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January 2025

Mildred Wier-Jarvis, ’55, passed into spirit on July 11, 2024. Following a 23-year career with Bank of America, she and her husband of 68 years, Bruce Jarvis, ’60, moved to the Oregon coast. Until her death, much of her time was spent in volunteer service to the community.

Lesleigh J. Tolin, ’93, began her work in graduate school in her early 40's and graduated with her MS in Counseling Psychology. Today, she’s enjoying her solo private practice as a Grief/Loss Specialist in the Woodland Hills/Encino area of Southern CA.

BelloMichelle (Jacobson) Bello, ’96, and her husband Jon Bello, ’96, announce the marriage of Matthew Clegg, ’24, and Abigail Bello, ’24, on May 5, 2024. Many of their CBU friends were there, along with their church family from Fellowship Baptist Church.

 

 

GwachamAdaobi Gwacham, ’08, opened her second Chick-fil-A location in June 2023 and celebrated 10 years of her first location in December 2024.

 

 



RisingerStephanie (Atayde) Risinger, ’09, and her husband, Michael Risinger, ’12, moved from California to Kansas 10 years ago. In September of 2024, she began a new role at MidAmerica Nazarene University as the Director of Student Counseling & Wellness. Stephanie supervises the graduate students who provide counseling to the undergraduate students. She also provides training and serves as mental health consultant to staff and faculty. This semester she was given the opportunity to serve as adjunct faculty in the Master of Arts in Counseling program.

BossertAli (Barnes) Bossert, ’15, is an adjunct English professor at CBU and her husband, Jim Bossert, ’16, is the CBU Head Swim/Dive Coach. They met while on the swim team at CBU while graduate students. On December 22, 2024, they welcomed their second son, Samuel James Bossert.

 

 

CAVAD alumni Jordan Singer, ’15, won 6 ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association) top shelf book cover awards in 2024.

PradettoOn December 12, 2024, Joe Pradetto, ’16, was sworn in to the Palm Desert City Council.

 

 



WittSydney Witt, ’16, completed San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Emerging Leader Program. This was a one-year leadership training program where she took classes on how to be a better decision maker, handle difficult conversations, and more. Sydney ended the program by conducting a presentation with her cohort to their Executive team about a new team member benefit initiative which was accepted.

 

 

Amber (Korras) Alvarenga, ’18, graduated from CBU with her BS in Criminal Justice in 2016 and her MA in Forensic Psychology in 2018. She recently developed a mentorship program for mental health professionals as well as students working towards entering the field. The program is designed to help mental health professionals overcome self-doubt and imposter feelings.

KistlerSince graduating, Harlan Bartlett Kistler II, ’18, has become an English Teacher and the Head Wrestling Coach at John W. North High School in Riverside, CA. Since taking these roles, he has coached his teams to three League titles, three CIF Individual Champions, five Master's Place winners including one Champion, five State Qualifiers, two State medalists (5th and 2nd respectively). His team holds two Academic Team titles, and they are currently ranked 18th in the state for wrestling. Harlan has worked as an AP teacher, ELD Teacher, Academy Teacher, English teacher and a PE teacher.

SinesioNicole Sinesio, ’21, and her husband Kenton McLain, ’22, met at Cal Baptist just two short weeks after their freshman year began in 2018. They have just closed escrow on their first home in Fallbrook, CA. “We wanted to wait until we could afford the land, life, and wedding of our dreams,” she says. “We were not financially stable enough until now to make that happen. Now we are going to be seeing the fruits of our labor in the avocado capital of the world!”

 

NapoliJenna (Olson) Napoli, ’22, and her husband, Tim, were married on November 15, 2024.

 

 



PerkinsAlicia Perkins, ’22, became a licensed marriage and family therapist in December 2024. She also got engaged to a wonderful godly man, Phillip Inzunza, a few days before Christmas. “God has been blessing me greatly since graduating with a master’s in counseling psychology from CBU!” She says, “Thank you so much! Go Lancers!”

 

 

RichardsonTiara Richardson, ’22, is Director of Student Services with San Bernardino City Unified School District and is wrapping up her Ed.D in Organizational Leadership this month. Additionally, she was just accepted into Harvard’s Executive Education Leadership program on Behavioral Insight and Public Policy.

 

 

TrumanMadison “Madey” Jewel (Liscio) Truman, ’22, is a certified massage therapist and started a travel massage business. She has a love for pottery and shortly after getting her massage therapy certification, her pottery business, Madey Made Pottery Co., took off.

 

 

MetzlerMichael Metzler Jr., ’23, co-produced and co-directed his current short film, “Portrait of a Smile,” which won 16 awards out of 18 festival selections, including Best Drama in Reale Film Festival, and Best Indie Short at the World Film Festival in Cannes. He’s also waiting to hear back from some significant Oscar-qualifying film festivals. Michael is currently in the pre-production process for his next project, which will be a feature film.

 

 

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