Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1992Christine Arthur is helping develop an e-commerce site for a retail/wholesale home furnishings company in Burlingame, www.angurah.com. Arthur has also been doing product photography and product development for the company and has created a virtual gallery of her own work, www.fiberarts.com. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Randy Scott Wong was named vice-president of asset development for Oaks Property Management, a real estate development company, where he specializes in real estate acquisitions and oversees operations for the company's commercial division. After graduating from UC Davis, Wong received his J.D. from McGeorge School of Law, serving as president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. He then worked in private practice and as a state prosecutor. Wong and his wife, Monica, corporate counsel for a health system, recently moved to Irvine. Wong welcomes e-mail at randy_s_wong@ lawyer.com. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Michael Chang is legal counsel for PSINet Asia Pacific, a regional operating division of international data communications carrier PSINet Inc. Chang is responsible for the company's general commercial agreements, acquisitions, intellectual property matters and Internet deals in the Asia Pacific region. He is headquartered in Japan. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Alex Jackson, M.F.A., held an exhibition titled Available Vistas at the UC Davis Memorial Union Art Gallery this spring, which showcased Jackson's postcard-sized acrylic and mixed-media landscape paintings. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Patrick Shea works as an attorney in the business and technology group of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in San Francisco, where he represents Internet and technology-based start-up companies. After leaving UC Davis, Shea attended Cornell University's law school, then worked in New York City and London before returning to California in September. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Eric Shelby, J.D., was recently named a partner of the Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP law firm's West Los Angeles office. Shelby specializes in general real estate, including commercial leasing throughout California. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Dario Frommer, J.D., was elected to the California Assembly in November. He formerly worked as appointments secretary for Gov. Gray Davis. He joins five other Aggies in the California Legislature: Sen. Jackie Speier '72, Assemblymember Ellen Corbett '77, Assemblymember Kevin Shelley '78, Assembly-member Darrell Steinberg, J.D. '84 and Sen. Deborah Ortiz, who attended UC Davis for three years before going on to law school; at press time, a California Senate race involving Mike Machado, M.S. '77 was still too close to call. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Amy Kiernan and Andrew Sinclair recently became engaged and plan to marry in August. Kiernan works in public relations for the city and county of San Francisco. Sinclair is a risk manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The couple recently purchased a home in Novato. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Tosh Minohara is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. In October 2001, Minohara plans to return to his home institution, Kobe University's Graduate School of Law and Politics in Japan, where he is an associate professor of U.S.-Japan relations. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Jennifer Kahsen Pearce and Brian Pearce had their first child, Jonathan Daniel, in July. The Pearces live in Pleasanton. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Laura Engelken was the graduation speaker in June for Crown College at UC Santa Cruz. She is the HIV prevention program coordinator at UCSC and an independent multicultural consultant and trainer. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Barbara (Lee-Faubert) Kaplan finished her doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University in May, then took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago. Last year she married Evan Louis Kaplan, whom she met in graduate school at MSU. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Jill Hornbeck is the marketing coordinator for Braddock and Logan Homes in Danville. She and her husband had a baby boy in December. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Sean Shimada and his wife, Stephanie, had two girls, identical twins, Samantha and Serena, in December. Sean owns Peak Performance Health Club in Davis and also Biomechanical Consultants of California, a forensic and occupational biomechanics consulting firm based out of Davis and the Bay Area. The family lives in Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Roxene Terrell, a Ph.D. candidate in construction engineering and management at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, was selected as a Gates Millennium Scholar by the Gates Scholarship Fund in January. The fund supports minority students in engineering, math, science, education and library science. Terrell designed roads and bridges for the California Department of Transportation before pursuing graduate studies at Virginia Tech. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Chris and Kimberly Welborn have started a software company, called Verstrada Solutions, that helps educate businesses about computer viruses. The company's flagship service is called the "Immunizer"--an e-mail message with a safe mock virus attachment that when opened provides information about viruses and how to avoid them. The company's Web site is located at www.Immunizer.com/home.htm. Chris and Kimberly, both managerial economics graduates who met in the dorms, live in Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) • Katie Gundlach and Wayne Lambright III were married in July in San Francisco. Gundlach works in creative services for Franklin Templeton Investments, and Lambright is a software developer. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Jean-Paul Arlie, division manager of Vector Marketing Corp.'s Los Angeles operation, reached a $14 million career sales milestone as manager. Arlie joined the company as sales representative after he graduated and has since served as an assistant manager, branch manager and district manager. Vector markets Cutco cutlery and accessories. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Shelly (Bianchi-Tomasin) Bianchi-Williamson, a geographical information system (GIS) technician for the county of Sonoma, is serving on a team to coordinate GIS emergency response for Sonoma County following the Sept. 11 attack. She lives in Forestville with her husband and sons Stephen and Nicholas. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Samuel Blanco III is assistant director of the UC Davis Educational Talent Search Program, which helps students from families with low incomes or little college experience pursue a higher education. He has worked with ETS since 1994, while also earning a master's degree in educational administration from California State University, Sacramento. He and his wife, Pam, also a UC Davis staff member, have a daughter, Veronica. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) |