USD Magazine Fall 2010

TRAMY HUYNH (BA) is in gradu- ate school at Seton Hall University, pursuing a master’s degree in public administration. CYNTHIA HARF KAIDEN (LLMT) is pleased to announce her move to associate at Ashworth, Blanchet, Christenson and Kalemkiarian. Cynthia will continue to provide fam- ily law services as she has been doing for 16 years. KEVIN McPHEE (JD, MBA ’00) and Seda Evis McPhee ’00 welcomed their baby daughter, Alara, in September 2009. Alara joins big brother Kaya, born in 2005. BRIAN ROSARIO (BBA) finished his third season as the assistant wom- en’s basketball coach at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He also coached for two years at Cornell University in New York, four at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, and a year at McNeese State Univesity in Louisiana. “I love my job and the players I’ve coached along the way,” he says. “I believe it’s my oppor- tunity and responsibility to prepare our kids for the next stage/level of their lives. It’s surreal to coach against our alma mater, but it’s always special to go down there and be able to see what new things are happening.” College’s child development center in northern San Diego County. She is also a private tutor for ages pre-K through adult. Melissa has a 7-year- old son, Isaiah, and 3-year-old twins, Dominic and Cassandra. She has an AA degree in child development and plans to earn a BA in education as well as a teaching credential. MELISSA JOVAN SIMMONS (BA) is the lead teacher at Mira Costa

CHRISTINE (BURGER) PISTEK (BA) and her husband, Peter, wel- comed their daughter, Milena Lucie, into the world on June 8, 2009. Christine is a senior quality control analyst at Illumina Inc. [ 1 9 9 6 ] TAMI (DAHL) DECKER (BBA) married Mark Decker in Golden Valley, Minn., on Sept. 25, 2009. The couple lives in Madison, Wis. Tami enjoys representing a fashion designer for women’s clothing. CMDR. MATTHEW DOLAN (JD) is a captain in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General Corps and senior legal advisor at the United States Naval Academy. He is married to Karin Dinan Dolan ’91; they have three beautiful children, ages 14, 12 and 10. BRIDGET (GORMAN) YOUNG (JD) opened the San Diego branch of Samuelsen, Gonzalez, Valenzuela and Brown in 2007. In 2009, the firm moved to a larger location and Bridget continues to serve as manag- ing attorney. “I spend my free time with my family – husband, Wayne, and kids: Jonah, 9; Alec, 7; and Emily Grace, 4,” she says. “We can usually be found at the soccer and baseball fields in La Jolla!” [ 1 9 9 7 ] KENNETH CHAPMAN (BBA) received an MBA in international marketing from California State University, San Marcos, in June 2001. He oversees the spirits division for Stansfield Scott, which manages and develops wine, spirits and health supplements in 33 countries and the Caribbean. Kenneth is in charge of 17 markets and 35 distributors, and he travels 22 weeks a year outside of the United States. In their off-time, Kenneth and his fiancé, Kelly, work with Florida Big Dog Rescue. ERIC GARFIELD (MBA) and his wife, Robin, live in Redondo Beach, Calif., with their daughters — Kylee, 2, and Morgan, born on Jan. 25, 2010 — and their dog. He is the practice leader for real estate valuation at Wealth and Tax Advisory Services (WTAS), a national tax consulting firm with 14 offices and more than 500 employees.

and the director of the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Blaine is the controller for Pilot Power Group and Brenda is the accounting supervisor at ResMed Corp. The family lives in Rancho Bernardo. MATTHEW BALLARD STRAUHAL (BA, BBA ’98) and his wife, Natalie, welcomed their first son, Desmond Fiel, into the world on Nov. 22, 2009. He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 21 inches long. [ 1 9 9 9 ] TANYA CABLAYAN (BA) was a social worker in a convalescent cen- ter after graduation and later earned a license from the state of California as a nursing home administrator. Since 2002, she has been the admin- istrator of the Bradley Court Conval- escent Center, a 56-bed skilled nurs- ing facility that cares for residents with multiple acuity levels, including Alzheimer’s. Tanya is married with two children; the family lives in Escondido. MATTHEW DENTE (BA, BBA ’99) married Nicole Harris on March 21, 2009. Matthew graduated from Boston College Law School in May 2002. In January 2010 he became a shareholder with Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest law firm specializ- ing in representing management in labor and employment matters. Matthew’s practice focus is wage and hour class/collective actions. JANNA (SIMONE) DOWNING (BA) is a high school special education teach- er. She is married and has two children: Colton, 4, and Beckett, 4 months. The family lives in Scituate, Mass. JAIME (KRUPNICK) GEFFEN (BA) and her husband, Jason, cele- brated the birth of a beautiful baby boy, Cole Robert, on Jan. 3, 2010. DONOVAN GERMAN (BA) married his longtime girlfriend, Lisa, in 2001 and they now have two children: Merrick, 4, and Charlotte, 1. Donovan and Lisa both received their PhD degrees in biology from the University of Florida in 2008. Donovan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The family lives in Laguna Nigel, Calif.

and when Trily returned to USD decades later to move his daughter Jolene into her residence hall, he found that his hope as a student would become his fear as a father. “I saw that the girls were living on one floor, and the boys were on the next floor above. They had done what I was trying to do and bring everyone together, although, in this case, it might have been closer than I would’ve liked,” he adds, laughing. In some ways, Russ Caine’s USD was a place Evenson and Trily would struggle to recognize. For one thing, leg warmers and neon-hued Reeboks had replaced nylons and heels as preferred dance apparel. For another, the campus and the student population had grown dra- matically, providing Caine and his classmates a wealth of opportunities their prede- cessors could only dream of. “It’s crazy to think about when you compare my class to the students of today, but yeah, we definitely had a much more dynamic campus culture than did the classes that graduated prior to the merger,” Caine says. “But everything’s relative. We may have had more opportunities than they did, but, coming back to campus today, it’s amazing to see howmuch has changed since the mid-80s.” While they may have earned their diplomas 25 years apart, Caine, Trily and Evenson are connected by a learning experience that tran- scends dates on a calendar. “The camaraderie of the students, the support of the faculty, that’s the same as it ever was,” Caine says. Karene Evenson ‘60 and Russ Caine ‘85 will celebrate milestone reunion years in 2010 .

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[ 2 0 0 0 ] MOLLY (FOSTER) BORG (BA) and her husband, Sean, were married on June 27, 2009. They have known each other for 12 years and live in St. Louis Park, Minn. Molly teaches kindergarten and Sean works for Oracle Corp. Molly is working toward a master’s degree in education and Sean is working on his MBA.

GEORGE KUNEY (MBA) is a W.P. Toms Distinguished Professor of Law

GARRETT PATRICIO (BA) and his wife, Ashley (Vodra) Patricio ’00,

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