Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1976Bruce Jackson, M.S., an adjunct assistant research professor of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, is conducting the African-American DNA Roots Project, which uses DNA analysis to link African-Americans and Caribbean blacks with their ancestral ethnic groups in Africa. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Craig Summers, M.S. '77, is president of ERO Resources Corp., an environmental consulting firm that specializes in soil, land and water issues, and he's active in regional water rights and endangered species issues. He has two daughters, Cori, 16, and Jessica, 24, and lives in Denver, Colo. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Olaf Hedstrom, D.V.M., died in February 2003 at age 54. Dr. Hedstrom was one of the founding faculty members of Oregon State University's School of Veterinary Medicine in Corvallis. In 1985 he became co-director of the Cell and Tissue Analysis facilities at ORU's Environmental Health Sciences Center. Survivors include wife Bette and daughters Keldah, Anika and Ingrid. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Dick Anderson and Jim Estep '85 work with the Swainson's hawk Technical Advisory Committee, which they helped form in the early 1990s to preserve the hawk's population in California. Anderson works for the California Energy Commission, and Estep works for the Sacramento-based environmental consulting firm Jones & Stokes. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Larry Fahn, a Marin activist and attorney, was named the 50th president of the Sierra Club, the country's oldest environmental group. A member of the club's San Francisco Bay chapter for more than 30 years, he had also worked for As You Sow, an Oakland nonprofit organization that uses shareholder power to influence corporations on issues related to social justice and the environment. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Edwin Oster, J.D., recently married Donna Hanover, actress and ex-wife of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Oster is a partner in the law firm Barger & Wolen in Newport Beach. He has three daughters from a previous marriage. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Frank Taber was appointed the new president of Taber Consultants, a firm he has been with for 27 years as a staff and project engineer and, for the last six years, as a vice president and principal geotechnical engineer. Taber Consultants is a geotechnical firm in West Sacramento. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Tom Wagner is assistant general counsel of Entergy Services Inc. in The Woodlands, Texas. He and his wife, Betsy, lived in England for four years and Indonesia for almost five, when Wagner was with the Mobile Oil Corp., before returning to the United States in 1998. They have two sons. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Jo Johannesen was the Kern County Teacher of the Year for 2002Ð03, one of two chosen in May 2003. She is currently a curriculum specialist for the PanamaÐBuena Vista Union School District in Bakersfield. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Larry Kellerman is a managing director with Goldman Sachs, a worldwide investment banking firm, where he is also co-president of their electric power asset group. He and his wife, Lauryn, live in Charlotte, N.C. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Frank Taber is president of West Sacramento-based Taber Consultants, a 50-year-old firm specializing in bridge investigation procedures and standards. His brother, Andy Taber, serves as chair and chief executive officer, and their father, H.R. Taber, was one of the original founders. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Larry Shubat teaches mapping and surveying at the University of Akron in Ohio. He retired in 1997 as a combat engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Christopher Hewitt, M.A., died in July 2004 in San Francisco after complications from pneumonia. He was 58. Mr. Hewitt emigrated from England in 1974 to study creative writing. He was a renowned poet and popular resident of the Castro District, in spite of a genetic bone disorder that confined him to a wheelchair. His trademark sparse verse often championed the struggles of gay and disabled men. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Robert Enholm lives in New York City where he is an attorney with Wall Street law firm Fensterstock & Partners. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Gerald Mitchell is president and chief executive officer of the Retail Search Group in Grass Valley, one of the largest retail executive search firms in the country. He, his wife of 20 years, Edara, and their 12-year-old son, Garrett, live in Rocklin. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Col. Barry Nightingale has moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he works at U.S. Northern Command, focusing on homeland security and support for civil authorities. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Indira Samarasekera, M.S., was named the first female president of the University of Alberta, in Canada, where she will take over in July. Samarasekera is currently vice president of research at the University of British Columbia, where she has been a professor of metals and materials engineering since 1980. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Vic Singh, chief administrative officer for Yolo County, was elected secretary-treasurer of the County Administrative Officers Association of California for 2004–05. Singh is married and has two children. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Glenn Suter, Ph.D., received the 2004 Founders Award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Suter is a science adviser with the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Assessment. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Dennis Machida died in March 2005 of a heart attack at the age of 58. Mr. Machida was executive officer of the California Tahoe Conservancy and a conservation advocate for nearly 30 years. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Survivors include his wife, Kathie Wong, and son Nathan. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) |