Gary Gunther has been appointed director of California operations at Mission Produce in Oxnard. He will oversee Mission's avocado packing and shipping in California. Gunther is a lifetime Cal Aggie Alumni Association member, active in the Los Angeles chapter. Cliff Krowne contributed to an Academic Press physics book series titled Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics and to an encyclopedia produced by Wiley. Barbara Sexton is the rehabilitation program manager at Providence Medford Medical Center where she supervises inpatient and outpatient neurological therapies. Robert Bauer has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for 1-800-Batteries, a source for mobile computing equipment. Bauer previously worked at IBM, Compaq and 3Com. John Allan is vice president of marketing at the Eimac Division of Communications & Power Industries, a manufacturer of vacuum electron devices. His wife, Mary Ann Allan '75, is a project manager at EPRI, heading research projects concerning air quality and electric power generation. They live in Los Altos and recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Janet (Dodge) Smith transferred to Orange Grove Middle School in Tampa, Fla., to teach physical education. Her husband, Jon Smith '77, a lieutenant colonel in the Army, recently assumed duties as chief of regional issues in the Intelligence Directorate at U.S. Central Command in Tampa. David and Marcelle Quist have moved to Southern Pines, N.C., from Montana. David provides herbicide application services, and Marcelle practices law and also rides and drives horses in training events. Rolf Benirschke, a former San Diego Charger, has become a spokesperson for the liver disease hepatitis C. He contracted the disease through blood transfusions during his fight with ulcerative colitis 19 years ago and is now working to inform the public about the disease. Benirschke is a financial planner in Del Mar, near San Diego, and he and his wife, Mary Michaletz, have four children, two of whom are brothers adopted from Russia. Tim Chown, an information technology director at Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., recently started his own business, Bad Poetry Goods, with a co-worker. They sell greeting and birthday cards featuring bad poetry. Chown lives in Los Altos Hills and says, "Do what you like . . . regardless of whether it makes money or not. You'll be successful if you're doing stuff you like." Tom Dietz was named Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar at George Mason University, where he is a professor of sociology and environmental science and public policy. Dietz has also been named to a three-year term as chair of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change. Rob Levitsky works as a consultant in the computer chip industry in Palo Alto where he also rents out his "Grateful Dead houses" to Stanford students at below-market rates. The turn-of-the-century houses, named for famous Dead songs, are co-ops, many of which he purchased in an effort to help preserve the community's older homes. Robert McLandress, M.S., Ph.D. '83, was appointed president of the California Waterfowl Association. McLandress has worked with wetlands and waterfowl for more than 30 years in research, conservation, as a lecturer at UC Davis and as chair of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science Dean's Advisory Council.