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
| 2002Leah Dansker teaches first grade in Fremont, where she was named Most Promising New Teacher in June. She is also pursuing an administrative credential and an M.A. in educational leadership. (appeared in the Spring 2006 issue) • Rouzbeh Daylami married Natalie May ’04 in June 2004. In May, he will graduate with his M.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University and will begin his residency training in general surgery at UC Davis Medical Center. He writes that they are excited to return to Davis. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Natalia Celuch Gaerlan and her husband, James, welcomed a new daughter named Malaya last year. In September, Natalia was promoted to project manager at Sacramento-based landscape architecture firm RJM Design Group, and in March she became a licensed landscape architect. In addition, Natalia still found time in January to win big on Wheel of Fortune! (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Sara Raffo and Heather Davis started the Davis design firm Twin Theory, which received the 2005 American Graphic Design Award from industry publication Graphic Design USA. Twin Theory was also honored in March with a Dottie Award from the American Marketing Association/Sacramento Valley Chapter for outstanding Web design. (appeared in the Summer 2006 issue) • Tim Lee, Ph.D., is a full-time stand-up comic and aspiring actor who recently made a documentary about comedians called A Comic Calling. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • The Rev. Jonathan Scanlon was ordained in July and installed as a pastoral resident at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Rebecca Lewison, Ph.D., has become a faculty member of San Diego State University’s biology department. In her research, Lewison studies the effects of resource and land use on wildlife populations. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Brian Bunt was named marketing manager of Windsor Mill, a manufacturer of trim boards and moldings in Windsor. Before joining Windsor Mill, Bunt served as the general manager for Clean CrawlSpace in Santa Rosa. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Anya Milani recently graduated from California State University, East Bay, with a master of science in speech and language pathology. She hopes to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology in the fall. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Charles Johnston is an intensive care and critical care transport nurse in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Amy Sekhon, M.S. ’03, graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in May and began her residency in family medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Jennifer Thayer was named an alumni events officer for UC Davis Alumni Relations. Thayer had worked with Campus Events and Visitor Services as an event coordinator since 1999. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Last May, Christina Tom received her Master of Science in nursing from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Md. She now works as a family nurse practitioner at Hana Health, a community health center in Hana, Maui. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • A novel by Spring Warren, M.A., Turpentine (Grove/Atlantic Press), will be published in late August. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Alexandra Greene died at age 28 in April 2007 in a private plane crash in Sedona, Ariz. She was a fourth-year student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, planning to graduate in June and serve a residency with the university’s emergency medicine department. During her undergraduate years at UC Davis, Ms. Greene worked as an emergency medical technician, as well as a wilderness first-responder and volunteer for the California-6 Disaster Medical Assistance Team. She also volunteered in Guatemala, at the UC Davis emergency department and at student-run clinics in Sacramento, where she lived. Greene is survived by her husband, Daniel Micsunescu, a surgery resident with the UC Davis Health System; her parents, Robert and Kathleen Greene; and her brother. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Alex Johnston begins graduate work this fall in the security studies program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before that, he had served for three years with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq and in Afghanistan. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Yoona “Lauren” Kim earned a teaching credential from Saint Mary’s College of Moraga in 2004 and is now a fifth-grade teacher at Neil Armstrong Elementary School in San Ramon. Kim was selected for inclusion in the upcoming book Who’s Who Among American Teachers. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Gwen Young, J.D., is working with Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)—an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates and the Rockefeller foundations. She recently finished coordinating the launch of AGRA and the announcement of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as chair of the board. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Aric Merolli and Emily Plett-Miyake were married in July in the mountains just south of Yosemite. Attendants included Jessica (Hodgson) Hennigan ’02, James Qaqundah ’02 and Greg Novotny ’01. Merolli and Plett-Miyake honeymooned in Belize before returning to their home in Alexandria, Va. Merolli graduated in 2007 from the University of Massachusetts with a master’s degree in regional planning and is currently employed as a landscape architect by Studio 39 in Alexandria. Plett-Miyake graduated in 2006 from Vermont Law School with a J.D. and Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree and is employed as an attorney with the Environmental Natural Resources Group of Perkins Coie LLC in Washington, D.C. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • After graduation Katherine Dennis spent two and a half years with the Peace Corps in Panama working with the indigent. She is now in her final year of graduate school at the University of Maryland. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) |