Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1991Folk artist Dave Nachmanoff, M.A., Ph.D. '97, teaches songwriting to residents of convalescent homes in Northern California as part of his Arts for Elders project, which is partially funded by a grant from the city of Davis and which has resulted in a CD on Troubador Records titled Holy Smokes! Ice Cream for Breakfast. His work was profiled in a March 24 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Cary Phu Pham opened a law practice in San Jose in March. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • James Brooks, Ph.D. '95, assistant professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, has written Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press). The book examines the impact of the captive-exchange economy in the Southwest from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Cheryl Welsh, director of Citizens Against Human Rights Abuses, was listed as one of six non-lethal weapons experts in the world in the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research 2002 Media Guide to Disarmament in Geneva. Her expertise lies in the area of weapons that target the brain and nervous system, popularly known by, she notes, "the emotionally charged term 'mind control.'" (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Sam Alongi completed his first Ironman triathlon (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, 26.2-mile run) in September in Madison, Wisc. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Brynn Borg Gormley and her husband, Geoff, welcomed their first child, a daughter, in September. Brynn is an elementary school teacher in Santa Monica, and Geoff works for Paramount Television. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Lori Green is pursuing her marriage and family therapist license, hoping to complete the program this year. She and her husband have a 2-year-old daughter. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Masaki "Mark" Nakazono graduated in the top 10 percent of the Chaplain Officer Basic Course class at Fort Jackson, S.C., in June. He is now the chaplain of the 1st Battalion, 13th Armor at Fort Riley, Kan. He was promoted to captain in December. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Zar Ni, M.A., is founder of the Free Burma Coalition, an organization devoted to freeing Ni's homeland--Myanmar, formerly known as Burma--from military rule. The coalition, headquartered in Berkeley, connects supporters on college campuses in 28 countries and works to put economic pressure on the Myanmar military government. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Susan Stein graduated from UCLA with a master's in public health in 1994. For the past four years, she has worked as an executive in the government affairs department for a health-care company in Los Angeles County. She and her husband of four years, Kevin, live in Irvine. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • A book by James Brooks, M.A., Ph.D. '95, director of research at the School for American Research in Santa Fe, has won three leading prizes in American history. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press) has received the Bancroft Prize of Columbia University, the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. The book, Brooks' first, was initially his UC Davis dissertation. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Katherine Hansen works as an attorney in the appellate unit of the criminal justice section of the Colorado Attorney General's Office. She and her husband, Brian, have two children, Alexandra, 2, and Braden, nearly 1. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Susan Simitz will soon be returning to California after spending the past three years teaching English to high school students in Ube, Japan. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Jim Allen and Amanda (Reynolds) Allen '94 welcomed their first son, Ransom Harrison Allen, in December. Jim works as the applications development manager for SAFE Credit Union, and Amanda is a vice president/corporate real estate negotiator for Wells Fargo Bank. The family lives in Roseville. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Susan Barrett Hyde is an adjunct English instructor for Southern New Hampshire University and freelances as a writer and editor. She lives in Harpswell, Maine, with her husband, Steve, her sons, Aaron and Robert, and the family's three dogs. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • David Lorie has moved to the Bay Area after working in Buenos Aires for four years. He is now working part time for a Latin American technology company and is using the rest of his time to write. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Christi Frindt Helms died of lymphoma at age 34 in December. Ms. Helms worked at Cal Farm Insurance before becoming a manager for Hewlett Packard in Roseville in 1999. An active Chi Omega alumna, she participated in the Panhellenic Association for sororities in the Sacramento area, including serving as president and on the UC Davis advisory board. She is survived by her husband, Dave; her son, Matthew; and her parents and brother. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Darlene Chirman, M.S. '94, spent two weeks in September with her husband, Samuel, as part of a nine-member team of volunteers that laid a new cement floor at a struggling women's craft cooperative in Costa Rica. Darlene is a biologist working in the field of habitat restoration; Samuel is a physician. They live in Santa Barbara. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Lisa Hechtman became assistant principal at Skyline High School in Sammamish, Wash., after working as a teacher and administrator at the school for 12 years. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • James Parrish III is a first-year principal at Ben Franklin Intermediate School in Daly City. He previously taught at John F. Kennedy Elementary in Daly City for six years before going into administration. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) |