Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1980Joel Maybury, a U.S. Department of State foreign service officer since 1995, is serving as United States consul at the American Presence Post in Bordeaux, France. The consul’s responsibilities include commercial promotion, public diplomacy and American citizen services.
(appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Mo Salman, M.P.V.M., Ph.D. ’83, is the recipient of the 2010 Penn Vet World Leadership in Animal Health Award. The prize, underwritten by the Vernon and Shirley Hill Foundation, comes with $100,000 in unrestricted funding. Salman is a professor at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and founder of the university’s Animal Population Health Institute. In 2010, he helped the institute obtain a $15 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to study the effects of climate change on livestock in developing countries.
(appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Yvonne Lee joined the U.S. Small Business Administration as the new regional advocate for small business owners, state and local government agencies, state legislators and trade associations in Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam. She has been a public affairs consultant in San Francisco since 1994, organizing and leading strategic planning campaigns in public policy and programming. She served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1995 to 2001, appointed by then-President Bill Clinton.
(appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • DAVID MILLER recently marked his 20th year as a staff attorney for the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. After 16 years working for now-retired Chief Justice Ronald George, Miller is currently a criminal central staff attorney for the court. The former California Aggie columnist and editor also wrote his first novel, Circus Before Dawn (iUniverse.com, 2011), a thriller set in the world of Formula One racing. He lives in Menlo Park, and has a daughter, Alexandra, a college student.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Brian Haughton was named a 2011 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine, after being nominated by his peers. He is a partner for Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp LLP in San Francisco, which specializes in environmental law and litigation.
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Ginny Clarke, founder, president and CEO of Talent Optimization Partners, is a job and career contributor on CBS2 Chicago’s morning newscast. She made her debut appearance in January. The author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work (Morgan James Publishing, 2011), Clarke is a frequent writer, speaker and media guest on issues related to career development and job search. Before forming her own firm in 2009, she was a partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm. She lives in Chicago.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Eric Herzog was recently promoted to senior vice president of product management and product marketing at EMC, the world’s largest computer storage company. He previously worked as a vice president at several start ups and IBM’s storage division.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Steve Wiley is the new general manager of American Takii Inc., a Salinas wholesale flower and vegetable seed company. He has been in the vegetable seed business for 28 years, most recently with Monsanto in Oxnard. Wiley, wife Odette, and daughters Gina and Lauren will relocate to the Salinas Valley where Wiley was born and raised.
(appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • A new poetry collection, Departures, by Allan Johnston, Ph.D. ’88, was published this spring by Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle, Rhino and other journals. He teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Robin (Stiles) Aliotti died in her Walnut Creek home in November after a battle with cancer. A popular business professor at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, she was 54.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Reed Patton Smith, a former U.S. Navy flight officer and Navy contractor, died in Coronado after a 19-year battle with thyroid cancer. He was 55. As an Aggie, he was a 13-time NCAA Division II All America swimmer. Survivors include his wife, Jan (Erickson) ’77; three daughters; his mother; and a sister.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Janet Davidson Thomas, of San José, died in May 2012 after a 10 year battle with colon cancer. She worked as a technical writer for medical products. Later, she wrote historical fiction about life in the Royal Navy in the 1800s. She is survived by her husband, a son and a daughter.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Darrell Haynes, M.S., Ph.D. ’85, died of cancer at his Rochester, N.Y., home in July. He was 58. He worked for 22 years for Johnson & Johnson Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Jon Sommer, M.S., M.S. ’83, celebrated his 20th year as a top real estate professional in Denver, where he is a managing broker at Your Castle Real Estate. He is also a seminar leader for Landmark Worldwide.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Jeremy Sommer, of San Francisco, died at age 45 on August 19. He was founder of Zocalo furniture company. Survivors include his brother Jon, M.S. ’80, M.S. ’83.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Karen Steinmetz ’80, of Pacifica, died at age 55 on August 19. He was toxicology director for SRI International.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Lynn (Clopper) Losch, of Rescue, died at age 55 on September 6. She was a former Aggie softball player and clinical lab scientist.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Environmental lawyer Brian Haughton, a founding partner at San Francisco firm Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, has been named to Super Lawyers’ 2014 “Northern California Super Lawyers.” (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • John Meyer left UC Davis in June after 14 years as UC Davis vice chancellor of administrative and resource management. His administrative portfolio included everything from finance and planning to the campus’s physical operations and sustainability. West Village at UC Davis, the largest planned zero net energy housing development in the nation, took shape under his watch. He previously spent 10 years as Davis’ city manager. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) |
| 1981Mickey Mattox was recently appointed research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, which provides research support in theology and church history for Lutheran churches. Mattox, who earned a Ph.D. in religion from Duke University, is married to Pamela (Young) '80, and they have two children, Samuel Augustine and Clement Lewis. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) |