Class Notes Mark Schmitz ’88 was recently honored as a “Bronco Legend” at Santa Clara University as part of the recent SCU Legends Night recognizing the 1992-93 Men’s Basketball team that upset Arizona in the NCAA tourney. You can read more about the team: www.scu.edu/alumni/ broncoconnect/upload/0213. html Angela (Walum) Spencer ’89 was married in July 2012 and received her Master’s in Infrastructure Planning and Management from the UW in June 2013.
Taylor Abel ’02 writes, “I just got married to Haley Abel in 2012. I’m chief neurosurgery resident at the VA in Iowa City right now.”
Jenny (Odsather) Wetzel ’97 shares the great news of the arrival of a new baby girl, Quinn MacAulay Wetzel, born May 20, 2013. She is their second child, joining Brody who is 2. Jenny continues to practice law at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle and her husband is a real estate agent for John L. Scott in Bellevue.
Marc Laveson ’03, upon graduating from Gonzaga, moved to Silicon Valley where he works in technology. Most recently he worked at a startup called Fitbit to help launch their business. He writes, “My real passions are nature and running, which I combine as an Ultra Marathon Runner. I run races from 31 to 100 miles through mountains. I came in third in my last 100 mile race. Doc Roberts, my Prep XC
coach, was instrumental in inspiring me to run. I started Prep XC my junior year, and now it is the biggest part of my life.” You can see Marc in Outside Magazine at www.outsideonline. com/fitness/Double-AgentsMarc-Laveson.html. Elisa Renouard ’03 is living in Seattle and working at Olson Kundig Architects. “I’m also a lecturer in the University of Washington’s Architecture Department, where I teach undergraduate design classes. I recently spent a semester at Montana State University teaching a design studio and architecture history. “ Alexis Young ’04 is finishing up an LLM in taxation at the UW and passed the bar in July of 2012. Dylan Stacey ’06 is a graduate student at Columbia University.
Tim Russell ’93 and his wife Andrea, son TJ, age 8, and daughter Vivian, age 5, live in Redmond, WA where they “enjoy a blessed suburban life.” Tim works for Nintendo in Organizational Development, and his kids attend St. Louise in Bellevue where “he lives vicariously through them as a CYO soccer coach for both.” Breier William Scheetz ’96, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and Roxana Rodriguez were married on August 4, 2012, at St. Anne’s Chapel, Villa Academy, in Seattle. Lt. and Mrs. Scheetz reside in Cordova, TN.
40
Hayley (Hubert) Bowman ’02 writes, “My husband Juston and I just bought our first home in the South Lake Sammamish area in Issaquah. We will be moving there with our 7 month old, Jaxon.
Christine Cahill ’01 and Matt Morgan ’01 were married in August. The wedding took place at Seattle U, Matt’s alma mater and Fr. Paul Fitterer, SJ, was the officiant. Many Prep alums were in their bridal party: Jeff Ahern ’01, Christopher Morgan ’99, Jay Blazey ’01, Meagan (Yogi) Blazey ’01, Katherine (Stergachis) Christofilis ’01, Eileen (Cahill) Mangan ’04, Maureen Cahill ’08 and Katie Morgan ’05.
Fall 2013