Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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| 1995Scott Horton recently became a principal with J.P. King & Associates investment advisory firm in Walnut Creek. Before joining the firm two years ago, Scott spent 12 years as an investment adviser with Fidelity Investments Private Client Group. He and his wife, Candice, live in Danville with their two children, Taylor and Spencer.
(appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • John “Tico” McNutt, Ph.D., program director and principal investigator for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s Emil M. Mrak International Award in February for his distinguished career outside the U.S. McNutt of Maun, Botswana, began the trust as a doctoral candidate in 1990 with a focus on the endangered African wild dog. One of the trust’s projects combines wildlife research and biochemistry to identify the chemicals that tell a wild dog if land is occupied. McNutt has participated in numerous wildlife films, including BBC’s Planet Earth series.
(appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Dan Brook, M.A., Ph.D. ’97, has two new e-books—Che Forever, a poetic sketch, and An Alef-Bet Kabalah, on Jewish mysticism. More information is at smashwords.com/profile/view/brook. He also authored the hardcopy Modern Revolution (University Press of America, 2005), focusing on the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and co-authored Understanding Sociology (Horizon Textbook Publishing, 2007).
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Anne Goodchild was recently featured on the blog Bicycle Club Cascade, blog.cascade.org, for her bike commute with kids. She is an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Washington. She and her husband, Bill Cahill ’88, have two children.
(appeared in the Fall 2011 issue) • Nora Kenney Watson is a visiting assistant professor at UC Berkeley, teaching writing, literacy and urban schooling courses. She also directs after-school programs at two Oakland schools. She recently returned to California after teaching for two years at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She earned a doctorate in education with a specialty in literacy from UC Berkeley in 2009. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Dunbar Watson, and their son, Alexander.
(appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Greg Campbell was promoted in November to chief of staff for California Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles. Campbell has held leadership positions with each of the past four Assembly speakers, helping to develop state budgets and managing Assembly operations. He has focused on labor and workforce development issues such as pension reform, workers compensation, health care reform and increasing the state’s minimum wage.
(appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Stephen McCord, M.S. Ph.D. ’99, is president of Davis-based McCord Environmental Inc. www.mccenv.com, consulting with government and nonprofit clients on water quality and watershed management.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, a collection of poems by Kathleen Winter, J.D., won the 2011 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixer Press. The annual prize, given for a first or second book of poetry, came with $1,000 and publication of her book in March. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, AGNI, Tin House, Field and other magazines. Her chapbook Invisible Pictures was published by Finishing Line in 2008. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and lives with her husband near Glen Ellen.
(appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Joel Garcia Jr., of Woodland, died last November at age 39. Survivors include his parents Joel Sr. and Adela Garcia; and brother, Jose “Ernie” Garcia.
(appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Erike Young, the environmental, health and safety director for the UC system, was named Safety Professional of the Year in June by the American Society of Safety Engineers. He oversees safety policies and programs at 10 campuses, five hospitals and a national laboratory.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Milinda Lommer co-authored Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Dogs and Cats (Elsevier, 2012) with UC Davis veterinary dentistry and oral surgery professor Frank J.M. Verstraete. Chapter contributors include both human and animal specialists, among them UC Davis veterinary professor Stanley Marks, Ph.D. ’96. The comprehensive text is the first devoted to veterinary oral surgery, according to the publisher.
(appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Greg Campbell was named to Capitol Weekly’s 2012 list of 100 most influential people in California policy, politics, and governance. He is chief of staff for Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Kairee (Waters) Tann was appointed to the Emeryville Planning Commission last July and joined the Oakland Ballet Company Board of Directors in January. A construction project manager for Webcor Builders, she lives in Emeryville with her husband, John, and their children, Julian and Anneleise. Tann says her kids, both members of Montclair-Oakland 4-H, visit the fistulated cow every time they come to Davis.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Tom Adamski was named CEO of Rosetta, a New Jersey-based digital marketing agency, in April. He had served as Rosetta’s president since August 2012 and as president and CEO of LEVEL Studios in 2002–12. Rosetta was acquired by France’s Publicis Groupe for $575 million two years ago. Adamski is based in Rosetta’s new West Coast headquarters in San Luis Obispo.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Kathleen Cairns, Ph.D., wrote Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). Her fourth book examines the anti-capital punishment movement in the 1950s and ’60s. Cairns teaches history at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
(appeared in the Summer 2013 issue) • Patrick Cottrell, assistant professor of political science at Linfield College in McMinnville., Ore., recently received the college’s Marvin and Laurie Henberg International Scholar Award. His research focuses on global governance, political change, international security and U.S. foreign policy.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Amy (U’Ren) Gutierrez, better known to San Francisco Giants fans as Amy G., received two Northern California Emmy Awards in June—one for her work as Giants field reporter for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and the other, shared with Giants broadcasters Duane Kuiper and Jon Miller, for live game coverage.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Actress Deborah (Adams) Anderson, M.F.A., co-produced Sonnet Love Songs, a compilation of classic sonnets set to original, classical and jazz music. Composer Richard DeRosa applied her melodies and artistic concepts in writing the songs.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • A new book by Robert Fletcher, Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (Duke University Press, 2014), examines why some vacationers like to rough it on ecotours. A cultural anthropologist, he teaches in the Department of Environment and Development at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Read his blog.
(appeared in the Summer 2014 issue) • Stephen Brock, Ph.D., is the 2014–15 president of the National Association of School Psychologists. He is professor and coordinator of the school psychology program at Sacramento State University. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) |