| 1977Edward Dillon, Rocklin, age 59, died Dec. 30, 2013. He was CEO of Polycomp. |
| 1981Tamara (Hupe) Skov is a real estate agent with boutique brokerage Santa Barbara Living. A resident of Santa Barbara since 1990, she previously worked as director for contributor services at United Way, director of development at Sansum Clinic and, most recently, executive director of the Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care Foundation. |
| 1986Cecilia Menjivar, M.A., Ph.D. ’92, co-edited Creating Immigrant “Illegality”: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2013). She is Cowden Distinguished Professor at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She is also the author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Everyday Lives in Guatemala (University of California Press, 2011). • Stephen Mitchell, of Fairfield, had his photo taken with St. Louis Cardinals infielder Daniel Descalso ’07 while they waited for their luggage at San Francisco International Airport last November. The two Aggies had been on the same flight from St. Louis—Mitchell, an Air Force Reserve colonel returning from duty at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, and Descalso from the 2013 World Series. In April, Mitchell met Descalso again at a game at the Cardinals’ Busch Stadium, and got that photo autographed. • Lawrence “Larry” Levin, who did a medical residency and fellowship during 1981–86, died in Medford, Ore., on Feb. 11. He was 64. He had been a rheumatologist at the Queen’s Medical Center and Straub Clinic and Hospital in Honolulu. |
| 1987Douglas Bordner, a business, corporate transaction and real estate attorney, is now a partner at Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold. He runs the law firm’s Thousand Oaks office. • Michael Dougherty, Seattle, died Jan. 21 at age 49. He was lead partner at Envoy Capital Investments. |
| 1988Norelisa (Miller) Gonzales, a San Carlos homemaker and school volunteer, died March 4. She was 47. |
| 1992Brian Ebbert, assistant chief clerk/parliamentarian for the California State Assembly, has been elected vice president of the American Institute of Parliamentarians for the Sacramento region. |
| 1993An e-book by Alan Parris Archuleta, The Gospel of Hemp: How Hemp Can Save Our World, is available on Amazon and other major e-book sellers. • Terri Dawn Arnold earned an M.A. in educational leadership and a preliminary administrative services credential at Azusa Pacific University. She graduated in the top 1 percent of her class and is a new member of Alpha Chi and Pi Lambda Theta honor societies. The former English teacher also holds a M.Ed. from Indiana Wesleyan University. |
| 1994Austin Jersild, Ph.D., wrote the book, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). He is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. |
| 1995Actress Deborah (Adams) Anderson, M.F.A., co-produced Sonnet Love Songs, a compilation of classic sonnets set to original, classical and jazz music. Composer Richard DeRosa applied her melodies and artistic concepts in writing the songs. • A new book by Robert Fletcher, Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (Duke University Press, 2014), examines why some vacationers like to rough it on ecotours. A cultural anthropologist, he teaches in the Department of Environment and Development at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Read his blog. |
| 1997A debut collection of short stories by Halina Duraj, M.A. ’03, The Family Cannon, won Augury Books’ Editors’ Prize and was published this year. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego. • Tasha (Jablonski) Miller has released a trilogy of albums called FIRSTCOMESLOVE. She says she wrote, arranged, sang and produced the 32 songs on the three albums—The Boob Guy, Needs, Wilderness (in a 10lb gown)—over a period of three years as a way of coping after her husband, Scott Miller ’96, began treatment for cancer. “My husband is currently cleeeeean as a whistle,” she writes. The Millers live in Portland, Ore., with their three children, ages 7–11. Her websites are MrsTashaMiller and BathrobedHousewivesAssociation. • Melinda Nielsen-Sousa, Modesto, died March 7 at age 38. She was an English teacher, and member of National Ski Patrol. |
| 1998Jennifer Lynn Johnson Carr, a Woodland elementary school science and P.E. teacher, died Nov. 19, 2013. She was 38. |
| 1999Catherine Lantz co-authored Hawthorne Works, part of the Arcadia Images of America series. A reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she was working at Morton College Library and the Hawthorne Works Museum when she wrote the pictorial history about the Western Electric plant in Cicero, Ill. |
| 2002Melissa Johnson Hallas and Ryan Hallas ’11, welcomed their second son, Erik James, in August. He was born in their car near the Mondavi Center. The Hallases extend kudos to the UC Davis Fire Department for its help. |
