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Class Notes Archive 1931-2014

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Class notes from the 1990s

1993Brenda Hensley, Cred. ’94, was elected to a two-year term as president of the Vacaville Teachers Association. She also serves as a state delegate to the California Teachers Association State Council and as a regional center treasurer. She teaches three pre-algebra honors classes at Willis Jepson Middle School in Vacaville and participates in union activities. Hensley is also engaged to be married in July in Las Vegas. She and her fiancé live on Lake Berryessa in Napa. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue)   Melissa Kann has developed the Doggie Driving car seat for small dogs, which won a gold medal for product excellence at a recent trade show. Doggie Driving LLC is based in Boulder, Colo. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue)    Stephanie Hamilton Borchers, J.D. ’97, recently took a position in the Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney for the eastern district of California. She continues to live in Fresno with her husband, Jake, J.D. ’98, and her children, Abigail and Ben. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue)    Lewis DeSimone, M.A., recently had his first novel published. Chemistry (Haworth Press), which began as a short story written for a Davis workshop, examines how mental illness affects not only the afflicted but those around him. For more information, visit www.lewisdesimone.blogspot.com. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue)    Ken Kiefer helped found Team Will, a Sacramento-based cycling group dedicated to the memory of Kiefer’s son, William Leo, who died of cancer in 2004 at 17 months of age. Team Will’s mission is to raise public awareness and funds to help find cures for children with cancer. In June they will participate in a cross-country relay ride through 11 states, stopping for organized rallies and hospital visits along the way. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue)    Janet (Lorton) Moran and her husband, Dan, had their second child, Blake Daniel, in February. Janet, a former ski racing coach, is now a full-time mom. Dan is a marketing executive with Placer Title Co., and Max, age 2, is enjoying being a new big brother. The family lives in Truckee. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue)    Matthew Bourbon has received tenure and been promoted to associate professor of art in the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas. Solo exhibitions of his work will be held at Conduit Gallery in Dallas in December and El Centro College in Dallas in November 2007, and he is also an art critic for FlashArt, Art News, New York Arts and Artlies. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue)    Melissa Clark, M.A., has written her first novel, Swimming Upstream, Slowly (Broadway Books/Random House), which is about the twist life takes for 27-year-old woman who finds herself belatedly pregnant as a result of a medical anomaly known as “lazy sperm.” Clark also writes for children’s TV programs, including the Disney Channel’s Rolie Polie Olie, and she was the creator of Disney and ABC Family channels’ Braceface. She lives in Los Angeles. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue)    Jennifer Fearing recently moved to Washington, D.C., to become the director of economic research for the Humane Society of the United States, the nation’s largest animal protection organization with more than 9.5 million members and constituents. She had been president of United Animal Nations in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue)    Ned Jackson, D.V.M. ’95, and his wife, Monet (Rogers) Jackson ’90, welcomed a new daughter, Shelby Elizabeth, in June. She joins brother Kyle Davis, 4. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue)    David Lindenbaum is vice president of product management and development at Charles Schwab & Co. in San Francisco. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, Jill, and his son, Noah. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue)    Pati Navalta Poblete has written The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America (Heyday Books). Poblete has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for seven years, becoming the first Filipino American woman in the Bay Area to have a column at a mainstream newspaper. Last year, she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her editorial series on California foster care. She is currently the deputy editorial page editor for the Honolulu Advertiser. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue)    David Anderson has joined Nixon Peabody LLP as a partner in its venture capital, emerging growth and technology practice. Anderson specializes in intellectual property and transactional matters with a focus on interactive entertainment. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue)    Terri Dawn Arnold earned her M.Ed. from Indiana Wesleyan University last year. She currently works in education as a curriculum coordinator/consultant and is an independent filmmaker in Roseville (www.tdaentertainment.com). Arnold wrote an original screenplay, The Two Sisters, and produced and directed the feature film over the summer. It will be screened at film festivals this year. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue)    Emilie (Luster) Barnes, M.S. ’96, and her husband, Josh, welcomed their first child, John Ronald, in July. Barnes works as a real estate appraiser in the Sacramento area, and her husband is a landscape manager for a builder in Roseville. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue)    Matthew Bourbon had a solo exhibition at Conduit Gallery in Dallas in December. In 2000, Bourbon moved to Texas, where he is now a professor of art at the University of North Texas in Denton. As well as exhibiting his work in Texas, California and New York, he also contributes articles and reviews to Flash Art International, New York Arts Magazine and Artlies. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue)    Curt Yagi is the executive director of Real Options for City Kids (ROCK), a San Francisco youth organization that combines learning enrichment with sports and fitness, outdoor activities and leadership training. Yagi was also recently selected as the Young Nonprofit Professional Network’s Executive Director of the Year. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue)    Lisa (Clausen) Fitzgerald and her husband, Patrick, welcomed their second daughter, Riley McKenna, in March. Fitzgerald currently manages office buildings in downtown Sacramento for Jones Lang LaSalle, and her husband is a warehouse operations manager. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue)    George “Geo” Gosling has written TBI Hell: A Traumatic Brain Injury Really Sucks (Outskirts Press), the story about how he survived a bicycle accident against a pickup truck and recovered from a serious brain injury. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue)    Adam Inlander was named executive director of Temple Beth Shalom in New Albany, Ohio, and has earned senior membership in the National Association of Temple Administrators. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue)