Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1982Nadine Aguilera has been named department chair of hematopathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Bernadine Cruz, D.V.M., has written The Secret Sex Life of Dogs and Cats (Angel City Press). Cruz, a companion-animal veterinarian and media consultant, has lived in Southern California with her husband and two cats since leaving Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Lewis Feldman, J.D., is the new managing partner of the Century City office of the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Jose Granda, Ph.D., was awarded a NASA Faculty Fellowship and invited to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as a part of the support team for orbit repair maneuvers for the International Space Station and the space shuttle. He will be sharing his expertise on three-dimensional modeling. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Susan Gustafson, M.A., was named the Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies at the University of Rochester in New York. A member of the faculty since 1987, Gustafson is also a professor of German and director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, and recipient of a number of honors for her work in German literary and cultural studies. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • James Kluksdahl died in May 2005 at the age of 45 in San Rafael, following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Mr. Kluksdahl was a civil engineer, employed by Chevron in Richmond and Hawaii, and then by PSI in Walnut Creek. He was also an amateur historian and a member of the Bay Area Electrical Railroad Association, the Organization of Naturalists and Explorers, and the Northwest Pacific Railroad Historical Society. Survivors include his parents, Ann Nilsson Davis and Harris Kluksdahl; two brothers, Scott and Tom Kluksdahl; and his friend and caregiver, Charles Yoshida. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Margo (Treharne-Reardon) Reasner has written her first novel, A Walk on the Cliffs (iUniverse Inc.). She lives with her husband and son in an outer suburb of Boston. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Dan Carey and his wife, Deb, own New Glarus Brewing Co. in Wisconsin. The small brewery specializes in craft beers, including bestseller Spotted Cow and the Unplugged series. New Glarus has received numerous awards and has been named among the world’s top 10 breweries. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Nanette Kuswa, D.V.M. ’87, is a veterinarian at Companion Animal Center in Visalia and serves on the board of directors of the Valley Oak Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Through these dual roles, Kuswa has devoted her life to advancing animal rights, promoting spay and neuter programs as well as finding homes for stray animals. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Karen Dewald is an activist and volunteer in Berkeley, working, she says, “toward peace and to build community.” She has also just started a business tutoring English to foreign students and does copy editing. In her spare time, she sings with other folk musicians in a venue called Sing Thing. She and her husband, musician David Miotke, have an 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Loretta Giorgi was selected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve as a Superior Court judge in San Francisco. Giorgi had worked with the San Francisco city attorney’s office for more than 20 years. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Joel Mullennix, M.F.A., is an actor who recently performed in Strangers We Know, a production in San Francisco by Word for Word, a theatre company co-founded by fellow UC Davis alumna Susan Harloe, M.F.A. ’83. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Richard K. Irvin, M.S., died in March 2006 from prostate cancer at age 75. After teaching high school mathematics for over two decades, Mr. Irvin returned to graduate school, earning an M.S. in ecology. Subsequently, he led climbs and treks for Mountain Travel Sobek, educating many travelers about the ecology and culture of mountain peoples in Asia. After his retirement from trekking, Mr. Irvin continued to travel worldwide to see birds. At his death, his “Life List” of observed bird species numbered 6,002. Survivors include his wife, Kris Carter ’78, D.V.M. ’82, M.P.V.M. ’01, his four children and their mother. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Former student assistant to the late Chancellor James Meyer, Arturo González has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He is chair of the Trial Practice Group at the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where he has been practicing for 22 years in the firm’s San Francisco office. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Marta Peluso is the executive director of ARTS Obispo, the San Luis Obispo County Arts Council, an organization whose mission is to advance the arts. She also teaches photography in the art department at Cuesta College and formerly directed the Cuesta College Art Gallery for 16 years. She lives in San Luis Obispo with her husband, Cal Poly history professor George Cotkin, and their dog, Roma. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • James Reynolds, D.V.M., received an Animal Welfare Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association in July. Reynolds is chief of clinical services, dairy production medicine, at the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Debra Yerike received an M.D. degree in December from St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Mark Perkins, a lecturer in biological and agricultural engineering at UC Davis, helped coordinate a community service project in March that took students from Cario American College to the village of Gavazi in the country of Georgia, where they lived with local families and worked to improve their school and community. It was his third trip to the region with high school students. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • James Reynolds, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., received the 2007 Animal Welfare Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association. He is chief of clinical services and dairy production medicine at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center in Tulare, a satellite center of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. During the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, Reynolds went to the United Kingdom to assist veterinarians. Additionally, he has consulted on dairy projects in Armenia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mexico and Tunisia. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • David Nathanson, director of the Breast Care Center at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, was awarded a chair in breast cancer research. Additionally, he received the system’s Distinguished Career Award in recognition of his contributions to patient care, education, research and community service. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) |