Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1940s
| 1949Robert Allen Ehling died in October 2004 at the age of 76 in South Carolina. Mr. Ehling was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and retired from Furman University in Greenville. A widower, he is survived by three daughters, four siblings and one granddaughter. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Elana Belinkoff ’49 died in March 2006 in Pomona at the age of 80. In 1948, Ms. Belinkoff co-founded the first Jewish student organization at UC Davis with Adar Belinkoff, whom she married in 1949. In 1949–53, they lived in the newly established state of Israel, where they helped found Kibbutz Gesher Haziv. After returning to the United States, Ms. Belinkoff served for 25 years as a social worker in the Los Angeles County child-welfare system. Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Adar; her daughters, Dalia Belinkoff, Alisa Katz and Dena Belinkoff; and seven grandchildren. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Walter “Jim” Ball died in June 2006 at age 80. The longtime Yolo County resident had served in the U.S. Navy and worked in the seed business for 40 years. Survivors include his daughter, Diane Vonk; his son, Gary Ball; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and his companion of 12 years, Nada Shellhamer. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Jim Campbell celebrated his 80th birthday on Sept. 1, 2007, at the first football game in the new Aggie Stadium, where he sat in his new box seat and heard the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh play “Happy Birthday.” Campbell, an avid Aggie football supporter who attended more than 450 games in Toomey Field, was a longtime farmer in the area, born and raised in Davis. Campbell and his wife, Barbara, have seven children and 15 grandchildren. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • After battling cancer, Ben Goehring died in March 2008 at age 76 in his hometown of Lodi. He had served in the U.S. Air Force in Germany and was a recipient of the Air Force Commendation Medal, the German Occupation Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. Mr. Goehring was the president and CEO of Goehring Meats Inc., a family business, and also served as president of Pacific Coast Meat Association. Mr. Goehring was involved in many community organizations in Lodi including serving as the founding director and chair of the board of the Bank of Lodi. His survivors include his wife of 46 years, Shirley, their two sons and four grandchildren. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • MICHAEL VINCENT DOHERTY ’49 died in January in Woodland at the age of 80. While at UC Davis, he was a part of the 1947 Far Western Conference Championship football team. After graduating with a degree in agronomy, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a military policeman and was stationed in Alaska and Albuquerque. He eventually moved back to his home county of Colusa where he began a farming career lasting more than 50 years. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Kristen Doherty; their children, Jim Doherty and his wife, Rene, Michael Doherty and his wife, Amy, Sean Doherty and his wife, Melissa, Tim Doherty and his wife, Susie, Michelle Doherty Vinall, Alison Schofield and her husband, Peter, and Julie Doherty; 11 grandchildren; and sisters Mary Ellen Bichard, Margaret Abele and Maureen “Lady Bug” Doherty. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • ROBERT K. SOOST, Ph.D. ’49, a plant scientist and professor of botany at UC Riverside, died of a heart attack at Petaluma Valley Hospital in March. He was 88. After earning his doctorate in plant genetics, he moved to Riverside and became a staff member with the then-Citrus Experiment Station as a junior geneticist. When it became UC Riverside in 1961, he took a teaching position. Three years later, he became a professor, and by 1968, he was selected as chair of the botany and plant sciences department, a post he held for seven years. During his 37 years at UC Riverside, he became internationally known as an expert on citrus breeding. He helped develop different citrus varieties, like the Melo Gold and Oroblanco grapefruits and the Pixie and Gold Nugget mandarins. Soost retired in 1986, and he and his wife, Jean, moved to Inverness in Marin County. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Saul Barret has been retired from the produce brokerage business since 1986. He lives in West Covina. While attending UC Davis, he met his wife, Lieba, and was the captain of the 1949 swim team. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Walter “Bud” Perry died in his Hemet home last October at age 86. A builder, trencher and inventive machine fabricator, he helped construct a number of community projects. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • John Talbott, M.S. ’58, an Aggie Hall of Fame track athlete who worked in the seed industry, died in Davis in February. He was 90. He was the 1942 Far Western Conference champion in 100- and 220-yard dashes. His college education was interrupted by combat duty during World War II. He returned to UC Davis with shrapnel lodged in his leg, but resumed running, winning the 1947 100 title and placing second in the 220. He was a past president and long-time supporter of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Thomas Banks, D.V.M. ’59, a retired Bakersfield veterinarian who co-founded the community’s California Living Museum, died in March at age 91. A Korean War veteran who received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for combat service in the Punchbowl region, he later helped the U.S. Army’s Fifth Regimental Combat Team sponsor a Korean boys orphanage. He was also active in Rotary, Flying Samaritans and a raptor treatment facility at California State University, Bakersfield. Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Beverly (Rinehart) ’58; and daughter, Lynda Thomas ’75. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Richard “Dick” Brown, a retired California Highway Patrol officer and World War II Navy veteran, died in his Santa Rosa home in May at age 85. He was a volunteer for the St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Thomas Aldrich, of Colusa, died at age 90 on October 24. A World War II Army veteran, he received the Bronze Star. He was a retired UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Edward “Ted” Tolman, Cred., of Nice, died at age 88 on October 15. He was a World War II Army veteran and retired U.S. Forest Service timber manager. Survivors include his son Russell ’79. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Tondre Alarid, Soledad, age 88, died March 27. He was a Navy veteran and retired farmer. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Robert Fowler, Roseville, age 85, died on April 1. He was a fruit tree expert and nursery owner. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) |