UC Davis Magazine

'40 Malcolm Sears has been retired for 20 years and volunteers four hours a day at Northridge Methodist Church. Sears taught vocational agriculture for 40 years, most of that time at Canoga Park High School. He enjoys traveling with his wife of 58 years, Margaret.

MU Patio photo '66Richard Smith, M.A. '68, Ph.D. '72, professor of history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, was named a 1998 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The program annually salutes 50 outstanding undergraduate intructors--one from each state.

'67 Peter Meserve has been named a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University where he has taught in the biological sciences department since 1976. Meserve, honored for the quality of his research, is the principal U.S. investigator for the first large-scale and longest-running ecological experiment in temperate South America, conducted at Fray Jorge, a 24,000-acre Chilean national park. There he studies populations and the interactions between small-mammal predators and their prey.

'68 Craig Erb retired after 25 years of federal civil service as a computer programmer for the U.S. Mint. He is now working as a consultant in the Silicon Valley, where he lives with his wife and three children. Marilyn (Swift) Sears teaches kindergarten in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her husband, Mark Sears '69, Ph.D. '74, is chair of the environmental biology department at the University of Guelph. He has been an entomology professor at the university since 1975, studying management of insect pests of vegetable and field crops.


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