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Class Notes Archive 1931-2014

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Class notes from the 2000s

2001Kristen Richardson is soon to be married to John Faber. The wedding will take place this July in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue)   Kevin Standish, M.S. ’03, and Abbi (Black) Standish had their first child, Nathan James, in November. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue)    Jaime Anschultz married Steven Nichols in Ventura in June. Bridesmaids included Vanessa Gatewood-Riggs '02 and Kristen Richardson Faber '01. Anschultz plans to return to school to become a labor and delivery nurse. The couple lives in Oak Park. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue)    Ardie Zahedani has been hired as associate principal by the RCH Group, a real estate consulting and advisory service company in Sacramento. Zahedani's expertise is in public policy, political affairs and land-use advocacy. He was most recently the lobbyist and political director for the North State Building Industry Association and, before that, served as policy director for Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. He and his wife, Lauren, were married this May and live in Folsom. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue)    Janet (Crosbie) Mueller married Jason Mueller in Berkeley in September 2008. They live in the East Bay Area. She is currently working in publishing while he works in solar electricity. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue)    LAURA GALDORISI and J.T. O’SULLIVAN got married in Coronado in April. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue)    LAURA GALDORISI and J.T. O’SULLIVAN got married in Coronado in April. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue)    Mike Reilly made the independent film Road to Victory, which was selected to be a part of more than 10 international film festivals and has won six awards. The film, which was recently released on DVD nationwide, follows a college football player’s relationships and steroid drug usage. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue)    Kelly Covello is manager of industry relations for the Almond Board of California, where she is responsible for communications to growers and handlers. She and her husband, Mark, have a 2-year-old daughter, Chloe Anne. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue)    Melissa Davis and her husband since 2003, John Cordes, welcomed their son Julius James Cordes, in December. He was born three months early and came home to the family ranch in Nebraska in March. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue)    Alonzo Garcia and Irma (Nevarez) Garcia welcomed their second daughter Liliana “Lilly” Irma in June. She joins sister Jazmin Erika. The family lives in West Sacramento. Alonzo is a senior component design engineer at Intel Corp., and Irma is a consultant manager at Accenture. Juan Nevarez ’05 is the proud uncle. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue)    Ryan Sanchez spent the past nine years at Genentech and earned an M.B.A. from Sacramento State University in 2009. He is now a first year law student at UC Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue)    Nick Rapach and Jennifer Co ’03 were married in August. They met as students while working at the UC Davis Bookstore. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue)    Darren Pollock began a historical theology doctorate program at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Mich. He spent the last six years as the director of student ministries for La Crescenta Presbyterian Church. He is a 2004 Master of Divinity graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue)    Miriam Nuñez earned an associate degree in advanced health and fitness training from Bryan College, Sacramento, in June. She is now working as a personal trainer. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue)    Ardie Zahedani and his wife, Lauren, welcomed their second child in April. Ryan was born in Folsom and joins big brother, Kian Matthieu. (appeared in the Fall 2011 issue)    Former U.S. Marine Corps Capt. John Jacob Rutherford IV was sworn into the U.S. Foreign Service in February. He heads to Yekaterinburg, Russia, in late August for a two-year assignment as a vice consul. He spent a decade in the Marine Corps, the last two years as its White House liaison to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. He also was an F/A-18 Hornet pilot. In Russia, his wife Mara (Joseph) will work at the U.S. consulate as a community liaison office coordinator. The Rutherfords have a son, Jack, 2. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue)    Kirk DeClark and his wife, Kristin, welcomed their first child, Kolby Dennis, in March. They live in New York City. (appeared in the Fall 2012 issue)    Jonathan Eastman is an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery with the UC Davis Health System. He joined the Medical Center’s trauma services in September. Eastman completed a five-year residency in orthopaedic surgery at UC Davis in 2011, and spent a year as an orthopaedic trauma surgery fellow at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue)    Andrew Gordus and Sara (Oliver) Gordus welcomed a baby boy, Oliver Cazador Gordus, in November in New York City. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue)