| 1978The Foothill–De Anza Community College District granted Anne Fleischman Miller tenure. She has been a full-time faculty member in the district for four years and part-time since 1991, teaching health and nutrition. • Tom Sturges is the executive vice president of creative affairs at Universal Music and has signed such acts as OutKast, Foo Fighters and Jack Johnson, among many others. Sturges is raising two sons and is dedicated to the mentoring of 27 inner-city youths in Los Angeles. His work is the subject of a documentary, Witness to a Dream, and he has written his first book, Parking Lot Rules & 75 Other Ideas for Raising Amazing Children (Ballantine Books). |
| 1979Curtis Lineberger, Tom Schindler and Peter Whipple competed together in the Masters World Championships for water polo. The games were held in Perth, Australia, with 12 international teams entered. Their team took fifth place overall, despite Schindler receiving an injury that required four stitches between the eyes. |
| 1980H. Range Hutson was featured in the 2008 summer edition.
H. Range Hutson by Rachael Bogert
Occupation: Emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
Commitment to community: H. Range Hutson, M.D. ’80, was raised by his grandparents in segregated Nacogdoches, Texas, and then attended college at Stanford University and the UC Davis School of Medicine during the civil rights movement. From these experiences, Hutson developed an attitude of self-reliance, perseverance and extreme social awareness and dedicated his career to the betterment of inner city communities nationwide through his work teaching in hospitals from Los Angeles to Boston.
Abating trauma: Hutson’s career began at the Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew Medical Center in south central Los Angeles where many of the patients he saw were from the impoverished areas of Compton and Watts. Here, Hutson was exposed to incident after incident of trauma caused by street gang violence. “I saw things that would make me afraid to walk to my care,” Hutson said. “People would sometimes drive up and roll seriously injured people out of their cars in front of the ER. Sometimes we could save their lives, and sometimes we couldn’t.” Hutson said that what he was treating in the trauma unit was the result of three social problems: too many firearms on the streets, poverty and the obstacles to upward mobility in a larger inner city community, irrespective of ethnicity.
The pen is as mighty as the scalpel: After working at MLK, Hutson began to write about his findings to create awareness of problems in marginalized communities. He has published in the respected New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. “I went into medicine to medically manage patients and to research some critical issues affecting inner city communities nationwide…. Solid research helps to touch people locally, nationally and internationally.”
“Writing goes everywhere and can reach anyone, and as a physician I am serious about stopping the violence.”
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| 1981Melissa Nixon, D.V.M., recently received an award from the Tower of Hope, a charity that provides service dogs to the disabled, in recognition of her volunteer work in veterinary disaster relief. She is the author of Help Us Get Them to Safety! and First Responders Guide to Animal Care and has served in capacities as diverse as incident commander, triage veterinarian and logistics chief. • Mark Withrow, a Department of State diplomatic security service officer assigned to the San Francisco Federal Building, was recognized by Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs Maura Harty for his contribution to the San Francisco Passport Agency during the summer 2007 surge in passport applications. • John Wellington died in April at age 49 due to complications from a short illness. After graduating from UC Davis, he spent his engineering career in the microwave industry, serving most recently as a manager with Communications & Power Industries in Palo Alto. He was also a drummer with many musical groups, most notably the California Repercussions, which he co-founded in the early ’80s, as well as several rock bands, orchestras and local musical theater. Survivors include his wife, Eva (Blasburg) Wellington ’83, and his children, Eric and Roxanne. |
| 1983Roger Trott, M.S., has recently published his first novel, Getting in Tune (Coral Press). The story concerns a young guitarist who takes his band on the road seeking success. Trott lives in Lincoln, where he is a consulting economist, focusing on environmental and natural resources issues. After graduating from UC Davis, Trott played in rock bands for several years, providing much of the material for his new novel. |
| 1984Darren Bean, an assistant professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and director of ultrasound for the University of Wisconsin Hospital’s emergency department, died in May at age 36 when his Med Flight helicopter crashed near La Crosse, Wis. He had also served as the Madison Fire Department’s medical director since January 2007. Dr. Bean dedicated his career to improving the success rate of emergency calls and pioneered cardiocerebral resuscitation, or CCR. |
| 1985Stephen Cunha, M.A., Ph.D. ’94, professor of geography at Humboldt State University, and director of the California Geographic Alliance, received the 2007 California State University Wang Family Excellence Award as outstanding faculty member in social and behavioral sciences and public service. The systemwide citation includes a $20,000 prize. The California Council for Social Studies also honored Cunha with the Hilda Taba Award for Outstanding and Enduring Contributions to Social Science Education in California. • Francisco Rodriguez, Ph.D. ’97, president of Cosumnes River College, was named Elk Grove’s Man of the Year for 2007 by the Elk Grove Citizen. He was honored for his higher education leadership and his work with the city’s chamber of commerce. |
| 1986Mike Kobayashi was recently promoted to group senior vice president of supply chain and chief information officer for Ross Stores Inc. Kobayashi lives with his wife, Dayna, and his two children in Alamo. • Steven Weiss opened the Weiss Group, a marketing consulting firm in Sacramento. The firm focuses on business development, marketing and fundraising. Weiss is the former vice president of marketing and public affairs for The Sacramento Bee. Before his work at the Bee, Weiss was director of University Cultural Programs at UC Davis. |
| 1987The board of directors of the Yolo Land Trust named Judith Boshoven as the executive director of the nonprofit conservation corporation. Boshoven brings 20 years of experience to the position, including serving as founding director of the Landowner Stewardship Program at Audubon California. She has spent the last several years working and teaching in Argentina. • Pam Hullinger, D.V.M. ’90, M.P.V.M. ’01, chief veterinary officer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame. She is also the leader of the laboratory’s food and agricultural security program. Within the past seven years, Hullinger helped fight the spread of two major outbreaks of animal disease, foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and exotic Newcastle disease in California. |
| 1989Yash Pal Talreja has had his book, Artificial Imagination, published. It is his memoirs about coming to the United States 20 years ago to attend UC Davis and then moving through the high-tech industry from Silicon Valley to Seattle to San Diego. |
| 1990McDonough Holland & Allen PC in Sacramento named Julie Raney, J.D. ’94, as a shareholder. Raney practices in the employment and litigation groups. • Melanie Swartz, D.V.M. ’96, the veterinarian in charge of the Tulare district for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health Branch, was called into active duty by the National Guard earlier this year. She is now the officer in charge of the Ft. Sill Branch Veterinary Treatment Facility in Oklahoma, which is responsible for the health of military animals at Ft. Sill, Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and Altus Air Force Base, also in Oklahoma. |
| 1992Brian Ebbert was recently appointed chief assistant clerk of the California Assembly. He also serves as the coordinator for the clerk’s paid internship program. |
| 1993Jennifer Fearing is returning to Sacramento from Washington, D.C. She is currently the chief economist for the Humane Society of the United States and will be managing the campaign for passage of California’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which will be on the ballot in November. |
