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Alumni
Pedro Mequio and Mike Mitchell, both gradu- ates of the Class of 1996, completed the Marines’ basic training last fall. Here, Pedro chats with Coach Chris Miller and student Geoff Welliver.
NEWS & NOTES
Chris Bulkeley, Class of 1981, married JoAnne Suzula in Sacramento in April 1995. Chris is an attor- ney with the Yolo County District Attorney’s office and JoAnne is an optometrist. They have just moved to a new home in Davis, Calif.
Woodside Priory’s Father Martin co-officiated in the marriage ceremony that joined Bill McGlashan Jr., Class of 1982, and Marie Rafic at St. Helene’s Church in Napa on Nov. 16, 1996.
A member of the Woodside Priory School Board of Trustees, Bill is president and co-founder of Pharmanex, and CEO of Generation Ventures, a ven- ture capital firm. Marie is leaving the finance indus- try after seven years with First Boston to pursue a graduate degree in acupuncture. They live in San Francisco.
DaveGerber,Classof 1989,isonthePriory campus this spring team-teaching a short course in architecture and design with Fine Arts Division Head Tom Yacoe. A 1996 graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Architecture, Dave is now working with the Steinberg Group, an 80-member architectural firm in San Jose. The San Jose’s Children’s Museum and the Tech Museum are among the projects in which the firm has taken part, as well as churches, temples, schools, residences, and all kinds of major buildings except skyscrapers, said Dave.
Alumni phones are buzzing as class leaders from 1957 through 1996 try to reconnect with their friends. People who haven’t already received a call will prob- ably hear from a long-lost classmate soon. If you don’t get a call, and we haven’t heard from you late- ly, please follow ET’s example and phone home!
The goal of the alumni steering committee leading
this effort is to update Woodside Priory’s class contact lists in preparation for the school’s fortieth anniversa- rycelebration nextyear. Theupdatedlistwillalsobe helpful in planning an ongoing reunion program, says Doug Ayer, Director of Development.
Visitors to the campus:
Class of 1996 visitors include Peter Adams, now at Williams College; Ben Hurlbut and Gladys Martin, both at Stanford, Mike Mitchell, looking fit and tanned in his Marines uniform; Pedro Miqueo, also with the Marines; Nathan Williams, at Wesleyan, and Jeanine Yost, at Wellesley. Clare Van Dalsem was a regular visitor on the campus as coach of the JV girls volleyball team. Grant Rosenquist visited from Tulane, and Tim Gerrish dropped in on break from Loras College.
Class of 1995 visitors - Mike Farris is at CSU San Jose and is still lending a hand with Woodside Priory’s new technology. Miki Oyler, home from the University of New England, attended Sunday Mass in the Priory Chapel over winter break. Alejandro Chavez is taking a break from school and is working in San Jose. Claudine Chow is at UC Berkeley and is thinking about a change; Sarah Schmidt is enjoy- ing her sophomore year at Occidental College; like- wise for Dora Arredondo and Koh Nakajima, both at Santa Clara University.
Andy Schilling, visitor from the Class of 1978 lives locally and works in San Francisco’s financial
district.
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Can you meet a graduating senior for career exploration? Call Cathy Molak, (415) 851-6138. Or contact her through the Priory web page.
Students will study architectural design, then try out their ideas by constructing models, and finally “debrief” as a team during a short course being taught this spring by Dave Gerber, Class of 1989 and Tom Yacoe, head of the Fine Arts division.