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1930s

Mary Jennings Danenhauer ’39 Rob Breiman ’75 ’79 is the Mark Andrew Weaver ’84 is
celebrated her 100th birthday director of the Global Health an architect with a passion for
on Aug. 13, 2017. Mary, a native Institute and professor of Global paleontology and reading that
of Bisbee, met her husband, Sid, Health and Infectious Diseases at inspired him to take the challenge
while at the UA. Today, she lives Emory University, where he has of defining the life that may have
in Orange County, California, near been for the past five years after been lived by the Australopithecus
her three children. She also has a 26-year career at the Centers for afarensis Lucy (3.18 mya). In 2015,
six grandchildren and eight great- Disease Control and Prevention. Mark traveled to the Institute of
grandchildren. Mary earned a He primarily works on reducing Human Origins to meet Donald
degree in elementary education childhood mortality in Africa and Johanson, who, along with Tom
from the College of Education. Asia. In October 2017, Rob was Gray, discovered Lucy in 1974 in
Teaching is now a tradition for the elected to the National Academy Ethiopia. “Lucy Lives: A Novel
family, with multiple members of Medicine and selected as fellow Look At Early Human Evolution”
teaching elementary, high school of the American Society of Tropical (CreateSpace) is available in the gift
and college. Mary is still an avid fan Medicine and Hygiene. He remains shop of the American Museum of
of Wildcat sports and enjoys telling an ardent Wildcat fan and visits Natural History in New York City,
the Button Salmon story. Tucson with increasing frequency. as a Kindle e-book on Amazon, and
online at lucylivesthebook.com.
1960s Craig Schloss ’77 has joined the
law firm of Cozen O’Connor in its Andrew Kelly Jr. ’86, owner of
Jim Van Houten ’69 recently San Diego office. A B Kelly Realty, LLC, in Tucson,
completed “The Prospect Says specializing in nationwide self
Yes! A Handbook for Selling Life 1980s storage management, was
Insurance.” Jim retired from a recognized by Inside Self Storage
career in the financial services Robyn Austin ’83, who received a Industry Magazine as one of
business in Phoenix, where he was bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the top 50 operators of facility-
general agent of MassMutual Life the UA, has been appointed to management companies in
Insurance for Arizona and New serve on the State Bar of Arizona’s the nation. In addition, a sister
Mexico before starting Stonegate Board of Governors. Robyn serves company, Sierra Self Storage
Financial Group with his oldest son. on the Diversity and Inclusion Consulting, LLC, developed the
Jim retired in 2013. He also spent Working Group. premier climate controlled GU Self
40 years as a volunteer for the Storage in Guam, which opened in
YMCA, including eight years on the Mark Jorgens ’83 and UA friends April 2017.
National Board of the YMCA of the celebrated two years of annual
USA. He and his wife of almost 50 Grand Canyon rim-to-river-to-rim
years, JeanneKay, donated a statue day hikes. He says, “Our PE course
honoring Vietnam veterans in the at U of A must have helped.”
Student Union Memorial Center
rotunda.
1970s

Pac-12 alumni meet on the USS
Nitmitz sailing the Pacific Ocean:
Captain Kunzman (Commodore of
the 9th Fleet and an Oregon Duck)
with Alex Reynoso ’74, president
of the Salt Lake City SkiCats. Alex
was a member of the Tiger Cruise
aboard the USS Nimitz for a seven-
day cruise from Pearl Harbor to San
Diego. The ship had just returned
from a six-month deployment in
the Middle East.

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