USD Magazine, Summer 1997

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ALCALA ALMANAC 2 Not Just Horsing Around ... Honor Roll ... Park Central ... Ahead of the Curve ... Top 10 Rules for Communicating Effectively at Work ... Speak Softly ... Business Classes for Clergy ... $14 Million Loan Fund Challenge ... Free Time ... Civics Lesson ALUMNI GALLERY Teacher Bess Hodges '96 is learning valuable lessons in her first class, page 22 ... Debbie Gollnick '92 is living her hoop dreams, page 24 ... Philip Ferranti '72 (M.Ed.) has been walking on the wild side for 20 years, page 26 KALEIDOSCOPE 20 33 University of the Third Age ... Conscience: Its Tradition, Its Role, Its Authority ... Day at the Races ... Law School Alumni Weekend ... Freshman Family Weekend ... Fall Family Weekend ... Homecoming Weekend ... Sports Camps

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USO MAGAZINE

EDITOR Trisha J. Ratledge CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Kate Callen Michael R. Haskins

PHOTOGRAPHERS Jim Coit Ken Jacques '78 Pablo Mason ILLUSTRATION Amy Jo Levine Dan Renner Troy Viss

ubilation reigned at Alcala Park during the 1997 commencement ceremonies. About 1,700 undergraduate, graduate and law students joined the ranks of alumni on May 26 and 27. The commencement speakers were: undergraduate ceremony, Janet Brown, executive director of The Commission on Presidential Debates; graduate ceremony, Shirley S. Chater, University of California Regents Professor, The Institute for Health and Aging, and former commissioner, The Social Security Administration; and law school ceremony, The Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, senior judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center.

Jill Wagner '91 ART DIRECTOR Visual Asylum

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PRESIDENT Alice Bourke Hayes VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS John G- McNamara DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Jack Cannon DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS John Trifiletti '78

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