USD Magazine, Winter 2000

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the World Savings Building on W ilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. H e married Sharon Persico on O ct. 17, 1998, in Malibu, Calif.

•CLASS OF '92• Going the Distance

I coking for a way to stay in shape after gradu– L. ating college 12 years ago, Laura Stuart ran a marathon.Today, she's battling for a berth on the U.S. Olympic Team. "It was crazy," admits Stuart '92 (M.B.A.). "I had just graduated and a friend talked me into running. Neither of us had ever done anything like it before. I don't even remember These days, Stuart keeps meticulous records of how she does. She's a world- class runner and a threat to lock up one of the U.S. marathon team's three spots for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney.Australia. "My training is going well and I'm happy with the way I qualified," says Stuart."All I have to do now is stay healthy." That's no easy feat. Stuart was injured when she tried to qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga. She suffered a muscle pull in her thigh eight weeks before the trials in February 1996, yet still managed to finish in the middle of the pack of 190 entrants. Only the top five finishers (three how I did."

team members and two alternates) are selected. Stuart's strong finish in spite of a serious injury spurred her to further refine her training regimen and give the Olympics another shot. "I just had to get back on the trail again," says Stuart, 34."I have to qualify." Female marathon runners must complete a sanctioned race in less than 2 hours, 50 min– utes to qualify for the Olympic Team Trials. In early 1999, Stuart mapped out her racing season and figured she could qualify at the Cleveland ,..,/ Marathon and push herself without getting hurt again. She qualified with a finish in 2 hours, 49 minutes, but says she can shave as many as 20 seconds off each of the 26.2 miles at the trials. ,,,. 7\

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CLASS CHAIR Estela Lopez

CLASS CORRESPONDENT April (Flores) Goodjohn 7187 Willet C ircle Carlsbad, CA 92009 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Kris (Stuart) Bailey has a son, Conner, 2, and lives in San D iego. ... Mark Campillo and wife Kim (Dominque) Campillo live in San Diego where he works as a service supervisor with Geico Insurance. T hey have a 4-year– old daughter, Ashley Nicole. ... April (Flores) Goodjohn , and husband M ichael live in Carlsbad, Calif. , and have two daughters: Amber Mae, 4, and Ava Lee, 1. ... Roger Grant formed a law firm, Grant, Kaneda & Litt, with two associ– ates in Las Vegas. The firm specializes in plaintiff construc– tion defect law and aviation crash litigation. .. . Erin Oohnson) Greenwald and husband Dave moved a year ago from Manhattan Beach, Calif. , to Westport, Conn. They have two sons, Ryan, 3, and Brennan T homas, 1. Erin studies interior design in New York C ity. ... William Hamby is in his second year with the Tulare County District Attorney's O ffice and lives in Visalia, Calif. He's a deputy district attorney and handles the rural crime unit. He's also a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves and spent two months last summer at the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. , studying to be a judge advocate. He and wife Jana have two children. ... Kelly (England)

When she's not running, Stuart works as a first-grade teacher in the coastal town of Encinitas north of San Diego.The School of Business Administration graduate says she was drawn to teaching just as she was to running. "In both cases, something just clicked," Stuart says. "I was hooked the moment I started running and the moment I started teaching."

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McElwain and husband Doug were married in August 1998. T hey live in Fr. Lauderdale, Fla., where she teaches sixth grade gifted language arcs.... Rick Schultz and wife Helen (Vadnais) Schultz '92 live in Upland, Calif., where he is the head golf pro at Via Verde Co untry Club. They have a son, Logan, 2. ... Scott Slykas and wife Tamala (Bradley) Slykas make their home in Joliet, Ill. He's an attorney with Merrick & Klimek in Chicago and special– izes in security, commodi ty and corporate law. The Slykas have three children: Madeline, 5, Frank, 4, and John, 3.

sales in Pordand, Ore., where he lives with his wife, Joni.... Karim Mikhail plans to return to San Diego after living in Switzerland, Holland, Egypt and Adanta, Ga., where he has been a commodity trader. ... Paul McHale expects to finish his emergency medicine residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix chis June. He and his wife, C indy, recendy celebrated the arrival of their baby girl,

CLASS CHAIR Rick Apel

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Glenn Hickok 5060 La Jolla Blvd., No. 3A La Jolla, CA 92109 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Francisco Bustamante is an operations manager with the Digene Corporation in Beltsville, Md. H e reporcs that he is "enjoy– ing the East coast, but will even– tually be back to the West coast. " ... Robert Jackson is the presi– dent and chairman of Kids Day, a charity chat cakes mentally and physically disabled children fish– ing. Robert works in fin ancial

Madison Rose. They live in Tempe, Ariz. ... Janelle

(Gerhardt) Tournier and her husband, Fred, have two sons, Willy, 3, and Nathan, 1, and live in Las Vegas, Nev.

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