Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1984Fernando De Los Reyes recently joined the Walt Disney Co., Disney Consumer Products, and Disney’s ABC Cable Networks Group as the new vice president of television franchise management and merchandising. He lives in Burbank. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Daryl Gross signed on as athletic director at Syracuse University after 14 years at the University of Southern California. Gross spent three years as an assistant coach with the Aggies and served as a scout for the New York Jets before joining USC in 1991. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Arthur Johnson is president of A.Q. Johnson & Co. Inc., an investment management firm in La Jolla, and portfolio manager for the Mundoval mutual fund. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • James Laub, a national board-credentialed technology educator, was featured in the Los Angeles Times and the National Education Association magazine for his efforts teaching inner city students in Long Beach. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Xavier Lopez, director of Oracle’s spatial and location technologies group, was the keynote speaker at BE Meeting Prague 2005, a February summit on geospatial technology and engineering, in the Czech Republic. Lopez works in the company’s Nashua, N.H., office. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Evelyn “Lyn” Nave Garrett is a senior specialist at Chiron Corp. working with the experimental pathology group in the oncology division. She has an 11-year-old son, Theo, and is engaged to be married to Tim Amato this summer in Montecatini, Italy. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Julie Rose was named the 2005 Yolo County Teacher of the Year. Rose has taught for 12 years at Esparto Elementary School. She lives with her husband, Jim Eldon ’85, and their two children, Miles and EllaRose, on their Fiddler’s Green Farm in the Capay Valley. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Fariba Sirjani, M.S. ’87, joined the intellectual property law firm Christie, Parker & Hale in Pasadena. She is currently working toward a master’s degree in electrical engineering at UC Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Dan Hoffman, director of facilities for Network Appliance in Sunnyvale, was named 2004 Corporate Energy Manager of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers. Hoffman lives in San Carlos with his wife and two children, and coaches youth soccer there. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Brian Lehnen founded and directs Village Enterprise Fund, a nonprofit organization that offers startup grants to small-business owners in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Lehnen started the organization in 1987 after seeing the positive economic impact of small, locally owned businesses in Third World countries. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Jamie Wallach gave birth to twins, Naomi and Nathan Chalem-Wallach, in March. She also has a son, Adam, who turns 3 in September. Wallach, a pediatrician in Los Gatos, recently opened a specialized multidisciplinary practice devoted to helping children and their families become healthy and avoid weight problems. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Dan Hawkins was named head football coach at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Hawkins’ coaching career began at UC Davis under Coach Jim Sochor. Most recently he was the head football coach at Boise State University, guiding the Broncos to an undefeated regular season in 2004. He is replaced at Boise State by his former assistant, Chris Petersen ’87, M.A. ’90. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Jack “Jon” William Baber Jr. died in November 2005 at the age of 45. A farmer and lifelong mid-valley resident, Mr. Baber was a member of the Woodland Memorial Hospital Foundation board, the Colusa Rotary Club and other civic organizations. He also served on the Cal Aggie Alumni Association board in 1996–2000. Survivors include his wife, Pixie; two daughters, Adelaide and Hannah; and his parents, Jack Baber Sr. and Judith Sherer Barber. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Jim Deline, Ph.D. ’89, recently moved from California to New Jersey to work for the Atlantic City office of Battelle Memorial Institute as a principal research scientist. He was joined by his wife, Avery, and his two sons, Sean, 14, and Brendan, 12. Deline is currently a Battelle contractor for the Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate, at the Federal Aviation Administration technical center located onsite at the Atlantic City International Airport. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Joan Haratani, J.D., was named president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, becoming the first Asian American woman to hold the position. A partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Haratani said in her acceptance speech that she’ll work to increase diversity in her field and create more opportunities for lawyers with families. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Nancy Gillett, Ph.D., was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Purdue University in recognition of her contributions to toxicological pathology. She is corporate senior vice president and president of global pre-clinical services at Charles River Laboratories Inc. in Sparks, Nev. She had been an adjunct associate professor for 21 years at Purdue. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Bruce Berkman was honored with the “outstanding alumni” Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for his entrepreneurship and environmental protection. Berkman is CEO of Pacific GeoPRO, a Taiwan company that provides geospatial information for businesses throughout Asia, and is on the board for the Jane Goodall Institute, a conservationist organization that works to protect primates. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jim DeLoach of Los Altos has been promoted to principal engineer with Qualcomm Inc. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Steve Hammer received a Ph.D. in urban planning from the London School of Economics. He currently consults globally on renewable energy issues and teaches energy policy courses at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. In July he lectured on energy issues in Shanghai and is currently working on energy projects with the Shanghai municipal government. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Gary Hernandez, J.D., has been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine. Hernandez, a partner with San Francisco-based law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, serves on the board of directors of the Latino Community Foundation and in the past has been recognized for his accomplishments by the San Francisco Business Times and California Lawyer magazine. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) |