USD Magazine, Winter 2000

ALUMNI ~ GALLERY

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•CLASS OF '61• At Long Last, Love

CLASS CHAIR Roy Lechner

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Rosanne (McGillicuddy) Heiliger reaches preschool at Holy Family School in San Diego. Rosanne and her hus– band, T homas, have six children: a daughter who will graduate chis year from the University of Arcs in Philadelphia; a son who will graduate West Point Prep School; and fo ur children who attend USDH S and Holy Family School. CLASS CHAIRS Victoria (Westervelt) Nasman Doug Robert UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Linda Qohnson) Leslie is a freelance writer and recently had an essay published in Seasoned With Wordr: Stories, Memoirs and Poems About Food. Li nda is on the boards of the Oregon Writer's Colony and the Willamette Writers, and lives in C lackama, Ore. Susan Cook 0. D .) is a senior attorney in the environment and resources division of the U .S. Department of Justice in Washington, D .C. ... Harold L. Rucker (J.D .) is an Appeals Board judge with California Unemployment Insurance in San Diego. H arold plays soccer in the Huff and Puff League and his daughter is doing post– graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. •1974• GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI

H e was the Big Man On Campus-a handsome senior, football team captain, star quarterback, student body president. She was the new freshman-a cute girl from Los Angeles who would hang out at the bookstore in hopes she might catch his eye as he worked the cash register. She had a full-blown crush. He didn't notice. "Christie came to USD in January 1961 and I graduated in June 1961 ," recalls Jan Chapman, the BMOC and all-around dreamy guy for a then 18-year-old Christie Ross."I remember she was awfully young and I was awfully old. She used to come bug me at the bookstore when I worked, that's what I remember most." Fast forward to Aug. 14, 1999. On that afternoon, before their combined seven children from previous marriages and seven grandchildren, the two former co-eds exchanged wedding vows - more than 38 years after first exchanging furtive glances at USD. "Our kids think its wonderful," says Christie (Ross) Chapman."And our friends say it's a marriage made in heaven." The newlywed's paths occasionally crossed in the past four decades, although neither thought

Over the years, Christie divorced and moved back to the Los Angeles area.Jan was still coaching in Chula Vista when his wife died in 1995. Upon learning of his wife's death, Christie contacted Jan with her condolences. "I decided to ask her out to eat, and it just kind of mushroomed after that," says Jan of their relationship."It worked out pretty well." Their USD days remain a vital part of their lives. The two were married by the Rev. Barry Vinyard '68, a former classmate of Jan's, and their best man was Dave Cox '61, a Sacramento legislator in the state assembly. The couple recently retired and live in Jan's Chula Vista home, which on the holidays is packed with their kids, who range in age from 29 to 36, and their grandkids.

"It's like that TV show,The Brady Bunch," says Christie. "We're just one big, happy merger."

of romance at the time. Christie caught up with Jan shortly after he graduated USD, when she married one of his former teammates, Joe Loeschnig '61 . It was then she dis– covered Jan's new wife, Barbara Correll, had attended the same Los Angeles high school as her. When their children were young, the two couples occasionally double-dated. When the first of Christie's three chil– dren attended Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, she discovered Jan was a teacher and football coach there.

Christie (Ross) Chapman and Jan Chapman today, and in their USD

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and works part rime as a clinical lab scientist in Eureka, Calif.

CLASS CHAIR Jan (Davidson) Tuomainen

CLASS CHAIRS Rosemary (Masterson) Johnston G. Vincent Reardon Jr. UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI James Hutton recendy moved from Bajamar, Ensenada, Mexico, for a position as director of Instructional Technologies at Ashland University, about an hour south of C leveland, O hio. ... Edward R. Smith is semi-retired

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UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Helen Antoniak is a social worker fo r the Children's Services Bureau in San Diego. ... Margaret (Wollitz) Tomlinson recendy flew to Alaska for the wedding of her son, Archie, who is stationed at Eielson Air Force Base there.

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CLASS CHAIR Steve Nasman

CLASS CHAIR Dennis Blair

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lawrence Pickard 4906 New Casde Street Riverside, CA 92509

CLASS CORRESPONDENT W illiam Uberti 15660 So uthwest 123 rd Avenue Miami, FL 33 177

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