The Society of Christian Ethics awarded Lisa Sowle Cahill ’70 its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award for her work shaping the field of Christian ethics within the academy, church, and civil society over the past four decades. After graduating from Santa Clara, Cahill became a noted theology professor at Boston College. She is the author of […]

After surviving COVID, Timothy Hannon ’70, J.D. ’74 and his wife have gone on to do a bit of local traveling and look forward to visiting Europe when possible. During the pandemic, Hannon retired and enrolled in the judicial studies program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He earned his master’s degree last August and is […]

After a career running the family’s pear production business, Susan “Sue” Naumes  ’70 has retired. Recently, her collection of vintage fruit labels and career were celebrated in a Capital Press story. Naumes explained how she’d been “bit by the bug” of collecting them after going door to door to farmers for fruit labels—her passion for is […]

Helene Frakes ’70 and Randall Frakes ’69 celebrated  their 50th wedding anniversary on June 15, 2019. They were the first couple to be married in the Mission Church after a hiatus of 32 years—Helene had just finished her junior year and Randy his senior. They first met thanks to campus radio station KSCU, and their […]

Liz (Ebinger) Smith-Chavez ’70 received her J.D. from the University of San Diego in 1978. After 40 years of practicing law in San Diego, she just retired to New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment.” She is getting used to the altitude, heat in the summer, and cold in the winter. Smith-Chavez stays busy updating her books on […]

Arthur Money M.S. ’70 was appointed to the Government Advisory Board at Iridium Communications Inc. He previously served as the chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force. 

Norm Matzen ’70 retired in 2004 from Etymotic Research doing R&D for the ear. Norm and his wife, Terri, live in El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Norm still does consulting and expert witness work.

Patrick Tondreau ’70 is serving as a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County and was named the 2013 Wilmont Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge of the Year by the Juvenile Court Judges of California. He also received the 2014 Wester Sweet Award for Legal Activism by the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP.

Timothy "Pat" Hannon ’70, J. D. ’74 graduated with a master’s in military history from Norwich University on June 19, 2015. He is working as an administrative law judge for Social Security in San Jose.

Steve Schrey ’70 has transitioned from his trial lawyer practice in San Francisco to a mediation and arbitration practice. He also now resides in Tiburon.

Bill McGrath ’70 just completed his 25th year on the Bench in San Diego County as a Superior Court Judge. He and wife Grace met on their junior year abroad in Vienna and have been married for 44 years with two sons and two grandchildren.

Lawrence Bolton ’70 is president of the Foster Youth Education Fund, a nonprofit charity dedicated to assisting former foster youth attending college in Northern California.

Alana Hagood Myles ’70 was elected, November 5, 2013, to the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Board of Trustees. Monterey, Calif.

Mary D. Hood ’70, J.D. ’75 is now director of the Heafey Law Library. For the Law School’s centennial celebration compiled a bibliography of law faculty scholarship which was just published — Santa Clara Law: A Century of Santa Clara Law Faculty Publications, 1911-2010. It can be found online on Santa Clara Law Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=facpubs

Mary Dullea Hood ’70, J.D. ’75 writes that she retired in 2014 from the Heafey Law Library after 46 years.  "I just relocated to Crossville, Tennessee, after 60+ years in the Santa Clara Valley. Love living on a lake and having seasons. Peaceful and quiet."

Deborah Lewallen ’70 retired last year from the Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser, where she worked for 17 years as a Marriage and Family therapist. She and her husband, Rob, celebrated 40 years of marriage on Jan. 4 this year. They have three adult kids and two grandkids, all living in San Diego, who bring […]

Nancy Mazza ’70 enjoyed an "Umbrian Cooking Class" reunion dinner with classmates Yvonne Hall ’70, Pattie (Brown) Dullea ’70, Jan Morey ’70, Cecilia (Cantlay) Sartor ’70, Susan (Cook) Craig ’70, and Arlene (Morey) Mariani ’72, led by our esteemed colleague from Assisi, Anne Robichaud ’70, on her annual US Cooking Tour.

After 30 years (31 winters) in Truckee, Rob Eskridge ’70 moved back to the Santa Clara Valley. He has a small ranch on Hecker Pass, in the southern Santa Cruz mountains. He’s still leading strategic planning for mid-rket companies as an outside consultant, and grandfathering in San Diego and Reno.

Henry Hansel ’70 and son Justin Hansel ’96 oversee the largest group of car dealers in Sonoma County, a business with $288 million in sales last year. Henry Hansel is the son of the group’s founder, Walter C. Hansel, and is president of the Hansel Auto Group, which has four dealerships in Santa Rosa and […]

Edward Walsh ’70, who retired from City of San Francisco service in Jan. 2009, went back to school to study math and science (his worst subjects in high school and college) toward a BS in Biology. He is also a commissioner/trustee of the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund, which funds medical care for retired City […]