Masthead: Winter 2015

STAFF

Editor
Steven Boyd Saum

Assistant Editor
Kristen Intlekofer

Literary Editor
Ron Hansen M.A. ’95

Creative Director
Linda Degastaldi

Associate Editor, santaclaramagazine.com
Clay Hamilton

Copy Editors
John Deever
Alicia K. Gonzales ’09
Marisa Solís

Interns
Danae Stahlnecker ’15 – Editorial Intern
Lucas Hapin ’15 – Web Intern

Class Notes and Obituaries
Marisa Solís

Website
Clay Hamilton
Lucas Hapin ’15
Brian Washburn

CONTRIBUTORS

Jeff Gire
Leah Gonzalez ’14
Marika Krause
Deborah Lohse
Donna Perry
Sam Scott ’96

SANTA CLARA MAGAZINE ADVISORY BOARD

President
Michael Engh, S.J.

Vice President for University Relations
James Lyons

Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Rich Giacchetti

Executive Director, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.

Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations
Kathy Kale ’86

Director of Marketing
Margaret Avritt

Ron Hansen M.A. ’95

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor of Arts and Humanities

Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77 — Silicon Valley’s professor emeritus

Paul Soukup, S.J.

Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Professor of Communication

This Summer Girls Ran the World

Swift Clara, the Bey Hive, honorary mayorships, and more: This summer, fanbases of mainly women helped rebound the U.S. economy.

A Billion for Tomorrow

A billion in support of scholarships, research, and facilities. Find out what it all means

Super Bloom!

What happens after the rains fall can be glorious.

Transformation

Play—whether via imagination or with perspective—never stops being important to a person’s development.