ALUMNI CLASS NEWS
Message from Legion, CSSAA, and CCI Presidents Culver magazine readers often turn first to the back sections of each issue to learn about individual updates and the latest on class, club, and affinity group gatherings around the world. This edition will not disappoint, as it chronicles the achievements of alumni and the enjoyable events that have taken place since last fall. However, we write in the middle of the uncertain days that have descended upon us with the coronavirus pandemic. Our class leaders, summer schools and camps alumni and friends, and wonderful Culver Clubs International chapters, will strive to provide connection and networking opportunities around the world, but the delivery systems are likely going to be different in the near term. We will find ways to keep the time-tested, successful concepts in place, but we believe you will be impressed with the innovative ideas that this situation will foster.
Lara Smith Nicholson ’86 President The Culver Legion
Richard R. Waterfield W ‘85 President The Culver Summer Schools Alumni Association
Charles Osborne ’88 President Culver Clubs International
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Andrew D. Hardaway SC’84 ’88 completed his first short film, Roughneck, for which he has received an award. The film is an exploration of memory and consciousness, where advanced technology removes negative emotions from the human experience and replaces them with a vision of a perfect human existence. But when a decorated soldier loses his wife, he finds himself experiencing something that shouldn’t be possible… pain. After he can no longer hide his grief from the world, he is targeted as a dangerous outlier, who may hold the fate of society in his hands.
1990s Adam T. Carlstrom ’90 has been a captain in the U.S. Navy since April 2018. Leadership, character and commitment are the three simple words that describe what he does day-to-day and that he deems are important for success in life. As Deputy Commander of Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet for the U.S. Navy, Carlstrom takes those words very seriously. His work purview includes 160 aircraft and close to 5,000 individuals. He also talks often about the goals of his unit — man, train, and equip — to get the next person ready for daily work. Marinely A. Cruz L’91 SG is a hematologist/oncologist in Orlando, Florida.
Alfredo J. Travieso ’91 trained in film and fine arts in New York City, where he collaborated on numerous production collaborations with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts film program. In Caracas, Venezuela, Alfredo premiered his short film “Homeostasis” at the National Art Gallery. He has been involved in urban/street art projects; featured in Wooster Collective, and Caracas-based arts magazine Platano Verde; made music videos and visuals for faculty and musicians at the Universidad Central de Venezuela’s School of Architecture; and worked in production and installation of Contemporary Art spaces in Periferico Caracas. He resides in Miami, Florida, where he has curated and shown work. Currently Alfredo is part of the three person collective, TANGA!, which was formed in 2017 with fellow artists Andrew Prieto and Rachel Chick. Allon Barzilai SC’91 ’93 is the cofounder & COO of hereO, whose mission is to bring families closer together. The company has designed and built a tiny connected tracking device, specifically designed to be worn by young children ages 3–12, which enables all family members to stay connected and share their location. George Birrell W’88 SC ’89 ’93 is the founder of Taxhub, an online tax prep service that distinguishes itself by providing a personalized customer experience and a
higher level of tax savings for most customers at far less than the cost of in person options. He earned a master’s degree in taxation and spent 12 years in public accounting before implementing his idea for Taxhub. Theodoros Kalionchiz de la Fuente ’94 lives in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico and has opened two fast food restaurants in the next mall to be opened at Estancias, called “Paseo Monclova,” which created 90 new jobs with the franchises of Carl’s JR and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Another KFC branch will be built in the city of Piedras Negras and another in Sabinas. Sin Wook Kang N’92 ’94 is the Senior Manager of Deloitte Anjin in Seoul, South Korea. Devon Horton ’95, most recently the chief of schools for Jefferson County, Kentucky, is set to become the Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 superintendent. He was chosen because of his success as a high school principal in Chicago and his role increasing student achievement as deputy superintendent at East St. Louis School District 189. Horton has concentrated on performance management and the use of real-time data to improve instruction and administrative decisions. He received a bachelor’s degree in education from Jackson State University and a master’s degree and doctorate from Chicago State University.
