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SAN JUAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
AN EVENING WITH THE STARS
The San Juan Education Foundation hosted its 13th annual An Evening with the STARS at The Center at 2300 in Sacramento on Sept. 27.
The event inducts notable professionals who attended San Juan Unified School District into its STARS Hall of Fame. This year’s honorees
were cancer researcher Dr. H. Michael Shepard, NASA engineer Heidi Parris and video game developer Scott Pease.
Photos by Phil Kampel
1 Scott Pease, video game developer and Bella Vista
High School alumnus; Heidi Parris, flight controller for
the International Space Station, NASA, and Casa Roble
High School alumna; Dr. H. Michael Shepard, award-
winning cancer researcher and biologist and Del Campo
High School alumnus; and Bryan McKrell, senior director
of leasing, Westcore Properties and San Juan Education
Foundation board chair 2 Allison Steele, marketing
assistant, Drisha Leggitt & Company Communications;
Drisha Leggitt, president and CEO, Drisha Leggitt &
Company Communications; Brad Niles, chief operating
officer and vice president of research and development,
ARIZ Precision Medicine; and Lonnie Bookbinder, CEO
and board chair, ARIZ Precision Medicine 3 Jesse Nix,
investment adviser, Nix Wealth Management; and wife
Samantha Nix, school psychologist, Natomas Unified
School District 4 Michael and Jill Pease, parents of
honoree Scott Pease; Scott Pease and wife Ashley
Pease; Barbara and Jim Andras, parents of Ashley
Pease; Arlene Rose, retired, Bella Vista High School
English teacher and Scott Pease’s Academic Decathlon
coach; and Mike Erickson, retired, Bella Vista High
School history teacher and Academic Decathlon coach
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