Board - Golden Gate University

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departments
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CALENDAR
invested in, founded and
run many companies, including
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FROM THE TOP [MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT]
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IN THIS ISSUE
Combinet and CNet Technology. My MBA
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INSIDER [NEWS AND NOTES ON CAMPUS]
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I have
from Golden Gate in telecom management
was a basic
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[ASSOCIATION NEWS/CLASS NOTES/ALBUM/CONTACT/THE BRIDGE/GIVING/MEMORIAM]
must-have. It taught me
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how to be a businessman and a manager.
It taught me how to
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TIME CAPSULE
succeed.
features
Henry Wong (MBA 83)
Venture Capitalist
For more than a century, Golden Gate University
ALUMNEWS
Executive Chair, Packet Island
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The Centennial Campaign for GGU: Extended
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The Man With Hope
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I’m With the Band [cover story]
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Social Studies
has provided a quality professional-
practice adult-learning experience in
Northern California. GGU has given many people
such as Henry Wong the opportunity
to change their lives and advance their
careers. GGU is still that place, helping adults
work, learn and succeed.
To continue to deliver on our heritage and our
Lead donor profiles and where we stand in Golden Gate
University’s first campaign in more than 30 years —
plus the campaign extension
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Representative Henry Domzalski finds hope where
little else grows
Being a CPA can be very cool. Tim Jorstad is the
money man for musical powerhouses such as Carlos
Santana, Journey, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful
Dead, among others
promise, we must invest in our future.
To learn more about The Centennial Campaign
for GGU, please visit www.ggu.edu/campaign,
Photo: Kent Taylor
or call 415-442-7820.
Social networks are transforming the landscape of
profitable business. Why you — and your business —
should care
Cover photo by Kent Taylor
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Golden Gate University
Board of Trustees
2008
Chair
Les Schmidt (MS 81)
s c h e d u l e o f u p c o m i n g eve n t s
fo r m o r e ev e n t i n fo r m a t i o n , v i s i t w w w. g g u . e d u / ev e n t s
march
Vice President, Mobile & Devices Operations,
Adobe Systems Inc.
Vice Chairs
Curtis Burr (BA 74, MBA 76)
Principal, Burr, Pilger and Mayer LLP
Sizzling and Satisfying
Tracey Edwards (JD 81, LLM 83)
Managing Principal — Region 10, Deloitte & Touche USA
Work/Life Balance Workshop
“Stress Less!” will deal with identifying
and managing stress. 536 Mission St.,
Room 6205; 5:15–6:30 pm. Info:
Michael Anne Conley, 415-442-6578,
ext. 1, or cs@ggu.edu.
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PILF Auction
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SGA Business Leadership Forum
GGU’s Student Government Association is
holding the 2008 Business Leadership
Forum. 536 Mission St., Room 2201;
5–6:45 pm. RSVP by March 15. Info: Diana
Wang, 415-442-7879 or sga@ggu.edu.
School of Law Reunions
GGU honors grads from 1963 and earlier,
1968, 73, 78, 83, 88, 93, 98 and 2003.
Golden Grads lunch/tour, 40 Jesse St.;
12 pm. Reception/class dinners, The
Palace Hotel; 6 pm. Info: Deanna Bruton,
415-442-7812 or alumni@ggu.edu.
may
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Roseville Commencement
Magic Circle Theater.
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San Jose Commencement
San Jose Repertory Theater.
Tax-Expert Lecture
“Tax Preparer Responsibilities and Penalties” (one hour CPE/MCLE). 536 Mission
St.; 11:30 am–1 pm. Info: Kim Chun,
415-442-7898 or kchun@ggu.edu.
september
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Tax-Expert Lecture
“Tax Planning for High-Net-Worth Individuals” (one hour CPE/MCLE). 536
Mission St.; 11:30 am–1 pm. Info: Kim
Chun, 415-442-7898 or kchun@ggu.edu.
october
Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium.
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SPCA Monterey Wag n’ Walk
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Treasurer
Madelyn Mallory (MBA 93)
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President, Catalyst Financial Planning & Investment Management
Secretary
Lydia Beebe (MBA 80)
Corporate Secretary, Chevron Corp.
2008 Alumni Awards Lunch
The annual celebration of alumni and
awardees. Info: Lenore McDonald, 415442-7824 or alumni@ggu.edu.
Tax-Expert Lecture
“International Tax Timing” (one hour CPE/
MCLE). 536 Mission St.; 11:30 am–
1 pm. Info: Kim Chun, 415-442-7898
or kchun@ggu.edu.
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hen I arrived at GGU last
Those efforts have provided a treasure trove for future
winter, the phrase was almost
direction and action. And — make no mistake — that is our
automatic: “I’d like to introduce
Mark S. Anderson (JD 89)
Vice President and General Counsel, Dolby Laboratories
intent. We aim to own that opportunity!
you to the new president of Golden Gate
2007 brought GGU a new vigor, new initiatives, New
University.” That was more than a year ago …
Horizons 20/20, total institutional policy updates, a Law
and times have changed.
School removed from probation, new programs and degree
Dan Angel, PhD
President, Golden Gate University
Hon. Lee Baxter (JD 74)
Judge (Retired), Superior Court,
City and County of San Francisco
Mark Burton Jr. (JD 95)
2007 brought GGU a new vigor, new initiatives,
New Horizons 20/20, policy updates, new programs and
degree offerings, new student-assistance innovations, and
major strides toward completing our capital campaign.
Partner, Hersh & Hersh
Cameron Carlson (JD 90)
Silicon Valley Alumni Networking Mixer
Socialize and network with fellow alumni.
6–8 pm. Info: Lenore McDonald, 415442-7824 or alumni@ggu.edu.
august
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Vice Chair (Retired), Dresdner RCM Global Investors
Ann Moller Caen (MBA 88)
june
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Kenneth B. Weeman Jr. (MBA 90)
President (Retired), Moller & Associates
San Francisco Commencement
GGU is sponsoring the SPCA Monterey
County Wag n’ Walk to help end pet
homelessness, and raise money and
awareness for the SPCA of Monterey
County. There will be a GGU booth and a
team of walkers. Registration 8:30 am,
walk 9:30 am. Info: Wanda Vollmer,
831-884-0912 or wvollmer@ggu.edu.
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School of Law Commencement
Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium.
april
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Tax-Expert Lecture
“Financial & Tax Accounting Developments” (one hour CPE/MCLE). 536
Mission St.; 11:30 am–1 pm. Info: Kim
Chun, 415-442-7898 or kchun@ggu.edu.
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Silicon Valley Alumni Networking Mixer
Socialize and network with fellow alumni.
6–8 pm. Info: Lenore McDonald, 415442-7824 or alumni@ggu.edu.
Monterey Commencement
Monterey Conference Center.
Walnut Creek Alumni Networking Mixer
Socialize and network with fellow alumni.
6–8 pm. Info: Lenore McDonald, 415442-7824 or alumni@ggu.edu.
The 2008 PILF Fund-Raising Auction
benefits GGU’s Public Interest Law
Foundation. 111 Minna Gallery;
5–9 pm. Info: Angela Dalfen, 415-3695391 or adalfen@ggu.edu.
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President, Pacific Advisory Group
Charles “Chip” Conradi (JD 78, MBA 81)
Vice President and Treasurer, The Clorox Co.
Frank Felicelli (MBA 82)
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer,
Franklin Templeton Portfolio Advisors
No matter what you have done before (I had been a presi-
offerings, meaningful new studentassistance innovations and major strides
toward completing our capital-campaign
goal. (Incidentally, we have extended The
Centennial Campaign for GGU and the
opportunity to be listed on The Centennial Wall until Dec. 31,
Michael Goldsmith (BS 65)
dent of five other colleges or universities), there is an adjust-
CEO, KLS Logistics Services
2008; see p. 11 for more information.)
Ted Mitchell (BA 71, MS 81)
ment period for both the new CEO and for the university.
Partner, Delagnes, Mitchell & Linder LLP
Linda G. Montgomery (MBA 84)
Leadership is both an abstract and a specific.
Certified Public Accountant
Jim O’Neil (MBA 86)
As I look back over this first year, I no longer feel like your
“new” president. Patricia and I have become part of the fabric
There were new trustees to meet, one-on-one sessions
Realtor, Prudential Realty
President, GGU Alumni Association Board of Directors
and part of the family.
with the full-time faculty, numerous staff and adjunct profes-
We are now engaged in planning the future with “Blue
sors to greet, speeches to various groups, community leaders
Horizons 2012,” a leadership team of 40 people from all parts
Daniel P. Riley (MBA 81)
to contact, leadership retreats, 40 student clubs to visit, fund-
of your university. Our plans will reach completion by fall 2008.
President (Retired), Global Treasury Services,
Bank of America
raising events throughout the Bay Area and in multiple states,
The exciting future of your university is unfolding before
personal visits to off-campus locations and a volume of
us. We thank you for your strong support, and we invite your
administrivia to deal with.
participation. Drop us a line, send an e-mail, or give us a call.
Anthony Pollace (BS 66)
CFO, ManyOne Networks Inc.
D. Paul Regan (MS 79)
President and Chair, Hemming Morse Inc.
Barbara Roberts (MS 88)
President and CEO, Wright Engineered Plastics
Suthee Tritasavit (BS 67)
Partner, Celeski & Tritasavit–An Accountancy Corp.
Dana Waldman (MBA 95)
The purpose of that hectic pace (sizzle) was to be fully
CEO, Voyant
Ex-Officio Members
Andrew Grossman
immersed, drill down and fully understand all the pieces of the
President, GGU Student Bar Association
Golden Gate University puzzle: the mission, values, strengths,
Hamid Shomali
Chair, GGU Faculty Senate
Diana Wang
President, GGU Student Government Association
Photo: Kent Taylor
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Your comments, thoughts and suggestions are welcome!
challenges and opportunities. The goal: to formulate plans to
Dan Angel, PhD
take your university to the next level (satisfaction).
President
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news and notes on campus
Law School Bar-Pass Rate at 10-Year High
President
Dan Angel, PhD
Spring Surprises
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olden Gate University School of Law
reported its highest first-time California
bar-exam pass rate in 10 years. GGU graduates’ first-time pass rate for the July 2007
bar exam was 68.4 percent — a doubling of
first-time results in just three years.
This marks quite an accomplishment.
When Frederic White took over as dean of
the GGU School of Law in 2004, the firsttime bar-passage rate was low. Dean White
wasted no time in assessing the situation.
“I saw the need to address the low-barpassage problem even before we were put on
ABA probation,” White said. “After gathering
the appropriate data, I sought to approach the
issue by engaging in collaborative planning
with senior faculty members and senior staff.
Together we came up with a plan of attack that
resulted in the ‘GGU Law Bar Passage Plan.’”
The plan included reducing the size of
the entering class, reforming the curriculum,
increasing the quality of academic counseling, revising first-year course coverage to
more accurately reflect bar-exam subjectmatter coverage, establishing a first-year
teachers committee, appointing a bar-services
dean to work with upper-level students for
Vice President, University Advancement
Elizabeth Brady
ho would have expected a visit to a CPA’s office to result in an up-close-
and-personal encounter with not one, but two Grammy awards?
Editor in Chief/Art Director
Lauren Hauptman
Well, Tim Jorstad (MBA 81) is not your as-expected type of CPA. Our cover subject
has built his very successful business serving as the financial brains behind some of the
Contributing Photographer
Kent Taylor
biggest rock bands of the past half-century. And his office tells the story: gold and
Copy Editor
Daniel Nevers
platinum records as far as the eye can see, guitars signed by the likes of Carlos Santana
Class Notes Coordinator
Lenore McDonald
and the Doobie Brothers, original art work by Jerry Garcia and Grace Slick, and of
Editorial Assistants
Trevor Akerley, Deanna Bruton
course, those two Grammys. Meet Tim Jorstad on p. 14.
Also in this issue, you’ll get to know Henry Domzalski (JD 77), who is doing truly
inspiring work for the United Nations in the African country of Malawi (p. 12), and
meet two more of The Centennial Campaign for GGU’s lead donors, Dean Emerita Judy
McKelvey and Stephen Bechtel Jr. (LLD 76), on p. 10.
And for those of you who thought social-networking websites were just for college kids,
think again. Helyn Trickey examines how sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and others are
changing the ways in which companies of all sizes do business in “Social Studies” (p. 18).
Send comments and
letters to the editor to:
Editor in Chief
ggu
Office of University Advancement
Golden Gate University
536 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
or lhauptman@ggu.edu
Hope you find some pleasant surprises inside this issue. Happy spring!
Copyright 2008 Golden Gate University
lhauptman@ggu.edu
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White: Kent Taylor; Conley: Morgan Dodge
Third-class postage paid at San Francisco, Calif.,
and additional mailing offices
Lauren Hauptman
Law School Dean Frederic White
GGU’s first-time pass rate in July 2006 was
59.2 percent. The first-time pass rate for
those GGU law graduates taking July 2006,
February 2007 and July 2007 bar exams in
13 states outside of California was more
than 90 percent.
“Naturally, we are enthusiastic about our
bar-passage results, but we will not rest on
our laurels and become complacent,” White
said. “We will build on our current success.”
Follow the Leader
For information about
Golden Gate University,
call 800-GGU4YOU or visit www.ggu.edu
Postmaster: Send address changes to
Alumni Relations, Golden Gate University,
536 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105
the purpose of improving their preparation
for the bar exam, and enhancing GGU’s relationships with commercial bar-preparation
course providers.
At the end of 2005, however, before the
plan had time to show results, the ABA
Accreditation Committee placed GGU
School of Law on probation for low barpassage rates. But, in December 2007, in
response to the overwhelming increase of
GGU’s bar-passage rates, the ABA officially
took GGU School of Law off probation.
“Probation was difficult for GGU Law,
but, despite the challenges, we rolled up our
collective sleeves — alumni, students, faculty
and staff alike — and we went about the business of getting ourselves back on track. And
we have,” White said. “Our GGU Law Bar
Passage Plan and our collective efforts
enabled us to better prepare our students for
the notoriously difficult California bar exam.”
In addition to the impressive July 2007
results, GGU’s first-time pass rate on the
February 2007 California Bar exam was
68.3 percent — exceeding the passage rate
among ABA–accredited schools in California by seven percentage points — and
“What is the definition of a great leader?” Chip Conley (pictured)
asked at GGU’s Insights Into Innovators Speaker Series on
Sept. 19, 2007. Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre
Hospitality, America’s second-largest boutique-hotel company,
gave an overview of his recent book, Peak: How Great Companies
Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Having adapted Abraham Maslow’s
“Hierarchy of Needs,” Conley described his early desire to create
an environment where people and companies not only live up to
their potential, but also exceed it.
There were three lessons Conley wanted the audience — a
healthy mix of students, alumni, staff and faculty — to retain:
Culture is a company’s most valuable asset; dare to be different
and focus on the intangible or immeasurable; and the transformation of employees and their companies. —Deanna Bruton
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The
Centennial
Tip Your CAPS to Students
GU opened its Center for Academic and
Professional Success (CAPS). This new
center was established to provide a studentfocused approach to the delivery of academic
support and career-management services.
The goal of CAPS is to provide students
with a central location and point of contact for
all academic support and professional-development services offered by GGU, including
tutoring and career services. Leah Antignas,
formerly GGU’s director of career and internship services, was named director of CAPS.
“GGU’s students come here to achieve
academic and professional success. This new
center will enable student access to a variety
of opportunities to support their efforts,”
G
Wall
Antignas said. “I am excited about the center’s vision to incorporate a wider range of
services and program offerings that reflect
the evolving development needs of today’s
students. And I look forward to collaborating with both faculty and staff to realize the
new center’s potential.”
CAPS will partner with academic programs to provide access and distribute information to students about program-specific
tutoring services. In addition, the center will
collaborate with all GGU departments, as
well as off-campus partners, to promote
professional-development events of interest
to our students and the larger GGU community. —Barbara Karlin
Tax & Accounting Schools Mark Milestones
Embassy Row
More than 100 GGU alumni and supporters were welcomed to The Embassy
of Afghanistan in Washington, DC, on
Oct. 4, 2007. Proud GGU alumni (pictured above) Ambassador Said Tayeb
Jawad (MBA 02) and his wife, Shamim
Jawad (BA 02), graciously hosted a
reception and dinner at the embassy in
honor of GGU and President Dan Angel.
Both the School of Taxation and the School of Accounting celebrated great milestones
this past November: 40 and 100 years, respectively, of education at GGU.
The first tax course at GGU was taught in 1967 by Robert DeBryn. A degree program
offering the MBA in tax was formalized in 1970 and was the first of its kind on the West
Coast. Former tax-school deans, including John Williams, Joe Walsh and Barbara Karlin
(LLM 81; now GGU’s vice president of academic affairs) joined current Dean Mary
Canning (JD 81, LLM 82), along with some 200 alumni, faculty and friends on Nov. 15,
2007, at the Carnelian Room in San Francisco for a 40th anniversary dinner.
Accounting grads gathered on Nov. 7, 2007, at the home of Chris (BS 65) and Tara
Frederiksen in Mill Valley, Calif., to celebrate 100 years of accounting at GGU. For
more on that event — including photos — please see p. 26.
The Centennial Wall is a tribute
to those who have had a significant financial impact on
the university since its opening.
It will feature the names of those who have given
$100,000 or more to the university from 1901 through
the end of The Centennial Campaign for GGU on Dec. 31, 2008.
The Centennial Wall is a commemoration and an inspiration
honoring those who have given in the past
and inspiring those who will give in the future.
Not a Bird, Not a Plane
Golden Gate University School of Law had
95 alumni named to the 2007 Northern
California list of “Super Lawyers.” This listing comprises lawyers from more than 60 practice areas
who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, as chosen by
their peers and Law & Politics magazine.
“We are very proud to be associated with
these lawyers as they are recognized as some of
the most dedicated and talented attorneys in the
Bay Area,” law-school Dean Frederic White said.
GGU celebrated its Super Lawyers in November
at a reception and photo shoot (right).
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Jawads: Kyle Samperton; Super Lawyers: Kent Taylor
It will have a prominent and permanent position
in the lobby of the university’s main building at 536 Mission St.
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The Centennial Wall is a one-time opportunity
to be a part of this historic moment
in the life of Golden Gate University.
For more information about The Centennial Wall, please contact Elizabeth Brady,
vice president of university advancement, at 415-442-7813 or ebrady@ggu.edu.
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The Centennial Campaign
Where we stand in the university’s first capital campaign in more than 30 years
Lead-Donor Profiles
Campaign Reaches Goal,
Extends Through 2008
Alumni & friends ensure the success of The Centennial Campaign
by Daniel Nevers
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Moving
As GGU builds its new Student Services
Center at 40 Jessie St., it makes sense that
Stephen Bechtel Jr. has made a major gift to
support the building’s completion. After all,
his family’s company, Bechtel Corp., where he
served as either president or chair for 30 years
from 1960 to 1990, has been involved in
some of the world’s leading construction
projects, from BART to the Channel Tunnel
to the new Hong Kong International Airport.
“Our company has a long history and
relationship with GGU in management
development,” Bechtel says. “The university
was very helpful in setting up an MBA program for our employees, and we had quite a
few people sign up to do it.”
The company had an agreement with
another university, he says, but they wanted students to go to their campus for classes. “Our
people have to work also. GGU stepped for10
Bay Area native who grew
ward and said they
up in Oakland, Bechtel
could offer classes in
and his wife, Betty, enjoy
our offices, and they
spending time with their
used cases that had
five children, 16 granddealt with our busichildren and four greatness. It was a great
grandchildren. He takes
benefit to our mangreat pride in being a
agers,” Bechtel recalls.
“GGU rose to the
occasion of meeting
Stephen Bechtel Jr. (LLD 76)
the needs of our
employees. Now it’s time to give back to them.” Californian and a San Franciscan, and
Bechtel has generously donated $500,000 embraces projects that better the local comto The Centennial Campaign for GGU. Thanks to munity and economy. That’s why, he says, it
his gift, the Bechtel Student Commons in the was a no-brainer to give to GGU.
“I think GGU’s position in San Francisco
new Student Services Center will serve as a
gathering place for current and future students. — being physically here — has found a way of
Now retired, Bechtel continues to sit on dealing with folks who need to work and get
his company’s board and is active in philan- more education at the same time,” he says. “It’s
thropy through his family’s foundation. A a real value to the business community here.”
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McKelvey: Kent Taylor
to San Francisco from
“I had included GGU in my estate plan, but I decided
Milwaukee in 1968, Judy McKelvey
not to wait and to make my gift now,” McKelvey says. “It
planned to teach for one semester
took me time to decide I would do this, but I really want
while she studied for the bar exam.
to make a statement. When I think about this school, the
Twenty-five years later, she retired from
students are really good and the faculty is amazing — the
GGU as dean of the Law School.
whole place is just special. ”
“When I arrived, I had no real idea
She fondly recalls her tenure as dean of the Law
I was interested in teaching,” she recalls.
School from 1973 to 1980. McKelvey was only the sec“I stayed because the school is so
ond woman in the United States to be appointed to lead
good.” Though she is no longer teachan ABA–accredited law school. “It was the best thing that
Judy McKelvey
ing, McKelvey remains involved with
had ever happened to me,” she says. She counts opening
the Law School through its advisory committee and fund-raising.
the doors of the Law School to women and African-Americans
A longtime donor, McKelvey has pledged to give $100,000 toward among her proudest accomplishments.
capital-renovation projects that will make way for the law-library
McKelvey hopes her gift to GGU will inspire others to give. “I know
entrance, as it moves to the main floor of the building at 536 Mission that school in and out, and what they need. I think the school is so very
St. The lobby of the new law library will be named in her honor.
good,” she says. “Everybody in that place should give money to it.”
olden Gate University has reached its $35 million goal in
The Centennial Campaign for GGU. Thanks to our generous
donors, as of Dec. 31, 2007, we have raised $35.43 million. It’s
a time to celebrate and feel true pride in a job well done for all
alumni. But at GGU, we don’t rest on our laurels: The Centennial
Campaign for GGU is being extended until Dec. 31, 2008, with a
new overall goal of $37 million.
As you can see by the numbers at right, we have exceeded our
overall goal of $35 million, and surpassed our goals in three of
our five initiatives: Scholarship, Teaching and Learning, and
Endowment. But that has left us short for initiatives one and
two: Learning Environment and Technology.
As the renovation of 40 Jessie St. into the Student Services
Center nears its completion and the law-library expansion moves
to center stage, we need additional financial support to ensure
these projects and others are completed.
“The Centennial Campaign for GGU is an enormous success,” said
Ken Weeman Jr. (MBA 90), chair of the board of trustees’ campaign committee. “It is especially gratifying, as this is the university’s first campaign in more than 30 years. It illustrates the
robust culture of philanthropy at GGU.
“Alumni and friends have shown their support, and I cannot
thank every one of them enough for helping us reach this truly
exciting point. It is precisely because of that support that I know
we can carry the campaign momentum through Dec. 31 and
raise the additional funds we need. We will build on our first success to achieve our second.”
Why $37 million? The Centennial Wall, which will comprise
the names of those who have given $100,000 or more to the university from 1901 through the end of the campaign, needs 37
more donors to reach the goal of 100 names. By extending the
campaign, more people will be able to be a part of this historic
moment in the life of the university when The Centennial Wall
is permanently installed in the lobby of 536 Mission St. (See
p. 9 for more information on the wall.)
“I hope all alumni will join me in celebrating the success of
reaching our $35 million goal,” Weeman said. “And I hope they
will also join me to help us reach our new goal.”
By the Numbers
Thanks in large part to our lead givers, we have
already raised $35.43 million, toward our new
goal of $37 million, and we surpassed our goals
for initiatives 3, 4 and 5. Our progress by initiative, as of Dec. 31, 2007:
1. Learning Environment
$14.5 million goal
$12,438,259 raised
86 percent of goal
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4
6
8
10
12 14
16
12 14
16
(millions)
2. Technology
$2.5 million goal
$2,252,478 raised
90 percent of goal
2
4
6
8
10
(millions)
3. Scholarship
$9 million goal
$9,187,254 raised
102 PERCENT OF GOAL
2
4
6
8
10
12 14
16
(millions)
4. Teaching and Learning
$5 million goal
$5,412,041 raised
108 PERCENT OF GOAL
2
4
6
8
10
12 14
16
(millions)
5. Endowment
$6 million goal
$6,138,974 raised
102 PERCENT OF GOAL
2
4
6
8
10
12 14
16
(millions)
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THE MAN WITH HOPE
The United Nations’ Henry Domzalski finds hope where little else grows
by Helyn Trickey
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H
enry Domzalski (JD 77) knows one thing for sure: Needs in a
refugee camp are boundless.
“[They] are never nice places to be,” he says, “and for those of us
used to living in North America or Europe or other developed places,
it would be hard to imagine what it would be like to live for years on
a mud floor, with no electricity and, worst of all, no real future for
one’s self or children.”
Resettlement numbers for the globe’s more than 10 million
refugees a year are startlingly low. Fewer than one half of one percent
of these displaced people find permanent homes, according to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
But battling those dismal statistics is what Domzalski does for a
living as the UNHCR’s representative for Malawi, a small landlocked
nation in southern Africa, just east of Zambia. Domzalski interacts
with the governments of Malawi and other nations, as well as nongovernment officials (NGOs), for the protection and security of
refugees, seeking solutions to these displaced people’s problems.
“The humanitarian mandate of UNHCR is the greatest thing
about my job,” Domzalski says. “Being able, on behalf of the international community, to influence policy and practice for the benefit of
persecuted persons is a great honor and responsibility.”
It’s a little humbling, too.
“The impact of my decisions can, quite literally, have a life-ordeath outcome,” Domzalski says. “And just when you think a situation has turned around … another one comes up — whether it be the
Afghan crisis, the Rwandan genocide, or the still-festering Sudanese
problem. Sometimes I wish I were selling widgets, but then I quickly
remind myself how honored I am to be doing something of value, and
not having to fill out timesheets,” he says.
In fact, this Detroit native has been called to nontraditional
work for most of his life, spending a year of his undergraduate
career as an exchange student in Japan, and then serving three years
in the Peace Corps in Thailand before deciding to pursue a law
degree at GGU.
“I was in Thailand when I first thought about getting a law degree,
and my research — which was not easy in the pre-Internet era —
brought GGU to my attention. Having lived in Asia for then about
four years, the West Coast, particularly San Francisco, seemed like a
perfect balance between my Midwestern roots and Asian experiences.
I’m still amazed that in my GGU application I made reference to hoping to find an international career,” he says. “I suppose that impulse,
the impulse to work beyond our national borders, is what led me to
eventually tying up with the United Nations.”
Domzalski chose to study law as a means of self-empowerment,
and he says the cultural, ethnic and gender diversity of GGU really
appealed to him. “In some ways, GGU was like a mini–UN,” he says.
In 1974, when Domzalski entered law school, he recalls that
roughly 40 percent of the law students were women: “I thought this
was a great reflection of the values of GGU. … In terms of its openness and tolerance of persons of various backgrounds, it was an
excellent place to be.”
Following his graduation from GGU, Domzalski spent a year traveling in South America and then settled down to work in a law firm
in San Francisco. But pursuing meaningful work in the far-flung corners of the world was never far from Domzalski’s mind, and after
spending a year as an associate lawyer stateside, he found work in
Bangkok that eventually led him to the UN.
Nothing could prepare him, however, for some of the atrocities
he’s witnessed in his work with refugees. He can’t forget the young
Vietnamese refugee girl that UN workers found locked up in an oil
drum on a raft where a guard had been posted to maintain fishing
rights in the South China Sea.
“It turned out that [she] had been ‘given’ to the guard … had been
abused for weeks, and would likely have been discarded and drowned
— as many others reportedly had been — if our program hadn’t
found and rescued her,” Domzalski explains.
And he can’t forget, in 1999, standing at the Ntarama Genocide
Site where, nearly six years earlier, in a church 15 miles outside of
Kigali, Rwanda, 5,000 Tutsi villagers were massacred. Bloody clothing, trampled toys and skulls still remained in the church where the
bodies of victims were never buried, but simply left where they were
murdered. At that time in his career, Domzalski worked as a senior
protection officer for the UNHCR, and he worked to identify genocide perpetrators who were hiding in refugee camps.
His work has been taxing and frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. “Fixing a broken society is akin to fixing a broken marriage,”
Domzalski says. “It’s doable, but far from easy. … Peace in war-torn
areas requires, at minimum, a humanitarian presence. … There are
universal values, and people shouldn’t be afraid to voice them.”
Today, Domzalski finds shelter for himself in his family: his
daughters and his wife, Thanda. “I’m guilty of the ‘proud father syndrome,’” Domzalski admits. And his devotion to children extends
beyond his own.
“I love seeing refugee children in schools, full of enthusiasm for
learning and bright-eyed about the future,” he says. “Even when
[their] future, to us, may seem dismal, there is always hope.” ggu
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I’m
With
the
Band
It’s really almost a supernatural journey,
but Tim Jorstad listens to the music
and just keeps on truckin’
with his powerhouse clients
by Melissa Stein • Photos by Kent Taylor
Most people only dream
about going backstage at a concert to meet
their favorite rock stars. But Tim Jorstad
(MBA 81) tends to avoid concerts because
he’ll end up backstage.
“I do go to concerts, but it’s really more
work,” Jorstad admits. “A lot of times I get
trapped backstage, and I would really rather
be out … listening to the music.”
During the past 25 years, Jorstad has built
a high-end CPA practice serving nearly 800
clients, including real-estate developers,
attorneys and ad-agency execs. “We’re pretty
much tax geeks, if you will, in terms of traditional CPA firm services,” Jorstad says. But
most of his time is devoted to a very different type of client — the type that includes
Carlos Santana, Journey, the Grateful Dead,
the Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship and
Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, and the
estates of Jerry Garcia, John Lee Hooker and
Jimi Hendrix. “We do a lot of tax planning,
a lot of tax compliance; we represent our
clients in IRS audits and estate planning and
structuring. But when you take on the music14
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industry clients, you have to be prepared to
do everything in their lives that has anything
to do with money.
“Entertainment clients are not prepared,
generally, to run multimillion-dollar businesses,
and quite frankly, the money is really not the
goal for them. The money ends up being a
byproduct and, in some ways, a distraction in
their lives from performing well, writing great
music and recording great music,” he says. “So
I try to take the distraction away to let them be
as creative as they can be. … I buy their cars, I
buy their homes, I mediate their property settlements. We buy all their investment real
estate. I oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in investment portfolios.”
Jorstad’s 10-person firm has “developed a
skill in what we call ‘business management’ in
our industry. We have a department that does
bill paying. We receive all the gross revenue
from our clients when they’re touring. We
receive all their royalties from publishing and
sales of records. We oversee all their licensing
— for example, Jerry Garcia’s ties with
Mulberry.” (And let’s not forget the licensing
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of Journey’s song “Don’t Stop Believing” for
the final episode of The Sopranos.)
To give just a taste of the vast scale of
Jorstad’s business responsibilities, Santana’s
album Supernatural alone has sold more than
25 million copies, and Journey’s entire catalog has topped more than 100 million units
in sales. Jorstad’s San Rafael, Calif., offices
are festooned with plaques commemorating
multiplatinum and gold-record–level sales,
not to mention a replica of Journey’s
Hollywood Walk of Fame star and two 2007
Lifetime Achievement Award Grammys
bestowed upon the Grateful Dead. And to
get an idea of the respect and devotion
Jorstad inspires in the musicians he works
with, one need only glance at the four pristine, signed electric guitars in his office,
including one — gorgeously illustrated with
album art — reading, “Dear Tim Joy Love
Gratitude Carlos Santana.”
All this rock-star glamour is quite a leap
from the world Jorstad grew up in: the small
summer-resort town of Bemidji, in northern
Minnesota. Drafted into the Army at 18 and
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stationed in Germany, Jorstad “somehow
talked my way onto the ski patrol in the
Bavarian Alps.” After he finished his year’s duty
in 1972, he attended the American University
in Barcelona on the GI Bill, but soon found
that the exchange rate made the city unaffordable, especially since he’d recently married and
had a son. So after a year, the family moved
back to the United States, flying into New
York and heading west. “I basically ran out of
money in Greeley, Colo.,” he says, “so I got a
job on the kill floor of a packing plant there
to save up money to start college.”
Jorstad had loved the economics classes he
took in Barcelona, so he continued along that
route at the University of Northern Colorado.
“When I sat down with one of my professors
and asked him who hires economics majors,
what do they do, what is the job market, I
didn’t like the answer very much: It was government employment. I had come out of the
Vietnam era and military service, and I wasn’t
about to go back to government work. But
at the time, I had a wife and a child
to support, I was 21 years old, and
I needed something where I could
immediately go to work after college. And somehow I discovered the
Department of Accounting.”
Jorstad took to accounting right
away: “I was very good at it — I just
got it.” He graduated summa cum
laude with a degree in accounting in
1975, passed the CPA exam the same
year, and his career was off and running. Even with his degree and
certification, Jorstad wasn’t
quite sure what sort of
career he’d signed on for: “I
had no clue what CPAs did. I
was baffled at why people
paid these accountants
so much to look over
somebody else’s work.”
But Jorstad was a
quick learner. Upon
graduating, he interviewed with a number of
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“Big 8” accounting firms in Denver, asking to
be referred out to offices in San Francisco.
He loved being near the sea, and his brother
lived in San Francisco, so the Bay Area
seemed a natural choice. Out of several job
offers, he chose the one non–Big 8 firm he’d
interviewed with: Hurdman & Cranston
(now part of KPMG).
“At Hurdman & Cranston, we all began in
the audit department, because you needed a
certain number of hours to be certified. So
you had to plow through two years’ worth of
auditing — and I hated it. I hated being the
adversary, going out to my clients, making
them pay us a whole lot of money … and
being on the opposite side of the fence from
many of my clients,” he recalls. But he also
saw an alternative: “I would watch the tax specialists come in, and they got to meet immediately with the president of the company,
and everybody was curious about the knowledge they had — everybody had to file tax
returns — and they were the advocate for the
client. And I thought, ‘I want to do that.’”
Two partners at Hurdman &
Cranston mentored Jorstad, inspiring
and encouraging him to study tax law.
Moving into the tax-law department
required a master’s degree, so Jorstad, like
many of his colleagues, attended Golden
Gate University. “It was just the place to
go. I don’t even recall considering going to
any of the other universities. It had a very
good reputation.”
Jorstad worked at Hurdman &
Cranston during the day and attended
GGU at night. “The CPA firm
environment in the ’70s and
’80s was relentless and unforgiving,” he says. “No one cared that
you had any family obligations
or commitments; you were
pretty much owned by the
firm.” Though Jorstad
found the schedule grueling, “there was an energy
during the classes that was
remarkable; that got me
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through it. We would have these roaring discussions and debates over some tax case.”
Even now, his face lights up when he talks
about it.
Jorstad compares Golden Gate’s learning
environment to something he picked up while
being trained to coach soccer in the late ’80s:
“Kids will retain 10 percent of what you tell
them, about 20 to 25 percent of what you
show them, and about 90 percent of what you
practice with them, what they do with their
own bodies. For me, the retention coming out
of those classes was almost 100 percent. I
have a good memory, but being able to connect the academic information to something
that is practical in your client practice gave me
the glue to retain the knowledge, then apply it.
We all know people who have gotten the
degree, and they’ve forgotten the education.
That didn’t happen at Golden Gate.”
In 1978, Jorstad took a position as a tax
manager at Armstrong, Bastow & Potter, a
firm of tax-law specialists from Price
Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche and Arthur
Andersen, that served the high-tech industry,
as well as the agricultural business. After two
years, Jorstad went to work for one of his
clients — Osterlund Enterprises, a landdevelopment and home-building company
— as executive vice president and director.
“That’s what I really consider my PhD in the
world of business,” Jorstad says. It was also
his first taste of the entertainment world:
Osterlund owned a NASCAR racing company in North Carolina, and Dale Earnhardt
was their driver for two years.
In 1982, Jorstad purchased a 50-percent
interest in a Sausalito firm from a former
Hurdman & Cranston colleague. That firm had
two clients: Journey and Jefferson Starship.
His partner was an audit specialist.
“Unbeknownst to me at the time I bought in,”
Jorstad says, “he was close to losing Journey
because he had no tax-law expertise. And
Journey at that time was exploding as a band.”
Pioneers in tour merchandising and live video,
the band “was making millions and millions
of dollars and had complex income-tax issues.
We had foreign tax-law matters to deal with
as they toured foreign countries. You can
imagine the full menu of employee fringe
benefits and buy/sell agreements and retirement plans and funding — and most of this
was tax-law driven, not audit- or accountingrelated in any way.” So Jorstad’s first task was
essentially to win back the Journey account.
He was successful: He’s been handling the
band’s finances since 1982. “It’s been a wonderful ride; I owe my music-industry knowledge primarily to them,” he says.
During the next few years, it became clear
that Jorstad and his partner wanted different
things: “We were on different planets in
terms of our business philosophy. All he
really wanted to do was rock ’n’ roll, and I
wanted a little bit more stability and a more
traditional client base to go with the rock ’n’
roll. Because, essentially, when a band
sneezes, you catch pneumonia. And even
though you may have 75 different clients,
they are all dependent on the band. You have
the trucking company, the rigging company,
the lighting company, the sign company, the
stage company, the barrier company, the
lighting director, the video director, the live
sound engineer — all these people eat from
the same trough, so if the trough dries up,
your entire practice is in trouble.”
The two partners separated in 1985, and
Jorstad formed his current firm, Jorstad Inc.
All Jorstad’s clients followed him to his new
practice, as he went from 25 employees down
to just one — himself. “That was a lot of
work,” he recalls. “I put in so many 3,000hour years, I can’t even begin to tell you.” Yet
starting his own business felt like a natural
step to Jorstad, whose father had owned a gas
station and whose grandfather was a farmer.
With two sole proprietors as role models, “I
never really thought about working for somebody else for my entire career. I guess I didn’t
worry as much about my financial security as
I did about just having that freedom.”
As Jorstad developed his practice, his
GGU education continued to serve him well.
Tax-law knowledge, he says, was “powerful in
and of itself. But the other thing I got out of
Golden Gate University was relationships
and resources. I only spent five years in two
CPA firms before I went out and did this on
my own; that isn’t a long time to prepare
yourself to hang out a shingle. I guess what I
really got from Golden Gate University when
I got my degree was I knew what I didn’t
know. But because I had these great professors, I knew where I could get the knowledge
and help.” So Jorstad hired some of those
professors as consultants — and still works
with a number of them. Plus, two of the tax
specialists in his firm are GGU graduates.
As if handling his firm’s high-profile
clients isn’t enough, Jorstad has also been
instrumental in founding two California
banks. In 1989, a good friend — also a
prominent Marin County attorney — asked
Jorstad to join the group that was forming
Marin Community Bank (now Union Bank)
in 1989. When that bank was sold, its former
management team asked Jorstad if he’d like to
help them do it again. Jorstad says, “I
thought, ‘Well, I probably have one more
bank in me.’” Several of Jorstad’s music clients
became not only investors but also account
holders in Santa Rosa–based Atlantic Pacific
Bank, which opened in 2006 and has plans to
build branches throughout California. “It’s
great to have our bank, because I get really
good service,” Jorstad deadpans.
Jorstad is also a director of Nocturne
Productions, a leading-edge video-productionservices supplier that had its roots in
Journey’s heyday and is now responsible for
live video screens used in arena and stadium
performances by stars such as Madonna,
Jennifer Lopez and Paul McCartney, as well
as television shows such as American Idol.
With all these professional commitments,
Jorstad says: “The biggest challenge isn’t getting business. The biggest challenge is creating a balance. Every single hour of my day is
sold. I could sell 20 hours a day to my clients
— the issue is, how do you back off ?”
Jorstad finds that balance in devotion to
his wife, Deborah (who is also Jorstad Inc.’s
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office accountant; the
pair met at Hurdman
& Cranston — “She
was busting my chops
because my timesheet
wasn’t prepared right” —
and have been married
for 30 years), his three
children (about whom
he likes to joke,
“I’ve spoiled them
— they’re wonderful people, but I
want to be reincarnated as one of them”),
and his young grandson. He also makes
time for mountain
biking, backpacking
and scuba diving,
though he regrets that
his true recreational
love — snow skiing
— has fallen victim
to the exigencies of
tax season.
While Jorstad’s
career has taken a
turn he might never
have imagined when he enrolled in that first
economics class in Barcelona 35 years ago, it’s
clearly a perfect fit. “I have a technical skill,
but it really is in the background. It comes
forth when I deliver service, but it’s really
about people skills, and them knowing that
you care about them and knowing that you’ll
be here year after year,” he says. “Right now,
I’m getting the kids of my clients. And so I
have the Santana children come in, and they
sit and talk about financial responsibility.
That to me is really rewarding.
“This affords me the opportunity to do
business but really take care of people. You
make a big difference in their lives. You take a
load off their shoulders. You help them provide
a great retirement. You help them pay college
tuition. You shepherd them through their lives.
And I find that very, very satisfying.” ggu
“When you take on
musicindustry
clients,
you have to be
prepared to do
everything
in their lives that has
anything
to do with
money.”
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Social Studies
P
How social networks are transforming the landscape of profitable business
I
t didn’t start with Thomas Edison’s
incandescent light bulb, but social networking — the age-old “I have a friend who
has a friend” method of connecting people
and sharing knowledge — certainly helped
light the way for its invention.
Early in his life, the inventor primarily
worked alone, but Edison found his greatest
successes after he’d painstakingly pulled
together talented research teams of engineers
and other experts capable of solving some of
the biggest scientific and business challenges
of the late 19th century.
In today’s fast-paced, information-centric
economy, pinpointing talent and sharing
information has never been more important,
and light bulbs of a different sort are flashing on all over the globe as corporate leaders
discover how social-networking sites are
changing the way we communicate, find
experts, seal important deals and make
money in the knowledge economy.
The explosion of social-network popularity began about a decade ago when
SixDegrees appeared on the scene. This serv-
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ice allowed users to list family and friends on
their own Web space, send and post messages
within the community, and view other users’
contact lists — the three main criteria for any
social network, according to the Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC).
Following in 1999 were LiveJournal, a site
that allowed users to keep blogs and online
journals, and BlackPlanet, a social-networking site that targeted the African-American
community. In 2002, Friendster came along
and patented a method for collecting and calculating member data that enables users to
track the numerous social connections that
ultimately link them together. In 2003,
MySpace and Facebook entered cyberspace,
along with LinkedIn, a social network aimed
at business-minded adults who want to connect with co-workers and other professionals,
according to the JCMC.
MySpace boasted 200 million users as
of September 2007, and LinkedIn, which
focuses more on professional connections
than friends and hobbies, boasted more than
16 million registered users in November
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2007, according to Wikipedia. The businessfocused social-networking site had an amazing growth spurt, climbing 189 percent in
the number of unique users on the site from
October 2006 to October 2007, easily outpacing every other social-networking website in the United States, according to
Nielsen Online.
“The application that people started
using first in social networks is the job-search
function, and LinkedIn is an excellent example of that,” says Lynda Radosevich, vice
president of marketing for Visible Path, a
social-networking company. “Users can post
profiles and make connections with other
users to facilitate the job hunt.”
But these days, employers and corporations are finding ways to use social networks
— either external sites such as LinkedIn and
MySpace, or internal networks developed
and maintained by businesses — to track
experts, weigh the strength of important
business-to-business relationships, and seal
deals that might never have been made without this technology.
Illustration: Esther Bunning
by Helyn Trickey
rocter & Gamble, for example, is
counting on the collective intelligence
of thousands of chemists to solve some of its
most perplexing research-and-development
questions, and the company is happily unveiling on the Internet what used to be carefully
guarded proprietary information to do it.
It seems counterintuitive, but according to
Wikinomics, a book by Don Tapscott and
Anthony D. Williams, P&G, like many other
businesses, found it could not remain competitive without tapping resources outside its
own walls. To remedy the problem, this
Fortune 500 company posts particular scientific challenges and cash rewards on
InnoCentive, an online network that pairs
problem-solvers with scientific quandaries.
Now, everyone — retired scientists, graduate students, science teachers, etc. — can
download important R&D information and
collaborate with other problem-solvers to
come up with solutions.
P&G’s use of collective intelligence to
troubleshoot an R&D problem is just one
example of how businesses are using Web 2.0
technologies such as peer-to-peer networking,
blogs and social networks to stay competitive.
According to a January 2007 McKinsey
Global Survey of nearly 3,000 executives,
most polled said Web 2.0 technologies were
key to their businesses’ competitiveness, and
nearly 75 percent said their companies
planned to either maintain or increase funding for these technologies in the future.
Transferring knowledge from one employee to another is a perennial challenge for corporations trying to stay competitive, and
“… when [employees] are looking for information, they don’t [immediately] go to the
person who knows the most. Instead, they go
to the person they know best who knows something about the subject,” Radosevich explains.
“Social-networking sites can help navigate the
knowledge-transfer among social clusters by
providing search functions of profiles or blogs.
[It’s] an emerging application. Typically, in people’s profiles or mini-blogs, they develop clusters of expertise, and the people who follow
them tend to have social connections.”
Bob Fulkerth, chair of the Operations and
IT Management Department in GGU’s Edward S. Ageno School of Business, says one
reason this type of collaborative approach to
business communication is catching fire might
be that “social networks seem to mimic more
normal human communication. The socialnetwork tools are more friendly and let people
communicate informally … you can circumvent the internal process (traditional top-down
chains of information) by querying the group
or people you know have the information,
something that comes naturally, especially for
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younger people who are used to communicating like this.”
“I think [social-networking tools] do serve
a great, practical purpose,” adds Kit Yarrow,
chair of the Ageno School’s Department of
Psychology, who describes a subtle shift in
what workers want from business communication. “There’s an increase in cultural narcissism
… in that people want lots of bits of surface
information, but [generally] don’t read deeply.
Along with that is a shorter attention span, but
a greater ability to multitask,” she says.
Yarrow says social networking can help
workers stay in touch and grounded despite
physical distances, and she says social networks
are morphing quickly to adapt to the needs of
their users, adding and subtracting features as
they prove useful or troublesome.
“We probably won’t have LinkedIn in two
years,” she predicts. “It will [have transformed] into something better.”
A
ssessing the strength of a connection
between an employee and a potential
client or partner is another challenge businesses routinely face. For instance, if the
CEO of Company A is hoping to forge a
business alliance with Company B, she would
be interested in learning if any of her
employees have a strong relationship with any
folks in Company B’s management tier.
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“Companies can use e-mail communications as a proxy to map social connections,”
Radosevich says. By searching the “to” and
“from” data in employee e-mails, a company
can send out queries to select employees who
have a demonstrated relationship with
Company B’s management team.
Social networks — both external
and internal — serve businesses in
three important ways: First,
social networks can replace
the “who knows whom” sales
meetings. Employees can easily gather cursory data online
and have a level of
familiarity with colleagues before any
face-to-face meeting.
Second, social
networks can
replace some
k n ow l e d g e management
systems that IT groups have been struggling
to implement for years. Third, e-mail can be
traded in for an account on, for instance,
LinkedIn, where users can post and respond
to each other when appropriate, according to
industry experts.
But using public social networks for such
purposes gives some corporations pause.
“[Corporations risk] having great employees
exposed to a greater number of new job
opportunities, and having less strategic outbound communication,” Yarrow says. “Socialnetworking sites reduce hierarchy, which
makes it easier for anyone to have access to
senior-level people who would otherwise be
reachable only after passing gate-keepers.
These sites are designed to connect people to
people, not people to organizations.”
Fulkerth agrees that while social networks
provide a smoother communication flow, this
freedom of dialogue can backfire: “The Web
allows people to not like things that are presented to them … it’s like immediate and
continuous feedback. This is like the early
Internet boom when everyone wanted to
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jump on board,” Fulkerth says. “I think businesses are trying to get a handle on understanding and using it, but people have the
ability to burn (post negative comments
online) and hack you … that’s just part of
what can happen.”
Radosevich believes this change represents
a “huge cultural shift” from an environment
when corporate information was tightly controlled to the current trend toward transparency. For instance, “Cisco has hundreds
of people on Facebook writing about what
goes on at work,” she says. “Corporations can
feel a loss of control … but they are missing
the boat if their employees are only connecting in the public domain.”
While external social-network sites such
as LinkedIn and FaceBook have extraordinary
reach, allowing employees to connect with a
broad spectrum of working professionals,
proprietary sites are more about collaboration and relationship-based referrals. Also,
corporations must consider that external
social networks tend to make money from
advertisers and/or recruiting firms, so these
sites will never cater to the exact needs of a
particular business.
A
s businesses scramble to adapt Web
2.0 technology, individual workers
are also changing their strategies to stay marketable. Leah Antignas, director of GGU’s
Center for Academic and Professional
Success, believes that as the professional
landscape becomes more and more fluid,
staying connected with professionals with
whom you’ve had a real work history is crucial to remaining competitive.
“People are wanting alternative ways to
relate to employment,” Antignas says, “and
more and more people are working part time
or as independent contractors. The employment contract is changing, and work may
become more project-based. At the end of the
day, building a team to complete a project will
be very important, and businesses will look to
[social] networks to try to find people to create these [virtual] teams,” she says.
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In hopes of better connecting GGU
alumni, students, faculty and staff, Antignas
launched in October 2007 a GGU group on
LinkedIn. Within the first month, more than
1,000 users joined the GGU group.
“It really stems from a philosophy I have
around professional development in the workplace,” Antignas says. “People who have really
good networks tend to be successful and
thrive. Too often [users] think it’s great to
have 1,000 people in their network. I think
your network should reflect your offline network, a carefully cultivated group of people.”
Yarrow concurs: “Groups of people have
to have boundaries around them to be a group.
There has to be exclusiveness. Right now, the
boundaries [in social networks] are a little
loose and unrealistic. I think people are making a lot of mistakes in thinking that people
connected to them tangentially are good references … the assumptions about connectivity
are vague, especially among young people.”
GGU Alumni Association
2007–2008
Alumni Association
Board of Directors
Association News
Jim O’Neil (MBA 86), President
Reconnect, Reflect, Reunite! Excitement is in the air for the
2008 Law School Reunion on Saturday, April 5, 2008. Our guest
list includes graduates from GGU School of Law classes of
1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003, as well
as GGU’s “Golden Grads” from 1963 and earlier. The Palace
Hotel will be brimming with banter as alumni gather to share
memories, photos and fun. The event marks the launch of the
first annual multiyear reunion program for GGU and the School
of Law. Dozens of volunteers are helping class leaders invite
their friends and former classmates to attend a grand reception
and private class dinner and to participate in a class-giving campaign. Golden Grads will enjoy their own private luncheon at
GGU. Visit the reunion website at www.ggu.edu/alumni/reunions
for details and a list of attendees. It’s not too late to volunteer or
RSVP! Contact Deanna Bruton, law alumni-relations coordinator, at 415-442-7812, or e-mail reunion@ggu.edu for a volunteer
packet and class roster, and to RSVP.
Realtor, Prudential California Realty
Staci E. Brown (MS 00)
Human-Resources Manager, Union Bank
of California
Gary Calderon (MBA 91)
Salesperson, Computing and
Information Systems
Tim Crawford (BS 01, MBA 05)
Director of IT Operations, Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Maria Feher (MBA 97)
Mortgage Account Executive, Bank of America
Susan Fong (MBA 86)
Retired, Electronic Data Systems
JP Harbour (LLM 04), Vice President
Law Office of JP Harbour
Alan Hoefer (BA 93)
President, Alan Hoefer Holdings LLC
Dave Iuppa (MBA 86)
Division Manager, Manpower Professional
I
n another century, Edison’s incandescent
light bulb lit up homes and businesses
across the nation, transforming the landscape. In this century, another transformation
— ushered in by social networks that allow
people to collaborate and connect like never
before — may be happening now.
The technology has already evolved from
a simple fostering of one-on-one connections
to changing communication and information
sharing at the deepest corporate levels. And it
seems these tools will only continue to revolutionize the way we do business, though
Fulkerth is cautious in his predictions. “I
don’t know the ultimate meaning,” he says.
“There’s enough energy and good buzz in the
business community about [Web 2.0 technology] that it’s a foregone conclusion that
[these tools] are here to stay. How are these
things going to change traditional business
practices? I think we’ll know in five years.
People are very value-centric … if [these
tools] allow people to work together better,
communicate better, if these tools help provide more meaning, then they’ll last.” ggu
David Joslin (MBA 97)
Felix Marten (MPA 04)
Visit www.ggu.edu/alumni for more news and events
Transportation Manager, Bay Area Rapid Transit
Dr. Sarah Larios Mitchell (MA 98)
Program Manager, Youth and Family
Enrichment Services
Angie Neale (MA 03)
Client Manager, Spherion
Jon Strishak (MBA 05)
Analyst, Matthews International Capital
Management LLP
Michael L. Williams (MBA 91)
Vice President and Internal Audit Manager,
Greater Bay Bancorp
Donald Witt (MBA 86)
President/CEO, Cylogistics Inc.
Benefits
& Services
The GGU Alumni Association
offers the following rewards:
■ Free Lifetime Benefits
■ Online Alumni Directory
■ ggu Magazine
■ Tuition Discounts
■ Career Services
■ Access to the University
and Law Libraries
■ GGU Visa and AmEx Cards
■ Patelco Credit Union
■ Geico Auto Insurance
Alumni Directory: Alumni tell us the networks they establish at
GGU serves them throughout their careers, and the friendships
forged while earning their degrees last a lifetime. We are updating our GGU alumni directory so you can build meaningful relationships with fellow alumni and stay connected to each other
and to GGU. Our partner in the directory-update project is directory-publications specialist Harris Connect. Data collection
began in December 2007 with a questionnaire mailing and e-mail,
and it continues through June. For your convenience, you can
respond online by logging on to a special Harris website using
the ID and password provided on your questionnaire, or mail it
back in the envelope provided. A bound keepsake directory and
CD featuring photos and historical information about GGU will
be available for purchase in August, and a password-protected
online version will be accessible by year-end. Expect a call or
e-mail from Harris Connect regarding your preference. We urge
you to participate and look forward to hearing from you.
Questions? Contact Lenore McDonald, director of alumni services,
at 415-442-7824 or alumni@ggu.edu.
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■ GradMed Medical
Insurance
■ Alumni Events
■ Club Quarters Hotel
Privileges
For full information about
Alumni Association benefits,
visit www.ggu.edu/alumni/
alumni_benefits_and_
services.
Lenore McDonald
Director of Alumni Services
Golden Gate University
536 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-442-7824
fax 415-882-1660
e-mail: alumni@ggu.edu
www.ggu.edu/alumni
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1960s
Lawrence W. Cunha (BA 69) is a shareholder
and partner at Eckhoff Accountancy Corp. in
San Rafael, Calif. E-mail: larryc@eckhoff.com.
Lawrence E. Kern (JD 69) is president of the
University of San Francisco School of Law
American Inn of Court for 2007–2008. Kern
founded Kern, Noda, Devine and Segal in San
Francisco. E-mail: lkern@kernlaw.com.
Harry J. McCarthy (JD 69) is assigned to the
civil calendar in King County (Calif.) Superior
Court. E-mail: hcmccarthy@clearwire.net.
Paul Vortmann (JD 69) is a judge for the
Tulare County (Calif.) Superior Court. E-mail:
pvortmann@tulare.courts.ca.gov.
1970s
George C. Rothwell (JD 71) retired as a worker’s compensation judge in Altadena, Calif.
E-mail: gcr001@sbcglobal.net.
Eileen Seligson (BA 71) is a volunteer for the
American Hiking Association.
Leslie I. Kay (BA 72, MBA 75) is a volunteer at
the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center as a
post-traumatic stress disorder counselor for veterans. Kay is a substitute teacher for the MiamiDade County public-school system. E-mail:
iainkayphd@bellsouth.net.
Eugene Marlow (MBA 72) released a CD titled
Wonderful Discovery. Marlow is a professor at
Baruch College in New York City. E-mail:
nmprinc@aol.com.
Association of Educational Office Professionals
in Hampton, Va. Stephens-Cherry is the director
of public relations and marketing for Hampton
City Schools.
David W. Brennan (JD 73) is an associate professor of international and business law at
Western State University College of Law in
Fullerton, Calif. Brennan participated in an
international conference on the laws of war in
the Netherlands in June 2007. E-mail:
davlawarch@aol.com.
David M. Vogelstein (JD 75) was profiled in the
July 1, 2007, issue of the Marin Independent
Journal. Vogelstein is a criminal-defense attorney in Marin County, Calif.
James W. Newman (MBA 73) is the CEO and
director for Victory Pharma Inc. in San Diego.
E-mail: jnewman@victorypharma.com.
Ira H. Barg (JD 76) was featured in the June
27, 2007, issue of The Recorder and The Daily
Journal regarding his move from public
defender to prosecutor of sexually violent
predators in San Francisco.
Allan I. Shatkin (JD 73) retired after 16 years
as a coverage attorney at Mercury Insurance.
Jean Lemasurier (MPA 75) is director of
employer groups practice at the Gorman Health
Group in Washington, DC.
Susan Rutberg (JD 75) was quoted in the June
25, 2007, issue of The Recorder regarding the
rising popularity of public-sector and criminaljustice internships. Rutberg is the director of the
Criminal Litigation Clinic at GGU School of Law.
Ann B. Stephens-Cherry (MBA 75) was named
Administrator of the Year by the Hampton
BOOKISH
The following books were published and/or released by alumni (and a faculty
member!) during the past 18 months:
Michael R. La Crone (BA 71, DBA 96) published The Charles Schwab Stock RipOff: How Management Insiders are Looting Stock Investors’ Money.
David V. Ainsworth (JD 72) published the novel The Chasm about American
globalization. A maritime lawyer, Ainsworth lives in St. Helena, Calif.
Michael G. Heath (MBA 76) published Disappearance of Innocence, about a young
boy’s adventures in rural eastern Oregon.
JoAnn Semones (MPA 78, PhD 93) published Shipwrecks, Scalawags, and
Scavengers: The Storied Waters of Pigeon Point about, well, shipwrecks, scalawags and scavengers on the central California coast between 1853 and 1953.
David A. Scarborough (MBA 80) and his wife, Mary Eule Scarborough, wrote
The Procrastinator’s Guide to Marketing. A former Air Force aviator who attended GGU
at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Scarborough is the CEO of Strategic Marketing
Advisors LLC, a business and marketing consultancy in South Carolina.
Yimao Wu (MBA 85) co-authored Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos;
it was recently released in paperback.
Jane A. Treber Macken (MBA 92) authored The Art of Managing: How to Build a
Better Workplace and Relationships.
Dr. Hank Pruden (faculty) published The Three Skills of Top Trading: Behavioral
Systems Building, Pattern Recognition, and Mental State Management.
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Mark L. Webb (JD 75) started a website titled
www.yogalawyers.com for legal professionals.
Roy J. Hubert (JD 76) was a speaker May 17,
2007, at the Bar Association of San Francisco
MCLE titled “Environmental Enforcement 2007.”
E-mail: rjhubert@earthlink.net.
Theodore D. Israel (BS 76) is a shareholder
and partner at Eckhoff Accountancy Corp. in
San Rafael, Calif. E-mail: tedi@eckhoff.com.
Steven A. MacDonald (BA 76, JD 79) is the
founding partner of Steven Adair MacDonald
and Associates PC in San Francisco. E-mail:
sam@samlaw.net.
Charles A. Bryan (MBA 77) is a member of the
workers’ compensation board of directors in
Columbus, Ohio. Bryan is the founder and current president of CAB Consulting, a propertycasualty insurance consulting company.
Richard A. Erhardt (JD 77) is a captain for
United Airlines in San Carlos, Calif. E-mail:
captainamelia@aol.com.
George W. Norwood (MBA 77) was appointed
to the board of directors of WidePoint Corp. in
Fairfax, Va. Norwood is the president and CEO of
Norwood and Associates Inc. in Tampa, Fla.
Michele K. Trausch (JD 77) was a speaker at
the Bar Association of San Francisco MCLE
seminar titled “Audit Your Practice to Reduce
Malpractice Risk” on June 12, 2007. E-mail:
mtrausch@hansonbridgett.com.
Bonnie C. Maly (JD 78) is a publications attorney for the Continuing Education of the Bar in
Oakland. E-mail: malyb@ceb.ucop.edu.
John D. Mize (MPA 78) is retired; he is a member of the Belmond (Idaho) Community
Apartments board and a Care Car driver.
Valerie J. Norton (MBA 78) was elected to the
American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet
School board of trustees in New Jersey. Norton
is the vice president of talent management for
New York Life Insurance Co. in New York City.
John F. Vogt (JD 78), a superior-court judge in
Fresno County (Calif.), was featured March 23,
2007, in “Judicial Spotlight” in The San Francisco
Daily Journal. E-mail: jvogt@fresno.courts.ca.gov.
Barbara M. Beery (JD 79, LLM 85) is a partner
at Tremain, Hoffman and Berry Trusts and Estates
LLP in Oakland. E-mail: barbara@beerylaw.com.
Joe M. Breeland (MBA 79) is vice president of
sales and marketing at OrthoAccel Technologies
in Houston.
William P. Cogbill (BA 79) was profiled in the
Sonoma Valley Sun on June 14, 2007. Cogbill is
the sheriff of Sonoma County, Calif.
Herve Hui-Bon-Hoa (MBA 79) is a vice president
and credit officer at the San Francisco branch of
Bank of Guam. E-mail: hhbh98@yahoo.com.
Michael W. Morton (MBA 79) is the senior vice
president for Wachovia Bank in Overland Park,
Kan. E-mail: mmortonsr@aol.com.
Stephen S. Siegel (JD 79) is the superior-court
commissioner for Santa Cruz County, Calif.
E-mail: stephen.siegel@santacruzcourt.org.
1980s
Lydia I. Beebe (MBA 80), corporate secretary of
Chevron Corp., was featured as one of the most
influential women in Bay Area business by the
San Francisco Business Times in April 2007.
Beebe is a member of the GGU board of
trustees. E-mail: lydia.beebe@chevron.com.
Sharon E. Farb (JD 80) is the associate university librarian for collection management and
scholarly communication at UCLA.
Paul Chignell (BA 78) was appointed police
captain of the Taraval police station in San
Francisco.
Richard A. Gumbiner (MBA 80) is a broker at
Alpha Real Estate Inc. in San Francisco. E-mail:
interbay@pacbell.net.
Jan M. Lecklikner (JD 78) was quoted in the
July 30, 2007, issue of the San Francisco
Chronicle regarding lawyers and the practice of
meditation. Lecklikner is a public defender for
San Francisco. E-mail: jan_lecklikner@ci.sf.ca.us.
Barry J. Leff (MBA 80, DBA 90) started an
online Jewish-education enterprise called The
Neshamah Center in Israel. Leff is a former member of the GGU adjunct faculty and board of
trustees. E-mail: rebbarry@yeladim.org.
Virginia Palmer (JD 80) was quoted in the Aug.
9, 2007, issue of The Recorder about the challenges of building lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender trust practices. E-mail: vpalmer@fablaw.com.
Jonathan C. Bacon (JD 81) is president of the
Association of Defense Counsel of Northern
California and Nevada for 2007. Bacon is a
partner at Archer Norris in Walnut Creek, Calif.
E-mail: jbacon@archernorris.com.
Gail Dekreon (JD 81) was appointed president
of the board of directors for Soroptimist
International, a volunteer service organization
for women in business and management in San
Francisco. E-mail: gail@dekreon.org.
John M. Kanalakis (MPA 81) was re-elected as
Monterey County (Calif.) sheriff in January.
E-mail: mkanalak@montereybay.com.
Randall E. Sayre (MPA 81) was appointed to
the board of the Nevada Gaming Commission
and State Gaming Control Board.
Robert E. Cartwright (JD 82) received the Pursuit
of Justice Award from the American Bar
Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice
Section in August 2007. Cartwright is a member
of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
board of directors. E-mail: rob@cartwrightlaw.com.
Cordia L. Farrell (JD 82) is the founding partner
of the Law Offices of CL Farrell PC in Redlands,
Calif. E-mail: clfarrell@dslextreme.com.
David A. Gilliss (MBA 82) works at Strategic
Technology Projects Inc. in Fremont, Calif.
E-mail: d1g@pacbell.net.
Christina L. Johnson (JD 82) is an attorney at
Gravett & Frater LLP of Napa, Calif., specializing
in IP infringement litigation. Johnson volunteers
at California Lawyers for the Arts.
Antoinette G. Mills (JD 82) has her own law
practice in San Jose named AGM Law Offices.
E-mail: tonimills@agmlaw.com.
Bradley L. Bostick (JD 83) authored an article
titled “How to Win at Mediation the Bill Walsh
Way” in the September 2007 issue of Plaintiff
magazine. E-mail: bradleybostick@aol.com.
Patrick J. Coughlin (JD 83) was quoted in the
Aug. 1, 2007, issue of The Recorder regarding
the shrinking market for class-action law suits.
Coughlin is a partner at Coughlin, Stoia, Geller,
Rudman & Robbins LLP in San Diego.
Gail L. Gresham (JD 83) is a supervising
client’s rights advocate for Protection and
Advocacy Inc. in Sacramento.
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Jerry R. Hauser (JD 83) is a partner at Phillips,
Greenberg, Strain & Hauser in San Francisco.
E-mail: jhauser@pghllp.com.
Lon H. Kennard (PhD 83) and his wife, DeAnna,
founded Village of Hope, a humanitarian organization serving families in villages in Ethiopia
and other nations, with education and health
services aimed at saving high-risk children.
E-mail: villageofhope-ethiopia@hotmail.com.
Nancy E. O’Malley (JD 83) was quoted in the
March 23, 2007, issue of the San Francisco
Daily Journal regarding deaths related to domestic violence. E-mail:nancy.omalley@acgov.org.
Pamela K. Scarrow (BS 83) is a manager of
quality improvement and patient safety at
the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists in Washington, DC. E-mail:
pscarrow@acog.org.
Robert M. Van Bokkelen (MBA 83) is a lending consultant at CitiMortgage Inc. in Palo Alto,
Calif. E-mail: rvanbokkelen@sbcglobal.net.
Henry H. Wong (MBA 83) is the executive chair
of Packet Island, a venture-backed company in
Santa Clara, Calif., and is a venture partner at
Garage Technology Ventures in Palo Alto, Calif.
E-mail: henrywong@diamondtechventures.com.
William M. Audet (JD 84) was featured in the
July 30, 2007, issue of The Recorder and was
quoted in The Washington Post on July 28,
2007, about his plans to sue a Chinese company on behalf of pet owners affected by melamine
poisoning. E-mail: waudet@audetlaw.com.
John H. Chory (MBA 84) is a partner at
WilmerHale in Waltham, Mass., and chairs the
WilmerHale Venture Group. E-mail: john.
chory@wilmerhale.com.
Peter N. Fowler (JD 84) is senior counsel for
enforcement at the US Patent and Trademark
Office of the Department of Commerce in
Alexandria, Va. E-mail: peterfowler@hotmail.com.
Matthew P. Guasco (JD 84) runs his own law
firm, Matthew Philip Guasco Esq., in Ventura,
Calif. E-mail: guasco@sbcglobal.net.
Arnell K. Kilian (MBA 84) is vice president of
human resources at Wells Fargo Bank in San
Francisco. E-mail: kilian@wellsfargo.com.
Donald H. Lake (MBA 84) is a senior financialinstitutions examiner for the state of California.
He and his wife, Tiffany Nguyen, live in Coronado,
Calif. E-mail: coronado1973@sbcglobal.net.
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2007 Alumni Awardees Gather at Palace
lumni, students, faculty, staff and
friends gathered on Oct. 24, 2007,
for the annual Golden Gate University
Alumni Awards Lunch at the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco.
Beginning with the Millennium
Society Reception in the beautiful
French Parlor overlooking the Palace’s
famous Garden Court, the event drew a
record crowd, at which six awards were
presented in the Ralston Room: GGU
Trustee Lee Baxter (JD 74) presented the
Amicus Award to Dan (MBA 81) and
Irene Riley; Alexis Wong (BS 94, MBA
96) presented the Community Service
Award to Fiona Ma (MS 93); Dean
Emeritus Lani Bader presented the
Distinguished GGU Service Award to
Roger Bernhardt; Dean Terry Connelly
presented the Rising Star Award to Lisa
Farmen (MBA 01); President Emeritus
Phil Friedman presented the Volunteer of
the Year Award to Curtis Burr (BA 74,
MBA 76); and President Dan Angel presented the Alumnus of the Year Award to
Bernard Tyson (BS 82, MBA 85).
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1 (l–r) Board Chair Les Schmidt (MS 81),
Farmen, Ma, Burr, Irene Riley, Dan Riley,
Bernhardt, Tyson, Angel. 2 Students Gloria
Deng and Jenny Zheng flank Ma. 3 Professors
Kit Yarrow and Dorothy Smith (MS 93). 4 Burr
and family. 5 Rosa Neham, Martin Neham
(MBA 78). 6 John O’Grady (JD 86, LLM 93),
Blanca Zarazua (LLM 92). 7 Rileys, Baxter.
8 Trustee Lydia Beebe (MBA 80), Schmidt,
Dan Angel, Pat Angel. 9 Friedman, Burr.
10 William Ma, Michael Ma (MS 96), Fiona
Ma, Al Moresi (JD 72), Conrad Breece (JD
72). 11 Bernhardt, Bader. 12 Tyson and family. 13 Professor Chris Okeke, Charles Naegele
(LLM 07), Angel. 14 Farmen, GGU librarian
Janice Carter.
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100 Years of Accounting
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John C. Martin (MBA 84, LHD 03) was elected to the board of directors at Gen-Probe in
San Diego. Martin is the president and CEO of
Gilead Sciences Inc. in Foster City, Calif. E-mail:
jcmat1980@yahoo.com.
ccounting alumni and faculty gathered on Nov. 7, 2007, for a reception hosted by Christian
Frederiksen (BS 65) and his wife, Tara, at their beautiful home, formerly the Mill Valley
(Calif.) Public Library. To celebrate 100 years of accounting at Golden Gate University, alumni
shared stories about the role GGU played in their lives and careers. In attendance were alumni from
as far back as the class of 1950. Former Dean A.J. Johnson (MBA 70) was honored for his service
to GGU, as were longtime faculty members Frank Weinberg (BA 51, MBA 79, LHD 02), 53 years;
and Ted Mitchell (BA 71, MS 81; trustee), 33 years. Current Dean Mary Canning (JD 81, LLM 82)
spoke about the latest developments in the accounting program, and painted a future as bright as
the incredible art collection that adorns the walls of the Frederiksens’ home. —Kate McNulty
Donald J. McDowell (MBA 84) is a retired
commander in the US Navy in Virginia. E-mail:
cpadon1@earthlink.net.
Peggy Sanchez Mills (MPA 84) was appointed
CEO of the National Healthy Start Association in
Washington, DC. E-mail: psanchezmills@national
healthystart.org.
Photos by Caroline Kopp
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Joel G. Selik (JD 84) was named a Southern
California Super Lawyer for 2007. E-mail:
joel@seliklaw.com.
Robin Altman (BS 85) is a business-development agent at J. Wavro Associates in San
Francisco. E-mail: ra@jwavro.com.
Robert Y. Anderson (MBA 85) is the president
of the East Bay chapter of the California Society
of CPAs for 2007–2008. He is a partner at Burr,
Pilger and Mayer LLP in Walnut Creek, Calif.
E-mail: rya@astound.net.
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2 Stanley Quon (BBA 54,
MBA 70), Florence Sam
(BA 73), Suthee Tritasavit
(BA 67). 3 Alex Guthrie (BS
70). 4 The Frederiksens.
5 Frederiksen; Ted Mitchell;
Elizabeth Brady, vice president of university advancement. 6 Jim Brush (BS 79).
7 Weinberg, Terry Enfield
(BA 71, MBA 72), Eldon
Mather (MBA 75).
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Randy H. Scarlett (JD 85), of Scarlett Law
Group in San Francisco, helped his client win a
$23 million settlement from Coach USA. E-mail:
info@randallscarlett.com.
Jeffrey Sinsheimer (JD 85) joined Coblentz,
Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco as of
counsel. E-mail: jsinsheimer@comcast.net.
Michael J. Bivens (JD 86) was promoted to
vice president of corporate operations for
WinTec Arrowmaker Inc. in Fort Washington, Md.
E-mail: mjbivens@alumni.ggu.edu.
Jay Clem (MBA 86) is a real-estate broker with
Keynote Properties in San Francisco. E-mail:
sfagentj@yahoo.com.
Steven J. Elias (MBA 86) is the owner of Total
Temps in Corte Madera, Calif. Elias is a partner
at Flexible Funding in San Francisco. E-mail:
stevenelias@sbcglobal.net.
Dan D. Gravelle (MBA 86) is a principal at
Financial Leadership Group LLC in San Mateo,
Calif.
William J. Bowe (MBA 85) is an account manager for Meridian Enterprises Corp. in Hazelwood,
Mo. E-mail: bill.bowe@loyaltyconsultants.com.
Apu Gupta (MBA 86) is a senior consultant
with Cliff Consulting Inc. of Oakland.
Robert M. Chow (MS 85) was named outstanding adjunct faculty in IT management by
the GGU’s Ageno School of Business. E-mail:
rchow@ggu.edu.
Craig A. Kroner (JD 86) owns a private practice
specializing in personal injury in San Jose, with
offices in San Francisco, Newark, San Bruno,
Irvine and Los Angeles, Calif. E-mail:
locak@sbcglobal.net.
Christopher J. Gallagher (MPA 85) is the
police chief of Los Baños, Calif. E-mail:
gallac@aol.com.
Paul M. Marigonda (JD 86) was appointed as
a judge to the Santa Cruz County (Calif.)
Superior Court.
Van Johnson (MBA 85) is a country program
director at the US Navy International Programs
Office in Vienna, Va. E-mail: williamrdouglas@
aol.com.
Joseph A. Monaco (MBA 86) is president of
Monaco Capital Management LLC in Virginia
Beach, Va.
Harold W. Lemaster (MBA 85) is the founder
of Lemasters Tax Services in Garden Grove,
Calif. E-mail: lemaster@pacbell.net.
Constantinou Pantelakis (BA 86, MBA 88) is
the owner and managing director for P.C. Splash
Water Ltd. in Lakatamia, Cyprus. E-mail:
splash@spidernet.com.cy.
Randall W. Merk (MBA 85) is the executive
vice president of investment-management services at Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. in San Francisco.
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John T. Rooney (JD 85) is an administrative-law
judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings in
Washington, DC. E-mail: rooneyjt@comcast.net.
Katherine A. Mitchell (MBA 85) was featured
as one of the most influential women in Bay
Area business by the San Francisco Business
Times in April 2007.
Andreas Pluemer (MBA 86) is the president of
Computek Software Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif.
E-mail: apluemer@yahoo.com.
University Info
San Francisco
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536 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-442-7000
800-GGU4YOU
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415-442-6500
CyberCampus:
415-369-5250
School of Accounting:
415-442-6593
School of Law:
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University Advancement:
415-442-7820
University Library:
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Los Angeles
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213-623-6000
Monterey Bay
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Roseville
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San Jose
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Seattle
1425 Fourth Ave., Suite 404
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206-622-9996
Walnut Creek
Lisa Powers (MS 86) won an award in
Sacramento for the Quarry Ponds real-estate
development in Granite Bay, Calif. E-mail:
lisa@powersequity.com.
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Second Floor Annex, Suite 20
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news from the bridge society
Evelyn K. Roberts (MBA 86) is an account
executive for Azul Systems in Mountain View,
Calif. E-mail: evelynkroberts@yahoo.com.
of the second fleet in the Naval Warfare
Development Command in Norfolk, Va. E-mail:
duffy_raymond@hotmail.com.
John W. Hursey (MPA 89) was named federal
security director of North Dakota by the
Transportation Security Administration.
Christopher H. Weed (MBA 86) is the president of Christopher H. Weed CPA Inc. in
Stockton, Calif. Weed was a panelist on Feb. 3,
2007, at the Financial Planning Association of
San Joaquin Valley’s annual “Planning Pays Off”
event. E-mail: cweed@pacbell.net.
Barry D. Durlester (MS 88) is the director of
federal-tax and income-tax accounting for
International Game Technology Inc. in Reno,
Nev. E-mail: bashevjo@gmail.com.
Michael A. Jordan (MS 89) is a stockholder for
the RINA Accountancy Corp. in San Francisco.
E-mail: maj1@ix.net.com.
Donald A. Witt (MBA 86) is the president and
CEO of cyLogistics in Mountain View, Calif. He
joined the Alumni Association board of directors
in October 2007.
Nancy M. Ballweber (MBA 87) is the manager
of outbound marketing at Foundry Networks in
Santa Clara, Calif. E-mail: nballweb@yahoo.com.
Thomas P. Berlinger (MPA 87) is a special
agent assigned to the public-corruption unit at
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in
Tallahassee. E-mail: berlinger@alumni.ggu.edu.
Stephen J. Freitas (MBA 87) is the chief marketing officer at Outdoor Advertising Association
of America Inc. in Washington, DC. E-mail:
sfreitas@oaaa.org.
H. Keith Henry (MPA 87) is a deputy in the Office
of Public Affairs at the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Va. E-mail: hkhenry@cox.net.
Paul K. Klein (MS 87) is a senior tax manager
for Herter, Millare, Williams and Campbell CPAs
& Business Advisors in Tustin, Calif.
Charlotte A. McKenzie (MS 87) is a professor
at Strayer University in Washington, DC. E-mail:
mail@charlottemckenzie.com.
Kenneth P. Strongman (MBA 87) is a mediation panel member for the First Appellate
District of the California Court of Appeals.
Strongman is an adjunct professor of legal
studies at John F. Kennedy University. E-mail:
office@kpstrongman.com.
Robert A. Brown (MPA 88) is an instructionalsystems specialist at the Veterans Benefits
Academy in the US Department of Veterans Affairs
in Baltimore. E-mail: robert.a.brown@va.gov.
Kam L. Chan (MS 88) was promoted to director
of tax administration for Barnard, Vogler & Co. in
Reno, Nev. E-mail: klchan@barnardvogler.com.
Peter D. Cook (MBA 88) is a program area manager at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Md.
Raymond A. Duffy (MBA 88) is a commander
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Jennifer L. Goshorn (MBA 88) is the director of
administration for Gunderson Dettmer in Menlo
Park, Calif. E-mail: jgoshorn@gunder.com.
Fredrick O. Jackson (MBA 88) is a contract
education specialist for economic development
at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Calif.
E-mail: fjackson_1990@yahoo.com.
Charles L. Klompus (MPA 88) is the director of
property management for HOME Inc. in New
Haven, Conn. E-mail: charles@charles-k.com.
Thomas D. Long (MBA 88) is the airport director for Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman
Field, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Richard G. Matthews (MBA 88) is the vice
president of aviation products and site manager at the manufacturing center of Northrop
Grumman Corp. in St. Augustine, Fla.
Anne M. Michaels (JD 88) is the deputy district attorney for the Monterey County (Calif.)
district attorney’s office. E-mail: michaels_
anne@yahoo.com.
William K. Peterson (JD 88) is a partner at
Ringlé, Roy et Associés in France. Peterson is president of the Mediterranean American Business
Network. E-mail: ringleroy@avocatline.com.
Tanya Powell (MBA 88, MS 90) is the CFO of
B&C Transit Consultants in San Leandro, Calif.
E-mail: 1tanya@msn.com.
Paul A. Smiley (MPA 88) is a faculty associate
at the Arizona State University School of Global
Management and Leadership in Phoenix.
Srinivas R. Achanta (BS 89, MBA 04) is an
integration manager at Actel in Mountain View,
Calif. E-mail: achanta@gmail.com.
Kimberly V. Carroll (MPA 89) is a procurement
analyst for the deputy assistant secretary of the
US Army Office of Privatization and Partnerships
in Arlington, Va. E-mail: kvcarroll@yahoo.com.
Thomas A. Gerard (MBA 89) is a civil engineer
in Alexandria, Va. E-mail: tom.gerard@rkeng.com.
David G. Hemphill (MS 89) is a senior manager for Kling & Pathak CPA in Cerritos, Calif.
[ spring 2008 ]
Kathleen M. Keeshen (JD 89) is chief counsel
and deputy director for the Department of
Public Health in California.
Jean-Jacques Leou (MBA 89) is the CEO of
AITO Sport in Tahiti. E-mail: jjleou@gmail.com.
Dale D. McLaughlin (BS 89, MBA 91) is the
human-resources director for Educational
Service District 101 in Spokane, Wash.
E-mail:dmclaughlin@esd101.net.
Todd W. Myers (MBA 89) is a financial analyst
at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Stanford, Calif.
E-mail: tomyers@stanfordmed.org.
Bian E. Tan (MBA 89) is the COO at Avago
Technologies in Singapore.
Lawrence B. Wood (MS 89) is a partner at
Smith, Lange and Phillips LLP in San Francisco.
E-mail: lwood@slpcpa.com.
1990s
Nancy Chan (MS 90) is executive director in
the financial-services office of Ernst & Young
and leads the hedge-fund team for the Pacific
Southwest financial-services office tax team.
E-mail: nancy.chan@ey.com.
James E. Ford (BA 90, MBA 01) is a councilmember for the city of Marina, Calif. Ford is
the owner of Ford Tax, Accounting and Insurance
in Marina. E-mail: jeford@sbcglobal.net.
Richard G. Lescalleet (MBA 90) is the vice
president of sales and marketing at Astro
Systems Inc. in Bethesda, Md. E-mail:
rlescalleet@verizon.net.
Kenneth A. Macias (MBA 90) is treasurer of
the California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
E-mail: kmacias@mgocpa.com.
James B. Schuster (MBA 90) is a program
manager for General Dynamics Information
Technology in O’Fallon, Ill. E-mail: brad
schuster@hotmail.com.
Sue E. Stryker (MPA 90) retired as chief district
attorney investigator for Monterey County, Calif.
Paul C. White (JD 90) is general manager of
M Vineyards at Montaluce in Georgia. E-mail:
pwhiteesq@aol.com.
Alice K. Camuti (MBA 91) is the director of
career services at Tennessee Tech University.
Camuti was awarded the Lumsden-Sellars
award by the Tennessee Association of Colleges
and Employers. E-mail: acamuti@tntech.edu.
Larry W. Moseley (MBA 91) was a panelist on
Sept. 15, 2007, at the San Francisco chapter of
the California Society of CPAs’ “Excelmasters.org”
panel in Palo Alto, Calif. Moseley is an Excel consultant and chairs a Bay Area Excel users group.
E-mail: lwm@lwmweb.com.
Steven M. Singer (MS 91) was promoted to
partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co. LLP
in Fremont, Calif. E-mail: fsingerf@pacbell.net.
Donna L. Stashyn (JD 91) was appointed to
serve as a superior-court judge in Solano
County (Calif.) in June 2007.
Walter A. Tijiboy (MBA 91) is president and
CEO of Cielo Networks in Palo Alto, Calif. E-mail:
wtijiboy@cielonetworks.us.
Casey S. Cheung (BA 92) is a financial consultant for A.G. Edwards in San Francisco.
E-mail: cheungcs@aol.com.
Elisha W. Finney (MBA 92) is a member of the
Thoratec Corp. board of directors. E-mail:
elisha.finney@varian.com.
Steven E. Ghirardo (MS 92) wrote an article in
the Aug. 13, 2007, issue of North Bay Business
Journal titled, “Real Estate: Repositioning your
Real Estate — Is it Time to Turn on the Cash?”
E-mail: steve@ghirardocpa.com.
Lina T. Palabyab (MBA 92) is a trainer and
independent contractor for PrimaryEdge Inc. in
the Philippines. E-mail: lsp@evis.net.ph.
Roger L. Wong (JD 92) is the city manager of
Greenfield, Calif. E-mail: rwong@ci.watsonville.
ca.us.
Jolynne M. Flores (MBA 93) is the supervisor
of grass-roots advocacy at the American College
of Physicians in Washington, DC. E-mail:
jbbbj2@netscape.net.
James S. Harris (MS 93) was named general
manager for The Resort at Red Hawk in Sparks,
Nev. Harris is CFO of Wingfield Nevada Group.
Warren McBroom (JD 93) is associate counsel
in the US Department of Homeland Security in
Washington, DC. E-mail: warren.mcbroom@
dhs.gov.
Philip Q. Thach (MBA 93) is the executive director of corporate financial planning and reporting
Ensuring the Future
ary E. Lanigar (JD 54), a member of GGU’s Millennium, Bridge and
Centennial societies, and a very loyal and generous supporter of her alma mater
since 1978, died on Oct. 21, 2007, at the age of 88. She left a bequest of $2 million
to the university in support of scholarships, ensuring the success of The Centennial
Campaign for GGU — and that of future generations of GGU students.
Lanigar emerged from humble beginnings to become one of the first women to lead
some of the nation’s largest business, educational and philanthropic institutions. Growing
up on a farm in rural Lassen County, Calif., during the Depression, she earned scholarships that enabled her to attend Mills College and later Stanford University, where she
majored in mathematics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1938.
Lanigar was one of the first female CPAs in California. Following an accounting job
with the Stanford Athletic Department, she moved to the San Francisco accounting
firm of Lester Herrick & Herrick, where she worked full time as a CPA while attending night law school at Golden Gate College, graduating in 1954 with an LLB.
Lanigar is believed to have been one of the first women partners at a “Big Eight”
firm when she became a partner at Arthur Young (which emerged from Lester Herrick
& Herrick and later became Ernst & Young). She took early retirement from E&Y in
1976 to hold a succession of leadership posts at other major corporations. She served
as a director of Wells Fargo Co. for two decades and also held directorships with
TransAmerica Corp., Lucky Stores Inc., Pacific Lumber Co., Castle and Cooke, the
Pacific Stock Exchange and the Children’s Health Council. She was a trustee for Mills
College, the Walter S. Johnson Foundation and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and
served in advisory and other capacities for Stanford University. She lived for more than
half a century in Palo Alto, Calif., before retiring to Santa Rosa.
Throughout her impressive professional career, Lanigar never wavered from her
commitment to give back so that others, particularly those from humble beginnings,
could also realize their aspirations. As a generous benefactor to GGU, she donated to
a variety of funds, including funds directed to law scholarships and building projects.
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The Bridge Society recognizes individuals who, by including the university in
their estate plans, have made an investment in the vision and the future of GGU.
A bequest or life-income trust to benefit
the university is a commitment to education for future generations — a plan
today for an investment in tomorrow.
GGU’s Office of University Advancement
is available to provide confidential assistance to aid alumni and friends in shaping
an enduring legacy tailored to their needs.
[ ggu ]
To include GGU as a beneficiary of your
will, trust or retirement plan, please use
our legal name (Golden Gate University)
and tax ID number (94-1585735). To
learn about joining the Bridge Society
and/or for information about planned
giving, bequest language and referrals,
please contact Elizabeth Brady, vice
president of university advancement, at
415-442-7813 or ebrady@ggu.edu. For
more on GGU’s giving societies, visit
www.ggu.edu/alumni/societies.
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[ giving ]
[ alumnews / class notes ]
at Maxim Integrated Products in Sunnyvale,
Calif. E-mail: p_t888@sbcglobal.net.
Samson P. Agpawa (MA 94) retired as an environmental engineer from the EPA in San
Francisco in 2005. He is an adjunct professor
at USF. E-mail: samanna42@frontiernet.net.
Mohammed A. Ahmed (MBA 94) is a product
manager in the access-routing technology
group of Cisco Systems in San Jose. E-mail:
mahmed@yahoo.com.
Bernadette M. Schild (MBA 95) is the vice
president and brand manager in the experiential
marketing department at Wells Fargo Bank in
San Francisco. E-mail: schild@wellsfargo.com.
Timothy E. Totah (MBA 95) is in the businessdevelopment department of NorthPoint Real Estate
Investment Services. E-mail: ttotah@yahoo.com.
Dan W. Cooperider (JD 94, LMT 97) is of counsel in the estate-planning practice of Berliner
Cohen in San Jose. E-mail: dcooperider@
graycary.com.
Allen Tu (BS 95, MIB 00) is a senior manager
of business development for Shekou Container
Terminal in Guangdong, China. E-mail:
tual001@hotmail.com.
Ralph W. Haskew (MS 94) was re-elected president of the board of directors of the California
Symphony. Haskew is a tax director with Fuhriman van Gemeren Matlin CPAs LLP in Walnut
Creek, Calif. E-mail: rhaskew@deloitte.com.
Julie Brush (JD 96) was quoted in the July
2007 issue of ABA Journal regarding the recruitment of law graduates from lower-ranked law
schools. E-mail: julieq@solutuslegal.com.
Shaohua C. Lu (MBA 94) was appointed vice
president of finance at WuXi PharmaTech in
Shanghai, China. E-mail: cl132979@sun.com.
Howard V. McKoy (MBA 94) is a managing
partner of K2 Negotiations LLC in Oakland.
E-mail: west.coast.sports@att.net.
Brooke Oliver (JD 94) was quoted in the July
12, 2007, issue of San Francisco Daily Journal
regarding a trademark case. E-mail: brooke@
artemama.com.
David P. Wasserman (JD 94, LLM 95) was a
speaker at a Bar Association of San Francisco
MCLE seminar on March 27, 2007, titled
“Recent Developments and Hot Topics in San
Francisco Landlord-Tenant Practice.”
Gino J. Bianchini (JD 95, LLM 96) was named
principal at the Orange County (Calif.) office of
Ernst and Young. E-mail: gino.bianchini@ey.com.
Kevin R. Brink (MBA 95) is the president of
Brink Development in Marlton, NJ.
Jenny C. Chu (MS 95, MBA 04) is a humanresource data analyst at Kyphon in Sunnyvale,
Calif. E-mail: jenny.chu@alumni.ggu.edu.
Ivan K. Fujihara (MBA 95) is CEO and cofounder of Siff Investment Services in San
Francisco. Fujihara is a member of the Ageno
School of Business advisory board. E-mail:
ifujihara@comcast.net.
Christopher E. Lynch (MBA 95) is the vice
president of sales for Mighty Ventures in Napa,
Calif. E-mail: christopherlynch@sbcglobal.net.
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Kevin E. Nolt (JD 95) was a speaker at the June
6, 2007, Bar Association of San Francisco MCLE
seminar titled “Pension Protection Act of 2006.”
Bita Daryabari (MS 96) is founder and president of the Unique Zan Foundation in Menlo
Park, Calif. E-mail: bita@kordestani.com.
Scott L. Johnson (JD 96) is a partner at
Mataisic Roth & Johnson LLP in San Francisco.
E-mail: sjohnson@lbbslaw.com.
Laurence N. Kaldor (JD 96) directed a film
titled Redirecting Eddie, which appeared in the
American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif., in
November 2007. E-mail: phenix7@msn.com.
James C. Kenney (BA 96) is a bulk-gas product specialist for Airgas NCN in Sacramento.
E-mail: jim.kenney@airgas.com.
Bret R. Kleinman (BS 96, MS 98) is a consultant at Global Logistics Management in
Cupertino, Calif. E-mail: bretk@sbcglobal.net.
Mitra Shahraz (MS 96) is the owner of Liberty
Hotel Restaurant in Pittsburg, Calif.
Sandra M. Sierra (MBA 96) is a consultant at
Accretive Solutions in Santa Clara, Calif. E-mail:
ssierra2667@yahoo.com.
Laura Z. Davis (JD 97) opened a law firm in
Monterey, Calif., specializing in estate planning,
probate and trust administration. E-mail:
sybilesque@hotmail.com.
Jeffrey J. Greene (JD 97) is assigned to DLA
Piper’s Shanghai, China, office in the corporate
and securities law division. Greene is the comanaging editor of The Mergers and Acquisitions
Handbook–A Practical Guide to Negotiated
Transactions. E-mail: jeff.greene@dlapiper.com.
Charles J. Junn (MA 97) was named an outstanding adjunct faculty member in psychology
for 2006–2007 by GGU’s Ageno School of
Business. E-mail: cjunn@yahoo.com.
Peter Lawrence (MBA 97) is an alliance manager in the personal systems group at HewlettPackard Co. in Cupertino, Calif. E-mail:
pelawren@yahoo.com.
Reme A. Pullicar (MBA 97) is co-owner of
Alphagraphics, a print communications center in
Boise, Idaho. E-mail: us394@alphagraphics.com.
Kathleen J. Richards (JD 97) headed the
Minor’s Counsel Task Force, which helped create
the Minor’s Counsel in Family Law CourtAppointment Panel in San Francisco. E-mail:
kathy@tjr-jd.com.
Stephen M. Seewer (BS 97) was the recipient
of Wells Fargo’s 2006 Volunteer Service Award
from The AIDS Institute in Washington DC. Seewer
chairs the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
forum at The Commonwealth Club of California.
E-mail: stephen.m.seewer@wellsfargo.com.
Jeffrey T. Antonchuk (JD 98) is an attorney at
Dudnick, Detwiler, Rivin and Stikker LLP in San
Francisco. E-mail: antonchuk@ddrs.com.
Falgoon V. Desai (MS 98) is a consultant in the
enterprise governance department of Accretive
Solutions in Santa Clara, Calif. E-mail: falgoon
desai@yahoo.com.
Robert J. Devine (MA 98) was named an outstanding adjunct faculty member in psychology
for 2006–2007 by GGU’s Ageno School.
Supachai Sirithanyarat (BS 96, MS 97) is the
manager for S.N. Industrial Works & Supply Co.
Ltd. in Muang Ryong, Thailand. E-mail:
rayong@hotmail.com.
Lisa D. Loza (MAC 98) is an executive recruiter
with Alchemy Search Partners in San Francisco.
E-mail: slaterlisad@yahoo.com.
Julie D. Soo (JD 96) is staff counsel for the
California Department of Insurance in San
Francisco. E-mail: sooj@insurance.ca.gov.
Barbara A. Scott (JD 98) is an attorney for
Selvin Wraith Halman LLP in Oakland. E-mail:
balawyr@aol.com.
Tracy L. Teale (MBA 96, MS 05) is an audit
manager at RINA Accountancy Corp. in San
Francisco. E-mail: tteale@rina.com.
Frederic L. Soulies (BBA 98) is a sales director for Selectal in Monaco Cedex, Monaco.
E-mail: fsoulies@monaco.mc.
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Julia Vax (JD 98) was featured in the July 20,
2007, issue of the San Francisco Daily Journal.
Vax is a general business, corporate and securities partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski,
Canady, Falk and Rabkin in San Francisco.
E-mail: jvax@howardrice.com.
Lisa M. Calero (JD 01) is a staff attorney at the
Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals in San
Francisco. Calero gave birth to a son, Jack, in
February 2007. E-mail: lisacalero8@yahoo.com.
Karine I. Wenger (JD 98) is an attorney with
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy LLP in
San Diego. E-mail: kfaure@hirson.com.
Christopher A. D’Ovidio (JD 01) was named
partner at the law firm Merolla & Accetturo in
Warwick, RI. D’Ovidio is an adjunct professor at
Roger Williams University School of Law. E-mail:
cdovidio@merollalaw.com.
Michelle M. Yoshida (JD 98) is an associate at
Wright, Robinson, Osthimer and Tatum in San
Francisco. E-mail: myoshida@bledsoelaw.com.
Elizabeth C. Hadden (JD 01) is an attorney in
Washington, DC. E-mail: elizabethchadden@
gmail.com.
Marc Dardenne (MBA 99) was appointed CEO
of Emaar Hotels & Resorts.
Anna Hui Han (MBA 01) is the vice president
for New Sun International Engineering Inc. in
Sunnyvale, Calif.
Donna M. Rush (MBA 99) is the vice president
of Just Price Solutions in Pasadena, Calif.
E-mail: donna@foothill.net.
Robin R. Wahl-Nesbitt (JD 99, MBA 00) is associate counsel for Janus Capital Group in Denver.
2000s
Jill M. Abrahamson (JD 00) is of counsel for
the Local 1102 of the Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Union, part of the United
Food and Commercial Workers Union in New
York City. E-mail: jjmalaw@yahoo.com.
Juan C. Araneda (JD 00) is the chair of the
Labor and Employment Law Section of the
Barrister’s Club of the Bar Association of San
Francisco. E-mail: jaraneda@longlevit.com.
Joseph B. Bennett (JD 00) is a criminaldefense lawyer in Greenville, SC. Bennett runs
the law practice Salvini and Bennett with his
wife, Jessica Salvini (JD 00).
Thomas P. Bornheimer (MS 00) is a project
manager for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.
E-mail: tpb4@ix.net.com.
Staci E. Brown (MS 00) is a benefits system
analyst at Union Bank of California in San
Francisco. Brown is a member of the GGU
Alumni Association board of directors. E-mail:
staci.brown@uboc.com.
Shannon L. Hardin (JD 01) is the vice chair of
the Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section
of the Barrister’s Club at the Bar Association of
San Francisco.
Chance Hawkins (JD 01) is the deputy city
attorney for Antioch, Calif.
Michelle J. Matlin (MS 01) is a partner at
Fuhriman Van Gemeren Matlin CPAs LLP in
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Deepak K. Sarkar (MS 01) published a book
of poems titled Poems by Kolki — Absolutely
Humane. E-mail: deepak.sarkar@ieee.org.
Kenneth S. Sogabe (JD 01) is a staff attorney
in the motions unit at the Ninth Circuit US Court
of Appeals in San Francisco.
Charlotte R. Wall (MS 01) is a CPA for Spott,
Lucey & Wall Inc. in San Francisco. E-mail:
charlotte.wall@spottluceywall-cpas.com.
Anne C.Arnold (JD 02) is an environmental landuse attorney for Briscoe Ivester and Bazel in San
Francisco. E-mail: acarnold_99@yahoo.com.
Ryan A. Hintzen (JD 02) is an attorney at
O’Melveny & Meyers LLP in Washington, DC.
E-mail: ryanhintzen2002@yahoo.com.
Diane P. Cragg (JD 00) is an associate at
Wright, Robinson, Osthimer and Tatum in San
Francisco.
Takaki Kokubun (MS 02) is the online sales
and operations coordinator for Google Japan
Inc. in Tokyo. E-mail: terawin@gmail.com.
Bradley D. Fell (JD 00) is an associate at
Wright, Robinson, Osthimer and Tatum in San
Francisco.
Lara Manzione (LLM 02) is the assistant director of public affairs at the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees in
Washington, DC. E-mail: lmanzione@afscme.org.
Hong Liu Gong (LLM 00, SJD 06) is the foreign-law adviser for Greenberg Traurig LLP in
Washington, DC. E-mail: gongh@gtlaw.com.
Zied Souissi (MBA 02) is a mortgage consultant at Cartago Investment Group in San
Francisco. E-mail: ziedsouissi@gmail.com.
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How to Gift
Back to GGU
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others help you with a scholarship funded by
alumni? The GI Bill? Subsidy from your employer,
friends or family?
Won’t you reach out to help educate up-andcoming generations? It’s hard to imagine a charitable gift that has a more far-reaching, positive effect
than an investment in education. There are so many
ways to give — and make a real difference.
Annual Gifts
Consider being an annual giver, and help close the
gap between tuition and the actual cost of educating students. Use a check or credit card to make
your monthly, quarterly or annual gift to the
President’s Fund. Make your check out to GGU, or
call to make a gift by credit card.
Recurring Gifts
Monthly gifts charged to your credit card or
electronically transferred from your bank account
provide an easy and convenient way to give,
while keeping GGU’s fund-raising cost low.
Matching Gifts
Match your gift through your company. You may be
able to double or triple your gift by including a matching-gift form from your human-resources department
along with your contribution.
Stock Gifts
Save on capital-gains taxes, and make your contribution with stock or mutual-fund shares instead of
cash. If you have appreciated securities worth more
than you paid for them, you gain a charitable deduction for the full fair-market value of the shares and
avoid capital-gains tax. It is simple to do; just call
for instructions.
Bequests
Include Golden Gate in your will or estate plan, and
leave a legacy of education to future generations.
Request information on making gifts of life insurance, retirement-plan benefits, stock, property, cash
or through a charitable trust.
Endowments
Establish a permanent fund in memory or honor
of someone special. An endowed fund can be set
up during your life or through a bequest for a wide
variety of purposes.
You may now give online by credit card at
www.ggu.edu/giving. Questions on how to give? Visit
www.ggu.edu/aboutgiving, call 415-442-7820, or
e-mail alumni@ggu.edu. Please send contributions to
Elizabeth Brady, vice president of university advancement, Golden Gate University, 536 Mission St.,
San Francisco, CA 94105. 415-442-7820, fax 415882-1660, ebrady@ggu.edu.
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[ memoriam ]
Edwin J. Valencia (BA 37) died Oct. 28, 2006.
Armand Karp (BS 48) died April 17, 2007.
Clinton R. Armitage (MBA 51) died June 27, 2006.
Lloyd S. Litcher (BS 52) died June 11, 2007.
Kevin D. Maloney (BA 53) died May 10, 2007.
Gerald G. Kendall (BA 54) died July 24, 2007.
Mary E. Lanigar (JD 54) died Oct. 21, 2007; see p. 29.
Herbert R. Wagner (BA 55) died Sept. 15, 2005.
Francis M. Egan (BA 56) died March 15, 2007.
Reed Cowan (BBA 58) died Sept. 7, 2006.
Martin B. Kline (BA 58) died July 18, 2007.
Donald Kuehl (MBA 62) died Feb. 13, 2006.
William A. Robinson (JD 64) died July 12, 2007.
James D. Aljian (MBA 65) died April 12, 2007.
Calvin Artke (BBA 65) died July 31, 2007.
Richard K. Hiraoka (BA 65) died Oct. 28, 2005.
Patrick D. Doyle (BA 66) died Feb. 20, 2007.
Fredrick W. Reinhart (JD 66) died April 6, 2007.
Jean A. Hoffman (JD 67) died June 24, 2007.
Michael L. Eckstein (JD 68) died March 22, 2005.
Louis S. McCalla (BA 68) died July 24, 2005.
George W. Olsen (BA 68) died Jan. 26, 2007.
Howard C. Parshall (BA 68) died Nov. 6, 2006.
Donald G. Cain (MBA 69) died April 4, 2007.
Ronald L. Hankins (BS 69) died Dec. 21, 2006.
Robert E. Whelan (MBA 69) died Sept. 17, 2005.
John B. Haverland (MBA 70) died Nov. 25, 2006.
Guy W. Secaur (BA 71) died Jan. 10, 2007.
Daniel Y. Chen (MBA 72) died April 12, 2007.
James P. Kiernan (MBA 73) died Sept. 8, 2006.
Melvin C. Knight (BS 73) died July 16, 2007.
Ivan J. Watts (MBA 73) died Aug. 16, 2005.
Charles T. Houser (MBA 74) died March 30, 2007.
Charles L. Austin (MBA 75) died Jan. 7, 2005.
Alvin L. Becker (AA 75, BS 77, MBA 79) died April 2, 2007.
Robert L. Kleinert (MPA 75) died July 15, 2007.
P. R. Krolak (BA 75, MPA 78) died July 27, 2007.
James R. Tirey (BA 75) died May 21, 2007.
Edward G. Verderber (MPA 75) died March 20, 2007.
Sylvester A. Brigham (AA 76) died Nov. 3, 2006.
Steven G. Nichols (BS 76) died July 27, 2007.
Connie R. Suez (BA 76, MPA 85) died Jan. 1, 2007.
Christine A. Balthazar (JD 77) died Jan. 27, 2007.
Melvin M. Cardinell (BA 77) died Sept. 5, 2006.
Ira A. Jett (MPA 77) died April 1, 2007.
William J. Kennedy (MPA 77) died July 14, 2007.
John F. Shaughnessy (MBA 77) died Feb. 27, 2007.
Henry G. Umiker (BS 77) died Dec. 6, 2006.
John B. Wolcott (MPA 77) died Feb. 21, 2006.
Emilie Anderson (MPA 78) died Aug. 15, 2006.
Sandra L. Golvin (JD 78) died Aug. 3, 2006.
Remus N. Bretoi (MBA 78) died Dec. 28, 2006.
Laurita E. Szucs (BA 78) died Dec. 18, 2006.
James T. Boyd (MPA 79) died Feb. 16, 2007.
Richard W. Dawson (MBA 80) died Aug. 7, 2006.
Joe D. Evans (MPA 80) died Aug. 3, 2007.
William J. Feeney (MBA 80) died July 12, 2007.
David T. Joseph (MPA 81) died Dec. 16, 2006.
Robert W. White (MPA 81) died June 18, 2007.
David F. Pulis (BS 87) died Nov. 15, 2006.
Edwin P. Slaton (MPA 87, MS 88) died May 11, 2007.
David N. Stern (MPA 87) died April 25, 2007.
Toby S. Grace (MS 88) died March 20, 2007.
John A. Fusselman (BA 89) died July 15, 2007.
Kathleen A. Howard (MBA 89) died Aug. 10, 2007.
Albert E. Richter (MBA 89) died June 12, 2007.
Paul H. Wallace (MPA 89) died June 21, 2007.
Frederick R. Wulsin (DBA 94) died Dec. 25, 2006.
James W. Handley (MBA 95) died June 13, 2007.
Jesus M. Vargas (JD 02) died Sept. 24, 2007.
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[ alumnews / class notes ]
Jared J. Babula (LLM 03) is staff counsel for
the California Energy Commission in
Sacramento. E-mail: legalminton@gmail.com.
JP Harbour (LLM 04) opened the Law Office of
JP Harbour in San Francisco. He is vice president
of the Alumni Association board of directors.
E-mail: jpharbour@earthlink.net.
Rachel Baer (JD 05) opened a law practice in
Los Gatos, Calif., specializing in family and
estate-planning law. E-mail: racheljbaer@
yahoo.com.
Tuija I. Catalano (JD 03) is planning commissioner for the city of Clayton (Calif.). She and
her husband, Mark, had a son, Eric Johannes, in
November 2006. E-mail: tuijaha@yahoo.com.
Walter A. Haynes (JD 04) is an attorney at the
Law Office of Albert G. Stoll Jr. in San Francisco.
E-mail: walter@stoll-law.com.
Albert Carrera (JD 05, LLM 07) is the officer of
the principal defender for the Special Court of
Sierra Leone in The Netherlands. E-mail: albert
carrera1@yahoo.com.
Pouneh Ghaffarian (JD 06) works in the advisory section of the California Solar Initiative and
Energy Efficiency Program of the California
Public Utilities Commission. E-mail: pounehg@
hotmail.com.
Kumiko Harada (MS 03) is a marketer at
American Peptide Co. Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif.
E-mail: kumiko@americanpeptide.com.
Brenda J. Jemmott (MS 04) is a tax manager
at RINA Accountancy Corp. in Oakland. E-mail:
bjemmott@rina.com.
Rebecca J. Collaco (JD 05) is an attorney at
Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck LLP in
Irvine, Calif.
Antony M. Harvey (BBA 06) is a proteomics marketing specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific in San
Jose. E-mail: antonyharvey944@sbcglobal.net.
Juna Kim (JD 03) was elected to the board of
directors of the California Young Lawyers
Association. Kim is an associate at Van De Poel
& Levy LLP in San Francisco. E-mail: jkim@
vanlevylaw.com.
Bradley A. Jenkins (MS 04) sells residential services for AT&T. E-mail: bradleyjenkins@gmail.com.
Christine A. Crawford (JD 05) is an attorney at
Neal, Haushalter, Ray & Kurkhill LLP in Santa
Ana, Calif. E-mail: cacrawford99@yahoo.com.
Paul Hogarth (JD 06) is the managing director
for Beyond Chron, a San Francisco online daily
journal. E-mail: phogarth@mac.com.
Marie Mallare (JD 05) was nominated as one
of the 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the
United States. Mallare teaches in the publicadministration program at GGU. E-mail:
mariemallare@yahoo.com.
Sean Kenney (JD 06) is an attorney at
Ramsbacher Prokey LLP in San Jose. E-mail:
seankenneyhector@earthlink.net.
Verna V. Mamerto (BBA 03) is a client finance
analyst at Draftfcb in San Francisco. E-mail:
verna_mamerto@hotmail.com.
Michael C. Martini (BS 03, MS 04, MBA 07)
is an applications development leader at United
Behavioral Health in San Francisco. E-mail:
michael_c_martini@uhc.com.
Tonee I. Picard (MBA 03) is senior vice president of marketing and business development at
Bay Federal Credit Union in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Picard is a director of the Santa Cruz Chamber
of Commerce and is on the dean’s advisory
committee for the Baskin School of Engineering
at UC Santa Cruz.
Shreya Ramchandani (LLM 03) is an attorney
for Perkins Coie LLP in Menlo Park, Calif. E-mail:
shreyaramchandani@msn.com.
Ekaterina A. Stanton (LLM 03) is an attorney
for Marks & Sokolov in Philadelphia. E-mail:
estanton@mslegal.com.
Sung-Seung Yun (LLM 03) is a professor of law
at Ajou University in South Korea. E-mail:
ssyun@hallym.ac.kr.
Jennifer Benito (MS 04) runs marketing and
public relations for the Mosquito Control Board
in Sacramento. She was a speaker at the
regional conference of the Public Relations
Society of America held at GGU in May 2007.
E-mail: jennifer.benito@gmail.com.
Christopher P. Dobbins (MS 04, JD 04) is a
member of the Joint Powers Agency board of
directors. Dobbins is the outreach coordinator
at New Leaf Treatment Center in Lafayette, Calif.
E-mail: chris.dobbins@greenstampede.com.
Daniel L. Flamm (JD 04) has a law practice in
Walnut Creek, Calif. E-mail: dlf@mtag.com.
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Anupong Kriangkrailipikorn (MS 04) is the
managing director for Chaiyo Hosting Co. Ltd. in
Bangkok, Thailand. E-mail: anupong@
chaiyohosting.com.
Maryjoy Martini (BS 04) is the executive meeting manager at The Claremont Resort in
Berkeley. E-mail: maryjoymartini@yahoo.com.
Robert H. Patterson, Jr. (MS 04) is a tax senior in the mergers & acquisitions practice for
Ernst & Young LLP in Virginia. E-mail: taxation
professional@hotmail.com.
Stephanie Profitt (JD 04, LLM 05) is the vice
chair of the Taxation Section of the Barrister’s
Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco.
E-mail: stephanie@bodycoffee.com.
Amir A. Rang (LLM 04) is founder of the Atashi
Rang Law Firm in San Francisco. Rang is the
educational chair of the Young Tax Lawyers
Committee, Taxation Section of the State Bar of
California. E-mail: paaut@prodigy.net.
Judith Roe (BS 04) is a senior staff accountant
at Tandberg Television in Sunnyvale, Calif.
E-mail: gardenerjudi@yahoo.com.
Laurence R. Shea (MBA 04) is the director of
development for Glucon Inc. in Santa Clara,
Calif. E-mail: sfwolf_98@yahoo.com.
Jessie To (MBA 04) is a mortgage consultant
for Signature Funding Group in Belmont, Calif.
E-mail: usajessie@hotmail.com.
Mariela Vidolova (LLM 04) is an attorney at
Techmark in San Jose. E-mail: mariela_
vidolova@yahoo.com.
Donald Walter (MS 04) is an account supervisor at Kane Financial Services in Los Gatos,
Calif. E-mail: dn_walter@yahoo.com.
Bruce C. Wong (LLM 04) is an immigration
attorney in San Francisco.
Rumiko Matsuura (BS 05) works at Eckhoff
Accountancy Corp. in San Rafael, Calif. E-mail:
rumiko_matsuura@hotmail.com.
Katina Nordloh (LLM 05) has a law practice in
Washington, DC. E-mail: knordloh@hotmail.com.
Kazutake Okuma (SJD 05) is professor of law
at Seinan Gakuin University School of Law in
Japan. E-mail: okuma@seinan-gu.ac.jp.
Insop Pak (SJD 05) is a professor of law for
Kyungpook National University in South Korea.
E-mail: ipak@knu.ac.k.
Gerald Prettyman (JD 05, LLM 07) is a patent
attorney with Carr & Ferrell in Palo Alto, Calif. He
wrote an article on the evolving patent-law doctrines for the Pepperdine University School of
Law Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship &
the Law. E-mail: iplaw@jerryprettyman.com.
Dragos Georgescu (MS 06) is an analyst at
Sierra Tech Research in San Jose. E-mail:
dragosg@pacbell.net.
Abby H. Komashko (MBA 06) is a credit analyst at Bridge Bank in San Jose. E-mail: abby
komashko@yahoo.com.
Jennifer Lewis (JD 06) is an attorney at the
Alcovy Circuit public defender’s office in
Covington, Ga. E-mail: jen_sloc@hotmail.com.
Hanna Marklund (LLM 06) is an associate for
Linklaters, Stockholm in Sweden. E-mail:
hmarklund79@hotmail.com.
Susan Rotchy (BBA 06) was named Ms.
Wheelchair California in the March 2007 pageant
in Riverside, Calif. E-mail: sueetter@yahoo.com.
Carmelo Sansone (MBA 06) is the product marketing manager for Sonic Trading Inc. in Santa
Clara, Calif. E-mail: linosansone@hotmail.com.
Thomas Squeo (BA 06) is the vice president of
strategic development for Roundbox Global in
Atlanta. E-mail: squeot@yahoo.com.
Wendy Stewart (LLM 05) is an attorney at
Jewell & Associates in San Francisco. E-mail:
roundhorse@verizon.net.
Terrence R. Sundar (MBA 06) is a realtor and
loan officer for Athome Consulting Group Inc. in
San Jose. E-mail: terrysundar@yahoo.com.
Petra Waehmann (LLM 05) is an associate for
McNamara, Dodge, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Pfalzer,
Borges & Brothers LLP in Walnut Creek, Calif.
E-mail: pwaehmann@gmx.de.
Seong Wook S. Tae (MS 06) works in the taxservices department of Ernst and Young LLP in
San Francisco. E-mail: simontae@yahoo.com.
Manisha Aurora (LLM 06) is an attorney at the
Chugh Firm in Santa Clara, Calif. E-mail:
manisha.aurora@gmail.com.
Lin Cong (MBA 06) is a senior financial analyst
at Spectra Physics in Mountain View, Calif.
E-mail: lcongus@msn.com.
Dean A. Cantalupo (LLM 07) is deputy district
attorney in Tulare County, Calif. E-mail: dean@
deancantalupo.net.
Kimberly I. Chew (JD 07) is a law clerk with
Beyond Compliance, an environmental consulting firm in Oakland. E-mail: ms_kim_chew@
yahoo.com.
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Terry A. Doumkos (MBA 07) is the director of
strategic sourcing in the Department of
Administrative Services of Georgia. E-mail:
doumkos@hotmail.com.
Raymond L. Evans (MS 07) is a tax manager at
RINA Accountancy Corp. in Walnut Creek, Calif.
E-mail: rcaevans@sbcglobal.net.
Jessi C. Huff (JD 07) is an associate with
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith in San
Francisco. E-mail: jessicarinhuff@aol.com.
Jerry D. Kea (MS 07) was appointed chair of
the SmartSynch-users advisory board. E-mail:
jdka@pge.com.
Trent M. Latta (JD 07) is an associate at
Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy in San
Francisco. E-mail: trenthew@att.net.
Jason S. Luros (JD 07) is a financial adviser
with Merrill Lynch in Napa, Calif. E-mail:
jluros@hotmail.com.
Jessica Madani (LLM 07) is an associate for
Linklaters, Stockholm in Sweden. E-mail: jessica_
madani82@hotmail.com.
Asaka Makino (SJD 07) accepted an internship
with the United Nations University in Tokyo in
October 2007. E-mail: asakamakino@yahoo.com.
Osamu Matsunaga (MS 07) is a customer
engineer for SysCom LLC in San Mateo, Calif.
E-mail: o-matsunaga@syscomusa.com.
Ashling P. McAnaney (JD 07) is the graduate
fellow at GGU’s Environmental Law and Justice
Clinic. E-mail: ashling.mcananey@gmail.com.
Louis A. Perez (MAc 07) is on the qualityassurance staff for Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP in
San Francisco. E-mail: laperez3@yahoo.com.
Richard L. Richardson (JD 07) is a deputy district attorney at the San Francisco district attorney’s office. E-mail: spiritrich@hotmail.com.
Elizabeth A. Seals (JD 07) is a corporate and
intellectual-property attorney at Squire,
Sanders & Dempsey in Palo Alto, Calif. E-mail:
bseals@comcast.net.
Nancy W. Weng (JD 07) is a placement director
for Special Counsel, a legal-employmentrecruiter firm, in San Jose. E-mail: nweng
888@hotmail.com.
Please direct any questions or comments about Class
Notes to Lenore McDonald, director of alumni services,
at lmcdonald@ggu.edu or 415-442-7824.
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[ time capsule ]
the long-awaited
third volume of
ggu’s history
A Voyage of Discovery, The History of Golden Gate University, Volume III, 1970–1992
portrays converging changes largely at the capable steering of Otto Butz, the university’s
visionary, pioneering and energetic president from 1970 to 1992.
In tandem with a highly focused mission and the recognition of the
emerging needs of the public, Butz combined his considerable
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skills of innovation with a plan for growth. Consequently, the
book celebration
GGU footprint spread from local to regional, regional to state,
honoring Velia Butz
state to national, and national to international.
and, in memoriam, Otto
Butz
A Voyage of Discovery chronicles the history of GGU and the
Wednesday, April 30,
2008
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