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 1980s
| 1981Jeff Meyers is winemaker for Montevina Winery in Plymouth. He and his wife, Linda, a school teacher, have two children, Gillian and Alexander. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Gary Tang, Brian Klingborg '90 and Albert Loui '96, M.S. '98, have written a book, Combat Shaolin (Unique Publications), about the martial art Shaolin Kung Fu. Tang, a real-estate appraiser and broker and independent building designer, has been a martial arts instructor since 1993. He lives with his wife, Christina Shea '84, and children, Gabriel and Hannah, in Albany, Calif. Klingborg is a sales director at Unique Publications and lives in New York, N.Y. He is married to Lanchi Venator and has a daughter, Sophie. Loui is studying for a doctorate in physics at UC Davis and teaches a Chinese kung fu class at the Experimental College. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Elias Arredondo lives in Vicksburg, Miss., where he works for the Engineering Research and Development Center producing Web applications for the Department of Defense. He and his wife, Glenda, have four children. He can be reached via e-mail at Arredondo01@aol.com. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Gene Endicott, director of public affairs for Agilent Technologies, accepted a President's Community Volunteer Award on behalf of his company from President George W. Bush at a Washington, D.C., ceremony in December. The award, which is co-sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service--a part of President Bush's USA Freedom Corps initiative--recognizes outstanding volunteer service aimed at solving critical social problems. Endicott lives in Roseville with his wife, Trisa, and their children, Andrew, 8, and Julia, 2. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Susan Yeck has reopened her law office in San Diego with her husband, Ron Sample. The two practice law both in San Diego and Mammoth Lakes. Their daughter, Olivia, is 2 1/2. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Jessica Papkoff won Acoustic Guitar Magazine's 2003 Homegrown CD Award for her debut classical guitar CD release, Impressions. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Kenton Taylor, D.V.M. '87, was one of 165 veterinary professionals inducted into Morris Animal Foundation's Veterinary Honor Roll. Taylor works at Miramonte Veterinary Hospital in Mountain View, specializing in small animals and exotics. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Claudia Berry died in November 2003 at age 44 of breast cancer. A longtime Los Gatos resident, Ms. Berry was a homemaker and member of the Calvary Church, for which she was involved in many missions since high school. Survivors include her husband, Steve Berry, and two daughters, Laura and Kayla. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Alec Bryon Eidsath, M.S., died in October 2003 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 53. Dr. Eidsath was a biomedical engineer at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, which he joined in 1989 after receiving a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. The primary focus of his work was instrumentation for biomedical research. Survivors include his companion, Betsy Brach, and his daughter, Sofia Eidsath. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Julie Ann Schreck, the conservation education coordinator for the Bitter-root National Forest in Montana, was awarded the Gifford Pinchot Excellence in Interpretation and Conservation Education Award. She was nationally recognized for her leadership and innovation in conducting conservation education programs, as well as her outreach to new audiences and formation of new community partnerships. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Ken Waln is the founder and chief technology officer of Edify Corp., a voice and speech technology company in Santa Clara. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Karen (Weubbe) Goodman formed her own law firm, Goodman & Associates, in Sacramento. She specializes in professional liability, real estate and business litigation. She is on the board of directors of California Women Lawyers. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Sally Clement, M.Ed., writes for Escapees Magazine and has, for the last 20 years, traveled full time across the country in an RV. Her primary interest is in planned communities and the new urbanism movement. She is 80 years old and happily settled at an RV park in Livingston, Texas. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Retired Army Lt. Col. Thomas Keith, the former director of a Oil for Food program for the coalition provisional government in Iraq, has accepted a position in Washington, D.C., with the Army Installation Management Agency. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Kim McCann-Lawson, M.F.A., is a theatre arts faculty member at Sacramento City College and resident director for the department and the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. Recent productions include Equus, Taming of the Shrew, Bedroom Farce and Twelfth Night. She recently appeared as a guest artist at the college in the title role of Mother Courage. She married Mark Lawson in February 2003. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Betsy McNeal Pinkney and her husband, Joseph, welcomed a daughter, Kira Jane, in March. The three live in Los Angeles. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Glee Willis married muralist John Ton on the Mackay Mansion grounds in Virginia City, Nev., in June. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Darin Billerbeck is a vice president at Intel, heading the company’s fast-growing Flash memory division in Folsom. Billerbeck and his wife, Tamera, have two teenage children. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Peter Green, M.S., was appointed outdoor education director at the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Ore. Green has almost 30 years of outdoor leadership experience, including a current position as chair of the state Outdoor Youth Program Advisory Committee. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • JoAnne Roesner, D.V.M. ’86, is building a new 10,000-square-foot facility in Alpharetta, Ga., for Loving Hands Animal Clinic, the small-animal medicine and surgery practice she founded in 1993. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) |