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Dave Welch ’98 is living in Washington, DC, working in computer graphics for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His son, David Joshua, just turned two while he and wife Jenna are expecting their second child, a girl, shortly. Robert Blankinship ’99 has accepted an offer from NAI Robert Lynn, where he serves as a market director. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a degree in business administration and a Master’s of Professional Accounting, Barrett Schick ’99 moved to Houston to start work with Lehman Brothers in their Global Natural Resources Group of Investment Banking. In 2006, he left Lehman and joined Lime Rock, where he is a senior associate focused on private equity investments in the energy sector. He married in November 2008.
2000s John Campbell ’80 and Shane Huffman ’03 attended a University of Central Arkansas baseball game this spring to cheer on Josh Huffman ’05 and Michael Wild ’05.
Devin Fitzgerald ’00 received a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Colorado State University, then John Lynch ’94 and wife Kimberly are the happy first- graduated from Ross University School of Veterinary time parents of daughter Rowan Olivia. Born April Medicine in the fall of 2008. He married Rachael Roith, a 9, 2009, she is the 14th grandchild to John’s parents, fellow veterinarian. The Fitzgeralds live and work in the Mike and Jeanette Lynch. John is the director of field Chicago suburbs. management for Military Sales & Service, where he is responsible for the entire sales staff. He has been Brad Nitschke ’00 graduated from the UT School of Law with the company for six years and is currently living in May 2007, returned to Dallas and joined the litigation in Dallas about a mile from Jesuit. and construction sections of Jackson Walker, LLP, where he now practices. Darin Chin-Aleong ’95 and his wife Trina had a very special present delivered on Christmas Day last year. Peter Scott ’01 graduated from Seton Hall University Son Tyler James Chin-Aleong was born on Dec. 25, School of Law in May. He will return to Texas to take the 2008, and weighed 6 lbs., 15 oz. Bar exam and begin his career in law. A certified six sigma Black Belt, Todd McGowan ’95 works in strategic development for CitiMortgage in Irving. In his spare time, he is working on a second master’s degree in Decision Sciences at UNT. Todd and his wife Traci celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary July 3.
After graduating from Rhodes College in 2006 with a BA in English and psychology, John Moses ’02 entered the psychology program at City College of New York, where he performed research and taught undergraduate students. He earned his master’s degree in December of 2008 and was accepted into the doctorate program at the City College of New York, where he works in the field of Carl Esposito ’96 married Rebecca Movey on June 20, cognitive neuroscience. 2008. After honeymooning in Hawaii, they settled in Arlington where both work at the University of Texas at Arlington. Carl was promoted to assistant director of undergraduate recruitment this past December. Jim Robinson ’97 married Meredith Gusa at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Dallas on Dec. 27, 2008. Groomsmen were Brendan Diggins ’97, Eric Gusa ’02, John Hever ’97 and Stephen Sprague ’97. Gil Salazar ’97 and wife Lety wish to announce the birth of their baby daughter, Gabriela Maria Salazar, born in Baton Rouge, LA, on April 3, 2009. Chris Muldoon ’98 lives in Portland, OR. He works as an EMT, responding to 911 calls. He goes to college part-time and is a member of Portland Mountain Rescue, an all-volunteer mountain search and Lindsey Latimer ’02 (L) and Kevin Passmore ’02 rescue team. pause while mountain climbing in the Utah desert.
For the past two years, Kevin Passmore ’02 has been happily employed as an engineer at a composites technology company in western Colorado. He is an avid climber and ski mountaineer. LTGP Michael Eric P. Quisao ’02 is deployed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, a Nimitz-class carrier based in Norfolk, VA. Ryan Ward ’02 will marry Laura Johnson, a graduate of Plano Senior High School and Texas Tech University, this summer. They have been dating since his junior year at Jesuit and will live in Cypress, TX, after the wedding. Nathaniel Altaffer ’05 is currently deployed to Iraq as a civil affairs specialist in the Army Reserves. He is assigned to A Company 490th Civil Affairs Battalion out of Dallas. The football players at Iowa State have elected Reggie Stephens ’05 as a captain for the 2009 season. Reggie graduated early, but started working on an MBA while he completes his football eligibility. He has started the past 28 games for the Cyclones. Todd Wildman ’05 won the pentathlon championship at the NCAA Division III Indoor Nationals. Wildman was named Athlete of the Meet and Indoor Athlete of the Year while leading Trinity University to a sixth-place team finish all by himself. He also finished second in the high jump and seventh in the 55-meter hurdles, earning All-American honors in all three events.
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Four Jesuit classmates celebrated their college graduations with a ski vacation to Telluride, CO: (L to R) Matt Cook ’04, Chris Elbaor ’04, Zachary Young ’04 and Will Carroll ’04.
Ryan McCabe ’06 has proved he’s an Ironman, completing his first Ironman Triathlon in Panama City, FL, last November. Ryan finished 585th out of 2,271 participants. Ryan is a mechanical engineering student at Texas A&M.
Jesuit Alumni Seek Medical Breakthrough with MicroTransponder MicroTransponder Inc. and the three Jesuit alumni behind the medical device company are trying to change the way millions of people deal with pain. Will Rosellini ’97 founded the company, with classmates Jordan Curnes ’97 and Frank McEachern ’97 playing important roles. Rosellini is the CEO, with Curnes the President and COO. McEachern is Chairman of the Board and CFO. The company is developing a wireless neurostimulation system for the treatment of chronic pain. The system will provide relief without requiring implanted battery or wires, making it minimally invasive. MicroTransponder is developing the wireless stimulation technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Experts from both the financial and medical realms have praised MicroTransponder. The company was named “Most Promising Life Science Technology Company of 2009” at the Rice Alliance Venture Forum in June. Rosellini testified in front of the House of Representatives Committee on Small Business. The Dallas Morning News published a front-page story on the Jesuit trio. In less than a year, MicroTransponder raised almost $5 million, including an award from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and three separate National Institute of Health SBIR grants.
The driving forces behind MicroTransponder are three 1997 Jesuit graduates: (L to R): Frank McEachern, Will Rosellini and Jordan Curnes.