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1969
Dennis Haupt retired in 2010 after spending 37 years with the El Monte School District as a middle school math teacher and ten years as a vice-principal. Dennis has an antique store on Fair Oaks in Pasadena where he sells period California paintings and Mission furniture. He and his family live in Pasadena.
1972
Stephen Mulqueen retired in 2009 and is now active doing volunteer work as a docent and exhibit coordinator at the California Oil Museum in Santa Paula. As a geologist, he serves as the field trip leader for tours related to geology and paleontology. Stephen and his wife Susan, who is an entomologist, live in Ventura. Steve McManus works in the LA County Public Defender Office defending convicted child molesters and rapists against a lifetime commitment to a state hospital.
1982
Michael Barilla is a a Captain and paramedic with the Pasadena Fire Department. He and his wife Melanie have been married for 25 years and have three childrenKaitlyn (22), Kristyn (20) and Tyler (15).
1985
Alton Talley is currently recovering from open heart surgery and doing well. He works with the Boy Scouts of America as treasurer and is a leader for a local Cub Scout Pack. He and his wife celebrated their 20th Wedding Anniversary in August and live in Ceres, CA with their three children, Briana (15), Adriana (9) and Christopher (7).
1996
Michael McNamara and Sarah (Hansen) McNamara ’02 are owners of a one-stop-shop real estate marketing company, Shooting LA. Mike has been an architectural and interior design photographer for the last five years and now the two are working together to offer floor plans, websites, headshots and amazing film tours. Their website is www.ShootingLA.com.
2001
Katie Johnston is running the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC in October with the help and support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training (TNT). Her goal is to raise funds to help find 30
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cures and better treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma. If you are interested in learning more or if you would like to donate in support of Katie’s cause, you can do so online at http://pages.teamintraining. org/nca/corps12/kjohnsttax.
2002
Alexis de Falla is the grocery department manager for The Natural Foods Co-Op in San Luis Obispo. Kristen Fujiwara is a therapeutic behavioral specialist for Hillsides Home for Children in Pasadena. Carol Davis received her Master of Psychology in 2010 and is now working on her Doctorate in Psychology at the University of La Verne. She is currently a psychology trainee at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center and is working on her dissertation research.
Vanessa (Casillas) Caulfield recently graduated with her Master of Occupational Therapy from Loma Linda University. She and her husband John Caulfield ’03 have been married for two years and live in Pasadena. Adam Gibbs has been in the Coast Guard for over five years. He was stationed in Hawaii for two years and then moved to the the Bay Area where he has been for the last two years. Adam has two more years of active duty in the USCG and then he plans on moving back to Southern California. Kari (Umland) Sapir moved to her husband Robert’s hometown in Hawaii just before their first child was born. Kari and Robert now have three children with one on the way - Kayli (5), Viktoria (3), and Robert Jr. (RJ) (1). Amanda (Hutton) Baker is an interior designer with Mulvanny G2 Architecture in Bellevue, WA. She and her husband Bryan make their home in Seattle. Arianna McClain is doing academic research at Stanford University to develop clinical trials to treat pediatric obesity. She earned both her Master of Public Health and PhD in Preventive Medicine from USC. Angie Gilliam earned her MBA from USC
Jeremiah de Leon is a physical therapist assistant with Interface Rehab, LLC. He played semi-professional basketball in the Philippines in 2008 and continues to play on a competitive level with a travel team. Kirtan Tom and her husband Brendan Inman worked and lived in Nagoya, Japan for the past four years teaching English. They returned to the US this summer and are looking to settle down and start a family. Jennifer (Savant) Taylor earned her second BS in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education from Utah State in 2010. She and her husband Jonathan live in Burbank. Amanda Plescia Mareina is currently working as a server and pastry chef at Nicola’s Pizza and Pasta in Portland, Oregon. She has also started her own quilting company “It’s Sew Easy.” Amanda is engaged to be married in Newport Beach on October 6, 2012. Armando Lara-Millan is in a PhD program at Northwestern University where he also earned his Master’s in 2008. Bryan Holst graduated from UC Hastings Law School in 2009 and works for P.F.I., Inc., a manufacturing company based in Santa Fe Springs.
Marshall School of Business in May. She now works in retail merchandising as a senior project specialist for Guess? and lives in Santa Monica. Angie is pictured (far right) celebrating her graduation with fellow classmates Nabil Bisharat ’02 and Jenny Gosselin ’02. Sean Grimes is an operations supervisor for Royalty Ambulance Services. Heidi (Jutsum) McAnnally-Linz is a global outreach associate for Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit international development agency. She is in the process of earning her Master of Public Administration from NYUWagner. Heidi also serves as Board Chair of the International Humanitarian Foundation Board of Directors and is on the Board of Elders for Elm City Vineyard Church. She and her husband Ryan McAnnally-Linz ’02 have been married since July 2006. Lynette (Ramos) Fernandez and her husband Joseph have been married since April 2007 and have two children, Annabelle (4) and Logan (2). Lynette and her family live in San Gabriel.