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JIM ESOLA is an active-duty lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and marathon runner currently stationed in Warner Robins, Ga.
FRED ZIEL MD is an endocrinologist in the Southern California division of Kaiser Permanente. With colleague Jim Dudl, Ziel developed and is now implementing a population disease management program that is improving the care of Kaiser Permanente patients with diabetes.
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RICHARD R. BECK, a commander in the U.S. Navy, completed a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian oceans and Arabian Gulf while assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 117 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
After serving as second editor on the DreamWorks film Antz, STEVE BLOOM has been hired as lead editor on Frankenstein, the first film to be entirely produced by Industrial Light + Magic.
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ANN M. MUSCAT PhD was appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president of strategic initiatives at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She was previously responsible for exhibit and architectural planning for the California Science Center.
DIANE M. WITTRY MM ’85 received a 1999 Arts Ovation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual, Literary and Performing Arts from the Allentown (Penn.) Arts Commission. She has been music director and conductor of the 80-member Allentown Sym-phony Orchestra since 1995.
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RODNEY LIBER is the executive producer of the new Martin Lawrence comedy, Big Momma’s House, a theatrical release feature film to be distributed worldwide by Twentieth Century Fox.
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KATY GARRETSON was recently profiled in both the Directors Guild of America and Emmy magazines as an up-and-coming television director. She has directed multiple episodes of the television series Frasier, her first episode being honored with Emmy nominations for its two guest stars. Garret-son was recently elected as an associate member of the DGA National Board and was a subject in a PBS documentary on communication in the business and entertainment worlds.
MITCHELL GOLDSTONE is featured, along with partner Carl Berman, in a national ad campaign for IBM. Media coverage for the campaign has included front-page coverage in the Wall Street Journal and Orange County Register. Gold-stone, a member of the board of directors for the Irvine Chamber of Commerce, is president and co-founder of the Irvine, Calif.-based 30 Minute Photos Etc., a photo imaging retail business.
Screenwriter CHRIS ISLEIB is following in director John Ford’s footsteps. A lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserves, he was recently selected by the Navy to command the USNR’s Combat Camera Group Pacific, a 35-person motion picture reserve unit that has a long, illustrious film history, including several Oscars. John Ford founded the unit in 1940 when he was a Navy Reservist.
LUANNA SQUERZI was promoted to director of Catering & Conference Services at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif. Her new responsibilities include coordination, marketing and selling of the hotel’s recently renovated public area, including 27,000-square feet of meeting space.
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JAMES W. BATES is an attorney who has opened a new office in Montrose, Calif. His practice will continue to handle personal injury, commercial litigation, real estate and construction law, and insurance and banking law.
Former USC basketball players CYNTHIA COOPER, LISA LESLIE ’97 and TINA THOMPSON ’98 led the West All-Stars to a 79-61 win in the Women’s National Basketball Association All-Star game last July. Leslie, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, won the game’s award for most valuable player. Cooper and Thompson are teammates on the two-time WNBA champion Houston Comets.
ROGER SCHULTZ MA ’91 has been ap-pointed dean of admissions and records at Long Beach City College. He has worked within the California university and community college system since 1988 in various capacities.
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NEIL B. CHAPMAN recently joined the law firm of Danks & Danks in Evansville, Ind.
YOLANDA T. NIZINSKI DOLAK was awarded a JD degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and is an associate with the Beverly Hills law office of Ervin, Jessup and Cohen LLP, specializing in health care law.
BRIAN T. PALLASCH joined the American Society of Civil Engineers as its director of governmental relations. He is responsible for managing the society’s federal and state legislative affairs, regulatory affairs and policy development.
MARIA STRONG MA is a law partner at Smith & Metalitz LLP in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in global and domestic copyright and trade law and policy advocacy matters. She also serves as vice president and associate general counsel of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a group of seven U.S. trade associations.
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PAUL EDWARD won a 1999 International Association of Business Communicators’ Gold Quill Award of Merit for an Intranet website he developed. The Gold Quill award is comparable to the Oscar for communications professionals. Edward is a senior performance consultant with WM Financial Services.
STEVEN T. PURI is associate producing a film called Partners, starring Casper Van Dien, Vanessa Anger and David Paymer.
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TAVE FASCE DRAKE is raising funds for a documentary she shot on gays and lesbians in politics. Additional filming will be done during the upcoming 2000 elections. The release of Outright (working title) is scheduled for 2001.
LINDA JENNINGS MM completed the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in cello performance at the University of Texas at Austin last July. She has been interim director of the UT String Program for two years.
ROBERT LYNN scored two goals for the U.S. national water polo team in a 22-1 victory over Mexico in the opening round of the UPS Cup last July. A four-time All-American at USC, Lynn has played professionally in France, Italy and Croatia.
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MICHAEL I. KENT, after receiving an MBA in health care management from Boston University in 1997, completed an internship in healthcare research and policy formation at Harvard Medical School. He is currently director of operations of United Medical Management in Los Angeles.
PARIS M. RUTHERFORD is an architect who was promoted to vice president at RTKL Associates Inc., an international architecture, planning and engineering firm headquartered in Baltimore, Md. He has guest lectured at a number of universities in the United States and is a member of numerous professional organizations.
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JOHN HEATH MS joined the Los Angeles office of the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP as an associate. His practice focuses on public finance matters including advising public utilities on matters associated with state and federal regulatory issues.
BRUCE JACOBS MA is joining Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as an audio producer/specialist. He will be based in Prague, Czech Republic. Prior to that, Jacobs was a producer for 8 years with CNN in Atlanta. He can be e-mailed at <brewsta@commail.com>.
PETER KASTELAN MBA has opened Il Tiramisù, a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, Calif., featuring northern Italian continental cuisine.
PAUL J. PADOVA completed his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Western University in Pomona, Calif., and is an intern physician at Downey Community Hospital. Upon graduation from medical school, he received the President’s Award and was selected for inclusion in the national honor society Sigma Sigma Phi and Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.
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Poet MILLICENT C. BORGES MPW was invited to Yaddo, an artists’ working community on a 400-acre wooded estate in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., last summer. Writers such as Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Flannery O’Conner, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, W.S. Merwin and Ted Hughes are past participants at Yaddo.
ERIC S. HARTER MBA received the Executive Doctor of Management degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is president and CEO of Health Care Partners in Louisville, Ky.
KEVIN H. HINNERS was promoted to manager of budgeting and analysis at Pedus Security Services in Monterey Park, CA. He joined the firm in 1995 as a financial analyst.
DENISE La VERDE has been named an associate editor for Southwestern University School of Law’s Southwestern University Law Review. She is a fourth-year evening student at the school.
ALFRED C. MARTINO MBA is the president and co-founder of Listen & Lives Audio Inc., an audiobook publishing company in the fiction, self-help and relationships categories. A recent title, The Golden Rule of Schmoozing, narrated by Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller, has received critical acclaim and numerous audiobook awards. Martino lives in Jersey City, N.J., and can be reached at <alfred@listenandlive.com>.
LISA M. PRUKOP is manager of international accounts for Cosmo Public Relations. Her husband, STEVEN E. VOSKANIAN, was promoted to associate and offered a two-year expatriate assignment with the Japan arm of his company, Goldman Sachs Realty Japan Ltd. The couple lives in Tokyo.
ALEX TARKIAN joined the national law firm of Arter & Hadden LLP in its Los Angeles office. He practices as a member of the firm’s insurance group.
LUCY SHAHINIAN was appointed channel marketing manager, wholesale division, of Jacuzzi Whirpool Bath’s corporate headquarters in Walnut Creek, Calif.
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JASON HOLLANDER, the president of the 28th Street Publishing Inc., was named the Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Los Angeles District Office of the United States Small Business Association. Founded in 1993 with partners DAN BREWSTER ’93 and ZACK ESTRIN ’94, 28th Street Publishing was the subject of Hollander’s business plan during his senior year in the Entrepreneur Program at USC. The company’s flagship publication, 28th Street Magazine, is geared toward college students and young adults in Los Angeles. Hollander was also featured in the May 12, 1999, issue of the Los Angeles Times.
DEREK JEANS teaches history at Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate school in Whittier, Calif., while working on a master’s degree at Cal State Long Beach. He welcomes contact from USC friends and can be reached at 5871 Belgrave, Apt. B, Garden Grove, CA 92845, e-mail <riker1@gte.net>.
Navy lieutenant TODD J. PIERCE completed a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Gulf and Adriatic Sea while assigned to Fighter Squadron 32, embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
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RAYMOND I. ALCONCEL, a petty officer 3rd class in the U.S. Navy, graduated from the Navy’s Basic Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C.
Navy Lt. j.g. DEXTER A. BURLEW is on a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian oceans and Arabian Gulf while assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 151, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation.
CHRISTOPHER CORNELISSEN, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, graduated from the Chicago College of Osteo-pathic Medicine with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. He has been selected to begin his internship training in internal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
DANA J. HILL was conferred an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and is employed at Deloitte Consulting’s San Francisco office.
Navy Lt. j.g. ROBERT P. JOHNS reported for duty with the aircraft carrier Precommissioning Unit Harry S. Truman, based at Newport News, Va.
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BRIAN M. MURPHY, a 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, was designated a Naval Aviator while serving with Training Squadron 31 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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SHANE H. McKENZIE received her master’s degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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