Patrick Hall ’66 and Marilyn St.Germain-Hall notched their 49th wedding anniversary on Jan. 4, 2024, and are celebrating with Marilyn’s cousins in Belgium, followed by a return to the Lake Hotel Resort in Killarney, Ireland. Patrick is still practicing law in Pacifica and is entering his 35th year of KAIROS Prison Ministry at San Quentin […]

Napa County Reads has selected the autobiographic stories by Francisco Jiménez ’66, an award-winning writer who chronicles his humble beginnings and struggles to complete his education as the son of migrant workers from Mexico, to be shared with area middle school students. Napa County Reads will host Jiménez at two presentations in November, as well […]

Patrick “Mike” McCahill ’66 retired after 24 years as vice president of Aon Risk Services of Nebraska. McCahill is enjoying retirement in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. 

Frederick John Kassis ’66 retired in 2015 after practicing and teaching internal medicine for 40 years. Since retiring, he has lived in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife. They have four children, who are scattered as far as Hawaii.

Peter Sullivan ’66 and wife Marie Sullivan ’66 write: “Great 50th reunion last year! Many of us continued the festivities in Carmel.”

Janet M. Quilici ’66 is retired and registered to perform volunteer Medicare counseling. She is also on the board of Fremont’s city-owned art gallery and working to acquire masterpoints playing bridge.

Patrick T. Hall ’66 is celebrating 40 years of civil law practice and has no plans to retire. 

Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg ’66 serves as chief of staff of the United States National Security Council in the Trump administration. Previously, he served as interim national security advisor following Mike Flynn’s resignation. At SCU, he played on the football team alongside Joe Franzia ’64, MBA ’65, studied political science, and was a member of […]

Jim Sheehan ’66 is the founder of Center for Justice (Spokane, Washington). He worked for more than twenty years as a public defender in Eastern and Western Washington until he received a windfall inheritance.  He decided that, in this next unexpected chapter of his life, he would put his money to work for the greater good.  In 1999, […]

Don Gomes ’66 writes, “Retired (a misnomer, really) with wife Annie Holt in Torrey, Utah—population c. 300. Forming a community/public radio station and helping raise $1.2 million for a performing arts center.”

Thomas Bender ’66 is retiring this year after 42 years on the faculty of New York University, where he was University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History. He was honored by the Organization of American Historians at its annual meeting this past spring with the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award for “an individual […]

Bill Ford ’66 writes: “Recently, I counted seven grandchildren. My golf index is seven. I was elected a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, but that has nothing to do with seven.” Bill is also a ’71 grad of the law school at Loyola Marymount University.

Larry Palla ’66 has recently changed careers after 43 years at Greene Engineers. He and his wife Barbara are now running an organic farm, Meder Street Farms, in Santa Cruz. They also spent time with their grandkids, ages 1,4 and 6.

Peter Ventura ’66, J.D. ’72 is the new president of the Rotary Club of Clearlake. Ventura joined the Rotary Club shortly after he and his wife, Pinky, who is a registered nurse case manager at Adventist Health, moved to Hidden Valley Lake in 2007, following his retirement after 30 years in the wine industry. He began […]

Richard Happoldt ’66 writes: “This was the fourth cruise for this group from the class of ’66. The first was to Mexico in ’94 (everyone was turning 50!), then to the Caribbean in 2004, on to Alaska in 2009, and then this Canadian cruise that kicked off in Boston. We sailed north to and around Nova […]

John “Jack” Hillis ’66, President of Hillis Financial Services in San Jose, has been named to the LPL Financial Chairman’s Council. This prestigious distinction is based on a ranking of revenues of all registered LPL advisors. Jack was ranked 90th of over 13,100 advisors.

W.E. Glennon, Jr. writes, “My dad, Bill Glennon J.D. ’66 will be 95 in January. He has shot his age in golf starting when he was 73 and every year since until two years ago when he was 92–with the exception of one year when he was 82. A bad middle finger on his left […]

Jim Charkins ’66 has been granted the highest honor of the California Council for the Social Studies, the Hilda Taba award. The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated organizational leadership; involvement in policy development for social studies; collection and dissemination of research bringing innovation to the field; and distinction as a teacher, […]

John “Jack” Hillis ’66, a longtime Saratoga resident, will be honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley in December. The recognition will be presented for his longstanding involvement in the organization. Hillis has served faithfully over the years, currently on the club’s golf committee, and was a […]

John Cody ’66 writes that he was named a Top 1000 Financial Advisor by Barron’s Magazine this year. John has spent more than 40 years helping clients at Merrill Lynch achieve their financial goals. He is married to Victoria Cody ’66, and works with his sons Brian and Patrick in the Century City branch of Merrill […]