(Some of these bios haven't been updated since the spring of 2002, I tried to note the ones that bounced. Please try and send me your updated info! The best way to find an LRY these days is Facebook. I use it daily. Although this directory is now low-tech, it is still a valuable way for all LRYer’s names and mini-bios to be viewed in one place.)* JOHN ALEXANDER (Sacramento)chugalugger@mac.com New cell:1-813-967-0250 Now Plant City, FL (near Tampa). Married twice, 4 boys out of the deal. Ex in Gilroy, two oldest boys moved on. One grandson in Sept 2005. Gotta a New family , which I moved to Florida. Why may you ask? Fishing is better, I like coconut palms in my front yard!? I own a small flatbed trucking outfit, and dabble in commercial real estate development. I suppose I have turned out to be a middle aged southern country boy. The first re-union was fantastic! I was just able to see (after decades) to my old pal and roommate Mickey Frog, now Michael. It was a real treat! Hell, for awhile we drove around the country together and I taught him to get his trucking license. * ANNELISE JADE BAZAR (Berkeley) ajb@threeworldsweb.com (408) 244-7958 Went to Sonoma State, then San Jose State. Was a chemist, now a web developer. Been in San Jose for ever, odd place for a Berkeley girl to end up. Lately I've been traveling as much as possible though.
NOTE: We are delighted that this directory has been successful at renewing lost friendships. Our reunions have also rekindled more than a few lost romances.
(Several of these romances have lasted for years now.) However, please try not send an e-mail to an LRYer with subject mater that may make them uncomfortable.
* SARAH ALLISON (San Francisco) sallison@sonic.net I live in Santa Rosa with husband Mike and daughter Maggie, 10. After attending JC in SF, moved to Santa Cruz and attended UCSC. Majored in art and textiles. Spent several summers in Alaska. Went back to school and became an occupational therapist. I specialize in geriatric rehabilitation and I love working with the elderly. My husband owns a CD record store called The Last Record Store, music is a big part of our lives.
* MEREDITH BAUMAN-GROSS (San Fransico) Now Mill Valley.Bounced.Merrieg@pacbell.net
* MYRA J. BICKNELL (Marin)mjbick6510@yahoo.com I finally decided what I want to do with my life and went back to school in 2004 to get a Masters in Nonprofit Administration from USF. I’m currently working for a family foundation that does social justice funding – continuing my lifelong fight for the underdog. I lived in Marin (Mill Valley and Novato) from 1986 to 2006. Since then I've been living in San Francisco where I'm part of a Buddhist meditation group and sing with the SF Labor Heritage Chorus. I also enjoy puttering with plants and taking care of my goldfish.
*DWIGHT BRADISH** SUE BOHEGIAN(Sue, is that how do you spell your name? BouncedSuzybow@aol.com
*BONNIE CURTIS(San Francisco) Changed name to Baunnie Sea. baunnie@gmail.com Studied painting, music, theatre, dance, film, writing and pattern making for clothing. Went to school in Vermont and Orange County. Got a degree in Psychology. Studied biology, became a Buddhist, went to graduate school in Physiological Psychology. Have a son Ian, almost 12. Got married, had a daughter Elinor, 6. Entered the wonderful world of cooperative nursery schools, got happier and stronger. Ended an unhappy marriage. Now rediscovering and remembering myself, writing songs and doing art again. In school to become a teacher. Raising my kids and having fun.
* DOUG CHANDLER (Monterey)cvs@redshift.com Married to Olga, a Spanish teacher at Carmel High. 6 year old son (as of 2005). We live in near-by Marina. Went to UC Santa Cruz, got BA in psychology. Been working with people with disabilities. Then got my masters in rehabilitation counseling in '82. Before legislative changes I had a rehabilitation counseling business, worked in workers compensation system. Been a workability coordinator and teacher at the local junior college and am currently taking classes to earn a pupil personnel credential and go into school counseling.
* RAMONA DAYTON (Sacramento) r.dayton21@comcast.netDid twenty years in the Army as a nurse who helped develop the 95th Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (a lot of words that mean northern California's counterterrorism swat team). I have lived in dozens of states plus overseas, have 3 children age 7 to 21 of my own, plus an adopted daughter, and approximately 10 to 15 homeless wayward teens over the past ten years. Am retired due to being disabled, but I continue being very much in denial. As long as no one points out that my back doesn't work I'll be okay(that's our little secret, right?) *JEFF EBY (Marin) jeffreyeby@gmail.com I am self employed (in other words I work for anybody that is willing to pay me) as a graphic artist building and operating computer presentations for corporate events. I am living in San Francisco with my spouse, Dawn, and our two children, Zak (12) and Gabe (10). Unfortunately it doesn't look like I will be able to attend the reunion because somebody wants to pay me to go to Australia that week. Go figure. That was in 2002, I've been to the last three reunions. * CARLOS ESPINOSA (Sacramento) Sadly Carlos died in March of 2004, his memorial service was standing room only, over 200 people, many of them LRYers.Read obit and artical on Carlos
carlose@cwnet.com916-927-1552, Retired, I go to Cuba for months at a time and love to play on my computer and watch videos. Watch out, I will be the advisor during the reunion. * ERIC ESPINOSA (Sacramento) eric@kenyonwoodworking.com I extended my Lry involvement in Berkeley for a while during College in the early Eighties. I moved to Michigan to follow my then sweetheart, Felicia Sandler to Grad school. Felicia and I got married in 2000 and then had our son Miguel a year later. In 2002 we moved to Boston where Felicia got a Teaching Job. She writes music and is represented on her website www.dancingfleamusic.com I am great full to have been in LRY. It both challenged me and helped me to grow and in a sense saved my life. Now I am an occasional visitor to Trinity Episcopal Church with the family but I reserve my open time for Zen practice at the Cambridge Zen Center. I enjoy Woodworking as I am a cabinet maker. * PAUL T. EVANS (Marietta, Ohio, 1979-1982) cold.type.rules@gmail.com & paul.evans@ic.state.oh.us. I'm living in Columbus, Ohio with my wife Stephanie (married 1996) and daughter Susan (born 1997). I went to Ohio University in Athens, worked as a typesetter in Boston, a bookstore clerk and USPS graveyard-shift mail sorter in Cincinnati, and I'm now a Word Processing Specialist II for the State of Ohio, at the Industrial Commission. Writing a novel using a manual typewriter I bought for $.80. We're active at First UU in Columbus.* JAMES FINLEY (Sacramento) Washington State (360)534-9742 Bouncedmadviking23@hotmail.comStill living in Washington. Visit Sacramento and other LRYers frequently. I met Paul in Sunday school years before LRY.
* DANA FISHER now ASHRAWI. After LRY, went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, finished at Wright State U. Moved to Houston in 1982 to find a teaching job, and stayed. Got an M.Ed. in Curriculum, taught for 15 years, quit to start a technical writing business http://www.saidndone.com Married for 19 years to devoted husband Ibrahim, born and raised in Palestine and working now as a QC manager at a computer factory. We have 3 great kids: Sama'an (17, a DJ and writer), Alice (15, a photo artist), and Salwa (8, a future rock star). See our mini album at. http:// danafashrawi.shutterfly.com/action/?a=8AYuW7hs1cOWGX LRY was a vital part of my teenage years - comfort from the storm. Our teenagers are involved in the current local version of LRY, the YRUU group, and they love it. Love to all of you!* MONICA FOUST (Sacramento) Working as cook, one son. (916) 399-1330
* ELI GLICKMAN (Palo Alto) Milpitas eliglickman@thewayfarer.netI am retired and living in Wakefield, RI. I am building a passive and active solar house. 5 minutes to the beach by car, 2 minute walk to the pond. Life is good (except for Winter). Still happily married to Elizabeth. My son Daniel (97) and daughter Suzelle (01) fill up my life. My family goes to UU church. I go to a UU small group ministries thing for my dose of enlightenment. Got my BS in 1989 (took me about 10 years, sounds like you beat me Paul). Married to Elizabeth Carter in '93, My son Daniel was born in '97 and my daughter 2001. I worked with computers and stuff for a video game company before retirement.
* CELESTE HALL, Monterey celeste.hall@sbcglobal.net Moved to Sonoma, went to school, got married, moved back to Monterey, had 2 boys: Ben-20 and Sam-15. Went back to school, became a nurse, got divorced. Been working the last 13 years in public health-mostly community clinics. Got remarried to Emilio and had Gabriel-7 and inherited 3 more boys-Joel, Manuel and Carlos. Here I am living in a testosterone rich environment in Seaside.
* EDEN HEUSTIS, now Edi Mottershead edi@well.com * ERIC HENERLAU (Marin) (415) 699-3239 eric@erichenerlau.com JENNIFER BOOTH, (from our LRY local) and I started square dancing in '76. 3 years later I became a square dance caller and now travel around the country calling dances www.erichenerlau.com. We got married in 1981, settled in Corte Madera (near SF.) Son, Richard, is 22 and lives with us while attending a local J.C. Daughter, Stephanie, is 18, leaves for college in Washington in August '005. I left technology-related work (IP addressing schemes, anyone?) to become an insurance agent. Jennifer is an administrator for a non-profit. Life is good and every day is fun! Drop me a note or call, but it may take a minute to put the name/face/time together...* DAVID ISSEL di847@aol.com
* MICHAEL JOHNSON (San Franciso) mjsf@aol.com After straying from LRY in the late 70's, and a year or so into college, he decided he was going to be Jacque Cousteau's underwater cameraman and fight the other frenchmen for the attention of rare seals. But one fateful day he was lured into the Broadcasting department, and he has not so much as dipped his toes in a pool since.
Onward he went, not to Top 40 stardom, not to write "Bluer Than Blue", but on to...public radio! He's remained there for the past 19 years, producing international eclectic music programs, and teaching others how to produce their own radio programs while he wandered the world, pointing his trusty microphone at Native American teepees, Central American civil war survivors, SF Bay Area residents, the occaisional relative, and just about anything or anyone that wouldn't run away from him. Somewhere in all of that excitement, he met a German woman in an Irish Bar, in a California City, married her and 3 years ago, while they weren't looking, a child was born, with a great sense of humor, built in multi-language capacity, and a curious affection for the song Pinch Me, by "The Bare Naked Ladies."*CLIO(formerly Cathy Lee)(Sacramento) now Santa Cruz cliobavalee@cruzio.com Since I was small, I wanted the name Clio, after the goldfish in Walt Disney's Pinnochio. Phase 1: Lived 17 years in a tent, with solar electricity and big garden; Performed as a dancer, Homeschooled my three daughters. Phase 2: Worked 7 years as lighting designer/electrician in theater; Started swimming like a maniac, Studied computer networking in college. Phase 3: 5 years so far working in software and networks, helping my kids through college. Calliope is 24, Eleanor is 23, Amethyst is 21. My beautiful partner is Gian-Carlo. Learning to surf. And yes, I went to Cuba with Carlos. Phase 4: My next plan is to get my pyrotechnician's license. Kaboom!
*DAVID LEWIS (Marin) david_lewis@agilent.com Working for AgilentTechnologies in Silli Valley Married forever 2 Boys 6 & 4. I like Shooting Pool, Driving the BigCar ('96 Impala SS Wahoo.!), raising kids and being exceptionally middle class. Absolutly NO affiliation with any church Really amazed and amused by the progress of alll the people who were so important to me in the '70's (even if I never told 'em so)
*ROBERT BRADFORD LEWIS (Sacramento, My father was our UU minister) Unmarried, working at Cliff's used books (630 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena CA) Spent the 12 years after L.R.Y. traveling the west coast, living in various communes and wandering the streets of Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, L.A., looking for the next high, and waiting for Godot. Clean and sober since Aug. 1st 1988. Currently pursuing artistic (literary) immortality and the Great Ineffable.* MICHAEL MANZAGOL(Palo Alto) FindMM@hotmail.com
* MICKEY PHROG (Sacramento)Oregon(503)525-0445 Hung up my loin cloth, but still dance. Took religious vows, lived semi-monkiously for eight years. Did college, marriage, kids. Eight, 12 and 15. Ex is still family, but not married. Mainstream jobs. Working on a Ph.D. (metaphysical aspect of organizational development.) Looking forward to reunion and sharing past stories no one's heard. * REBECCA MCCONNELL (now Denetdale) Live at POB 1520, Tohatchi, NM 87325. (505) 732-4393. radenetdale@yahoo.com I am an assistant Teacher at Ch'ooshgai Community School, here on the Navajo Reservation. Lived here now for 23 years. I am married and have 3 boys. Jonathan is 20 and in the Army, Adam is 16, and a Junior in HS and Matthew is 7 and in the 1st grade. We live nearGallup, NM and I hope to get my degree in Teaching soon. * ADAM MILLER(Pacific Grove)autoharper@earthlink.net Homepage:http://www.LauraLind.com Adam has been very helpful at finding LRYers. * GEOF NASH (or Jeff) (Sacramento) (916)804-9222 Living on my own houseboat on the delta. Divorced, 17 year old son. Working in the auto parts industry. I'm real bad with names, so I'll have to see faces at the reunion to remember people. So please no one look older. * CAROLINE OSBORN (now Bellinger) Sacramento (now Enumclaw, Washington)Bounced.cbellinger@telisphere.com (360)802-4418. Works for Lucent Technologies, divorced and has a 10 year old son. Her father, Richard Osborn, LRY Advisor Sacramento Local (1973-74), died of heart attack June 2000. * DEB PETERSON (now Khan) Monterey. chaosgroundzero@yahoo.com Studied art, got married, got divorced. I live in Santa Rosa, CA with three daughters 14, 16, 20 (as of 2005) who are alarmingly like myself at those ages, except sane. I am gainfully employed at a minimally straight job while achieving my lifelong dream of being a slacker artist/mad scientist. I'm part of the Burning Man commmunity, which is a lot like the adult version of LRY. Life is lovely, complex and never boring. * ELLIOTT PETROCCHI (Sacramento/Berkley) Carpenter, living near Placerville. Cell phone: 847-7679 "I'm ready for the reunion to start at 7:30 Friday morning! And I'll help prepare the food." Elliott's land for sale:http://www.johnbernal.com/default * ELLEN POPENOE (San Francisco) Went to college in New York and graduate school in LA where I met my husband. We moved to Maine in 1984 where I am a pediatric neuropsychologist (I see kids with brain injuries and learning disabilities). Seven years ago we finally had a daughter. We are having a great time being parents and love living in Maine. We get back to California usually a couple times a year to see my dad but will miss the reunion. * DR. MARY PURCELL-MIRAMONTES (San Francisco)mfpurcell@erols.com I live in Silver Spring, Maryland and work in D.C now. I work for the USDA's National Research Initiative as a program director of 2 large competitive grants programs for agriculture. I am an entomologist (bug lady). It would be fun to go to the reunion. I'll be in SF in August. I have never been to one (not even for highschool). * MIKE PURCELL (San Francisco)415-543-5399 cash1959@earthlink.netOver the last 30 years I have lived the life. I collect and trade GI Joes, Rat Fink items, vintage gitars and rock memoriblia.* ZOK RODAL (Palo Alto) Now Lowell MA.dave.rodal@gmail.com Also went by Mark, real name is David which is what I go by now. My homepage:http://davidrodal.com/home.html I'm a seasoned software systems engineer with a diverse background in product design, development and enhancement. Engineering: Internet programming, kernel programming (UNIX, Linux), distributed applications, 2, 3 and N tier. Programming: Apache web servers with PHP, Java servlets, JSP's, EJB's, Cgi with PERL, Tomcat and Jserv tools. Languages/Protocols: PHP, PERL, C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, HTTP, HTTPS, XML, UML, Javascript. Databases: Mysql, Oracle database, MS SQL, JDBC, and ODBC. Platforms: UNIX, Linux, MAC OS X, Solaris 7, NT, WIN XP, WIN2000, OS9 (microware). Married for 7 years. I'm still alive... * WALTER E. ROSENTHAL (San Francisco/San Mateo) Married in 1977, divorced in 1980, "came out" gay and moved to the Russian River for ten years. Master's in Clinical Psychology and licensed as an M.F.T. Currently in Hayward, CA working with opiate dependent adults in a Humanistic Harm Reduction non-profit clinic setting. Working to re-frame certain Laws and Policy. Love dogs, hiking/camping, left-wing politics. Currently single and enjoying life. * STEPHANIE RUMRILL McBRAYER (Monterey)(541)476-7564 cell:541-660-3122srummcb@gmail.com Now Crescent City, CA, Grants Pass, OR & parts in between. Left LRY back in '76 to get married. Had 2 kids, Tamerin in '79, Brenden in '85. Over the years spent time as a baker in various natural and unnatural bakeries, a graphic artist, typesetter, and a ten year stint as a city planner. Most recently I wrote and administered grants for projects benefiting low-income folks, and served for a time on the Del Norte Co Planning Commission. Blessed with a good son-in-law and 3 beautiful grandchildren. Am enjoying a new lease on life after recovering from a particularly nasty bout of a recurring ailment (I owe God a homeless shelter.) Having lost much that was dear to me during the course of the illness, I am happily open to my new life and that which is to come. Appreciate every sunset, and always tell your family and friends you love them.
* REV. RICHELLE RUSSELL. Liked LRY so much she became a UU minister. Now in Rhode Island. About the reunion, Richelle says "Hooray, good idea and well overdue!" *LIBBY (LIANNE) SHAFER (San Francisco)Liannesing@aol.com After continuing with music full time and semiprofessionally I explored different spiritual paths, lived in Rajneeshpuram in Oregon for three years, traveled, became the mother of a beautiful daughter, married, traveled some more, divorced, traveled some more, and am now pretty much back home and completeing my music studies to be a young childhood music specialist.
*MARTIN SKERRITT (Monterey) amskerritt@comcast.net(831)625-4606. Graduated from San Francisco State, married, with two son's now 8 and 12, works as a licensed clinical social worker/therapist at a mental health center. Continues involved as a UU, and would love to reconnect with folks from years past.
*PENNY (STAUFFER) (Walnut Creek)konagal77S@yahoo.com "Wow, talk about a trip down memory lane, put me back in the loop! Live in Spokane WA with my geologist hubby of 24 years, & sons 16 & 13. Been here 12 years, tripped around the Rockies and went back to the Bay Area for a bit. I run an outdoors gear repair and sewing business, spend the rest of my time mountain biking, skiing and being a mom." Website with lots of photos and a bio:http://www.specialtyoutdoors.com/penny/penny.asp
*LUCY (STAUFFER) now Lucia Savage, (Walnut Creek & Palo Alto)lucia.savage@mindspring.com(Bounced) I became an attorney in 1989 and am currently General Counsel for a health care policy non-profit www.pbgh.org and www.pacadvantage.org I live in Oakland with my husband Mark and two boys ages 10 and 13. I teach sunday school a the Oakland UU church, socialize with the teens there. At my home, I have a large, abundant, vegetable garden. I want to bring my kids to the reunion so they can see what they have to look forward to when they are teens.
* PAUL STEWART (Sacramento) (916) 487-0334 LRYer@paulsrobots.com Just finished a "Wizard of Oz" mural at a children's dental office that took three months! Photos on my homepage. And these days I've been building and selling nonworking robots. Homepage: http://www.paulsrobots.com Reluctant artist and gardener. Failed at being a pro playwright, but have had a dozen amateur productions in six states, and one in South Africa, another in Plymouth England. While planning the first reunion I was accused of being trapped in the mid-70s, thankfully the Sacramento Bee did a story on mural I painted and I did a how-to segment for the Home and Garden Channel. For five reunions I’ve planned now I have been overly praised by some and overly insulted by others. Oh, what a fascinating cultural anthropological experiment this has been.
* ULYSSES TORASSA (San Mateo)Bounced. torassa@sfchronicle.comWent to college in Ohio, ended up back east for 20 years, working mostly as a newspaper reporter. In 1998 I came back to be the medical writer for the San Francisco Examiner. I interviewed Jane Weirick for a story about her "clubs." The Examiner staff merged into the Chronicle in 2000, so I'm now health writer for the Chron. Am also a landlord. Currently living in a funky three-unit compound in Richmond.
*LIZ VAN HOUTEN/VIGIL(San Mateo)Bounced. pandora@astound.net. Married in 1979, divorced 1985 became a mother in 1982. Animal Technician for 10 years. Administrative Assistant/student for about 5 years. Became Certified Massage Therapist in 1996. Currently working for a chiropractor in San Francisco and trying to build a private practice. Clean and sober since 1990. Patchholder in clean and sober motorcycle club for 4 years. Son has now moved out, I'm a free spirit again and having a blast! Have been living in Concord for 14 years. * WALTER VOELLER (Sacramento) waltvoeller@hotmail.com I'm going to Alaska next week to start a job as a fly fishing guide. I had been working as a bellhop in the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone Park for the last 10 years and I'm still hooked on that place too. I'd love to hear from some of the folks that went to Asilomar '75- '79 as well as some of the Berkeley,Oak. ,Sac. crowd from those years. For the next 5 months you can reach me at Walt Voeller, c/o General Delivery, Sterling, Alaska (I forget the zip but I'm sure you can look it up.) Or anything can be passed through my Mom.* MELISSA WORTMAN (SF)melissa94960@yahoo.com I share a house in San Anselmo with husband Jeff. Graduated from Mills College in 1980, in theater design. Worked in Bay Area costume shops as designer, shop manager, and basic grunt for 20 years - ACT, Beach Blanket Babylon, Lamplighters, Oakland Ballet, Lucasfilms. Took a break - worked for In Defense of Animals (PETA's little sister) for a year, then as a textile designer for 2 years. Currently recovering from recent brain surgery, freelancing as a designer, and deciding where to go from here. * ELLEN WORTMAN (now Belton) lives in Durham CA on a small organic farm with husband Rob, son Jack (12), son Will (9) and most adored collie Trevor. Graduated from Chico State with a Nursing Degree - has worked as a nurse in Chico ever since. Spends her spare time training for marathons with Beth, creating costumes and knitting. * BETH WORTMAN (Dooney) lives in Chico CA with husband George, son Brian (12) and beloved collie Prince. Graduated from Chico State, & has worked for many years selling jewelry to "Chico's elite". Spends her spare time training for marathons with Ellen & gardening. JANE WEIRICK passed away October 25th, 2005 at age 45. Jane had been incapacitated by a mysterious nerve disorder for the past year. According to her doctor, she may have suffered an allergic reaction from exposure to a pesticide that was sprayed on medicine she handled. She died peacefully and unexpectedly. (To make it easier for the serious LRYer to surf and to save hours on web maintenance, the list on this particular site contains only people who went to at least three out-of-town conferences during 1974 and 1975.)
We hate to say this: This is a privately owned site. There were just a couple people who took advantage of LRY's openness and ripped people off. We forgive you, but we reserve the right not to list you in the directory and don't want to spend the afternoon with you.
