Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1995Gary and Shannon (Hensley) Thorn ’96 welcomed their second child, son Evan Grey, in July. Their daughter, Callie Noelle, was born in December 2004. The family lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Dan Brook, M.A., Ph.D. ’97, has published Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China (University Press of America). He is currently a sociology instructor at San José State University. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Jeff Kurtz started KBCsports.com, which provides Internet broadcast coverage of high school sports events, and he also serves as a play-by-play announcer. The San Diego-based company provides live coverage of football and basketball games, as well as videos of the games. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Frank Murphy and his wife, Marie, welcomed a new son, Killian Patrick Murphy, in 2005. The family lives near Geneva, Switzerland, where Frank is a computer programmer for a digital television company. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • John Adams graduated with distinction from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento in May and has joined the litigation department of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel Inc. in San Jose. Before law school, he spent nine years working as a journalist, most recently as the Sunday sports editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Stacy Boulware Eurie, J.D., was appointed to a judgeship in the Sacramento County Superior Court. She had served as supervising deputy attorney general for the California Attorney General’s Office since 2000. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Leslie Sommer and her husband, Rodolphe Pineau, welcomed their first child, Julien Max, in January. The family lives in San Francisco. Sommer works as an engineer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • The Stanford University Press has published Patricia Strach’s book All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy. Strach is an assistant professor in the departments of political science and public administration and policy at the University of Albany, New York. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • John Thios Jr. has written Hispanic Intermarriage Counseling: A Guidebook for Practitioners and Couples (Trafford Publishing). Thios works for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife and daughter in northern Virginia. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Ginger Welsh has joined the UC Davis School of Law as associate director of alumni relations. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Laura (Battcher) Huddleston and her husband, Harold, welcomed their first child, Margaret Hannah, in March. The family lives in Dallas, where Laura is the vice president of product development for textile company Perennials, and Harold is the director of youth ministries for a local Lutheran church. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • After five years as chief of staff for San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Geoff Patnoe joined San Diego communications firm Public Policy Strategies as president in June. He previously was executive director of the San Diego County Taxpayers Assocation, held positions with public relations firms and began his career as communications aide to Gov. Pete Wilson. Patnoe lives in Tierrasanta with his wife, Christine, and daughters, Abigail and Kara. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • James Soong, J.D., joined the intellectual property practice of Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the international law firm's Silicon Valley office in May. His practice focuses on patent litigation and strategic counseling for electronics and software companies. He previously worked for McDermott Will & Emery and a software company. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Chelsea Gilmore is a writer/producer in Los Angeles, where she is the co-creator, writer, director, producer, cinematographer and sometimes editor of Motherhoodlum. In 2004, she produced The Talent Given Us, a comedy/drama that won the Grand Jury Prize at CineVegas, the Audience Award at Dances with Films and the Best First Feature at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. She is married to Andrew Wagner, the writer/director of Talent. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • JOSHUA BUHS has had his second book published—a cultural history titled, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend (University of Chicago Press). (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • JONATHAN FLORA, M.A., has joined the Philadelphia law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP as a partner in its tax and wealth management department. He was previously a partner with the firm of Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg & Ellers LLP. He advises clients on federal, state and local tax issues. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Carla Bittel wrote Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press), a biography of a pioneering female physician in the late 1800s who used science to dispel misconceptions about women. Bittel is an associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Darlene (Cagampan) Alvarez and her husband, Jose, welcomed their second child, Mia, in March. Inspired by their 6-year-old daughter, Jennifer, Darlene recently published a children’s book, Drink Your Pasta, Eat Your Milk! In 2007, Darlene released her first collection of poetry, The Quiet Child. The book includes her poem, “Krush,” which won Best Love Poem in the 1995 California Aggie/Praxis Poetry Contest. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Gary Thorn and Shannon (Hensley) Thorn ’96 welcomed their third child, Holden Jackson, in May. Their daughter, Callie Noelle, was born in December 2004, and their first son, Evan Grey, was born in July 2006. The family lives in Durham, N.C. Gary works as a technical writer for Systems Documentation Inc., and Shannon is a freelance medical writer and editor. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Tamara St. Claire, Ph.D., was appointed vice president of global business development at the Palo Alto Research Center. Her duties include managing the company’s commercial innovation portfolio, driving international partnerships and exploring new markets and industry engagements. She was previously the general manager and vice president of commercial operations at a healthcare subsidiary of Oxonica. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) |