Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1994John Dodson, training and development manager of EDFUND in Sacramento, and Sharon (Murphy) Dodson, a teacher in the Elk Grove School District, had their first child, Jason Davis Dodson, in November. Writes John: "Mom and Dad came up with the middle name in honor of where they met! Go Ags!" (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Khari Jones, quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, was named the Canadian Football League's most outstanding player for the East Division in 2001, after he helped lead the team to a 12-game winning streak. Jones, who studied English and drama at UC Davis, is an actor during the off-season. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Eileen Feria Paredes passed the California bar examination last year after receiving her J.D. from California Western School of Law in San Diego. She plans to concentrate on intellectual property law. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Gerry Cohn, M.S., was named director of a new regional office of the American Farmland Trust, working with farmers and local governments to help preserve farm land in the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Cohn and his wife, Jessica LaMontagne, live on a 60-acre farm west of Snow Camp, N.C. The couple has two children. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Gordon Robinson recently joined the Orange County Transportation Authority in Orange as a senior transportation analyst. He works with a team of transportation planners on transit-based GIS (geographic information systems) projects. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Edward Salinas, who is finishing a doctoral degree in toxicology at UC Davis, has received a California Sea Grant State Fellowship. He plans to work with the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, a consortium of 23 state and federal agencies responsible for the San Francisco Bay-Delta region. He is interested in projects highlighting the connection between ocean and freshwater ecosystems. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jason Ralls was recently promoted to the position of fire captain with the city of Clovis Fire Department. Jason's wife, Diana, is the director of financial aid and scholarships for UC Merced. They have two children, Adisson and Brandon. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Kathryn Boor, Ph.D., an associate professor of food science at Cornell University, has received the Institute of Food Technologists' 2002 Samuel Cate Prescott Award for her research on microbiological food safety and quality. Boor is director of Cornell's Food Safety Laboratory and the Milk Quality Improvement Program. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Beth (Bianchi) Cater married John Cater in Palos Verdes in September. They are now living in Manhattan Beach, working for different law enforcement agencies in the Los Angeles area. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Jana Freese and her family, who live in Kennewick, Wash.--husband John and Jon-Michael, Nick and Katie--held their fourth annual Charity Haunted House, dubbed the "Tunnel-of-Terror," to benefit local organizations. Visit www.tunnel-of-terror.com. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Tim Hayes recently joined the city of San Jose Environmental Services Department as a geographic systems specialist, managing the department's environmental geographic information system. Some of his projects deal with wetlands management/restoration and water conservation/recycling to maintain or enhance the environmental quality of the South San Francisco Bay Estuary. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Lindsey (Litchfield) Mann married Chris Mann in June at the Faculty Club at UC Berkeley. Bridesmaids included Kenzie (Welte) Johnston '94 and Erika (Olson) Wilson '94. Also attending the festivities were Lori Abe '95, Stephen Chang '94 and Scott Neumann '94. The couple lives in New Haven, Conn., where Lindsey is in a master of science program in elementary education at Southern Connecticut State University. She also teaches art to kindergartners through eighth-graders at a private school. Chris is working on a Ph.D. in political science at Yale University. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Ilene Polhemus, an optometrist in private practice in Santa Clara, lives with her husband, Mark, and their daughter, Morgan, in San Jose. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Luis Rios Jr. earned a Ph.D. in Spanish language and literature from Columbia University in October and an Area Certificate in Latin American Studies from the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia. He had been working in New York City for Community Impact--a nonprofit organization affiliated with Columbia University--as an ESL program specialist, teaching and coordinating ESL and GED classes for adult students in Harlem, but he is now in Mexico City researching 17th-century poetry. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Christine Schmidt was named associate director of development for UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She was formerly director of development for the Water Education Foundation. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • James Campbell, M.F.A. '96, assistant professor of textiles and clothing at Iowa State University in Ames, and fellow professor Jean Parsons created the inaugural gown for Iowa's first lady, Christie Vilsak. The team used digital photographs of a stained-glass window in the governor's residence as the basis for the fabric design. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Cameron Smyth was named mayor of the city of Santa Clarita in December. Smyth was deputy chief of staff for Sen. Pete Knight in 1994-2000. He has been a member of the Santa Clarita City Council since 2000. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Jonathan Karsh is a documentarian whose most recent work, My Flesh and Blood, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and a best director award for Karsh. The film documents the lives of the Tom family, whose adopted children all have physical impairments. Before embarking on his career as a documentarian, Karsh worked as a TV journalist. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Amy Myrdalwas promoted to director of nutrition marketing and education at Dole Food Co. in Westlake Village. She joined Dole in 2000 after earning a master's degree in nutrition communication at Tufts University in Boston and co-authoring The Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Janice (Wimmer) Corbett is working on her M.B.A. at Golden Gate University. She lives in Davis with her husband, Larry, and their newborn son, Anthony Rexton. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) |