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1990Kim (Darling) Loisel is in her 10th year of teaching elementary school and is currently at Ardenwood Elementary in Fremont teaching first grade. She would like to hear from 1985–87 residents of Tercero’s D building at forherda@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • McDonough Holland & Allen PC in Sacramento named Julie Raney, J.D. ’94, as a shareholder. Raney practices in the employment and litigation groups. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Melanie Swartz, D.V.M. ’96, the veterinarian in charge of the Tulare district for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health Branch, was called into active duty by the National Guard earlier this year. She is now the officer in charge of the Ft. Sill Branch Veterinary Treatment Facility in Oklahoma, which is responsible for the health of military animals at Ft. Sill, Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and Altus Air Force Base, also in Oklahoma. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Saud Al-Rowaily obtained a Ph.D. degree in range science after graduating from UC Davis and is now an assistant professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is married and has three children: Sarah, 9; Faris, 6; and Mishal, 1. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Mike Buck and Anna Lewis '06 were married in May in Sutter Creek. They honeymooned in Mendocino and live in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Ruth Fankushen Kunkel, the original owner of the Delta of Venus Café in Davis, recently wrote a children's cookbook with her 9-year-old son, Gabriel Kunkel, An Alien Robot's Cookbook (CreateSpace). The book emphasizes the use of locally grown produce and organic ingredients. Her son provided most of the artwork for the cookbook. Ruth lives in Davis with her two sons and husband, Roger Kunkel. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Michele (Justin) Pielsticker, J.D. '96, and David Kline '90 were instrumental in updating the second edition of California's Tax Machine: A History of Taxing and Spending in the Golden State (California Taxpayers' Association). Pielsticker is the association's vice president and general counsel, and Kline is the taxpayer association's director of communications. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Lucy Spelman, D.V.M., is editor of The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes (Bantam Dell), about the world of exotic animals and the doctors who care for them. She is currently in Rwanda as the field manager of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, a group that provides veterinary care to animals in their own habitats. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • John Berger, Ph.D., recently had his book, Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection, published by Forests Forever Foundation and the Center for American Places. The book updates his sold-out 1998 book, Understanding Forests (Sierra Club Books). (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Ramon Guerrero, M.D., is a practicing anesthesiologist in Plano, Texas. He and his wife, Sandra, also own a small organic vineyard in Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County. Meadowlark Vineyards (meadowlarkvineyards.com) completed its third bottling this season. In addition, he has created a company, Intrasafe Medical Inc., to market a medical device on which he holds a patent. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • April Halliday, D.V.M., took up the sport of Spec Miata road racing. Since earning her license to compete nationally, she has finished every race she’s competed in and started placing in finishing positions during the season. She’s coaching for the Hooked on Driving organization in Willows, teaching people how to race cars. She is a practicing veterinarian in Sacramento. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Cindy (Smith) Nelson, after 15 years as an interior designer, is now co-leader of the Davis chapter of Quilts for Kids, Inc., an organization that makes quilts for ill and injured children. Beginning this academic year, the group joined UC Davis Human Corps quarterly Weekend of Service project. In November, Nelson helped students sew 27 quilt tops and 35 fabric dolls in eight hours. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Vida Vreca-Ponnequin graduated with a 4.0 GPA with a B.S. in nursing and a minor in psychology from California State University, Sacramento, in December. Last May, she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society and presented with award for extraordinary scholastic performance and leadership. She lives with her husband, Craig, in the Sacramento area. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Paul Berkowitz is board certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, and was recently appointed as the director of inpatient services at Maricopa Integrated Health Systems and Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center in Mesa, Ariz. He has a small outpatient psychiatric practice in Scottsdale, Ariz., and he previously worked as the director of consultation-liaison psychiatry at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Julia Couzens, M.F.A., had a one-person exhibition, Maidement, at California State University, Stanislaus, last November and December, displaying new drawings and sculptures. An exhibition catalogue with essays by curator and UC Davis Nelson Gallery director Renny Pritikin will be published this year. In October, Couzens’ work was featured in the group show, Geo-Morph, in Davis at the Pence Gallery. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Black and white photographs by Black Moon, M.F.A., will be featured in a group show opening Aug. 6. at the Photo Laboratory gallery in Berkeley. Her current work can also be seen at www.BlackMoonStudio.net. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • James Van Pelt, M.A., won the Colorado Book Award in June for his new book, Radio Magician and Other Stories (Fairwood Press). His book, the winner of the “Genre Fiction-Sci/Fi/Fantasy” category, was selected from 146 works submitted. Chris Ransick, M.A., a past winner of the Colorado Book Award, was a judge for this year’s poetry category. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Scott Suneson, M.A., died in Rocklin in May after nine years of battling liver disease. He was 62. He is remembered for his passion for teaching, beginning as a UC Davis graduate teaching assistant and throughout his career as a part-time sociology faculty member at Sacramento State University, Sacramento City College, Yuba College and Sierra College. At Sierra College, he was awarded the Adjunct Faculty of the Year for three consecutive years. A longtime social-justice activist, he advocated for equity for part-time teachers at community colleges and encouraged his students to participate in public demonstrations. Mr. Suneson loved books, hiking, running, backpacking and traveling. He is preceded in death by his mother, Irene Niezoloski Suneson of Davis. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Anderson; father, Earl Suneson; sister, Melissa; children, Jeff Suneson and Lisa Rappaport; and four grandchildren. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Rob Turner by Anna Hennings Occupation: co-editor-in-chief of Sacramento magazine Coast to coast: Rob Turner’s passion for journalism bloomed after he took a magazine writing class at UC Davis and wrote a few articles for the Aggie. The 1990 graduate interned and worked for various Sacramento publications, including the Sacramento News and Review, until several years later when he was drawn to New York City. His prestigious internship with Harper’s magazine jump-started his successful writing career. He went on to work as a staff writer for SmartMoney and Money magazines before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 2000. Turner has since written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and among many others. He moved back to Sacramento in 2004 with his wife, also a journalist, whom he met at Money. *A Sactown* hit:** Having grown up in Sacramento and loving it, Turner always knew he would come back, despite a successful journalism career in New York. “What I was hoping by going to New York was to get tons of magazine experience so I’d be able to come back here and hopefully start a magazine that was the kind of magazine that reflected the Sacramento that I love and the Sacramento that I hope it can be.” Creating a magazine for the Sacramento area, an aspiration of Turner’s since his days at UC Davis, finally became reality in late November when the first issue of Sactown hit newsstands. Currently published bi-monthly, the lifestyle magazine targets a large audience, from 25- to 49-year-olds, but “[it] is more of a youthful mindset than an actual age,” Turner says. Meet the team: Turner works alongside his wife, Co-Editor-in-Chief Elyssa Lee, who is also a contributing writer for InStyle magazine, having worked as a staff writer in the magazine’s New York office for five years. Their combined magazine experience is making Sactown a success despite the low odds. The two of them, their art director and two interns constitute the editorial staff, so it’s not uncommon for Turner to work long, hard hours. “For this last close, we came into the office on a Wednesday, and we left on a Friday. We caught about an hour or two of sleep on the floor.” “Our back-up plan, well, we’re planning on succeeding. People love to read their hometown.” (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Chemistry professor David Patrick was given the Carl H. Simpson Bridging Award in September from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., for his work in co-founding and directing the university’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, which brings together experts in chemistry, physics, geology, math and engineering technology. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue)

1990Kim (Darling) Loisel is in her 10th year of teaching elementary school and is currently at Ardenwood Elementary in Fremont teaching first grade. She would like to hear from 1985–87 residents of Tercero’s D building at forherda@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • McDonough Holland & Allen PC in Sacramento named Julie Raney, J.D. ’94, as a shareholder. Raney practices in the employment and litigation groups. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Melanie Swartz, D.V.M. ’96, the veterinarian in charge of the Tulare district for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health Branch, was called into active duty by the National Guard earlier this year. She is now the officer in charge of the Ft. Sill Branch Veterinary Treatment Facility in Oklahoma, which is responsible for the health of military animals at Ft. Sill, Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and Altus Air Force Base, also in Oklahoma. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Saud Al-Rowaily obtained a Ph.D. degree in range science after graduating from UC Davis and is now an assistant professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is married and has three children: Sarah, 9; Faris, 6; and Mishal, 1. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Mike Buck and Anna Lewis '06 were married in May in Sutter Creek. They honeymooned in Mendocino and live in Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Ruth Fankushen Kunkel, the original owner of the Delta of Venus Café in Davis, recently wrote a children's cookbook with her 9-year-old son, Gabriel Kunkel, An Alien Robot's Cookbook (CreateSpace). The book emphasizes the use of locally grown produce and organic ingredients. Her son provided most of the artwork for the cookbook. Ruth lives in Davis with her two sons and husband, Roger Kunkel. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Michele (Justin) Pielsticker, J.D. '96, and David Kline '90 were instrumental in updating the second edition of California's Tax Machine: A History of Taxing and Spending in the Golden State (California Taxpayers' Association). Pielsticker is the association's vice president and general counsel, and Kline is the taxpayer association's director of communications. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Lucy Spelman, D.V.M., is editor of The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes (Bantam Dell), about the world of exotic animals and the doctors who care for them. She is currently in Rwanda as the field manager of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, a group that provides veterinary care to animals in their own habitats. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • John Berger, Ph.D., recently had his book, Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection, published by Forests Forever Foundation and the Center for American Places. The book updates his sold-out 1998 book, Understanding Forests (Sierra Club Books). (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Ramon Guerrero, M.D., is a practicing anesthesiologist in Plano, Texas. He and his wife, Sandra, also own a small organic vineyard in Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County. Meadowlark Vineyards (meadowlarkvineyards.com) completed its third bottling this season. In addition, he has created a company, Intrasafe Medical Inc., to market a medical device on which he holds a patent. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • April Halliday, D.V.M., took up the sport of Spec Miata road racing. Since earning her license to compete nationally, she has finished every race she’s competed in and started placing in finishing positions during the season. She’s coaching for the Hooked on Driving organization in Willows, teaching people how to race cars. She is a practicing veterinarian in Sacramento. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Cindy (Smith) Nelson, after 15 years as an interior designer, is now co-leader of the Davis chapter of Quilts for Kids, Inc., an organization that makes quilts for ill and injured children. Beginning this academic year, the group joined UC Davis Human Corps quarterly Weekend of Service project. In November, Nelson helped students sew 27 quilt tops and 35 fabric dolls in eight hours. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Vida Vreca-Ponnequin graduated with a 4.0 GPA with a B.S. in nursing and a minor in psychology from California State University, Sacramento, in December. Last May, she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society and presented with award for extraordinary scholastic performance and leadership. She lives with her husband, Craig, in the Sacramento area. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Paul Berkowitz is board certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, and was recently appointed as the director of inpatient services at Maricopa Integrated Health Systems and Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center in Mesa, Ariz. He has a small outpatient psychiatric practice in Scottsdale, Ariz., and he previously worked as the director of consultation-liaison psychiatry at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Julia Couzens, M.F.A., had a one-person exhibition, Maidement, at California State University, Stanislaus, last November and December, displaying new drawings and sculptures. An exhibition catalogue with essays by curator and UC Davis Nelson Gallery director Renny Pritikin will be published this year. In October, Couzens’ work was featured in the group show, Geo-Morph, in Davis at the Pence Gallery. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Black and white photographs by Black Moon, M.F.A., will be featured in a group show opening Aug. 6. at the Photo Laboratory gallery in Berkeley. Her current work can also be seen at www.BlackMoonStudio.net. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • James Van Pelt, M.A., won the Colorado Book Award in June for his new book, Radio Magician and Other Stories (Fairwood Press). His book, the winner of the “Genre Fiction-Sci/Fi/Fantasy” category, was selected from 146 works submitted. Chris Ransick, M.A., a past winner of the Colorado Book Award, was a judge for this year’s poetry category. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Scott Suneson, M.A., died in Rocklin in May after nine years of battling liver disease. He was 62. He is remembered for his passion for teaching, beginning as a UC Davis graduate teaching assistant and throughout his career as a part-time sociology faculty member at Sacramento State University, Sacramento City College, Yuba College and Sierra College. At Sierra College, he was awarded the Adjunct Faculty of the Year for three consecutive years. A longtime social-justice activist, he advocated for equity for part-time teachers at community colleges and encouraged his students to participate in public demonstrations. Mr. Suneson loved books, hiking, running, backpacking and traveling. He is preceded in death by his mother, Irene Niezoloski Suneson of Davis. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Anderson; father, Earl Suneson; sister, Melissa; children, Jeff Suneson and Lisa Rappaport; and four grandchildren. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Rob Turner by Anna Hennings Occupation: co-editor-in-chief of Sacramento magazine Coast to coast: Rob Turner’s passion for journalism bloomed after he took a magazine writing class at UC Davis and wrote a few articles for the Aggie. The 1990 graduate interned and worked for various Sacramento publications, including the Sacramento News and Review, until several years later when he was drawn to New York City. His prestigious internship with Harper’s magazine jump-started his successful writing career. He went on to work as a staff writer for SmartMoney and Money magazines before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 2000. Turner has since written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and among many others. He moved back to Sacramento in 2004 with his wife, also a journalist, whom he met at Money. A Sactown hit: Having grown up in Sacramento and loving it, Turner always knew he would come back, despite a successful journalism career in New York. “What I was hoping by going to New York was to get tons of magazine experience so I’d be able to come back here and hopefully start a magazine that was the kind of magazine that reflected the Sacramento that I love and the Sacramento that I hope it can be.” Creating a magazine for the Sacramento area, an aspiration of Turner’s since his days at UC Davis, finally became reality in late November when the first issue of Sactown hit newsstands. Currently published bi-monthly, the lifestyle magazine targets a large audience, from 25- to 49-year-olds, but “[it] is more of a youthful mindset than an actual age,” Turner says. Meet the team: Turner works alongside his wife, Co-Editor-in-Chief Elyssa Lee, who is also a contributing writer for InStyle magazine, having worked as a staff writer in the magazine’s New York office for five years. Their combined magazine experience is making Sactown a success despite the low odds. The two of them, their art director and two interns constitute the editorial staff, so it’s not uncommon for Turner to work long, hard hours. “For this last close, we came into the office on a Wednesday, and we left on a Friday. We caught about an hour or two of sleep on the floor.” “Our back-up plan, well, we’re planning on succeeding. People love to read their hometown.” (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Chemistry professor David Patrick was given the Carl H. Simpson Bridging Award in September from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., for his work in co-founding and directing the university’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, which brings together experts in chemistry, physics, geology, math and engineering technology. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue)

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