Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):
Class notes from the 1990s
| 1997A short story by Halina Duraj, M.A. ’03, won an O. Henry Prize in May. “Fatherland,” originally published in the winter 2012 issue of Harvard Review, was among 20 stories selected for this fall’s anthology The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Elizabeth Dutton wrote Driftwood: A California Road Trip Novel (Skyhorse Publishing). She teaches English at a community college in Chesterfield, South Carolina. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Lindsay Harrington was recently promoted to senior trial attorney at Steve Mason Law in Davis. She specializes in personal injury and employment law. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Africa Hands offers help to library professionals in Successfully Serving the College Bound (ALA Editions, 2015). She also contributed two entries to Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, edited by M. Keith Booker (Greenwood, 2014). (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1998Carri Benefield, M.S., works as an associate agricultural biologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Pest Control Branch, in Sacramento. In this position, Benefield focuses on mapping, noxious weed education and control and monitoring projects. She also oversees a quarterly newsletter and coordinates a K-12 weed education work group. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Andrew Harris published his first book, Plumas National Forest Trout Fishing Guide, a fly-fisher's guide to Feather River country. Harris works as a professional fly-fishing guide for Clearwater House on Hat Creek in Cassel during the spring and summer. During the off-season, he creates database systems for agribusinesses and fly-fishing companies. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Brandt Hoekenga lives in Santa Rosa and works at De Loach Vineyards in public relations and Web and graphic design. The vineyard's Web site is located at www.deloachvineyards.com. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Charles Haase, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at San Francisco State University, and his wife, Jeri, had a son, Andrew Michael, in May. They live in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Marguerite Sanders completed a master's degree in secondary education and is now a Spanish teacher at Mercy High School in San Francisco. She lives in San Bruno. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Kevin Blatt is co-founder of ihappi.com, a company that designs Web pages and makes existing sites more effective for users. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Howard Kim is director of business development for Thirsty.com, an on-line youth content site. He lives in the Los Angeles/Westwood area and writes, "I wanted all my friends, strangers and curious parties to know that I am OK; I truly miss the university and those that I met while living in Davis." He can be contacted at hkim@staff.thirsty.com. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Howard Kim has recently joined Mysmart Communications as senior business development director. Kim is also the vice president of Folcrum Technologies, a Beverly Hills-based network consulting firm. He can be contacted via e-mail at HKim@MySmart.com. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Fern Tilakamonkul is a second-year student at the UC San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. This past summer, she worked with the International Rescue Committee in Thailand, where she documented and assessed procedures used for evaluating incoming refugees to Thailand, providing recommendations in a report for the United Nations. She will complete her graduate work in May. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Laurel Apperson was elected province director of chapters for Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, one of the oldest fraternities for women. In that position, she visits and educates collegiate chapters about the fraternity's policies and procedures. Apperson also completed a teaching credential this year for science instruction at the secondary level. She lives in Clovis. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Joseph Johnson and Rebecca Emmerich '00 plan to be married in October. They met while working at The California Aggie. Johnson works as a tax accountant in San Francisco, and Emmerich works as a journalist in Pleasanton. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Linda Welch, M.F.A., and Jodi deVries '99 have recently opened Exploding Head Gallery: Contemporary Art and Ceramics in downtown Sacramento. The gallery features monthly rotating exhibits of artwork in all media, emphasizing ceramic work from local as well as national and international artists. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • John Xerogeanes is chief of sports medicine and assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. He is also head orthopaedist and team physician for the Georgia Tech athletic department. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Brant and Camille (Durocher) Miller recently hiked the 2,168-mile length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine after "leaving our high-paced careers in San Diego," writes Camille. "We now have started our own business in real-estate investing and are loving every minute." (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Brenda Olson and Christopher Karim were married in San Diego in March 2001. They both work at Deltagen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company in Menlo Park, and live in Fremont. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Lisa Wingebach had a baby boy in August, Jacob Thomas Stieben. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) |