ALUMNI NEWS
CLASS NOTES News from our Alumni 1959 Peter Breidenbach (L) (Newbury Park, California) wrote, “After 24 years away, I have returned to the Los Angeles area for work and life. Best to all in the Seven Hills and Lotspeich circle.” Peter owns Peter Bright Productions, where he is creative producer-writer and voice-over announcer.
School. In 2015, she was named Western & Southern Financial Group’s Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year in Cincinnati Public Schools. 2
1985 Congratulations to Michael Spitz (Los Angeles, California), who recently published Queen City Records, a book about record store history and culture in Cincinnati. 1
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1988 Congratulations to Krista Vitz Taylor (Cincinnati) on the recent publication of Angels and Superheroes: Compassionate Educators in an Era of School Accountability, which she co-authored with Jack Jose. Krista is an intervention specialist and lead teacher in Cincinnati Public Schools at 2 Gamble Montessori High
Brett Rubenstein (Fountain Valley, Colorado) sent us a photo of a Seven Hills meet up at Eldora Ski Resort near Boulder, Colorado. Former Seven Hills faculty members Ann Carson and Steve Kerchner and their daughter, Ellen, met up with Brett and his wife, Carolyn, and children, Jackson (age 11) and Piper (age 9). Ann taught Brett AP Biology at Seven Hills, and then Brett taught Ann and Steve’s daughter AP Biology at Fountain Valley School of Colorado! 3
1992 Tom McElhinney (Columbus, Mississippi) wrote, “I took command of the 43rd Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force
Base in Mississippi on April 25. The squadron has 85 instructor pilots in three different airframes (T-6, T-38, and T-1). We are responsible for augmenting the active duty mission of training student pilots in Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Columbus Air Force Base. The squadron flies about 12,000 flights per year and represents about 15 percent of the total sortie production of the base. I've been a part of the 43rd Flying Training Squadron for 12 years and am very excited to take command of the squadron for the next two years. I will also keep flying the 757 and 767 with United Airlines out of Chicago, in addition to being the Squadron Commander for my Air Force reserve job.”
1994 Congratulations to Ned Elliott (Cincinnati) who is opening a restaurant, Foreign & Domestic, in Over-the-Rhine in summer 2018. Ned previously worked for
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