| 1974Ming Shyong Yang, Ph.D., died in his Davis home in July 2012. He was 73. He spent 32 years working as an environmental and information technology specialist for the California Water Resources Control Board. He was a founder of the Davis Chinese School. |
| 1975Judith Flohr, M.A. ’79, a professor emeritus of kinesiology at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., received the 2013 Distinguished Service Award from the Southeast American College of Sports Medicine in February. She developed and directs the university’s Morrison-Bruce Center for the Promotion of Physical Activity for Girls and Women. • Richard Glasson, a justice of the peace in Stateline, Nev., was named Judge of the Year by an association of Nevada justices of the peace and municipal court judges. He was elected to the Tahoe Justice Court bench in 2000, after 22 years as a trial attorney. • Steve Holmes’ book, The Fallacy of Tree Rings (Papillio Press, 2012), is available on Kindle. • Les Jin is a deputy director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a U.S. Department of Labor civil rights enforcement agency. He previously served the Obama administration as a senior counselor at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| 1976Douglas Ryen, of Davis, died in January. He worked as a manager of the UC Davis Coffee House and Student Housing until retiring in July 2011. Survivors include his wife Sally (Bennett) ’76 and two daughters, Emma ’05, and Maddy. • Janice Root Reinke, M.D. ’80, a radiologist, died of cancer in Roseville in August 2012. |
| 1978Patricia Frazier Sherwood, of Fair Oaks, died last August from cancer. She worked in the insurance industry as a systems analyst. Survivors include her husband, Richard ’77. • Tomas Villalobos, died in his Escondido home after a battle with metastatic melanoma of the eye. He was 56. An artist, he worked as a substitute teacher in five school districts. |
| 1980A new poetry collection, Departures, by Allan Johnston, Ph.D. ’88, was published this spring by Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle, Rhino and other journals. He teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago. • Robin (Stiles) Aliotti died in her Walnut Creek home in November after a battle with cancer. A popular business professor at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, she was 54. |
| 1981After 23 years with the Florida Forest Service, Mark Davis, M.S., is now manager of a Rayonier Corp. forest regeneration center in Glennville, Ga., that produces 23 million pine seedlings annually. |
| 1982Peter Vik wrote Regression, ANOVA, and the General Linear Model: A Statistics Primer (Sage Publishers, 2013). He is a psychology professor and director of the University Honors Program at Idaho State University. |
| 1983Barbara Reed, M.S. ’86, of Eugene, Ore., died of complications of lung cancer in September 2012. She was 56. She began her career as a UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor, specializing in dairy cows and forage. She had completed a master’s degree in architecture at the University of Oregon, and was considering job offers in historic preservation when diagnosed with cancer. |
| 1984Michael J. Pisani, an international business professor at Central Michigan University, co-authored a book, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (University of Texas Press, 2012). |
| 1985Lynda Felder, M.A., authored The Web Writer’s Toolkit (New Rider’s Press, 2013), with 365 exercises to inspire effective online content. |
| 1986Maria Newton, associate professor of exercise and sport science at the University of Utah, has been named a fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology for contributions to the field. |
| 1987UC Cooperative Extension advisor Rachael Long, M.S., wrote a children’s novel, Gold Fever, the first in the Black Rock Desert Trilogy. • Robert Newton Hackney, M.A.T., died in August from post-polio syndrome. He considered San Francisco, Oakland and Dutch Flat his homes. |
| 1988Barbara Heinsch is an integrated waste management specialist for the state of California. She lives in Davis. |
