USD Magazine, Fall 1995

ALUMNI

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI A year ago, Diana Blankanburg (M.B.A. '93) started her own San Diego business, Teaming Technologies, in which she teaches and con– sults with organizations on working in coop– eration to reach common goals.... Tarry (Kissall) Glaasan earned a bachelor's degree in 1979 from the University of La Verne and a master's degree in 1984 from Cal Poly Pomona. She is a teacher with the Upland Unified School District in Covina, Calif. Terry has been married to her husband, Craig, for 15 years and they have three chil– dren.... William Kalkav is a licensed clinical social worker at Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. He and his wife, Anna, live in San Diego. Anna, a part-time faculty member at USD, completed her doctorate in piano per– formance in June. •.. Gragary Martin is work– ing on a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Southern Mississippi. •.. Viclaria (Haas) Nymbarg is market manager at TacoBelV Pepsi Co. in Cincinnati. She married her hus– band, Tom, on May 1, 1993, and their son, Paul, was born on Oct. 6, 1994. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Michaal P. Marrisan (J.D.) has created a new law firm, Kimble & Morrison, in Tucson, Ariz. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Diana Branks has three children: Katherine, 3, Andrew, 2, and Annemarie, 11 weeks old. She is the senior podiatrist at Kaiser in Fontana, Calif., and became double board cer– tified in podiatric surgery and podiatric ortho– pedics last year. Diane, who is known profes– sionally as Diane Barry, D.P.M., notes that only 4 percent of podiatrists in the United States have achieved this double certification. ... In 1988, Richard Galdbarg (M.Ed. '87) became a partner of Cashuk, Wiseman & Goldberg, a certified public accounting firm in San Diego. He has been married since 1982 and has two children: Nicole, 10, and Kevin, 6. •.. Marty Matas was promoted to interna– tional sales manager for Reliance Electric, a division of Dodge, and is opening a new office in Santiago, Chile. The office will serve the expanding copper mining industry in both Chile and Peru. Marty spent the past 12 years as a sales engineer serving such industries as mining, petrochemical, aerospace, timber, wood, paper and power utilities...• Cacilia (llarrisan) Pfaiflar writes, "After living in 19&0 • 1S-Yaar Raunian Calabralian Nav. 11, 1995 CLASS CHAIR: Carrie (Galvin) Dern

ident and chief executive officer of Integrated Medical Systems Inc. in Golden, Colo. He also was elected to serve on the company's board of directors. Kevin has more than 14 years of experience in the information tech– nology arena.... Staphania (Ball) McCannick lives in Corvallis, Ore., with her three chil– dren: Jillian, 18, David, 15, and Rebekah, 8. Stephanie teaches music in the Corvallis School District and teaches private lessons. She also is one of the directors of the Heart of the Valley Children's Choir. She writes that she would like to hear from old friends.

Colorado for 14 years, we moved our family to Daniels, W.Va., as my husband took a job as president of a ski area." ... Michalla [Wilsan) Rignay has been married for 14 years and has two daughters: Jennifer, 13, and Shannon, 11. The family lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif. ... Angala (McN1111ca) Svabada and her hus– band, Michaal Svabada '77, own Liberty Farms in Ogallala, Neb. They have four children: Michael, 13, Jessica, 10, Corie, 6, and Cody, 3. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Randall Fang (M.Ed.) is a counselor at Honolulu Community College. He and his wife, Linda, have two children, Marissa and Nathan. He writes that he would like to hear from former classmates.

1977

CLASS CHAIR: Donald Altomonte

19&1

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: Michael Aeling 48 Darlene Street St. Paul, MN 55119-4908

CLASS CHAIR: Hugh Swift

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: Lisa Sill 11648 Mayfield Avenue, #202 Los Angeles, CA 90049

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI David Nawlan is executive vice president of Spectacor Films in West Hollywood, Calif. He writes, "Between producing feature films, I have been traveling extensively for pleasure: a safari in Africa, Greece(furkey, Europe and the Caribbean Islands." ... Tany Salay is start– ing up his own medical distributorship for ortho– pedic hip and knee implants. He lives with his wife, Shelley, in Woodinville, Wash.•.• Kan Zabal retired from the Marine Corps in 1984 and is now program manager for a space sys– tems acquisition firm, AJEC. He married Liz Osborne on May 27 and they live in Haw– thorne, Calif.

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI David Alassi and his family transferred to Stevens Point, Wis., where he is a unit man– ager for Sentry Insurance. He says the aver– age high temperature in January and February is 24 degrees and the average low is 4 degrees. ... Jasaphina BannaH was named a member of the San Diego City Public Utilities Commission, an advisory body to the City Council on all public policy issues relating to local utilities. Josephine is a vice president and business banking officer with the Bank of Southern California. •.. Suzanna Famina is nurse man– ager at Newington Children's Hospital in Newington, Conn. She earned a master's degree in child psychiatric nursing from Yale University. ••. Richard Russall is senior vice president of The Rand Corp. ln this position, he heads up the acquisitions department and works out of his home/office in Newport Beach, Calif. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Rick Krusa (M.B.A.) was named vice presi– dent by the board of directors of Wells Fargo Bank, N .A. Rick manages a direct origination business unit for the bank's mortgage lend– ing division. He and his wife, Anne, live in La Jolla, Calif.

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CLASS CHAIR: Stephen L. Plourd

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Jaryl (Pina) Ralhschild lives in New York City with her husband, Gideon, and their 9-year-old daughter, Marissa. Jeryl is a certi– fied financial planner and was appointed vice president of the Personal Financial Advisory Group at Chemical Bank in Manhattan.

1979

CLASS CHAIR: Kathy (George) Frisbie

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: Dorothy Kettel-Kneski 296 Amesport Landing Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

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