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1957Harry Colvin Jr., Ph.D., an animal physiologist who won awards for his teaching and student advising during his 1965–90 tenure, died in October in Davis at age 88. An authority on digestion in cows, sheep and other ruminants, he received Fulbright awards to teach in Yugoslavia and Argentina. Among other honors, he received a campus Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, won three outstanding adviser awards and was selected by students as grand marshal of the 1984 Picnic Day Parade. He was a World War II Army veteran who landed at Normandy Beach, participated in the Battle of the Bulge and received the Bronze Star for bravery and the Purple Heart for combat injuries. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Betty (Martinsen) Hansen, Cred. ’58, a retired Petaluma home economics teacher, died in April. She was 76. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Robert “Bob” Loomis, a retired Army officer and South Carolina hypnotherapist, died in April at age 76. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army as an infantry, military police, intelligence and public affairs officer. He earned the Bronze Star Medal and Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and retired in 1980 as a lieutenant colonel. After working as a financial adviser and college instructor, he earned a master’s degree in counseling and practiced as a clinical hypnotherapist until 2004. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • William Schnathorst, Ph.D., a plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Davis resident, died in February at age 83. His wife, Rosemarie, died three weeks later. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue)
1958Timothy Braun retired from the agriculture chemical distributor business and now serves as a consultant and teaches continuing education classes. He lives in Yuma, Ariz. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Cameo Archer (Dorothy Lacsamana), a writer of poetry and fiction, has published a novel, Make Believe. The work is set in the 1930s in the orange groves of Southern California where Archer grew up. Archer lives in Santa Rosa. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Luigi Chiarappa, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for his distinguished career in international agriculture. Chiarappa served in Rome as senior administrator for the Foreign Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • James Lyons, M.S., Ph.D. '62, professor emeritus of vegetable crops at UC Davis, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Lyons is a founding director of the Center for Pest Management. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Jere Wade, M.A. '66, recently retired after 31 years as a professor of theater at California State University, Stanislaus. Wade also served as chair of the CSUS drama department for 23 years. Active in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, he directed several award-winning plays and served as national chair of that organization from 1990 to 1993. Wade received a Kennedy Center medallion for excellence in the arts in 1993. In retirement, Wade plans to travel with his wife, Penny, as well as spend more time with his three sons and their families, including six grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Adolph F. “Bert” Bertoli, M.Ed. ’61, died in Santa Rosa last July at age 73. After marrying Lona Hunt, who worked in the UC Davis animal husbandry department, he moved to Sebastopol, where he worked as an agriculture teacher, football coach, administrator and school board member in the Analy Union High School District. In addition to his 33 years as an educator, he was a winemaker for Cambiaso Winery in Healdsburg, a vocational rehabilitation counselor and a real estate appraiser. While he was a teacher, Mr. Bertoli spent his summers as a reserve deputy on the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. Along with his wife of 51 years, he is survived by his son, Sonoma County Superior Court Judge James Bertoli ’82, his daughters, Carolyn Bowen, Dina Graham and Mia Bertoli-Davis, six grandchildren and his sister, Edith Bertoli. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • John “Jack” Switzer, D.V.M. ’62, of Sonoma died of cancer at age 79. During the Korean War, he served in the Navy as a medical corpsman. He had a small-animal practice in Sonoma for 40 years. In 1963, he married Judy Sullivan. He is survived by his children, Thomas, Brenda Haase, Peggy and Kate; his brother, Bud; and seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Douglas Young ’58 of Woodland died in January of leukemia at age 74. He owned a real estate development and consultant business and was a former state and regional director of the Farmers Home Administration. He was active in local politics, serving on the Yolo County Republican Central Committee and co-founding the Woodland Republican Club. He was also a member of the Yolo County Fair board of directors. He is survived by his wife, Diane; brothers Russell and Don; and children Gail Ransdall, Douglas and Michael. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Michael Chapman received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s 2010 Jerry W. Fielder Memorial Award for his service to the alumni association and UC Davis. A professor emeritus and a founding father of trauma surgery, Chapman developed the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery into one of the most well respected in the nation while he was the department chair. He is the chair emeritus of the UC Davis Foundation’s executive committee. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • John Hardie, a pivotal administrator for UC Davis during a time of rapid campus growth, died in September in Davis at age 75. A former Associated Students president, he was hired in 1960 as the association’s business manager. He went on to hold a number of other positions, including the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s first full-time manager, director of public ceremonies, assistant vice chancellor for university relations and, as special assistant to Chancellors Emil Mrak and James Meyer, director of campus development. He led a capital campaign in the 1970s that raised money to help build Recreation Hall (now the Pavilion). In 1990, he became a special assistant to directors of the UC Davis Medical Center. A supporter of Aggie sports, he volunteered as the football timekeeper during 1960–2006. Survivors include his wife of nearly 45 years, Marylee; daughter, Chris Mullally; son, Douglas; sister, Mary Jane Friedberger; and three grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Lowell “Jake” Walgenbach, who spent 50 years managing fairs, died in January at Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital after a battle with cancer. A resident of Gridley, he was 76. He retired in December 2010 as the Glenn County Fair manager. He previously managed the Butte County Fair, the Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno, Nev., and the San Francisco Cow Palace Horse Show. Survivors include his wife, June; sisters Germaine Hupe, Judith Braden and Susan Telford; brothers Gary, Fred and Wayne Walgenbach; stepdaughter Cynthia Johnson; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Santa Rosa poet Cameo Archer (Dorothy Chittum Lacsamana) wrote The Garners of Shanghai (CreateSpace, 2012), a novel based on the lives of her missionary grandparents. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Richard Wallis, D.V.M., is the author of They’ll Be There… A Tribute to America’s Service and Therapy Animals (Park Place Publications, 2012). (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • John “Jack” Huhn, of Lake Forest, died in June at age 79. A retired U.S. Army 1st lieutenant, he worked for State Farm Insurance for 36 years. He was active in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue)
1959N.J. "Ben" Benevenga, M.S. '60, Ph.D. '65, was honored by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences in April for his contributions to the science of nutrition in the areas of amino acids and protein biochemistry. Benevenga is currently a professor of nutritional sciences and meat and animal science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received the 1996 Jung Distinguished Teaching Award. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Mardy Darian, D.V.M., a retired veterinarian and world-renowned palm specialist, was named founding executive director of the Vista Botanical Forest, a 15-acre sub-tropical and tropical rainforest in Vista. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Roger Fox retired after working for 35 years as a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Arizona. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue)

1957Harry Colvin Jr., Ph.D., an animal physiologist who won awards for his teaching and student advising during his 1965–90 tenure, died in October in Davis at age 88. An authority on digestion in cows, sheep and other ruminants, he received Fulbright awards to teach in Yugoslavia and Argentina. Among other honors, he received a campus Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, won three outstanding adviser awards and was selected by students as grand marshal of the 1984 Picnic Day Parade. He was a World War II Army veteran who landed at Normandy Beach, participated in the Battle of the Bulge and received the Bronze Star for bravery and the Purple Heart for combat injuries. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Betty (Martinsen) Hansen, Cred. ’58, a retired Petaluma home economics teacher, died in April. She was 76. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Robert “Bob” Loomis, a retired Army officer and South Carolina hypnotherapist, died in April at age 76. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army as an infantry, military police, intelligence and public affairs officer. He earned the Bronze Star Medal and Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and retired in 1980 as a lieutenant colonel. After working as a financial adviser and college instructor, he earned a master’s degree in counseling and practiced as a clinical hypnotherapist until 2004. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • William Schnathorst, Ph.D., a plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Davis resident, died in February at age 83. His wife, Rosemarie, died three weeks later. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue)

1958Timothy Braun retired from the agriculture chemical distributor business and now serves as a consultant and teaches continuing education classes. He lives in Yuma, Ariz. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Cameo Archer (Dorothy Lacsamana), a writer of poetry and fiction, has published a novel, Make Believe. The work is set in the 1930s in the orange groves of Southern California where Archer grew up. Archer lives in Santa Rosa. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Luigi Chiarappa, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for his distinguished career in international agriculture. Chiarappa served in Rome as senior administrator for the Foreign Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • James Lyons, M.S., Ph.D. '62, professor emeritus of vegetable crops at UC Davis, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Lyons is a founding director of the Center for Pest Management. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Jere Wade, M.A. '66, recently retired after 31 years as a professor of theater at California State University, Stanislaus. Wade also served as chair of the CSUS drama department for 23 years. Active in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, he directed several award-winning plays and served as national chair of that organization from 1990 to 1993. Wade received a Kennedy Center medallion for excellence in the arts in 1993. In retirement, Wade plans to travel with his wife, Penny, as well as spend more time with his three sons and their families, including six grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Adolph F. “Bert” Bertoli, M.Ed. ’61, died in Santa Rosa last July at age 73. After marrying Lona Hunt, who worked in the UC Davis animal husbandry department, he moved to Sebastopol, where he worked as an agriculture teacher, football coach, administrator and school board member in the Analy Union High School District. In addition to his 33 years as an educator, he was a winemaker for Cambiaso Winery in Healdsburg, a vocational rehabilitation counselor and a real estate appraiser. While he was a teacher, Mr. Bertoli spent his summers as a reserve deputy on the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. Along with his wife of 51 years, he is survived by his son, Sonoma County Superior Court Judge James Bertoli ’82, his daughters, Carolyn Bowen, Dina Graham and Mia Bertoli-Davis, six grandchildren and his sister, Edith Bertoli. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • John “Jack” Switzer, D.V.M. ’62, of Sonoma died of cancer at age 79. During the Korean War, he served in the Navy as a medical corpsman. He had a small-animal practice in Sonoma for 40 years. In 1963, he married Judy Sullivan. He is survived by his children, Thomas, Brenda Haase, Peggy and Kate; his brother, Bud; and seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Douglas Young ’58 of Woodland died in January of leukemia at age 74. He owned a real estate development and consultant business and was a former state and regional director of the Farmers Home Administration. He was active in local politics, serving on the Yolo County Republican Central Committee and co-founding the Woodland Republican Club. He was also a member of the Yolo County Fair board of directors. He is survived by his wife, Diane; brothers Russell and Don; and children Gail Ransdall, Douglas and Michael. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Michael Chapman received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s 2010 Jerry W. Fielder Memorial Award for his service to the alumni association and UC Davis. A professor emeritus and a founding father of trauma surgery, Chapman developed the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery into one of the most well respected in the nation while he was the department chair. He is the chair emeritus of the UC Davis Foundation’s executive committee. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • John Hardie, a pivotal administrator for UC Davis during a time of rapid campus growth, died in September in Davis at age 75. A former Associated Students president, he was hired in 1960 as the association’s business manager. He went on to hold a number of other positions, including the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s first full-time manager, director of public ceremonies, assistant vice chancellor for university relations and, as special assistant to Chancellors Emil Mrak and James Meyer, director of campus development. He led a capital campaign in the 1970s that raised money to help build Recreation Hall (now the Pavilion). In 1990, he became a special assistant to directors of the UC Davis Medical Center. A supporter of Aggie sports, he volunteered as the football timekeeper during 1960–2006. Survivors include his wife of nearly 45 years, Marylee; daughter, Chris Mullally; son, Douglas; sister, Mary Jane Friedberger; and three grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Lowell “Jake” Walgenbach, who spent 50 years managing fairs, died in January at Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital after a battle with cancer. A resident of Gridley, he was 76. He retired in December 2010 as the Glenn County Fair manager. He previously managed the Butte County Fair, the Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno, Nev., and the San Francisco Cow Palace Horse Show. Survivors include his wife, June; sisters Germaine Hupe, Judith Braden and Susan Telford; brothers Gary, Fred and Wayne Walgenbach; stepdaughter Cynthia Johnson; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Santa Rosa poet Cameo Archer (Dorothy Chittum Lacsamana) wrote The Garners of Shanghai (CreateSpace, 2012), a novel based on the lives of her missionary grandparents. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Richard Wallis, D.V.M., is the author of They’ll Be There… A Tribute to America’s Service and Therapy Animals (Park Place Publications, 2012). (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • John “Jack” Huhn, of Lake Forest, died in June at age 79. A retired U.S. Army 1st lieutenant, he worked for State Farm Insurance for 36 years. He was active in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue)

1959N.J. "Ben" Benevenga, M.S. '60, Ph.D. '65, was honored by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences in April for his contributions to the science of nutrition in the areas of amino acids and protein biochemistry. Benevenga is currently a professor of nutritional sciences and meat and animal science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received the 1996 Jung Distinguished Teaching Award. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Mardy Darian, D.V.M., a retired veterinarian and world-renowned palm specialist, was named founding executive director of the Vista Botanical Forest, a 15-acre sub-tropical and tropical rainforest in Vista. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Roger Fox retired after working for 35 years as a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Arizona. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue)

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