Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 2000s
| 2003Anders Hansson writes that he is “now living as a nomad” as he begins his externship rotations as a fourth-year optometry student at the Illinois College of Optometry, living in “such exotic places as Canton, Ohio, and Winston-Salem, N.C.” (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Renee LeFever accepted a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Services, as an animal health technician. She now lives north of Appleton, Minn., on a 400-acre crop and livestock farm with her husband of two years, Eldon Westhausen. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • First Lt. Thomas Lemmons was deployed to Iraq in August, for a 14-month assignment with the U.S. Army. A helicopter pilot, Lemmons has flown medical flights in the Sacramento area for three years and training flights over Egypt. His wife, Paige, and two children, Peyton and Kendall, live in Tracy. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • John Walsh is founder and managing director of a nonprofit organization called Journeys Within Our Community, which focuses on health and education projects to combat poverty in Southeast Asia. Its projects have included installation of water wells in poor rural areas, sponsorship of a language school and university students, and support of Peace Village, a facility in Hanoi that helps children who suffer the effects of Agent Orange. The organization is based in Cambodia. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Neil Bernardi is the assistant winemaker for Duckhorn Winery’s Goldeneye label in Philo. He is also vice president of the Anderson Valley Wine Grower’s Association and is currently planning the association’s annual Pinot Fest. Bernardi and his new wife, Kimberly Rossiter, live in the Anderson Valley. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Michelle Kleisath is co-founder and executive director of the Shem Women’s Group, a nonprofit organization in Xining, China, that relies on small-scale, grassroots development to improve life for impoverished Tibetans. A gender studies course she took her first year at UC Davis started her down this unfamiliar path, she told the San Francisco Chronicle, which profiled her in an article in February. Before founding her group, Kleisath taught English, sociology and an all-female gender studies class at the Qinghai Normal University in China. She plans to return to the U.S. in September, after four years in China, to pursue a doctorate in anthropology while continuing to work with Shem. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Matt Smith has been accepted to the Anderson School at UCLA where he will pursue his M.B.A. in the fall. He and his wife, Jessica (Madden) Smith ’04, a third-grade teacher, have been living in Los Angeles since he returned from a tour in Afghanistan in 2005. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Van Ta traveled to Honduras with the Medical College of Virginia medical brigade this past summer. This team of physicians and medical students provided health care to over 3,000 patients in 12 remote villages. Ta is a third-year medical student at the college. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Katharine Devany plans to marry Joseph Thrasher in October. Devany is a third-grade teacher in Danville, and Thrasher is a vice president at Energy Technology Laboratories in Modesto. The two will live in Oakdale. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Anders Hansson graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry in May and is now enrolled in a one-year residency program in ocular disease at the Columbus/Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Carol Karlewicz joined the staff of the Indianapolis Veterinary Emergency Center, Central Indiana’s emergency and critical care clinic for pets. She is also active in Indianapolis as a court-appointed special advocate in child advocacy. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Matthew MacLeod has worked in two San Diego firms since graduating from the UC Davis landscape architecture program. He is now completing a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Cornell University. He writes that he continues to annually dress in the Spider-Man costume that he wore on the Quad during his Davis years. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Him-Hoo Yap, M.P.V.M., was awarded the bronze Public Administration Medal at Singapore’s National Day awards this year. He is head of the Animal, Meat and Seafood Regulatory Branch of the Food and Veterinary Administration of the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority in Singapore. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Matt Bakker, M.S., M.A. ’07, is co-author of the book Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante, with UC Davis Professor Michael Peter Smith. The work is the result of five years of ethnographic field research conducted in communities in Mexico and California. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Katharine Devany and Joseph Thrasher were married in October. Her bridesmaids included alumni Malea (Doore) Mordaunt ’01, Kelly Pisani ’02 and Michelle (Devencenzi) Rhein ’02. Devany is a second-grade teacher at Crossroads Elementary School in Riverbank. Thrasher is a vice president for Energy Technology Laboratories in Modesto. The couple honeymooned in Maui, Hawaii, and lives in Oakdale. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Matthew Massari recently joined the litigation practice group of Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento’s largest law firm, as an associate attorney. His practice will focus on civil litigation and intellectual property. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Rebecca Gardner, J.D., is an estate planning and probate associate in the Business Services Practice Group of McDonough Holland & Allen in Sacramento. Gardner is also the director of the Sacramento Estate Planning Council and a member of the Sacramento Area Special Needs Trust Study Group. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Gerhardt Wagner, Ph.D., is a resident at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Erin McClelland married Dennis Liggio in April in Austin, Texas. They honeymooned in Maui. They live in Austin, where she works as an interpretive planner for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and he works for video game developer and publisher Trion World Networks. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Janet Cho, an Asia Pacific regional specialist with the U.S. Department of Defense, was awarded the Mike Mansfield Fellowship from the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. She will spend a year in Washington, D.C., learning about Japan and its landscape before working for the Japanese government for a year. The program is designed to build a corps of U.S. government officials with Japanese expertise. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue) |