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Class Notes Archive 1931-2014

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2007Scott Thomas Anderson’s new book, Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America, was recently published by the Coalition for Investigative Journalism. Anderson won a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship in 2010, and spent 18 months as an embedded reporter with law enforcement agencies across the country. His articles have appeared in Sacramento News & Review and Sierra Lodestar magazine. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Drake Martinet married Stacey Marie Green this past October at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Fla. Drake received a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University. He is the social editor of NowThis News, a company in New York that provides news video to mobile devices and social networks. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Sara Kropp Jacobsen, Cred. ’08, M.A. ’09, and John Jacobsen, Ph.D. ’11, welcomed twins, Frederick Lewis and Helen Eliza, in February. The babies were born at UC Davis Medical Center. Sara is a sixth-grade social studies teacher at a Sacramento charter school and John is a process scientist for Ampac Fine Chemicals in Rancho Cordova. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) • Antony Hayes received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in May, then began a residency at Milwaukee’s Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare–St. Joseph Hospital. He will begin a radiology residency in July 2014 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • After completing postdoctoral research positions in The Netherlands and South Korea, Edward Kim, M.A., Ph.D. ’10, joined the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse this fall as an assistant professor in mathematics. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Ari Warmerdam and Samar Mahbouba ’10 became engaged in San Francisco in December. They never met on campus, but were brought together by a mutual friend and immediately hit it off during a discussion about A Street, the Silo, the ARC and the Davis Farmers Market. Warmerdam, who helped lead the Aggie men’s basketball program during its transition to Division I and holds the single-season record for highest free throw percentage, is associate director of business development for United Way of the Bay Area. Mahbouba, a Bay Area native, works at McKesson in San Francisco and serves on the Arab Cultural and Community Center board of directors. They live together in San Francisco and are set to marry in summer 2015. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) • Sergey Frenklakh and Kathryn Winsor ’08 married in August in Monterey. They live in Walnut Creek. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Navina Khanna, M.S., won a 2014 James Beard Leadership Award for “her work as a food justice activist organizing across communities for equitable and ecological food systems.” A fellow at the Oakland-based social change consulting Movement Strategy Center and co-founder of Live Real, she focuses on reshaping food systems. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Kristen Bidwell, of Camarillo, died Feb. 15 at age 28, Feb. 15. She was a Kinder Care teacher. (appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) • Stephanie (Alford) Ogren, JD ’11, is an associate at Sacramento firm Delfino Madden O’Malley Coyle & Koewler. She specializes in employment law. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue)
2008MATT MARSHALL was named the player of the year by NCGA Golf magazine in their winter 2009 edition. Last year he won the NCGA Amateur and the Santa Clara Country tournaments. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • RYAN ROYSTER was named one of “30 under 30” young leaders by the Sacramento Observer newspaper. Last June, Royster, who served as the baseball team’s captain in 2008, signed with the Seattle Mariners, and he is currently writing a book called Identity Crisis, which will be a social analysis of the black experience. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • DAVID WAGNER recently left for a 27-month Peace Corps assignment in Panama to work on a community environmental conservation project. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Sarah Nasir began attending the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in August. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Eunice Lee was awarded a fellowship in November by Math For American San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving math education in San Diego public high schools. She will receive full tuition scholarship and a $15,000 stipend for each of the five years she’s in graduate school. She is working on her Masters in Education and single subject math teaching credential at UC San Diego. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Maurice Pitesky, D.V.M., M.V.P.M. ’09, is serving a one-year appointment as a science and technology fellow advising the state Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. He is among 10 fellows appointed by the California Council on Science and Technology. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • 2008 Rob Cruz, in his third and final year at Cornell Law School, has accepted an associate lawyer position at the Harter Secrest and Emery law firm in Rochester, N.Y. He plans to practice corporate law. He and his wife, Mindy, have two sons, Grayson and Clark. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Melissa Cammarosano and husband Carmine welcomed their son, Carlo Anthony, in May. He joins his sister Sophia, 5. Melissa is a full-time mother and her husband is an ophthalmologist with Woodland Healthcare. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D., wrote Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay (Duke University Press), published in December. He is an assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Shivani Ballesteros is co-founder of Stiletto Escape ( stilletoescape.com), a San Diego-based travel planning and concierge service for women who want to get away with their girlfriends. After graduating from UC Davis, she earned a law degree at UC Hastings College of Law, studied international law at Delhi University and worked for a law firm in Paris. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue)

2007Scott Thomas Anderson’s new book, Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America, was recently published by the Coalition for Investigative Journalism. Anderson won a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship in 2010, and spent 18 months as an embedded reporter with law enforcement agencies across the country. His articles have appeared in Sacramento News & Review and Sierra Lodestar magazine. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) •  Drake Martinet married Stacey Marie Green this past October at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Fla. Drake received a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University. He is the social editor of NowThis News, a company in New York that provides news video to mobile devices and social networks. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) •  Sara Kropp Jacobsen, Cred. ’08, M.A. ’09, and John Jacobsen, Ph.D. ’11, welcomed twins, Frederick Lewis and Helen Eliza, in February. The babies were born at UC Davis Medical Center. Sara is a sixth-grade social studies teacher at a Sacramento charter school and John is a process scientist for Ampac Fine Chemicals in Rancho Cordova. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue) •  Antony Hayes received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in May, then began a residency at Milwaukee’s Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare–St. Joseph Hospital. He will begin a radiology residency in July 2014 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) •  After completing postdoctoral research positions in The Netherlands and South Korea, Edward Kim, M.A., Ph.D. ’10, joined the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse this fall as an assistant professor in mathematics. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) •  Ari Warmerdam and Samar Mahbouba ’10 became engaged in San Francisco in December. They never met on campus, but were brought together by a mutual friend and immediately hit it off during a discussion about A Street, the Silo, the ARC and the Davis Farmers Market. Warmerdam, who helped lead the Aggie men’s basketball program during its transition to Division I and holds the single-season record for highest free throw percentage, is associate director of business development for United Way of the Bay Area. Mahbouba, a Bay Area native, works at McKesson in San Francisco and serves on the Arab Cultural and Community Center board of directors. They live together in San Francisco and are set to marry in summer 2015. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) •  Sergey Frenklakh and Kathryn Winsor ’08 married in August in Monterey. They live in Walnut Creek.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  Navina Khanna, M.S., won a 2014 James Beard Leadership Award for “her work as a food justice activist organizing across communities for equitable and ecological food systems.” A fellow at the Oakland-based social change consulting Movement Strategy Center and co-founder of Live Real, she focuses on reshaping food systems.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  Kristen Bidwell, of Camarillo, died Feb. 15 at age 28, Feb. 15. She was a Kinder Care teacher.
(appeared in the Fall 2014 issue) •  Stephanie (Alford) Ogren, JD ’11, is an associate at Sacramento firm Delfino Madden O’Malley Coyle & Koewler. She specializes in employment law. (appeared in the Spring 2015 issue)

2008MATT MARSHALL was named the player of the year by NCGA Golf magazine in their winter 2009 edition. Last year he won the NCGA Amateur and the Santa Clara Country tournaments. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • RYAN ROYSTER was named one of “30 under 30” young leaders by the Sacramento Observer newspaper. Last June, Royster, who served as the baseball team’s captain in 2008, signed with the Seattle Mariners, and he is currently writing a book called Identity Crisis, which will be a social analysis of the black experience. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • DAVID WAGNER recently left for a 27-month Peace Corps assignment in Panama to work on a community environmental conservation project. (appeared in the Summer 2009 issue) • Sarah Nasir began attending the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in August. (appeared in the Winter 2010 issue) • Eunice Lee was awarded a fellowship in November by Math For American San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving math education in San Diego public high schools. She will receive full tuition scholarship and a $15,000 stipend for each of the five years she’s in graduate school. She is working on her Masters in Education and single subject math teaching credential at UC San Diego. (appeared in the Spring 2010 issue) • Maurice Pitesky, D.V.M., M.V.P.M. ’09, is serving a one-year appointment as a science and technology fellow advising the state Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. He is among 10 fellows appointed by the California Council on Science and Technology. (appeared in the Summer 2010 issue) • 2008 Rob Cruz, in his third and final year at Cornell Law School, has accepted an associate lawyer position at the Harter Secrest and Emery law firm in Rochester, N.Y. He plans to practice corporate law. He and his wife, Mindy, have two sons, Grayson and Clark. (appeared in the Winter 2011 issue) • Melissa Cammarosano and husband Carmine welcomed their son, Carlo Anthony, in May. He joins his sister Sophia, 5. Melissa is a full-time mother and her husband is an ophthalmologist with Woodland Healthcare. (appeared in the Spring 2011 issue) • Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D., wrote Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay (Duke University Press), published in December. He is an assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. (appeared in the Spring 2012 issue) • Shivani Ballesteros is co-founder of Stiletto Escape ( stilletoescape.com), a San Diego-based travel planning and concierge service for women who want to get away with their girlfriends. After graduating from UC Davis, she earned a law degree at UC Hastings College of Law, studied international law at Delhi University and worked for a law firm in Paris. (appeared in the Spring 2013 issue)

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