Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1976Alice Wolf, D.V.M., chief medical consultant for the Veterinary Information Network and professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, received a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. She was honored for her dedication to improving education for veterinary students, postgraduates and practicing veterinarians. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Kim Myers was selected as the San Diego Community College District vice chancellor of human resources. Myers, a lifelong educator who has long been involved in human resources, had been vice president of human resources and employee relations for the San Joaquin Delta Community College District. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • David Roth is currently a contributing editor to Artweek and a reviewer for Art Ltd. A co-founder of Capitol Public Radio, Roth returned to the area in 1992 after living in New York. Since then, he has served as senior editor of the Sacramento News & Review, communications director for Medic Alert and a communications specialist for the California State Employees Association. His partner, Joan Moment, is a painter and professor emerita. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Susan Edmiston is chief of the Worker Health and Safety Branch, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, a department of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). Edmiston joined the department after graduation from UC Davis and has worked to develop the pesticide worker health and safety program that is used as a model by Cal/EPA and other programs throughout the world. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • David Benevento, a Folsom chiropractor since 1983, was elected president of the California Chiropractic Association. He and his wife, Rose, have raised two children. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Eric "Ric" Blumhardt, a partner with Walnut Creek law firm Archer Norris, was recently certified as an appellate law specialist by the State Bar of California -- a certification held by only 250 lawyers in the state. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Francine Bradley, M.S. '78, Ph.D. '82, a Cooperative Extension poultry specialist headquartered at UC Davis, was re-elected treasurer of the World's Poultry Science Association, a nearly 4,000-member organization. This is her fourth four-year term as treasurer. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Kathy Weatherholt Englert, Cred. '77, was recently named Teacher of the Year for the Moreland School District in San Jose. She is now a third-grade teacher but spent the last 31 years teaching grades second through sixth. She says she was greatly influenced to become a teacher by her maternal grandmother. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Larry Shubat retired from the US Army Corps of Engineers after 20 years of service and was recently promoted to professor of surveying and mapping at the University of Akron, Summit College in Ohio. He lives in Uniontown, Ohio, with his wife, Vickie. They have two daughters and a son, who is an army officer serving his second tour in Iraq. Shubat’s e-mail address is ics@uakron.edu. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Jeffrey Grover died of colon cancer in Monterey last July at the age of 54. A native of Boise, Idaho, he transferred to UC Davis from the Naval Academy as a junior and majored in mechanical engineering. Shortly after graduation, he married Wendy Aylaian ’77, and they had one son, Casey, who is now in his third year of medical school at UCLA. Mr. Grover was a senior consultant for Aptec Engineering Services for many years, during which time he was licensed as a mechanical and civil engineer, as well as a member of the California Bar. He was a part-time coach and referee for high school football, wrestling and lacrosse in the Monterey area. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • EDNA ROBERTA LYNCH SCOTT, M.S. ’76, a school teacher and descendent of early San Ramon Valley pioneers William Lynch and Mary Norris Lynch, died in February at her home in Alameda County. She was 79 years old. She taught for the Woodland School District for more than 30 years. Mrs. Scott is survived by her daughter, Dana A. Scott Lee of Discovery Bay, and her son, Eric Martin Scott of Sacramento; sister Marilyn Lynch Morrison of Danville and brother Leo Watson Lynch of Waterford; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Michele L. Scott, and her husband, Leo Grey Lynch. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • April Halprin Wayland wrote her sixth children’s book, New Year at the Pier—a Rosh Hashanah Story (Dial). In addition to writing, she has been teaching at the UCLA Extension Writers Program for more than a decade. She is married to Gary Wayland and their son, Jeff, is a sophomore in the marching band at UC Berkeley. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Joan Mcomber is executive director of Bridges Academy, a boarding school for at-risk teen boys in central Oregon, which she co-founded in 1997. She has been a family therapist since 1989. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • David Ang runs a dentistry practice in Yuba City, and Kathy Go Ang ’78, his wife, is a renal dietician for the dialysis center Davita. Their children Brian Ang ’08 and Christine Ang are both students at UC Davis. Brian is in the Creative Writing Program and is expected to receive his master’s degree in 2010. He is a teacher’s assistant in English classes, writes poetry and has a show on campus radio station KDVS. Christine is expected to earn her degree in textiles and clothing in 2011 and can be found walking backwards on campus as a tour guide. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Karen Swenson is chief of staff at Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1981 and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at UC Irvine in 1985. She co-founded Women Partners in Health in Austin, which now has seven women obstetricians. Her son, Winston Myers, is a freshman in college and daughter, Grace Katharine Myers, a high school junior at LASA High School. Swenson delivered one of her grandchildren, Ethan. She says she and her husband, Ken Cauthern, enjoy spring and the wildflowers of Austin. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Michael Child, a managing director for a private equity firm in the Bay Area, was honored by the Cal Aggie Alumni Association with the 2010 Aggie Service Award for his efforts supporting the association and advocating for the university. He is a member of the Chancellor’s Laureates, in recognition of cumulative giving to UC Davis of more than $1 million, a member of the advisory board for the Graduate School of Management and the head of the foundation board’s finance and investments committee. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Craig McNamara received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for his work to promote science-based organic farming methods. More than 2,000 people visit his Sierra Orchards Farms in Winters each year. He is founder and president of the Center for Land-Based Learning, a statewide program that provides high school students with firsthand experience in sustainable agriculture. McNamara is also a member of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Vincent Punturere of Los Angeles is a chiropractor, who has recently enrolled in the 100 Year Lifestyle Certification program, which is a certification given by the California Chiropractic Association to help people live longer. He has run a private practice in Los Angeles since 1996. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Jennifer Stith is an associate professor and division director of education at the program of physical therapy at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as a psychotherapist at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. A 26-year resident of St. Louis, Smith lives on the Mississippi Bluffs. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Van Grace Chauvin Pinney, M.S., nurse of 33 years, died of cancer in August at 67 in Hot Springs Village, Ark. She spent 19 years as a public school nurse in Texas, where she won School Nurse of the Year in 1991 from the Texas Association of School Nurses. She taught nursing for 23 years at institutions such as the University of Texas-Austin and Arlington, University of Nevada-Reno and Texas Woman’s University. She was an accomplished sports car road racing champion, a professional clown and hot air balloon student pilot. She is survived by her husband, William Emery Pinney; stepchildren, Laura Pinney Munson and Marc Emery Pinney; sister, Jan Chauvin Lincoln; and grandchildren, Drew and Audrey Munson, and Eason, Amelia and Rex Pinney. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) |