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.
Naipo, Alan "Al"
Staff Writer
1980? - 1981?
Alan Naipo was a sports staff writer during '80-81. Tina Kannarr's seen Al Naipo on Fox News, particularly, she reports, in July '99 when JFK Jr. died.
See also: Gary Kilbride, Tina Kannarr. First added: 12/28/2000. Last updated: 1/9/2001
Najarian, Ara
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Ara Najarian
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Sports Editor, Assistant Sports Editor, Staff Writer
1984 - 1988
After the DT, Ara joined the Los Angeles Times from 1988-1999. He was at Tickets.com as Executive Producer for the site 1999-2001. He became Senior Partner of Latino Media Consultants PR firm in 2001-2003. In 2003, briefly worked as Director of Communications for USC School of Cinema-Television before returning to Latino Media Consultants.
See also: Wayne Pitts, Greg Sandoval, Azniv Ketenchian. First added: 6/27/1999. Last updated: 7/15/2004
Nakashima, Tara
Staff Writer, Assignment Editor
1995? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Nick Divito, Jen Hamm, Nik Trendowski. First added: 10/4/2001. Last updated: 10/4/2001
Nakpawan, Glen
Staff Writer
1997 - 1997
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Namakkal, Jessica "Jecca"
Photo Editor
1996? - 1998?
Nothing known, mentioned on the page of Shant's.
See also: Toni Barber, Ryan Hochgesang, Shant Thomas. First added: 10/7/2001. Last updated: 10/7/2001
Napikoski, Linda
Staff Writer, Student Senate Beat Reporter
1995 - 1996
Linda has spent the years since graduation traveling in forbidden lands (Columbia, Cuba), working in public radio editorial production at The Savvy Traveler and Marketplace, stage managing/producing small-time theater around Hollywood, working as a supervisor at Borders, writing, drinking lots of coffee, chain-smoking, and plotting "her next big move." She did in fact move to Boston and quit smoking during the winter of 2003, but a bigger move yet awaits. She is working simultaneously on her first and second novels.
See also: April Haitsuka, Evelyn Lau. First added: 5/31/1998. Last updated: 5/10/2003
Nason, Gena
Staff Writer
1991? - 1993?
I don't know much about Gena, except I think she might have worn in-line skates before they were really popular. But that could have been a dream. Michael Lazarus posits she was working with Fox Sports Net for a while.
See also: Larry Stone, Melissa Heng, Michael Lazarus. First added: 1/21/2002. Last updated: 1/21/2002
Nasr, Constantine
Staff Writer
1995? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Nick Divito. First added: 10/4/2001. Last updated: 10/4/2001
Navarro, Chris
Assistant News Editor
1981? - 1981?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Navarro, J.R. "Mike"
Unknown
1954? - 1959?
Navarro, Jares' KA fraternity brother now has his own ad agency in L.A. (son David is one of America's best rock guitarists).
See also: Joe Jares. First added: 12/30/2001. Last updated: 12/30/2001
Nave, Victoria
Staff Writer
1995 - 1995
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Nazariah, Sharon
Staff Writer
1985? - 1985?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Neary, Kelly
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Kelly Neary
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Photographer
1995 - 1996
Kelly has moved back to CO to help a culinary school colleague open a cooking school. She's steaming in Denver and currently carless for the first time in her entire life. Kelly also worked for several years in sales and recruiting and IS.
First added: 2/9/1997. Last updated: 11/30/2004
Neilan, Ed
Columnist, Managing Editor
1949 - 1953
Ed Neilan, seasoned foreign correspondent, suffered a heart attack Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000, in his Tokyo apartment and died a few hours later at St. Luke's International Hospital. He was 68. Neilan had been an editorial consultant and contributing editor for Tokyo Weekender for many years. His syndicated column on Asian affairs appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the U.S., Asia and Australia and New Zealand, according to his longtime colleague Pat Killen, another Weekender editorial consultant. Papers publishing Ed's columns included The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, El Mercurio in Chile, The Japan Times, The Straits Times in Singapore and the Korea Herald. He was also the North Asia representative of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research group and spent part of his summers each year as a media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Born in Los Angeles where his father was a screenwriter, he did graduate work at the University of London. His career included being editor and publisher of the Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette, Hong Kong bureau chief for the Copley News Service, 1962-69, and foreign editor of the Washington Times, 1982-86. He came to Tokyo in 1986 as bureau chief of the Washington Times. During his stint in Asia, his coverage stretched from the Vietnam War to Seoul and Pyongyang. He began his syndicated column in 1993 and was a visiting professor at universities in Shanghai and Taiwan. He first came to Asia in 1957, working in Seoul to help and advise in the early days of the Korea Herald and in Tokyo where he was a special correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, 1960-62. Edward Arthur Neilan is survived by his wife Masae Sato and two daughters, Carolyn Neilan of San Francisco, and Andrea Neilan of Boston.
See also: Joe Jares. First added: 12/30/2001. Last updated: 12/30/2001
Neiswender, Charles
Unknown
1944? - 1948?
Died Aug. 16, 2000 or heart ailments and throat cancer, age 74. Longtime S.C. newsman, but lived on the East Coast for 20 years. Was a reporter at the Wilmington Press Journal, Long Beach Independent-Press Telegram, Los Angeles Times. Was general manager of Times-owned Coast Mesa Daily Pilot, and bought and ran the Dana Point Lamplighter, and was general manager of a Spanish-language daily newspaper in El Salvador for two years. in late '70s moved to Connecticut. Married to Mary Jonich, USC class of '48. His second wife, Gloria , and he had twin boys and were married for 21 years. Neiswender worked also for a nonprofit corporation founded by D. Rockefeller and AID. Some info from Trojan Family magazine.
First added: 2/10/2001. Last updated: 1/16/2005
Nelson, Rosanne
Illustrator
1986? - 1986?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Nelson, Valerie J.
Editor
1975 - 1979
Valerie joins (at the end of 2003) the features department at the L.A Times as an assistant section editor. Valerie worked at The Times as a part-time features copy editor from 1999 to early 2003. She also worked in the Valley Edition from 1988 to 1995, including two years as Valley View and Calendar editor and four years as assistant Valley Life editor. As a freelance writer, she has been a regular contributor to The Times' features sections since 1995, and she has been a writer and reviewer for national magazines and Web sites. From 1997-99 she was a senior editor and managing editor of HomeCare magazine. Her career in Los Angeles began at the Herald-Examiner, where she served as editor and deputy editor of Style, the paper's feature section, from 1986 to 1988. Her early years are still shrouded in mystery, probably having to do with her current marriage to Steve Clow, another DT alum. Truly a match made in heaven. They live in Agoura and have two children; a daughter, Gillian Clow, 9; and a son, Reid Clow, 6.
See also: Steve Clow, Jim Carr. First added: 4/24/1997. Last updated: 2/12/2004
Nemes, Scott
Unknown
1988? - 1990?
Was director of development at Penny Marshall's company, Parkway Productions. Now works for iNet thingy company. Of course, this isn't verified in any way except over a nice lunch with Fred Levy, so reader beware. Also, I think Scott was/is a comedian.
See also: Fred Levy. First added: 4/18/2000. Last updated: 4/18/2000
Nenonen, Kevin
Staff Writer, Cinema Editor
1992 - 1994
Kevin was an electrician in L.A. for many years, working on all kinds of projects. Joined the union. Worked on Pacific Blue, Deep Impact, Kicking and Screaming, Stuart Little, Steel, among many others. He moved back to his home state of Illinois in 1999 and just recently married his longtime love, Anita, according to all my sources who are named Daniel Fromstein.
See also: Daniel Fromstein. First added: 7/22/2000. Last updated: 7/22/2000
Nesbit, Taryn
Staff Writer
1996? - 2000?
"As for Taryn," says Kelly Brinker, "My former roommate and the one who convinced me to join the DT, she graduated in 2000 as well, her major was screenwriting. In May of 1998, she eloped with her boyfriend Erik Berg. The two are still together and living in Los Feliz. And finally, they are having a wedding reception this August--three years after the fact."
See also: Kelly Brinker. First added: 10/29/2001. Last updated: 10/29/2001
Nettles, Kim
Staff Writer
1986? - 1986?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Neven, Teresa
Staff Writer
2000 - 2001
Neven obtained her BS in Public Policy and Management from USC in 2001. After interning in Washington DC for the American Society for Public Adminstration, Teresa worked for the Los Angeles Community Development Commission. Currently, she is studying at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University pursuing Public Administration and Information Management. Neven was recently award a National Science Foundation Cyber-Scholarship for Service. Following graduation in May 2004, she is interested in a position with a federal agency as a system assurance analyst.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 7/24/2003
Ng, Cindy
Illustrator
1988? - 1989?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Ng, Joann
See Gekko, Joann.
Ngai, Yvonne "Evie"
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That's Yvonne with
Peter Rasmussen in
Manhattan Beach.
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Staff Writer, Greek System Writer (for two weeks -- my sorry attempt at a beat), Assignment Editor, Campus Editor, City Editor, Managing Editor,
1999 - 2003 Personal recollections
Yvonne -- or "Evie," as many DT-ers know her -- is working at the St. Petersburg Times. The rain, of which there isn't any where she is now, would be much warmer there than at her previous gig on The Oregonian copy desk. She misses her "ex-husband," Peter Anthony Rasmussen (spring 2003's editor in chief).
See also: Blake Hennon, Loren Chidoni, Peter Anthony Rasmussen, Mason Poole. First added: 7/21/2003. Last updated: 7/15/2004
Nguyen, Alexander "Alex"
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Alexander "Alex" Nguyen
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Editorial Writer, Staff Writer, Assistant Lifestyle Editor, Theatre Editor, Theatre/Art Editor, Assistant Sports Editor, Design Director
1999 - 2003
Alex is now gainfully employed as, of all things, an accounting clerk. Alex spent all four years at the DT and jumped around as much as anyone who has worked the DT. "That has to be a first, a theatre editor becoming an assistant sports editor." He has now graduated and has been enjoying the big wide world called unemployment. He is trying to start a career and avoiding the pitfall of an actor -- waitering.
See also: Mike Cisneros, Sarah Brown, Corey Jackson, Gloria Rodriguez, Mason Poole. First added: 10/29/2001. Last updated: 7/16/2004
Nguyen, Candy
Staff Writer
1997? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Nguyen, Caroline
Staff Writer
1997 - 1997
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Nguyen, Hang
Unknown
1997? - 1999?
Sources (i.e. Elisa last week) say Hang's now covering real estate for the Orange County Register. She had been in the METPRO program, first at the L.A. Times and then working as a business reporter for the Allentown Morning Call.
See also: Ron Ognar, Mike Cisneros, Elisa Ung. First added: 10/1/2000. Last updated: 9/3/2003
Nguyen, Samantha
Staff Writer
1999? - 1999?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Nichols, Dana
Managing Editor, Assistant City Editor, Staff Writer
1999? - 2002?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Nicholson, Brandi
Viewpoint Columnist
1991 - 1992
As Nicholson was only 16 when she attended Freshman Orientation, it's taken her this long to develop the discipline necessary to complete her education. She is currently a student at Santa Monica College, preparing to go to naturopathic medical school in 5 years.
See also: Shandar Fullove. First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 4/19/2004
Nicholson, Laura F.
City Editor
1981? - 1981?
Laura Nicholson was until this summer editor of the Marysville, Calif., Appeal-Democrat and is now executive director of the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce.
See also: Galen Gruman. First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 12/4/2003
Nicolaides, Alex
Staff Writer
1984? - 1984?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Nicolas, Fred
Unknown
1938? - 1941?
Founding chair of MOCA and Disney Hall.
First added: 10/6/1999. Last updated: 10/6/1999
Niese, Cathy
Production Staff
1982? - 1982?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Niles, Joanna
Staff Photographer, Photo editor
1998? - 2000?
Joanna graduated with a degree in General Studies in May 2002 and now is a 1st grade teacher in Ingelwood, says Matt. Joanna was in charge of media relations for the "Swim With Mike" event at USC this year, sez Arash.
See also: Matt Scott, Arash Markazi. First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 9/16/2002
Nili, Michael
SComix Artist
1999 - 1999
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Nishi, Steven
Advertising Executive
1984? - 1984?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Nishimoto, Terri
Illustrator
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Nisperos, Leilani
Staff Writer
1995? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Nick Divito. First added: 10/4/2001. Last updated: 10/4/2001
Noel, Mark
Staff Writer, Photographer
1974 - 1976
Yeah, I got nothing.
First added: 5/9/2004. Last updated: 5/9/2004
Nombrano, Jessica
Viewpoint Columnist
1999 - 1999
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Nordby, Erin
Staff Writer
1989? - 1990?
Tipsters say: She is a deputy district attorney for Santa Clara County, currently out on leave.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 7/15/2004
Nowadnik, Marc
Editor?
1974? - 1977?
Marc's entry here is particularly sobering to me. He is the first person I have heard about from the Daily Trojan who may be dead. Add the fact that I am told he died of AIDS in 1985, and that he is certainly not the oldest person on this list, and you have what to me is a lamentable entry in this list, even though I never knew him except though this web page. As time passes, I'll probably have to add a few more of these entries; it's all part of keeping a chronicle like this. I dread the next, and each one after. After you read this, please take a moment or two to keep in touch with the people here you know.
First added: 6/15/1997. Last updated: 6/15/1997
Nugent, Daphne
Staff Writer
1986 - 1986 Personal recollections
I have been working as a Market Research Director at Pfizer headquarters in New York City since 1994. I moved to Washington D.C. from LA in 1990 and have been on the East Coast ever since. I got married to Scott Laiken, a native New Yorker, in October of 2000. We had our first child, a beautiful girl, in September 2002. I love living in Manhattan, but I miss California. Though I went to DC to try, I was never able to make it as a journalist myself. So I sold out, did an MBA, and got a job in "Big Pharma". Now I just live the life vicariously through my journalist friends.
See also: Bob Ickes. First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 5/11/2003
Nunn, Donald
Staff Writer
1991? - 1991?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Nuttall, Jeffrey Scott
Staff Writer
1994 - 1994
Nothing currently known - found on an old staff list. Red head with a propensity to write long and with parenthises. Worked for "V" as well.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Nwaisser, Roy
Chief Photographer
1994 - 1999
Please forgive me if I have this spelled wrong. Roy is an alumni who has, according to his web page, "a B.A. in psychology, an M.S. in computer science, an M.A. in communication management, a law degree and a certificate in Web development." Look for his car, license plate USC SYCO. It's yellow and scares me. He has attended more than 100 consecutive home AND road USC football games. He now runs Team Santa Hats, a custom Santa hat-making company. You may have heard him being interviewed on the KEvin and Bean show; he got to round two of the interviews for "The Apprentice 2."
See also: David Lipin. First added: 2/9/1997. Last updated: 5/8/2004
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