Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 2000s
| 2000Christina Urrea is a crisis intervention specialist at grammar schools in Concord. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Rebecca Emmerich was recently married to Joseph Johnson '98. They live in Concord. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Elizabeth Dustin Mann took her own life in July 2002. She was 25 years old. At the time of her death, Ms. Mann was manager of personal and professional development with Newton Learning Corp., an organization that conducts seminars to help people improve their lives. Ms. Mann's family noted that she always thought she could make the world a better place, and she did, and that she will always be remembered as a healer, a writer, an artist and a dancer. She is survived by her father and mother, Joseph and Marcia; her brother, Joseph; and two uncles. (appeared in the Fall 2002 issue) • Ken Loo has been working as a firefighter with Contra Costa County Fire Protection District for the past year. As part of the national efforts against terrorism, he was recently trained as an instructor for Public Service Personnel for Emergency Response to Terrorism Operations. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Ryan Sharp is the new research director of the Sacramento Regional Research Institute, which provides economic and demographic analyses to communities, government agencies and businesses. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Jennifer Troutman moved to Boston last year and works as an office manager for an Internet company. She is interested in hearing from other Aggies living in the Boston area and can be contacted at jtroutman@intellispace.net. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Anjela Ford is working as a teen educator in Sacramento at WEAVE (Women Escaping A Violent Environment). She plans to return to school to do graduate work in psychology. (appeared in the Spring 2003 issue) • Justin Compton has recently started a Ph.D. program at Penn State in wildlife ecology. He worked as a research coordinator for the University of Georgia at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory for a year after receiving his M.S. in ecology from Michigan Technological University in 2002. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Melissa Morgan was promoted to branch manager of Vector Marketing's Eureka office. She joined the company in 2001 as a sales representative. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Research by Kathy Rousso, M.F.A., on morrales, bags made of the maguey plant, has led to an exhibition of the bags at the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena in Guatemala City. Rousso conducted her research with funding from a Fulbright grant. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Virginia Whitney Weigand won third place in the competition for the University of California Poet Laureate. The UC Davis graduate student won two other prizes from UC Davis in 2000. (appeared in the Summer 2003 issue) • Cathy Dean has started an editing and publisher proposal and submission business in Davis called Author's Helper. She can be reached at catdean@aol.com. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Michelle Jacobson has received a master's degree in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University and will attend the university's medical school in the fall. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Adrian Nunez works on Latino health issues as a policy analyst with the Latino Issues Forum, a statewide public policy and advocacy institute in San Francisco. Previously, Nunez was the community outreach specialist with the San Francisco Health Plan. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Chris Ramsey has left the UC Davis Annual Fund to work as the director of the UCLA Call Center, where he will be responsible for raising more than $4 million in annual gifts for that campus. (appeared in the Fall 2003 issue) • Andria Bordas, M.S., works in Fairfax County as an agent for the Virginia Cooperative Extension, where she supervises a horticultural help line for home gardeners. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • DeAnna Cuslidge-Solina earned her law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Heather Gorby recently received a master's degree in psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and is continuing with the Ph.D. program there, studying the effect of elevated stress hormones on brain anatomy and behavior. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Lorrell Kenney married James Walter in July in Yorba Linda. The maid of honor was Valerie Sill '99; bridesmaids included Christine Aguiar '99, Jennifer Buckley '02 and Stacy (Pettigrew) Lickiss '98, D.V.M. '92. The couple lives in Chittenango, N.Y., where Kenney is director of public relations and promotions for the New York Beef Industry Council, and Walter is the executive director of Madison County tourism. (appeared in the Winter 2004 issue) • Katie (O’Donnell) Arosteguy recently completed her M.A. in English at California State University, Sacramento, and is currently in the teacher credential program there. In September, she married Robert Arosteguy ’01, who is working on his M.A. in sociology at CSUS and is a behavior specialist for Stanford Home for Children in Sacramento. They live in West Sacramento with their three cats. (appeared in the Spring 2004 issue) |