Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1985Bruce Frohnen, M.A., recently edited the book Rethinking Rights (University of Missouri Press), which reassesses human rights for a multicultural world. Frohnen is editor of the Political Science Reviewer and a senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Mary Rock is the science laboratory coordinator at the new biological and heath sciences facility at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg. She lives in Antioch. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Jonathan Zehr, Ph.D., a professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz, was recently elected a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Nancy Morse recently became the first woman president of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, where women total less than 2 percent of the membership. During her 21 years in commercial real estate, she has been twice nominated for the Office Broker of the Year Award by the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers, and in 2006, she was recognized by the San Jose Business Journal as one of the top three brokers in the Silicon Valley. She works for Grubb & Ellis Co. in San Jose. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Chris Wilson retired from the U.S. Army in June after 24 years of service. He has served in places like Korea as a platoon leader and, after getting a medical degree and completing an orthopedic surgery residency, Afghanistan as a general orthopedist. He spent the last three at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he cared for service members who were severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wilson recently joined the Hand Surgery Associates in Sacramento. He and his wife, Teresa (Thompson) Wilson ’86, have a son, Michael, and live in Folsom. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Michael Matteucci is an emergency physician and commander in the U.S. Navy. He is stationed at the emergency department at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, where he is the research director and assistant residency director. He is also a medical toxicologist on staff at the UC San Diego Medical Center and the California Poison Control System. Through December, he was the officer in charge of Shock Trauma Platoon 2—which was the farthest forward emergency medical facility in Afghanistan. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Kim Taylor-Campisano completed three triathlons in 2009. In the most recent race, she finished in the top 10 of her division in the Olympic distance in Bridgeport, Conn. She and her husband have three boys and live in Pelham, N.Y. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Catherine Conklin-Zanzi and JOHN ZANZI celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in September. The couple met at the dormitory Malcolm Hall in 1981. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Germaine Noel Burke has been an optometrist for 20 years, the past 18 with Lodi Optometry Group. She is current president of Soroptimist International of Lodi, www.lodisoroptimist.org , which has been raising money for a local shelter for women and children. She lives with her husband and fellow optometrist, Jerry Burke, and his two children. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Daniel Egan was recently named managing partner of Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney, a 30-lawyer firm in Sacramento. He is married to Mary (Albiani) Egan, a public sector labor relations consultant and expert witness. They live in Wilton with their three sons. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Chris Cook by David Owen Occupation: Teacher for 15 years, now at Sequoia Middle School in Pleasant Hill, and Quad Rugby Hall of Famer. The injury: Chris Cook ’85 was just an 18-year-old freshman in 1980 when he sustained a paralyzing spinal cord injury playing rugby for UC Davis. A lifelong athlete, Cook rehabbed at Santa Clara Medical Center and returned to school the next fall. He was eager to get back into competition but could not find a sport that worked for him. Quadzilla: In 1998 Cook was introduced to quad rugby, a wheelchair adapted version of the sport—sometimes called “murderball”—that he says changed his life. “I went from thinking I knew everything to seeing people with similar injuries to mine who were more independent, were playing sports and were just living life at a much higher level than I was.” Cook played for the Berkeley-based team Quadzilla, which dominated the sport throughout the 1990s. He made five U.S. national teams, serving as captain of the 1993 and ’94 gold medal squads, and was inducted into the sport’s hall of fame in 2004. Reaching out: Since retiring from quad rugby in 2002, Cook has remained active in recruiting players and creating new opportunities for people to get involved, because he knows firsthand the benefits. Along with the support he receive from his parents and wife, Jenny, camaraderie and teamwork have helped him to thrive despite disability. He invites anyone interested to go to www.quadrugby.com and to see the documentary Murderball. “People might not realize how competitive it is. Quad rugby is fast, physical and requires speed and endurance.” (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Jean-Xavier Guinard, M.S., Ph.D. ’91, becomes the new associate vice provost and executive director for the UC systemwide Education Abroad Program in October. He previously served as associate vice provost for international programs at UC Davis for three years, in addition to teaching sensory science in the food science and technology department since 1994. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Paul Thiebaud, who attended UC Davis from 1979 to 1985, died of cancer at 49 in June. The son of artist and UC Davis professor emeritus, Wayne Thiebaud, and his wife, Betty Jean, he spent his life immersed in the art world. He operated galleries in San Francisco and New York, which contained his father’s work as well as others. He also privately advised contemporary art collectors internationally. He is survived by his wife, Karen; two daughters; parents; half siblings, Matt and Mark Bult, Twinka and Mallary Thiebaud. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Jon Weiner is the manager of communications and media relations for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He previously led media relations at the California Institute of Technology and served as executive director of public relations for the University of Southern California’s Health Sciences Campus. He also worked for 10 years in broadcast news at CBS News. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • JACK HARKEMA, Ph.D., a professor at Michigan State University, is leading the university’s new Clean Air Research Center, created with an $8 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Harkema’s team will research the role of air pollution in heart disease, diabetes and obesity. He is a professor of pathobiology and diagnostic investigation in Michigan State’s College of Veterinary Medicine. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Jim Keddy was appointed vice president and chief learning officer of the California Endowment, the state’s largest charitable health foundation. He and his wife, Maija Beattie, live in Sacramento and have two children. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Daniel Scholl, D.V.M. ’87, M.P.V.M ’88, became associate dean for research and director of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at South Dakota State University in August. He previously served as scientific director of the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network and as veterinary epidemiology professor at the Université de Montréal. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Lynda Felder, M.A., recently published a book, Writing for the Web, Writing Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures and Sound (New Riders Press, 2011), and maintains a companion website, www.Write4web.com. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • A short story by Taryn Hook, “Pluto Rising,” is included in The Writing Disorder Anthology, Vol. III, the online literary journal’s best works of 2011. Hook is an author and private investigator living and working in the south Bay Area. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Randy Holmes ’85 and Sarah (Sembach) Holmes ’86, Ph.D. ’93, died within a day of each other in May in Austin, Texas. Randy, a software engineer for Systems Process Engineering Co., died unexpectedly in his sleep at age 48; Sarah, 47, succumbed the following day to the cancer she had battled for two years. She worked as a senior systems analyst in information technology services at the University of Texas, Austin. They were parents of two teenagers. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) |