Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1994After eight years at UC Davis as the director of state government relations and advocacy, Matthew Hargrove recently joined the California Business Properties Association in Sacramento as the senior vice president for governmental affairs. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Marjorie Harrison-Smith is the new director of education for the Santa Rosa Symphony. She is in charge of four youth ensembles, a summer camp and the Music for Our Schools programs. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Kathryn Boor, Ph.D., was named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in recognition of her scientific achievement and contributions to the field. Currently the director of the Food Safety Laboratory and professor of food science at Cornell University, Boor developed an internationally recognized food microbiology research program. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Heather John was recently married to John Fogarty. The couple lives in Los Angeles, where Heather is a senior editor at Bon Appétit magazine, and John is a vice president at Napster. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Reyes Luna was promoted to interim director of judicial affairs at Cal Poly Pomona. For the previous five years, he had worked in the Residence Life department. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Brad Peterson and Susan (Heyne) Peterson ’93, who were married in 1996, now have three children, Katie, Sarah and Evan, and live in Danville. Brad was recently elected vice president and corporate controller for Swinerton Inc., a general contractor headquartered in San Francisco. Susan worked for eight years as an elementary school teacher and now is an at-home mom and owner of a home staging business, Susan Peterson Staging. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Daniel Kurtzman is the author of two dueling political humor books: How to Win a Fight with a Conservative and How to Win a Fight with a Liberal. A former Washington correspondent-turned political satirist, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Laura Garrett ’97. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Matt Mason, M.A., recently had his first book of poetry, Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press), named as the winner of the 2007 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry by the Nebraska Center for the Book. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Thomas Fahy has written a new thriller novel for young adults, The Unspoken (Simon & Schuster Inc.). Fahy has had nine books published and currently lives in New York where he is a professor of English and director of the American studies program at Long Island University, C.W. Post campus. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Rick Lewis was recently promoted to principal at U.S. Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park. He joined the firm three years ago after completing his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School and now invests in start-up technology companies. In addition, Lewis was recently married. The couple now lives in San Francisco. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Bo Pearl was named partner in December at O’Melveny & Myers LLP where he practices antitrust, business and entertainment litigation. He works at the firm’s Century City Office. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Alisa (von Nordenflycht) Todd and Matt Todd ’93 welcomed their first son, Martin, in May. The family lives in Pleasant Hill. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Peter Caster has published a book titled Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (Ohio State University Press). Caster is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Eileen (Mize) Clisham married Andrew Clisham in September in San Rafael, where the two natives of Marin County now live. Eileen has worked as the director of communications at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco for the past seven years. She recently retired from Irish step dance competition after a 25-year run that took her to the World Championships in Ireland twice. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Jonathan Essner was married to Evren Saraç of Ankara, Turkey, last July. The wedding took place on the Bosphorus River in Istanbul, and attending were alumni Christopher Brumfiel ’94, Jeremy Mears ’94, Matt Jordan ’95, Soo (Bae) Masson ’95, Todd Masson ’95, Michael McDonald ’95, Margaret Snow ’95 and John Nussbaum ’96. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Lindsey (Litchfield) Mann and her husband, Chris, welcomed their first daughter, Clara, in February. The family lives in Bethesda, Md. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Lora (Dietz) Kaiser and Herman Kaiser welcomed their son, Davis, last March. Herman owns a precision manufacturing services company, and Lora runs her own landscape design firm. They live in Folsom. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • ROBERT QUINTANA HOPKINS recently wrote his first collection of poems and essays entitled Glass Closet (AfroChicano Press). It is a memoir, covering race, gender, culture and other forms of identity. (appeared in the Summer issue) • LUIS RIOS JR. has been appointed to the Community Service Action Board Committee of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. He has also launched a Web site dedicated to poet Octavio Paz: www.octaviopaz.com. He and his wife have a 3-year-old son, Michael. They live in Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • J.R. Campbell, M.F.A. ’96, is the new director of the School of Fashion at Kent State University in Ohio. The school has more than 1,100 students at campuses in Ohio, New York City and Florence, Italy. Campbell was previously a research fellow and coordinator at the Center for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland for five years. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) |