Articles

New Zealand

I haven’t worn deodorant in four months. And forget about makeup. My sense of vanity — and perhaps my sense of smell — were flung to the wayside when I started hiking 3,000 km across New Zealand with my dad.

Michael John ’77

Michael John is an actor, stage-fight trainer and expert in theatrical uses of combat weapons — has made his living wielding knives, daggers, pistols and swords. He has appeared in movies, TV and stage productions. As a Romulan in charge of weaponry, he has been blown up in Paramount’s television series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” He has performed frequently with the LA Opera, including a production of “Billy Budd” in 2014 in which he played the whip master.

In Memoriam Summer 2015

Victor Matheus [BusAdm ’36] on Feb. 18, 2013 Bolton Minister [BusAdm ’40] on Oct. 17, 2014 Robert Hayes [LibArts ’41] on Jan. 24, 2015 Frank Reilly [LibArts ’43] on Feb. 7, 2010 James Bell [SciEng ’44] on June 2, 2014…

Freed at Last

Franky Carrillo Jr., now pursuing his LMU degree, was freed In March 2011 after spending 20 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.

Bullpen

Earl Weaver, the great Baltimore Orioles baseball manager, once said, “Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same — pitching.”

A Conversation With Nathalie Sánchez ’07

Nathalie Sánchez ’07 is a full-time teaching artist with P.S. Arts and works in two Los Angeles charter schools. She is co-founder of Ceramic Studio 153, in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Sánchez earned her bachelor’s degree in the College of Communication and Fine Arts with a double major in studio arts and art history. Follow her @Ceramics153. She was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.

Meet George Jetson

The Chemosphere, a space-age house that Leonard Malin ’55 built with architect John Lautner, seems as if it was delivered intact by aliens. A windowed octagon resting on a hillside pillar like a platter, this symbol of 1960s modernist architecture looks like an impossible house, and a less likely home. Malin made it a place to live.