| 1988Katherine Nerret, CEO of Regne, launched a fragrance line called Regne for Day, which is available through the company’s Web site, www.Regne.info. • Christopher Rivers is in his sixth year of fundraising/development and communications for a national nonprofit operated by the UC Office of the President that serves educationally disadvantaged students with math, science and engineering courses. He and his wife, Leila Minerva-Rivers, have two daughters, Hana and Jasmine, and enjoy remodeling their 1913 Edwardian home in San Francisco. • Gretchen Wallacker is a partner in a law firm in San Mateo. She and her husband, Tom, have two children, Meredith, and her younger brother, Maxwell, who was born in January 2007. |
| 1989Kurt Ouchida and his wife, Robyn Campbell-Ouchida, celebrated the birth of their second son in August. The family lives in Henderson, Nev., where they operate All Write Business Communications. • Mike Wiesmeier is planning to offer sketching tours of Barcelona, Spain, beginning this summer. Wiesmeier has worked as an animator for Walt Disney Studios and other companies including two located in Spain. He has taught drawing for the last 11 years, most recently to guests of the Getty and Norton Simon museums in Los Angeles. |
| 1990Eric Ehrenreich, J.D., recently had his book The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution published by Indiana University Press. The work is a study of the Third Reich and the relation between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. |
| 1991Vincent Stewart has been appointed assistant secretary of higher education for the California Office of the Secretary of Education. He had served as director of federal government relations for UC Davis and previously as legislative director of undergraduate and graduate education in business operations for the UC Office of the President. |
| 1992Joseph Ampon has been the senior software engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. in Azusa for the past 10 years. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Pauline. • Bill Brunsky was recently promoted to principal at the Ventura office of George W. Girvin and Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in San Rafael and Ventura. His wife, Hollee (King), was also recently promoted. She is now the planning services manager for Civic Solutions Inc., a planning consulting firm specializing in services for government agencies. They have two sons, Bradley and Drew. • Matthew Kennedy, M.A., has written Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes (University Press of Mississippi’s Hollywood Legends Series). Joan Blondell is the first major biography of the actress who began in vaudeville and went on to motion pictures, television, radio and theatre. • Ian Topf opened a law office in San Diego. The firm represents clients in the areas of family law, estate planning, general civil litigation and criminal defense. • Virginia Sung is an immigration lawyer in San Francisco. She was recently featured in an issue of San Francisco Attorney, a publication by the San Francisco Bar Association. The article focused on her pro bono work in bringing a deported immigrant back to the United States. |
| 1993Barak Kassar, M.B.A., is president and creative director of the Rassak Experience in San Francisco. The firm specializes in online advertising and viral marketing—so-called because information is meant to be spread by word of mouth from consumer to consumer. |
| 1994Daniel Kurtzman is the author of two dueling political humor books: How to Win a Fight with a Conservative and How to Win a Fight with a Liberal. A former Washington correspondent-turned political satirist, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Laura Garrett ’97. • Matt Mason, M.A., recently had his first book of poetry, Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press), named as the winner of the 2007 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry by the Nebraska Center for the Book. |
| 1996Robin Ekiss, M.A., received a 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award—a $25,000 prize given annually to six women writers in the early stages of their careers. She is finishing her first book of poems, The Mansion of Happiness. • Katie Gordon-Ho was married to Eduardo Ho in September 2006 in Atascadero.Deanna (Bean) Kennedy ’99 and Tracy (Doherty) Ingebrigtsen ’94 were attendants. Gordon-Ho is an associate biologist for Rincon Consultants Inc. The couple had their first child, Margarete Lilliana, in August. • David Gutierrez is a United States diplomat at the U.S. Department of State and deputy director of the Biological Weapons Office in Washington, D.C. He has been on U.S. diplomatic delegations to Libya, Pakistan and Argentina promoting scientific collaboration with foreign scientists. |
| 1997Samina Akbar, Ph.D., joined Des Moines University as an assistant professor in the microbiology and immunology department. Previously she had worked with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. • Jeff Bernstein and his wife, Kate, welcomed their first child, Asher Benjamin, in July. Jeff is currently a consultant for Telecommunications Management Group, and Kate works in public relations for Qualcomm. The family lives in Carlsbad. |
