Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1974Mark Gailey is currently a resource specialist teacher for juniors and seniors at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico, where he lives. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Charles Wachob, J.D. ’77, was appointed a judge in the Placer County Superior Court. Wachob had been a partner in the law firm of Leupp, Wachob & Woodall since 1981 and an attorney for the city of Auburn since 1983. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Eric Wente, M.S., has been elected chair of the Wine Institute, a trade group representing California wineries, for the 2005 fiscal year. Wente advocates sustainable wine-growing practices in the industry. As chair of his family’s winery, Wente Vineyards in Livermore, Wente oversees the winery and vineyards, restaurant, golf course, a land- and vineyard-development company and a working cattle ranch. He and his wife, Arel, have two children who both work at the winery as well. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Jenny Carr Kinney was named 2005 National Quilting Teacher of the Year by the National Quilters Association. She teaches quilting at Ventura College and at Ventura Adult and Continuing Education. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • John Nesbitt, Ph.D. ’80, an English and Spanish instructor at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, has had two new books published: a western novel, Rancho Alegre (Leisure Books), and a collection of short stories set in the contemporary West, Shadows on the Plain (Endeavor Books). (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Richard Woo is the chief executive officer of the Russell Family Foundation in Gig Harbor, Wash. The foundation funds leadership, environmental sustainability and global peace. In September, Woo’s son, Jesse, entered UC Davis. Woo’s wife, Arlene Joe, graduated summa cum laude from Seattle University law school last year. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Aws Nashef, M.S., Ph.D. ’77, is the inventor of TruCCOMS, a system used to continuously monitor heart performance during surgery. Nashef developed TruCCOMS in 1992 while running his own Irvine-based company, Amimed. Fourteen years later, his product has finally reached the market, produced by his new company, Omega Critical Care, in Glasgow, Scotland. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Victor Convertino, M.A., Ph.D. ’81, received the Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine for his contributions to exercise science, including developing training for astronauts and diagnostic devices for medics on battlefields. He is a senior research physiologist for the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Richard Frank, J.D., was named the first executive director of the new California Center for Environmental Law & Policy at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He leaves a 30-year career in California government and his current position as the top adviser to the state attorney general. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Max Rothschild, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University in Ames, is coordinator of a nationwide project mapping the pig genome. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Kristine (Wenburg) Mahood has written A Passion for Print: Promoting Reading and Books to Teens (Libraries Unlimited), which addresses such topics as teens and reading, retail ideas with teen appeal, book collections, space planning, displays and print promotions. She has also presented conference programs on library services for teens. Mahood serves as the district young adult librarian for Timberland Regional Library, comprising 27 libraries in southwestern Washington state. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Robert Nicolas, J.D., is executive director of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency, the humanitarian relief and development arm of the African Episcopal Church, the oldest African American church in the United States. A native Haitian, Nicolas was profiled in a Baltimore Times article in July for his organization’s work in that impoverished country. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Lorene Jackson has taken her Davis cycling experience to new heights with the release of her latest book, Mountain Biking Lake Tahoe (Globe Pequot Press). When she’s not researching trail guides, Jackson works with Trips for Kids, a national nonprofit that takes disadvantaged youth on mountain bike adventures. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • John Reganold, M.S., Ph.D. ’80, has published Organic Agriculture: A Global Perspective (Cornell University Press), which has already garnered considerable praise from scholars in the field. Reganold is Regents Professor of Soil Science at Washington State University. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Craig Machado is the English-as-a-second-language division director at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. He was also editor for Perspectives on Community College ESL, a series published in December that covers current best practices in ESL teaching at the community college level. In 2005, Machado’s division received a program excellence award from the National Council of Teachers of English. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Emily Vasquez, Sacramento’s first Latina judge, was profiled in January in the Sacramento Bee. The article described her path from her childhood in the labor camps of San Joaquin Valley, to attending UC Davis on a Regents Scholarship, to graduating from UC Berkeley’s law school in 1977 and her appointment to the Sacramento Superior Court bench in 2001. She is now married to Deputy Attorney General Ralph Lightstone, has a daughter in high school and a son in college, and mentors college and law school students in the area. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Laura (Fischmann) Havstad is in private practice as a clinical psychologist. She and her husband, Tom, live in Sebastopol and have three daughters, including one attending UC Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Colin Carrig, Ph.D., was awarded the title professor emeritus at his retirement in recognition of exemplary service as a professor of radiology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • John Nesbitt, M.A., Ph.D. ’80, has had his most recent western novel, Raven Springs, published by Leisure Books. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Roger Straus, M.A., Ph.D. ’77, moved from the East Coast to Portland, Ore., where he has a freelance marketing research practice. In his spare time, he helps his new wife, Kathryn Frederick, with her Indie labels, Frederick Productions and Red Newt Records. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) |