Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1991Tawny (Collins) Yambrovich and her husband, Mike, celebrated the marriage of their oldest daughter, Sharon, in August. Yambrovich has also completed nine double centuries (200 miles on a bicycle in a single day) in the last three years. She has qualified for the California Triple Crown in each of the last two years (by completing at least three qualifying double centuries in a single calendar year). (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Gale Leon Jagels, D.V.M., died in September 2006 at age 50. Dr. Jagels practiced veterinary medicine at Redwood Veterinary Hospital, a clinic for small animals, in Vallejo for 13 years. He enjoyed wine tasting, cycling and music concerts. Survivors include his wife, Linda. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Tiffany Hedgpeth was named a partner at law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP. She is an attorney in the environmental group in the firm’s Los Angeles office, focusing on environmental counseling and litigation. She represents both private and municipal entities in a variety of matters, including Superfund hazardous waste cleanup cost recovery, Clean Water Act issues, common-law tort actions and environmental contract disputes. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Julie Jack is a vice president in the New York office for APCO Worldwide, a global communication consultancy firm. Jack joined APCO Worldwide from Burson-Marsteller, where she was a director in the public affairs practice, specializing in the pharmaceutical, technology, consumer products, energy and retail sectors. She has also worked with the American Forest and Paper Association in Washington, D.C. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Jeffrey Thurrell has been named partner at the Irvine office of Fisher & Phillips LLP, a national labor and employment law firm. He represents employers in all forms of employment litigation and conducts training seminars on employment-related topics. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Mark Wisniewski, M.A., has written a book of poems, One of Us One Night (Platonic 3Way Press), that took first place in the 2006 Evil Genius Series Contest. He was also awarded a 2006 Isherwood Foundation Fellowship in Fiction in support of his work as a novelist. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Thomas “Omaha” Greene died in December 2006 at age 51. As a registered engineer and certified dive instructor, Mr. Greene had nearly 20 years of commercial diving experience. Before his work for Caltrans as an under-water investigation officer, he owned a construction company, served in the Peace Corps in Fiji and owned a scuba shop. Survivors include his children, Kelly and Ian; their mother, Alice Banuve; his father and stepmother, James and Mary Ann Greene; and four siblings. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • John April has contributed to a public art installation in downtown Indianapolis titled Picture Windows: Urban Interpretations — an artistic makeover of windows in the Chase Building. A combination of digital projection, paper, glass and mirrors, his artwork is a text-based digital installation that he describes as an experiment in cultivating awareness and attention. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Johnny Johnson was named editor of a Christian magazine, Good News Tucson, in Arizona. He is also a full-time pastor and teaches leadership and ministry-related online classes for Patten University in Oakland and Life Pacific College in San Dimas. Johnson has been married for 14 years and has four children. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Mary Dewhurst Lewis has written The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918–1940 (Stanford University Press). Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, where she teaches in the history department. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Vincent Stewart has been appointed assistant secretary of higher education for the California Office of the Secretary of Education. He had served as director of federal government relations for UC Davis and previously as legislative director of undergraduate and graduate education in business operations for the UC Office of the President. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • J.B. Hay, his father, Tim Hay ’61, and his brother, Chris Hay, joined more than 60 volunteers who barbecued 12,000 Harris Ranch steaks for members of the U.S. armed forces this past fall. The volunteers, made up of citizens of Kern County and Miami, put on barbecues for the troops in Florida and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • David Martin, M.F.A., works at Sacramento City College and has created a TV series about the college titled Hidden City. The series highlights people and programs at the college and airs on the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium channels throughout the week. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Kimberly (Myers) St George was named one of last year’s Top 40 Under 40 in the produce industry by Produce Business magazine. St George works for Salinas-based River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC as senior marketing manager and has been in the produce industry for over 15 years. She previously served on the board of directors for the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. St George lives in Salinas with her husband, Marty, and their two children. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Mark Wisniewski, M.A., took first place in the competition for the 2007 Gival Press Short Story Award. In addition to writing fiction and poetry, Wisniewski is also a freelance “book doctor,” as he puts it, revising and editing other writers’ novels and stories. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Kim Green's third novel, Live a Little, was published by 5 Spot/Grand Central Publishing in August. Green writes commercial fiction with a comic, romantic twist. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Natalie Kurtz was promoted to fire inspector for the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District after working for the district for 10 years in training, education and code compliance. She also recently received a Certificate in Fire Service Technology from Solano College. Kurtz is married to a firefighter; they live in Danville and have a 3-year-old son. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • A short story by Mark Wisniewski, M.A., titled "Straightaway," originally published in literary magazine Antioch Review, has been chosen by guest editor Salman Rushdie to appear in The Best American Short Stories 2008, scheduled for publication by Houghton Mifflin in October. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • John Brosio's artwork is on exhibit until Jan. 19 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. His paintings of tornadoes explore the relationship between humans and nature in the 21st century. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Steve Lev, Res., died in June 2008 of pancreatic cancer. After finishing his anesthesia residency, Dr. Lev practiced in Bozeman, Mont., until September 2006 when the cancer was diagnosed and he retired. Survivors include his wife, Annie, his two children, Kevin and Sarah, and his two stepchildren, Will and Elizabeth Brewster. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) |