USD Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997

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1994 CLASS CHAIR: Tom Vertetis

University High School. ... Leslie Minehan and her fiance, Jason Cox, recently bought a house in Minneapolis. Leslie is senior national accounts underwriter with Liberty Mutual Group.... Marine 1st Lt. Brendan Mulvaney recently completed his first solo flight in a training program at NAS Whiting Field in Milton, Fla.... Patty O'Connor writes: "Trying to keep that fine balance between work and play." She is an advertising account executive with TMP Worldwide in Los Angeles. ... Tammy Otero recently moved to Fort Lauder– dale, Fla., for a job as area marketing manager with Southwest Airlines. ... Marine 1st Lt. Sean Riggs received his pilot's wings in May 1996 and is now stationed in Hawaii. He and his wife, Bridget, live in Kailua.... Yok Sey lives in San Diego and is a marketing repre– sentative for Community Health Group. ... Noelle Starek earned a law degree from Washington and Lee School of Law and is now an associate attorney at Shuman, Annand & Poe in Charleston, W.Va. ... Susan Torrey spent four months traveling in Europe last summer. She's now settled in Portland, Ore., working as an account coordinator at Waggener Edstrom Public Relations Specialists. ... Garrell Tripp spent the summer surfing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He started an M.B.A. program at the University of Texas, Austin, last fall.... Kelly Whitton writes: "After grad– uating, I packed my bags and moved to Washington, D.C., where I interned at the Kennedy Center before starting my present job in government relations representing uni– versities, cities and agricultural interests in Congress." ... Gretchen Wida began working last fall as an associate attorney with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles. ... Fredrik Wiklund is an antiviral specialist with Gilead Sciences. He works in Orange County and Colorado marketing products for patients with AIDS.... Mall Young is in his third year of law school at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Daniel Kunkel (J.D.) works as a judicial clerk for Justice Paula Nakayama of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. He and his wife, Maggie, live in Honolulu.... lireldum McNeely (D.N.Sc.) is dean of the St. Mark's-Westminster School of Nursing in Salt Lake City. Gretchen is a spe– cialist in family-child nursing and has been listed in Who's Who in American Nursing for 10 years.

... Ensign Kyle Leese is a Navy pilot and lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, with his wife, Linda (Hamdan] Leese '93. ... Patrick Lynch recently moved home to Burlington, Wis., to work in his family business, Lynch Motors. ... Chris Marino works for Canon in Los Angeles and lives in North Hollywood. ... Jenny Martin is attending physical therapy school in the Nether– lands.... Krista Mathewson is a marketing analyst at Stanley Mail Media in Phoenix. ... Thomas Melito has been teaching fifth grade for three years in Lutherville, Md. ... Beth Mitchell recently landed a position as interna– tional sales coordinator for Rodel Inc. serving their Asian market.... Scott Pearlman lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif., where he works and "plays on weekends." Scott is a pharmaceuti– cal consultant at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. ... Susan Pilard is graduating in May from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a master's degree in library science. She hopes to find a job in the Southeast. ... Mark SceUo reports that he travels frequently with his job as regional sales associate for Ames Taping Tools. He lives in Bellevue, Wash.... Jill Shaver writes: "After playing basketball for Athletes in Action, a couple of friends and I decided to start our own Christian sports ministry. We travel around the country and world putting on basketball camps, clinics and speaking engagements in which we share the truth of Jesus Christ." ... Michael Shultz is serving aboard the USS Buffalo, a fast attack nuclear submarine. He is stationed in Hawaii.... Lisa (Upson] Slone and her husband, Charles Slone '95, moved to the Washington, D .C., area when Charles accepted a position with a public relations firm. Lisa telecommutes in her work as project manager for Chariot Software Group in San Diego. ... Brian Tompkins recently moved to Sunnyvale, Calif., and accepted a position as sales administration manager at Ultratech Stepper, a semiconductor

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: Lauren Riaski 5401 Nassau Circle East Englewood, CO 80110

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Valerie Allisha graduated from C.S.U. Sacra– mento with a master's degree in government and is working with the California School Boards Association, where she lobbies for more funding of public schools.... Brianne Blum recently finished two years as a volun– teer on the Pine Ridge Reservation, then relo– cated to the Bay area. She teaches math at a private all-girl high school. ... Thomas Brosnan is a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch in Santa Ana, Calif.... Caryn Capozza works at Qualcomm in San Diego. ... Monica Daley is field operations manager for her family's con– struction business, Daley Corp., in San Diego. ... Vincent DeTum is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the University of Nevada, Reno. He and his wife, Molly [Welp) DeTum '95, live in Reno.... Donna DiMallio attends the Cali– fornia School of Professional Psychology and is working toward an industrial-organizational Ph.D. She lives in La Jolla, Calif.... Liz Dowling lives in San Francisco and works for The Men's Wearhouse as employee relations representative. ... Kristin Engstrand attends the University of Washington where she is earning a master's degree in communications. She plans to earn a Ph.D. and teach at the university level.... 1st Lt. Daniel Furleigh and his wife, Trace, recently moved to Las Vegas, where Daniel is learning about air traffic control in the Air Force.... Ryan liarcia lives in Riverside, Calif., where he is the residence life coordinator for campus apartments and community living at U .C. Riverside.... Jennifer Herman bought her first home in Salt Lake City and started graduate school in the fall. She is studying for a master's degree in business administration and health services administration.... Katy Hough will graduate with a master's degree in social work in May.... Chris Jester enjoyed a trip to Cancun, Mexico, after being named the No. 2 sales representative at Frontier Communications. He lives in San Diego. ... Suzanne Khamhala (M.S.N. '96) is a family nurse practitioner at the Jacumba (Calif.) Mountain Health Center. ... Keith Koszula is in his second year of a master's program in health administration. He lives in Mesa, Ariz.

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