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
| 2000Gloria Ng wrote Name Games: A Multicultural Children’s Story, about a 9-year-old Nigerian American girl who comes to terms with her Yorùbá name after a name-calling incident. The story first appeared in Skipping Stones literary magazine. Ng later adapted it for release as an e-book. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 2001Janelle Davila was hired as performing arts outreach assistant by UC Davis Presents, the organization that offers cultural events to the campus and community. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Matt DeJong, the all-time leader in points and assists for the UC Davis men's soccer team, signed to play for the Sacramento Knights professional indoor soccer team. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Ken Loo, a financial adviser in Davis and CPR/first-aid instructor for the Red Cross in Northern California, is helping establish a UC Davis alumni chapter for resident firefighters. Alumni who served as resident firefighters at UC Davis are asked to send current contact information to Resident Firefighter Alumni Association, c/o UC Davis Fire Department, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Morgan Doran, M.S., recently joined the University of California Cooperative Extension as a livestock and natural resources farm advisor for Yolo, Solano and Napa counties. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Nalani Ngoon designed a war veterans' memorial for Roseville, inspired by her late grandfather, Chin Thlu Ngoon, a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In honor of her work, the Roseville veterans committee overseeing the project presented Ngoon with a plaque and a letter of thanks and planted a gingko tree on the Davis campus in memory of her grandfather. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Tea Austin, former Aggie swimming All-American, signed with the professional USA World Sprint Team, joining several Olympic gold medalists and world champions touring the country. He also won a silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke and a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2001 U.S. Open Swimming Championships in New York in November. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Wayne Chan, former cartoonist for The California Aggie, has published a book of his cartoons. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Mary Elizabeth, M.S., recently joined ECO:LOGIC Engineering, a company specializing in municipal water, wastewater and stormwater facility planning, design and construction management. Elizabeth is working on the CalTrans Lake Tahoe Stormwater Treatment Pilot Project, testing stormwater treatment methods that will improve water quality. She previously worked as a hydrologist for the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey and for the San Joaquin County Environmental Health Division. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Hanna Rahilly, M.F.A., performed in the Actor's Ensemble production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters in Berkeley. Rahilly previously starred in the Foothill Theatre Company's summer 2001 production of Resident Alien, which was directed by UC Davis theatre and dance professor Sheldon Deckelbaum. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Virginia "Ginger" Bevis, a UC Davis student in 2000-01, died in March of sudden cardiac death at the age of 19. She was a participant in the university's Integrated Studies program and appeared in the spring 2001 campus performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ms. Bevis planned to become an equine veterinarian. She is survived by her parents, Dennis and Kristi; her brother, Clay; and her boyfriend, Dan Gibson. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Austin Cattermole, J.D., is one of five attorneys who make up Oakland's new Neighborhood Law Corps--a program started by the city attorney to clean up poor neighborhoods. The attorneys talk with residents to determine priorities--from problem liquor stores to drug-dealing sites--and then work through the legal system for change. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Jessica Hanson, Ph.D., is an instructor at the Oxbow School in Napa, which was described by the San Jose Mercury News as "an unusual private school that is like an art colony for teen-agers." (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Navy Ensign Michael Stephen received his commission after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Stuart Wallace is a graduate student at Tufts University who also works in the radiation oncology ward at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is planning to attend medical school. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Melissa Austin and Brian Johnson, who met in 1999 while performing in and working on the stage crew for the UC Davis theatre production of Screens, were married in November in La Jolla. They live in San Diego. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Sarah Hurst is engaged to be married to Luke Dalske in May 2003. She works as a communications and research specialist at California Alliance for Jobs, a labor-management partnership that promotes the heavy construction industry. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • John Mitchell recently became the supply platoon leader for the Third Brigade, Fourth Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo. He graduated with honors from the U.S. Army ordnance officer basic course in June. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Anne Naughton is the project director at Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Second-hand Smoke (KIISS), a nonprofit organization working to reduce children's exposure to second-hand smoke and related health risks. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Renee Jeremiah currently works in Davis as campus staff for the national nonprofit organization Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship. She plans to move to Baltimore, Md., to begin the next school year as campus staff at Johns Hopkins. She can be reached at rmjeremiah@yahoo.com. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) |