Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1990Julia Couzens, M.F.A., exhibited her artwork at her solo show, All Taped Up, at San Francisco’s InSite from November to December, and in a group show, Hauntology, at the Berkeley Art Museum in December. In January, she participated in a video project called Portraits to help UC Davis celebrate the opening of a new Nelson Gallery in the former University Club.
(appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • John Leckie is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and completing a postdoctoral fellowship in child psychology at Stanford University. After completing the fellowship, he and his wife, Sigrid, and children Aidan and Athena will likely be stationed in Germany, providing therapy services to children and families in the Air Force community.
(appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • DANIEL BLUMSTEIN, M.S, Ph.D. ’94, co-authored The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It) (University of California Press, 2011), his fourth book. It followed last year’s A Primer of Conservation Behavior (Sinauer Associates). He is a professor and chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • BRYAN FISHER received the Award of Excellence in Teaching in April from Francis Marion University, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He is an associate professor and coordinator of the university’s speech communication program. He previously taught at Bowling Green State University, Indiana University and East Tennessee State University.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Tom Stohlgren, Ph.D., recently wrote Off Switch (CreateSpace 2011), a novel about a man who attempts to overcome binge drinking to save his family. Stohlgren is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. He lives in Windsor, Colo., with his wife and daughter.
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Jonna Mazet, ’92 D.V.M., M.P.V.M., co-director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, received the Tom Thorne and Beth Williams Memorial Award from the Wildlife Disease Association in Quebec, Canada, last August. The award recognizes outstanding contribution or achievement combining wildlife disease research with wildlife management policy implementation. Sharon Wu Nitsche, a graduate of the UC Davis ROTC program, was selected to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves in January. She also assumed responsibility as the deputy G-2, 75th Training Division (Mission Command) based at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. In her civilian capacity, she works for Halliburton in Houston.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Marc Richards, M.A. ’91, Ph.D. ’98, a popular history professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., died in April after a short illness. He was 63. His undergraduate studies at UC Davis were interrupted by the political and social upheavals of the early ’70s, but he returned in 1988 to compete his bachelor’s degree and ultimately earned his doctorate in history.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Atmospheric scientist Cathy Cahill was recently promoted to the rank of professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She also received the 2013 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Service Award, the university’s highest faculty award for public service, for her work in educating the public and policymakers about air pollution.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Kim Darling Loisel recently marked her 10th year of teaching elementary school in Fremont. She is in her sixth year of teaching first grade at Ardenwood Elementary, where her husband, Jerry Loisel, is also a teacher. She previously worked as a secretary for nonprofit organizations and corporations. She invites her American studies classmates to look her up on Facebook.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Eric Sanderson, Ph.D. ’98, a senior conservation ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, wrote the book, Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs (Abrams, 2013).
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Davis author and animal advocate Charlene Logan Burnett, M.F.A., received a $1,000 grant from The Pollination Project for her Oct 10–Nov 14 curated art exhibition, Sheltered: Art Benefit for Animals, at Davis Arts Center. Her website is charleneloganburnett.com. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • G. Michelle Ferreira, a tax attorney and managing shareholder of the San Francisco office of Greenberg Traurig, was honored by The San Francisco Business Times in June as one of the “Most Influential Women” in Bay Area business. In 2013, she was named by the Daily Journal as one of the “10 Emerging Law Firm Leaders in California.” (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • ShoppingScout, a grocery price comparison Web and mobile app developed by Ken Ouimet, was one of “three handy apps with local roots” featured in Comstock’s magazine last October. His company has offices in Davis, San Francisco, and Scottsdale, Arizona. He previously co-founded Khimetrics, which pioneered price optimization software for retail companies. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1991Karl Berger and Rebecca Shepherd became parents of a daughter, Brianna Shepherd Berger, in November. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Pedro Cisneros, M.S., Ph.D. '95, works as the general manager of TALSA, a company in Northern Peru that produces, processes and exports asparagus to Europe and the United States. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • David Lundmark, M.B.A. '95, J.D. '98, is a drummer in Erica's Other Life, an alternative rock band, which features his wife, Erica Lundmark '93, as lead singer. Erica's Other Life performed at the Santa.com festival in San Francisco in December. More information can be found at www.ericasotherlife.com. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Dorene Rodriguez, a human resources manager for Electronics for Imaging in Foster City, married Leonard Hoops Jr. in October. The couple lives in Hayward. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Bishop O'Dowd High School, a Catholic school in Oakland, inducted alumna Sarah Lillevand Judd into its Hall of Fame in February for her achievements in athletics. Judd is head coach of the women's basketball team at California State University, Hayward. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Timothy Roberts and Melissa Drew '90, with their children, Joshua and Austen, recently relocated to Rochester, N.Y., where Roberts is completing a fellowship in adolescent medicine and a master's degree in public health. After graduating from UC Davis, Roberts, a lieutenant in the Navy, received a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in 1995 and completed an internship in pediatrics in Hawaii. Most recently, the family lived in San Diego, where Roberts completed his residency training. Drew is a stay-at-home mom developing a home business designing and making dolls. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Brad Nelson was promoted to associate at HLA Group, Landscape Architects & Planners Inc. in Sacramento. Nelson has worked at the firm since 1989, where he provides landscape design, master planning and project management services for public and private sector projects. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) |