Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1986Patty Oneal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. She also teaches sociology at California State University, San Marcos. She lives in Carlsbad with her husband, 1-year-old daughter and running partner Rocket. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Stacie Strong was recently awarded a Ph.D. in law by the University of Cambridge. She currently lectures in law at Exeter College at the University of Oxford and continues her research in jurisprudence and comparative constitutional law. She has also written her first book, which has been published by LexisNexis Butterworths Tolley. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Abdullah Akyuz is president of the Washington representative office for the Turkish Businessmen's and Industrialists' Association. In May he spoke at UC Davis on how the Iraq conflict has affected U.S. relations with Turkey. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Howard Cheng has been named vice president of research and development at Nintendo of America Inc. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Dan Teuthorn has been promoted to vice president of engineering for Endwave Corp., a Silicon Valley-based producer of components for wireless communications. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Thomas Olafson has been working as an attorney for the El Dorado County Public Defender's office in Placerville since June, handling juvenile and conservatorship cases. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • George te Velde, a Modesto dairy farmer, joined the Modesto Bee as a community cartoonist. He also drew cartoons for the California Aggie during his years at UC Davis. He is married and has three daughters, ages 1 to 12. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Janell Gohring, M.S., died in October 2003 at age 41 from an apparent drowning in the Feather River in Yuba City. Gohring was a fourth-grade teacher at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School in Davis. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as a child life specialist for 14 years, supporting hospitalized pediatric cancer patients. She is survived by her husband, Tom, and three daughters, Katherine, Ashley and Caroline. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Jeffrey Beck and his wife, Linda, had their first child, Zachary, in December. The family lives in Sacramento, and Jeffrey just opened an Allstate Insurance Agency in Elk Grove. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • David Kerr was named as a partner in the Napa Valley accounting firm G&J Seiberlich & Co. LLP. The firm specializes in services for local wineries and vineyards. He and his wife, Jeannie, live in St. Helena with their two sons, Aaron and Alex. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Paul Lessard, Ph.D. ’90, received a patent for a process that converts inert mining waste into a reactive, cement-like material. He is director of product development services at Granite Rock Co. in Watsonville, and he and his wife, Gena, live in Oakland. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Melissa Morton was named public works director for the city of Dublin in Contra Costa County. She had been serving as an engineer for the city since June. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Brian Kennelly is chair of the foreign languages and literatures department and director of freshman and transfer seminars at Webster University in St. Louis, Mo. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Kevin Oliver was promoted to senior landscape architect for San Diego’s parks and recreation department, overseeing 44 park improvement projects. This year Oliver received the top award given to the city’s project managers. He and his wife, Monica, also a landscape architect, have two children, Jacob and Melanie. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • David “Castro” Spears works as an operations supervisor for Southwest Airlines in San Diego. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Siri Backer earned an M.B.A. from American Intercontinental University in 2002 and has a 2-year-old son. She has performed and recorded as lead singer, songwriter and harmonica player for folk and alternative rock bands for 15 years. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Todd Calvin is an attorney for the television animation group at the Walt Disney Co. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Marnye Little Langer recently published a book, The Tevis Cup: To Finish Is to Win (Lyons Press), a history of the 100-mile endurance ride through the Sierra Nevada. She is a publicist and freelance journalist who has won five “Journalist of the Year” awards from the Chronicle of the Horse. She and her husband, Larry Langer, run Equestrian Sports Inc., which produces and manages horse shows in California and Colorado. They live with their son in Burbank. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Mari Pangestu, Ph.D., has been named minister of trade in the new Indonesian government. She previously was executive director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. She is one of the four women ministers in the cabinet and the first female Chinese Indonesian minister in the modern history of Indonesia. Pangestu has conducted research on national and international trade issues for the past 20 years. She also is program coordinator of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, a private networking organization of 23 member economies in the Asia Pacific region. She is the co-coordinator of the Task Force on Poverty and Development for the United Nations Millennium Project. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Terri Roth, M.S. ’88, vice president of animal sciences at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, received a $10,000 ChevronTexaco conservation award in September for her success in breeding endangered Sumatran rhinos. Roth told the Contra Costa Times that she planned to donate the prize money to anti-poaching efforts. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) |