| 1999Jeff Mathy was featured in Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America’s Eagle Scouts (Thomas Dunne Books), a new book written by Alvin Townley that explores the lives and character of Eagle Scouts. Mathy is highlighted for attempting to become the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits of the World. He now lives in Napa Valley. • Anthony Swofford, the author of Jarhead, a memoir of his life as a Marine sniper in the first Gulf War that was made into a movie, has now written Exit A: A Novel. Published in January, his first novel is a teenage love story set on a military base in Japan. He lives in New York. |
| 2000Katey Walter, M.S., was presented with one of two annual Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Awards in December. She received the 2006 Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for her research on modeling climate change. Walter received her Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks earlier this year and is continuing her work as a postdoctoral fellow in biogeochemistry at the university’s Institute of Arctic Biology. • Lorrell Walter was recently named director of public relations for Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y., a nonprofit organization with a mission of conservation, recreation and education. She is also active in the community, serving on the board of directors for Wanderers’ Rest Humane Association and as co-president of the Syracuse Ad Club. She and her husband, Jim, live in Chittenango, N.Y., with two dogs, two cats and a fish. |
| 2002Brian Bunt was named marketing manager of Windsor Mill, a manufacturer of trim boards and moldings in Windsor. Before joining Windsor Mill, Bunt served as the general manager for Clean CrawlSpace in Santa Rosa. • Anya Milani recently graduated from California State University, East Bay, with a master of science in speech and language pathology. She hopes to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology in the fall. |
| 2003Neil Bernardi is the assistant winemaker for Duckhorn Winery’s Goldeneye label in Philo. He is also vice president of the Anderson Valley Wine Grower’s Association and is currently planning the association’s annual Pinot Fest. Bernardi and his new wife, Kimberly Rossiter, live in the Anderson Valley. • Michelle Kleisath is co-founder and executive director of the Shem Women’s Group, a nonprofit organization in Xining, China, that relies on small-scale, grassroots development to improve life for impoverished Tibetans. A gender studies course she took her first year at UC Davis started her down this unfamiliar path, she told the San Francisco Chronicle, which profiled her in an article in February. Before founding her group, Kleisath taught English, sociology and an all-female gender studies class at the Qinghai Normal University in China. She plans to return to the U.S. in September, after four years in China, to pursue a doctorate in anthropology while continuing to work with Shem. • Matt Smith has been accepted to the Anderson School at UCLA where he will pursue his M.B.A. in the fall. He and his wife, Jessica (Madden) Smith ’04, a third-grade teacher, have been living in Los Angeles since he returned from a tour in Afghanistan in 2005. • Van Ta traveled to Honduras with the Medical College of Virginia medical brigade this past summer. This team of physicians and medical students provided health care to over 3,000 patients in 12 remote villages. Ta is a third-year medical student at the college. |
| 2005Alison Ganz is in her second year of teaching English to elementary school children in Lille, France. • Erin Murata was recently admitted to the class of 2010 at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa. |
| 2006Stephanie Jackson was named assistant account executive at Chase Communications, a public relations and marketing communications agency in San Francisco. Previously, she had worked as an intern with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, both in Sacramento. |
