Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1994Marc Salak, M.S., died in August 2005 at the age of 34 when he drowned in the Kunene River in Namibia, southern Africa. Mr. Salak was one of the world’s premier obsidian knappers and a longtime teacher at the UC Davis Craft Center. A native of the Chicago area, he had traveled and studied in Africa, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, New Guinea and the Malaysian Peninsula. (For more about Mr. Salak, see the fall 2004 print issue of UC Davis Magazine, page 37.) (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Emily Churchill and her husband, Matthew Olney, welcomed their second daughter, Marissa Morgan, in July. Their first daughter, Meredith Paige, is 3 years old. Churchill practices medicine with Scripps Mercy Medical Group in San Diego. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Caree Gellinck completed a year-long deployment as a crew chief on Black Hawk helicopters, transporting troops, government contractors and Iraqi nationals in northern Iraq. Gellinck continues to work as a helicopter mechanic on Black Hawks and Chinooks in the civilian world and serves with the California Army National Guard. She lives in Lodi. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Nancy (Hicks) Klinkner, a teacher with Mt. Diablo Unified School District, and her husband, J. Hadrian Klinkner ’95, an attorney, welcomed their first child, Abigail, in December. The family lives in Alamo with their two cats. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Yung-Hui Lee joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as an associate in the firm’s Indianapolis, Ind., office, specializing in patent prosecution. Previously, Lee served as a senior biologist with Eli Lilly and Company. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Linda Buckley, Ph.D., was recently appointed associate vice president of academic affairs at San Francisco State University and is in charge of the Office of Academic Planning and Educational Effectiveness. She had been a professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Jennifer (Goldstein) Meltzer and her husband, Scott, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Maital, in March. She joins big sister Shayna, 4, and brother Nadiv, 2. The family lives in San Diego, where Scott is a rabbi, and Jennifer is a stay-at-home mom. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Kristina (Dong) Pavao and her husband, Matthew, welcomed a second daughter, Stella Olina, in April. She joins big sister Maggie Sophia, 2. The family lives in Daly City. Kristina teaches fourth grade in Redwood City, and Matthew teaches sixth grade in Pacifica. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Tom Pearson, M.S., Ph.D. ’98, and his U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service team received an award for superior efforts in technology transfer at the ARS award ceremony in February. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Timothy Thornell and his wife, Tamara ’93, Cred. ’94, moved to Yakima, Wash., in 2005 where Tim became the administrator of the Central Washington Medical Group. He is also a director of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. In February the couple welcomed their first child, son Nathaniel Jacob. Tamara, who worked previously as a second-grade teacher, is now a full-time mom. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Payam Zamani has founded three different online companies, including the car-buying service Autoweb.com. His most recent company, Reply, is an online auto, real estate and home-improvement service based in Walnut Creek. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Rigoberto Gonzalez, M.A., has written Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (University of Wisconsin Press), a personal memoir of his life as a first-generation Chicano and gay man. Gonzalez, an author of poetry, children’s books and a novel, is the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He lives in New York City. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Ripan Malhi, M.A. ’98, Ph.D. ’01, has been appointed an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He and former classmate Jason Eshleman, M.A. ’99, Ph.D. ’02, founded genealogy firm Trace Genetics, which was acquired by DNAPrint Genomics Inc. last year. Eshleman continues to run the company. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Matt Mason, M.A., has had his first book-length collection of poems published. Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press)—which includes poems written between 1987 and 2004, including a couple from his time at UC Davis reached No. 12 on the Poetry Foundation’s bestseller list for contemporary poetry books. Mason lives in Omaha with his wife, Sarah, and baby daughter, Sophia. He edits PoetryMenu.com, a listing of Nebraska poetry events, and founded chapbook publisher Morpo Press. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Ethel Gamboa Nicdao recently received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and is a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Michigan’s NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Disparities in Mental Health Training Program. The program provides mentoring and training opportunities nationally for young scholars interested in racial and ethnic dimensions of mental health. She is working with program co-director David Takeuchi at the University of Washington in Seattle. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Luis Rios Jr. and his wife welcomed a new baby boy, Luis Michael, in June. Rios recently started working as an education programs consultant for the Even Start Office, California Department of Education. He is also a lecturer at California State University, Sacramento, and he has a forthcoming book on Mexican author Octavio Paz. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Kari Grantham Brewer, J.D. ’00, and Gary Brewer ’99 welcomed a daughter, Madelyn Eva, in July. Big brother Justin turned 3 in November. Gary works for UPS, and Kari is on maternity leave from her job at a law firm in Sacramento. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Grace Hum is a legal research and writing lecturer at Stanford Law School. She and her husband, Jason Lee, have two sons, Dylan, 3, and Griffin, 1. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Camille Rose Garcia, M.F.A., will have a solo art exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art from May to September. Her paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairytales are critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias. Garcia recently published her first children’s book, The Magic Bottle (Fantagraphics), as well as a monograph, The Saddest Place on Earth (Last Gasp Press). Her art has been widely collected and also featured in Juxtapoz magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Modern Painters and Nylon magazine among others. Garcia is represented by Merry Karnowsky Gallery and lives in Los Angeles. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Theresa (Gutierrez) Gaughan has joined Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP, an accounting and management consulting firm, as the recruiting and development manager in their Sacramento office. She is responsible for all aspects of recruiting as well as oversight of the firm’s career development programs. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) |