Please provide your name as it appears in our '73 yearbook, and add any other name(s) you may go by now.
Bernard Ohanian
Relationship status - husbands/wives/domestic partners/divorces/deaths/children/grandchildren? Tell us about your other family members we might know.
Married Kate Kelly 1994. Children: Rafael (aka Raffi) born 1996; Sofia born 2000. Father Abe Ohanian died 2007; mother Bernadine Ohanian (former teacher at Beardslee and Maxwell; former principal at Valley View) died 1991. Sister Patricia (aka Patty) DHS class of ’78.
Please upload a few recent pictures here. Family pictures are of course welcome!
As one of the Blues Brothers for a work Halloween party a few years back.....
as a craggy old man, 2021
Courting my now-wife, early 1990s
Job history? What jobs have you had over the last 50 years?
Current: Editorial director, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington DC. Former: Vice-president and executive editor, National Geographic Magazine (other positions at National Geographic included editor, international editions; writer); Vice-president and editor-in-chief, aarp.org; Rome (Italy) correspondent, RKO Radio Network; Senior editor, Mother Jones magazine; Wire editor, Inter Press Service, Rome (Italy). Author and/or editor of several photography books, including “Baseball in America” and “A Day in the Life of Italy”
Are you currently working, retired or somewhere in-between?
Working, both my day job and my side hustle (teaching writing to federal government employees)
Did you pursue any further education after High School?
Bachelor’s degree, Linguistics, University of California (Berkeley)
What hobbies/interests/pastimes have you engaged in?
Studying/learning languages and history; playing and coaching baseball and softball; traveling; photography; playing basketball
What city do you currently live in.....for how long? Where else have you lived?
Washington DC 1992-present; San Francisco Bay Area, 15 years; Italy (Rome, La Spezia, Cinque Terre, Lake Garda), 3 years; Santa Cruz (California), 1 year.
Over the last 50 years, what other cities/states/countries have you visited?
Have spent time in every US state except Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Michigan. Also have visited: Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, England, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Israel, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, South Korea.
Share with us your most memorable experiences of the last 50 years?
Meeting my wife. Birth of my children.
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Relationship status - husbands/wives/domestic partners/divorces/deaths/children/grandchildren? Tell us about your other family members we might know.
Married Kate Kelly 1994. Children: Rafael (aka Raffi) born 1996; Sofia born 2000. Father Abe Ohanian died 2007; mother Bernadine Ohanian (former teacher at Beardslee and Maxwell; former principal at Valley View) died 1991. Sister Patricia (aka Patty) DHS class of ’78.
Please upload a few recent pictures here. Family pictures are of course welcome!
As one of the Blues Brothers for a work Halloween party a few years back.....
as a craggy old man, 2021
Courting my now-wife, early 1990s
Job history? What jobs have you had over the last 50 years?
Current: Editorial director, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington DC. Former: Vice-president and executive editor, National Geographic Magazine (other positions at National Geographic included editor, international editions; writer); Vice-president and editor-in-chief, aarp.org; Rome (Italy) correspondent, RKO Radio Network; Senior editor, Mother Jones magazine; Wire editor, Inter Press Service, Rome (Italy). Author and/or editor of several photography books, including “Baseball in America” and “A Day in the Life of Italy”
Are you currently working, retired or somewhere in-between?
Working, both my day job and my side hustle (teaching writing to federal government employees)
Did you pursue any further education after High School?
Bachelor’s degree, Linguistics, University of California (Berkeley)
What hobbies/interests/pastimes have you engaged in?
Studying/learning languages and history; playing and coaching baseball and softball; traveling; photography; playing basketball
What city do you currently live in.....for how long? Where else have you lived?
Washington DC 1992-present; San Francisco Bay Area, 15 years; Italy (Rome, La Spezia, Cinque Terre, Lake Garda), 3 years; Santa Cruz (California), 1 year.
Over the last 50 years, what other cities/states/countries have you visited?
Have spent time in every US state except Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Michigan. Also have visited: Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, England, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Israel, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, South Korea.
Share with us your most memorable experiences of the last 50 years?
Meeting my wife. Birth of my children.
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