ClassNotes

Danielle Perkins '04 and Nicolas Tully were married on Aug. 3, 2012, in Sonoma. Fellow alum who joined them include Paula (Kozlak) Larson '86, Sue (Kozlak) Richards '88, Toby Richards '88, David Hatfield '91, Claire Elam '04, Chrissy Kennedy '04, Holly (Bettencourt) Moraes '04, Brandina (Morrison) Jersky '04, Meredith (Groff) Rietdorf '04, David Rietdorf '04, Hannah Hepfer '05, and Colleen Skinner '06. Danielle and Nick live in San Francisco.

Ken Philipp MBA ’04 has joined Ensim Corporation as its VP of sales and business development. Mr. Philipp joins Ensim from CA Technologies and brings an extensive background in the automation, virtualization, and cloud markets with more than 20 years of professional sales and leadership experience. He started his career at IBM and has held executive positions with several virtualization startups including Akimbi and Fastscale (both acquired by VMware), Solidcore (acquired by McAffee) and 4Base Consulting (acquired by CA Technologies). Ensim is the leading software platform that enables automation and orchestration for ordering, service catalog, provisioning, and billing of business users, applications, services, and infrastructure in private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

Christine Peek J.D. ’04 was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2012 Edition - Rising Stars. Recognizing the premier up-and-coming attorneys in the region, approximately two percent of the Northern California Bar received this distinction. Peek maintains a general civil litigation practice, focusing on constitutional law and lawsuits against government entities. She has experience litigating state and federal constitutional issues in a wide variety of contexts, including business regulation, nuisance, takings, election law, public employment, compassionate use, selective enforcement, illegal search and seizure, and excessive force cases. She is an active member of the Santa Clara Bar Association, currently serving on its Appellate Courts Committee.

Lisa Hickey '04 was named principal at Juana Briones Elementary School in Palo Alto. Hickey has served as an elementary school principal in Cupertino Union School District since 2005. Most recently, she was principal at Meyerholz School, directing both a neighborhood population and a Mandarin immersion program.

Ron Hansen M.A. ’95, M.Div. ’04 is this year’s recipient of the Evil Companions Award, which honors a writer who hails from the West or writes about it. Hansen is an Omaha native who teaches literature at Santa Clara University. He has earned numerous honors in his four decades as a novelist, essayist and short-story writer, including the status of creating one of the longer and more intriguing titles in contemporary fiction: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Bryce Davidson '04 has joined the staff of Davidson Insurance in Vancouver, Washington. He previously worked as a Manager at Ernst and Young in San Francisco for nearly eight years.

Michelle E. Curtis '04 J.D. '08 and Joseph Harris, Jr. were married on July 28, 2012 in Tiburon, Calif. Bronco attendees included Betsy Conway '04, Jenny DeVoto '03, Leila (Khalil) Lewis '02, Hayley (Fullerton) Servatius '02 and Matt Servatius '02, MBA '11. The couple resides in San Francisco and St. Helena.

Michael Baranick '04 and Erin (Rieger) Baranick '04 welcomed their first child, Nolan James, on Oct. 4, 2012. The family lives in Seattle.