Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1997Kathy Bauer owns her own online retail store, www.DigsAndThreads.com. She lives in Manhattan Beach. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Zakia Sims currently teaches first grade at William Lloyd Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Mentioned in a recent article in USA Today, Sims has earned a D.C. Public Schools’ “Distinguished Educator” award in addition to a prestigious certificate from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She has worked at Garrison since 2000. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • David Vaught, Ph.D., recently published a book, After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley (Johns Hopkins University Press), a history of agriculture and rural life along Putah Creek from roughly 1850 to 1910. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Rikki (Butler) Davenport accepted a position as curator of education at Drayton Hall in Charleston, S.C. Drayton Hall, dating back to 1738, is the country’s oldest preserved plantation house open to the public. Davenport and her husband, Scott ’94, have a 1-year-old son, Caleb. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Margaret Davidson, Ph.D., helped edit a novel by James Farrell, Dreaming Baseball (Kent State University Press). She has taught at Carleton College and Southern Methodist University. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Jeremy Greenberg, a writer and comedian living in Kirkland, Wash., has written a humor book, The Family Survival Guide (Andrews McMeel), that provides advice for any family event. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Andrew Leach is the co-creator of Science Fusion, a character card game based on the periodic table of elements. The game was voted best new tabletop game in May at KublaCon, the West Coast’s largest game convention. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Patrick Len, Ph.D., was granted tenure as an astronomy/physics instructor at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. He and his wife, Heather McElroy ’02, live in Paso Robles, where she works as a research assistant at Santa Cruz Biotech. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Bertha Udell, a teacher living in Sacramento, is completing a reading specialist certificate through UC Davis and the Sacramento City Unified School District. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Samina Akbar, Ph.D., joined Des Moines University as an assistant professor in the microbiology and immunology department. Previously she had worked with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Jeff Bernstein and his wife, Kate, welcomed their first child, Asher Benjamin, in July. Jeff is currently a consultant for Telecommunications Management Group, and Kate works in public relations for Qualcomm. The family lives in Carlsbad. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Holly Parrish Bezner recently became general counsel for the California Professional Association of Specialty Contractors. In addition to serving as general counsel, she is the educational and legislative resource to CALPASC members on such issues as construction defect reform, risk transfer, contract review, negotiations and unfair business practices. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Deborah (McNeely) Dolan and her husband, Brendan, welcomed their first child, Sean David, in May. Deborah is a human resources generalist with the San Jose Mercury News. Brendan is a lead open-space technician with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. They live in San José. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Lynda Payne, Ph.D., has published a book titled With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England (Ashgate Press). Payne is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where her husband, William Everett, is an associate professor of musicology. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Matthew Smith, Ph.D. ’06, is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Farlow Herbarium at Harvard University, studying the ecology and systematics of fungi, focusing primarily on truffles and truffle-like fungi. He has described five new species and one new genus of truffles and is now working on several more. Smith is married to Erin Smith ’95, who works as a nurse-midwife. The couple has two sons, Finnigan and Obidiah. They live in Arlington, Mass. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Johanna Hardin, M.S., Ph.D., '00, was recently tenured and promoted to associate professor of mathematics at Pomona College. She teaches statistics courses. Her research focuses on developing new statistical methodology for analyzing human genome data. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Jonathan Hart and Jason Hairston '99 founded Sitka Gear in 2006to manufacture high-performance hunting clothing. Their products have won awards from Field and Stream and Sporting Classics magazines and are now sold in more than 250 stores in the U.S. and Canada, as well as online, with distribution in Europe planned. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Hilary (Mark) and Aaron McCarty celebrated the birth of their first child, "future Aggie alum" Samuel Aaron McCarty, in May. Aaron, a biotech worker, and Hilary, a teacher, were married in 2004 with many Aggies in attendance and live in Redwood City. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Stephen Moore, J.D., is general counsel at Navigenics, a new company in Redwood Shores that offers consumers genetic analysis for use in health planning. He most recently was associate general counsel with biotechnology company Affymetrix Inc. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Jeremy Greenberg has written Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide (Andrews McMeel), a humorous how-to for handling family get-togethers. A writer and comic, Greenberg is also a contributor to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin) and lives in Seattle with his wife and twin sons. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) |