Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1974JULIET BENDER is serving in the Peace Corps in Querétaro, Mexico, with her husband, Charles Goldsmith. She previously worked as director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s NAFTA and Southeast Asia offices, helping U.S. companies with exporting problems and negotiating various U.S. free trade agreements.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Mary Dowell, J.D. ’77, was named one of California’s Top 75 Women Litigators for 2011 by the Daily Journal in May. She is a partner at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore in Los Angeles, where she chairs the firm’s education law practice group and represents community college districts.
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Valori (Richie) Lee, a Stockton educator, died peacefully in her sleep in July 2010 at age 59. She taught at San Joaquin County charter school Venture Academy, and previously worked as an elementary school teacher, Modesto Junior College art gallery director, home-school teacher and counselor. In addition to her bachelor’s degree in art history and Spanish from UC Davis, she earned an M.B.A. from the University of Denver and a Master of Education from California State University, Stanislaus. At the time of her death, she was halfway through a doctoral program in multicultural education at University of San Francisco. Ms. Lee, who participated in fall 1969 in the World Campus Afloat program, later became a board member for what became Semester at Sea. She was also a member of Sacramento’s Golden State Museum and the California Arts Commission. The San Joaquin County Office of Education's Educational Foundation established a scholarship in her memory. Her husband, Thomas A. Lee Jr., predeceased her. Survivors include her children, Andrea and Thomas.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Jack De Golia, three years after his retirement from the U.S. Forest Service, is pursuing a new career in voice-over narration for radio and TV commercials, websites, audiobooks and iPad apps. To hear samples of his work, go to www.voices.com/people/jackdegolia.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Ernest “Ross” Wade of Vacaville died in January after a battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His death occurred two days before his 61st birthday. He worked 30 years as a Travis Air Force locksmith, retiring last July. Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Julianna; son, David; daughters Candace (DeOrio) Scarlett and Angela (DeOrio) McCord; and six grandchildren.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Mark Gailey, of Chico, recently retired after more than 32 years of teaching. The Chico Unified Teacher’s Association selected him 2012 Secondary Teacher of the Year. He plans to pursue his interests in drawing, soccer, acoustic music, music festivals, bicycling, canoeing and swimming, as well as volunteering at Chico’s Pleasant Valley High School, where he had been a resource specialist. He has been married to Cynthia Hills for 25 years and has a stepson, Skylar.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Barb Peppin is a licensed marriage and family therapist at Golden Hills Church in Brentwood. Her practice focuses on trauma, play therapy with children and animal-assisted therapy. She completed her master’s degree and a pastoral counseling degree in 2003 from Holy Names College in Oakland.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Ming Shyong Yang, Ph.D., died in his Davis home in July 2012. He was 73. He spent 32 years working as an environmental and information technology specialist for the California Water Resources Control Board. He was a founder of the Davis Chinese School.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Harry Dorn, Ph.D., a professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, has been reappointed as the Dr. A.C. Lilly Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience. The fellowship appointment is for three years. A world authority on nanomaterials, Dorn has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and holds three U.S. patents.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Max Rothschild, C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University, this fall concluded 20 years as leader of the U.S. Pig Genome Coordination Program, part of an international effort that sequenced the swine genome. He also serves as co-chair of Iowa State’s Global Food Security Consortium.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Deborah (Haynie) Sharp, of Little Rock, Arkansas, died at age 61 on July 14. She was a retired Social Security Administration employee and special education teacher.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Jack de Golia was recently designated an “Audible Approved Producer” by Audible.com. A retired U.S. Forest Service spokesman, he has narrated and produced nearly two dozen audiobooks since January 2013. His website is jackwestcoast.com.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Kent Steinwert, chairman, president and CEO of Farmers and Merchants Bank of Central California, is a new member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s 12th District Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. The council provides input to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors on economic and lending conditions. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Hot Bed, a comedic mystery novel by Rex Thomas, M.A. ’78, is available as e-book on Amazon. The manuscript was edited by Berkeley’s Alan Rinzler, who has worked with luminaries like Hunter S. Thompson and Toni Morrison. “Alan agreed to work with me after I won a Bay Area novel writing contest,” said Thomas. A real estate investor and former advertising and public relations writer, he lives in Oakland. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Jim Rutledge, Ph.D., is making a second attempt at retirement. He served as CEO of Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, Texas, for 11 years, retiring in 2011. Nine months later he became interim executive director of Harrington Regional Medical Center, also in Amarillo. He and his wife relocated to Lebanon, Oregon, to be further away from job offers and closer to grandkids and water. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Neil Barker, Patty Gaffney Tescher, Bert Levy, Curt Robinson, M.A. ’81, Ph.D. ’95, and Chris Bonfiglio, held a micro-reunion in Davis last November, enjoying Aggie football and sharing memories of their UC Davis days. Barker is a Pasadena attorney. Tescher is a retired Sacramento County human resources manager. Levy is a state appellate court justice in Fresno. Robinson directs the nonprofit Floodplain Management Association in Sacramento. Bonfiglio directs San Rafael nonprofit Casa Allegra Community Services. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1975Constantine Dillon, a National Park Service superintendent, was awarded the 2000 Stephen Tyng Mather Award by the National Parks Conservation Association for his work to protect the environment of New York's Fire Island National Seashore. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Dentist Richard Amo recently stepped down from his position as president of the Orange County Dental Society. He and his wife, Angela, a dental hygienist, run a dental practice in Fullerton. Their second daughter, Hayley Nicole, was born in April. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Cindra Vargas, a teacher at Cordillera Elementary School in Mission Viejo, was awarded the nation's highest honor for K-12 science teachers. She is among 200 teachers selected for the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Heather Fargo was elected mayor of Sacramento in November. She has served on the Sacramento City Council since 1989. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) |