Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1973Bill Baxter earned his 500th career win coaching girl’s high school basketball this past season. In his 20 years of coaching at El Camino High School in Sacramento, his teams won five section title games out of 10 played, three NorCal title games out of five and one out of three state title games. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Kenneth Lovelace Jr. died in August 2006 in Fredericksburg, Va., at age 56. After graduation, he pursued a career in geology and civil engineering, working in Alaska for a number of years. As a senior civil engineer for Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., he was responsible for geotechnical, geologic and hydrologic investigations and designs. In 1989, Mr. Lovelace served in the Peace Corps for two years in the Morocco village water program. Upon his return, he began working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Program writing national groundwater cleanup policy and became an internationally recognized expert on cleanup of contaminated groundwater. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Corbett. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • David Bainbridge, M.S., has written A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration (Island Press). Designed to help everyone from home gardeners to foresters, this illustrated user’s manual includes ways to save water and increase plant survival. Bainbridge is an associate professor in the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Linda Gage, M.A. ’74, was named a 2007 fellow of the American Statistical Association. The honor recognizes her leadership and professional contributions to the field of statistical science. Gage is a senior demographer for the California Department of Finance in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Charles Crabb, Ph.D. ’91, was chosen as the director of education for the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation. Before this appointment, Crabb was the manager of the California Farm Bureau Federation’s governmental affairs division and the dean of agriculture at California State University, Chico. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Sharon Hopkins, D.V.M. ’75, is currently the public health veterinarian for the Seattle-King County Health Department and adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her duties include surveillance and control of West Nile virus and general zoonotic diseases. She and her husband, Doug, have a daughter, volunteer as puppy raisers for Guide Dogs for the Blind and run a few head of Lowline Angus cattle on a small ranch outside Issaquah, Wash. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Henry Gong, M.D., a pulmonary physician and governor-appointed member of the California Air Resources Board, passed away in August 2007 due to heart failure. He was 60. Dr. Gong was considered a champion of air quality control in California and published hundreds of works related to respiratory disease and the health effects of air pollution. Gong also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and was a chair of the Department of Medicine at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. Additionally, he was a professor of medicine and preventative medicine at the University of Southern California. Survivors include his wife, Jan; his children, Greg and Jaimee; and his granddaughter. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Thomas Trapp, a San Francisco attorney respected in the field of environmental law, died in August 2007 of pancreatic cancer at age 55. Mr. Trapp began his law career with Landels Ripley & Diamond and was a founding partner of Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp where he was managing partner. The Thomas Trapp Environmental Scholarship has been established in his honor at the UC Hastings College of Law. His survivors include his sons, Brandon and Elliot, his mother, Carol, and former wife, Lois Mueller. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Suzanne (Justis) Galloway, Cred. '74, a math teacher at Dixon High School, was chosen the Dixon Unified School District Teacher of the Year for 2008. She has been teaching in Dixon for 34 years and is currently negotiations chair for Dixon Teachers Association, in addition to participating in teacher research with UC Davis for many years. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Loren Raymond, Ph.D., retired in 2007 from Appalachian State University after 35 years of teaching. He co-founded the ASU Sustainable Development Program in 1991, published the text Petrology: The Study of Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks and recently self-published a small book of poetry, Poetic Thoughts in the Blue Ridge and Beyond. Currently, Raymond is operating a consulting business, GEOSI Inc., making geologic maps, assessing slope stability for home builders and locating rural water well sites. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Marlene Getchell, a San Rafael probate attorney, became the president of the Marin County Bar Association in January. She is married to Paul Getchell, whom she met in law school, and they have two children—one a graduating senior at UC Berkeley and the other a TV producer and editor. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Caroline Newman died of a pulmonary embolism at her home in Washington, D.C., in December. She was 57. She was the executive editor of Smithsonian Books, formally Smithsonian Institution Press, where she had worked past 23 years and edited many award-winning or best-selling books. Some of these books include How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World by Deborah Cramer and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossel. After graduating from UC Davis, she went on to earn her master’s degree at UC Berkeley and did work towards her doctorate in comparative literature. Ms. Newman co-founded the charitable organization Washington Womenade in 2001. Her hobbies included kayaking, birding and hiking. She is survived by her husband of 19 years, Larry Abramson; her son, Seth Abramson; her mother, Katharine Newman, of San Mateo; a sister and a brother. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Women in Technology International inducted PATRICIA COWINGS, M.A., Ph.D., into its 2009 Hall of Fame in June. She is the principal investigator of the Psychophysiological Research Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, where she develops nonmedical methods to help astronauts adapt faster to being in space. She began her career at NASA more than 30 years ago as the first female scientist to be trained as an astronaut payload specialist. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • DANIEL DOOLEY was appointed the senior vice president for external relations for the University of California system in March. He also serves as the UC vice president for agriculture and natural resources, a position he has held since January 2008. He was previously a partner at Dooley, Herr and Peltzer, a law firm that emphasized agricultural, environmental, business and water rights law. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • ROB KENT, M.A. ’76, has been appointed department chair and the James H. Ring Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at California State University, Northridge. Previously, he served as department chair and professor of geography and planning at the University of Akron where he was a faculty member for 25 years. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Marialena. They have two grown children, Robert and Anika. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine presented an Alumni Achievement Award to Linda Lowenstine, D.V.M., Ph.D. ’83, in June for her contributions to the advancement of comparative pathology in nondomestic animal species. A professor in the school’s department of pathology, immunology and microbiology, she is one of the world’s leading experts on diseases in zoo animals and wildlife. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Andrew Kluger has been appointed a visiting senior research scientist for the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering. He is also the founder and CEO of Early Bird Alert Inc., which manufactures a home healthcare communications device; chair of the board and former CEO of Hawaii Air Ambulance; president of Kluger & Associates medical management company; and president of Book Bank USA, a nonprofit that donates books and computers to schools and libraries worldwide. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Mike Bellotti was appointed athletic director at University of Oregon, where he was the head football coach for 14 seasons. Bellotti guided the Ducks to 12 post-season appearances, six bowl championships, two Pacific-10 Conference titles, a school-record of 11 wins in a season, a No. 2 national ranking in 2001 and a Top-25 national finish on six occasions in the past 10 years. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Brad Bates, who was twice elected mayor of Turlock during 1982–90, has had a two-acre city park named for him. The city dedicated the new Brad Bates Park in north Turlock last October. Bates says, “This helps, in part, to answer the question of what you do with a degree in rhetoric.” (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Margaret Bentson has joined CompAnalysis, an independent employee compensation and performance management consulting firm in Oakland, as a principal. Previously a principal in the San Francisco office of Hewitt Associates, she is the author of several articles and book chapters for WorldatWork, an association of compensation and benefit professionals, and the Society for Human Resource Management. Before becoming a compensation consultant, she worked in labor relations. After graduating from UC Davis, she earned a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) |