JULIE KINGSTON (B.A.) has a successful Web site business in Los Angeles. No marriages, no kids and very happy being single, she says. “Anyone who wants to say ‘Hi’ please get my e-mail address from USD.”

CATHY (PERKINS) MORRIS (B.A.) gave birth to her son, Michael, in August 2007. He has a big sister, Rachel Kate, who is 4 years old. Cathy joined Countrywide Insurance Services as vice president of district sales in April 2008.

SUZANNE PURNELL (M.Ed.) got married on Aug. 11, 2008.

KRISTINA (BENTSON) RAY (B.A.) was appointed communications manager for the City of Carlsbad, on Nov. 17, 2008. Her primary responsibilities include overseeing the city’s comprehensive communications program. Ray has more than 20 years’ experience in designing and implementing communication programs at the local, state and national level.

FREDERICK SCHULTZ (B.A.),his wife, Helen ’91, and their 11-year-old son Logan recently moved back to California after living in Colorado for five years. Frederick is general manager for a private country club outside of Modesto, Calif., and still enjoys being involved with the sport of golf.

KENNETH POLLOCK (J.D.) was elected as a district court judge in the 8th Judicial District of Nevada. He began his term in office in January 2009.

KARLA CLEARY (B.A.) gave birth to a girl, Ava Michelle Cleary, on June 20, 2008.

GREGORY FELTON (MBA) moved to Lake Tahoe in 2004 and loves it. Gregory and his wife, Kim, have three sons, ages 15, 14 and 10. “All hours are filled, but not with the standard American fare of TV and fast food,” he says. “We fly, sail, actively participate in search and rescue patrol at Heavenly Ski Resort, etc. We are one big, happy family.”

GINA GUIDI-BILLIGMEIER (B.A.) lives in Linden, Calif., with her husband, Mike, and daughters Sofie and Sydney. Gina is an elementary school teacher and helps her husband farm their ranch.

WENDY HIMES (B.A.) moved from Tyler, Texas, to Parker, Colo., two years ago. Wendy is a stay-at-home mom to three boys, Liam (7), Evan (4) and Connor (8 months), but works out of the house on weekends.

DAVID MULLEN (M.A.) and his wife, Linda (Johansen) ’92, recently moved to Omaha, Neb., to be closer to her family. They have one son, Frankie (8), and two daughters, Maggie (7) and Mary (5). Linda works part time as a therapist for Capstone Behavioral Health. Their children attend the local Catholic school.

JASON ROMERO (BBA) has three children — Sierra (8), Sage (7) and Sofia (2) — and has been living in Puerto Rico for “five wonderful years.” Jason works for General Electric as a general manager for a consumer finance business. He has been running in marathons and recently began triathlons. “Life has been very good,” Jason says. “Best to all Toreros!”

DAVID SMITH (BBA) and his wife, Sandi, celebrated their third wedding anniversary in September 2008. They have two children — son Jamison (2) and daughter Andrea, born in July 2008 — and the family lives a suburb of St. Paul in Minnesota.

LARA (SMITH) BLAIR (B.A.) and her husband, Dave, and two daughters moved back to Washington state after living in New York for three years. Lara owns a fine art portrait studio in Camas, Wash. Lara and Dave ran in the Phoenix Marathon, their fifth, in January 2009.

GABRIELLE FREEMAN (B.A., M.A. ’01) and her husband, David, welcomed their second child, Cyrus David, on Oct. 2, 2008. Big sister Aurora is enjoying her new playmate. Gabrielle is teaching classes at East Carolina University and online for North Carolina Virtual Public Schools.

CATHY HAMMOU (MBA) still works for Schlumberger in Houston, recently moving from global IT strategic sourcing manager to process and business systems manager. In her new position, she is in charge of a global team that is responsible for IT applications supporting Schlumberger’s supply-chain organization.

KELLI (KOENIG) HORNER (BBA) launched a boutique marketing and public relations firm, Zebra Partners, in Seattle in January 2009. Kelli went to work at Nintendo in 2000 and was with the marketing team, where she led hundreds of product launches, including the successful launch of Wii. She and two Nintendo executives left to launch Zebra Partners “with the goal of bringing some of our unique marketing principles to life for other brands.” One of the company’s initial clients is San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, a leader in the algae-based fuel industry. “It was hard for me to leave San Diego, but having Sapphire Energy as a client not only hits a personal passion I have for green alternatives and forward-thinking solutions for the environment, but it also gets me back to my roots in San Diego,” she says.

TRACY PATTON (B.A.) lives in Alexandria, Va., where her husband, Jeff, works for the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon. Tracy is a stay-at-home mother for Kate, who was born Aug. 10, 2008, and 21-month-old Jack.

JOANNE ZIPAY (MFA) is the artistic director and producer of the Judith Shakespeare Company NYC, as well as a teacher at Pace University in Lower Manhattan. In 2008 she directed Elizabeth Rex for Nicu’s Spoon Theatre Company, which moved to off-Broadway in August. Joanne also teaches annually at Collin College in Plano, Texas, where she recently directed Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors.

ELIZABETH (GANSE) CACCIARONI (B.A.) returned to the Bay Area after teaching second grade in Venezuela. Upon her return, Elizabeth met and married Steven Cacciaroni. The couple celebrated their third wedding anniversary in 2008. Elizabeth teaches third grade in San Jose. Besides teaching, Elizabeth loves being outdoors, running and walking. She completed her 12th half-marathon in October 2008.

LCDR. DANIEL ETTLICH (B.A.) served a seven-month individual augmentee deployment in Baghdad in fall 2008 as a naval officer.

CATHY GONZALES (B.Acc.) has been promoted to partner at KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory firm. Gonzales, who has been with KPMG since 1996, provides advisory services to clients in the San Diego area. She lives in Carlsbad with her family.

JE’NELLE SMITH PASQUAN (B.A.) gave birth to her second child, Adalei, in 2007. “Now that we have two little girls, they keep us on our toes,” she writes. A retailer at the Westfarms Mall in Connecticut picked up Je’Nelle’s jewelry line. “Between making jewelry, my contract work in the insurance industry and my family, I am a very busy and happy person.”

SHARMAN (LUTZ) RICE (B.A.) and her husband, Jeff, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Jane, on August 29, 2007. She joins big brother Thomas, 4. Sharman is enjoying her time as a stay-at-home mom.

MEGHAN SELWAY (B.A.) left USD to pursue a teaching credential in Northern California and, after completion, moved to Manhattan and worked for a learning center. Meghan transitioned into public relations. After three years in New York, she moved back to San Francisco. After the dot-com crash, Meghan returned to teaching high school. She teaches at Miramonte High School in Moraga, Calif., does consulting curriculum and coaching work for the University of California, Berkeley, History Social Science Project and lives in San Francisco.

LEE SPANNHAKE (B.A.) has two kids, ages 4 and 7, and works full time as a lead physical therapist for a home health agency. She and her husband, William, will be celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary this summer.

ERIC TORYKIAN (BBA) married Juliet Brace on April 26, 2008, at Founders Chapel. The reception was at the Hotel del Coronado. Eric is the West Coast sales representative for American Defense Systems. Juliet is the director of marketing for FMT Consultants in Carlsbad. The couple lives in Del Mar Highlands.

RICHARD BRUECKNER JR. (B.A., J.D. ’07) is prosecuting gang and gun crimes. He surfs often and is enjoying life in Ocean City, Md., where he lives on the beach. Richard surfed in Costa Rica in the winter. “I love visiting San Diego and USD every August,” Richard says.

MAJ. JEFF CHAMBERLAIN (B.A.) returned from his third deployment with the Army; he has 18 years of military service to his credit. He has been reuniting with family and friends since his return. In January 2009, he was promoted to general manager of Equity Thru Energy. He joined the energy management firm in 2008 as director of sales with nine years of previous experience in sales and marketing for Nabisco Biscuit Co. and Scholastic.

JENNIFER GERBASI (J.D.) has earned two more degrees — Environmental Management at Cornell University and an LL.M. in Advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center — since obtaining her law degree from USD. Jennifer has been published in several journals on international trade, water and public services. She now heads up hurricane recovery efforts in Louisiana in the Planning and Zoning Department. Most important to her is her daughter, Sophia Pearl Gerbasi Roberts. “My husband, baby and I evacuated for our first hurricane in September 2008. The excitement never ends. Be well.”

ADRIA PENNER CLINE (B.A.) married Daniel Penner Cline on May 31, 2008, in an outdoor garden wedding in Chico, Calif.

LAUREN POLEK (B.A.) stays busy with boating and living just north of Charlotte, N.C. She and her husband have a son, John (4), and daughter, Stephanie (2).

KIMBERLY BENEVIDES (B.A.) and her husband, Manny, celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Nov. 26. “No children yet,” Kimberly writes, “just two cats, Mason and Rambo.” Manny is a lineman for AT&T, and Kimberly works with her father as a loan officer for a mortgage broker in Sacramento. In their free time, they love to travel and ride their mountain bikes around Folsom Lake near their Roseville, Calif., home. “To the Class of ’96, I would like to say, ‘Hi,’ and hope each of you are doing well!”

NEAL CLEMENS (B.A.) is serving in the U.S. Air Force as a Catholic chaplain. He was deployed to Iraq for six months.

LCDR. JOAQUIN CORREIA (B.A.) moved to Sicily, Italy, to serve as the executive officer of the communications station for the U.S. Navy.

SEAN FLANNERY (BBA) and his wife, Jodie ’96, had their first son, Jack Quinlin, on May 20, 2007.

DAVID MULLINS (B.A.) earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Fiction and North Dakota Quarterly and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. David has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and he recently completed a collection of short stories titled Long To Love You. David lives in Omaha, Neb., with his wife and two children. He is a resident assistant professor of creative writing at Creighton University.

JENNIFER NAKORCHEVSKY (B.A.) gave birth to a son, Ivan Aleksey, on July 2, 2008. He joins his big sister, Olivia Ruth, who was born Dec. 31, 2005.

ELIZABETH SKANE (J.D.) has merged her own law firm with a small Los Angeles-based firm so she can spend more time at home with her 2-year-old daughter, Lindsay. In October 2005, Elizabeth formed Jampol, Zimet, Skane and Wilcox. “The practice has done well, and we now have expanded from Los Angeles and San Diego into San Francisco and Las Vegas,” says Elizabeth, noting that she was admitted to the bar in Nevada in 1999.

CHRISTOPHER SMITH (B.A.) and his wife, Nicole, welcomed the birth of their first child, Delaney Ruth, on July 22, 2008.

SARAH THOMPSON (B.A.) lives in south Orange County with her husband and three children. Sarah is working on a master’s degree in education at night while staying home with her children during the day.

NATALIE (McDONALD) HAYES (BBA) and David Hayes were married in the Oregon high desert on Sept. 13, 2008. The wedding party included USD alumni Nicole Button, Kerry (Degenhardt) Forsell, Katie (Sirek) Smith and Megan (McAuliffe) Emery.

CARLOS MARTINEZ (B.A.) married Sahlee Melad in 2003. They have a 4-year-old daughter, Olivia Christine. Carlos worked for the San Diego Padres baseball organization for nine years until 2005. He served as director for Team Mexico during the 2006 World Baseball Classic. He earned an M.A. in Asian Studies from San Diego State University in 2001 and is a 3L at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Carlos lives in Chula Vista.

ELIA PIROZZI (LL.M.) is a superior court judge in the county of San Bernardino, Calif. He presides over criminal and civil matters including misdemeanor and felony arraignments, pre-trial conferences, probation modifications and violations, criminal motions, criminal trials, sentencing and unlawful detainer. Prior to becoming a judge, he practiced in the areas of land use, real estate and business law as an attorney in the Inland Empire. Elia has had articles published by the Southwestern University Law Review and the University of Oregon Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. He and his wife reside in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

JEANNE TANNONE (B.A.) opened her own boutique, specializing in bikinis, lingerie and exotic dancewear. She also has her own label, Pretty Kitty, offering custom bikinis and clothing.

CHERYL VERBER (M.A.) and Pamela Alexandra were legally married at Universal Spirit Center in San Diego on June 28, 2008. They live with their furry companions in San Diego, where Pam works as a real estate broker. They travel frequently to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where they own several vacation condos. Cheryl rents these condos and those of other owners through her business, www.veryvallarta.com. Pam and Cheryl also share a psychotherapy practice in San Diego.

CHRISTINA COVINGTON (BSN, MSN ’00) gave birth to a fourth child, Catherine, in July 2008.

DAN DUFRESNE (B.A.) married Elise McPherson of Sandpoint, Idaho, on Oct. 4, 2008, at Founders Chapel. Dan is in-house counsel and director of government relations for Epsilon Systems Solutions, a defense contractor headquartered in San Diego.

RNEST GOVEA (B.A.) deployed to Iraq with the 13th Marine Expeditionary unit in 2007 and was promoted to the rank of major. Ernest is the unit’s logistics officer. He was deployed again in January 2009. Before that, Ernest and his family moved to San Clemente, Calif.

EVAN HLAVACEK (B.A.) and his wife, Jennifer ’99, relocated to Prescott, Ariz., so Jennifer could start a full-time teaching job at Yavapai College. Their daughter, Ava, is 3 and “looks a lot like her Daddy,” Evan writes.

MICHELE (FREIDHOFF) SEIBOLD (B.A.) married Brian Seibold on July 21, 2007.

ECHRISTINA SPEVAK (B.A.) earned a doctorate from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Ore., in 2006. Christina then accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of California, San Francisco’s Cancer Research Institute. She is a post-doctoral scholar and research associate in a cancer research lab at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

MICHELLE (ABARIENTOS) TILLMAN (BBA, M.A. ’06) recently celebrated her ninth wedding anniversary to Percy Tillman. Their daughter, Janea, is in kindergarten in San Diego.

LAURA WOMBOLT (B.A.) gave birth to her third child, Isabella Kate, on March 6, 2008.

CYNTHIA HARF (LL.M.) was named a San Diego County Top Attorney 2008 in the area of family law. Cynthia has been associated with the law office of Myra Chack Fleischer since mid-2007. Cynthia, her husband, David Kaiden, and their two boys, Tanner Reese (4) and Cooper Dane (2), welcomed a baby girl into the family, Montgomery “Emmy” Claire Kaiden on Jan. 31, 2008.

JORDAN HOPCHIK (MSN) became the first nurse practitioner in the state of Pennsylvania to be credentialed to perform colonoscopy independently in 2008.

CLAIRE PATIN (B.A., M.Ed.) married Frank Falcone III on Feb. 9, 2008, at USD’s Founders Chapel. Frank is a 2008 graduate of San Diego State University, earning a Master of Science in mechanical engineering. Claire and Frank moved to the Chicagoland area this past summer for Frank to pursue employment at Argonne National Laboratories. Claire is substitute teaching as her California teaching credential is being transferred to an Illinois certificate. She plans to pursue a permanent teaching position in 2009. The couple recently adopted Ginger, a 4 ½-month-old pointer mix, “who is a lovely addition to our home,” Claire says.

BRIAN RICHARDSON (B.A.) and his wife, Daniella, welcomed the birth of their first child, Chelsea Diane Richardson, on Jan. 25, 2008. The family has relocated to upstate New York to be closer to family. Brian continues to work as an associate attorney for Geico Insurance.

BRYAN WEATHERUP (BBA) and his wife, Elizabeth ’01, moved with daughter Evelyn and son Carter to Germany to work for the U.S. State Department in Berlin at the U.S. Embassy at Brandenburg Gate. The new job involves flying for the German Navy from its naval air base in the small city of Nordholz, Germany. Evelyn attends the local German kindergarten, and Carter is expected to start there later this year.

MOLLIE WOLF (B.A.) loves living in Brazil and working for John Deere. “I love reading all about USD happenings in the USD Magazine!”