Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1972Buddy Masuda has been appointed senior winemaker, Central Coast by Golden State Vintners Inc. In this position, he is head of winemaking at the company's Monterey winery and is responsible for customer, industry and grower relations for the company's business on the Central Coast. Masuda previously worked for the Seagram Wine Co. and the Seagram Beverage Co. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Lourminia Sen, Ph.D., was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis as the agricultural and environmental science adviser to the California Department of Food and Agriculture in April. She had served as a supervisory agricultural chemist with the Department of Food and Agriculture since 1991. In her new position, Sen will advise on policy issues as they impact agriculture and the governor's objectives for California. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Nick Concolino, a captain with the Davis Police Department, retired in September after 30 years in Yolo County law enforcement, but continues his work as a contract instructor/coordinator for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Advanced Explosives Destruction Techniques School in Fredericksburg, Va., and as contract instructor for the U.S. State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program for foreign police at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He lives in Davis with his wife, Shirley, and 8-year-old son, Kevin. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Barbara Ackley Gudis, an elementary school principal in Chandler, Ariz., recently completed an assignment as a Baldrige National Quality Award evaluator. Appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Gudis evaluated a school district on the East Coast using the Baldrige criteria for performance excellence. She lives in Tempe, Ariz., with her husband, Larry Gudis '72. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Alfred Murray was appointed chief of staff to Oakland City Council member Moses Mayne Jr. in May. He serves as council analyst for policy and constituent issues. Murray is also the owner of Quality Assurance Legal Services, a student at the John F. Kennedy University School of Law and serves on the board of trustees for Golden Gate Academy in Oakland. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • John Morton recently traveled to Pakistan with an organization called Wheels for Humanity to distribute wheelchairs to those in need. Morton is an author and speaker who has presented seminars and workshops throughout the world to help people live a spiritual life amidst change and adversity. His book The Blessings Already Are was recently published by Mandeville Press. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Lt. Col.Donald Bell was promoted to chief secretary (chief operating officer) for the Salvation Army Western Territory. He will serve as the second in command of all Salvation Army programs in the 13 Western states and the Pacific Islands as far west as Guam and as far south as the Marshall Islands. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • John Hessis chief of the geotechnical branch of the Sacramento district of the Army Corps of Engineers. He supervises 40 engineers, geologists and technicians who are involved in a variety of civil works, dam safety and military construction programs. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jerry Hobrecht, M.A. '76, J.D. '83, Vacaville's assistant city attorney, has been selected to take over the head position when his boss retires at the end of June. Hobrecht has worked for the city of Vacaville for 11 years. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jim Moore, D.V.M. '74, was named a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia. Moore, an authority on equine gastrointestinal diseases and endotoxic shock in horses, had earlier received the College of Veterinary Medicine's David Tyler Award for Innovation in Teaching, given for his development of new educational methods that include computer-based, three-dimensional simulations. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Tax attorney Kathleen O'Connor, elected a Superior Court judge in Yuba County in March, was scheduled to assume the post in January but was appointed to the position immediately by Gov. Gray Davis. O'Connor had been a senior tax counsel with the state Board of Equalization and, before that, a Yuba County deputy district attorney. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Edward Carroll Jr., Ph.D., is dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at California State University, Northridge. After briefly serving on the faculty at the University of Maryland in the 1970s, Carroll became a faculty member in the biology department at UC Riverside. In 1993, he became associate dean of graduate studies and research before accepting the position of dean at Northridge in 1997. His wife, Alice, who was an administrative assistant to the chair of clinical pathology at the UC Davis School of Medicine, died from diabetic complications in February 2000. They have two children, Julie and Steven. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • F. Chris Garcia, Ph.D., professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, was named the university's 17th president for approximately a one-year period while a national search is conducted for a permanent president. Garcia has been involved with UNM for 40 years as a student, faculty member and administrator. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Dennis Revie, Ph.D. '77, was promoted to the rank of full professor at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. His field is biology. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Chris Twohy and his wife, Jan, own a farm in Lake County where they raise goats. Their operation was one of several profiled in a July 10 Los Angeles Times article about the goat-cheese business. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Jock Reynolds, M.F.A., the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and author of numerous books and articles on American photography and contemporary art, recently curated an exhibition of photographic surveys of the American West by noted photographers Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Nancy Whiteside Joye, M.A., and her husband, Jim, M.D., have two children, Matt and Sarah, and live in Sacramento. Nancy is a pediatrician with the UC Davis School of Medicine, and Jim is a cardiologist with Kaiser Permanente. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Abe Shragge is coordinator of public programs for the UC San Diego Civic Collaborative, a program that encourages UCSD scholars to study the San Diego region and then share what they learn with the community. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Paul Brydon is the new chief financial officer of Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale. Brydon has lived in Malibu for the last 17 years. He and his wife, Colleen, have three daughters, Lauren, Brooke and Christie. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Jim Donald, J.D., died in February 2003 at age 57. As a lawyer, Mr. Donald actively campaigned for laws making public places accessible to the disabled, leading to regulations requiring such accommodations as curb cuts and wheelchair lifts. He is survived by his wife, Grace. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) |