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Mark Hucklebridge has been hired as the new director of marketing and communications by the Easter Seals Central California. A native Californian and 24-year-resident of Santa Cruz County, Hucklebridge is working to raise awareness and generate community support for Easter Seals’ programs for children and adults with disabilities.
James E. Newby EdD has retired after a 25-year career at Howard University. Before going to Howard, he taught at Cal State Long Beach, Los Angeles Harbor College, El Camino College and Pepperdine University. Newby lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., with his wife, Patricia (Evans) Newby, who is superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools.
Lynn Swann a 1973 consensus All-American flanker and member of USC’s 1972 national championship football team, was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was already a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Swann played nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and appeared in Super Bowls IX, X, XIII and XIV, earning Most Valuable Player honors in Super Bowl X. He is among eight former USC players and three ex-Trojan assistant coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Russell Gray EdD, aka Cathal Liam, has authored his first novel, Consumed in Freedom’s Flame: A Novel of Ireland’s Struggle for Freedom 1916-1921, published by St. Padraic Press. Now in its second printing, the book is available at bookstores or via all usual Internet .coms.
Bob Hogue was elected State Senator in the state of Hawaii, representing Kailua and Kaneohe on the island of Oahu. Hogue is a long-time television sportscaster in Hawaii, California, Iowa and Montana. In his spare time, he continues to write a weekly column for MidWeek Magazine and does basketball play-by-play for Hawaii Pacific University. He and his wife, Elaine, have four children and live in Kailua.
Charles Woodside MS has been elected national vice president for professional development – government contracting sector of the National Contract Management Association. His election denotes recognition among peers of professional excellence, outstanding managerial capability, and powerful commitment to the ideals of continuing personal and professional development.
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Barbara “BJ” Gallagher Hateley’s latest book is Witty Words from Wise Women: Quips, Quotes and Comebacks, a book of humor, inspiration and practical advice by women, for women, published by Andrews McMeel. Hateley is a keynote speaker, seminar leader and president of her own human resources training company, Peacock Productions. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Robert J. Haber has been appointed one of 18 new managing directors of Barclays Global Investor and heads the Global Sales and Service Group, which he established three years ago. In this role he leads the coordination of activities between BGI’s offices in San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Montreal, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
Betsy A. McLane MA, PhD ’82, has been named executive director of the Backyard National Children’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. She was previously executive director of the International Documentary Association from 1992 to 2000 and retains the title of director emeritus of that organization. McLane has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival and the AFI Sony Video Awards, and is founder of DOCtober, an international documentary film festival now in its fifth year.
Richard A. (Rick) Palmer MBA ’79 was promoted to vice president-finance of the Automobile Club of Southern California. He previously served as vice president and controller of the Auto Club. Prior to joining the Auto Club, Palmer was CFO of Western Financial Bank in Irvine and spent almost 10 years with First Interstate Bank in both California and Arizona. He and his wife Ann, daughter Lindsay and son Jeff live in Dana Point.
Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. JD JD '80 was elected president, chief operating officer and vice chairman of Allbritton Communications Company in Washington, D.C. He joined the company in 1995 after serving as Chief of Staff to former President Ronald Reagan and Assistant to the President in the White House. Ryan also serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation and is a director of Riggs Bank N.A., where he serves as chairman of its International Committee.
John Sexton MBA is president and CEO of the Sexton Companies in Orange County, which provide leasing for a wide range of commercial equipment, including computer equipment, software as well as implementation and customization costs, specializing in servicing small to mid-sized businesses. He recently wrote an article for Business Digest on CEO coaching by TEC (The Executive Committee).
Glenn A. Sonnenberg JD ’80 has been named president of Legg Mason Real Estate Investors Inc., the real estate investment management subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc., a financial services holding company. He will continue his business of high yield real estate and real estate debt investing on behalf of the firm and third party clients. A colleague of Sonnenberg’s, Brian C. Buchhagen ’92, has been named vice president of the subsidiary.
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Steven E. Marcussen has been promoted to executive vice president of Cushman Reality Corp., an internationally recognized real estate brokerage and advisory firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Recently, he was honored as the 2001 Office Tenant Broker of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal’s RE Awards.
Roxene Rockwell had a solo exhibit, “Landscape Dreams,” of her surreal collages and assemblages at Louis Stern Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Her work will be shown this fall in a group exhibition, “Dreamscapes,” at Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
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David Blair was hired to fill the newly created position of senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ace World Wide, a moving and storage company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis.
Peggy Kravitz MS is a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at Santa Monica College. She serves as a counselor at the International Education Center, teaches Introduction to Higher Education and is co-chair of cyber-counseling services for distance education students.
Carey W. Terasaki has been named assistant chief counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration in its Europe, Africa and Middle East area office in Brussels, Belgium. His promotion follows several years of service in the FAA’s Office of Chief Counsel in Washington, D.C.
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Michele Anthony JD was one of 25 U.S. businesswomen honored by NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund at “Aiming High: A Celebration of the Power of Wo-men,” marking NOW Legal Defense’s 30th anniversary. She is executive vice president of Sony Music Entertainment and is involved with the management, operation and administration of all the company’s divisions. All of the event’s honorees are women at the highest levels of entrepreneurship and corporate leadership.
Sally A. Brenner EdD has retired after 27 years of service as professor of allied health and medical assisting at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif. The past president of EDUCARE-North, and a retired Army National Guard Colonel, Brenner held the position of first State Chief Nurse for the California National Guard, along with other administration positions. She and husband Stanley ’51, MS ’72, will relocate to Rio Vista, Calif.
Peter Kairoff MM, DMA ’85, has released a second CD recording, on Albany Records, of piano the music of turn-of-the-century American composer Horatio Parker. Professor of music at Wake Forest University, Kairoff is also director of that university’s campus in Venice, Italy, where he and his family spend several months each year.
John Meyer MPA has been appointed vice chancellor of resource management and planning at UC Davis. He previously served for more than nine years as city manager for the city of Davis.
George Harold Waxter completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and passed the American Board of Internal Medicine board certification exam in internal medicine. He currently works as a locum tenens and has recently been to Arizona, Lake Tahoe, Oregon and the Finger Lakes.
Sergio Zeballos has been promoted to associate at Los Angeles-based Frederick Fisher & Partners Architects, where he has served as senior project manager for the past 2-1/2 years. In his new position he will oversee the development of projects as well as assist in marketing and business development.
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Mark Lindquist has written his third novel, Never Mind Nirvana, which came out in paperback last May and is published by Random House/Villard. Reviews and other information are available online (www. marklindquist.net).
Carlos Noriega completed his second space flight on STS-97, where he conducted three space walks supporting the construction of the International Space Station (ISS). He flew a shirt for the USC NROTC unit and “Fight On” was played by Mission Control as the wakeup music on the morning of his second space walk. Since the flight, Noriega has been named a commander of a future ISS long-duration mission, commanding a joint U.S.-Russian crew.
Nancy C. Unger MA, PhD ’85, was selected to present the William L. Davis, S.J., Annual Lecture at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. She is only the second alumnae to be selected for this event, which highlights outstanding historians.
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Craig C. Benell has been nominated as a first vice president at Merrill Lynch. He has been at the firm since 1984 and is located in the Century City office. Benell lives with his wife, Marion (Boyd) ’86, and their two children in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Brian D. Dailey MA ’84, PhD ’87, has been elected to the grade of Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is vice president, Washington Operations, of Lockheed Martin Corp. Selection of AIAA Fellows is limited to distinguished individuals demonstrating strong leadership potential in the field
of aerospace.
Peter C. Halt was appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, an operating unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment which oversees the studio’s digital production and online assets.
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Hormazd P. Dalal is the president of Castellan Inc. computer network consulting firm and value-added retailer. Castellan is a Microsoft Certified Partner and Novell Gold Partner, providing IT services to professional service firms, including several prominent law firms in the entertainment and music industry in the Los Angeles area. Dalal and his wife, Armita, have three children and live in Encino. He can be
contacted at <Hormazd@castellan.net> or through the company’s Web site (www. castellan.net).
Mark R. Henschke PharmD was designated a Certified Physician Executive by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management. Henschke is associate physician of Martin’s Point Health Care in New Hampshire. He was awarded the status for his educational achievements, demonstrated stature as a physician and experience in the field of medical management.
Maurice Sylvan Kane, Jr. practices law in downtown Los Angeles, serving as a judge pro tem, arbitrating civil disputes and teaching small claims and U.S. citizenship preparation classes, among other subjects. Married with a daughter and living in Covina, Kane is the chairman of the Covina Cultural Arts Advisory Commission, vice president of the Covina Library Board of Trustees and co-chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Covina Gang & Graffiti Task Force. He created and organized the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration and Children’s Literary Festival and works as a venue coordinator and master of ceremonies with Bluesapalooza, Covina’s blues festival.
Roy Myose PhD ’91 was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Limerick in Ireland last spring and summer. He is an associate professor of aerospace engineering at Wichita State University in Kansas, where he lives with his wife, Chiyoko, and their two children.
Mark Slavkin MA ’86 has been appointed vice president for education at Los Angeles’ Music Center. The center’s Education Division is one of the nation’s largest arts education programs, currently serving 1 million students and teachers at 15,000 events in more than 250 communities each year. He was previously director of public engagement, advocacy and communications for the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project, the largest privately funded school reform effort in Los Angeles County.
Steven Travers, previously a columnist for StreetZebra Magazine and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the new sports columnist of the San Francisco Examiner. He can be reached at <stravers@sfexaminer.com> or <stwrites@aol.com>.
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Trudi J. Lesser JD has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP as a senior associate, specializing in business and real estate transactions. She currently serves as the general counsel for Commercial Real Estate Women–LA and serves on the steering committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Real Estate Finance Subsection.
Christine E. Stancill was sworn in as an Immigration Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in Pasadena, Calif. She worked as an attorney at the law office of Enrique Arevalo in South Pasadena from 1992 to 2000.
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Toy Gregory, formerly senior vice president and director of asset management with C.N.A. Enterprises Inc. in Los Angeles, has formed a new, independent company known as GregoryAdvisors, LLC. Based in Santa Monica, it offers income property brokerage, acquisition due diligence and asset management services to office, retail and industrial property investors and occupants in 11 western states.
Charles McCool is founder and owner of Hawk Ridge Press. He is also the author of Winning the Airfare Game, the insider’s playbook to getting lower airfares. More information is available online (www.LowerAirfares.com).
Kevin J. Woods was promoted from director of product management to vice president of product marketing at TollBridge Technologies, a Santa Clara, Calif., provider of voice-over-broadband solutions to the new generation of carriers. He has been an advisor in the design of numerous large-scale public and private telecommunications networks and in the development of new carrier data services.
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Scott R. Heil has been made a partner at the law firm of Redwine and Sherill in Riverside, Calif. His practice focuses on business law, water district representation, and eminent domain. He and his wife, Amy Hao, recently welcomed the birth of their first child, Rachel Alexis.
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Frank Buckley has been named national correspondent by CNN, to be based in the network’s Los Angeles bureau. He moves to Los Angeles after serving as a general assignment reporter based in CNN’s New York bureau. Since joining CNN in 1999, Buckley has covered several breaking news stories. He reported extensively on the New York Senate race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Rick Lazio, as well as the 2000 presidential election and its aftermath.
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Don Townswick was named portfolio manager of the Aetna Growth and Income Fund at Aeltus Investment Management in Hartford, Conn.
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John W. Tracey MBT ’97 has been admitted into the partnership of Lucas, Murphy & Pindroh, LLP, a Southern California-based certified public accounting and business consulting firm. He is active in various civic and business associations including the USC Marshall School Alumni Association and the Pasadena Rotary Club.
Joan Wines MA, PhD ’92, has been promoted to the rank of full professor of English at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
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Shannon S. Davis Clark has been working for the Boeing Co. as a test director flying on board the F-22 Flying Testbed for the past two years. The F-22 Flying Testbed is a highly modified Boeing 757 used to test F-22 avionics and sensors prior to customer delivery. She has received two Letters of Commendation from the 412th Test Wing Commander and five successive Civilian Performance Awards. Clark is the Secretary of the Seattle Chapter of the Society of Flight Test Engineers and is also a member of the International Test & Evaluation Assn. and Association of Old Crows.
Lance M. Larson has joined Copeland, Lowery & Jacquez, a California-focused bipartisan government relations firm, as a legislative associate. He will be handling Congressional appropriations, specializing in defense, hou-sing, health and energy issues. Previously, he served for 10 years as a senior aide to U.S. Representative Christopher Cox ’73 (R-Calif.).
Bruce Lineker MA is director of institutional development at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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George Chuang MBA was promoted to the post of vice president of registered product finance for Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. He is director of finance and accounting for Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. He resides in La Mirada, Calif., with his wife, Janice.
Debbie McClellan has been promoted to vice president, corporate communications and publicity worldwide, of the Jim Henson Co., a multimedia production company. She oversees the public relations departments in Los Angeles, New York and London.
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Brian C. Buchhagen has been named vice president of Legg Mason Real Estate Investors Inc., the real estate investment management subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc., a financial services holding company. He will continue his business of high yield real estate and real estate debt investing on behalf of the firm and third party clients. A colleague of Buchhagen’s, Glenn A. Sonnenberg ’77, JD ’80, has been named president of the subsidiary.
Donald W. Pedersen MPA was sworn in as Chief of Police of the Signal Hill (Calif.) Police Department.
Kevin A. Stephens MBA has been named senior vice president of marketing at Choice One Communications, an integrated communications provider offering tele-communications services to small and medium-sized businesses in the Northeast. He spent the last 16 years with Xerox in progressively responsible positions in marketing and sales and was responsible for implementing the first e-commerce web site for equipment sales at Xerox. Stephens lives in Fairport, N.Y., with the wife, Pamela, and their children, Kevin Jr., Julian and Savannah.
Paul Weiland has joined the Policy, Legislation and Special Litigation Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as an attorney-advisor. He was previously an associate in the environmental department at Goodwin Proctor LLP in Boston, Mass. Weiland recently was awarded the Best Book Award for his book, Managing for the Environment, by the Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration of the American Society for Public Administration.
Jay D. Wylie, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is on a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean and Arabian Gulf, assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold, homeported in San Diego. During the deployment, his ship will defend U.S. policy and support international interests in the Middle East.
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Christopher J. Gadomsk has completed his four years of medical training at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, Calif., and has received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. While attending Western University, he was the recipient of the Robert E. Corey Memorial Scholarship, which was based on academic standing and community involvement. Gadomski will continue his post-graduate work at Miami Children’s Hospital, in Miami, Fla., where he will complete a three-year residency training in pediatrics.
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Steve E. Kwong MBA ’97 has joined the investment management firm Neuberger Berman as regional vice president of private asset management in Los Angeles. He will market the firm’s services to high net worth individuals, trusts, foundations and family offices in Orange and San Diego counties.
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David Shelton Atteberry MD graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is starting his residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in neurological surgery.
Michael Church was named vice president, client services, of Trik:Media, located in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was recently selected one of AV Multimedia Magazine’s Top 100 Producers of the year for his work with Universal Studios and Seagram.
Janet Evans, former USC and Olympic swimming star, is featured in the historic exhibit and book, Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?, at the Smithsonian Institution, Was-hington, D.C., through Oct. 7, 2001. The book was published by Random House in July. For more information, contact <egameface@aol.com>.
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Franklin Burris MPA has joined Pottery-Taylor & Co. commercial real estate services in Sacramento, Calif., as manager of development services. He most recently served as assistant to City of Sacramento Council member (and recent mayoral candidate) Rob Kerth.
Sandra Chen MFA received screenwriting credit on the space epic Terminus.
Liv Eisaman has been appointed public relations manager at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in Torrance, Calif., with responsibilities for Toyota Motor Sales USA.
Anna Everett PhD is the author of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949, published by Duke University Press. She is assistant professor of film studies at UC Santa Barbara.
Christopher J. Harrer MBA graduated from the USC Marshall School of Business with an MSBA degree from the Lloyd Greif Center of Entrepreneurial Studies. He works with Julien J. Studley, Inc., in Westwood, as a real estate consultant and advisor. His involvement as an active alumnus includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Marshall Alumni Association. Harrer also participates in the Career Advantage Program as an undergraduate mentor. He and his wife, Pamela, live in Malibu with their four children.
Dawn Holliday is CEO of minority- and female-owned Indianalakeshore Inc., which does Web and network design and support and sets up wireless networks. At USC, she was a Trustee Scholar and Thematic Option student. She received her MBA in finance, marketing and organizational behavior from the Yale School of Management in 1997. Trojan Family members are invited to visit the Web page for Holiday’s firm (www.indianalakeshore.com).
Miguel Angel Olano received an Alumni Scholarship from the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, where he is president of the American Trial Lawyers of America student chapter.
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Peter Baghdassarian JD, MA ’00, joined Pierce*Gorman, a boutique entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills, Calif. He has also been selected to serve on the board of directors of the Armenian-American Cha-mber of Commerce.
Josh Blank is a principal in Portland, Ore.-based Pop Art, a graphic design and computer program service. The 21-employee company is one of the largest Web development and hosting firms in the city.
Christopher C. Miller received his JD, cum laude, from the Boston University School of Law and is an associate in the entertainment litigation department at the Los Angeles law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. His wife, Jennifer L. Jones, is pursuing an acting career.
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Leonardo Giovannelli, an ensign in the U.S. Navy, received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Kyle Smith is the co-owner of an Internet business (www.pacificink.com).
Orlando J. Villalba, a student at Stanford University Law School, was awarded a $5,000 scholarship as part of the law firm Foley & Lardner’s Minority Scholarship Program. He was one of eight recipients chosen from first-year-law students at eight major law schools across the United States. At USC he received numerous scholarships and awards and was named a USC Ronald McNair Undergraduate Research Scholar in 1999 at the Summer Research Institute.
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