Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1992Eric Smith recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan as an orthopedic surgeon for the U.S. Army and has begun a fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Michael Chang, area general manager of legal and business affairs for Matsushita Vivendi Universal in Universal City, was featured on KSCI TV’s LA Living segment. He was interviewed in Chinese about his work as a board member of the Asian Business League, organizing a conference on doing business with China. The program was broadcast via the Web to an international audience. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jean-Pierre Francillette graduated from UC Hastings and now works as a staff counsel for the California Department of Health Services, representing the agency on personnel, Denti-Cal, Medi-Cal and other cases at administrative hearings throughout the state. He is also the vice president of the Wiley Manuel Bar Association of Sacramento County, a bar association of African American attorneys. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Niklaus Grunwald, Ph.D. ’97, received the 2006 Early Career Research Scientist Award for the Pacific West Area of the USDA Agricultural Research Service. Serving as a plant pathologist in Corvallis, Ore., Grunwald focuses his research on the sudden oak death pathogen. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Linh Huynh was appointed business and strategic development director for the Americas for INSIDE Contactless, a semiconductor firm headquartered in France. Working from the Silicon Valley, Huynh is charged with extending the firm’s business in North America. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Asifa Quraishi, J.D., is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A specialist in Islamic law, Quraishi is a founding member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Alison Vidal has accepted a position as director of championships and marketing with the California Collegiate Athletic Association in Walnut Park. Vidal has been in the sports marketing field for 14 years, working with Monster Park and the San Francisco 49ers, as well as with the San Francisco Giants. While at UC Davis, Vidal was on the women's tennis team; she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1991 and was inducted into the UC Davis Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Michael Shahani, M.A., received a doctor of musical arts degree in conducting from the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, where he studied with the renowned maestro Harold Farberman. Shahani is a music department faculty member at City College of San Francisco and makes frequent conducting and singing appearances in the Bay Area and internationally. He lives in Walnut Creek with his wife and three children. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Virginia Sung was featured in the winter issue of San Francisco Attorney, a San Francisco Bar Association quarterly publication, for her pro bono work helping an undocumented immigrant who was wrongfully deported and brought back by the U.S. government. Sung practices immigration and nationality law in San Francisco. She lives with her teenage daughter in Oakland. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Darcie (Wright) Garcia and her husband, Greg Garcia ’93, are the proud owners of the Screaming Squeegee in Davis. The graphic apparel company custom-prints or embroiders T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel. The two met as sophomores at UC Davis, married in 1996 and have two daughters, ages 6 and 3. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Dave Kaneda, senior vice president and regional sales manager for Wells Fargo, and his wife, Carolyn, welcomed the birth of their first baby, Tanner, in October. The family lives in San Francisco and Scottsdale, Ariz. Tanner is the first grandson of Hiromitsu Kaneda, a professor of economics at UC Davis in 1963–1994. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Steve McLin was recently named a director in Charles Schwab’s investment research communications department in San Francisco. He and his wife have two sons, ages 5 and 2, and live in Walnut Creek. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Matt Baker was promoted to major in the U.S. Air Force and recently graduated from the advanced logistics readiness officer course at Fort Dix, N.J. He currently commands the U.S. Air Force Vehicle Maintenance School on Naval Base Ventura County. Baker lives with his wife and three small children in Port Hueneme. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Scott Carney was appointed deputy director of fiscal services for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He had previously served as assistant secretary of program and fiscal affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency. He and his wife, Laurie ’93, have two daughters and live in Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Joseph Ampon has been the senior software engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. in Azusa for the past 10 years. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Pauline. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Bill Brunsky was recently promoted to principal at the Ventura office of George W. Girvin and Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in San Rafael and Ventura. His wife, Hollee (King), was also recently promoted. She is now the planning services manager for Civic Solutions Inc., a planning consulting firm specializing in services for government agencies. They have two sons, Bradley and Drew. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Matthew Kennedy, M.A., has written Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes (University Press of Mississippi’s Hollywood Legends Series). Joan Blondell is the first major biography of the actress who began in vaudeville and went on to motion pictures, television, radio and theatre. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Ian Topf opened a law office in San Diego. The firm represents clients in the areas of family law, estate planning, general civil litigation and criminal defense. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Virginia Sung is an immigration lawyer in San Francisco. She was recently featured in an issue of San Francisco Attorney, a publication by the San Francisco Bar Association. The article focused on her pro bono work in bringing a deported immigrant back to the United States. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Stephen Silver and Shoshana Kane were married in April 2007. The couple lives in the Bay Area where Kane works as a nurse and Silver as an attorney. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) |