Jim Toole ’53 sold his used bookstore, Capitol Hill Books, in Washington, D.C., after owning and operating it for 24 years. He earlier had a 30-year career in the surface ship U.S. Navy, where he made 10 deployments while assigned to eight commands at sea (five of which he commanded), earned seven Vietnam War campaign stars, and retired as a Rear Admiral.

David Bennett ’68 (pictured, in blue sweater), father of Ian Bennett ’98 and Robbie Bennett ’00, came back to Menlo for a discussion sharing firsthand stories about the Vietnam War era for sophomores reading Tim O’Brien’s classic book, The Things They Carried. Spieker Ballroom was standing room-only for the event. Look here to read more about it.

John Curry ’68 shared that he is set to travel to Cuba with his granddaughter this month along with a team from National Geographic.

Scott Barkley ’88 reports that he, Jim Hoppe ’88, and Bret Sokoloff ’88 (left to right, above) met in Auburn, Ala., for the Auburn-Texas A&M football game. This continues Scott’s tradition of meeting friends for big-time college football games that he began in the early 1990s when he, Greg Crawford ’88, and John Guzy ’89 attended games together while at college in the Midwest.

On December 3rd, Kimberley Yates Grosso ’88 was honored at the 21st Annual Food Allergy Ball in New York City for her work on food allergies. Kimberley works as a special advisor at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, and last year founded Latitude Food Allergy Care, a Redwood City clinic dedicated to serving families living with food allergies.

Ahna O’Reilly ’03 has been cast as former Fox News correspondent Julie Roginsky in a new film directed by Jay Roach about the late Roger Ailes. Roginsky sued the network, headed by Ailes, saying she was denied a spot on a mid-afternoon show because she rebuffed Ailes’s sexual advances.

Andrew Kortschak ’08 was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list for his work as co-founder and CEO of End Cue, a film production and software company.

This September, at the Southern Methodist University Family Weekend in Dallas, a slew of Menlo graduates met up: Nick Barrett ’18, Michael Boesch ’18, Hunter MacDonald ’18, Morgan Williams ’18, Jack Gold ’17, Justin Kasser ’17, Meg Sanford ’15, Will King ’14, Kevin Walker ’14, Bill Cochran ’84, and Amy Steiner Sanford ’84.

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