually, the girls of La Jagua took note as well. By the last couple of days, several local young women began stepping up for their turns with the shovels.

On our final Sunday in La Jagua, it came time to christen the finally-completed court with a combination liturgical service and, of course, dance party. “One of my favorite memories came when we had an hours-long EDP on the brand new court after the prayers and dedication,” says Haley. “The feeling of finishing the court was rewarding,

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but seeing the smiles on the faces of the community members was even better.”

When students consider their biggest lessons from this journey to La Jagua, they focus on gratitude. As Haley explains, “One thing that really changed when I came back was how grateful I was for the simple things in life: a hot shower, clean plates, a bed, clean clothes, a good education and so much more. The problems that used to keep me up at night no longer bother me as much, as I remember that there are so many other people in the world with a much harder life than mine – including my friends in La Jagua.”

Jordyn absorbed another key lesson from her experience in the Dominican Republic: “Nothing will educate, defeat assumptions and defy ignorance like living in solidarity with people who face injustice on a daily basis. Once we Reyan Tuck '18 and a buddy find time for fun. have that experience, we can work together to create equality and opportunities for all. Together, we can create a more just world.”

About the Authors: Jennifer Hogan is Director of Development at Edison Such a project would mean building much more than a court – perhaps, High School. Paul Hogan is Principal indeed, the Kingdom of God. at Jesuit High School.

STEPPING OVER A THRESHOLD

community of the spirit, join it and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise,” which is a more poetic way of saying "jump." Just jump in.

BY GEORGIA GRAY '19

When we first boarded the plane to the Dominican Republic, I was scared – my inherent tendency is to render myself passive and turn inward. However, stepping off the bus in La Juaga, confronting the humid air, and seeing members of the community who had been waiting for hours, I began to sense the presence of a theme which later would prove to be pervasive: a Georgia offers a ride. threshold. On a literal scale, I was stepping off of a bus, but metaphorically I was entering an experience. One that would change my life.

It was hard. I'm not going to lie. My back ached for weeks, and I had bruises painted on my skin. Even though the work left physical marks on my body, it is never the first thing I bring up when someone asks me about the trip.

I have found that there is no way to describe our immersion. No one quite understands the feeling of the sun beating down while sweat drips off their face and their back is on the verge of collapsing, all while three kids are climbing on them and wanting to play tag. I cannot describe the way authentic Dominican food tastes after a long day. Words like "fun" or "special" do no justice to our experience.

So, in the attempt to help people understand the trip when they ask, I tell them to go. Go live in community with impoverished people. Don't try to fix their problems, just learn in order to understand them. Go get educated about their complex history. Go. Go connect with people of a different race or religion. Go create bonds that last far longer than just 10 days. Go build something that improves lives. Go leave the comfort zone, walk through that threshold, just jump. Go be the noise.

I learned fast that turning inward and staying comfortable limits the impact of one’s service. Community is of paramount importance to the people of La Juaga, and there is no room for selfishness within community. A quote by Rumi in our Christian Service journals reads, "There is a

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ALUMNI Alumni Weekend 2017 was a wonderful way to reconnect and enjoy the Jesuit community. There were alumni from all years present at the alumni social, tailgate, baseball game and family barbecue. The classes of 1967, 1977, 1987 and 1997 celebrated their milestone reunions with specific class gatherings. The class of 2007 celebrated 10 years during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Kirsten Ruchaber and Jeff Wood hosted a student/alumni evening for tennis.

The class of 1987 celebrated 30 years over the three days and had their class gathering at Raccoon Lodge.

The Alumni Golf Tournament raised more than $24,000 for the Alumni Food Drive. The class of ’97 was well represented with several foursomes, including JJ Gonzales, Derek Glos, Reilley Keating and Jonathan Strauhal.

The Durham family, Josh, Lisa ’06 and baby Lucy, were happy to have Fr. Paul Grubb ’91, S.J., preside at Mass.

Thank you to Tyler Baarts '10 for taking the lead and to those who joined us for our summer alumni soccer game.

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WEEKEND 2017

Mike Doleac ’67 showed Kyle Carter ’02 where he was at Memorial Coliseum for the state basketball tournament.

Our community honored the Class of 1967 during their 50-year celebration at halftime of the football game.

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Tim Boyle ’67 met one of our freshman football players before heading onto the field.

Alumni, friends and family gather for a regional event in Chicago at a Bulls game. Bottom left: Nicole Sprunk '05 and Courtney Carter Seymore '00 organized a beach cleanup at Venice Beach and brunch at Nicole's home. Bottom right: Chad Cook ’99 hosts an alumni gathering at his home in San Clemente, California.

Connecting With Alumni

Near and Far for recent grads attending college who may need a home away from home.

BY KATHY BAARTS, ALUMNI DIRECTOR

For the past 10 years, Jesuit High School has been consistently reaching out to alumni who reside outside of Oregon through our Alumni Regional Events. The various events hosted in 10 cities across the nation have been successful at connecting with many of the 25 percent of non-Oregon alumni.

We’ve also established a National Alumni Board (NAB). Our regional representatives from the NAB help to organize events and reach out to alumni in specific areas. Regional NAB members have included Courtney Carter ’00, Jay Riordan ’66 and Rachel Sebastian ’08 in New York City; Katie Patchin Lacy ’00 and Mike Maher ’80 in Seattle; Brian McKelligon ’86 in San Francisco; and Liz Meehan ’00 in Los Angeles. After 10 years, we have established many meaningul relationships and friends in each city, making the trips very rewarding.

The purpose of these events is threefold: First, we are able to catch up with as many alumni as possible – sharing a state-ofthe-school update and learning about their individual journeys.

Second, these events create a network of people that fellow alums can rely on for support, career assistance and friendships.

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When Mary heard that there were more than 150 alumni in New York, she suggested the idea of an annual Jesuit gathering to then-President John Gladstone. Over the six years Mary helped to organize the event, 25 to 40 alums visited with each other each year at the annual event.

headquarters and on the America’s Cup Yacht, respectively.

“We have seen the impact that continuing Jesuit relationships has had on our four Jesuit grads. Lasting, quality relationships are life changing,” said Lisa and Dwight Schwab. “To that end, we welcome the opportunity to support events that our kids will use to continue to nourish their relationships made while at Jesuit High School.”

“A parent’s wish for her children is that they be happy, welladjusted young adults, spiritually and intellectually, as they enter the next level in their college careers and beyond," said Mary, mother to Elizabeth ’03 “I always look forward to Jesuit alumni events and Mac ’07, who both attended college in Upto reconnect with old friends and make new ones. I appreciate meeting state New York.

people from a variety of graduating classes, knowing they’ve walked the same halls and been introduced to the same Ignatian values. Alumni in my area are doing interesting and inspiring things. I love hearing updates about how and what the school is doing now, and I feel comforted by the familiarity of being around good-hearted people.”

Courtney Carter Seymore ’00 was one of the driving forces behind the New York City event. “Personally, it’s been awesome to recon– Katie Zweber '10, attended alumni events in Seattle and San Francisco nect with the special spirit of the school that still resides in its alumni during regional events and to also connect with old and new alumni in my own back- The Washington, D.C. events provide unique opportunities, yard," said Courtney. "I have created some very special personal whether it’s a meeting with Fr. Pat Conroy, S.J., or participation and professional relationships from these gatherings." in the Ignatian Teach-In to hear keynote speakers.

Our regional events vary each year. In some cities, we have held the event at the same restaurants for many years. This is the case for the Seattle event, which is held at The Metropolitan Grill.

The fantastic food, service and central location has been a hit with Pacific Northwest alums. In other regions, such as Los Angeles, we have changed venues to accommodate the needs and preferences of alumni each year.

As the years go by, word spreads and the event locations expand. Recently, Danny Niedermeyer ’84 helped us explore the possibility of holding an event in Chicago after he heard about the positive experience from his brother, Teddy ’88. The Chicago event hosted alumni, family and friends at a Chicago Bulls basketball game, where two alums were involved in the game – Mike Dunleavy ’99 was playing for the Bulls and Erik Spoelstra ’88 was coaching for the Miami Heat.

When Jesuit started hosting regional events, the Bay Area gatherings barely had 15 attendees. Today, with the significant migration of East Coast alums to the Bay Area, we are averaging more than 30. The Schwab family has been instrumental in hosting our San Francisco and New York City experiences at the Tesla

Since our Boston and San Jose events are mostly attended by young college students (from Boston College, University of Boston and Santa Clara), attendees remain consistent and form deep friendships. These gatherings tend to resemble family dinners where everyone is catching up on the happenings of the previous year.

Our hope for these events is to keep alumni connected and create an opportunity for Jesuit grads to form roots within their new communities.

At our last San Francisco event, Ben Demaree ’10 was grateful that he chose to attend. “I can’t believe I haven’t been to an alumni event before. These are fantastic! I host potlucks with our Jesuit friends monthly, and I found a few more alums tonight to invite,” he said.

We are thankful for all of the support and attendance at the regional events. It is inspiring to see that Jesuit’s mission of creating men and women for others is an intrinsic part of our alumni's lives wherever their journeys take them.

In Memoriam The Jesuit High School community joins in prayerful remembrance of those who have died. May the family and friends of those who are no longer with us in body be held in our prayers and hearts, and may the departed rest in eternal peace with God.

Jesuit High School Alumni Michael Conroy '70 Daniel Craven '82 Gregory Geiger '69 Michael Moon '92 Claude Shinn '60 Jerald Shultz '70 Madeline Turin '05 John Younie '71 Gerald Zimel '69

Dolly Freed 7/11/2017 7/3/2017 11/25/2017 12/9/2017 3/1/2018 7/23/2017 8/14/2017 12/15/2017 8/31/2017

Joseph Gatto Karen Haberle Mother of Hayden '10 and Evan '14 Haberle

Fr. William Hayes, S.J. Ellsworth Ingraham Father of Ellsworth Ingraham, IV '88

10/31/2017

Tom Kilker

10/5/2017

Gene Killeen

Mother of C. Dunham Biles '93

Roberta Bocci

Rosemary Lacey

12/6/2017

7/6/2017

Connie Lindsay Mother of David Lindsay '77; Grandmother of Duncan '11 and Victoria '12 Lindsay

6/10/2017

Helen Maguigan

Mark Butzer

Grandmother of Lauren McGuigan '05, Christopher '11 and Michael '13 Mueller, Matthew '16 and Anna Fanelli '19

12/14/2017

Father of Kevin '77, Tim '83, Peter '85 and Frederick '91 Butzer

Douglas McKillips Grandfather of Annalisa '18 and Quinton '20 Williamson

9/18/2017

Father of Stuart '16, Maya '18 and Lily '21 Cansdale

Lawrence Combine

Mary Nichols Mother of Mike '63, Robert '64, John '67, and Paul '74 Nichols

11/20/2017

Father of Patrick '13 and Emma '15 Combine

Bernice Fisher

Irmgard Oliver

10/10/2017

Grandmother of Kendall '18 and John '20 Rice

Grandmother of Courtney Carter Seymore '00 and Kyle Carter '02

Molly Fitzgibbon

11/17/2017

11/7/2017

9/8/2017

Former JHS Librarian and mother of Hugh '70 and Daniel '72 Lacey

Mother of Paul '65 and James '70 Bocci

Douglas Cansdale

1/15/2018

Grandfather of Nick '02 and Chris '05 Dieringer

Grandfather of Nick Biggi '12

Eileen Biles

9/26/2017

Grandfather of Preston '97, Marissa '99 and Alysha '03 Parsons

Father of Eric '96 and Andrea '97 Bachhuber; Grandfather of Kristen Schmiedeskamp '01

John Biggi

1/17/2018

Former President of Jesuit High School

Former JHS teacher and head football coach

Thomas Bachhuber

12/4/2017

Grandfather of Brooke '17 and Joseph '20 Gatto

Friends, Family, Faculty & JHS Staff John Allen

6/3/2017

Grandmother of Mitchell Freed '01

Jacqueline Paulson

10/12/2017

10/13/2017

7/28/2017

12/17/2017 8/27/2017

Mother of Erick Paulson '95

11/10/2017

Dolores Pranger

Mother of E. Henry '72, Blair '73 and James '82 Fitzgibbon; Grandmother of Margaret '05, Edward '12 and Michael '15 Fitzgibbon and Anna Laura Sakuma '07

Mother of Mike '74, James '81 and Mark '84 Pranger; Grandmother of Adam '98, Heather '00, Rachel '02 and Meghan '08 Pranger

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Remembering John Allen A legendary Jesuit High School football coach and teacher John Allen arrived at Jesuit High School in September of 1959 to assume duties as a history teacher and head coach of the football team. Completing that first season with four wins and a tie, the football team captured the school’s first league championship in any sport.

“Coach John Allen’s passing is a sad event for many of us who played for him in the 60s and 70s at Jesuit,” said Bill Carter ’69. “He was a strict, emotional and inventive personality in the coaching world. He led us to state championships in 1967 and 1968, the very firsts in our long heritage of successes on the field. John was loved by many of his players. As he shared at our 40-year reunion of those championship teams, he always had great individual memories of all his players. Godspeed, Coach!”

In his history book about Jesuit High, Honoring the Tradition, Fr. Larry Robinson, S.J., offers the following insight into John Allen: “For Jesuit High football, Allen set a special standard of Age Quod Agis. What he accomplished deserves the highest possible gratitude.”

We are deeply grateful for John Allen’s lasting contributions to our school community and recognize the numerous lives he meaningfully touched. Please keep his family in your prayers.

For 17 more seasons, Jesuit football was synonymous with John Allen and the beginning of a lasting tradition of excellence on the field. Fourteen consecutive winning seasons included 10 league championships and two state titles (shared with Grants Pass in 1967 John Allen, 1930-2017 and alone in 1968). Coach Allen was named league Coach of the Year seven times, state Coach of the Year twice and Man of the Year in 1968-69.

John Allen also taught history from 1959-1978 and instructed the very first class of students at Jesuit. He was also the head track coach for eight years. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors from Jesuit, including induction into the Hall of Fame in 1985.

Friends, Family, Faculty & JHS Staff, continued Augusto Proano

Dottie Weatheroy

8/25/2017

Father of Fernando '71 and Pablo '73 Proano

Carl Reding Father of Brian '79, Jeff '80, Mark '85 and Tom '87 Reding

Adine Robbins

1/15/2018

James Willis Father of Mrs. Erin DeKlotz; Grandfather of Josh '17 and Will '20 DeKlotz

10/29/2017

Mother of Tristan Robbins '20

James A. Wood

Nancy Sherry

Father of Mr. Jeff Wood; Grandfather of Katie '11 and Nikki '13 Wood

Mother of Joe '75 and John '80 Sherry; Grandmother of Katelyn Smith '10, Sam '19 and Joe '21 Sherry

Stanley Sumich

8/10/2017

Joseph Wood Father of Matthew '84 and Michael '89 Wood

8/8/2017

Grandfather of Allison '12 and Katherine '16 Blaskowsky

Robert Vann

12/24/2017

Mother of George Weatheroy '75; Grandmother of Brianna '06, Paul '07 and Miles '11 Weatheroy

12/28/2017

Father of Robert Vann '82

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Class Notes

1960

John (Chris) Minor recently celebrated two milestones: 50 years practicing law and 50 years of marriage. The Bar Association gave Chris a lapel pin and a free lunch.

Mary and Chris gave themselves a New Year's celebration at Black Butte, along with their four children and seven grandchildren. Chris still goes to the office on a regular basis and last summer was honored by the Oregon State Bar Real Estate and Land Use Section for his service over the years.

Maryland, in a quiet setting on a hill overlooking a rural valley with his wife Sally. They have five children and 13 grandchildren (aged 2 years to 29).

1964

David Brands has been appointed as Board Chair of the new Catholic Schools Foundation of Oregon (CSFO) for the Portland Archdiocese.

The mission of the CSFO is to build an endowment to generate tuition assistance for Catholic elementary and high schools in the Portland Archdiocese.

1979

Marv LaVoie is proud grandfather to three grandsons and three granddaughters. He is pictured with twins Mia and Jocelyn LaVoie.

John D. Marks graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY as a licensed Deck Officer with a BS in Nautical Science.

After sailing for a year on various merchant ships, he enrolled at the University of Michigan, earning a BSE in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He worked as a naval architect at Westinghouse's Oceanic Division plant in Annapolis, MD. At Oceanic (later Northrop Grumman), he worked on numerous, mostly classified projects. The highlight came when he was naval architect on the ASDS (Advanced SEAL Delivery System), a 65-foot long mini submarine designed to transport a SEAL team from the deck of a full-sized attack submarine while submerged to a near-shore location. There the ASDS would anchor underwater and lock out SEAL divers for covert operations and then return them safely back to the mother submarine.

In 2001, not long after delivering the ASDS vehicle to the Navy, John retired after 32 years at Oceanic.

He currently lives in Westminster,

1973

Mike Scott is the mayor of the quaint coastal town of Manzanita, Oregon. Mike was formerly a city council member and became mayor in January 2017.

Michel A. Cramer Bornemann MD, after a career in academic medicine, has left his appointments at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine where he held positions of Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Neurology, and Biomedical Engineering. He has over 75 publications related to Sleep Medicine. Much of his research has been in the field of Parasomnias, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, and Sleep-Related Violence. His forensics work has been featured in Scientific American and he has appeared in several documentaries, including National Geographic, Discovery, and the BBC. He is currently the founder and lead investigator of Sleep Forensics Associates.

1985

1966

Ed Gormley and his wife, Candy, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Maui.

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Joel Augee has a debut literary novel, The Life of Umberto Cavallo and Other Matters (now available on Amazon), the story of an immigrant's struggles spanning four continents and five generations. Joel is a professor at Marylhurst University's School of Business and recently gave a copy of his novel to his Jesuit High

School teacher and friend, Dick Hazel (pictured), who is in the dedication.

2001

1990

Dave Kennedy has established the Barbara E. Kennedy Endowment Fund for Financial Aid at Jesuit High School in honor of his mother Barbara, a single parent who worked hard to ensure that he could receive a Jesuit education. He is pictured with his daughter, Anya.

Nicole DeCosta is a TV host and Producer with Portland's CW. When not working on segments, she is helping with events around town.

DeCosta is excited to help elevate your business through storytelling (www.

NicoleDeCosta.com).

'03. The couple lives in Los Angeles, California, where Sarah is an artist recently featured in New American Paintings Magazine, and Nicholas is a personal trainer.

2005

1996

Renée (Schreck) Lara recently moved back to Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two boys after spending six years in Philadelphia.

She launched her wardobe styling business, Renée Lara Style, in Lake Oswego in early April (www. reneelarastyle.com).

1998

Jenna Zak and husband Gerrit Wood welcomed their son, Charlie, on August 24, 2016. They were married on September 9, 2017 and celebrated with a surprise wedding for their friends and family. Jenna, Gerrit and Charlie live in SW Portland where Jenna is the Director of Business Development for Opus Agency.

Jessica McIntyre and GCHS Dior C'est Si Bon ("Cessie," a 3-year-old Coton de Tulear) attended the AKC National Championships in Orlando, Florida in December 2017. "Cessie" won Best of Breed and appeared in the televised event on Animal Planet on New Year's Day. At the end of 2017 "Cessie" achieved the rank of #1 in the Breed Rankings in the AKC Breed Rankings. "Cessie" is Jessica's first dog!

Jessica continues in her role as HR Executive for Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, California.

2004

Sarah Mikenis and Nicholas Shelton were married at Vista Hills Vineyard on October 7, 2017. The bridal party included Kayla Crandall Gaspardis '04, Cara Shannon Bailey '04, Alana Fitz Chau '04, Andrew Mannex '03, Stephen Kost '03, Adam McCool '03 and Nicholas Moscato •

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Zack Fay married Amanda Pinzon on September 3, 2017. They met in first grade at Valley Catholic and reconnected after college. Zack graduated from Gonzaga University in 2009 and is now working as a business development representative for Wells Fargo in Portland. Amanda graduated from Santa Clara University in 2009 and is a Physician Assistant at Providence Hospital in Newberg.

Their wedding party was full of Jesuit alumni. The couple resides in Tualatin with their dog Barley.

2013

Lindsay Scanlan's first animated short film, Mission Impossumble, was screend at the Hollywood Theater’s marquis at the Portland International Airport from October-December 2017 as a showcase of Portland filmmakers.

It made its international debut, alongside its first festival screening, at the DUM-D Student Animation Festival in the Bronx in October 2017.

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