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
| 1996Eric Concannon rejoined Integral Group, the mechanical engineering firm he helped create in 1997, after spending the past several years working in Wyoming as a field instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Integral Group, formally known as Rumsey Engineers, practices green building methods. He lives in Oakland with his wife, Kristen Brown, and their 2-year-old son, Rowan.
(appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • An artificial human ovary created by Stephan Krotz was featured in Time magazine in December as one of the top 10 medical discoveries in 2010. The artificial ovary could help cancer patients have children if the individuals are able to save eggs before treatment.
(appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • In April, JIM CASSANDRO, Ph.D. ’01, became the director of operations for the Society of American Baseball Research in Phoenix, Ariz. He previously worked as director of research for baseball operations and marketing for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the director of market research for TriWest Healthcare Alliance.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • AMY (HENSON BADOVINAC) BODROZIC, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’09, and her husband, Dragan, are parents of a 20-month-old daughter, Nikolina. The couple married in 2005.
(appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Debbie (Reynolds) Viguié’s newest book Damned (Simon Pulse), co-authored with Nancy Holder, was released in August. It is the second in a supernatural young adults book series, Crusade, about a vampire-fighting couple. Viguié’s books have been on the New York Times best sellers list. She and her husband Scott Viguié ’94 live in Florida.
(appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • David Chao was promoted to manager of Canada sales operation for Cisco Systems’ collaboration software group. He previously managed the company’s public sector practice. He lives in El Dorado Hills with his wife, Patricia, and their three kids. He writes a technology blog at davidchao.typepad.com.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Liz Warren, Ph.D. ’03, was inducted into the Space Camp alumni Hall of Fame class of 2012 for her career as a physiologist at NASA and her educational outreach efforts to schoolchildren. She is an expert on the effects of space flight on the human body.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • David Chao joined Nexus IS as a regional sales manager after eight years in sales management at Cisco/WebEx. He blogs at davidchao.typepad.com and can be followed on Twitter @davidchao.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • John Schaff was recently appointed vice president and mortgage loan origination manager of First National Bank Alaska.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Erwin Taganas founded EAT Productions, a technology startup in Southern California, to manufacture Videopage, a video player for books. The project was funded through Kickstarter.
(appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Holly Berkley wrote a children’s book, Mommy, Me & My Chickens: An Urban Family’s Guide to Raising and Caring for Backyard Chickens (Watermelon Books, 2012). She is an Internet marketing professional and teaches social media courses at San Diego State University.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Deborah Stanger Edelman, M.S., co-authored The California Naturalist Handbook (UC Press, 2013). The guide to California’s natural environment was developed as part of a new statewide naturalist educational program, which she helped develop at UC Cooperative Extension in Ukiah.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Lisa Tavano-Hall, M.A., Ph.D. ’98, a psychology faculty member at California State University, Sacramento, died of complications of melanoma in a Folsom hospital in May. She was 49.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Kim Newlin joined the board of directors of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association this past fall. Newlin was inducted as a fellow in the association in 2010, and leads the California Central Valley PCNA Chapter. She practices as a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist and adult nurse practitioner at Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Roseville.
(appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • A “Jordan Insider” tour offered by David Cater’s Engaging Cultures Travel was selected as one of National Geographic Travelers magazine’s 2014 list of “50 Tours of a Lifetime.” Cater spent several years living in Tunisia with his wife and two children. He is now based in Monterey but travels to the region. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Erwin Taganas produced African Big 6 Safari Videobook (EAT Productions, 2014), with eight short films that can be viewed inside the book. The innovative publication is available on Amazon.com and on the App Store as an iBook. This year Taganas and his wife, Andrelee, also celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Victoria Anne, who was born three months early. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) |
| 1997James Garrison and Kirsten Reese '99 were married in June. Reese works at the engineering company CH2M Hill in Santa Ana, and Garrison works for the Keller Group, an investment company, in Irvine. They live in Aliso Viejo. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Marie Ann Li writes that she has "left the sunshine of California and moved to Seattle" to pursue a doctorate of pharmacy at the University of Washington. She says she "enjoys hiking, learned to snowboard and drives to Canada for fun." (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Tammy Grimm graduated from Williamette University College of Law in Salem, Ore., in May, where she was awarded both the National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate Award and the Col. Rupert E. Park Jr. Pro Bono Student of the Year Award. She has returned to Sacramento and is studying for the California State Bar Examination, hoping to practice family or immigration law. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Veena Khandke, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina, Spartanburg. Last spring, she was named Outstanding Faculty Member by the Center for Women's Studies and Programs. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) |