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alumni 51 Hon. Robert M. Falasco B.S.
’48 was honored by his colleagues in Merced County when the courthouse in Los Banos was named the Merced County Robert M. Falasco Justice Center in his honor.
63 Hon. Peter Breen is a senior
judge for the state of Nevada, and does private mediation and arbitration. Hon. Thomas Breen retired in 2000, but works statewide in the assigned judges program and as a trustee at Gavilan Community Collge. Anthony Da Vigo is retired from the practice of public law, and is a certified instructor for caretakers and law enforcement on how to cope with persons with severe mental illness. Thomas McGlynn is retired from the practice of law, and living in Red Bluff. Leon Panetta mentions grandkids and golf as two pleasures of his life. For an update on Panetta, see story on Page 2. Hon. Tom Smith is enjoying riding his horse, reading and watching old movies in retirement.
68 John Chessell has had a small
private practice since 1999, after retiring from the Riverside County
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District Attorney’s Office. George Pifer is fully retired at age 87 and residing in a continuing care complex. He and his wife have been married 67 years. Joel Primes is in private practice after retiring from the California Attorney General’s Office in 2004. He volunteers at the Senior Legal Hotline, and does mediations there. Paul Principe is retired after a career as a deputy district attorney in the Bay Area. Ben Rishwain has a part-time law practice and does real estate development.
76 Esau Herrera BSC ’72 is back
on the Alum Rock School District Board of Education, having been elected after a three-year break from 20 consecutive years as a member. He attended school in the district as a child. His daughter, Kiara Cristina, is a freshman at SCU.
77 Hon. Virginia Marcoida was
appointed to the Sonoma County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Previously, she served as a deputy public defender for Sonoma County since 1985. She also worked as an attorney with Porter & Dunham in Paris, France, and for the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office.
78 Valerie McInroy Arnesen is a
member of the tax department at McDermott Will & Emery in Palo Alto. She writes, “Probably my most significant accomplishment has been finding a way to practice law “parttime” for the last 25 years.” She was the first female attorney at Fenwick & West, and the firm’s first parttime partner. Mario Cano practices criminal and immigration law in South Florida. Cathleen Curl has practiced law at the firm of Manos & Curl in Millbrae for the past 21 years. The latest children’s book by Moira Rose Donohue is called Penny and the Punctuation Bee, starring Penny the Period and her grammar cohort. The book is geared toward 6- to 9-yearolds. Moira lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Rob, and her two children, Peter and Rose. John Doyle has a law practice in Pasadena, where he handles governmental entity defense, insurance, products liability, business and trust litigation, and appeals. He has served on the boards of directors of several organizations, including Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the Pasadena Center for Children. Vernon Granneman married Mary Nadeau on March 1, 2008. They live in San Jose. Joel Harter is the presiding judge