Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1998Joseph Mills, Ph.D., has written his first book of poetry, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle (Press 53). He and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, are also working on the second edition of their book A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Emily Dunnagan is the new assistant principal at Petaluma Junior High School. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jennifer Hardy celebrated her son’s first birthday and her third wedding anniversary with her husband in Modesto. She is enjoying her sixth year teaching high school English. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Brandt Hoekenga launched his own company in 2002, Hoekenga Design, which provides graphics for clients across the country. He and his wife, Christy, live in Santa Rosa. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jessica (Skinner) Moland and her husband, Chris, welcomed their first child, Maggie Elizabeth, in September. The family lives in Orange County. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Joseph Johnson and Rebecca (Emmerich) Johnson ’00 welcomed the birth of their first child, Alexa Paige, in November. Joseph writes, “The new family is doing great.” They live in San Ramon. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Juliet (Schey) Meinert and her husband, Michael, welcomed their first child, Michael Robert Meinert Jr., in May. Juliet is currently an at-home mom, while Michael is an associate attorney with Clapp, Moroney, Bellagamba and Vucinich in Pleasanton. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Joseph Mills, Ph.D., and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, have written the second edition of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries (John F. Blair Inc.). It profiles 64 wineries in the Tar Heel state. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Amie Minor, project manager for engineering firm Wilsey Ham in Foster City, married William Chin, whom she met while teaching a blues dance class. They live in San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Hop Pham, after years of living on the East Coast, has returned to California and opened his own dental practice (www.northvalleydental.com) in the Milpitas/San Jose area. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • David Quach has obtained an M.D. degree in internal medicine. He is now married with a 2-year-old daughter and is practicing medicine with Kaiser Permanente in Manteca. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • John Peckham died in September 2006 at the age of 31. Mr. Peckham, an elite road bicycle racer, was killed while on a training ride by a driver who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Mr. Peckham, a biomedical engineer, had spent his life working on vascular stents and catheters and held 19 patents on his cardiac devices and an instrument for treating intercranial aneurysms. He most recently had been employed by Novostent in Mountain View, working to prevent superficial femoral artery disease. His mother, Mary Ann Parker, notes that he was compassionate and caring and that “his life work was to help save lives.” A memorial scholarship endowment has been established in his honor (see article on page 39). (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • John Gorenfeld is a magazine journalist in San Francisco. His first nonfiction book, Bad Moon Rising (PoliPointPress), about The Washington Times and its publisher, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, was scheduled to be released in March. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Heather Mothershead Zunguze, Cred. ’99, a third-grade teacher in the Alameda Unified School District, received national board certification as a participant in the National Board Resource Center Support Program at Stanford University. She specializes in the area of English as a second language. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Laura (Hand) Barlow, a kindergarten teacher for the Long Beach Unified School District, was named a Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year for 2007–08. She has also achieved National Board Certification as an early childhood generalist and is currently working on her reading and language arts specialist credential and master’s degree from California State University, Long Beach. In addition, she was recently married to Bruce Barlow. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Joseph Mills, Ph.D., has published his second volume of poetry, a collection of over 50 wine-related poems titled Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers (Press 53). He also recently edited A Century of the Marx Brothers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Mills teaches writing and humanities courses at the North Carolina School of the Arts. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Susan Miller-Sylvia, M.B.A, with IBM's Global Business Services in Sacramento, was one of nine employees and the only woman in May to be named an IBM fellow, the company's highest technical honor. IBM described her as a pioneer in the development of image technology solutions, particularly for enterprise content management, document management, digital media and unstructured data. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Brandon Reeves joined the law firm Ellis, Coleman, Poirier, La Voie & Steinheimer in Sacramento as an associate attorney. He previously practiced as a litigation associate at Greene, Chauvel, Descalso & Minoletti in San Mateo. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Charles Gardella married Bernadette Cordova last September in Jackson. After a honeymoon in Baja California, they settled in Dublin. Gardella is a landscape architect at David Gates Associates in San Ramon. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • JULIE DALRYMPLE is the marketing director of the Napa Valley Opera House. She graduated from St. Mary’s College in Moraga in May 2008 with a Master of Science in liberal studies. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) |