USD Magazine, Fall 1999

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GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Michael Harris (J.D .) is a judge in North San D iego County, recently finishing a stint doing felony preliminary hearings and felony pleas/sentencings. Michael and his wife, Susan, have two sons, Brett Harris '96, who teaches at Horton Elementary School, and Jeffrey Harris, who graduated in 1998 from U SD Law School.... Vina (Pires) Pereira (M.Ed.) has operated a daycare center since 1990 in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Vina and her husband, Julian, have four children: Tania, 24, pursuing a degree in education ; Elton, 23, who works at a bank; Adrian, 2 1, studying computer science; and Myron, 16. Vina and her family have traveled to India, Mexico and Cuba, and last visited U SD in 1990.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Delle Willett 2753 Hillcroft Drive Chesterfield, MO 63005-7007

19&5 CLASS CHAIRS Maureen Buckley Dennis Wick

JaylH (Loftis) Davidson '67 and today 1980& The year was 1967, and America seemed deter– mined to self destruct. Bloody civil rights protests marred the South. The dream of reaching the moon was dealt a crushing blow when the Apollo spacecraft burned on the launch pad.And on the TV news each evening, Americans watched helplessly as their sons died in a far-off jungle called Vietnam. "Many of our friends were drafted," recalls Joylee (Loftis) Davidson '67, student body presi– dent for the San Diego College for Women. "We were all looking at each other, wondering who was going to be next." Joylee didn't have to wait long. Her longtime beau, Dale Davidson '66, asked for her hand in marriage, then enlisted in the Army. It was a scene that played out dozens of times on the small San Diego campus, where young couples fell in love and then were yanked apart by war. Perhaps that was why the anti-war protests that seemed to thrive at larger university campus– es didn't materialize at USD. "That's something our kids always asked us, why we didn't drop out of college and protest Vietnam or go march in Selma:· says Joylee, who with husband Dale has two daughters, Kathleen and Elizabeth."I think the answer was most of us were middle class kids who were worried about getting jobs and raising a family. "And besides," she adds,"our parents would have killed us." In fact,Joylee says campus life in 1967 was pretty tame - the biggest battle seemed to be between the "boarders," students who lived on campus, and "day students," who commuted to school. Men's and women's classes were still sepa– rate, most students went to Mass each day, and the nuns made sure everyone stayed in line. "I had one of the nuns ask me to please not hold hands with Dale on campus, even though I was engaged," she recalls. Married 32 years, the couple live in Cortez, Colo., where Dale works as an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management, and Joylee cares for her aging parents since retiring from the health care field, where she most recently worked with the Ute Mountain Indians. "USD was my first real experience with other cultures. It's something I still carry with me today;' she says.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Karen (Graham) Thielke 195 18 14th NW Seattle, WA 98 177-2702

19&& CLASS CHAIRS Diana Doerr Klink Bernard Palacek

1972 CLASS CHAIR Roy Lechner

19&7 CLASS CHAIRS Donna (Trumble) McGill P aul Tuomainen Jr. CLASS CORRESPONDENT Joseph Walker 7 15 South 3 2nd Street Renton, WA 98055-5097

1974 Ill 25-Year Reunion Celebration Nov. 12-14, 1999 CLASS CHAIRS Victoria (Westervelt) N asman Doug Robert

19GB CLASS CHAIRS Sandra (Kiszla) Chew Walter Johnston

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Lawrence Hilligoss, a design engineer for Ashland Research Center in Oregon, and his wife, Linda, have a son, Martin, 5. ... Linda (Johnson) Leslie is busy writing articles, a column, essays and a novel, as well as raising her two children, Lisa Marie, 17, and John, 14, with her husband, Steve. Linda, who lives in Clackamas, Ore., was named a Fishtrap Fellow in fiction in 1995.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Moira Lees 11 806 Gorham Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90049 19&9 B 30-Year Reunion Celebration Nov. 12-14, 1999

1975 CLASS CHAIR Dennis Blair

CLASS CHAIR Jan (Davidson) Tuomainen

CLASS CORRESPONDENT William U berti 15660 Southwest 123rd Avenue Miami, FL 331 77

1970 CLASS CHAIRS Rosemary (Masterson) Johnston G . Vincent Reardon Jr.

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Anita (Hudson) Easton has a home business repairing outdoor gear in Chula Vista, Calif., where she lives with her husband, Ken, and their three children, Kelsey, 19, Tristan, 16, and Callahan, 13. ... John McKee and his wife, Mary, live in the Chicago area, where John works in management for a large mid– west utility and energy services company. The couple's son flies for the A ir Force, and their two daughters are in college.

1971 CLASS CHAIR Steve Nasman

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lawrence P ickard 4906 New Castle Street Riverside, CA 92509

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