Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1999Kathy (Lee) Kobayashi and Frank Kobayashi ’00 were married in June 2004 at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga. Upon graduation, the couple taught for the JET program in Hiroshima, Japan. Now back in the United States, Kathy teaches in Palo Alto, and Frank is part of the founding team of MY LIFE, a multimedia firm specializing in the college market. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • As the magazine went to press, Anne Rice and Andrew Davis ’03 were planning to be married in September. Their wedding party includes Olivia Tiscareno Howard, Melissa Hubiak, M.D. ’05, Stacey Long ’97, Nate Hashbarger, Charlie Garcia, Gage Dungy, J.D. ’03, and Nikola Nedovic, Ph.D. ’03. Rice graduated from Johns Hopkins University in May with a Master of Science degree in nursing and is working as a family nurse practitioner at a community clinic in Bakersfield. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • After surviving a disabling car accident in 2004, teacher Renee Lam has dedicated herself to helping other people with disabilities. The Walnut Creek resident works with Toastmasters International as an inspirational speaker. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Damian Martin is a counselor at his alma mater, Woodland High School. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Jarhead, a movie based on the book by Anthony Swofford, opened in November. The movie, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, recounted Swofford’s experiences as a marine sniper during the Gulf War. (For an excerpt from the book, see the summer 2003 print issue of UC Davis Magazine.) (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Brett Wong recently completed his Ph.D. in human physiology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. During his studies, Wong won the 2004 National Student Research Award at the National Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. He has accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Exercise Science at the University of Iowa. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Vladimir Guerrero, Ph.D., has written The Anza Trail and the Settlement of California, to be released in June by Heyday Books. The book brings together first-hand accounts of Spain’s settling of California in the 18th century. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Olivia (Tiscareno) Howard and her husband, Patrick, welcomed son Calvin Patrick in January. His big sister, Iris, is 21 months old. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Brett Wong received his Ph.D. in August from the University of Oregon and now works as a postdoctoral scholar in exercise science at the University of Iowa. During his doctoral studies he received the National Student Research Award from the American College of Sports Medicine. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Mark Pisoni and Quinn Avery ’00 were married in August at Pisoni Vineyards in Soledad. Pisoni works for Pisoni Farms as a grower/vintner in Gonzales, and Avery is in marketing with Driscoll Strawberry Associates in Watsonville. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Barrak Pressler, D.V.M., completed a residency in small-animal internal medicine and received a Ph.D. in immunology at North Carolina State University. He was recently hired as an assistant professor of internal medicine at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Kenneth Veit, M.S., M.A. ’01, and his wife, Lisa, welcomed their first child, Nathaniel Edward, in January. The family lives in Westwood, N.J., where Kenneth teaches high school science and music. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Jessica Bemis and Richard Alvarado ’00 were married in Lake Tahoe in 2005. Bemis is currently enrolled in a graduate nursing program, and Alvarado is working at a public finance consulting firm in Sacramento with fellow UC Davis alumni Cathy Dominico ’99 and Christopher Terry ’98. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Ashley Bommer published an op-ed article on the Afghan-Iranian drug trade in the International Herald Tribune in June. Bommer is chief of staff to the vice chair of Perseus LLC, an equity-fund management company, and a former U.S. chief representative at the United Nations. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Mike Gebman graduated this June with a Ph.D. in structural engineering from UC San Diego. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Fred Houts has moved to Baltimore, Md., to work for four years as a resident in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Michael Abeyta, Ph.D., has published Writing the Gift: Terra Nostra and the Reconfiguration of Latin American Culture (University of Missouri Press). He is an associate professor of Spanish at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Paul Hicks, M.S., has been with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for eight years, serving as the country representative for CRS/Afghanistan for a little over a year working on rehabilitation programs. CRS is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the U.S., providing assistance to people in 99 countries and territories. Before Afghanistan, Hicks worked in the Philippines and Albania on agricultural and natural resource management programs as well as rural water and sanitation initiatives. He was also a technical adviser for CRS agricultural development programs in 2002 and 2003. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Jeff Mathy was featured in Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America’s Eagle Scouts (Thomas Dunne Books), a new book written by Alvin Townley that explores the lives and character of Eagle Scouts. Mathy is highlighted for attempting to become the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits of the World. He now lives in Napa Valley. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Anthony Swofford, the author of Jarhead, a memoir of his life as a Marine sniper in the first Gulf War that was made into a movie, has now written Exit A: A Novel. Published in January, his first novel is a teenage love story set on a military base in Japan. He lives in New York. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) |