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 2000s
| 2000Vera Devera accepted a position as account coordinator with ANTHEM Worldwide, a branding and packaging design agency. She will assist the senior management team with managing client projects, business development and support of internal company initiatives. Devera lives in Oakland. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Caitlin O’Connell, Ph.D., has written The Elephant’s Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa (Free Press). Elephants’ secret sense—the ability to hear through their feet—was also the subject of two lectures O’Connell delivered on campus in May. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Haguy Wigdor says that, after deciding he was “too social” for his engineering job, he moved to Los Angeles where he has been working as an actor, securing roles in General Hospital, Nash Bridges, Munich and recently West Bank Story, which received an Academy Award for best live action short film. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Jenni and Mike Murrill ’02 welcomed their first child, a son named Riley Davis, in September. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Caitlin O’Connell, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. O’Connell made a groundbreaking discovery about how elephants “listen” to vibrations and communicate with each other. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Kenneth James Soto was married in August to Francine Marie Tobias in San Bruno. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Melissa Nelson, Ph.D., edited the book Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (Bear & Company). The work highlights practices of indigenous peoples that, if employed, could provide solutions to modern global ecological and social problems. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Lorrell (Kenney) Walter and her husband, Jim, welcomed their first child, Loriana Mae, on Thanksgiving Day. Lorrell is the director of public relations at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y. Jim is the executive director of Madison County Tourism. They live in Chittenango, N.Y. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • The U.S. Army awarded Marlon Cobar, J.D., the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service, an award comparable to the military Army Commendation Medal, for his work on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice in Iraq. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Eric Beiswanger received a J.D. degree from Rutgers School of Law in May and is returning to California after being in South Africa. He had been selected by Rutgers to travel to that country and interview members of the Constitutional Court and drafters of the South African Constitution in order to write a policy paper on the country's approach to social change through recognition of human rights. This past summer, Beiswanger also externed for the Hispanic National Bar Foundation, helping organize mock trial competitions and mentoring at-risk students while meeting with leaders in Washington D.C. In addition, he plans to marry Jacki Quick, a fellow Rutgers law graduate, in Prague. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Former members of the UC Davis Hawaii Club (Na Keiki O Hawaii) got together in May in Honolulu for an annual reunion. Attending were Jason Dacumos '03, Tracie Kobayashi '00, Laurie Hirahara '03, Christina Tom '02, James Chan '02 and Richelle Nakata '03. They all currently live in Hawaii. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Alexander Chan founded BullPad.com, an Internet site that allows users to directly communicate with one another anonymously. Chan says the idea for the start-up originated partly in an M.B.A. marketing class at St. Mary's College. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Tracy Finlayson won the 2008 Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award for young professionals during the American Public Health Association's annual meeting. She was honored for her research on oral health disparities among black children in Detroit, which she has written about in public health dental journals. Finlayson is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Administration at San Diego State University's Graduate School of Public Health. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Amy (Saunders) Lawson and Jonathan Lawson welcomed their new daughter last August. Carly Anne Lawson was born in Katy, Texas, where both of her parents teach mathematics. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) • Archer Norris announced that Alissa Pleau-Fuller and Erin Gallagher, J.D. ’08, are new associates for the Walnut Creek-based law firm. Pleau-Fuller is an associate in the firm’s litigation and insurance litigation practices, and Gallagher works with the insurance and appellate practice groups. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • MEREDITH (HAMPSON) LUNDY and her husband, Kevin, welcomed their second child, Ryan James, in January. Their older son, Brendan, is 2 years old, and they live in Louisville, Ky. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • JOSEPH JOHNSON and REBECCA (EMMERICH) JOHNSON ’00 welcomed their second child, Isaac Samuel Johnson, in April. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Erin MacDougall, Ph.D., is a Seattle-based public health professional working in the areas of healthy eating and active living, childhood obesity prevention and food policy. She was recently awarded a Food and Society Policy Fellowship to advance media coverage of food policy and public health. In September, she married Steven Walters near Seattle. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Anne Henderson and Aaron Perkins planned to marry in September near Grass Valley. They live in Sacramento, where Henderson works for an architectural firm and Perkins is in management. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Bartt Gunter married Sepideh Reghabi in August. In attendance was her sister, Bahar Reghabi, who studied in a UC Davis master’s program from 1997 to 2000. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) |