These are the current known alumni of the Daily Trojan, the newspaper of the University of Southern California. Exactly 2101 names are listed. Look for your old girlfriend by her maiden name, the same way you always think of her. For a list of recent changes, click here. There are also lists sorted by year, by place and by department.
Cicala, Paul
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Paul Cicala
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Staff Writer
1992 - 1992
Cicala has now left KOLD-TV, the CBS affiliate in Tucson, to pursue a great opportunity as a sports anchor/reporter in the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas, he's on the ABC affiliate there, Channel 13!! Taking his leaps to stardom, he currently appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. A "friend" submitted this. He's also worked for NBC Network News, at the Burbank, California Bureau as a Producer. Cicala was at KOLD since Sept., 2000, and has won four 1 st Place Arizona Associated Press Awards
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 2/2/2004
Cimino, Francesca
Assistant City Editor, Staff Writer
1998 - 2001
Covered health and medicine at the DT, and is now a second year medical student at USC.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 3/7/2003
Cisneros, David
Managing Editor, Sports Editor, Associate Sports Editor, Assistant Sports Editor, Staff Writer
1998 - 2002
David changed his name to David Ovalle and was hired by The Miami Herald in August of 2002 to cover cover Northeast Miami-Dade.
See also: Arash Markazi, Esme Bermudez, Mike Cisneros, Yvonne Ngai. First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 5/11/2003
Cisneros, Mike
Staff Writer, Assistant Sports Editor, Sports Editor, Associate Sports Editor, Design Director,
1996 - 2000
Mike may be engaged. Like pre-married, not like, busy. Mike has moved to the dark side of Public Relations and currently works for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. In, an earlier, innocent time, I got this e-mail from Mike: "After I graduated from USC, I latched on with Foxsports.com and am currently an associate producer for the high school section there. Also, will soon be living with former DT Editor in Chief Dave Khalaf as we are trying to find an apartment in the L.A. area."
See also: Sarah Brown, Dave Khalaf, Ron Ognar, David Cisneros, Arash Markazi, Alexander Nguyen. First added: 6/20/2000. Last updated: 10/17/2004
Clague, Mark
Music Editor, Staff Writer
1990 - 1991
Mark Clague is currently executive editor of Music of the United States of America (MUSA), a series of scholarly editions of American music, and a professor of musicology at the University of Michigan. See http://www.umich.edu/~musausa for more information.
First added: 7/5/2002. Last updated: 3/29/2003
Clark, Duryan
See Bhagat, Duryan.
Clark, Joseph "Joe"
Photographer
1996 - 1996 Personal recollections
Joseph Clark (former photog) worked as a web developer after graduating in 1999, including 15 months at Disney Online. Took a buyout last year and was living in Taichung, Taiwan and teaching English in a kindergarten. Was getting an MBA at Tulane. Finished, then went back to Asia. Busy guy.
See also: Nick Divito, Jacob Faturechi. First added: 10/4/2001. Last updated: 10/17/2004
Clark, Midori
Staff Writer
1995 - 1995
Midori spent one semester writing for the Daily Trojan. After graduating from USC, she worked for the "Tahlequah Daily Press" as a staff writer, then onto KTVS-TV in Sterling, CO as a master control operator. In 1998, Midori moved to Cheyenne, WY to be the morning anchor/producer for KGWN-TV. One year later she joined KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs as a reporter and fill-in anchor. In 2002, she got out of the news business and went to work for EUPEC Risk Management Systems. Midori is still there, working as the corporate communications manager.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 2/20/2004
Clark, RoGene
Staff Writer
1993? - 1993?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Clayton, Janet
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Janet Clayton
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Unknown
1973? - 1976?
Now, Janet's now assistant managing editor for state and local news at the LAT -- previously, she was the editor of the editorial pages. She's also a VP of the Los Angeles Times.
See also: Kevin McKenna. First added: 2/21/1999. Last updated: 5/31/2004
Clebanoff, Marc
Staff Writer
1998 - 1998
Screenwriting, directing producing: The L.A. hat trick. (see IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1275164/)
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 2/12/2004
Cleere, Milanie
Staff Writer
1995 - 1995
Milanie, a former technology maven during the Internet boom, returned to Los Angeles after a seven year sojourn in San Francisco. She married fellow Trojan Jason Oliver and the two had a wonderful daughter in August 2002. These days Milanie manages family-owned commercial and residential real estate investments.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/30/2003
Cleveland, Carole
Editor, Assignment Editor, Managing Editor
1988 - 1991
Carole was one of a very few editors elected for more than one term. She got hitched (that's Carole Peterson to you) in October, 1994, and went to work at a very prestigious law firm in downtown Los Angeles. On May 12, 1998, though, she starting her new job as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, so let that be a warning to those of you thinking of running for editor--look how you could end up! Carol was last spotted at Homecoming on Oct 25 (Note: She has a new e-mail address now.)
See also: Sean Polay. First added: 10/26/1997. Last updated: 10/26/1997
Clinton, Paul
Staff Writer
1993? - 1993?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Clow, Steve
Sports Editor, Staff Writer
1975 - 1977
At this time, though not perhaps at the very moment, Steve is working at the Los Angeles Times Valley Edition as city editor. Steve was among the DT elite, a member of the nighttime paste-up crew. Between those two jobs, he's been the Times' acting film editor (20 months), an assistant Life & Style editor and deputy Sunday Calendar editor. Before that, he was a founding editor and L.A. bureau chief of The National, the short-lived sports daily, and was sports editor of the Los Angeles Daily News. He lives in Agoura with his wife, fellow DT alumna Valerie Nelson, and has two children, a daughter Gillian Clow, 9, and a son, Reid Clow, 6.
See also: Valerie Nelson. First added: 4/24/1997. Last updated: 6/24/1999
Clowe, Jeremy
Viewpoint Artist
1991? - 1991?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Cluster, Darryl
Sports Editor, Staff Writer
1978? - 1980?
Was sports editor in the fall of 1980, and wrote sports for two years or more before that. Nothing currently known.
See also: Gary Kilbride. First added: 12/28/2000. Last updated: 12/28/2000
Coates, Carol-Ann "CarolAnn"
Staff Writer, Assistant City Editor, Feature Editor, Managing Editor, Editor in Chief - Summer Trojan
1984 - 1986
Worked for several years at Investor's Daily with Jeff Tylicki, Casey Wian and Steve Lawson. Owns a furniture store in Toluca Lake. Taking graduate classes in design and architecture at UCLA. Currently working for an architectural firm in Los Angeles. Wife of Gianni.
See also: Jeff Tylicki, Aaron Van Curen, Casey Wian, Steve Lawson. First added: 7/22/2000. Last updated: 1/21/2002
Coates, Michael
Copy Desk Chief, Features Page Editor
1969 - 1970
Spent 23 years at the Los Angeles Daily News, where he was executive news editor and copy chief; 7 years at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, where he was assistant managing editor; followed by 18 months as executive editor of Pulitzer Central Coast Newspapers.
See also: Angela Curcuru. First added: 4/11/2004. Last updated: 4/11/2004
Cobleigh, Matt
Photographer
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Cochrane, Brian
Arts Editor
1989? - 1991
Brian's curriculum vitae places him firmly at Variety, where he has edited the New York edition and the film pages. He currently produces the front section of the weekly newspaper, and in his off time enjoys the view from his new condo. It's dapper and dandy. Brian's not currently married, which isn't what he wasn't in 2001. He was recently spotted at a Lord of the Rings screening, where he was rooting for the Ents. Those wacky Ents.
See also: Susie Gardner. First added: 3/3/1996. Last updated: 9/27/2003
Coger, Kimberly
Editorial Columnist
1989? - 1989?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Coger, Kimberly
Staff Writer
1990? - 1990?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Cohen, Cris
Staff Writer
1990? - 1990?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Cohen, Matthew
Staff Writer
1984? - 1984?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Coher, David
Staff Writer
1998 - 1999
After SC, Dave headed to law school in Washington DC and is now working as an attorney at a New York City law firm. Dave's enjoying life in New York but longs for the days of 70-and-sunny. If you make it out to NYC, drop Dave a line, if he's still in town he'll be glad to show you around.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 8/17/2003
Cohler, Dana
Staff Writer
1995? - 1995?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Coimbatore, Vijesh
Staff Photographer
1995 - 1995
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Coleman, Akiiesa
Photographer
1999? - 2000?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Collin, John
Photographer, Staff Writer
1994? - 1995?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Collins, Keith
Staff Writer
1994? - 1995?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Condon, Mike
Sports Editor
1988? - 1994?
Married and expecting. (I take that to mean he's expecting his wife to have a child.) He is working for MSNBC on the online site as one of the sports section's main editors, still as dryly sardonic as ever....
First added: 3/12/1999. Last updated: 3/12/1999
Connable, Joel
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Joel Connable
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Staff Writer
1991? - 1991?
Joel Connable worked at the Daily Trojan while he was in school his freshman and sophomore years. Joel took four years off from USC to work in New York as a paramedic in new York City and then on Long Island. He then went back to USC, got his degree and started his first job as a television reporter at WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina. He now works for KCAL Channel 9 in Los Angeles. Oh, and his "fan" site (http://joelconnable.tripod.com/)is extremely funny. Check it out.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 5/31/2004
Connors, Ann
See Herold, Ann.
Conti, Bob
Staff Writer, Articles Editor (whatever the hell that meant)
1979 - 1980
Bob emerges with this: "Worked KNXT (aka) KCBS for about three years after graduating, then another year at KTTV as an assignment editor. Having no other skills worth mentioning, and hating tv news, went to law school and now a partner in an employment firm in Newport Beach. Go figure."
First added: 8/29/2002. Last updated: 8/29/2002
Conti, Lee
Editor
1922? - 1926?
Mr. Conti went on to write for the old San Diego Sun and was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Examiner. In 1935 he and his father established Conti & Son Monument Company in San Diego making cemetery monuments and gravestones. Lee provided the marble base for the Tommy Trojan statue on the USC campus. Mr. Conti passed away in 1981 in San Diego. Submitter: Tracy Freeman (God Daughter of Carla-Lee Conti, Lee Conti's daughter)
First added: 10/6/1999. Last updated: 4/19/2004
Contreras, Juan
Copy Editor
1995? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Nick Divito. First added: 10/4/2001. Last updated: 10/4/2001
Cook, Annabel
Staff Writer
1986? - 1986?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Cook, Ben
Editor
1935? - 1939?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 10/6/1999. Last updated: 10/6/1999
Cooper, Christian
Chief Copy Editor, Viewpoint Editor, Assistant City Editor, Editorial Columnist, Staff Writer
1995 - 1998
After six years at USC (four in school, two at USC Radio's Marketplace Productions), Christian switched gears ... and languages. He worked for a couple of years as a producer in the online division of Univision, the Spanish-language TV network (he says nine years of studying Spanish finally paid off). Now he works for the Recording Academy, home of the Grammys, as an editor for the Grammy.com website. Christian's also living out a previously latent uniform fetish, working part-time as an Emergency Medical Technican on an ambulance. Troy Witt saw him on campus in November 1999.
See also: Troy Witt. First added: 3/6/2000. Last updated: 8/19/2002
Cooper, Meredith
Editor, Managing Editor, Chief Copy Editor, Copy Assistant, Staff Writer
1998 - 2002
Kudos, Meredith, for being the editor! She reports: "Well, I just got a job as a copy editor for the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. So, that's where I am now."
See also: Arash Markazi. First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 8/19/2002
Copeland, Amanda
Staff Writer
1990? - 1990?
Defected to NYU Film in '91, lived in Manhattan, worked for George Plimpton until '94, returned to LA to work at Sony Pictures with Peter Guber - and at the Actors' Gang Theater, made a short in 2001 (on ifilm if you wish to view) - became a very proud mommy in '02 and now publishes short fiction and makes a living as a professional photographer.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 1/15/2004
Copland, Cameron
Staff Writer
1999? - 1999?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Cordova, Richard
Staff Writer
1995 - 1995
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Core, Wendy
Advertising Executive
1986? - 1986?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Corra, Kim
Staff Writer
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Correia, Francis "Frank"
Staff Writer, Music Columnist
1991 - 1995
No longer Music Editor at music industry trade newspaper Radio & Records. Tips, anyone? Anyone?
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 7/15/2004
Corrine, Coco
Staff Writer
1993? - 1993?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Corrough, Dana
Staff Writer
1998 - 1998
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Cossio, Ruth
Staff Photographer
1995 - 1995
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Counts, Angela
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Angela Counts
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Staff Writer
1985 - 1986
Angela is currently touring her newest play "The Edge of Blue Light" with "On With Living and Learning." It was presented at the Mae West Fest in Seattle recently and will be presented at the University of New Orleans in September 2003. A graduate of the MFA Theatre program at the University of Southern California, Angela's thesis play "Hedy Understands Anxiety" earned her the first place Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award in 1994 from the Kennedy Center. In 1995, Dramatic Publishing Company published HEDY UNDERSTANDS ANXIETY. In June 2001, Hedy Understands Anxiety premiered at the Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 9/28/2003
Cowles, Wind
See Gudmundsen, Wind.
Cox, Kip
Staff Writer
1981? - 1981?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Cox, Richard
Staff Writer
1981? - 1981?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Dan Smith. First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Crane, Jordan
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Jordan Crane
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Art Director, Cartoonist, Editorial Cartoonist, Columnist (Bennies and Tea)
1992? - 1996?
He's followed his heart to Boston and back to L.A., and hooked the girl of his dreams, Rebecca, who is now Mrs. Jordan, and, so I have heard, has a bun in the oven. He zips to S.F. from time to time to make some filthy lucre, then spends quality time working on his comic book called NON, now on issue #5, with special bits by Larry Stone. Non was named one of the 25 best books of 2001 by Villiage Voice. Also has (had?) a record label, "You Can't Eat Records."
See also: Wes Biggs, K.T. Wiegman, Larry Stone, Nick Divito. First added: 3/3/1996. Last updated: 2/23/2003
Cravens, Mona
Director of Student Publications
1975 - 2001+
Mona isn't technically an alumna, because she's still working hard for the Daily Trojan. Without her amazing support and dedication, we would have been in deep trouble. Mona has continued to care for many DTers even after we've entered the so-called "real world." She provided a roof over Mike Carlson's head when he came to L.A. on the way back from Liz Washburn's wedding, and Susannah Gardner's head when she returned from France. She also gave this deadbeat and his wife some contract work helping to update the Daily Trojan's Quark and Word style sheets for a 1998 redesign. Recently, Mona took her yearly summer vacation. Drop Mona a note and tell her how (and where) you are now--she's always happy to hear from you.
See also: Robin Rauzi, Mike Carlson, Susannah Gardner, Travis Smith, All DTers, Liz Washburn. First added: 3/3/1996. Last updated: 7/4/2000
Cray, Jennifer
Staff writer, Assistant City Editor
1983 - 1986 Personal recollections
I never stand in the way of other people's prose. "After plenty of years as an editor at various L.A. newspapers (Herald Examiner, Orange County Register, Pasadena Star-News, Daily Breeze), I abandoned journalism and went to B-school (USC EMBA '96) -- much to the surprise of my dad, J-school icon Ed Cray. In 1996, I moved to Silicon Valley to do the dotcom thing and have worked at three startups (WebTV, E-Stamp and OfficeClick.com). I'm now a senior product manager at E*TRADE responsible for online trading toys for hyperactive stock traders. I live in Palo Alto with my husband, Marc Igler (DT Editor in fall '83) and our two daughters, Emily, 6, and Tessa, 1. Marc's entry is way out of date, but I'll let him update his own." Go Marc!
See also: Marc Igler, Lisa Lapin, Steve DeSalvo, Rich Ramirez, Hans Tesselaar, Ed Cray, Scott Howard-Cooper. First added: 1/8/2001. Last updated: 1/8/2001
Crockett, Tim
Unknown
1997? - 1999?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Shashank Bengali. First added: 6/30/2002. Last updated: 6/30/2002
Crosara, Francesco
Illustrator, Staff Writer,
1981 - 1982
Francesco's career and whereabouts have spanned the globe. He is currently a Project Implementation Manager at SAP America involved in multinational ERP implementations. He is also a practicing jazz pianist & composer keeping true to the arts for inspiration and mental sanity. After living for many years in Italy, New York, Honolulu, Chicago, et al., Francesco moved back to California in 2000 and resides in Huntington Beach.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 2/8/2004
Crouse, Karen
Staf Writer
1983 - 1984 Personal recollections
Karen Crouse joined the Palm Beach Post sports staff in 2001, following a stint at the LA Daily News. The Bay Area native has covered the 2001 World Series, Miami's pro teams, Florida's college teams, and the 2002 Rose Bowl in her short time there. At USC, Karen was on the swim team, and therefore missed the bit of the D.T. Experience where you sat around the office talking about flatworms and nylon and sports and whatever else came up.
See also: Matt Kredell, Jonathan Cohen, Scott Howard-Cooper, Hans Tesselaar, Kelly Carter. First added: 12/30/2001. Last updated: 2/5/2002
Crowther, Tom
Staff Writer
1996? - 1996?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Crowther, Tom
Staff Writer
1997 - 1997
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Cuadra, Eric
Copy Editor
1995 - 1995 Personal recollections
Currently working toward a teaching credential. Yes...it is true, young minds in the hands of a former Daily Trojan staff member.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 3/3/2003
Cudanes, Christine
Staff Writer
1989? - 1989?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Cudanes, Christine
Staff Writer
1990? - 1990?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Culbertson, D. Frank
Unknown
1969 - 1972
Friends with Laurel Ann Bogen for nigh 25 years, Frank has been a proofreader at multiple L.A. periodicals. Frank learned the difference between "which" and "that." Ain't that enough?
See also: Stephen Randall, Laurel Ann Bogen. First added: 4/24/1997. Last updated: 11/22/2004
Cullinane, Kevin
Staff Writer
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Culp, Bryan
Staff Writer, Assistant City Editor
1989 - 1991
Graduated in 1991, did a stint in sales and then lived in Japan / traveled from Oct. '92 to Dec. '96. Did another stint in sales, this time with a little marketing thrown in, and then graduated with my MBA from USC in May 2001. Right now he's working in marketing / corporate communications at Cisco in San Jose.
First added: 2/14/1999. Last updated: 10/19/2001
Culross, Michael
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Michael Culross
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Photographer, Staff Bitch, Artist, Production Assistant
1987 - 1990 Personal recollections
Still playing in KEEP LEFT with Dan Povenmire (Life Is A Fish), and living in his own tiny house in South Pasadena. Michael just became engaged to a writer, Maki Hirano, and plans to travel to her native Japan to be wed in Oct 03. A high school teacher in Pasadena for 5 years, now works 90 hours a week as a newspaper sports editor and a musician. Still funny hair.
See also: Dan Povenmire, Adam Rifkin, Gary Vonderlinden. First added: 9/30/2001. Last updated: 8/8/2003
Cuniberti, Betty
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Betty Cuniberti
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Contributing Sports Writer
1969 - 1973
Cuniberti was one of the first women to break the gender barrier in sports writing, beginning with her senior year at the Daily Trojan. As a sportswriter for the San Francisco Chronicle she became the first woman to cover an NFL team (the Oakland Raiders) from training camp through the Super Bowl as a main beat reporter for a major metro daily. From 1981-1989 she was a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Took time off to adopt two kids, and fight two breast cancers, and now is in St. Louis, where she moved to put her daughter in a school for the deaf. Missouri Press Association named her Best Columnist in 2004.
See also: Jim Carr. First added: 1/23/2004. Last updated: 10/17/2004
Curcuru, Angela
Unknown
1969 - 1973
Angela Curcuru Mack, 52, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. Born Nov. 19, 1951, in Gloucester, Mass., she lived in Los Osos for 10 years. She lived in Oceanside during the 1980s and was a journalist and features editor for the Blade Tribune in Oceanside. She graduated from Culver City High School and USC. She was a member of Sigma Delta Chi Professional Journalistic Society. She received the William Randolph Hearst Foundation award for excellence in news writing. She was editor of the 1973 USC Yearbook. She received a bachelor of arts degree from USC School of Journalism and a Master of Science Degree from San Diego State University. She was a peer counselor at Palomar College. Ms. Mack is survived by her parents, Beverly and John Curcuru of Granada Hills; and sister Linda Campbell of Granada Hills. Her cremains will be scattered at Moro Bay. The family suggests donations in her memory to the American Syringomyelia Alliance Project (Research), P.O. Box 1586, Longview, TX 75606.
See also: Michael Coates. First added: 4/11/2004. Last updated: 4/11/2004
Curren, Jennifer
Staff Writer
1992? - 1992?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Currie, Victor
Summer Trojan Editor, Special Projects Editor, Assistant Managing Editor
1981 - 1981
Mostly directing commercials, and producing TV (Fox, A&E) for various media and doing the occasional voice-over, before becoming COO of Life Motivations, Inc., a business motivation and media development company in Beverly Hills. After the joy of the DT and 'SC, spent time as a Universal Studios Tour Guide, produced a syndicated business show, hosted and produced satellite business TV out of Washington, D.C., and did some TV projects in Australia and Italy. Living in Newport Beach with wife Erica Watson-Currie, Ph.D. (from USC's Annenberg School), and father of Trojan-to-be Nicholas Charles Currie (named after William Powell's martini-loving character in The Thin Man). Currently directing commercials, as well as producing for various media and doing the occasional voice-over. After the joy of the DT and 'SC, spent time as a Universal Studios Tour Guide, produced a syndicated business show, hosted, produced satellite business TV out of Washington, D.C., and did some TV projects in Australia and Italy. Recently formed a new film/video company, M Creative Group. Married to Erica Watson-Currie, Ph.D. (from USC's Annenberg School), and recent father of Nicholas Charles Currie (named after William Powell's martini-loving character in The Thin Man).
First added: 4/17/2003. Last updated: 11/22/2004
Curtiss, Aaron
Assistant City Editor
1986 - 1986 Personal recollections
Aaron Curtiss, one of Shawn Pogatchnik's good friends (source: Vivien Chen) and graduate of the class of 1990 or 1991, is now the editor of Tech Times ("personal technology editor"?), a new weekly technology section in the L.A. Times . He was an editorial writer in the Valley edition of the Los Angeles Times, and the Editorial Page editor. Ed Guthman reported he's entering special management training, perhaps after having gotten an MBA. Before the Times (B.T.?) he had internships at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Fresno Bee, USA Today and the Tulare Advance-Register. Though Curtiss says he was "never really plugged into the DT culture," his connection to it lives on here, in the pages of the DTLink. And his USC ties endure as well: Manny del la Rosa reports that Aaron now teaches Journalism 206. When Aaron attended 'SC, he took 206 with George Ramos. says Manny: "I hear his reputation is that he is just like Ramos if not tougher on his students. Now that's hard to believe!!" I'm sure Ramos will crank it up to 11 -- he's got a rep to protect.
See also: Elisa Ung, Christine Frey, Shawn Pogatchnik, Vivien Chen, Ed Guthman, Manny de la Rosa. First added: 11/25/1997. Last updated: 1/3/2001
Cutler, Kari
Editorial Board, Copy Editor, Student Senate pain-in-the-ass
1991 - 1992
After a brief attempt at DT journalism as a freshman, Kari went on to become a campus political hack - College Democrats, Student Senate, and general rabble-rousing. Funny, he's still doing the same thing up north in Oregon. His firm, Mandate Media, does Internet strategy for political campaigns and others changing the world. He's also experimenting a bit with editorial journalism (sadly, again) at BlueOregon.com, the leading site for progressive news and commentary in Oregon.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 10/17/2004
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