Michele Coulon is a self-taught pastry chef and owner of Michele Coulon Dessertier at 7556 Fay Ave. She is the daughter of Don and Arlene Coulon, retired owners and chefs of the Belgian Lion Restaurant. The Coulon family lived in Paris, France during Michele’s high school years. Many trips were made to her father’s native Liege, Belgium where she said she was greatly influenced by the cooking (and especially baking) of his family.
Jacqueline A. Bell is vice president of the Bird Rock Community Council. She also serves on the board of the San Diego Women’s Foundation. Bell holds the designations Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in history and science. Since joining Dowling & Yahnke in 2007, she’s been a member of the firm’s investment and marketing committees, as well as its management team.
Mel Bartholomew is the author of “Square Foot Gardening,” from Rodale Press (1981 and updated in 2006) that sold two-million copies thus far, making it one of the bestselling garden books in America. Its success led Bartholomew to create the non-profit Square Foot Gardening Foundation with humanitarian projects all over the globe. Its mission: Solve world hunger by using the “teach a man to fish” theory. Participants actually teach mothers and children how to feed themselves using the SFG method.
Doug Ramsey, 60, joined UC San Diego in La Jolla in 2001 as the university was launching the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), where he is Director of Communications. He spent 30 years as a journalist covering technology and business for publications including The Economist (based in London and Tokyo), the Washington Post (in Brussels), and Newsweek (as Business and Technology Editor in New York), and later moved on-air to television at NBC News, Financial News Network, CNBC, and KUSI-TV in San Diego.
“Mal” Rafferty was born and raised in the west of Ireland. As an undergraduate, he studied at the University College Dublin and Trinity College. The recipient of an Irish/U.S. government fellowship, he completed graduate studies at UCLA School of Business in 1966 and joined the administration as a special assistant to the Dean of Extension. In 1974, he arrived in San Diego to begin a 35-year “stint” as the founding director of what was to become the University of San Diego’s Division of Continuing Education. Mal has been recognized as an innovative developer of professional and teacher-training programs, which have been presented worldwide.
Mark Quint grew up in La Jolla and graduated from La Jolla High School. He went to college at the San Francisco Art Institute and then taught art in Hawaii for five years. Quint moved back to La Jolla and opened a contemporary art gallery in 1981. Quint Gallery has held more than 250 exhibitions during the past 31 years. Located on Girard Avenue next to Harry’s Coffee Shop, the gallery is currently showing work by San Diego artist Jean Lowe.
Reid Meloy, Ph.D., is a board-certified forensic psychologist, author and researcher who consults on criminal and civil cases throughout the United States and Europe. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. He has received a number of awards [...]
Candace Carroll has lived in La Jolla for more than 20 years and is an appellate practitioner with Sullivan, Hill, Lewin, Rez & Engel. She has more than 30 years experience handling appeals in the federal and state courts, and has handled cases on a wide range of subjects, including contract disputes, insurance and indemnity issues, wrongful termination, intellectual property, personal injury and family law matters.
Eric J. Topol, M.D., is chief academic officer of Scripps Health and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a National Institutes of Health funded program of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium focused on advancing individualized medicine. He is also a senior consultant cardiologist practitioner at Scripps Clinic and professor of translational genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. He is the author of “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” a 2012 book that introduces the digital future of medicine and explores how digitization – through DNA sequencing, wireless health devices and online social networks – will fundamentally change the medical field for both professionals and patients.
Audrey Keane was born in Columbus, Ohio and studied biology and chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After working for Diamond Shamrock and Genzyme during its start-up phase, she attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and earned an M.B.A. Keane has lived in La Jolla for 25 years, working for a variety of biotechnology companies, including Quidel, Telios, Sequana Therapeutics, Genset, and Genteon. Highlights include negotiating corporate partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, participating in IPOs, and the international experience of working with Paris-based Genset. During recent years, she has been involved in volunteer activities with the local schools, was a Girl Scout Leader, and is currently chair of the La Jolla Shores Association.
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