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1960Ruth (Adams) Wingate, of Redding, died at age 74 on June 5. Survivors include her husband Len Wingate Jr. ’61. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Blood Moon, a book of poems by Jane (Conant) Blue, M.A. ’78, was published by FutureCycle Press in January. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • An oral history interview with longtime concert and live-event producer Bill Hollingshead has been posted on the National Association of Music Merchants website. His wife, Sharon Dianne (Fritter) Hollingshead ’63, Cred. ’63, had an exhibition at the Buehler Alumni Center this spring of her oil painting interpretations of historical photos by Bill’s father, Paul. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue)
1961Judy Corbett, M.S. '74, and her husband, Michael, have written Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes (Island Press). Innovators of the sustainable and environment-friendly community Village Homes in Davis, the Corbetts examine the history of the sustainable community movement and offer an inside look at the development of Village Homes in the 1970s. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Gerald Ling, D.V.M. '65, professor of medicine and epidemiology in UC Davis' School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2002 Faculty Teaching Award from his colleagues, recognizing his contributions to small-animal medicine and his proficiency in teaching. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Roydon Edwards worked for nearly three decades as an agricultural consultant for private consulting firms on assignments in Colombia, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Thailand and Saudi Arabia before retiring in 1993. His wife, Teresa '64, taught math and science at the junior high level for 15 years. They now live in Logan, Utah, with the oldest of their seven children. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Charles Francis received an International Service in Agronomy Award from the American Society of Agronomy. Since first working in the Philippines as a graduate student in 1964-66, Francis has been involved with research and education on cropping systems that will benefit small farmers who lack access to the best land and other resources. He has been a professor of agronomy for 25 years at University of Nebraska, working in Africa and Latin America on more than 50 assignments as a consultant in research and education. He is married to Barbara(Hanson). (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Gerald Ling, D.V.M. '65, has received the alumni achievement award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where he has taught for the past 35 years. Ling helped establish the small-animal emergency and small-animal outpatient services at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and was previously honored with a 2002 faculty teaching award. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • John O'Connor, M.A. '63, a University of Florida art professor, had 53 paintings selected for a solo exhibition titled Conceptual Realism 1968-2003. It was held at the Pensacola Museum of Art and the University of West Florida Art Gallery. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Malcolm Bourne, M.S., Ph.D. ’62, emeritus professor of food science at Cornell University in Geneva, N.Y., was elected president of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology at the 12th World Food Congress held in Chicago in July. The academy recognizes individuals distinguished by their scientific and professional contributions to food science and technology. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Lyndon Brown, M.S., died in November 2005 at the age of 88. Mr. Brown worked for the University of California for 30 years as a Cooperative Extension farm advisor before moving to Tucson, Ariz., in 1989. He was also a veteran of World War II, earning a Purple Heart. Survivors include his wife, Betty, three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • In June, Malcolm Bourne, M.S., Ph.D. ’62, received the 2011 Nicholas Appert Award, the Institute of Food Technologists’ highest honor, for his pioneering work in using physics to analyze food texture. He is an emeritus professor of food science at Cornell University. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Chuck Francis, a professor of agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received the national Crop Science Teaching Award from the American Society of Agronomy in October. Last spring, he received the University of Nebraska’s Distinguished Educational Service Award. Francis has been married for 50 years to Barbara (Hanson) Francis ’61. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Paintings by John A. O’Connor, M.A.A. ’63, were featured in a retrospective exhibition this fall at the Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts in Orange Park, Fla. The works span 1961–2012. O’Connor received the Florida Higher Education Arts Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2005. An art professor emeritus at the University of Florida, he founded oconnorartLLC, an art consulting company, in 2010. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Still friends after more than 50 years, seven alumni couples took a 14-day river boat cruise together in September, traveling from Budapest, Hungary, to Amsterdam: John ’61 and Katy (True) Bejarano ’65, Steve ’63 and Doris (Christiansen) Lewis ’62, Cred. ’63, Howard Gary ’62 and Pat (Boggess) Blair ’62, Bill ’64 and Kay (Lynch) Jones ’62, Bob ’63 and Ann (Grimes) Testa ’62, Mike and Pat (Jones) Smith, who attended in the late 1950s/early ’60s, and Terry ’63 and Diana (Winter) Witzel, who attended 1960–63. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • John Love, an expert on early childhood programs, received an award in April from the Society for Research in Child Development for his contributions to public policy for children. He worked 18 years as a researcher for Mathematica Policy Research, where, among other things, he directed a 1995–2002 study on the federal Early Head Start program for low-income infants and toddlers. Now retired, he lives in Ashland, Ore., with his wife, Marilyn McShane Love ’62. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue)
1962Amy Ling, M.A., is a professor in the Department of English and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She recently edited Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts (Temple University Press, 1999), a collection of writings, essays, interviews and poems by Asian American authors, filmmakers and artists who discuss their work and Asian American culture. Ling is the author of a number of other books, including Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry and Chinamerican Reflections. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Harvey Pine retired from his job as a hazardous materials specialist with the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1994 and is now pursuing a writing career. He has published a novel, Landa, and a play, Frankie's Thursday Night, in addition to a number of short stories and magazine articles, and he is a staff writer for Write-Away newsletter. Pine lives with his wife, Anita, in Westwood, Idaho. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Adel Kader, M.S., Ph.D. '66, a UC Davis professor of postharvest physiology, received an Award of Distinction in October from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Under his leadership, the college's Postharvest Outreach Program has become the model for other research and information centers. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Roy Saigo became president of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota in July. He had been chancellor of Auburn University Montgomery in Alabama. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue)

1960Ruth (Adams) Wingate, of Redding, died at age 74 on June 5. Survivors include her husband Len Wingate Jr. ’61. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Blood Moon, a book of poems by Jane (Conant) Blue, M.A. ’78, was published by FutureCycle Press in January. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • An oral history interview with longtime concert and live-event producer Bill Hollingshead has been posted on the National Association of Music Merchants website. His wife, Sharon Dianne (Fritter) Hollingshead ’63, Cred. ’63, had an exhibition at the Buehler Alumni Center this spring of her oil painting interpretations of historical photos by Bill’s father, Paul. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue)

1961Judy Corbett, M.S. '74, and her husband, Michael, have written Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes (Island Press). Innovators of the sustainable and environment-friendly community Village Homes in Davis, the Corbetts examine the history of the sustainable community movement and offer an inside look at the development of Village Homes in the 1970s. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Gerald Ling, D.V.M. '65, professor of medicine and epidemiology in UC Davis' School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2002 Faculty Teaching Award from his colleagues, recognizing his contributions to small-animal medicine and his proficiency in teaching. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Roydon Edwards worked for nearly three decades as an agricultural consultant for private consulting firms on assignments in Colombia, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Thailand and Saudi Arabia before retiring in 1993. His wife, Teresa '64, taught math and science at the junior high level for 15 years. They now live in Logan, Utah, with the oldest of their seven children. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Charles Francis received an International Service in Agronomy Award from the American Society of Agronomy. Since first working in the Philippines as a graduate student in 1964-66, Francis has been involved with research and education on cropping systems that will benefit small farmers who lack access to the best land and other resources. He has been a professor of agronomy for 25 years at University of Nebraska, working in Africa and Latin America on more than 50 assignments as a consultant in research and education. He is married to Barbara(Hanson). (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Gerald Ling, D.V.M. '65, has received the alumni achievement award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where he has taught for the past 35 years. Ling helped establish the small-animal emergency and small-animal outpatient services at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and was previously honored with a 2002 faculty teaching award. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • John O'Connor, M.A. '63, a University of Florida art professor, had 53 paintings selected for a solo exhibition titled Conceptual Realism 1968-2003. It was held at the Pensacola Museum of Art and the University of West Florida Art Gallery. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Malcolm Bourne, M.S., Ph.D. ’62, emeritus professor of food science at Cornell University in Geneva, N.Y., was elected president of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology at the 12th World Food Congress held in Chicago in July. The academy recognizes individuals distinguished by their scientific and professional contributions to food science and technology. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Lyndon Brown, M.S., died in November 2005 at the age of 88. Mr. Brown worked for the University of California for 30 years as a Cooperative Extension farm advisor before moving to Tucson, Ariz., in 1989. He was also a veteran of World War II, earning a Purple Heart. Survivors include his wife, Betty, three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • In June, Malcolm Bourne, M.S., Ph.D. ’62, received the 2011 Nicholas Appert Award, the Institute of Food Technologists’ highest honor, for his pioneering work in using physics to analyze food texture. He is an emeritus professor of food science at Cornell University. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Chuck Francis, a professor of agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received the national Crop Science Teaching Award from the American Society of Agronomy in October. Last spring, he received the University of Nebraska’s Distinguished Educational Service Award. Francis has been married for 50 years to Barbara (Hanson) Francis ’61. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Paintings by John A. O’Connor, M.A.A. ’63, were featured in a retrospective exhibition this fall at the Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts in Orange Park, Fla. The works span 1961–2012. O’Connor received the Florida Higher Education Arts Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2005. An art professor emeritus at the University of Florida, he founded oconnorartLLC, an art consulting company, in 2010. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Still friends after more than 50 years, seven alumni couples took a 14-day river boat cruise together in September, traveling from Budapest, Hungary, to Amsterdam: John ’61 and Katy (True) Bejarano ’65, Steve ’63 and Doris (Christiansen) Lewis ’62, Cred. ’63, Howard Gary ’62 and Pat (Boggess) Blair ’62, Bill ’64 and Kay (Lynch) Jones ’62, Bob ’63 and Ann (Grimes) Testa ’62, Mike and Pat (Jones) Smith, who attended in the late 1950s/early ’60s, and Terry ’63 and Diana (Winter) Witzel, who attended 1960–63. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • John Love, an expert on early childhood programs, received an award in April from the Society for Research in Child Development for his contributions to public policy for children. He worked 18 years as a researcher for Mathematica Policy Research, where, among other things, he directed a 1995–2002 study on the federal Early Head Start program for low-income infants and toddlers. Now retired, he lives in Ashland, Ore., with his wife, Marilyn McShane Love ’62. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue)

1962Amy Ling, M.A., is a professor in the Department of English and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She recently edited Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts (Temple University Press, 1999), a collection of writings, essays, interviews and poems by Asian American authors, filmmakers and artists who discuss their work and Asian American culture. Ling is the author of a number of other books, including Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry and Chinamerican Reflections. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Harvey Pine retired from his job as a hazardous materials specialist with the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1994 and is now pursuing a writing career. He has published a novel, Landa, and a play, Frankie's Thursday Night, in addition to a number of short stories and magazine articles, and he is a staff writer for Write-Away newsletter. Pine lives with his wife, Anita, in Westwood, Idaho. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Adel Kader, M.S., Ph.D. '66, a UC Davis professor of postharvest physiology, received an Award of Distinction in October from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Under his leadership, the college's Postharvest Outreach Program has become the model for other research and information centers. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Roy Saigo became president of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota in July. He had been chancellor of Auburn University Montgomery in Alabama. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue)

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