NewsNotes Go Gauls! At Skaggs, Brookie has been engaged in various teaching, mentoring, research, and organizational functions. In 2013, she won the Professor of the Year Award, voted on by the Associated Students of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
1984 • It was nice to see Jaime Muldoon ’85, John Clements, Jason Keyes ’82 and Fred Heald at our alumni event in San Diego in March. - 23
Julie (Grabowski) Vaughn had a mini reunion at her home in Carlsbad. Pictured: Kevin Berne, Julie, Hoddy Fritz, Annalee Lehman Osborn, Christina Mercer McGinley, John Clements and Tom Stellar. - 24
David West and his wife Lisa flew out from Texas to attend the retirement celebration for Dave Fawcett and Diane Wilsdon. David has many fond memories of his time spent at the Fawcett-Wilsdon home. - 35
Scott Little visited campus with his wife Virginia, their two children, his sister Kim and stepmom. Scott and his family live in Poland. - 25 Kurt Pitzer’s movie Runoff had its world premiere at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival. Kurt produced the film, which is written and directed by his wife Kimberly Levin. - 26 The Boston Marathon has been a dream bucket list item for Dana Su Lee. “Christine Carr is responsible for getting me into distance running. In lieu of attending our 25th reunion at Brown University, she suggested we run the Nike Women’s Half in DC, April 2013. Had such a good time (all thanks to her pacing) that it led to another girlfriend (also from Portland) convincing me to run the Santa Barbara Marathon with her last November. Santa Barbara qualified me for Boston, and next up is New York 11/2. My Boston finish time was 3:43:57. Out of 31,926 finishers I was 13,609; 477th in my age division; and the 4,346 woman out of 14,344 to cross the finish line. I love the stats, and at the very least, I hope my children can see that it’s never too late to try something new!” - 27
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1991 • Lee Chou and Michi Fu spoke at Sophomore Career Evening on April 27. During the “Health & Wellness” session, students learned about Michi’s work as a psychologist at Pacific Clinics, and associate professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, and Lee’s chiropractic practice as co-owner of Nazareth Clinic in Los Angeles. - 36, 37
Mike Leroy and Clifford Rice ’92 attended the retirement celebration in May to say farewell to Mr. Fawcett. - 39 1992 • Arron Mack is now working at Cosmo Supply Lab, a Hong Kong-based company involved with engineered soft-goods, and consumer electronics accessories. As associate director of research & product design management, Arron is in charge of the creative team.
It was great to see Ingrid McDonald and her family on campus in May. Ingrid has two sons, Roscoe and Skyler. They’ve been living in Seattle where Ingrid worked for AARP. They’ve recently moved to Burma for her husband’s work. - 28 1986 • Tom Monroe and his daughter, Elena, visited and toured Webb last fall on a family trip to the U.S. Tom and his family still live in Basel, Switzerland. Elena joined the VWS Class of 2018 this fall! - 29
Geoffrey Yeo and his wife Diana recently celebrated their son Nicholas’ 1st birthday!
Sameer Dholakia is our regional rep in the Silicon Valley. This is a new position on the Alumni Council to help expand our outreach in the area. Sameer is the former group VP and GM for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix Systems. A big thank you to him for hosting an alumni networking event in July. - 38
1985 • Ken Block is general counsel for New American Funding in Orange County.
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Andrew Wass is living in Berlin with his wife Kelly and their daughter Magdalena. He is a member of the performance groups Non Fiction and Lower Left. His work is heavily influenced by his undergrad studies in biochemistry at UC San Diego and he’s a recent graduate of the MA program of Solo/Dance/Authorship at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin.
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1988 • David Huang spoke at Sophomore Career Evening as part of “The Doctors” session. David is a radiation oncologist and medical director at the Gamma Knife Center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
A big thanks to Steve Shenbaum for being a guest speaker during the Unbounded Days symposium. Steve led students through group exercises to develop their communication skills. Christine French ’90 stopped by to say hello. - 30, 31 Eugene “B.G.” Whitlock married Romina Mercuri at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on March 29, 2014. Lionel Yang and Tommy Oei ’89 served as groomsmen. The couple live in Menlo Park where B.G. is vice chancellor for human resources & employee relations at San Mateo County Community College District. - 32
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1989 • Jeff Hyman is now president at NHN Entertainment Labs, based in Santa Monica, CA.
Steve Mercer spoke at Sophomore Career Evening in April as part of “The Lawyers” session. Steve is a deputy attorney general in the criminal division for the California Attorney General’s Office. In the audience was his niece Cori ’16. - 33 Timothy Sun has joined the Alumni Council as the new regional rep for Hong Kong. We enjoyed seeing him on campus for the WSC Commencement ceremony. - 34
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Marcelo Leonardi ’94 was named head coach of the omen s ater Polo team at niversity of Michigan, e ective uly 1, 2014. Marcelo was previously the head coach at Cal tate Northridge, where the Matadors were nationally ranked No. this year. In his final campaign, the team finished second in the Big est. Neel Kotrappa ’10 and the Claremont-Mudd- cripps tags Men s tennis team finished runners-up in the NCAA III Men s eam Championships. Neel and his doubles partner also represented the tags in doubles competition at the 2014 NCAA III Men s individual Championships. Andrew Lantz ’10 made his final appearance as a avidson ildcat at the 2014 NCAA I East egional rack ield Meet. e narrowly missed advancing, taking 2 th overall in the 00m. is time of 1:4 .33 was a personal best. A two-time NCAA East egional qualifier, Andrew advanced from the first round to the 00m quarterfinals in 2013 and he was runner-up at the 2014 oCon Outdoor Championships. Andrew still holds the ebb record for the 00m Lindsey Crowe ’10 received the aymond haran ervice Award for her contributions to the Bryn Mawr omen s occer team. Austin Talleur ’12, a redshirt freshman for Pepperdine ater Polo, earned Mountain Pacific ports ederation All-Academic honors. A pre-business administration ma or, Austin appeared in 20 out of 22 matches, scoring four goals, and he was a Pepperdine cholar Athlete for the 2013 season. Pepperdine competes at the I level of the NCAA. Nick Gollin ’13 had a break-out year at ashington niversity in t. ouis. he college freshman was named ookie of the ear by 3baseball.com, and named to the all- AA first team. Nick was selected as the AA Pitcher of the eek three times April 21, May , May 12 .
1990 • Brookie Best was appointed associate dean for admissions and outreach for UC San Diego’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in June 2013. She continues her work as associate professor of clinical pharmacy and pediatrics, and she’s a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine-Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego.
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