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1970Julie Partansky, an artist, musician, house painter and former mayor of Davis, died of lung cancer at her home in January. She was 61. Ms. Partansky served on the Davis City Council in 1992–2000, the last two years as mayor. Best known for pushing the construction of the Davis Toad Tunnel, which was built to prevent cars from crushing toads crossing the street, she also ushered through the dark sky ordinance, which dimmed the city’s lights to make the stars more visible. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Karen Miner retired in June from her teaching career with the Lake Tahoe Unified School District. She taught at Sierra House Elementary from 1990 to 2005 and South Tahoe Middle School since 2005. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Steven Levi received a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum to produce an 8 ½-minute video of one of his poems for use in English classes in Alaska. The presentation, “The Phantom Dogsled,” and a teacher’s manual are available for free on his website, www.parsnackle.com. Levi, an Alaska resident for more than three decades, has had more than 30 books published including Boom and Bust in the Alaska Gold Fields (nonfiction), Cadzow (fiction), Committee of Vigilance (scholarly) and Derelicts, Bummers, Scoundrels and Doves (literary). (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Brian Tom, J.D. ’70, by David Owen Occupation: Lawyer and founder of the Chinese American Museum in Marysville. Grand opening: Next March, Tom will fulfill a longtime dream when he opens his museum dedicated to Chinese American history. Tom is currently renovating a two-story building that dates to 1858 to house the museum’s various exhibits, including a replica of one of Marysville’s old Chinatown general stores, and an upstairs research center. Deep roots: Tom’s family settled in Marysville in 1851. Now a resident of Piedmont, he chose Marysville as the site for the Chinese American Museum not only because of his family ties, but because it is the last of California’s Gold Rush-era Chinatowns. Tom hopes the museum will help revive the struggling Chinatown area and give voice to previously silenced perspectives of Chinese Americans in California. Aggie activism: For Tom, the museum continues a lifelong dedication to teaching his people’s history. As a law student at UC Davis, Tom chaired a committee that joined with other student groups to rally for ethic studies. Soon afterward, Tom was appointed the founding coordinator of the Asian American Studies program by Chancellor James Meyer. “[My goal] is to tell the real story of the experience of the Chinese Americans in California. I don’t think that story has been told.” (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Johannes “John” Stek, Ph.D., who became a mechanical engineering lecturer after a private-industry career in aerospace turbine design, died in Davis in September at age 95. A native of the Netherlands, he completed his doctorate at UC Davis while working full time at Aerojet. After retiring from there in 1980, he taught classes at California State University, Sacramento, and UC Davis until 1994. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Russell Bishop, M.A. ’75, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, wrote Workarounds That Work (McGraw-Hill), a self-help book released this spring. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Michael LaSalle, J.D., has written Emigrants on the Overland Trail: The Wagon Trains of 1848 (Truman State University Press, 2011). The book draws from the diaries of seven women and men who made the five-month journey from Missouri to California and Oregon. For 40 years, LaSalle practiced law, farmed and operated a dairy, often concurrently. He still farms in Hanford, and pursues his interest in researching Western history. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Darrell Maxwell, M.Ed., died in Tacoma, Wash, in June of age-related causes and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 88. He worked for the Oregon State Extension Service in Madras, Hermiston and Pendleton, Ore. He also managed the North Unit Irrigation District in Madras, Ore. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Attorney Michael Arkelian has been appointed to the 2012–13 Sacramento County Grand Jury. He received his law degree from UC Hastings College of Law. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • A second collection of poetry by Frank Kozusko, Boomer Bounce, Poems on a Generation, was released last fall by Poetica Publishing Co. Kozusko is an associate professor of mathematics at Hampton University in Virginia. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Children’s author Erin Dealey, Cred. ’72, has written a new picture book. Deck the Walls (Sleeping Bear Press, 2013), illustrated by Nick Ward, is a classic Christmas carol turned upside down. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Douglas Miller, of Carmichael, died at age 65 on November 4. He was a labor attorney and labor relations director for Sacramento Regional Transit District. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Executive coach Russell Bishop, M.A. ’75, has joined Morgan Samuels consulting firm as a senior partner. An expert in personal and organization transformation, Bishop previously started Insight Seminars and four other successful companies and has consulted to leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies around the world. The author of Workarounds That Work (McGraw-Hill, 2010), he helped develop sections of The Huffington Post focused on improving quality of life as well as a HuffingtonPost.com stress reduction app, GPS for the Soul. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • A new novel by Alaskan historian and author Steven Levi, Cred. ’72, is available in paperback and as an e-book. A Walrus with a Gold Tooth is a fictionalized account of how Anchorage locals kept the mob from gaining a foothold during the city’s post-World War II economic boom. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • David Requa, M.S. ’71, received a lifetime achievement award in March from WateReuse California for his leadership in advancing water recycling. He served 24 years on the national WateReuse Association board of directors and, as president in 1998–2000, guided the expansion of the California-based trade group into an international organization. He retired from Dublin San Ramon Services District in October 2013 after 18 years as assistant general manager-district engineer. He spent 15 years with Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers and 27 years with public agencies including Union Sanitary District and Contra Costa Water District. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Henry Hagedorn, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and expert on reproductive physiology of mosquitoes, died in Cross Plains, Wisconsin, on Jan 12. He was 73. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Tamara (Oates) Navarro, M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’88— a retired Sacramento marriage and family therapist — died July 9 at age 65. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)
1971Artist Deborah Butterfield, M.F.A. '73, is currently showing one of her works, Rondo, a sculpture of a horse made of found steel, in the Ose Gallery of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Other Butterfield sculptures are located outside the Corporate Center building in downtown Sacramento and in UC Davis' Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Janice (Nelson) Marschner is the author of a just-published book, California 1850: A Snapshot in Time, a nonfiction account of life in California in 1850, written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the state's admission into the Union. Marschner is married to Jeff Marschner '68, chief counsel for the state Department of General Services and a director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. The Marschners live in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Ronald Manning, Ph.D. '75, was named director of U.S. Pharmacopeia's Twinbrook Development Laboratory in Rockville, Md. Manning formerly worked for the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review in Bethesda, Md. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue)

1970Julie Partansky, an artist, musician, house painter and former mayor of Davis, died of lung cancer at her home in January. She was 61. Ms. Partansky served on the Davis City Council in 1992–2000, the last two years as mayor. Best known for pushing the construction of the Davis Toad Tunnel, which was built to prevent cars from crushing toads crossing the street, she also ushered through the dark sky ordinance, which dimmed the city’s lights to make the stars more visible. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) •  Karen Miner retired in June from her teaching career with the Lake Tahoe Unified School District. She taught at Sierra House Elementary from 1990 to 2005 and South Tahoe Middle School since 2005. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) •  Steven Levi received a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum to produce an 8 ½-minute video of one of his poems for use in English classes in Alaska. The presentation, “The Phantom Dogsled,” and a teacher’s manual are available for free on his website, www.parsnackle.com. Levi, an Alaska resident for more than three decades, has had more than 30 books published including Boom and Bust in the Alaska Gold Fields (nonfiction), Cadzow (fiction), Committee of Vigilance (scholarly) and Derelicts, Bummers, Scoundrels and Doves (literary). (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) •  Brian Tom, J.D. ’70, by David Owen Occupation: Lawyer and founder of the Chinese American Museum in Marysville. Grand opening: Next March, Tom will fulfill a longtime dream when he opens his museum dedicated to Chinese American history. Tom is currently renovating a two-story building that dates to 1858 to house the museum’s various exhibits, including a replica of one of Marysville’s old Chinatown general stores, and an upstairs research center. Deep roots: Tom’s family settled in Marysville in 1851. Now a resident of Piedmont, he chose Marysville as the site for the Chinese American Museum not only because of his family ties, but because it is the last of California’s Gold Rush-era Chinatowns. Tom hopes the museum will help revive the struggling Chinatown area and give voice to previously silenced perspectives of Chinese Americans in California. Aggie activism: For Tom, the museum continues a lifelong dedication to teaching his people’s history. As a law student at UC Davis, Tom chaired a committee that joined with other student groups to rally for ethic studies. Soon afterward, Tom was appointed the founding coordinator of the Asian American Studies program by Chancellor James Meyer. “[My goal] is to tell the real story of the experience of the Chinese Americans in California. I don’t think that story has been told.” (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) •  Johannes “John” Stek, Ph.D., who became a mechanical engineering lecturer after a private-industry career in aerospace turbine design, died in Davis in September at age 95. A native of the Netherlands, he completed his doctorate at UC Davis while working full time at Aerojet. After retiring from there in 1980, he taught classes at California State University, Sacramento, and UC Davis until 1994. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) •  Russell Bishop, M.A. ’75, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, wrote Workarounds That Work (McGraw-Hill), a self-help book released this spring. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) •  Michael LaSalle, J.D., has written Emigrants on the Overland Trail: The Wagon Trains of 1848 (Truman State University Press, 2011). The book draws from the diaries of seven women and men who made the five-month journey from Missouri to California and Oregon. For 40 years, LaSalle practiced law, farmed and operated a dairy, often concurrently. He still farms in Hanford, and pursues his interest in researching Western history. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) •  Darrell Maxwell, M.Ed., died in Tacoma, Wash, in June of age-related causes and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 88. He worked for the Oregon State Extension Service in Madras, Hermiston and Pendleton, Ore. He also managed the North Unit Irrigation District in Madras, Ore. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) •  Attorney Michael Arkelian has been appointed to the 2012–13 Sacramento County Grand Jury. He received his law degree from UC Hastings College of Law. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) •  A second collection of poetry by Frank Kozusko, Boomer Bounce, Poems on a Generation, was released last fall by Poetica Publishing Co. Kozusko is an associate professor of mathematics at Hampton University in Virginia. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) •  Children’s author Erin Dealey, Cred. ’72, has written a new picture book. Deck the Walls (Sleeping Bear Press, 2013), illustrated by Nick Ward, is a classic Christmas carol turned upside down. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) •  Douglas Miller, of Carmichael, died at age 65 on November 4. He was a labor attorney and labor relations director for Sacramento Regional Transit District. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) •  Executive coach Russell Bishop, M.A. ’75, has joined Morgan Samuels consulting firm as a senior partner. An expert in personal and organization transformation, Bishop previously started Insight Seminars and four other successful companies and has consulted to leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies around the world. The author of Workarounds That Work (McGraw-Hill, 2010), he helped develop sections of The Huffington Post focused on improving quality of life as well as a HuffingtonPost.com stress reduction app, GPS for the Soul.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  A new novel by Alaskan historian and author Steven Levi, Cred. ’72, is available in paperback and as an e-book. A Walrus with a Gold Tooth is a fictionalized account of how Anchorage locals kept the mob from gaining a foothold during the city’s post-World War II economic boom.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  David Requa, M.S. ’71, received a lifetime achievement award in March from WateReuse California for his leadership in advancing water recycling. He served 24 years on the national WateReuse Association board of directors and, as president in 1998–2000, guided the expansion of the California-based trade group into an international organization. He retired from Dublin San Ramon Services District in October 2013 after 18 years as assistant general manager-district engineer. He spent 15 years with Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers and 27 years with public agencies including Union Sanitary District and Contra Costa Water District.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  Henry Hagedorn, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and expert on reproductive physiology of mosquitoes, died in Cross Plains, Wisconsin, on Jan 12. He was 73.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  Tamara (Oates) Navarro, M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’88— a retired Sacramento marriage and family therapist — died July 9 at age 65.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)

1971Artist Deborah Butterfield, M.F.A. '73, is currently showing one of her works, Rondo, a sculpture of a horse made of found steel, in the Ose Gallery of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Other Butterfield sculptures are located outside the Corporate Center building in downtown Sacramento and in UC Davis' Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Janice (Nelson) Marschner is the author of a just-published book, California 1850: A Snapshot in Time, a nonfiction account of life in California in 1850, written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the state's admission into the Union. Marschner is married to Jeff Marschner '68, chief counsel for the state Department of General Services and a director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. The Marschners live in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Ronald Manning, Ph.D. '75, was named director of U.S. Pharmacopeia's Twinbrook Development Laboratory in Rockville, Md. Manning formerly worked for the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review in Bethesda, Md. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue)

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