Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1971Ken Allen, an authority on China’s air force, works for the CNA Corp. in Alexandria, Va., a nonprofit organization that studies issues for the U.S. armed forces and other government agencies. An author of books on China’s military, Allen served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force as a Chinese and Russian linguist and was an assistant Air Force attaché in Beijing in 1987–89. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Anthony Cheng, M.A., is vice president and general manager of Mead Johnson North Asia, which has become the fastest-growing infant formula company in China under his leadership. He has worked in the United States, South America and Asia, serving in many general manager and business development roles. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Richard Miller is president of the new Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Gail McKnight Takara and her husband, Cmdr. Derek Takara, were transferred to Mechanicsburg, Pa., where they live with their two children, Nick and Julia. Gail is Pennsylvania program manager for a Navy-wide intranet installation, and Derek is stationed at Navy Supply Systems Command headquarters. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Gary Foster is vice president of Stanley Consultants International Division, which is helping with the reconstruction of Iraq’s infrastructure, including electricity, roads, transportation, health, public buildings, oil and communications. Foster was in Iraq for four months, serving as assistant team leader for power generation, working with the Iraqi ministry of energy and traveling to power facilities to assess their physical condition. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Larry Gerston, M.A., Ph.D. ’75, has written two new books: Public Policy Making: Process and Principles, 2nd ed., and, with co-author Terry Christensen, Recall! California’s Political Earthquake. Gerston is a professor of political science at San Jose State University. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Neil Blackfield has been teaching for the past 10 years at Prospects High School in Antioch. He is the author of the Starting Gate Series for beginning readers, published by High Noon Books in Novato. His son, Sean, is 9 years old. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Beth Anderson recently had two CDs of her compositions released: Swales and Angels on New World Records and Peachy Keen-O on Pogus. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Joe Sherrard, Ph.D., died in July 2004 in Omaha, Neb., at age 62. He was a distinguished professor of civil engineering and associate chair at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Peter Kiewit Institute. He received a number of Fulbright Hays Senior Lectureship Awards, which took him three times each to Ecuador and Guatemala to teach civil engineering courses. He previously served on the faculties at Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech and Mississippi State universities. Survivors include his wife, Frances; son, Joseph VI; and daughter, Stephanie. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Craig Greene, D.V.M. ’73, received a lifetime achievement award at the North American Veterinary Conference in Orlando, Fla. Greene, a professor at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, wrote Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat, the most widely used textbook on the subject. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Louis Sotelo, J.D. ’76, was appointed presiding administrative law judge for the Fresno office of the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Sotelo had served in a similar capacity with the board’s Sacramento Office of Appeals since 1992. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Mary Kearny Stroube is the author of I Do, Don’t I? (Wit’s End Press), a book designed to help gay and lesbian couples understand the nuances and implications of California’s new domestic partner laws. Stroube is a private practice lawyer specializing in ethics for mental health professionals. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Marian Rothschild, principal of Marin School in Albany, was named Elementary Principal of the Year at the spring conference of Region VI of the Association of California School Administrators. Rothschild has been at Marin School since 1988, following a career as an elementary school teacher, a special-ed teacher, a resource specialist, a vice principal and a summer school principal. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Randy Snowden, J.D. ’74, was appointed director of the Napa County Health and Human Services Agency. He will be responsible for the administration of various federal, state and local social service programs. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • David Martin has formed an engineering firm, David Martin & Associates, in Kirkland, Wash. The firm specializes in managing transportation design projects. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Terry Maple, M.A., Ph.D. ’74, is the new head of the 23-acre nonprofit zoo in Dreher Park in West Palm Beach, Fla. Previously, Maple spent 19 years as president and chief executive officer at Zoo Atlanta, helping to transform it from one of the worst zoos in the nation to one of the best. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Pamela Tom, M.S. ’75, has been selected as Technologist of the Biennium by the International Association of Fish Inspectors. Tom is manager of the seafood technology program at California Sea Grant Extension, a statewide UC marine research program. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • As a doctor living in the Louisiana-Mississippi area, David Holcombe experienced firsthand some of the problems left in Hurricane Katrina’s wake. Emergency rooms in his town of Alexandria, La., swelled with a 30 percent increase in patients, mostly evacuees. Members of the medical community responded by organizing visits to shelters as well as seeing evacuees in their offices and volunteer clinics. In response to the Katrina and Rita hurricanes, Holcombe created a series of artworks, two of which were featured in a show titled Sustained Winds at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, La. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Stephen Meyer, the son of the late James Meyer, UC Davis chancellor in 1969–87, has been the managing partner of Sacramento’s biggest law firm, Downey Brand, since 2002. He and his wife, UC Davis entomologist Mary Lou Flint, live in Sacramento. They have two sons, Nick and Will. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Stephen Zaima, M.F.A., professor of studio arts at Syracuse University in New York, exhibited his artwork in the university’s annual faculty show. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) |