Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1972The UC Davis Medical Center received a Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association for work done by Fred Meyers in the area of palliative and end-of-life care. Meyers is a UC Davis professor and chair of internal medicine and founder of the medical center's West Coast Center for Palliative Care Education and Research. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Carrie Cheney died at age 42 in March in Germany. Dr. Cheney was a registered dietitian and a fellow of the American College of Nutrition. She worked in the Program of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington for 25 years, including serving as acting director. Survivors include her husband, Pete Ruaro; her brothers, David and Daniel; and her sister-in-law, Helen. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Mike Chandler will retire in February from his position as fire chief for UC Davis. He has headed the fire department for the last eight years and has worked in the department since 1968, when he joined as a student firefighter. Chandler and his wife, Randi, live in Woodland. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Jan Lecklikner, a public defender for 24 years who currently works in San Francisco, was honored in 2002 with the Ruth Young award from an organization of women criminal defense attorneys, Women Defenders. She was also voted Best Female Public Defender of 2002 by her office. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Tom Venturino, M.A. '75, was named development officer for the UC Davis Cancer Center. He had been development officer at Jesuit High School for the past six years after serving as executive director of the UC Davis Chancellor's Club and of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento area. He lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Beverley Maul, M.S. ’83, was named the new principal at Holmes Junior High School in Davis. Formerly principal at Willett Elementary School and director of curriculum and instruction for the Davis Joint Unified School District, she began the job in February. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Nicholas Paoni was recently named vice president of therapeutics at Immusol, a biopharmaceutical company in San Diego. He formerly served as research professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Barbara Watrous, D.V.M. ’74, was named president of the International Veterinary Radiology Association (IVRA) in August. Previously, she served as director of the North American region and as vice president. IVRA is an organization of veterinarians who specialize in diagnostic imaging. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Phil Dubois, a former UC Davis administrator who is now president of the University of Wyoming, was honored with the District 6 Chief Executive Leadership Award presented by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Karen Joy Fowler, M.A. ’74, is the author of a new novel, The Jane Austen Book Club. Her previous works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season and Sister Noon. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Kathe (Goldbeck) Wilson is starting her own private therapy practice in Birmingham, Ala., after working for the Western Mental Health Center with the seriously mentally ill for the last six years. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Marvin Talso retired after 30 years as a middle-school teacher in the Ukiah Unified School District. He now provides guidance to beginning teachers and is a ministry facilitator at the Redwood Valley Community Church. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Robert James Emery, M.B.A. ’97, died in June 2004 of cancer at age 54. He instructed Gifted and Talented Education programs in the Sacramento City Unified School District before joining the insurance industry. He was a talented chef, eager outdoorsman and devoted father and husband. Survivors include his wife, Lorraine, his two children, Kourtney and Kenneth, and five grandchildren. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Karen Fowler, M.A. ’74, had her novel The Jane Austen Book Club included in the New York Times Book Review’s list of 100 notable books. The book, published by Marian Wood/Putnam, is a comic novel about a college town book group’s reading of six Jane Austen classics. Fowler lives in Davis. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Abe Shragge became director of the Dimensions of Culture program, the core social sciences and humanities sequence at UC San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College. He is also curator of the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Joan (Mitchell) Thomas died in January 2005 in San Mateo. Ms. Thomas worked in special education in San Mateo County for over 30 years, and enjoyed cooking, traveling, bike riding, musicals and playing an active role in the lives of her two children, Emily and Tyler. Ms. Thomas is survived by her husband, Jerry, her children, her mother and her two sisters. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Anastasios “Tas” Papathanasis, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’79, died in May 2004 in Simsbury, Conn. He was 62 years old. At the time of his death, Dr. Papathanasis was teaching in the Department of Economics at Central Connecticut State University, where a scholarship has been established in his memory. Survivors include his wife, Katherine. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Phil Dubois, former president of the University of Wyoming, was named chancellor of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Dubois served as UNCC provost from 1991 until 1997, before leaving for Wyoming. He began his academic career at UC Davis in 1976 as an assistant professor of political science. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Susan Heckly, director of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum’s wildlife rehabilitation hospital in Walnut Creek, combines her love of art and science by photographing the recovery of injured animals. The images, which are used to inform rehabilitation staff and volunteers about wildlife injuries, are now also on display as art at the County Administration Building in Martinez. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Robert Kuckuck, Ph.D., was appointed interim director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Kuckuck, an expert in nuclear weapons testing and treaty verification technologies, is a former National Nuclear Security Administration official. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) |