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CLASS NOTES

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James H. Jackson was honored as the 2017 Santa Barbara Nicholas Miller runs the sales team for his family’s vineyards and
County Volunteer of the Year by the Association of Fundraising wineries in Paso Robles and Santa Barbara County. He is especially
Professionals at a ceremony held on November 14, 2017 at The proud of being named to the first class (2013) of Top 40 under 40
Fess Parker Doubletree. Jim has been a member and former chair Tastemakers in America by the Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
of the board of the Braille Institute of America. He is currently
serving his fourteenth year on the board of the Cancer Center/ 2005
Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara, where he co-chaired the
campaign steering committee in its efforts to fund the newly com- Robyn (Richards) Parker, her husband, Jess, and daughter,
pleted Elings Oncology building for the recently renamed Ridley Paisley, welcomed Skye Rose to the family on March 28.
Tree Cancer Center. He also served on the board of Direct Re-
lief, co-chaired the campaign to rebuild the children’s wing of the 2013
Santa Barbara Public Library, and served on the capital campaign Clarissa Coburn is working for Giving Compass, a new startup
for the cabinets of All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and company in Seattle.
Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM). A longtime Laguna
supporter, Jim has served two stints—totaling twelve years—on Daria Etezadi writes in, “I’ve been working as the Philanthropic
the Laguna Blanca Board of Trustees. Partnerships Coordinator at National Geographic Society since
1993 January 2018. Nearly a month after I started, a colleague of mine
asked me to collaborate on the distribution of the remaining funds
Elizabeth Adler was in town for spring break and dropped by in the National Geographic Society’s Afghan Children’s Fund,
campus to show her daughter, Izzy, her old kindergarten given that I had previous work experience at the U.S.-Afghan
LAGUNA BLANCA MAGAZINE Center. Elizabeth graduated from UCSB with a bachelor’s with the Ayenda Foundation and support the launch of a co-ed
classroom, which is now Laguna’s Academic Services
Women’s Council. By working together, we were able to connect
degree in theatre and later moved to Canada to start her own
seventh grade class in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. I even got the chance
musical theatre company, Turner & Adler Productions, with
to work with Liz Baker ’02, a Laguna alumna who sits on the
her best friend. She currently lives in Kimberley, British Columbia.
Ayenda Board. This brought the entire effort full circle to my
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