Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1982Deborah Tellier is a partner with the law firm Farella Braun + Martel in San Francisco. She recently returned to the firm after working for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as an associate general counsel and chief compliance officer for six years. Tellier has more than 20 years of experience in environmental law and counsels clients on compliance with hazardous waste, water and air pollution control and underground storage tank laws. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Sara Spivey was named chief marketing officer at Convio Inc.—an Austin, Texas, company that provides on-demand constituent relationship management software and services to nonprofit organizations. She has been working in the field of marketing for more than 20 years. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Howard Stone was elected into the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional distinction given to engineers, for his study and development of fundamental concepts and applications in microfluidics. He is the Vicky Joseph professor of Engineering and applied mathematics at Harvard University, where he started in 1989. In September, he will begin an appointment as Donald R. Dixon and Elizabeth W. Dixon professor in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Douglas Mader, M.S., D.V.M. ’86, recieved an Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in June for his contributions to the welfare of animals as a researcher, author, teacher and practitioner. An expert in herpetological medicine and surgery, he is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Mader owns and directs the Marathon Veterinary Hospital in Marathon Key, Fla., which serves the Country Zoo, Key West Aquarium, the Dolphin Research Center and Theater of the Sea. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Deborah Tellier, J.D., was appointed to a leadership position with the American Bar Association’s Waste and Resource Recovery Committee in September. She is a partner at Farella Braun + Martel’s environmental law department. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Patricia (Howe) Habel died of lung cancer in January at age 49. She spent more than 20 years working in the state Capitol for Democratic lawmakers, including serving as consultant to the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee under Assembly member Johan Klehs, legislative assistant to Assemblyman Tom Umberg, chief of staff to Assembly members Betty Karnette and Kerry Mazzoni ’71 and director of the Women’s Caucus under Assembly member Patti Berg, as well as assistant secretary of education for legislative affairs under Mazzoni. She is survived by her husband since 1985, Timothy; son, John, 14; stepchildren, Robert Howe and Julie Starbird; mother, Elizabeth; and siblings, Robert, Laurie and Janet Botula. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • A book co-authored by Erv Thomas, Four Secrets to Liking Your Work (Financial Times Press), won a 2008 award from the Society for Performance Improvement and has been translated into six languages. He recently launched Iceberg Consulting in Folsom, and does leadership development training for companies. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Karen Hammer Thurston was awarded the Recycler of the Year by the Kootenai County Solid Waste Department in Idaho in April. She is the founder and director of Community Green Cross Inc., which recycles textiles from 16 thrift stores in the northern Idaho region. Since the program’s inception, they have recycled over 1.4 million pounds of textiles and books, and generated over $30,000 in donations. She lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with her husband, John, and their two younger children, Shelby and Ian. Their older son is married and attends UC Riverside. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Dan Healy was elected to an open seat on the Solano County Superior Court. He has served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the UC Davis law school since 1998. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Helena Chari is the managing director of TNS ICAP Greece, a leading market information and insight company in Greece, which provides market measurement and analysis. She recently spoke at the European Senior Leadership meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Jeff Lakritz, D.V.M. ’87, Ph.D. ’96, was named the inaugural Vernon L. Tharp Professor in Food Animal Medicine at Ohio State University in December. He has served as an associate professor at the Ohio State Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences since 2003, after five years on the faculty at the University of Missouri. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Paul Geyer has authored a children’s book, RodeoDude (BookSurge Publishing, 2010), about a lost border collie who turns up at a rodeo, makes new friends and gains a name and a new home. Geyer lives in Merced with his wife and son, and works in the petroleum industry. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Janet Walberg Rankin, Ph.D., a faculty member at Virginia Tech, is 2012–13 president of the American College of Sports Medicine. She is a professor of human nutrition, foods and exercise in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and associate dean of the university’s Graduate School. She is an authority on nutritional strategies for reducing inflammation and other health complications related to athletic training and obesity. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Steve Anderson joined the Jones Lang LaSalle brokerage firm’s San Francisco office as managing director. Anderson has completed more than 6 million square feet of office lease transactions in San Francisco throughout his career and participated in investment sales valued at more than $750 million. He lives in Marin County with his wife and two children. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Peter Vik wrote Regression, ANOVA, and the General Linear Model: A Statistics Primer (Sage Publishers, 2013). He is a psychology professor and director of the University Honors Program at Idaho State University. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Carol Folt, Ph.D. ’82, is the new chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the first woman to lead the public university since it opened in 1795. “It’s the honor of the lifetime,” Folt told students, faculty and staff there when she was introduced as chancellor-elect in April. Her new post was effective July 1. Folt served the past year as interim president of Dartmouth College, where she has been a biological sciences faculty member since 1983 and has held an endowed professorship since 2007. She and her husband, David Peart, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, a professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth, have two children, Noah, 27, and Tessa, 25. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Danna Mezin joined the National 4-H Council’s Board of Trustees in April. A 4-H alumna, she is chief operating officer for UnitedHealthcare Community & State. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Ceramic sculptures by Lisa Reinertson, M.F.A. ’84, exploring the human relationship with the animal world, were exhibited this spring at the Pence Gallery in Davis. In conjunction with the show, Lisa Reinertson: Edge of Extinction, the artist joined UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Kirsten Gilardi, D.V.M. ’93, in May for a talk “Hope for Endangered Animals.” Reinertson’s public commissions include the bronze memorials of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in UC Davis’ King Hall and Cesar Chavez in Sacramento’s Chavez Plaza Park. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Rich Stewart was appointed to the El Dorado Planning Commission in January. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Brett Stompro was featured in an article in ALIVE East Bay Magazine last December for juggling his work as a plastic surgeon with serving as an assistant varsity football coach at California High School in San Ramon. Read the story at aliveeastbay.com/archives/dr-quarterback-sculpts-success-in-two-fields. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) |