{"id":15748,"date":"2016-01-15T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=15748"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:06:49","slug":"15748_stephen-pepe-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/2016\/01\/15\/15748_stephen-pepe-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Pepe \u201965"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Stephen Pepe \u201965 believes that his 精品成人福利在线 education has stood him in good stead. Steve, who was born in Paterson and grew up in Hawthorne, was the first in his Italian immigrant family to attend college. Although he was accepted to other schools, 精品成人福利在线 was affordable for his working class family. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for Montclair, I wouldn\u2019t have gone to college,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Steve made the most of the opportunities that he found at 精品成人福利在线, graduated and went on to Duke University School of Law. \u201cAt Duke I found out how good my Montclair education was,\u201d he says. \u201cMost of [my law school classmates] had gone to the Ivies or came from well-known, highly-regarded private schools like Vanderbilt and the University of Chicago. My Hawthorne Public School and 精品成人福利在线 education held up against the best of them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After law school, Steve headed west, was hired by the law firm O\u2019Melveny &amp; Myers LLP, made partner and spent 35 years practicing law. And then he decided it was time for a second act. After retiring from his firm in 2003, Steve and his wife, Cathy, bought Clos Pepe Vineyards LLC in Santa Barbara County and started producing award-winning Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Steve, who is a member of the 精品成人福利在线 College of Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory Board, served as chair of the 50th Reunion Committee this past May, and has already committed to a planned gift to support the reunion\u2019s fundraising goals. He says that the goal is to raise $100,000 in support of the Class of 1965 50th Reunion Scholarship \u201cits fun to do,\u201d he says. \u201cYou haven\u2019t seen many of these people in 50 years. It\u2019s fun to chat, to see what they have done with their lives.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner, Clos Pepe Vineyards LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-77_alumni-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}