Issue: Winter 2005

Class Notes

Who’s Doing What and Where

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Marie E. Burgoyne MS ’57, EdD ’68 and her husband, Bruce, were featured in the May 11 issue of the Dover (Del.) Post for translating and editing 26 books of diaries and letters from Hessian soldiers serving with British forces during the American Revolution.

Sidney O. Sheridan recently commissioned a music recital featuring the Sheridan String Quartet at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., in honor of his late father.

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Robert E. Stanton MD is an emeritus professor of clinical pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and also works part-time at the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

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Wayne Butterbaugh EdD was recently honored at the Masonic Center in San Francisco for his many years of service on the California Masonic Foundation Board.

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Ronald Weintraub was recently named publisher of the New York Sun.

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Margaret Asher Hertel published her second novel, a mystery titled Taking the Net. She lives in Santa Ana, Calif.

Donald L. Singer MS ’61, MA ’66, PhD ’70 is president of American Sports University in San Bernardino, Calif.

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O. Victor “Vic” Edelbrock, president and CEO of Edelbrock Corp. in Torrance, Calif., is featured in Edelbrock: Made in the USA, which details the history of his family-owned automotive performance equipment business.

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James W. Duke EdD, founding president of Lake Tahoe (Calif.) Community College, was recently honored as the new namesake of the college’s theater, the Duke Theater.

Adrian Ruiz of Lancaster, Calif., released several new albums in his AR Records Live Performance Series this year. He can be reached at adrian_ruiz@juno.com.

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Herb Nadel, founder and CEO of Nadel Architects Inc., was honored by the American Cancer Society at its annual gala in July.

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Arnold Brown MD is a medico-legal consultant and an infection control consultant in Asheville, N.C.

Calton Lewis MD is an emeritus clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of Nevada. He lives in Spring Creek, Nev.

Phillip D. Ross MD is department chair and director of San Joaquin (Calif.) General Hospital.

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Dale Gribow was recently named Businessman of the Year by the Business Advisory Council and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He is an attorney in Palm Desert, Calif.

Laurel H. Herbst MD ’69 is vice president of medical affairs at San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Paul G. Bryan Jr. of Balboa Island, Calif., recently sent a portrait he painted of Pope Benedict XVI to the Vatican and also recently donated his portrait of President Eisenhower to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kan.

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George Turnbull MFA was featured in the August 2005 issue of Western Horseman for his paintings of the Great Basin region of the U.S. His work is available at his studio gallery in Orland, Calif.

Walter J. Unger MBA ’69 was appointed to the USC School of Dentistry’s board of councilors. He is a principal in Unger & Associates, a healthcare advisory firm in Laguna Niguel, Calif.

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Ann Shaw MSW recently received the Community Leadership Award from the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Carolyn Widener MS is chairwoman of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, an English professor at West Los Angeles College and executive president of the Los Angeles College Faculty Guild.

Kathleen F. Wright MBA ’71 is a senior project manager for SAIC, an employee-owned research and engineering company headquartered in San Diego, Calif.

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George Longstreth MD works in the gastroenterology department at Kaiser Medical Center in San Diego, Calif.

Edward K. Wong MD is a professor in UC Irvine’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He lives in Newport Beach, Calif.

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Joyce L. Kennard JD ’74, MPA ’74, an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, was the speaker at the Southwestern Law School commencement ceremony in May.

Daniel R. Levinson of Chevy Chase, Md., was sworn in as inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in June.

Suzanne Seymour MS is principal of Durfee School in El Monte, Calif., which was recently named a Distinguished School for the State of California.

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Shelley Ann (Black) Willcox is a studio fine arts instructor at Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, N.M.

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Marc Breslow recently assumed duty as commander at the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Joint Forces training base.

Edmond J. Clinton MD was recently promoted to fellow in the American College of Physicians. He owns a private internal medicine practice in Pasadena, Calif.

John Fitzpatrick MS, EdD ’82 was a presenter at the American Association of School Administrators’ Superintendents Summer Conference in Hilton Head, S.C., in July. He is superintendent-in-residence at Pepperdine University.

Jeff High MS of Herndon, Va., retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Senior Executive Service in May after more than 34 years of service.

Elizabeth A. Mendoza-Levy MD works for the Santa Clara Valley (Calif.) Health and Hospital System, where she specializes in pediatrics.

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Scott Alevy was recently installed as the new president for the South County (Calif.) Economic Development Council. He is director of external affairs for SBC Communications.

Michael S. Daoussis is senior vice president of Countrywide Insurance Group’s commercial lines national construction practice. He lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

James Patton Totten recently edited and published The Button Box: A Daughter’s Loving Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, a memoir written by his mother, Ruth Ellen (Patton) Totten. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.

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Gabino Tlamatini Aguirre MS was honored with the Raymond Garcia Humanitarian Award from the Santa Paula (Calif.) Latino Town Hall in August for his service to the community.

Gregory P. Orland MPA ’82 snowshoed to the North Pole in April.

Gil Solomon MD of West Hills, Calif., is medical director for appeals and grievances at Blue Shield of California.

Ralph Winge DDS works for Watts Healthcare Corp. in Los Angeles.

David G. Young MD recently assumed command of the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland Air Force Base in Lackland, Texas.

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Albert G. Handelman JD was selected as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Northern California for 2005. He practices trusts and estates law in Santa Rose, Calif.

Debra Reed of San Diego was appointed to the board of directors of Genentech, a biotechnology research company, in August.

Matthew Scanlan was recently appointed head of the Americas Institutional Business at Barclay’s Global Investors in San Francisco, where he will oversee the firm’s business in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

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Gary Davis EdD retired as superintendent of the Oxnard (Calif.) Union High School District in July after serving 40 years as a teacher and administrator.

Neil Kogut MD of Pasadena, Calif., is co-director of the Southern California Kaiser Permanente bone marrow transplant program.

Peter McGough MD of Mercer Island, Wash., is chief medical officer for the University of Washington Medicine Neighborhood Clinics and is an associate professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine.

Michael J. Murphy MD is an anesthesiologist at Marshall Hospital in Placerville, Calif.

John Okerblom MD is president of MidCoast Care Inc., a large multi-specialty private medical practice in Santa Maria, Calif.

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J.D. Crouch II MA ’81, PhD ’87, deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, was profiled in the May 23 issue of the Washington Post. He lives in Dulles, Va.

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Craig C. Benell recently joined Merrill Lynch’s private banking and investment group in Century City, Calif.

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Judie Forbes MBA was recently elected secretary of the board of directors of the Society of Women Engineers. She is president of Jandr Associates, a consulting company in Prescott, Ariz.

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Paul Feig of Los Angeles recently published his memoir, Superstud, for which he was profiled in the July 14 issue of the Washington Post.

Duane E. McWaine MD is medical director at Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center in Culver City, Calif., and is a clinical instructor at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Jim Reed MD is director of the gastrointestinal laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco.

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Steven A. Mindel JD was named a Super Lawyer by Los Angeles magazine for the second consecutive year. He is managing partner of Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt, Klein & Kline LLP in Los Angeles.

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Richard Hazlett PhD was promoted to full professor of geology at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.

Gary Johnson recently retired from the Navy and published the military novel Fairbanks Risen under the name John Foster. He lives in Camarillo, Calif.

Brenda Maceo is senior vice president of communications at City of Hope, a life-threatening disease research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif.

Gregg McVicar MA is host and producer of the weekly public radio program “Earthsongs,” broadcasting contemporary Native American music. He is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in Oakland, Calif.

Greg Pollack MBA ’94 is a member of the program faculty with the Office of Executive Education in the USC Marshall School of Business. He is president of PBM Marketing Solutions.

Robert Craig Risbrough recently received the California Attorney of the Year Award from California Lawyer magazine.

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Julie A. Bovay was appointed to the planning commission of the city of Avalon, Calif., and is also president of the city’s Rotary Club.

Daniel Kerr MM ’89, DMA ’04 is director of organ studies at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, where he teaches organ and music theory and coordinates the aural skills program.

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Nicole Bettauer MFA wrote, directed and produced the feature film DUCK, a survival tale about a duck who saves the life of a man in Los Angeles in 2009. The film premiered in Los Angeles in July.

Mark A. Goldstein MS is partner with SoCal IP Law Group LLP in Westlake Village, Calif.

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Kurt Cook MD is deputy public health officer and tuberculosis controller for Ventura County, Calif., and is also medical director for the county’s Healthcare for the Homeless program.

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Ron Antonette of Long Beach, Calif., recently joined Mattel as director of public relations for Mattel Brands.

Thomas N. Dallape is vice president of The Hoffman Company, a commercial real estate brokerage firm in Orange County, Calif. He lives in Newport Beach with wife Michelle and sons Andrew and Tyler.

Matt Troyer was promoted to director of Capital One Healthcare Finance. He lives in South Grafton, Mass.

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Chad Coombs JD, MBT ’00 was named partner with the Sherman Oaks, Calif., accounting firm of Grobstein, Horwath & Company LLP.

Todd M. Ebersole of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., was recently appointed vice chairman of the American Health Lawyers Association and was also recently named senior legal counsel for CIGNA HealthCare, an employee benefits program.

Suzanne Medina PhD, a professor of graduate education at Cal State Dominguez Hills, was recently awarded the Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award.

Scott A. Sampley was recently promoted to regional vice president of the San Gabriel Valley, Calif., region of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Scott R. Taylor works for Solute Consulting, a network centric warfare consulting firm, after serving eight years as a naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy. He lives in Woodinville, Wash.

Joan Wai of Studio City, Calif., recently published 100+ Baby Shower Games.

Jodi Wolf, president of the Chicago, Ill.-based business Paulette Wolf Events & Entertainment, recently co-wrote Event Planning Made Easy with her mother, Paulette, and her friend, Danielle Baca Levine ’91.

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Todd A. Hood MBA of Stamford, Conn., was promoted to director of regional privacy for the Americas with Pitney Bowes Inc., a communications management company.

Virgil Labrador MA of West Covina, Calif., recently published Heavens Fill With Commerce: A Brief History of the Satellite Communications Industry. He is managing editor of Satnews Publishers, a leading information provider on the satellite industry based in Los Angeles.

Mark R. Robbin MD is assistant professor of radiology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

James Shimizu was recently named vice president of marketing for Vera Bradley, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based handbag, luggage and accessories company.

John E. Thorson DPA co-wrote Negotiating Tribal Water Rights: Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West. He is an administrative law judge for the state of California in San Francisco.

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Ken Cimino MPA of Long Beach, Calif., recently published his first novel, He’s a Doll, as well as Gay Assimilation: The Group Consciousness of Gay Conservatives. He is a visiting assistant professor in political science and public policy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Stephanie Germeraad was appointed public affairs director of the National Assessment Governing Board, the Washington, D.C.-based group that oversees federal testing of K-12 students.

Thomas Flaherty DMA was promoted to full professor of music at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.

Ronald Leon EdD was awarded the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from Community of Caring, a K-12 character education program. He recently retired as superintendent of the Rowland Unified School District in Rowland Heights, Calif.

Andrea Wilson is founder and president of Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of hepatocellular carcinoma. Eduardo Leaton Jr. ’93, JD/MA ’96, Anna Henry ’95, Drew Schatt ’96 and Andy Henry ’97 all serve on the board of directors.

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Angela An of Columbus, Ohio, was the keynote speaker at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration at the Library of Congress. She was also nominated for a Emmy Award for Best Reporter Composite in the Midwestern Regional Emmys in July.

Branden Chapman was recently promoted to vice president of production and process management at the Recording Academy in Los Angeles.

Ruth Ellenson edited an anthology of stories and essays titled The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

Tim Knight of Los Angeles recently co-wrote a gift book, Stuck on You: Do-It-Yourself Dating Patches for the Single Girl.

Tim Story directed the recent feature film Fantastic Four.

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Bob Kurkjian MSB ’00 was recently elected to the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.

Mark V. Purpura was recently named partner in the law firm Richards, Layton & Finger P.A. in Wilmington, Del.

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Sande Chen MFA co-wrote Serious Games: Games that Educate, Train and Inform, which examines the games and game technology used by corporations, health professionals, schools and the military. She lives in Spring, Texas.

Carl Flanigan MFA was recently named associate producer of international productions for the award-winning performance troupe Blue Man Group.

Christopher J. Harrer MBA, MS ’00, an adjunct professor in the USC Marshall School of Business, won an Golden Apple Teaching Award at the school’s commencement in May.

Ray Wan of Brea, Calif., teaches electronic business at the University of Phoenix.

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Denis Costello of Long Beach, Calif., was selected as a master teacher in the University of Rhode Island’s ARMADA Project, a program for K-12 teachers to participate in science research and peer mentoring. He also spent last July aboard the R/V Atlantis studying the effects of harmful algal blooms off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, with research technician Julian Herndon ’98 and former USC oceanography professor William P. Cochlan.

Matthew Harper was elected chairman of the board of directors for the Young Republican Federation of California. He is a realtor with Star Real Estate in Huntington Beach, Calif.

Nikesh Kalra of Los Angeles recently launched North South Media, a media production and services company. He is currently attending Oxford University’s MBA program.

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Margaret “Meg” Palisoc MEd of Los Angeles is the 2005-2006 president of the USC chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional association for educators.

Jason Smith MFA recently earned a doctorate in public administration from the University of La Verne in La Verne, Calif.

Josh Schwartz, creator of the television show The O.C., and James Vanderbilt ’99, screenwriter of the film The Rundown, recently hosted the USC School of Cinema-Television’s fourth annual First Pitch, which gives graduating screenwriting students the opportunity to pitch their scripts to entertainment industry executives.

Alyson Yester Shelton MFA recently wrote and directed her first feature film, Eve of Understanding. Peter Senchuk ’00, Cody Shelton MFA ’01, Jen Prince MFA ’02, Elizabeth Santoro MFA ’02, Marcelo Tesón ’03, Joe Dzuban MFA ’04 and Bethany Sparks MFA ’07 also worked on the film.

Mary Claire Vadman MS ’03 recently earned her California State DHH credential, qualifying her to work with deaf and hard of hearing students. She works at the Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf in Redwood City, Calif.

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Mark Albert recently became a general assignment reporter at KSTP-TV, serving Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. He previously worked for WWMT-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was an award-winning reporter and anchor for four years.

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Andrea Clemons PhD is clinical assistant professor and program leader for the USC Rossier School of Education’s masters in teaching English to speakers of other languages and masters in teaching English as a foreign language programs.

Nelly Cristales-Enriquez was honored with the 2005 Who’s Who Among American Teachers Award. She teaches kindergarten at 32nd Street USC Magnet School in Los Angeles.

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Susan Mackie was selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to be a research scholar at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. She is a third-year medical student at Columbia University.

Anim Mener EdD is the new principal at Lynwood (Calif.) Middle School and is also an adjunct professor in the teacher education program at National University.

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Robert Frear MM was recently appointed director of brass studies at Cal State Long Beach.

James M. Kasim MBA recently joined the Century City, Calif.-based real estate investment company BentleyForbes as CFO and executive vice president.

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Brian Bedard wrote, produced and directed the feature film Façade, which premiered at the USC Norris Cinema Theatre in April.

Ryan Millsap MRED was promoted from vice president to principal at Aslan Realty Group, a real estate investment firm in Irvine, Calif.

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Betsy Castillo EdD is principal of the 20th Street Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Ryan Harris is an inside sales consultant with the Phoenix Suns basketball team.

David Verdugo EdD is superintendent of the Paramount (Calif.) Unified School District. He previously was assistant superintendent of executive services in the Placentia-Yorba Linda (Calif.) Unified School District.