Faye M. Dong, M.S. '73, Ph.D. '76, associate director of undergraduate instruction at the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington, received the Institute of Food Technologists' William V. Cruess Award. This award honors an educator for excellent teaching in food science and technology.

Barbara L. Edmonds, Cred. '72, recently started Barby's House Books, which publishes gay-friendly preschool books. The company has published When Grown-Ups Fall in Love: A Book for Very Young Children and Rush Limbaugh. She lives in Eugene, Ore.

Robert Thompson, M.S., professor of agriculture and agribusiness at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, was presented with a Distinguished Teacher Award in June.

Walter Li, M.S., was named director of process engineering at TelCom Semiconductor Inc., a manufacturer of analog integrated circuits in Mountain View.

Bruce Mulligan is an assistant chief executive officer for SureCare Health Plans in Eugene, Roseburg and Southern Oregon. He writes that he would welcome news from fellow '72 graduates and can be reached via e-mail at BruceM@SureCare.com.

Roxanne Andrews has returned to California after 14 years in the Washington, D.C., area, where she conducted studies on health care for a government consulting firm and the federal government. She now works for the state of California as director of the California Hospital Outcomes Project, which assesses the quality of care in hospitals. She lives in Davis with her husband, John Pierce, and her 6-year-old daughter, Katya.

Ken Wiseman, an independent business consultant, was appointed to the Independent System Operator's board of governors--which will be in charge of managing California's energy transmission system after the electric industry is restructured in 1998. He was elected to represent the interests of agriculture. He and his wife, Rebecca, have two children and have homes in Fresno and Hart Flat.

Francisco J. Alarcon, chief deputy director of the California Youth Authority since 1987, was confirmed by the state Senate as director of CYA.

Steven K. Ault is an environmental health adviser with PAHO/WHO, a U.N. agency, and is currently based in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with his wife, Marian, and daughter, Alisha.

Craig Machado is language assessment coordinator for the English Language Institute at Oregon State University. During the 1997-98 academic year he will be a Fulbright lecturer in American literature and language at Masaryk University, Brno, in the Czech Republic.

John Mamer has been appointed interim dean of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Previously, he served as associate dean and chair of the Department of Management.

Michael J. Goldblatt, M.S., J.D. '80, has joined the board of directors of Food Extrusion Inc. Goldblatt is vice president of science and technology for McDonald's Corp. with global responsibility for the identification and creation of emerging food technologies. Food Extrusion Inc., based in El Dorado Hills, has developed technology to stabilize rice bran, formerly an agricultural byproduct, and to manufacture rice bran-based food products.

Elizabeth Arnold Stone, D.V.M., professor and head of the Department of Companion Animal and Special Species Medicine at North Carolina State University, received the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Achievement Award in June for her dedication to academic veterinary medicine.

Ed Blonz, M.S., Ph.D., '83, a nationally syndicated columnist, has recently written the following books: Your Personal Nutritionist: Antioxidant Counter; Your Personal Nutritionist: Calcium and Other Minerals Counter; Your Personal Nutritionist: Food Additives, all published by Signet. Blonz lives in Kensington.

Vicki (Burich) Sieler recently placed 68th overall in the Hewlett-Packard International Women's Challenge bicycle race in Idaho. She reports that she was the oldest finisher.

Barry Swartwood has been promoted to sergeant in the UC Davis Police Department.

Judi Hamerslough Witzig is a supervising environmental/transportation planner for Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, working on such projects as Cleveland's Waterfront Line rail extension to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and statewide planning for the Florida Department of Transportation. She was transferred to Reston, Va., earlier this year.

Jon K. Andrus, M.D., a medical epidemiologist for the Expanded Program on Immunization of the Pan American Health Organization in Southeast Asia, was honored with the UC Davis School of Medicine Alumni Association Humanitarian Award. He was honored for his work in eradicating polio worldwide.

Joe Fridgen, Ph.D., is chair of the park recreation and tourism resources department at Michigan State University, and Cynthia Fridgen, M.S. '80, is chair of the resource development department. The Fridgens are the first husband and wife team to chair two departments at the university.

Ken Gilbert, M.A. '83, along with his wife, Erin Bonnie Lewis, is the co-founder and artistic director of the Slightly Askew Players, a progressive theater company. They perform at the Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara.

Brad Henderson, a corporate educator for Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, Ore., won a Phi Kappa Phi Award in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California for his book Drums, a novel about a Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, mathematics student who quits school to become a rock and roll drummer.

Thomas S. Nesbitt, M.D, associate professor of family practice and medical director of telemedicine, rural heath and community hospital alliances at UC Davis, received the UC Davis School of Medicine Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award for his efforts to improve health-care delivery to underserved groups in California.