Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1990Michelle Sharif Stowell joined Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand in its business departmentas an associate focusing on family law. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Mary Madison, J.D., is the editor of Waterman’s Gazette, a monthly newspaper published in Annapolis, Md., by the Maryland Watermen’s Association. An article about her in the Baltimore Sun noted the former bartender and Buddhist monk is “one of the more interesting people to emerge on the Chesapeake scene.” (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Janet Doherty has returned to UC Davis as an employee, working with the Temporary Employment Services unit after living in Tahoe. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) • Craig Aure, D.V.M. ’97, and Miriam Horowitz, D.V.M. ’99, were recently hired by Banfield Pet Hospitals, the country’s largest private veterinary practice. Both practice in Oregon. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Greg Miller, a national security correspondent in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times, has co-authored a book on U.S. Army interrogators titled The Interrogators, published by Little, Brown and Company. Warner Bros. has purchased film rights to the book. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • D. Stephen Schwabauer was appointed Lodi’s city attorney by the Lodi City Council in June. Schwabauer and his wife, Charla Kuykendall, have three children, Lauren, Quinn and Jacob. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Purdue University molecular geneticist Keith Woeste, M.S., M.S. ’92, Ph.D. ’94, used DNA technology to link stolen black walnut tree logs at an Indiana lumber mill to a stump 60 miles away. The wood removed from the black walnut stump was valued at $2,500. Woeste also has a divinity degree from UC Berkeley. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Tom Baskin is assistant professor of counseling psychology in the education department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Dan Fenocchio is vice president of the Davis civil engineering firm, Cunningham Engineering, where he started as a student intern. He has served as project manager on many campus construction projects, including the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, Center for Companion Animal Health, Schaal Aquatics Center and the future multi-use stadium. Dan lives in Davis with his wife, Lesley ’90. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Brian Lam, an Oakland importer, was featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article in October for his decision to return to his native China to do business. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Melanie Marsden, D.V.M. ’94, received an Up-and-Coming Veterinarian service award from the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association in September. She works with small animals and exotics at Pikes Peak Veterinary Clinic in Colorado Springs, serves on a Colorado Division of Wildlife review panel and is a member of the veterinary association’s executive board. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Vida Vreca married Craig Ponnequin in Salmon, Idaho, in September. They live in Vacaville. Vreca attends nursing school at Pacific Union College in Angwin. Last May, she received the Deloras Jones RN Scholarship in Academic Excellence from Kaiser Permanente. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Kim Darling married Jerry Loisel in December. Both teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area, they met through work. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Dennis Conrad died in January 2005 at age 38. He was shot to death in his Arden Park home during a burglary. Conrad, a stockbroker with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Sacramento, was remembered by family and friends as a loving and generous man. He is survived by his wife, Maren, and their infant son, Hunter. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Deladier Almeida took home Best of Show honors in Sacramento’s Crocker-Kingsley Biennial art show for his painting Clayton Bailey at Home. Other alums featured in the show included Laura Ball ’95, Steve Ceccato ’72 and Temo Moreno ’92. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Shana Bagley represented the United States at the March 2004 Eisstock (Ice Stock) World Championships in Graz, Austria. Bagley, an attorney, competed in team shooting (placing seventh) and individual target shooting, in which she won the U.S. championship. She is now training for the 2008 world championships in Italy. Ice stock is similar to curling. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Jennifer Gagnon of Long Lake, N.Y., married Sean Donlan of Limerick, Ireland, in July. Gagnon had been working as a geographic information system analyst at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Adirondack Ecological Center. Donlan is a lecturer at the University of Limerick School of Law. The couple honeymooned in Sicily and live in Limerick. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • As president of the Sacramento RiverTrain, Christopher Hart oversaw renovations to the excursion train, once known as the Yolo Shortline, that travels between Woodland and West Sacramento. The train, which includes three open-air passenger cars, a dining car, passenger coach, special events/lounge car and an open-air concessions car, took its inaugural run at the end of June. Involved in a number of tourism organizations, Hart is also a founding member of Dinner Trains of North America. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Barbara Heidenreich, an author of two books on solving behavior problems in parrots, teaches the principles of applied behavior analysis to zoo clientele as well as to the companion parrot community. Heidenreich also formed Good Bird Inc., a company that provides behavior and training products and services, including the quarterly Good Bird Magazine, to owners of companion parrots. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • David Patrick received the Olscamp Faculty Research Award for his contributions to Western Washington University’s chemistry department as a mentor, teacher, author and researcher since 1996. Patrick previously won the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2002 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) |