| 1989Karen Levy wrote My Father’s Gardens (Homebound Publications, 2013), a memoir of growing up traveling between her native Israel and the U.S., and her struggle to find her place in the world. Levy’s work has appeared in Welter, So to Speak, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review and The Meadow. She lives in Davis with her husband and two children. |
| 1992Celeste Holmes graduates in May from a master’s program in Middle Eastern studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. • Ian Topf and wife Maribel welcomed the arrival of son Aaron Gabriel last October. |
| 1995Greg Campbell was named to Capitol Weekly’s 2012 list of 100 most influential people in California policy, politics, and governance. He is chief of staff for Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles. • Kairee (Waters) Tann was appointed to the Emeryville Planning Commission last July and joined the Oakland Ballet Company Board of Directors in January. A construction project manager for Webcor Builders, she lives in Emeryville with her husband, John, and their children, Julian and Anneleise. Tann says her kids, both members of Montclair-Oakland 4-H, visit the fistulated cow every time they come to Davis. |
| 1996David Chao joined Nexus IS as a regional sales manager after eight years in sales management at Cisco/WebEx. He blogs at davidchao.typepad.com and can be followed on Twitter @davidchao. • John Schaff was recently appointed vice president and mortgage loan origination manager of First National Bank Alaska. • Erwin Taganas founded EAT Productions, a technology startup in Southern California, to manufacture Videopage, a video player for books. The project was funded through Kickstarter. |
| 1997Rachele Baker published Eighteen Months To Live (available on Amazon), a collection of journal entries that her mother, Midge Rylander, wrote after being diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Baker is a small animal veterinarian and writer living in Southern California. • Lt. Col. Conrad Huygen, J.D., is an Air Force chief senior defense counsel stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He oversees a team of 36 judge advocates and 26 paralegals who provide trial defense services in the eastern U.S., Europe and Southwest Asia. His wife, Julie, is also an Air Force lieutenant colonel who recently returned from deployment at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. • Summer Smith recently joined the Redwood City office of law firm Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentlet as a partner. She represents attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers and designers in professional liability matters. • Zachary Schwartz, of Los Angeles, died in September 2012 from injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident. He was 37. After graduating from UC Davis, he earned an MBA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. |
| 2001Andrew Gordus and Sara (Oliver) Gordus welcomed a baby boy, Oliver Cazador Gordus, in November in New York City. |
| 2002Karen Fong, a college admissions consultant and former UC Davis Women’s Rugby Club All-America player, has been named the academic adviser for the USA Rugby High School All-American Team. She works in San Diego for Dunbar Educational Consultants. |
| 2003Damian Horstman, M.D., died in a cycling accident near San Luis Obispo last September. He was 39. He was an anesthesiologist and vice chief of staff at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo. In addition to his medical degree, he held a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. |
| 2004Anna Muraco, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, authored Odd Couples (Duke University Press, 2012). The book examines gay-straight friendships. |
| 2006Sonja Colbert, MBA, has been appointed the chief administrative officer in the UC Davis Office of the Provost. • Jason Lucash, co-founder of OrigAudio, was named Entrepreneur magazine’s “Emerging Entrepreneur of 2012.” His multimillion-dollar company makes folding speakers out of recycled materials, and the Rock-It, which turns most anything into a speaker. • Sean Stiny was recently named online marketing manager at Genworth Financial in Pleasant Hill. |
| 2007Sara Kropp Jacobsen, Cred. ’08, M.A. ’09, and John Jacobsen, Ph.D. ’11, welcomed twins, Frederick Lewis and Helen Eliza, in February. The babies were born at UC Davis Medical Center. Sara is a sixth-grade social studies teacher at a Sacramento charter school and John is a process scientist for Ampac Fine Chemicals in Rancho Cordova. |
