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
| 1998Zun-Jay Lu Hou became engaged to Johanna Ines Crespo Medina in March. The couple plans to get married in the summer of 2003. They live in Santa Monica. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jed Katzel received an M.D. degree this year from Penn State University in Hershey and is now an internal medicine resident at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. He writes that while at Penn State he continued his salsa dancing and also played the viola in chamber music ensembles. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Marine Corps 1st Lt. Michael Wendler was a member of one of the first American ground force units deployed to Afghanistan. He is based at Camp Pendleton. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Julia Chan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of inorganic materials chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who enjoys playing the piano and violin when she's not looking for new superconductors. She was recently profiled in an online newsmagazine, Chemical & Engineering News (pubs.acs.org/cen/women/8025/8025juliachan.html.) (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Brant Harradine, M.D. '02, and Tiffany Sinn, B.S. '98, M.Ed. '00, were married in June and live in Port Jefferson Station, Long Island, N.Y. Harradine is a resident in orthopaedic surgery at the State University of New York, Stonybrook, and Sinn teaches elementary school on Long Island. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Byte Technology, co-founded by Terrance Low, was selected as the winner of the 16th annual Business Excellence Awards, Adopt a Business category, presented by the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. Byte Technology was also a finalist in the Rookie of the Year category. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Jarvis Murray, a law student at Santa Clara University School of Law, worked as a summer associate at Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel Inc., a law firm in San Jose. Before law school, Murray was a manager at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and project coordinator for the Gold Country Tobacco Prevention Coalition. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Elaine Wong received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in May and is now a resident in internal medicine at UC Irvine. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Diana Chang was selected from among 2,700 finalists to participate in the Japan English Teaching Program, which supports the work of young American graduates in Japanese schools and government offices. Chang is now spending a year as an assistant language teacher in Kumamoto. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Rameet Kohli was promoted to legislative assistant covering defense, education, environment, agriculture and microeconomic development for Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). Kohli began working for the congresswoman in July. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Steven Cannata died at age 26 of complications from a swimming accident in September 2002. Mr. Cannata had just begun his third year of a four-year joint J.D./M.B.A. program at UC Davis. He is survived by his parents and four siblings. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • A textile piece by George Chen, M.F.A., was included in an exhibition titled Bay Area Art V held at Napa Valley College Fine Arts Gallery in November and December. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Songhua Lin, M.A., Ph.D. '02, has joined the faculty of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, as an assistant professor of economics. She previously worked as a teaching assistant at UC Davis. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Blake Meyers, Ph.D., joined the University of Delaware in June as assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and as a member of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. He married Graziana Taramino in Italy in July, and they now live in Wilmington. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Amy Poon was among the some 150 alumni chorus members who performed with the UC Davis Chorus in a December holiday concert in the Mondavi Center. "It was wonderful!" she said. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Annette Lentz and Christine Owlett '99 were killed in November during a trip to the Lake Tahoe area when their car was crushed by a falling tree. Ms. Lentz, 32, was a UC Davis doctoral student in biochemistry and molecular biology, conducting research on the biology of cancer. She had worked as a licensed vocational nurse before she returned to school. Ms. Owlett, 41, was also a UC Davis graduate student and teaching assistant, and she had just begun a job as a research associate in molecular biology. Ms. Lentz is survived by her sister, three brothers and their families. Ms. Owlett is survived by her husband, brother, sister and parents. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • David Franklin, an elementary school teacher in Mountain View, was recently profiled in a San Jose Mercury News article that noted he didn't like school as a child and would like to make sure his students have a better experience. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Joseph Mills, Ph.D., and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, have written A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries (John F. Blair). The couple met while teaching in France and have since moved to Winston-Salem, N.C. Mills teaches humanities at the North Carolina School of the Arts and is a frequent contributor to UC Davis Magazine. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Capt. Scott Stephenson of the U.S. Army has completed the combined logistics captains career course at Fort Lee, Vt. He is currently a staff officer with the 28th transportation battalion, Mannheim, Germany, preparing for his next assignment as a company commander. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Corinna Dewar works as an advocate for Loaves & Fishes, a support organization for the homeless in Sacramento, lobbying for affordable housing, emergency shelters and funds. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) |