Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):
Class notes from the 1990s
| 1995Tax attorney Jonathan Flora, M.A., has joined the Philadelphia office of Montgomery McCracken as a partner. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Employee benefits attorney Alison Wright, J.D., is a partner at the San Francisco office of Hanson Bridgett. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 1996After spending three years in Vancouver, Wash., Katherine Gordon recently transferred to the San Diego Division of Hewlett Packard to continue her work as a manufacturing engineer. She said that she decided to return to California for the "great weather." (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Mayank Patel has co-founded a Silicon Valley start-up, MonkeyRules.com, an online auction service that gives restaurants an opportunity to offer discount dining certificates to increase business during slow periods. The service has already attracted more than 1,500 registered consumers and more than 90 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Stephanie Sarver, Ph.D., works as an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently published a book, Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), which explores the role of agriculture and nature in the late 19th and early 20th century American literary works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris and William Ellsworth Smythe. She has also written for other publications such as Western American Literature and Literature/Film Quarterly. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Olivia Boler, M.A., has had a novel, Year of the Smoke Girl, published by Dry Bones Press, Roseville. Boler lives in San Francisco, where she writes and works as a paralegal. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Tarah Meyer-Martin and David Martin have started Cedant Web Hosting, a Davis company that provides Internet space for small businesses and individuals wanting a Web site. The two met in student housing, and their business is the result of David's senior-year internship experience. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Maya Mitchell graduated from Dartmouth Medical School. This June, she returned to Davis to start her residency in internal medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Melissa (Fredona) Veselovsky has joined an animal health products company, Farnam Companies Inc., in Phoenix, as assistant director of public relations. Veselovsky worked previously at Dillard's Department Stores as advertising coordinator and a visual designer for its southwest division, at UC Davis' Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital as a veterinary assistant and at the Santa Clara Humane Society. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Timothy Wylie graduated with honors from Pepperdine University School of Law in May. At Pepperdine, Wylie served as a recruiter and mentor program coordinator and received a number of honors, including Best Brief. He now works with Arthur Andersen LLP's Private Client Services group, specializing in estate and tax planning. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Olivia Boler, M.A., started a Web site, www.oliviaboler.com, that includes information on her debut novel, Year of the Smoke Girl (Dry Bones Press Inc., 1999). (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Lary Duque, M.A., Ph.D. '98, a sixth-grade teacher at Valley Oak Elementary School in Davis, was installed as bishop of the Woodland Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He also operates the Duque Tennis Academy in Davis and is a part-time lecturer in the education departments at California State University, Sacramento, and UC Davis. Duque, his wife, Sharon (Woodward) '85, M.A. '87, and their four children live in Woodland. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Matthew Fargo was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Fargo, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, is a fourth-year medical student at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He plans to begin a family practice internship at an Army hospital in the United States. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Joanna (Siden) Reed and David E. Reed II were married in October. They met at UC Davis in 1995. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Lisa Vollowitz began her first year in the M.B.A. program at Pennsylvania State's Smeal College of Business Administration. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Lani (Arms) Woods was married in Sacramento in September to Briny Adam Woods, an attorney. Woods works at California State University, Sacramento's School of the Arts and is completing a master's in communication studies at CSUS. She previously worked at Disney Feature Animation. Woods and her husband live in Elk Grove with their two Great Danes and three cats. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • John Quoc Duong has been appointed head of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. A Vietnamese immigrant, Duong served as liaison between former California Gov. Pete Wilson and the Asian community and was California's finance chair of Asian Americans for Bush. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Deborah Liu graduated with a J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law last year and is a patent attorney at Amin & Turocy LLP in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm specializes in patent prosecution and litigation as well as other aspects of intellectual property law. Liu is also getting married this fall in Dallas, Texas, where her parents live. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Todd Perlman is the night city editor for the Jersey Journal in Jersey City, N.J. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Morris Jones '96 received a master's degree in medical science in May 1999 from New York University and will be finishing his Ph.D. this year. He married Michelle Stevens '97 last October. (appeared in the Summer 2001 issue) |