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
| 2009Steven D. Lee graduated from Duke Law School this past May. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Crystal (Sanders) Williams was promoted to assistant vice president, commercial loan documentation officer, at Sacramento-based River City Bank. Williams has managed business loan portfolios totaling more than $40 million. She earned River City Bank’s 2011 Portfolio Management Award. (appeared in the Winter 2013 issue) • Andrew Barkett, MBA, received widespread media coverage after his selection this past June as the Republican National Committee’s first-ever chief technology officer. A former Facebook engineer, he was named by the multimedia Politico journalism organization as one of “50 politicos to watch.” His hiring was also reported in Huffington Post and The Washington Post. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management also posted an interview with Barkett this spring (gsm.ucdavis.edu/AndrewBarkett-BigBang) after he pledged $50,000 over five years to strengthen its Big Bang! business plan competition. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Baja California shark research and preservation efforts of Taylor Chapple, Ph.D., James Ketchum, Ph.D. ’11, and UC Davis’ “Dr. Hammerhead” marine biologist Peter Klimley were featured in the cover story of Discover magazine’s June issue. The article, “Desperately Seeking Sharks,” described Chapple as “one of the shark world’s rising stars.” He is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. Ketchum co-directs a nonprofit research organization, Pelagios Kakunjá, that is tracking sharks and other migrating marine species in the Mexican Pacific. Ketchum, Klimley and former colleague Alex Hearn also appeared in a number of episodes of National Geographic’s 2010–12 documentary TV series Shark Men. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Eight days after June commencement, Loreto Godoy, M.P.V.M, Ph.D. ’13, died in a car crash that also killed her mother- and father-in-law, and injured her husband, Fernando Mardones, M.P.V.M ’09, Ph.D. ’13, and their two children. She was 32. (appeared in the Fall 2013 issue) • Lizette Mata, of Stockton, was recently appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as deputy director of special projects at the state Department of Motor Vehicles. She previously held a number of communications positions for state lawmakers, most recently for the California Latino Legislative Caucus and for Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens. (appeared in the Spring 2014 issue) |