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WINTER 2008–09 

Connecting Seattle University Alumni and Friends 

For students and alumni, 

exemplary service goes 

far beyond what’s expected 

Also inside 

Thanking Our Supporters and Donors

STAFF 

Editor 

Tina Potterf 

Strategic Communications Director 

Casey Corr 

Creative Director 

David Balzer 

Graphic Designers 

Terry Lundmark, ’82; Helen Kong 

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c ontents 

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ADMINISTRATION 

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FEATURES 

14 Changing Lives 

Each year, hundreds of SU students 

contribute thousands of hours to 

serving their communities. It’s 

integral to the university’s mission. 

But service learning doesn’t end with 

graduation as many alumni give back 

in immeasurable ways. 

22 Thanks to You 

Seattle University recognizes the 

tremendous support and generosity 

of friends and alumni whose 

donations contribute to the success 

of the university and its programs. 

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its employment related policies and practices. All university policies, 

practices and procedures are administered in a manner consistent with 

Seattle University’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and character. Inquiries 

relating to these policies may be referred to the university’s assistant 

vice president for human resources and Equal Opportunity Officer, 

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Volume 32 • Issue Number 4 • Winter 2008–09 

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DEPARTMENTS 

ON THE COVER 

2 D-I Message 

Alumni Board President wants 

you to help cheer on men’s 

basketball when it plays Division I 

opponent Loyola Marymount on 

New Year’s Day. 

3 From the Editor 

Seattle University Magazine is now 

accessible two ways—in print and 

online, with even more content and 

special features. 

4 People 

Two chocolate makers are 

finding sweet success with their 

confectionery delights. 

6 Campus Observer 

Civil rights activist and educator 

Millie Bown Russell is namesake 

of learning community; STM will 

host Sherman Alexie and other 

notable authors during first book 

fest in 2009; SU continues to be 

in-demand for young people as it 

records a record frosh class; trailblazing 

student-athletes of yesteryear 

reminisce on SU sports. 

12 Capital Campaign 

Campaign co-chair Jim Sinegal, 

president and CEO of Costco talks 

about the importance of investing in 

the future of our students. 

34 Alumni Focus 

Alan Lauba, ’91, trains some of 

the world’s top competitive skiers; 

photographer Alexis Wolfe, ’01, 

gets inside the hip-hop circles 

of Seattle; Class Notes. 

37 Alumni Events 

42 Bookmarks 

43 In Memoriam 

45 The Good Word 

Service and giving back is a 

tradition that starts at SU but 

continues long after graduation. 

Alumna Tiffany Hammer, ’07, holds 

the hand of Steven, one of the disabled 

adults she works with at ElderHealth 

Northwest, an adult day center in 

Seattle. 

COVER PHOTO BY TOM REESE 

Letters 

Seattle University Magazine welcomes letters 

to the editor on subjects raised within the 

pages of the magazine. Letters may be edited 

for length and clarity. Please include a name, 

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Letters Editor, Seattle University Magazine 

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E-mail: sumagazine@seattleu.edu 

SU Magazine Winter 2008–09 | 1

D-I message from ALUMNI BOARD President 

Ring in the New Year with 

Men’s Basketball at KeyArena 

PHOTO BY ANIL KAPAHI 

I have to say I picked quite an exciting time to serve as president 

of Seattle University’s Alumni Board of Governors. More and more, 

Seattle U is being recognized as a world-class university, with a dynamic 

identity, an outstanding student body and strong academics, leadership 

development, service, spiritual enrichment and excellent athletic programs. 

This year, I’m particularly struck by the buzz of activity around the 

move to Division I athletics. The excitement of faculty, students and 

alumni is evident across campus. The atmosphere is filled with great 

expectations, and one can’t help but be thrilled about the future of 

SU athletics. 

I remember how stoked I was to watch SU basketball and soccer as 

an undergraduate, and that was before the university moved from the 

Daniel Nguyen 

NCAA’s Division III to Division II. Now that the school is stepping all 

the way up to Division I, the games stand to be even more exciting. This is the highest level of play, 

bringing us even more opportunities to showcase 

our superb student-athletes and enthusiastic 

school spirit. 

Come see for yourself. Join me on New Year’s 

Day, Jan. 1, 2009, at Seattle’s KeyArena as the 

men’s basketball team plays Loyola Marymount 

in our first D-I game. 

We have so many exciting times ahead as we 

begin this new era. I look forward to working 

with our alumni and friends to help build on 

SU’s history and accomplishments and make our 

athletics program one of the best in the country. 

The New Year marks new beginnings. I look 

forward to seeing you all at the game. 

Go Seattle University! 

Daniel Nguyen, ’97 

Alumni Board President 

Get your tickets now for the Jan. 1, 2009, 

game by visiting www.goseattleu.com. 

Father Stephen Sundborg gets the crowd pumped up for the big New Year’s day game at an 

Oct. 20, 2008, press conference at Seattle’s KeyArena. President Sundborg was joined by 

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, NBA legend Lenny Wilkens, former men’s basketball team 

captain Carl Ervin, current captain Shaun Burl and coach Joe Callero. 

PHOTO BY TOM REESE 

“The New Year marks new beginnings. 

I look forward to seeing you all at the game.” 

2 | D-I Message

From the Editor 

“It” has arrived. Seattle University Magazine is 

now available online as a complementary companion 

to our print publication, which also debuts alongside 

the return of the winter issue. At www.seattleu.edu/ 

magazine/ readers will find exclusive stories, photo 

slideshows, and audio and video clips. The website 

also responds to the feedback we received from our 

readership survey. From the survey we’ve learned 

that you enjoy reading Class Notes and the feature 

stories, and are looking for ways to reconnect—or 

stay connected—with your alma mater through 

alumni events. 

Engaging alumni and friends of the university 

by cultivating a community online is central 

to this new site. Not only does it build on the 

print edition but it also enables us to provide 

more information and news to our readers 

in a timely fashion. Now you can comment 

directly on articles, submit letters to the editor, 

weigh in on a topic-of-the-moment in our 

poll and keep us updated on professional 

and personal happenings through Class 

Notes. But you’ll also see changes in print. 

In this issue is the inclusion of our donor 

recognition lists, which give thanks to 

our friends and supporters, along with 

additional donor profiles that have in 

the past been published in our annual 

President’s Report. It’s not too late to 

weigh in on the content of the print 

and online editions of the magazine. 

Take the survey at www.seattleu. 

edu/go/sum_survey/. Your input is 

greatly appreciated. So check out 

Seattle University Magazine online 

and tell us what you think. And 

thanks for reading. 

—Tina Potterf, editor 

The Opus Foundation, in partnership with 

SU, has named the $1 million recipient 

of the Opus prize. Find out who it is at 


(Above) A look at Seattle University 

Magazine online, which will offer Web 

exclusives and more collaborative features for alumni. 


People 

How Sweet It Is 

Chocolatiers 

whip up 

confectionery 

delights 

By his freshman year in high 

school, Peter Crabtree, 

founder of CBC Chocolates, 

was already a seasoned 

entrepreneur. 

Raised on a small farm in Kingston, 

Wash., Crabtree launched his first 

business venture while in the fourth 

grade, which involved raising and 

selling pork. But his foray into the 

chocolate industry has proven 

especially sweet for Crabtree, who 

got the idea for CBC Chocolates after 

making truffles in a culinary arts class. 

“We made chocolates one afternoon 

in class, and I saw a lot of potential 

in chocolates,” he says. “I soon began 

experimenting with my own flavors.” 

After developing his own line 

of handmade truffles, he tested 

the product at school and at local 

farmers’ markets. The feedback was 

positive. Before long Crabtree had his 

processor license from the state and 

secured his first wholesale distributor. 

Just before the start of his senior year 

in high school, he opened a store in 

Poulsbo, Wash. 

Now 18 and a first-year business 

student at Seattle University, Crabtree 

is eager to take classes in economics 

and finance, which will be applicable 

to his business. “Most of what I know 

now, I have learned from the school of 

hard knocks,” he says. 

One of the challenges that Crabtree 

faced as a young entrepreneur 

was getting people to take him 

seriously. It’s an obstacle he has 

overcome by “developing a solid 

product with a reputation that speaks 

for itself,” he says. 

Peter Crabtree shows off his “Brew Series Truffles” that are flavored with Fat Scotch Ale 

from the Silver City Brewery. 

4 | People 

PHOTO BY KATE JOHNSON

“I was always interested in starting 

a business at an early age because you 

have more time and much less to lose,” 

Wong, ’98, says. 

Although the learning curve was 

steep—“I really knew nothing about 

chocolate when I started,” he says—it 

was an opportunity to do something 

that puts smiles on people’s faces and 

the chance to do a job that he would 

look forward to every day. 

Running several stores provides 

its own set of challenges, including 

the struggle to maintain a healthy 

balance between work and personal 

life. “It’s easy to get overworked and 

overwhelmed if you allow it,” says 

Wong. “The key to successfully 

running a business is to hire and 

develop great people.” 

And it doesn’t hurt to make great 

chocolates. All Chocolati concoctions 

“...When someone is having a bad day, what is the first thing 

they think of? Chocolate. If only they had a chocolate.” 

Peter Crabtree, creator of CBC Chocolates 

CBC Chocolates combines unique 

flavors with meticulous craftsmanship. 

Each truffle is handmade 

in small batches without preservatives 

or additives and carefully monitored 

to ensure optimal taste. Distinct 

offerings include wine truffles and his 

“Brew Series Truffles” line that utilizes 

flavoring from top local producers. 

Currently, the biggest seller is the Fat 

Scotch Ale truffle, made with awardwinning 

ale from the Silver City 

Brewery in Silverdale, Wash. 

The chocolate business keeps 

Crabtree busy—he works around 80 

hours a week. 

In order to balance business with 

school, Crabtree has established a clear 

set of priorities. Managing finances and 

employees comes first. The company of 

nine employees produces its premium 

chocolates locally, in Poulsbo, and with 

top ingredients. The chocolate comes 

from Belgium, Spain and Colombia. 

A small box of five chocolates runs 

$6.99; a box of 15 is $17.99. In the 

fall Crabtree opened a second retail 

location at the Poulsbo Athletic Club. 

(CBC Chocolates accepts orders online 

at www.cbcchocolates.com.) 

Once the basic needs for the business 

are satisfied, schoolwork is the priority. 

“Education is very important to me,” 

says Crabtree. 

Another person with SU ties who 

knows something about chocolate is 

Christian Wong, who in 2001 dipped 

his toes into the business. He was 24 

years old at the time and working as an 

accountant. 

The results have been nothing 

but sweet. Since starting seven 

years ago as strictly a manufacturer 

and wholesaler online, Wong is 

the man behind Chocolati, an 

operation that now includes five 

retail establishments, including a 

prime spot near Seattle’s popular 

Green Lake. Last summer, a Chocolati 

Café opened at the downtown 

Seattle Public Library after beating 

out more than 15 other applicants 

for the space. In addition to chocolates, 

Chocolati serves a variety of 

gourmet blends of chocolate-infused 

espresso drinks. 

Wong, who graduated with a degree 

in business administration with a 

focus on finance and accounting, says 

his SU education has had a major 

impact on how he does business. 

“Seattle University’s emphasis on 

service learning had a profound affect 

on my business philosophy,” he says. 

“We regularly donate roughly 10 

percent of our pretax profits to selected 

charities. I believe that it is essential for 

a profitable company to give back to 

the community in some way or other.” 

are handmade, meaning they are 

hand-rolled, hand-cut and handdipped. 

Gourmet truffle offerings 

at Chocolati include Absolutely 

Apricot, Cinnamon Almond Aztec 

and Cocoa Beware, a sinful combination 

of dark chocolate couverture, 

semisweet ganache with nutmeg and 

lightly dusted with Dutch cocoa 

powder. 

The end goal is to accentuate the 

taste of the chocolate rather than the 

accompanying flavor. 

While the slowing economy is taking 

its toll on a number of industries, Wong 

doesn’t expect chocolate makers to be 

affected. “In a slowing economy people 

will reduce their larger purchases of 

luxury items and cut back on their 

daily lattes,” he says. “But most will 

not flinch when it comes to a $1.25 

piece of chocolate heaven.” 

Crabtree agrees. “Although it may 

be considered a luxury item, chocolate 

makes people happy, and is healthy for 

you. And after all, when someone is 

having a bad day, what is the first thing 

they think of? Chocolate. If only they 

had a chocolate.” 

—Chelan David 


Campus 

O B S E R V E R 

pioneer 

Leadership to Live By 

Residential learning community named for civil rights 

activist and educator Millie Bown Russell, ’48 

What are the fundamentals 

of leadership? For Millie 

Bown Russell, a Seattle 

native and notable civil 

rights activist and educator, it involves 

three things: competence, courage and 

compassion. 

True leaders, she says, must 

embody all three; they must lead 

and inspire through competency, be 

courageous in their convictions and 

live their lives with compassion. 

Russell knows what it means to be 

a courageous leader. In a time before 

the civil rights movement took hold, 

Russell, a student at the time, traveled 

with the NAACP to the South, where 

she advocated for young people of color. 

In her professional life, she broke racial 

barriers and created opportunities for 

those who would follow. 

And her leadership will continue to 

influence current and future students 

at Seattle University through a 

learning and living community that 

bears her name. 

The formal unveiling of the Millie 

Bown Russell Leadership Learning 

Community at Campion Hall occurred 

at a ceremony and celebratory dinner 

in late October. 

Millie Bown Russell (pictured as she is today and above, in a 1946 SU yearbook photo) has 

dedicated her life to civil rights and education. 

Residents are afforded opportunities 

to continuously develop as 

leaders through service, educational 

programs, and spiritual and social 

exploration. Away from the residence 

hall, they are encouraged to deepen 

their understanding of what leadership 

means through core and elective 

classes, mentorships and service 

initiatives that engage students with 

faculty and staff for work in the city. 

“Seattle University lives its mission 

of empowering leaders for a just 

and humane world,” says Audrey 

Hudgins, director of the learning 

community and assistant dean in 

the College of Arts and Sciences. 

“This community demonstrates that 

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commitment in ways that can bring the 

mission alive for students through a 

focused living-learning experience.” 

The namesake of this community 

lives by example. Raised in the 

Central District, Russell grew up in a 

household where education—particularly 

Catholic education—was 

stressed. Attending SU was a given. 

When Russell came to SU she was 

still contemplating what she 

would study. One vocation 

she was leaning toward 

would have dramatically 

changed her life, but was 

ultimately scuttled by a 

well-known Jesuit. 

One day Russell approached 

Father James 

McGoldrick and shared 

with him that she was considering 

becoming a nun. 

“He said, ‘You are pretty young 

and haven’t seen anything in life yet,’” 

recalls Russell, who is 82. “Father 

McGoldrick told me to put that [idea] 

away and revisit it after I’ve had some 

experiences.” 

It was advice Russell heeded. Before 

long, she threw herself fully into her 

major of medical technology and later, 

social activism. The topic never came 

up again. 

When she earned her degree in 

1948, she was among the first African 

American students in the sciences to 

graduate from SU. 

Majoring in medical technology 

wasn’t much of a stretch for Millie, 

who enjoyed science and math. This 

path was lined with valuable work 

experience—and life experience— 

that began with an internship in the 

pathology department at Providence 

Hospital. Her initial days at Providence 

weren’t without challenges. 

“The pathologist wasn’t too happy 

to have an African American working 

there,” she says. “A sister from the 

Sisters of Providence said, ‘If you are 

not going to take her, we are going to 

take our cross down.’” 

After diagnosing multiple myeloma, 

a cancer of the plasma cells, in a patient 

following a urine test where the Bence 

Jones protein was detected, she won 

“I’m very honored in these 

twilight years to have anything 

named after me.” 

Millie Bown Russell 

the respect of her colleagues and that 

pathologist. 

“That was the wake-up call that 

this was my calling,” Russell says. 

After three years at Providence, 

Russell left for a job in Beverly Hills, 

Calif. A family illness brought her 

back to Seattle, where she would marry 

and raise a family. 

Back in Seattle Russell worked as a 

chief technologist at the Puget Sound 

Blood Center for more than 20 years. 

She also organized the community 

around civil rights and educational 

advocacy, a role that she began years 

earlier as a student. 

In 1946 Russell was selected by civil 

rights leader and future U.S. Supreme 

Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to 

serve as a junior delegate representing 

the Northwest for the NAACP. Russell 

traveled throughout the country, 

speaking to other young people and 

attending national conventions that 

provided information about resources 

for mobilizing around civil rights. 

“We felt we owed something to society 

to make something of ourselves and open 

doors for ancestors who didn’t have 

a chance,” Russell says of her work. 

Education has been an integral 

part of Russell’s life. Following her 

time in the medical field she went to 

the University of Washington, where 

she was a lecturer and director of the 

preprofessional program for minority 

students in health sciences. 

It was at the UW’s 

Office of Minority Affairs 

that she spearheaded the 

Early Scholars Outreach 

Program. 

Early Scholars paired 

university students with 

disadvantaged middle 

school kids as tutors; it 

was also a way to open the younger 

students’ eyes to the possibilities of 

attending college. The program was 

cutting-edge when it began in the 

mid-1980s. 

“Because of my studies in curriculum 

and educational planning, I 

noticed [that] students fall away from 

scholarly interests in middle school,” 

Russell says. “The Early Scholars 

program became a model nationally 

for getting K–12 students engaged and 

interacting with college students.” 

Over the years Russell has heard 

from students who went through the 

program—many have gone on to great 

success as lawyers, doctors, dentists 

and business owners. 

Having such a visible and permanent 

mark of recognition at her alma mater 

means a great deal to Russell. 

“I’m so overwhelmingly humbled 

by this. I’m very honored in these 

twilight years to have anything named 

after me,” she says. “Seattle University 

was one of my first loves.” 

—Tina Potterf 


Campus 


good read 

Divine Reading 

STM will host authors of spiritual and theological books 

PHOTO BY ROB CASEY 

Mark Markuly knows how to 

make connections. But his 

skill has less to do with 

networking and more to 

do with building links between 

religion and secular society. 

Since Markuly became the dean of 

the ecumenical School of Theology 

and Ministry in August 2007, he 

has fostered conversations on the 

relevance of religious values to the 

realms of sports, criminal justice, 

capitalism and brain research. And 

now, it’s a dialogue on books— 

specifically selections written on 

themes of spirituality and theology. 

This area of interest, coupled with 

the fact Seattle is known as a city 

whose habitants love to read, sparked 

an idea to organize a book festival. 

Since coming to SU from New 

Orleans, where he was associate 

professor of religion and education at 

the Loyola Institute for Ministry at 

Loyola University, Markuly has been 

working to understand the culture of 

the region, particularly Seattle. 

His observation of one aspect of the 

city’s identity provided the impetus 

for the “Search for Meaning: Pacific 

Northwest Spirituality and Theology 

Book Festival.” 

“I’ve noticed on the buses and 

ferries that half the commuters have 

a book in their hands,” he says. This 

insight led to plans for the festival, 

Feb. 7, 2009, that will bring together 

more than 30 authors and offerings 

ranging from academic texts to 

children’s literature. Award-winning 

writer Sherman Alexie and James K. 

Wellman, an author and associate 

professor of American religion at the 

University of Washington, are the 

guest speakers at the daylong festival, 

which will take place in the Pigott 

Building. The event is free and open 

to the public. 

Alexie, a playwright, essayist and 

author, grew up on the Spokane Indian 

Reservation in Eastern Washington and 

now resides in Seattle. An author of 19 

books, Alexie received the 2007 National 

Book Award in the young people’s 

literature category for The Absolutely 

True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 

“ When you start putting 

intelligence together with 

self-reflection, you come up 

with a powerful combination.” 

Mark Markuly, STM dean 

Award-winning author Sherman Alexie will give a 

talk at STM’s book festival early next year. 

Associate Professor Wellman, who 

also chairs the comparative religion 

program at the UW, has written 

extensively on issues of religion, including 

his latest, Evangelical vs. 

Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures 

in the Pacific Northwest. 

The book festival fulfills two of 

Markuly’s personal and professional 

objectives: engagement and spiritual 

reflection.This type of event provides 

a forum for open discussion of 

religious and spiritual values by 

connecting with the region’s voracity 

for reading. 

The festival also fits with the 

overall rhythm of the campus, which 

incorporates reflection into many of its 

courses, programs and practices. 

“When you start putting intelligence 

together with self-reflection,” 

he says, “you come up with a powerful 

combination.” 

For tickets and more information 

on the book festival, which runs 9 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., call (206) 296-5330 

or e-mail: stm@seattleu.edu. 

—Julie Monahan and SU Magazine staff 

8 | Campus Observer

“SU is looking for students committed to social justice 

who have been active outside the classroom, 

as well as strong academic students.” 

Jim White, associate provost 

Demand Yields 

Record Frosh Class 

enrollment 


With the 2008–09 academic 

year underway, Seattle 

University’s fresh crop of 

new frosh are different 

than years past. 

First of all, there is a record 

number—more than 900—of freshmen 

enrolled at the university this 

fall, up from the previous high of 

787 just two years ago. And these 

students have met even greater 

admission standards than their 

predecessors. In the past, the 

welcome mat was unfurled for 

roughly 90 percent of SU applicants. 

But this year, applications increased 

by 8 percent, resulting in 5,000 

interested candidates and limited 

slots available. 

In response to the demand, the 

university accepted 66 percent of 

applicants—still 84 more students 

than in 2007–08—to keep its promise 

of a 13:1 student-to-teacher ratio as 

well as staying within capacity levels 

at the residence halls. The resulting 

waiting list is studded with star 

pupils, including “legacies,” students 

who are the children or grandchildren 

of SU alums. 

This year, due to the increasing 

number of applicants, the deadline 

to apply was moved up to early 

May, much sooner than years past. 

Similarly, the requirements for 

consideration went up. 

“The candidates 

who have taken the 

toughest classes in 

high school, including 

AP [Advanced 

Placement] 

or IB [International 

Baccalaureate], have 

found themselves 

most likely to 

be admitted,” says 

Associate Provost Jim White, explaining 

that the bar starts with at least a 3.0 GPA 

and SAT scores above 1,500. “Our 

admission process reviews each 

applicant holistically. SU is looking 

for students committed to social 

justice who have been active outside 

the classroom, as well as strong 

academic students.” 

In addition to the record number 

of freshmen, SU’s overall population 

of undergrad, graduate and law 

students stands at 7,660, up roughly 

1,000 students since the previous 

academic year. 

If students with exemplary grades 

are finding it tougher to get into their 

school of choice, and even put on 

waiting lists for spots that only a few 

years ago would likely have been open 

to them, it raises the question: “Why 

the sudden clamor for college?” 

The answer comes down to 

demographics. All those children 

of baby boomers have grown up, 

This scene was repeated many times over as parents parted ways with 

their daughters and sons during welcome week in late September. 

graduated from high school—the 

class of 2007 was the largest high 

school graduating class ever—and 

thrown their hats into the college 

ring. Experts in admissions are calling 

it the “baby boom echo.” More high 

school grads are attending college 

than ever before. 

White confirms that the numbers 

have been steadily growing at 

SU. “We have been in a growth 

mode for the past 10 years,” he 

says. “The freshman class will be 

somewhere between 910 and 920, 

which represents, I believe, an alltime 

historic high.” He adds that 

the freshman class rose from 623 

in 1998–99 to 643 in 2002–03, and 

then climbed to 787 in 2006–07. 

Experts predict the surge will 

continue until 2013. 

“It is a sign,” says White, “that SU 

continues to be the first choice among 

high school seniors.” 

—Alison Peacock 


Campus 


Got Tickets? 

Don’t get left out in the cold (or the rain) when the men’s basketball 

team squares off against a Division I team from Loyola Marymount 

University at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2009, at Seattle’s KeyArena. This 

will be the Redhawks’ first home game of the season against a D-I 

opponent. It also marks the first time SU’s team has taken up court 

at KeyArena. Tickets and more information: (206) 296-2835 or visit 

www.goseattleu.com. 

athletics 

Blazing a Trail 

Return to D-1 puts spotlight on rich tradition of athletics 

Seattle University’s return to 

Division I has placed a spotlight 

on the school’s proud 

athletic tradition. Yet the university 

brings to this new era of 

intercollegiate competition not only 

a track record of excellence in sports, 

but also of acceptance. 

“Seattle U’s legacy will always 

be one of openness from its earliest 

days,” says Bill Hogan, director of 

athletics, “especially in regard to diversity 

in athletics.” 

Perhaps no era is more emblematic 

of this than the early to mid-1950s. 

Two of the best SU athletes of this 

era—and of all time in the athletics 

annals of SU—were women. Female 

athletes were competing against male 

counterparts and, more often than 

not, beating them. Those women, 

Pat (Lesser) Harbottle, ’56, and Janet 

(Hopps) Adkisson, ’56, along with 

hoops player Ray Soo, ’55, are three 

such trailblazers of SU athletics. 

Pat (Lesser) Harbottle 

When Pat (Lesser) Harbottle, ’56, 

was a young girl, she asked her father 

if she could tag along when he went 

off to play golf with his buddies. She 

quickly proved she belonged in the 

club. If Harbottle couldn’t wait for 

her father’s next round, she’d lug her 

clubs on a bus to Jackson Park after 

school. Her determination paid off. 

In 1950, as a junior in high school, 

Harbottle won the U.S. Junior and 

Western Junior championships. Once 

it came time for college, her father 

tried to get her onto the University 

of Washington team, but they had 

no women’s golf program, and their 

athletic affiliation precluded 

them from 

accepting her on the 

men’s team. Although 

SU didn’t have women’s 

golf because it was an 

independent school Harbottle 

was welcome to try 

out for the men’s squad. 

Not only did she make 

the team, but she also 

was the top player at one 

time. In 1953 she won 

the National Collegiate 

Championship and two 

years later the U.S. Women’s 

amateur and 

the Western amateur 

championships. Harbottle 

was named to the U.S. 

Curtis Cup Team in 1954 

and 1956. 

Asked if she considered 

herself a pioneer at SU, 

Harbottle exclaims, 

“Lordy, no! My dad just 

thought that if I made the 

team, it would be good 

competition.” 

Harbottle retells a story about a 

reporter asking one of her opponents 

how he could have been beaten by 

a woman. “He answered, ‘I wasn’t 

beaten by a woman—I was beaten 

by a 72,’” Harbottle says. “I thought 

that was neat.” 

Pat (Lesser) Harbottle ’56, and Janet (Hopps) Adkisson ’56, 

pose during their days as undergrads at SU. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF JANET ADKISSON 

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These days, Harbottle continues to 

hunt for flagsticks, sometimes playing 

one of the award-winning golf courses 

designed by her son, John. 

Janet (Hopps) Adkisson 

As with Harbottle, Janet (Hopps) 

Adkisson, ’56, came to SU with no 

intention of shattering glass ceilings. 

She had transferred to the 

university on an academic scholarship, 

and although she had been a highly 

decorated champion on the junior 

tennis circuit, she hadn’t considered 

playing tennis at SU. That was until 

one of her professors, Francis Logan, 

S.J., who happened to be the tennis 

coach, caught wind of Adkisson’s 

impressive credentials and pulled her 

aside to invite her to try out for the 

men’s team. Adkisson made the squad 

and quickly cemented her position as 

its number-one player. 

Adkisson remembers a time when 

the team ran out of gas near Tacoma 

while they were driving back to 

campus from a match. After the coach 

unsuccessfully attempted to flag down 

some help, he turned to Adkisson 

and said, “OK, you need to get out 

and stop a car.” After Adkisson 

worked her magic, the next motorist 

pulled over. Otherwise, though, her 

teammates and coaches treated her as 

one of them, she says. 

The same could not always be 

said of opponents. When SU took 

on Oregon State one year, Adkisson 

defeated her top counterpart in 

three sets. Once her opponent got 

back to campus, questions arose as 

to how a woman could beat a man, 

and all manner of excuses were 

made. The vanquished opponent, 

whom Adkisson had known from 

the junior circuit, stepped forward 

and acknowledged that he was simply 

beaten by a better player. 

At SU Adkisson won three 

straight singles championships. After 

graduating magna cum laude and 

second in her class, she flourished 

professionally. She was in the national 

top 10 from 1956 to 1960, twice 

defeating Althea Gibson, the world’s 

top-ranked player. She later returned 

to SU to coach the tennis teams. 

Ray Soo 

When the SU men’s basketball 

team shocked the world and beat the 

Harlem Globetrotters in 1952, there was 

something poetic about it. After all, the 

SU team, which was led by the legendary 

O’Brien brothers, was in its own right 

a reflection of the world. Assembled 

by coach Al Brightman, the university’s 

unusually multicultural squad was 

dubbed “the UN of college basketball.” 

Ray Soo, ’55, was part of that team as the 

first Chinese native to play here. 

When Soo came to the United States 

as a child, the plan was for him to 

live with his grandfather, who worked 

seasonally on a farm in Montana. The 

two did eventually connect in Seattle, 

but the union proved short-lived. The 

grandfather died within a couple of 

years, leaving Soo to more or less raise 

himself. 

Back in those days, basketball had 

yet to be introduced in China, and 

Soo had never played the game. But 

in his adopted country he took up 

the sport “to keep myself busy,” he 

says. As a 5-foot-6-inch player among 

gargantuan teammates in high school, 

Soo spent two years stuck on the junior 

varsity team. 

After high school, Soo was already 

in the process of enlisting in the Army 

when Brightman asked him to try out 

for the team. “Next thing I know, I was 

enrolled at Seattle U,” Soo says. 

Ray Soo, ’55, has fond memories of his years playing 

basketball at SU. Soo was the first Chinese native to 

play here and was part of the team dubbed “the UN 

of college basketball.” 

Soo cannot recall encountering one 

instance of racial bigotry while he was 

here—not that it would have mattered 

much to him. Between his studies, 

basketball, his participation in the 

ROTC program and a job driving a 

busload of Chinese children to school 

in downtown Seattle, Soo had little 

time to notice any slights. 

While today Soo can appreciate his 

place in the history of school athletics, 

he never saw himself as a trailblazer. 

He was just surviving, seeking a college 

degree and playing a sport that had 

taken him from an otherwise solitary 

existence. 

After graduating from SU, Soo took 

his chemistry degree to Boeing before 

moving to Spokane to open a restaurant. 

He says that when he was growing 

up in China, sports were viewed as a 

waste of time. It’s a whole different 

ballgame today, with stars such as 

basketball player Yao Ming attracting 

worldwide attention. Soo, by the way, 

has a thought on how the 7-foot-6- 

inch center can outmaneuver Shaquille 

O’Neal, and proceeds to demonstrate 

a move he picked up through years of 

martial arts training. So Yao, if you’re 

out there and interested ... 

—Mike Thee 


Campaign 

F O R S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y 

A Message from Jim Sinegal 

Scholarships Make College 

Accessible to Many More 

In the past two issues of the 

magazine you’ve read messages 

from my fellow co-chairs of 

the Campaign for Seattle University, 

John Meisenbach and Anne 

Farrell. I join them in thanking all of 

you who have so generously supported 

this important and ambitious 

fundraising effort. To date, we have 

raised $150.2 million and we’re well 

on the way to reaching and even 

surpassing our goal of $160 million. 

This is the largest capital campaign 

in Seattle University’s history, far 

exceeding the last capital campaign 

that raised $66 million. Thank you to 

all who have helped so far. 

Still, we have six months 

remaining in our six-year campaign 

and important goals to reach for 

the university’s continued progress 

as we near the finish line. John and 

Anne have written about several of 

our campaign initiatives, including 

the new Lemieux Library and 

McGoldrick Learning Commons, the 

new Fitness Center and support for 

Seattle University’s move to Division 

I athletics. We are so grateful to 

report that just recently we surpassed 

our goal of $35.5 million for the new 

library, including the very generous 

$10 million challenge grant from the 

Gates Foundation. 

Another critical campaign goal 

is raising money for student scholarships. 

For me, it is always very 

gratifying to find ways to help these 

The generosity of many has made this capital campaign a rousing success, notes co-chair Jim Sinegal. 

bright, hardworking students at 

Seattle U—many of whom could 

not afford a college education 

without financial assistance. That’s 

why providing scholarships is so 

important. It helps the university 

assist deserving students and families, 

while enabling us to bring young 

people with great potential and great 

talent to our campus. 

Our goal for the scholarship 

portion of the campaign is to raise 

$37 million. I am happy to report that 

to date we have exceeded our goal 

by raising $38.8 million. But there 

continue to be students who need 

help paying for their education today 

and in future years. 

I’ve often said that when I attend a 

Seattle University event and students 

speak, they always steal the show. 

These are talented, dedicated, aspiring 

young people who are working hard 

to earn their diplomas. As John and 

Anne have reported, at this point 

in our campaign we are asking for 

broad participation from our alumni 

and friends. All gifts, of any size, 

can help so much. So thank you for 

considering a gift for scholarships at 

Seattle University, and for our other 

much-needed campaign goals. 

Jim Sinegal is president and CEO of Costco 

PHOTO BY MEL CURTIS 

12 | Campaign for Seattle University

Making a Difference, 

Thanks to You 

COSTCO BREAKFAST 

$160,000,000 

SERVING UP SUCCESS 

Costco Scholarship Fund makes college a reality for many 

FY ’04 FY ’05 FY ’06 FY ’07 FY ’08 

– $150,200,000 

– $106,866,000 

– $68,619,045 

– $31,567,723 

– $13,376,209 

– $0 

What may once have seemed an unattainable goal—attending college—is possible 

for many young men and women because of the Costco Scholarship Fund. 

Started in 2000 by Jim Sinegal, president and CEO of Costco, and Jeff 

Brotman, chair of the company’s board, the fund has raised more than $18 million 

for scholarships benefiting hundreds of underrepresented youth. The fund has 

supported scholarships for 583 Seattle University students. 

“Our country’s social and economic health depends upon giving all students an 

opportunity to come to college, to utilize the skills that they have developed and 

to get themselves the same starting line as everybody else in society,” Brotman 

said in a statement. 

At this year’s Costco Scholarship Fund breakfast, hosted by Seattle University 

in September, more than $3 million was raised for scholarships—a record amount 

for the program. The funding supports academically strong students with financial 

need in their pursuit of a degree at SU or the University of Washington. 

Each year members of the civic and business communities, along with local and 

state political leaders, attend the breakfast to support the Costco program. This 

year, the 1,100 attendees heard from scholarship recipients such as SU student 

Brandon Knight, ’09. The audience also listened to the remarkable story of keynote 

speaker Erin Gruwell. The California teacher gained widespread acclaim for the 

methods she used—while a first-year teacher—to ignite learning and fuel success 

in at-risk high school students deemed unteachable. Gruwell’s writings and those 

of her students formed the basis of the book Freedom Writers Diary, which inspired 

the 2007 movie. 


(Amounts are totals raised to date 

toward overall goal) 

TOTAL: $150,200,000 

GOAL: $160,000,000 

Educator Erin Gruwell was the keynote speaker at this year’s Costco breakfast. 


By Eric Sorensen 

Photos by Tom Reese 

Seattle University graduate Tiffany Hammer, ’07, engages Steven, one of the 

disabled adults she works with at ElderHealth Northwest adult day center. 

When it comes to service, 

SU is head and shoulders 

above the rest 

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Peel away a university’s history, its mission, 

its budgets and buildings. Look past its legions 

of alumni and cohorts of students. In 

the end, you’ll have the simple educational 

alchemy that comes when a few people share 

something of themselves in the faith and hope that 

they’ll be the better for it. 

For the most part, this happens amid the traffic of classrooms, 

auditoriums, chalkboards, whiteboards, presentations, 

course packets and e-mail. But for thousands of Seattle 

University students and a growing number of alumni, it’s also 

taking place among kids and seniors at scores of nonprofits 

around First Hill and the neighborhoods that surround the 

SU campus. 

Which is how you get Malcolm Carter, age 11, freshly 

sharpened pencil in hand and scratch paper at his side, working 

out mathematical multiples of 12 with SU senior Brandon 

Knight, a 21-year-old accounting major who volunteers at 

the Boys and Girls Club in the Central District. It’s why 

you can find Chelsea Krema, a junior from Boise, making 

soap bubbles and reading stories with a hyperkinetic posse of 

at-risk kids in a child care center on Broadway. 

It explains why students are putting a greater emphasis 

on public service in their studies, and why alumni are now 

working in community services they first encountered as 

undergraduates. 

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Three out of four Seattle University 

students serve the community through 

volunteer activities, internships and 

professional development. 

“Seattle University really helped me turn around my 

mind-set,” says Tiffany Hammer, ’07, who post-graduation 

accepted a $950-a-month AmeriCorps Vista position at the 

ElderHealth Northwest adult day centers. 

Kathleen McKay, ’85, ’06 MAPS, credits the university 

with helping her find St. Francis House, a day center three 

blocks from campus where she provides clothing, housewares, 

Brandon Knight, ’09, helps Malcolm Carter, 11, a student at Seattle’s 

Meany Middle School, with math homework. Knight tutors many students 

at the Boys and Girls Club in the Central District. 

meals and a receptive ear to as many as 80 low-income men, 

women and children each day. 

“Because of Seattle University, I was brought to this 

place,” she says, “and I was given an opportunity to be present 

to a place that offers I think the greatest lesson of all in 

life: How do we deal with our fellow human beings? What 

must we do, what should we do, what can we do? Pick any of 

those or all of them.” 

Serving the community has become a way of life and 

learning at Seattle University. More than 3,000 students— 

three out of every four—take part in at least one for-credit 

“service learning” class by the time they graduate; nearly 

45 percent participate in a service-learning class in any 

given year. Hundreds more are doing service outside the 

classroom. 

And that’s just for starters. 

This year, Seattle University for the first time tallied 

the myriad and impressive ways the school contributes 

to the community. Each school weighed in, counting the 

hours spent in service-related efforts, including the School 

of Law Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, the College of 

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Freshman Kait McDougal talks with men at the Vietnamese Seniors Luncheon 

at Garfield Community Center as part of a service-learning immersion program. 

Service Leadership for Social Justice course and the 

intensive focus that College of Nursing master’s students 

place on the care of vulnerable clients. The final report, 

Partners for Progress, found that graduate and undergraduate 

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In the 2006–07 academic year, most 

SU students were actively engaged in 

service-learning courses—this translates 

into more than 185,000 hours. 

In economic terms, their efforts are 

worth more than $6 million. 

students in the various schools in one year contributed 

roughly 185,000 hours of service worth more than $6 

million. 

By almost any standard, that’s a level of service head 

and shoulders above most of the nation’s colleges and 

universities. About one-third of America’s college students 

volunteer, according to the Corporation for National & 

Community Service. It’s an impressive and growing figure, 

but it’s still less than half the comparable statistic at Seattle 

University. 

Students are also significantly more active in the 

community than most of the generally service-oriented 1,100 

colleges and universities in the Campus Compact, a national 

coalition for community service, civic engagement and service 

learning. 

“It’s clear that Seattle University has done an outstanding 

job of engaging its students in service learning,” says Julie 

Plaut, Campus Compact director of academic initiatives. 

The number of service-learning classes has nearly doubled 

since President Stephen Sundborg, S.J., created the Center 

for Service and Community Engagement four years ago to 

build stronger connections with the community, particularly 

around courses with a service component. Last year, roughly 

100 faculty and 200 service-learning courses provided 

more than 45,000 hours of service. On top of that, since 2004 

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nearly 2,000 students have taken part in a variety of service 

leadership programs the center established outside the 

classroom. 

Jennifer Dorr, executive director of the Washington 

Campus Compact, says that service-learning programs have 

grown over the past decade as research has shown that 

they improve learning outcomes, civic skills, tolerance for 

diversity, team building and workforce development. SU’s 

program, she says, “is probably one of the strongest in terms 

of really fulfilling the mission of the university.” 

Under the guidance of Director Kent Koth, says Dorr, the 

Center for Service and Community Engagement has become 

“one of the best in the country.” 

For his part, Koth says SU benefits from having an ideal 

location for service. Other schools need to help students get 

to organizations that need assistance, but at SU, he says, 

“We’re surrounded. Within a mile of here there are 40 

nonprofits. There are a number of organizations that work 

with homeless people. And our students, when they’re going 

off campus, are encountering those homeless people. So it’s 

our neighborhood. It’s who we are.” 

World at Our Doorstep 

Koth breaks out a map of the Central District and shows 

how Little Ethiopia, a cluster of newly arrived East Africans, 

sits on 12th Avenue, near the SU campus. Little Saigon— 

the heart of the Vietnamese cultural district—is just a bit 

farther down 12th. Turn west and you’re in the International 

District—home to Chinatown and the historic Filipino and 

Japanese communities. In Pioneer Square are services for the 

homeless. 

Often a lot of international learning involves air travel, 

says Koth, but here it can happen with tennis shoes and a 

10-block walk. 

“When you talk about engaging the world, it’s on our 

doorstep,” he says. 

Service and education were part of growing up for Koth, 

the son of a Methodist minister and a high school English 

teacher. In high school, he was the Iowa state champion in 

the mile and attended Grinnell College as a runner. But he 

soon found himself identifying more with political issues, 

community service and learning. At Grinnell he developed 

a mentoring program and several alternative spring break 

projects and went on to get a master’s in religion at the Pacific 

School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. Teaching English in Nepal 

at a center providing street kids with lunch, health care and 

“When you talk 

about engaging 

the world, it’s on 

our doorstep.” 

Kent Koth, director, 

Center for Service 

and Community 

Engagement 

schooling further cemented his sense of justice and service. 

“Those kids who were 7 or 8 are now in their 20s, but 

they kind of are my conscience,” he says. “These kids have 

nothing, and what am I doing in this life to help them or 

others like them?” 

Before coming to SU, Koth directed service-learning 

programs at Stanford University and discovered that he was 

most at home working with college students on what he calls 

“transformative issues of justice.” 

“At a certain point in one’s life,” he says, “when you’re 

looking at who you are and what path you’re going to choose 

in the world, key experiences can make a big difference. And 

experiences in the community can lead to a clarification of 

what values and what choices really matter to you.” 

That was certainly true for him, and it is at the core of 

what Koth is trying to create for students. 

But Koth wants more. He wants students to stretch their 

comfort zones, “because that’s how we grow” and search 

for meaning. Koth points with pride to another figure: 

even after they get a grade, one-third of service-learning 

students—more than 600—continue their community work. 

And some start to rethink their career choices, where they 

want to live and what they want to do. Many continue 

serving after graduation through programs such as Magis: 

Alumni Committed for Mission. In the past two years, 

nearly 100 alumni have participated in Magis efforts such 

as the Alumni Mexico Mission Trek and the annual Serve 

Seattle project. And in each of the past three years, at least 

a dozen graduates have gone into full-time service with 

the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Peace Corps and Teach for 

America. “For students who have these experiences,” Koth 

says, “it can be life changing.” 


At Saint Francis House, Kathleen McKay interviews a woman from Ethiopia 

who recently arrived in Seattle, to determine what clothing and household 

items the charitable organization can provide for her. 

Personal Journeys of Change 

Kathleen McKay graduated from SU in 1985, before the 

school had a service-learning program. When she returned 

to get a master’s degree in pastoral studies, McKay did a 

nine-month internship at St. Francis House. “I just had no 

idea of the variety of the people who walk through the doors 

of Francis House,” she says. “I had them pegged as people 

homeless on the street, or they just walked in, needed a 

sandwich. I could put them in a lump sum: this group came 

here because they didn’t make great choices. Boy, after you 

work here for nine months, you see there isn’t any way to peg 

the clients of Francis House.” 

On any given day, she’ll meet people drunk, sober, 

sane and not, living paycheck to paycheck, struggling with 

addiction or to put food on the table, people fresh out of jail 

or Western State Hospital. She offers a sandwich, a dry pair of 

shoes, a listening ear. 

“The work here is so meaningful,” she says. “It’s rewarding. 

This is the age-old question: Do you get more when you 

volunteer? Are you giving or are you getting? I’m changed.” 

But McKay expects no flaring trumpets. She has no 

illusions about solving someone’s problems. Most of the 

people she helps will have a whole new set of problems next 

week. But she is in a position to fulfill a mission of being 

present for others. 

Now she has as many as a dozen SU students who come 

each quarter—and commit to a minimum of 18 hours of 

service—whom McKay hopes will be transformed. 

“The obligation gets them in my door,” she says, “and the 

experience changes them once they get here.” 

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St. Francis House is just one of 60 community organizations 

served by SU students last year. One of the groups most 

pleased with the arrangement is the Rotary Boys and Girls 

Club, which last July gave 100-plus SU students a Volunteers 

of the Year award. Executive Director Patrick Carter says she 

has never seen such a level of service in 21 years. 

“Having the service learners in our club has really helped 

us tremendously,” she says. “I’m amazed at the commitment, 

first of all from the school, and then from the kids. Every kid 

that comes through the door is learning and doing what 

they’re expected to do.” 

SU senior Brandon Knight is certainly all business as 

he works with Malcolm Carter in the club’s second-floor 

learning center. The focus is multiplication and Knight 

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Seattle University partnered with three 

local organizations to offer the First 

Generation Project that mobilized 20 SU 

students to provide more than 20,000 

hours of tutoring and mentoring to area 

high school students. 

“To see the looks on some of the kids’ faces, it was like, 

whoa,” he says. “And it gave them a whole new reason to do 

well in math.” 

Knight knows he’s having an impact, as he sees students’ 

math skills improving through pre- and post-assessments. 

And the program is having an impact on him. 

“It really makes me feel better about what I’m trying to 

do,” he says. “Granted, I’m not trying to go into teaching. I’m 

studying to be an accountant. But there is a part of me that 

has been created while at SU that wants to make a difference. 

And I know that me being successful in the business world is 

not enough. Especially being an African American male … 

the fact that our summer session was dominated by African 

American males, that did a lot for me.” 

suggests making a chart—12 x 1 equals 12, 12 x 2 equal 24 

and so on. Carter goes at it, yeoman-like, with Knight asking 

the occasional question and encouraging him to scratch out 

the answer. 

“This is easy,” Carter says at last, pointing to the paper 

with his eraser. “I already know how to do this. This 10 

times, and this nine times.” 

“That’s a good strategy,” says Knight. 

Knight would never have come here if he hadn’t been 

learning about the Jesuits in an AP European history 

class just as he got a postcard from the admissions office. 

He enrolled at SU sight unseen. He started as a “basic 

all-purpose tutor” at the Boys and Girls Club through 

a 200-level class on Christian faith, and went on to be a 

math specialist in a state-funded math mentoring program. 

Recently he arranged a visit to SU with 17 African American 

youths who otherwise would not think of going to school 

here, even though they live nearby. 

Sean Baird, a junior at SU, works with Vo Khoe at Garfield Community 

Center to pack up a delivery to an area food bank. 


Freshman Katie Wieliczkiewicz participates in a class during a Vietnamese 

Seniors Luncheon at Garfield Community Center. 

DISCOMFORT ZONES 

For some Seattle University students and alumni, 

community service is a portal to people and places they might 

never meet by other means. The experience can be shocking 

and wondrous. 

As a student, Hammer spent six months of service immersion 

in Puebla, Mexico, then went on a mission trip 

building houses in the less well-heeled neighborhoods 

of Tijuana. She remembers mixing cement for a home’s 

foundation and being struck by the sight of children working 

in twos and threes to carry buckets of gravel. 

“It was about midway through the week that I just lost 

it,” she says, “seeing how wonderful it was that every single 

aspect of this community wanted to help this family into a 

better home, into a safer home, into something that’s not one 

bedroom for five people.” 

Back in Seattle, she worked at ElderHealth as a work-study 

student, as a volunteer after graduation, as an Americorps 

VISTA worker, and now as a development associate. Elder- 

Health, a nonprofit offering community-based alternatives to 

institutionalized long-term care, serves seniors from all walks 

of life, as well as developmentally disabled adults of all ages. 

So when Hammer has other SU students come through on 

service, she advises them that the experience is not quite the 

same as “visiting your grandmother.” 

That’s clear one afternoon as Hammer and a group of volunteers 

from Microsoft spend the afternoon with about two 

dozen developmentally disabled adults for the United 

Way Day of Caring. One man sits at a table surrounded 

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y LEGO blocks. He is deaf, blind and largely inert. 

Volunteers take turns giving him large LEGO blocks to 

put together and take apart, to help maintain and improve 

his motor functions. “Otherwise,” says Hammer, “he 

might just lie down and sleep.” 

As a history and Spanish major, Hammer never imagined 

herself doing this. But she does it with aplomb, and sees the 

chance to unite volunteers and clients as a way of “bringing 

different voices to different people.” 

“Being able to connect students to different populations is 

very important to me,” she says. 

Such connections can be both brutal and gratifying. Ask 

Chelsea Krema, ’10. 

This past summer, when she wasn’t planning an 

International District immersion trip for first-year students, 

Krema was spending 20 to 25 hours a week at Childhaven, 

which has served as a childcare center on First Hill for nearly 

a century. 

On one morning, she is one of as many as six staffers 

wrangling 16, 3-year-olds on a trip to the roof to play with 

soap bubbles and a water slide, then downstairs to change 

out of wet clothes, play some more and eat lunch. 

It’s physically exhausting, energetic kid stuff, with a dark 

undercurrent. Krema is not privy to the children’s home 

lives, but she knows they are from troubled homes, with 

many at Childhaven by court order. 

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In the 2007–08 academic year, the Center 

for Service and Community Engagement 

provided 60 community organizations with 

more than 45,000 hours of student support 

through placement and project-based 

service-learning courses. 

Derrick Smith visits Seattle’s Saint Francis House, which he remembers 

coming to as a child with his grandmother. 

use different voices for inside and outside. A long-term 

study published in the late 1980s found that Childhaven’s 

therapeutic childcare techniques had a dramatic effect on 

reducing its graduates’ involvement in violent juvenile crime 

and problems adjusting to school. 

At first, Krema found working at the center emotionally 

challenging. It was hard not to be upset, even angry, with 

the children’s circumstances. She took her concerns to Katie 

Pinard, the student leadership program coordinator at the 

Center for Service and Community Engagement. 

“She helped me come to the conclusion that love is a gift,” 

says Krema. “And when someone gives it to you, all you can 

do is give it to someone else. The parents of these children 

have probably lived lives where they weren’t given love, so 

they didn’t have it to give. How wonderful it is that these 

kids can be in Childhaven, where people are giving the gift 

of love.” 

SU 

“It’s heartbreaking to see little 3-year-olds and how 

vulnerable they are, and know that they’ve seen some of the 

worst of this world—the hatred or pain,” says Krema. 

Over the course of the morning, the Childhaven staffers 

model the fundamentals of a caring social environment for 

the children: don’t hit, use your words, sit when you eat, 

Read a Q & A with Kent Koth, and download 

a copy of Partners for Progress, the service and 

economic benefits to the community report, at www. 

seattleu.edu/magazine/. 

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ThanksTO YOU 

For the Difference We Make. This is the tagline for our current $160 

million fundraising campaign. It recognizes Seattle University’s commitment to 

transforming the lives of our students and our future. 

You make the difference. Alumni, parents and friends, corporations and 

foundations, faculty, staff and students of Seattle University continue to express 

their belief and confidence in our mission through their generosity in this capital 

campaign. 

There are so many people we want to thank for gifts made in the 2008 fiscal 

year—more than 7,500 of you made contributions totaling $38.3 million. 

Here are a few of the highlights from the past year: 

We must applaud donors to the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons campaign. 

The efforts of the volunteer fundraising leadership will be rewarded—groundbreaking for 

construction has been moved up to June 2009, one year ahead of schedule. 

The university received more than $7.4 million in planned gifts. Of that amount, two large 

bequest commitments will provide approximately $3.5 million in future support to the School of 

Law and the Sullivan Leadership Endowment program. Also this year the university welcomed 25 

new members to the Legacy Society, which honors those individuals who have demonstrated their 

belief in our mission by including the university in their estate plans. SU received $827,000 in new 

gift annuities, which provide a future gift to the university and life income to the benefactors. 

Our annual SU Fund donors and support for the schools and colleges reached new heights in 

2008. We saw a 10 percent increase in the number of President’s Club members, those donors who 

contribute more than $1,000 annually. 

Thank you all for supporting the ongoing needs of our students, faculty and the university. 

We look forward to the day when we can share with you news of our campaign’s grand finale. 

As a supporter of Seattle University, we hope that you will join us in celebrating the Difference We 

Make together. 


Vice President, University Advancement 

Be part of the 

www.seattleu.edu/campaign 

22 | Thanks to You, SU Donors

donor spotlight 

Ann Wyckoff Receives 

St. Ignatius Medal for Service 

Ann Wyckoff’s affection for Seattle University goes way back. Her introduction to SU came 

by way of the late Father Albert A. Lemieux, a longtime president of the university who was a 

good friend of the family. Later she got to know Father William LeRoux and Father William 

Sullivan, who personally asked her to serve on the Board of Trustees. 

Her affinity for SU is also rooted in an appreciation of the Jesuit ethos and ecumenical studies 

offered through the School of Theology and Ministry. “I think the School of Theology and 

Ministry is so important, as it is open to people of many denominations who can study in a 

very ecumenical setting,” she says. 

Wyckoff exemplifies what it means to live a life of purpose and her generosity has and will 

benefit many. A strong supporter of the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons 

project, Wyckoff gave a $5 million gift to help fund it. 

“In many ways libraries can be the heart and soul of universities,” she says. “I think for 

prospective students looking into a university, libraries are a reason to come to a campus.” 

Long-standing service and support of the university has garnered Wyckoff the 2008 St. Ignatius 

Medal, which was presented to her at the 25th Anniversary Gala in November. The award recognises 

individuals within our community who inspire volunteerism, leadership, humanity and service. 

Wyckoff is the second recipient of the award; Jeanne Marie and Rhoady Lee received the inaugural 

St. Ignatius Medal in 2007. 

“It’s an honor to receive this. I am so pleased to be the second recipient after my good friends, 

Jeanne Marie and Rhoady Lee,” she says. “That, too, is inspiring because they have done so much 

for the university.” 

“It’s an honor 

to receive this.” 

Ann Wyckoff 

PHOTO BY JOYCE MCCLURE 

PRESIDENT’S CLUB 

Diamond Circle 

$25,000 and above 

Dr. Nicolaos V. Arvanitidis and 

Athena Arvanitidis 

Maureen and Joel Benoliel 

Robert and Mary Bertch 

Veronica and Lawrence Bilder 

Professor Emeritus N. Jean Bushman* 

Bill and Paula Clapp 

Dick and Chris DiCerchio 

Rev. Ray C. Downs* 

Jim and Janet Dwyer 

Ken and Lisa Geisen 

Ron and Nan Giuffre 

Marcia and Pat Halligan 

Michael and Mary Kay Hallman 

Jack Harvey 

Elizabeth and Richard Hedreen 

Augusta Hoba, Stella G. Hoba, 

Frederick A. Hoba and Donald W. Hoba 

Susan and Dr. James Hogan 

Jim and Timmie Hollomon 

Steve and Cathy Beth Hooper 

Ann Lackey 

Myrtle Lackey 

Maureen Lee and Mark Busto 

Gene Lynn 

Mrs. Richard P. Lyons 

John and Ginny Meisenbach 

Charles and Nancy Munger 

Grace Elaine Munzer 

Larry and Mary Jo Nejasmich 

Jamie and Lisa Nordstrom 

James and Gaye Pigott 

Judy Pigott 

John and Heidi Rabel 

Joan Razore 

Frank Riener 

Charles and Karen Riley 

Floyd and Judy Rogers 

Stuart and Lee Rolfe 

B. Raymond and Linda Russo 

Theiline and Douglas Scheumann 

Howard and Sheri Schultz 

Rev. John and Julia Shaw 

Dolores Sherman* 

Jon and Mary Shirley 

Martin and Mary Ann Simonetti 

Jim and Janet Sinegal 

Fred Sommer 

Geraldine Sorensen 

Malcolm* and Mari Stamper 

Richard and Karen Tonelli 

John Wiegenstein 

Betty Woods 

Irene and James Worminghaus 

Ann P. Wyckoff 

Martha Wyckoff 

Charles Dickey and 

Sheila Wyckoff-Dickey 

Judith Yeakel 

Anonymous (3) 

President’s Circle 

$10,000–$24,999 

R. Miller Adams and Cheryl Roberts 

William and Joanne Almon 

Kent and Dana Bailey 

Carol Ann (Conroy) Barnickol and 

Karl Barnickol 

Carl and Renee Behnke 

Joseph and Pauline Betz 

Bruce and Ann Blume 

Frederick Brandauer and Marie Materi 

John and Nancy Broell 

Harry and Pauline Buhler 

Michael and Michelle Burris 

Kathleen and Charles Cannon 

Herb Chaffey 

Brenda Christensen and Thomas Barry 

Frank and Marilyn Clement 

Theodore and Patricia Collins 

Lucio and Marta Dalla Gasperina 

Betty and Marty DeLaurenti 

Michelle Devenuti 

Rick Devenuti 

Mary S. Dore* 

James and Gaylé Duncan 

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Dunnam 

Jim and Geri Dykeman 

Bill Eisiminger 

Thomas and Susan Ellison 

Anne and Rob Farrell 

Patricia and Victor Feltin 

Joseph and Terri Gaffney 

Theresa Gallant and Edward Bulchis 

Anne and Robert Gilroy, Jr. 

Rob Harris 

Michael and Lynne Hosterman 

Mary Ellen and Lawrence Hughes 

Kent Johnson 

Helen Jolly 

Carolyn Kelly 

Janet Ketcham 

Randolph Phillip Koelsch Estate 

Robert Labbe’ 

Catherine Mowry LaCugna 

Joseph LaCugna 

John Livingstone II 

Steve and Ashlie McConnell 

Stan and Kathleen McNaughton 

Glen and Alison Milliman 

Paul and Jesse Mizoguchi 

Dan and Joyce Murphy 

Nancy S. Nordhoff 

Charles and Doris (Cockrill) O’Connor 

Jason Oliver 

Alice Pedersen* 

Charles M. and Yvonne Pigott 

Tom and Brooke Pigott 

Chuck and Nancy Porter 


PRESIDENT’S CLUB, cont. 

Andy and Carrie Read 

Bryant and Nonie Reber 

Rick and Jennifer Redman 

Tom and Jeanie Robinson 

Robert and Jean Romano 

Jon and Judith Runstad 

Tim and Shirley Ryan 

David and Sandra Sabey 

Jeff and Lara Sanderson 

Mick and Marnie Schreck 

James and Janice Scott 

Frank and Harriet Shrontz 

John and Rose Southall 

Rev. Dr. Virginia V. and 

Gerald D. Sparling, M.D. 

Samia and Daryl Staehle 

Gerald and Gloria Swanson 

Douglas Tellefson 

Jon and Cindy Tellefson 

Marsha Tellesbo-Kembel 

Ruth Tressel 

Ruth and Bill True 

Vincent and Marla Volpe 

Rev. Richard Ward 

Patrick and Mary Welch 

Anonymous 

Gold Circle 

$5,000–$9,999 

Robert and Clodagh Ash 

Mary Helen Austin* 

Arthur and Mary Fran Barkshire 

Gubby and Gillian Barlow 

Timothy and Mary Barnard 

Paul and Lisa Bialek 

David and Barbara Boerner 

Jim and Caroline Boitano 

Matthew Bolin 

Suzanne Burke 

Bill and Phyllis Campbell 

Thomas and Cynthia Captain 

Gary and Susan Carlson 

Carly Carumbana 

Ross and Julie Case 

Steven Cohn and Laura Scheyer 

Julie and Dan Coleman 

John and Mary Jo Costello 

Bob and Gerri Craves 

Dr. Margaret Davies Estate 

Mark and Julie Delaurenti 

Marilyn Dennehy 

Rebecca and Paul deVille 

John and Marlene Durbin 

James Eblen 

Jean and John Ederer 

LeeAnn Farrell 

Jim and Jeanne Fitzsimmons 

Larry and Joan Flax 

Peter Goldman and Martha Kongsgaard 

David Grams and Terri Anne Marello 

Kathleen and Keith Hallman 

24 | Thanks to You, SU Donors 

Jack and Myra Hanover 

Keith Kelley 

Jim Kenyon 

Stephen and Mary Knoff 

Deirdre Kuring and Jesse Nunez 

Rosalyn and Patrick Kwan Sr. 

Annie Lee 

Donald and Caroline Leuthold 

Elizabeth Little 

Steven and Allison Lockshin 

Steven D. Looney and Dana L. Frank 

Bruce and Jolene McCaw 

Andy and Jane McClure 

John McKay 

Brian and Peggy McMahon 

Dorene Centioli-McTigue and 

Terence McTigue 

Jim and Jude Mitchell 

Joanna Nelson 

Marlys and Ralph Palumbo 

Mary Ann and Scott Parker 

Carol and John Penny, Jr. 

Mary Lee Peters 

Jim and Lanette Peterson 

Bill and Gail Rieck 

Steve and Rena Ritchey 

Connie and Steven Rogel 

Ron and Anna Rosella 

Laurie and David Rosenfeld 

David Rothrock and Kirsten Johnson 

Sharon Sakamoto and Ron Takemura 

Mary Ann and Lester Sauvage 

Lori Segale 

Boyd and Mikki Sharp 

Richard and Cynthia Sonstelie 

Philippe Suetens and 

Debbie Montgomery 

Victoria and Allen Symington 

Gerard “Jerry” Tardie 

Lidovina and Danilo Umagat 

Catherine Walker and David Fuqua 

Evelyn Walker* 

Bill Weis and Marilyn Roy 

Joe and Mary Zavaglia 

Anonymous (4) 

Silver Circle 

$2,500–$4,999 

Susan Ahearn 

Tom Anfang 

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Aspiri 

Sanjay and Catherine Batra 

Joel and Anne Beerman 

Craig and Vicki Beetham 

Joseph and Linda Blaschka 

Ben Boyd and Laurie Hatten-Boyd 

Stephen Boyd 

Pamela Bradburn and John Ochs 

Colleen and Paul Brajcich 

Peter and Julieann Braman 

Carolyn and Jeff Brandsema 

Frank and Carlene Buty 

J. Kevin Cahill 

Kathleen and Bob Caldwell 

Robert and Suzanne Carlile 

Shirleyanne Chew 

Terese and Dwayne Clark 

Chris and Rebecca Clements 

Carole and Charles Conger 

Alexander Conrad and 

Katherine Goodman 

Russell and Lora Crawford 

Rev. Dr. Richard and 

Carol Cunningham 

Melanie Curtice and Jill Mehner 

Bertrand and Brooke de Boutray 

James Degel and Jeanne Berwick 

James and Camelia Dobrick 

Edward and Claire Drosdick 

Melissa and David Dugan 

M. Jean Ellis 

Thomas and Alison Evert 

Virgil and Sunni Fassio 

Brent Fernyhough 

Rick and Patti Fersch 

J. Michael and Doris Flinn 

John Garner and Lizbeth Cardwell 

Michael and Kristy Gibson 

Russell and Corinne Hagen 

Peter Heymann and Nicole Piasecki 

Jim and Sue Holman 

Ronald Hosogi 

David Kadue 

Anne and Lee Kilcup 

Dale Kingman 

Norma Jean and Eric LaRock 

Denise and Doug Leary 

Maximus and Marylou Leone 

Hon. Terence and Rev. Ann Lukens 

Dave and Mary Anne Madsen 

Randy and Kathryn Massengale 


Hank McGee and Victoria Kill 

Henry and Celia McGee III 

Doug and Ruth McKnight 

Curly and Judy McNamee 

Jim and Lynn Merlino 

Richard and Joan Merritt 

William and Lyanne Monkman 

James and Jill Navone 

John and Jeanne O’Brien 

Sarah Perry and Bill Ramos 

Josh and Anne Petersen 

Robert M. Petersen 

Joseph Phillips and Mary Sebek 

Michael and Virginia Pigott 

Mark and Andria Pinkowski 

Marc Platt 

Lawrence Plummer 

Christopher and Katheryn Porter 

Ferd and Kathy Reichlin 

Rao and Satya Remala 

Katherine and Scott Renschler 

Thomas and Nancy Roach 

Jan O. Rowe Estate 

Joseph and Judith Sambataro Jr. 

Paul and Debra Sauvage 

Sally A. Scott 

Julie Shapiro and Shelly F. Cohen 

Jan (Kelly) and Jay Shaw 

Adrian Smith and Deb Waldal 

Denis Stearns 

Jack and Marion Sullivan 

Clyde and Karen Summerville 

Kevin and Veronique Suther 

Carl Swenson and Julia Buchholz 

William Swenson 

Terrance Thomas II and 

Sandra Thomas 

Phillip and Jeanne Thompson 

Michael and Sara Torre 

Tim Ward and Cheryl Uyeji 

Eugene and Marilyn Webb 

Chuck and Keely Weidenbach 

Anne Wilcox Estate 

Jack Witte 

Thomas Workman 

Kenwood Youmans 

Robert Yunker and Claire Lytell 

Anonymous (3) 

Founder’s Circle 

$1,891–$2,499 

Robert and Margaret Alston 

Ruth Back Estate 

Diane and Rick Betts 

Sheila and Byron Bishop 

Verle Bleese 

Richard and Margaret Bossi 

Joseph and Maureen Brotherton 

Cecelia and John Burke 

Virginia and Thomas Carr 

Sally L. Chambers 

Richard and Suzan Chavez 

Ryan and Judy Clancy 

Martin and Jennifer Coles 

Michael Collette and Betty Jung 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Curran 

Francis Daly 

Victor and Diana DiPietro 

Sheila Edwards Lienhart 

and Ross Lienhart 

Rev. M. Dee and John Eisenhauer 

Anne and Steve Enquist 

Tonya and George Estes III 

Michael and Carolyn Evered 

Pat and Barbara Fahey 

Steven Fantello 

Aaron Feit 

Neil and Gini Harmon 

Hon. Donald and Lynda Horowitz 

Lorraine Hougham 

Peggy Hudson 

John and Patricia Isaksen 

Brent Johnson 

Kenneth and Marilyn Johnson 

John and Patricia Kelly 

Bob and Mary Jo Kilian


Maureen Benoliel, ’71, 

Gives Back in a Big Way 

To say Maureen Benoliel, ’71, is passionate about her alma mater is an understatement. 

Her experience attending Seattle University—where she earned a degree in teaching—was 

transformative. 

“I honestly believe being at Seattle University was the beginning of my life,” she says. 

“It was the beginning of who I am today.” 

For Benoliel, the university allowed her to open up and be herself; the emphasis on personal 

and professional formation and the desire for students to succeed were not lost on her. 

“The environment here was so loving and so warm,” says Benoliel, who was offered a 

teaching job in the Lake Washington School District even before she finished her degree, 

an outcome she credits to the quality and worth of an SU education. 

Her commitment to education has never waned; she continued to work as a substitute 

teacher and these days is involved with the Puget Sound Educational Service District. 

Her involvement with SU has also remained strong. In addition to serving on the 

College of Education Advisory Board and the Campaign Steering Committee, Benoliel 

has served on the Board of Regents for the past seven years. Along with her service, 

Maureen and her husband, Joel, are generous donors who have supported the library and 

learning commons project, the Costco scholarship program and the Master in Teaching 

Scholarship Endowment. 

“I always wanted to give back to a place that has given me so much,” she says. 

“I love this school.” 

“I honestly believe 

being at Seattle 

University was the 

beginning of my life.” 

Maureen Benoliel, ’71 

Sr. Dorothy ”Dottie“ Klingele, S.P. 

Robert and Roberta Leigh 

Robert and Lynne Lemon 

Butch and Pamela Leonardson 

Russell and Raven Lidman 

Shawn and Nicole Lipton 

Jeffrey Litvak 

Henry and Tina Mao 

Bill and Julie Marler 

Anita and Timothy Mason 

James and Judith McAteer 

Jack and Mary McCann 

May McCarthy 

Carol Lynn McLaughlin 

Theresa Scott Meditch 

Steven and Rebecca Mikami 

Anita Morgan 

Al and Joanne Mullally 

B. Gabriel Nachand 

Wendy Beth Oliver 

David and Lauri Perry 

Kathleen Pierce 

In memory of Rosemary Laura Ramsden 

Tony and Mitra Ravani 

Paul and Patricia Shipman 

Marian Smith 

Ted Surina 

Erin Swezey and Tim Leary 

Kellye Testy 

Michael and Tina Thomas 

Mike and Jana Thomas 

Kathleen Trachte 

Robert and Diane Wagner 

Art and Eva Wahl 

Jim Walsh 

Leonard Weber 

Mary Ellen and James Weber 

Susan Weihrich 

Don and Jean Welsh 

William and Carol Wurts 

Sharon and Leon Young 

Anonymous 

Deans’ Circle 

$1,000–$1,890 

Janet and William Adkisson 

Daniel and Donna Agopsowicz 

Janet E. Ainsworth and Michael Reed 

Ike Alhadeff 

Inez Allan 

Guy and Kathy Alloway 

Carl and Tami Amala 

Jason Amala 

Rita and Stephen Anderson 

Joan Bader 

Maria Barrientos and Ronald Wright Jr. 

Victor and Lisa Barry 

Karen Barta 

Mary Bartholet 

Douglas Baugh and Sheryl Pewitt 

Sarah and James Bee 

Len Beil and Stella Ley 

Rodney and Mary Jo Bench 

John and Deborah Bender 

Patricia and Charles Bendock 

Jane Beno and Michael Edwards 

Anders Berg 

David and Lucinda Berkey 

Judith and Donald Billings 

Mary and Donald Binder 

Richard Bird, Jr. and Laurie Prince 

Richard and Jeanne Birmingham 

Don and Mindy Black 

Steve and Cinthia Blair 

Nina Blaylock 

Robert and Susan Blethen 

Jack Bloodworth 

John and Diann Boehm 

Scott and Patricia Boggs 

Jim and Georgana Bond 

William and Marguerite Borgert 

James Boyd 

John and Fran Bradley 

Anne Bradley Counts 

and George Counts 

John Branch 

Bob and Jane Braukus 

Robert and Eileen Brennan 

Hon. Bobbe and Jonathan Bridge 

Paul and Barbara Bridge 

Grant and Macie Brightman 

Laurence Briney 

Bruce and Marian Britton 

Lisa Brodoff and Lynn Grotsky 

Sandra Brown 

Jennifer and Christopher Browning 

Patricia and Christian Buchsel 

Mark Burnett and Leslie Rankin 

Sharon and Neil Callahan 

Joseph and Erika Callero 

Bridget Carney 

Michael and Kimberly Carrosino 

Cynthia Carter 

Alan Chaffee and Mary Raschko 

Brian Charneski 

Kristin Cheney 

Eric Chiappinelli 

Margaret Chon 

Annette Clark 

Bruce and Paige Clark 

Carol Cochran 

Jeffrey Cole 

Thomas and Judith Connor 

Lynn and Gary Conrad 

Dick and Bridget Cooley 

Michael and Becky Costello 

Patrick and Paula Costello 

John Coughlan 

Timothy Cowin 


PRESIDENT’S CLUB, cont. 

Jeffrey and Gretchen Cox 

Sharon and Art Crisera 

Calvin and Lois Crow 

Bob and Grace Cumbow 

John and Margaret Cunningham 

Henry Dayringer and Carol Soltau 

Mary de Chesnay 

Ed De Rocco 

Dennis DeMille 

Joe and Pat DeSimone 

Robert Devore 

Ralph Di Cecco 

Steve and Shirley DiJulio 

Gregory and Beverly Dimartino 

Lawrence and Susan Donohue 

Durga Doraisamy 

William P. Doyle and Judith A. Doyle 

Hugo and Mary Ann Draye 

Brian and Gayle Ducey 

Monica and Martin Duke 

Curtis and Olga Dyckman 

Christopher and Carolyn Eagan 

Rev. Marvin K. Eckfeldt 

Frank Edmondson 

John and Doris Ellis 

Tom and Maggie Elzey 

Bill and Mary Epping 

Alice Erickson 

John and Susan Eshelman 

Vito Fedor 

Sarah and Kevin Finney 

Jerry and Norma Fitzmaurice 

Christopher Flint 

Robert Flowers 

David Foley 

Dawn and Bruce Foster 

Shelly and Carol Frankel 

Penny Freed Crowe and R. Keith Crowe 

Yusaku Furuhashi 

Charles and Joyce Galbraith 

Bart and Hilke Gallant 

Tom and Susan Galligan 

Renee Gastineau 

Gary Gayton 

Pierre and Jacqueline Gehlen 

Christine Gerdes and Steven Gerdes 

Brenda Gomez 

M. Lorena Gonzalez 

Cory Averill Gooden-Charlston 

Carolyn Gooden-Dunstone 

Mark Gould and Lisa Dobson Gould 

William and Cynthia Gould 

Holly and David Greenspoon 

Kirk Greiner and Jackie Cyphers Greiner 

Peter Grimm and Dawn Winters 

Joseph and Nancy Guppy 

Pauline Guppy 

Reed and Wynne Guy 

Catherine and George Haffner 

Cary and Maureen Halpin 

Grace Han Stanton 

Charles R. and Virginia C. Harmon 

Denita and Michael Harrison 

Jane and Sigfred Haugland 

Kathleen Haugland Hinson 

T. Daniel and Muff Heffernan 

Paul Heneghan and Barbara 

Brady Heneghan 

Melvin and Laura Hess 

Albert and Susan Hideshima 

Kenneth R. Hill 

Susan and Steve Hirst 

Ken and Pattie Hitch 

William Hogan and Sarah Hogan 

John and Judith Hopcroft 

Steve and Patricia Hopps 

Hon. Elaine Houghton 

and Gene Lorenz 

Mitzi Hu 

Steve and Elizabeth Huebner 

Ernie and Jane Hughes 

Susan Clifford Jamroski 

and Gregor Jamroski 

Michele Hughes and Paul Johnson 

Jarlath Hume and Irene Mahler 

Thornton and Maud Humphries 

Katy and John Hunter 

Heather Hutson 

Kathleen and Robert Hynes 

David Irwin, Sr., and Dianne Irwin 

Susan and Charles Jackels 

Steven and Laura Jager 

Henry and Mary Ann James 

Lori Claudon James and Jeffrey James 

Craig Jelinek 

Warren and Sally Jewell 

Margaret and James Jimenez 

Hon. Charles and Dana Johnson 

Darrel Johnson and Bettye Atkinson 

Eric and Cathleen Johnson 

Truman Johnson 

William Jolly 

Jeffrey Jones and Jill Hetzler 

James and Dianne Jorgensen 

Danica and Victor Kaloper 

Dinesh KC 

Thomas and Kathleen Kelley 

Robert and Bridget Kelly 

Mary Kendrick Gartshore 

and Peter Gartshore 

Richard and June Kennedy 

Charles Kirchner and Gillian Allard 

James and Donna Knight 

Bruce and Carol Koch 

P. Michael Koenig 

Matthew Kosanke 

Bernard and Renee Kreilkamp 

George Krsak 

R. Mimi Krsak 

Michael Kucha and Tammy Roe 

Vasant Kumar 

Marianne LaBarre 

Dorothy Laidig 

James Lane, Jr., and Susanna Lane 

Bob and Maxine Larson 

Jeanne Lavell 

Douglas and Ramona Lawrence 

Brody O'Harran and Lisa Lederer 

Sharon Lee 

Y.C. Lee 

Sally Leighton and 

Hon. Ronald Leighton 

Thomas Lenth and Kathleen Fiehrer 

Jeffry and Andrea Levy 

Donald Linde 

Molly Linden 

Bob and Sarah Long 

Brian and Betsy Losh 

Arthur and Suzanne Lowell 

David Lowell 

Michael and Judi Luiten 

Paula Lustbader 

Glenn Lux 

Juliana Macaller 

Debra and Stewart MacLeod 

Col. David and Patricia Maddock 

Robert Maddox 

Paul Maffeo 

Tayyab Mahmud 

Patrick and Kathleen Mahoney 

Hiro and Linda Makino 

Stephen and Catherine Malshuk 

Donald and Melissa Manning 

J. Richard and Janet A. Manning 

Christopher Marsh 

Charles and Kathleen Maryatt 

Kara and Ken Masters 

Cecilia Matta and Casey Riske 

Barry and Nancy Mattaini 

Gerry and Barbara Maurer 

Donald and Roberta McGillivray 

Thomas McGuinness 

Gordon McHenry, Jr., and Dorina 

Calderon-McHenry 

Michael and Peggy McKasy 

John McKiernan 

Michelle McKinnon 

Brian and Karen McManus 

Joseph McMonigle 

Rev. Clinton McNair 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. McTaggart 

Bruce and Annie McTavish 

Scott and Wynne Mentink 

David and Carlene Merlino 

Donald and Joan Merlino 

Jean Merlino 

Paul and Nancy Milan 

Randolph and Linda Miles 

John Miller Jr., and Marlene Miller 

Kenneth Miller 

Roger Mills and Linda Robertson 

Mark and Susan Minerich 

Brian Minnich 

Andrew and Mary Mirkovich 

John and Eva Mitchell 

John Monahan 

Kathleen E. Moohr 

Douglas and Janet Moore 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Morre, Jr. 

John and Jerene Morford 

Kathryn and Carl Moroney 

Ralph A. Morrison Estate 

Rev. Kathryn and Steven Morse 

Matt Murphy 

Matt and Cristina Murphy 

Marlon and Suzanne Murzello 

Lt. Cmdr. Lawrence 

and Louise Naehr 

Masakazu Nakamura 

Kit and Sally Narodick 

Laura and Danial Neault 

Carol and Kenneth Nelson 

Ronald Neubauer 

Stephanie Nichols 

George and Gloria Northcroft 

Terence and Laurel Oates 

James and Marjorie O'Hara 

Eileen Olson 

Mark Olson and Renee Korda 

Ernst and Kathy Oosterhof 

Carol Orr 

Sim Osborn and Monica Hart 

Benjamin Page and Bryan Adamson 

Tad and Nancy Papineau 

Paul and Karyn Pasquier 

Susan Payne 

Bill Pebley 

Joseph and Joelie Pehanick 

David and Marianne Perez 

Catherine Peterson 

Richard and Rosemary Peterson 

Susan Picht 

Loren Pickart and Charlene Pickart 

Robert and Lynne Piening 

Mary Pigott 

Gerard Pigotti 

Laird and Julie Pisto 

Riley* and Nancy Pleas 

Karen Porterfield 

Joan Pratt 

Susan Preston 

Marilyn Price 

Patrick and Suzanne Price 

Adrienne Quinn 

Michael and Victoria Quinn 

Suzanne Rabe 

Patricia J. Radle 

Michele Radosevich and 

Hon. Dean Morgan 

Laurene and Edward Raleigh 

David and Margaret Read 

Robert Rebar 

Robert and Kathy Reeder 

Shelly Brown Reiss and 

Michael Reiss 

Mike and Gale Reynvaan 

Bobby and Donna Rhay 

Richard and Donna Riccobono 


Stephen and Karen Ridlon 

Victoria Ries 

Jim and Doreen Rigos 

Mary and John Rivers 

Geoffrey and Kay Roach 

Philip Rogers and Teresa Annotti-Rogers 

Albert Rosellini, Jr., and Vicki Rosellini 

Robert and Amy Ross 

Carol Ryan 

John and Laura Sachs 

Sandy and Jodi Sanders 

Douglas and Kathleen Sanford 

George and Sheila Saul 

Philip and Barbara Sauntry 

Jeffrey and Carol Sayre 

Sheila and John Scates 

Richard and Janice Scott 

Susan L. Secker 

Mark and Keri Segale 

Hon. Karen Seinfeld 

Carmen and Jim Sepic 

Mary and Robert Sepulveda 

Richard and Trish Settle 

Michael and Kathleen Sheehy 

Bob and Betty Sheeran 

John and Elaine Shephard 

George Sheppard 

Walter J. Shields 

Patricia Siemion 

Leo Simpson 

Edward Skone and Rebecca Zerngast 

David Skover and Seán P. O’Reilly 

Mike Sletten and Joanne Warner 

Danielle Smith 

John N. Smith 

Ronald Smith and H. Sue Hasbrouck 

Walter Smith 

Vinton and Amelia Sommerville 

Nancy L. Sorensen 

Nanci Goldman-Soriano 

and Marc Soriano 

Patrick and Darlene Sousa 

Mary Spillane and Hans Brouwer 

Harriet Stephenson 

Joseph Straus and Mary Shima 

Althea Stroum and the late Samuel 

Stroum 

David and Linda Strout 

Glenn and Kimberly Sullivan 

George Sundborg 

Jesse and Lilly Tam 

Nick Tarlson and Mauna Arnzen 

Dick and Barb Taylor 

Frances and Bob Terry 

John and Lynne Thelan 

Tracey Thompson 

Camilla and Thomas Tilford 

Dianna Uchida 

George and Mary Ellen 

(Doran) Unzelman 

Greg and Joan Van Pelt 

Barbara Vincent and Orrin Vincent, Jr. 

Jerry and Gail Viscione 

Eugene and Catherine Voiland 

Antoinette Wagner and Robert Perpall 

Imogene and Alfred Wahlmeier 

Charles Walker III and Patricia Walker 

Sylvia and Harry Watson 

Bruce and Bobbie Weber 

Robert and Barbara Welsh 

Joanne Werner 

Leslie and Susan West 

Donna and Joseph Whitford 

Debra Wiley 

Kalai and Mike Wineland 

Connie Wong 

Stuart and Debby Woodhouse 

Duane and Teri Woods 

John and Robin Worthington 

Tom and Sharla Wybenga 

Marylou Wyse 

Barbara and Lee Yates 

Gail Yates 

Ralph and Helen Zech 

Anonymous (7) 

Recent Graduates 

President’s Club 

Mary Allison 

M. Leigh Anderson 

Johannes Ariens 

Patricia Ashby 

Erika Ayer 

Jay Barker 

Richard Beers II and Jennifer Beers 

Theresa and Steven Binger 

Teresa Blanco 

Alfred and Jan Blue 

Tara Breitenbucher 

Kyle Caley 

Josh Canfield 

Thomas and Marina Carpenter 

Lauren and Dennis Carriere 

Hozaifa Cassubhai 

Pantita Charoenying 

Pete Chikos 

Sui-Wan Chung 

Ford Clary 

Steven Coppess 

Charles Court, Jr. 

Mary and Larry DeForrest 

Jesse G. DeNike and Heather Hamlett 

Douglas Denney 

Sherry and Michael Dryja 

Teresa and Andrew Dul 

Nancy and James Dunn 

Jesse Francisco 

Kristen Guberman 

David and Jennifer Hecht 

Dedy Hendro 

Kimberlee Thornton Henning 

and Thomas Henning 

Jaime and Michael Huff 

William Hughes 

Shelly and Stephen Hurley 

DoQuyen Huynh 

Colette Jackson 

Sean Johnson 

Cynthia Jones 

Cristin Kent 

Gena Kerr 

Angelina and Jerod Kidd 

Gerald King 

James and Ember Krumwied 

David Lance 

Natalie Laney 

Dana Lieu 

Li Lu-Porter and David Porter 

Donna Mace 

Cisco Malpartida Smith 

Susan Marie 

Michael Marsidi 

Marie Maxwell 

Chad McDonald 

Caitlin McHugh 

Sheldon Midgett 

Andrew and Sachiko Miller 

Khanh Nguyen 

Rob Nielsen 

Susan Oistad 

Dudley Joe Pajela 

Brian Payne 

Sterling Peake 

Alan and Linda Portugal 

Hilary and Mark Prentice 

Roger Rammer 

John Salinas II 

Erin Scheopner 

Benjamin and Emily Shih 

Benjamin Sims 

Deacon Carl Smith 

Rev. Linda Smith 

Stevan Stark 

Sharen Teesdale 

Christopher Terp 

Todd and Monique Thackray 

Charles Thompson 

John Tri Tran 

Gregory Vendeland 

Nicole Wagner 

Meredith Walkley 

Ya-Wan Wei 

Karl Wiegand 

Suzanne Williams 

Melissa Wong 

Anonymous (2) 

*Deceased 

FOUNDATIONS 



Citigroup Foundation 

College Success Foundation 

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 

Frost & Margaret Snyder Foundation 

Harry & Clare Cayo Wilson 

Charitable Trust 

Herbert B. Jones Foundation 

Independent Colleges of Washington 

Janet W. Ketcham Foundation 

Jansing-Cook Foundation 

Jon & Mary Shirley Foundation 

King County Bar Foundation 

Lilly Endowment Inc. 

M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust 

The Marcia S. Halligan Trust 

Moccasin Lake Foundation 

The Moraine Foundation 

The Norcliffe Foundation 

PGA Foundation 

Plum Creek Foundation 

Raymond G. & Estelle K. 

Spehar Foundation 

Research Corporation 

Riley & Nancy Pleas Family Foundation 

Schultz Family Foundation 

Seattle Foundation 

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc. 

Tillie and Alfred Shemanski 

Testamentary Trust 

President’s Circle 

$10,000–$24,999 

The Anderson Foundation 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation 

Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation 

China Friendship Charitable 

Trust Foundation 

Clement Family Foundation 

The Ferry Family Charitable 

Foundation 

Foundation of the National 

Student Nurses’ Association 

Fred H. and Mary S. Dore 

Charitable Foundation 

The Grove Foundation 

Harris myCFO Foundation 

Koeplin Family Foundation 

Leona Hickman Charitable Trust 

Lucky Seven Foundation 


FOUNDATIONS, cont. 

McKibben/Merner Family Foundation 

New York Life Foundation 

PACCAR Foundation 

Pemco Foundation Inc. 

Qwest Foundation 

The Radford Foundation 

Shinnyo-En Foundation 

Vanguard Charitable 

Endowment Program 

William G. McGowan 

Charitable Fund, Inc. 

Windermere Foundation 

Gold Circle 

$5,000–$9,999 

Bilder Foundation, Inc. 

Craves Family Charitable Foundation 

George P. Hardgrove Foundation 

Juniper Foundation 

Kulakala Point Foundation 

The O’Donnell Foundation 

Prairie Foundation 

Taucher Family Foundation 

U.S. Bancorp Foundation 

Wahle Family Foundation 

William & Mary Little Foundation 

Winds of Peace Foundation 

Silver Circle 

$2,500–$4,999 

Dorsey & Whitney Foundation 

Dupar Charitable Foundation 

The Greater Tacoma Community 

Foundation 

Massengale Family Foundation 

The Pride Foundation 

Satya & Rao Remala Foundation 

Wheeler Charitable Trust 

William W. Kilworth Charitable 

Foundation 

Founder's Circle 

$1,891–$2,499 

Inland Northwest Association of 

General Contractors 

Norman Archibald Charitable 

Foundation 

S.O.S. Foundation 

W Foundation 

Deans' Circle 

$1,000–$1,890 

Alpha Sigma Nu 

Bishop Fleet Foundation 

Calvert Social Investment Foundation 

Federated Department Stores 

Foundation 

Horrigan Foundation Inc. 

Intel Foundation 

Ireene Barnett Foundation 

J.B. Reynolds Foundation 

JS Turner Family Foundation 

KPMG Foundation 

Mattaini Family Foundation 

MLK Dream Foundation 

Peter Berkey Foundation 

Whitaker Foundation 

Anonymous 

CORPORATIONS 



Anderson Daymon Worldwide 

Archdiocese of Seattle 

BECU 

BOA Merchant Services LLC 

The Boeing Company 

Campbell Soup Company 

Claesen Limited Partnership 

Continental Mills, Inc. 

Costco Wholesale Corporation 

First Quality 

Gold Toe Brands, Inc. 

Hewlett Packard Co. 

Huish Detergents Inc. 

Jesuit Community 

Kenworth Truck Company 

Kimberly-Clark Corp. 

Lakeside Industries 

Leiner Health Products 

Leriot, LLC 

Microsoft Corporation 

Nice-Pak Products, Inc. 

PACCAR Inc 

PepsiCo, Inc. 

Pharmavite LLC 

Premera Blue Cross 

RP Management, Inc. 

United Way of King County 

Washington Dental Service 

Washington Mutual 

President's Circle 

$10,000–$24,999 

Alaska Airlines 

Allied Marketing, Inc. 

Archdiocese of Anchorage 

28 | Thanks to You, SU Donors 

AREVA T&D 

Beckman Coulter 

BelGioioso Cheese 

Borghese 

CG Roxane 

CHEP Equipment Pooling Systems 

Cisco Systems 

Colgate-Palmolive Company 

Construx Software Builders 

Deloitte & Touche, LLP 

Dorel Industries 

Dorsey & Whitney LLP 

Eton School, Inc. 

Executive Alliance 

Expeditors International 

of Washington 

Farmers New World Life 

Insurance Co. 

Foss Maritime Company 

Foster Pepper PLLC 

Georgia-Pacific Corporation 

Gull Industries, Inc. 

Harvest Manor Farms 

InSpa Corporation 

Intuit 

Jarden Branded Consumables 

Johnson & Johnson Consumer 

Products Co. 

Johnson Controls, Inc. 

Kellogg Company 

Kelsen, Inc. 

KPMG 

Lane Powell PC 

Ledcor Industries, Inc. 

Mastronardi Produce Limited 

McKinstry Company 

MCM, A Meisenbach Company 

Mortenson Construction 

Nonni's Food Company 

Nordstrom, Inc. 

Novak Construction 

nZania 

Pacific Coast Feather Company 

Pactiv Corporation 

Panasonic 

Perkins Coie LLP 

Philips International 

Poly-America, L.P. 

Procter & Gamble 

Providence Medical Center 

Robinson Construction 

Sabey Corporation 

Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving 

Sealy, Inc. 

SeaScape Homes LLC 

Seattle First Baptist Church 

Seattle Pacific Industries 

Seattle Preparatory School 

The Seattle Times, Inc. 

Seyfarth Shaw, LLP 

Sugar Bowl Bakery 

Trident Seafoods Corporation 

Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA 

United Stationers Supply Co. 

University Lutheran Church 

US Bank 

Vacation Internationale 

Van Ness Feldman 

Washington Center for Nursing 

Gold Circle 

$5,000–$9,999 

AeA-American Electronics 

Association 

American Express 

Aoki, Sakamoto, Grant LLP 

Bank of America 

The Benaroya Company 

Bioalgene 

Bon Appétit 

Buyken Metal Products Inc. 

Capitol Hill Jesuit Community 

Casio, Inc. 

Chateau Ste. Michelle 

Compass Group 

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 

Divatex Home Fashions, Inc. 

Dole Food Company 

The Dow Jones Newspaper 

Fund, Inc. 

DWI Holdings, Inc. 

Forest Ridge School 

of the Sacred Heart 

Fremont Dock Co. 

George K. Baum & Company 

Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, 

Malanca, Peterson & Daheim LLP 

Greenberg Glusker 

Hanes Brands, Inc. 

Holy Names Academy 

Jackson Dean Construction 

John Durbin & Associates 

JVC 

Kenyon Company 

Kibble & Prentice Holding 

Company 

Laird Norton Tyee 

Leeds Engineering Corporation/ 

Olde Thompson 

Marine Resources Group 

Maxsam Partners 

McCallum Print Group 

Medical & Business Interiors, Inc. 

Michelin North America 

Morey's Seafood 

Mulvanny G2 Architecture 

NCAA Division II 

Northwest Atlantic Partners

sullivan scholars 

PHOTO BY Kraig Cook 

Current Sullivan Scholars gather with their co-advisers Jerry Cobb, S.J., and Andrea McDowell during an annual retreat at the Oregon coast earlier this year. 

Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders 

Sullivan Leadership Endowment reaches $10 million fundraising goal 

The Sullivan Leadership Endowment program awards 

four-year scholarships to nine students each year. The program 

was created by former President William Sullivan, S.J., 

as a way to promote leadership through service, academics 

and study abroad. The Sullivan scholarship is built on the 

pillars of leadership, academic excellence, communitymindedness, 

spirituality and international awareness. The 

program attracts the top students—known as Sullivan 

Scholars —from high schools in Alaska, California, Colorado, 

Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, who in turn 

inspire other students to reach their potential. 

Sullivan Scholars are academically gifted, service-minded, 

socially conscious and strive to make a difference in their own 

communities and beyond. Recipients of the scholarship to 

Seattle University have gone on to receive Truman, Mellon 

and Fulbright awards; they are doctors, lawyers, business 

owners and community leaders. 

Thanks to the leadership of Rhoady Lee, chair of the 

Sullivan Leadership Endowment, more students will get 

the opportunity to attend Seattle University and make a 

difference. The Sullivan Leadership Endowment has reached 

its $10 million fundraising goal, which will expand the 

program and endow additional awards each year. 

More than one-third of the gifts for the endowment came 

from Planned Giving. Many benefactors have included the 

endowment in their estate plans, and their thoughtfulness 

will help educate tomorrow’s leaders. 

There are still opportunities to support this endowment 

and other scholarship endowments. There are several ways to 

give that are flexible and beneficial, tax-wise. These include: 

• Cash gift 

• Gift of stock or other appreciated assets 

• Gift by will 

For more information, contact Jane Orr, senior director of 

Planned Giving, at (206) 296-6962. 


CORPORATIONS, cont. 

Oberto Sausage Company 

Ogden Murphy Wallace P.L.L.C. 

Ohno Construction Co. 

Olson Sundberg Kundig 

Allen Architects 

Philip Morris USA 

Philips Medical Systems, Inc. 

PJM I, LLC 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 

Puget Sound Bank 

r Plus Consulting 

Regence Blue Shield 

Request Brand Foods, Inc. 

Sacred Heart Church & School 

Seed Intellectual Property Law Group 

Skanska USA Building, Inc 

Society of the Friends of St. Patrick 

Sony Pictures Entertainment 

Summit Law Group 

SunGard Higher Education 

Swedish Medical Center 

Synod of Alaska NW Presbyterian 

Church (USA) 

Talking Rain Beverage 

Tetra Tech KCM, Inc. 

Toysmith 

USA Commercial Mortgage 

Washington Athletic Club 

Watson Security 

Wells Fargo Bank 

WFF Facility Services 

Whalen Furniture Manufacturing 

Woodcock Washburn LLP 

World Wide Imports Inc. 

WRG Design, Inc. 

Zetec Industries 

Anonymous 

Silver Circle 

$2,500–$4,999 

21st Century Designs 

Arnall Golden Gregory, L.L.P. 

Association of Corporate Counsel, 

Washington State Chapter 

BankAmerica Corporation 

The Barbri Group 

Broadway Silver Cloud Hotel Inn, LLC 

Brooks Sports Inc. 

City of Seattle 

Clorox Company 

Countrywide Cares 

DLA Piper 

Eisenhower & Carlson P.L.L.C. 

GLY Construction 

GM Nameplate, Inc. 

Heller Ehrman LLP 

Ignition Partners, LLC 

Intermec Inc. 

Interstate Construction Group, Inc. 

K & L Gates 

Kendal Floral 

Local Marketers, Inc. 

Moss Adams LLP 

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. 

National Association of Corporate 

Directors 

Northwest Regional Christian Church 

Nuprecon 

Pacific Life Insurance Company 

Pacific Market International LLC 

PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company 

Precision Aerospace Services, LLC 

The Principal Financial Group 

REI, Inc. 

Roach & Petersen Law Offices, LLP 

Ruiz Food Products 

SMARTgirls 

Terra Blanca Vinters, Inc. 

Thompson & Knight L.L.P. 

Tinnea and Associates, LLC 

Totem Ocean Trailer Express 

Tree Top, Inc. 

Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc. 

United Parcel Service, Inc. 

Washington State Bar Association 

Founder's Circle 

$1,891–$2,499 

Allergan, Inc. 

American Academy of Matrimonial 

Lawyers 

The Balboa Bay Club & Resort 

Bayer Healthcare 

Ben Bridge Jewelers 

Crescent Inc. 

Crunch Pak 

Drexel University 

Dyson 

Elite Spice Inc. 

Fluor Corporation 

Fuji Photo Film USA 

Furnco International 

General Electric Company 

Georgia Gulf Corporation 

Grand Waliea Resort 

Green Diamond Resource Company 

Group Four, Inc. 

Hofstra University 

Holland American Lines-Westours, Inc. 

Inland Northwest Association 

of General Contractors 

Jack McCann Company, Inc. 

JM Smucker Co. 

The John Marshall Law School 

London Luxury, LLC 

Marler Clark L.L.P., P.S. 

Marquette University 

Palm Bay Imports Inc. 

Rich-SeaPak Corporation 

Sara Lee Food and Beverage 

Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Tower 

St. John's University 

Stetson University College of Law 

Strong & Associates 

United Association of the PLB & Pipe 

Ftg. Ind. #32 

Warehouse Demo Services 

Deans' Circle 

$1,000–$1,890 

Advanced H2O 

AHI International Corp 

Albert David Pearls & Jems 

Alpine Fresh, Inc. 

American Inns of Court 

American Insurance Administrators Inc. 

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 

Anheuser-Busch Company, Inc. 

Ann's House of Nuts 

Armfield, Harrison & Thomas, Inc. 

Avenues in Leather 

Bensussen Deutsch & Associates Inc. 

Bonneville International Corp. 

Brighton Jones LLC 

Bureau Veritas 

Carlson Architects 

Charlie's Produce 

Children's Hospital Foundation 

Community Care, LLC 

Covington Cellars 

Crider, Inc. 

Darigold, Inc. 

Ernst & Young 

Esquel Enterprises LTD 

Ewing & Clark Inc. 

F.X. McRory’s 

Federal Home Loan Bank 

Flexon Industries 

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. 

Golden Mills 

Group Health Cooperative 

Hallmark Cards Inc. 

Health Net, Inc. 

Heinz Consumer Products 

Hilton Hotel 

HomeStreet Bank 

Hutchison Whampoa 

Americas Limited 

Intel Foundation 

Intrepid Properties 

Iris USA, Inc. 

Jones Dairy Farm 

KAO Brands 

KCS Realty Services, Inc. 

KIRO, Inc. 

Koenig Financial Group 

KPFF Consulting Engineers 

Kraft Foods 

Krasnow Saunders Cornblath, L.L.P. 

L.G. Isaacson Co. Inc. 

Lifetime Brands 

LNK International, Inc. 

Louisville Bedding, Co. 

Luce Forward 

Mahlum Architects 

Meduri Farms 

Miller Nash LLP 

Newport Presbyterian Church 

Nike, Inc. 

Nintendo of America 

Northwest Natural Products 

Paper Magic Group 

Par Electrical Contractors, Inc. 

Perrigo 

Phoenix Down Corp. 

Preston Law Offices 

ProSports Club 

Qwest Communications 

Regal Financial Bank 

Rigos Professional Education 

Programs Inc. 

RMC Constructors 

Rubenstein's Contract Carpet, LLC 

Russell Investment Group 

Sabert Corporation 

Safeco Insurance Companies 

Safeway Inc. 

Samson International 

Saputo Cheese USA 

Sayre Law Offices 

Schacht/Aslani Architects 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

Simon Golub & Sons, Inc. 

Smithfield Foods 

The Snack Factory, Inc. 

Solutionz, Inc. 

Sony Electronics 

Starbucks Coffee Company 

Sterling Savings Bank 

SVG Distribution, Inc. 

Tarantino Sausage 

Tillamook Cheese 

Trubion Pharmaceutical, Inc. 

Tyson Foods., Inc. 

United Way of Snohomish County 

Universal Music Group Distribution 

University of Washington 

Viaquest, Inc. 

Waddell & Reed 

Washington State Auto Dealers 

Services Inc. 

Westin Hotels & Resorts 

World Trade Club 

Wurts & Associates, Inc. 

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare 

Young’s Market Company LLC 



Building a Legacy 

Seattle University’s Legacy Society acknowledges and honors alumni and friends who 

have remembered the university in their estate plans. These gifts may include a bequest, 

life income gift, life insurance or a gift from a retirement plan. Seattle University alumna 

and regent Suzie Burke, ’63, has made a generous commitment to the university through 

her estate plan. 

Burke believes in persistence and hard work—values she learned from her parents, who 

lived through the Depression—and she isn’t shy about sharing her passions. One of them 

is Catholic education. 

“Catholic education is value-based education, and it is the basis of how you run your 

life,” says Burke. “My education was not ‘fancy,’ but it’s served me my entire life and it 

will serve the students at SU today, too.” 

In 2004 Burke joined the Board of Regents, and she continues to admire what she 

sees at the university. “I’m hugely impressed with the students at Seattle University; 

they’re an amazing group of young people,” she says. 

Through her service on numerous boards and community organizations in Seattle, 

Burke knows firsthand the worth and impact of a Jesuit education. 

“I frequently encounter other Seattle U alumni or individuals who attended other Jesuit 

schools,” she says. “They are leaders in the community and serve the community because 

they know it’s the right thing to do.” 

Burke has created a legacy by including a gift to SU in her will. Her generous support 

will help the university continue to provide an excellent Jesuit-Catholic educational 

experience to students in the future. “We need Seattle U to be there for future generations.” 

“Catholic education is 

value-based education, 

and it is the basis 

of how you run 

your life.” 

SuZie Burke, ’63 

PHOTO BY JOYCE MCCLURE 

LEGACY SOCIETY 

Rev. David Aasen 

Anthony J. Ahn, M.D. 

Maxime and Maureen Albi 

Robert and Margaret Alston 

Paul Ballard, M.D. 

Thomas F. Bangasser 

Mary Nigg Bartholet 

Michael J. Bathum 

Marsha and John Baumann 

Len Beil and Stella Ley 

Jean A. (Werner) Beland 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bellefeuille 

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Benoit 

Dr. Stephen Bledsoe 

and Kristine R. Bledsoe 

Jack and Maralyn Blume 

James and Georgana Bond 

Richard and Sheridan Botts 

Lawrence N. Brouse 

Charles R. Brown 

Doug and Elena Brown 

Kenneth Bumgarner 

Traci M. Burgler 

Suzie Burke 

Frank and Carlene Buty 

Frances B. Call 

Sharon and Neil Callahan 

Harry L. and Diane Carle 

Peter J. Carlozzi 

Rev. William and Janice Cate 

Francis and Mary Lou Cathersal 

Sally Franett Chambers 

Brenda Christensen and Thomas Barry 

Stephen and Bonnie Clark 

Frank and Marilyn Clement 

Theodore and Patricia Collins 

J. Perrin Cornell 

Bob and Gerri Craves 

Robert and Frances Cronin 

William J. Cruzen and Steven Catching 

Michael G. and Shannon K. Crvarich 

Rev. Dr. Richard and 

Carol Cunningham 

Joseph R. Curtis 

Joy Daniels Brower 

Michael Day 

Cesar P. and Rosario T. DeGracia 

Betty and Marty DeLaurenti 

Mary Derig 

Angeline Dick 

James and Joan DiJulio 

David G. and Teresa Y. Donovan 

James M. Donovan 

William P. Doyle and Judith A. Doyle 

Monica J. and Martin H. Duke 

John and Marlene Durbin 

Dolores Libri Eagan, in memory 

of Allan J. Eagan 

Rev. Dr. James E. Eblen 

Bill Eisiminger 

M. Jean Ellis 

Doris Eriksen 

Patrick M. and Barbara A. Fahey 

Frank and Barbara Fanger 

Lee E. Fickle 

Cecelia Fjellman 

Thomas Fletcher 

Donna J. Franklin 

Joseph and Terri Gaffney 

Madeline B. Galbraith 

Sharon Galbraith 

Theresa M. Gallant 

Ken and Lisa Geisen 

Iva Gjerde 

Helen Goehring 

Carey M. Golden 

Lydia Alcala-Gonzales 

Martin J. Granger 

Linda S. Green 

Dr. Huber K. and Mary C. Grimm 

Donald and Victoria Haberman 

F. Geraldine Hansen, 

in memory of Joel Hansen 

Deborah J. Hardie 

Dr. and Mrs. John M. Harding 

Charles R. Harmon 

and Virginia C. Harmon 

Linn and Dorothy Harris 

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hart 

Harold H. and Ernestine M. Heath 

Paul Heneghan and Barbara 

Brady Heneghan 

James Henriot 

Augusta Hoba, Stella G. Hoba, 

Frederick A. Hoba and 

Donald W. Hoba 

The Hon. Donald and Lynda Horowitz 

Alan T. and Sigrid D. Horwedel 

Eva B. Huntsinger 

David M. Irwin Sr., and 

Dianne H. Irwin 

John and Patricia Isaksen 

Gerri Derig Jackson-Bell 

David M. and Linda Johnson 

Kenneth and Marilyn Johnson 

Kent Johnson 

Helen Jolly 

James and Dianne Jorgensen 

Mr. and Mrs. H. Peter Kasama 

Melanie A. Kelsey 

Paul J. and Dana Kertes 

Anne and Lee Kilcup 

Colleen Kinerk 

Robert O. and Miriam Kinsey 

Sr. Dorothy “Dottie” Klingele, S.P. 

Bruce and Carol Koch 

P. Michael Koenig 

Gerald W. Koethe 


LEGACY SOCIETY, cont. 

Nina and Tom Kornell 

Keith and Kathy Kragelund 

George Krsak 

R. Mimi Krsak 

Rosalyn Kwan 

Robert Labbé 

Ann Lackey 

Myrtle Lackey 

Bruce and Brigid Laing 

Edward J. and Patricia K. Lamb 

Rhoady Lee, Jr., and Jeanne Marie Lee 

Michael Whitley and Marie 

Legaz Whitley 

Maye L. Liebeck 

George V. and Mary K. Lombardi 

Arthur F. and Gloria Long 

Thomas and Mary Pat Lord 

Donald W. Luby 

Gene Lynn 

Robert B. and Alice E. Maguire 

Edna J. Maguire 

Laura Ellis Mahoney 

Ms. Laurie Mailloux and Mr. Paul 

Guedet 

J. Richard and Janet A. Manning 

Peter V. Marchuk, Jr. and Galina 

Marchuk 

Norman C. Mattson 

Rev. Dr. Donald and Lynnea Mayer 

Philip D. and Mary McEachern 

Gordon McHenry, Jr. and Dorina 

Calderon-McHenry 

Dr. Ruth McIntyre and 

Dr. David McIntyre 

Carol Lynn McLaughlin 

Curly and Judy McNamee 

Dr. Donna and Bill McNeese-Smith 

Helen McNeil 

Sandra S. Mears 

John and Ginny Meisenbach 

John G. Menges 

Donald and Joan Merlino 

Michelle Harvey Merlino 

J. Colleen Michael 

Dr. Jacquelyn Miller 

John and Jerene Morford 

Eleanore S. Mortenson 

Patrick and Virginia Mulvey 

Family Trust 

Grace Elaine Munzer 

Jeanne Murray 

Donald L. Navoni 

Joanna Nelson 

Philip and Carilyn Norris 

James H. O'Brien 

John P. O'Connell 

Charles and Doris (Cockrill) O'Connor 

James W. and Marjorie K. O'Hara 

Timothy and Mary O'Keefe 

Betty J. Olson 

Robert R. Pankl 

Marie A. Parker 

Margaret P. Passanisi 

Jerome and Arlys Pederson 

Robert M. Petersen 

Ann Richard Pfingsten and 

C. Thomas Pfingsten 

Linda Plaag 

Casey Plank 

John Rabel 

Patricia J. Radle 

Darlene Risse Raftis 

In memory of Rosemary Laura Ramsden 

M. Bernice Reilly 

Frances A. Richmond 

Evelyn and Bruce Rick 

Winifred T. Rieck 

Johanna P. Roach 

Nancy M. M. Roach 

Patrick T. and Lee Ann Roach 

Thomas and Nancy Roach 

Sandy and Jodi Sanders 

M. Peter and Connie Scontrino 

Boyd and Mikki Sharp 

Ruth E. Shipp-Dart 

Mike and Julie Siemion 

Anthony Simhauser (Class of 1960) 

John and Elisabeth Sloan 

Fred Sommer 

Geraldine Sorensen 

Nancy L. Sorensen 

John W. and Rose M. Southall 

Rev. Dr. Virginia V. and 

Gerald D. Sparling, M.D. 

Bernard M. and Joyce J. Steckler 

Donald L. and Betty I. Stern 

Marnie Stocker 

Morris F. Sullivan 

George Sundborg 

Carl Swenson and Julia Buchholz 

Colonel Marilyn J. Sylvester 

Marsha Tellesbo-Kembel 

Narciso and Luth Tenorio 

Dee M. Teodoro 

Patricia J. Terry and Michael Cooney 

Lou and Diane Tice 

Helen G. Topel 

Peter L. Tountas and 

Michelle Bergh-Tountas 

Dr. Henry S. Uchida 

Sheila Umlauf 

Mary Ellen (Doran) and 

George Unzelman 

Floren J. and Mildred Van de Putte 

Paul and Roberta Van der Voort 

Cathryn D. Vanderzicht 

Colleen M. Voiss 

Marian Volpe 

Gloria Lung Wakayama 

Rev. Richard Ward 

Peter J. Weber and 

Denise Bunchek Weber 

Arlene R. Wechezak 

Robert and Barbara Welsh 

June and Roger Whitson 

William N. Wilber 

Mary McLellan Williams 

Betty Woods 

Amy C. Worrell-Kneller and 

Byron Kneller 

Judith Yeakel 

Robert J. Yunker 

Ralph K. Zech, M.D., and 

Helen Zech 

Anonymous (65) 

ADMINISTRATION 

President 


Chancellor 


Senior Vice President 

Timothy Leary 

Provost 

Isiaah Crawford 

Vice President, 

Mission and Ministry 

Patrick Howell, S.J. 


Student Development 

Robert Kelly 


University Advancement 



Finance and Business Affairs 

Ronald Smith 

Vice President and 

University Counsel 

Mary Petersen 

Vice President, Planning 

Robert Dullea 

Associate Provost, 

Academic Affairs 

Charles Lawrence 


Academic Affairs 

Jacquelyn Miller 


Enrollment Management 

James White 

Dean, Albers School 

of Business and Economics 

Joseph Phillips 

Dean, College of Arts 

and Sciences 

Paulette Kidder (interim) 

Dean, College of Education 

Sue Schmitt 

Dean, College of Nursing 

Azita Emami 

Dean, College of Science 

and Engineering 

Michael Quinn 

Dean, Matteo Ricci College 

Arthur Fisher 

Dean, School of Law 

Kellye Testy 

Dean, School of Theology 

and Ministry 

Mark Markuly 

University Librarian 

John Popko 


UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE as of October 2008 

BOARD OF REGENTS 

CHAIR 

Jeffrey C. Grant 

EX OFFICIO 



Hon. Anita Crawford-Willis 

BOARD MEMBERS 

William Almon 

Mary Lou Amen 

Carol Ann Barnickol 

Maria Barrientos 

Maureen Benoliel 

Mary Helen Bever 

Robert Brennan 

Patricia Buchsel 

Suzanne Burke 

Christopher Corr 

John Costello 

Sr. Joyce Cox, B.V.M. 

Marilyn Dennehy 

Paul deVille 

Anthony DiRe 

Janet Dwyer 

James Dykeman 

William Eisiminger 

Thomas Elzey 

Michael Evered 

Theresa Gallant 

Ronald Giuffre 

Brenda Gomez 

Myra Hanover 

Shena Hinds 

Timotha Hollomon 

Patrick Howell, S.J. 

Steven Huling 

James Jorgensen 

Anne Kilcup 

Rosalyn Kwan 

Butch Leonardson 

Ven Lucas 

Patrick Mahoney 

Michael Mastro 

Curly McNamee 

Marlene Miller 

Larry Nejasmich 

Carol Penny 

Susan Picht 

William Ramsden 

Connie Rogel 

Judy Rogers 

Kathleen Schafer 

Kai Smith 

Rose Southall 

Joseph Straus 

Kevin Suther 

Kip Toner 

Greg Van Pelt 

Deborah Wilds 

Martha Wyckoff 

Joseph Zavaglia 

EMERITUS 

Gregory Alex 

Robert Blethen 

Patrick Brady 

Robert Braukus 

Terrence Carroll 

Dorene Centioli-McTigue 

Paul Chiles 

Marilyn Clement 

Dennis Colleran 

Joseph Curtis 

John David 

Ralph Davis 

Anton Harris, S.J. 

James Henriot 

Michael Hosterman 

Walter Hubbard, Jr. 

Dianne Irwin 

Helen Jolly 

Hon. Richard Jones 

Robert Jones 

Kenyon Kellogg 

Colleen Kinerk 

Hon. Ricardo Martinez 

Randy Massengale 

P. Gerry Maurer 

Michael McHugh 

Andrew Mirkovich 

Enid Moore 

Jody Sheppard Mullally 

Charles Riley 

Thomas Roach 

Raymond Russo 

Mary Ann Sauvage 

Boyd Sharp, Jr. 

John Southall 

Samuel Sperry 

Roxanne Tam 

Nick Tarlson 

Michael Torre 

Ruth Tressel 

Peter Truex 

Arthur Wahl 

John Walsh, Jr. 

Frederic Weiss 

Aaron Yoon 

Board of Trustees 

ALUMNI BOARD OF GOVERNORS 

CHAIR 

Phyllis Campbell 

VICE CHAIR 

Maureen Lee 

SECRETARY 

John Meisenbach 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Steven Hooper 

Gordon McHenry, Jr. 

EX OFFICIO/SU PRESIDENT 


BOARD MEMBERS 

Michael Bayard, S.J. 

Scott Coble, S.J. 

Theodore Collins 

Marta Dalla Gasperina 

Thomas Ellison 

Anne Farrell 

Patrice Fersch 

Hon. Donald Horowitz 

Kent Johnson 

Carolyn Kelly 

Patrick Kelly, S.J. 

Dan Murphy 

Carol Kobuke Nelson 

Stephen Privett, S.J. 

Robert Ratliffe 

Rick Redman 

Stuart Rolfe 

Peter Rose 

David Sabey 

Mick Schreck 

James Sinegal 

Stevens Trainer 

Betty Woods 

EMERITUS 

Rhoady Lee, Jr. 

Ann Wyckoff 

PRESIDENT 

Daniel Nguyen 

PRESIDENT-ELECT 

Sean Henderson 

BOARD MEMBERS 

Analisa Castaneda 

Natasha Coleman 

Hon. Anita Crawford-Willis 

Jennifer Deger 

Matthew Diefenbach 

Joslyn Donlin 

Roshawna Fudge 

Kathleen Hallman 

William Jolly 

Rosemary “Mimi” Krsak 

Vanseatha “Van” Ky 

Steve Lindell 

Karen Lynn Maher 

Lucy Masui 

Molly McCarthy 

Jason McGill 

ALUMNI CHAPLAIN 

Patrick O’Leary, S.J. 


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PROFILES | ALUMNI EVENTS | CLASS NOTES | BOOKMARKS | IN MEMORIAM 

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Photo Courtesy of ALAN Lauba 

“You can be a World Cup skier. With lots of practice and hard work, 

you can get there.” –Alan Lauba, ‘91 

At Crystal Mountain ski resort Alan Lauba, ’91, trains some of the best competitive skiers the sport has to offer. 

Competitive Skiing 

Former World Cup skier Alan Lauba trains some of the sport’s top performers 

Just about anyone who has ever snapped ski boots into 

bindings has had the fantasy. Whether tearing down a 

mountain at blazing speed or gingerly snowplowing down 

with 5-year-olds zipping past, ski enthusiasts love to 

imagine what it would be like to compete against the best skiers 

in the world at some of the top places for perfect powder. 

But for Alan Lauba, ’91, this is a reality he knows all too 

well—and it has made for many great memories. 

For five years Lauba was a member of the elite U.S. men’s ski 

team. A Nor-Am Champion in 1985, he raced down mountains 

in Italy, Vienna and Japan, competing against the world’s best 

downhill skiers. 

“Traveling around the world ... those experiences alone, even 

without the competition, were rewarding,” Lauba says. “I wish 

I could have done more.” 

In a sense, he has. Though Lauba retired from racing in his 

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mid-20s, he’s continued to train young skiers, including several 

who followed his path to the World Cup. In the 2010 Winter 

Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., he hopes to see two of them, Scott 

Macartney and Paul McDonald, in contention for medals. 

When talk turns to the Olympics, a level of competition that 

eluded Lauba, he gets a bit wistful. 

In his mid-20s, Macartney wasn’t much more advanced than 

Lauba had been. “But he still had the support and confidence to 

continue,” Lauba says. “If I would have continued past 24 [years 

old] to 30... I wish I could have done it. At the same time, I’ve had 

a lot of good years, and my lifestyle hasn’t been too bad. 

Macartney understands. “The sport has kind of changed. People, 

especially on the men’s side, are staying longer,” he says. 

Advances in training and rehab programs contribute to the 

longevity that exists in competitive skiing today. “When Alan was 

going through it, financially, they weren’t able to make enough 

money to make that be their job,” Macartney says. 

When Lauba retired from racing, he started hitting the books. 

But skiing was never too far away. While working toward his degree 

in business and finance from SU, he coached young skiers parttime. 

One of the first students was Macartney, who at the time was 

10 or 11 years old and completely starstruck. 

“When he started coaching me, he was only a few years off of 

being on the World Cup tour,” Macartney says. “He knew exactly 

what he was talking about, and he was awesome to learn from. I 

kind of wanted to ask for his autograph every once in a while.” 

After graduation, Lauba went to work for a mutual fund 

company and got his stockbroker’s license. But the mountains and 

the chance to work with talented young skiers proved much more 

alluring than the world of finance. Before long, he was coaching 

at Crystal Mountain ski resort in Washington at least five days 

a week. 

In 1996, he was hired as director of the Alpine Club at Crystal 

Mountain, located about an hour outside of Seattle. Lauba coaches 

the most advanced students and oversees a staff of 40 to 50 

instructors who work with about 350 committed young skiers. 

“I look at this like being a college coach,” Lauba says. “They’re 

kind of in between the professionals and the beginners. That’s what 

we do—we prepare them for the pros.” 

And Lauba’s record as a coach is impressive. Besides Macartney 

and McDonald, Lauba has coached Tatum Skoglund and former 

Olympian Libby Ludlow, both of whom went on to become World 

Cup skiers. 

The number of World Cup skiers Lauba has coached is 

considerable—especially for a ski club as relatively small as the one 

operated at Crystal Mountain. 

The difficult terrain and prime ski conditions in the Pacific 

Northwest give skiers challenging runs to hone their skills, says 

Lauba, who every November takes his top students to a mountain 

with snowmaking equipment to get started training. Come 

December, he counts on plenty of good snow at Crystal. 

But even Lauba can’t predict what kind of ski season it will be 

until he’s deep into it. “Some years are heavy snow, some years it’s 

light,” he says. “You just gotta take what it gives you.” 

Beyond that, he says the skiers he’s trained—who all come back 

to coach with him whenever they can—provide inspiration to keep 

students working at it. Developing potential—and realizing his 

own—is at the core of Lauba’s work. 

“You can be a World Cup skier,” he says. “With lots of practice 

and hard work, you can get there. More than anything, the belief and 

confidence are the most important part. Add a little hard work and 

talent, and you can do it.” 

—Cheryl Reid-Simons 

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Got Tickets? 

SU Men’s Basketball vs. Loyola Marymount 

Thursday, Jan. 1, 7:30 p.m., KeyArena 

Seattle University men’s basketball plays its first home game 

of the season against Division I team Loyola Marymount 

University at Seattle’s KeyArena. Tickets and more information: 

(206) 296-2835 or visit www.goseattleu.com. 

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Alumni Events 

DECEMBER 

Thursday, Dec. 11 

Maui Alumni, Parents and Friends 

Regional Reception 

6 to 8 p.m., The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel 

and Spa, Maui, Hawaii 

Join alumni for fun in the Hawaiian sun 

and catch up with old friends who live on 

the island of Maui. Cost: $25 per person. 

Sunday, Dec. 14 

Annual Alumni Advent Mass and 

Christmas Reception 

4 p.m., Chapel of St. Ignatius 

Join fellow alumni, family and friends 

for worship during the Christmas season. 

A reception will immediately follow the 

Mass in the Paccar Atrium of the Pigott 

Building. 

Tuesday, Dec. 16 

Alumni Pre-Game Reception for 

Men’s Basketball vs. UC Irvine 

5 to 6:30 p.m., Irvine, Calif. 

Join alumni and friends to cheer on 

the men’s basketball team as they play 

against the squad from the University of 

California, Irvine. 

Tuesday, Dec. 16 

Honolulu Alumni, Parents and 

Friends Regional Reception 

6 to 8 p.m., Waialae Country Club, 

Honolulu, Hawaii 

Reconnect with other alumni who live 

on Oahu and catch up on old times. 

Cost: $25 per person. 

JANUARY 

Sunday, Jan. 4 

Alumni Pre-Game Reception for 

Men’s Basketball vs. Portland 

Time TBA; Portland, Ore. 

Join alumni and friends to cheer on the 

men’s basketball team as it plays against 

the University of Portland in the Rose City. 

Friday, Jan. 23 

From Awareness to Action: Skill 

Building for Cultural Competency 

8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Seattle University LeRoux 

Conference Center, Student Center 160 

The Master of Public Administration and 

Executive Master of Nonprofit Leadership 

programs invite alumni to the next Service 

in Action seminar featuring Hla Yin 

Yin Waing of the Minority Executive 

Directors Coalition. Registration and 

information: Danielle Potter at (206) 

296-5440 or e-mail potterd@seattleu.edu. 

Thursday, Jan. 29 

Albers Executive Speaker Series 

presents Jerry Grinstein 

5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium 

Jerry Grinstein, former CEO of Delta 

Airlines, will share his business insights as 

the guest of the Albers Executive Speaker 

Series. Information: (206) 296-5732. 

FEBRUARY 

Thursday, Feb. 5 

Alumni Downtown Breakfast 

6:30 to 9 a.m., The Harbor Club, 

801 2nd Ave., Seattle 

Plan a morning with alumni and friends 

over breakfast and lively conversation at 

Seattle’s Harbor Club. Speaker TBA. 

Thursday, Feb. 5 

African American Alumni Chapter’s 

4th Annual Reception 

6 to 9 p.m., LeRoux Conference Center, 

Student Center 160 

Join us for an evening with good friends 

and classmates, networking and enjoying 

live entertainment in celebration of Black 

History Month. 

Saturday, Feb. 7 

Washington, D.C., Alumni, Parents 

and Friends Regional Reception 

6 to 8 p.m., Cosmos Club, 

Washington, D.C. 

Join alumni and friends living in 

Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas 

and catch up on the latest happenings at 

your alma mater. 


Hiyu Coolee Club 70th 

Anniversary and Reunion 

4 to 9 p.m., LeRoux Conference Center, 


Alumni of the former SU Hiking Club 

are invited to return to the university for 

a special anniversary celebration. The 

reunion will kick off with a Mass at the 

Chapel of St. Ignatius at 4 p.m., followed 

by activities at the Student Center. 


College of Nursing’s 

9th Annual Alumni Brunch 

11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Seattle University 

LeRoux Conference Center, 


Reconnect with fellow alumni and friends 

at the College of Nursing’s annual brunch. 


United Filipino Club’s 16th Annual 

Barrio Fiesta 

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., Seattle University 

Campion Ballroom 

Seattle University students, faculty, staff, 

alumni and friends are invited to UFC’s 

annual celebration of Filipino/Filipino- 

American culture and heritage featuring 

authentic Filipino cuisine, entertainment 

and dynamic performances. Information: 

http://students.seattleu.edu/clubs/ufc/ or 

e-mail: ufcofficer@seattleu.edu. 

Tuesday, Feb. 24 

Alumni Pre-Game Reception: SU 

Men’s Basketball vs. Eastern 

5 to 6:30 p.m., Eastern Washington 

University campus, Cheney, Wash. 

Join alumni and friends to cheer on the 

men’s basketball team as it plays against 

Eastern Washington University in Cheney, 

Wash. 

Read a complete list of upcoming 

events at www.seattleu.edu/ 

magazine/. 

For more information on alumni events, contact Alumni Relations at (206) 296-6127 or visit www.seattleu.edu/alumni/. 


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profile 

Moving Images 

Alexis Wolfe, ’01, provides a snapshot of Seattle hip-hop 

The makings of Alexis Wolfe the 

photographer are traceable to childhood—specifically, 

age 10. This is 

when Wolfe, ’01, began sharpening her 

style by capturing candid images of animals and 

family members on her point-and-shoot camera. 

Encouragement from a middle school teacher and 

a healthy fascination with the craft moved her to 

continue to grow and develop as a photographer. By 

the time she was finishing degrees in Spanish and 

photography at Seattle University, Wolfe had found 

her eye and style as a shutterbug. She was well on 

her way to transitioning a dream into a career. 

“I always knew photography would be part of my 

life,” Wolfe says. Art in general was central in her 

upbringing—she is the daughter of Carol Wolfe 

Clay, department chair and professor of fine arts at 

Seattle University. 

But Wolfe suffered a degree of angst when 

deciding to pursue photography as something more 

than a hobby. Trepidation was born out of practical 

considerations—namely, how to make a living doing 

what she loved. 

Instead of dwelling on the details for too long, 

Wolfe made a run at it and has found success. In 

the years since graduating from SU, Wolfe, now 

based in New York City, has photographed people, 

places—a passion for travel photography was initially 

stoked at SU with trips to Cuba and Spain—and 

Seattle’s vibrant live music community. Her work 

has appeared in various publications, including the 

Seattle Times, Tablet magazine and the East Bay 

Express. For a time Wolfe was photographing musical 

acts at Seattle nightclub Neumos. Her latest body of 

work—and a true labor of love—is a coffeetable book 

documenting through images and minimal text hiphop 

in Seattle. 

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“When I listen to mainstream hip-hop, so much of it is about the glamorous. 

For a lot of these artists, it’s about telling their stories.” 

Alexis Wolfe, ’01 

In September Wolfe released Emerald City Hip-Hop, 

which captures the rhythm and flow of a genre that is often 

overshadowed in a city known for its indie-rock and grunge 

(circa 1992) leanings. 

Over the course of the seven years it took to complete 

Emerald City Hip-Hop, Wolfe found hip-hop—especially 

the underground movement—alive and thriving. Originally 

the scope of the book was narrow: she planned to profile a 

single artist, or maybe a couple of performers. But in 

time, and as she met more hip-hop purveyors and learned 

about the genre’s place in the city’s music history, Wolfe 

discovered she had more than enough material for a fulllength 

offering. 

“I feel like I could have done a book on any one of these 

people,” Wolfe says of the few dozen or so artists and scene 

makers featured in Emerald City. “I wanted to bring some 

attention to Seattle hip-hop and tell the real story.” 

While there are some vanity-style shots with bling 

and bravado on full display, many of the images are 

stripped down and composed in a way that is personal 

and intimate—the rapper at home with his kid, a hip-hop 

musician spitting out rhymes on stage. Some are shot in the 

studio, others with the city as the backdrop. 

“When I listen to mainstream hip-hop, so much of it is 

about the glamorous,” Wolfe says. “For a lot of these artists, 

it’s about telling their stories. I learned how much of a 

family the hip-hop community is.” 

While many of the hip-hop musicians may not be 

household names—the exception is Sir-Mix-A-Lot, 

who hails from these parts and is known nationally— 

they have their fair share of fans and followers. “I hope 

my photography can ...express who they are” as artists, 

Wolfe says. 

With Emerald City Hip-Hop, Wolfe thinks readers— 

even those who don’t subscribe to the hip-hop lifestyle or 

brand—will find a commonality. “I want to show what 

is common in all of us,” Wolfe says. “I photograph what 

makes us all human.” —Tina Potterf 

Wolfe has captured on film such hip-hop notables as Shock G of Digital 

Underground fame (top) and DJ Sabzi and MC Geologic of Seattle’s own 

Blue Scholars. 

See more of Alexis Wolfe’s photography online at 

www.alexiswolfephoto.com. Copies of her book 

are available at the SU Bookstore. 

Photos Courtesy of alexis wolfe 


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class notes 

Together Again 

Alumni who graduated from SU 40 

years or more reconnected with their 

classmates and peers over a weekend in 

late August. Members of the classes of 

1958 and 1968 (pictured in the photos, 

right) attended various events on campus, 

from get-togethers to campus tours to 

a Mass at the Chapel of St. Igantius. 

Graduates of the ROTC program were 

invited to a reunion at the private home 

of Ret. Col. David Maddock and his 

wife, Patricia Maddock, both graduates 

of the class of 1968. Alumni were also 

invited to attend the Legends of First Hill 

Banquet honoring the 1957–58 men’s 

basketball team, which was inducted 

into the SU Athletic Hall of Fame that 

weekend. 

Photos BY joyce mcclure and john keatley 

See more images from that weekend 

at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/. 

Betty (LeMay) Peterson has two 

47 grandchildren with Seattle University 

connections. Granddaughter Megan Peterson 

graduated in June 2008 with a degree in nursing 

and will work in the intensive care unit at the 

University of Washington Medical Center. 

Grandson Troy Peterson spent a year at Matteo 

Ricci College before his acceptance to the U.S. 

Military Academy at West Point. In May 2008 he 

graduated from West Point and is now a second 

lieutenant in the Army. After Ranger school, he 

will serve as an infantry platoon leader. 

Bobbie (Barbara) Doran 

65 Beaudreau recently retired from 

parish ministry at All Saints Catholic Church 

in Puyallup, Wash., 23 years after she began her 

work there. After several years teaching in the 

public school system—and taking time off to 

raise her family—Beaudreau returned to Seattle 

University to earn a master’s in ministry from 

the Institute of Theological Studies. Through the 

years she has remained connected to SU and the 

School of Theology and Ministry. Currently she 

does retreat work with the Spiritual Exercises for 

Everyday Living program and works in areas of 

spiritual direction. 

Gen. Peter Chiarelli has received his 

72 fourth star as a full Army General and 

in August 2008 was officially appointed as the 

Army’s Vice Chief of Staff. Gen. Chiarelli, who 

grew up in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, is 

the 32nd Army Vice Chief of Staff since 1947. 

William Holland and Elizabeth 

74 Meagher, ’74, recently celebrated the 

nuptials of their daughter Meghan Meagher 

Holland, who married Gregory Squires at the 

Chapel of St. Ignatius on April 19, 2008. The 

newlyweds make their home in Seattle. 

Jody Brannon has been selected to 

81 direct News21, a $7.5 million journalism 

project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of 

New York and the John S. and James L. Knight 

Foundation. News21 will look at new ways 

to produce in-depth multimedia journalism, 

and Brannon will serve as national director 

of the initiative, which is based at Arizona 

State University’s Walter Cronkite School of 

Journalism and Mass Communication. This 

initiative engages journalism students from 

several colleges and universities nationwide. 

The J-school students will enroll in a spring 

course to explore a major news topic and during 

the summer will serve as fellows, traveling 

across the country to produce in-depth stories 

using different multimedia platforms. 

“These young journalists, guided by so many 

seasoned educators and the deans at their 

respective schools, are poised to prove that 

the future of journalism is bright,” Brannon 

said in a statement. “The fellows will focus on 

telling important stories in new ways, blending 

learning and teaching styles, new and proven. 

I’m excited about doing what I can to ensure 

that some next-gen approaches will have 

resonance for decades to come, thanks to the 

Carnegie-Knight commitment.” 

Brannon has worked as a reporter and editor 

at The News Tribune of Tacoma and the Seattle 

Times, as a copy editor for The Washington 

Post’s online publication “Digital Ink,” and 

later as manager of news and production and 

managing editor of the washingtonpost.com. 

Currently, she is senior home page editor and 

ombudsman at MSN.com in New York and 

Seattle. Additionally, she is on the boards of 

the Online News Association and the Knight- 

Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. 

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Monte Bridges, MEd, is the presidentelect 

of the Washington Association 

86 

of School Administrators (WASA). Bridges, 

who is superintendent of the Puget Sound 

Educational Service District, will begin the 

presidency in July 2009. He has been a member 

of WASA since 1987, and has since been active 

on the board, as an honorary awards chair and 

as region president. “It is an honor to serve our 

membership as WASA president-elect,” Bridges 

said in a statement. “I look forward to expanding 

our circle of influence and participation as we 

work together to improve student learning, 

educational funding and leadership capacity 

in Washington state.” 

John Worden, ’89 JD, a partner with law 

firm Schiff Hardin LLP, was voted one of the 

2008 Northern California “Super Lawyers” by 

Northern California Super Lawyers magazine. 

The August 2008 edition of the publication 

features the top five percent of lawyers in 

Northern California. Recipients were selected 

through peer nominations, a panel review and 

independent research, and Worden was chosen 

for his work in insurance coverage/securities 

litigation. Worden has been with Schiff Hardin 

since 1989 and a partner since 1996. He 

practices law throughout the western United 

States and leads the firm’s Nevada practice. 

Anita Brenner made a switch two years 

87 ago from a career in social work, the field 

in which she received her degree, to what she 

calls her “second love,” library work. Brenner is 

a library assistant at the Tacoma Public Library. 

Kelly (Schreifels) Wayenberg has an 

88 active life with her family in Yakima, 

Wash. She is a teacher of languages in the East 

Valley School District. Her husband, T.J., 

is a construction foreman and her children, 

Kailee and James, are involved in karate, violin, 

gymnastics and T-ball. 

Kimberly Ann Freel was a finalist 

96 in two categories of the 2008 Next 

Generation Indie Book Awards. Her first novel, 

Painted Rocks: A Novel, was a finalist in the 

multicultural fiction category; her sophomore 

release, Monster White Lies, was in the top 10 of 

the Young Adult Fiction category. After working 

for 10 years in the field of ultrasound—Freel 

is a graduate of Seattle University’s diagnostic 

ultrasound program—she decided to follow her 

passion for writing. Raised in Okanogan, Wash., 

Freel enjoys reading, gardening and crafting, 

and spending time with her family on their 

working ranch south of Okanogan. 

Monica Routt Comfort, ‘00, and husband, 

Brian, welcomed their second child, Annajean 

Lorraine, on June 13, 2008. Big brother Connor, 

3, and the family are excited about the addition 

of a little girl. 

Natalia Smith, MBA, who owns and 

01 designs for Idée Chic Design, won 

third place in the Large Kitchen category at 

the Northwest National Kitchen and Bath 

Association’s 2008 Best of the Best kitchens 

and bath competition. 

Kyle Quinn, MBA, has been promoted 

08 to general manager and chief information 

officer of PACCAR’s Information Technology 

division. Quinn has been with PACCAR 

for three years and has served in various 

management positions. Most recently he was 

assistant general manager in the IT division, 

responsible for global applications. Prior to 

joining PACCAR, Quinn directed Boeing 

Commercial Aviation’s Enterprise Application 

Center, e-business initiatives and engineering 

information systems. 

Seattle University basketball legend (from left) 

Elgin Baylor, ’58, Jerry Tardie, ’65, also a 

former SU basketball player, and SU men’s 

basketball coach Joe Callero participated in 

a recent charity golf tournament for cancer 

research in Los Angeles. Athletics Director Bill 

Hogan also joined the group. 

Mark J. Williamson, ‘95, and his wife, Rory, are the 

proud parents of son Jay Peter Williamson, who was 

born on March 26, 2008. Jay joins big sister Louise, 

who is 2. The family resides in South Carolina. 

Tracy Poindexter, ‘03, married Quentin Canton 

on Aug. 20, 2008, at the wedding chapel at the 

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. 

The couple currently resides in Spokane, Wash. 

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Bookmarks 

Learning To Love with Mother Teresa by Neil Francis Young, PhD (Accent Digital Publishing) 

Neil Francis Young was already an admirer of Mother Teresa when he joined Seattle University’s 

faculty in 1984. Those fond feelings would turn to action a month later, when fellow psychology 

professor George Kunz asked Young if he wanted to take his place at an awards ceremony to 

honor the beloved humanitarian. Young went to the luncheon in downtown Seattle, and his life 

and the lives of many SU students have never been the same. 

Inspired by the events of that day, Young founded what is known today as Seattle University’s 

Calcutta Club. In 1985, the program’s first year, a single student went to work with Mother Teresa 

and her Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. Since then, about 130 students have participated. 

Though Young left the university in 1992, he remains active with the club, and his experiences, 

along with those of participants, form the basis for his book, Learning To Love with Mother Teresa. 

Young spent a decade interviewing more than 20 former Calcutta volunteers, most of whom are 

SU graduates, then wove their stories and his own into a narrative that speaks to the extraordinary 

experience that is Calcutta. The volunteers vividly describe the sights, sounds and smells of a city 

and a people beaten down by poverty and misery. Yet alongside the suffering, an irrepressibly 

hopeful story emerges. Each participant, in his or her own unique way, bears witness to the transformative 

power of working with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. 

“Calcutta is a place to learn to be human,” says former volunteer Monica Gehrts, ’88. “That’s what 

you take home with you.” 

For his part, Young says, “Calcutta does a good job of clarifying your calling in life.” Young, who 

today resides in Oceanside, Calif., remembers Mother Teresa as “a world-class educator,” adding, 

“She was humble and very available, never presumptuous.” He was not surprised that this 

“great-grandmother of the spirit,” as he calls her, struggled in her faith, as revealed in a 

recent book of her writings, which “just confirmed the depth of her spiritual journey and 

how human she was,” Young says. 

His own journey has been marked with surprising twists and turns. Graduating last in 

his high school class, it was all but preordained that he would follow in his father’s footsteps 

and become an asbestos worker. While serving in the Army, Young’s fellow servicemen 

turned him on to great literature, which set him on a path toward academia. 

At the City University of New York, he graduated at the top of his class and went on 

to earn his PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

No experience has defined Young more than his time with Mother Teresa and the 

Missionaries of Charity. “You never forget your Calcutta learning experience,” he says. 

Many others—including the SU volunteers featured in the book—agree. 

—Mike Thee 

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books released within the past two years by alumni, faculty and staff. Send notice to: sumagazine@seattleu.edu. 

Read more about Young’s book and the experiences of alumni in Calcutta 

online at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/. For more information about the 

Calcutta Club, visit www.seattleu.edu/calcuttaclub/. 

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in memoriam 

Edgar J. Aubuchon, Sr., ’50, died July 

27, 2008. He was 82. Born May 22, 1926, in 

Seattle, Aubuchon graduated from O’Dea 

High School in 1944. Following high school 

he served in the Navy from 1944–1946 

before attending and graduating from Seattle 

University. Aubuchon was an avid golfer and 

a regular at the Capitol City golf course in 

Lacey, Wash. He is survived by his daughter, 

Ann; sons, Don, Bill and Scott; sisters, 

Roberta and Florence; and grandchildren, 

Malika, Cameron, Colin, Joshua and Katie. 

Aubuchon was preceded in death by his son, 

Edgar, Jr. 

Hans Bielski, ’49, died Sept. 15, 2007. He 

was 89. Born in Berlin, Germany, on July 

11, 1918, Bielski settled in Aberdeen, Wash., 

with his parents, Paul and Frieda Bielski, in 

1925. After graduating from Weatherwax 

High School, he attended Washington State 

University for a year before marrying his 

wife, Velma Austin, in 1942. A year later he 

joined the Army and served in Europe. After 

his service he came to Seattle University, 

where he earned a chemistry degree and went 

to work as general manager and president 

of the Aberdeen Cemetery Association (he 

later become owner and operator of Fern Hill 

Cemetery). In 1986 he retired but remained 

active in fraternal and civic organizations in 

Aberdeen. For eight years he served on the 

state of Washington’s Cemetery Board, which 

he helped create. Bielski enjoyed spending 

time with his children, playing golf, traveling 

and attending theater productions. He 

is survived by his wife of 65 years, Velma; 

daughters, Susan Brown and Paula Soltero; 

son, David; 10 grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. 

Joseph Binetti, ’59 MEd, died July 11, 2008. 

He was 72. Born in Cle Elum, Wash., Binetti 

moved to Auburn, Wash., with his family 

in 1952, and graduated from Auburn High 

School. He earned an undergraduate degree 

and a master’s degree in education from 

Seattle University. Soon afterward Binetti 

began a long and notable career in education, 

first at Washington Elementary School and 

later at Pioneer Elementary School in Auburn. 

He became principal at Pioneer Elementary 

before moving on to Evergreen Heights. In 

1994 he retired from teaching, though he 

continued to work as a substitute instructor. 

For years he worked at Camp Auburn, until his 

retirement from the director post in 2008. In his 

free time, Binetti worked on cars and projects 

and loved to hunt for bargains. He was also fond 

of the outdoors and road trips. Binetti is survived 

by his wife of 45 years, Rosemary; daughters, 

Joanne, Michelle, DeAnn and Cheryl; 

and grandchildren, Justin, Taylor, Connor, 

Samantha, Matthew and Ian. 

James L. Brazil, ’51, died Aug. 2, 2008. He 

was 84. Born Dec. 12, 1923, in Seattle, he graduated 

from O’Dea High School before serving 

with the Navy in World War II. While in the 

Navy he met his wife, Ruth Jean Barney, who 

was from Walla Walla, Wash. After his service 

he earned a degree from Seattle University and 

became district director of the Federal Home 

Loan Bank Board. He was a charter member 

of the Sahalee Country Club and served as a 

trustee. Additionally, he was the first president 

of the Board of Regents for Seattle Prep and 

Matteo Ricci College. For 35 years Brazil served 

as the sewer commissioner at the Northeast 

Sammamish Water and Sewer District. Brazil 

is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ruth; 

son, Stephen; daughters, Vivian, Shirley and 

Sue; grandchildren, Colleen, Barry, Meghan, 

Brittanie and Blake; and great-grandchildren, 

Kelsie, Kaitlin and Emilie. 

John Patrick Collins, ’68, died Aug. 8, 2008. 

He was 78. Born May 13, 1930, the Seattle 

native attended Sacred Heart High School, 

graduated from O’Dea High School and then 

attended Seattle University, where he earned a 

degree in finance. Those who knew Collins recall 

a beloved husband and father who touched 

many with his kindness and compassion. He is 

survived by his wife, Margot, and daughters, 

Kathy and Shannon. 

Everly “Ev” Cox, ’55 MEd, died July 2, 

2008. He was 88. Born on March 31, 1920, in 

Wapato, Wash., Cox grew up in Wapato and 

Ellensburg, in Eastern Washington, before coming 

across the mountains to attend school at 

Seattle University (following studies at Central 

Washington University). He had to suspend his 

studies for World War II. As a Navy aviator, he 

flew PBY Catalina aircraft in the South Pacific 

with the famous “Black Cat” squadron. During 

the Korean War, Cox was activated as a flight 

instructor and remained in the naval reserve 

until 1973, at which time he retired as a captain. 

After his service career he picked up his studies 

at SU and earned a master’s degree in education. 

For 30 years he worked in the Lake Washington 

School District, taking on roles of teacher, 

administrator and elementary school principal. 

In 1976 Cox retired from education and began 

a second career in politics with his appointment 

to the Kirkland City Council. He was re-elected 

to his seat three times and continued to serve 

until his retirement in 1990. Public service 

was a principal part of his life; he was an active 

member and president of the Kirkland Rotary, 

and had 34 years of perfect attendance. Cox is 

survived by his daughter, Janet; son, David; five 

grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and three 

great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in 

death by his wife of 58 years, Genevieve. 

Bonnie Denoon, a professor emerita at Seattle 

University and former dean of special education, 

died March 31, 2008. She was 79. Born Sept. 15, 

1928, in Lost Springs, Kan., Denoon earned a 

master’s degree in Kansas and an education doctorate 

specialist degree from Auburn University 

in Auburn, Ala. After earning a doctorate 

from Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn., 

Denoon worked at Seattle University College of 

Education until her retirement. She is survived 

by her daughter, Jeanne, and grandsons, Ryan 

and Randy. She was preceded in death by her 

husband, Merrell Francis Denoon. 

Laura Eubanks, ’91, ’98, died July 12, 2008. 

She was 57. Born in Pasadena, Calif., Eubanks 

attended high school there before heading north 

to Seattle University, where she graduated cum 

laude. In 1998 she earned her master’s degree 

from SU in counseling. Over the years she 

worked at various mental health agencies in 

the Seattle area, and most recently was a psychotherapist 

at Harborview Medical Center’s 

Mental Health Services department. Eubanks 

enjoyed spending time with friends and partaking 

in various activities, including gardening, 

reading and theater. She loved being with her 

cats, Pumpkin and Teddy, and her dog, Erica. 

Eubanks is survived by her parents, Suzanne 

and Edward Eubanks; her sister, Ellen; and her 

brother, David. 

James “Jim” F. Hardy III, ’68, died on March 

16, 2005. He was 64. Hardy was born in Seattle 

on Christmas Day in 1941 to James F. and 

Patricia Hardy. After graduating from Olympia 

High School he attended Seattle University 


in memoriam, cont. 

where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. 

At SU, Hardy met the love of his life, 

Sheila Connors, and the two married on July 

27, 1968. Hardy is remembered as a wonderful 

father and devoted husband who will be missed 

dearly. He is survived by his wife, Sheila; his 

children, Jim, Kevin, Craig and Anne Marie; 

and granddaughter, Evie. 

Kirk Kauzlarich, ’74, died March 17, 2008. 

He was 57. Born in Renton, Wash., Kauzlarich 

graduated from Renton High School. Later, 

after he finished his education degree at Seattle 

University, he returned to Renton, where he 

remained until his death. In addition to being 

a business owner—he ran a painting business, 

KK Enterprises—Kauzlarich was an avid 

sportsman and a diehard Husky football fan. He 

spent much time playing softball and basketball 

with his friends and coaching girls’ basketball. 

Kauzlarich is survived by his daughters, 

Kayli and Whitney; his sisters, Joni and Jami; 

brother-in-law, Dean; nephews, Luke, Zach and 

Tommy; and niece, Elle. He was preceded in 

death by his parents. 

John Joseph Kirschner, ’67, died Aug. 18, 

2008. He was 63. Born March 20, 1945, in 

Kent, Wash., Kirschner was known by his many 

friends and peers over the years as “The Silver 

Fox,” “Gentle Johnnie” and “The Codge.” A 

graduate of O’Dea High School, he earned a 

philosophy degree from Seattle University in 

1967 before going on to earn a law degree at 

Willamette University. During a high school 

sock-hop, Kirschner met his future wife, 

Kathleen. After serving in Vietnam as a first 

lieutenant following law school, he married 

Kathleen in 1971, and they welcomed the first of 

their five sons in 1975. The couple were always 

on hand to cheer on their sons and their many 

athletic, academic and artistic achievements. 

For 35 years, Kirschner worked as an assistant 

attorney general for the state of Washington. 

His many friends and colleagues will miss the 

man known for his quiet demeanor, wit, intelligence, 

strong faith, and unconditional love 

and devotion to his family. He is survived by his 

wife, Kathy; sons, McAllister, Patrick, Evan, 

Alexander and Nicholas; granddaughter, Greta; 

daughter-in-law, Regan; brother, Gene; and 

sisters, Joanne Taylor, Gerri Eberhard, Mary 

Benzel and Christina Kobbevik. 

Malcolm John (M.J.) McRae, ’61, died 

Aug. 30, 2008. He was 68. Born Dec. 30, 1939, 

in Lewiston, Idaho, McRae graduated from 

St. Stanislaus School in Lewiston, then later 

Gonzaga Prep and Seattle University. He went 

to graduate school at New York University 

and taught at New York’s Fordham University 

and Syracuse University. After a few years in 

education McRae left the field to join the business 

world, working at Irving Trust Bank in 

New York City. Following a merger with Bank 

of New York, McRae became vice president 

before making another career change to become 

a consultant. This new role provided him with 

opportunities to travel throughout the United 

States and abroad, including trips to Australia 

and Spain. While McRae achieved success in 

his professional life, he also had a full personal 

life filled with faith, family and friends. A lover 

of the arts and food, he enjoyed music, fine 

dining and theater in New York City. He was 

also a hunter and gun collector, and treasured 

his “green bomb,” an antique green Porsche. 

McRae is survived by his sister, Norma Kopel; 

his nephew, Chris Kopel; his cousin, Linda Folk; 

and many other cousins. He was preceded in 

death by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. M.J. McRae, 

and his sister, Mary Gay McRae. 

Caroline “Carrie” Sheehan, ’74, died July 13, 

2008. She was 79. Born in LaGrande, Ore., to 

John Henry and Lillian Louise Griffin, Sheehan 

moved with her family to Seattle, where she 

attended St. John’s Grade School. After graduating 

from Holy Names Academy, Sheehan 

enrolled at Seattle University, where she met her 

future husband, Tom. The two married on Sept. 

10, 1949, and settled in Seattle’s Capitol Hill 

neighborhood where they raised their family. 

Community and social justice were important 

to Sheehan and directed her professional and 

volunteer work. She worked for World Without 

War and was western regional director for the 

SIDS Foundation. As a volunteer, she helped in 

areas of education, women’s and human rights, 

prison reform and pacifism. In the community 

Sheehan served on various boards, including 

Seattle Youth Symphony, Children’s Hospital, 

the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the 

Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Planning 

Commission, Seattle University and the Jubilee 

Women’s Center, among many others. In her 

personal life, she enjoyed being with her family 

and many friends, traveling, writing poetry, 

reading and spending time with her grandchildren. 

Sheehan is survived by her daughters, 

Christie, Mary and Callie; sons, Tom, Patrick, 

Tim and Mike; eight grandchildren; sister, 

Patricia; and brother, John. She was preceded in 

death by her parents; husband, Tom; daughter, 

Molly; and grandson, Zach. 

Gail Vitulli, ’83, died July 21, 2008. She was 

52. Born Sept. 17, 1955, in Culver City, Calif., 

Vitulli spent her early years moving from 

California to Washington and from Illinois to 

Arizona. In 1972 she returned to Seattle, where 

she attended and graduated from Queen Anne 

High School. Following a short return trip to 

California, she came back to Seattle to settle 

permanently. After graduating from Seattle 

Community College, she earned a bachelor’s 

degree in accounting from Seattle University. 

She passed her CPA exam in 1984, and worked 

for many years in various accounting roles in 

manufacturing and biotech companies in the 

Puget Sound region. Most recently she was 

employed as a controller at VLST Corporation. 

Known for her compassion, selflessness and 

fierce independence, Vitulli was loved by many. 

She had a quick wit, cheerful disposition and 

great ability as a storyteller. Attending events 

and gatherings with friends and family were 

important to Vitulli, who also enjoyed walking 

on the beach, traveling, shopping, reading, 

music, gardening, good food and red wine. 

Vitulli is survived by her husband, Darrel; parents, 

June Bratcher and Milton LaJune; brothers, 

Wayne and Cary; and two stepbrothers, six 

nieces and nephews, and numerous cousins and 

other family. 

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44 | Alumni Focus

Changing Reality By Engaging 

in Service to Others 

the good word 

photo BY ANIL KAPAHI 

In the Meditation on the Incarnation 

in the Spiritual Exercises, St. 

Ignatius invites retreatants to consider 

the Trinity gazing upon a 

world rife with poverty, displacement of 

peoples, conflict and brutality between 

countries, structural and economic injustice, 

ecological destruction and sin. As 

the Trinity looks down, they determine 

that God’s Son, Jesus, will be born into 

these shattered realities. That is what 

we remember this year as we celebrate 

Christmas, the story of Jesus who came to 

be with us—God with us—in 

a world of hurt and suffering 

permeated by conflict 

and division, a world hungering 

for justice. Jesus came to 

be with those pushed aside, 

bringing glad tidings to the 

poor, freedom to the captives, 

sight to the blind and release 

to the imprisoned. 

If we reflect on the 

Christmas story of Jesus 

entering into the gritty reality of the 

world, isn’t that also what we hope for the 

graduates of Seattle University, that their 

eyes would be open to the “real world” 

injustices and needs of the world? And 

that they would choose freely to use the 

education they have received in offering 

their lives to address the serious injustices 

that plague us? 

It is this gritty reality that Father Peter 

Hans-Kolvenbach, then Superior General 

of the Society of Jesus, spoke about to a 

group of Jesuit educators at Santa Clara 

University in October 2000: “The real 

measure of our Jesuit universities lies in 

who our students become. . . . Students 

must let the gritty reality of this world 

into their lives so they can learn to feel 

it, think about it critically, respond to 

its suffering and engage it constructively. 

They should learn to perceive, think, 

judge, choose and act for the rights of 

others, especially the disadvantaged and 

the oppressed.” 

When I think of letting this reality 

into one’s life, I think of SU senior Ryan 

“If we reflect on the Christmas story of 

Jesus entering into the gritty reality of the 

world, isn’t that also what we hope for 

the graduates of Seattle University, that 

their eyes would be open to the ‘real world’ 

injustices and needs of the world?” 

Mike Bayard, S.J. 

Arbow who, upon arriving at the university, 

involved himself with FACE AIDS, 

a student organization on campus that 

raises awareness about HIV/AIDS in 

Africa. His commitment to this group and 

its cause raised a number of questions for 

him regarding the epidemic. These questions 

opened doors that led him to the 

International Development Internship 

Program (IDIP). Once enrolled in this 

class, Ryan committed himself to spending 

one quarter in Tanzania working 

with Catholic Relief Services, helping 

their efforts to raise awareness of HIV/ 

Mike Bayard, S.J., co-director of Magis 

AIDS among the local people. Ryan has 

changed his major to reflect his interests 

and is considering degree work in public 

administration and nonprofit leadership. 

There are many stories like Ryan’s 

throughout Seattle University. A 

Jesuit education inspires our graduates 

to devote their lives to continued 

service in the wider global 

community, whether in a volunteer 

program of their choosing— 

Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC), 

Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Northwest, 

AmeriCorps, Luther Volunteer 

Corps, the Peace Corps—or service 

in their own communities. 

Seattle University students 

receive a “real world” education preparing 

them for the often-gritty realities they 

will face post-graduation. It is little surprise, 

then, that many of our students feel 

compelled to enter into a life of service. 

—Mike Bayard, S.J. 

Mike Bayard, S.J., is co-director of Magis: 

Alumni Committed for Mission. To learn 

more about Magis or service opportunities 

for alumni, e-mail: magis@seattleu.edu. 


Lydia Alcala-Gonzales ’63 MEd 

The Rewards of 

Planned Giving 

At Seattle University, Lydia Alcala-Gonzales, ’63, a master’s 

student who came to Seattle from the Philippines, felt embraced 

and supported by the Jesuits, especially Father James McGoldrick. 

“He was so good to me,” she says “When I had a problem, I 

would just go and talk to him and he’d say, ‘Don’t worry, we can 

work it out.’” 

Lydia has included a bequest in her estate plans that will benefit 

students who may face financial obstacles in reaching their goals. 

“Seattle University helped me so much. Now I can give back 

through this endowed scholarship that will help students in 

the future.” 

For more information on how to include the university in 

your estate plans, contact Jane Orr, senior director of 

Planned Giving at (206) 296-6974 or e-mail: orrj@seattleu.edu. 

Contact Seattle University, Planned Giving, (206) 296-6974 or orrj@seattleu.edu. Visit our website at www.seattleugift.org. 

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