Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1992Brian Ebbert was recently appointed chief assistant clerk of the California Assembly. He also serves as the coordinator for the clerk’s paid internship program. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Elke Chaudhary, Cred. '93, and her partner, Lisa Key, welcomed their second child in February, a daughter, Annika. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Jessica Dugan, D.V.M., and her husband, Richard Keatinge, welcomed their first son, Augustine, in May at the American Hospital in Paris. Dugan has been an equine sports medicine consultant in Paris for the last four years. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Jennifer Barber has been appointed the director of alumni relations at California State University, Sacramento. She has 14 years of experience in alumni relations, including serving as interim assistant vice chancellor of Alumni Relations at UC Davis and interim executive director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association in 2005-07. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Yvette Bettati, M.B.A. '02, was chosen as one of the top 40 outstanding financial executives in America under the age of 40 by Treasury & Risk magazine. She is currently the director of risk management at Vulcan Inc. in Seattle. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Brian Ebbert was appointed assistant chief clerk/assistant parliamentarian of the California State Assembly. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • MANUEL BARAJAS wrote the book The Xaripu Community Across Borders: Labor Migration, Community and Family (University of Notre Dame Press), which studies a community that has had home bases in both Michoacán, Mexico, and Stockton for more than a century. Barajas is an associate professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • CHRISTINA HAYS recently accepted the position of director of asset management for Tenaska Inc. She lives in Gretna, Neb. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • CELESTE INEZ HOLMES retired after 24 years at United Airlines and is now an international affairs graduate student at Georgetown University. She lives in Palo Alto and Washington, D.C. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • RANDY SCOTT WONG is a Newport Beach real estate developer and attorney. He recently finished developing and constructing one of the largest self-storage facilities in California, which caters to small to medium business owners and retail clients. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Tracie Olson became Yolo County’s new public defender in June. She has worked for the office since 1998, most recently as chief deputy public defender. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Tina Chin-Kaplan has opened her own practice in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in San Francisco www.needlesandtea.com. She graduated in June from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, giving a commencement speech and receiving the Wally Walker Memorial Award for leadership potential and service to the student body. She resides in San Francisco with her husband, Kory Kaplan. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Hollee King started her own land use and environmental planning consulting firm, SitesPacific Inc., in January. She lives in Ventura with her sons Bradley and Drew. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Kenneth Koop recently returned from a yearlong deployment with the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo, where he commanded the California Army National Guard Liaison and Monitoring Teams working with military forces, nongovernmental organizations and Kosovar communities. He now serves as the deputy director of environmental programs for the California National Guard, and has been selected for promotion to lieutenant colonel. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Stephen Silver and his wife, Shoshana, welcomed a baby boy, Samuel Jared, in January. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Randy Scott Wong recently drove the annual Texas Standing Mile at the Goliad, Texas, airfield in his 2006 Ford GT(40) car at an electronically clocked speed of 171 mph. He is the owner of I-5 Self Storage Facility in Tustin, which won a 2009 national trade award for its conversion from an old industrial building into one of the largest and most modern storage facilities on the West Coast. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Brian Hancock is scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan as an executive officer with the 307th Tactical Psychological Operations Company. He joined the U.S. Army in 2006 after 17 years running a business in downtown Davis. In 2007, he was named the U.S. Army Reserve Soldier of the Year and represented the U.S. Army Reserve in a worldwide all-army competition. He completed officer training in military intelligence in 2009. He wrote the article, “Memetic Warfare: The Future of War,” published in the spring edition of the Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Michael Chang is in charge of business and legal affairs for the Asia Pacific region at Warner Brothers Consumer Products. As a board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Southern California Chapter, he participated in the Street Law Program, where lawyers taught entertainment law to 11th and 12th graders at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Virna DePaul, J.D. ’95, has written a paranormal romantic suspense novel, Chosen by Blood, scheduled to be released in May by Berkley/Penguin Books. She was an appellate prosecutor in Sacramento before quitting her job to write. She has lived in Davis with her family all but one year since graduating from law school. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Andrew DeWitt wrote Give Your Best (Createspace 2010), a biography of Willem Charles, a missionary who has built schools, a church and a medical clinic in his village in Haiti. DeWitt is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who has volunteered on numerous medical missionary trips to Haiti, Columbia, Nicaragua and Africa. He lives in Dubuque, Iowa, with his wife and three children. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) |