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uate with the highest grade point average. His daughter, Tammy Daileda Lewis, '87 BA Fine Arts, is the office manager at Daileda Murphy McCarthy & Kaster. Previously, she worked as the office manager for Geo- technical & Environ- mental Services Inc.... Jill Flemington Schutte, '65 BS Elementary Education, is a mentor teacher in Anaheim, Calif. She is also a preventive guid-ance counselor and science teacher leader. She lives in Yorba Linda....Connie B. Carter, '69 BS Educa-tion, '72 M.Ed., '82 M.Ed., is the director of La Madre Mountain School. ment of public works — the city's largest department. She has been with the city since 1992 and was selected its employee of the year in 1997....James M. Hilz II, '94 BA Political Science, is an attorney in private practice. He concentrates on per- sonal injury, criminal defense, and family law. He founded Las Vegas Sports Management Inc. in 1999 and is a licensed sports agent with the NFL Players' Associa- tion and the NBA Players' Association.... Jerry Griffis, '77 BS Business Administration, is vice president and chief financial officer of the Fremont Street Ex- perience. He previously spent 10 years with Becker Gaming as vice president and chief financial officer....David Randel, '77 BS Hotel Administration, is the director of sales and marketing for Marriott in Florida. He has been with the company for 22 years. He lives in Orlando....Ken Fong, '78 BS Business Ad- ministration, was elected president of the Las Vegas West Rotary Club. He is a partner in Fong and Associates, a real estate company.... Rick Strunk, '78 BS Hotel Administration, serves as membership director of the Penn-sylvania Travel Council Western Region. He is also executive director of the Greater Pittsburgh Hotel Association.... Deborah-Kim R. Wallin, '78 BS Ac- counting, established her own certified public accounting firm, DK Wallin Ltd., more than 15 years ago. She is the chair of the ICMA Board of Regents, which issues certifications for certified management account-ants (CMA) and for cer- tified financial managers (CFM)....Ruben O. Rodriguez, '79 BS Business Administration, '92 M.Ed., is director of education and training for the Riviera Hotel & Casino. Craig A. Primas, '80 BS Engineering, is a civil engineer and the owner and president of Primas and Associates Consult- ing Engineers/Land Sur- veyors. The company has offices in Las Vegas; Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Durango, Colo. He has been married more than 20 years to Anne Primas, '99 BS Hotel Administra- tion. She is the business manager for Primas and Associates....Sal Semola,
ministration, is vice president of table game operations for Greektown Casino in Detroit. He lives in Grosse Pointe Park.... Mae Lyn Woo, '81 BS Business Administration, has been appointed chief operations officer of American Champion Entertainment, a provider of entertaining and educational television programming for families that is based in San Jose, Calif. She joined the company in 1998 as vice president and chief financial officer after spending 10 years with the Levi Strauss Co.... Bruce David Ansteth, '82 BS Hotel Adminis- tration, is an artist living in Kalamazoo, Mich. His two paintings, "Autumn Scene" and "Jackie O at 18" were recently placed on display at the West Michigan Cancer Center in Kalamazoo....Don Soderberg, '82 BA Communication Studies, was named chair of the state Public Utilities Commission last year by Gov. Kenny Guinn. He was first appointed to |
the commission in 1995. In 1997 he joined the newly created Trans- portation Service Author- ity, but returned to the PUC in 1998. He is an attorney....Christine Deschaine, '83 BA Communication Studies, is a principal in Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services. She lives in Los Angeles....
Sidney Green, '83 BA Sociology,
sioner of aviation for the Chicago Airport System.... James E. Reppert, '85 MA Communication Studies, is an assistant professor of mass communication and director of broadcast journalism at Southern Arkansas University. He was one of 30 American broadcast educators competitively selected last year for participation in the inaugural International Emmy Nominee Festival and also was named last year as a winner of the Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communications Education. He lives in Magnolia.... Margaret J. Desruisseaux,
sees finances, facility development, expansion, and maintenance.... Michael W. Thompson, '87 M.Ed., is principal of Cedar Ridge Middle School in Logan, Utah. He lives in Smithfield.... Tami Belt, '88 BA Communication Studies, was named one of the 10 finalists in the Interna- tional Newspaper Marketing Association's Holbein Memorial Scholarship essay competition and was recognized in the July/August edition of IDEAS magazine....
cial Manage- ment, a wealth manage- ment company, and is the financial commentator for KVVU Fox 5 News. He also is president of the Southern Nevada Financial Advisory Council.... Tim Kinsella, '88 BS Hotel Adminis- tration, works for MarketSoft Corp. as an account executive. He previously served as director of sales and marketing for destination products for Newmarket Software International. He and his wife, Teri, celebrated the birth of their first child, Cole Robert, on January 14, 1999. They live in Newburyport, Mass.... Ric Jimenez, '88 BS Marketing, is president of Pueblo Landscape Company, a full-service landscape concern....
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Bernadette Bransch, '90 Bachelor of Liberal Studies,
J.E. Coates Jr., '90 BS Biology, has accepted a trauma surgery/critical care fellowship at University Medical Center's trauma center. Previously, he was chief surgical resident at Garden City Hospital in Garden City, Mich.... Thomas van Betten, '91 BS Finance, earlier this year became the regional director of a start-up Internet company, RealCentric, a commercial real estate-related Internet site. Previously, he was a partner in Colliers, a commercial real estate brokerage firm in Las Vegas. He lives in Del Mar, Calif....Jenna Meyn Ross, '91 BA Communication Studies, recently moved to Germany where her husband is working with the Army. She was previously an independent coaching and training development consultant in New Mexico. She recently completed a master's degree in organizational management....Mark Skidmore, '91 BS Hotel Administration, is the associate director of the NT Technical Services group at 20th Century Fox. He is responsible for all the Windows NT Servers. He previously worked for Sony Pictures and for NBC. He lives in Los Angeles....Jamie Villareal-Beyer, '92 BS Health Care Administration, earned a master's degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix in 1997 and currently is employed with Sun Health Corp. in Sun City, Ariz., as the collection coordinator for hospital billing. She lives in Glendale....Ken Carroll, '93 BA Political Science, earned a law degree and a master of public administration degree from Golden Gate University. He now lives in Washington, D.C., where he directs a fair-housing program of the Equal Rights Center, a civil rights agency dedicated to enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations....Ron Kachel, '93 BS Hotel Administration, founded ATV Action Tours Inc. in 1996 and serves as its president and chief executive officer. In 1997, he was presented with the Nevada State Governor's Award for Tourism Development. The company, which specializes in off-road itineraries, opened its first international office in Brazil and plans to open offices in Europe....Sean S. Muggli, '93 BS Accounting, is the comptroller for National Vacuum Corp. in Niagra Falls, N.Y. He lives in Lancaster....Robin Allen Phillips, '93 BS Secondary Education, is the placement coordinator for the Tacoma (Wash.) Goodwill Services. She supervises programs intended to help people who face special challenges in finding employment, such as people who are disabled, homeless, or on public assistance. She lives in Federal Way....David A. Cherry, '94 BA Communication Studies, is deputy press secretary for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D.-Nev., in Washington, D.C....Wonseok Han, '94 BS Hotel Administration, works for HANS Valley Co. Ltd. Previously, he worked at the Novotel Ambassador Toksan and at the Olympia Hotel Seoul, both in Korea. He lives in Seoul....Scott Gulbransen, '95 BA Communication Studies, was recently promoted to senior account executive at Ballard Communica- tions. He heads the professional service, high-tech, health care, and litigation public relations teams and also deals with crisis manage- ment for various clients.... Jennifer Sims, '95 BA English, graduated from New England School of Law in Boston in 1999. She lives in Revere.... Kimanthi A. Thompson, '95 BS Marketing, is vice president of sales and marketing at Entertain- ment on the Web Inc., an Internet organization that produces search engines. Previously, he worked at Smartpages.com as national sales manager. He lives in Palmdale, Calif....Ken Tomory, '95 BA Communication Studies, is a fund manager at the University of California, San Diego. He manages $3-$5 million in research funds for the endocrinology and general medicine divisions of the department of medicine.... |
Leeman Abdulai, '96 BS Economics and Management Information Systems, is an analyst with Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash., where he works with the volume licensing group in the Worldwide Operations Division. Previously, he was a software engineer with UTICS Corp. in Las Vegas....Eric Chiang, '96 BA Economics, received a master's degree in economics from the University of Florida in 1999. He is now working on his doctoral degree in economics there.... Kathleen "Kitti" J.Hammons, '96 BS Business Administra- tion, received her MBA from Loyola Marymount University in 1998. She now works for Mattel Corp. as a senior operations planner for the Barbie team at Mattel's corporate headquarters. She lives in Redondo Beach, Calif....Gretchen Prins, '96 BS Marketing, is a sales consultant for Sankyo Parke Davis. She handles the company's diabetes/cardiovascular product sales in Nevada. Pre- viously, she worked as a senior pharmaceutical sales consultant for SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals....J. Margaret Hume Surz, '96 BA Criminal Justice, is a state trooper in Illinois. She patrols the highways in Chicago. She lives in Chicago's northwest suburbs....
munications Studies, is a public informa- tion officer for the city of Tallahassee, Fla. Previously, he worked for the city of Valdosta, Ga.; Valdosta State University; and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center....Bong-Shik Lee, '97 BS Hotel Administration, is the assistant manager for the Shilla Hotel Resorts in Seoul, Korea.... Scott F. Murray, '97 MA Ethics and Policy Studies, is a major in the U.S. Air Force. He was awarded the bronze star last year for meritorious achievement. He served in Kosovo. He is now stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany....Dallen K. Ormond, '97 BS Nursing, helps children with heart problems in his job as a cardiology nurse practitioner at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. In 1999 he received a master of science degree in nursing as a family nurse practitioner from Brigham Young University. He lives in South Jordan....Jay So, '97 BA Film, received a master of fine arts degree from the American Film Institute in 1999. He has formed a film production company, LSA Productions Inc., and has plans to shoot a feature film in Brazil. He lives in Southern California.... Gregory West, '97 MBA, is helping pioneer the world of online promotions for Yahoo! Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif. Previously, he spent two years working in promotions for radio station KLUC in Las Vegas. He lives in Fremont....
cial Manage- ment, is a staff accountant at the CPA firm of Stewart, Archibald & Barney LLP. He achieved the second highest score statewide on the May 1999 CPA exam.... Ramzi Iskandar, '98 BS Hotel Adminis- tration, works for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts at the Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif. He is an assistant restaurant manager.... Karl E. Neff, '98 BA Human Resources, is working as a human resource employment specialist at Barrick Goldstrike Mine. He lives in Elko....
tration, recently joined Thomas Puckett Advertising as president of the company. Previously director of marketing and community relations at UNLV, she has been a member of the Las Vegas City Council since 1999.... David Scott Sorensen, '98 BA Criminal Justice, attends the Whittier School of Law in Costa Mesa, Calif., and plans to graduate in December.
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