USD Magazine, Spring 1999

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MARRIAGES

Please note that U SD Magazine does not print engagement information. While alumni are encouraged to send information about their marriages, due to space con– siderations, wedding photographs w ill not be published. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Denise Ettari '92 wed Doug Cain on Sept. 5 in N apa, Calif. The couple hon– eymooned in Turkey. ... Jahn Gordan '92 married Katherine Ward May 30 in Lake Tahoe. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii and now reside in Las Vegas, Nev. ... Nicholas Ghiselli '92 married Heidi Girardot '92 on July 18. The cou– ple met at USD as sophomores.... Mary Handherg '92 and Tim Sorensen were married Oct. 10. Mary recently changed careers from event planning to the escrow field. ... James Williams '92 mar– ried Molly McArdle on July 11. The couple are moving to South Africa for a year so James can complete his disserta– tion research. ... Alexandra While '92 and Tim Fax '93 were married Sept. 6 in San Diego. ... Rabin Scull '93 married Jim Lyon on Sept. 12 on a Colorado ranch. Robin is a sales agent for builder Geoffrey H. Edmunds in Phoenix.... Caryn Capazza '94 wed David Pratt in July 1997. The couple live in Austin, Texas, where Caryn is corporate commu– nications manager for Silicon Metrics. ... Jessica Egaran '94 married Junar Fernandez Aug. 1 in The lmmaculata Church. The couple honeymooned in H awaii.... Maureen Grayson '94 and David Hotes were married Aug. 15. Maureen is a database engineer in Virginia.... Colleen Murphy '94 wed Ch ris Hobbs June 13. Colleen works in product management and the couple live in the Sorrento Valley area. ... Matthew Simons '94 and Dawn Shebesla '95 were married Oct. 3 in Founders Chapel. Matthew is an accountant and Dawn is a sales representative.... Curtis Treadwell '94 married Jennifer H anrahan on Dec. 5 . The couple live in Oklahoma City where Curtis is self-employed.... Mark Maynard '95 married Pamela Seawall Oct. 4 in Sausalito, Calif. Mark is a mar– keting manager in H ayward, Calif....

David l'IIDick '71

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

D avid Pollick '71 flunked out of the University of San Diego as a freshman in 1966 because he was more interest– ed in meeting people, having fun and learn– ing things not taught in the classroom. Today, he's 51 and the president of a Pennsylvania college. And he's still interest– ed in ••. meeting people, having fun and learning things not taught in the classroom. " I believe a person should try many things and not be fearful of failing," says the San Diego native. " Experimentation is as good a way to learn as any, and I guess I learned that pretty early." Trying without fear of failure is perhaps his favorite credo, and the idea is quickly becoming policy on the campus of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Penn. Under his guidance, the liberal arts school has blos– somed and was recently ranked among U.S. News & World Ref)ort's Top IO Colleges in the North. He bought nearby land for new athletic facilities, pushed his students to study abroad and helped make it easier for students to get internships earlier in their careers. "We're tracking students so fast now that they're thinking about their careers before they even start," Pollick says. Pollick's path to biggest man on cam– pus was anything but traditional. But then, neither was his own college career. After flunking out, he joined the Navy just as the VietnamWar was escalating, serving for two years aboard a Pacific Fleet submarine. He returned to USD (he went to class this t ime), earning a philosophy

degree. He received a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Ottawa and a Ph.D. in philosophy from St. Paul's University, and was invited to return to USD as a lecturer. Pollick struggled in his new role as teacher, though, because he says he had nothing to say. "A young philosopher is really a con– tradiction in terms,'' says Pollick, who in 1995 earned USD's Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award. " I just felt like I didn't really know enough to be teaching yet." Pollick retreated from academia and embarked upon a mission to serve others. He drove a bus for neurologically handi– capped children in southeast San Diego and directed an El Centro drug rehabilitation center. He started a one-room school for emotionally disturbed children, thought briefly about becoming a Benedictine monk, and later lived alone in a trailer in the desert. He learned to break horses, sculpt and write. Pollick felt he now had something t o say, so he returned to academia with a teaching job at the University of Ottawa in 1977. He served in various teaching and administration roles at St. John's, Seattle University, Cortland College, Harvard and the Art Institute of Chicago before arriving in Lebanon Valley in 1996. "I feel at home here," says Pollick. " I'm certainly comfortable with the path I've followed."

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