Gael Glimpses, 1960-1969
1969
| Ken Micheli ECR has been married to Janet for 36 wonderful years. He is retiring after 30 years of teaching in the Livermore School District. Ken was named Educator of the Year by Del Valle High School through the Livermore Rotary Club. |
| Dan Whitehurst is the new president of the Institute for Local Government, a Sacramento think tank for California’s cities and counties. He also does consulting work for corporate and nonprofit boards with the NewLevel Group in Napa. |
1968
| David Eberhard spent 26 years teaching in the Denver public schools and received his Ph.D. in cross-cultural education in 1989 from the University of Colorado in Boulder. His daughter is a doctoral candidate in piano performance and his stepson is studying law. He lives in Denver with his wife, Kate, and they import and distribute French and German wine throughout Colorado. They enjoy music, theater and gourmet cooking. |
| Dominic Massetti crushed his heel while trekking in the Costa Rican rain forest but then got to spend three months telecommuting and recovering at the home of his grandchildren, whose father had surgically repaired Nick’s foot. Silver linings exist. |
| Tom McIntosh lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and is an anesthetist with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He and his wife have three children. |
| Marty Noonan retired as a B777 captain from Continental Airlines after 29 years in March 2006. In July 2007, he joined Jet Airways India as a captain on the B777, flying from London or Brussels to Mumbai and Delhi, India. In April 2008, he was to operate its San Francisco–Hong Kong route. His time off is spent with his wife, Sandy, at their summer lake home in Amery, Wis. or in Long Beach. |
1967
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Mark Flint, who recently changed careers from communications to trail design and construction, spoke at the Professional Trail Builders Association Conference in Reno in March. His presentation on desert trail design was based on a manual he published.
1966
 Bob Harley moved to The Course at Wente Vinyards last year after three years part-time at Poppy Ridge Golf Course. Working two days a week in the pro shop has benefits in addition to golf: a significant discount on wine. Join him for either. |
 Dennis Kelly is in his 40th year in public education and his fifth year as president of the 6,000-member United Educators of San Francisco teachers’ union. He is a vice president of the San Francisco Labor Council and the California Federation of Teachers. He is also active within the California Teachers Association and is on the San Francisco State College of Education Alumni Board of Directors. |
| Tom Kuzmich celebrated his 40th anniversary as an insurance and risk management broker in the Sacramento area. He also just finished serving on the Christian Brothers High School Alumni Board of Directors, the last year as president. He lives and works in Folsom. |
1965
| Jack Carlson is professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. His book, Understanding Our Being: Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition was published by The Catholic University of America Press in March. |
1964
 Darrell Corti, a Sacramento food and wine merchant who has promoted lesser-known California varietals and campaigned against high-alcohol reds, was inducted into the Vintner’s Hall of Fame at the Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone Cellars in March for his contributions to the understanding and marketing of wine. Corti, who works at Corti Brothers Italian Grocery, is the second SMC alum to be inducted into the hall; the late Brother Timothy Diener ’33 was inducted in the inaugural class in 2007. |
| Fred Diehl retired as school psychologist in the Acalanes High School District in 2002 (37 years in education) and from a private practice as educational psychologist and marriage family therapist in 2006. He was on the SMC faculty as a supervisor in the Graduate Counseling Program from 2002 until summer 2006. He and his wife, Lynn, sold their house in Lafayette and moved to Santa Fe, N.M. Fred went to St. Michael’s High School in Santa Fe (Class of 1960), which is a Christian Brothers high school still in operation, so it was like coming home. They return frequently to the Bay Area. |
 John (Jack) Murray is a partner with the San Francisco litigation firm Jackson & Wallace. He and his bride of almost 35 years, Marie, celebrated Jack’s 65th birthday big time last December: with the birth of their first grandchild. Granddaughter Amie’s parents are Jack and Marie’s son, Brian Murray, and daughter-in-law, Lauren. |
1963
| Garth K. Flint has more than 30 years of experience as an institutional investment consultant. Prior to launching Beacon Pointe Advisors, Garth was a founder and managing director with Canterbury Consulting. He was a founder and principal for the Kidder Peabody West Coast Institutional Consulting Services of Newport Beach and served eight years as vice president with Merrill Lynch. He is on the boards of St. Francis Medical Center Foundation, Boys Hope/Girls Hope of Southern California and the SMC Board of Regents. |
| Timothy Wong joined the Peace Corps after graduation and spent two years teaching English in Thailand. Later, he obtained a four-year fellowship to Stanford University, where he earned a doctorate in Chinese in 1975. He was an assistant professor of Chinese at Arizona State University in Tempe and then went to China where he was resident director for American students at Peking University in Beijing. Later, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Elizabeth, until 1995, when ASU asked him to return to direct the Center for Asian Studies and to teach Chinese literature; he has continued to teach there ever since. His three books and many other publications on traditional and modern Chinese fiction draw consciously from the insights and issues of the Western intellectual tradition he received as an SMC undergraduate. |
1962
 Dennis “DJ” Johnston played basketball his senior year for Jim Weaver. Now that he’s retired, he still plays basketball but is also very much involved in another sport — thoroughbred horse racing. On Jan. 23 at the Barretts thoroughbred sale in Pomona, his 10-month-old yearling colt sold for $70,000. When the proceeds from the sale arrive in his mailbox, he’ll be happy to share them with Saint Mary’s. He has another yearling he intends to race — named “Aloha DJ.” |
| John Parziale was in the energy business for 30 years and retired in 2000. He attended the Spiritual Direction Institute, Cenacle House, Houston, and is now a spiritual director at St. Mary’s Church in Plantersville, Tex., holding retreats for various parish organizations. He is also chairman of the board of the Holy Name Passionist Retreat Center in Houston. It serves the Provincial Office of the Community of Passionists based in Chicago. |
| Dr. Richard Smith and Dr. Kieran Fitzpatrick have established an endowed scholarship in honor of professor Lawrence Cory, which will benefit biology students in the School of Science. If you are interested in supporting this endowment, contact Ron Turner at (925) 631-4356. |
