Dads of Grads

The Dads of Grads organization, or DOGs, is a group of fathers of Bellarmine graduates who enjoy staying connected to the Bellarmine community and each other. Our mission is to provide a forum for dads to stay involved with and support the Christian, social and developmental activities of the Bellarmine community. We are a resource to the Bellarmine community and solicit your ideas for activities that will benefit the Bellarmine community.

The DOGs organize and/or participate in several events throughout the year, such as the Dads Retreat in January, a Memorial Mass, as well as an event with AMEN (mothers of Bell grads), and more!

To be eligible, you must be the dad of at least one Bellarmine alumnus. Have a son(s) still at BCP or more to come through? That's OK. You are welcome to join DOGs once your first son graduates.

To join: Email Bill Colucci, DOGS Moderator.

News & Events

Join DOGs or Renew Your Membership Now

Congratulations on being the dad of a Bellarmine alumnus! If you'd like to continue your involvement with the Bellarmine family, we invite you to join or renew your membership for the Dads of Grads (DOGs).

To join or renew your membership, please email Bill Colucci at bcolucci@bcp.org.

Bellarmine Memorial Mass — Annual Event

Every Spring, the Dads of Grads host the Annual Memorial Mass, honoring all family and friends who have passed away. The mass is open to the entire Bellarmine community — alumni parents, current parents and students, faculty and staff, and friends of Bellarmine.

Email Bill Colucci for more information.

More information about the DOGS Board will be available soon.

For more information, email Bill Colucci, DOGS Moderator.

A Letter from Jim Alves

When Mark Franich and I sat down with Fr. Paul Sheridan, S.J. several years ago and created the Dads of Grads, one of our goals was to give fathers of young men who attended Bellarmine a chance to stay involved with the Bellarmine community after their son’s graduations by providing interesting and informative social events.

I am amazed at the caliber of events we have offered the community with interesting and informative speakers. Most recently, California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin offered a compelling story of a Chinese immigrant family coming to America during a time of severe discrimination toward the Chinese. He spoke of his families’ hard work and determination, his Bellarmine experiences and his eventual rise to Supreme Court Justice. His story could be included In California history lessons.

Our evening with Twitter and Square’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, began a series of interesting technology speakers. While Dorsey’s evolution is relatively recent and progressive, we countered that with an evening with Adobe Systems founder, Charles Geschke. Charles spoke about how he created the foundation for Adobe Systems with partner John Warnock while at XEROX’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 70’s, and grew into the $5 billion company it is today.

Perhaps one of the more interesting evenings was when the DOGs hosted Sujay Jaswa of Drop Box and Neil Malhotra, Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, as they spoke on the “Life Cycle of a Start Up.” As childhood friends and Bellarmine grads, they were soon to embark on a joint teaching assignment on “Disruptive Innovation” at Stanford. With their differing approaches to business, they were quite entertaining.

We had a sports evening with San Jose State University’s football coach Ron Caragher addressing the audience. A former Bellarmine player, Ron played and coached at UCLA under Terry Donohue, and shared several meaningful experiences that have helped get him where he is today.

Looking back on the speakers the DOGs have featured at the Sobrato Theatre in the last few years, and our mission to continue to provide great speakers in the future, we hope that others will attend and enjoy future DOG’s events.