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Class Notes
CLASS OF ’78: Cal Maritime President Thomas A. Cropper joined alums Bill Andrew ’78 and Minh Venator ’89 at this year’s Reno Air Races.
CLASS OF ’93: Madeline Schmid ’24, the daughter of Jennifer Ferrera Schmid, is currently attending Cal Maritime. She just completed her commercial cruise with Chevron.
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Paul Seitz works in digital solutions. He’s currently working and living in Latvia, a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, and is setting up his business named Skaal, that supports U.S. clients.
Carl Obermeier works for Foss Maritime in Portland, Ore. His twin sons are first-year engineering majors at Oregon State University.
Michelle Giannetti Meyer lives in Philadelphia, Pa. and is a chief commercial officer for PSA Philadelphia Terminals. With two children in college and one senior in high school, she will be an empty nester soon.
RACHAEL (ASBELL, ’19) AND SVANTE NILSSON
Who drives ships? Lawrence Hoyne drives ships…with Jacobsen Pilot Services in Long Beach, Calif.
Art Koral is an aerobatic instructor at his business Art of Flight. He is also an airline captain at Atlas Air.
If you need real estate services, Eric Hoglund would love to help you. He is a broker and owner of Estey Real Estate and Property Management in Benicia. He has a daughter at Boise State, a son at Benicia High School, and another son at Benicia Middle School. Eric can connect you with real estate professionals no matter what state you live in.
Jerry Gordon lives in Philadelphia, Pa. and is the Global Procurement Leader at Quaker Houghton. He is married and has a daughter who is a junior in high school and a son in the 8th grade.
PRESIDENT CROPPER WITH MINH VENATOR ’89 AND BILL ANDREW ’78 AT THIS YEAR’S RENO AIR RACES.
PUGET SOUND ALUMNI ENJOY A CHAPTER DINNER IN SEATTLE IN NOVEMBER. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT ARE DAVID FULTON (’02), LIZ WAITE, KEVIN MEHRER (’09), ALESI ALAPA (’10), PHIL TORRANO (’10), MICHELLE CALLISON, DAVID CALLISON (’10). BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT ARE TREVOR BROWN (’20), KARINA MARTIJA-HARRIS (’20), DANIEL LASRY, EMILY KEYES (’14), RACHEL NEUHARTH (’14), SARAH JANE BUNCH, JESSICA REEVES-CLARK CAL MARITIME ALUMNI ATTENDED A FOURTH THURSDAY AT LUCY’S IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL WORKBOAT SHOW IN NOVEMBER.
CLASS OF ’19: In her last year of law school, Rachael ( Asbell) Nilsson is interning at the Office of the Denver District Attorney and is hoping to become a prosecutor upon graduation. Rachael married Svante Nilsson last July. They met in Uppsala, Sweden where Rachael was studying abroad during her junior year at Cal Maritime. The couple share a cat named Max.
Congratulations to Chris Murray who married his partner, Carly, on Dec. 10.
