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Class Notes Please note that Class Notes submitted after jan. 31, 2003, wi!L appear in the Summer 2003 issue of USD Magazine.

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Tom Leonard recently celebrated his second retirement, chis time from United Ai rl ines, where he served as a B-747 pilot. Earl ier he had retired from the Navy after a 30-year avia– tion career. He and wife Beverly live in the San Diego area, where he con– tinues to do volunteer work with che Tailhook Association and the Tailhook Educational Foundation . ... Anita Peterson reports chat the highlight of 2002 was attending the Sacred Heart conference in Sydney, Australia. Peterson wishes a happy birthday to her classmates, many of whom, like her, turn 60 chis year. 1965 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Lynn (Conrad) Hollett and hus– band Grant will retire to North Carolina in March 2003. The couple have five grandsons who range in age from 9 months to 7 years. .. . Mary (Williams) Schaller and husband Marry welcomed their first grand– daughter, Shelby Washburne Williams, in July 2002. Mary is working on her ninth full-length historical novel fo r publisher Harlequin Enterprises Led. The novel, Beloved Enemy, will be published in 2004. The Library of Virginia previously had nominated Schaller's Civil War nonfiction mem– oir, Papa Was a Boy in Gray, for its 2002 Best Nonfi ction Award. Mary also is writing the biography of a Confederate colonel who is an ances– tor of her husband. The work tenta– tively is tided Quest for Glory. Mary and Marry continue to live in Burke, Va. 1966 GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Vern D. Schooley Q.D.) was elect– ed Counselor of the Ball/Hunt American Inn of Court. He contin– ues his practice as managing partner in the Long Beach, Calif , office of the Fulwider Patton law firm , special– izing in patent and trademark matters.

FYOU'RE ONE OF THOSE USO ALUMS WITH LESS– THAN-FOND MEMORIES

OF COMMUTING TO CAMPUS, MEET LAURI Thompson.Then quit yer

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Simone (Gennette) Ostrander continues to teach writing at Reedley College in Reedley, Cali f , and is helping husband Gary in a Habitat for Humanity project. In addition, she spends time painting, landscap– ing, tiling floors and counters, and still acts in plays. She reports she has heard from several classmates, including Barbara (Bassarab) Morette '60, Colleen (Lynch) O'Connor '60 and Mary Jo Rink, who attended USD in 1960. 1961 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI M. Josephine Breen is a pastoral associate at St. Brigid Church in San Diego. She coordinates the RClA process, small church communities and ministry of consolation programs. 1962 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Richard Gray is serving as a Scace Department fore ign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. He previously served a two-year stint as an administrative officer in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde, West Africa. He and wife Marli moved to Africa after spending 27 years in Los Angeles and raising three children. 1963 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Art Wical and wife Carol took an exciting and educational cruise to Russia in May 2002, traveling inland rivers from Sc. Petersburg co Moscow.

bellyachin'. Even the 1-1 S on a rainy Friday afternoon pales beside Thompson's trek. Show Biz Attorney

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While attending the School of Law,Thompson rose every day at 5:30 a.m. in Las Vegas, a city that boasts an active vol– cano and a replica of the Eiffel Tower, but at the time had no law school.After an hour-long flight to San Diego and a full day of classes, she hopped a plane back to Las Vegas, head– ing directly to the Tropicana Hotel and her job as the principal dancer in Les Folies Bergere, one of the city's longest running revues. She came off stage after midnight, rushed home to bed, only to wake at dawn and do it all over again - five days a week. "It wasn't easy at times," says the 1998 graduate, now an associate at the law firm of Qui rk & Tratos in Las Vegas,

where she specializes in enter– tainment law. "But I always want– ed to go to law school, so after waiting for years for one to open in Las Vegas, I pursued other options. "I wanted a good law school with an accessible airport," adds the 43-year-old Thompson. "USD has a well-respected law school, and I managed to make the air– line flight schedules work at a reasonable price. I studied between classes, on the plane and in my dressing room." Many of her classmates worked through school, but it's a safe bet no others performed twice nightly in a sequined cos– tume before thousands of peo– ple. For Thompson, however, it was second natu re. She began dancing at age 3 and by the end

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