Posted Monday, June 5, 2006

More Alumni Reports
Our alumni are out in the world making a difference.

HCS Alums are truly the fruit of our labor. We love watching them leave Hillcrest and move into college and careers, families, and Christian service. If you have contact with any of our alumni, please drop us an email at alumnieditor@hillcrestcs.org. We’d love to let the entire school community know what God is doing in their lives. We would also appreciate recent photos.

Kyle Menger (2003) will be a Senior at APU in the fall, majoring in Business Administration is in the Honors Program, and has a Director's Scholarship. He is planning to continue with his studies, going to grad school for a Masters degree in Business Admin - maybe at APU, maybe elsewhere. Kyle is also working for APU in the IMT department - he is a personnel manager, which requires him to recruit, train, motivate and discipline approximately 60 students who work part-time for the University. Next year, he will be an editor for the Business school newspaper, and he is hoping to resume his APU weekly radio show.

Lauren McBeth (2002)graduated from Pepperdine in April, and is in the process of moving to Kansas City, Kansas to work. She has been working full time as in intern at a PR firm in Woodland Hills and was offered a full time position but had to turn it down since she is moving.

Travis Mendel (2002) is getting ready to finish his last year of school in the major of recreation management and event planning at CSUN. Over the summer he has plans to go to Louisiana to deliver a RV for a needy family and help in reconstruction down there. He also has big plans to possibly produce a concert up in Ventura. As he is working on all of his different projects, he is constantly listening to what GOD would have him do next. He is always looking for the next high adventure. Sailing or riding on a motorcycle to South America, as well as possibly returning to Germany are not far from his to-do list.

Kyle Jansen (2002) has 1 more year of school at the University of Hawaii. He then plans on attending grad school in California to get his degree in pharmacology.

Christine (Brown) Jessee (1994) got her BA in business from Vanguard University in Newport Beach, and post grad word from Cal Lutheran. She has been married for 8 years to Ben Jessee, has twin two year olds Audrey and Andrew. She runs a successful Mary Kay business, is a director with the company, and has earned 2 company cars. She also was formerly a teacher, first at Hillcrest and then at Monte Vista in Camarillo. She lives in Camarillo and has coordinated 4 hurricane relief teams to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Pascagoula through her church.

Jacob Rossi (2003) has been on the deans list since he started at USC, and this last semester he was inducted into the International Mechanical Engineers Honor Society. This summer he is doing a research project with Dr. Ronney, a professor at USC. Next semester he will be applying to grad school at USC, Cal Tech, UCLA, and UC Irvine.