Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1970s
| 1977Roberto Pomo, M.A., was named interim director of the School of the Arts at California State University, Sacramento. He has been chair of the university's Department of Theater and Dance since 1999. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Roger Dreyer is managing partner of the law firm Dreyer, Babich Buccola & Callahan in Sacramento. He participated in the case of Raiders v. City of Oakland, which resulted in a $34.2 million verdict for the Raiders. Jonathan Hughes '93, an associate at the firm, assisted on the case. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Richard Marquez, vice president of Union Bank, was appointed by the American Bankers Association (ABA) to serve on the ABA Agricultural and Rural Bankers Committee. He has been with Union Bank since 2001. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Doug Muhleman, M.S. '79, is a group vice president of brewing, operations and technology for Anheuser-Busch and works out of the corporation's headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Paul Joseph, J.D., died in September 2003 at age 52 in Plantation, Fla. Since 1984, he had served as a faculty member and associate dean of international and external programs for Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale. He also served as president of the Florida American Civil Liberties Union and on the ACLU national board. Survivors include his wife, Lynn Wolf, four stepchildren and one granddaughter. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Dean Barbieri, director of examinations for the State Bar of California, was a candidate for the March Piedmont City Council election (the results were unavailable at press time). Barbieri is a 22-year Piedmont resident and two-term member of the city’s recreation commission. He and his wife, Karen, have three children. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Rita Case and her husband, Rick, were 2003 winners of the Sun- Sentinel Co.’s Excalibur Award for Business Leaders of the Year for Broward County in Florida. They own the Rick Case Automotive Group and are active in the community as contributors, fund-raisers and event organizers for Broward County Boys & Girls Clubs. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Congressman Calvin Dooley, a seven-term representative of the Fresno area, was awarded a UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 2003 Award of Distinction. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Kathy Hall-Boyer, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, returned from her second deployment in two years, this time in Bosnia as deputy commander for clinical services at Tuzla Army Hospital. She works as an emergency physician for Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Lynn Hazen’s first book for children, Mermaid Mary Margaret, is being published by Bloomsburg USA, and she is completing an M.F.A. in writing for children and young adults at Vermont College. She received the Houghton Mifflin Award for her young adult novel, Shifty. Her son, Kurt Knuepfel, is studying computer science at UC Davis and helping set up Hazen’s Web site (www.mermaidmary.com). (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Gregg Mitchell, a sixth-grade math and science teacher at Wells Middle School in Riverside, was honored as Environmental Educator of the Year for 2002, an award sponsored by Toyota. Mitchell is currently completing a master’s degree in environmental education at California State University, San Bernardino. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Gordon Yamate, vice president and general counsel of Knight Ridder Inc., received an alumni special achievement award from the Santa Clara University School of Law. He received his J.D. degree from that university in 1980. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Timothy Leach has been appointed chief investment officer of U.S. Trust, a financial management company based in New York City. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Nancy Luebben is spearheading a grassroots preservation effort to save the historic Parasol Restaurant in Seal Beach from a developer’s wrecking ball. Her work to preserve the unique 1967 umbrella-shaped restaurant has been featured on television and in the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Donald Anthony Cochrane died in June 2004 at age 48 in a hiking accident in Yosemite. He worked as an entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley, after a marketing career with Monsanto in South Dakota. He was a lover of the outdoors and deeply involved in his children’s extracurricular interests. Survivors include his wife, Kary Lee, brothers Mike and Bill, and his two children, Anthony and Stephanie. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Pedro Nava, J.D., of Santa Barbara, was elected to the state Assembly Nov. 2 after a tight race for a vacant seat. A Democrat, he is a former prosecutor and a member of the California Coastal Commission. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • After two decades doing diagnostic ultrasounds, Debra Weiss is putting her textile design degree to use with an apparel and accessory design business, Rebe. She started the company with her daughter, Hillary Sproat, in Woodland Hills. Their clothes, bags and belts are sold at more than 200 boutiques in California and several other states, as well as online. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Balazs Imre “Ernie” Bodai, M.D., received the Oncology Nursing Society’s Public Service Award for his work in establishing the Breast Cancer Stamp, for promoting the passage of the Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act and for public education through his Web site, books and lectures. Bodai is director of Breast Surgical Services at Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento and a clinical professor of surgery at UC Davis. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Cal Dooley was named president and chief executive officer of the National Food Processors Association. Dooley was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 14 years and is a fourth-generation farmer and partner in Dooley Farms in the San Joaquin Valley. Dooley and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, Brooke and Emily. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Kim Patterson serves as general manager and marketing director for the Wood River Journal in Hailey, Idaho. Patterson and her husband, Terry Patterson ’76, have two college-age daughters. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) |