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'39 Sarah (Mulock) Duncan is the curator of the San Gabriel Museum and remains active in the Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce, the San Gabriel Community Coordinating Council and the Mission District Partnership Committee. In 1998, San Gabriel named her Older American of the Year. After graduating from UC Davis, Duncan attended California State University, Los Angeles, taught kindergarten for 30 years and raised two sons. She lives on land that was part of her grandparents' ranch and still visits former Davis roommates Kay Lilienthal Wooden and Eleanor Robinson Williamson.
'42 Chester Locke writes this year that his family is celebrating 150 years and five generations of farming. He manages the Locke Ranch in Lockeford, along with Chris Locke, a 1973 UC Berkeley graduate, and Bonnie Locke '71.
'56 Ruth Rockefeller, Cred., recently retired from the North Coast Railroad Authority board, having served since its inception 10 years ago. After retiring from a 25-year career teaching high school, Rockefeller devoted her time, as an editorial in the Eureka Times-Standard put it, to "saving the Northwestern Pacific Railroad." She was instrumental in forming the public agency that took over the bankrupt line and even served as its director for a time.
'57 Jim Kissler, B.S., M.S. '57, received an award of merit from the Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission in October. Kissler was honored for his many pioneering contributions to the Lodi wine and grape industry, such as his introduction of mechanical harvesting. After graduating from UC Davis, Kissler worked as the San Joaquin County viticulture farm advisor until 1986.
'62 Amy Ling, M.A., is a professor in the Department of English and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She recently edited Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts (Temple University Press, 1999), a collection of writings, essays, interviews and poems by Asian American authors, filmmakers and artists who discuss their work and Asian American culture. Ling is the author of a number of other books, including Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry and Chinamerican Reflections.
'69 William Kidd, D.V.M. '75, heads the Moraga Veterinary Hospital. Kidd has been running the hospital since 1977, caring for companion animals and volunteering his time to care for sick and injured animals brought in by animal welfare groups.
'70 The Rev. Dennis Rhodes was appointed rector of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Norwich, Conn. Rhodes has been a priest for 20 years. He has two children, Sarah and Jonathan, and a granddaughter, Alexa. Roger Sabbadini, Ph.D. '74, a professor of biology at San Diego State University, invented and recently received a patent for a heart attack diagnostic kit.
'72 David Carle published Drowning the Dream--California's Water Choices at the Millennium (Praeger Publishers, 2000), a book that explores how the importation of water has shaped population growth in the state. After graduating from UC Davis, Carle received a master's degree in recreation and parks administration from California State University, Sacramento. He is currently unit ranger at Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve, a position he shares with his wife.
'73 David Bainbridge, M.S., is assistant professor and coordinator of environmental studies at the United States International University in San Diego. He recently published an article in the journal Environmental Management that discusses how human activities have affected the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Christine Barnes and the editors of Sunset Books released Color for Your Home, a book on decorating with color. Her 1997 book, Color: The Quilter's Guide, featured the work of two other UC Davis alumni, Patrice Sims '74 and Maggie Potter '78. After graduating from UC Davis, Barnes worked as an intern for Sunset Magazine and then obtained a master's degree in journalism. Apparel designer Ellen Hauptli curated an exhibition titled Asian Persuasion, Contemporary Works with Asian Influence at the Gayle Willson Gallery in Southampton, N.Y. Included in the exhibition were works by some UC Davis alumni: Keiki Fujita '80, Lois Hadfield '72, Carol Nakaso '82 and Carol Lee Shanks '79.
'74 Fred Holden, J.D., a partner at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison LLP in San Francisco, was elected a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is one of only 400 members. Holden was also listed in Best Lawyers in America while still in his 30s and has been included in all subsequent editions.
'76 Paul Bosland, M.S. '77, and his wife Judy(Golden), M.S. '78, live in Las Cruces, N.M., where Judy is a senior research analyst for the Office of Institutional Research at New Mexico State University. Paul, a geneticist and chile breeder, is a professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at NMSU. The couple has two children, Emily--a freshman studying marketing at NMSU--and William--a high school freshman. John Knox was named chair of the San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable, a professional organization for senior public relations practitioners. He is a principal at Knox Communications.
'77 Oakley Shields, Ph.D., was featured in Outstanding People of the 20th Century--First Edition. He lives in Woodland, where he has worked as a consultant, tomato inspector, sugar beet and warehouse laborer and "Bug Barn" coordinator at the Solano County Fair.
'78 Carol Briant joined Buck Consultants Inc. as communication practice leader of its Seattle office. Briant, a former principal of the Adobe Group LLC, has nearly 20 years of experience in human resources and communications consulting. Donald Stannard-Friel, Ph.D., chair of the department of sociology and psychology at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, was named director of the Notre Dame-AmeriCorps. Stannard-Friel supervises AmeriCorps volunteer teachers working in classrooms in Redwood City and San Francisco.
'79 Ahmad Faruqui, Ph.D., works at EPRI, a Palo Alto research and development firm that assists companies in the energy industry. He has also co-edited two books: Customer Choice: Finding Value in Retail Electric Markets (PUR Press, 1998), which discusses how the deregulation of the nation's $200 billion electric industry affects customers' choices, and Pricing in Competitive Electric Markets (Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000). A native Pakistani, Faruqui has written two papers on that country's changing political and economic climate, analyzing the negative impact of Pakistan's military on democratic institutions, the national budget and relations with neighboring India.
'81 Mickey Mattox was recently appointed research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, which provides research support in theology and church history for Lutheran churches. Mattox, who earned a Ph.D. in religion from Duke University, is married to Pamela (Young) '80, and they have two children, Samuel Augustine and Clement Lewis.
'83 Bob Slater recently joined the Globix Corp., a provider of Internet services in Santa Clara, as an inside sales consultant. Previously, Slater worked for his family's agribusiness in Clarksburg and developed a professional golf tour. Slater's Web site is located at www.citlink.net/~farm.
'84 Mark Emerson, M.F.A., exhibited his recent paintings in a show titled Rhythm Method at the Claremont Graduate University.
'85 Francisco Rodriguez, M.S. '97, was named executive dean of Woodland Community College. Before his appointment, Rodriguez served as the interim dean at the 3,000-student institution. Rodriguez previously worked for 12 years at UC Davis in undergraduate admissions, outreach and recruitment, diversity education and student programs and activities, and was the first director of the Cross-Cultural Center. He now serves as vice president/president-elect of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association.
'86 Audrey Millemann, J.D., is a registered patent attorney with Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul, a law firm in Sacramento. Kelly(Hoban)Nix received a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree last year and is a resident in podiatric surgery at Kaiser-Permanente Hospital in Santa Clara.
'87 Paul Uliana is the regulatory affairs/quality assurance director for MWG Biotech Inc. He and his wife, Katherine Clark, live in Lexington, N.C., with their two children, Ryan and Samantha.
'88 A novel by Robert ClarkYoung, M.A., One of the Guys, has been published by HarperCollins. Young recently told a Davis Enterprise reporter, "All I do is travel and write," but he was also a guest at the Squaw Valley Writers' Conference this past summer and was on staff at the Southern California Writers' Conference this winter.
'89 Laurie Erdman became a partner at Dillingham & Murphy, a law firm in San Francisco, where she specializes in general litigation and employment law. Lori Hageman, D.V.M. '93, has opened her own veterinary practice, the Ark Pet Hospital in Antioch, a small animal practice specializing in reptiles. Lena Jow works as a medical technologist at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. She and her husband, Scott, had a son in November.
'90 Matthew Dudman, M.B.A. '93, is an associate with the Sacramento law firm Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul. Darrell Mariz recently joined the Law Offices of Aaron B. Booth in Los Angeles, focusing on civil litigation, construction law and construction defects defense. After graduating from UC Davis, Mariz obtained a law degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, La., and worked in civil litigation at Wilner, Klein & Siegel in Beverly Hills. He says that he "would welcome any contacts from friends from UC Davis." Eric Tresser was named vice president, division finance officer at Bank of the West in San Francisco. After graduating from UC Davis, Tresser received his M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and worked at World Savings and Loan Association, Charles Schwab and Co. and the Franklin Trust Co.
'91 Karl Berger and Rebecca Shepherd became parents of a daughter, Brianna Shepherd Berger, in November. Pedro Cisneros, M.S., Ph.D. '95, works as the general manager of TALSA, a company in Northern Peru that produces, processes and exports asparagus to Europe and the United States. David Lundmark, M.B.A. '95, J.D. '98, is a drummer in Erica's Other Life, an alternative rock band, which features his wife, Erica Lundmark '93, as lead singer. Erica's Other Life performed at the Santa.com festival in San Francisco in December. More information can be found at www.ericasotherlife.com. DoreneRodriguez, a human resources manager for Electronics for Imaging in Foster City, married Leonard Hoops Jr. in October. The couple lives in Hayward.
'92 Christine Arthur is helping develop an e-commerce site for a retail/wholesale home furnishings company in Burlingame, www.angurah.com. Arthur has also been doing product photography and product development for the company and has created a virtual gallery of her own work, www. fiberarts.com. Randy Scott Wong was named vice-president of asset development for Oaks Property Management, a real estate development company, where he specializes in real estate acquisitions and oversees operations for the company's commercial division. After graduating from UC Davis, Wong received his J.D. from McGeorge School of Law, serving as president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. He then worked in private practice and as a state prosecutor. Wong and his wife, Monica, corporate counsel for a health system, recently moved to Irvine. Wong welcomes e-mail at randy_s_wong@ lawyer.com.
'93 Rodrigo Carranza is pursuing a master's degree in agribusiness and a minor in dairy nutrition management at the University of Florida. After graduating from UC Davis, he worked for Monsanto Dairy Business. Tad Devlin joined Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, a law firm in San Francisco. Devlin specializes in commercial and business litigation, sports law and white-collar criminal defense. After graduating from UC Davis, Devlin attended McGeorge School of Law, receiving a degree in 1997. Kristen Goodwin, J.D. '98, recently became an associate attorney at Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul, a Sacramento law firm. Jennifer Harder, J.D. '98, joined Sacramento law firm Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer's natural resources department. Harder formerly served as a law clerk for Justice Alexander Bryner of the Alaska Supreme Court. Bryan Kochis lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and works as the chief technical officer for Emergency Computer Services Inc., overseeing the company's consulting, Web site design and networking services. Kochis was married in 1997 and can be contacted at bdkochis@hotmail.com. Lily Kuan works for an interior design firm, Mark Lintott Design, in Taipei, Taiwan. She and her husband, Lawrence, had a son, Benjamin Tien-Jie Liu, in November. Joseph Santoso, M.D., was named the first holder of the Faculty Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology Honoring Doctors LeBlanc, Little and Powell at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Santoso has also won numerous awards for his teaching since he arrived at the university in 1997. Michael Ziccardi, D.V.M., M.P.V.M. '94, recently left his position at the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) to develop the Institute for Wildlife Infectious Disease at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The first epidemiologist ever employed at a zoo, Ziccardi is currently examining the effect of diseases on the conservation efforts of zoo-based species and is also developing a central database for medical and husbandry information for various animal species. During his time with OWCN, Ziccardi developed protocols for dealing with birds injured by oil spills. He hopes to complete a doctorate this year.
'94 J.R. Campbell, M.F.A. '96, and Melissa English '95 live in Ames, Iowa, where Campbell is an assistant professor in the textiles and clothing department at Iowa State University. The two had a daughter, Willow Rachel Campbell, in June. English is a full-time mom, as well as owner of M.C. English Productions, a clothing design business, which she runs out of her home. Mary Yaeger, M.F.A. '96, works part time at the Boulder Extension Office of the Southwest Research Institute. In 1998, she received the Fellowship Award in Visual Art from the Colorado Council on the Arts, and some of her textile work appeared in Fashion Show: Art of and About Fashion, an exhibition held in Boulder, Colo.
'95 Park Allen was married in September in Tiburon. Guests at the wedding of this former Cal Aggie Marching Band-Uh student director included fellow past directors Andy Austin, Nate Austin and Katie Dooley. Last year Mike Powers got married and joined California Endowment, one of the country's largest health foundations, as a communications manager. He was formerly an associate director of communication and marketing with the American Red Cross in Los Angeles.
'96 After spending three years in Vancouver, Wash., Katherine Gordon recently transferred to the San Diego Division of Hewlett Packard to continue her work as a manufacturing engineer. She said that she decided to return to California for the "great weather." Mayank Patel has co-founded a Silicon Valley start-up, MonkeyRules.com, an online auction service that gives restaurants an opportunity to offer discount dining certificates to increase business during slow periods. The service has already attracted more than 1,500 registered consumers and more than 90 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephanie Sarver, Ph.D., works as an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently published a book, Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), which explores the role of agriculture and nature in the late 19th and early 20th century American literary works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris and William Ellsworth Smythe. She has also written for other publications such as Western American Literature and Literature/Film Quarterly.
'98 Carri Benefield, M.S., works as an associate agricultural biologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Pest Control Branch, in Sacramento. In this position, Benefield focuses on mapping, noxious weed education and control and monitoring projects. She also oversees a quarterly newsletter and coordinates a K-12 weed education work group. Andrew Harris published his first book, Plumas National Forest Trout Fishing Guide, a fly-fisher's guide to Feather River country. Harris works as a professional fly-fishing guide for Clearwater House on Hat Creek in Cassel during the spring and summer. During the off-season, he creates database systems for agribusinesses and fly-fishing companies. Brandt Hoekenga lives in Santa Rosa and works at De Loach Vineyards in public relations and Web and graphic design. The vineyard's Web site is located at www.deloachvineyards.com.
'99 Ken del Rosario Gumiran recently won a contest to design an entrance sign for the city of American Canyon. He received $100, and a sign will be constructed based on his design. Grace Ma entered the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in August to begin study for a four-year Doctor of Optometry degree. Tranh Pham was one of 25 designers whose plans for a custom-built doghouse were selected for Dog Haus: Architecture Unleashed, a juried exhibition held in October at the Oakland Museum and co-sponsored by the Council on Architecture and the Oakland SPCA. Vu Minh Tran entered the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in August to begin study for a four-year Doctor of Optometry degree.
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