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
| 2005Darcy Gordon, Ph.D., manages Localita’ il Piano www.localitailpiano.it, a small organic farm and agriturismo B&B near Spoleto, Italy, where she lives with her husband, Adolfo Rosati, and two young sons. She enjoys cultivating heritage and unusual fruit and vegetable varieties, including some 450 different kinds of apples, and sustainably producing milk, eggs and meat.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Yasmine Khan wrote a chapter in the anthology Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull Press, 2012), published in February. Khan is one of 25 Muslim women writers, ranging from orthodox to secular, who wrote about their own personal experiences with dating and love.
(appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Sherry Jackman joined the San Francisco law firm Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp in April. She previously worked in the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings, specializing in environmental law. After graduating, she earned her law degree and M.B.A. at UCLA.
(appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Ryan Clark and Lynda Tran, who met on an alumni trip in Europe, married in September in Yountville. They live in Napa, where Ryan is general manager of Kelly Fleming Wines and Lynda is a family dentist and partner at Redwood Dental. Several Aggies attended the wedding, including bridesmaids Keri Rannachan ’06, Jennifer Carabez ’06 and Amy Banham ’06.
(appeared in the Fall 2012 issue) • Becca Fielding-Miller, a public health doctoral student at Emory University, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to study in Swaziland this academic year. She will be doing research for her dissertation on transactional sex and HIV risk. She previously lived in Swaziland while earning her master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. As a Peace Corps volunteer during 2006–08, she lived in a South African village.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Eva Gillham, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was recently certified as a consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. She is the assistant director of research and analytics at Educational Services of America, where she researches best practices in alternative and special education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. She received her master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Idaho.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Bobeck Modjtahedi, M.D. ’09, finished an ophthalmology residency at UC Davis in June and received a $10,000 fellowship from the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation to continue his postgraduate training in retina surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston.
(appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • A debut novel by Stephan Clark, M.A., Sweetness #9, was released in August by Little, Brown and Company. His short story collection, Vladimir’s Mustache (Russian Life Books, 2012) was a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. Clark teaches English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and blogs at stephanclark.com. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Kathleen (Flanagan) Cheatham and husband, Corey Cheatham, welcomed their first child, son Corey Jr., on June 4. They live in Castro Valley. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • The Dalai Lama honored Susan Dix Lyons, M.A., as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion” in San Francisco in February for her work in running a sustainably designed health-care clinic for women and children living in poverty in Nicaragua. A former journalist, she founded Clinica Verde in Boaco, Nicaragua, in 2007. It now serves more than 1,100 patients a month. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Ryan Fuller completed his Ph.D. in communication at UC Santa Barbara in September 2014. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) • Corinne Gartner, J.D., was promoted to partner at Delfino Madden O’Malley Coyle & Koewler law firm in Sacramento. She advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations on business matters. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue) |
| 2006Tiffany Mott received a one-year fellowship from the Association of American Public Health Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study emerging infectious diseases at a CDC laboratory. (appeared in the Fall 2006 issue) • Matt Fung was hired as an engineer-in-training at ConSol in Stockton, where he will work on heating, ventilation and air-conditioning design projects for new residential construction. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Anthony Pucci is a second lieutenant currently on active duty with the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Okla. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Stephanie Jackson was named assistant account executive at Chase Communications, a public relations and marketing communications agency in San Francisco. Previously, she had worked as an intern with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, both in Sacramento. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Patrick Crawley was recently named the new facility manager for UC Davis’ Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. He has been a member of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association family for nearly four years. Crawley started working in Alumni Relations as the lead student for CAAA’s membership fulfillment program and subsequently assumed the facility manager duties on an interim basis in fall 2006. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Jill Johnsen, Ph.D., currently holds a nanotechnology postdoctoral appointment at the Exploratorium in San Francisco—one of four such positions sponsored in 2002 by the National Science Foundation in an innovative program to encourage the public’s interest in science. She creates activities for school children and other Exploratorium visitors that convey sophisticated science through simple materials, including a recipe for making a homemade nanocrystalline solar cell with an ingredient list that includes blackberries. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Aldrich Tan works as a general assignment and online reporter at The Northwestern in Oshkosh, Wis., where he now lives. Some of his work can be read at www.aldrichtan.com. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Janine Lee is founder and CEO of Capture the Dream Inc. (www.capturethedream.org) a nonprofit Oakland-based organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged and at-risk individuals succeed at school and find fulfilling, sustaining careers. Founded last year, the organization provides financial aid to low-income families, single-parent homes, foster children and children recovering from traumas, while providing mentoring, education, arts and cultural programs. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) |