Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):
Class notes from the 1970s
| 1976Janice Root Reinke, M.D. ’80, a radiologist, died of cancer in Roseville in August 2012.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Carlyn Christianson was elected to the San Luis Obispo City Council in June. She previously spent 10 years on the city and county planning commissions. She works as practice administrator for a 23-physician anesthesiology group.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Sue Schleifer authored The Key to the Castle: Zen and Travel Stories of Trust (Journeys Press, 2013), available on Amazon and Smashwords.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Mary “Molly” Kretsch, Ph.D., has retired as deputy administrator for nutrition, food safety and quality for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. In April 2013 she received the nation’s highest civil service award, the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive and Distinguished Professional.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Richard Neale, of Sunnyvale, died at age 64 on December 4. He was a senior software release engineer for Palantir Technologies.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Tom Garrison, M.A., has written a second book, Challenge Authority: Memoir of a Baby Boomer, which is available in paperback and digital format.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Craig McNamara was named the 2014 Agriculturalist of the Year award by the California State Fair. A Winters farmer, he is president of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and the founding president of the Center for Land-Based Learning, which seeks to help high school students become lifelong learners.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Bill Pickens, Ph.D., is a consultant for colleges and universities in leadership development, governance and finance. During a career in California higher education, he previously served as chancellor of a set of small colleges, president of a large nonprofit foundation, business affairs administrator at Sacramento State University, and in senior positions in the state’s higher education agency. He is currently writing nonfiction books, Two Very Different Men and Their Extraordinary Lives, and A Privileged White Kid from New Mexico.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Scott Hewett, J.D. ’96, a Santa Rosa patent attorney and former manufacturing engineer, died in April at age 59.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Still Here: Not Living in Tipis, a collaborative book with photos by Sue Reynolds and poems by Victor Charlo, is available at www.blurb.com. Reynolds, a Walnut Creek fine art and documentary photographer, has been taking photos at powwows and other Native American ceremonies since 2005. Her website is susanreynoldsphotography.com. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Tom Garrison, M.A., hiked 25 desert trails to write Hiking Southwest Utah and Adjacent Areas, Volume One (CreateSpace, 2014). His 2013 book, Challenge Authority: Memoir of a Baby Boomer, won second place for nonfiction in the League of Utah Writers Published Book Contest last September. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • A bilingual children’s book by Katora Ann (Cox) Morejohn, Maria and the Lost Calf (Portuguese Heritage Publications, 2014), tells the story of a young farm girl who gets lost searching for her favorite calf in the Marin headlands. Morejohn’s husband, Dwight Morejohn, illustrated the book. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1977Oakley Shields, Ph.D., was featured in Outstanding People of the 20th Century--First Edition. He lives in Woodland, where he has worked as a consultant, tomato inspector, sugar beet and warehouse laborer and "Bug Barn" coordinator at the Solano County Fair. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Lee Kyriacou, a senior officer at Fleet Bank, is running for New York's State Assembly. Kyriacou attended graduate and law school at Yale, came back to California as an attorney and then returned to New York City as a management consultant. He writes that he lives in an old Victorian overlooking the Hudson River about 60 miles north of the city and has been a city councilman in Beacon for six years. He is married and has two daughters and can be reached at lee.kyriacou@hvi.net. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Elaine Hunt works as a human resources manager for Dole Fresh Vegetables in Southern Monterey County and Yuma, Ariz. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Rick Parker, J.D., was named managing partner of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP's San Diego office, specializing in business taxation. Previously, Parker headed the law firm's tax group. He joined the firm in 1990. He has also taught extensively, including four years at the University of Baltimore School of Law. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Ed Blonz, M.S., Ph.D. '83, is director of nutrition for More.com, a health and beauty aid Web site, and developer of The Blonz Guide, a Web clearinghouse of food and nutrition sites. Blonz is a past winner of the James Beard Foundation Award for writing on nutrition, diet and health. The Blonz Guide can be found at www.blonz.com. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Richard Hafenfeld, M.S., is a fire staff officer for the Salmon-Challis National Forest in Salmon, Ind. His wife, Patricia Bates, M.S. '83, is a district ranger for the Salmon-Challis National Forest. They live in Lemhi, Ind. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Guy Halgren was elected chair of the executive committee of law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP. Halgren is a labor and employment attorney, working out of the firm's San Diego office. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Jeanne Reese, M.Ad. '86, was named associate director of UC Davis' Information and Educational Technology-Mediaworks, which provides communication and visual arts services to campus clients. Reese has worked on campus for more than 20 years. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) |