Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1984David Barnes, J.D., joined von Briesen, Purtell & Roper, S.C., a law firm in Racine, Wis., in January. He has practiced law in the area for 16 years, focusing on corporate and real estate law. Barnes is also the founder and chair of the board of the Bank of Kenosha and is a real estate developer. He is married to Francesca DeRose, a Racine dentist. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Judy Hersher, J.D., was appointed to the Sacramento County Superior Court bench in December. A litigation partner with the Sacramento firm Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Hersher has also served as the governor's chief deputy legal affairs secretary. She was also recently named Humanitarian of the Year by the Sacramento County Bar Association. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • David Pearson, general manager in France for Napa Valley wine giant Robert Mondavi, was featured in the Jan. 22 issue of Time. The article detailed the challenge he faced in locating a vineyard site for Mondavi wines in the Languedoc region of southern France and in "soothing local fears about a U.S. vinicultural invasion." He now lives in a village north of Montpellier and expects a bountiful grape harvest in 2006. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Fernando De Los Reyes was promoted to vice president of marketing, licensing, public relations and off-channel creative services for AOL Time Warner/Turner Broadcasting for Latin America, based out of the company's Atlanta headquarters. He was also appointed to serve on the AOL Time Warner global marketing and media advisory councils. Since joining Turner last year, De Los Reyes has served as the vice president of marketing for the Cartoon and Boomerang Networks. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Jane Steinberg is currently working on a doctorate in community health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. She also serves as the director of policy and programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Sexually Transmitted Disease Program. She lives in Culver City with her husband and 3-year old son, Joshua. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Elias Fernandez, winemaker for Shafer Vineyards in Napa Valley, was profiled in a Sacramento Bee article in April. The article praised Fernandez, the son of migrant workers from Mexico who as a youth spent his summers picking crops, as someone who "has climbed to the top of his profession [and is] responsible for some of the best wines coming out of the Napa Valley in recent years." (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Joanne Lupton, Ph.D., was named team leader for the nutrition, physical fitness and rehabilitation team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in February. She manages a team of scientists from five institutions and focuses on how to minimize the effects of weightlessness by maintaining health and fitness during and after space travel. She also serves as Regents Professor and William W. Allen Chair of Human Nutrition at Texas A&M University. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • James Strandberg was named vice president of Malcolm Pirnie Inc., a national environmental consulting firm, where he heads the firm's environmental restoration practice for the state of California. Strandberg lives in Oakland with his wife, Agnes, and four children. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • John Valentine, founder and principal of Valentine Capital Retirement Planning Group in San Ramon, received three Top Producer Awards for equities, fixed income and total assets under management from Securities America, the country's second-largest independent adviser firm. These awards are presented to brokers with the best yearly production records. Valentine is also founder and president of the nonprofit group Dads R Parents Too. Valentine lives in Pleasanton with his wife and two sons. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Ronald Harris was appointed assistant vice president for diversity at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Harris, who received an M.D. degree from UC San Francisco, is also an assistant professor of dermatology and adjunct assistant professor of pathology at the university's School of Medicine. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Tom Smith, M.S., vice president and chief winemaker for Delicato Family Vineyards, was named a "winemaker to watch" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Delicato was honored in 2000 at the International Wine & Spirits Competition in London as Best U.S. Wine Producer. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Cameon (Zacher) Krotine was named design manager for Western Contract's business interiors division in Rancho Cordova. Krotine was vice president of forums for the executive board of the International Interior Design Association and was employed for 12 years by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before joining Western Contract, an interior design and furnishing company. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Robert Tenerowicz was appointed vice president for process development and clinical supplies for GenVec Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops gene-based medicines. He joined the company in 1997 and has more than 16 years of experience in the biotech industry. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Anamarie Marlow Maltzman and her husband, Jeffrey, welcomed their first child, a daughter, in August 2001. Anamarie, an attorney with Steel Hector & Davis LLP, specializes in labor and employment law, and Jeffrey, a partner with Kaye Rose & Maltzman, specializes in maritime law. The family lives in Coral Gables, Fla. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Thomas Chesterman, M.Ad., has joined Aradigm Corp., a Hayward firm that develops drug delivery systems, as senior vice president and chief financial officer. He previously worked for Bio-Rad Laboratories. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Elias Fernandez, winemaker for Shafer Vineyards in Napa Valley, was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the White House in October. The son of migrant farm workers, Fernandez was honored for being a role model for the Hispanic community. A day later he was honored in San Francisco as Food and Wine magazine's Winemaker of the Year. Shafer Vineyards' president, Doug Shafer '78, is also a UC Davis graduate. The two have worked together for almost 20 years. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Kayla Gillan, J.D., former chief legal adviser for the California Public Employees' Retirement System, was selected by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be a member of a new board that will provide oversight of the accounting industry. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • David Raymer opened a chiropractic practice in Tacoma, Wash., after working for three years in Germany at a sports orthopedic clinic. Raymer has also served as chiropractor to Porsche's Grand Prix Women's Tennis Association tournament and treated such famous folks as Stefi Graf and Anna Kournikova. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Jeffrey Safarik, an optometrist in Newport Beach, got married in October to Monica Budean, then honeymooned in Italy and France. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Gregory Stewart, Ph.D., served the 2001-2002 academic year as assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of West Georgia. This academic year he is a U.S. State Department Foster Fellow, working in the Bureau of Arms Control, Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, to help draft international policies and guidelines to reduce the threat of biological warfare and bioterrorism. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) |