1943 Bill Hagan has published Three Ways to Interpret Bible Verses: Fundamentalist, Non-Fundamentalist Believer, Humanist, based on his 30 years as a professor of philosophy at CSU Dominguez Hills. In 1951, he coached an SI basketball team to the city championship against public high schools and SH.
1948 John Savant* wrote an essay in America Magazine on mystery, art and faith.
1955 Newsweek praised Gov. Jerry Brown’s* leadership of California.
1956 Members of the Class of 1956 held their annual golf tournament May 4 at Peacock Gap in San Rafael. Pictured here, front row from left, are Rich Murphy, Bob Norton, George Casey, Don Stenson, Jack Phelan, Gene Barsotti and Terry Keeley. Second row from left are Mel Canevaro, Al Richardson, Bob Maloney, Jim Lyons, Frank Nolan, Lou Salaber and Jim Fitzpatrick. Back row from left are Fred Stecher, Jim Kerr and Jack Hayes, who organized the event.
1958 Bob Soper was just elected to the Vintage High School (Napa) Athletic Hall of Fame. He coached girl’s basketball, badminton and was the tournament director of the Wine Valley Classic basketball tournament for 30 years.
1960 Living in Australia since 1977, David Rentz worked for CSIRO as chief research scientist specializing in entomology. He is retired and living in Kuranda, north Queensland, in the rainforest.
1962 Famed Broadway sound designer Abe Jacob* was honored for his long career.
1963 George Magill (left) is happy to report a second place finish in this year’s HITS Ocala sprint triathlon last April. He recorded a 2:21 time for the 70-to-74 age group. He has started training for the first annual Barbary Coast Roller Marathon to be held in July on the Great Highway.
1966 Peter Devine* served as the stage director for the 5th annual Sing for America Benefit.
1969 Ron Lagomarsino* directed Chester Bailey for ACT’s Strand Theatre.
1971 Soccer standout Mark Stahl* was inducted into the Chico Sports Hall of Fame.
1972 Steve Aveson* made his debut on KRON as its new anchor.
1975 The North Bay Business Journal featured winemaker Roy Cecchetti* for “creating and building brands for three decades” and “guiding a new branded-wine effort by one of California’s largest producers.” / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Brian McCaffery* was featured in a video highlighting native peoples living in Southwest Alaska.
1976 Signature Theatre founder James Houghton* was honored in May by the Outer Critics Circle.
1977 Bartlett Sher* won the Drama Desk Award for Best Director for his work on Fiddler on the Roof.
1980 Greg Toler is the new HR director for the Diocese of Oakland.
1982 The Wall Street Journal praised the concoctions made by Julio Bermejo* of Tommy’s Restaurant.
1983 Alex Gerould* has a new book co-written by former 49er Kermit Alexander. The story has been featured on the San Francisco 49ers website and on NBC’s Crime Watch.
1985 Michael Gong* will be traveling to Ghana to help free child slaves. Michael became involved in freeing child slaves when his friend and Hong Kong film star Vincent Lyn asked him to join his rescue team in Africa. The mission seeks to free children along Lake Volta in Ghana, South Africa and other South African regions. Michael writes that his group “tries to go on as many missions as possible to rescue children and bring them to a safe house where they receive medical and psychological care with the hopes of rehabilitation and integration back with their families or new families that will take them in.” / Paul Henderson was voted California’s Lawyer of the Year by the historic California Association of Black Lawyers. The Loren Miller Award is given to the California attorney who has shown outstanding leadership and has made positive influences within the legal profession. Paul was chosen for his ongoing commitment to increasing diversity within the field. He currently serves as Mayor Lee’s deputy chief of staff for public safety and is running for SF Superior Court Judge on the November ballot. In June he appeared in San Francisco Magazine as one of the Bay Area’s top 100 movers and shakers in the LGBT community.
1987 Rich Reardon earned his MBA from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business and received his degree June 19.
1992 Supervisor Mark Farrell* returned to SI to read a citation praising retiring teachers Art Cecchin ’63 & Elizabeth Purcell. / Please pray for CHP Officer Vincent Smith* who was injured while investigating a hit-and-run.
1995 San Mateo Mayor Joe Goethals* is pushing for a $15 minimum wage ahead of the state’s implementation of the increase and is working to help San Mateo combat climate change.
1996 The U.S. State Department’s website featured the work of Michelle Los Banos*, who serves as human resources advisor for diversity and inclusion for the department. / Beth Spotswood is the new Thursday columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She covers quirky San Francisco events and characters in Jon Carroll’s former spot on the back page of Datebook. Beth is also happily engaged to be married to SFPD officer Dustin Daza.
1997 Kirsten Feyling and Mathew Ashley were recently married in San Francisco. Emma Dunbar, Autumn Francois, Leslie Geddes, Maggie Martel, Erin McHugh Shaw, Juliana Terheyden and Catherine Portman Topping joined in the celebrations. / Playbill featured Aladdin star Adam Jacobs* and his sister, Arielle, who will play the role of Jasmine in Australia.
1999 Valerie Ibarra, (sixth from left) who heads the Poetry Under the Dome at City Hall, came to SI to speak with students on April 25. She spoke with the Wildcat Writers and Spoken Word Club (moderated by SI English teachers Kristen Moraine and Xan Roberti).
2000 Vikki Abendroth* was selected as a “woman to watch” by Medical Marketing & Media.
2002 Kelly Kramer (left) married Jimmy Collins on May 28 at St. Ignatius Church. Kelly is a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County and Jimmy is the head football coach at City College of San Francisco and the son of the Hon. Jim Collins ’61. Francesca (Mallegni) Ohanessian was the matron of honor. / Michelle Potthoff Wylie graduated with her master’s degree in Public Administration and Health Services Administration with honors from USF’s School of Management.
2003 Google’s Lead for Sustainability Kate Brandt will speak at SXSW Eco 2016.
2004 In May 2016, Tracy Cosgriff was awarded a doctoral degree by the University of Virginia. An expert of early modern Rome, the papacy and the painter Raphael, she completed her dissertation on the famous Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace, for which she received numerous fellowships, grants and awards. This July, she will join the faculty at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, as a visiting assistant professor of art history. / Capt. David A. Darling left his position as commanding officer at Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, and was transferred to Fort Benning, Ga. He is now a member of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Unit, the 75th Ranger Regiment. He is the uncle of Marie Paul ’16, who will be attending Arizona State University in the fall. In addition, he is also the uncle of Sarah Paul ’17 and Matthew Paul, a sophomore at Riordan. / After graduating in 2014 from Harvard Law School with honors, Annie Lee (left) completed an Equal Justice Works Fellowship at the National Center for Youth Law. She recently transitioned to the U.S. Department of Education, where she is a Civil Rights Attorney in the Office for Civil Rights.
2005 Darren Criss will star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in San Francisco in October. / Small Business Trends wrote about how Facebook’s Ciara Viehweg* is showing how small businesses can leverage her company’s resources.
2006 The late Jill Costello* was named to the PAC-12 All Century Women’s Crew Team. / Misha Sundukovskiy (below), who produces all the digital shorts and faux commercials for Saturday Night Live, came to SI to speak with students on April 25. Misha spoke to students who work on SI Live and was interviewed by co-moderator Sean Lawhon ’87.
2007 Forbes featuree Andrew Dudum* and his successful EverAlbum app.
2008 Ilana Black* was inducted as the youngest president of the University of Michigan Chicago Alumni Chapter. / Ben Diserens* is appearing in a web series called The Yearbook.
2009 Sydney Allen and Stephen-Béla Cooper (left) graduated from The George Washington University Law School. Both were recognized by President Obama for their pro bono work.
2010 Timothy Green performed at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Reno Philharmonic Chorus. / Dominique Russo graduated with honors from American University in May of 2015 with her master’s degree in Law and Public Policy. She owns her own private investigations firm and works with criminal defense attorneys. She is studying for her LSAT with the plan to attend law school in 2017. She has traveled extensively and is currently in Colombia using her Spanish. Thanks to her SI classes, she is now so fluent in that she also translates for the courts in Washington, D.C., where she has made her home.
2011 Xavier Russo* (next page, second from right) and Everett Watson* (far right), football teammates at SI, took second in the Wall Street Decathlon, which aired June 23 on the NBC Sports Network. It was their first time competing, and while they placed first in the athletic portion of the competition, they were beaten by a team with higher fundraising (for Sloan Kettering Pediatric Cancer Research) that was a large part of the point total. They are already planning their workout plans and strategy for next year’s Decathlon.
2012 Natalie Calhoun* was named to the All-NESCAC Rowing Team for Connecticut College. / Claire Healy* is traveling to India June 22 to Aug. 5 with SCU’s Business School. A Global Fellow, she and her team will be working with local youth installing solar reading lamps and implementing sustainability projects. This will be her third volunteer position in the developing world while enrolled in college. / Alexa Robinson* (left), a star lacrosse player at SCU, was named Female Athlete of the Year by the university. She is also a 2016 First Team All-American and All-Academic player who helped her team compete in the national championships in North Carolina. Alexa was also inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honors Society for distinguishing herself in scholarship, loyalty to the ideals of Jesuit education, and service to others. / Sports Illustrated featured UC Davis golfer Andrea Wong* in its Faces in the Crowd section.
2013 Lacrosse standout Riley Burke* made the 2016 NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team. / Brendan McDermott* was named to the NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team. / Charlie Ford*, playing lacrosse for Georgetown, was named to All-Big East first team. / Nick Giarratano* was named defensive player of the year for the West Coast Conference. / Stanford centerfielder Jack Klein* was drafted in the 33rd round by the Phillies. / Matt Krook* of the University of Oregon was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round of the MLB draft. / CBS Sports aired a video on Jack McGovern* and his foundation to fight Coats’ disease. / Christian Santos* was named to the NCAA DIII Central Regional All-Tournament Team. / Carla Tocchini* earned Big West honorable mention for her success playing water polo for the UC Davis Aggies.
2014 Nick Ebert was selected to intern this summer in the Congressional Democratic Cloakroom for House of Representative Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. / Harvard LAX standout Joe Lang* earned USILA/Nike All-American honors and made the All Ivy League team.
2015 Deedee Anderson, entering her sophomore year at Stanford, is loving her time as an English major and meeting famous authors. She is part of the satirical newspaper at Stanford, The Flipside, and is a member of Stand Up Comedy, Flying Treehouse (teaching creative writing to second graders and then adapting their writing into comedic sketches that her group performs for them), writing and editing for the online news platform The Odyssey, publishing podcasts and serving as the Birthday Fairy of her dorm as a part of dorm government. / Dartmouth’s Rob Emery* earned honors from the All-Ivy League Conference. / Chad Johnstone* was named UAA Baseball Athlete of the Week for his work at NYU. / Jackson New-Smith* was featured in The Santa Clara for his work with the San Francisco Giants.
2016 Daniel Camou* (pictured on page 2) earned runner-up honors in Beach Blanket Babylon’s scholarship competition. / A host of SI students recently earned their Eagle Scout badges, including Jimmy Carlton (also the first place finisher in the American Legion Speech Contest for San Francisco who advanced to NorCal competition), Nick Barry, Aidan Birmingham, Nikolas Romer, Albert Hobbs, Thomas Redmond, Rob Werner, Walter Nicolson and Peter Evans. (See story on Peter on page 51.) / San Bruno Foundation named Jamie Chen* as the inaugural recipient of scholarship designed to help victims of the San Bruno Fire. / Pacifica Sports Club honored senior runner Krey Hacker* and track star Jessica Murray* (right). / CSF Moderator Carol Quattrin nominated Valerie Kau* for a 2016 CSF Seymour Award in the Central Coast Region. Earlier, Valerie and nine others won a $2,000 scholarship as finalists in this process. On April 23, at the regional annual conference, Valerie was chosen to receive an additional $3,000. Winners are chosen on their scholarship, CSF service, and other service. / The 52nd San Francisco Debutante Ball, held June 18 at the St. Francis Hotel and presented by the Women’s Board of the California Pacific Medical Center, featured Jacqueline Soja, McKenna Marie Carter, Hannah Holscher, Anna Garman, Catherine Ann Bick, Caroline Coffey, Mara Therese Sylvia and Caraghan Selfridge. This year’s proceeds went to the NICU at CPMC. The debutantes elected to allocate additional funds towards the music therapy program for the patients in the NICU.
2017 The San Mateo Daily Journal wrote about Lindsey Fontenot*, who is back at school after a lengthy battle with pancreatitis, and the special prom she had accompanied by 49er safety Eric Reid. / Joe Lerdal* will take part in Boys Nation in Virginia starting July 22.
2018 Cooper Veit* co-authored a story published by the New York Times. / Madeline Wang earned several honors including the Achievement Roll and Honor Roll (American Invitational Mathematics Competition) of American Math Competition-12. She was accepted into Ross Mathematics Program, a 6-week intensive number theory summer camp where approximately 60 students are accepted each year.
2019 Lucas Laughlin* achieved a perfect store on the 2016 National Latin Exam. / Theresa Wu* earned second place at the CLTAC 41st Mandarin Speech Contest on April 23.