Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 2000s
| 2003After an intensive two-year training program, Ryan Frank was licensed by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to supervise control room operations at the Byron Nuclear Power Generating Station near Rockford, Illinois. He previously spent six years in nuclear operations onboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, and also earned an MBA and M.S. dual-degree from Boston University Graduate School of Management. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Rose Soza War Soldier received a doctoral degree in American history with an emphasis in American Indian history from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She received a graduate student teaching excellence award. Her dissertation focuses on the San Francisco-based American Indian Historical Society. She plans to teach at the college level and promote college educational opportunities in the Indian community. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Michael Chan, vice president of ComplianceEase, has been named one of Mortgage Professional America Magazine’s “Hot 100 for 2015” for his efforts to improve mortgage lending oversight. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Construction attorney Catherine Hanna-Blentzas was named a shareholder at Sullivan Hill law firm in San Diego. She is active in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s San Diego chapter. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Business attorney Elizabeth Leet Jackson has joined Sacramento law firm Delfino Madden O’Malley Coyle & Koewler as an associate. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 2004Alfred Fuller is a graduate student in the computer engineering program at UC Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Emilio Soltero, Ph.D., has written and illustrated an instructional artbook titled Draw the Line, published by Sir Press and edited by UC Davis lecturer Dale Flynn. Soltero lives in Davis. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Ruth Hofmeister Williams has been named the executive director of TREE Davis, a nonprofit organization that promotes community forestry and street-tree care. (appeared in the Fall 2004 issue) • Ana Catarina Melica, a professional Egyptian dance artist since 1996, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study dance in Egypt for a year. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • An essay by Gordon Wang, titled “Who Am I?,” appears in a new book, Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices, edited by Arar Han and John Hsu and published by the University of Michigan Press in August. Wang is a neuroscience graduate student at UC Berkeley. (appeared in the Winter 2005 issue) • Elizabeth Eckerling is working at the Niebaum-Coppola Winery in Rutherford. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Justin Porter is working in Firebaugh at Westside Produce. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Misty Westin enrolled in the M.B.A. program at California State University, Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Lauren Whittam is currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and working as the development associate at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton. (appeared in the Summer 2005 issue) • Ryan Coultas, a sixth-round pick by the New York Mets in 2004, plays shortstop and second baseman for the Hagerstown Suns, a minor league affiliate of the Mets. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Diane Geng was chosen by National Public Radio out of 300 applicants as one of three recipients of a Kroc fellowship. The new program provides a year of intensive training for college graduates interested in pursuing radio or online journalism. (appeared in the Fall 2005 issue) • Adriane Bowman and Nick Villanueva were married in September. They live in Seattle. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Zeb Hogan, Ph.D., became the first winner of the United Nations Environment Program/Convention on Migratory Species Thesis Award for his dissertation on the endangered Mekong giant catfish. Hogan is currently working on a worldwide study of the status of giant freshwater fish, including the Mongolian taiman, the world’s largest trout (for more, see the summer 2004 issue of UC Davis Magazine). (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Kollyn Muangmaithong was named Miss Asian America in a competition held in August at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) • Paul Schramski completed a year with Green Corps—an environmental leadership training program—and now works with community-organizing groups on both coasts: in Massachusetts with Toxics Action Center to help communities combat landfill expansion and clean up toxic waste, and in California to reestablish Pesticide Watch. (appeared in the Winter 2006 issue) |