Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1971David Mutti, D.V.M. ’73, died of cancer in April 2006 at the age of 56. Dr. Mutti began practicing veterinary medicine in Santa Barbara following his graduation from UC Davis. In 1991 he became the owner and hospital director of Santa Barbara Pet Hospital where he continued to practice until November 2004. Dr. Mutti was well known for his compassion and skill with patients and his dedication to employees as a teacher and valued mentor. He is survived by his wife, Linda; his daughter, Alexa; parents, Richard and Margaret; and siblings Robert, Barbara, Donald and Caryl, all graduates of UC Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Norman Polston, Ph.D., was featured in a Eureka Reporter article in April about his McKinleyville company, Mad River Science Inc., a manufacturer of non-toxic, odorless nail polish and other safe products for children. The company was an unexpected offshoot of a business Polston developed in Pennsylvania after he graduated from UC Davis, Polston Enterprises, which manufactures specialized paints. More information about his nail polish can be found at www.gonatural.biz. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • David Holcombe was named regional administrator/medical director for the Office of Public Health’s Central Louisiana region. This region comprises nine parishes (counties) and a population of over 350,000. He had worked in private practice at the Freedman Clinic of Internal Medicine for the previous 20 years. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Kimberly Ann Brown, Cred. ’72, retired in June from teaching fine arts photography at Placer High School in Auburn, where she has worked since receiving her teaching credential. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Jerry Nishimoto was honored by the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as “Outstanding Staff.” Nishimoto is retiring after 35 years as the lead computer support staff member in the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Burton “Burt” Hatlen, Ph.D., died in January 2008 at the age of 71. Dr. Hatlen was a faculty member at the University of Maine for more than 40 years. He was instrumental in developing the university’s National Poetry Foundation and is remembered for his enjoyment in introducing students to new artistic forms. Survivors include his wife, Virginia, and daughters, Inger Daniels and Julia Hatlen. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed Victoria Bradshaw as deputy chief of staff and cabinet secretary of California. She works as a liaison between the governor and cabinet members, including all agency directors and department directors. She had served as secretary for the Labor and Workforce Development Agency since 2004. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Susan Clayton was unanimously appointed by Lake County’s board of supervisors to be the county’s head librarian. She previously worked at the library at the University of Redlands. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Cassandra “Sandy” Howard, Cred. ’72, retired in June from Lake Tahoe Unified School District after teaching middle school home economics in 1972–78 and high school history, geography, health, English and home economics since 1978. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Steve Williamson recently climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro with his daughter, Stephanie. He was introduced to backpacking by classmates at UC Davis in 1970. He is currently the business architect at Trinity Technology Group in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Francis Sousa, M.A. ’74, died in Davis from a heart attack in June. He was 92. During World War II, he was sent to Hawaii as a trained welder to fix the ships and aircraft that had been attacked at Pearl Harbor. After the war, he successfully developed residential and commercial real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area and retired in 1963 at age 45. Sousa and his former wife, Mary, then attended UC Davis, where he studied geology. In addition to his former wife, survivors include his children, Lynda Fletcher and Francis Sousa, M.D ’74, eight grandchildren and siblings Al, Lee, and Betty. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Daniel D’Agostini, Cred. ’72, is the author and photographer of Into the Earth: A Wine Cave Renaissance (Panache Partners), released last October. It documents the story of modern wine caves. After more than 30 years teaching middle school in Dixon, Somerset and Yuba City, he retired in 2008 to devote more time to photography, writing and gardening in Amador County’s Shenandoah Valley. He was a leader in the “Garden in Every School” initiative for more than two decades. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Paul Chamberlin, assistant vice president for energy and campus development at the University of New Hampshire, was quoted in an April 18 article in Parade magazine, “A College Powered by Garbage,” about the campus’s landfill gas project. Chamberlin led the project team that put in place a system to use methane from a nearby landfill to power up to 85 percent of the campus. “Who says you can’t turn trash into treasure?” he says in the article. His quotation followed one by UC Davis environmental science and policy professor Joan Ogden. Chamberlin joined the University of New Hampshire in 1997 after serving 26 years in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He and his wife, Susan (Rutter) Chamberlin ’70, live in Dover, N.H. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Lynette Schweigert is co-founder and director of a new nonprofit organization, Moments of Memory, which offers free visual art classes in Northern Nevada care facilities for people with Alzheimer’s and related forms of dementia. More information about the program and a July art exhibition at the Arbors Memory Care in Sparks, Nev., can be found at momentsofmemory.org. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Larry Long was featured in the 2010 summer edition. Larry Long by Ben Moroski ’10 It was not his first love. But Larry Long ’71 eventually found winemaking—and the match changed the course of his life. After graduating from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in biological science with a minor in chemistry and earning two masters’ degrees—one in biochemistry from Ohio State University and the other in healthcare administration from George Washington University—Long spent 20 years as a hospital administrator, the last 13 years as the CEO o Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee. After he and his wife Linda ’72 settled in Truckee, Long discovered the art and fun of winemaking at home. “I loved the idea of taking grapes, making them into wine and enjoying the fruits of that labor. It was a great adventure for the whole family.” Long enjoyed his newfound hobby so much that he began taking viticulture and winemaking classes through UC Davis Extension to fine-tune his skills. Those courses ultimately inspired him to retire early from healthcare administration in order to pursue his passion. Around 2000, the Longs purchased a vineyard in Amador County, an area where they used to buy grapes for making wine at home. They soon began building winery facilities, and in 2004 Amador Cellars was born. The small, family-owned-and-operated winery is thriving today, and Long still remembers where it all began. “UC Davis gave me the tools I needed to pursue all of my interests and dreams in life,” he said. Amador Cellars is a member label of the Vintage Aggies Wine Club and will be included in the club’s November shipment. “It is a great way to remain a vital part of the UC Davis family,” Long said. “I now have an opportunity to share my wine with fellow Aggies.” For more information about Vintage Aggies Wine Club, visit www.alumni.ucdavis.edu/vintageaggiewineprogram. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Donald Barber, D.V.M., was honored with professor emeritus status at Virginia Tech, where he was head of the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine for 16 years. He is an expert in radiology and nuclear medicine. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • DONALD WINTERS, Cred. ’73, M.Ed. ’90, retired from teaching history and social science after 37 years with the Davis Joint Unified School District. He lives in Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Richard Miller, founding president of Massachusetts’ Olin College of Engineering, received the Donald E. Marlowe Award from the American Society for Engineering in June for his contributions to engineering education. He became Olin College’s first president in 1999, and is a professor of mechanical engineering there. He previously served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa for seven years, after 17 years at the University of Southern California and UC Santa Barbara. He researches structural dynamics and nonlinear mechanics and is a consultant to aerospace companies and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Eric Davis, D.V.M. ’77, served as the California State Fair veterinarian last summer and is an associate veterinarian with the International Animal Welfare Training Institute at UC Davis. At the institute, he trains emergency responders in best methods for establishing emergency animal shelters, rescuing horses and handling loose livestock. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Daniel Koenigshofer is vice president for healthcare at Dewberry Engineers’ office in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was recently named editor-in-chief of the HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics, published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He has more than 30 years experience in healthcare facilities engineering and project management. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) |