Class notesBY JEANELLE PITTMAN '01 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | In Memoriam '31 Ralph Moore recently won the All-American Rose Selections' first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in developing more than 400 varieties of plants. Moore, who heads the Sequoia Nursery in Visalia, has won numerous horticulture awards and is one of the world's best-known rose breeders. '40 Robert W. Munyon received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Munyon, a farmer in Acampo, has been active in greenhouse association activities at local, state and national levels, including the American Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Association (AGVGA), for which he has served as president, vice president and director. He received AGVGA's highest honor, the Hunter Johnson Award for Service, in 1981. '41 Emanuel Epstein, M.S. '42, received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Epstein, a professor emeritus of land, air and water resources at UC Davis, is an internationally recognized scientist known for his work with salt-tolerant plants. Epstein, who was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1978, continues to lecture worldwide. '47 Robert C. Pearl received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Pearl, a retired Cooperative Extension agronomist with the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis, was instrumental in mechanizing the production, harvesting and processing of tomatoes. Pearl has also received awards from the California League of Food Processors, the American Frozen Food Institute Industry and the Food Processors Institute. '50 Glenn A. Goldsmith received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Founder of the multi-national seed-producing company Goldsmith Seeds in Gilroy, Goldsmith was named a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1992. Goldsmith Seeds has received more than 30 international awards, including the 1998 Guatemalan Peace Medallion in recognition of its economic and social development in Guatemala. Walter G. Jennings, M.S. '52, Ph.D. '54, received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. A professor emeritus of food science and technology at UC Davis, Jennings is also co-founder of J&W Scientific, the world's primary supplier of gas chromatograph equipment. '52 George A. Porter, D.V.M. '62, recently published Pet E.R.: Memoirs of an Animal Doctor (Providence House Publishers Hillsboro Press) about his experiences working as an emergency veterinarian. After graduating from UC Davis, Porter contracted as an emergency veterinarian for 11 hospitals and helped found the Emergency Pet Clinic of South Bay Inc. in Torrance. Porter and his wife, Marilyn, live in Santa Barbara and have three grown sons: Bradley, Bartell and Jim. ChrisFloyd Zaiger received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Zaiger, who is owner of Zaiger's Genetics Inc. in Modesto, is considered a pioneer in hybridizing of fruit species. His company holds more than 100 U.S. plant patents and tests at least 70,000 new selections each year. '57 Evert I. Schlinger, Ph.D., received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for his world-renowned work in entomology. A professor emeritus in UC Berkeley's entomological sciences department, Schlinger is an authority on rare spider-parasitoid flies in the family Acroceridae. He and his wife, Marion, have established several endowed chairs, including one at UC Davis, to further their interest in insects. '58 Dean and Joan Cortopassireceived an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences this October. Dean, president and chief executive officer of San Tomo Group in Stockton, is an internationally recognized leader and innovator in the food-processing business and is also a pioneer in agriculture. He invented the first tomato vine trainer, the linear automated sprinkler and California's first automated onion-cutting machine. Joan is a culinary artist, teacher and co-author of Fat Chance: Your Best Chance for Permanent Weight Loss. She has served as a member of the University of the Pacific's Board of Regents, the Women's Center of San Joaquin, Lilliput Children's Service and the American Association of University Women. '63 Norman W. Montague, M.S., of El Nido received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. Montague has been director, president and national director of the National Pork Producers Council and was appointed to the National Pork Board. Montague has also worked with the industry on animal welfare issues. '65 George Kriz, Ph.D., recently retired from North Carolina State University after nearly 35 years. Before retiring from NCSU, Kriz was the associate director of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for more than 25 years. He and his wife, Rhoda, plan to open a bed and breakfast inn in May 2000. '66 Steven J. Baker was named acting president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in September. Baker has worked at the institute since 1983. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin; taught in Japan; been a research fellow at both Harvard and Cornell universities; and served as a foreign policy adviser. Michael Considine works in Sacramento as an immigration attorney. After graduating from UC Davis, Considine went to Mexico to do postgraduate work in international relations. He received his law degree from the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento in 1986. Considine is one of only 135 attorneys who are State Bar-certified immigration-law specialists. Jon Peek, D.V.M., was installed as a member of the California Veterinary Medical Association Board of Governors in June. Peek, who has served on several of the association's committees, also owns the Grass Valley Veterinary Hospital. '69 Michael T. Clegg, Ph.D. '72, received UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Science's 1999 Award of Distinction in October. Clegg, dean of UC Riverside's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, has made many contributions in genetic research and has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Michael Kimerer, J.D., a criminal law specialist with the firm Kimerer & LaVelle in Phoenix, Ariz., received a Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Davis' School of Law in October. Kimerer is listed among the nation's best criminal defense lawyers and has defended a number of high profile clients, including rock star Tommy Lee. In addition he has been extremely active in bar activities, was one of the founders of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice and has served on a number of Arizona Supreme Court committees. '70 Joseph Bernstein, J.D. '74, owner of a tax practice, Bernstein & Carter in New York, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UC Davis School of Law this October. Bernstein's projects have included development of a resort linking Israeli and Jordon, a golf resort/community in Israel designed to improve relations with the Palestinians and clean-up of a toxic waste site on Long Island for development of hotels, stores and restaurants. He and his wife, Nora, have six children. Steve Burnham, a planning engineer with the Federal Highway Administration, was re-elected regional vice-chair of the Heartland region of American Mensa Ltd., the high IQ society. Burnham, who has been a Mensa member for 17 years, presides over chapters in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. He lives in Lincoln, Neb. '71 Julie Underhill Elam and her husband, Jon Elam '72, have returned to California after 25 years in Minnesota. Jon is currently the city manager of Brentwood in Contra Costa County. Julie is the principal of the Lower School at the San Francisco Day School. The two live in Brentwood. '74 Craig Machado has been appointed director of the English-as-a-second-language department at Norwalk Community Technical College in Norwalk, Conn. Mark Warmbrand currently works for Mail Boxes Etc.'s home office in San Diego, developing programs to provide on-line training and support for franchise owners. He recently completed a master's degree in educational technology, following careers as a social worker and a graphic designer. Christopher Winchell is co-founder, managing general partner and chief operating officer of Pinnacle Technology Services LLC of Los Angeles. Established in July, Pinnacle provides international business travel services to American Express cardholders. '75 Stephen Schmidt is Newhall Land and Farming Company's new senior vice president in residential community development, responsible for residential development in Valencia, as well as all of the company's new properties. After graduating from Davis, Schmidt received an M.S. in business administration from Stanford University's Sloan Program. '76 Nancy Lane is working atUC San Francisco as an associate professor of medicine and is also one of First Lady Hillary Clinton's health advisers. Peter M. Skaer has been teaching linguistics at the Japanese National University in Hiroshima for six years. Before this, he worked with the U.S. State Department as director of the Japanese Training Institute in Yokohama. Skaer holds an M.A. and a Ph.D., both from the University of Washington. '77 Michael Cawley, Cred. '78, was named the 1999 California High School Principal of the Year by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Now in his ninth year as principal of Lemoore Union High School, Cawley lives in Lemoore with his wife, Debbie, and their three children, Ryan, Kevin and Kacey. Cawley is also president of CAL TASH, a state organization that advocates for people with disabilities, and is holder of the 1997 Association of California School Administrators' California Secondary Principal of the Year award. Michael V. Durando was named vice president of marketing and sales at Naturally Potatoes, a Mars Hill, Maine, company that produces ready-to-cook potato products for supermarkets. He previously served as president of the New York Apple Association. Durando and his wife, Kimberly, have two children. Bob Reed recently received the 1999 Gordon Cologne Award from the WateReuse Association of California for his work in promoting recycled water use in the state. Reed is the state legislative director for the Association of California Water Agencies in Sacramento. '78 Tom Sturges was named executive vice president of creative affairs for Universal Music Publishing Group. He oversees all creative operations in both the company's Los Angeles and New York offices. Before working at Universal, Sturges was vice president and general manager of Shaquille O'Neal's Twism Records and president of Chrysalis Music Group. Sturges did his graduate work in music at UCLA. '79 Paul Igasaki, J.D., a longtime champion of justice and diversity, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Davis' School of Law in October. Igasaki was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be vice chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1994, where he has designed approaches to reduce the agency's troubling case backlog, increase its class action program and win increased Congressional funding. He is married to Louann Nosaka Igasaki, J.D. '83, and they have a 4-year-old daughter, Aiko Grace. '80 Wesley H. Avery, an attorney and judge pro tempore of the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, was recently certified in business bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certification. Avery received an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a law degree from UCLA. Walter Harrison, Ph.D., is the president of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Reed Smith was awarded the Navy's Meritorious Public Service Award for his support of the Pacific Fleet's Base Realignment and Closure program. After 11 years as a naval flight officer, Smith began working as a program analyst for High Technology Solution Inc. doing contract work for the Navy. He and his wife of 18 years, Jan Erickson '77, live in Coronado and home-school their three daughters, Jessica, Megan and Brianna. A former Aggie All-American swimmer, Smith remains active in the sport and serves as president of the board of directors for the Coronado Navy Swim Association, in which his daughters compete. '81 Loretta Beaumont received a master's degree in education from Pepperdine University in Malibu in April, as well as a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. She is now teaching third grade at Kennedy Elementary School in Santa Ana. Nancy BuonoCartwright recently rejoined the international public relations and affairs firm Hill and Knowlton Inc. as the new managing director of client media relations and internal training at the firm's San Francisco office. Kevin J.H. Dettmar has been named the new chair of the English department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. After graduating from UC Davis, Dettmar received master's and doctor's degrees from UCLA and a postgraduate diploma from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He has also had a book published, The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain (University of Wisconsin, Madison Press, 1996). Before Dettmar began his job in August, he was associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. He is married with four children. Cindee (Fay) Mayfield currently serves as the presiding judge of the juvenile court in Mendocino County. Mayfield was appointed a municipal court judge there in late 1997 and was then re-elected one year later. '82 John T. Bakos, M.S. '83, has a private medical practice in Lincoln and Roseville. After graduating from UC Davis, Bakos went on to the Baylor College of Medicine, studying internal medicine and pediatrics. He then served as a member of the school's teaching faculty for three years. He lives in Rocklin with his two children, Alex, 13, and Grace, 11. Theodore Cunningham recently left the U.S. Navy, where he was a commander in the Medical Corps, to join a private radiology practice in Kalamazoo, Mich. He is married with two children: an 8-year-old girl and a 7-month-old boy. Darlene Yaplee is Sun Microsystems' vice president of worldwide field marketing, overseeing the company's centers in Geneva, Switzerland and Menlo Park. During a recent visit to UC Davis, Yaplee presented $50,000 worth of computer equipment from Sun to the Division of Social Sciences. '84 Mark House recently opened a hotel in San Francisco's Marina District. Once a '50s-style motor lodge, the Hotel Del Sol is now a 57-unit establishment done in a bright California beach house style. Joyce Marie (Powers) Little lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, a professor of geography and cartography at Brock University. After graduating from UC Davis, Little received master's and doctor's degrees from Ohio State University and taught both there and at William and Mary University. '85 John D. Benvenuto was recently named manager of Sanwa Bank California's Stockton branch. After graduating from UC Davis, Benvenuto obtained an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Randall Fairchild, M.B.A. '98, is currently doing agricultural marketing for two companies, Golden Valley Manufacturing in Bakersfield and ESS Vision in Madera. He also teaches part time at Florin High School in Sacramento and coaches cross-country there and track and field at Jesuit High School in Carmichael. '86 James Barron is Bank of the West's vice president, loan production center manager. Barron has worked for Bank of the West for nine years. Lawrence Brown, J.D. '89, executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Davis' School of Law in October. Brown, appointed director at age 32, one of the youngest directors in the history of the association, manages the 45-employee organization, which conducts more than 50 training programs statewide and publishes dozens of legal periodicals. He also serves as visiting professor at the school. Paul Robert Stauffer will be board eligible in general surgery in June. Stauffer, who has worked abroad on two surgical missions--in India and the Philippines--will be going on another surgical mission in January with Central Pennsylvania World Medical Mission. Stacie I. Strong is working on a Ph.D. in law at Cambridge University. She also competed with the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club at the Great Britain National Rowing Championships in July. Though unable to join the boat club this fall, Strong continues to row, and she supervises first-year law students in torts. Gianna Walker, a technical writer for Silicon Valley start-ups, recently joined Adaptive Media in Sunnyvale, where she provides documentation for software that optimizes 3-D models on the Web. Before this, Walker worked at MultiGen Inc. in San Jose with terrain-modeling and urban-design software. This year, she also had her first child, Ada Jade. '87 Bruce Vu is working at NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. There, he works in the applied fluid dynamics group for space transportation and is responsible for newer space vehicles. After graduating from UC Davis, Vu earned a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Mississippi State University. He was married in 1995 and has two children, Jennifer, 3, and Jessica, 4 months. Vu's hobby is writing short stories in Vietnamese. '88 David R. Ongaro joined the law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP as an associate. Ongaro, who is a member of the litigation and labor and employment departments, received his law degree from the University of San Francisco. He practiced employment law at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon before the firm dissolved in April. Melissa Thorme, M.S., J.D. '90, recently moved from the environmental consulting firm of Larry Walker Associates to join Beveridge & Diamond, an environmental law firm based in Sacramento. Thorme is married with two children and lives in Davis. Keith Whitener is a free-lance fisheries biologist, primarily studying fish and their habitats in the San Joaquin/Sacramento Delta. After graduating from UC Davis, Whitener worked in environmental consulting for four years, left the firm to work for two years in commercial crayfishing and then joined the California Department of Fish and Game. He began his free-lance career in 1997.
'90 Lucy Spelman, D.V.M., currently works at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., as a veterinarian. '91 Camille M. Harper was recently named director of alumni and donor relations at Claremont Graduate University. In her new position, Harper works with representatives from all of the school's academic centers on fund-raising projects and alumni programs. Harper first joined CGU as a graduate student in English. She received an M.A. in 1998. Steve Nordstrom was promoted to district manager for Safeway Inc. in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area. This spring, he attended the 16-week Food Industry Management Program at the University of Southern California. Jennifer Onofrio, M.F.A., has joined the faculty at Augusta State University in Georgia as an assistant professor of art. Mark Ritenour, M.S., Ph.D. '95, is currently an assistant professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida's Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce. He teaches and does extension work in the area of postharvest biology and the handling of citrus and vegetable crops. He and his wife, Laura, recently adopted a 14-month-old boy from Thailand, Zachary Piya; Ritenour writes that they "are completely charmed by their new son." Peni Wilson recently moved her business, A Designer's Influence, to a new office located in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter. She also has a new Web site, which was created by UC Davis student Clarke Graves. For more information, visit the Web page at http://home.pacbell.net/idesign2. '92 Tanya Hill is a program officer for the Sacramento Regional Foundation, where she is responsible for obtaining grants for major projects and for overseeing the foundation's stay-in-school program, Operation Graduation. Previously, Hill served as executive director of Partnership of Community Resources in Minden, Nev., and in 1992–94 she coordinated programs for the San Juan Unified School District in Sacramento County. Elizabeth M. (Ward) Sanders was promoted to product line manager of Call Center Solutions at NEC America Inc. in Irving, Texas. Chris Swenson recently accepted a position as a senior market research analyst at Adobe Systems Inc. in San Jose. He is also vice president of technology for the American Marketing Association, Silicon Valley Chapter and vice president of professional development for iTank, an Internet industry networking organization. Swenson welcomes e-mail at cswenson@adobe.com. '93 Donald M. Davis, J.D., recently joined the law firm of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks as an associate, where he specializes in commercial real estate joint ventures and real estate development, land use and public law. Before joining the firm, Davis was a partner with Coombs & Dunlap LLP in Napa Valley. He is also a playwright, author and actor, and his achievements include a one-man adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Silverado Squatters and a booklet on the architecture of Napa. Michael Lorilla is a senior trust officer and general securities principal for Wells Fargo Bank. In 1996, Lorilla received a J.D. and a Certificate in Government Affairs from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and an M.B.A. from California State University, Sacramento. During his time in law school, Lorilla started an internship program with McGeorge and the U.S. Air Force. Chris Macias was recently named The Sacramento Bee's pop music writer, covering local music and national touring acts. Acts and entertainers covered by Macias include Carlos Santana, Marilyn Manson and jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman. Previously, Macias worked for The Sacramento Bee Web site, www.sacbee.com, and a Bee-produced online music magazine, www.digimag.com. '94 Eric Allen and Audra Smith completed a four-month walk on the Grand Randonnee Five (GR5) backpacking route across Europe. The GR5 is 1,500-mile footpath that begins in Holland, runs through Belgium, Luxembourg and France, ending in Nice. The parts they liked best, they say, were "the cuisine of Alsace and the spectacular scenery of the Middle Alps." Elisa Skop, M.S., is a new employee at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, N.Y., where she works as a research associate in the preclinical development pharmacokinetics group. '95 In September, Kenneth Jett started working toward an M.B.A. at the Jones School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is scheduled to graduate in 2001. Nitza C. Medina currently works as an archivist at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College in New York City, where she helps process the historical archives of Puerto Rican migration to the United States. Medina is also working with the Californian Puerto Rican community to create the Museum and Archives of Western Puerto Rican History and Culture. Jennifer (Renner) Pezzolo was married in July in San Francisco. She and her husband, Joseph, a seafood broker, live in Novato. '96 Michael D. Dolida, J.D., joined the law firm of Best Best & Krieger LLP as a litigation associate. Dolida joined the practice with three years of experience in employment and education law. Ken Hiatt worked as project manager on the recently completed E Street Plaza, a renovation of the Brinley Plaza parking lot between E and F, Second and Third streets in Davis. Hiatt started helping with the project while an undergraduate at UC Davis. The 9,000-square-foot plaza was completed in September and is home to an outdoor performance area, electric vehicle charging station, water sculpture, directory kiosk and bicycle racks. Navy Lt. j.g. Calvin G. Lewis is on a six-month assignment to the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas and the Arabian Gulf. Lewis' ship, the USS Elrod is participating in maritime operations, enforcing the United Nations' trade restrictions on Iraq. Ariel Weissmann and his father are co-creators of "Veat," a vegetarian meat substitute. During his time as an undergraduate, Weissmann researched the endeavor and, after graduating, decided to pursue his project full time. Now Veat is being distributed and sold across the United States and in Canada, and Weissmann is going forward with plans he had delayed until the business was on firm footing--he's going to Harvard medical school. '97Clover Bench, M.S. '99, began her Ph.D. studies in animal behavior at the University of Saskat-chewan in Saskatoon, Canada, this fall. John Hartman, Ph.D., and Miriam Kaplan, Ph.D., are currently living in Namulonge, Uganda, at the research station for the National Agriculture and Animal Production Institute. Hartman is a banana breeder for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and is currently working on a disease- and pest-resistant East African Highland banana. Kaplan is working on a molecular taxonomic study of the banana. They have two children, Clara and Noah. '99 Gary D. Cannon began his master of music studies in choral conducting at the University of Washington, with the intent of continuing toward a doctoral degree. * In MemoriamJames Caldwell Harvey '50, M.Ed. '61, died in Brookings, Ore., in June. Mr. Harvey was a teacher and principal in Aspen, Colo., and also taught in Sacramento. In addition, he invented the "Discovery Scope," a hand-held microscope used by students at all grade levels. He is survived by his wife, Bettye, and his four children and seven grandchildren. David Anthony Mullen '58, M.A. '60, died in August at age 63 of pancreatic cancer. A well-known wildlife and wetlands specialist, Dr. Mullen had been an assistant professor of anatomy and physiology at the UC San Francisco medical school and a tenured professor of zoology at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Mullen was also an environmental consultant and a natural history teacher at Escuela Technologia in Baja California. He is survived by his wife, Frances; two children, Kerry and Kathleen; two sis-ters; a brother; and five grandchildren. Anne Tyson Castanien, Ph.D. '70, died in September in her Davis home. She was 75. A Portland, Ore., native, Dr. Castanien received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Oregon in the 1940s. She came to Davis in 1960 with her late husband, Donald, who was a professor of Spanish and classics. She is survived by a niece and two nephews. Robert Lieutenant Easley Jr. '75 died of cancer in June. As a 22-year employee of General Dynamics, Hughes and Raytheon, Mr. Easley received numerous commendations for his work in the field of engineering. He also traveled extensively, for both personal and professional reasons. Survivors include his mother, Lenolia, siblings Countess and Bruce, and many relatives and friends. Gary Matson, M.S. '83, was killed, along with his partner, Winfield Mowder, in July in their Happy Valley home. Mr. Matson helped found the Certified Growers Market, a community garden, the Carter House Natural Science Museum and an arboretum, all in the city of Redding. In his memory, "The Gary Matson Virtual Garden" was created on the Web. This collection of photographs of plants, flowers, animals, birds and insects can be found at www.garysgarden.com. Justice "Clay" McPherson '85 died suddenly in August. After graduating from UC Davis, Mr. McPherson went on to law school at the University of San Diego. He is survived by his wife, Mary; three children, Justice II, Rebecca and Daniel; two brothers; four sisters; nephews; and nieces. |
'89 Dave Paige is winemaker at the Cloninger Winery near Monterey. After graduating from UC Davis, Paige worked at a number of wineries, including Australia's Saltram Wine Estates in that country's Barossa Valley. Jason Rabedeaux was recently named head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Texas, El Paso. During his time at UC Davis, Rabedeaux set numerous three-point shooting records under Coach Bob Hamilton and was subsequently inducted into the Cal Aggie Athletic Hall of Fame. Amy Rucker received an Award of Distinction from UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in October. As an associate principal and team leader for the Ecosystem Planning and Restoration Division of Jones & Stokes Associates, Rucker is the lead planner/designer and quality-control reviewer of ecosystem restoration projects. She has planned a study of the ecosystem of Clear Lake for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has also designed a restoration plan for the lower American River. Bryan Vila, M.S., Ph.D. '90, is co-editor of the newly published book The Role of Police in American Society: A Documentary History (Greenwood Press), which is a collection of 95 primary documents focusing on the history and development of police policy and the role of police in American society. Vila is an associate professor of political science and administration of justice at the University of Wyoming and has 17 years of experience in local, national and international law enforcement. Sophia Yin, D.V.M. '93, is a small-animal veterinarian in Davis and writes a column, "Pet Tails," that is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle's "Home & Garden" section twice a month.