Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1999Katharine (Lee) Kobayashi and husband Frank Kobayashi 00 welcomed their second child, Koby Victor, in April. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Brian Micek, a consultant for the California Senate Majority Caucus, received the Aggie Service Award from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association in February for dedicating time and leadership to the association and UC Davis. A life member of the alumni association, Micek volunteers with the Sacramento Alumni Network and the alumni association’s nominating committee, scholarship program and student recruitment programs. He regularly attends Sacramento alumni events at which he networks with students and shares his career and campus experiences. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Crystal Martin received the 2011 Rookie of the Year Award from the American Association of Political Consultants at a conference in Washington, D.C., in March. In 2010, she launched her company, mailPOW, which produces cards with sound modules for political and nonprofit clients. Her company has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes.com and the Boston Herald. In April, Inc. Magazine featured mailPOW as a “Big Idea.” (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Andrea Bogomolni received a 2011 Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her studies on how disease is spread among humans and animals in a marine environment. She is a doctoral candidate in pathobiology and veterinary sciences at the University of Connecticut and a research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Andrea Fascetti, Ph.D., associate professor of veterinary medicine and Sean Delaney, M.S., D.V.M. ’00, founder of DVM Consulting, edited a textbook, Applied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, published by Wiley-Blackwell in February. Fascetti was also keynote speaker for a symposium, held recently in Brazil, on clinical nutrition in dogs and cats. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • After serving as traffic engineer for the city of Fresno for more than five years, Bryan Jones became deputy director of the Carlsbad Transportation Department last June. In December, the California Department of Transportation appointed him to a two-year term on the California Traffic Control Devices Committee. The newly created post represents the interests of pedestrians, bicyclists, disabled and other nonmotorized highway users. Jones is also completing a master’s degree in public administration at Norwich University. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Felice Sandoval and Mike Rose ’00, married in April 2010 near Santa Cruz and live in Pasadena. Rose received his doctorate in chemistry from UC Santa Cruz in 2009, and he is a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, researching solar fuels. Sandoval works in corporate citizenship for the Walt Disney Co. in Burbank. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Novelist Anthony Swofford, a Gulf War veteran, examines his relationship with his father, also a veteran and Marine, in his second memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (Twelve, 2012). His first memoir, Jarhead, about his life as a Marine sniper in the first Gulf War, was made into a movie. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Thachvu Ho is the creator of REgel, a topical gel that utilizes natural ingredients to help relieve pain, repair injuries and recover from workouts faster. Alongside teammates, Ho set a new world record at the 2011 World Masters Athletics World Championships in Sacramento, representing Team USA in the 4x100 meter relay (men’s 35–39 age group) with a time of 41 minutes, 89 seconds. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Arlene Arsitio was recently certified by the National Registry of Certified Microbiologists as a specialist microbiologist in pharmaceutical and medical device microbiology. She works as a manager at WuXi AppTec in Marietta, Ga. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Catherine Lantz co-authored Hawthorne Works, part of the Arcadia Images of America series. A reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she was working at Morton College Library and the Hawthorne Works Museum when she wrote the pictorial history about the Western Electric plant in Cicero, Ill. (appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • David Kesselman, J.D., and Aimee Dudovitz, J.D., have helped launched a new antitrust law firm, Kesselman, Brantly and Stockinger in Los Angeles—Kesselman as a partner and Dudovitz, a clinical professor at Loyolya School of Law, as “of counsel.” (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Beth Lorsbach, Ph.D., is one of 10 female chemists nationwide to be named a 2015 Rising Star by the American Chemical Society. A process chemistry leader with Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, she has authored 24 patent applications and given 15 national conference presentations. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Annameekee Hesik, an English teacher at Los Gatos High School, writes again about the Gila High adventures of Abbey Brooks in Driving Lessons (Bold Strokes Books, 2014), the second in her You Know Who Girls series. Now a sophomore, Abbey plans to get her driver's license and come out to her mom. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |