Lake Poway hike

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Lake Poway

A baker’s dozen of San Diego Eagles and friends trekked the Lake Poway Loop Trail Saturday morning.

Front row (l-r) Walid Soussou ’95, Lori Mahler P’11, Thomas Pelkey, Chloe Walker MSW’20, Bill McDonald ’68, and Paulette Cazares ‘98. Back row (l-r): Joe Mahler ’74 P’11, Claire Hendricks, Peter Schmitz ’23, Natalia Mendez ‘04, Katy Morrison MA’24, and Loren Diloreto MS’24. Lissa Tsu ’00 took the photo.

Selfie of Lissa, Bill, and the lake.

The group included several recent graduates and recent arrivals in San Diego. 

The trail is a 2.8-mile circle around Lake Poway. It is rated “easy” by AllTrails, with 456 feet of elevation gain. For what it’s worth, my steps total on the hike was above 10,000 (quite a few of them slow steps).

Views of the surrounding hills and, of course, the lake (at top) were a feature.

More hikes to come. Stay tuned!

Eagles & birdies redux

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L-R: Ailene Zhang ’21, Sara Hanover ’25, Bill McDonald ’68, and the coach, Fred Hanover P’25.

Two dozen San Diego Eagles, friends, and family took to the links Saturday to learn and to play.

On a very pleasant day (of which we have enjoyed so many recently), the group gathered at The Links at Lakehouse driving range in San Marcos initially for some instruction and guidance from Fred Hanover P’25, coach of the UCSD men’s golf team. Warmed up, the group then proceeded to the nearby Lakehouse executive course to play the front nine.

L-R: Ray Berube ’78 P’13 ’17, Ray Smith ’19, Justin Niles ’09, Brian Caddigan ’96, and Joe Mahler ’74 P’11.

L-R: Dennis Monahan ’82, Carole Monahan ’82, Brian Tsu ’00, and Margot Tsu.

This was the third year Coach Hanover has organized this event for the chapter and one of the features is a hole where players can “Beat the Coach” if their tee shot falls closer to the hole than his shot. It is perhaps a testament to his coaching that three players this year beat the coach’s shot.

Following golf, most of the group returned to the main course and enjoyed lunch at the Brickmans Restaurant.

Half the group at lunch.

 

Wreaths of honor

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More than a dozen San Diego Eagles and family members joined hundreds more Saturday at Miramar National Cemetery for the annual Wreaths Across America event. Ceremonies are held at national cemeteries across the country to remember the fallen, honor those who serve, and teach our children the value of freedom.

Opening ceremony in the fog.

The event began in heavy marine layer at the cemetery’s flag assembly area with brief speeches and ceremonies in which representatives of each of the armed forces placed a wreath while the songs that represent them were played. Then the crowd dispersed to place wreaths on individual headstones of veterans.

We went to section three of the cemetery to recognize in a special way a Boston College graduate before placing wreaths on other headstones in the section. William P. Beaton, who was a 1st Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and served in Korea, graduated from BC in 1954. He died November 25, 2014.

William Patrick Beaton, ’54

William Beaton, 1954 Sub Turri

He was born in Boston on September 16, 1932 in Boston. An avid reader, he held a life-long passion for politics, religion, and other intellectual topics, according to his family. He married Kathleen Anne Cashman on July 4, 1964 and they celebrated their 50th anniversary only months before his death.

For most of their married life, they resided in Connecticut, where they raised their four children.

Beaton worked as a labor relations specialist for several U.S. corporations. He was ordained a Deacon in the Catholic Church in 1998 and served in many churches in New Mexico.

He was survived by his widow and their four children, including Alexander Beaton of San Diego, along with seven grandchildren. Alex Beaton had intended to join us Saturday, but was taking his mother to a medical appointment that morning.