| 1990BRYAN FISHER received the Award of Excellence in Teaching in April from Francis Marion University, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He is an associate professor and coordinator of the university’s speech communication program. He previously taught at Bowling Green State University, Indiana University and East Tennessee State University. |
| 1991JOE JARAMILLO was made a partner at Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian law firm in Oakland in January. His practice focuses on wage and hour and employment discrimination class actions. • DAVID MARTIN, M.F.A., won the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival Award in the “Feature Screenplay” category for his screenplay, Winslow and the Emperor, about an 11-year-old time traveler. |
| 1992JENNIFER (OLIVER) AIST wrote Babes in the Woods: Hiking, Camping & Boating with Babies & Young Children (Mountaineers Books, 2010). A parent educator for the past 15 years, she lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with her four children and husband. • BRIAN EBBERT, assistant chief clerk of the California Assembly, in April marked his 20th year of working for the Legislature’s lower house. |
| 1993MICHAEL EDWARDS and his wife, Hayley, welcomed twins Grant and Luke to their family in February. They join brother, Reid, 3. Edwards is a radiologist with Pinehurst Radiology Associates in Pinehurst, N.C. |
| 1996In April, JIM CASSANDRO, Ph.D. ’01, became the director of operations for the Society of American Baseball Research in Phoenix, Ariz. He previously worked as director of research for baseball operations and marketing for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the director of market research for TriWest Healthcare Alliance. • AMY (HENSON BADOVINAC) BODROZIC, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’09, and her husband, Dragan, are parents of a 20-month-old daughter, Nikolina. The couple married in 2005. |
| 2002Novelist SPRING WARREN, M.A., recently wrote The Quarter Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year (Seal Press, 2011), about raising animals and growing most of their family’s food in her backyard. Her book and garden were the subject of a May Sacramento Bee article. Son Jesse, 27, drew illustrations for Quarter Acre Farm, under the name “Nemo.” Warren lives in Davis with her husband, Louis Warren, a UC Davis history professor, and son Sam, 17. • Emilio “Charles” Jacobs III ’02, died at his Napa home in January after a year of fighting sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. He was 44. Before attending UC Davis, he fought with honors during Desert Storm and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 1992. He most recently worked for Stantec Architecture in Petaluma as a job captain. He was a certified LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Green Associate and was working on an architect certification from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He enjoyed gardening, traveling and collecting cars in his free time. He is survived by his partner of 10 years, Monty Sander; mother and step-father, Angie and John Lawless; sister, Michelle Jacobs; brother, Jon Lawless; and niece and nephew, Tiffany and Christopher. |
| 2004JOSH FERNANDEZ’s first full-length collection of poems was released in May by R.L. Crow Publications. Spare Parts and Dismemberment focuses on a young Latino struggling to feel comfortable in his own skin. |
| 2005MOLLY MCGLENNEN, Ph.D., had her first collection of poetry, Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits, published by Salt last November. McGlennen is an assistant professor of English and Native American studies at Vassar College. She and her husband and daughter live in New York. |
| 2006GLENN UMONT, Ph.D., was elected as the new director of the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District last November. He lives in Alamo. |
| 2007DEVIN WHITNEY became the California Health Institute’s associate director for state government affairs in April. He previously worked for TechAmerica as the director for Northwest government affairs in Sacramento. • GINA GRACE and OMAR GONZALEZ were married last November. She works for state Sen. Bill Emmerson (R-Riverside) as a senior field representative, and Gonzalez works for nonprofit ReachOut as an outreach and policy specialist. He will begin law school at UC Davis in the fall. • GINA GRACE and OMAR GONZALEZ were married last November. She works for state Sen. Bill Emmerson (R-Riverside) as a senior field representative, and Gonzalez works for nonprofit ReachOut as an outreach and policy specialist. He will begin law school at UC Davis in the fall. • BRIAN BEHNKEN, Ph.D., wrote Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (University of North Carolina Press. 2011), published this spring. He is an assistant professor of history and U.S. Latino/a studies at Iowa State University. |
| 2009SARAH LESMEISTER, a doctoral student at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, received a 2011 Delta Science Fellowship from the California Sea Grant to support her research on the effects of pesticides on certain crustaceans in the San Francisco Estuary. |
| 2010Scott Heinig ’10, a former Aggies baseball team captain, died in April from head injuries sustained at a private party in Davis after Picnic Day. An avid baseball player and fan, he mentored young baseball players as a summer baseball camp counselor and as a volunteer pitching coach at Davis Senior High School, where he graduated in 2006. He is survived by his parents, Jane and Mark, and his sister, Adrienne. |
