USD Magazine, Summer 2003

ALUMNI GALLERY

olden Year.

Class Notes Please note that Class Notes submitted after May 1, 2003, wi!L appear in the Fa!! 2003 issue of USD Magazine.

athryn (Knowlton) Holt graduated from USD in 1984, jumped right into her dream job as an elementary

retired and now enjoys traveling, arr classes, lectures, concerts, plays and raking rime to be with her three grandsons, Samuel, Michael and Andrew... . Peggy (Everett) Yingling volunteers at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., helpi ng with fund raising. 1966 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Frank Cherry retired from Lockheed Marrin in 200 I. He now writes software at home and works wirh special education students. 1967 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Diane (Gallagher) Canedo bought a historic home in San Diego's Mission Hills neighborhood. The house is a 1926 Spanish colonial from the Whirney esrare. She is retired from real esrare and is a volunteer docent and new board member at the San Diego Historical Society. She also is a "cuddler" at the UCSD Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit. 1968 JS-YEAR REUNION HOMECOMINGWEEKEND, OCT. 10-12 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI William Bachofner is completing his 32nd year as a professor of psy– chology at Victor Valley Community College. He also is completing his 16th year as the college's golf coach. ... Daniel Wilson still reaches at University of San Diego High School after 35 years. 1969 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI M, Estela (Gomez) Ruiz reports that she has kept busy at EGR Real Estate Services working on mortgages and home sales. Her daughter, Patricia, graduates this year from Sama Clara University, and daughter Gabriela is in the Class of 2004 at the University of San Francisco.

participates in senior sports events. Other interests include the careers of his fo ur children, and his efforts to fi nish his memoirs. He also serves on the USD Alumni Board.. .. Simone (Gennette) Ostrander (M.A. '66) and husband Gary are building a house for their single– parent daughter, and she reports rhar her entire family, including grand– children, are participating. 1963 40-YEAR REUNION HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I 0- 12 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Sister Maria de Guadalupe Diaz (M.A. '67) is a semi-retired catechist at San Antonio de Padua Parish in Barranquiras, Puerto Rico. She regrets that she cannot attend alumni activities, bur says she remembers her alma mater wirl1 much love and appreciation for all she received at Alcala Park. ... Ralph Fear is a retired San Diego deputy district attorney, and lives in the University City neighborhood of San Diego. ... Veronica (Nutting) Guthrie is semi-retired, bur still reaches English as a foreign language. She and hus– band Benjamin have paid off the house they bought in 1972. They have three grandchildren, all boys, ages 5, 16 months and 13 months. 1964 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Mary E, Fipp is the principal of Serra Mesa High School after having been vice principal for two years. She reports she is "working long hours." ... Laurie Massa Jr. retired from the Internal Revenue Service in 1999, having worked at the agency for 33 years.. .. Mary (Tamulonis) Smith, who helped create the mosaics of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in Founders Hall in 1963 and 1964, now has four ch ildren and seven grandchildren. She has lived in Alaska since 1967, and has owned and operated Action Apparel since 1985.. .. Catherine Whelan is

school teacher, and looked for– ward to a long career of educat– ing students, planning lessons and meeting with parents. She taught full-time for nine years, then switched to part-time when she gave birth to her first daughter. But Holt's idyllic life was turned upside down in 1996, when she suddenly found herself with a new and nearly over– whelming responsibility - her grandmother. Born in 1902, Faye Needham was still as sharp as the day she graduated college, at age 18.A bad fall , however, meant she needed constant medical attention. The family tried a nursing home, but after nine months it left Needham depressed and dis– oriented. So Gram, as she was affectionately called, moved in with Holt and her family. On her own, Holt was unable to provide the round-the-dock care that Needham required. She explored other options, and dis– covered the Adult Day Health Care Center of Ramona, Calif. For three years, the center gave Needham a place of social inter– action and activity, and offered Holt daily respite from her full– time care responsibilities. When the family moved south to San Diego's Scripps Ranch neighborhood, however, they lost that support system. Needham

1953 SO-YEAR REUNION HOMECOMINGWEEKEND, OCT. I0-12 1957 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Sister Virginia Rodee (M.A. '74), assistant to USD's vice president of mission and ministry, reports that Homecoming 2002 attracted about 140 members from the classes of rhe 1950s and 1960s. Mary (Jimenez) Steckbauer '57 and Marion (Rogers) Schmitt '57 conracred other alumni, and Patricia (Friel) Seiber '57 and her husband, John, hosted a brunch for her class at their home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif 1958 4S-YEAR REUNION HOMECOMING WEEKEND, OCT. I0-12 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Theresa (Sanocki) Rimkus (M.B.A. '86) noted the beautiful new construction on rhe USD cam– pus during a visit last year. She and her husband, Donald, have four children and eight grandchildren, and live near Seattle.

1960 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI John Bowman (M.A. '73) retired from reaching in 2002 and now

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