Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1993Matt Wacker manages open space areas and habitat preserves for the Center of Natural Lands Management. His wife, Marcy ’98, is a graphic designer for the California Dental Association. They live in Orangevale with their son, Jackson. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Phillip Allen Holsten died unexpectedly in October 2004 at the age of 33. He was director of cytopathology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. An avid cyclist, he was active in the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. He attended UC San Francisco School of Medicine, did his pathology residency at Stanford University—serving his final year as chief resident—and returned to UC San Francisco for a cytopathology fellowship. Survivors include his partner, Sarah Cherny, and father and stepmother, Ken and Janet Holsten. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • John Cook, J.D. ’96, was elevated to partner in the San Francisco office of law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Stephen Nicholson, M.A., Ph.D. ’98, completed a book exploring the role of ballot propositions in candidate elections, Voting the Agenda: Candidates, Elections and Ballot Propositions (Princeton University Press). Nicholson is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta and is married to Jennifer Brustrom, Ph.D. ’96. They have a 2-year-old daughter, Kylie. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Kyle Rhorer, M.B.A., joined the management consulting firm R.W. Beck’s in Seattle as the West Coast director in the areas of water and waste management. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Since graduating from medical school, Army Maj. Matthew Rice has worked as a doctor in Washington, Korea and Italy. He is currently stationed in Pisa, with his wife, Kristina Stagnato, and their two children, Vanessa and Thomas. (appeared in the Spring 2005 issue) • Julia (Field) Fikse worked for a number of years as a fashion designer before starting Ta-tas Brand Clothing in 2004. The company, with 15 locations nationwide, donates 5 percent of every sale to breast cancer research. For more on her company, see www.ta-tas.com. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Laurie Marshall was honored by the National Society of Black Engineers with its 2005 Golden Torch Award for outstanding woman in technology. Marshall has worked as an aeronautical engineer at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards since 1993. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Joseph Unger accepted a job as a product design engineer with John Deere Commercial Products in Augusta, Ga. He lives with his wife, Shannon, daughters Isabelle, Tess and Hallie, and son Jack. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Stephen Whitehead has created an instructional computer program to assist developing composers. Whitehead is an accomplished composer whose work has been performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Germany. He is a board director for the nonprofit performing group Bay Area Classical Harmonies and is currently working on his first opera. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Pittsburg police officer Larry Lasater was shot to death in April 2005 while chasing two robbery suspects. Mr. Lasater, a former Marine, was remembered for his leadership and humor and was the first recipient of a Pittsburg police academy leadership award, which now bears his name. Survivors include his wife, Joann, pregnant with the couple’s first son, Cody. Donations to support the family may be made to Lasater Family Fund, c/o Pittsburg Police Officers Association (PPOA), ATTN: Jeff Deuel, The Deuel Group, Merrill Lynch, 1111 Broadway, Suite #2200, Oakland, CA, 94607. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Jill Christofferson, D.V.M., is a veterinarian at Encina Veterinary Hospital in Walnut Creek and author of a bimonthly veterinary advice column for the Contra Costa Times titled “Pet Rx.” (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Leamon Crooms III was elected to the Arizona State Parks Foundation Board. Crooms lives in Oro Valley, Ariz., and is the president of Strategic Growth Advisors. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • After nine years in New Hampshire for medical and graduate school, John “Andy” Mengshol recently finished an internal medicine residency and started a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. At press time, he and his wife, Sarah, were eagerly anticipating the birth of their first child, due in August. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • A political artwork by Berkeley lawyer and antiwar activist Stephen Pearcy, T’anks to Mr. Bush, drew protests when it was exhibited in Sacramento at the state Department of Justice. The painting of a star-spangled map of the United States being flushed down the toilet was part of an exhibition of art by lawyers on legal themes. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Lea Adams was recently hired as a senior water resources engineer at Jones & Stokes, an environmental consulting firm headquartered in Sacramento. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Tara Habig McHugh, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. McHugh leads a food science research program for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. Her study focuses on increasing the availability of healthy, convenient fruit and vegetable products. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Christianne Schelling, D.V.M., operates a Web site that sells Soft Claws, a vinyl nail covering that provides pet owners with an alternative to having their pet declawed. She had previously owned a veterinary practice specializing in equine medicine. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Allen Tchoi married Amy Kwon in May in Hawaii. In October he began a new job as an oncology sales specialist with Eli Lilly & Co. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Thomas Amick was named to the board of directors of law firm Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario in Las Vegas. He has been with the firm since 1998, serving in the governmental affairs division and specializing in zoning, land use and administrative law matters. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) |