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Heidi Chen ’95 is enjoying living in New York.
Ralph Winnie ’92 gave a speech on sports diplomacy
Frankie Brennan ’95 has been coaching women’s
Gary Giannoni ’95 and Dulce Trice Giannoni ’95 will
and peacebuilding at the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize ceremony.
tennis at Stanford University. In his 23 years of coaching, he has coached his team to 10 NCAA titles and has been named Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Regionals Coach five times and ITA National Coach in 2003. He lives in San Carlos, Calif., with his 13-year-old daughter, Francesca.
1994 Sean Comadena ’94 was named High School Game
Times’ Tennis Coach of the Year for Redlands High School.
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celebrate 20 years of marriage this December. They have three sons: Gary III, a high school senior; Gian-Benjamin, a high school freshman; and Gienzo, a kindergartener. Combined, they have 35 years of teaching between them. Dulce celebrates her 20th year as a high school English teacher and her second year as English language coordinator for Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif. Gary attended the 25th Rangi Ya Giza (RYG) anniversary in April with classmate Liu Naotala ’95. Shannon Heavilin-Beattie ’95 will be going back
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into the classroom to teach full time in the fall. Her son, Shane, attends college locally, and her other son, Cody, is in boot camp beginning his career in the military. Kim Brody Naujokas ’95 and her husband moved
to the beautiful bluegrass state of Kentucky. They live in Lexington, where she works for a small, private, liberal arts university. When they aren’t working or traveling, they love to host cocktail parties on their front porch or spend time playing with their incredibly handsome rescue pup, Rufus. They will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary this summer.
1996 is an adjunct professor of voice at Birmingham Southern College. In January 2018, she will perform her first interdisciplinary show, “The Art of Music,” for the Central Alabama Theatre. Her show will correlate her original acrylic and mixed media paintings with a selection of jazz and popular songs. Monique Nasser Gannon ’96
We would love to know the identities of these equestrians riding through the stadium during Homecoming 1967. Can you provide any insights? Tell us what you know, and send information to: Och Tamale, University of Redlands, 1200 E. Colton Ave., P.O. Box 3080, Redlands, CA 92373-0999 or email ochtamale@redlands.edu In response to our photo from the University Archives on page 49 of the summer 2017 issue and the question of where these students have been since they graduated, we received the following information by email:
Pier cancer fundraiser, which has raised more than $4 million in five years. The event helps support brain cancer research through the Uncle Kory Foundation, which he started with his wife, Amanda.
Susan Lee Whitlo Clasen ’63 is pictured center, and she writes
her travels have included all 50 states; eight or nine Canadian provinces; Mexico with Penny King ’63, Judy Brodie Liddell ’63, and Carole York ’63; Costa Rica and Ecuador also with Judy; Iceland; Scotland; Wales; England; Netherlands; Germany; Austria; Czech Republic; Italy; France; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Hungary; Slovakia; Russia; India; China; and Australia. She has returned to Salzburg, where she spent her fall sophomore semester, twice with her husband, Don. COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
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Heath Gregory ’96 co-founded the Tour de
David Howell writes that the student on the right is the late Marshall Petersen ’60: “I knew Marshall at Whittier High
School where he was one year older than I was and so would have graduated there in 1956. ... Some years later, like 1966, I was working at TRW Systems in Redondo Beach, and Marshall showed up there. As I recall, he was the treasurer for the whole huge company and was visiting from the corporate office in Cleveland, Ohio. It was his signature that was printed on every paycheck for the company.”
Leticia Llamas Wells ’96 receives the 2017 Woman of Influence Award from the College of Southern Nevada.