The Pragmatist
Academic Excellence, Alumni - Spring 2022Tomas Vargas / Account Manager / Qualcomm
An ongoing program at USD is challenging students to learn firsthand about entrepreneurship at the micro level, while giving them a chance to impact the local community.
An Electrifying Night
Alumni, Student Success - Spring 2022FOUNDERS GALA RAISES A NET $2.3 MILLION FOR STUDENTS
The night sky was a collage of colors as fireworks went off above Petco Park, the home of the San Diego Padres. The celebration lit up the skyline … Read More
Fall 2021 Class Notes
Alumni - Fall 20211960s
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RONALD HOUSE (BA), ’64 (JD) spent 25 years as house counsel for the San Diego Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities.
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JOHN McCOY (BA) writes, “After … Read More
Celebrating the Class of ’61
Alumni - Fall 2021GOLDEN TOREROS LOOK BACK ON THEIR TIME AT USD 60 YEARS LATER
In the beginning …
“Our class of ’61 first gathered in the fall of 1957. We met surrounded by the smell of still-wet plaster and the sound of … Read More
Becoming a Buffalo
Alumni - Fall 2021SURVIVING THE KHMER ROUGE COMMUNIST RULE
Hoang K. Taing McWilliams ’90 (BA) was a young girl when she was forced from her home in Phnom Penh, when the capitol city of Cambodia was overtaken.
She walked hundreds … Read More
More Than Enough
Alumni, Faith In Action - Fall 2021THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY CONTINUES FOR RACHEL FREEMAN
When Rachel Freeman ’09 (BA) was growing up, her family life was strictly secular. “I grew up very assimilated into mainstream culture,” she recalls. “When I was 11, my dad gave me a … Read More
Quite a Love Story
Alumni - Fall 2021FATHER AND DAUGHTER TAKE THE WALK OF A LIFETIME
From an early age, Whitney Buzbee ’21 (MSN) knew she wanted to become a nurse. Her grandmother was an emergency room nurse who later developed Alzheimer’s disease — and that … Read More
Ethical Leadership
Alumni - Fall 2021DOUBLE ALUMNA WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD THROUGH BUSINESS
The beautiful campus may have attracted her to USD, but for Alexandra Steinhaus ’15 (BA), ’20 (MA), the stellar educational experience kept her here. She came to USD in Fall 2011 to … Read More
Playing Hard, Doing Good
Alumni - Fall 2021ALUMNI FOREVER CONNECTED BY FOOTBALL, FRIENDSHIP AND FIDELITY
There’s really no earthly reason why J.T. Rogan ’08 (BBA) and Ryan Morgan ’08 (BBA) should be such good friends, especially when considering how they first met.
Back … Read More
Generations of Generosity
Alumni - Summer 2021THE LEGACY OF THE J.D. POWER NAME AT USD
James David Power III revolutionized the auto industry when founding J.D. Power and Associates. He was third in a line of five generations of sons … Read More
Summer 2021 Class Notes
Alumni - Summer 20211960s
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MARY DUGAN (BA) reports that her Harlequin novels are still in world-wide publication even after 18 years. “Most recently, Sweden has reissued all of my books and Japan has published them in … Read More
Not Self, but Country
Alumni - Summer 2021THE MAN IN CHARGE OF THE U.S. NAVY’S SUPPLY CHAIN
With his understated demeanor and down- to-earth manner, it’s a bit hard to believe Rear Adm. Peter Stamatopoulos ‘88 (BBA) is in charge of the U.… Read More
On the Front Line
Alumni - Summer 2021COVID NURSE ANN LAWANI FIGHTS FOR HER PATIENTS
Ann Lawani ‘18 (MSN) is the kind of nurse you want caring for you when you’re sick. She’s compassionate, she’s knowledgeable and she understands the pain … Read More
Dare Mighty Things
Alumni - Summer 2021PLANETS ALIGN FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER AMANDA GATES
From sunny San Diego to the windswept Martian landscape, Amanda Gates ’16 (BS/BA) is charting her own path. A nuclear research engineer with the United States Department of Energy’s Idaho … Read More
Meeting of Minds
Alumni - Summer 2021A CONVERSATION WITH SAN DIEGO MAYOR TODD GLORIA ‘00 AND USD PRESIDENT JAMES T. HARRIS
There’s no denying that San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria ‘00 (BA) is breaking new ground as the city’s first person of … Read More
