Kevin Mapes, 88-93

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Kevin still lives in the bay area.

Family
Married Michelle Keller on New Year’s Eve 1995.  First date was her AO-Pi Pledge Dance.  They have a 7 yr old daughter, Saira; 3 yr old Son, Justin; and a newborn son, Brian.

Career
Aerospace Engineer.  Satellite design and Missle Defense.  Last job was Flight Software Manager

What do you do for fun?
Bike, soccer, basketball and Turkey bowl.

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
Larry Larson, Mike Pardini, Pat Horton, Jim Beers, Rob Ashe, Gary Zandstra and Marc Archidiacano but mostly I hang with the family.

Comments:
I suggest someone throw a party and invite me because I am a lot of fun.

Lance Wright, 86-93

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Lance lives in Watford, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
He’s in Facebook and LinkedIn

Family
1 Son, Leon

Career
I run a Sales and Marketing Consultancy

What do you do for fun?
Pub, Karaoke, Computing, Comedy

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
Mike Leong, Warren Schwartz, Mark Atkinson

Rob Thorson, 87-91

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Rob lives in Citrus Heights, CA.

Family
I married my college sweetheart, Karen, in 1993, and we have two boys, Nathan (8) and Trevor (5).

Career
I am working with Scott Jensen at his advertising agency as his media director.  We have been working together for the past four years.

What do you do for fun?
In my free time, I enjoy camping, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and coaching my boys sports teams.  I have been coaching baseball and soccer for the past few years, and I am going to begin coaching basketball in the near future.

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
I am still in contact with Scott Jensen, Steve Pyle, Dan Neumann, Ron Henares, Alex Alanis, Geno Ivaldi, and Dave Anderson.  I recently ran into Peter Hubacz at dinner, and I hope to see him more frequently.

Comments:
I appreciate all of the time and effort that Greg Barr puts into Theta Chi.  I look forward to and enjoy reading his emails very much.  While I only live about three hours from San Jose, I find it difficult to make the time to get back down to any of the fraternity functions, but I plan on making a greater effort in the near future.

Marcus Kong, 89

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Marcus lives in Fremont, CA. You can reconnect with him in Facebook and LinkedIn.

Family
My wife Kim (SJSU Chi Omega) and I got married in 1998.  We have 1 daughter, Kayla, who was born in June 2007.

Career
I’m the manager for technical support at Xythos Software.  We make a document management product.

What do you do for fun?
Spending time with my family, catching up with friends, golf, Facebook

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
Most often it’s Eric Almgren, Dave Yonemitsu, Mel Brown, Steve Pyle (at least once a year and before April 15) and now a bunch of guys on Facebook.

Rod Diridon, 88-93

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Rod lives in Santa Clara.

Family
Fiancee

Career
City Clerk and Auditor

What do you do for fun?
Race cars.  Work on political campaigns.  Eat, drink and be merry.

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
Dave Martz, Steve Pyle, Ian Champeny, Alex Alanis, Steve Vargas, Don Cecil, a couple of others

SOCIAL NETWORKING: The Cinebar … wait, that was 15 years ago.  I’ve moved up in the world to the Normandy House Lounge.

Comments:
Man, I miss you guys!

Mike Taylor, ’85-’90

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Mike lives in San Jose, CA.

Family
I met Jan In 1988 and little has change since. In 2008 I have the same wife, house and even the same phone number.

Career
Founder and CEO of Waterdogs Corporation

What do you do for fun?
flying, diving, gardening
somethings never change

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
About 25 brothers from mid 80s, including but not limited to
John Blenio, Briam Smith, Brett Scott.
Anyone see Kevin Delaney?

Comments:
I still use my THETA mini fridge, that I paid Randy Kardos $60 for, under my work bench to chill cokes and beers. $60= 22 years…what a deal.

Jeff Realini, ’85-’90

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SOCIAL NETWORKING: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1646910247

Family
Wife: Monica Son: Keith (14) Daughters:Soreya (9) & Isabella (5)

Career
Financial Analyst with Robert Half International, Running for City Council in Patterson (2008)

What do you do for fun?
Take care of my garden

Micah Harrel, 86-89

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SOCIAL NETWORKING: Facebook; LinkedIn

Family
Wife-Kaye; Michaela, age 6 and Benjamin, age 4

Career
Still at JH Technologies after 15 years, now as part owner.

What do you do for fun?
Soccer, Waterskiing

What Gamma Xi’s are you still in touch with?
more and more every day

Craig Kohlruss; 86-88

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Family
I have been married to my DZ wife, Donna, since 1991. We have two great sons, Randy and Jack, and have been residing in Clovis, CA since 1999.

Career
I am still currently on staff at The Fresno Bee newspaper as a photographer. I am working on a freelance photography career and will probably begin doing weddings soon.

What do you do for fun?
I like to hang out with my family, travel to the coast or mountains, wine, jazz, theater, cycling and just chillin’ in the backyard.

WEB SITE: http://www.craigkohlruss.com

SOCIAL NETWORKING:
http://www.myspace.com/fresnofoto
http://www.linkedin.com/in/suggers
http://www.flickr.com/people/craiger66
http://www.youtube.com/user/cek4966
http://twitter.com/suggers

Randy Luckman, 80-85

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Shane and Randy at SM

Shane and Randy at SM

Randy, also known as Luck-Boy, pledged Gamma Xi in 1980 and graduated in 1985 with an industrial engineering degree.

He lives in Folsom, CA with his wife Alexa and has two children, Amanda and Shane.

He has enjoyed a 23-year career as a fire protection engineer, and in his free time he enjoys ATV riding, camping, high sierra fishing, and playing softball, racquetball, tennis and weightlifting.