Class Notes Category: Other
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Shunna Jones-Moreno ’21
Reach Up Reach Out, an international non-profit organization founded by Shunna Jones-Moreno ’21 and her husband, Alex Jones-Moreno, is staging a marathon on May 20 at Lake Balboa Park in the San Fernando Valley, in order to raise money to build Ugandan homes for children with cancer. Nearing the eighth anniversary of its founding, Reach…
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Celia Ward-Wallace ’98
South LA Café , opened just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace ’98, will join the Natural History Museum (NHM) in Exposition Park as its new food, beverage and hospitality provider under the newly formed entity South LA Cafe (SLAC) Hospitality. The team behind the beloved local cafe,…
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Meagen E. Leary ’00
Duane Morris LLP has appointed San Francisco partner Meagen E. Leary ’00 to the firm’s eight-member Executive Committee. Leary will also continue in her role as co-chair of the Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group. Leary maintains a national creditors’ rights, commercial real estate finance and bankruptcy practice. Her clients include institutional lenders, CMBS…
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Bob Moore ’53
Bob Moore ’53, the oldest living former Bruin football player, celebrated his 95th birthday Oct. 11. Moore, a fullback on the team in the early 1950s and a former high school football coach, was honored by the UCLA Athletics during the recent UCLA-Utah football game and received a birthday message from Martin Jarmond, Alice and…
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Greg Sarris ’78
Greg Sarris ’78 returned to campus Oct. 10 — Indigenous People’s Day — to deliver the Regents Lecture sponsored by UCLA School of Law and the Native Nations Law and Policy Center. In the lecture, which is titled “Tribal Leadership and the Future of Indian Country,” Sarris emphasized a desire for greater understanding of the role…
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Bob Wayne, MBA ’73
Bob Wayne, MBA ’73, has just completed his autobiography, “Reel To Real Tales…Notes From Both Sides of the Recording Console.” Over the years, Wayne has juggled a myriad of roles in the music business: recording studio owner; director and chief engineer at Sunburst Recording; record producer (Rhino Records and Shout Factory Entertainment); lead vocalist for…
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Rachel Robinson ’42
Rachel Robinson ’42, who met her husband, Jackie, on the campus of UCLA, celebrated her 100th birthday on July 19. Credited with being an essential part of Jackie Robinson’s color-barrier-breaking career in Major League Baseball, Mrs. Robinson earned her AA degree in nursing at UCLA, her bachelor’s degree at UC San Francisco in 1945 and…
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Shelby Scarbrough ’84
A delegation of 11 family members of pioneer aviator Jimmie Mattern, including Shelby Scarbrough ’84, arrived in Oslo, Norway, on July 14 to commemorate Mattern’s historic New York to Norway flight in 1933. Upon touching down on a rocky beach on Jomfruland, an island off of Norway’s southeast coast, Mattern had completed the longest solo…
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Campbell Martin ’21
Campbell Martin ’20 is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. The Peace Corps suspended global operations and evacuated nearly 7,000 volunteers from more than 60 countries at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “For me, the Peace Corps is an opportunity…
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Madison Taylor Lewis ’51 and Martha Gail Kelly (née Rochlen) ’54
In late May, the mayor of the town of High Wycombe, 34 miles west of London, England, formally dedicated a community center in the name of Madison Taylor Lewis ’51 and a road in the name of Martha Gail Kelly (née Rochlen) ’54. By pure chance, both Bruins became teaching and coaching colleagues at a…