USD Magazine Summer 2006

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CONTENTS 20 / COMMON GROUND Lt. Cmdr. Lavencion Starks T H E S T O R Y A LWAY S O L D A N D A LWAY S N E W .

heads the Naval Medical Center San Diego's ER. Fran Townsend is assistant to the president for home- land security and counter- terrorism. Outgoing College of Arts and Sciences Dean

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Patrick Drinan is looking forward to returning to teaching full time. Innovator Marcos Fernandes makes non-mainstream music. Social diarist Margo Schwab chronicles San Diego's upper crust. It would be difficult to find a more eclectic group of people, but this group does, in fact, have one thing in common: the University of San Diego.

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CLASS NOTES 36 / A Country in Ruins

Reem George ‘02 plans to help Iraqi women create peace and regain independence. 42 / In Memoriam The sudden death of beloved basketball coach Maggie Dixon ’99 marked at West Point. 45 / Meet the President Renda Quinn ’86 takes the helm as incoming president of the Alumni Association Board. 46 / It’s Mister Fresh Maker Raw foods are the bread and butter of David Wolfe ‘98, who says it all started with a tangerine.

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POINT OF VI EW 18 / Nothing Bad

Ever Happened to Me When Sandy (Seaburg) Rowley ‘89 graduated, she expected her life to be per- fectly normal. Things didn’t quite turn out that way.

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