Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1981Brian Tillemans has retired from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as watershed resource manager for the Northern Aqueduct. During his 32-year career with the agency, the biologist worked to restore habitat for fish and wildlife in the Owens Valley. He and his wife, Tina, live in Bishop. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Donald Burke, of Long Beach, died June 11 at age 53. He was chief of anesthesiology for Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) |
| 1982Steven Anderson's second daughter, Elizabeth Lane, was born in October in San Francisco. Anderson is a commercial real estate broker, serving as vice president of the CAC Group in San Francisco. He lives with his wife, Nadine, and their two daughters in Alamo. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Kathie (McMillan) Morgan is the chief of environmental programs for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. Seventy-three federal agencies use FLETC's three campuses to train 25,000 law enforcement officers from across the United States each year. Morgan and her staff, whose office is located in Glynco, Ga., oversee the environmental compliance and natural resources management of all FLETC facilities, including more than 20 weapons firing ranges, a dozen driver-training courses and an arson investigation operation. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Ann Badillo, who had her own technology marketing consulting practice for nine years, is now serving as interim vice president of strategic development for HopeLink, an Internet start-up company in Menlo Park that links people to clinical trials. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Marlene Pontrelli Maerowitz, J.D., was recently promoted to the position of deputy city attorney of Tempe, Ariz. After graduating from UC Davis, Maerowitz taught law at the UCLA School of Law, worked for a private law firm in Los Angeles and served as Tempe's assistant city attorney. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Jill Peterson, J.D. '85, was appointed chief deputy of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing by Gov. Gray Davis. Peterson was assistant dean for student affairs at UC Davis' law school. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • In May, Tracy Tsuetaki was named senior vice president of strategic planning and consulting for Kaiser Permanente California. After graduating from UC Davis, Tsuetaki received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a master's degree and doctorate of optometry from UC Berkeley. He lives in Lafayette. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Andy Griffin owns and operates Mariquita Farm outside of Wastonville, where he and his wife, Julia Wiley, grow organic produce. The couple has two children. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Michael Thomas, M.A., joined Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, a law firm in Sacramento, to work in its common interest development area. After graduating from UC Davis, Thomas worked in international business management for a Dutch-Indonesian company and then for a U.S.-Chinese company in China. He graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1991. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Jim Bertoli was elected judge of the Sonoma County Superior Court in November, taking the bench in January. He hears cases involving domestic violence and conducts felony preliminary hearings. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Eric deVita was promoted to the rank of commander in the U.S. Navy. He was recently designated commanding officer of the Navy's first F/A-18 Super Hornet squadron. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Carol Folt, Ph.D., is the new associate dean of the faculty and dean of graduate studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. She joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1983. An expert on ecology and aquatic populations, Folt studies the effects of toxic metals on aquatic life. Her book, Successful Scientific Proposals: A Guide to Developing and Writing Research Grants in the Natural Sciences, was published last year. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Paintings by Joyce Martin Perz were exhibited last year at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, in a solo show sponsored by the Arts Council of Beaufort County and will be shown in May 2002 at the Fine Arts Building Gallery in Chicago, where Perz lives. Her work can be seen on the www.ARTNET.com Web site. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Lisa Reinertson, M.F.A. '84, has created a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Cesar Chavez for Sacramento's Cesar Chavez Plaza. Reinertson, who saw Chavez speak near the end of his march from Delano to Sacramento in 1966, is the artist who created the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. for UC Davis' King Hall lobby. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Kenneth Holbert, M.D., is now regional medical director of Southeastern Tennessee for Team Health. Team Health provides physicians for emergency department, radiology, anesthesia, pediatric and critical care services to over 350 hospitals and other healthcare facilities in 30 states. Holbert lives in Smyrna, Tenn. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • David Kendall of Beloit, Wis., was appointed executive secretary of the American Milking Shorthorn Society. In recognition of the appointment, he was presented a Cal Aggie license plate frame by former society executive secretaries Bradford Ellsworth '61 and Stuart Rowe '54. The society is believed to be the only dairy breed registry association that has had three executive secretaries who graduated from the same university. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Allison Subasic, former coordinator of the UC Davis Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, has joined Penn State University where she will establish and run a LGBT resource center. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • David Cohen, J.D., and David Durrett, J.D., have formed the law firm Cohen & Durrett in Sacramento. The firm specializes in employment, commercial real estate and business law. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • The efforts of David Masumoto, M.S., a Fresno-area peach farmer, to save the disappearing Sun Crest peach were profiled in a Sacramento Bee article July 10. In 1995, he published a book, Epitaph for a Peach, about his work to save the tasty but difficult-to-sell variety. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) |