Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1973Gary Parker, a maxillofacial surgeon, was featured prominently in a 60 Minutes segment, “Africa Mercy: Hospital Hope,” in February. Parker has worked on the hospital ship for 26 years, removing disfiguring facial tumors from west African patients. The 12-minute segment is viewable online at cbsnews.com, along with a Web extra video, “Raising kids at sea: Meet the Parkers,” about Parker, his wife, Susan, and their teen children Carys and Wesley.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Jeanne DeFazio co-edited the book, Creative Ways to Build Christian Community, released this past spring by Wipf and Stock Publishers. A former actress and teacher, she holds a master’s degree in religion from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and currently is an Athanasian Teaching Scholar at the seminary’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston. She divides her time between Davis and Beverly, Mass. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Reed Maxson recently released the music suite Evolutions in CD and MP3 formats. The suite is based on flute and guitar duets that he composed in 1975 at UC Davis’ Solano Park student apartments. His website is reedmaxson.com. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Kathleen (Varner) Donnelly, M.A. ’75, died in her San Diego home in January of multiple system atrophy, a degenerative neurological disease. She worked at the UCLA and UC San Diego medical centers. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Thomas McCart Jr., ’73, of San Rafael, died at age 63 on August 13. He retired from a career in corporate finance. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Jan (Bridges) Bardsley wrote the book Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). She is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her partner, Phil Bardsley (attended 1969–71), works as a research associate at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • After serving eight years in the Idaho Legislature, Les Bock has joined nonprofit Centro de Comunidad y Justicia as an immigration attorney. The Boise Democrat spent 2006–08 in the Idaho House of Representatives and 2008–14 in the state Senate. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Cyclist Ken Mercurio was going 28 mph on a training ride in 2007 when his bike fork snapped, catapulting him onto his head and breaking his neck and six other bones. In Head Over Wheels (Sunbury Press, 2014), the retired Carnation/Nestlé USA nutrition director writes about his recovery from the near-fatal crash. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1974Roger Sabbadini, Ph.D. '74, a professor of biology at San Diego State University, invented and recently received a patent for a heart attack diagnostic kit. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Fred Holden, J.D., a partner at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison LLP in San Francisco, was elected a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is one of only 400 members. Holden was also listed in Best Lawyers in America while still in his 30s and has been included in all subsequent editions. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Penelope Chronis, a principal at Chronis & Kreher, a law firm in San Francisco, recently began her second term as a commissioner on the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission. Chronis specializes in immigration and nationality law and has practiced law for more than 13 years. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • David Rosenberg, J.D., Yolo County supervisor and chair of the state Lottery Commission, was appointed director of intergovernmental relations and senior adviser to Gov. Gray Davis. Rosenberg has his own law practice in Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Max Rothschild, a professor of animal science at Iowa State University, and two other animal scientists discovered that the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene plays a significant role in regulating eating behavior and body weight in humans and other mammals. Featured on the cover of the February issue of Mammalian Genome, the scientific journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society, the study revealed that different forms of the gene, which can lead to obesity in human beings, may make for leaner pigs. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Steve White, J.D., is inspector general for California, overseeing complaints from the state's 160,000 prison inmates and thousands of employees. White was appointed by Gov. Davis in 1999 and has investigated a number of alleged abuses of power by prison employees. Since graduating from UC Davis, White has served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association and as Sacramento County district attorney. White lives in Sacramento with his wife, an assistant U.S. attorney, and their two children. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Richard Woo was recently appointed executive director of the Russell Family Foundation, a foundation that offers grants to non-profit organizations in education and sustainable environment in Washington state's Puget Sound area. Previously, Woo was executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation in San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • John Diener, a large-scale organic grower in Fresno County, received a 2000 Award of Distinction from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Diener has helped with research to reclaim farmland suffering from high underground water tables and developed an award-winning farm drainage management system that reduces the impact of salinization on agricultural land. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • A new Western novel by John Nesbitt, M.A., Ph.D. '80, has been published by Leisure Books. North of Cheyenne is about an unemployed ranch hand who gets caught in the middle of a range war in a small Wyoming town. Nesbitt, who teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, has had a number of novels and short story collections published. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Jim Rutledge, Ph.D., was recently named president and chief executive officer of Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, Texas. Previously, Rutledge was a senior vice president for Pall Medical, a New York-based manufacturer of blood filtration systems. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • The Wente family--Eric, M.S.; his wife, Arel, M.A. '75; Philip '75 and Carolyn Wente--were honored with an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. The family is fourth-generation grape-growers and wine-makers with more than 3,000 vineyard acres in Livermore Valley and Monterey County. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Anthony DeLucia, Ph.D., a professor of surgery at East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine, was named president-elect of the American Lung Association. DeLucia has been recognized nationally for his advocacy and research on air pollution and tobacco-use prevention and was listed this spring among the "2001 Health Care Heroes" by The Business Journal of Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) |