USD Magazine, Spring 2004

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ALUMNI GALLERY

Joshua Beckett is the winemaker at Peachy Canyon Winery in Paso Robles, Calif. Wife Gibsey (Pence) Beckett '99 teaches at Templeton Middle School. .. . Mark Bella is a producer of MTV news and docu– mentaries and lives in Los Angeles. ... Bethany (Stensaas) Farley and Ryan Farley '97 were married in their hometown of Boise, Idal10, on Ju.ly 20, 2002. Bethany has worked with Qualcomm since gradu– ating from USO. Ryan is a product manager with Intuit. ... Deborah

(Reule) Farringer joined the healthcare industry practice area of rhe law firm Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in Nashville in December. She received her Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 2002, and completed a clerkship fo r Judge H. Emory Widener Jr. in the United States Court of Appeals for the 4cl1 Circuit in Abingdon,Va. ... Angela Filose is in her last year of studies ar the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, getting a master's degree in

In July, he plans to graduate and hopefully move back to Southern California.. .. Laura Simons has been an independent consultant for four years. She travels all over the United Stares and Europe for work. She bought her fi rst house in Redondo Beach, Calif. ... Matthew Taylor was teacher of the year at Bourgade Catholic High School in 2002-03. He reports rhar he final ly benched 500 pounds in 2003, and is "still swearing and searching for an underarm deodorant to fight the sun in beautiful Phoenix, Ariz." ... Matthew Thomas scarred his emergency medicine residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego after deploying twice with the 3rd Battalion, Ist Marines last year. The first was to the horn of Africa and the second to Iraq, where his unit went from Kuwait to Baghdad via al Nasiriyah and several other Iraqi cities. "Glad to be back home," he writes. GRADUATE AND lAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Cynthia Freeland Q.D.) was named partner in the San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie. She is a member of the litigation and employment law practice groups, focusing on corporate and employ– ment litigation. 1996 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Brigette Bruning received a mas– ter's degree in counseling and is a clinical director at a residential treat– ment facility for abused adolescent girls.... Joaquin Correia is ar rhe Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., working on a mas– ter's degree in modeling, simularion and virtual environmen rs.... Julie Kams raises show horses.. .. Wendy (Werner) Ruffner has a baby girl, Skylar, born Nov. 28, 2002. Wendy owns a baby accessory and clothing company and designs children's rooms and nurseries. ... Dr. Jay Wletecha graduated from Tufts Dental School in 2001. He met his wife, Holly, in Maine, where he chose to settle down. He recently bought into his dental practice. In his spare rime, he water skis barefoot, alpine skis and surfs. 1997 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Julie (Liang) Bettinelli and Greg Bettinelli '94 recently moved ro che Bay area from Los Angeles. Greg

got a job at eBay in San Jose, Calif. Julie works as a producer for a show on the Travel Channel. They live in Burlingame, Calif. , and are very excited about living near San Francisco.. .. Richard Conard has lived in Los Angeles for fo ur years and works fo r AIDS Healthcare. He is involved with marking and adver– tising, photography, graph ic design, directing and producing video seg– ments. He is in charge of all aspects of multimedia for the company.... Amy Goa:ziou spent 1999 playing professional soccer and traveling in New Zealand, and calls it the best experience of her life. She was an assistant soccer coach at Wake Forest University under former USO soccer coach Tony Da Luz for one year. She spent rhe past three years teaching physical education to elementary school children. She lives in Phoenix. ... Joseph Gorga received his doc– torate in marine science ar the University of California, Santa Barbara, in September.. .. Amanda Lomont planned to receive an M.B.A. with a marketing emphasis from the USC Marshall School of Business.. .. Virginia Moore– Arbing was married in 2000 and had a son, Charles F. Arbing IV, on comedic rendition of''The Nutcracker." Their version, "The Dodesmacker," was scheduled to be perfo rmed in Los Angeles during cl1e holiday season.. .. Justin Wasserman is dreaming about San Diego weather "amid a cold NYC winter snowstorm." 1998 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Jacques Ballard became commu– nity relations director of Maximus, a Virginia workfo rce services firm , in January. He plans to receive his mas– ter's degree from San Diego State University chis spring. Most recently Jacques was a community representa– tive and policy adviser to San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts.. .. Michelle Barbary received a mas– ter of science degree in nursing with an emphasis in public health in 2002. She works at Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, Calif. She plans ro continue her education at University of Califo rnia, San Francisco, to get her nurse practitioner's license.... Nov. 30, 2002. ... Jason Patel recently co-wrote, with a former "Saturday Night Live" writer, a

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