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Alumni
in the News - June, 2006
From the Orchards to Harvard -- Alum Makes the Leap to Aid Others
As a child, Martin Curiel (B.S., Civil Engineering, 1998) worked through the fields of California, Oregon and Washington with his family as a migrant farm worker. He came to Cal Poly a year after surviving a car crash in which his father died, along with several other migrant workers. After earning his engineering degree, he went to work for Texaco -- then went on to Harvard, where he earned an M.B.A. Now a consultant with Deloitte & Touche, he strives to help others from migrant families -- and urged University of Texas students to do the same. Curiel gave the keynote speech this month at the College Assistance Migrant Program at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
Read the Brownsville Herald story on Curiel
Architecture Grad Merges Business with Michigan Firm
Architect Roberta Jorgensen (B.AR., Architecture, 1975) has designed projects including a seismic retrofit at UC Irvine, the renovation of Corona del Mar State Beach and the Children's Center at Golden West College. She has joined forces with Michigan-based Rossetti Architects to form Rossetti/Jorgensen. Rossetti designed the Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, and Ford Field, the Detroit Lions stadium and site of the 2006 Super Bowl. Jorgensen will continue to operate her 14-person office in Cannery Village on Balboa Island. The Newport practice will become the Orange County office of Rossetti/Jorgensen, which will have about 100 employees.
Read the full Daily Pilot story
Roommates Making Waves with Mendocino Development Proposal
Mark Mitchell (B.S., Construction Management, 1991), chief executive of Origin Construction, Inc., in Fort Bragg, and Matt Boeger (B.S., Ag Business, 1992), a principal in the family-owned Boeger Land Development Co. in Gridley (Butte County) are making headlines in Northern California. The two are proposing a Tuscan-style resort community on the shores of Clear Lake. The two alumni were roommates at Cal Poly.
Read the San Francisco Chronicle Story
Physics Grad is Part of Las Vegas Political, Historic Dynasty
In Nevada, the Foley family name dates back to silver mining times and is synonymous with law and politics. Richard Meyer (B.S., Physics, 2004), a member of the oft-elected Foley clan, is on the path to a career in public service -- and was part of a recent Las Vegas Review-Journal feature on the family. Meyer, 24, is working at the nonprofit Breakthrough Technologies Institute in Washington, D.C., where he will compile databases on companies involved in hydrogen fuel-cell production and help craft public messages about energy sources beyond fossil fuels.
Read the full Review-Journal story
Alum Named CFO at British Investment Management Firm
John E. Hapke (B.S., Business Administration, 1976) has been named Chief Financial Officer at Rockwater Hedge, LLC, an investment management firm that offers municipal bond investing strategies to institutional and high net-worth investors. He has previously served as Managing Director at MyCFO, and as an audit partner for Deloitte & Touche, serving a wide range of both public and private companies. At Cal Poly, Hapke graduated with highest honors.
Read the full article in HedgeWeek UK
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