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Lowell Alumni Association
Winter 2010
Keeping In Touch… Keeping in Touch items submitted after November 1991 DO, MD, has started her fourth year 1, 2010 will appear in the next issue of the alumni DIANA as faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute, the Hopkins University School of Medicine, newsletter. To share news with your classmates, visit Johns Department of Ophthalmology. She is assistant of ophthalmology and assistant head of www.Lowellalumni.org and click on “alumni news.” professor the Retina Fellowship Training Program. This
1974
JAN. & JUNE
LISA COUGHLIN CLAY brags, “We are proud parents of Donnie Clay ’04, who will be attending Harvard Law School in fall 2009; Angelina Clay ’07, who is a junior at Cal; and Anthony Clay, who is a senior at Lowell.” JEFFREY SHAPIRO sighs, “Getting lonely in Atlanta. Two kids already in college and my third leaving soon.” RODNEY OWYANG comments. “Hi, fellow alumni. Wow, tradition, economy, jobs, Obama, health, just 2009, what a year and for everyone I’m sure. So much has happened…Peace & Love. Let’s see what will happen!” DAVID FELLOWS e-mails, “Voluntarily (!) unemployed since August 2008. House husbanding and child rearing and looking for the Next Big Thing. Scott Wood, Kelly Cline ’73, and I still managed our annual ski outing, here in Colorado. Probably won’t make any gathering this year…looking forward to the 40th!”
1975 EDWARD T. HEE mentions, “Son graduated from the local community college with a degree in computer programming. I am only nine months from being eligible for a pension from my employer, but I don’t think the mortgage will let that happen.”
1976 SUSAN SIMPSON tells, “Two daughters in universities and one son starting 5th grade. Has it really been 33 years since our graduation? Still bragging about my excellent public school education at Lowell. Seattle has been my home for 25 years now, but I left my heart in San Francisco!” ELIZABETH TOM informs, “I’m still in Elko, Nevada, where I’m on the board of directors for the Northeastern Nevada Historical Society and for Cowboy Country Territory (a volunteer marketing committee for the Nevada Commission of Tourism). I am currently serving as the international relations director for Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (I previously served on this board from 1998–2006) and teach leadership courses for APO around the country. I’ve also traveled to APO Philippines conventions five times, most recently in May 2009. We went hunting and sightseeing in South Africa in 2007, Botswana in 2008, and Namibia in 2009, but we haven’t hiked any mountains since Kilimanjaro in 2003, and our last diving trip was on the USS Oriskany in Pensacola in 2007. Hopefully, we’ll be able to retire from surgery in the next few years so we can do more traveling!”
1978 DAVID FINK is practicing divorce mediation and collaborative family law from offices in Union Square. JOHN CHUCK shares, “When my sister-in-law rolled into the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center with an obstetrical emergency, she received outstanding care from a team led by none other than fellow class of ’78 alum Dr. Arlene Cosca. After graduation from Lowell, Arlene attended Cal and then the UCLA School of Medicine. She is the chief of ob/gyn at her medical center and thanks to her heroics, my sister-in-law and her baby did just fine! Without a doubt, Arlene gets my vote for Alumna of the Year!”
1979 PAUL TSIEN greets, “Hello, everyone! My wife, Bette, and I are busy (and having fun) raising our boys, Mark (5) and Matthew (2). I am still with Oracle, and we live in Palo Alto.”
1980 KANDYCE PILAR COLLINS announces, “I gave birth to twins (boy and girl) on January 23, 2009. Orion Kai and Farallon Felice are happy, healthy, and wonderful new spirits. My husband, Fraser, and I are elated. Blessings to all!”
1982 JOHN VAN KIRK updates, “I am a senior project manager in the environmental group with AECOM’s Denver office. Most of our work is with utility clients, and we conduct site studies and prepare environmental reports and permit applications for all types of utility infrastructure ranging from transmission lines to power plants and wind farms. I’ve been with AECOM (formerly EDAW, a SF-based firm) for a little over three years now.” DEBRA STRACH GERMENIS writes, “A shout out to Camille, Trudy, Barbara, Jules, Jorge, Ricardo, Celia, Marina, Cheryl, Lillian, Jackie, Nora, and Marty. Here’s to high school friendships lasting a lifetime. Pool party at Celia’s in August and the Christmas party at Camille’s this year!”
1983 EMILY MURASE had a blast going to see Lowell alumnus Daniel Handler ’88 (aka Lemony Snicket) perform with the San Francisco Symphony on March 29. Emily recalls, “I accompanied AP Poetry legend Flossie Lewis to the performance, and we were whisked to the Green Room afterwards to take photos with the author.”
1988 ELAINE M. ANDERSON e-mails, “Living in Alexandria, VA, and working in DC. Margot Fahnestock ’89 lives in DC too! We are on a constant quest for food even vaguely as good as SF’s! Sorry to have missed the reunion.”
1989 JASON CHU announces, “Got married on July 2 in San Francisco to Chen Pan, the love of my life. She is a media personality in China and is the bilingual host of Disney’s Hannah Montana in Shanghai. To be with Chen, I have been traveling back and forth between San Francisco and Shanghai, and will soon settle there after our wedding reception literally overlooking Shanghai. If you are in the Shanghai or San Francisco areas, please drop us a line.” He adds, “Many changes this year…I had great nine-year run at IBM as its North America FDA compliance leader, strategist for its health care/life sciences consulting division, asset transformation manager, and most recently, cross-industry value creation executive. With Big Blue behind, I now have more time to dedicate to real estate investing and advising venture capitalists. Still on the board of the nonprofit www.tennisforkids.org, which offers free tennis lessons to at-risk youth in San Francisco. If you have experience in IT/ EHR applications to reduce medical loss ratios, R.E. development on Native American land or in Guam, federally-insured bond issuance, or wind power solutions, please let me know and I’ll be glad to refer/JV them.”
my native San Francisco! Cheers!” PETER TUCKER has written the music and lyrics for “As Always”, a new musical premiering March 10-27 at San Francisco’s Eureka Theater, with proceeds benefiting the San Francisco Parks Trust’s Music in Parks program. Bravo! For more info, please visit www.asalwaystickets.com
past year, Diana and her husband, Quan Nguyen, MD, who is associate professor of ophthalmology at Hopkins, were invited as guest speakers to Prague, Czech Republic; Paris, France; Hong Kong; and Seoul, Korea, to present their scientific research. Diana’s sister, Katherine Do ’92, MD, recently joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as an assistant professor in otolaryngology surgery.
1994
JOHN MORGAN SALOMON mails, “Currently working as risk analysis consultant at ABN AMRO BV in Amsterdam (Netherlands), living part-time between Amsterdam and Paris. Finished my MBA at INSEAD in 2008.” He also wants to know, “Where’d the website that Tycho Lemar put together for the 2001 reunion go?”
ANDREW GREEN informs, “I’ve left corporate law practice in Hong Kong to head to Washington, DC, and politics. I am honored to be working for the newly elected senator from Oregon, Jeff Merkley, as his legislative counsel handling banking, trade, and business law issues. If you have ideas, be in touch.”
SHARIANNE LOUIE writes, “Greetings, classmates of ’91! It’s been a great 18 years since graduation and I hope you all are doing well. I am currently working full-time at Genetech and am also in my last year of the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where I am also this year’s co-chair of the Evening MBA Admissions Committee. Feel free to reach out to me for anything big or small! Love to help set up my friends and classmates for success. I can be reached at sharianne_louie@ mba.berkeley.edu” YORAM BAUMAN reports, “I’m teaching environmental economics in Seattle and gearing up for my 2010 Supply Side World Tour as ‘the world’s first and only stand-up economist.’ Check out my website, www.standupeconomist. com, for videos and more, including details about my forthcoming book, A Cartoon Introduction to Economics, coming in early 2010!”
1992 MEGAN KIRK HIRSCHBEIN announces, “My husband, Alan, and I welcomed our beautiful daughter Hannah on January 18, 2009, and we are loving living in Marin.” KATHERINE DO news – see 1991.
1993
JENNIFER LAI announces, “Working at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Just named department head of Internal Medicine.”
1995
1997 ANA PAYES sends, “I’m currently working as a dean of students at a San Jose charter middle school and loving it. Education is definitely a vital part of our children’s lives. It has been challenging and rewarding. Lowell High School definitely helped prepare me in so many ways!” GYDA ARBER shares, “The show I wrote and directed in NYC, Suspicious Package, was nominated for Best Play in the NY Innovative Theater Awards, to be announced in September.” Our sources tell us LAUREN CHOI-DEA recently gave birth to a baby boy, Tristan Dea Marshman. Proud grandmother MAY CHOI ’68 is an outstanding and dedicated counselor at Lowell. Congrats to mom and grandma!
2002 ROBERTO LOBO news – see 1963.
2004 MAX BIEN-KAHN graduated from University of Oregon with a degree in music. His band, The Daveys, recently released a new CD. DONNIE CLAY news – see 1974.
RYAN LOUIE comments, “Lowell continues to be a center of inspiration!” and sends greetings to Lowellites everywhere!
2007
ALEXANDRA ELCHINOFF updates, “Just a hello. Just ended a competitive motorcycleracing career after 15 years and am still living in
ANGELINA CLAY news – see 1974.
JOSEPH BIEN-KAHN just transferred to UC Santa Cruz.
Joe Ehrman ’41 Honored by Boy Scouts The San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America honored Lowell alumnus and former faculty member Joseph Ehrman III earlier this year with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in recognition of his more than seven decades in scouting. Mr. Ehrman joined Troop 14 in 1936, later earning the rank of Eagle Scout, although World War II delayed the official presentation of that rank until 1944, when he also began service as Assistant Scoutmaster. In 1952, one year before joining the Lowell faculty, Joe became Troop 14’s tenth Scoutmaster, a position he held for an amazing 49 years before stepping back slightly to continue his involvement as Assistant Scoutmaster, where he continues to serve. During his tenure as Scoutmaster, 256 young men attained the Eagle Scout rank, including current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (Lowell ’55) and U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer (Lowell ’59). In addition to the Eagle Scouts, Scoutmaster Ehrman taught thousands of other young people the vital life lessons of good citizenship, making good choices, self-reliance and the benefits of teamwork.
Joe Ehrman ’41 displays his Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, flanked by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ’59 (left) and Scout Executive Kenneth C. Melhorn (right). As rare as it is to attain the rank of Eagle Scout (fewer than 2 million in last 100 years), the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award is even more rare, with just under 2,000 recipients to date. The Lowell Alumni Association adds its congratulations to Joe Ehrman, our long-time Treasurer and Director, for earning this well-deserved recognition for his dedication to scouting.