Cowell College'68 Paul MARKOWITZ is teaching independent study half-time and has just been reelected to a new three-year term on the California Teachers Association Board of Directors. '69 Leslie WANG has been appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the California Community College Board of Governors. '71 James GRAHAM has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries; he is chair of the Pastoral Resources Committee, cochair of the Communications Committee, and associate editor of SOPHIA, the journal of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton. Anthony SCALISI has been married for 21 years to Wendy White, and they have raised three children; the oldest is a junior at Westmont College in Santa Barbara and another is applying to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. '74 Charles EADIE has been the director of Campus and Community Planning at UCSC since May 1999; previously he worked for seven years as principal planner for the City of Watsonville. '79 Edmund HENRY took a year off from work and learned to swim, did a triathlon, skied in the Rockies, worked on his golf and bridge games, and traveled and relaxed; now he has taken a new job with an Internet security company. '81 Derek ANHORN has been living in Oregon for the last six years; he is divorced and has joint custody of his eight-year-old daughter. '82 Lawrence BERNSTEIN has been practicing medicine for about five years as a general internist; he and his wife had their second child, Hannah, in January; their first child, Tyler, is two. Judy JENVEY Zellers and her husband, Mark Zellers, are the proud parents of Susannah Claire Zellers, who was born in March of this year. '83 Following years of teaching Headstart, Doug FLEMING is now a children's music singer-songwriter and has just released his first CD, Little Square Wheels (www.mp3.com/dflemingjr/); he lives in Seattle with his wife, Tessa, and daughter, Frannie. Rick FLOWERDAY cofounded B2B Internet, outsourced provider of procurement management services to the middle market, in May 1999. '85 Janet GROSSMAN completed a catalog of ancient Greek funerary monuments in the Getty Museum; now, with colleagues in Rome and Tunis, she is organizing an exhibition on the Carthaginian general Hannibal, which will open at the Carthage Museum in the summer of 2003. '86 Annette EMERY has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Grant Joint Union High School District. Jill MENDEZ Ziman is living in Fremont with her husband, Philip ZIMAN (Cowell '86), their two children, and two cats. '88 Hammon ACUNA is vice president of the Account Management Unit/Marketing and Policyholder Services Departments at the SCPIE Companies in Century City, where he has worked for 11 years; he lives in Los Angeles with his partner of three years. '90 Since 1995, Marc HARRISON has worked at an Internet research and advisory company, Jupiter Communi-cations, where he is now director of Custom Research. Brian MINER has worked as a baker, a bartender, and now as a web developer and Java programmer for XUMA, an e-commerce solutions provider. '92 After earning an M.A in American history and an M.B.A. in information systems from Louisiana State University, Michael FITZGERALD Cantor and his wife, Beatriz, are living in Richmond, Va., where he is an information technology consultant with Arthur Andersen. Shelley DOOLITTLE is working at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in labor/employee relations, planning a fall 2000 wedding, and remodeling a house. Paul KAPLAN has been working in the San Francisco office of the State Public Defender as an investigator for defense attorneys working on capital cases; he plans to begin a Ph.D. program in criminology, law, and society at UC Irvine in fall 2000. '94 After living in Los Angeles for several years and writing screenplays, Kathleen (Kitty) BROPHY moved to Cambria in 1997 and is now an artist. '96 Jennifer HJELM is teaching fifth grade in the Los Angeles Unified School District. '97 Kai SANSON is European sales manager for a skateboarding shoe company. '98 Lara MEYER Triona is working on her Ph.D. in psychology, doing developmental research with an emphasis on instructional implications. '99 James RILEY is teaching English at a high school in Paris. Stevenson College'67 Christina FORBES has a job with the Edison Electric Institute in Washington, D.C., providing guidance to government officials and representing member company interests on electric utility industry restructuring; she and her partner do a lot of kayaking, swimming, and bicycling and fly to fun places in her single-engine airplane. '71 Nancy KEAST Nelson works part-time for UCSC and has written and published a unique English language arts curriculum that is marketed around the world. '73 After 17 years on the faculty at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, Prescott DEININGER moved two blocks to take a position as the Marguerite M. Main Chair in Cancer Research at Tulane University Cancer Center, where he serves as director of basic research and associate director of the center; he is also a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. '74 Since returning to the U.S. in 1997 from a three-year assignment in Germany, Dian CORNELIUSSEN-James has been working in Washington, D.C., for the Secretary of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, where she is senior analyst for recovery efforts for individuals lost in Laos during the Vietnam War; she and her husband, a retired Air Force pilot and Vietnam War veteran, reside in Annapolis, Md. '77 Sandor NAGYSZALANCZY is a free-lance writer and photographer and the author of six books on woodworking, furniture, and vintage tools. '80 Clifford CHASE's book, The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother, was published in August 1999 by the University of Wisconsin Press. '83 Six years ago Julia (Julie) CARTER founded and is now publisher and editor-in-chief of a community newspaper in central DeKalb County--the second largest county in Georgia, which includes in-town Atlanta. Cassandra CLEGHORN has been promoted to the rank of senior lecturer in English and American studies at Williams College; she is a poet, whose works have appeared in Southwest Review and the Paris Review. Since completing a master's degree in landscape architecture at UC Berkeley in 1993, Jennifer MADDEN has been lecturing in the Department of Environmental Design at UC Davis; three years ago, she cofounded a design-build firm specializing in contemplative gardens and functional site sculpture with her partner and husband, Jeff Reed. '84 Edith ROYAL is teaching second grade at Federal School on Fort Stewart, Ga. '85 Elizabeth (Bets) SHIPLEY and Bryan TORFEH (Cowell '82) were married at the Shipley house in Bonny Doon in December 1999; they live in London, where they act, direct, teach, and have a great time. Bets has just been commissioned to write a history of her drama school, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Shelley WARD has been working as a technical writing consultant while raising her son, Carter, finishing a remodel of her Victorian house, and singing in nightclubs and community opera productions. '86 After nearly ten years as an external consultant, Eric ELDER joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as an internal consultant within the Center for Leadership Development; he has a new daughter, Lauren, born in October 1999. '88 John CAHILL, a senior web developer at Andale, Inc., has developed a web application that helps people who make their living selling on online auction sites manage their business. After relocating to Texas, Lisa MASSINGHAM Duke met and married her husband, Jody Duke, in 1999; she is enjoying her new home in Austin. John McDONALD moved to Hawaii, where he is an observing assistant with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation. '89 Karen WEEKS Satzman and her husband, Darrell SATZMAN (Merrill '89), gave birth to Benjamin Porter Satzman (Class of 2022) on March 5. '90 Teddy CAMPOS has been a teacher for the past ten years and is currently teaching middle school in the Rialto (Calif.) Unified School District; he is married and the proud father of one son and two daughters. '92 Amy GEORGE is an artist and a student, pursuing her elementary teaching credential with an emphasis in art education; she plans to get married this July. Marcia WALL, who teaches English at the University of New Orleans, has published Malaria Shots Not Included: A Guide to Surviving Life After College, with contributions by Matt GREEN and Barbara MARTIN (both Stevenson '92). Timothy WEINER was named to the Southwestern University School of Law Moot Court Honors Program Board of Governors. '93 After working in business for three years in New York and San Francisco, Colin SMITH moved to Japan in 1996 to study Japanese and teach English; he is now a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at Yale University. '94 Tara PAINTER Malec is working as a research associate for the Psychological Corporation and is in the process of developing the WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children); she is currently working on a B.S. in computer science. '95 Dustin WAX is in his third year of graduate study in anthropology at the New School for Social Research, where he is studying American immigrant history, social movements, and gender issues. '98 Jordan ANDERSON is an assistant vice president at Union Bank of California, working in Institutional Services, which provides a wide variety of services and products to businesses, mutual funds, municipalities, and investment banks. Crown College'72 Art BRIDGE has been teaching philosophy and ethics at two Portland, Ore., universities and serving as a hospital chaplain at two large urban hospitals; in December, he and his son traveled to Honduras to assist in the rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch. Bob LORENTZEN has written his eighth guidebook to California and is raising his two-year-old daughter with his wife, Liz Peterson. Judith TOTMAN Parrish-Jones is associate dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona; her portfolio is the education mission, and her particular interest is science education for nonscience majors. '74 John LINDLEY is now with his second start-up after the first went bankrupt; his son is a student at CSU Chico, and his daughter is a junior in high school. '75 James BREITMEYER was recently named chief medical officer and senior vice president of Serono Laboratories, where he is responsible for all North American clinical trials of new drug candidates, as well as continuing his leadership of worldwide drug development in the oncology area. '76 Pat MURPHY has published her fifth novel, titled There and Back Again: By Max Merriwell, which has received a favorable review from the New York Times. '77 Linda NELSON and her husband, Ed, have moved to Bellevue, Idaho, where they enjoy hiking, skiing, and ice skating. Judith PFEFFER has been teaching journalism for over four years at Victor Valley College in Victorville, Calif.; she is also a free-lance public relations consultant. Jerry RUIZ is busy trying to convince his 17-year-old to become a Slug. '78 Joanne KERBAVAZ is an ecologist for the Bay Area District of the California State Parks Department; her turf includes Año Nuevo, where she was a UCSC docent so many years ago. '79 Robert VALENTE is theregional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; he and his teenaged sons are staying with indigenous tribes people in Sarawak, Borneo, this summer. '81 Brian ASHER is a financial consultant with Salomon Smith Barney in downtown Long Beach, Calif.; he and Mary MOROSKI (Crown '82) married in 1998, and they became professional partners in 1999 when Mary became a registered stockbroker. '82 Robert BLOCK has a private practice in otolaryngology--head and neck surgery--and facial plastic/reconstructive surgery in Salinas, Calif. Sarah DENNISON has been teaching humanities, composition, and business law for the last four years at Rasmussen College, a 100-year-old private two-year college in Minnesota; in January 1999 she became chief academic officer and now oversees the entire academic enterprise. '83 John YAMANAKA and his wife, Mary Francis ROWELL (Stevenson '95), have relocated from San Francisco to Irvine, Calif., where they are enjoying the warmer weather and greater business opportunities. '84 Erika SUEKER is living in Golden, Colo., with her husband, daughter, and son; she works as a research consultant for an educational software company on its award-winning algebracurriculum. '85 Greg SANDERS and his wife, Justine, have three children, and he is practicing family medicine at a community clinic north of Seattle. "My years at UCSC were very formative for me," he writes. "They helped me focus on my career interests a lot better than prior school experiences. I will always be grateful for that!" '90 Jennifer NOONAN Horne got married on Maui in July 1999 and spent a three-week honeymoon in Bali and Hong Kong; she and her husband were planning to depart this May for a yearlong trip around the world. '91 Colleen BRADY is a resident in critical care and emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital. Lucia GUTIERREZ-Antrim received her Ph.D. in marine biology in March 2000 from the University of Hawaii; she and Michael Antrim were married in Guatemala in July 1999. '92 Paul JANSEN is a research analyst at a pediatric neurology lab, where he is involved in basic research on one of the proteins involved in Batten's disease, a pediatric degenerative disorder. '93 Mike HOCHLEUTNER is attending business school at Stanford University and was married in Santa Cruz in November 1999. '94 Deborah FLORES went back to college in San Diego to get a B.S. in biology and is currently working in the computer field. Terran ROSENBERG is education supervisor for Six Flags Marine World. '96 Mikel MARON is trying to hold onto his soul, working for a few years in Silicon Valley on very cool tech and saving to travel the world in 2001. Tricia TATE has been traveling about the country while working within the world of Internet marketing and "loving life while living in San Francisco!" '98 David EISMAN is working for United Space Alliance at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex., where he supports Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs) from NASA's Mission Control Center. Merrill College'72 Neal ADAMS has returned to Santa Cruz and is now the medical director and program chief for Santa Cruz County Mental Health; he lives in Soquel with his wife, Lucy, and two sons and can be reached at nadamsmd@trail.c.m. Ellen ABRAHAMS Brosbe works at the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco; she and her husband, Herb, have four young adults and a dog. Juan GARCIA is on sabbatical from CSU Fresno, working on mental health services delivery to the Spanish-speaking community; he is also a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. '74 Christina COWAN Miller is a senior case manager in perinatal chemical dependency treatment in Santa Rosa, Calif.; her two children are 19 and 16 years old. '76 Michael GALINDO writes that he's "still at it . . . 18 years as a public servant for Alameda County in Hayward." Randi NOVAK-Lyssand is living in Pleasanton with her two daughters; she is a computer networking "technoweenie," and she has made a name for herself in Silicon Valley as a "start-up cowgirl/multicast goddess"; friends may contact her at randinovak@earthlink.n.t. Michelle CORDER Samis is a licensed marriage and family therapist and codirector of Family Court Services for the Superior Court in Santa Cruz. '78 Tom EDMINSTER is looking forward to a sabbatical leave after 13 years in the San Francisco schools. '79 John LUNDHOLM is enjoying his work as an ICU nurse in Hawaii; he and his wife, Denise SCALES Lundholm (Merrill '81), have two sons whom they homeschool. '84 Louis KEVITT received his master's in philosophy at Villanova University in 1992 and has been teaching philosophy part-time at Metropolitan State College of Denver and Red Rocks Community College; he also teaches computer systems and is a computer consultant. '86 Nancy Lynn SOLORIO-Murray is living in the Dominican Republic, where she is working in public relations promoting concerts and other events; her husband is the defense attaché at the American Embassy. '88 Haley MACK completed an M.S. in conflict analysis and resolution and an M.A. in spiritual psychology and is doing extensive study of the therapeutic uses of hypnosis. '89 Jonathan KLEIN is a partner at a 16-attorney firm in San Francisco, practicing in the areas of employment, premises liability, insurance bad faith, and real estate law; he's been married for four years and has a two-year-old daughter. '90 Carolyn CHERRY has purchased a new home in St. Paul, Minn.; she can still be reached at cjcblossom@aol.c.m. '91 After working at Netscape Communications for four years, Debra EVANS went to a start-up and now works at a second start-up, PlanetIdeal; she can be reached on AOL Instant Messenger, Culo97. Kenneth GREENE is completing his dissertation on the development of political parties in Mexico and writes, "I want to thank my inspiring professors at UCSC for planting in me the seed of a lifelong interest in research and scholarship." Rafael REYES is a systems architect at Franklin Templeton; he's enjoying tennis and volleyball and volunteering with the World Affairs Council. After teaching elementary school for the Los Angeles Unified School District for four years, Elva AGUAYO Tyson has taken a temporary leave from education while her children are of preschool age; friends can contact her at tsband@earthlink.n.t. '92 Kristine CIOFFI is finishing her J.D. at NYU School of Law and planning to move to London upon graduation. After spending two years working in Washington, D.C., and one year running a web-site design company in New Zealand, Daryl ELFIELD obtained a law degree in England in 1999 and is now working for a dot.com company near London. Guillermo NAJAR graduated from UC Irvine with a master's in urban and regional planning in 1995; he is currently developing affordable single-family detached homes. Dmitria SOKOLOW received her teaching certificate in elementary education and a master's degree in teaching from Oregon State University (Corvallis) in August 1999; she is teaching Spanish language in two schools this year and hopes to find full-time employment in one school next year. Her partner, Eric WAGNER (Merrill '92), left graduate study in fermentation science at OSU to take a job with Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, where he has worked for the last year as cellarman, laboratory microbiologist, and taste panelist. '93 David MORA is a graphic designer currently working on ad campaigns for MGM; recent work includes James Bond 007 The World Is Not Enough and Stigmata. Lisa NEWLAND has been volunteering for the past six years with Youth For Understanding, International Youth Exchange; she serves on YFU's Alumni Council, working to connect the organization's alumni to each other and to YFU and to create lifelong international learning experiences for all. Tyrone TAYLOR is working with a company that is dedicated to introducing environmentally safe consumer products to the world. '95 James MARSH is a career counseling specialist with the City of Sunnyvale helping unemployed teens, students, and professionals find employment; he is also pursuing a master's degree in counseling education at San Jose State University. Joshua SCHARE lives near the beach in Venice, Calif., and loves his job at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, where he is responsible for all advertising for the organization and its related health care practice, Lambda Medical Group, and for editing and publishing three center publications. Dan ZIVKOVIC is building Java applications that run on a cell phone and allow people to send messages and browse the web; he is a cofounder of a new start-up. '96 After receiving an M.F.A. in art from California Institute of the Arts, Kira HARRIS relocated to New York City in fall 1999to participate in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program; she has been exhibiting her work--primarily large-scale conceptually based installations--in galleries in L.A. and New York and recently at an exhibit at Openspace in Milan. Porter College'72 Florance THOMPSON is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in California. '73 Keith HERRITT is orchestra manager for the Santa Rosa Symphony and a free-lance musician; he lives in San Pablo with his partner of more than 20 years. Ron KAPPE lives in Mill Valley and is principal of Kappe Architects in San Rafael; his firm does educational facilities and commercial and residential projects. '74 Robert KUBEY has joined the faculty of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University and has been named director of Rutgers's new Center for Media Studies. '75 Carrie CARPENTER Anastasi gave birth to twin girls in December 1999 and is happily being a mom on Whidbey Island, Wash. Nancy HAZAN Olson is a middle school languagearts teacher on the shoreline in Connecticut, where she lives with her husband, two children, and a dog. '76 Barbara EDELSTEIN-Zhang has been working on her sculptures and drawings and was invited to participate in an international art biennale in Poland in June; later this year she will have a solo show at Gallery Twelve in Shanghai, China. '77 Rebecca MORGAN has earned the designation Certified Management Consultant; her seventh book, Speaking Successfully: 1001 Tips for Thriving in the Speaking Business, was published in fall 1999. '78 After 15 years as a newspaper editor, John HARTMIRE retired from journalism and is now working with the gravely disabled as a conservatorship officer with Yolo County; he still plays competitive tennis but now relies on "Motrin as much as my backhand down the line." '80 Nancy NEVILLE Cordell has two daughters, ages five and seven, and is a part-time faculty member in anthropology in the Washington State community college system; as part of her teaching responsibilities she offers two anthropology courses online at www.tacoma.ctc.edu/home/ncordell/. Ronna DANZIGER Perelson started her own business selling textiles to apparel manufacturers seven years ago, at the same time she had a son; "both are doing great." Cathy SILVERSTEIN lives in the Washington, D.C., area and is the founder of Enterprise Resource Group, a management consulting firm; she still sings jazz for fun and hopes to reunite with the a cappella quintet, The Distractions, at UCSC someday. '81 Lynn ERLICH Erfer, her husband, Bruce, and three cats moved to Lahaina, Hawaii, to pursue new opportunities and better golf weather; Lynn invites fellow Slugs to visit at her Business in Paradise office in the Kapalua Bay Hotel for Internet access and other business-related services. '83 Mary MARTIN is busy keeping in touch with and visiting her 11 children and nine grandchildren. '86 Andrew McINTIRE is a cartographer with the U.S. Census Bureau, and his wife, Ann RETZLAFF McIntire (Porter '85), is a librarian at the National Arboretum; they recently bought a house. '87 Amy KANE is a Foley artist (a person who creates sound effects for the postproduction of a film) at Sony Pictures in L.A. '88 In 1998, Tracy FULLERTON formed Spiderdance, an Internet convergence company, which recently released WebRIOT, a television and Internet game show produced in partnership with MTV Networks. '89 Kevin BEGGS transitioned in 1998 from a full-time producer of dramatic television series to his current job as an executive overseeing all series-television development and production for Lions Gate Entertainment. Alexander CLEMENS works at Northpoint Communications, where he creates, implements, and manages initiatives to bridge the digital divide. '90 After studying dance at Alvin Ailey in New York, Gillian HERMAN founded her own dance company, Leap of Faith Dance, and took a full-time job teaching workshops and counseling Brooklyn public high school students on AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and many other social issues. After getting two master's degrees--one in sequential art and the other in computer art--from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, Scott MAYHEW took a job with a game company in Portland, Ore., making PlayStation and PC games. Jeff SCHWARTZ is employed as a reference librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library. '91 After working in Israel, Mark GILBERT moved to New York to get a master's in arts administration at Columbia University; he is now working as a consultant at the country's largest arts management consulting firm. Steve HOGE is working as a consultant and has been granted two patents for his designs for a digital audio-processing chip used by E-mu Systems; he still lives within bicycle commuting distance of UCSC and can be reached at steve_hoge@who.n.t. A. Wes JONES is a visual arts specialistat the College of the Siskiyous in Weed, Calif. '92 After practicing corporate law for a year and a half, Stacy Kathleen MILLER founded her own legal placement company, Miller, Sabino and Lee, in San Francisco. '93 Michael CAGNEY left his position as head trader at Wells Fargo Bank to start a new company, MyFinancialPortal.com. Stacey LEWIS lives in San Francisco and is the director of marketing and publicity for City Lights Publishers. '97 Kristin MEGILL received Montessori elementary training and a master's in education from Loyola College in Baltimore; she is currently attending the Montessori Institute of San Diego for teacher training and will take a teaching position at a Montessori school in San Diego in September. Kresge College'74 Ken BLOCK has been married for 13 years to Mindy and is the proud father of Caley, a student at UCSB; Ken is the director of business ethics and compliance at Raytheon Electronic Systems. '75 Michael DEUTCH is a software engineer consultant now living in the Bay Area. '80 Elizabeth BELSER and her husband, James YOUNG (Graduate Studies '83), are enjoying their four-year-old daughter, Audrey Rose; they met 20 years ago at UCSC and are about to celebrate 16 years of marriage; Elizabeth is taking a break from practicing and teaching law to work as an academic staff attorney for a national Bar preparation company. '81 Scott BERLIN has been a producer of concerts and business theater for large corporations for the last ten years. '82 Lauren HELFAND and Eric STRIMLING (Oakes '82) are raising their nine-year-old daughter in Alameda, Calif.; Lauren is a sign-language interpreter and Eric is a carpenter. They would love to hear from Emily STONE (Kresge '84). '87 Joshua WEISEL is managing and producing in the entertainment industry. '89 Melissa IWAI illustrated a children's book written by Eileen Spinelli, called Night Shift Daddy, which was published in April by Hyperion. Suzanne Sarah WALDMAN recently obtained a second M.A. in administration from Montclair State University; she continues to have a successful counseling practice. '90 Stephanie ASCH Alber is teaching English as a second language at Queens College in New York; she married Rabbi Yehuda Alber in July 1999. '91 David PILLIOD is finishing his dissertation in biology at Idaho State University; he is examining the ecological effects of stocking trout in high mountain wilderness lakes in Idaho and the effects non-native fish have on native amphibians. '92 Jonathan BENAK graduated from physician assistant school at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, passed the national certifying boards, and is starting a career in internal medicine and surgery in Jackson Hole, Wyo. '93 Joanna GOLDBERG lives in Oakland and works as a human resources manager for a nonprofit housing development agency in San Francisco's Tenderloin area. '98 Gabriella DE LA ROSA is a first-year Ph.D. student at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Angela THOMPSON is pursuing a career in drafting and architecture; on the side, she plays in the pit orchestra for summer repertory theater in Santa Rosa. Oakes College'78 Robert FERNANDEZ is founder and managing director of a tech venture capital fund, Acuity Ventures. '79 Scott ROSEMAN is closing in on 15 years of owning and running his business, New Leaf Community Markets; he now has five stores, all in Santa Cruz County. '84 Patrick WALKER "has stepped off the hamster wheel of Silicon Valley life" and is living in Ojai, Calif., with his wife, Beth; daughter, Devon; and son, Cory. '85 Douglas RIVLIN is living in Washington, D.C., where he is an adviser to the director of the Voice of America. '88 Chris BARNES is running his graphic design business and enjoying his son's first year of life. '90 After teaching high school English in Redwood City for the past seven years, Jen PETROELJE is now teaching at a high school program on the campus of Cañada College. '92 Sharon ANOLIK is corporate counsel for Ask Jeeves in Emeryville, Calif., and can be reached at sanolik@yahoo.c.m. '93 After graduating with a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin, Gerardo LOPEZ is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri, Columbia. '95 Melissa Hope DAVIS has left her position as director of social services for a skilled nursing facility to raise her three children. Since becoming a full-time California Fish and Game warden in January 1998, Eric KORD has been using his B.S. in marine biology to educate the fishing public, give citations to people who "didn't mean to keep the Kelp Bass," and chase down fleeing lobster poachers. College Eight'75 Hal WHITE is doing the "Silicon Valley dance," running a small company that sells computer chips worldwide.'76 Joseph SCHLEIMER is an entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills; his clients include ZZ Top, Sigourney Weaver, Walter Matthau, James Cameron, and Sylvester Stallone. '82 Alice BAACKE is retired and doing volunteer work with hospice and a soup kitchen; she has four children, six grandchildren, and a great granddaughter, and she is remarried to Harry Dole Jr. '83 After being widowed in June 1998, Deborah CAMPBELL is studying for her master's degree in system dynamics at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway; she and her two children, Aaron and Rachel, are enjoying life there, learning to live in snow and speak a little Norwegian. '84 Joanne MURRAY Tabasz is living in Santa Cruz with her husband, John TABASZ (College Eight '95), teaching first grade, and raising their three children; John is a network engineer at Cisco Systems. '85 Michael VAN ALTENA moved to Idaho in May 1999 and is telecommuting full-time. '88 Dave UEBELE is a "computer geek," telecommuting full-time and living rural. '91 Jeffrey STURGES married Rebecca Steed in 1994, and they own a home in Portland, Ore., where he has been a top chef at Northwest Brew Pubs for four years. '93 Susan HEDIN Schneider is currently working on her Certified Investment Management Consultant (CIMC) designation. '94 After receiving an M.A in Russian and East European studies at the University of Toronto, Alexandra ARNDT got a job with a major Canadian newswire service; now she works for a computer software development company. Sherry GALAZYN has spent the last five years on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at MIT and is now the HR administrator at Cereon Genomics, a Cambridge-based biotech company. '95 Anna CAMARENA has been married for five years and is working as a social worker; she plans to attend law school in winter 2001. Katherine McFADDEN finished an M.S. at Texas A&M University in wildlife biology and has begun a Ph.D. at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University, where she is studying population genetics and the feeding ecology of mammals in the tropics. '97 Derrick CHUA is in his second year of dental school at Temple University School of Dentistry in Philadelphia, taking dental courses during the day, taking M.B.A. classes at night, and preparing for the National Dental Boards. '99 Brian LEVINE is working on his master's degree and single subject teaching credential at Chapman University. Chandra SLAVEN is in her first year of a master's program in city and regional planning at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Graduate Studies'82 William ADAMS (Ph.D., history of consciousness) has been chosen as the 19th president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine; he has been president of Bucknell University since March 1995. He was the scheduled keynote speaker at this year's Graduate Studies commencement. '87 Edward STEPHENSON is revising his dissertation on Rastafari for publication; he is teaching full-time at Florida Memorial College, a historically black college, and part-time at Albizu University, the first Hispanic-based university to have a Hispanic name. '91 Peter FONG (Ph.D., biology) has been granted tenure at Gettysburg College, where he has been an assistant professor of biology for the past five years; Fong's research has focused on serotonin reuptake inhibitors. '94 Kuniharu MUKAO (M.S., applied economics) is preparing for the C.P.A. exam through a program at Cal State Hayward. '93 Sara DANIELSEN has recently returned to Santa Cruz to begin working with Shakespeare Santa Cruz as education and outreach director. '95 Laurea LONG Bruscia (M.A., mathematics) married Anthony Bruscia in 1997; Laurea is teaching and loving it. '98 Mark NECHODOM (Ph.D., history of consciousness) heads up the social and policy sciences unit of the Sierra Nevada Framework, under the aegis of the Pacific Southwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service; he is involved in research and policy analysis focused on engaging watershed-based community groups in planning and management for natural resources conservation. In MemoriamHoward GONG (College Eight '74), a leader in the field of affordable housing, died February 23, 2000, of complications stemming from a bone-marrow disease; he was 47. Gong was a partner in a consulting firm specializing in development and financial services for nonprofit developers and local government; during his career, he served as a financial consultant for more than 100 projects that provided more than 6,000 units of housing. Jeffrey RAMSEYER (Stevenson '84) died of an apparent heart attack May 9, 2000. He was a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County and had prosecuted a number of high-profile cases. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn, and three children. Jesse THYNE (College Eight '98) was killed in a car accident on January 7, 2000, while serving in the Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa; he was 24. He had been in Guinea since June 1998 and had been teaching math in the Labe region in the north of Guinea prior to his death. |