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 HOU and his wife, Johanna Crespo, had a healthy baby girl named Amalia Luna Crespo Hou in April.
(appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • JOSEPH JOHNSON and REBECCA (EMMERICH) JOHNSON ’00 welcomed their second child, Isaac Samuel Johnson, in April. The family lives in San Ramon.
(appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • SONGHUA LIN, M.A., Ph.D. ’02, was awarded tenure at Denison University in Granville, Ohio last January. She joined the university as an assistant professor of economics in 2002.
(appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • AYDIN NAZMI is currently a professor of community nutrition at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo after working abroad for the past 10 years. He served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia, worked in Venezuela, received his M.Sc. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and earned a Ph.D. while studying in Brazil. He lives with his wife, Giseli, a physician.
(appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Angelo Moreno, M.A. ’01, was awarded this year’s Sacramento Music Educators Outstanding Achievement Award from the Sacramento News & Review in February. He is the director of the Davis Joint Unified School District secondary orchestral program, as well as a director for the Sacramento Youth Symphony.
(appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Jennifer Hardy Moreno and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their second child, Katherine, last April.
(appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Dingane Baruti, formerly Patrick Donahue Dean, has developed a special toothbrush to help children better manage asthma. A physician, he spent seven years developing the Flowbrush, which measures young patients’ ability to exhale and can automatically send the data to their respiratory therapists’ computers. The website for his company, Dingane Innovations in Columbus, Ga., is www.flowbrush.com.
(appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Joseph Mills, Ph.D., has published his third volume of poetry, a collection titled Love and Other Collisions (Press 53). His second collection, Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, was featured on Garrison Keillor’s radio program, The Writer’s Almanac, and recently called “a must have for all wine-lovers” by The Washington Post.
(appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Tim Anenson was selected in June to be a vice president of GEI Consultants, a group of geotechnical, environmental, water resources and ecological science and engineering firms. Anenson is the Pacific Region manager located in the Sacramento office.
(appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Joseph Johnson was promoted to partner at Deloitte Tax in San Francisco. He and his wife, Rebecca ’00, live in San Ramon with their children, Alexa and Isaac.
(appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Eileen Herrmann-Miller, Ph.D., co-edited a collection of essays, Eugene O’Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives and the Avant Garde (McFarland Press, 2011). She teaches courses at Dominican University of California in Oakland.
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Mari Chinn, an associate professor at North Carolina State University, received the 2011 A.W. Farrall Young Educator Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers last fall.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Charlie Haase, Ph.D., is managing director for Tokyu Livable, a real estate company based in Tokyo. He is working to expand the company’s brokerage services to international real estate investors in Japan. Before moving to Japan in April, he was a real estate investment officer with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System; he previously taught economics for several years at San Francisco State University. He and his wife, Yoshie, have a 1-year-old son, Ray. Haase is looking forward to visits from his son, Andy, 12, who lives in California.
(appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Joseph Mills, Ph.D., wrote a fourth volume of poetry, Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet, published in March by Press 53. His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s public radio program, The Writer’s Almanac, and in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser’s newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.” Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities, at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
(appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Napa High School Assistant Principal Annie Pivniska-Petrie was named a regional Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators. She and her husband live in Napa with their two children.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Nathan Fox founded Fox Test Prep, an educational company that publishes instructional, irreverent books and DVDs, and offers classes and private tutoring to help students prepare for the Law School Admissions Test. Fox’s latest book is Breaking the LSAT.
(appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Jennifer Lynn Johnson Carr, a Woodland elementary school science and P.E. teacher, died Nov. 19, 2013. She was 38.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Nevin Brownfield, a commercial litigation attorney at the San Francisco office of Thompson & Knight, was named to Super Lawyers’ list of “Northern California Rising Stars 2014.” (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Sarah Newton married Daniel Scott on May 17 in Volcano. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) |
| 1999Ken del Rosario Gumiran recently won a contest to design an entrance sign for the city of American Canyon. He received $100, and a sign will be constructed based on his design. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) |