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years together, Adam Glickman andI finally became a legally recognizedcouple on May 29, 1999, in St.Thomas, USVI (my mom lives there— it was either the Virgin Islands orCleveland). Given our choice of location,we were joined by 65 friendsand family members (and severalthousand attendees of Sinbad’sannual Caribbean Soul MusicFestival!) for what was truly the bestweek of our lives, except maybe forthe week after that which we spenthoneymooning at a friend’s villa inCasa de Campo, DominicanRepublic. Back in the real world, I’mstill at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &Walker LLP doing employment law& Adam’s still selling condoms.Hope the rest of you are doing well,and please write in next time!Tara KellyClass ReporterOn the Honor Roll . . .RAY KURTZMAN ‘53, WHO WORKS AS AN EXECUTIVE AT THECREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY, WAS HONORED BY THE LEGALSERVICES DIVISION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION. THE AWARDWAS PRESENTED AT THEIR ANNUAL DINNER ON MARCH 14,2000.GREGORY R. MUÑOZ ‘63, HAS RECENTLY BEEN APPOINTEDSUPERIOR COURT JUDGE IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA. HE ISCURRENTLY HANDLING CRIMINAL CASES. PRIOR TO HISAPPOINTMENT, HE WAS A PARTNER AT MUÑOZ & SWIFT INSANTA ANA SPECIALIZING IN PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION.THE HONORABLE CANDACE D. COOPER ‘73, HAS BEEN ELE-VATED BY CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS TO THECALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE SECOND APPELLATEDISTRICT AFTER SERVING FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES ON THESUPERIOR COURT.CLASS OF1997Happy 2000. By now everyoneshould have recovered from any Y2Kproblems (my report in the last issuewas destroyed by some Y2K glitch,Iswear). I celebrated the New Year inMaui with C. Scott Chaney, who isstill whispering with the horses atSanta Anita. I ran into Michelle(Bedrosian) Froelich and her husband,Ken, at the Ahmanson’s productionof Les Miserables. Michelleis working in accounting at BostonConsulting Group and has moved toa new home in South Pasadena.Michelle also told me Jim Rutten,who has finished clerking and is nowenjoying firm life, got engaged. Moredetails in the next issue. EricMueller hung up his fireman bootsand returned to Los Angeles and theHaight, Brown & Bonesteel firm.Chris Pisano joined Hart, King &Coldren in Santa Ana and ChristinaTusan is helping the elderly againstscams at the California AttorneyGeneral’s Office in the ConsumerLaw Section. Tara Alpin (Fallon) isworking with Mario (Carlos)Jaramillo at Bonne, Bridges, Mueller,O’Keefe & Nichols. As with most ofus, Tara is depressed about studentloans. And Peter Sessions (can anyonenot think of Prof. Garet whenyou see Peter’s name?) is “litigatinghis brain off” at Bannan, Green &Frank, LLP. Trevor Ingold is apparentlyclerking in the Compton divisionof Los Angeles Superior Court,and he notes that he is waiting to seeif Scott Chaney joins the Army JAGCorps since his other first year roommates,Craig Harbaugh and Rob Yaleare already serving. Venturing out onher own, Nancy Conroy hung out herown shingle, specializing in immigration,and obtained her real estatelicense to broker business opportunitiesto foreigners who wish to qualifyfor alien entrepreneur visa permits.Vahan Yepremyan is still doing hisown thing, with plans of opening anoffice in Moscow, Russia. Vahanadds that he has “others,” but noneare significant yet. Perhaps he willhave “significant other” news toreport next time. Shannon Hunttransferred back to the Akin, Gump,Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angelesoffice. Mike Vaughn II reports thatin winter 1999 he plans to “move toPortland, take a job as a prosecutor,get a bachelor pad, take up abstractoil painting, and start attending filmschool in spare time.” Back on theEast Coast, Sona De is at Fish &Neave in New York practicing patentlitigation. ON THE NON-WORK-ING SIDE OF THINGS: LaVondaReed finished her clerkship and isnow an associate working in the areaof communications and energy litigationat Paul, Hastings, Janofskyand Walker. LaVonda marriedFranklin Huff last September, afterwhich she went on a Caribbean honeymoon.And Nkia Patterson marriedDamon Richardson in August1999. Karina Sterman and JoshuaGroode got married October 3, 1999and planned to honeymoon in Asia.Karina works with Brian Mulherin atJones, Bell, Abbott, Fleming &Fitzgerald, LLP practicing businessand securities litigation. Richard Leefound time away from Paul Hastingsto get married last May. TrevorIngold, Keith Watanabe and JesseChavez were groomsmen. Richardhoneymooned in Maui. Tiffany Taiand her husband, Andrew, have settledinto the routine of an old marriedcouple and Tiffany seems toenjoy her job. She reported that herfirm, Bensinger, Grayson, Ritt & Geebrought the first case in Californiaunder the breastfeeding in publicstatute. Dana (Anderson) Childersand her husband, John, are expectingtheir first child in March, so by thetime this is published, John shouldbe teaching junior to surf. LaurenMayo-Abrams, who is still practicingprimarily employment law on herown, reports that she ran into a fellowgraduate looking at ringsfor another fellow graduate.Hmmmmmm, hopefully the secretwill be out by next issue.Meanwhile, Katherine Blackmon-Solis celebrated her first weddinganniversary and continues to practicein Little Rock, Arkansas withpartner Deenita (Dee Dee) Moak.Also in the South, Wayne DarrinKeaton opened his own political consultingfirm where he divides histime between private practice andpolitics. Greg Cordrey commutes todowntown Los Angeles fromHuntington Beach and is enjoyinghis new niece, Alexi Marie Cordrey.Can Ed Weiman’s baby girl, Zoe, beturning two years old when this ispublished? Where has the time gone?Ed is now at the Chan Law Group LCspecializing in intellectual propertylitigation. He is glad to be out of familylaw. Has anyone seen DianaIketani’s Timex print ad? Diana andher sisters are in the national adOn the Honor Roll . . .JEFFREY H. SMULYAN ‘72, HAS RECEIVED THE 1999INTERNATIONAL CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THEINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS. MR. SMULYANWAS RECOGNIZED AS THE ONLY AMERICAN BROADCASTER TOBE GIVEN A NATIONAL RADIO LICENSE IN HUNGARY.COMMISSIONER BOBBI TILLMON ‘77, WAS HONORED ONOCTOBER 21, 1999 WITH THE 1999 COOPER-SANDOZ AWARD,AT THE USC ASSOCIATION OF BLACK LAW ALUMNI FOURTHANNUAL AWARD RECEPTION.GLENDA VEASEY ‘81, HAS BEEN APPOINTED LOS ANGELESSUPERIOR COURT COMMISSIONER FOR THE NORWALK FAMILYLAW COURT. MS. VEASEY, WHO HAS BEEN IN PRIVATE PRACTICEAND A LOS ANGELES CITY ATTORNEY, HAS ALSO SERVED ASPRESIDENT OF BOTH THE BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS’ASSOCIATION AND LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION. INOCTOBER, SHE WAS HONORED BY THE USC ASSOCIATION OFBLACK LAW ALUMNI AT THEIR ANNUAL AWARD RECEPTION.PETER LEE ‘93, HAS BEEN APPOINTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OFTHE CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE RIGHTS.campaign. She is still an associate atMorris, Polich & Purdy, LLP.Another rising star, Sandra(Williams) McDonough appeared onHollywood Squares last October andwon a $4,000 all-expense paid trip toPrague. No news when she is going.David Ferreria is doing legal andbusiness affairs at Epitaph Records.David’s band, Pushover, released itsdebut album in November 1998, soby now, they should have anotheralbum out. Pushover performsaround Los Angeles, so keep an eyeout. Hope everyone is well. Staytuned for the next report!Julianna YasinskiClass ReporterIN MEMORIAMJ. Howard Edgerton ’30Edwin W. Taylor ‘30Jack J. Rimel ’35Leland Nielson ’46Gerald Gottlieb ’50Frank Clifford Owen ’50William A. Tookey ’50Emmet V. Cavanagh ’52Arthur Marshall ‘52David Charness ’59James C. Johnsen ’60Andrew J. Di Marco ’65Margaret Doyle Berk ’71Sheryl L. Hodges Meshack ‘72Alan J.`Gurd ’9974 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200075