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Eternal Optimist Moreland Saluted by Education Classmates

Mary Markovinovic is the public affairs officer at the Naval Supply Center in San Diego and will be married sho rtly.

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Andrea (Basso) Jasper and Robert Jasper were

By Jacqueline Genovese

married Oct. 28 in Mission Viejo, Calif. Andrea left the legal field and currently is earning her master's degree. She plans to teach elementary school. Rob is the president ofJasper & Sons, Inc. The couple reside in San Cle– mente, Calif...James Greer G.D.) opened his own law firm in January. He specializes in real estate, construction and business lirigarion. .. Nicola (Bernard) James married Don James '88 June 17 at Wente Vineyards in Northern Californ ia. Alums in at– tendance were Lynn O'Meara '85 and Kevin Murphy '88. The couple now reside in Lafayette, Calif...Katie (Bell) Perry and Scott Perry were married Dec. 30 in Denver, Colo. Included in the wedding parry were Michelle Tiffany, Yvette Batista '87 and Steve Bell '87. Katie and Scott reside in Denver...Michael Turley and Denise (Denos) Turley '85 welcomed a daughter, Kaeline Marie, into the world on Dec. 29. She weighed 9 lbs. , 5 oz., measured 21 1/4 inches and is their second child... Bill Dyer and his wife, Kathy, became parents for the first rime on July 1. Bill made rhe Top Ten Club for sales in 1989 working for the Canadian-based financial services company, Confederation Life, where he has been employed the past two years.. .Lt. Tommie Jennings recently completed the Navy Chaplain Officers Fleer Marine Force Orientation Program. .. Patricia Whitney received a promotion to director of personnel and education in the workstation products division of NCR. She has relocated to Dayton, Ohio .. .Carmela Carr is a resident director at Michigan Scare Universiry. She completed her master's degree in June 1988 in the field of college and universiry adminisrration ...Louis Fonte recently accepted a position as director of engineering for Green Mountain Power Corp...Michael Hamilton was

She is a self-described eternal optimist who hopes people will remember that she cared. Caring, says Adrienne Moreland '78, is a virtue that effects change when one teaches academically-challenged youngsters as she has done for the past decade. Her commitment hasn't gone unnoticed. In 1989 she was one of five educators nationally to be presented with the Christa McAuliffe Award by the National Foundation for the Improve– ment of Education. She was recognized too by USD's School of Education in March. That's when the school presented her with its 1990 Alumna of the Year Award. Moreland set her mind on teaching after being roped into leading a CCD class with a friend. "I was 15 years old and spending my Saturdays with a group of children - who were definitely not sent from heaven, and who definitely had better things to do than be in a CCD class - and I loved it! " she says, rolling her eyes skyward. That experience, as well as memories of her own grade school years, catapulted Moreland toward teaching. Reflecting on her classroom philosophy, Moreland says it is shaped by memories of teachers always being there when she needed direction. "Teachers always challenged me and drove me to do better, try harder. But I always wondered about the kids who weren't getting all A's and weren't in the highest reading group. Was someone there for them?" At Mt. Woodson Elementary School in Ramona, it is the outgoing Moreland who is there for the children who are not tops in their class or who struggle to get through their lessons from day to day. "When I see their self-esteem bolstered by little successes in the classroom, I feel good knowing I was a part of that," she says softly. And after all, she reasons, "When you look back on life, what else is there but caring for each other?"

her husband, Brian, announce the birth of their son, Christopher Raymond, born Sept. 19... Pablo Mendoza cu rrently is working on his master's degree in Chinese studies at the Universiry of Ill inois. Last summer he was selected as a resident director for graduate housing. Pacific Admail, a full-service di rect mail advertising company... Muffy (Patterson) Hoesteder was married May 26 and now resides in Chicago ...Michael Vaio G.D.) recently opened his own law practice in downtown San Diego. He practices civil liti– gation with an emphasis in plaintiff personal injury cases.. . Avis (Reinicke) Thomas and her husband, Daniel, recently moved back to San Diego after living in El Paso, Texas, for two years. T heir first child, Christopher Robert, was born Feb. 11 .. .Terry Burns recently joined the new San Diego office ofA.G . Edwards & Sons, a New York Stock Ex– change member firm, founded in 1887 ... Rebecca (Stout) Wilson ma rried Dennis Wilson Feb. 14. She has been with Syufy Enter– prises in San Francisco for seven years now, working as a manager. It was through work that she mer Dennis, a purchasing agent for the theater industry. The couple live in Fremont, Calif... William Christensen is an account executive for

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