| 1948James “Jim” Bishop, M.S., a retired vegetable crop specialist for UC Cooperative Extension in Kern County, died in May. He was 95. He spent most of his 37-year research career at the USDA Research Station in Shafter. He authored or coauthored more than 75 scientific papers, many of them about potato cultivation. |
| 1955Eugene “Gene” Carroll, D.V.M. ’59, a retired equine veterinarian, died of cancer in May 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colo., at age 77. His wife of 55 years, Barbara (Lee) Carroll ’59, died four weeks later. She was 74. The couple were high school sweethearts who met at a 4-H camp. Gene Caroll joined Valley Large Animal Hospital in San José after graduating from veterinary school, moved the equine practice to Morgan Hill in 1972 and retired in 1984. Barbara kept the books for the animal hospital. Beginning in 1977, the couple also developed land near Anchorage, Alaska. They had lived in Colorado Springs since 1997. |
| 1956Riena (Weidman) Kondo died in September 2011 in Villavicencio, Colombia, of complications of Parkinson’s disease. She wrote a number of scholarly articles on the native Guahibo language and with her husband, Vic, D.V.M. ’59, was translating the Bible into the Guayabero dialect. |
| 1962Peter “Joe” Callizo, M.A., a botanist and conservationist who planted hundreds of oak trees at the Wantrup Wildlife Sanctuary in Pope Valley, died last December at a Napa hospital. He was 74. He worked for more than 20 years as caretaker of the Wantrup preserve and served on the board of the nonprofit Land Trust of Napa County, which owns the 730-acre savannah. He also was a frequent lecturer and field trip leader for the Napa Valley Museum, Napa County Historical Society, California Native Plant Society, Sierra Club and, more recently, Preservation Napa Valley. |
| 1964Stan Holt, Ph.D., would like to reconnect with his microbiology classmates of 1960–65. His email is stanglous@yahoo.com. |
| 1965Wilfred Cawelti, M.S., died at his Arroyo Grande home in June. He was 91. He had been a farmer and a San Luis Obispo County farm advisor with the UC Cooperative Extension. He was also active in the South County Historical Society, helping to preserve historic buildings. |
| 1966Harvey Robinson is president of the Retired Public Employees Association of California. He worked at CalPERS for 29 years in its Benefit and Services Division and Long-Term Care Program. • Mike Taylor, J.D. ’69, attorney for the Tulalip reservation in the Washington state, received the 2012 Northwest Indian Bar Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his more than 40 years representing the Tulalip and other tribes. • James Ganzer Cred., ’68, a Stockton attorney and former teacher, died in June at age 68. He was an Eagle Scout and former president of the Davis Teachers Association. |
| 1969Jo Ann (Olson) Robbins retired after 20 years as an Extension professor with the University of Idaho, where her work involved horticultural crops and Master Gardener training. She previously spent 15 years as a researcher at Washington State University, Puyallup, developing small fruit varieties. She continues to farm in southern Idaho. • Gordon “Gordo” Styler, whose successful career as a broadcaster began at the campus’s KDVS radio station, died in Portland, Ore., in June. He was 65. He was an expert on ’60s and ’70s rock music, worked at the groundbreaking Sacramento FM station KZAP during its heyday in the ’70s, and included Country Joe McDonald and Jefferson Airplane band members among his friends. He later worked as a reporter and anchor at KFBK and KRAK. After his wife, Marilyn, died in 2003, he moved to Astoria, Ore., where he opened a guitar store. |
| 1970Darrell Maxwell, M.Ed., died in Tacoma, Wash, in June of age-related causes and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 88. He worked for the Oregon State Extension Service in Madras, Hermiston and Pendleton, Ore. He also managed the North Unit Irrigation District in Madras, Ore. |
| 1971Jim Moore, D.V.M. ’74, received a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teacher Professorship at the University of Georgia. The equine surgeon is one of only two faculty members there ever to receive both the teaching honor and the title of distinguished research professor, which he has held since 2002. |
| 1972Chris Cowing, D.V.M. ’74, was installed as president of the California Veterinary Medical Association in June. He lives in San Mateo and owns Animal Cove Pet Hospital in Foster City. • Catherine “Cathy” Dunston Taylor, 1972, graduated from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va., with a Master of Divinity in April. She also completed a yearlong residency in clinical pastoral education. She is currently a hospital chaplain associate in Pinehurst, N.C. • The Rev. Nancy Morgan Shaffer died in her Davis home in June from a brain tumor. She served Unitarian Universalist churches in Monterey and Chicago as an interim minister; in Glen Allen, Va., as a parish minister; and, most recently, in Ann Arbor, Mich., as the associate minister for religious education. She previously worked as a psychologist in public schools in Vacaville and Chicago. • Sandee Tischler, a Thousand Oaks teacher, died in July when a small plane she was flying in crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in Winslow, Ariz. She was 62. Her husband, Joe, who was flying the plane, was seriously injured in the crash. After graduating, she earned a teaching credential from California State University, Hayward. For the past 16 years, she taught kindergarten at Santa Rosa Technology Magnet School. She and her husband were active in the local Boy Scout community. |
| 1973After 12 years as executive vice chancellor and provost of UC Irvine, Michael Gottfredson began a new job in August as president of the University of Oregon. A criminologist, he also joins the faculty in the sociology department and the law school. During his tenure at UC Irvine, he earned wide praise for seeing the campus through unparalleled growth, even as the university faced significant budget challenges. Last spring, he received the campus alumni association’s 2012 Extraordinarius award for contributions to the university. • Philip Asakawa, Cred., a retired teacher and resident of Davis, died in February at age 62. He had been ill for several years with cancer. Most of his 32 years in teaching were at Will C. Wood High School in Vacaville, where he headed the Opportunity Program for students struggling with the transition to high school. • Peter Brown, M.A., died at his home in Davis in May at age 65. He worked for more than 37 years at Shields Library. Before coming to UC Davis, he served in the Peace Corps in Nepal. |
