Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1980s
| 1986Charles Crissman, Ph.D., was named deputy director general for research of the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. Crissman has worked with the center, which seeks to reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries, since 1986, serving in Ecuador and Kenya, as well as Peru. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Michael Kobayashi was named senior vice president and chief investment officer of Ross Stores, headquartered in Pleasanton. Kobayashi had been leading Ross’ information technology department since July, after 18 years with Accenture. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Stacie Strong was recently named counsel in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP, where she will continue her practice in international litigation and arbitration. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Rich Waltz is the new voice of the Florida Marlins baseball team, taking over television play-by-play duties for the 2005 season. A former Aggie infielder, Waltz has called games for ESPN and filled in occasionally as a commentator for the Seattle Mariners since 1995. His wife, Renee, and their daughters, Jaimie, 8, and Anna, 4, will follow him to Florida at the end of the school year. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Steven Weiss, The Sacramento Bee’s vice president of marketing and public affairs, was elected chair of the board of directors for Sacramento’s PBS station, KVIE. Weiss was also recently appointed to the board of directors for the International Newspaper Marketing Association’s North American division. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Wendy (Whitham) Kristy died in March 2005 at the age of 41 in Exira, Iowa, in an auto accident. Ms. Kristy had worked as a physical therapist since moving to Iowa in 1997. She is remembered by friends and family as a loving and caring woman who was deeply committed to her family, community and church. She is survived by her husband, Scott Kristy ’87, and their two children, Benjamin, 17, and Grace, 15. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Robert Chapkin, Ph.D., is researching how diet and nutrition affect a person’s chances of developing colon cancer and how nutrition affects the immune system. Chapkin is a professor of nutrition at Texas A&M, and a University and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Robert Chow was named counsel for the Hale and Dorr Venture Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in the firm’s Waltham, Mass., office. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Lisa Jaffe Hubbell, a former California Aggie writer, is working with Hundreds of Heads books on several upcoming titles in its How to Survive series, including How to Survive Your Teenager, How to Survive Divorce and How to Survive Your Diet. Hubbell continues to write and edit for a variety of health-care publishing companies and lives in the Seattle area with her husband, Dave, and son, Seth. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Dawn (Wilson) Maghakian graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Master of Science degree in biology in June. Maghakian works as a certified laboratory specialist in molecular biology for the department of molecular diagnostics at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., and she recently obtained her certification as a technologist in molecular pathology. She lives with her husband, Mike, and their three dachshunds in Colbert, Wash. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Ian Ransley is the lead designer at Flying Colors, a sports design firm in Berkeley. The National Football League hired Ransley to design the “look” for three recent Superbowls. Currently, he is working on large-scale photo collages to decorate the new 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium in London. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • JoMay Chow, M.S. ’89, is currently a research scientist in the Healthy Living research and development group for the Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. She recently married Joseph Niccum. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Julia Scrogin was appointed to a judgeship in the Yuba County Superior Court. A resident of Yuba City, Scrogin has served as deputy district attorney for the Sutter County district attorney’s office since 1992. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Christopher Crespi has been named to the board of directors for Colorado-based Sirenza Microdevices, a supplier of radio frequency components. Crespi is co-founder and president of the Pacific Realm LLC investment fund and a former managing director of Banc of America Securities LLC. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Rachelle (Scher) Vogler recently earned her professional certification in project management. She is a senior program manager for the technology office of the customer networked services organization at Sun Microsystems, where she recently returned to work after having her first child, a daughter named Sarah. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Christine Fletcher, D.V.M. ’90, recently had her first novel, Tallulah Falls, published by Bloomsbury USA. Fletcher writes, teaches and practices veterinary medicine in Portland, Ore. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • In September, Brian Kennelly will leave Webster University in St. Louis, Mo., to become chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Michael Donald recently accepted a job in the Dominican Republic as the Caribbean regional environmental adviser with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has been working in Guatemala and Honduras for the past six years in watershed restoration and incorporating environmental considerations into development work. He and his wife have two young boys. He can be reached at mad_donald@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • John Pascoe, Ph.D., executive associate dean of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, received a 2006 Alumni Achievement Award from the school for his vision, energy and passion as its “architect of the future.” A faculty member since 1983, Pascoe is overseeing the design and implementation of the school’s $354 million long-range facilities plan. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Nanette Walker Smith completed her master’s of education degree at the University of Central Florida in August. She and her U.S. Air Force active-duty husband, Dave, and children Alyssa and Madison are now stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, where she is content director, continuing education coordinator and instructor of online continuing education for the Veterinary Support Personnel Network, an international community for veterinary support staff. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) |