USD Magazine Spring 2006

ADITI GUPTA (B.B.A., M.B.A./ M.S.I.T. ‘05) says after working for a year and a half in San Diego, she received her master’s degree.“I am now a proudly certified M.B.A. and Master of Science IT graduate,”she says. KIMBERLY HARVEY (B.B.A.) married Kristoffer Kalmbach (B.A. ‘01) on April 9 in Sacramento, Calif. The following USD alumni were in the wedding party: Brian Harvey (B.B.A. ‘98); Makenzie (Nichols) Harvey (B.A. ‘98); Stephanie Casagrande (B.A. ‘01); Gina Romano (B.B.A. ‘01); Ross Bourne (B.B.A. ‘01); and Kris Swanson (B.A. ‘01). The couple honeymooned in Barbados and live in Sacramento. CHRISTOPHE HEDGES (B.B.A.) recently was hired as a marketing director for Hedges Family Estate. He handles all marketing needs and emphasizes wine sales for Hedges in all key East Coast markets. He also owns a five-acre vineyard on Red Mountain, Washington state’s pre- mier growing region. His wife, Maggie, who also is a business part- ner in the vineyard, works for Hedges Family Estate as the logistics director and private club account manager. They married on Aug. 21, 2004. ERICA KLEIN (B.B.A.) and Tyler Huebner (B.B.A. ‘01) were married on July 2, in La Cañada, Calif. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii, and now live in Long Beach, Calif. KRISTEN (KREUZER) NIELSEN (B.A.) says she moved to Stavanger, Norway, after Jeppe Nielsen (B.B.A. ‘99, M.B.A. ‘01) completed his M.B.A. and they were married in Oslo in June 2002. They welcomed their beautiful daughter, Hanne, on Dec. 4, 2003, and moved to Oslo in June 2004. Jeppe enjoys working as a sales representative for the family business and keeping up on his golf game. Kristen is busy working as a Montessori preschool teacher and staying active as a member of the American Women’s Club of Oslo. Both enjoy visiting California frequently and taking advantage of the changing climate at home. SEVAN SETIAN (B.A.) graduated in 2004 with a J.D. degree from Loyola Law School. He passed the bar examination in July 2004 and works at a law firm in Los Angeles.

The Guatemala Projects medical team (bottom right) brought medical supplies to treat about 450 patients in two remote villages. (At left) Doctors, nurses and dentists treated entire families. (Top right) Two sisters wait in line to be seen.

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with computer equipment. They also treated about 450 patients, down from the 1,200 patients they saw during her first trip in 2003. She says that this is a good sign, proving that people have been visiting the clinics the organization had set up during previous trips. “Next summer the Guatemala Project will go to a village called Xeavaj, with a population of 1,000 people, 400 of whom are chil- dren,”Palmer says. “We’re build- ing a school and will send a med- ical team the following summer. We’re always looking for volun- teers for the medical teams and need doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and podiatrists. All those skills are in great need.”

biotics and pain relievers, but a lot of what we dealt with was parasite infestation,” says Palmer, who describes the signs as a bloated stomach and abdominal pain. “There’s a lack of clean water and the most basic sanitation, so parasites are a big problem.” For the last 12 years, the Guatemala Project, under the auspices of the San Diego dis- trict of the United Methodist Church, has sent construction and medical teams to build houses, schools, churches, trade schools and health clinics in the country, which has been in civil war since the 1960s. This summer’s sojourn was Palmer’s third trip to the region. During the 10-day trip, team members stocked a pharmacy and outfitted a local school

his summer, hundreds of men, women and children who live in

remote Guatemalan villages without sewers or running water — and who in some cases were suffering from dis- ease due to lack of medical treatment — walked two hours on dirt roads to reach makeshift medical clinics set up by Debra Palmer ‘87 (M.S.N.), a nurse practitioner who was there on a medical mission. Palmer, who works at San Diego’s Kaiser Permanente, led a medical team to two rural vil- lages as part of a program called the Guatemala Project. She and her team set up one camp in the mountain commu- nity of Patalup, and another in a town called Chontolá. “We brought a lot of anti-

For more information, go to www.guatemalaproject.org.

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