Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1991Ben Smith IV has joined Spoke Software as chair and CEO. A management consultant with 12 years of experience, Smith was recently recognized by Consulting Magazine as one of the top 25 consultants in the world. Before joining Spoke, he served as senior adviser on strategy and planning to the U.S. secretary of transportation following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Jeff Bryan, D.V.M. ’93, won the E. Gregory MacEwen Memorial Award for Outstanding Basic Research Project in Oncology, given by the Veterinary Cancer Society at its 2003 annual conference in Madison, Wis. He just completed his first year of animal oncology residency at the University of Missouri veterinary school. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Plastic surgeon Stephen Ronan, founder of Blackhawk Plastic Surgery in Danville, is the president of the Tri-Valley Rotary. In February he went on a medical relief mission to Guatemala to perform cleft lip and palate repairs. He and his wife, Leslie, have two children. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Sheryl Saar is in Tanzania as a lay missionary for Maryknoll, the U.S.-based Catholic missionary movement. She lived in Sacramento and worked most recently for the California Department of Rehabilitation. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Timothy Stevens, J.D., was hired as general counsel for Scotts Valley–based Borland Software Corp. after six years spent building a legal department at Inktomi Corp. in Foster City. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Tiffany Whitaker Bird died in September 2003 at age 34 at her Rocklin home. She had a career as a technical writer, first for Lotus Development Corp. and later for Hewlett-Packard Co. She was active in various community organizations, including the MOMS club of Rocklin-North, book club, cooking club and children’s sports groups. Survivors include her husband, Russen, and her sons, Cameron and Brandon. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Gregory Benson, M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’99, an associate professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco, is part of a team that assembled a “flash mob supercomputer” in April. Some 1,200 volunteers linked together their computers to create a supercomputer as part of a graduate course project. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Amelia Davis, a San Francisco photographer, has published My Story: A Photographic Essay of Life With Multiple Sclerosis (Demos Medical Publishing), detailing her experience and that of 31 other people who have been diagnosed with the condition. Davis lives with her partner, Bonita Passarelli, executive chef for Williams-Sonoma, and their cats, Koko and C.C., and dog Max. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Timothy Earl was named a shareholder of Sullivan, Hill, Lewin, Rez & Engel, a business and trial law firm in San Diego. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Lauren Craft, D.V.M. ’93, practices veterinary medicine for Banfield Pet Hospitals in Bloomington, Ill. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Timothy Stevens, J.D., a Silicon Valley lawyer, was named the new general counsel of Borland Software Corp., based in Scotts Valley. He had previously built the legal department at Inktomi Corp., a developer of Web search technology that was later sold to Yahoo! Inc. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Matthew Joshua Reich, M.A., died in May 2004 in Berkeley from complications related to AIDS. He was 38. Survivors include his son, Jon Hampton-McKean, and partner, Marvin White. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Former California Aggie sportswriter Howard Beck covers the New York Knicks for the New York Times. He previously worked seven years as a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering the Lakers. He earned three national writing awards from Associated Press Sports Editors and was honored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the L.A. Press Club. He has also appeared on various ESPN productions, including the SportsCentury piece on Kobe Bryant, and provided occasional on-screen commentary for TV stations in Los Angeles. He married Mariko Thompson in 2003. They live in Hoboken, N.J., with their two cats. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Jon Kessmeier and his wife, Cathy, are proud parents of a new daughter, Kaitlin Elizabeth, born in August. The Kessmeiers also have a son, Erik 2. They live in Alexandria, Va. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Mary Lewis has been awarded three fellowships—including one from the National Endowment for the Humanities—to finish her book manuscript The Company of Strangers: Immigration and Citizenship in Interwar France. An assistant professor of modern European history at Harvard University, Lewis lives in Arlington, Mass., with her husband, Peter Dizikes. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Darren Sargent curated an art exhibition, Lowell Darling: Artist or Politician, this fall at Sonoma State University. The show was the first in an election-focused series called It Matters! Engage. Participate. Vote. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Eric Paul Shaffer, Ph.D., published his first collection of fiction, You Are Here, in August. His fifth collection of poetry, Lahaina Noon, is due out in April. A year ago, he served on the Hawaii Award for Literature selection committee. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Jason Biggs and his wife, Gaylene, welcomed the birth of their son, Gage, in June. They live in Mountain View, and Jason works for the Marcus & Millichap Co. as a senior counsel. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Vince Stewart became the director of federal government relations for UC Davis Government and Community Relations after six years in the UC State Government Relations Office. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Dylan Wiseman was elected shareholder in the Sacramento office of law firm Littler Mendelson. A specialist in employment law and intellectual property, Wiseman teaches continuing legal education classes and seminars in California, Oregon and Nevada. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) |