Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 1990s
| 1997Greg Pirak married Tara Sommervold last year, and the couple has started an agricultural retail business in South Dakota, Valley Ag Supply Inc. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jesse Saich writes that he "spent three idyllic years after graduation teaching English in Slovenia and traveling around central Europe." Last year he married Andreja Spegel and has been working as a publications editor at Electronic Data Systems in Rancho Cordova. This fall he begins an M.A. program at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Kansas. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Jeff Carlson starred in Edward Albee's Broadway play The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, which won a 2002 Tony Award for best play. His performance in the four-person production earned high praise from reviewers, including Ben Brantley of The New York Times: "Jeffrey Carlson, who plays adolescent angst like Greek tragedy (as adolescents will), comes the closest in the cast to a happy medium that melds the character's dazzling way with words and their elemental fears." Carlson came to UC Davis intending to pursue a career as a veterinarian, but his theater experience prompted him to switch majors and eventually go on to receive a degree from the Juilliard School. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Ted and Teresa Greenman got married the year they graduated from UC Davis, then went on to obtain master's degrees in organizational psychology from Columbia University in New York City. Teresa worked for National Bank of Canada in Manhattan as an organizational psychology specialist, and Ted worked for Bear, Stearns Investment Bank as a human resources manager before they returned to their home state of California in summer 2000. They have since started their own business, Greenman Construction & Remodeling, and a family--with their first child born last October. They live in El Dorado Hills. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Gwendolyn Lewis Huddleston, M.F.A, has been named academic director for the graphic design and fashion design departments at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. Huddleston, who has been a faculty member at the institute for four years, has more than 20 years of experience in graphic design, fashion and the visual arts, working with such clients as Coca-Cola, Warner Brothers, Dole, Sun Maid and UC Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Christina Stroup is a first-year student in an M.D. program at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The program--a collaborative effort with Columbia University--is the first medical degree program specifically designed to train doctors for the practice of international health and medicine. Stroup obtained a master of science degree in nutrition from Columbia University this year and has spent time in rural Tanzania working on community health projects. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Scott Johnson started working for UC Davis in undergraduate admissions in September. His wife, Shannon, is teaching kindergarten at Mohr Elementary in the Pleasanton Unified School District after finishing her credential at St. Mary's College in Moraga in 2000. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Robert Longbottom was ordained an Episcopal priest in September in Visalia, where he is the new curate for St. Paul's Episcopal Church. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Lynda Stephenson Payne, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was married to William Everett in her home village in England in May. Everett is also employed at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Erin Portillo, M.S. '98, received her doctor of veterinary medicine degree in May from Oklahoma State University and is an intern at Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • David Rizzardo is a licensed engineer for the California Department of Water Resources. He and his wife, JulŽ (Humberstone) Rizzardo, live in Roseville and are active supporters of UC Davis civil engineering students. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Lisa Franco, J.D., an attorney with her own practice in Sacramento, was profiled in the Sacramento Bee in an article that described her as "fiery" and "well-prepared" and discussed her successful criminal defense practice. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Patrick Len, Ph.D., and Heather McElroy '02 were married in Modesto in September, then honeymooned on an Alaskan Inside Passage cruise. Heather is a lab technician at the UC Davis Foundation for Plant Materials Sciences, and Patrick has been a lecturer in introductory physics at UC Davis for the past six years. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Marie Ann Li is working on a doctor of pharmacy degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, expecting to graduate in June 2004. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Cara Sloman works for the American Red Cross as the emergency preparedness manager in Seattle, Wash. She spent a month at the end of the year in Guam helping with relief efforts after Super Typhoon Pongsonga. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Jim Sweeney proposed to Colleen Chavez '96 last April at the top of Machu Picchu, Chile. They are to be married in July at Stinson Beach. The couple lives in the Oakland Hills. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Angela Gieber is working on a master's degree in biomedical lab sciences at San Francisco State. She has worked at Genentech for six years. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Lindsay Harrington received a J.D. from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in May. She was chief managing editor of Volume 34 of the McGeorge Law Review and contributed to the fall 2002 issue of the California Initiative Review. She can be contacted via e-mail at harringtonls@earthlink.net. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Neal Presa was ordained as a Presbyterian minister and installed as the pastor of the Middlesex Presbyterian Church in Middlesex, N.J. He and his wife, Grace, recently welcomed a son, Daniel. Presa can be reached at ndpresa@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Serena Patitucci Torvik, J.D., is an associate at Palo Alto law firm Thoits, Love, Hershberger & McLean, where she specializes in business and real estate litigation. She married Andy Torvik over Memorial Day weekend, and the couple now lives in Pacifica. Guests at their wedding reception included Maylene Nafrada, J.D. '96; Derek Boswell, J.D. '97; Vickie Wood, J.D. '97; Kaylee (Newell) Allen '93, J.D. '97; and Sean Allen, J.D. '98. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) |