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DAVID DIAMOND MPW is assistant professor of communications at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D. His short story, “Ghost Dogs,” received third place in Negative Capability’s Short Fiction Contest at the University of South Alabama.
DANIEL DU PLANTIS MPW is the author of Gris Gris, a play selected as the winner of the 1998-99 Morton R. Sarett National Playwriting Competition. The Department of Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will produce the play in February in the Black Box Theatre.
DARREN LEE COLE produced an off-Broadway play, Killer Joe, in New York City. The cast included Scott Glenn (The Right Stuff, The Hunt for Red October) and Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction).
DONNA L. FRANKLIN PhD received the 1998 Goode Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association for her book Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family.
MICHAEL JAMES FULLER MBA completed the Professional Cooking Program at the Westlake Culinary Institute in Westlake Village, Calif. He was also named a deacon at Bethel Christian Fellowship in Agoura Hills. Fuller teaches television production at TCI of Ventura County.
STEVEN SOBEL MBA, JD, has published his first novel, Collecting Sins, which is a coming-of-age story set in late ’60s/early ’70s Los Angeles. The book is published by Santa Monica Press.
JAMES TRITTEN MA, PhD ’84, was presented the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his duties at the Joint Training, Analysis, and Simulation Center, U.S. Atlantic Command, in Suffolk, Va.
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LAWRENCE L. RISLEY was hired as an underwriter at Kaiser Permanente’s Divisional Offices in Pasadena, Calif. He is also an instructor in the Paralegal Program at Watterson College in Pasadena.
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KATHERINE CODEKAS received her JD degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
KELLY PATSCHECK MURPHY has been appointed vice president of the real estate group CB Richard Ellis, specializing in retail sales and leasing in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. She was recognized as one of the top five sales professionals for both 1996 and 1997 in the Riverside office.
DANIEL W. ROTH MBA was promoted to principal at Ernst & Young LLP. He heads the firm’s Chicago-based contracts and program management department and lives with his wife, Robin, and three children in Barrington, Ill.
MICHAEL A. SANCHEZ is the executive vice president, chief compliance officer and chief financial officer of Dabney Flanigan LLC, an investment banking and brokerage firm with headquarters in Los Angeles.
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SCOTT T. ANHALT MA completed a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean and Arabian Gulf aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Russell.
ROBERT BALLO was director of photography on the feature film, Starving Artists. He also teaches in the USC School of Cinema-Television.
RAYMOND DAVID BURKHART MM has been selected as the new music director and conductor of Tehachapi (Calif.) Community Orchestra. Burkhart
is also a composer, teacher and professional trumpeter. • PAUL BARTELT has been appointed national director of marketing and membership services with KOLLSTAR Golf Company. He is affiliated with a number of sports organizations, including the USC Trojan Football Alumni Association.
BRIAN K. JAMES received his JD degree from Southwestern University School of Law through the school’s evening program. He was a recipient of the school’s John J. Schumacher Minority Leadership Scholarship and the National Black Law Student Association’s Community Service Award. • MARGARET J. KIM is general counsel for Daewoo Motor America, Inc. The Daewoo Group, the second largest conglomerate in Korea, began selling its automobile in the U.S. in September 1998.
JAMES G. McPHERSON III joined the faculty of the USC School of Medicine as assistant professor of clinical surgery in the department of cardio-thoracic surgery. McPherson, who completed his cardiothoracic fellowship at USC in 1997, was recruited to the new department headed by world-renowned cardiac surgeon Vaughn Starnes. His principal role will be the development of the cardiac surgical programs at USC’s affiliated hospitals in the San Gabriel Valley.
STEVEN A. MINDEL JD was certified as a family law specialist by the California State Bar, Board of Legal Specialization. In his free time, he is active at the Los Angeles Free Clinic and is serving his second term as treasurer on the clinic’s board of directors. Mindel is part of a true Trojan family: his wife’s sister recently married JEREMY KLINE JD ’85, one of the partners of Mindel’s firm of Feinberg, Mindel & Kline, making Mindel and Kline brothers-in-law.
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GREGORY E. HALL MS, a commander in the U.S. Navy, reported for duty at Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va.
GRANT C. KIRKPATRICK, AIA, is the principal of the award-winning design firm Kirkpatrick Associates Architects, which recently designed LACMA West (the former May Company Building) for the L.A. County Museum of Arts. He is president of the USC Architectural Guild. MICHAEL O. ESERTS ’87, AIA, an associate at Kirkpatrick’s firm, was manager for the LACMA West project and is the design architect for the major improvements and reconfigurations for LACMA’s Times Mirror Central Court.
FRANK PARTH MS was appointed to the position of Year 2000 Practice Manager at the Los Angeles branch of Keane, Inc.’s information services division. The firm helps companies plan, build and manage application software. • HAL T. SCHORNSTEIN MBA joined the San Francisco office of U.S. Trust Company N.A. as senior vice president and portfolio manager.
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ALISON ABRAMS MBA ’97 was promoted to project manager at Kaufman and Broad, where she oversees projects in the affordable housing division.
DOUGLAS M. KUNST of Sausalito, Calif., has been named captain at the San Ramon Valley Fire District. He ranked first in the districtwide captain’s test conducted prior to the placement of permanent captains.
ROBERT JAMES LYTLE graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in May 1998. He lives with his wife, LINDSAY LYNCH ’87, and son, Daniel.
JAY SFINGI is the founder of the design firm Studio Avanti, which focuses on the physical and sensory environment. Current projects for Sfingi’s firm include Rancho Mirage Marketplace, a neighborhood center, and Tinseltown Studios, a dinner theatre attraction in Anaheim that is based on a night at a Hollywood awards show.
MARK A. VANCE MS, a commander in the U.S. Navy, completed a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf aboard the USS John C. Stennis.
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MITCHELL BERNER MPA has been appoin-ted senior vice president for public affairs at Stoorza, Ziegaus & Metzger, Inc., in San Diego, Calif. He resides with his wife, Kelly, in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
ANDREW DENEAU is director of the newly organized Los Angeles Ballet Association. The organization’s inaugural performance was Dance in Schools: The Acorn Project, a dance concert/introduction offered free to schools throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
PAUL EDWARD, a decorated Gulf War veteran in the U.S. Marine Corps, was appointed to the California Veterans Board by Gov. Pete Wilson. Edwards, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, is the youngest member of the board in its history and the only African-American member. He works as a communications specialist in the Los Angeles office of Aon Consulting, an international employee benefits consulting firm.
DON KALMAN MA graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine and is currently in family practice residency in Sacramento.
CHRISTOPHER E. MALING was elected senior investment associate at Marcus & Milli-chap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company. He was recognized as the number one agent in the Los Angeles office and ranked in the top 20 of producing agents nationally last year.
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ME A. CHOE received her JD degree from Southwestern University School of Law, where she received a CALI Award in Secured Transactions and served as lead articles editor as well as a staff member for the Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas.
DANIEL H. FURST MPA was selected as a deputy project manager-operations for the Internal Revenue Service’s Mainframe Consolidation Project. During the two-year project, he will be responsible for automating many manual processes, assisting in making IRS mainframes Y2K compliant, and consolidating the 13 mainframe computer sites into two large-scale computing centers.
CYNTHIA (ORLOWSKI) GULLICKSEN MA was named director of publications at the Boston University College of Engineering.
MARGOT JENSON has been named director of development programs for the Education Foundation at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. With an endowment of $82 million, the foundation donates $3.8 million annually in scholarships so that 4,000 deserving students may attend parochial schools.
MARIUS NIMITZ, AIA, joined the Los Angeles office of RTKL Associates Inc. as a senior architectural designer. He was previously a project designer with Jerde Partnership International, Inc., and Dworsky and Associates, both in Los Angeles.
Lt. NIGEL A. NURSE graduated from the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md.
GORDON A. SILLOWAY, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is on a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian oceans and Arabian Gulf aboard the destroyer USS Fletcher.
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DAVID L. BACH is the author of Smart Women Finish Rich: 7 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams (Broadway). A senior vice president of investments at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter in Orinda, Calif., Bach speaks at more than 100 seminars a year.
ROBERT BRADA JD has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif.
SHANNON S. (DAVIS) CLARK works for the Boeing Company as a test conductor for AWACS System Test Information, Space and Defense Systems, in Seattle, Wash. She has received two Letters of Commendation from the 412th Test Wing Commander and five successive Civilian Performance Awards.
ELIZABETH A. COURTIÉR joined the La Jolla, Calif., office of Willis Allen Co. Real Estate as a historic and architectural specialist.
JOHN R. KABATECK served as a chief deputy appointments secretary to former Califor-nia Governor Pete Wilson during the governor’s last six months in office. Kabateck was elevated to the position after serving in various capacities within the Governor’s Office.
RICHARD W. KREVOLIN MPW is the author of Screenwriting from the Soul, structured similarly to Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet as a series of letters from an aspiring screenwriter to a cranky old Hollywood veteran. It is published by Renaissance Books. Krevolin teaches screenwriting at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
DOUG GRADY joined the San Diego office of Nextel Communications as sales manager. He lives with his wife and son in Sorrento Hills.
MARY E. LOCKE, Esq., is assistant executive director of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Feder-ation of Television & Radio Artists in Philadelphia, Penn.
JONATHAN G. MICLOT MS, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was one of more than 170,000 active duty Marines who celebrated the Corps’ 223rd birthday last November. He is currently deployed to Iwakuni, Japan with Fighter Attack Squadron 121.
STEPHANIE (HILTON) SMITH is now project manager working in the office of publications and marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was previously the publicity manager at the University of Illinois Press.
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TODD M. EBERSOLE was selected Outstan-ding Young Man of America for 1998 in recognition of his “outstanding professional achievement, superior leadership ability and exceptional service to the community” by the Outstanding Young Americans foundation, based in Washington, D.C. He is a corporate lawyer with SafeGuard Health Enterprises, Inc., and lives in South Orange County with his wife, Nori, and their 4-year-old daughter, Madison.
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PATRICK HENRY MBA joined the Los Angeles office of IMCOR, a subsidiary of Norrell Corporation, as director of the Western region, where he will introduce regional companies to the benefits of using IMCOR portable executives ? interim and project managers.
DOUGLAS A. ROTHSCHILD received his JD degree from Southwestern University School of Law and is employed by the law firm of Paul & Janofsky in Santa Monica, Calif.
KEVIN STEPHENS MBA was appointed vice president and general manager of the departmental copies business team at Xerox Corporation in Rochester, N.Y. He lives in Fairport, N.Y., with his wife, Pamela, and three children.
THOMAS WILLIAMS, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, qualified as plane commander while assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 116 at the Naval Air Station Mirimar in San Diego, Calif.
Marine 1st Lt. JOSEPH J. BUTKUS participated in Exercise Cooperation from the Sea ’98, a peace-keeping exercise with Russian counterparts, while assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
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MARK CHATOW JD is vice president of marketing of Roundhouse, Inc., a computer products company he started as a USC law student. The company, which has grown from three people in a garage to 85 full-time employees in a 70,000-square-foot facility, was recently selected by Inc. magazine as one of the 25 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S.
ALLISON L. KAPNER won the Second Place Oralist title in Southwestern University School of Law’s 1998 SCALE Intramural Moot Court Competition. SCALE, South-western’s Conceptual Approach to Legal Education, is an intensive two-year program of study leading to the JD degree.
MARTIN SPOTTL MFA was honored by the 1998 Angelus Awards student film competition with the Mole-Richardson Production Design Award and a $1,500 cash award for Stones in My Passway: The Robert Johnson Story, which he produced as a graduate student.
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NEAL A. DAVIS graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was champion of the novice mock trial competition and served as judging director of the law school’s Board of Advocates. He worked on a death penalty case with Mike Tigar, who defended Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, and he clerked for the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston, Texas. He plans on pursuing a career in criminal prosecution in Texas.
RUSSELL B. DEAN received his JD degree from Southwestern University School of Law and is employed as vice president of finance for Palisades Media Group in Santa Monica, Calif.
Navy Lt. J.g. JORDAN R. SAMORTIN recently completed a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens.
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Navy Lt. J.g. JOSEPH A. CASCIO returned to his home base at Barbers Point, Hawaii, after a six-month deployment in which his squadron participated in Operation Southern Watch in the Arabian Gulf, enforcing U.N. sanctions levied against Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991.
SETH CROOK PhD is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan Uni-versity in Bloomington.
ALLISON GROSS is an associate in the Chicago office of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, a full-service national law firm. She received her JD degree from Northwestern University School of Law.
KRIS KARLINER MBT received her JD degree from Southwestern University School of Law. She is currently working for the United States Government.
ANNA M. NELSON is a dialogue editor/writer for the Gelula Company in Beverly Hills, Calif., handling nearly every major motion picture from Sony, Columbia, Dreamworks, Columbia/Tri-Star, Fox, Universal and Paramount.
Navy Lt. J.g. NOMER R. OYTAS completed a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf while assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 47, and returned to his home base at Barbers Point, Hawaii.
SHAWNE ROBINSON MS is team leader in tools development at Harmony Software, Inc., a business performance management software company. Previously he worked at IBM, where he co-authored a patent.
EDIE M. ROGOWAY, a third-year student at Southwestern University School of Law, served as an oralist for the school’s moot court team that won both the First Place Team and Second Place Brief awards at the 13th Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition.
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JON F. CAKUS, an ensign in the U.S. Navy, graduated from the Submarine Officer Basic Course at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn.
PAMMIE RENEE CRAWFORD is participating in Stanford University’s Volunteers In Asia program, teaching English for a year at a university in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. In her free time she is also teaching classes in adult/child CRP and first aid, as well as volunteering in the local hospital.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. SAM DELAGARZA is on a six-month deployment to Bosnia with the First Cavalry Division of Fort Hood, Texas.
BRETT JONES was accepted to Southwestern University Law School and is enrolled in the school’s day program, a three-year course of study leading to the JD degree.
THOMAS F. METZGER MPA joined the staff of the National AIDS Fund as director of the communications office. Previously, he worked for seven years in the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice. Metzger also ran his first marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, last October.
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AKI TAKEMURA MA received a Finalist certificate at the 1998 Angelus Awards student film competition for her thesis film, The Landlord.
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SIGRUN I. BODINE PhD has joined the tenure-track faculty at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., as assistant professor in the department of mathematics and computer sciences. She was the sole recipient of the Outstanding University Teaching Assistant Award at USC in 1995.
CHRISTIAN F. BENARD, 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.
MICHAEL G. CARTER, KARA M. GRANGER, ROBERT E. HART and BROOKE L. SHARER graduated from Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and received the Military Order of World Wars Award. Carter was commissioned as a Marine second lieutenant; Granger, Hart and Sharer were commissioned as Navy ensigns.
JOY MASON was accepted to and is currently studying at Southwestern University School of Law.
JOSE A. RUBIO, 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.
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