USD Magazine, Winter 2000

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downtown L.A. for Dow Jones Interactive." ... Mark Spalding is a sales representative with the Gallo Wine Company in Los Angeles. After graduation, he lived in Costa Rica for three months "traveling, refining my Spanish, surfing and working." Peter Koellerer (M.A.) owns a recording studio in Austria, Studio 33, where he produces music. ... Carla (Edwards) Santos (M.A.) works as a coun– selor for San Diego Mesa College and as a CARE coordinator. On July 11, 1998, exactly one year after they met, Carla and hus– band John Santos were wed at the Flamingo Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas.... Lisa Stephens (M.S.N.) works for a medical clinic attached to the U.S . Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan. Her husband, Doug Stephens '97 (M.B.A.), is a commander in the Navy and their daughter Hannah is "growing tall and independent." GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI David Anglikowski recently joined Cassie Communications, a San Diego public relations firm, as a full-time account coordina– tor. He's lived in Bangkok and Singapore... . Kristopher Diulio recently left Norwest Corp., where he was a mortgage loan officer, for a position at San Diego's Marcus & M illichap, where he heads a research department. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Capt. Kenneth Kassner (M.A.) recently reported for duty at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He joined the Marine Corps in 1991. CLASS CHAIR Kristen Jones

•CLASS OF '97• Hey Criminal, Meet the Press

Levey doesn't claim credit for all the arrests, but the cops sure think the Crusader plays an important role in crime prevention. "The reaction from police agencies and the public has been overwhelmingly positive," says the international business major turned publisher, who got the idea for the Crusader from a similar publi– cation in Florida."If the police can't get a lead on a suspect after a few months, we put the information and a picture in the paper and hope something turns up. It's one more way of getting criminals off the street." The eight-page nonprofit paper, distributed for free, is more than just an extension of those wanted posters you see in the post office. Levey publishes safety tips, emergency response checklists, community activity news, and pictures and informa– tion on missing children. She says the best responses came from a two-part series on child molestation and articles on identity theft, which until recently wasn't a crime in Oregon. "I helped lobby for an identity theft bill that just passed the Legislature," says Levey."It's an impor– tant issue, and I want to do as much as I can to show people how it can affect them." Fighting crime seems distant from the corporate job that Levey thought she'd find herself in after graduating, but her business acumen should make the paper a success as well as a community service. "The Crusader has a niche that no other paper has, and it contains information people can't get anyplace else," says Levey, who currently prints about 7,000 copies of each issue. "But the best part is helping victims and stopping criminals from committing more crimes."

M elissa Levey '97 usually doesn't cross paths with the criminals she helps capture. But there's a first time for everything. "The police had a sighting of a fugitive near a local gas station," says Levey, editor and publisher of The Portland/Metro Crusader, a monthly crime awareness newspaper in her hometown of Beaverton, Ore."When I went to the gas station and asked if they would distribute the paper there, the manager got a funny look on his face. Turns out the fugitive pictured in the paper was working at the gas station." Police arrested the wanted woman a short time later, one of 147 fugitives taken into custody since Levey founded the paper two-and-a-half years ago.

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Mary Grace Almandrez works as the director of multicultural services at Western Maryland College in Westminster, Md., where she lives. ... Amanda Jo Beck moved from Boston to San Francisco last year and started working as a public relations specialist in the corporate com– munications department of Robert Half International, Inc. ... Elizabeth Himchak is this year's graduate student represen– tative in history at USD. She's in her second year as a grad student and is a member of the Phi

sequencing plane genomes. ... Peter Thung joined the Navy shortly after graduating and has traveled to Jebel Ali and the United Arab Emirates as an ensign on the USS Chosin.

Alpha Theta National Honor Society.... John Lamey is a law clerk with the Ramsey County Courthouse and a student at William Mitchell School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. ... Nicole Lamperis is a first grade teacher in Poway, Calif.... Angelina Marquez just started teaching fourth grade at Chollas Elemen– tary in San Diego and lives in Mission Valley.... Preston Panza is a certified systems and nerwork engineer/ technician at IT Professional in Lake Forest, Calif. ... Jerry Sauer reports he's "having a fun time working in

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Elizabeth Himchak 11334 Capilla Road San Diego, CA 92127 e-mail: ehimchak@acusd.edu

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