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1947Phil Economon was featured in the 2007 fall edition. Phil Economon By Anna Hennings Occupation: docent at the Buck Institute for Age Research, after a long career with the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Longevity at the Buck: Approaching his 90th birthday in October, Phil Economon ’47 has become fascinated with aging and has been volunteering for the Buck Institute, a research facility in Novato that focuses solely on aging and age-related conditions, since 1999. A retired assistant agriculture commissioner, Economon joined the Buck team shortly after it opened to help with data entry. Now in his eighth year as a volunteer for the institute, he gives tours as a docent. Economon is a strong believer in the facility’s objectives and jokes that he hopes “there will be massive strides made in developing sharper, clearer memories.” Economon is also a regular donor to the center through its Acorn Society, which provides support for research and for an internship program, so that future generations of scientists can continue the research. “I am always trying to encourage young people to get into scientific studies,” he says. “Our country needs scientists and researchers who are trying to solve the problems in our sometimes chaotic civilization.” Making a change: In addition to his work with the Buck Institute, Economon has mentored youth for many years through the YMCA and Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) program, often trying to get kids back into regular school or adopted by a family. And when he’s not helping the youth in his community, Economon is spending time with his own children and grand children. Most notably, he traveled to Europe with his grandson for three weeks in May, revisiting important World War II sites city by city to help his grandson understand firsthand “what really happened over there.” “I like to be involved in anything that pushes knowledge forward.”
1949Jim Campbell celebrated his 80th birthday on Sept. 1, 2007, at the first football game in the new Aggie Stadium, where he sat in his new box seat and heard the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh play “Happy Birthday.” Campbell, an avid Aggie football supporter who attended more than 450 games in Toomey Field, was a longtime farmer in the area, born and raised in Davis. Campbell and his wife, Barbara, have seven children and 15 grandchildren.
1953Denny Constantine, D.V.M. ’55, received a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in recognition of his research on aerosol transmission of the rabies virus and his distinguished career in public health. Constantine is public health officer emeritus and veterinary epidemiologist with the California Department of Health Services Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory.
1954Awatif El-Domiaty Hassan, M.S., Ph.D. ’68, was named a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Hassan, the first woman in the United States to graduate with a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering, is professor emerita of forestry and biological and agricultural engineering at North Carolina State University.
1969Jay Carlisle, J.D., a professor of law at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., received an award in June from the UC Davis School of Law Alumni Association for his support of the association.
1970Evan Hillebrand retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006 and is now associate professor of international economics at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. • Bradford Smith, D.V.M., associate dean for clinical programs and director of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Teaching Hospital at UC Davis, received a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award from the school in recognition of his contributions as a distinguished clinician, educator and leader in food animal medicine. • Richard Swanson, Cred. ’72, M.A. ’74, was appointed superintendent of the Tehachapi Unified School District. Swanson has been a superintendent or superintendent/principal in various districts since 1999 and received a California Distinguished School Principals Award in 2000. He and his wife, Darlene, have four adult children. • John Crane, Ph.D., an emeritus professor of biology and zoology at Washington State University in Pullman, died in June 2007. Dr. Crane joined WSU in 1970 where he primarily taught large introductory biological science classes and parasitology. The esteem in which he was held by his students was demonstrated by his selection to be grand marshal of the Homecoming parade in 1999. He was also recognized by his peers with the 1989 President’s Faculty Excellence Award in Instruction (now the Sahlin Award). Although he retired in 2000, he continued to teach general biology through the Distance Degree Program
1971David Holcombe was named regional administrator/medical director for the Office of Public Health’s Central Louisiana region. This region comprises nine parishes (counties) and a population of over 350,000. He had worked in private practice at the Freedman Clinic of Internal Medicine for the previous 20 years.
1972Dorian Faye, M.A., former UC Davis administrator and retired Winters educator, is serving as a board director and vice president of the Yadkin Valley Craft Guild in Elkin, N.C., which represents 18 counties in two states. With her daughter, Demarais, she operates Double Creek Road, a custom garden design and botanical art business. Faye and her glass-artist husband, Charles Cummings, live and work at the foot of the Blue Ridge in a former church that dates back to 1885.
1973David Bainbridge, M.S., has written A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration (Island Press). Designed to help everyone from home gardeners to foresters, this illustrated user’s manual includes ways to save water and increase plant survival. Bainbridge is an associate professor in the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego. • Linda Gage, M.A. ’74, was named a 2007 fellow of the American Statistical Association. The honor recognizes her leadership and professional contributions to the field of statistical science. Gage is a senior demographer for the California Department of Finance in Sacramento.
1974Colin Carrig, Ph.D., was awarded the title professor emeritus at his retirement in recognition of exemplary service as a professor of radiology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. • John Nesbitt, M.A., Ph.D. ’80, has had his most recent western novel, Raven Springs, published by Leisure Books. • Roger Straus, M.A., Ph.D. ’77, moved from the East Coast to Portland, Ore., where he has a freelance marketing research practice. In his spare time, he helps his new wife, Kathryn Frederick, with her Indie labels, Frederick Productions and Red Newt Records.
1975Bruce Kennedy, M.S. ’80, is president of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, a professional organization of 12,000 people involved in biomedical investigations. Kennedy works at Cal Poly Pomona, where he ensures regulatory compliance of both animal and human studies and also teaches laboratory animal management. He and his wife, Marty (Young) Kennedy ’78, an avid walker, have three children. • Ken Strongman, a mediator who has conducted over 200 mediations, recently qualified for the appellant mediation panel of the California Court of Appeal. He also is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill.
1976Gerald Magee has worked with the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management since 1976, currently serving as the Oregon-Washington environmental protection specialist. He lives in West Linn, Ore., with his wife, Judy (Conway), who is the academic co-director of the distance learning program for Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. Gerald is nearing completion of a Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree from Vermont Law School, while Judy is finishing a postgraduate certificate in interpersonal neurobiology from Portland State University. • Marguerite Pappaioanou, M.P.V.M., Ph.D. ’82, was named executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, effective Nov. 1. She currently holds a joint appointment as professor of infectious disease epidemiology in the School of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

1947Phil Economon was featured in the 2007 fall edition. Phil Economon By Anna Hennings Occupation: docent at the Buck Institute for Age Research, after a long career with the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Longevity at the Buck: Approaching his 90th birthday in October, Phil Economon ’47 has become fascinated with aging and has been volunteering for the Buck Institute, a research facility in Novato that focuses solely on aging and age-related conditions, since 1999. A retired assistant agriculture commissioner, Economon joined the Buck team shortly after it opened to help with data entry. Now in his eighth year as a volunteer for the institute, he gives tours as a docent. Economon is a strong believer in the facility’s objectives and jokes that he hopes “there will be massive strides made in developing sharper, clearer memories.” Economon is also a regular donor to the center through its Acorn Society, which provides support for research and for an internship program, so that future generations of scientists can continue the research. “I am always trying to encourage young people to get into scientific studies,” he says. “Our country needs scientists and researchers who are trying to solve the problems in our sometimes chaotic civilization.” Making a change: In addition to his work with the Buck Institute, Economon has mentored youth for many years through the YMCA and Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) program, often trying to get kids back into regular school or adopted by a family. And when he’s not helping the youth in his community, Economon is spending time with his own children and grand children. Most notably, he traveled to Europe with his grandson for three weeks in May, revisiting important World War II sites city by city to help his grandson understand firsthand “what really happened over there.” “I like to be involved in anything that pushes knowledge forward.”

1949Jim Campbell celebrated his 80th birthday on Sept. 1, 2007, at the first football game in the new Aggie Stadium, where he sat in his new box seat and heard the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh play “Happy Birthday.” Campbell, an avid Aggie football supporter who attended more than 450 games in Toomey Field, was a longtime farmer in the area, born and raised in Davis. Campbell and his wife, Barbara, have seven children and 15 grandchildren.

1953Denny Constantine, D.V.M. ’55, received a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in recognition of his research on aerosol transmission of the rabies virus and his distinguished career in public health. Constantine is public health officer emeritus and veterinary epidemiologist with the California Department of Health Services Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory.

1954Awatif El-Domiaty Hassan, M.S., Ph.D. ’68, was named a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Hassan, the first woman in the United States to graduate with a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering, is professor emerita of forestry and biological and agricultural engineering at North Carolina State University.

1969Jay Carlisle, J.D., a professor of law at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., received an award in June from the UC Davis School of Law Alumni Association for his support of the association.

1970Evan Hillebrand retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006 and is now associate professor of international economics at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. • Bradford Smith, D.V.M., associate dean for clinical programs and director of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Teaching Hospital at UC Davis, received a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award from the school in recognition of his contributions as a distinguished clinician, educator and leader in food animal medicine. • Richard Swanson, Cred. ’72, M.A. ’74, was appointed superintendent of the Tehachapi Unified School District. Swanson has been a superintendent or superintendent/principal in various districts since 1999 and received a California Distinguished School Principals Award in 2000. He and his wife, Darlene, have four adult children. • John Crane, Ph.D., an emeritus professor of biology and zoology at Washington State University in Pullman, died in June 2007. Dr. Crane joined WSU in 1970 where he primarily taught large introductory biological science classes and parasitology. The esteem in which he was held by his students was demonstrated by his selection to be grand marshal of the Homecoming parade in 1999. He was also recognized by his peers with the 1989 President’s Faculty Excellence Award in Instruction (now the Sahlin Award). Although he retired in 2000, he continued to teach general biology through the Distance Degree Program

1971David Holcombe was named regional administrator/medical director for the Office of Public Health’s Central Louisiana region. This region comprises nine parishes (counties) and a population of over 350,000. He had worked in private practice at the Freedman Clinic of Internal Medicine for the previous 20 years.

1972Dorian Faye, M.A., former UC Davis administrator and retired Winters educator, is serving as a board director and vice president of the Yadkin Valley Craft Guild in Elkin, N.C., which represents 18 counties in two states. With her daughter, Demarais, she operates Double Creek Road, a custom garden design and botanical art business. Faye and her glass-artist husband, Charles Cummings, live and work at the foot of the Blue Ridge in a former church that dates back to 1885.

1973David Bainbridge, M.S., has written A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration (Island Press). Designed to help everyone from home gardeners to foresters, this illustrated user’s manual includes ways to save water and increase plant survival. Bainbridge is an associate professor in the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego. • Linda Gage, M.A. ’74, was named a 2007 fellow of the American Statistical Association. The honor recognizes her leadership and professional contributions to the field of statistical science. Gage is a senior demographer for the California Department of Finance in Sacramento.

1974Colin Carrig, Ph.D., was awarded the title professor emeritus at his retirement in recognition of exemplary service as a professor of radiology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. • John Nesbitt, M.A., Ph.D. ’80, has had his most recent western novel, Raven Springs, published by Leisure Books. • Roger Straus, M.A., Ph.D. ’77, moved from the East Coast to Portland, Ore., where he has a freelance marketing research practice. In his spare time, he helps his new wife, Kathryn Frederick, with her Indie labels, Frederick Productions and Red Newt Records.

1975Bruce Kennedy, M.S. ’80, is president of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, a professional organization of 12,000 people involved in biomedical investigations. Kennedy works at Cal Poly Pomona, where he ensures regulatory compliance of both animal and human studies and also teaches laboratory animal management. He and his wife, Marty (Young) Kennedy ’78, an avid walker, have three children. • Ken Strongman, a mediator who has conducted over 200 mediations, recently qualified for the appellant mediation panel of the California Court of Appeal. He also is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill.

1976Gerald Magee has worked with the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management since 1976, currently serving as the Oregon-Washington environmental protection specialist. He lives in West Linn, Ore., with his wife, Judy (Conway), who is the academic co-director of the distance learning program for Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. Gerald is nearing completion of a Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree from Vermont Law School, while Judy is finishing a postgraduate certificate in interpersonal neurobiology from Portland State University. • Marguerite Pappaioanou, M.P.V.M., Ph.D. ’82, was named executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, effective Nov. 1. She currently holds a joint appointment as professor of infectious disease epidemiology in the School of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

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