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
| 1979Albert Barrientos has worked as a supervisor for Sacramento County Children's Protective Services for the past 15 years. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Kevin Clark, M.A., Ph.D. '86, professor of poetry writing at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has received a 2001-02 Distinguished Teaching Award. Clark is an award-winning poet whose book of poems In the Evening of No Warning was recently published by New Issues Press. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • John Sowell, associate vice president for academic affairs at Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison, was promoted to vice president of the unit. Sowell joined the campus as a faculty member in 1991. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Robert Cope recently joined Shell Oil Products' Martinez refinery as a senior staff project engineer. He lives in Benicia with his wife and two sons. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Steven Levesque died in September 2002 in a rock climbing accident. He was 46. Dr. Levesque was a family physician in South Lake Tahoe. After getting his medical degree in 1985 from the University of Southern California, he worked for 10 years in Bishop on the Paiute Indian Reservation. Survivors include his wife, Janice, and two children, David and Elise. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Francis "Fritz" McKinley was appointed director of public works for the city of Chico. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • History professor Michael Magliari, M.A.T. '82, Ph.D. '92, co-authored a biography of pioneer John Bidwell titled John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900 (Arthur H. Clark Co.). He wrote the book with Michael Gillis, a colleague in the history department at California State University, Chico. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Susan McGee Britton, B.S. '92, published her first novel, a children's fantasy book titled The Treekeepers (Dutton). She lives in Sacramento with her husband, Doug. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Fredric Antaki is working as a commercial real estate broker, selling and leasing investment properties. He is married, with two daughters, ages 4 and 8, and living in Santa Cruz. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Karen Smalbach of San Diego married Robert Kaye Worthen Jr. in May. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Carla Trujillo wrote the novel What Night Brings (Curbstone Press), which was published in May. She is also the director of the Graduate Opportunity Program at UC Berkeley. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Randall Grahm is the owner of Bonny Doon Vineyards in the Santa Cruz mountains. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Deanna Johnson is the new reference and outreach librarian at the Carlton Health Sciences Library at UC Davis. Previously, she was the founding librarian at Calgene Inc., an agricultural biotechnology research company in Davis. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • The oldest daughter of Brian Marshall and Clare McGee--Laura, age 12--is working to help change the law in Colorado. Her Lakewood Girl Scout troop is trying to make white Yule marble into the official Colorado state rock, because, if they succeed, the state’s geological symbols (mineral, rock and gemstone) will be red (rhodochrosite), white and blue (aquamarine). (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Debra Broussard, J.D. ’82, died in January 2004 at age 46 as the result of a car accident. She supported high-level executives at several companies, including GE Capital and AirTouch Communications. In 1999, she joined Madison Park Real Estate Investment Trust in Oakland as an assistant. Survivors include her parents, James and Marjorie; her sister, Diane; and her brother, James Jr. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • George Bursick, M.S., winemaker with Ferrari-Carano in Sonoma County, was profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle in April in an ongoing series about California wines. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Elaine Scott, M.S. ’81, professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., received the university’s 2003 Philip and Sadie Sporn Award for engineering instruction. She is also the director of the university’s Center for Biomedical Engineering. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Eileen Farley, J.D., earned a President’s Award from the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in June for her reform of a public defender agency. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Gary Grossman, Ph.D., has been promoted to distinguished research professor of animal ecology at the University of Georgia in Athens. He also pursues interests in poetry and stone carving. His wife, Barbara, teaches and directs the dietetics internship program at UGA. They have two daughters. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Dane Ellis Steele was recently honored by the Sacramento City Unified School District as a “highly qualified teacher” in the multiple subject area. He has taught in the district since 1997. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) |