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Saratoga Sampler
Cousins are crowding athletic hall of fame
By Mary Ann Cook
STUDENT ATHLETES: Here are a few first cousins who rack up athletic honors by the bushelful. Keri Walsh of Saratoga, daughter of Tim and Margie Walsh, is on a full volleyball scholarship at Stanford. She's a senior. Her first cousin Marcia Wallis, a 1999 Los Gatos High School graduate, is on a full scholarship at Stanford, too, this one for soccer.
Wallis will be inducted into the San Jose Sports Authority Hall of Fame as High School Athlete of the Year on Nov. 4. Walsh was accorded the same honor while a junior and senior at Archbishop Mitty High School.
The Saratogan was an All-American in both basketball and volleyball, and played in the Junior Olympics when her team won the national championship. Walsh was named 1995 Gatorade Circle of Champions National High School Player of the Year.
Her Los Gatos cousin's sports are soccer, golf and track. Besides championships in soccer and golf, Wallis ran on the cross country team that won the league title. She was on the national soccer team that represented the U.S. and won the gold medal in the Pan American Games this summer in Canada.
She was the leading scorer for all the teams in the tournament with seven goals and four assists. In golf she won the Central Coast section for women for the past three years. She played on the men's varsity teams and was captain and MVP during her junior and senior years.
Wallis was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame last year as a member of the Central Valley Mercury soccer team that won the national championship; she was the leading scorer at that one too. Academically she carries a 4.2 GPA.
Neither of her parents, Marcia or Dan Wallis, plays golf. But her brother Danny does: He's MVP on the varsity golf team at Bellarmine. Does anyone else out there feel athletically challenged?
ONLY HURTS FOR A MOMENT: Paying through the teeth takes on new meaning for Monte Sereno dentist Cathy Cole Oleson. Oleson, and 100 other alums, donated proceeds from her Oct. 15 practice to the University of San Francisco's School of Dentistry educational program.
The money received by the school's Parnassus Club will help support volunteer teachers, fund a dental clinic for the homeless or purchase new equipment. Oleson is a '78 graduate of UCSF. The campaign is expected to raise $150,000 this year, double its usual total.
GEOLOGIST ALERT: Geologic events that have shaped the Bay Area from paleo times to the present is the subject of the talk by Andrei Sarna, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "Deep Secrets of San Francisco Bay" will be given on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Saratoga Library.
Sarna will show slides and maps to document his detective work in dating layers of volcanic ash. Plate tectonics, climate changes and human habitation, and how they affect the area, will all be covered. The talk is sponsored by the Sierra Club, and the contact is Marj Ottenberg, 408.867.4576.
BUDGET TRAVEL: Dan Eggerding has been an avid traveler since his college days, when he was the only engineering student at Valparaiso College in Indiana ever to apply to be an exchange student.
He attended Reutlingen Teachers College in Germany for a semester and toured Europe for eight months, keeping a journal. He spent $1,000 beyond his schooling costs that includes $100 for a painting in Spain he couldn't resist.
Since then he has accrued 20-plus years of travel and offers talks at bookstores and libraries. One such will be given on Nov. 20 at the Campbell Library from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sample nugget from the Eggerding cache: "Pack half the clothes you think you'll need and bring twice the money."
MEMORIAL RELAY: Six members of the Clash formed two relay teams to compete in the 15-mile Peckler Memorial Relay, a fundraiser for CASA memorializing Jim, Jill and Jeff Peckler, community activists killed by a drunken driver.
One of the most talked-about runners was Lucas deMilo, 9. Lucas inadvertently ran the entire adult course when he couldn't find the turn-off for the shorter course. He was enthusiastically saluted by those at the finish line who realized what he had done.
Lucas is the son of Jane and David deMilo. Days later his muscles were still sore, his mother relates. His relay team came in first for eighth-graders and under. Other relay members were Niki Chow, K.C. Silva and David Burkhart.
NEW OFFICERS: Saratogan Kay Fireman is the new president of Sharone Hadassah and Nurit Jacobs is membership vice president. Sharone Hadassah is a Zionist women's organization that supports educational, health and human services projects.
Other Saratogans on the board of directors are Jane Jacobson, fundraising vice president, and Anna Silbertsin, liaison to the Central Pacific Region of Hadassah. Los Gatan Marlene Burak, chairman of cards and tributes, is also a board member. Women interested in joining can contact Jacobs at 408.257.8430.
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