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National Poetry Month: Ed Lawrence Hagape '20

April 7, 2018, 7:48 am
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The World According to Ed

The World According to Ed would be one of peace.
Where weapons are dropped and hands are raised up high.
Where all people are able to come together.
Where people are not afraid to be with each other.

The World According to Ed would be one of joy.
Where people smile and wave to each other.
Where people's worries and struggles are now diminished.
Where a candle is relit when it has been blown out.

The World According to Ed would be one of love.
Where people love each other no matter the labels.
Where we turn an eye for an eye to love thy neighbor.
Where unconditional love prevails.

The World According to Ed would be one of great well-being.

Ed Lawrence Hagape recently published a poetry book called, "The World According to Ed," now available on Amazon. This poem was the inspiration for the title of said poetry book. In his poetry book, Ed Lawrence shares his personal stories of immigration, inspiration, and faith in hopes that one connects his words to their own experiences and also gain a new perspective.

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John Donohue '69 receives Jerry Mahoney Lifetime Achievement Award

April 7, 2018, 8:06 am
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Longtime Lowell baseball coach John Donohue '69 (now retired) received the Jerry Mahoney Lifetime Achievement Award April 6 from the NorCal Basketball Official Association. From left is John, Dan Pino, and Jerry Mahoney.


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Philip John Halverson '58

April 8, 2018, 4:03 am
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Philip John Halverson

Philip John Halverson passed away quietly at his home on March 20, 2018. Everyone fortunate enough to have crossed Philip's path would unanimously agree he truly believed he had "the world on a string." Life for him was a song; each day was a reason for celebration. Philip welcomed everyone he met. His charismatic voice, infectious sense of humor, generous nature, and his electric blue eyes always put people at ease.

Philip attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Lowell High School. He matriculated to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was affiliated with the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. After his service with the U.S. Coast Guard, he received his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Philip then headed for New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. Performing under the name of Philip Hamilton, he returned to Hollywood and contracted with MGM and Paramount by way of the Screen Actors Guild.

Often, Philip humorously declared, "Every lawyer is an actor!" With that in mind, he successfully opened real estate law practices in Beverly Hills and San Francisco.

Philip's many interests, including history, music, travel, cooking, boating and golf, exemplified his passion for life. An active member of the Bohemian Club, the Olympic Club and the Claremont Country Club, he enjoyed the camaraderie of his numerous life long friends.

For all his outgoing nature, Philip was a private person, fiercely devoted to, and proud of, his wife Jill Zuber Halverson and his two sons, John Philip (JP) and Lachlan. His loving, predeceased mother, Margaret May Hamilton, encouraged his self-reliance, confidence and respect for all two and four legged friends.

Unbeknownst to his family, Philip kept a diary. His last entry read:

"I have a very happy life.

I have a beautiful wife.

I have 2 wonderful sons.

Life is GREAT!!!

Thank you!"

As per Philip's wishes, a private family service has been held.

Published in San Francisco Chronicle on Apr. 8, 2018

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SI girls earn all-city honors from the Chronicle in basketball

April 8, 2018, 10:02 am
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Read more here and congratulations to Alyssa Down '18s, Maddie Ennis '19 and Georgia Madden '18 for earning honorable mention status on the Chron's All-Metro girls basketball team.

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National Poetry Month: Eugene Bianchi '48

April 9, 2018, 5:00 am
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Interbeing

"We need people who can help bring mediation

and reconciliation to nations in conflict."

--(Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk, in Being Peace)

The tribe saves and deceives.
Like all animal kin we perish
without breast and hearth,
without touch, teaching and love.

The tribe separates us
by nation, class, skin, wealth
and myriad other fearful barriers
like patriotism driven by violence.

We find comfort parading with tanks
and missiles before our dear leader as
anti-militarism becomes cowardice:
"Thank you for your service, glad it's you not me."

60,000 rush to early graves in Vietnam,
taking many more Vietnamese with them
for an insane war, for a wall of names
on the Mall to placate scheming politicians.

Can we resolve conflicts with the monk's
diplomacy of understanding and compassion?
Can we make peace with our warrior
spirit surging from reptilian brains

long enough to honor kinship
with enemies to save a beautiful planet?
Cat Max purrs yes with prophets
and mystics across the world.

--Eugene C. Bianchi '48, Athens, GA, Feb. 13, 2018

Eugene Bianchi (SI 48), an emeritus professor of Religion at Emory University, lives in Athens, GA with his wife and Siamese cat Max who inspires his poems.

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Four students competed in the 5th annual UC Berkeley Bioengineering Honors Society Contest and Symposium on April 7

April 9, 2018, 6:28 am
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Juniors Anna Fennerty, Katia Renault, Lauren Chow and Claire Cruse competed in the 5th annual UC Berkeley Bioengineering Honors Society Contest and Symposium on April 7. Students chose to solve a biological problem and design a solution. The team decided to use gene editing technology to propose a design that would revolutionize the vaccine making process. They made videos describing their solution, a poster and a Powerpoint presentation. They were judged by a team of professionals in the field in an "industry pitch" as well as presented to a panel of graduate students and professors. The girls put a tremendous amount of effort into designing their solution, processing feedback from a mentor and researching feasibility and marketability. They were accompanied by their teacher and mentor, Mona Dunne (right).


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Purchase your tickets online now for the Bruce-Mahoney baseball game

April 9, 2018, 8:49 am
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National Poetry Month: Jocelyn Wong '20

April 10, 2018, 7:15 am
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Sisyphean Troubles

Opportunities vast as the ocean,
Potential skyrocketing to the moon,
But struggling to remain in motion.

Hard to find purpose, passion, devotion;
YouTube, like Zeus, captured me in a swoon.
Opportunities vast as the ocean.

I wish I could make this locomotion:
Butterfly blossoming from a cocoon,
But struggling to remain in motion.

Lacking motivation and emotion,
To fatigue I will never be immune.
Opportunities vast as the ocean.

Obviously life's never smooth as lotion;
Can't imagine turning into a prune,
But struggling to remain in motion.

Slowly crumbling, like rocks in erosion,
I can feel myself approaching the high noon;
Opportunities vast as the ocean,
But struggling to remain in motion.

Jocelyn Wong '20

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Elise Go '12 has a song that will be featured in a new film

April 10, 2018, 11:00 am
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Elise released her single "Demon," which will be featured in a Hollywood film called Beverly Hills Ghost.

You can check it out here:

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Br. Richard Devine '52

April 11, 2018, 5:20 am
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Br. Richard Devine '52 died Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan at the age of 83. He was born January 11, 1935 in San Francisco and entered the Society on February 15, 1953. Rich formally entered the California Province at Sacred Heart Novitiate in Los Gatos following a six-month postulancy which began August 14, 1952, in accord with the protocol of the era. He was transcribed into the Japan Province in 1965. He was a Jesuit for 65 years.

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National Poetry Month: James Torrens, SJ '48

April 11, 2018, 7:00 am
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IN THE NORTH WOODS

By James Torrens, SJ '48

A city boy in the North Woods
goes tramping the pine needles
and firs into the dark humus.

He enters the Great Silence
of these monklike trees
who talk by the tips of roots.

He looks at a toppled trunk
exposing the balled roots
that shoot water up to the crown.

What a commune the woods are!
How much feeds into it and off it.
Old one goes down, the saplings rise.

City boy unused to a locale
where all transpires slowly.
Can he hear the trees breathe?

James Torrens, S.J., '48, is currently in retirement at the Jesuit House at Gonzaga University, Spokane. Now, he is happy to say, he can give more attention to poetry.

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Spring signing ceremony honors future college athletes

April 11, 2018, 11:40 am
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Congratulations to the following seniors who have committed to playing sports on the collegiate level this fall. They join others who signed earlier this year. Look for a complete list in May, when we honor all our future college athletes. See photos of today's signing ceremony.

  • Jack Thomson: Lewis and Clark College: Baseball
  • Brandon Beckman: University of Chicago: Basketball
  • Matthew Redmond: Denison University: Basketball
  • Alyssa Downs: University of Redlands: Basketball
  • Joey Moore: Gonzaga University: Crew
  • Charlie Katz: Johns Hopkins University: Football
  • Luke Philipp: Clark University: Lacrosse
  • Brady Kallas: University of Oklahoma: Rugby
  • Ethan Smith: Azusa Pacific: Tennis
  • Alex Enos: UCLA: Track and Field
  • John Alexander: New York University: Volleyball
  • Sarah Nunes: Chapman University: Volleyball
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National Poetry Month: Fr. John Mossi, SJ ''62

April 12, 2018, 7:00 am
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Sabbatical Decompression

By John P. Mossi, SJ '62

God rested on the seventh day.
The Supreme CEO set the standard for sabbatical intermission.
For some, sabbatical rest is the ultimate proof of a Benevolent Being
Who grants welcomed recreation for reading, writing, and decompressing.

Most sabbaticals are not as dramatic as the Genesis big bang.
After all, God did emplace a lot of infrastructure in six poetic days.
Quite a Guinness record of divine imagination
That still holds to this day.

And while the seventh day reigns as the first official chill out,
This interlude is not about self-absorption or avoidance of responsibility.
Sabbatical implies intentional reflection on universe and humanity.
Gazing upon all that was made, God said, "It is very good."

Sabbatical leisure allow us to revisit the energy and mystery of the first six days
To ponder the pervasive imago Dei stamped in nature's core,
Located in the structural identity of creation, the DNA of Adam and Eve,
Their complex what's, how's, differences and relationships.

In the midst of constant busyness, overextended commitments, and endless distractions,
Sabbatical calls us to stop for our own sanity's sake and for God's sake.
Renewed with serene insight, we return home with refreshed lens
To appreciate our dignity and beauty within the majesty of this graced world.

Fr. John P. Mossi, SJ, is Director of Benefactor Relations for Jesuits West Province.

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National Poetry Month: Valerie Ibarra '99

April 16, 2018, 5:00 am
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POEM: Untitled (but written upon waking)

May ART spark forth
from you
as if forged
by the burrowing
of a god
come to mine
your depths

the flare of its dynamite
& lanterns
send up heat
to carry through your being
until you are
bleeding or weeping

trails of which
now forming
the beds of rivers
& the Alchemy
of minerals
streaking through
the hidden hills
fortified, yet fluid

culverts catching
the torrents & errant drops
that fall
after all
the smoky clouds
have broken
and the silt
of the volcanic explosion
returns
to be
culled & counted
as among
the source of things

-V.I. February 2018

Valerie Anne Francesca Ibarra '99 is a poet and radio host at MutinyRadio.fm and KPFA 94.1FM. She helps organize the annual celebration of National Poetry Month at San Francisco City Hall - Poems Under the Dome - the largest poetry open mic in the City! All ages are welcome to put your name in the hat for a chance to read a poem at City Hall on April 19th 2018 from 5:30-8pm - www.poemdome.net. She is also interviewing the candidates for Mayor of San Francisco on her weekly radio program Women's Magazine with Global Val on MutinyRadio.fm. Links to these interviews and information about more community events can be found on globalval.blogspot.com.
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SI students win honors at State JCL Convention

April 16, 2018, 5:11 am
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Salvete omnes!

This past Friday and Saturday, thirty of our JCL students attended the annual JCL State Convention (the big event we hosted last year). This year we went to Menlo School where they participated in a variety of competitions.

Academics:

  • 3rd place, Derivatives test, Level 1: Zachary Gunter '21
  • 3rd place, Mottoes, Abbreviations, Quotes test, Level 2:Starlette Khim '20
  • 3rd place, Daily Life test, Advanced:Carina Leung '18
  • 2nd place, Mythology test, Level 1:Amanda Ting '21
  • 1st place, Vocabulary test, Level 1:Joshua Gill '21

Ludi (games and challenges):

  • 2nd place, Scavenger Hunt, Beginning/Intermediate level:Alexis Mojica, Kaleigh Ruegg, Samantha Tam, Ava Tynan '21

Chapter Awards (team/all-school effort)

  • 3rd place, T-shirt - designed by Kyle McAuliffe '19
  • 2nd place, Spirit - led by Marykate Buscher '20 and Keo Chui '18

Certamen (academic quiz bowl)

State Champions, level 1:Joshua Gill, Zachary Gunter, Kaleigh Ruegg, Amanda Ting, Alexis Mojica, Jason Dionida, Matthew Hernandez, Ava Tynan, Samantha Tam (all class of '21).Their coaches Lucas Laughlin '19 and Carina Leung '18, who tutored, taught, and trained this team all year long, are very proud of their freshmen.

Scholarships

  • Kasey Fung '18
  • Carina Leung '18

Grace Frazer '19 was elected Northern Representative to the state JCL Board. One of her major duties will be to throw Ludi Octobres (NorCal Convention) at SI on Oct. 20, 2018.

We are very happy about our students' accomplishments, but even more delighted by their wonderful conduct.

Latina vivit!

—Grace and Lana (with an assist from ever-loyal chaperone Jamie Pruden)

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Watch the Bruce Mahoney Baseball game 4/21 on The Cube

April 18, 2018, 12:15 pm
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National Poetry Month: Bob Carson '63

April 19, 2018, 7:00 am
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By Bob Carson '63

From The Mind/Brain Conflict

From the instant of conception we were conceived
To die and yet the soggy mush of our brain organs
Grew insubstantial minds that created our glories
In an ephemeral moment of cosmological time,
And after millennia of snows and grim entrapment
Our minds became fields of spring wildflowers.
And now by 2050 some suppose in molecular computers
We will become immortal as we once believed our gods
Became substantial like us but immortal.

Look into your brain organs and watch words
Rise like geese from dark emotional lakes.
But no one knows how those geese lift or fly
And only a few that geese, emotions, words,
Lakes, identify you as you and no one else

Bob Carson '63 is an Emmy-Award winning poet and is theeditor of The Waterfront Writers: The Literature of Work. He has done film scripts, song lyrics, stage dramas. His latest endeavor is a novel: A Well Regulated Militia, appearing late this year.

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Sophia Leon Guerrero '19 makes the top 10 in national tech challenge

April 20, 2018, 12:50 pm
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Sophia Leon Guerrero '19 is in Houston for the FIRST Robotics Championship this week as a FIRST Tech Challenge Dean's List finalist. The competition is named for Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway and the founder of the FIRST Robotics competition. Of 150 finalists, Sophia was selected for the top-10 Dean's List Award. She posed for photos with Dean Kamen and with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, who is a proponent of robotics competitions.

https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/deans-l...



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Angela Yang '18 wins Chronicle writing award

April 20, 2018, 12:54 pm
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Two Wildcat jumpers set records

April 22, 2018, 9:30 am
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At a meet in Los Altos Saturday, Alex Enos '18 jumped 25 feet, making him the new California leader and #2 in the U.S. in the long jump. Freshman Megan Ronan made four jumps longer than the previous SI record, which was set by Candy Janachowski '14. Megan's longest jump of 19 feet, 6.5 inches, makes her the third most successful long jumper for girls in the state and ties her for the number 12 position in the U.S. Pictured with them is their coach Mike Kennedy '10.

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