| 1948Lawrence Kempker, Cred., died of natural causes in Carmichael at age 90. A World War II Army Air Corps veteran, he worked in the food industry and later as a driver’s license examiner for the Department of Motor Vehicles in San Francisco and Sacramento. He retired as a California driver improvement analyst. Survivors include his wife, Theresa; son, David, of El Dorado Hills; and a sister, Ruth Provenza.
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| 1950Allan Davis, D.V.M. ’52, a retired El Cajon veterinarian and a member of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s first graduation class, died in April of natural causes at age 90. He was an Air Force veteran and a 50-year member of the El Cajon Rotary Club. Survivors include his wife of 70 years, Genevieve; daughter Julie Murray; and two grandchildren. |
| 1951Frank Sweetman, who co-founded Modesto animal health products company Veterinary Service Inc., died last November in his Aptos home at age 82. A Korean War veteran, he also grew almond trees and raised cattle and sheep. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Gunvor (Sontum) ’51; son, Robert, of Arleta; daughter, Karin Estess, of Aptos; brother, Thomas; and six grandchildren. |
| 1963Bill Geer, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of biology at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., died in February at a Knox County, Ill., nursing home. He was a noted expert on fruit fly genetics. Among numerous honors, he was selected 1990 Illinois Professor of the Year. Survivors include his wife, Judy; children Susan, of La Grande, Ore., Kurt, of Indian Harbor Beach, Fla., and Kelly, of Galesburg, Ill; and his twin sister, Betty Breeden, of Elko, Nev. |
| 1965William “Bill” Stouder, D.V.M., a veterinarian and leading dairyman in Idaho, died at his home in Buhl, Idaho, in March after a long battle with cancer. He was 70. As a partner in Dairyland Veterinary Clinic in Chino, he became one of the first veterinarians in California to do cow embryo transfer on the farm. In the mid-1980s, he moved his practice to Wendell, Idaho, and formed Stouder Holsteins. Among his many honors were the Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in Agriculture (2007), induction into the Idaho Dairy Hall of Fame (2004) and induction into the Southern Idaho Livestock Hall of Fame (1999). He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Charlotte; sons Bruce, Gary and Allan, all of Wendell, Idaho; a brother, Ted, of Hagerman, Idaho; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. |
| 1966Christine (Moore) Shoemaker, a professor at Cornell University, was elected in February to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors given to an engineer in the United States. Her research focuses on finding cost-effective, robust solutions for environmental problems by using optimization, modeling and statistical analysis. At Cornell, she holds the position of Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, given for excellence in research and teaching. • Dave Veith wrote his second novel, Whose Woods These Are: A Rapunzel O’Hara Mystery (Xlibris, 2012), about an adventurous female reporter and a town with a lethal 25-year-old secret. Veith’s first novel, DeLancey’s Stapler (AuthorHouse, 2008), recalled life at UC Davis at the onset of the Vietnam War. He and his wife live in Northern California and have four children and two grandsons. |
| 1968Two novels by Don Cambou—The Crystal Point of the MOG POGS and The Treasure of the Carpathian Den—were released this spring as Kindle e-books. They are the first and second in the young-adult MOG POG Saga fantasy-adventure series. Cambou is a former television writer, producer and director. For a dozen years, he was executive producer of the History Channel’s Modern Marvels. • Kristoffer Paulson, Ph.D., a retired English professor and an authority on the works of Norwegian American author Ole Rolvaag, died in March in Minneapolis, Minn. He was 77. He taught English, American and Canadian literature at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, for 32 years. He was also active in Canadian storytelling. He is survived by his partner, Meredith (Dee Dee) Wilson; and his sons Kristoffer Rolf and Kai Cedric Rieber, of North Vancouver. |
| 1969Joe Kiskis, a physics professor at UC Davis, won the 2012 Charles P. Nash Prize the spring. The UC Davis faculty prize recognizes leadership in advocating for faculty interests and welfare and promoting their shared role in governing the campus. |
| 1970Michael LaSalle, J.D., has written Emigrants on the Overland Trail: The Wagon Trains of 1848 (Truman State University Press, 2011). The book draws from the diaries of seven women and men who made the five-month journey from Missouri to California and Oregon. For 40 years, LaSalle practiced law, farmed and operated a dairy, often concurrently. He still farms in Hanford, and pursues his interest in researching Western history. |
| 1971Daniel Koenigshofer is vice president for healthcare at Dewberry Engineers’ office in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was recently named editor-in-chief of the HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics, published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He has more than 30 years experience in healthcare facilities engineering and project management. |
| 1972David Carle has written a mystery, The Spotting Scope (Phalarope Press, 2012) his second novel after 12 nonfiction books. He draws on his 27-year career as a park ranger in this fictional story about a former ranger investigating a death in the Sierra Nevada. • Gary Kaufman, M.S. ’76, an environmental engineer, died last December in Superior, Colo., at age 61. He worked the past 21 years for Roche Colorado Corp. in Boulder. He is survived by his brother, Stephen. |
| 1973A new CD by clarinetist Bill Barner, Ten Tunes, peaked at No. 10 on the jazz radio charts. To hear the tunes, go to www.billbarner.com. He retired in 2010 after 26 years with the Library of Congress, where he was a cataloguer specializing in medicine and the biomedical sciences. • Angie (Galarce) Wiskocil, is president of AT&T Wi-Fi. During her three years in this position, she has led the growth of the AT&T subsidiary—the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 30,000 hotspots. She has held a number of executive positions since joining AT&T more than 30 years ago. Among other business and leadership awards, she was named one of Hispanic Business magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in 2009. She and her husband of 39 years, John Wiskocil, live in Austin, Texas. They had a daughter, Erika, a special needs child who was an inspiration to them and is now deceased. • Stephen Holl, a Folsom wildlife biologist who led efforts to expand bighorn sheep populations in the San Gabriel Mountains, died in January after a battle with brain cancer. He was 62. His work for the federal government and as a private consultant also included forest fire ecology studies. Survivors include his wife of 37 years, Mary ’74; twin daughters Amy and Eryn; mother, Claire Holl; brothers Dennis, Brian, Jeffrey, Kevin, Tim and Greg; and four grandchildren. • William “Bill” Rickers, a teacher at the Dan Jacobs School in the Yolo County Detention Center in Woodland, died unexpectedly last November in his classroom as he prepared for his teaching day. He was 60. In addition to his bachelor’s degree from UC Davis, he earned a master’s degree in history and a teaching community college credential from San José State University. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Hanne Carstens Rickers; children Hans, of Sacramento, Sarah, of Woodland, and Lea, of Santa Cruz; and sisters Lili Rickers Fisher, of Woodland, Erika Rickers Freimarck, of San José, and Gretchen Rickers Crowley, of San José. |
| 1975Ann Evans recently co-authored The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook (Mirabelle Press, 2012) with award-winning food writer and business partner Georgeanne Brennan. Chez Panisse founder and food activist Alice Waters wrote the book’s foreword. Evans helped found the Davis Farmers Market in 1976. She is also a co-founder of the Davis Food Co-op, former Davis mayor and state government employee, and co-chair of Slow Food Yolo. She and Brennan consult with schools, hospitals and businesses on how to integrate more fresh foods into their menus. Evans lives in Davis with her husband, six chickens and several thousand bees. |
| 1976Mark Knego is a San Francisco-based playwright, theater director, sculptor and artist. Snakes of Kampuchea—his trilogy of plays about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian refugee experience—was published in 2011 by San Francisco’s Exit Press. The plays were originally produced in the 1990s by San Francisco’s Exit Theatre, with Knego directing. Snakes of Kampuchea is available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions. |
