Class Notes

1960
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Simone (Gennette) Ostrander continues to teach writing at Reedley College in Reedley, Calif., and is helping husband Gary in a Habitat for Humanity project. In addition, she spends time painting, landscaping, tiling floors and counters, and still acts in plays. She reports she has heard from several classmates, including Barbara (Bassarab) Morette '60, and Mary Jo Rink, who attended USD in 1960.

1961
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
M. Josephine Breen is a pastoral associate at St. Brigid Church in San Diego. She coordinates the RCIA process, small church communities and ministry of consolation programs.

1962
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Richard Gray is serving as a State Department foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. He previously served a two-year stint as an administrative officer in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde, West Africa. He and wife Marli moved to Africa after spending 27 years in Los Angeles and raising three children.

1963
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Art Wical and wife Carol took an exciting and educational cruise to Russia in May 2002, traveling inland rivers from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

1964
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Tom Leonard recently celebrated his second retirement, this time from United Airlines, where he served as a B-747 pilot. Earlier he had retired from the Navy after a 30-year aviation career. He and wife Beverly live in the San Diego area, where he continues to do volunteer work with the Tailhook Association and the Tailhook Educational Foundation. ... Anita Peterson reports that the highlight of 2002 was attending the Sacred Heart conference in Sydney, Australia. Peterson wishes a happy birthday to her classmates, many of whom, like her, turn 60 this year.

1965
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Lynn (Conrad) Hollett and husband Grant will retire to North Carolina
in March 2003. The couple have five grandsons who range in age from nine
months to seven years. ... Mary (Williams) Schaller and husband Marty
welcomed their first granddaughter, Shelby Washburne Williams, in July 2002. Mary is working on her ninth full-length historical novel for publisher Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. The novel, Beloved Enemy, will be published in 2004. The Library of Virginia previously had nominated Schaller's Civil War nonfiction memoir, Papa Was a Boy in Gray, for its 2002 Best Nonfiction Award. Mary also is writing the biography of a Confederate colonel who is an ancestor of her husband. The work tentatively is titled Quest for Glory. Mary and Marty continue to live in Burke, Va.

1966
GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI
Vern D. Schooley (J.D.) was elected Counselor of the Ball/Hunt American Inn of Court. He continues his practice as managing partner in the Long Beach, Calif., office of the Fulwider Patton law firm, specializing in patent and trademark matters.

1968
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Connie (Salovich) Cutler is in her 15th year at Temecula Valley High
School, where she is chair of the English department and teaches advanced placement English. In 2001, she was selected Riverside County Teacher of the Year. Her husband of 32 years, John, practices ophthalmology in Fallbrook, Calif. ... Charles Geist retired after 25 years at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and now is special assistant to the chancellor at the St. Thomas campus of the University of the Virgin Islands.

1972
GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI
Judge Susan Finlay (J.D.) sits in the Central Division of the San Diego Superior Court, hearing domestic violence cases. She retired from the bench in 2000 and worked for the National Drug Court Institute as an education consultant, prior to accepting the assignment. ... Donald Pogoloff (J.D.) received a master's of public health degree from the University of Pittsburgh after law school. After working with a psychiatric health care provider in Fresno, and writing legislation regarding community mental health centers, he returned to academia and is a professor of public health at California State University, Fresno.

1974
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Lance Werner is retiring after a 25-year career with the psychiatry department in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He reports that he has been offered a position with Vermont Supportive Living, where he will be working with developmentally disabled children.

1975
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
John Wesley Houston Jr. continues to appear in television and film roles. In addition to a recent role in the television drama "The Practice," he is working on a feature film called "Big Fish" starring his brother-in-law, Robert Guillaume. ... Janet (Schweitzer) LaPlante is a loan officer at GoodCents Mortgage in Phoenix.

1976
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
John Jakubczyk (B.B.A. '81) is president of Arizona Right to Life and treasurer of Ville deMarie Academy. He and wife Petra have 10 children and celebrated 20 years of marriage in January. ... Charles E. Simmons reports that daughter Kalila Simmons received her bachelor of arts degree in political science from Hampton University in May, making them the first father-daughter duo in their family to earn degrees in the same major.

GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI
In September 2000, Dan Bergman (J.D.) accepted a position as vice president of the environmental affairs department at the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport. Previously, he served as environmental health director of San Diego County, deputy director of health services for California's Contra Costa County and president of Pyrite Canyon Group, Inc. He reports that daughters Erica Lewis and Kelli (Bergman) Taylor '96 (J.D.) both are practicing attorneys. ... Tom Grady (J.D.) formed Grady Mediation Services in 2002, and mediates litigated disputes in San Diego... Max A. Hansen (J.D.) practices law in Dillon, Mont. He has been invited to accept election as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is the Montana delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates, serving a second term on its technology and communications committee. ... Sally Ann Zoll (M.Ed., Ed.D. '90) is president and chief operating officer of LearnStar, an education technology provider. She recently addressed 150 attendees of Springboard Enterprises' Bootcamp as a member of a panel focusing on identification of the key elements of a growth business.

1977
GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI
Steve Legomsky (J.D.) recently was commissioned by the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees to author a report on how best to protect refugees who pass through several countries before applying for protection. He is now the Charles Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law at Washington University.

1979
UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Ana (Espana) Espana-Reilly (J.D. '82) is the supervising attorney for the dependency section of the San Diego County Department of the Public Defender. She represents abused and neglected children. She and her husband have three children. ... James L. Hitzelberger, better known at USD as "Birddog" or "Dallas," recently opened the Law Offices of James L. Hitzelberger in Garland, Texas, specializing in personal injury cases.

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