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Class Notes Archive 1931-2014

Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):

Class notes from the 2000s

2000Jackson Hull married Aurelia Cottarel ’01 in June in Brive, France. In attendance were Austin Gannam ’00, Rachel Gannam ’00, Mikel Golden ’01, Lauren Higley ’01, Ashley Jackson ’01, Martin Lee ’00, Sean Lucq ’00, Elissa Pignati ’98, Greg Pignati ’98, Scott Reed ’99 and Stacy Reed ’00. The couple lives in San Francisco. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue)   Tashara Kuspa graduated cum laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue)    Trevor Leeds works in Southern California for Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization founded by Stanford University’s athletic department to change the culture of youth sports. He and his wife, Rebecca (Marmion) Leeds ’99, live in Long Beach. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue)    Sarah Schroeder and Casey Dillon ’99 married this summer at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. They live in San Francisco where Dillon works as a graphic designer and Schroeder is a marketing and sales manager for a senior assisted-living community. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue)    Sara Neal has opened a boutique, Annabella’s San Francisco, located in North Beach. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue)    Jenna Rivett received a D.C. (doctor of chiropractic) in 2003 and opened her own practice, A Perfect Curve Chiropractic, in Roseville. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue)    Lorrell (Kenney) Walter joined advertising and public relations firm Latorra, Paul & McCann in Syracuse, N.Y., as a public relations account manager. Walter had served as director of public relations for the New York Beef Industry Council since 2000. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue)    Nathanael Horne, M.D., received the Auxiliary Memorial Award from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in Arlington Heights, Ill., for a paper about lung fibroblasts. A senior allergy immunology fellow at Nassau University Medical Center in New York, Horne is also an avid runner and participated in April’s Boston Marathon. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue)    Phan Le serves on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity and is co-founder and chair of a family resource committee that won an award from Habitat for Humanity International for its creative and coordinated approach to helping homeowners revitalize East Bay neighborhoods. He has also been admitted to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue)    Trudi Opton and Kevin Loscotoff ’01 were married in May. Bridesmaids included Malea Mordaunt ’01, Michelle Malik, Rebecca Crosby, Nicole Danz and Lacey Berg. Groomsmen included John Hall ’01. The couple lives in San Francisco, where Opton is a public affairs associate, and Loscotoff is a regional community affairs manager for Wal-Mart. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue)    Elizabeth Vianna, M.S., has been promoted to winemaker at Chimney Rock Winery in Napa. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue)    Daniel Gohlke was promoted to captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Gohlke is the officer-in-charge of the signals intelligent unit with the 13th Military Expeditionary Unit of the First Marine Division, based at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside. He is currently deployed aboard the USS Tarawa. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Meredith Hampson married Kevin Lundy of Hopatcong, N.J., in June in Dublin, Ohio. The couple met while working in Washington, D.C., and currently live in Dublin where Hampson is a marketing specialist for Linworth Publishing, and Lundy is the director of government relations for Wendy’s International Inc. Bridesmaids included Christina Leung and Julie Pepper. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    W. Paige Hren passed the California bar exam this year and now works as an attorney for a technology firm in San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Helen Kamali, Cert. ’01, is a teacher at Evergreen Elementary in San Jose, where she lives with her husband, Mike Wenstrand. Next year she plans to take a temporary leave from teaching to adopt a daughter from China. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Troy Larkin, former varsity member of the Aggie football team, and Kimiko Nakai ’01, former member of the varsity women’s crew team, are planning on being married in September. After graduation, Larkin attended Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, and Nakai attended the nursing program at Louisiana State University’s Health Science Center, finishing as the salutatorian. They have since moved back to California, where Larkin works with the Screen Actors Guild, and Nakai works as an intensive care nurse at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Jennifer McLaughlin graduated from California State University, Stanislaus, in May with a master’s degree in social work. She now works as an international adoptions social worker for a national nonprofit agency. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Steve McCullagh was killed by lightning in July 2005 near Mt. Whitney at age 29. As an assistant scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop from St. Helena, Mr. McCullagh and 11 others were on a hiking trip through the Sierra Nevada on the John Muir Trail when a lightning storm struck the area. Remembered as a brainy athlete and dedicated “people lover,” he worked at the Terra Valentine Winery in St. Helena, where he started as a cellar master and moved up to controller. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue)    Chrissy (Kord) Brady and Michael Brady ’01 welcomed their first child, Marianna Lillian Brady in August. They are completing graduate school at Humboldt State University. Michael will be receiving his Master of Arts in biology, and Chrissy is finishing her teaching credential in special education, grades K–12. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue)    In July, Rebecca Crosby married Bradford Humphreys in San Diego. Bridesmaids included Tracey O’Neill, Trudi (Opton) Loscotoff, Nicole (Stark) Danz, Michelle Malik, Sarah Iversen ’01 and Sarah Bailey. The couple lives in Boise, Idaho, where Crosby is attending nursing school at Boise State University. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue)