USD Magazine, Fall 1999

19&5 CLASS CHAIR Maggie Keller H awblitzel CLASS CORRESPONDENT Katie (O'Rourke) Delano 425 Yale Avenue Coalinga, CA 93210

tain flying a DC-8 for United Parcel Service in Louisville, Ky. Before joining UPS, Mark worked as a special agent for the FBI. Mark and his wife, Gina, have two children, Bradley, 4 , and Victoria, 3 . ... Diane (Romo) Thomas works for the Children's N ational Medical Center in Washington, D .C., and competes in competitive co-ed and women's slo-pitch softball nationwide. ... Monica Vanderwerf is a financial analyst in San Diego and has a daughter, Madalyn Eileen Mae, 1.

Tony Ahhatangala '87 and today

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Jesus Bautista is an employment supervisor for Arbella Insurance Group and lives in Brookline, Mass. While working full time, Jesus obtained a master's degree in adminis– tration from Boston University in 1995, and has served on the Allston/Brighton Family YMCA board of directors the past eight years. Jesus ran his first marathon in January in Bermuda. ... Lawrence Ernst recently started a new job as controller for H emoCue, just two miles from his home in Mission Viejo, Calif. Lawrence and his wife, Karen, have a daughter, Danielle Marie, 1. ... Bill Pon works in commercial real estate in Bend, Ore., where he lives with his wife of 13 years, Teresa, and their three sons. GRADUATE AND LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI Lucinda Eddy (M.A.) is director of education and interpretation for the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace in Staunton, Va.

19&0~ As student body president,Tony Abbatangelo got just about everything he wanted. Except the fire– works. 'The administrators sometimes had to reign me in a little bit, because I had a tendency to get wild with things," says Abbatangelo, the 1986-87 Associated Students president."The new University Center opened while I was in office, and we planned a big celebration. But Tom Cosgrove nixed the fireworks idea." Pyrotechnics were about the only thing missing from that year, recalls Abbatangelo. who graduated in 1987 and earned a law degree from USO in 1990. "It was an unbelievable year." he says."The basketball team won the conference, so we had huge crowds at every home game. It felt like the whole campus came together and had a great time." There were controversies, too, he says. USO struggled at the time over whether the uni– versity should be a "wet" campus, one that per– mits students to consume alcohol at events, or a "dry" campus. During Abbatangelo's tenure, drinking was permitted on a trial basis, however, concern that minors could get access to alcohol eventually ended the experiment. Abbatangelo was a novice at university politics, but the issues forced him to be a quick study. "I'd never run for any student government position before, and a bunch of us were sitting around one day and complaining about how things were being done," he says."I got tired of the talk and said 'I'll do something about it.' " Those became words for him to live by. After working as a private practice lawyer in his native Las Vegas from 1990 to 1993, fellow lawyers unhappy with the justice system con– vinced him to do something about that, too. Abbatangelo ran for a municipal court judge's position and won. In 1996, he campaigned for the higher-level position of justice of the peace, won, and was re-elected to a six-year term in 1998. Looking back,Abbatangelo jokes that some USO administrators might have expected to see him on the other side of bench. "I think when I left, some administrators were just relieved the campus was still standing," he says."I liked to have fun , but at the same time they knew I took the responsibility very seriously."

19&'7 CLASS CHAIR Philip Welp

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Niamh Foley H oman 1479 Wild Inslane Orange Park, FL 32073-7071

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Erin T. Comyn has been named partner at the N ew York law firm of H aythe & Curley, where she had been an associate since gradu– ating from University of California, Berkeley H astings College of Law, in 1990 . Erin spe– cializes in real estate and corporate finance. ... Kathleen (Vaughan) Garcia has taught kindergarten, first and second grades in the Anaheim and Palm Springs school districts. She currently is a full-time mom with her three boys, Christopher, 5, Ryan, 4 , and Michael, 1. ... Maureen [McDonald) Legg recently left her position as marketing direc– tor of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, to start LeggWork Marketing & Communications, a home-based consulting business. Maureen and her husband, Bill, have a daughter, Quinn, 3.... Gabriel Martinez is director of engineering at @H ome N etworks, where U SD grads Ken Schwing '95 and Joe Perez '94 also work. "These 90s grads love to run around saying 'We invented the Internet! We're the cutting edge!' but at the end of the day, when these guys want a raise, they still gotta come talk to the Big Dog," Gabriel writes. ... Sean Murphy left the N avy in 1995 after eight years as a pilot and flight instructor and took a "temporary" job with his brother's computer back-up power company - and never left. Sean and his wife, Colleen, have four children, and Sean is very involved with his children's sports teams and his local parish.

19&& CLASS CHAIR James P ierik

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Shannon Smith 520 E. 76th St. No. 12-B N ew York, N Y 1002 1 email: shsmith@dlj.com

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Steven DeGennaro is chief financial officer with Xircom, Inc., in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Steven and his wife, Kelly, have three daugh– ters, Megan, 8, Jillian, 6, and Brooke, 2.... Patricia (Kuffel) McGivney is a certified public accountant and consultant in H emet, Calif., and has two sons, Sean P atrick, 5, and Michael Stanley, 1, with husband Daniel. ... Dennis Neary Jr. works for General Casualty Insurance in Freeport, Ill., where he lives with his wife, Colleen [Munnelly) Neary, and their three children, Meghan, 9, Molly, 6, and Fiona, 2. ... Alice (Schwinn) Spanjersherg is a homemaker in Austin, Texas, raising two children, Bart, 3, and C hloe, 2, with her husband, Bartholomew Spanjersherg '85. ... Mark Steffen is a cap-

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