| 1969Retired from teaching, Bonnie (Boudreau) Cassel worked last summer as a Yellowstone National Park Interpretive Park Ranger at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. She also serves as a trustee for the Lodi Unified School District’s Board of Education. • Charles Issel, D.V.M. ’69, received a 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for his research on a deadly contagious disease in horses, equine infectious anemia. He holds the Wright-Markey Chair of Equine Infectious Diseases at the University of Kentucky. |
| 1970Attorney Michael Arkelian has been appointed to the 2012–13 Sacramento County Grand Jury. He received his law degree from UC Hastings College of Law. |
| 1971Dan Koenigshofer has been named a senior member of the American Society for Healthcare Engineers. He is vice president for healthcare in the Chapel Hill, N.C. of Dewberry, a professional services firm. |
| 1972Eric Davis, D.V.M. ’77, founder of the U.S. Humane Society’s Rural Area Veterinary Services, received a 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for his contributions and leadership in animal welfare and student training in rural veterinary services. Davis is an associate veterinarian with the International Animal Welfare Training Institute, a program of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. He volunteers as director of the organization Rural Veterinary Experience Teaching and Service, R-VETS, in underserved communities. • Dennis Packer has been the public address announcer for almost every pro and collegiate team in the Los Angeles area, including the Dodgers, the Angels, the Lakers, University of Southern California, UCLA, as well as the World Cup ‘94, Japan Bowl and the Rose Bowl, and has performed voice-overs in movies like Naked Gun. Packer retired from his post as Los Angeles Police Department detective supervisor, and is now an intelligence analyst with the Drug Enforcement Administration. • Professor Emeritus Charles Plopper, Ph.D., received a 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for his contributions to research, graduate education and administration during his 30-year career with the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology. |
| 1973Reed Maxson published Arboretum Suite, Lineal Dances V, a music suite in nine sections inspired by the names of trees in the UC Davis Arboretum. |
| 1975Former Davis mayor Ann Evans received a 2012 “Award of Distinction” from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for her work in the sustainable food movement, government, school districts and nonprofit organizations. She co-founded the Davis Food Cooperative and the Davis Farmers Market. |
| 1976Bill Campbell recently was project manager for an Emergency Medical Services Authority disaster training exercise in Sacramento, setting up a 50-bed mobile field hospital—equipped with an emergency room, trauma room, surgery, ICU, X-ray, pharmacy and ward—in about 30 hours. Acting patients were flown in by California National Guard Black Hawk Helicopters and “treated” by medical teams from Scripps, Tenet and Stanford health systems to test participants’ disaster preparedness. • Donald Payne, partner in a Sacramento accounting firm, died unexpectedly from heart complications in October. He was 60. In addition to his UC Davis degree, he earned an accounting degree from California State University, Sacramento, and was a certified public accountant. He loved playing racquetball, cheering on the San Francisco 49ers, collecting wine and spending time with friends and family. |
| 19781978 Napa winemaker Doug Shafer co-authored a memoir, A Vineyard in Napa, with Andy Demsky. Shafer was 17 when his father, John Shafer, a publishing executive, bought the family vineyard; in 2010, Shafer Vineyards received an Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional award from the James Beard Foundation. The book also covers the work of winemaker, Elias Fernandez ’84. • Scott Guild, a certified public accountant and popular Humboldt State University business instructor, died suddenly in his Eureka home in September at age 56. A longtime resident of Humboldt County, he belonged to the Eureka Rotary Club, served on a local school board and coached a number of his son and daughter’s sports teams. A partner in a Eureka accounting firm, he was pursuing a master’s degree in accounting with a goal of teaching college full time. |
| 1980Steve Wiley is the new general manager of American Takii Inc., a Salinas wholesale flower and vegetable seed company. He has been in the vegetable seed business for 28 years, most recently with Monsanto in Oxnard. Wiley, wife Odette, and daughters Gina and Lauren will relocate to the Salinas Valley where Wiley was born and raised. |
| 1982Steve Anderson joined the Jones Lang LaSalle brokerage firm’s San Francisco office as managing director. Anderson has completed more than 6 million square feet of office lease transactions in San Francisco throughout his career and participated in investment sales valued at more than $750 million. He lives in Marin County with his wife and two children. |
| 1985Taryn Hook was recently credited in National Public Radio and other news coverage for her role in a scientist’s discovery of previously unknown viruses that kill snakes. Fearing that her boa constrictor, Larry, had inclusion body disease, she wrote UC San Francisco virologist Joe DeRisi, asking him to find a cure. DeRisi determined that the fatal illness appears to originate from a new set of viruses similar to the Ebola virus. |
| 1988Dickeyville, a comedic coming-of-age novel by Joe Abbott, was published last spring by Starhaven of London. He is a language arts instructor at Butte College near Chico. • Masoud Kayhanian, Ph.D., a UC Davis research engineer, this fall received the campus Academic Federation’s highest honor, the James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award. Kayhanian’s research focuses on the conversion of waste to energy, and surface runoff pollutants. Colleagues noted his passion for teaching and willingness to go above and beyond his duties for the benefit of his students. • Shaohua Zhao, M.P.V.M., Ph.D. ’91, received the 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Veterinary Medicine for contributions to protect public health through food safety research, surveillance, training and education. A senior research microbiologist for the Food and Drug Administration, she is an expert on the molecular epidemiology of foodborne diseases and the use of DNA to identify the source of outbreaks. |
| 1989Mark Hanigan, Ph.D. ’91, a leading authority on the modeling of nitrogen utilization by dairy animals and professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, was recently named the David R. and Margaret Lincicome Professor of Agriculture by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The professorship recognizes contributions to research and teaching in animal-related programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. |
