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Homecoming 2009 Margaritas and Mingling for V iterbi School’s Best-attended Picnic To Date. Nearly 500 Viterbi alumni and friends gathered on campus for the Viterbi School’s 2009 annual Homecoming picnic. Attendees began lining up at 8:30 a.m. for admission, hours before USC faced Stanford at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Picnic food and drinks were plentiful: Margaritas, wine and beer, along with barbecue
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chicken, egg and chorizo burritos, and fruit salads were on offer. A raffle brought in nearly $1,200 for Viterbi student scholarships, and winners walked away with prizes ranging from school sweatshirts and notepads to USC football highlights DVDs. Many generations of alums and future alums were on hand, including grandparents, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos stopped in to greet alumni and friends. “Homecoming is always my favorite time of year,” says Alumni Relations Coordinator Kathleen Concialdi. “It brings everyone back to campus, to catch up with old friends and make new ones.” //
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PHOTO CAPTIONS: 1. Alumni and friends begin lining up at 8:30 am for admission | 2. Viterbi staff register and greet picnic attendees | 3. Viterbi Homecoming picnic tables set up outside Doheny Library | 4. Bill Krenz (BSChE ’50) | 5. Lawrence Tenn (MSME ’65) and Lydia Tenn | 6. Viterbi Biomedical Engineering Professor Ted Berger, Dean Yannis Yortsos, USC Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology Roberta Brinton | 7. Future Viterbi grads, perhaps? | 8. Lou Islander (BSME ’57, MSME ’62) | 9. Stephen Fryer (BSME ’60), Stephanie Fryer and Niles Pederson
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SPRING 2010 viterbi.usc.edu
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