Menlo News April 04, 2018

Catching up with Menlo alumni: April

News and notes shared by Menlo alumni near and far
Kate Park '14, shown here during her senior year at Menlo, was recently selected to receive the prestigious Frederick Emmons Terman Engin...

Howard Elkus ’55 passed away in his sleep on April 1, 2017, at his home in Palm Beach. He was a renowned architect who co-founded Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects and had a major hand in buildings that transformed that city’s downtown, as described by The Boston Globe’s appreciation.

George Miller ’60 tells us he’s now a photographer and will be moving away from the Northeast this year. He writes, “This is my last New England winter. I’m still a California boy.”

Mark Curtis ’74 and Mark Douglass ’77 were both ranked in the top 10 of Barron’s top financial advisors in California.

John Matteson ’79 joined an exclusive club when his book, Eden’s Outcasts, served as the subject of a clue on Jeopardy! John, who appeared on the show in the late 1980s, doesn’t know how many other people have been on Jeopardy! both as a contestant and as a clue, but he’s happy to be one.

DeAndre Garner ’88 has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and plans to move to Vermont with duty at Norwich University in the ROTC program.

Kate Park ’14 was selected to receive the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award for distinguished academic performance at Stanford University. Each year, Terman awards go to the top five percent of senior engineering majors at the school.

Jun Ru Anderson ’17 won a Grand Prize at the Brown University Datathon on March 4 for her project that sought to show if ratings of scholarly articles are correlated with gender.

Andrew Yock ’17 was part of a team from the University of Southern California that won the annual Medical Make-a-thon at the University of California, Davis in February. Yock’s team beat out 14 other teams in a competition “to build a device that speeds up the production process of gel plates used in the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis – a soil fungus native to the San Joaquin Valley of California — hence, its other name, Valley Fever.”

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