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.
O'Brien, Gregory "Greg"
Editorial Editor
1963? - 1967
Remember, if journalism isn't working out for you, you can always turn to the law. No, not B and E. I mean like Greg, who became a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles. He has monthly column in the Los Angeles Daily Journal called "Bench Press" and is judicial editor of the court newsletter (a 30-page journal published quarterly). He was also editor of the California Judges Assn. newsletter for four years. In 1984, Greg wrote a political satire (novelette) called "Lenin Lives," published by Stein and Day (New York) in both hard cover and paperback. Personal note: This editor met Greg's daughter Kelly on the Paris semester, thus proving it's not only a small world, but a brief one, too.
First added: 10/6/1999. Last updated: 10/6/1999
O'Brien, Timothy
Staff Writer
1994 - 1994
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
O'Donnell, Frank
Editor of SoCal Magazine
1972 - 1974 Personal recollections
Frank made an immediate impression on me: he's the first person I've added to this list (but definitely not the last) to have a child. Spooky. Anyway, after two years at SC, Frank transferred to UC Santa Cruz where he finished a B.A. in literature and writing. After a few jobs in journalism, including a turn as science writer at the Orange County Register, he arrived up at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena where he manages the Public Information Office. Along the way, he also received an M.B.A. at Claremont Graduate School, got married and had a terrific 2-year-old son (note: the child was not two years old at the time of his birth).
First added: 3/24/1997. Last updated: 3/24/1997
O'Dwyer, John
Artist, Illustrator
1992 - 1994
Nothing currently known - found on an old staff list. What's the difference between an artist and an illustrator? How would we notice when he switched?
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
O'Gara, Matthew
Staff Writer
1995 - 1997
After finishing a six-month stint as a research consultant for the AFL-CIO and moonlighting at two junior colleges, Matt landed a position as a professor of politics in the University Honors program at George Washington University, where he's also been commissioned to teach a graduate seminar titled Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy in GW's prestigious Elliot School of International Affairs. Karmically, he was offered this course based on two things: A pre-9/11 article published on the cultural motivations for terrorism, as well as his USC dissertation (perhaps soon a book) on ethnic influences on U.S. foreign policy. While at the DT, took first place at the California Intercollegiate Press Association Awards in editorial writing. He received his doctorate at USC -- nice going, Matt.
See also: Melanie Asp, Mark Carpowich. First added: 12/30/2001. Last updated: 6/5/2002
O'Neal, Anne
Staff Writer
1981? - 1981?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
O'Neill, Lisa
Assistant City Editor
1993? - 1993?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Ober, Damien
Staff Writer
1998? - 1999?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 2/10/2004
Ogden, Michael
Staff Writer
1991? - 1991?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/5/2002. Last updated: 7/5/2002
Ogishima, Yoko
Staff Writer
1987? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Ogle, Melissa
Staff Writer
1987? - 1987?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Ognar, Ron
Staff Writer, Assistant Sports Editor, Sports Editor
1996 - 1999
Ron is currently working as an intern at the Arizona Republic and could latch on there full time soon.
See also: Hang Nguyen, Mike Cisneros, Elisa Ung. First added: 10/1/2000. Last updated: 1/21/2002
Okabe, Tish
Advertising Intern
1981? - 1981?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Okada, Bryon
Investigations Editor, Staff Writer
1986? - 1988?
Bryan is working as a staff writer/columnist with his friend Yamil Berard at the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
See also: Gary Caffey, Yamil Berard. First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 5/10/2003
Okada, Ken
Photographer
1994 - 1994
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Okamoto, Shari
Entertainment Editor, Assistant Entertainment Editor
1984? - 1985?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Okamura, David
Illustrator
1982? - 1982?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Okum, Gina
Staff Writer
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Olds, Andrew
Music something
1998? - 2000?
Nothing currently known.
See also: Mike Dutra. First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 8/3/2003
Oliveto, Rudi
Straff Writer, Copy Editor
1988 - 1989
Oliveto wrote wordy movie reviews that were either too effusive or too condemning. The masterpiece was a very indy film shown in West Hollywood. The title: Blonde Death. Oliveto spent many a late night studying proofs on the fourth floor before adjourning for cookies downstairs.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 12/4/2003
Olivo, Diane
Feature Editor, Assistant Editorial Director, Staff Writer
1984? - 1986?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Olson, Dan
Photographer
1987 - 1988
Dan Olson was appointed vice president of marketing at Investools in July 2002. He got an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University and a B.A. in literature from the University of Southern California.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 11/2/2003
Olson, Quinn W.
Staff Writer
1997 - 1997
Nothing currently known.
See also: Laura Lanchester. First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Olson, Scott
Staff Writer
1997? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Olson, Wendy
Copy Editor
1987? - 1987?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Ong, Dahnee
Staff Writer
1997 - 1997
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Ong, Jeff
Staff Writer
1993? - 1993?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Ono, Debra
Unknown
1990 - 2000
Honorary alumna -- knows more about more people than I could ever list here!
First added: 2/23/2003. Last updated: 2/23/2003
Onstad, Eric
Staff Writer
1982? - 1982?
Eric unveils: "I'm working as a correspondent for Reuters News Agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Previously, I worked in London and Nairobi. I'm married to a Kenyan woman I met while working in Kenya and have two daughters." Travis is jealous.
See also: Travis Smith. First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Optican, Todd
Chief Photographer
1980 - 1982
Todd has been back in L.A. for some 10 years now having lived in both New York and Toronto. Todd is a principal partner at Associated Talent Management in L.A., and enjoys living on the Westside with his wife, Donna, and their four kids.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 5/8/2004
Ordesky, Joel
Photographer, Assistant Chief Photographer, Chief Photographer
1985 - 1987
Meet Joel. After line producing for several television shows, including ABC's Home Show, Miss America Beyond the Crown, The Other Side Hawaii and UPN's Paranormal Borderline, Joel retired from production in 1996. He's currently the VP of Operations for Wexler Video, the second largest broadcast rental house in the United States. Joel is married and has two children (Samantha 4 months and Cole 2 years) and is living in West L.A.
See also: Mark Ordesky. First added: 8/7/2000. Last updated: 8/7/2000
Ordesky, Mark
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Mark Ordesky
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Editor
1981? - 1985?
Mark has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of New Line films, after being president of Fine Line Pictures. After graduation, Mr. O worked for two companies as a script reader and then story editor. In 1989 Mark joined New Line and supervised production of several genre pictures like "Critters 3" and "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday." In 1993, he was tapped as VP of acquisitions, covering the international festivals and markets for New Line and Fine Line. Mark was significantly involved in the acquisition of "Shine". Of interest to a slightly wider audience, he oversaw production of the New Line's production of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which explains why he's a little too busy to contact me personally. Mark is married and lives with his wife in West Los Angeles.
See also: Joel Ordesky, Belma Johnson, Jon Soohoo. First added: 2/21/1999. Last updated: 3/28/2003
Ordonez, Sarita
Columnist
1991? - 1992?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Orne, Michelle
See Ishida, Michelle.
Ornelas, Linda
Staff Writer
1989? - 1989?
Ornelas was a wonderful writer and continued to write in her journal daily. She married Jeff Grant in June 2001 and had two beautiful children, Zachary and Madyson. She went on to a graduate program and earned her multiple subject teaching credential. She taught second grade at Don Benito Fundamental School in Pasadena. On July 8, 2004, Linda took her own life as a result of bipolar disorder. She will be forever remembered as a wonderful friend, wife and loyal mother. She was loved by all her knew her. Submitter: Jennifer Mably
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 11/30/2004
Oropallo, Alisha
Staff Writer
1988? - 1988?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 8/18/2002
Orr, Christian D.
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Christian D. Orr
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Assistant Editorial Director, Editorial Columnist
1994 - 1997
He's a Programs Action Officer, and working on a project called Integrated Base Defense Security System (IBDSS). Orr was recently awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal and National Defense Service Medal, as well as the Outstanding Contributor Award for performance at the Aerospace Basic Course at Maxwell AFB, AL! That said .... First job after USC: Account Executive with Creative Computers in Torrance. Second job: temping at the Cust. Service Center at Pardee Tower. Third: a telesales job at the corporate office of Public Storage in Glendale, CA. Fourth: Research and Communications Coordinator at RE/MAX of CA & HI, Inc., in lovely Palos Verdes Estates. Number five, hold on to your hats: joined the U.S. Air Force. He graduated from Basic Military Training in October '99, and graduated from Security Forces (the USAF version of military police) Academy February '00 and graduated from USAF Officer Training School Basic Officer Training in Sep' 01. Orr was recipient of the Louis H. Fischer Award, the top award an S.F. Academy grad can earn. He's now stationed at Scott AFB, IL, working for HQ Air Mobility Command, Directorate of Security Forces, previously as a Threat Working Group Action Officer
See also: Kim Smith, Vickie Manley, Jen Hamm, Melanie Asp, Erik Sanjurjo, Steve Yawitz, Laura Lanchester. First added: 4/18/2000. Last updated: 10/17/2004
Osbaum, Stacy
Music Editor, Staff Writer
1991 - 1993
After graduating from USC in 1993, Stacy interned at the L.A. Weekly where she was later hired as a proofreader. She took a six-month leave of absence to backpack around Europe in 1996 and upon her return, started freelancing as a music journalist. In August of 1997, she became editor of URB magazine, an L.A.-based national electronic dance and hip-hop music magazine. After four years, she left URB to freelance and travel. In the beginning of 2002, she and her boyfriend embarked on a six-month backpacking trip around East and Southeast Asia, and moved to New York in August of 2002. They live together in Manhattan, and she is currently freelancing at Elle and Glamour. Terminally stricken with wanderlust, she is preparing to spend a month in India over Christmas time.
See also: Melissa Heng, Jenn Sansing, Paul Goldberg, Bryan Winchell, Steve Yawitz, Richard Osuna. First added: 1/26/1998. Last updated: 11/2/2003
Osher, Wendy
Illustrator
1997? - 1997?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 9/15/2002. Last updated: 9/15/2002
Osuna, Richard
Staff Writer
1993 - 1994
Osuna outputs: "I am currently the Senior Production Designer at the Bernard Hodes Group, a recruitment advertising agency head-quartered in NYC. I am still living in Brooklyn and still enjoying my view. I recently returned from an adventure out west for the Jenn Sansing/Paul Goldberg wedding. This trip was a reunion of sorts for my fellow partners in crime from the DT, Stacy Osbaum, Bryan Winchell and newly-wed Steve Yawitz who was joined by his lovely bride Heather. This trip was proof that neither time, distance or marriage will break apart our friendship. If anything, they have shown us how real and lasting our friendship is." He currently lives alone in Brooklyn, where his bathroom has arguably the best view of lower Manhattan of any bathroom in South Park Slope.
See also: Steve Yawitz, Jenn Sansing, Bryan Winchell, Paul Goldberg, Stacy Osbaum. First added: 3/5/2000. Last updated: 10/29/2001
Ota, Kevin
Assistant City Editor, Staff Writer
1987 - 1989
After a couple of years doing PR at a non-profit in L.A., Kevin rode the high-tech PR bubble to a Vice Presidency at Blanc & Otus Public Relations, where he launched a few highly successful start-ups, including TiVo, HotWire, Ofoto, and a few others that weren't so successful, but had lots of money to burn for a few months of media training and PR "counsel." About two years ago, he stole a couple clients and opened his own PR shop, which he now runs out of an office in his big house on two acres in southern Connecticut. Lots of details left out here, like one wife, three kids, etc., but that's gist of it.
First added: 8/18/2002. Last updated: 11/2/2003
Oto, Robin
Editor, City Editor, Editorial Director, Staff Writer
1978 - 1981
Went to law school at UOP (University of the Pacific?). Now doing something she never thought she would ever end up doing - human resources administration. But, having fun. Source: Schroeder.
See also: Mike Schroeder, Galen Gruman. First added: 10/6/1999. Last updated: 12/31/2004
Oto-Ohama, Robin Leigh
See Oto, Robin.
Otsuka, Leigh
Staff Writer
1989 - 1990
Leigh is still a weenie lawyer at a big soulless law firm in downtown L.A. She is now, however, happily and recently married, and as soon as she gets around to filling out all of the paperwork, will be Leigh Curran. She, the new spousal unit, and petulant cat live in an unglamourous part of Long Beach populated by geriatrics with hearts of gold. You might remember her excellent feature story on the Westwood sperm bank, which won a Hearst award, a Cal. Intercollegiate Press Assn. award, and a DT award. Who woulda guessed?
See also: Ron Antonette. First added: 3/6/2001. Last updated: 11/22/2004
Otto, Amber
Staff Photographer
1998 - 1999
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
Ovalle, David
See Cisneros, David.
Oviatt, Marcus
Staff Writer
1976 - 1976
He now works in accounting for Hunt-Wesson in Omaha and is married to the lovely Nancy Runzler (a UCLA grad, but sister of a DT alum). They have a son, Spencer. And Marcus's nephew, Morgan Ensberg '98, was a slugging third baseman for USC and is now a Houston Astro.
See also: Sherry Stern, Kevin McKenna. First added: 11/30/2004. Last updated: 11/30/2004
Owens, Michelle
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Michelle Owens
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Staff Writer
1991 - 1993
Michelle is in Nevada. Yep. Went to school at UNLV, did grad work in Communication with an emphasis in journalism, graduated with honors. She graduated from 'SC in '95 with a BA in Print and a BA in American Lit. She's was undergoing medical treatment and working in retail. Michelle recently wrote me with an update: "I am still undergoing medical treatment for severe vision loss, except now I just work on my writing, occasionally tutor the 'lost undergraduate soul' in writing, and have begun the law school application process...my new disability has opened up paths in my life that make me want to help people in ways I had never even considered before, and knowing the law and using my writing eduation seem to be the best use of my life. :-)" Fight on, Michelle!
First added: 4/24/1997. Last updated: 7/16/2004
Oyama, Leslie
Unknown
1988 - 1991
Name, years and e-mail address; with these known clues, can you tell me what this person is up to now?
First added: 12/8/1998. Last updated: 12/8/1998
Ozaki, Riki
Illustrator
1993? - 1994?
Nothing currently known.
First added: 7/11/2002. Last updated: 7/11/2002
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