History Alumni 1960s

Walter Karabian (BA 1960, JD 1963, MS Public Administration 1965) Practicing lawyer in Los Angeles at Karms & Karabian.  Former California State Assemblyman 1966-1975.  Member of Southern California Historical Society.

Steve Moseley (BA 1960) teaches history and English and lives in La Jolla.

Bobbie F. Albanese (BA 1961, MA 1968) has retired from the law firm Lozano Smith. Her husband and her son also have degrees from USC. She is a member of USC Associates.

Daniel Wolfson (BA 1962, MA 1964)  lives in Harrisburg Pennsylvania where he practices law at Wolfson & Associates.

Eileen Kramer (BA 1963)  received her law degree from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law in 1979 and now is a solo practitioner in ADR/Arbitration/Mediation

Mike McDevitt (BA 1963) spent 34 years in the U.S. Navy retiring as a Rear Admiral in 1997 after heading the National War College. Since that time I have been at a Washington DC area think-tank  where he is Director of the Center for Strategic Studies.

Elizabeth Goldstein (BA 1964, MA 1968) teaches at Huntington School, San Marino.

Carole Shammas (BA 1964, MA 1967) (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1971) returned to the USC History Department in 1997. Her book, A History of Household Government in America will be published by the University Press of Virginia in the fall of 2002.

Lee Anspacher (BA 1965) has taught Social Studies courses at Sylmar High School since 1981 and has just finished a stint as Department Chair.

Charles De Valin Conyers, II (BA 1965)  (MA , Journalism 1974) coaches—at no charge—candidates for Masters degrees who have encountered difficulty writing their theses and is contemplating writing a book on this subject.

Dale S. Gribow (BA 1965) practices law on El Paseo Drive in Palm Desert. He has received several “Man of the Year” awards most recently from the City of Hope. He has a wife and teenage daughter.

Barbara Raia King (BA 1966, JD 1969-USC Law School) after practicing law for 31 years with the State of California, she retired in 2000.

Victor Pilson (BA, 1967, MA 1971) recommends that historians adopt a more journalistic approach to writing in order to broaden their audience.

Bob Padgett (BA 1968) received a medical degree from Creighton University and practiced Emergency Room medicine for 25 years. His son, a third generation Trojan, will begin at USC in the fall of 2002.

Stuart Bloom (BA 1969, MD 1973) is  Medical Staff President Ventura County Medical Center. He has been in solo Family Practice since 1976 and remembers the lessons of history every day.

Joyce Duncan Falk (Ph.D., 1969) wrote a dissertation on 18th-century France under the direction of Lloyd Moote. She is employed by the University of California Education Abroad Program where she was recently recognized for her service. She served as bibliographic consultant to the American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature.

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