Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1995Tom Havas works with National Airlines, a Las Vegas-based airline, as a customer service manager. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Nitza Medina has entered the master of science in information and library science program at Pratt Institute in New York City. She works as processing archivist for the archives of the Puerto Rican migration project at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Gary Thorn and Shannon Hensley are getting married this June in Nevada City. Thorn is a senior writer for UC Davis Facilities Innovation and Quality Assurance group, and Hensley, who recently received her master's degree in speech and hearing sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a pediatric speech therapist for Easter Seals Superior California. The couple lives outside Woodland. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Thomas Luisetti received a medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, in May. He is now a resident in internal medicine at UC Davis and in anesthesiology at UC San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Stephanie (Davis) Manansala and her husband, Mel, had their first child in January, a boy named Jude. Stephanie also received her master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College in Boston, Mass., in 1998. She can be reached at stephanotis2@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Nitza Medina has entered the master's degree program at Pratt Institute for Library and Information Science in Brooklyn, N.Y. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Erik Burnett graduated from Yale University in May with his Ph.D. in genetics. Erik and his wife, Karyn Allen Burnett '96, have a 2-year-old daughter, Kaeley; their son, Logan, was born in May. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Tom Luisetti graduated from Case Western Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio, in May. He and his wife, Stephanie (Paye) Luisetti, moved back to California in June to begin Tom's intern year in internal medicine at UC Davis. He will complete his residency in anesthesiology at UC San Francisco. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Robert Noravian and Jennifer Haynsworth were married in November in Charleston, S.C. The two met while living in Washington, D.C., at a party hosted by an Armenian priest who later performed their Armenian Apostolic wedding ceremony. Ushers included alumnus Patrick Cottrell. The couple lives in Atherton and works for E2C Inc. in Santa Clara, an environmental and structural engineering firm run by Noravian's family. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Bobbie Saltzman, M.F.A., heads the South Suburban College theatre program in South Holland, Ill., just south of Chicago. She is director of the SSC Playhouse, which last year hosted a Chicago-wide, weeklong Shakespeare program with Stephen Unwin, UC Davis Granada artist-in-residence. Saltzman also built the SSC Playhouse's first theatre Web site (www.southsuburbancollege.edu/drm) and developed core college curriculum. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Kip Freytag, M.S., and her husband, Frieder Schurr '84, are on a six-month tour of the United States in a camper. Schurr works at UC Berkeley's forestry research station, and Freytag is a physical therapist in Cameron Park. After finishing their U.S. tour, they plan to travel through Australia. "After that, who knows," says Freytag. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • John Wang and Rob Zivnuska '97, who met in a UC Davis religious studies class in 1993, are engaged to be married in September in Northern California. Wang is a management consultant at Accenture LTD, and Zivnuska is an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. They live in San Francisco. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Adriana Perez and Rudy Garibay '94 have founded Cultura Design, a visual communications design studio with a Latino market emphasis. Their company is located in Winters. They can be reached at mail@culturadesign.com. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Gary Thorn and Shannon Hensley Thorn recently moved from Davis to Chapel Hill, N.C. Gary is a technical writer for Misys Healthcare Systems in Raleigh and plans to attend graduate school in technical communication at North Carolina State University in spring 2004. Shannon, who earned her master's degree in speech and hearing sciences from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is a speech therapist for Easter Seals North Carolina. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Kathleen Cairns, Ph.D., wrote a book titled Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 (University of Nebraska Press), about female reporters who have worked successfully in the male-dominated profession. Cairns also teaches history and humanities at California State University, Sacramento. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Andrew Jorgensen has finished his residency in internal medicinepediatrics at the University of Texas at Houston. He is staying in Houston to start his own private practice. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Scott Moak works during the day as program manager at the Child Abuse Prevention Council in North Highlands and works at night as an announcer for the Sacramento Kings. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • John Sims works with the planning and development department for Kansas City, Mo., as the department's Web master. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Michael Chang, an American from Taiwan, now calls both Japan and California home. After graduating from law school at UCLA, Chang joined Seiko Epson in Japan, then became a member of the Asia-based management team for Federal Express. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) • Nitza Medina obtained her master’s degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute in New York City and was invited to join Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society. (appeared in the Summer 2004 issue) |