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MARGOT WILLIAMS KAMENS MLA ’77 and her husband, Leslie Kamens, assistant clinical professor of surgery (urology) emeritus at USC, traveled to Dublin, Ohio, last October for a double wedding-anniversary celebration – their 54th and daughter JANET KAMENS SCHWARTZ ’72 and her husband Gary Schwartz’s 22nd. Janet is a sales representative for Weisenbach Specialty Printing in Columbus. The Schwartzes have a 16-year-old son.
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HELEN GERALD recently celebrated 50-plus years in show business. The actress studied under William C. DeMille at USC before appearing in various motion pictures, as well as countless commercials, dubbing and voice-overs. Last year, she appeared in a videotape at the USC School of Cinema-Television’s Roast of the Faculty. A member of the Half Century Trojan Club, Gerald and her husband, James Bernard Dolan, who is music librarian for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, make their home in Los Angeles.
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DELBERT F. LEWIS, following retirement from active engineering practice in 1986, embarked on a project to research his family genealogy and history, which culminated this past spring with the publishing of a 657-page book, Twelve Generations of Lewises in America, 1634-1997: Edmund Lewis (1601-1651) to David Franklin Lewis (b. 1992).
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JOHN F. DEAN EdD ’66, and his wife of 50 years, Katherine, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last summer by taking their children and grandchildren to Hawaii for two weeks on the water at Kona. Dean, now in his third term as Orange County Superintendent of Schools, completed his 49th year in education last June.
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ROBERT S. CALDWELL continues to be a loyal fan of the football team, hardly misses a home game, and keeps in touch with his Sigma Epsilon fraternity brothers, class of 1951. He sold his business five years ago and is now enjoying retirement, traveling, riding his bicycle, playing volleyball on the beach, and participating in community planning. He lives with his wife of 15 years in Manhattan Beach.
FLOYD A. PAUL published his third book on Los Angeles Radio Manufacturing, The First Twenty Years, 1922-1942. The first book was published in 1988 and the second in 1993. They collectively list company names and people, as well as radio models – even Los Angeles radio companies such as Troy and Trojan are identified. Floyd lives in Glendale, Calif., with his wife, Dorothy, and is retired from the CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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YOSHIO C. NAKAMURA MFA ’53 presented his exhibition, “Pre Y2K Selected Works,” last fall at Mountain View Memorial Gallery in Altadena, Calif. The artist has won numerous major prizes in painting and graphics and is represented in more than 150 private, corporate and public collections, including the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Retired Lt. Col. RICK P. APPLE MA ’69 has published a major revision of The Air Force Museum, now in its seventh edition. He shot 192 replacement photographs and updated introductions to each of the book’s nine chapters. JOANNE WILKIN APPLE ’54 indexed the project. The couple resides in Beavercreek, Ohio, near the museum. The 216-page book provides a pictorial tour of the national museum of the Air Force from the days of the Wright Brothers to the Space Age of today.
ANTHONY TAYLOR produced and restored the film Incubus, which was a selection of the Venice International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Cork (Ireland) International Festival. Academy Award winner CONRAD HALL ’48 is the cinematographer; William Shatner stars. Incubus was recently released on video. More information about Taylor, Hall and the film is available on the Web (www.incubusthefilm.com).
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EDWARD NEILAN, a veteran foreign correspondent and columnist, was named a senior fellow in the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. He will continue to work from Tokyo, where he writes a weekly syndicated column. Since 1995, he has served as a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was managing editor of the Daily Trojan in 1953-54.
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JEROME G. (JERRY) BLANKINSHIP MS ’56 has been appointed to the board of visitors advisory board for the College of Health Sciences at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill. Blankinship is in his 24th year as director of Pastoral Care Services at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
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DIRK CHASE ELDREDGE is the author of Ending the War on Drugs: A Solution for America, published by Bridge Works. In the book, he makes a case for alternative drug policy: carefully controlled legalization, with resulting income used to fund greatly expanded drug education, prevention, research and treatment programs. It has been praised by William F. Buckley Jr., Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and leading members of the medical and law-enforcement communities. A director of a bank and an entrepreneur, he co-chaired Ronald Reagan’s Southern California campaign for governor of California.
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NICHOLAS DELLAN MS was honored by the Lodi (Calif.) Unified School District’s board of education, where he is former principal, for his “outstanding contribution to education.” He was presented with this and other awards for a project he developed which sent teams of teachers to the Shriners’ “Student at Risk” program. Following retirement after 38 years in education, Dellan serves as chairman of the Shriners’ Clinic, which identifies needy children for possible entrance into the Sacramento Shriners’ Hospital for Children free of charge.
CARL R. TERZIAN recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of Carl Terzian Associates, the public relations firm he founded with two clients at the Getty-Union Bank Building, Wilshire at Western, in Los Angeles. Since 1969, his firm, now headquartered in West Los Angeles, has assisted more than 3,200 causes, companies, individuals and organizations.
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CLIFF LIGHTFOOT MPA ’72 was elected president of the 17,000-member Ernst & Young Alumni Association for the Pacific Southwest Region. Through his Santa Monica-based firm, Marketemps, Light-foot has been active in the start-up, marketing, funding and strategic alliances for 60 companies in the last 15 years. Last April, he completed broadcasting a 13-week televised MBA course in marketing for California State University, Dominguez Hills.
HIROSHI SHIBATA MS ’63 received the Aerospace Corp.’s highest award, the Trustees’ Distinguished Achievement Award, for “extraordinary leadership” in returning a disabled National Reconnaissance Office satellite to full operability. Aerospace Corp. is an independent, nonprofit company that provides objective technical analysis and assessments for national and international space programs.
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KURT HAHN, retired finance director from the City of Healdsburg, Calif., has been named to the board of directors of Nuestro Hospital, the owners and operators of Healdsburg General Hospital. Hahn is also vice president of the Redwood Empire Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was recently honored by Edward Whit-acre, national president of the Boy Scouts, for 40 years of service as an adult volunteer.
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PETER PLAGENS is the chief art critic for Newsweek magazine and continues his career as a high-profile painter. In addition, he’s now a first-time novelist. A Time for Robo deals with time, perception and the nature of reality, with characters that transform themselves or who are transformed, as a painting is transformed. The novel is published by Black Heron Press and has received critical acclaim since its arrival last spring.
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IRVIN LEE McCLENDON SR. was listed in the 1999 edition of Who’s Who in America.
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ROY RHINO MS ’71 was honored last September at the monthly Top Producers Luncheon of First Team Real Estate, headquartered in Diamond Bar, Calif. He was selected for selling the most homes in one month out of 19 First Team offices stretching from Diamond Bar to San Clemente.
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MARK BRAUER PhD is an industrial engineering consultant who has provided sensitive and timely solutions for major defense contractors across America under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense. His work has repeatedly saved “friendly” lives, but often put him in dangerous positions.
Violinist JOSEPH GOLD was concertmaster and director of chamber music at the Spoleto Music Festival in Italy. He was chosen to be special violin soloist for Luciano Pavarotti by the famous tenor himself. During the concert season 1998-99, Gold played concerts in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania.
HAMID HEKMAT, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, won the Excellence in Scholarship Award from the university. Hekmat’s work with the internationally renowned Drs. Arthur and Peter Staats has resulted in the development of a new pain theory, recently published in the American Pain Society Journal.
STEVEN P. McDONALD MGA ’70 has been elected president of the board of trustees of the San Diego Natural History Museum for 1999-2000. He is partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, where he practices environmental law and chairs the Environmental Law Practice Group.
ANGI MA WONG, one of America’s most prolific feng shui practitioners/authors, has produced two new titles, Feng Shui Garden Design Kit and Feng Shui Dos and Taboos: A Guide to What to Place Where, both published by Pacific Heritage Books.
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REMY LANI ALTAR is serving her third term as assemblymember of the California Senior Legislature. She also recently produced cable-TV documentaries of the life and times of seniors to celebrate the 1999 Year of the Older Persons, which was sponsored by the United Nations. While on the USC campus last summer, Altar attended lectures and workshops at the Andrus Gerontology Center and at the Lucas, Foley, Carson and Spielberg studios.
ROGER S. MERTZ JD was named partner at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble & Mallor LLP, one of the premier law firms in California.
JEFF ZAKARYAN has been selected as the new president of the Orange County chapter of the Professional Coaches & Mentors Association. He is founder and president of Global Strategies, an executive coaching firm specializing in the development of emerging leaders for fast-growth global companies based in Orange County.
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NORMAN F. GUMPERT PharmD was a presenter at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Home, Hospice and Long Term Care ’99 seminar in Chicago, Ill. His presentation was titled “Develop-ing Competencies for Home Care and Long Term Care in a University Based Program.” Gumpert is the director of pharmacy, Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Loma Linda University Medical Center.
BRUCE KARATZ JD, chairman and chief executive officer of Kaufman and Broad Home Corp., received the Legion of Honor-Order of Knight (Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur) distinction from His Excellency Francois Bujon de L’Estang, Ambassador of France to the United States. Karatz was distinguished for his commitment in cultivating bilateral business relations: since 1968, Kaufman and Broad-France has built more than 30,000 homes and apartments throughout France. The Legion of Honor is France’s highest national order bestowed upon French nationals as well as foreigners.
TOM METZLER received Global Imaging Systems’ top award, the Chairman’s Trophy, at the company’s fourth annual Global Leaders Conference. Metzler, president of the parent’s Northwest Group and head of Global’s West Coast Operations, accepted the award for outstanding performance as measured by revenue growth, operating income growth and growth in return on assets.
JAMES WOOD MBA is in charge of future planning for Neofin, a Laguna Beach, Calif.-manufacturer of a light but stiff fin which allows swimmers to gain more speed in less distance and swim for longer periods with less effort. PATRICK WOOD ’99 and RICK WESTBERG ’99 are also employed at Neofin.
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DOLORES “DEE” BOGARD PhD was inducted into the SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame as an honorary recipient. She has been a member of the university’s physical education department faculty since 1970.
WILLIAM CANTER co-produced and served as director of photography on the television pilot of Beisbol: The Latin Dream, a planned weekly series featuring the behind-the-scenes, personal side of His-panic baseball players. Canter has started a one-year consultancy to the Prime Ministers Chancellery of Poland as a media affairs specialist.
PATRICK R. DIXON was elected to a three-year term on the State Bar Board of Governors representing District 7, Los Angeles County. A 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office and assistant head of the office’s Major Crimes Division, Dixon lives in Pasadena with his wife, DIANE DIXON ’73, and their daughter.
MARGARET L. EADIE is among a select group who received the 2000 Millennium Medal of Honor from the American Biographical Institute Inc. for her contribution and excellence within the community. She lives in Pacific Grove, Calif.
BEVERLY J. QUAIL, a partner in the Denver, Colo., office of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, has been elected chair of the section of real property, probate and trust law of the American Bar Association. Her practice emphasizes financing matters and real estate development.
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RON GRABYAN MS ’75, founder and principal of Corporate Insight Consulting (www.corpinsightconsulting.com), has launched an information technology solutions practice based in Orange County, Calif., emphasizing strategic development and project implementation for computing, networking and business applications. He and his wife, LYNNE NIKOLS GRABYAN ’73, reside in Irvine.
JACK R. WITZ MS ’73, MS ’75, joined the firm of Sholtz & Associates LLC as executive vice president of strategic planning and special projects. His expertise is in the advancement, application and commercialization of technology
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DIANA TURNER joined the CBS2 TV web site Channel 2000.com as an account manager. Previously, she had spent the past decade at Hearst Magazines as Los Angeles manager for Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Turner has also worked at Los Angeles Magazine and TV Guide. She resides in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
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C. RONALD KIMBERLING MA, MA ’77, PhD ’81, was appointed president of Briarcliffe College, which has campuses in Bethpage and Patchogue, N.Y., and student enrollments of approximately 1,500. Early in his career, Kimberling taught journalism at USC and also served as director of enrollment services at USC. He was Assistant Secretary of Education in the U.S. Department of Education from 1985-1988; after leaving government, he was executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
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JIM RITCHIE MS was named by Mercury Air Centers as general manager of its fixed base operations at Los Angeles International Airport. Mercury’s parent company is a worldwide provider of aviation petroleum products, cargo services, aviation information technology and support services to international and commercial airlines, general aviation and U.S. government aircraft.
ERIC SEARS MFA was nominated for an Emmy in 1999 in the category of Picture Editing for a Mini-series or a Movie. He edited The Rat Pack.
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SUSAN GRODE JD is a corporate entertainment attorney who, with her sister, Joan Kofsky, has established BodyLogic, a health food company.
STEVE JACOBSON has been named chief creative officer at Guidance Solutions Inc., an online business developer in Marina del Rey, Calif.
FREDERICK J. RYAN JR. JD ’80 was appointed chairman of the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in Simi Valley, Calif. Ryan has served the Reagans in a variety of capacities, including Chief of Staff to former President Reagan and Assistant to the President in the White House. He is now vice chairman and chief operating office of Allbrit-ton Communications Co. in Washington, D.C.
ELIZABETH McMILLIAN MA, PhD ’84, published a new book, Living on the Water, a full-color coffee table book which “illustrates and examines our love of water and the ways we find to incorporate this sometimes peaceful, sometimes turbulent element of nature.” With partners, McMillian has also launched a new magazine, South-land: Why We Live Here, highlighting the “Southland mosaic.”
ANDY TENNANT directed the new version of Anna and the King of Siam, titled Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat. He headed a crew of more than 550 people from some 20 countries in completing the film.
DENISE HOLT WILLIAMS has been named professional development coordinator for the Virginia Press Association. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the School of Journalism, Holt Williams has previously held positions at the Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), The Tennessean (Nashville), The Albuquerque Tribune, The Oakland Tribune and The Associated Press, among other organizations.
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AUTUMN ALLISON is a staff newswriter for “The Morning News” and “Mornings on 2” at KTVU in Oakland, Calif. She had spent 15 years as a writer and field producer at KRON-TV in San Francisco before moving to KTVU. Allison also competed in three events at the Adult National Figure Skating Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich., last April. She is captain of the Ice Quakes, a masters' team, and represented the Peninsula Skating Club at the 1999 U.S. Championships for Precision Skating in Tampa Bay, Fla.
GERALD BRANDON MS has been appointed corporate director, purchasing and materials management, for Mercy Health Services in Baltimore, Md. He is responsible for material and services support for Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, and Stella Maris Nursing Center, Towson. Brandon was previously group purchasing programs manager at Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, Md.
WENDY NAIDITCH BRICKMAN MA recently received a “Small Business Advocate of the Year Award” from the California Chamber of Commerce. She met Governor Gray Davis and took a tour of the capitol with Assemblyman Peter Frusetta. Brickman moved from Los Angeles to Monterey and established Brickman Marketing in 1990 to provide public relations, market research, advertising and marketing services to a wide array of local, regional and national businesses.
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NEAL C. FLYER was appointed president of Hamilton Associates, a leading supplier of direct marketing with total turnkey solutions for the cable and telecommunications industry. Most recently Western regional director of TVN Entertainment, Flyer is responsible for all operations and implementation of the M.O.S.T. move/ transfer program.
MICHAEL MUHA earned a President’s Achievement Award from the Aerospace Corp. for technical accomplishments associated with an important national security space program.
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TIM DANG is the artistic director for East West Players, a 33-year-old Los Angeles theater company dedicated to helping Asian Pacific American writers and actors grapple with issues such as racism, discrimination and stereotyping. The company began in 1965 as a small group of friends putting on a production of Rashomon at USC’s Hancock Hall. He is an active member of USC’s Asian Pacific American Support Group.
MANOUCHER ESLAMI MA has been promoted to associate at La Cañada Design Group in Pasadena, Calif. He is manager of three modernization projects for the Pasadena Unified School District.
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DANA SCOTT DEASY has been appointed vice president and chief information officer for the United States and the Americas for Siemens Corp., headquartered in New York, N.Y. He is responsible for providing the strategic information technology direction required by Siemens’ operations.
KATHLYN HANSINK-KELLEY graduated from the Dealer Candidate Academy of the National Automobile Dealers Association, a specialized training curriculum designed to prepare dealer-successors and key management personnel to operate a new-car or -truck dealership. Hansink-Kelley is preparing for further management responsibilities at her family-owned dealership.
NEIL MACREADY is director of development at the University of Redlands, leading the university’s fund-raising efforts. He was director of development for USC’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences since 1995, in charge of major gift fund-raising for 24 academic departments and 15 research centers.
DOUG SCHREIER was appointed tax principal in the Los Angeles office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation’s largest professional services firms. He is a new principal in the Mergers and Acquisition Tax Service Group.
SUE ANN SPENCER MPW ’87 is the author of a true crime book, Wasted (Pinnacle), which was a finalist for the Violet Crown Book Award (nonfiction) sponsored by the Austin (Texas) Writers’ League. Austin Chronicle book reviewer Clay Smith wrote, “Wasted is everything a true crime book should be: lean, fierce and unsparing.”
KEVIN J. TRIEBER, senior vice president of Bank of America, has been named regional market executive of the bank’s commercial banking office in Long Beach, Calif. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Long Beach, the Long Beach Symphony Association and Long Beach Strategic Marketing.
ERIC WILL recently completed his second four-year term as a Nebraska State Senator. He is principal sponsor of the legislation that created the Nebraska State Lottery and served for six years as chairman of the rules committee. Will is currently a senior at Creighton University Law School in Omaha.
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