Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1986Kathleen Hanna moved three years ago to New York City, where she is now a producer of promos and sales tapes for Nickelodeon. She has worked in advertising and television production and promotion since graduating. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Gregg Loubier, J.D., joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP in Los Angeles as a partner specializing in real estate. He is chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Real Estate Finance Subsection and speaks regularly to legal and industry groups about financial affairs. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • David Russ, M.B.A., was appointed treasurer and vice president for investments for the University of California by the board of regents in April. In this position he serves as a member of UC's investment management team, overseeing a portfolio that includes pension funds and endowments. Russ was formerly public markets managing director for the University of Texas Investment Management Co. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Edward Hsi, J.D., served for two years as an adviser to the government of the Republic of Indonesia and to the chair of the Indonesian Parliament. He advised on policy proposals related to the creation of a natural gas-based industrial economy and on the economic revitalization and autonomy of the Province of Aceh. He is also the co-founder of Grant Thornton Taira Hsi, a corporate finance and restructuring consulting firm, and of Taira & Hsi, a corporate law firm. He is now back in the Los Angeles area working with technology companies. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Katherine Lucero was named a Superior Court judge for Santa Clara County. She previously served as a Santa Clara County Superior Court commissioner and, before that, deputy district attorney for the county. Lucero is married and has two daughters. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Laurie Soriano, J.D., an attorney with the Los Angeles firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, was named a distinguished alumna of the UC Davis School of Law. Soriano heads her firm's music department, which has as clients such prominent recording artists as Carol King, John Tesh and Taj Mahal. She and her husband, Steve Rehaut, J.D. '85, have three children. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Dan Sweet, D.V.M., operates the Sweet River Equine Clinic east of Modesto, a practice devoted to horses, mules and donkeys. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • After working for 10 years as a television news anchor in Pennsylvania, Brad Hicks, M.A. '88, returned to the Bay Area in 2000 to anchor at NBC3, the area's NBC affiliate. He has also launched "Wine Country Living," a weekly program devoted to California wine and the wine-country lifestyle--an idea he conceived while working on a story about cult wines. "As a geography major at UC Davis, I took Viticulture 3 with Vernon Singleton just for the heck of it," said Hicks. "Who knew years later I would be using that part of my Davis education to make a living!" (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Montgomery Mars was appointed chief financial officer and general manager of the proteomics business unit of Diversys Ltd., a biotechnology company. Mars, who also has law and M.B.A. degrees and has led business development at a number of biotechnology companies, will work in the company's Cambridge, Mass., office. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Kelly Ratliff, M.B.A. '93, was promoted to assistant vice chancellor for budget resource management at UC Davis. She has worked in the office since 1996, most recently serving as associate director for budget operations. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Steven Wickler, D.V.M., director of equine research and Laboratory Animal Facilities at Cal Poly Pomona, received one of two western region Excellence in Teaching Awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Sciences. Recipients receive stipends of $2,000 to be used for teaching development at their universities. Wickler, a resident of La Verne, has been a faculty member and university veterinarian at Cal Poly Pomona since 1986. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Nikki Mandell, M.A., Ph.D. '97, assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, has written The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 (University of North Carolina Press). (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Debra Scherber, M.B.A. '97, was named vice president of marketing for ALLDATA, a firm in Elk Grove that provides computer-based information for automotive repair companies. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Mitchell Weinberg is director of project development for Calpine Corp., which builds, owns and operates gas turbine and geothermal power plants. He and his wife, Justine (Smitherman) '85, live in Moraga with their two children, 6-year-old Ben and 3-year-old Maddy. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Diane Boyer-Vine, J.D., was appointed legislative counsel of California in June. Boyer-Vine, former chief deputy, had joined the office in 1988 and had headed it since January when her predecessor retired. The 75-attorney office drafts bills and legal opinions and represents the Legislature in litigation. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • R. Brent Gillespie, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in July in Washington, D.C., where he and the other 59 recipients had an audience with the president, were honored at an awards ceremony and were given a private tour of the White House. The award is the highest honor that the country gives to engineers for their achievements. Gillespie and his wife, Mary-Anne Purtill, have two sons, Booker, 2 1/2, and Lincoln, 1. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Brian Kennelly was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor at Webster University in Saint Louis. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Martin Casey is the legislative and business relations manager for the Washington state Department of General Administration. He lives in Olympia, Wash., with his partner of five years, Brian. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Todd Hammond is the new assistant coach for the UC Davis Aggies golf team. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Maura Sullivan is working for Heller Consulting Inc., a small firm that helps nonprofits with software and database needs. She lives in Pinole. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) |