USD Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997

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1990 CLASS CHAIR: Estela Lopez

FERM!iNTING MID AGING T. NK 2 CAPAcrr y 794 GALILONs

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: April (Flores) Goodjohn 926 Agate Street San Diego, CA 92 109

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Marc Cooper is an attorney in Cody, Wyo., and reports he is active with the Republican Party and Lions International. ... J. Daniel Davis graduated from Creighton School of Medicine in May 1996 and began his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah... . Navy Lt. Thomas Davis was des– ignated a mission commander while serving with Sea Control Squadron 21 at the naval air facility in Atsugi, Japan. H e achieved the designation by completing an extensive course of on-the-job training requirements.... Todd Dupey and Rabin (Brawn) Dupey '91 live in Texas, where Todd is general manager for M.J. Designs and Robin owns a crafts gallery. ... Kerrie Fass relocated to Seattle to work in the marketing division of Microsoft Press... . Sarah (Swinney) Geving was a buyer for six years and now is an at-home mom.... Stacey (Gruenewald] Halebsky (M.A. '92) is in her fifth year of teaching special education. She and her husband, Bret, live in Paso Robles, Calif. ... William Hamby is a third-year law student at California Western School of Law and is interning with the San D iego County district attorney's office.. .. Jennifer (Shelly) Hughes and her husband, Daren, recently cel– ebrated their second anniversary. She is a teacher in Redondo Beach, Calif., where the couple recently bought a house.... Erin Humphreys is a first-year graduate student at Colorado State University. ... Thomas Kem and his wife, Deana, live in H awaii, where he is a computer systems manager.... Jennifer (Carter] Ketchum spent a year in Japan teaching English and traveled throughout Asia and Europe for two months. ... Barbara Lynch lives in Tucson, Ariz., and is a reservations agent for American Airlines. ... Sybil (Schlatman] Lynch and her husband, Clinton, just moved to San Jose, Calif., where she works for P olycom.... Karen (Apgar) Sallis works at Apple Computer in Dallas. She was married to her husband, Lance, in March 1996. ... James Steinmeiz and Beth (Kasten) Steinmeiz started a vending and concessions business three years ago in Boulder, Colo., and have a 1-year-old daughter, Nicole.... Hoang Taing attended the 1996 Summer Olympics in

SUCCESS IS BREWING

W hen David O'Grady '91 gradu– ated with an international relations degree, he never imagined he'd use his political background to handle disgruntled restaurant patrons. But as O'Grady, his brother and father struggled through the first Saturday night rush at their new restaurant, he recalls becoming a " true politician." O 'Grady's Brewery and Pub was packed that night. Hundreds of diners were seated in the 12,000-square-foot restaurant, and meals were taking an average of two hours to come out of the kitchen. "It was the worst thing and the best thing that could have happened to us,'' says a reflective O'Grady. As executive vice president and part owner of the brew house, O'Grady works six days a week managing the family busi– ness. It's a job he initially turned down. When the senior O'Grady asked his two sons to join him in a restaurant venture, David politely declined.The USO grad was working in a high-powered Chicago adver– tising firm, directing campaigns for Captain Crunch cereal, Campbell's soup and Old Style beer. He loved it.

A year later, in January 1996, O'Grady decided he'd follow the entrepreneurial spir– it born years earlier as he grew up watching his father run a computer business. O'Grady and his brother spent five months searching for a chef and brewmaster, developing the menu and designing the interior of the pub. The restaurant opened May 13 in Arlington Heights, a Chicago suburb where the O'Grady clan of seven children grew up. O'Grady's marketing instincts led him to dump the original plan for a burger and sandwich joint in favor of steak, ribs, burgers and seafood. "An upscale American grill," he calls it, that serves only its own beer. San Diego restaurant-goers familiar with the two local Karl Strauss microbreweries may find a familiar taste in O'Grady's brew. Karl himself passed on recipes to the ambitious Irishmen. Now nine months into balancing what he calls a very delicate relationship between people and their food, the kinks are worked out and O'Grady is thrilled with owning a business. He's also realistic. "Being in business for yourself makes it much easier to get up in the morning, but much harder to go to sleep at night,'' he says.

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