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
| 1990Artist Katherine “Katy” Ring is back home in Italy after a teaching stint in Zambia. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Charles Cornman, Ph.D., has been appointed director of research and development for the formulated products department of Grace Construction Products in Cambridge, Mass. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • John Leckie received the Air Force’s John C. Flanagan Senior Psychologist of the Year Award for 2004 within Air Force Materiel Command. He and his wife, Sigrid, doubled the size of their family with the birth of twins, Aidan and Athena, in July. They live in Albuquerque, N.M. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Emily Curray, M.S., is a partner in a Denver, Colo., law firm, which added her name in January to become Stern, Elkind & Curray LLP. Curray, a partner since 2002, focuses on business and family immigration. She is also chair of the Immigration Task Force of the Colorado Lawyers Committee, overseeing a low-income service provider program in the San Luis Valley. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Alice Dowdin stepped down as mayor of Auburn to become deputy appointments secretary to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Dowdin’s career in public service includes previous terms as Auburn mayor as well as two years as legislative director for the state Department of Toxic Substances Control. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • David Johnston, Ph.D. ’97, received the Herbert L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist award at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service award ceremony in February. Johnston, a research food technologist with the ARS Crop Conservation Science and Engineering Research Unit in Wyndmoor, Pa., received the prestigious, agency-wide award for his work in developing processes to improve the use of corn in food and fuel. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Brent Kupras and his wife, Cheryl (Blankenship) ’89, welcomed their second child, a son, Brock Thaddeus, in January. Their first child, a daughter, Bria Anduin, is 2 years old. Brent works as an analyst for Hewlett Packard, and Cheryl is a licensed clinical social worker for the Santa Clara County Department of Alcohol and Drug Services, Addiction Medicine Clinic. The family lives in Campbell. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Chris Ransick, M.A., was named poet laureate for the city of Denver. Ransick, who teaches at Arapahoe Community College, has published two books, including the Colorado Book Award-winning collection Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Vida Vreca-Ponnequin graduated in December from Pacific Union College in Angwin with a degree in nursing. She passed the state RN licensing exam in January and now works for Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Janet Doherty is an administrative assistant for temporary staff supplier Randstad Staffing, currently working at TD Ameritrade’s Roseville office. She writes that she would love to hear from her 1986 integrated studies dormmates at janet_doherty546@hotmail.com. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Arry Murphey-Frank is a business owner, artist and world traveler currently living in Newcastle. She writes that she is enjoying life and has many fond memories of college. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Rob Patrawala, cardiac electrophysiologist at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, was profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle article in July for his early and successful use of a new device to help calm arrhythmia. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Rob Turner and his wife, Elyssa Lee, are launching a new Sacramento magazine called Sactown. Turner has previously worked for Smart Money and Money magazines. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Yong “Michael” Yim, J.D., died in a car crash in August 2006 at age 43. His wife, Lan Kim Yim, and his son, Brandon, 7, also died in the accident, which occurred during a visit to Hawaii. His other son, Lindon, 5, survived the crash. A resident of Irvine who moved to California from Korea in 1968, Mr. Yim was a prominent lawyer in the Southern California Korean community. Survivors also include his twin brother, Jack. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Karla Oliveira, M.S., has opened her own international private chef–nutrition consulting business. She has also written a book, The Tassajara Lunch, Picnic, and Appetizer Cookbook (Gibbs Smith Publishing Co.), due out in July. Three additional books with the same publisher will follow in the future. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Darren De Anda was named a partner of the Barry-Wehmiller Design Group. He started with the firm’s Sacramento office as a project manager in 2001, following 10 years of related industry experience with Campbell Soup Co. De Anda was then promoted to director in 2005. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Molly Greek was promoted to assistant vice president of project management at EDFUND in Rancho Cordova, a student loan guarantee company for which she has worked for eight years. Greek was also recently selected to be the employee representative on the company’s board of directors, a three-year appointment. She lives in Sacramento with her husband and also plays competitive volleyball regularly. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Kelly McCarthy Sutherland was selected as one of 12 Outstanding Young Californians for 2007 by the California Jaycees, a leadership training and community service organization for young adults. Sutherland practices law with Lombardo & Gilles in Salinas, with specialties in employment law, litigation and land use. She and her husband have three children. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Suzy Taherian is living in Buenos Aires and working as the controller for Chevron Argentina. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Eric Ehrenreich, J.D., recently had his book The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution published by Indiana University Press. The work is a study of the Third Reich and the relation between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) |