Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
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Class notes from the 2000s
| 2007Business school grad Landon Tymochko, M.B.A., just opened Camp Bow Wow (www.campbowwow-elkgrove.com) in Elk Grove. Camp Bow Wow is a national dog daycare and boarding franchise; this is the third camp on the West Coast. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Richard Frischer has been named music critic for Carrie Leigh’s NUDE, a photography, art and culture magazine. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Bernadette Austin, M.S., is serving on the board of the Alchemist Community Development Corp., a grassroots nonprofit organization founded in 2004 by graduate students in the UC Davis Community Development Graduate Group. The organization promotes an equitable and diverse Sacramento through projects like its Urban Farm Stand, which serves the Alkali Flat neighborhood in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Christa Clark Jones recently won the Fit City competition, an international competition sponsored by Oxford Health Alliance for young people, with her video, A Bicycle Story. The competition is designed to provoke discussion about the impact of urban environments on human health. Her prize is a trip to Sydney, Australia, for the Oxford Health Alliance Summit this February. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Carléna Henderson is in the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon, now in its 34th year of sold-out performances in San Francisco. It is her professional debut. A San Francisco Chronicle feature about auditions in September 2007 mentioned her and included her photograph. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Josh Laddin launched a video game blog in November with Asianweek.com in San Francisco, the largest Asian Pacific American news outlet. His blog, AsianGeek (www.asiangeek.asianweek.com), will feature reviews and previews of new games and interviews with Asian Americans working in the video game profession. (appeared in the Spring 2009 issue) • Talia Kennedy received her master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May. (appeared in the Fall 2009 issue) • Michael Rocco Jacobellis was recently commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant with the U.S. Marine Corps. While at UC Davis, Jacobellis played baseball all four years. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Ka-Fung Koo works for Ajaxo Inc. In August, he helped launch www.Ajaxo.com, a free search engine designed to find groceries on sale in different neighborhoods. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Terry Sharff died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in November at Cherry Meadows Hospice in Wisconsin. She was 49. Born in Paris, Texas, she spent 20 years as a software engineer consultant. During her time at UC Davis, she worked on Diane Feinstein’s Senate campaign, and later blogged in support of President Obama’s campaign. Sharff, a vegetarian, loved animals and the environment, and supported civil liberty causes. She is survived by her domestic partner, Lisa “Le” Osburn and her two sons, Erin and Ryan Wellock. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Megan O’Connor graduated in December from the U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School in New London, Conn. She finished in the top 10 percent of her class, was voted to the Honor Company as platoon executive officer and held the highest athletic ranking in her class. She has been commissioned to the rank of ensign and is currently serving in the Law Enforcement Division in Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • Carleen Baldwin earned her Ph.D. in physical therapy from Western University of Health Sciences in Pasadena in May. She received the Outstanding Clinical Performance Award. (appeared in the Fall 2010 issue) • Tom Shapland was awarded a 2010 Lindbergh Grant in agriculture and water conservation for his project, Conserving Global Water Resources by Developing Inexpensive Technology to Measure Crop Water Demand, in August. A viticulture and enology graduate student at UC Davis, Shapland was chosen from 166 applicants worldwide. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • DEVIN WHITNEY became the California Health Institute’s associate director for state government affairs in April. He previously worked for TechAmerica as the director for Northwest government affairs in Sacramento. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • GINA GRACE and OMAR GONZALEZ were married last November. She works for state Sen. Bill Emmerson (R-Riverside) as a senior field representative, and Gonzalez works for nonprofit ReachOut as an outreach and policy specialist. He will begin law school at UC Davis in the fall. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • GINA GRACE and OMAR GONZALEZ were married last November. She works for state Sen. Bill Emmerson (R-Riverside) as a senior field representative, and Gonzalez works for nonprofit ReachOut as an outreach and policy specialist. He will begin law school at UC Davis in the fall. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • BRIAN BEHNKEN, Ph.D., wrote Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (University of North Carolina Press. 2011), published this spring. He is an assistant professor of history and U.S. Latino/a studies at Iowa State University. (appeared in the Summer 2011 issue) • Mark Otero, M.B.A., spoke at the UC Davis Fall Convocation in September. He is the CEO and co-founder of the Sacramento-based KlickNation, a multimillion dollar software company that creates online fantasy games. About 1 million people play the Superhero City and KlickNation games each month. (appeared in the Winter 2012 issue) • Christopher May, an associate professor of psychology at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis., received the university’s 2012 Benjamin F. Richason Jr. Faculty Award in April. The award recognizes excellence in teaching and research. He joined the faculty there in 2007 and was awarded tenure effective this July. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) • Neil Griffith and Gabrielle Jany, who met the first day of their freshman year in the Segundo dining commons, were married last September in Calistoga. They live in San Francisco, where Neil works in finance and Gabrielle works in retail customs compliance. A number of Aggies attended their wedding, and Danielle Geers, Sofia Lacin and Erica Ford were bridesmaids. (appeared in the Summer 2012 issue) |