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1969Jay Carlisle, J.D., a professor of law at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., received an award in June from the UC Davis School of Law Alumni Association for his support of the association. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • James Francis Wright, Ph.D., died of a heart attack in January 2008 in Raleigh, N.C., at age 83. During a veterinary career that spanned more than 50 years, he studied the effects of radiation and environmental stress on animals--including research in 1965-69 at UC Davis--worked at zoos in Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Senegal, and taught veterinary students at North Carolina State University. Survivors include his wife, Helen, four children and seven grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • John Lauck, M.S., Ph.D. ’72, died at his Green Valley home in July after a long illness. He was 66. After graduating, he worked for Chevron Chemical Co., starting as a research entomologist and leaving as vice president of worldwide agrochemicals. In the mid-1980s he created Western Ag Research, where he tested and evaluated agrochemicals until his retirement in 2000. He enjoyed traveling to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, golfing, making wine and fishing. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Elaine; children, Greg and Cher; brother, Richard; and three grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Mary (Murphy) Richardson, Cred., co-anchor of Boston’s WCVB-TV’s news magazine Chronicle for more than 25 years, received an award from the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in April for her work raising public consciousness about issues of health and homelessness. In May, Richardson stepped down from the station, where she had worked as a reporter and anchor since 1980. She started her broadcast career at KCRA-TV in Sacramento in 1973, after having taught English at Encina High School in Sacramento. She is the mother of three and lives in Belmont, Mass., with her husband, WCVB producer Stan Leven. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Anne Gibbs, Cred. ’70, M.A. ’86, a Davis elementary school teacher, died last December at age 63. As an undergraduate, she was part of a folk trio—Unky, Phoebe and Fatty Anne—that performed at campus events and, during one summer, in Nashville, Tenn. A reading specialist at Davis’ Pioneer Elementary School, she wrote and directed children’s musicals and for 15 years co-directed the school talent show with her spouse, fellow teacher Bev Benedum. In addition to her partner of 17 years, survivors include her sister, Kathy; brother Dave; Bev’s daughter, April; and two grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Joe Kiskis, a physics professor at UC Davis, won the 2012 Charles P. Nash Prize the spring. The UC Davis faculty prize recognizes leadership in advocating for faculty interests and welfare and promoting their shared role in governing the campus. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Jo Ann (Olson) Robbins retired after 20 years as an Extension professor with the University of Idaho, where her work involved horticultural crops and Master Gardener training. She previously spent 15 years as a researcher at Washington State University, Puyallup, developing small fruit varieties. She continues to farm in southern Idaho. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Gordon “Gordo” Styler, whose successful career as a broadcaster began at the campus’s KDVS radio station, died in Portland, Ore., in June. He was 65. He was an expert on ’60s and ’70s rock music, worked at the groundbreaking Sacramento FM station KZAP during its heyday in the ’70s, and included Country Joe McDonald and Jefferson Airplane band members among his friends. He later worked as a reporter and anchor at KFBK and KRAK. After his wife, Marilyn, died in 2003, he moved to Astoria, Ore., where he opened a guitar store. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Retired from teaching, Bonnie (Boudreau) Cassel worked last summer as a Yellowstone National Park Interpretive Park Ranger at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. She also serves as a trustee for the Lodi Unified School District’s Board of Education. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Charles Issel, D.V.M. ’69, received a 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for his research on a deadly contagious disease in horses, equine infectious anemia. He holds the Wright-Markey Chair of Equine Infectious Diseases at the University of Kentucky. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • James Barrell, Ph.D. ’72, co-authored Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives (MIT Press, 2012) with Donald Price. After teaching at the University of Florida and University of West Georgia, he now works as a consultant and personal growth facilitator. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Marsha Truman Cooper’s new poetry chapbook, A Knot of Worms, was published by Finishing Line Press in May. She has won first prize in the New Letters Literary Awards competition for poetry and received the Bernice Slote Poetry Award from Prairie Schooner. Her poem “Ironing at Midnight” appeared in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” newspaper column. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Robert (Bob) Owens wrote the novel, Pointman (Delizon). The book is loosely based on his experiences in the Vietnam War and the Cambodian invasion, where he received the Combat Medical Badge, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals. Before retiring, he served as the Lassen County schools superintendent for nine years and was a teacher and administrator for an additional 27 years. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Two books by Steve Shuman are available in paperback and digital format through Amazon: The Great Keldorian Dare, a young adult/adult science fiction story with artwork by Shuman, and Spider in the Ark, a children’s story set in Noah’s ark about a spider with an attitude problem. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Barbara Edgeworth, of Mountain View, died at age 66 on August 27. She was a retired teacher. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Ronald Mack, of San Francisco, died at age 65 on August 10. He was a pediatric dentist. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Richard Hastings, M.A.— an Air Force veteran and architect, archeologist and Sacramento’s first preservation director —died July 14. He was 83. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)

1969Jay Carlisle, J.D., a professor of law at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., received an award in June from the UC Davis School of Law Alumni Association for his support of the association. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • James Francis Wright, Ph.D., died of a heart attack in January 2008 in Raleigh, N.C., at age 83. During a veterinary career that spanned more than 50 years, he studied the effects of radiation and environmental stress on animals--including research in 1965-69 at UC Davis--worked at zoos in Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Senegal, and taught veterinary students at North Carolina State University. Survivors include his wife, Helen, four children and seven grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • John Lauck, M.S., Ph.D. ’72, died at his Green Valley home in July after a long illness. He was 66. After graduating, he worked for Chevron Chemical Co., starting as a research entomologist and leaving as vice president of worldwide agrochemicals. In the mid-1980s he created Western Ag Research, where he tested and evaluated agrochemicals until his retirement in 2000. He enjoyed traveling to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, golfing, making wine and fishing. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Elaine; children, Greg and Cher; brother, Richard; and three grandchildren. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Mary (Murphy) Richardson, Cred., co-anchor of Boston’s WCVB-TV’s news magazine Chronicle for more than 25 years, received an award from the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in April for her work raising public consciousness about issues of health and homelessness. In May, Richardson stepped down from the station, where she had worked as a reporter and anchor since 1980. She started her broadcast career at KCRA-TV in Sacramento in 1973, after having taught English at Encina High School in Sacramento. She is the mother of three and lives in Belmont, Mass., with her husband, WCVB producer Stan Leven. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Anne Gibbs, Cred. ’70, M.A. ’86, a Davis elementary school teacher, died last December at age 63. As an undergraduate, she was part of a folk trio—Unky, Phoebe and Fatty Anne—that performed at campus events and, during one summer, in Nashville, Tenn. A reading specialist at Davis’ Pioneer Elementary School, she wrote and directed children’s musicals and for 15 years co-directed the school talent show with her spouse, fellow teacher Bev Benedum. In addition to her partner of 17 years, survivors include her sister, Kathy; brother Dave; Bev’s daughter, April; and two grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Joe Kiskis, a physics professor at UC Davis, won the 2012 Charles P. Nash Prize the spring. The UC Davis faculty prize recognizes leadership in advocating for faculty interests and welfare and promoting their shared role in governing the campus. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Jo Ann (Olson) Robbins retired after 20 years as an Extension professor with the University of Idaho, where her work involved horticultural crops and Master Gardener training. She previously spent 15 years as a researcher at Washington State University, Puyallup, developing small fruit varieties. She continues to farm in southern Idaho. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Gordon “Gordo” Styler, whose successful career as a broadcaster began at the campus’s KDVS radio station, died in Portland, Ore., in June. He was 65. He was an expert on ’60s and ’70s rock music, worked at the groundbreaking Sacramento FM station KZAP during its heyday in the ’70s, and included Country Joe McDonald and Jefferson Airplane band members among his friends. He later worked as a reporter and anchor at KFBK and KRAK. After his wife, Marilyn, died in 2003, he moved to Astoria, Ore., where he opened a guitar store. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Retired from teaching, Bonnie (Boudreau) Cassel worked last summer as a Yellowstone National Park Interpretive Park Ranger at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. She also serves as a trustee for the Lodi Unified School District’s Board of Education. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Charles Issel, D.V.M. ’69, received a 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for his research on a deadly contagious disease in horses, equine infectious anemia. He holds the Wright-Markey Chair of Equine Infectious Diseases at the University of Kentucky. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • James Barrell, Ph.D. ’72, co-authored Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives (MIT Press, 2012) with Donald Price. After teaching at the University of Florida and University of West Georgia, he now works as a consultant and personal growth facilitator. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Marsha Truman Cooper’s new poetry chapbook, A Knot of Worms, was published by Finishing Line Press in May. She has won first prize in the New Letters Literary Awards competition for poetry and received the Bernice Slote Poetry Award from Prairie Schooner. Her poem “Ironing at Midnight” appeared in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” newspaper column. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Robert (Bob) Owens wrote the novel, Pointman (Delizon). The book is loosely based on his experiences in the Vietnam War and the Cambodian invasion, where he received the Combat Medical Badge, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals. Before retiring, he served as the Lassen County schools superintendent for nine years and was a teacher and administrator for an additional 27 years. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Two books by Steve Shuman are available in paperback and digital format through Amazon: The Great Keldorian Dare, a young adult/adult science fiction story with artwork by Shuman, and Spider in the Ark, a children’s story set in Noah’s ark about a spider with an attitude problem. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Barbara Edgeworth, of Mountain View, died at age 66 on August 27. She was a retired teacher. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Ronald Mack, of San Francisco, died at age 65 on August 10. He was a pediatric dentist. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Richard Hastings, M.A.— an Air Force veteran and architect, archeologist and Sacramento’s first preservation director —died July 14. He was 83.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)

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