Alumni (since 1992) of the
Physics Department of Whittier College.

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Class of 1993	Class of 1999	Class of 2004
Class of 1994	Class of 2000	Class of 2005
Class of 1995	Class of 2001	Class of 2006
Class of 1996	Class of 2002	Class of 2007

Class of 1992

Todd Wong, Shannon Runyon, Irvin Henderson

Shannon Runyon

(This info entered September 2001)
Shannon was married in 1995 to Cory Saget and they lived in Richland, WA where Shannon worked for D.O.E. on the cleanup of the Hanford site. Then they moved back to Hawaii and Shannon finished her Masters in Education and worked as a math and physics teacher for a while. Shannon then worked at a biotech company called Aquasearch.  She is currently working as a consultant. Her e-mail address is SNsaget@aol.com . She visitied Whittier in Spring 2003 and we took a picture. Click here and have a look.

Irvin Henderson

(Info current as of 1999) Irvin finished his MBA at Cornell University in Ithaca N.Y. and is now working in NYC for Deutsche Banc. His e-mail address is irvin.henderson@db.com

Class of 1993

Kolya Kaposhilin, Cal Hose

Kolya Kaposhilin

(This info entered Feb.2001)
Kolya works at StrategicApps ConsuIting Pte Ltd. and is currently (2/15/01) living in Singapore. If you would like to contact him his email address is nkaposhilin@strategicapps.com  or at nkaposhilin@pacific.net.sg

Cal Hose

Cal married Rebecca Risse (class of '92) and they live in Las Vegas with their two children Kila and Zachary. Cal is a self-employed software contractor. He designs, builds and integrates databases. His e-mail address is cahouse@hotmail.com

Class of 1994

Ed Yuh, Brent Killey, Eric Isakson, Konomi Shimada (3-2 engineering)

Ed Yuh

Ed worked as an engineer at Klune Industries here in Southern California. The last I heard he was working on a teaching credential at CSU Northridge.

Brent Killey

Brent is teaching physics at La Serna High School in Whittier.

Eric Isakson

Sadly Eric passed away on August 6, 1995. He died of a rare heart disease. He is sorely missed.

Konomi Shimada

Konomi received her Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1995 and then worked for Cymer Inc doing "a lot of project management jobs" as well as opto-mechanical design. She is now in Tacoma, WA working at Intel where she is a Senior Mechanical Engineer in their R&D facility studying heat sink designs. She got married in May of 2000 to Andy Wilt. Her e-mail address is konomi_wilt@yahoo.com (This information was updated on 2/8/05)

Class of 1995

Chris McIntosh, Bart Hutton, James Collins, David Wilson (3-2 engineering)

Chris McIntosh

(This info updated September 2006)

Chris entered the Physics graduate program at Lehigh University in Fall 1995 and has since completed his Ph.D. He is now Head of Laser Module Development for Keopsys (Key Optical Systems). His email address is cmcintosh@keopsys.com.

Bart Hutton

Bart is living in Brooklyn. He was teaching 5th, 6th, and 8th grade physical science for a while but is now self-employed. His email address is Bhutton111@aol.com.

James Collins

Last I heard James was working in technical support. His email address was jas-collins@bigfoot.com.

David Wilson

(This info updated November 2006)

David is living in Ypsilanti, MI and is working as a chassis engineer for Toyota. The latest Tundra (2007 model year) was completed by his suspension design team (product development). His e-mail address is david.wilson@tema.toyota.com

Class of 1996

John McLaughlin, Megan Taylor, Mason Rourman, Chris Yeager, Ami Lloyd, Rob Williams (3-2 engineering)

John McLaughlin

John completed a Master's degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Stanford University. The last I heard he was working for WET Design a company that designs water displays (his company designed the water display at the Bellagio in Las Vegas).His e-mail address is jmclaughlin@wetdesign.com.

Megan Taylor

After earning her M.S. in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, Megan traveled for a year or two. She married Ben Hubble (class of '95) in 2003 (go to www.benandmegan.com for pictures, notice Prof. Joe Price officiating and Rob Williams as best man) and they are living in Las Vegas. They are expecting their first child in July. Ben has his own Web design business, and Megan is now doing freelance writing and editing. She can be contacted at megant4@yahoo.com or on her Web site, http://www.geocities.com/megant4/.   (This information was updated on 2/8/05).

Mason Rourman

Mason received a Master's degree in Physics from Cal. State Fullerton. and is now working for Hughes Corporation. His e-mail address is mason@misha.fullerton.edu

Chris Yeager

Chris is working for a newspaper in Prescott, Arixona, doing computer graphics and desktop publishing. His e-mail address is dyeager@primenet.com

Ami Lloyd

(This info entered March 2001)
Ami received her teaching credential from Whittier College and now teaches high school in the Silicon Valley area where she moved with her husband, Rob Williams. Ami is teaching Math and Physics at Palo Alto HS and also coaching Volleyball. Her email address is awilliams@pausd.palo-alto.ca.us.

Rob Williams

(This info entered March 2001)
Rob was working as an integrated circuit designer for hi/fn (www.hifn.com) in San Jose. He left Hi/fn in '98 to form Invertex which then got bought by Cacheflow in late '99. He can be reached at rob@pureagave.org.  He and Ami Lloyd were married on 2/15/97. Click here to see a wedding picture.

Class of 1997

Michael Ambrose, Craig Barres, Edward Camacho, Joshua Worley, Tina Bachanos, Kevin St.Jean, Meghan Miller

Mike Ambrose

Mike now teaches and is the chair of both the science and math departments at Connelly High School in Orange County. In 2003 he was selected as one of "Ten Teachers Making a Difference" by OC Family Magazine. His email address is MAmbrose@connellyhs.org

Craig Barres

Craig is working for Boeing near Salt Lake City. His e-mail address is craig.m.barres@boeing.com

Edward Camacho

Ed is working for Boeing in Anaheim. His e-mail address is edward.p.camacho@boeing.com or ecama10655@aol.com

Josh Worley

Josh went to Caltech to pursue a Ph.D. in Math.

Tina Bachanos

Tina is working for Boeing in Anaheim. Her e-mail address is tina.a.bachanos@boeing.com

Kevin St.Jean

Kevin worked for Boeing in Anaheim for a few years and then with a company called Silicon Valley Group, Inc. in Orange, CA. He is now (as of July 2001) working for Raytheon as a System Engineer for Radar Design. Kevin's e-mail address is parrot_head74@yahoo.com or Kevin_B_St.Jean@West.Raytheon.com

Meghan Miller

(This info updated September 2006)

Meghan graduated from Columbia University with a MS in mining engineering and applied geophysics and then from Cornell University with a M.Eng. in Geological Science, modeling fluid flow in sedimentary basins using seismic data. Meghan lived in San Fransisco for 3 years working for the US Geological Survey and then a 3D software company. In 2006 she received her Ph.D. in geophyics and tectonics from the Australian National University in Canberra and is currently (Fall 2006) a postdoc at Rice University. Her email address is meghan.s.miller@rice.edu.

Class of 1999

Denise Godfrey

Joined the family business of growing and selling tropical indoor plants - bromeliads and orchids and is happily married and residing in North San Diego County with husband Will and crazy dog Wolfgang. Her e-mail address is denise@olivehill.net

Class of 2000

Greg Miller, Miguel Salazar, Kaleonui Hui

Greg Miller

(Updated 1/12/06) Greg is in graduate school in math at UC Riverside.

Miguel Salazar

Miguel graduated from medical school at UC Irvine in Spring 2004. He is currently (July 2004) working at UCI Medical Center in Orange in the coronary intensive care unit.  His email address is miguelas@uci.edu

Kaleonui Hui

Kaleo went on to graduate school in physics at CSULB.

Class of 2001

Georgi Gospodinov, Apolinar Quintero, Aaron Mickelson, Robert Benavides, Chad Takahashi, Dennis Soto

Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi is a mathematics graduate student at Brandeis University.

Robert Benavides

Robert is working in forensics.

Chad Takahashi

Chad is pursuing a higher degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii.

Dennis Soto

Dennis maintains the computer network for a firm in the So. Cal. area.

Aaron Mickelson

Aaron recently (Fall 2006) got accepted to the medical school at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. His email address is amick389@yahoo.com.

Class of 2002

Dan Hill



Radha Pertaub

(Updated 12/1/06) Radha is working in the Boston area, helping to design and make optical instruments. Her email address is rpertaub@hotmail.com.

Brett Sickmiller

Brett is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Virginia.

Class of 2003

Suzanne Fodor Robert Utter Sue Jean Park

Robert Utter

Robert got his Masters degree in Physics from Cal. State, Fullerton and is now teaching physics.

Sue Jean Park

Sue Jean is taking more classes in preparation for applying to Medical School.

Class of 2004

Chris Kellstrom Ghalib Bello Kalina Gospodinova Seth Miot Roberto Alcazar

Michael May (not shown in the picture) graduated with a B.A. in Physics from Whittier College through the 3-2 Engineering Program.

Chris Kellstrom

Chris is studying engineering at Washington University in St. Louis

Ghalib Bello

Ghalib attended Louisiana Tech, in the M.S. program in computational analysis & modeling. He will be going to Ohio State in the Fall of 2005 to join their biophysics program and work toward his Ph.D.

Class of 2005

Miguel Franco

Miguel is working as an Associate Scientist at Beckman Coulter, where he tests and debugs lab automation equipment, both hardware and software. He has now been accepted into the Biomedical Engineering Masters program at UCLA. His email address is miguel@basicdc.com.

Dipesh Bhatterai

Dipesh is working as a research assistant for Prof. Piner in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at Whittier College. He analyzes radio telescope data to determine the behavior of quasars.

Mehreen Mahmud

Mehreen is in graduate school at the University of Cork, Ireland.

Class of 2006

Matt Mariani Niraj Poudel

Class of 2007

Parthan Vishvanathan Niraj Pant