Santa Clara Magazine

On June 23, 2012, Fr. Michael McCarthy married Austin Hamilton Woody '08 and Meghan Gonyea Madden '10 in the Santa Clara Mission, where the couple first met. Austin graduated from the Leavey School of Business with a degree in Accounting and Meghan graduated from the School of Arts and Sciences with degrees in Combined Sciences and French and Francophone Studies. This spring, Austin received his Master's in Global Policy Studies with an emphasis in International Trade and Finance from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Meghan graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center with her Master's in Public Health and began medical school at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. The couple now resides in Austin, TX.

Bobby Lorenzen ’09 and Julienne Syme ’10 were married at Mission Santa Clara on July 14. The wedding party included fellow Broncos William Syme ’08, John Lorenzen ’11, Riley Coon ’09, Adrienne Syme ’12 and Alexandra Hagerty ’08; over 60 additional alumni were in attendance. The newlyweds will live in San Francisco.

The Western New York Flash has signed Katherine Reynolds ’10 to its National Women’s Soccer League roster. Reynolds most recently played for the German club SC Freiburg.

Micael Nunes M.S. ’10 recently joined Ernst & Young's Operational Transaction Services Practice as a senior consultant.  He will be working on assisting clients' execution of M&A transactions from multiple levels (technology, finance, etc.). He writes, "Really excited about my new position and using the skills learned at SCU."

Brittany Luckham '10 earned a master's in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in family psychology, from Azusa Pacific University in July 2012. She will continue her studies towards a Psy.D.

Jenna Torosian '10 married Nicholas Fabino (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) on July 7, 2012, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Included in the wedding party were three fellow Broncos: maid of honor Kelly Torosian '14, and bridesmaids Kathryn Leahy '10 (current MBA student) and Laura Skinner '10. The newlyweds are happily settling into married life in Santa Barbara. Jenna recently joined the global wealth management group at Merrill Lynch, and Nick is a global sourcing engineer with Moss Motors.

Sara Sorto ’08, M.A. ’10 married Dave Carvalho in Los Gatos, Ca on October 7, 2012. They live in Santa Clara where Sara teaches at Santa Clara High.

Jeffrey Adams ’10 is appearing in the new play Animals, presented by Wide Eyed Productions, which follows a group of “twenty-somethings” kicking around their suburban hometown. The play is running as part of the FringeNYC Festival 2012 at the Kraine Theatre in New York City in August. Adams is also working on his MFA at the New School for Drama.

Emmett Winters '11 and Alyson Okamura ’10 on May 25, 2012, at The Modern Honolulu in Hawaii.

Mark Vetto ’11 is in his second year as a Jesuit Volunteer with Mental Health Advocacy Project, in San Jose, Calif. Based in four core values—social justice, simple living, community, and spirituality—Jesuit Volunteer Corps offers women and men an opportunity to work full-time for justice and peace. JVs serve the poor directly, working for structural change in the United States and in developing countries.

Justin Porter MBA ’11 has been elected to the board of director's for COMMON, the world's largest group of IBM and IBM-compatible information technology users. Porter is the director of technology for Westside Produce in Firebaugh, Calif.

Christopher Noller '11 writes: "My daughter, Hazel Anne Noller just turned 3 and she loves her new balllet dance classes at the YMCA."

Jackie (Goodall) Ellwood ’11, former marketing and musical theatre student, leader of Supertonic!, Pit Band member and jazz enthusiast, married her high school sweetheart, Ryan Ellwood, in February 2012.

Emily Burke ’11 is in her first year as the volunteer coach with the Bronco volleyball team, working primarily on camp and office work.  She also works with practice planning. In the past year Emily coached at Archbishop Mitty High School as the JV head coach as well as coached club for Vision Volleyball club.  She has worked at the Santa Clara summer camps for the past four years.

Pravin Boddu MBA ’11 published a satire on India, Drifting Democracy—India: from a Common Man's Perspective, which is available via Amazon CreateSpace.

Kristina Marie Woodcock ’12 has accepted a position teaching English in Nice, France.