Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1972Rich Esposto has retired from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, where he has served as executive director since 1989. Esposto has been an innovator in the industry, leading a push for consumer rights against cable monopolies and helping to put government meetings onto cable TV. He and his wife, Kitty, have four sons. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Paul Brydon was named chief financial officer for Catholic Healthcare West’s Northridge Hospital. He and his wife, Colleen, live in Malibu and have three daughters: Lauren, a junior at the University of Washington, Seattle; Brooke, an upcoming freshman at UC Santa Cruz; and Christie, a ninth-grader. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Richard Fobes, of Portland, Ore., is the inventor of VoteFair ranking, a new voting method that identifies the ranking of choices from most popular to least popular, and is the author of the recently published book Ending the Hidden Unfairness in U.S. Elections (Solutions Through Innovation). (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Nick Concolino received the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives highest award, the Director’s Award, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., for his work developing and instructing an advanced explosives class for public safety bomb technicians. Concolino, a retired captain with the Davis Police Department, also teaches for the U.S. Department of State and still lives in Davis with his wife, Shirley, and son, Kevin. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • James Moore, D.V.M. ’74, distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia Department of Large Animal Medicine, received a 2006 Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Moore has contributed to the understanding of colic, endotoxemia and laminitis in horses. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Ian Stewart, Ph.D., helped found World Hunger Alleviation through Response Farming, a nonprofit foundation in Davis dedicated to the reduction of world hunger and the environmentally destructive practice of slash-and-burn agriculture. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • David Carle, who worked as a California State park ranger for 27 years, has written Introduction to Air in California (University of California Press). The book, one of several he’s written about the environment, explains the air we breathe, from weather patterns to wind to air pollution. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jane Louise Yale, Cred. ’73, died of cancer in April 2006 at age 56. Ms. Yale taught elementary school in Rio Vista and, later, South San Francisco. She also volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and served as a Sunday school teacher. She is survived by her husband, Stephen, and their four children. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Joan Holbrook Sodergren was elected in 2005 to the board of trustees for Westside Union School District, which serves over 9,000 students and 11 school sites. She also substitute teaches with the local high school district and volunteers in her community. Sodergren and her husband, Steven, live in Palmdale with their three daughters, Julianne, 16, Stephanie, 14, and Amy, 11. She remains friends with college roommates Sharman Stewart Reyes ’72, Catherine Hallahan Doran ’72 and Harriet Whitmyer Golson ’72. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Bill Roberts has published A Portrait of Oomoto: The Way of Art, Spirit and Peace in the 21st Century (The Oomoto Foundation), a book about a Shinto sect that uses traditional Japanese arts in its spiritual practice. Roberts lived for 14 months at the sect’s headquarters outside Kyoto to write and take photos for the book. He is now working on a book of photos about Japanese traditions. When not in Japan, Roberts works as a Silicon Valley-based freelance writer, covering the electronics industry. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Dorian Faye, M.A., former UC Davis administrator and retired Winters educator, is serving as a board director and vice president of the Yadkin Valley Craft Guild in Elkin, N.C., which represents 18 counties in two states. With her daughter, Demarais, she operates Double Creek Road, a custom garden design and botanical art business. Faye and her glass-artist husband, Charles Cummings, live and work at the foot of the Blue Ridge in a former church that dates back to 1885. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Dennis Gonsalves, Ph.D., director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Gonsalves was honored for his successful efforts against papaya diseases. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Willie Lott Jr., J.D., was appointed an Alameda County Superior Court judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in October. He had been a Superior Court commissioner since 2002. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Tom Schubert, D.V.M. ’77, returned to academia after 25 years of private veterinary practice. He has joined the University of Florida, where he did his residency, and is now practicing veterinary neurology as the neurology service chief at the university’s Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Dave Faike is retiring after 35 years of service as a forester, entomologist and ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service. During his UC Davis years, Faike, along with fellow students Dave Carle and Bill Kuttner, initiated the Cal Aggie Wheelmen Double-Century bike ride. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • James Moore, D.V.M. ’74, was honored at the American Association of Equine Practitioners annual convention as a distinguished educator for his 26 years of service on the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Don Peri’s soon-to-be published book, Working With Walt (University Press of Mississippi) is a collection of 15 interviews with Disney artists, including Ben Sharpsteen ’16. After seeing a painting by Sharpsteen in the 1972 Picnic Day program, Peri contacted the longtime Disney Studio animator, director and producer out of personal interest and was hired as an assistant to write his memoirs. Peri has also been hired by the Disney family to conduct interviews for an archive for the Walt Disney Family Museum, which is scheduled to open in San Francisco in 2009. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Dave Zeuch, Ph.D. ’80, has retired after more than 27 years as a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. During his last six years at the laboratories, he worked with the systems analysis group doing independent studies for a range of internal and external customers. Zeuch is married to Nena-Joy Almodovar ’73, who retired several years ago after careers in higher education and health care administration. The couple lives in Albuquerque, a base from which they plan to travel, scuba dive, sail and enjoy shotgun sports. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • David Carle recently had his book Introduction to Fire in California published by University of California Press. It is his third in a series of books about Californians and their environment and his ninth book overall. He worked as a state parks ranger for 27 years and also has taught biology and natural history courses at Cerro Coso Community College's Mammoth Lakes campus. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • CYNTHIA CHARTERS, M.A. ’81, was featured in a California Landscape Painters Exhibition last March and April at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis. She is currently an art teacher at Consumnes River College in Sacramento and lives with her family in Elk Grove. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) |