Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1996Shehrzad Qureshi’s first book was published in April. The book, Embedded Image Processing on the TMS320C6000 DSP: Examples in Code Composer Studio and MATLAB (Springer), is for professional signal and image processing engineers. Qureshi lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Lubna. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Jeffrey Siu, a master of public health student at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, won two awards at the university’s 13th annual Research Appreciation Day. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Eric Swanson and Lisa (Vollowitz) Swanson were married in Malibu this past spring. The couple currently lives in San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Chris Aquino received the Peace Corps’ 2005 Franklin H. Williams Award, which recognizes former Peace Corps volunteers for continued commitment to community service. He is currently working as a consultant/trainer for a partnership between the United Way and the Alaska Initiative for Community Engagement. Aquino lives in Anchorage, Alaska. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Bruce Janacek, Ph.D., was promoted to associate professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Ill. A resident of Oak Park, Ill., Janacek is currently finishing a monograph titled Alchemical Revelations: Belief, Knowledge and the Search for Stability in 17th Century England. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Noah Apodaca, a senior recruiter in human resources at UC Irvine, has created UC’s first online new employee-orientation program. Other campuses in the system, including UCLA and UC Davis, have expressed interest in consulting with Apodaca about creating their own online orientation projects. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Heather Bristol was married in Capitola in 2004 to Matt Long. They currently live in Mountain View, where Bristol is working on a second master’s degree in a physician’s assistant program through the Arizona School of Health Sciences, and Long is an aerospace engineer for Lockheed Martin. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Jonathan Fong recently graduated from the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Academy. He had worked for eight years as a sales executive with United Parcel Service, but, he says, with the support of his wife, Caroline Wong ’96, he is now fulfilling his goal of helping people directly. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • David Trowbridge was recently selected for subspecialty training in cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Liz Warren, Ph.D. ’03, was appointed deputy project scientist for artificial gravity at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. As part of the artificial gravity project, Warren works to develop a human centrifuge that can be used to study ways to simulate gravity and ameliorate the negative effects of long-duration flights on astronauts. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • William Wagner and his wife, Joanna, welcomed their first child, a girl, Lauren Ariel, in July. The family lives in San Francisco. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Ariel Weissmann died suddenly in July 2006 at the age of 33. After graduating from UC Davis, Dr. Weissmann completed M.D. and M.Ph. degrees at Harvard Medical School. He was a third-year resident at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Weissmann was also, with his father, the creator of “Veat,” a vegetarian meat substitute, an endeavor that he began during his time as an undergraduate. Survivors include his children, David and Jonathan, and his fiancée, Karen Patterson. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Joanne Levengood, M.S., works with her father at Manatawny Creek Winery in Amity Township, Penn. A former environmental engineer, Levengood studied winemaking at UC Davis and now serves as winemaker for the 10-year-old venture. The winery’s 88 acres have been in the family for nearly a century. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Steve Spadarotto, M.B.A., was honored by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management with its Distinguished Achievement Award for 2006. Spadarotto is a member of the school’s Dean’s Advisory Council and currently serves as senior vice president of operations for Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Lary Duque, M.A., received tenure at Brigham Young University– Idaho. A faculty member in the Department of Teacher Education, Duque also coaches youth tennis and fulfills ecclesiastical responsibilities for the university, which is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He writes that he enjoys the Tetons and Yellowstone, and tries to grow tomatoes in an area with a very short summer. He lives with his wife, Sharon (Woodward) Duque, B.A. ’85, M.A. ’88, and their children in Rexburg, Idaho. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Amy Eggert was recently promoted to pension consultant in the Roseville office of Polycomp, a consulting firm providing customized retirement plans and benefit administration. In her new position, she will focus on broker development and retention and design retirement and benefit plans. Before joining Polycomp, Eggert was a plan administrator and accounting clerk for various Sacramento firms. She lives in Sacramento. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Olivia Boler, M.A., recently had her short story “On the Wall” published in an anthology of art, poetry and prose called Cheers to Muses (Asian American Women Artists Association). For more information, visit www.aawaaart.com. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • David Chao, and his wife, Patricia, welcomed their first child, Phoebe Elizabeth, in January 2005 and are expecting their second daughter this July. David is a regional manager at WebEx Communications, a provider of Web collaboration software applications. He ranks in the top 1 percent of worldwide corporate sales for the company and is the top producer in the Rancho Cordova office. Patricia is a human resources generalist and recruiter for Xyratex. The two live in Sacramento and have two dogs. David’s blog can be found at davidchao.typepad.com. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Michael David Mandell and Andy Read ’97 are co-founders of Caldecott Properties, a real estate office in Oakland that is noted for its unconventional office design. Reflecting their modern approach to real estate and the properties they sell, their office eschews cubicles and worn furnishings and instead has 22-foot-high ceilings and a triangle shape. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Eric “Mongo” Robbins has written The Casual Conservationist: The Little Green Book of Proven Ideas and Practical Ideals for Leading a Better Life (Windswept Words). In the book, he shares his practices and philosophies for conserving natural resources for people who lead busy lives. In support of that message, he traveled the country this summer to talk with Americans, chronicling the journey on his blog, www.HowToConserve.com. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) |