Submitted by JAMIE DUARTE
After 20 years working on the business side of a national managed healthcare company (First Health), ANDREA G. ROSEN recently started her own healthcare consulting practice and was appointed staff counsel to a newly formed Health Insurance Enforcement Bureau with the California Department of Insurance. This year, her family celebrated two graduations. Ben Rosen, a Perfect Tender baby in 1984, graduated from UCD in Community and Regional Development and is developing affordable housing in Yolo County. Andrea's daughter graduated from high school and is attending Sacramento City College aiming for a career in nursing. Everyone celebrated by rafting through the Grand Canyon this past summer complete with a challenging 7.5 mile hike up and out of the canyon on the Bright Angel Trail. Andrea continues to serve as a director of her neighborhood association in Curtis Park in Sacramento and pursue a variety of volunteer work aimed at land use planning reform and historic building preservation at the local level. She also stepped outside the box this year as owner/builder of a new two-story building with an upstairs two-bedroom apartment over three garages in Sacramento's Land Park neighborhood not far from ROB FONG'S house. She happens to be working with Rob Fong to establish a historic street lighting assessment district spanning both Curtis and Land Park neighborhoods to improve safety and the historic character of these neighborhoods.
DONNA BRONSKI is the Deputy City Attorney in Scottsdale, Arizona. She recently took a trip to Australia where she fulfilled a life-long dream of snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. She and her husband John also took a ferry tour of Sydney harbor, hiked to the base of Ayer's Rock, walked in a rain forest catching sight of an endangered Cassowary bird and took a bus tour of the Outback seeing wild kangaroos and camels along the way.
DAN ROSEN is now in Alexandria, Virginia working for GE Security managing U.S. Government contracts for explosives detectors and other security equipment, when he is not walking his dog or riding his Harley. Dan's eldest daughter is a senior at UC Berkeley ("Go Bears") and his youngest daughter is a sophomore at Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School ("Remember the Titans").
JOSHUA BARNEY is currently the president of CARE BioPharma, LLC, a pharmaceutical company located in Mundulein, Illinois that provides a wide range of services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. CARE means Clinical, Analytical, and Regulatory Expertise. Josh is also a principal of J.S. Barney & Associates, Ltd. http://www.jsbarney.com, a full service law firm located in Barrington and Algonquin, Illinois. He is married and has three children.
CURT OTTO is still practicing in the Virgin Islands. He still loves St. Croix. Curt has taken up hang gliding and likes to get towed up behind an ultra light. They have a place in Florida called Wallaby Ranch where he goes for training and for the tow-ups. He says that when he punches the release a couple of thousand feet up, there is an amazing adrenalin rush. Curt, his wife Rauna and a gang of Cruzans are part of "the Virgin Island Ski Patrol" which usually heads to Salt Lake City to ski for a spell every year. Curt says that if you want to see the t-shirt that he has designed for their team, you need to visit them at Alta, Deer Valley, Solitude, Powder Mountain, or Snow Basin this winter, late February. Curt also sends his greetings from the islands.
GALE H. BORDEN continues to practice employment law, primarily advising and training management. Although she misses practicing with JOHN ADKISSON and others who were in her former firm, she is now in her seventh year of running her own office. Gale feels that she has achieved a wonderful balance between her practice and time for her family (Peter, Julia - 14, and Sharon - 11). Gale reports that on occasion, she gets to see MARIA GOMES, SHARON HEATH, LYNNE HUTCHINS, and ELISABETH ALLEN, who are all practicing in various specialities and doing well.
ROBERT "BOB" (aka "WALDO") HAWN is still working with technology start-up companies in the Silicon Valley and doing a lot of entity formation, financing, licensing, M&A, and international corporate migration (e-mail him and he'll tell you what that is). His wife Laurel continues to work too hard as the Deputy Planning Director for San Jose and their daughter plays drums in her high school marching band. She also plays drums in the living room, the study, her bedroom, the car, while backpacking, on the way to Disneyland, and anywhere else. Having freed himself of all nonprofit responsibilities, Waldo can also be found working with a band called ArtWorks (check out the cut of his tune on the band's myspace account) and hustling for gigs. Waldo also reports that TONY AROSTEGUI still won't call him, BRIAN YEP talks with him once every year or two and he had lunch with JANET HERMAN (fka Stone) a few years ago. Waldo can be e-mailed at waldo23@att.net.
LUCY LOFRUMENTO and her husband (Myron Brody) hosted LAURIE (CROMWELL) RAGEN, PENNY WESTFALL, ANDREA ROSEN, and PROFESSOR MARTY WEST for a "mini reunion" for some of the Perfect Tender moms at her beach house in Santa Cruz during one of the last weekends of September. Penny Westfall is supposed to tell us something about her "Iron Man" triumph. However, since Penny did not contact me with the details, we will just have to let our imaginations run wild as to precisely what Penny did to that guy. Laurie also has some great travel plans to be with her daughter, Rose (another Perfect Tender baby) who is doing some great photography work in Panama. Speaking of the Perfect Tender, Lucy's daughter JENNY SALLES (who was in the first class of Perfect Tender babies) graduated from King Hall last May, took the bar exam last July. She is now working with Lucy in the real estate and land use department at Silicon Valley Law Group in San Jose. [Editor Jamie's note: According to the California's bar website, Jenny Salles passed the bar exam on her first try. Congratulations! I think this may make her the first Perfect Tender baby to be admitted to the California bar!]
JANET STONE HERMAN says that her greatest accomplishment is raising three great kids; two boys (Jeff and Dan) now in high school and a daughter (Nadeen) in middle school. Janet stopped practicing in 2000, and is now the Director of Professional Development for MoFo (Morrison & Foerster, LLP), working with the one and only RACHEL KREVANS who is the managing partner of MoFo's SF office. Janet hears from RICK WIRICK from time to time and knows that he adopted a daughter from Russia and is an accomplished writer.
SHARON HEATH reports that she is in her eighth year as an attorney with the San Mateo County Department of Child Support Services. Her partner, Lisa Katz, is in her 16th year with the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender. Their children, Rose and Miriam, are in first and fifth grades, respectively, and have so far expressed no interest in becoming lawyers when they grow up.
RICHARD ADLER reports that he's an attorney at large, having bid adieu to Winston & Strawn and the law firm life in 2005. Of late, he's been working with SuperGen, Inc., a pharmaceutical company in Dublin, California. Rich has been in touch with classmates Dan "BoomBoom" GIRARD, HOLLIS "I'm the only Democrat living in San Marino" KIM, the HONORABLE LINDA "Blah Blah Blah" GARDNER, ADAM "The Wookie" ROSEN, BABAK SOTOODEH, amongst others. When interrogated concerning the whereabouts of the missing classmate BRIAN YEP, Rich claims that he knows nothing, saw nothing, and heard nothing. However, Rich also grew very agitated and muttered something about bad bets with Mr. Yep on the Cal vs. USC football games.
JANET BESSEMER, who has an office very close to COLLEEN DOLAN, did send me an e-mail saying that she would get back to me with more details on the events in her life after she completed her 2005 income tax return. I have not heard from her since. We may only assume she is still trying to finish her tax return.
RICHARD JORDINE is still working in-house for Seagate Technology. He left Hawaii three years ago to move to Colorado for two years – living in Lyons, a small town in the Foothills north of Boulder. He is now living and working in Singapore. He says that if anyone is ever in Singapore and wants to take him out to dinner, he can be reached at +65-6485-4321, or richard.jordine@seagate.com. Although he claims not to have accomplished anything of any significance professionally lately, Rick says that he has been able to travel a bit this past year including a couple of trips to the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, and Bali (once to celebrate his 50th birthday), Sumatra, Thailand, and Malaysia, with upcoming trips to China, Cambodia, and Australia. [Okay, I think this means that we have found a classmate who travels more than I.]
JON VOUGHT reports that his and STAN FRAZIER'S families went to Kauai in April where they had more than a few Mai Tais. Jon was voted Distinguished Professor of the Year by the students at Golden Gate University School of Law, L.L.M. Tax Program. Jon is wondering how the Dukes of Yolo and their cheerleader CASSANDRA STEVENSON are doing. Jon reports that GARY HERNANDEZ is now a partner in a big-time Chicago based law firm. Nevertheless, Gary did find a little time to tip a few beers and have a couple of dogs at a Giants baseball game with him this past summer.
ROBBIE SCHUGMANN LOWE has been living in Tucson hanging with her husband and the furry kids (horses, dogs, and cat) while trying to learn Spanish. Recently, Robbie landed a new job with a top secret government agency. It is so top secret that I do not even know what government agency it is or what it is that she will be doing. All I know is that it is a major career change for her. She will also be moving out of Arizona. Thus, she is looking for someone to adopt her horses, dogs, and cat. Any interested parties should contact me and I will put you in contact with Robbie.
As for myself, JAMIE DUARTE, I am still practicing real estate and business litigation in Southern California. I recently won an extensive and very difficult trial involving escrow laws and the statute of frauds. Suddenly, I have now developed a subspecialty in escrow law. At the same time, I continue to travel as well as put together travel seminars for lawyers and Judges. We just returned from a week in Tahiti and have trips scheduled for Buenos Aires, Argentina (February 28 to March 6, 2007), Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (May 24-28, 2007), Machu Picchu, Peru (July 2007), and Brittany/Paris (November 2007). We put these trips together primarily for various bar associations. Thus, I am hoping that JOAN HARATANI, the president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, will contact me after reading this article regarding putting a travel seminar together for all of the attorneys and Judges in the Bay area.
Finally, we are still all searching for BRIAN YEP. In light of the fact that USC recently defeated my beloved Cal Bears, I expect that Mr. Yep will have to make an appearance in my life if he wishes to collect on our bet. I will arbitrarily set the Statute of Limitations at thirty (30) days after publication of this article. If he does not surface by then, I may consider using the proceeds to help pay for Bob Hawn's daughter to go to U.C. Berkeley and play drums in the Cal Marching Band!
Please feel free to send me more information on classmates and updates on yourself to jduarte@duarte-law.com.