Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1991Brad Pacheco was recently promoted to media relations manager for California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) in Sacramento. Pacheco has worked with CalPERS since 1995. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Kirk Sadur has received an award for helping uncover overcharges to the Medicare program. A contractor budget specialist working in San Francisco, Sadur reviews administrative costs charged to Medicare by private contractors that pay claims from health care providers. His scrutiny of the contractor costs has uncovered errors and inappropriate charges, saving Medicare more than $2 million. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Jaime Aguila, M.A. '94, recently completed a Ph.D. in Mexican history at Arizona State University. Aguila is an assistant professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Jim Allen received an M.B.A. with a concentration in marketing from St. Mary's College in Moraga in October 1999. He currently works for iMotors.com as a product manager. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Eric Paul Shaffer, Ph.D., has had published his third book of poetry, Portable Planet (Leaping Dog Press, 2000), a collection of poems about Okinawa, Japan, Indonesia and America. He wrote Portable Planet over a period of eight years while living in Okinawa, where he taught English conversation, composition and American literature at the University of the Ryukyus and the University of Maryland, Asian Division. Shaffer has also edited How I Read Gertrude Stein (Grey Fox Press, 1996), a book written by Lew Welch. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Jennifer van Vorst is working on her doctorate in linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and spent the summer studying Hungarian at the Magyar Nyelvi Intezet in Budapest. Her husband, Justin Zimmerman, is a technical writer at Software.com in Santa Barbara. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Patrick Barr, M.A. '94, is an assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. After receiving his Ph.D. in Latin American history from UC Berkeley in 1998, he taught at UC Berkeley and at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. His first book, Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class, was published in May. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Howard Beck is a sports writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Kimberly Guilfoyle, an assistant district attorney in San Francisco, served as co-prosecutor in the case against Robert Noel and his wife, Marjorie Knoller, for the dog-mauling death of Diane Whipple. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Shannon Knepper earned an Ed.D. in international and multicultural education from the University of San Francisco while working as a middle school teacher. This summer she joined National University in Sacramento as an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Jeff and Jeanine (Barbour) '89 Randall had their second child, Landry Marie, last year. Jeff is currently teaching at Arcade Middle School in Sacramento. Their first child, Parker Owen, starts kindergarten this fall. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • William Coles is the chief of environmental education and endangered species coordinator for the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, working on the Island of Saint Croix. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • John O'Grady, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Penn., has written Grave Goods: Essays of a Peculiar Nature, which was published in May. This collection explores the realm of spirits and occult phenomena that lies beyond the real world, revealing the "unnatural surprises and strange beauty" of the natural world. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Carl Sanders is director of operations for the Marin Conservation Corps. He lives in Novato. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Leo Shishmanian recently became a partner of Olmstead, Gibbs & Harper LLC in Seattle, where he has practiced law for the past four years. He specializes in plaintiffs' personal injury and criminal defense. He and his wife, Andrea, had their first child, Chloe Isabella, in April. They currently live in Kirkland, Wash., and will be moving to Mukilteo, Wash., later this year. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • A collection of short stories by Mark Wisniewski, All Weekend with the Lights On, was recently published by Leaping Dog Press. Wisniewski has a law degree and has taught in Texas, Pennsylvania and New York, but is currently devoting himself to his writing. He lives in Lake Peekskill, N.Y. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Don Harris, J.D., founder and chair of the board of Nehemiah Corp. of California, was named a distinguished alumnus of the UC Davis School of Law. The Nehemiah Corp., based in Sacramento, is one of the nation's largest affordable housing organizations. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Eric Paul Shaffer, Ph.D., has published his fourth book of poetry, Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen (Leaping Dog Press). The book contains poems written in the voice of an eighth-century cook and janitor at a monastery in the T'ien-t'ai Mountains of China during the T'ang Dynasty and a companion of the renowned Han-shan (whose poems were translated as Cold Mountain Poems by poet and UC Davis faculty member Gary Snyder). The book is a companion volume to Portable Planet, Shaffer's poems of Okinawa, Japan, Indonesia and America. Shaffer is the author of two previous books of poetry, RattleSnake Rider and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets, and a chapbook of poems, Instant Mythology. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Suzanne Ch‡vez Silverman, Ph.D., recently returned from a year's sabbatical in Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by a Fellowship for College Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities. And an essay collection she co-edited with Librada Hern‡ndez was published last November: Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Writing and Culture (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Silverman is an associate professor of Spanish at Pomona College in Claremont, where she also coordinates the Spanish program and teaches courses in Latin American and Latino/a literature and culture. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • David Del Testa, M.A. '92, Ph.D. '01, has a tenure-track job as an assistant professor in the Department of History at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. He lives in Santa Monica. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) |