 Conrad Lehfeldt is active in community and church affairs. He taught for 35 years, 26 as the director of vocational agriculture and nine in social studies and driver training at Gustine High School. Lehfeldt and his wife of 58 years, Loy, have three daughters, two of whom are UC Davis graduates: Bea (Lehfeldt) Sousa '64, a sixth-grade teacher, and her husband, Lynn Sousa '65, the head of the chemistry department at Ball State University, live in Muncie, Ind., and have one son, Aron, who is finishing a medical internship in Michigan. Beverly (Lehfeldt) Halliday '67 lives in Fair Oaks with her husband, Bill. She is a computer specialist for Vision Care. Her son is a journalist in Washington state.
 John S. Carlson, Ph.D., who received a D.D.S. from UC San Francisco in 1975, works for Indian Health Services with the Karuk Tribe. He lives in Yreka with his wife, Ann, and their daughter, Andrea.
 Keith Jaeger, Cred. '71, and his wife, Elke, are expecting a baby in January. This year Jaeger also received his master's degree in educational administration from California State University, Los Angeles. He is the computer science department chair at California Distinguished School, Bravo Medical Magnet Senior High School in Los Angeles. His son, Jeff, just produced his first Hollywood film. Cliff Krowne recently contributed an article, "Numerical Modeling of Circulators," to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 15. Krowne also presented a paper at the World Electrotechnic Congress in Moscow in June. Larry Simpson has been working for 11 years at Farmers Insurance in Dixon.
 Wayne M. Grossman was recently installed as president of the California Society of Pediatric Dentists. Grossman, who has been practicing children's dentistry for more than 20 years, completed a D.D.S. and a pediatric dental postgraduate program at UC San Francisco in the 1970s. He lives in the Sacramento area with his wife, Zoe McCandless-Grossman '72, who writes that they recently adopted a 2-year-old boy, Alan, from Siberia and that she is a two-year survivor of the Stanford Bone Marrow Transplant program for breast cancer. Marie-France Hilgar, Ph.D., was awarded the Academic Palms in May from the French government. Hilgar, a professor of French at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, since 1971, received the award in recognition of her contribution to extending French culture outside France. The award, created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808, is given to French and non-French citizens with a minimum of 15 years teaching experience.
 Robert Densmore Brill served as chair of living history for this year's Scottish Gathering and Games held annually by the Caledonian Club of San Francisco. As chair, Brill managed nearly 700 participants in the living history re-enactment and other Games' programs. Brill has also been researching the Scottish roots of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe and is writing a book on his discoveries. Carol Chase McElheney has been a park ranger–peace officer for Sacramento County since 1977. She has also worked as a reserve deputy sheriff for 20 years. She writes that she enjoys "working with my equine partner." She lives in the Sacramento area with her husband, Tim, and their two children, Rosemary and Charlie.
 John Ferguson, M.S. '76, accepted a position with the National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He oversees a group of scientists studying ways to improve the survival rates of salmon that pass through the Columbia River. Ferguson lives with his wife, Denise, in Seattle. Bill Frost, M.S. '79, has recently been appointed natural resource program leader for the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. James N. Moore, D.V.M., has been named the 1999 winner of the World Equine Veterinary Association Applied Research Award for his outstanding research in equine abdominal diseases. Moore, who received a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1980, is head of the University of Georgia's Department of Large Animal Medicine and is also a professor in the university's Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. Terald A. Zall is working on newspaper projects, and his newly published book, The Hospital, a historic account of the Rideout Memorial Hospital, is selling well. Proceeds from the book will benefit the
Fremont-Rideout Foundation.
 David Gee, M.S. '76, Ph.D. '80, was named Central Washington University's distinguished professor of 1999. Gee has been teaching food science and nutrition at the university for 18 years, as well as researching methods of body composition assessment and the relationship between nutrition and disease. Gee also works as the sports nutritionist for the Yakima Sun Kings of the Continental Basketball Association. Mary Lee Gragg Lusby received a Ph.D. in 1983 from Cal Poly Pomona and works as an associate professor in human anatomy and physiology at Nebraska Methodist College in Omaha. Herbert Mason, Ph.D., was selected by Gov. Gray Davis to serve on the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Mason is an agricultural economics professor and head of the Center for Agricultural Business at California State University, Fresno. Michael P. Yaffe was promoted to full professor in the Department of Biology at UC San Diego. Yaffe teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cell biology and serves as UCSD's biochemistry and cell biology undergraduate faculty adviser. Currently, Yaffe studies the inheritance of mitochondria, analyzing their behavior during cellular growth and division.
 Sam (Harry) Sappington began working as the assistant director of University Counseling and Psychological Services at Oregon State University in Corvallis this summer. After receiving a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1991, Sappington worked for nine years as a senior staff psychologist at the Colorado State University Counseling Center. Genevieve Shiroma is chief of the California Air Resources Board's Air Quality Measures Branch and was recently chosen by Gov. Gray Davis to serve on the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board. David Steinberg, M.D., and George York, M.D., shared this year's Lawrence C. McHenry award from the American Academy of Neurology. The award honors Steinberg and York's research on John Hughlings Jackson, a turn-of-the-century neurologist whose work heavily influenced modern scientific neurology. York is chief of neurology at Kaiser Permanente Stockton Medical Center, and both are senior fellows at the Såa Institute in Fiddletown. Anne Wilson Warner recently began working at the Oakland Zoo as director of conservation. Her oldest child just finished his first year at UC Davis.
 Danni Dunn, J.D., M.B.A. '85, recently joined Ernst & Young LLP as a partner in the firm's Palo Alto office, after working as a mergers and acquisitions tax specialist with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dunn is also a faculty member at Golden Gate University and a contributor to Taxes Magazine and Practicing Law Institute.
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