Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1976Anne (Jeffrey) Schneider, J.D., of Davis died in July of ovarian cancer at 62. She was a leading water-law attorney and conservationist. She started her law career with the state Water Rights Commission in 1977, where she wrote seminal papers on the state’s groundwater and instream-water uses, and went on to represent municipal water suppliers. For the past 20 years, she was a partner at Ellison, Schneider & Harris, which specializes in energy, water and land matters. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Water Education Foundation. Ms. Schneider was also an environment advocate, and served on numerous boards such as the Yosemite Association, the California Wilderness Coalition and the Putah and Cache Creek preservation group, Tuleyome. An accomplished mountain climber and bicyclist, she ascended mountains in New Zealand, China, Nepal, Scotland, Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada and the Swiss Alps, and competed in the long distance bicycle race in France, Paris-Brest-Paris. Survivors include her two sons and her former husband, Bob ’72. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Bret Hewitt, M.A. ’83, of Arlington, Va., was presented with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s highest honor—the Jerry W. Fielder Memorial Award—in February. A managing director of the global investment consulting firm Cambridge Associates, Hewitt is serving his fourth term as a trustee of the UC Davis Foundation and is chair of its development committee. A life member of the alumni association, he is a former member of its board of directors and served as chair of its membership and marketing committees. Hewitt is also chair of the College of Letters and Science Deans’ Advisory Council and a generous donor. He and his wife, Deb Pinkerton ’77, have also donated money to support graduate and undergraduate students, the arboretum and the Department of Music’s free noon concerts. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Mark Steiner is an intellectual property attorney as a partner at Duane Morris in San Francisco. He joined the firm in January after eight years as the head of Townsend and Townsend and Crew trademark and copyright practice. In March, he was scheduled to speak at a wineries best practices conference in Santa Rosa about strategies for creating and protecting brand identity. He previously served as a San Francisco deputy city attorney, and taught at the University of Paris X-Nanterre School of Law and UC Hastings College of the Law. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • MICHAEL HAGER recently wrote Just Beyond the Edge (Mill City Press, 2010), a novel set in Mexico and Texas during the 1980s. While writing the book, he lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he helped run a nonprofit organization for disabled children and briefly worked as the managing editor for one of Mexico’s largest English newspapers. In August, he is scheduled to give a reading at San Miguel’s noted Literary Sala. Hager has a son and two grandchildren. He and his wife, Christina, divide their time between the U.S. and Mexico. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • MARILYN KRIEGER, a certified cat behavior consultant, wrote a cat behavior training book called Naughty No More! Change Unwanted Behaviors Through Positive Reinforcement (BowTie Press, 2011). She writes monthly and weekly cat behavior columns for Cat Fancy Magazine and Catchannel.com and was recently featured on Animal Planet’s Cats 101. Her website is http://thecatcoach.com/. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Dan Berman became the minister-counselor for agricultural affairs in August for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. This is his sixth foreign assignment for the USDA. He previously held posts in Japan, Egypt and Portugal. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Dave Megeath retired this summer after 28 years of working for Motorola. Now he volunteers at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, where he pursues his passion for railroad history and operates a freight train and passenger trains. He and his wife, Susan, live in Fair Oaks, and their son lives in Boulder, Colo. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Irving Lubliner, Cred., M.A.T. ’88, was given tenure and promoted to full professor at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore., in September. A math faculty member there since 2006, he teaches future elementary and secondary math teachers. He was the keynote speaker at the 2011 Oregon Math Leaders and the Northwest Mathematics conferences. He also plays harmonica on Sarah Jane Nelson’s latest CD, Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Mark Safarik is the host of two true-crime series, Killer Instinct and Dateline on Cloo, which premiered in September on Cloo, a new mystery-entertainment cable channel owned by NBCUniversal. Safarik is executive director of Forensic Behavioral Services in Fredericksburg, Va., and a retired FBI criminal profiler. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Salvatore Cirone, M.P.V.M., received the Department of Defense’s highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, in November, for his more than four decades of government service, including more than 29 years in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. He has worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs since July 1996; served on numerous scientific panels on biomedical research, food safety and agricultural biosecurity; and helped win Food and Drug Administration approval for alternate applications of existing medical drugs to protect troops’ health in combat situations. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Bruce Hartsough, M.S. ’83, a UC Davis professor of biological and agricultural engineering and an associate dean in the College of Engineering, was named a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers last fall for his “outstanding contributions to the advancement of forest engineering and the professional development of agricultural and biological engineering education.” (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Mark Steiner, a partner in Duane Morris’ San Francisco law office has been named co-head of the firm’s newly formed trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition division. Steiner has represented companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500 in a wide variety of industries. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Mark Knego is a San Francisco-based playwright, theater director, sculptor and artist. Snakes of Kampuchea—his trilogy of plays about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian refugee experience—was published in 2011 by San Francisco’s Exit Press. The plays were originally produced in the 1990s by San Francisco’s Exit Theatre, with Knego directing. Snakes of Kampuchea is available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • After working as a fashion designer in New York, Paris and Columbus, Ohio, Nan Turner was glad to be back at UC Davis as a textiles graduate student. Scheduled to graduate in June, she pursued the masters’ degree to become qualified to teach at the college level. Her graduate thesis focused on World War II clothing restrictions. A paper she wrote, “Deprivation Fashion,” appeared in the British online Duck Journal for Research in Textiles last August. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • A new ebook by Tom Garrison, M.A., Why We Left the Left: Personal Stories by Leftists/Liberals Who Evolved to Embrace Libertarianism, is now available at Amazon.com. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Composer and music journalist Webster Young wrote Berkeley–Paris Express: A Lively Memoir of Studying Classical Music and Painting, which is available at Amazon.com and Kindle books. The book includes a chapter on his time at UC Davis. He has composed 130 works for opera, ballet, orchestra, piano, solo strings and solo guitar, and written opinion pieces for Newsday, the Intercollegiate Review and the Catholic Herald. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Steven Horton died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his home in Atlanta in February 2011. He was 56. He spent more than 32 years in ocean transportation services, living in New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, San Francisco, Miami and Atlanta. He volunteered with the Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless organization in Atlanta, as well as with animal rescue organizations. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Bill Campbell recently was project manager for an Emergency Medical Services Authority disaster training exercise in Sacramento, setting up a 50-bed mobile field hospital—equipped with an emergency room, trauma room, surgery, ICU, X-ray, pharmacy and ward—in about 30 hours. Acting patients were flown in by California National Guard Black Hawk Helicopters and “treated” by medical teams from Scripps, Tenet and Stanford health systems to test participants’ disaster preparedness. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Donald Payne, partner in a Sacramento accounting firm, died unexpectedly from heart complications in October. He was 60. In addition to his UC Davis degree, he earned an accounting degree from California State University, Sacramento, and was a certified public accountant. He loved playing racquetball, cheering on the San Francisco 49ers, collecting wine and spending time with friends and family. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Douglas Ryen, of Davis, died in January. He worked as a manager of the UC Davis Coffee House and Student Housing until retiring in July 2011. Survivors include his wife Sally (Bennett) ’76 and two daughters, Emma ’05, and Maddy. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) |