Cowell College

'69 Michael TWOMBLY was "last seen entering a Buddhist monastery after cashing in his SEP IRA."

'70 Tom HASKELL received the 2000 Achievement Award for the state of Iowa from the Missouri Valley Adult Education Associa-tion; he is now employed as an associate director of Buena Vista University's Council Bluffs Center.

'72 Adilah BARNES will tour her one-woman show "I Am That I Am: Woman, Black" in Rotterdam, Holland, this fall.

'76 Kathryn REASONER is on a one-year sabbatical in Japan, where she's teaching and doing research in arts management and cultural policy. Ron RUSSELL is president of a company that is developing electronic instrumen-tation for underwater use.

'77 Kevin EISENBERG is making wine for fun and periodically injuring himself playing competitive basketball and indoor soccer; at work he shares "the wisdom of western civilization."

'83 Beth BLEVINS and her husband, Steve Hirsch, are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Emily Rose Blevins Hirsch; the family moved recently to Ashton, Md.

'86 Seiko UETA is living in Tozzori, Japan, where she is married to a dentist and managing the dental clinic; they have two children.

'87 James CALLEROS has been promoted to auditing supervisor for Northwest Administrators, a third-party benefits firm in Daly City, Calif.; he welcomes all communications from Bay Area alumni who share his interest in art, literature, and French culture; his e-mail is jmc3320@aol.com. Vivien GREENE lives in New York and is a curator at the Guggenheim Museum; she is completing her Ph.D. in art history. Jennifer HORNE and her husband quit their software sales jobs in Silicon Valley to take a one-year world journey.

'91 Elisa GORDON has completed a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago.

'92 Jason CROUTHAMEL and his wife, Grace Coolidge, are receiving their Ph.D.s at Indiana University and have accepted a dual hire as professors at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Christopher MONDAY has been living, traveling, studying, writing, and doing research in Russia for the last four years, as well as working on a Ph.D. in economics.

'93 Michelle EUGENI is teaching seventh grade in San Jose, learning to play piano, working on Spanish, and saving for a sailing adventure with David GEILHUFE (Cowell '93).

'94 In March, Jason Sinclair LONG was cast to perform in the Blue Man Group; he is training/performing in New York and then will permanently join an existing BMG show (in Boston, Chicago, or Las Vegas). Elizabeth WALLER received an M.A. in education from UCSC in 1996 and for the last four years has been teaching English at Mission San Jose High School, where she is chairperson of the English Department, a member of the School Site Council, and the speech/debate coach.

'95 Dara Ruth PAPO is doing case management for people living with HIV or AIDS.

'96 After completing her master's degree in English at San Francisco State University and earning her teaching certificate in English as a second language from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Janeen MALATESTA is studying Spanish in Spain.

Stevenson College

'69 Linda Kay TARPLEY Hale has just completed her 31st year of teaching for a better world at the high school in Sonoma, Calif.

'70 Jonathan GREEN is president-elect of the American Academy of Physician Assistants in Occupational Medicine and takes office as president in July. Virginia McKINLEY continues to serve as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. Nina SUNTZEFF Zagaris received an M.A. in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Calif., and is working as a grant writer.

'71 Chuck COLEMAN would love to hear from old friends; he can be reached by e-mail at ChuckNWeHo@aol.com.

'74 Walt BOYES has begun a two-year term as vice president for publications of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society and is the ex officio chairman of a publishing company; he has two books coming out this year, teaches web-based seminars in marketing, and has been a columnist for Flow Control magazine and The Industrial Marketing Practitioner for several years. Richard CEDERSTROM graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in 1994 with a doctor of chiropractic degree.

'75 John JANGWONG is a clinical case manager in psychiatry at UC San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital.

'76 Joseph BUSH is associate dean and faculty member in clinical psychology at the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara; he is doing research in children's adjustment to chronic illness with the Starbright Foundation. Anne (Cindy) COSCARELLI is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and UCLA faculty member; she directs the Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer at UCLA; she recently invited Rabbi Ed FEINSTEIN (Stevenson '75), a cancer survivor who is active in developing cancer-support programs in the L.A. Jewish community, to present a lecture.

'78 Karl BROWN has earned an M.S. in software engineering from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Kathleen DAVIS Harris earned a teaching credential from Western Washington University in 1999 and took a job as an enrichment adviser for gifted students in grades four through six; she loves being the mom of three young children. Julie KOSTERLITZ covers economics and finance issues for the National Journal; her first child, Emma Justine, was born in 2000.

'80 Jack ABBOTT is an interactive multimedia consultant with fun long-term clients like the San Diego 200, San Diego Padres, City of San Diego, BART, and the Gorilla Foundation. Beverly BIGBEE has a chiropractic office in Honolulu and would love to hear from fellow alumni at beemail1@earthlink.net.

'81 Karen LAUCK Rafert is living in Concord, Calif., raising two teenage boys, and working for the IT division of Kaiser Permanente.

'82 Sally MacKAIN has been on the psychology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for 10 years, teaching clinical psychology and researching the treatment of the severely mentally ill in prisons and in the community; she's been married for 13 years to Bob Cutting, and they have two boys.

'84 After spending five years teaching English and traveling the world, Mitchell MARRIOT got married and is now selling subscriptions to the online classroom and university Classroom Connect.

'86 Daniel MAULLER travels the world as a tour director but still is based out of Chicago.

'88 After practicing law in Chicago and Detroit, Katie HARRIS Rivera is now a full-time mom, married to Kurt Rivera, a local television anchor/reporter. Michael SAPUNOR is working on water resource management issues in Santa Cruz County and playing guitar in a Santa Cruz–based band, the Frequent Flyers.

'89 After two years at Microsoft working as a usability engineer, Jay ESKENAZI is now the usability manager at Expedia.com. Lisa LEVINE graduated from San Jose State University with a master's in social work and is now working as a medical social worker providing case management services to people with HIV and AIDS.

'91 Jennifer YEARLEY received her D.V.M. from Washington State University in May and is going into small-animal practice in Keene, N.H.

'92 Anthony MONTALBANO is a professor of English at Southwest Texas State University. After living in Seattle for six years, Zile WU Rowley moved to New York City with her husband, Malcolm ROWLEY, who works for an Internet company; their first child, Thelonious, was born in February 2000. Timothy WEINER graduated from law school in May 2000, passed the California Bar Exam, and was sworn to the California Bar in December 2000; he is currently working with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

'93 John SCHWEITZER recently worked as the key grip on two feature films--Haiku Tunnel and Teknolust--which he hopes will come out this year.

'94 Tara PAINTER Malec received an M.S. in clinical psychology and is working as a research associate at the Psychological Corporation.

'97 Sarah Anne RUSSELL is in her third year of medical school at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and she is manager of the UCSD student-run free clinic.

'98 Andrea VAN NOTE was planning to graduate from San Francisco State with a master's in counseling in May and marry Adam King in October; friends can reach her at dre46@bananaslugs.com.

'00 David RICHTER completed the Summer Intensive Language Program in Arabic at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 2000.

Crown College

'72 Richard HILL has been named the new city manager of Capitola, Calif. In 1999, Lynne VALEK earned a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Institute; she teaches organizational studies at the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno and works as an organization consultant.

'74 Stephen EDBERG is in his 22nd year at the Jet Propulsion Lab, working on the Cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn and developing curriculum materials in space science.

'75 Lori JOHNS is a family nurse practitioner providing acute care in the emergency room; she is also a major in the California Army Reserve National Guard.

'76 John LAUFER had twins and has founded a company, Buzz Tools. Yvonne RAUCH received her Ph.D. in English in 1997 from the University of Oregon; she is now working in a small rural school in eastern Oregon, developing interdisciplinary curriculum in language arts and science and doing staff development in reading and writing.

'78 LizAnne WHITING Jensen and her husband, Kenneth JENSEN (Stevenson '73), own a handmade weather vane company, West Coast Weather Vanes; one of their weather vanes appeared in an episode of the X-Files in fall 2000.

'79 Chris METZLER is a professor of geology and oceanography at Mira Costa College in San Diego County; he is currently chair of the Physical Sciences Department.

'81 Cyndi ASHBROOK is a family practice physician at Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center teaching family practice residents-in-training; she is married and has two daughters.

'82 Deanna JUSTICE Reynolds is a hematopathologist in group practice on the Texas Gulf Coast; she is happily married with two daughters, ages nine months and six years.

'83 Don SLEETER is working on developing software for analyzing DNA sequences; he and his wife, Kim WISEMAN (Stevenson '80), live in the San Francisco Bay Area, have two small children, and are "as happy as can be."

'84 David CRAGO has been promoted to the rank of commander in the U.S. Public Health Service; he runs a drug program at a federal prison is Colorado and is married with three children.

'86 After receiving a teaching credential from San Jose State University and teaching science in Hawaii public schools, Leland "Lee" OLSON is pursuing an M.S. in biblical studies at Calvary Theological Seminary; he is married with two children.

'87 Michael McKAY is married with a one-year-old son; he is enjoying card playing and researching medieval games.

'88 Roy BRIDGMAN is working as a biologist for Impact Sciences in Oakland and "swilling dollar beers in San Francisco."

'91 Ellen REITERMAN has moved from San Diego to Berkeley, where she is a preschool teacher at Monteverde School.

'92 Andrea SILVER Palermo joined a private pediatric practice in Atlantic City, N.J., and recently gave birth to her first child, Sydney Anne.

'93 Tiffany FAHS Felicienne is a consulting technical recruiter and the owner of Nerd Search; she is a mother of three and living happily in Oakland, Calif.

'94 After receiving a J.D. from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, Benjamin HARVEY has been named associate attorney at the Sacramento-based Drobny Law Offices, where he assists clients with probate, estate administration, and estate planning. Ulysses HILLARD completed an M.S. in civil engineering at the University of Washington and now works in Berkeley as an engineering hydrologist.

'95 Sarah ERVING is going to Brooklyn Law School and has an internship with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Merci LOBNER and her fiancé, Karl DeBarraicua, live in Loomis, Calif., and have a daughter, Sophia, born in June 2000.

'96 Jeremy MARLEY is teaching in Marquette, Mich., and working toward an M.A. in education. Virginia YOUNG married Brad Fisher in July 2000; they live in Napa, Calif., where she is an attorney with the firm of Coombs & Dunlap.

'97 Ilya REEVES worked for the California Department of Fish and Game on the Ocean Salmon Project; he is now applying to law school with the intention of practicing environmental and maritime law.

'98 Francisco QUINTERO has been teaching mathematics in Watsonville, Calif., for the past two years and loving his job.

'00 Frances BARRIOS has been named director of community services for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte; she oversees the agency's outreach and education activities for Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties; she began working at Planned Parenthood as a UCSC intern.

Merrill College

'70 Karlene FAITH has a new book, The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult (Northeastern University Press, May 2001), about one of the women involved in the Manson murders in 1969.

'76 Michael BRINT has been appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor in the Political Science Department at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.

'78 Jean Walton WOLFF edited an anthology, Long Baptisms; she lives in Capitola, Calif.

'79 Beth GOLDFADEN has an M.S.W. from San Jose State University and works as a clinical social worker for the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Menlo Park, Calif.

'81 Kat EPPERSON Galick earned a master's degree and has worked for the last 20 years as a juvenile counselor with the Department of Youth Services; she and her husband, a police sergeant, have three children and spend their free time building a cabin in the woods.

'84 Mark BOEHLER's company, Roche Group, was awarded the 2000 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in recognition of process improvements that considerably reduce emissions in the production of ganciclovir, the active ingredient in Cytovene, which is used to treat cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with compromised immune systems. Jess GRANT wrote a master's thesis at Evergreen State College on legal repression of radical groups (Earth First, Brown Berets), which resulted in repeal of the state of Washington's archaic anarchy and sabotage statutes.

'86 Alfred KWOK has been named an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Pomona College; he uses spectroscopy to do optics research. Edward LOPEZ is teaching at the Wilderness School in Daly City/Pacifica, Calif.; he'd love to reconnect with fellow "moat rats."

'87 Christie EVERY has been casting TV print and film shoots in northern California since 1992 and is interested in producing and shooting documentaries; she is active in local pro-choice, arts, and San Francisco community issues and can be reached at (415) 474-1642. Holger LEUE's photos have been published in more than 50 books and travel guides worldwide. Gerald (Jerry) VILHAUER is self-employed as a contractor designing custom databases for a wide variety of clients; his hobbies include photography, scuba diving, and hiking; he is not married.

'89 Miko TOKUHAMA is senior attorney of the Immigration Team at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego; he is also serving as chair of the San Diego Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

'90 David WOOD recently joined the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the corporate law practice.

'91 Jessica MURRAY received her teaching credential and a master's in education at UCSC; she works at a junior high in Santa Cruz. Stephanie PALMERI teaches seventh and eighth grade at a Spanish-immersion school and has an eight-year-old daughter, Angelica; she also teaches salsa dancing at the Mexican Heritage Plaza and dances with the Rica Salsa Dance troupe. Wendy SKILLMAN graduated from New England School of Law in Boston and was planning to take the California Bar Exam.

'92 After completing an M.B.A. in London, Juli BARRON has returned to the Bay Area and is doing marketing for Gap online; friends may contact her at JuliBarron@aol.com. Charles HARDER is general counsel of the software company Load Media in Los Angeles; he and Kathleen Hirose, also an attorney, were planning to marry in May. Wendy ROBINSON survived her first year as a classroom teacher and rewarded herself with a two-week rafting trip in Alaska. Dmitria SOKOLOW is living in Portland, Ore., teaching fifth grade, and seeing more of Portland's beautiful outdoors; friends can contact her at Lluvia@spiretech.com. Aaron VALDES is a home-based therapist for Latino families with trauma, reunification, and other mental health concerns; he also coordinates a counseling center for teens and others at-risk in the community. Tamara WHITE Van Hooser has started a new job as a kindergarten teacher in Hillsboro, Ore., she and her husband, Chris Van Hooser, have a two-year-old son, William Christopher.

'93 Michael HEMBREE planned to complete an M.B.A. at San Jose State University in fall 2000.

'95 Dan ZIVKOVIC joined a start-up in Pleasanton, Calif., Xing Corporation, building a new electronic checking system.

'99 Ryan ALLEY is making exciting new videos and learning new software for video editing and manipulation; he's missing UCSC. Veronica LOPEZ is working in a group home with severely emotionally disturbed teenage girls. Renee SHARP is in a graduate program in physical anthropology at San Francisco State University.

'00 Melissa MONAHAN Chirco got married in Santa Cruz and is currently working in the genetics field in Menlo Park.

Porter College

'72 David MARSH was promoted to full professor of geography at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Penn.; his areas of specialization are geomorphology, cartography, GIS and spatial statistics, human impact on the environment, environment and society, and environmental perception.

'74 Donna BUMPUS Blakemore was appointed director of development for the San Francisco Ballet in November 2000. Teresa McNEIL MacLean is on the development team for a new charter school, a site council member at another school, and the music and poetry teacher at a third; in addition, she volunteers at her daughter's school and has at least one solo exhibit of her artwork each year.

'75 Gene KRAHAM is a physician's assistant with a family practice in Chandler, Okla.

'77 Catherine PETERS Graham writes film reviews and feature stories on popular culture for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Laura MARELLO has written six books--four novels, a collection of stories, and a collection of novellas; she's been teaching creative writing at different universities since 1978.

'78 Jeffrey GLICKSON Briar is receiving an award from the Celebration Foundation of Oregon to support his work as a composer; his one-man show, "Beethoven Speaks," is being translated into French and German and will be touring Europe and Asia in 2001­03. Nick ROBINSON is a librarian at the Public Health Library at UC Berkeley.

'79 In addition to showing their Irish wolfhounds, Peter BROWN and his wife are helping Greyhound Pets of America rescue retired racing greyhounds. Sara HILL spent the last 10 years in Boston and New Orleans and is now living in the Northwest with her daughter and poet husband and building an expressive arts therapy career. Under the nom de plume of Alma Marceau, Jacques RIFKIND recently published an erotic novel, Lofting; he continues his studies of checkered beetles, with a chapter contribution in Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest; he lives with Patricia GUM (Porter '81).

'84 Sarah RINGLER has been teaching middle school in Watsonville and "keeping democracy alive in Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Santa Cruz."

'86 Jeanne-Marie JASKO has been working as a web designer/ coder around the Bay Area; she and Rob REBBE (Kresge '85), a network administrator in San Francisco, planned to marry in spring 2001 and honeymoon in New Zealand.

'87 Mary OSBORN is studying special effects for TV and film, 3D-modeling, and animation at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco; she is still playing pool and won the 1997 California Women's State 9-Ball Championship.

'88 Kathleen Bartlett ABOOD is a member of the Santa Cruz City Public Art Committee and the San Lorenzo Urban River Plan Task Force.

'89 Putting his politics degree to good use, Alexander CLEMENS has been named vice president for public affairs at Reputation, a San Francisco communications firm, and is busy working to alter public opinion at San Francisco City Hall.

'90 Burke NELSON is attending Loyola Law School in Los Angeles; he and his wife, Amy Liston, a psychologist and UCSB grad, have a one-year old son, Noah.

'91 Mark CUNNINGHAM has been working overseas on a new hotel project and writes, "my UCSC linguistics experience is a valuable resource for me in Japan (thank you Professor Junko Itô!)." Stephen MIRRIONE earned an Oscar for film editing on the movie Traffic. Lynn SPAULDING received a master's degree in marriage and family counseling and art therapy from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont; she is now a licensed marriage and family therapist. Kathleen MADDEN Yee received her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Penn State in 1997; she and her husband, Randy YEE (Porter '88), have a son, Jonas, born in 2000.

'92 After completing a master's degree in French literature at NYU, Karen LAFFERTY returned home to San Diego, where she has been teaching French and English at Mt. Carmel High School for the past seven years.

'93 Burton EUBANK is a certified water operator for the Inverness Water System and a captain with the Inverness Fire Department; he is a single father of a seven-year-old boy, Zephyr.

'95 Monica DE LA GARZA is a graduate student in museum studies at John F. Kennedy University. Denise SCHURKE is a web site producer and artist. Jeremy "Unicycle Man" SHAFER is a professional origamist and juggler; he has come out with his first book, Origami to Astonish and Amuse (St. Martin's Press, 2001). Amy CARLSON Silvey received her M.A. in museum studies from San Francisco State University in 1998; she is currently working for a nonprofit arts foundation in Los Angeles.

'98 Amanda LINN is in her third year at Boston University School of Law. Heather TIDRICK has had various jobs teaching English; she was a substitute teacher of Ameri-can studies at ELTE University in Budapest in 1998­99 and a volunteer resident teacher at Jamyang Choling Institute in Dharamsala, India, later in 1999.

'99 Bruce WILLEY works as a writer/editor for the Good Times, a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz.

'00 Kyla SANKEY was freezing in all the snow at Oberlin College in Ohio this past winter and hopes to enter the M.Ed. program at Case Western Reserve in the fall.

Kresge College

'76 Ernestine McHUGH has been promoted to associate professor of anthropology and religion at the University of Rochester, where she teaches in the Humanities Department of the Eastman School of Music; her book Love and Honor in the Himalayas was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in May 2001. Marjorie STUART writes of the profound way in which her year at UCSC affected her life and that of her good friend Henrietta FINGOLD Bensussen (College Eight '76); she wonders "how many other 'older' women, who experienced UCSC in the 1970s are still knocking around, still blooming a little late, still growing and developing"; her e-mail address is absoup@goldrush.com.

'78 Greg FREEMAN toured Germany in June 2000 as member of the music group Checksum.

'83 Kevin ERGIL has been appointed director of the graduate program in Oriental medicine at Touro College in New York.

'84 Sande HANDLEY Greene and her husband, Bob Beaudry, operate a bed-and-breakfast on Maui; she works with women with eating disorders and is editing an anthology on women and body image; she can be reached at oceanbrz@maui.net.

'86 Leslie CUCUEL has been working as a medical assistant in the field of high-risk pregnancy for the past seven years; she is planning to move back to Santa Cruz this year.

'87 Joshua WEISEL is a talent manager at Pro and Con Production.

'88 Michelle HENDERSON has been promoted from police officer to inspector (a.k.a. detective); she is assigned to the crime-scene investigations unit, which collects and examines evidence and reconstructs the events of a crime.

'90 Selena HUDSON has been living in Santa Cruz for the last four years with her husband, Franklin DLOTT (Kresge '90), and their two children, Haven and Phoebe; she imports stone grain mills and volunteers at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School. Austin McINERNY works as an environmental mediator, and he rides bicycles as much as possible from his Oakland, Calif., home.

'91 Richard DeMARCO is living and working in Pittsburgh, Penn., where he is an applications special-ist for Cellomics, a biotechnology company focusing on drug-discovery applications; he and his wife recently had twin boys, Alex and Eric. Lisa SOCCIO is working on her Ph.D. in visual and cultural studies in Rochester, N.Y.; her dissertation is titled "Nothing's Shocking: On the Persistence of Avant-Gardism in Alternative Music."

'92 Jonathan BENAK will be practicing family and urgent care medicine as a physician assistant in a new rural clinic in Victor, Idaho. Suzanne HERRERA published her first novel, Mango Elephants in the Sun, about her Peace Corps experiences in Cameroon, West Africa. Catherine TENORIO Miller is now married and working as a technical writer for Sun Microsystems' BluePrints line of retail books. Jacqueline ANTEBI Rakauskas is married and has a baby boy named Brandon; she has been a special ed teacher for the last five years.

'94 Suzanne BEATTIE got dual citizenship with Ireland after graduating; she has taught and performed tribal belly dance in Morocco, Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland.

'95 Shelley BATES was accepted into a master's program in writing popular fiction at Seton Hill College in Pennsylvania; she currently works at Compaq as a marketing communications editor.

'96 Justine KRAGEN is living with Steve McDONALD (Oakes '95); they play in a band called Vermouth with two other alums, Ann YOSHIKAWA (Porter '94) and Jaime HEILPERN (Stevenson '94). Monica WHALEN is working on her teaching credential at CSU Los Angeles.

'97 Catherine GERTEIS and her husband, Steve, took a four-and-a-half-month journey across the northern U.S., hiking and writing; they have "settled in Maine to cook and write until the wind pushes us somewhere else." After working almost three years in an emergency animal hospital, Kimberly WALTER left to have her daughter; she was expecting another child in fall 2000.

'98 Elizabeth LUCKETT recently starred in her first independent feature film; she is pursuing acting in San Francisco, as well as dancing and singing in a band in her spare time.

'99 Stuart ROSENSTEIN is the program coordinator at the UCSC Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center; he was awarded an 2000 Ally to Gay Youth award by the Santa Cruz County Task Force for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning Youth.

Oakes College

'75 David PAINE completed his Ph.D. in educational leadership from the University of La Verne; he is now director of Curriculum and Instructional Services for the Live Oak School District in Santa Cruz, where he was previously principal of Green Acres Elementary School.

'80 Maria Rosario ESPINOZA is finishing a B.S. in special education; she is divorced from Adam LEVY (Oakes '80); they have four children. Virginia MUSSER Haberkamp got married in July 2000 and was planning to return to grad school for a year to complete her counseling credential.

'81 Gary KOVNAT is teaching biology full time at Los Angeles Valley College and hoping to begin Ph.D. studies this fall.

'87 Sarah INGERSOLL is executive director of a new nonprofit, the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, which was established to engage the resources of the private sector in promoting safe youth development.

'90 Elizabeth MARGOLD is working for GLOBE, a science education program at the White House that focuses on K­12 environmental science education and hands-on observations of the environment.

'94 Kiersten ELLIOT completed her M.Ed. at Penn State in 1997 and now works at Northwestern University near Chicago; she planned to marry her high school sweetheart in 2001. Nicole GOLDBERG was married in 1997 and had a baby girl in 1998. Takahiro KITAMURA published his first book, titled Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo (Schiffer Publishing, 2000), which is a cultural study of the art and subculture of the Japanese tattoo.

'96 Laura MOSS is a science lead teacher and the sixth-grade department chair; she is performing in various productions, including Guys & Dolls at Mountain Community Theater.

College Eight

'74 E. Gerard MANNION handles complex insurance cases on behalf of consumers and enjoys "kicking the butt of insurance companies for the little guy"; he was president of the San Francisco Travel Lawyers Association and president of the Lawyers Club of San Francisco.

'76 Deirdre BARRETT is pursuing a teaching credential in Santa Barbara and would like to network with other alums.

'77 Graham BICE is responsible for physical planning and development of the UC MBEST Center, located at the former Fort Ord.

'80 Donn HURD is president of the UC Alumni Group of Northern New Mexico; his e-mail is dhurd@trail.com. Joel NEW is the settlement coordinator for a large personal-injury law firm in San Francisco.

'81 Patrick CAMPBELL is an M.D. with a full-time private practice in Redding, Calif.; he achieved provider recognition from the American Diabetes Association in 2000, and he is adopting an 11-year-old boy from Russia. Yolanda HENRY is living in Santa Cruz and has a job she loves providing social services to low-income and recent immigrants in the lower Ocean Street and Beach Flats neighborhoods.

'83 Noli FARWELL is doing technical mapping for an environmental consulting firm.

'85 Melissa (Missy) HIPPARD is currently working on a Ph.D. in sociology at Colorado State University in addition to raising a daughter, two cats, and three chickens. Last year Daniel WEISS was a UC Regents guest lecturer for two weeks at UCSC in the Politics Department, and he enjoyed the students, teachers,and campus very much.

'87 Lawrence COATES's first novel, The Blossom Festival (University of Nevada Press, 1999), won the 1999 Western States Book Award for fiction; he teaches at Southern Utah University. Thomas SAUCEDA is developing and maintaining the New Zealand collection at the Arboretum at UCSC, as well as sailing and traveling.

'89 On the heels of a recent promotion at Stormy Leather, Rachel SCHWARZ is helping with the opening of a new retail store in the Castro district in San Francisco; she has a freelance web design business as well, with clients ranging from the San Francisco dance club Bandage-A-Go-Go to White Oak Orchids nursery.

'90 Catherine BAYER lives in Bonny Doon; she is a teacher during the school year and does stitching in the costume shops of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Cabrillo Stage in the summer.

'92 Kate BARKER lives in Castro Valley, Calif., and teaches third grade in the San Lorenzo School District, where she also runs the after-school tutorial program. After five years as education coordinator for Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, Daniel PUTNAM is now living in Tansen, Nepal, as a Peace Corps volunteer.

'93 Mark AMEND married Amy Bochnenstiehl in 1999, and they live on the central Oregon coast; he works for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, mapping rockfish habitat. Marvin SLEEPER received a B.S. in nursing from Syracuse University in 1998 and is now an operating- room nurse at Vail Valley Medical Center in Vail, Colo.

'96 Don UY-BARRETA finished an M.S. in economics and is working full time for Franklin Templeton Investments; he has lectured at UC Berkeley Extension and teaches economics at UCSC Extension.

'97 Barret PFEIFFER is studying comparative genomics between drosophila; his article, "The Genome Sequence of Drosophila Melanogaster," was published in the March 24, 2000, issue of Science.

'98 Jyothi ACHARYA completed her multiple-subject teaching credential at San Diego State University and is teaching third grade in Fremont, Calif.

'99 After finishing a year of service with AmeriCorps, Patrick CHANDLER was anticipating taking a position on Governor Davis's staff in December 2000. Melissa Lynne McINTIRE and her fiancé, Jim REYNOLDS (Merrill '00), live in Seattle, where Melissa works for Washington Mutual Bank.

'00 Sean MILLER is diligently serving California governor Gray Davis.

Graduate Studies

'81 Timothy BYRNE (Ph.D., Earth sciences) is head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Connecticut, where his research is focused on paleoseismic zones in Japan and Taiwan.

'88 Eugene SHEEHAN (Ph.D., psychology) recently became dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Colorado.

'89 The U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has awarded Kathryn BARRY Stelljes (cert., science communication; B.A., environmental studies '88), a public affairs specialist, the agency's 2000 Excellence in Information award; she reports the research results from more than 200 scientists at 16 laboratories in the western states, with a particular focus on the complex interactions among ranchers, environmentalists, scientists, and others with a vested interest in U.S. range lands.

'91 Laura CUNNINGHAM (cert., science communication) is working as a biologist and scientific illustrator and living in Death Valley National Park with her husband, a park ranger; she invites readers to visit their educational web site at cluster4.biosci.utexas. edu/deathvalley. Wolfgang ROSENBERG (cert., theater arts) was the 2000­01 president of the UCSC Lifelong Learners, a group of retirees living in the Santa Cruz area.

'95 After teaching the Cowell and Stevenson core courses for several years and teaching freshman humanities core at Stanford, Valerie ROSS (Ph.D., literature; B.A., literature '88) has been hired as the new associate director for the humanities at Stanford University's Center for Teaching and Learning.

'96 James AROYAN (Ph.D., physics) is a consulting physicist working in the computer touchscreen industry; his doctoral research in marine mammal bioacoustic simulation methods has been published as a chapter in the book Hearing in Whales and Dolphins (Springer-Verlag, 2000).

'99 Monika THOMPSON (M.S., applied economics) has joined Merrill Lynch, where she is specializing in financial planning, tax-sensitive investments, estate planning, financial services for businesses, and retirement planning. Sherrie TUCKER (Ph.D., history of consciousness) has published a book, titled Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Duke University Press, 2000).

In Memoriam

Charles PROSSER (Ph.D., astronomy '91), who was working as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, died on August 15, 1998.

Elicia SEDGWICK (Cowell '94), who worked as a probation officer for the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Probation Department, died at her home in Santa Cruz April 28, 2001; she was 29.

Teena Joell VALLIANT (Merrill '95) succumbed to cancer on February 29, 2000.