Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):
Class notes from the 1990s
| 1993Terri-Dawn Arnold, writer, producer and director for TDA Entertainment in Roseville, has released a new film, The Two Sisters. The film premiered in July at the Action On Film International Film Festival in Long Beach. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Estella Habal, M.A., Ph.D. ’03, has written San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement (Temple University Press). The book follows the nine-year struggle to save the International Hotel in the San Francisco neighborhood known as Manilatown. Habal is assistant professor of Asian American studies at San José State University. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Obie Leff, who teaches music and band at Franklin Elementary School in Yuba City, was named Music Teacher of the Year for his tri-county area by the Northern California Music Educators Association. In addition, Leff and his wife, Jill, have created Sing to Learn educational CDs. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Ann Rennick married John Mueller in May. Ann is a community outreach coordinator for the Sound Transit Link Light Rail line in Seattle, Wash. John works for Microsoft on the Internet Explorer team. The couple honeymooned in Spain. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Cara Rose is living in Portland, Ore., and working as the assistant director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Western Partnership Office. Rose writes that she and her partner, Andrew, and chocolate lab, Casey, enjoy the outdoor adventures offered by the area. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Barak Kassar, M.B.A., is president and creative director of the Rassak Experience in San Francisco. The firm specializes in online advertising and viral marketing—so-called because information is meant to be spread by word of mouth from consumer to consumer. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Matthew Bourbon had a solo exhibition of his paintings in January at El Centro College’s H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Bourbon recently started serving as an on-air art critic for KERA, the North Texas area public radio and television station, in addition to his work as an associate professor of art at the University of North Texas. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Michael James is the founder of Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth, a nonprofit literacy program in Oakland. Part of the organization’s mission is to provide exposure to post-secondary education for Oakland-area youth. More information can be found at oaklanddusty.org. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Jennifer Fearing is returning to Sacramento from Washington, D.C. She is currently the chief economist for the Humane Society of the United States and will be managing the campaign for passage of California’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which will be on the ballot in November. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Terri Dawn Arnold has written Growing Pains, 10 short stories about growing up. Arnold is also a writer, director and producer for film and television, and teaches writing and literature to junior high, high school and college students. More information can be found online at www.tdaentertainment.com. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Michael Edwards and his wife, Hayley, welcomed their first child, Reid, in August 2007. The family lives in Pinehurst, N.C., where Edwards is a radiologist with Pinehurst Radiology Associates. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Peter Mathios was named the 2009 Ducks Unlimited International Artist of the Year, his goal, he says, "since roaming the halls of the art building." Mathios, his wife, Rachelle, and their two children live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. His art can be found online at www.mathiosstudios.net. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Donald Anderson, M.A. '95, recently wrote Organization Development (Sage). He works at Sun Microsystems as an organization development consultant and teaches at the University of Denver. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Matt Geisel is the new director for the Rio Rancho Convention and Visitors Bureau in New Mexico. He previously worked as the sales and marketing director for Pulte Homes of New Mexico and spent five years in Mexico where he monitored the import and export activities for an international logistics corporation. He is also president of the Rio Rancho Soccer Club. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Trisha Lotzer has formed her own law firm, the Lotzer Law Group PC, and practices business law in Arizona and California. She is the author of a series of professional development programs, including LawYoga and Winning Practice, co-produced with San Francisco 49ers tight end Brian Jennings. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • David Rae was recently promoted to partner at KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm. He joined KPMG in 1997, and provided audit services to consumer markets and life science clients in the San Francisco area. He lives in Pleasanton with his family. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • JOHNATHAN EDWARDS co-authored the book Chasing Dakar (E&H Offroad Productions) about his experience as the U.S. team physician during the Dakar Rally motorcycle race from Paris to Dakar. He has previously worked for public hospital systems in Dakar, Senegal, and Chacalacayo, Peru, and interned one year in Lyon, France. He is currently an anesthesiologist in Las Vegas, Nev. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Grant Guilford, Ph.D., became dean of science at the University of Auckland this past August. He previously directed the Institute of Natural Sciences at Massey University in New Zealand after directing the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences. During his tenure at Massey, the veterinary school became the first in the Southern Hemisphere to be accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Ann (Rennick) Mueller recently moved to Bangkok, Thailand, with her husband, John. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Mark Nunez, D.V.M., became president of the California Veterinary Medical Association in June. He owns the Animal Medical Center in Van Nuys, a small animal practice, and lives in Burbank. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) |