Cowell College

'67 Barbara BULLOCK-Wilson is the coauthor of a new book on photographer Wynn Bullock, published by Phaidon Press in 2001.

'69 Jane KENNER is training to become a psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Margaret WADE Krausse and her husband, Jeff Krausse, are planning a sabbatical trip to France this year to do research on French writers of North African origin. Barbara VIKEN had one of her photographs published in the book Animal Blessings: Prayers and Poems Celebrating Our Pets.

'72 In fall 2001, Adilah BARNES appeared in guest-starring roles on CBS's Family Law and The Agency, UPN's Roswell, and Warner Brothers' Gilmore Girls; she also performed at the New Work Festival 2001 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and she has begun work on a book. Kate STAFFORD, a self-employed writer and photographer, has been working on several projects, including a documentary on horticultural therapy projects for the mentally disabled, homeless, and at-risk youth in group homes; and photographing organic farms throughout the Santa Cruz and north bay areas.

'73 Scott CRASK was recognized recently for over four years of service to Buckelew Programs, which provides housing and rehabilitation services for adults with mental illness, at the agency's annual meeting at the Embassy Suites in San Rafael, Calif. Kathryn WRIGHT is program and medical director of Horizons, a complete clinic for HIV-positive adolescents; she is also the mother of an 11-year-old daughter, Jordan.

'74 Michele WILKIE is a registered nurse; she and her husband have two sons, ages 12 and 10.

'77 Kate O'SHEA is teaching workshops developed by Peggy Huddleston and based on Huddleston's book Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster.

'78 Aaron SILVERBERG's first book of poetry, Thoreau's Chair, was published by Off the Map Enterprises in Seattle in November 2001, and he was planning a series of readings in the Pacific Northwest; in addition to writing poetry, he's an improvisational flutist, ecstatic dancer, organic gardener, and personal-life coach.

'81 As producer in the public affairs department of KQED-FM and foreign student adviser at City College of San Francisco, Naomi MARCUS is using the languages she learned at UCSC and the master's in journalism. she earned from Columbia University; "one job for the head, and one for the heart," she writes.

'82 Henry "Rennie" COIT Jr. is chief operating officer for the University of Washington Physicians Network; prior to this appointment, he served as medical director at Regence Blue Shield in Seattle, and before that he had a general practice in pediatrics. Jonathan SPAULDING was featured in a 90-minute documentary by filmmaker Ric Burns, titled Ansel Adams, which was telecast on PBS in April 2002; he is associate curator of the Seaver Center for Western History Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

'84 Kevin MICKEY is living in Spokane with his wife, Amy, son, Matt, and daughter, Molly; he is still practicing law and enjoying it; friends are invited to look him up when they are in the area.

'86 After receiving an M.S. in Earth sciences from UCSC and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Lisa CAMPBELL is living in Houston and working for Conoco; she is married and has two children, ages six months and three years. Darrick YUN's historical adventure novel, The Chronicles of Dat Seung, the Young Monk, is a perfect summer read (complete with romance and martial arts) and is available at www.greatunpublished.com.

'87 Lucia SMALL's film about her long-estranged father, dreamer and visionary architect Glen Small, titled My Father, The Genius, was shown at the Slamdance 2002 Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where it won an award for best editing and the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.

'90 Laura MALEY Rumelhart married Peter Rumelhart, whom she met in graduate school at UCLA; they both work as geologists in Houston.

'94 Catherine BRESEE is involved in drug addiction studies in the Psychiatric Research Department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

'95 Verónica CONTRERAS is finishing a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and plans to marry Mike Shannon in 2003.

'97 Brian DEVINCENZI is a realtor and mortgage broker. Helen FAITH has been happily married since 1998 and is working in the Financial Aid Office at UCSC; she is putting her husband through college and raising their two cats while singing soprano with the Santa Cruz Chorale. Leigh MURRELL is teaching Spanish in a San Diego high school and pursuing her master's in Spanish at San Diego State University.

'99 Shannon HERNDON is teaching seventh grade at Moreland Notre Dame School in Watsonville, Calif.

'00 Adele BARRETT obtained a master's in educational policy analysis and evaluation from Stanford University in June 2001.

'01 Kelly FERRIS is in graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle; she is also doing therapeutic work with children with autism.

Stevenson College

'71 Terry BERTOLINO is coauthor with Joel Hawkins of the book The House of David Baseball Team (Arcadia, 2000); the book, which recounts the exploits of the Israelite House of David baseball team, a group of bearded barnstormers originally from a devout religious sect in Michigan, was chosen by Sporting News-Society for American Baseball Research as one of two outstanding research projects conducted during 2001.

'73 David KRAWITZ is managing director and senior vice president of the Los Angeles office of APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs and strategic communications firm; prior to this appointment, he served as chief of staff to former Michigan senator Don Riegle. Deborah PAGE is an educational consultant, curriculum developer, and writer who specializes in environmental and energy issues; she is also a part-time program specialist, designing and delivering instruction in reading and writing at a progressive public school in Claremont, Calif.

'78 Mark STEINBERG's book, Voices of Revolution, 1917, was published by Yale University Press in 2001; he directs the Russian and East European Center at the University of Illinois.

'82 James SHARMAT is an attorney and plays Irish traditional music; he is now doing tax relief work but has done environmental and public interest work as well.

'83 Kim RIVERO-Frink received her master's in public administration from San Diego State University in 1994 and now works for the San Diego County Children and Families Commission.

'91 After a 14-year hiatus, Paula Gay LINDSAY has returned home to Sacramento; she loves her work as a graphic designer and has a web site located at www.paulagay.com. Jennifer YEARLEY will be starting a three-year residency in veterinary clinical pathology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh in July 2002.

'94 Douglas DURWARD is an attorney practicing civil rights law; his wife, Amy Beth THORNHILL Durward (Merrill '96) is a pastor with the United Methodist Church; they are expecting their first child in July 2002. Ami EHRLICH is working on a project called Women with Altitude, a mountaineering expedition that is raising awareness and funds for victims of domestic violence; learn more about the project on the web at www.womenwithaltitude.org.

'96 Dan WILSON received his M.S. in 2001 and is currently working on his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Oregon.

'97 Adam BIEN is a research analyst at the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau in Honolulu; in August 2001, he married a beautiful and intelligent Argentine. Ricky TECZON was admitted to Stanford University's graduate program in civil and environmental engineering.

'01 Colleen FLYNN and Lawrence SHIN are first-year law students at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.

Crown College

'72 Arthur BRIDGE completed an allegorical journey-tale (a novel) in 2001, entitled "The Sojourns of Anton Reisen."

'75 J. Michael PARRISH was named a 2002 Presidential Research Professor by Northern Illinois University, where he is chair of the Department of Biological Sciences; his primary academic focus is on dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles; in addition to teaching, administration, and editing the Journal of Paleontology, he writes rock, jazz, folk, and world music reviews for the Chicago Tribune.

'76 After living for 15 years in Egypt, Mark DREESSEN is now teaching at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools; he has three children, Sam, Ramzi, and Amina (aged 13, 11, and 8), and they live on campus in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, an invigorating and culturally diverse part of town. "Getting used again to crime (violent crime, that is) after living in a virtually crime-free society has been tough. Cairo, with twice the population of New York City, has a minuscule violent crime rate in comparison, mostly due to the extraordinary ways in which Egyptians resolve their differences face to face," he writes.

'79 Steven WALLACE was promoted to full professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and completed a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship and sabbatical in Chile accompanied by his wife, Trudy SONIA (Crown '80), and son, Brian Sonia-Wallace.

'83 David HORWITZ is now a lawyer in San Diego fighting for truth and justice.

'85 Last year was a big year for George WILLIAMS II, who became a new father in July 2001 with the birth of his son, Kyle, and received an M.B.A. with an emphasis in information technology management from California Lutheran University in December 2001.

'86 Bernt WAHL has received a Fulbright Fellowship and will spend the 2002-03 academic year as a professor of business and technology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he plans to continue his work on Internet search technology and integrated mass transportation systems.

'89 Pamela Kaye QUINN Griffey works at Theodore Judah Elementary School in Sacramento; she and her husband, David Griffey, enjoy relaxing along the American River with their Border collie, Sadie.

'90 Jeanne BUCKTHAL Greene married Todd GREENE (Kresge '94) in February 2002; they live in Houston, and he is a geologist for Anadarko. Elizabeth "Libby" ROUAN has worked for 10 years as a hazardous materials specialist with the San Mateo County Environmental Health Services Division and as a volunteer with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory in the Marin Headlands; Whole Earth magazine recently published a report she wrote summarizing raptor-tracking results for the 1999 season.

'91 Mark REED received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1999; he and his wife, Margaret MAHONEY Reed (Crown '89), had a daughter, Julianna, in 2001; they currently reside in San Diego.

'96 Sandy HODGES is pursuing a master's degree in applied developmental psychology at Portland State University.

'99 Anna VON GEHR Marcoux is married to Jason MARCOUX (attended College Eight) and they live in the Bay Area; she is finishing an M.A. in museum studies and is working as the major-gifts coordinator at the Oakland Museum.

'00 Amy PRESSWOOD is living in Reno, Nev., with her husband, Reagan, and working as a software engineer; they were expecting their first child in June 2002.

'01 Lorena MEZA is a first-year student at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.

Merrill College

'75 In May 2002, Laurie GARRETT received the San Francisco Exploratorium's 2002 Public Understanding of Science Award; she has received all three "Big P" journalism awards: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer; she currently works for Newsday.

'80 After teaching ESL in Italy for seven years and at Soledad Prison for six years, Dan ASPROMONTE is working in the family business, managing Best Western hotels; he and his wife, Randa TAWASHA (M.A., applied economics '99) have a baby daughter, Amira Fiorella. Lilianne CHAUMONT opened Chaumont Law Group in 2001; the firm specializes in construction and alarm and security law.

'86 After spending four years with the American embassy in the Dominican Republic, Nancy SOLORIO-Murray has relocated to southern California with her seven-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Nancy works with bilingual students as part of the Rolling Readers, a nonprofit children's literacy program; she would love to hear from other UCSC grads at solorionan@hotmail.com.

'87 Lisa JEFFERS-Fabro is married to Ati and living in Hawaii, where she is also a mother and full-time elementary school teacher.

'88 Lili SOLOMAN and her husband, Chul Ho Lee, have two daughters, Sylvie Genevieve and Shinae Estella; Lili teaches second grade in San Leandro, Calif.

'92 After founding and serving five years as superintendent of Audubon School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Malherbe BELIZAIRE is completing a Ph.D. in international relations and consulting. Sherry ROUSH is an assistant professor of Italian at Penn State University; her book, "Hermes' Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella," is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.

'93 Tamu GREEN Mitchell is the director of research and knowledge development for People Reaching Out (PRO) in Sacramento; she was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its program in Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse, and she was awarded the Harold Cole Award by the Sacramento County Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board and the Alcohol and Drug Services Division.

'95 Eric GUETSCHOFF is currently living in Sacramento, working to develop affordable housing; he can be reached at ericgetch@yahoo.com.

'97 Kristi BERES works for the California Employment Development Department and has run seven marathons; she has a new puppy and a rabbit and just bought her first home.

'00 Nathan MOYA is a systems engineer in the Optical Networking Group at Cisco Systems.

'01 Sarah GIORGETTI is moving to Hawaii.

Porter College

'71 Maria VON BRINCKEN has a landscape design firm in Sudbury, Mass.; her design for a front-yard garden in the Northeast was one of six regional gardens featured in the March/April 2002 issue of Fine Gardening magazine; her design includes native plants that provided "color and texture in a sequence of bloom, berry, and leaf for four-season interest."

'73 Ron KAPPE's son, Wilson Kaiser, graduated from Oakes College in June; Ron has an architectural firm, Kappe + Du Architects, located in San Rafael, Calif., specializing in civic and educational buildings. David NEAL is working in Minneapolis as a private portfolio manager for individuals and small institutions; he visited the campus in summer 2001 with his wife, Mary, and three daughters; he misses the redwoods and the ocean; friends may write him at dneal@tealwood.com.

'74 Michael SCHIPPLING is currently "wholly owned chattel of IBM," but he hopes to retire to New Mexico with a bunch of other UCSC grads.

'80 Jennifer COLBY received her Ph.D. in humanities from California Institute for Integral Studies in 2001; she is a lecturer in liberal studies and service learning at CSU Monterey Bay and the owner of Galeria Tonantzin in San Juan Bautista, Calif.

'85 Rob LAMMÉ recently took a job as director of governmental relations for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and he is training for a triathlon; friends can contact him via e-mail at rob.lamme@ncmail.net.

'88 Mayumi WATANABE is still painting.

'89 Seath AHRENS has a daughter, Madison Jane Ahrens, born in January 2000, and he's working on a CD, called "Mental Floss," for his band Twist of F8; he started Curious Labs in April 2000 and is working on Poser and other 3-D graphics software. Wendy BETTS and her husband, Evan HUNT (Merrill '91), recently had a baby boy, Ben Hunt. Vinnie DeRAMUS is a production coordinator and digital/animatronic puppeteer in training at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in Los Angeles.

'90 Julie GERNGROSS Baker has opened a gallery, Julie Baker Fine Art, in Grass Valley, Calif., offering cutting-edge exhibitions, corporate and collector's services, and cultural activities; her husband, Richard BAKER (Porter '89), is an architectural designer and photographer. Hewitt RYAN Jr. was planning to marry his college sweetheart, Caroline TAO (Crown '91), in April 2002 in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

'94 Batyah SHTRUM is pursuing a graduate degree in art conservation at the University of Delaware.

'95 Jennifer BRO and Craig Haskett were planning to be married in September 2001.

'00 Eleanor SOMMERS was planning to begin law school at the University of San Francisco in fall 2001.

Kresge College

'79 Doug FRIEDMAN writes, "Fans of Francisco Bizarro can e-mail friedmand@pdsd.ocgov.com for an update; paying customers can contact his agent, Marian Berzon Talent." Blanca PORTELLA is the proud owner of two bakeries in the San Diego area, the Zen Bakery (100 percent natural) and the Ultimate Cinnamon Roll (100 percent delicious); she has two great teenagers and still goes to Brazil to see family when she can.

'89 Adam MARKUS lives with his wife, Akiko, in Tokyo.

'94 Jennifer ABATO Uecker and her husband, an Internet product manager, married in 1995 and have a daughter, Daphne, born in July 2001; Jennifer received her master's degree in educational technology from Pepperdine University in 2000.

'98 While in her third year (2001-02) at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, Anna GREENSTIN was once again appointed to the school's interscholastic trial advocacy team; she and fellow students participated in national trial competitions. Adolpho MERCADO is working with Upward Bound at Yuba College while completing an M.A. in anthropology.

Oakes College

'84 Brad GARDNER is living in San Diego, sculpting, painting, and writing a book about California's correctional system.

'92 Xavier TSOUO married Sarah Forman, an Australian, in 2001, and they live in San Francisco.

'94 Daniel BARNHART is a former Slug basketball player now coaching at the high school level. Stephanie BYSTRY and Paul GOEBEL (Crown '95) got hitched in May 2002; they met in San Diego, but it was "their common Slug background that convinced them to seal the deal."

'95 Don MESA was planning to get married in July 2002.

'98 Ben ARCANGEL earned a graduate certificate in theater arts from UCSC in 2000, and he is currently at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he is a graduate student in Asian studies and a lecturer in dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Kennedy Theatre in Honolulu; he was selected as the Outstanding Performer in the Southwest Region at the American College Dance Festival in Arizona this year.

College Eight

'79 Kevin DANN's latest book, Lewis Creek Lost and Found, was published in 2001 by the University Press of New England; he is now working on a biography of Henry David Thoreau.

'80 Donn HURD is working for the New Mexico State Agency on Aging, counseling older unemployed persons and helping them search for jobs.

'81 Jane TEAGUE-URBACH is the environmental education coordinator for the Butte Environmental Council in Chico, Calif.

'83 Julie JOHNS graduated from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., with a master's degree in acupuncture and Oriental medicine.

'85 Carolyn RICE-Losee is owner and principal of Archaeological Resources Technology, an environmental consulting firm specializing in cultural resources management.

'86 Heather ROSS Rasnick and her husband have a son, Ryan Garrett Rasnick, born in March 2000.

'88 Mysti RUBERT was a finalist at the 2001 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference in the fiction category.

'89 Dan SWERBILOV was laid off (along with 90 others) from Macromedia, where he had worked for eight years; he and his wife, Diane Jacobs, have bought a house in Portland and are trying their luck there; they have a one-year-old son, Max. Leslie VAN ZWALUWENBURG Van Vaekenberg earned a master's degree in 1992 and a doctorate in education in 1998; she has taught in medium-security prisons for men for the past eight years.

'91 Elyssa ELDRIDGE is living in Oakland with her husband, David Standish, and is a full-time mom to her two-year old daughter, Arianna. After graduating with an M.F.A. in dance from Ohio State University in 1996, Stacy REISCHMAN is dancing and choreographing and is an assistant professor of dance at the University of Southern Mississippi; she will be chair of the dance program in fall 2002. Dennis SULLIVAN is living in Santa Monica and working as director of distribution for Fremantle Media North America; he is planning to start law school in fall 2002.

'93 Shannon HAZELTINE Peacor is program director of Trinity Children and Family Services, part of a residential treatment program for teenagers in Sacramento; she and her husband were expecting their first child in December 2001.

'98 Carmen MALLOY served in AmeriCorps in San Francisco and is currently teaching second grade in Sacramento; friends may contact her at cmallo@hotmail.com.

'99 Patrick CHANDLER is a program officer with the California governor's Academic Volunteer and Mentor Service Program, which funds and monitors mentoring programs throughout California for at-risk children in the school setting.

College Nine

'01 Michael LOFGREN recently received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, in Pensacola, Fla.

Graduate Studies

'75 Marc HOFSTADTER (Ph.D., literature) has published his second volume of poetry, Visions: Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Chang Dai-chien, Georgia O'Keeffe, and California Impressionists Seen Through the Optic of Poetry (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2001), which consists of 110 poems about modern paintings.

'78 David BEAR (Ph.D., chemistry) is professor and chairperson of the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; he published an article, titled "Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy in Hispanic New Mexicans," in the November 21, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

'89 After living and teaching overseas on five continents, Gwen LACY (cert., education) returned to the East Coast to attend law school and is now an attorney with Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, an intellectual property firm.

'94 Polly MOLLER Springhorn (M.A., music) is working on her third CD of original music, to be titled "Diogenes."

'01 Scott MORGENSEN (Ph.D., anthropology) is an assistant professor in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Macalester College; his ethnographic dissertation, titled "Metropolitan Desires, Utopian Practices: Contesting Race, Sex, and Other Colonial Legacies in U.S. Queer Communities," examined how colonial discourses shape queer organizing in U.S. sexual and racial politics.

In Memoriam

Ted Lawrence BENJAMIN (College Eight '90), an independent art director for film, video, and television, died in Costa Rica November 11, 2001; he was 35.

Donal FORRESTER (Ph.D., history of consciousness, '74), a Paulist Father, died March 4, 2002, in New York City; his colleague, Father Dennis Hickey, wrote that Father Forrester "was very proud of the fact he had received a Ph.D. from UCSC when in his late 60s."