| Mazi Allen is finishing a dissertation in philosophy at Binghamton University (in Vestal, N.Y.). Since graduating from SMC, Mazi has become a practicing Muslim and the owner of a spry 9-year-old cat. He has presented at numerous conferences, traveled widely and published in such academic journals as Human Architecture and The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly. Looking forward to returning to SMC as Irvine Teaching Fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year, Mazi hopes that the many blessings bestowed on him in his academic career continue. |
| Amy (Fabbricatore) Booker MS and husband, Randy Booker, live in San Ramon and just celebrated their 10th anniversary. They are blessed with two sons, Aidan and Christian. Randy is the principal at Piedmont High School. Amy volunteers her time advocating and seeking treatment for children and families with special needs. |
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| Heather Maddan-Dowdell worked at the San Francisco Chronicle for seven years, and recently left for a job at Sugar Inc. She is now the editor of the parenting and kids website, lilsugar.com. Heather lives in San Francisco with her husband, Dan, and their children Sicily, almost 4, and Asher, 1. |
| Mark Papadopoulos MS is SMC’s new associate athletic director for operations. He returned to the College after working at San Jose State University, where he was assistant athletic director for facilities and events. He has more than 18 years of collegiate athletics experience as an administrator and player, and has worked at the West Coast Conference office, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State and Sonoma State. |
| Mark Popovich & Ali (Fischer) Popovich ’00 welcomed their first child into the world. Their son, Campbell Anthony, was born on Sept. 19, 2007. Mark is teaching P.E. in Dublin and Ali teaches fifth grade in Brentwood. The happy family lives in Concord. |
| Carrick Sears takes off to Phoenix for warm sunshine and to get his MBA at Thunderbird, the No. 1–ranked school for international business. Carrick has worked for the last eight years in the Bay Area; his last position was as senior financial analyst with Gap’s corporate offices in San Francisco. |
| Rojana Turner EE, after working for 13 years with Solano County and a brief stint with the state of California, has accepted a position with the county of San Francisco as a benefit control supervisor in the human services agency. She also completed her graduate certification in human resources at Chapman University. Rojana, her husband Ron, and children Aaron and Emily (older daughter Janae is on her own!) live in Vacaville. |
| John McDaniel & wife Michelle (Ross) ’97 celebrated their 10th anniversary in August. Also in August, John was named head coach of the Nevada Union Lady Miner basketball team. John and Michelle live in Penn Valley (Nevada County) with their lovely children, Annie, Ali, Owen and Evan. |
| Diana (McHenry) Wong and husband, James, were married in September 2006 in Kauai. Diana now works as an I.T. manager. |
 Isadora Montoya married Julio Quintanilla in San Ramon on Sep. 3, 2007. They are now expecting. |
| Jennifer Moranda is a family practice physician in Redding. In September 2007, she married Alan Parkinson and enjoys her new life as wife and stepmother to an eight-year-old. |
| Lynn Phan was an AmeriCorps volunteer for two years after SMC at Partners in School Innovation in San Francisco. She went to law school at University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and now has an estate planning law practice in Emeryville. She married Jeff Dybdal ’99 in 2004 and they currently live in Mill Valley. |
| Rev. Greg Schaefer has moved with his wife, Gwendolyn, to Palo Alto, where Greg is campus pastor at Stanford University and pastor of University Lutheran Church. |
 Erin (Wetzel) Dietzen and her husband, Fred, welcomed their daughter, Eliza Rose, on Sept. 17, 2007. |
| Chris Carter and his wife, Katie (Kelso) ’97, welcomed their third child, Luke, on Sept. 29, 2007. Luke received rave reviews after starring as baby Jesus in his older brother (Matthew) and sister’s (Sarah) pre-school Christmas presentation. |
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 Julie (Dudum) Del Santo and husband, Tony, were married on Sept. 1, 2007 at Saint Ignatius Church at USF in San Francisco. The reception followed at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square. Many SMC alums were among the 600 guests. The happy couple honeymooned in the French Polynesian Islands. They live in Walnut Creek, where Julie is a real estate broker and Tony manages local family restaurants. They look forward to starting a family soon. |
| Greg Hubbard and wife, Keri (Rose ’97) live in Overland Park, Kan. Keri is in her second year of private practice as a pediatrician with Pediatric Partners. Greg was recently hired as the CFO of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Greg and Keri have three children, Jillian, 8, Allyson, 5, and Owen, 1. They celebrated their 10th anniversary in December. |
| Jill Morrow EE and Russell Gumina were married July 7, 2007 in Sausalito. Russell is the executive director of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club in San Francisco. Jill is the former president of Coldwell Banker San Diego. They live in San Francisco and Sonoma. |
| Aaron Nelson is a contributor to the upcoming book Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in “24.” His essay “Simulating Terror” looks at why people from across the political spectrum enjoy the show and examines how “24” supports and criticizes the Bush administration. The book is scheduled to be published in March. |
| Corinne (Wolff) Friedling and her family welcomed their second child, Ava, on June 15, 2007. She is a sibling to Ryan, 3. The Friedlings returned to Corinne’s hometown of Paso Robles last year, where she sells pharmaceuticals for Glaxo SmithKline. Her husband, Joe, owns and runs a leasing company, PEC USA. |
| Carolyn (Busselmaier) Orf and her husband, Michael, welcomed their second child, Cameron Michael, on April 11, 2007. Carolyn and Mike live in Littleton, Colo., where Mike works as a regional manager for Oracle and Carolyn runs her own travel agency. |
| Ingrid Chua-Go is married and has two children. She works as media relations director for former Philippine first lady Imelda R. Marcos and is a fashion retailer. Ingrid previously worked as managing editor of Metro Weddings, a top Philippine weddings publication, and as associate news producer at Star Television, an affiliate of the Fox Network in Hong Kong. |
| Jeffrey Flohr lives in the Seattle area, where he and his wife, Stevee, moved three years ago. They have a beautiful daughter, Alex, 17 months. Jeffrey works as a deputy sheriff for the King County Sheriff’s Department. |
| Patrick Morris recently joined the broadband video delivery company, Swarmcast, a technology provider that uses a patented file technology that delivers HD and broadcast-quality video over the Internet. Swarmcast is headquartered in Minneapolis and Tokyo, and Patrick will establish the Los Angeles office. He invites SMC alums to e-mail him at Patrick@swarmcast.com. |
| Cindy (Neander) Cooper and husband, Kevin, celebrated their 10th anniversary this year. Cindy is a staff accountant for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and will travel to Hong Kong to teach investment professionals how to comply with U.S. securities laws. |
| John Noyes Jr. & Darlene (Fraga MN ’99) are proud to announce the birth of their son, Kai Lucien Noyes, born Nov. 10, 2007. Kai has a 2-year-old sister, Mia Helena Noyes. Darlene and John have been married since March 31, 2001. |
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| Krista Rosa & Darby Brennan ’96 are engaged and planning an October 2008 wedding. |
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| Jon Sevier married Erin Hawley in November 2006. In October 2007, they welcomed their daughter, Elizabeth Jean Sevier. Erin is a radiation therapist and Jon is a senior network engineer for a healthcare technology consulting firm in Sacramento. |
| Laura Turner ME is teaching second grade in Emeryville. |
| Eric & Ann-Marie (Berberich) Dunphy ’94 celebrated their 10th anniversary in December. They live in Campbell with their 2-year-old daughter, Olivia. |
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| Keith Larson and wife, Aileen, celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary on Oct. 20, 2007. They welcomed their second child, Henry, on Nov. 12, 2007. Their first son, Charlie, turned four on Sept. 8, 2007. Keith is a writer for Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores. The family lives in Los Gatos. |
| Karen (Hamill) & Garrett Moore ’93 welcomed with love Kaitlyn Rose Moore, born Jan. 14, 2007. She joins big sister Reilly Elizabeth, 2½. The family lives in Los Altos. |
| Carl & Veronique (Greely) Pileri welcomed their fourth child, Madeleine, in August. Carl is a major in the U.S. Army and will transition to civilian life next summer. Veronique keeps busy with home schooling their children. |
| Tim Nevin married Katie Spiering at Annunciation Catholic Church in Waimea, Hawaii on Oct. 13, 2007. The reception took place at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala Coast. |
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| Mune Shiratori has been with an accounting firm since graduating. She works and lives in the Bay Area, and hopes all her classmates are doing well. |
Mary E. Watson and David P. Thomas were married on Sept. 22, 2007, at Kathryn Albertson Park in Boise, Idaho. The couple hosted a reception in downtown Boise, where guests enjoyed David’s homemade wedding cheesecake. Mary is an assistant city attorney with the city of Boise, and David is an architect with Supervalu, headquartered in Boise. Mary and David traveled to France and Germany for their honeymoon.
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| Marcus Young is head coach of the University of Texas at Brownsville’s women’s volleyball team, which won the region championship and earned a bid to the national tournament in Columbia, Miss. Four of his players were selected to the All-Region Team, and Marcus was recognized as Region Coach of the Year. |
| Maria Bettina (Hager) Robin has worked as a freelance painter and graphic designer, living in Paris since 1997. She was married to Christophe Robin in 2004. They have one son, Jules Milo. |
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| Joshua Martin has lived in Austin, Tex. for the last 10 years after graduating with his master’s in counseling from Sonoma State University. He is a policy advisor to the Office of the Governor on mental health issues and is the director of Homeless Outreach Services for the state of Texas. He also has a small psychotherapy private practice working with children and families. He and his wife, Christy, had their first child, Morgan Lucille, on Oct. 6, 2007. |
| Cris Takken lives in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County) with his wife, Kristina, and his three beautiful daughters — Amanda, 4, Alyse, 2, and Elle, an infant. Cris is vice president of Takken’s Shoes, his family’s statewide chain of shoe stores, based in San Luis Obispo. |
| Mark Trinidad joined Mercy Housing after seven years as a city planner. He is a project manager working on affordable developments in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. He lives in Los Angeles and does marathons and triathlons for fun. |
| Lee A. Berger is an associate attorney at Lowis and Gellen, LLP in Chicago, where her practice focuses on medical defense litigation. Berger, licensed in Illinois and California, represents physicians, hospitals and other medical care providers who have been sued in medical malpractice lawsuits. Her law practice draws on her two years as a senior accountant and CPA with Arthur Andersen LLP. Prior to that Berger completed her master’s in business and accounting. |
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Capt. Damon Foss recently returned home from Afghanistan, where he was deployed as the 131st Pararescue Team commander. Damon and his wife, Lisa Barrette-Foss, welcomed the arrival of their son, Nolan James, on Nov. 20, 2007. Nolan joins older sisters Carley, 9, Kaitlyn, 7, and Kelsey, 2, at the family’s home in Mountain View.
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| Kevin Hartwig and his wife, Allison, celebrated the birth of their third child, Jaime Maire, on June 22, 2007. The Hartwigs reside in Brentwood. |
| Michelle McKenzie has launched an editing and writing business, McKenzie Bookworks, and is enrolled in a nonfiction writing program through UC Davis. Her three children’s books have been published, and she is working on a new one. She also writes stories for the Grass Valley newspaper and does glass bead art. Her handmade glass beads are collected around the world. |
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| Denise (Miller) Simmons and her husband, Kenan, welcomed Aidan Thomas Miller Simmons on July 15, 2007. He was born at New York Presbyterian in Manhattan. |
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| Joanne Ward MBA began her second term as mayor of Hercules. She continues to work on the town’s vision of a pedestrian-friendly central Hercules and a waterfront district with smart shops and restaurants. |
| Dean Cappellazzo and wife, Alison, welcomed their first child, Gino Anthony, on Aug. 27, 2007. Dean started an engineering firm, Bedrock Technology Partners, in January 2007. Headquartered in San Diego, the firm expanded to San Mateo and San Jose and will open a new office in Irvine in early 2008. Bedrock is a sponsor of Gael athletics. |
| Alan Iannaccone reports that his son, Ryan, won the high-point trophy at the Contra Costa County Swim Championships as the top 6-year-old in the county. Ryan broke 12 records on his way to the county title. |
Maureen Marley McCarthy and her husband, Bob, welcomed their third boy, Dillon, on May 21, 2007. Dillon was a big baby, weighing more than 9 pounds, which he will need with two older brothers — Connor, 6, and Brendan, 4. The family lives in the Boston area and Maureen travels “home” to California every chance she gets.
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| Craig Staszkow is the design and special sections editor at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, published in Moscow, Idaho. He and his wife, Nina, have two children, Brooke, 7, and Isaac, 4. Craig also works part-time as an adjunct professor in the University of Idaho School of Journalism and Mass Media. Craig and his daughter are learning to play the drums, which makes for a noisy home life. |
| Ron Susa MBA has since 2006 been the manager of finance for Chevron Business and Real Estate Services, the subsidiary responsible for managing Chevron’s global real estate and office services. |
| Matt Foley and his wife, Sandi, welcomed their little boy, Tyler Kevin, into the family on Sept. 25, 2007. Sandi will remain at home while Matt continues to serve Contra Costa County as a deputy sheriff. |
| Ken Miller & Carol (Sequeira) ’92 live in Redwood Shores with their two children, Nick, 12, and Brooke, 9. Ken works for Microsoft managing sales in North America for a business unit focused on emerging technologies. Carol works for CCLC as a client services manager overseeing employer-sponsored on-site child care accounts. |
| Courtney (Tennant) Paneri reports that 2007 has been a busy year. She left her job as a pharmaceutical rep with Alcon Labs in April to stay home with her children, Ryan and Erin. Ryan started pre-school and Erin is a busy 1-year-old. Courtney stays busy with the nonprofit American Lab Rescue and enjoys keeping in touch with fellow Gaels Kathy Green, Judy Perry, Cathy Siler, Maureen Flaherty ’88, Mateusz Konieczny ’89, Melanie Azzopardi ’89, Sarah Murphy ’93 and Molly Ryne ’93. |
| Scott Thompson has written a book, Internet Real Estate Agent: A Guide To Dominating Internet Real Estate Leads and Marketing, which he calls an insider’s guide to Internet leads, marketing how-to’s, easy-to-use websites and more. The book is available in hardcover or eBook online at www.agentwisdom.com. |
