Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1992Celeste Holmes graduates in May from a master’s program in Middle Eastern studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Ian Topf and wife Maribel welcomed the arrival of son Aaron Gabriel last October.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Michael Chang is the new vice president of business and legal affairs of Warner Bros. Consumer Products, which licenses the rights to names, likenesses and logos for the company’s TV shows and movies. His responsibilities include building Warner Bros.’s consumer products business in the Asia Pacific region.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Susan Barth, writing as Susan Adrian, has sold her first novel, Tunnel Vision, a young adult thriller, to Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press for fall 2014 publication. In addition to her English degree from UC Davis, she holds a master’s degree in technical communication from Montana Tech. She works at the Butte, Mont., campus as publications editor for the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. She lives in Butte with her husband and daughter.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Brian Ebbert, assistant chief clerk and parliamentarian for the California State Assembly, was selected as a Council of State Governments’ 2013 Henry Toll Fellow. The fellowship program brings 48 state government officials from across the country to Lexington, Ky., for a six-day “intellectual boot camp.”
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Business litigation attorney David Lee recently joined the San Francisco office of the Michelman & Robinson law firm as a partner. Named a 2012–13 Super Lawyer by Super Lawyer Magazine, he previously co-chaired the litigation department at Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Dan Brown, sports writer at the San José Mercury News, wrote a book, 100 Things 49ers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. Published by Triumph Books in September, it can be ordered from online sellers or by emailing Brown at dbrown@mercurynews.com.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Shannon Knepper Maveety, a Rocklin middle school teacher, died in May at age 43.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • James Dante’s debut novel, The Tiger’s Wedding, a love story set in Korea, was released by Martin Sisters Publishing in March 2013. He lives in Northern California, teaches adult education classes and is writing a second novel, set in Moscow. His website is jamesdante.com.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Matthew Kennedy, M.A., wrote Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2014). His website is matthewkennedybooks.com.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Kris Vardas is an environmental planner for Pacific Gas and Electric Company on California’s Central Coast and a Pismo Beach City Council member. He previously worked as a land-use consultant and as a project manager with the California Department of Water Resources and the State Lands Commission. He is a vice-chair of the San Luis Obispo Local Agency Formation Commission, and board member of the California Coastal Coalition.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Brian Ebbert, assistant chief clerk/parliamentarian for the California State Assembly, has been elected vice president of the American Institute of Parliamentarians for the Sacramento region.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Dan Peters received an Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal for his book Make Your Worrier a Warrior (Great Potential Press, 2013). He is a licensed psychologist and co-founder and executive director of the Summit Center in Walnut Creek. He writes regularly for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Former California Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, is a senior attorney at Anderson Kill law firm in Ventura and a commander and intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He ran for Congress last year, narrowly losing to Democratic freshman Rep. Julia Brownley. The race was so tight that it went uncalled for more than a week after the November election. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • A Sacramento Bee dining review in November praised Suleka Sun-Lindley’s Thai Basil restaurant for combining sustainable practices with traditional ethnic cuisine, calling it one of the city’s “most compelling eateries of its kind.” (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Susan Adrian (Caward) Barth, a scientific editor at Montana Tech of the University of Montana, writes about a teen with a superpower in Tunnel Vision (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). The young adult thriller is her debut novel. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Daniel Orenstein, an assistant professor in the architecture and town planning department at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, co-edited Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1993Rodrigo Carranza is pursuing a master's degree in agribusiness and a minor in dairy nutrition management at the University of Florida. After graduating from UC Davis, he worked for Monsanto Dairy Business. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Tad Devlin joined Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, a law firm in San Francisco. Devlin specializes in commercial and business litigation, sports law and white-collar criminal defense. After graduating from UC Davis, Devlin attended McGeorge School of Law, receiving a degree in 1997. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Kristen Goodwin, J.D. '98, recently became an associate attorney at Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul, a Sacramento law firm. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) |