Classmate News

On this page, we'd like to provide the class of 1992 with a chance to see what's going on in the lives of a few of their classmates. We're hoping that after you check out the bios below, YOU'LL email us with a 1-2 paragraph update on what you're up to presently (or, simply a funny story about you that you don't mind sharing with the class). We'd also love it if you'd email us a recent, electronic picture of you.

After you send us 'the goods,' please check back on this page in the future - we'll keep it updated with all the information!

Since high school I have graduated from Florida Atlantic University, BS/ME. I am currently work for the Department of Defense (as a civilian), Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda Maryland. I work in the Survivability and Weapons Effects group. We ensure that the combat readiness of ships (and submarines, I work with mostly ships) provides an operationally significant advantage over current and future threats. Even though my mom doesn't believe me, we're the good guys - providing passive protection systems to the Navy's fleet. Though our group does a whole bunch of stuff, I aid and conduct experiments with underwater explosions to obtain damage data pertaining to ship hulls. That work entails research, testing and evaluation, validation of theory, writing a whole bunch of reports :). Long story short, we blow stuff up. I'm one of those lucky people who loves their job.


Alaska and her husband Ernie [Christmas 2000 at super fun (ha ha) Northrop Grumman dinner]		Alaska and Ernie with Alaska's youngest sister Cassie, and dog Roscoe (Christmas 2001 at my Alaska's house in Fort Lauderdale)

I met my husband (www.arizziwedding.com) at Florida Atlantic University. He is now an Ocean Engineer (MS/OE) for Northrop Grumman. We live in a great community right by Annapolis, the water, and the Naval Academy. We have a wonderful chocolate lab named Roscoe, who's only the best dog ever. Ernie plays volleyball, football, baseball in recreational leagues. I coach girls county soccer and play pick up vball games with Ern. We both enjoy the gym, rock climbing, working on our home and visiting our families.

In 1996, I graduated from Occidental College (Los Angeles) with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs. During the undergraduate time, I won the Scholastic Richter Fellowship (summer research in Eastern Europe on various economics topics) and the NY United Nations Internship (one semester - Assistant to Chief Economics Advisor to Secretary General). In 2000, I earned my MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University. In 2002, I became a Certified Public Accountant. During the last ten years of professional experience, I worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Sega GameWorks, and Hewlett Packard. Most recently I was the Corporate Controller for Entegrity Solutions and just started my new job with Nelson/NetRating in the middle of September 2002.

On a personal front, in 1997, I met Marina (also originally from Ukraine), and we got married on July 1st, 2000 in San Francisco. Currently, we live in Cupertino. We love to travel and spent time with our friends & family.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the reunion since I have to travel on a business trip to Europe during the next few weeks. I would like to leave my email (Michael_Golomb@yahoo.com) and my mobile number (650-207-4943). I hope to hear from you guys soon and wish everyone all the best!

After graduating LAHS in 1992, I attended the Arizona State University. I finished in 1996 with a Bachelors Degree in Sports and Recreation Management and Business. After graduation I then moved East- to Dallas, Texas. I loved all the Southern men at college and thought it would be wonderful to settle down in the South. Boy was I wrong! It’s hard being a California girl in Texas! I spent 9 months there and then moved to Los Angeles for 2 years where I worked as an Account Executive with a Trade Show Company. That was the best job ever. Living in Los Angeles was a bit much, and quite hoity- toity- Arizona was where my heart was. Since March of 2000, I’ve been living back in Phoenix, Arizona where I call my home. I work for Grand Canyon Title Agency, doing Sales and Marketing and love what I do.

As you can see, I was somewhat of a supermodel in 1987- The other picture is of Darren Gowdy and myself at Homecoming 1991. The last picture isn’t of a “significant other” – as I am still waiting for my Prince Charming. The next best thing is my wonderful “little brother” Todd. I can’t make it to this year’s reunion, but I hope you all have a wonderful time! I am sorry I will miss it.

After graduating LAHS in 1992, I worked for a printing company for 5 years running the front office. Then I moved onto Apple Computer, where I worked with Mass Storage and the PowerBook Group. I have been working for XO Communications, in San Jose for the last 4 ½ years. I met my husband David in 1993 and we got married on September 11, 1999. The last 3 years have been non-stop for David and I. We purchased our house in San Jose in October of 2000 and had our daughter Megan on November 5, 2001 (13 days late). I hope that everyone has had a wonderful 10 years and I can’t wait to see you at the reunion.

In 1992, I left Los Altos High and, against a tidal wave of people moving into Northern California, I headed east to cold country and spent four years at Cornell University, majoring in finance and graduated in 1996. While I was there, I met my husband, Lloyd Lee, a Graduate student (also in finance), and we were married in August 1997 back in sunny California. We have been happily married for 5 years. We have the cutest of little Shetland Sheepdogs, Anna, and an outrageously enormous Ragdoll cat, Barrington, to keep us company.

On the work side, I spent most of my post-grad years on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley and ultimately ended up at Goldman Sachs' principal investing group. After moving to Greenwich, Connecticut where Lloyd is a V.P. at Starwood Capital Group, a private equity fund, I have recently decided to work at Save the Children, where I work as part of a team that focuses on fund raising for the great, great international cause of helping needy and impoverished children get medical help, and an education so they can begin to learn how to help themselves. Unfortunately, I do not think we'll be able to make it back for the reunion, but hope everyone is well!

I graduated from Brown University in 1996 with degrees in Computer Science and Judaic Studies. After college I moved to Boston to spend a year working in student activities at Tufts University before returning to the bay area in 1997 to live in Berkeley and work at Cal. I spent most of those summers working as the song leader a summer camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and in 1998 I produced a CD for the camp that featured campers and staff singing their favorite camp melodies.

Just last year I re-entered student life after being accepted to the MBA program at the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. I am focusing my studies on non-profit and socially responsible business, and hope to find work in one of these areas when I graduate in June, 2003.


Josh in 1989		Josh and Rachel Gold on their honeymoon on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, August 2002

I have also been fortunate enough to have met and fallen in love with an amazing woman, Rachel Gold, and on August 18, 2002 we had a festive wedding celebration in Berkeley before heading off to a two week honeymoon on the west coast of beautiful British Columbia. Rachel currently works in the environmental non-profit world, and lives with me here in Evanston. Together we enjoy cooking, hiking, biking, camping, dancing, and singing, and hope to return to the bay area someday soon!

As of now, I don't think I'll be able to make it to the reunion, but I do hope to reconnect with some old LAHS friends in the coming months.

Hello everyone. I hope that you have all had a wonderfull 10yrs. Right now I work at Packard Children's as a clinic nurse. I have been work there for 5yrs now and enjoy it mainly because I get to work with the kids. From 1995-1996 I went a spent a year in San Diego I loved it there and if it was not for the fact that my family is all up here in the Bay Area I might have stayed down there. Then in 1997 I went to India for the 1st time. It was a wonderful experience one that I know I will never forget.. While I was there I met my husband Shailesh and we have been married now for 5yrs.

Every year Shailesh and I take a week vacation and randomly pick a distination. So far it has been Hawaii, Mexico, LA and this last one was to Morro Bay. We plan to go to Vancouver next year. I will not be able to attend the reunion this year, hope eveyone has a wonderful time. Take care.

After graduating LAHS in 1992, I attended the University of Virginia. I finished in 1996 with a Bachelors Degree in Political and Social Thought. As much as I absolutely loved Charlottesville, I was missing California, so I moved to San Francisco and shared an apartment with my older sister. I began working in advertising as an administrative assistant at J. Walter Thompson. Since then I¹ve seen the many ups and downs of the ad industry, and have worked for a handful of agencies here in the city. While I was out of work this spring I took a short trip to England and France and got to ski the mountains of Chamonix. I am now freelancing as an account supervisor at Venables, Bell and Partners, working on the HBO Home Video account.

In 1997, Courtney Bridgman introduced me to Craig Sanchez, who is now my fiancé, almost five years later! We were engaged this July and we plan to get married in August of 2003. Craig and I live together in the Cole Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Unfortunately, I can¹t make it to this year¹s reunion, but I hope you all have a wonderful time! I am sorry I will miss it.

This is Randy Jimenez and i would like to say hi and I hope everyone is doing well. I am writing to give a small update to what I have been doing since the end of high school.

Well as many of you may know and for those of you that don't know I joined the military immediately after high school. I spent four years with the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Army. In those four years I was deployed to Haiti and Bosnia. After leaving active duty in April 1996 I returned to California and started to work at Romic Environmental Technologies as one of their Environmental Health & Safety specialists. I was also doing another four years of reserve duty with the 14th Psychological Operations Unit attached to 5th Special Forces. I finished my military service with eight wonderful years of service in August 2000.

Currently I am married to my high school sweetheart, Marylou Jimenez, who use to be Marylou Lavarias. We will be married for ten years on December 30. We have four beautiful kids, two boys Randy (9) and Christopher (8), and two girls Kaiana (4) and Kieli (5 mo.). I am currently working for Applied Materials as an Professional Emergency and Hazmat Responder. Marylou is working for Acuson Corp. as a Human Resources Specialist.

Well that is the past ten years for Marylou and I in a nutshell. I hope everyone is doing fine and are in good health and spirits. I wish the best to all of you and your families.

We met our senior year of LAHS in December of '91 and after graduation Rod went to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and I went to UC Davis. After two years at Davis I transferred down to Cal Poly. Rod graduated in June '96 with a BS in Electronic Engineering and I graduated in June '97 with a BS in Environmental Horticultural Science.

Ting and Rod get married (August 1999)
Back row (L-R): Carolyn Johnson, Charlene Chow, Audrey Kanemoto (maid of honor), Carrie Lee (bridesmaid), Ting, Rod, Alissa Chackerian, Helen Kao, Lis Hammel. Front row (L-R): Dwight Huang (groomsman), Warren Yang (best man), Jim Reynolds

Ting and Rod in Hawaii (2000)

We moved into an apartment in Sunnyvale after Cal Poly and have lived in Sunnyvale until this past June when we bought our first house and moved to San Jose. Also in June Rod got his MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University. He works for HP (the part that was formerly Compaq) in Cupertino and I work for Gachina Landscape Management in Campbell. Anyone living in the Bay Area, look around, you might see our trucks around. We got married in August 1999. Our hobbies include running, hiking, snowboarding, and traveling.

I attended US Berkeley freshman year, and then transferred to and graduated from Cornell University in 1996 with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Business Management. My twin brother Hubert, who you guys might remember, also attended Cornell, so that was my reason for transferring there.

I've been in New York ever since and love it out here. I love the snow out here and the short 1 hour drive to go snowboarding!! I just recently got married in July last month to my lovely wife Ping, who I've met at Cornell, and we've been going out for 9+ years. For the past 6 years, I've been working as a proprietary equity trader. And what do you know! Hubert also is a trader at the same firm, and I sit next to him! I guess identical twins have a bond you can't break :P

Anyways, I plan to move back to the Bay Area in the very near future to open up a branch office for our firm, so I'll see u guys when I'm back in CA.

When you asked me at graduation where I thought I'd be in ten years, I tell ya, I never thought I'd be where I am today; A college graduate, a homeowner, a wife, a mother. I have come so very far.

After graduating from high school, I went off to become a Cougar at Washington State University. I joined Delta Delta Delta Sorority and graduated in 1996 with a Double Major in Criminal Justice and Sociology, a minor in Political Science.

After graduating from WSU, I moved in with my folks for the summer and met , a bouncer at San Jose Live where I was a beer tub girl. Turns out he had gone to Westmont High School in Campbell, CA and had attended Chico State. (Go figure, me dating guys from rival schools!) In 1997 I moved out to Arizona, left Keith behind to see what would happen. A few months later, he and I were living together.

We now are married and have a 4-year-old daughter Mackenzie Kay. He works for Qwest

Communications in Sales (very similar to your Pac Bell), and I stay at home days with Mackenzie, causing trouble, swimming, going to the park, watching cartoons, playing Hungry Hungry Hippos, and reading a lot of Dr. Seuss. In the evenings I work Beverage Promotions for a few of the major distributors here in the Phoenix area. Currently I'm contracted with Dos Equis, Tecate, Jose Cuervo, Coors Light, and Smirnoff Ice.

I look forward to seeing you in October and finding out what paths everyone has taken. It's been quite a journey.

I graduated with a BS in Computer Science, minor in Photography, from Revelle college at UCSD, in Winter 1997. After a few months off, I moved to Hermosa Beach, and started working for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) in its Los Angeles office. Over the past 4 years, my job with Accenture has taken me from being a Windows developer to a project manager, and to clients in LA, Orange County, Seattle, Paris, and most recently Chicago. Paris, where I lived for 9 months in 2001, was by far the best experience!

On the side I have continued my interest in photography, taking a few classes in LA, and taking pictures when I am inspired (if you were one of my photo lab friends, go to www.clubphoto.com, and search for my albums with my email: eyewell@hotmail.com). I have sold a few prints, and done a few paying jobs, and it continues to be a great hobby. Hopefully someday it will pay for itself! Go Eagles!

It's been so long and while I am still the same person, I have finally arrived in a place in my life that is good and peaceful.

In 1998 I met my husband (Lee) at a bar in Pacific Beach, San Diego when he was visiting from England. As I walked out of the bar that night I told my friend that this was it! (Won a dart competition too!)

Two days later we bumped into each other while I was sipping Margaritas with friends in my front yard. The rest is history.

We were married on the 16th of February 1999 (had to be the 16th, Joe Montana's jersey #), at the Paradise Point Resort in Mission Beach San Diego.

We still live here in San Diego but go "home" as often as we can to London to see the family, and of course they come here a lot!

After going back up north briefly and getting my diploma from LAHS (I took the handful of credits I missed and ended up graduating with a scholarship, and got it finally, Schussler had to give me the award, it pained her. LOL) I moved back to San Diego and fell in love with the city, it was rocky at times, but this city has my heart. In fact I persuaded my family to move here.

Since school bored the heck out of me, I decided to work and find my niche. After trying to decide what I wanted to do, I have settle on Sales/Marketing and it suits me. I am self employed, get to make my own schedule which suits me even more. I am toying with finishing my real estate license, but not sure if I should bother. Marketing has become a true passion.

No kids yet, we travel too much and aren't quite at the point where we want to "settle down," maybe next year?

Next step, I'm hoping to become more involved in politics. I became very active in the last campaign and am thinking of running for city council in San Diego some time in the future. Who knows? They certainly need the help.

I hope everyone is doing well. I am sorry I missed the last reunion. I was out of "country". : )

I will not miss the next one. Jenny and the crew look like they did a good job, I nominate them to head it up again for our 20th in 2012. Damn we'll be old!!!!! I can't believe so much time has passed us by.

Best wishes to you all!


Jen in 1987		With Darren Gowdy at Homecoming		With brother Todd


Haley and Scott Smith at Homecoming (1992)		Haley and her fiancé Craig (2002)


Robin as an Eagles cheerleader (1992)		Robin with her husband, Keith (2002)


Mikhail and Marina get married		Mikhail and Marina


Randy and Marylou		Randy and kids