| 1938Ivar “Andy” Anderson, a former president of the California Fertilizer Association and an avid photographer, died in April in Santa Barbara after a bout of poor health. He was 94. He had been a partner for Associated Farm Supplies, which was bought by Occidental Chemical in 1965. He retired from OxyChem in 1980. During World War II, he served as an Army Air Corps photographer; a lifelong shutterbug, he earned awards at local photo competitions. Survivors include his children, Barry, Robin, Corey and Kristi; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. |
| 1961In June, Malcolm Bourne, M.S., Ph.D. ’62, received the 2011 Nicholas Appert Award, the Institute of Food Technologists’ highest honor, for his pioneering work in using physics to analyze food texture. He is an emeritus professor of food science at Cornell University. |
| 1967Stephen Barthold, D.V.M. ’69, veterinary professor and director of the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine, received the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges’ inaugural Merial-AAVMC Excellence in Research Award in August at the Merial-NIH National Veterinary Scholars Symposium in Florida. A veterinary pathologist who helped develop the first vaccine for Lyme Disease, Barthold has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health for more than 30 years and has authored nearly 300 scholary articles, chapters and books. |
| 1971Richard Miller, founding president of Massachusetts’ Olin College of Engineering, received the Donald E. Marlowe Award from the American Society for Engineering in June for his contributions to engineering education. He became Olin College’s first president in 1999, and is a professor of mechanical engineering there. He previously served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa for seven years, after 17 years at the University of Southern California and UC Santa Barbara. He researches structural dynamics and nonlinear mechanics and is a consultant to aerospace companies and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
| 1972Physician John Axelson retired after 30 years in private practice in hematology and oncology in Jackson, Mich. He and his wife Lynn (Chetkovich) ’71 live in Brooklyn, Mich., and have three children and six grandchildren. They are currently serving as overseas ambassadors for Community Bible Study International in Burundi and Kenya. |
| 1973Matthew Olson was named the 2011 Professor of the Year by the Minnesota Psychological Association in April. He teaches and conducts research at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minn., where he has chaired the psychology department since 1992. He is the co-author of two textbooks, Introduction to Theories of Learning (Pearson Prentice Hall) and Introduction to Theories of Personality (Pearson Prentice Hall), both in their eighth editions. |
| 1974Mary Dowell, J.D. ’77, was named one of California’s Top 75 Women Litigators for 2011 by the Daily Journal in May. She is a partner at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore in Los Angeles, where she chairs the firm’s education law practice group and represents community college districts. |
| 1976Dan Berman became the minister-counselor for agricultural affairs in August for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. This is his sixth foreign assignment for the USDA. He previously held posts in Japan, Egypt and Portugal. • Dave Megeath retired this summer after 28 years of working for Motorola. Now he volunteers at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, where he pursues his passion for railroad history and operates a freight train and passenger trains. He and his wife, Susan, live in Fair Oaks, and their son lives in Boulder, Colo. |
| 1977Robert Page Jr., M.S., Ph.D. ’80, became vice provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University in July. He is a honeybee geneticist and emeritus professor at UC Davis, where he chaired the entomology department from 1999 to 2004. In 2004, he became founding director and dean of Arizona State’s School of Life Sciences. |
| 1978A new book by Lynda Frese, M.F.A. ’86, Pacha Mama: earth realm, combines 35 of her artworks with writers’ essays, prayers and poems about living harmoniously with the planet. The book was published over the summer with a grant from the Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars program. She holds an endowed art professorship at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she has taught for 25 years. • Anne (Wilson) Warner was named interim executive director of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance in June. She is a conservation zoologist with more than 20 years of experience working in some of the nation’s major zoos, including the Oregon Zoo and the Oakland Zoo. She also serves on the steering committee of Zoos and Aquariums Committed to Conservation and the board of Uganda’s Kasese Wildlife Conservation Awareness Organization. She and her husband, Cliff Warner ’77, live in Portland, Ore. • Lynn Kitchen, M.D., an infectious diseases physician, researcher and professor who helped identify the cause of AIDS, died in June in Washington, D.C., at age 56. During 2004–10, she was deputy director of the Military Infectious Diseases Research Program at Fort Detrick, Md., where she received an Army civilian award for her contributions. She was a former faculty member at Tulane University Medical Center, Marshall University School of Medicine and West Virginia University School of Medicine. She also served as chief for infectious diseases at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., epidemiologist at Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia, and as a volunteer physician in Guatemala, St. Lucia and Guyana. Her research as a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health’s cancer biology department earned a citation in a 1987 Nature commentary on “The Chronology of AIDS Research.” Survivors include her brothers, Jeffery and Erik; and stepmother, Stephanie. • John “Hap” Rutherford, D.V.M. ’80, died unexpectedly in May at his home in Half Moon Bay. He was 61. A Navy veteran, he worked for several veterinary practices and ran Main Street Veterinary Hospital in Half Moon Bay. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Patricia; sons, Michael and John ’01; daughter-in-law Mara Rutherford ’01; grandson, John; and sisters, Patricia Keresteci and Johanna Kraly. |
| 1980Brian Haughton was named a 2011 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine, after being nominated by his peers. He is a partner for Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp LLP in San Francisco, which specializes in environmental law and litigation. |
| 1983Richard Steele opened an accounting practice in Fairfield after earning his certified public accountant license in January. He specializes in tax planning, services to the elderly and their families, advertising and training for small and mid-sized businesses in Solano, Yolo, Contra Costa and Alameda counties. In August, he became a grandfather. Steele previously worked in the wine and health industries and served in the U.S. Army. |
| 1985Jim Keddy was appointed vice president and chief learning officer of the California Endowment, the state’s largest charitable health foundation. He and his wife, Maija Beattie, live in Sacramento and have two children. • Daniel Scholl, D.V.M. ’87, M.P.V.M ’88, became associate dean for research and director of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at South Dakota State University in August. He previously served as scientific director of the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network and as veterinary epidemiology professor at the Université de Montréal. |
| 1987Eric Lund, Ph.D., earned a certified licensing professional credential from the Licensing Executives Society this summer, which distinguishes him as proficient in the licensing and commercialization of intellectual property. He works for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., as the directorate of technology deployment and outreach and as commercialization manager in charge of the lab’s chemistry portfolio. He joined the U.S. Department of Energy lab in 2001, after serving as assistant director of technology transfer and intellectual property services at UC San Diego. • Kimberly (Villa) Sandstrom received her master’s degree in marital and family therapy from Bethel Seminary in San Diego in June. She planned to begin a private practice this fall, specializing in reconnecting couples after infidelity and other serious distress. Her husband, Scot Sandstrom, created New Pointe Communities, an energy-efficient home building company in San Diego County. |
