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1984Robert Kiss was recently elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for his “outstanding contributions to industrial cell culture and fermentation technology in the field of biopharmaceuticals.” He works at Genentech in South San Francisco. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Michael J. Pisani, an international business professor at Central Michigan University, co-authored a book, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (University of Texas Press, 2012). (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Sarah Tigerman, a San Francisco attorney and former career counselor at UC Hastings College of Law, died in February after a long illness. She was 52. She was devoted to a number of causes, including gay rights and environmental preservation. Survivors include her partner and two godchildren. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Rebekah Wold, M.D. ’88, a Chico pathologist, died in January at age 50. She is survived by husband Jim Schlund ’80, M.D., ’85; two daughters; her parents; a brother; and a sister. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Patrick Hicks, a founding shareholder at the Las Vegas office of Littler employment and labor law firm, was named to Human Resource Executive and Lawdragon.com’s 2014 list of the nation’s “Most Powerful Employment Attorneys.” (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Darryl Hunter, a Roseville oncologist and an Air Force Reserve colonel, received an Excellence in Medicine Award from the American Medical Association Foundation for his service to veterans, students and underserved communities. He founded three Northern California nonprofit organizations that work to reduce cancer deaths. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)
1985Francisco Rodriguez, M.S. '97, was named executive dean of Woodland Community College. Before his appointment, Rodriguez served as the interim dean at the 3,000-student institution. Rodriguez previously worked for 12 years at UC Davis in undergraduate admissions, outreach and recruitment, diversity education and student programs and activities, and was the first director of the Cross-Cultural Center. He now serves as vice president/president-elect of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Anne Downs has joined the Sacramento office of Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly Inc., an environmental consulting firm, where she advises on state and federal agricultural regulatory policy and processes and directs and manages federal and state pesticide registration projects. Previously she served for more than 15 years as the associate director of California Grain & Feed Association. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Barbara Hayes is the new executive director of the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization, an economic development organization. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Kathryn Doi, J.D., was recently appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to serve as adviser to California Trade and Commerce Agency Secretary Lon Hatamiya. Previously, Doi worked as staff counsel for the California Commission on Judicial Performance, investigating complaints of misconduct against state judges. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Scott McLeod has been the head wine-maker of film director Francis Ford Coppola's Napa Valley winery, Niebaum-Coppola Estate, since 1991. The winery is now so profitable that it underwrites Coppola's film projects. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Bettina Bracka Halvorsen is pursuing a master's degree in international relations at the University of San Diego, focusing on immigration policy and the integration of refugees into urban environments. Previously, she worked for the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, where she managed fellowship and grant programs and served as the liaison between the IGCC central offices at UC San Diego and affiliates on other campuses. Halvorsen, a director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, lives in San Diego with her husband, Kurt. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Jonathan Lee has joined the private client group of Merrill Lynch and Co. in Minneapolis as a financial consultant. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Carol Yeh Lee, a family physician. He can be contacted through his Web site at www.fc.ml.com/Jonathan_D_Lee. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Gregory McCracken is an associate in land use and environmental practice at the Hartford, Conn., office of Robinson & Cole LLP, a Northeastern commercial law firm. After graduation, he completed a master's degree in urban planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Ann (Holman) Grimaldi is a partner in the San Francisco office of McKenna & Cuneo LLP where she practices environmental law with an emphasis on Proposition 65 litigation and compliance. She graduated magna cum laude from Hastings College of the Law in 1992 after working for research labs, including the Cancer Research Institute at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Tony Natsoulas' latest ceramic sculptures are currently on display at the Oakland Museum Sculpture Court. Natsoulas' one-person show features larger-than-life-size busts of people he has found to be memorable or inspirational, ranging from Picasso to Pee Wee Herman. His work has been shown in museum and gallery exhibitions around the world, and he has worked on public and private commissions in clay, bronze and fiberglass. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Christine (Wall) Freeman earned a master's degree in library and information science in 2000 and is now managing the archives at Pixar Animation Studios. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Steven Tingus, M.S. '90, was appointed by President Bush to serve as director for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education. He will work to advance Bush's New Freedom Initiative, a plan to integrate people with disabilities into the workplace and the community, and will direct research programs to maximize employment and independent living for disabled individuals. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Jeanette Van Emon, research chemist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Van Emon pioneered the development of immunochemical methods for environmental monitoring and human exposure assessment studies. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Steven Bratman, M.D., medical director of the Web site Natural Pharmacist, has written a book titled Health Food Junkies/Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession with Healthful Eating (Broadway Books, 2000). His book about orthorexia--a word Bratman coined to describe "health food junkies" or people obsessed with eating the right foods--has resulted in his appearance on TV and in a number of magazine and newspaper articles. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue)

1984Robert Kiss was recently elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for his “outstanding contributions to industrial cell culture and fermentation technology in the field of biopharmaceuticals.” He works at Genentech in South San Francisco. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Michael J. Pisani, an international business professor at Central Michigan University, co-authored a book, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (University of Texas Press, 2012). (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Sarah Tigerman, a San Francisco attorney and former career counselor at UC Hastings College of Law, died in February after a long illness. She was 52. She was devoted to a number of causes, including gay rights and environmental preservation. Survivors include her partner and two godchildren. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Rebekah Wold, M.D. ’88, a Chico pathologist, died in January at age 50. She is survived by husband Jim Schlund ’80, M.D., ’85; two daughters; her parents; a brother; and a sister. (appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Patrick Hicks, a founding shareholder at the Las Vegas office of Littler employment and labor law firm, was named to Human Resource Executive and Lawdragon.com’s 2014 list of the nation’s “Most Powerful Employment Attorneys.”
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Darryl Hunter, a Roseville oncologist and an Air Force Reserve colonel, received an Excellence in Medicine Award from the American Medical Association Foundation for his service to veterans, students and underserved communities. He founded three Northern California nonprofit organizations that work to reduce cancer deaths.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue)

1985Francisco Rodriguez, M.S. '97, was named executive dean of Woodland Community College. Before his appointment, Rodriguez served as the interim dean at the 3,000-student institution. Rodriguez previously worked for 12 years at UC Davis in undergraduate admissions, outreach and recruitment, diversity education and student programs and activities, and was the first director of the Cross-Cultural Center. He now serves as vice president/president-elect of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Anne Downs has joined the Sacramento office of Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly Inc., an environmental consulting firm, where she advises on state and federal agricultural regulatory policy and processes and directs and manages federal and state pesticide registration projects. Previously she served for more than 15 years as the associate director of California Grain & Feed Association. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Barbara Hayes is the new executive director of the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization, an economic development organization. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Kathryn Doi, J.D., was recently appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to serve as adviser to California Trade and Commerce Agency Secretary Lon Hatamiya. Previously, Doi worked as staff counsel for the California Commission on Judicial Performance, investigating complaints of misconduct against state judges. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Scott McLeod has been the head wine-maker of film director Francis Ford Coppola's Napa Valley winery, Niebaum-Coppola Estate, since 1991. The winery is now so profitable that it underwrites Coppola's film projects. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Bettina Bracka Halvorsen is pursuing a master's degree in international relations at the University of San Diego, focusing on immigration policy and the integration of refugees into urban environments. Previously, she worked for the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, where she managed fellowship and grant programs and served as the liaison between the IGCC central offices at UC San Diego and affiliates on other campuses. Halvorsen, a director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, lives in San Diego with her husband, Kurt. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Jonathan Lee has joined the private client group of Merrill Lynch and Co. in Minneapolis as a financial consultant. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Carol Yeh Lee, a family physician. He can be contacted through his Web site at www.fc.ml.com/Jonathan_D_Lee. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Gregory McCracken is an associate in land use and environmental practice at the Hartford, Conn., office of Robinson & Cole LLP, a Northeastern commercial law firm. After graduation, he completed a master's degree in urban planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Ann (Holman) Grimaldi is a partner in the San Francisco office of McKenna & Cuneo LLP where she practices environmental law with an emphasis on Proposition 65 litigation and compliance. She graduated magna cum laude from Hastings College of the Law in 1992 after working for research labs, including the Cancer Research Institute at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Tony Natsoulas' latest ceramic sculptures are currently on display at the Oakland Museum Sculpture Court. Natsoulas' one-person show features larger-than-life-size busts of people he has found to be memorable or inspirational, ranging from Picasso to Pee Wee Herman. His work has been shown in museum and gallery exhibitions around the world, and he has worked on public and private commissions in clay, bronze and fiberglass. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Christine (Wall) Freeman earned a master's degree in library and information science in 2000 and is now managing the archives at Pixar Animation Studios. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Steven Tingus, M.S. '90, was appointed by President Bush to serve as director for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education. He will work to advance Bush's New Freedom Initiative, a plan to integrate people with disabilities into the workplace and the community, and will direct research programs to maximize employment and independent living for disabled individuals. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Jeanette Van Emon, research chemist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Van Emon pioneered the development of immunochemical methods for environmental monitoring and human exposure assessment studies. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Steven Bratman, M.D., medical director of the Web site Natural Pharmacist, has written a book titled Health Food Junkies/Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession with Healthful Eating (Broadway Books, 2000). His book about orthorexia--a word Bratman coined to describe "health food junkies" or people obsessed with eating the right foods--has resulted in his appearance on TV and in a number of magazine and newspaper articles. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue)

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