Once a Bobcat.
Always a Bobcat.

Tim co-founded Trailer Park in 1994 and led it as chief executive through 2008, when he moved into an executive creative role. Co-founder Benedict Coulter remembers the company growing from five people to more than 200 by the time it was sold in 2005. Tim was credited as producer on Trailer Park’s award-winning Black Hawk Down trailer, and the agency later earned Key Art recognition for campaigns including Cars, X-Men: The Last Stand, and The Hills Have Eyes. After the 2018 Camp Fire, Tim and fellow Paradise native Carl Borgquist also established SeaChange Ocean Solutions to pursue new approaches to plastic and waste recovery.

Greg moved to Paradise in 1970 and remembers his Bobcat years in varsity football, basketball, track, and band. He left for UC Davis in 1981, earned his political science degree in 1986 and his law degree from McGeorge in 1989. After beginning in complex civil litigation, he developed a family-law specialty and founded his own practice. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist, a Fellow of both the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Family Lawyers, and has held AAML leadership positions including Southern California Chapter president. He founded the statewide Trial Basics Seminar in 2015, received the chapter’s 2018 Family Law Person of the Year award, and has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers every year since 2007. Paradise High included him in the inaugural 2017 Den of Fame class.

Lisa holds a master’s degree in education and has worked in coaching and personal development for more than three decades. She created RX Success and Lisa J Coaching, and later founded HOPE Publishing House with her daughter, Auriana. Her work includes Conquer Fear, Don’t Mess with the Princess, Slay the Dragon, and Mindset Reset. Her published author biography reports that Conquer Fear and Don’t Mess with the Princess together sold more than 250,000 copies and appeared in seven languages. Today her work combines coaching, speaking, retreats, books, and programs built around what she calls the Mindset Reset Formula.

David released the album Well in 1996, and a contemporary profile says it remained on the charts for 33 weeks before he toured nationally. His writing, arranging, production, and performance credits include work connected with Jim Brickman, Michael Bolton, Selah, All-4-One, Richie Havens, and Michael W. Smith. After composing for Los Angeles music houses, David founded Howling Music in 1999; the company’s first major assignment was for Nike, and he later relocated the business to Nashville. Howling describes him as a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling songwriter and producer who has composed for hundreds of broadcast spots. His brand work has included the NFL, Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, BMW, Google, Kia, YouTube, Domino’s, and Capital One.

Greg is the firmwide managing partner of Hemming Morse, a forensic-accounting and litigation-consulting firm, and works from its Chico office. His professional résumé documents more than three decades with the firm and credentials including CPA, CFF, CGMA, and CMA. Across 150-plus expert-witness appearances, Greg has analyzed construction and contract disputes involving hundreds of millions of dollars, with assignments ranging from major infrastructure and energy projects to international arbitration. He also serves as an arbitrator and neutral, and authored the construction-claims chapter of the Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Damages. His career combines firm leadership with the detailed financial analysis needed in some of the industry’s most complicated disputes.

Attila is a board-certified internal-medicine and preventive-medicine physician whose Chico practice is documented in local newspapers beginning in the 1990s. He went on to serve Enloe Health as chief medical information officer, working at the intersection of medicine, clinical operations, and information systems. In 2025, Enloe received a national CIO 100 Award for its Ambient Listening for Patient Care project, an artificial-intelligence initiative designed to reduce documentation burden and give clinicians more attention for their patients. Attila represented Enloe at the award presentation. His Paradise record was already exceptional: the senior awards account lists perfect-attendance, mathematics, science, and Bank of America honors, along with California Scholarship Federation life membership.

In 1981, Traja received both Paradise High’s Bank of America fine arts award and the American Legion oratorical award, along with CSF life membership and a gold tassel. By then she was already writing for the Paradise Post. Newspapers.com returns 382 exact-name matches for Traja Sewell, including Paradise Post pages from her senior spring and many later bylines. At Chico State she became news editor of The Orion and graduated cum laude. Over roughly three decades in journalism she wrote under both Traja Sewell and Traja Rosenthal. She later joined the California State Senate Office of Research, where official staff and research records document her work. Her path runs in a remarkable line—from a Paradise student byline to public information and research at the State Capitol.

A 1980 Paradise Post profile records that Phil attended Paradise High for a year as a Rotary exchange student. After returning to New Zealand, he worked as a journalist and trade-union organizer, became the founding executive director of Oxfam New Zealand, and later served as Oxfam’s global advocacy director in Washington, D.C. He entered New Zealand’s Parliament in 2008. During his parliamentary career he has represented Te Atatū and served in senior government roles spanning housing, urban development, transport, economic development, disarmament and arms control, environment, immigration, and trade and export growth.

Bruce earned an Ed.D. focused on international educational leadership and built more than 30 years of experience in training, organizational development, and capacity building. A Camp Fire survivor who lost his own Paradise home, he became director of operations for the Camp Fire Collaborative. The organization reports assisting more than 2,000 families through a community-led recovery model. Bruce has shared Paradise’s hard-won lessons with other disaster-affected communities and testified before California lawmakers in 2025 about nonprofit coordination, survivor needs, housing, and long-term recovery. He is also the author of Victory Lap, a tribute to his father Jack Yerman’s journey to a 1960 Olympic gold medal.

At Paradise High, Shawn competed in varsity golf and basketball, led the basketball team in scoring and rebounding, received the boys’ physical education department award, and graduated with a gold tassel. Paradise High inducted him into its Athletic Hall of Fame for golf in 2006. He continued basketball at Butte College and Westmont College, where the 6-foot-9 center earned All-GSAC recognition as a senior in 1987–88 while studying business and economics. Professionally, Shawn built a long career in senior management within defense and space and has served in financial-controls leadership at Redwire Space.

A Konkow Maidu man, Wayne has participated in archaeological and cultural-resource work in the Lake Oroville region and has spoken publicly about the meaning of Maidu artifacts, identity, and stewardship. Public state and county records identify him as a representative of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu and as a tribal or cultural advisor in consultations involving land, water, wildfire planning, and historic resources. His work places Indigenous knowledge directly into decisions that affect ancestral places and helps ensure that Maidu history and cultural concerns are represented for future generations.

A guitarist with decades of performing experience, Scott owned a commercial recording studio in Paradise, produced local bands, and performed with Spy Picnic. In 2006 he wrote and recorded the playful Paradise-area rap anthem Pine Cone Homies. A later local history of the song recounts heavy rotation on Z-Rock, CDs circulating around town, and the song being played at a Paradise High prom. The recording became one of Spy Picnic’s best-known tracks and remains an affectionate, funny piece of Paradise popular culture created by someone who knew the community from the inside.

Kimberly is a principal and chief financial officer of Advocacy & Management Group, Inc., headquartered at One Capitol Mall in Sacramento. Her firm biography describes more than 30 years in senior nonprofit management, with experience in operations, membership, publishing, financial analysis, and organizational development. She has led two statewide trade associations as executive director: the California Association of Collectors and the California Pawnbrokers Association. California’s official Lobbying Directory also lists Kimberly and Advocacy & Management Group, reflecting the firm’s role representing member industries before the Legislature and state agencies. In a wonderful Class of 1981 connection, her Capitol Mall office is only about three blocks from the California State Senate Office of Research, where Traja Sewell Rosenthal works.

Kurt is California Professional Geologist No. 6162 and Certified Hydrogeologist No. 299, with more than 36 years of consulting experience. After earning his master’s degree in hydrogeology and hydrology from Chico State in 1989, he built a long career with Wallace-Kuhl & Associates and BSK Associates. He managed BSK’s Sacramento office, returned to Wallace-Kuhl as director of environmental services, and became chief executive officer of the 120-person firm in 2019. After retiring from that role in 2023, he opened QDS Consulting to advise on water supply and land use. His name and credentials appear in technical planning records across Northern California, including the Tuscan Ridge environmental review in Butte County. Kurt also serves as president of the Solano Resource Conservation District and represents it on the Solano Groundwater Sustainability Agency board.

The 1981 Totem lists Donald Church among the seniors who were not pictured; later public records identify him as Donal ‘Kraig’ Church. Today he runs Moosabec Marine in Jonesport, Maine, where the town business directory lists boat and outboard-engine repair and sales. Marine directories identify the yard as an authorized Yamaha sales and service dealer, while coastal reporting documents Kraig’s hands-on work as an engine technician during lobster-boat sea trials on Moosabec Reach. He also established the Kregger Kraft name for boats, bringing small-craft building into a career rooted in one of America’s most distinctive working-waterfront communities. It is an extraordinary distance in both geography and craft—from Paradise’s pine-covered ridge to a Down East boatyard facing the Atlantic.