'69 Thicea (Cynthia) VINCENT Besan is an educational kinesiology consultant and an educational therapist/herbalist; she belongs to the Association of Educational Therapists and Orff Schulwerk Association, as well as the Native Plant Society and the Nature Conservancy.
'70 Peter SILTEN exhibited his paintings and limited-edition prints this past winter at Stanford Art Spaces on the campus of Stanford University.
'72 Lawrence Lee JONES and Peter FITZSIMMONS (Crown '72) were, respectively, Captain Vere and Kincaid in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, staged aboard the sailing ship C. A. Thayer at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco and produced by Jones's Venture Theatre; the production won six 1997 Bay Area Drama-Logue awards, including "Outstanding Production." Dennis O'BRIEN (Porter '92) was also in the cast.
'76 Nancy DILEANIS Brynelson is working as a consultant in the California Department of Education in reading/language arts; she's been married for 12 years, has a four-year-old son, and lives in Sacramento.
'77 Kate O'SHEA's book, Healing Hip, Joint, and Knee Pain, was recently published by North Atlantic Books.
'80 Steve MAYERS, a resident of San Francisco for 10 years, lives alone with two Abyssinian cats and is completing a certified videography program at Bay Area Video Coalition.
'83 Bonnie Rose HOUGH is working as a senior attorney for the Judicial Council of California on a program to increase access to the courts for people with family law problems.
'89 Matthew Liao-TROTH has finished his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in organizational behavior and management and is starting a faculty job at DePauw University in the Public Services Graduate Program in the area of nonprofit management. Laura McCLANATHAN Trounson married Chris TROUNSON (Cowell '91) in 1995. Laura is currently on the staff of the Getchell Library at the University of Nevada at Reno after working for seven years at UCSC's McHenry Library.
'90 After completing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology&endash;Los Angeles in 1996, Gregorio CANILLAS is working with abused children and teaching in a graduate program.
'91 Steve Robert GIBSON and his wife, Sylvia, have been married for four years; he is a corporate paralegal in a Palo Alto law firm and plans to attend law school.
'67 Robert DODGE retired after 27 years with Oregon's Adult and Family Services Division and is now doing volunteer work in the community.
'71 Carolyn CAMPORA has been living in Manhattan since 1970; she is a master of Tai Chi and Kung Fu at Nabi Su Martial Arts, her school in Greenwich Village, and is "delighting in [her] second year of marriage to husband Robert."
'72 Lisa CORREA-Mickel relocated to Santa Cruz in January 1998 with her husband, Scotty, and her three sons, Joaquin, Javier, and Julio; she's teaching middle school and living at the beach in Pleasure Point.
'73 Evvie RASMUSSEN Becker, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, is coauthor with Annette Rickel of Keeping Children from Harm's Way: How National Policy Affects Psychological Development (American Psychological Association, 1997).
'74 John CHAPMAN continues to teach English at Tokay High School in Lodi, Calif.; currently he is involved in establishing a school-to-career agribusiness academy.
'76 Lee Palmer WANDEL will join the History Department at the University of Wisconsin&endash;Madison in September 1998.
'77 Steve UNRUHE is one of four North Carolina teachers to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching from the National Science Foundation, which comes with a $7,500 grant; he has taught for 11 years at Riverside High School in Durham.
'87 Jim GILBERT lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, Susan; recently he became the manager of new business development at an Internet start-up.
'88 Lisa MASSINGHAM is an attorney and negotiates contracts for Pacific Bell and SBC Communications.
'90 Matt CHEW Spence is a network engineer for NASA Research and Education Network (NREN); he is designing and implementing an experiment to prototype remote science payload command and control on the international space station via the Internet. He asks if any UCSC faculty are interested in participating.
'91 Luz COBIÁN is in the M.S.W. program at the University of Southern California and is working in Pasadena at Community Housing Services in the Head Start Program as a resource analyst. Jennifer YEARLEY is finishing up her first year of vet school at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman.
'92 Andrea FERNANDEZ Gonzalez manages a program serving developmentally disabled adults; she is married to Pablo GONZALEZ (Stevenson '92).
'93 After completing a master's in health service administration at the University of San Francisco in 1997, John HALLIWILL was accepted to a doctorate program in clinical psychology at John F. Kennedy University and began working for the IRS.
'94 Douglas DURWARD is married to Amy THORNHILL (Merrill '96); he is currently employed as a senior law clerk and is in his second year of law school.
'95 Kirsten BERZON has been working as a development associate for Girls Incorporated of Alameda County since August 1996. Michael (Marty) COURET and Kimberly CARLSON (Stevenson '95) are planning to be married in July 1998.
'96 Gia CHEN is working as a behavior therapist with autistic children in the Bay Area.
'69 Steve GREY and his wife of 21 years represent Hilton Grand Vacation Club in Las Vegas; alumni wishing to visit are welcome to call (702) 367-3668.
'73 Bill ALLAYAUD has relocated to Salt Lake City after 20 years of working for the California Coastal Commission; he is a city planner with the city of Salt Lake and spends his time with neighborhood groups, with his new family, surfing Wasatch powder, and biking the mountains and desert.
'80 After taking several years off to raise children, Valerie FERGUSON Curry spent a few years with her own computer graphics business and is now doing tech support for a software company.
'83 Kenneth BURTON is director of the Training and Outreach Program at the Institute for Bird Populations. Karen HUTCHINSON Wilbur is raising her three young sons and working part-time as an internist in San Diego; she and her husband are looking to relocate to Oregon in the next year or so.
'84 Nancy PAUKEN is employed as an international tax analyst at Seagate Technology and as a freelance writer and editor.
'87 Karoline DELANEY graduated in May 1997 from UCLA School of Law and is now doing intellectual property law at Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear in Newport Beach.
'91 Hillary Trivett MAY married David Alemian in September 1997; currently she is manager of corporate communications at Castel in Malden, Mass.
'92 After receiving an M.D. from Yale University, Anna BLOXHAM is going on to a residency in internal medicine at UC San Francisco, and she is still playing the piano. Lisa MILES is working for Informix Software as a financial analyst.
'94 Robyn STODDARD is in her second year at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. Rebecca SWANSON joined the Columbus, Ohio, law office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease as an associate; she holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
'97 Savannah BOUCHÉ is working for the California Department of Fish and Game and participating in the restoration of one of the largest wetlands in North America.
'71 William BAGLEY is editor of the book The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock, which chronicles the journey of Brigham Young's pioneer party to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
'73 Gerald RODRIGUEZ has been hired as the new East Bay/Peninsula/ San Jose program director for the northern California region of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a nonprofit organization that develops entrepreneurship education curricula and programs targeting at-risk youth.
'76 Responding to an article in the last UC Santa Cruz Review magazine on a student majoring in community studies, Madeline O'NEILL Hawdon writes that she "too was helped by [community studies] program coordinator Mike Rotkin." A re-entry student with a full-time teaching job and eight children at home, Hawdon says she felt like quitting and credits Rotkin with giving her confidence and encouragment. Since graduating, Hawdon has worked as an administrator and consultant for Head Start, founded 10 preschools for a national franchise, and is now, at age 70, a child development associate adviser for Central Arizona College.
'80 Lori PLAGER is living in L.A. and working in entertainment and licensing at Mattel; she is a recent breast cancer survivor and is "happy to be alive!"
'89 Robin Charles HUIGEN is a sociology lecturer at CSU Fresno and lives in Bozeman, Mont., in the summer. She writes, "I loved UCSC; it was such a great experience. The sociology faculty is great!" Rafael REYES is living in San Francisco and having a great time; he continues a successful computer consulting career and is getting involved in the World Affairs Council. It was a big year for Michael ROSE: He turned 30 in December 1997, was planning to get married in May 1998, and has a great job as a carrier sales manager in the telecom industry.
'90 Walter LEVISON is a consulting arborist; he can be reached at wlevisonjr@aol.com.
'91 Krista MAYNARD and her husband welcomed a son, Luke Robinson, in November 1997.
'95 Lt. Richard CAO is a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a political military intelligence analyst with the United States Southern Command in Miami, Fla.
'75 Lori HIGA is a technology marketing consultant with KVO Advertising and Public Relations in Mountain View, Calif.
'77 Barbara EDELSTEIN's water sculptures and drawings were on display as part of the Venice Art Walk in Los Angeles in May. B. J. (Betty) BAUER Glowacki is studying toward an M.A. and a teaching credential at San Diego State University.
'85 Rob LAMMÉ is covering the North Carolina legislature and other statewide issues for the Greensboro News & Record and preparing to move to Raleigh. Rebecca ROBERTS is working at MSNBC on the Internet, and she shares a home in Seattle with her kitty, Odessa. Elizabeth LICHTMAN Smith is working as an associate editor at U.S. News & World Report magazine in Washington, D.C., with fellow Banana Slugs Erica GOODE (Graduate Studies '79), Shannon BROWNLEE (College Eight '79), and Laura TANGLEY (Graduate Studies '83).
'87 After 15 years in Media Services at UCSC, Brian DUGGAN accepted a position as the instructional technology consultant at CSU Stanislaus in Turlock, Calif.; he has written an award-winning article on the unlikely connection between Saluki hounds and Lawrence of Arabia and a chapter in the recently published book Traveler's Tales: A Dog's World. Currently Duggan is working on a book about British adventurers in the Middle East and their Salukis.
'91 Andrew EHRNSTEIN is enjoying life in Colorado, where he married Cynthia in September 1997 and started an air freight business.
'92 William SANDOVAL graduated from Stanford Law School in 1996 and started Sublime Technologies with friends in Palo Alto in 1997. He writes that "life is now very complicated. I miss Santa Cruz!"
'94 Analisa NAZARENO, education reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, has won the Texas Classroom Teachers Association 1997&endash;98 Silver Apple media award, in the print category, for a series of stories she wrote examining the roles that teaching, home life, and family income play in the lives of two honors students with very different life circumstances.
'76 Nora GOODFRIEND KOVEN is working in family violence prevention for the San Francisco Department of Public Health; her second child, Eva, is enrolled at UCSC at Oakes College.
'79 Doug FRIEDMAN writes songs and plays them in Los Angeles; he ran for city council there--something he had always wanted to do--and survived. After 23 years away, Megan JOHNSON returned to her hometown of Chico, Calif., where she's working part-time as a family physician and enjoying life with her husband and two young sons.
'80 Jim JUBELIRER, a senior consultant for Burke Customer Satisfaction Associates in Chapel Hill, has been selected to serve on the 1998 board of examiners for the North Carolina Quality Leadership Award.
'85 Denise MAILO just started a new job as a field rep for the Census Bureau.
'90 Jenai LANE is president and CEO of Respect, Inc.; she was recently chosen as Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
'92 Kimberly WOOD's graduate thesis project, a short documentary film about the life of 1920s motorcycle daredevil Lilly La France--called Advice to Adventurous Girls--was invited to screen at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival; her production company, Skinned Knee Pictures, is currently developing a feature narrative based on Miss La France's life.
'94 Erin PLOSS-Campoamor is a documentary filmmaker in Berkeley; her current film project, The Good Egg, chronicles her experience as an ovum donor for an infertile couple. Jes CISNEROS received his master's degree in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995, got married in 1996, and is now living in Chicago and working as an academic counselor at Northern Illinois University. Reliang TSANG is completing a master's degree in museum studies.
'76 Cathy HARRIS is an administrative coordinator for the Dumont&endash; UCLA Liver Transplant Program. She'd love to hear from old classmates, especially Joan Presky and Daniel Peck.
'79 Marc Dvorak REMIS is senior staff attorney for the California Department of Corrections, where he spearheaded computer network and Internet access for legal staff; his work involves civil rights defense for First Amendment issues at California prisons.
'85 Jeff THOMAS is enjoying his new position as the urban development manager in Allstate Insurance Company's northern California regional office; he was appointed recently to the board of directors of Sacramento Neighborhood Housing Services--a nonprofit organization working to promote home ownership.
'87 After receiving an M.A. in urban planning from UCLA in 1991, Rene CASTRO is an organizing coordinator for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in Los Angeles.
'74 Donna FECI-Cavaillé completed a master's degree in Spanish at UC Santa Barbara in August 1997 and is now teaching Spanish at San Lorenzo Valley High School in Felton, Calif.
'82 Tracy EELLS lives in Louisville, Ky., with his wife and two young sons; he is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Louisville.
'84 After five years at the Meditation Group, Stephanie MOURA has taken a position as a project engineer on the Combined Sewer Overflows Program for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority; she and her partner are co-moms of a baby boy born to her partner last year.
'86 Mark GRAHAM began working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the 1989 earthquake; currently he supervises trainers at disaster field offices.
'87 Matthew CROWELL climbed Mt. Fuji in 1995 and is now looking for new career heights after six years as a manager at F. A. O. Schwarz.
'88 Sara BEALS is now residing on Cape Cod and is a professional massage therapist and Tai Chi instructor specializing in pain management and body mechanics for convalescents. Mysti RUBERT is a writer at Twentieth Century Fox, Filmed Entertainment Division; she won two regional awards for her screenplay St. John--in the Nevada State and Wordsmyth competitions--and placed as a semifinalist in the national Chesterfield screenwriting contest.
'95 After teaching biology in New York City last year, Sarah Stark LOWENTHAL is now a first-year medical student at the University of Chicago.
'80 Dan A. LEWIS is a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University; he lives with his wife and two sons in Evanston, Ill.
'84 James GURLEY is a professor of American literature at Morioka College in Japan; he can be reached by e-mail at gurley@echna.ne.jp. Larry WHITE is a professor of psychology at Beloit College in Wisconsin; last year he was a Fulbright lecturer in psychology at Tartu University in Estonia.
'97 Clifford HARRIS has been appointed to a tenure-track position as assistant professor of organic chemistry at Albion College, a private liberal arts college in south central Michigan.
Victoria WELLS (Cowell '69), a pioneer in the breast cancer movement on the West Coast and cofounder of the Cancer Support Community, which provides education and support services to breast cancer patients, died September 16, 1997, at her family home in Oregon.
Tabb Stewart VADON (College Eight), a marine biologist, expert diver, and ocean-diving instructor, drowned while free diving off Anacapa Island on October 31, 1993; he was 27.