2019 Menlo Athletic Hall of Fame inductees (back row, left to right) Kenny Diekroeger ’09, David Stewart ’84, Will Tashman ’09, Jackie Shepard Caldwell ’09, Daniel Hoffman ’09, (front row, left to right) Jerry Rice, Jr. ’09, Alison Dohrmann Revell ’99, and Derek Yecies ’04 (Not pictured: Michi Bittner Berle ’99 and Madi Shove ’09)David Stewart ’84, Michi Bittner Berle ’99, Alison Dohrmann Revell ’99, Derek Yecies ’04, Jackie Shepard Caldwell ’09, Kenny Diekroeger ’09, Daniel Hoffman ’09, Jerry Rice, Jr. ’09, Madi Shove ’09, and Will Tashman ’09 were all inducted into Menlo’s Athletic Hall of Fame as part of Homecoming and Reunions weekend on Oct. 12, 2019. Each athlete was presented by a friend, family member, or coach who lauded their accomplishments in the pool, on the court, and on the field, but also emphasized their positive character and the effect they had on teammates and the Menlo community. You can see more pictures from the Hall of Fame ceremony and reunions in our online photo gallery.

Randal Heller ’71 is semi-retired, living on the New Hampshire seacoast with his wife, Pamela. After a 30-year career in pharmacy practice, 26 of which were with the Department of Defense, he hung up the smock, returned to school, earned his elementary school teacher’s certification, and taught grade school for five years. He is now a certified recovery coach involved in local and state politics.

Rick Stamm ’73 (pictured) tells us he’s retired from AT&T International Mobility after seventeen years in information technology. While his professional life in the Pacific Northwest spanned public and private sector consulting, project management, technical requirements development, and organizational development, he also spent time writing. He has published a self-help book titled Achieving Lasting Happiness and an adventure thriller called Under Big Sky, both of which are available in both e-book or physical formats on Amazon. Rick says that in addition to writing he enjoys hiking, skiing, and mountain biking.

Kelly Wyatt Atkinson ’84 returned to Menlo to see this year’s production of Cabaret. Her niece, sophomore Amy Wyatt, played Frӓulein Schneider, the same role Kelly, herself, played in Menlo’s 1983 production. (Pictured, left to right: Amy, Kelly, and Amy’s father and Kelly’s brother, Mike Wyatt ’86.)

Former drama instructor Steve Gill also attended the production and had the opportunity to meet with Kelly and Jennifer Gregory ’84, who played Frӓulein Kost in 1983. (Pictured, left to right: Steve; Jennifer; Kelly’s parents, Tom Wyatt and Sheila Wyatt; and Kelly.)

Eric Reveno ’84 was named associate head coach of the Georgia Tech men’s basketball team ahead of the 2019-20 season. Eric joined the Georgia Tech staff in 2016 after seven years as an assistant coach at Stanford University and then 10 years as head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of Portland.

Allison Brennan ’87 updates us that her family moved from California to Arizona in summer 2019. Her oldest child has started at the Phoenix Police Academy, her second child moved to New York City and is the assistant art director for a major children’s book publisher, and another child started college at Texas Tech this past year. She is also proud to announce she sold a new four-book FBI thriller series to a new publisher, with the first title, THE THIRD TO DIE, going on sale in February of 2020. Meanwhile, she’s also continuing her mystery series with St. Martin’s Press, with the 16th book coming out in April 2020.

Cristi Creegan ’87 (pictured) says she’s “lived in South Lake Tahoe for an unbelievable 22 years, despite its lack of a real bookstore, good Chinese food, and wholesale delivery of The New York Times.” She currently works as interim executive director of Live Violence Free, an organization that combats domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Cristi adds that she and her husband, Bernard, co-founded a successful co-working space in the area, Cowork Tahoe, and that their daughters, Darby and Tessa, “are happy, independent young women.”

David Zetland ’87 says, “I’ve passed my five-year mark teaching at Leiden University College, a liberal arts college that’s now ranked No. 1 in the Netherlands. Besides this fun job and enjoying life in Amsterdam, I have been enjoying my new hobby: the Jive Talking podcast. I’ve already had Mark McGee on the show and would love to talk to other alumni of the class of ’87. Look me up!”

On Oct. 12, 2019, (pictured left to right) Michael Wong ’89, Brad Maze ’89, Ian Henderson ’89, Linda Knoll ’89, Peter Maletis ’89, Buffie Ward Williams ’89, Vard Curtis ’89, Chrissie Cutting ’89, Kevin Miller ’89, Marius Falster ’89, and Stephanie Maines Peters ’89 met in Portola Valley at Zott’s, also known as Alpine Inn, for a pre-reunion reunion.

Sophia Zahoudanis Kinell ’04 is in the midst of hosting a film screening series in San Francisco. The second of three parts screened at the Vogue Theater on October 29 and featured Kusama: Infinity, a documentary about contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Katherine Strong ’11 presented at the 48th New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in Eugene, Oregon on October 9th, giving a talk entitled, “Linking power and prestige: Gender, oration, and variable affrication in Ende.” She researches sociophonetic variation in understudied languages and is especially interested in the linguistic outcomes of power in multilingual, minority, and endangered language communities. She is a PhD student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and plans to advance to candidacy in 2020. Her current projects include collaborations with speakers of Ende (Papua New Guinea) and Kanowit Melanau (Malaysia).

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