Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1960s
| 1964Vince Westby retired after 27 years as a social worker with North Bay Regional Center in Napa, an agency that serves developmentally disabled people of all ages. He and his wife, Shelley, live in Petaluma and have two children and two grandchildren. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • George Kucera retired from practicing law in California and is now a licensed real-estate broker. He has purchased a Help-U-Sell real-estate franchise in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where he lives with his wife, Vladlena. Kucera enjoys fishing and hunting in northern Idaho and still holds his California law license. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Mary Offermann has made her living as a painter for the last 20 years. She has been married to husband Lance Sims for 33 years, and the couple has three adult children. They live in Santa Cruz during the school year and spend their summers in the south of France, where Offermann teaches workshops on pastel painting. Her recent work can be seen at www.stpierre.cc. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Martin Dinnes, D.V.M. ’66, is the chief veterinarian at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch. He was featured in a Santa Monica Times article in January that reported he had filed suit against the king of pop for nearly $100,000 in unpaid fees. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Bill Jones retired from the Federal Highway Administration after 37 years, during which time he directed the state offices in Ohio, Wyoming and Colorado. He received numerous awards during his career, including the Federal Highway Administrator’s Award, presented in Washington, D.C., for his contribution to the nation’s transportation system. Jones lives in Littleton, Colo., with his wife of 42 years, Kay Lynch Jones ’62. They have three children and five grandchildren. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Douglass Miller, M.A. ’66, Ph.D. ’69, has written Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Cornell University Press). Miller is a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • George Kucera wrote to share the sad news that he has been diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma and “wishes to say goodbye to all of the good friends he made at UCD while he was there.” He can be reached at georgek692@aol.com. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Kathreen Arscott is a substitute teacher and storyteller for elementary schools in Montebello. In 2002 she received an M.A. in culture and spirituality from the Sophia Center, Holy Names University in Oakland. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Kirvin Knox, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Knox is a retired teacher, scientist and administrator who worked at the University of Connecticut and at Colorado State University. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • David Martin, D.V.M. ’66, died of massive trauma received during a shark attack in Solana Beach in April 2008. He was 66. Dr. Martin was a retired veterinarian who had lived in Solana Beach since 1970. He was a well-liked figure in the community and was known for his veterinary skill, broad smile and sunburned nose. Always an active man, Dr. Martin was a member of the Triathlon Club of San Diego. His survivors include his children, Andy, Kevin, Ben and Hannah, as well as four grandchildren and his girlfriend, Jan Rhoades. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • David Lett, who pioneered winemaking in the Pacific Northwest, died of heart failure at his home in Dundee, Ore., in October 2008. He was 69. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1961 and planned to be a dentist but decided to major in viticulture at UC Davis instead after he toured the Napa Valley. After graduating, he was the first to plant commercial wine grapes in Oregon in 1965 and became internationally known after his pinot noir won second place at an international wine tasting competition in Paris in 1980. He continued making wine until 2005, when he retired. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Diana, his sons, Jason and James, and his two granddaughters. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Linn Wiley was named the 2010 Distinguished Banker of the Year by the California Bankers Association in January. He spent over 45 years in the banking industry. By the time he retired as CEO and president of CVB Financial Corp and Citizens Business Bank in 1991, he saw an increase of yearly earnings from $6 million to $70 million and $60 billion in assets. He now serves as vice chairman of the board of directors for the company. Wiley lives with his wife of more than 45 years, Nancy. They have two children and four grandchildren. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • John Osborn of Sacramento received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association in February. A clinical professor of plastic surgery with the UC Davis Health System, he periodically visits Peru to teach and perform corrective and reconstructive plastic surgery on children with cleft lip and palate deformities. He also has a successful practice with the Plastic Surgery Center in Sacramento. Osborn serves on the board of directors of the School of Medicine Alumni Association. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Sandy (Holloway) Kogl, a former park ranger, dogsledder and author who was recently nominated for induction into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in September in Talkeetna, Alaska. She was 67. After graduating, she moved to Alaska to pursue a master’s degree in wildlife management in Fairbanks. She and then-husband, Dennis, opened a dog freighting operation. In 1975 she joined Denali National Park to renovate its kennels, restore backcountry dogsled patrols and improve the breeding program. This led her to write Sled Dogs of Denali. After retiring in 1995, she moved to Talkeetna, where she co-founded the Bear Necessities Coalition to help keep bears and people safe, and co-authored The Ballad of the Wild Bear to educate children about living safely in bear country. She is survived by her partner of 23 years, George Wagner; children Renge’ and Leif, J.D. ’09; and grandchildren, Juno and Ron. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Stan Holt, Ph.D., would like to get in contact with faculty and fellow alumni who remember him from his 1960–64 studies in the microbiology program. He can be reached at stanglous@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Chuck Rose, D.V.M. ’66, lives with his wife, Inga, in Nuuk, Greenland, and would enjoy hearing from his former classmates. His email address is greenvet@greennet.gl. He retired in 2004 as Greenland’s chief veterinary officer. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Stan Holt, Ph.D., would like to reconnect with his microbiology classmates of 1960–65. His email is stanglous@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Peter Mehren, M.A. ’72, had a short story, “A Hunnerd Dollars, Gold,” published in the anthology The Old Weird South (QW Publishers, LLC, 2012). Peter and wife Kay Gullikson Mehren, D.V.M. ’65, are based in Toronto. Kay retired as senior veterinarian at the Toronto Zoo, and continues to work on animal health and welfare issues. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Robert Matchett, M.S. ’66, Seattle, age 72, died March 26. He was a retired cereal breeder. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) |
| 1965Alex Ardans, D.V.M., received the 2000 Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine for helping revitalize California's animal health and food safety laboratory system. Ardans, a UC Davis professor of medicine and epidemiology at the school, has served as director of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory at UC Davis since 1987. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) |