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Alumni News & Notes
Chris Shea, class of 1965, is currently living in Ballwin, Missouri with his wife, Beverly, and twelve- year-oldson,Brady. MostrecentlyhewasVice President of Marketing for the Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks (Sea World and Busch Gardens).
William Peter Terhune, class of 1972, was the winner of the raffle for a grand total of $10,000 at the WPS fund raising auction “Passage to Paris”.
Erhard Wegman, class of 1976, is Vice President and the State Representative for his chapter of the California Association of Nurserymen and well as being a member of two Boards of Directors for industrytradeshows. Withallthoseactivitieshestill has time to enjoy his two children, two year old Tristan and three year old Jackson.
Emerson (Chip) Swan, class of 1977, missed the auction because he was attending a very special eventofhisown. Hisson,EmersonWardSwanIII arrived at 8:56 that Saturday morning, weighing in at 8.5pounds. Hewas23daysearlyandabeautiful baby.
Bill Quirk, attended 1961-1962, is thinking about sendinghisson,IantoWPS. Billmovedawayfrom the area before he could graduate from WPS, but says thatthePriorygavehimagreateducation. He received his BS and Phd degrees in Astrophysics fromColumbiainNewYorkCity. Hehasbeen working at Lawrence Livermore in California for the last 21 years and is now in the process of making some career changes.
Drew Desky, class of 1983, is living in New York and working for Forris, Inc., as Vice President of MergersandAcquisitions. Hegraduatedfrom Dartmouth in 1987.
Charles Fracchia, class of 1983, is living in El Cerrito, CA, and will be marrying Julie Algazie on August 8, 2000.
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Thomas Ducharme, class of 1986, was married to JulieWardonJune12,1999. Theirson,William Thomas Ducharme, was born on May 31, 2000 at 5:33 p.m. Heweighedinat7pounds,10ouncesandwas 20incheslong. JulieandWillaredoingwellandthe family is getting settled into their new life and enjoyingeverymoment,theysay. ThomasandJulie have their own construction company - Maison du Charme - in Walnut Creek, CA.
Saxon Amdahl, class of 1994, is living in Los Gatos, CA,andworkingforacomputercompany. Hespent New Year’s Eve welcoming in the millennium with another Priory grad, Scott Campbell, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Albert Chang, class of 1994, is living in Taiwan and is now working for Hyatt Hotels.
Eric Lin, class of 1994, just finished his first year of law school in Syracuse, NY, and said that he actually survived both the first year of school and the freezing winter weather.
Jimmy Lin, class of 1994, is graduating from UCLA and getting ready to enter the work force.
Shang Tsai, class of 1994, is now working for a biotech company in Irvine, California.
Raymond Wong, class of 1994, has moved back to Taiwan and is working for a start-up dot.com company.
(Thanks to Eric Lin for the Taiwanese Alumni report.)
Miki Oyler, class of 1995, graduated cum laude from the University of New England, with a double major (Business Administration and Sports Fitness Management). Heplayedsportsallfourandone-half years - Basketball, La Crosse (team captain), Soccer andGolf. Hewillbegoingtograduateschoolat Springfield College in the fall to get a Master’s degree in Athletic Counseling.
Father Martin Mager, Director of Alumni Affairs, with Cory Roberts, Class of 1996, who attended the Eighth Grade graduation with her cousin, Allie Seiler.