John Karayan - 1972
Bachelor of Science
Profession: Professor

Once again, I tried to get one of my kids to go to UCSD, and they didn't. Paul, our Chemstry major, is going up to Berkeley for his PhD. in organo-metallic catalysis. Was a great prof. at UCSD in this area, but he was just lured back to Germany.

Paul is a surfer, so I have hopes for a Scripps post-doc...He didn't get the Chemistry from my side of the family.

I entered Revelle as a math major in 1969 -- back when there were only about a dozen majors, and Muir was new.

In order to take a math class from Dr. Frankel, I transfered to Muir and thereby ducked a second quarter of P. Chem.

This also allowed me to graduate in 1972 and get married, the whole reason I went to college anyway. I then used my math skills unloading boxcars while I put my wife through USC undergrad, went to law school, became a tax lawyer and ended up professor of business.

My next shot at getting a kid to see the light and got to UCSD is my daughter, who won the math award at Pasadena Polytechnic High School and is taking calculus. But she is an underegrad Classics Major (Ancient Greek) at Wash. U. in St. Louis. Turns out that UCSD has a small but superb Classics program, too, so I have hopes for her coming for grad school.

Richard E. Sherman - 1973
Master of Arts - Mathematics
Profession: Consulting Actuary (33 years)

At the November national meeting of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Mr. Sherman was awarded the Dorweiler Prize. The prize is for the best professional paper published during the year by any Society member. Mr. Sherman previously won the same award in 1978. He has been a consulting actuary for 33 years.

Mr. Sherman's recent book, Bible Code Bombshell, went into a second printing this summer. The book is based on joint research with Israeli physicist, Nathan Jacobi, Ph.D. Mr. Sherman's website, www.biblecodedigest.com, receives an average of 2 million hits a month.