| 1991Julie Jack is a vice president in the New York office for APCO Worldwide, a global communication consultancy firm. Jack joined APCO Worldwide from Burson-Marsteller, where she was a director in the public affairs practice, specializing in the pharmaceutical, technology, consumer products, energy and retail sectors. She has also worked with the American Forest and Paper Association in Washington, D.C. • Jeffrey Thurrell has been named partner at the Irvine office of Fisher & Phillips LLP, a national labor and employment law firm. He represents employers in all forms of employment litigation and conducts training seminars on employment-related topics. • Mark Wisniewski, M.A., has written a book of poems, One of Us One Night (Platonic 3Way Press), that took first place in the 2006 Evil Genius Series Contest. He was also awarded a 2006 Isherwood Foundation Fellowship in Fiction in support of his work as a novelist. • Thomas “Omaha” Greene died in December 2006 at age 51. As a registered engineer and certified dive instructor, Mr. Greene had nearly 20 years of commercial diving experience. Before his work for Caltrans as an under-water investigation officer, he owned a construction company, served in the Peace Corps in Fiji and owned a scuba shop. Survivors include his children, Kelly and Ian; their mother, Alice Banuve; his father and stepmother, James and Mary Ann Greene; and four siblings. |
| 1992Michael Shahani, M.A., received a doctor of musical arts degree in conducting from the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, where he studied with the renowned maestro Harold Farberman. Shahani is a music department faculty member at City College of San Francisco and makes frequent conducting and singing appearances in the Bay Area and internationally. He lives in Walnut Creek with his wife and three children. • Virginia Sung was featured in the winter issue of San Francisco Attorney, a San Francisco Bar Association quarterly publication, for her pro bono work helping an undocumented immigrant who was wrongfully deported and brought back by the U.S. government. Sung practices immigration and nationality law in San Francisco. She lives with her teenage daughter in Oakland. |
| 1993David Anderson has joined Nixon Peabody LLP as a partner in its venture capital, emerging growth and technology practice. Anderson specializes in intellectual property and transactional matters with a focus on interactive entertainment. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. • Terri Dawn Arnold earned her M.Ed. from Indiana Wesleyan University last year. She currently works in education as a curriculum coordinator/consultant and is an independent filmmaker in Roseville (www.tdaentertainment.com). Arnold wrote an original screenplay, The Two Sisters, and produced and directed the feature film over the summer. It will be screened at film festivals this year.
• Emilie (Luster) Barnes, M.S. ’96, and her husband, Josh, welcomed their first child, John Ronald, in July. Barnes works as a real estate appraiser in the Sacramento area, and her husband is a landscape manager for a builder in Roseville. • Matthew Bourbon had a solo exhibition at Conduit Gallery in Dallas in December. In 2000, Bourbon moved to Texas, where he is now a professor of art at the University of North Texas in Denton. As well as exhibiting his work in Texas, California and New York, he also contributes articles and reviews to Flash Art International, New York Arts Magazine and Artlies. • Curt Yagi is the executive director of Real Options for City Kids (ROCK), a San Francisco youth organization that combines learning enrichment with sports and fitness, outdoor activities and leadership training. Yagi was also recently selected as the Young Nonprofit Professional Network’s Executive Director of the Year. |
| 1994Camille Rose Garcia, M.F.A., will have a solo art exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art from May to September. Her paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairytales are critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias. Garcia recently published her first children’s book, The Magic Bottle (Fantagraphics), as well as a monograph, The Saddest Place on Earth (Last Gasp Press). Her art has been widely collected and also featured in Juxtapoz magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Modern Painters and Nylon magazine among others. Garcia is represented by Merry Karnowsky Gallery and lives in Los Angeles. • Theresa (Gutierrez) Gaughan has joined Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP, an accounting and management consulting firm, as the recruiting and development manager in their Sacramento office. She is responsible for all aspects of recruiting as well as oversight of the firm’s career development programs. • After eight years at UC Davis as the director of state government relations and advocacy, Matthew Hargrove recently joined the California Business Properties Association in Sacramento as the senior vice president for governmental affairs. |
| 1996Lary Duque, M.A., received tenure at Brigham Young University–
Idaho. A faculty member in the Department of Teacher Education, Duque also coaches youth tennis and fulfills ecclesiastical responsibilities for the university, which is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He writes that he enjoys the Tetons and Yellowstone, and tries to grow tomatoes in an area with a very short summer. He lives with his wife, Sharon (Woodward) Duque, B.A. ’85, M.A. ’88, and their children in Rexburg, Idaho.
• Amy Eggert was recently promoted to pension consultant in the Roseville office of Polycomp, a consulting firm providing customized retirement plans and benefit administration. In her new position, she will focus on broker development and retention and design retirement and benefit plans. Before joining Polycomp, Eggert was a plan administrator and accounting clerk for various Sacramento firms. She lives in Sacramento. |
| 1997Actor Jeffrey Carlson has landed a recurring role on All My Children. His character, Zarf, an international rock star, is the first transgender character on daytime television but the second role for Carlson focused on sexual identity. Two years ago, he played a cross-dresser in the Broadway musical Taboo, based on the life of pop star Boy George. • Carrie (Ward) Gafni and Matthias Gafni ’98 welcomed their first child, Grace Camille, in November. Carrie is in her eighth year of teaching and works for the Travis Unified School District. Her husband is the assistant city editor for the Vallejo Times Herald. The couple lives in Fairfield. |
| 1998Joseph Johnson and Rebecca (Emmerich) Johnson ’00 welcomed the birth of their first child, Alexa Paige, in November. Joseph writes, “The new family is doing great.” They live in San Ramon. |
| 1999Paul Hicks, M.S., has been with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for eight years, serving as the country representative for CRS/Afghanistan for a little over a year working on rehabilitation programs. CRS is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the U.S., providing assistance to people in 99 countries and territories. Before Afghanistan, Hicks worked in the Philippines and Albania on agricultural and natural resource management programs as well as rural water and sanitation initiatives. He was also a technical adviser for CRS agricultural development programs in 2002 and 2003. |
