Cowell College

'69 Marion "Happy" HOWARD Hoekenga's pen-and-ink sketches are published in Daughters of History: Centennial Memoirs of the Daughters of the Pioneers (Berkeley Hills Press, 2002); she is pursuing a second B.A. in studio art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mary Beth SAFFO is a Fellow in the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2002-03 academic year.

'70 After five years in Manhattan, Sandra KATZMAN is a freelance writer, whose recent clients include the United Nations and Mitsubishi Research Institute. Davis STRAUB does an online e-zine that covers hang gliding around the world at www.davisstraub.com .

'71 Peter MYERS is a full-time screenwriter in Los Angeles, as well as a founding partner and senior vice president of creative affairs for BlueSky Pictures; friends can reach him at pdmyers@pacbell.net. Robert THOMAS's book of poems, Door to Door (Fordham University Press, 2002), was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa as the winner of the 2001 Poets Out Loud Prize.

'72 Florence NELSON is executive director of the New Jersey Professional Development Center for Early Care and Education.

'73 Janice HANSEL is a new public school teacher who came to public education in midlife with experience in business, not-for-profit management, and college teaching.

'76 Peter HANKOFF stumbled into producing TV documentaries and has won a Gabriel Award for a show about Empire State Building ironworkers for the History Channel. Kathryn REASONER has returned from a yearlong fellowship in Japan to her work as director of Headlands Center for the Arts in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

'77 Louise COHEN is chief of staff for the New York City Department of Health; she and her husband, David Lewis, have two boys, ages 12 and 15; David is the brother of alumni Stephen LEWIS (Porter '75) and his wife, Anne LEWIS (Porter '89). Richard FORRESTER is a software engineer/manager; he and his wife and four children live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Virginia (Lee) WULSIN Roberts is back at UCSC working as a graduate assistant for the Psychology Department; her son, John Jacobs, is a senior at UCSC, working on his computer engineering degree; and her brother, Bill WULSIN (Cowell '78) is a naturopathic doctor in Seattle, married with two children.

'78 Mary FITZPATRICK and her husband, David VAN PELT (Cowell '76), write that their son, George Van Pelt, is attending Cowell as a freshman.

'79 Rick KERN is serving as UC Education Abroad Study Center director in Lyon and Grenoble, France; UCSC alums passing through Lyon or Grenoble may contact him at rkern@univ-lyon2.fr. Jon Warren LENTZ lives in La Costa in north county San Diego and makes his living as a freelance artist and author; his fifth book, Flash: The Future, is about the use of the Flash authoring tool to develop content for handheld devices. After working for eight years at the STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco, Daniel WOHLFEILER is now at the STD Control Branch in the California Department of Health Services; he's also president of the board of the Jewish Film Festival and living in Berkeley.

'80 After 20 years in the suit-and-tie world, Gregory RUTTER decided in March of 2001 to start a new career as a metal sculptor; his web site is www.angelfire.com/art2/metal. Deborah ROARICK Woods loves living in West Virginia, where she is director of the Career and Academic Student Enhancement Center at Salem International University; she is also pursuing a master's degree at West Virginia University.

'83 Carol SUNDBORG Curtiss and her husband, Michael, have a baby boy, born in March 2002.

'86 Darrick YUN's novel, The Chronicles of Dat Seung, the Young Monk, is available at www.booksurge.com.

'88 Peter BLACKSHAW is happily married to Erika Brown and living in Cincinnati, where he founded an Internet company (PlanetFeedback) after a five-year marketing stint at Procter & Gamble. Richard DOMINGUEZ, who worked at the World Trade Center and survived, and his wife, Gabriella DAYA-Dominguez (Cowell '88), are happy to be alive and to celebrate the birth of their third son, Trevor Charles.

'89 Matt AALFS received a master's of architecture degree from the University of Washington in 1999 and taught in Rome in 2001 as part of a UW program; he currently practices architecture in Seattle, where he lives with his wife, Nola. Sara BRECKENRIDGE Elder lives in Fort Collins, Colo., with her husband and two sons, ages 5 and 7; she is a full-time mom and a part-time freelance author; friends may contact her at smekelder@msn.com. Matthew Liao-TROTH and his wife have relocated to Bellingham, Wash., and have a five-month-old daughter, Avery.

'92 Kate FARNADY is the executive producer at eBay; she lives in Berkeley with her husband, Phil Stevens, and their dog; they are expecting their first baby in 2003. Nysa KLINE and her husband, Mark FLAMING (Porter '93), had their first child, Paige, in March 2002; they live and work in Marin County. Nysa is a project manager in the wine industry, and Mark works at Sutter Instrument Company. Jane PARKS-McKAY has been a correspondent reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel for over two years; in 2002, she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing; she is also a contributing writer for A Cup of Comfort Cookbook (Adams Media, 2002).

'93 Kara LIEBRAND is living in Silicon Valley, working in the tech/Internet industry, and studying for her master's in counseling psychology at Santa Clara University; she also volunteers as a dog socializer at the Santa Clara Valley Humane Society.

'96 Marcus VIGIL is currently an "unemployed hopeless bachelor" in Portland, Ore.

Stevenson College

'68 Eric MOSKOWITZ has been teaching math at a high school in New Zealand for nine years and raising two children.

'70 Ralph MITCHELL, an attorney with Lapp, Libra, Thomson, Stoebner & Pusch in Minneapolis, was recently named one of Minnesota's best lawyers in a guide put out by three Minnesota law and business magazines.

'71 Gary HOLZHAUSEN is still running Applied Geomechanics in Santa Cruz and is active in National Rifle Association events and fundraising.

'73 Carol HARRIS is back in school to get her court-reporting license. Karen WEICHARDT-Nyere has a small dance company that does sacred dance and environmental pieces; she also volunteers as a naturalist instructor at a wetland wildlife sanctuary in Alexandria, Va.

'74 Steven BROWN won a Distinguished Professorship for Teaching award for 2002 at Youngstown State University (Ohio), where he is an associate professor of English.

'76 Michael ROSENTHAL has been writing and producing stories for the television show Bay Area Backroads (KRON-Channel 4, San Francisco) since 1993; in 2002 he was nominated for an Emmy Award, was named Marin County Big Brother of the Year, and got engaged to Marleen Roggow. In spring 2002, Lee WANDEL won a Guggenheim Fellowship to spend the year writing his next book; he has also bought his first house, in Madison, Wis.

'77 Gregor (Puziss) BLACKBURN has worked for over 10 years with FEMA and over five years in the National Flood Insurance Program; in June 2002, he passed the examination to become a certified floodplain manager; he also volunteers at Angel Island State Park and gardens. Susan BRISON, an associate professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, has joined the board of directors of Witness Justice, a national nonprofit organization that serves victims of violent crime. In August 2002, Governor Gray Davis appointed Kelvin FILER to a judgeship on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County; Filer had previously served as Compton Superior Court Commissioner. Governor Davis has also appointed TERI JACKSON to the San Francisco Superior Court; prior to this appointment, she was an attorney with Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe and had served for 13 years as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco.

'79 Adam GORDON's business in Silicon Valley, Gordon Consulting, has taken off now that he is no longer focusing on just high tech; he's been married for almost 12 years, and has two great sons, Ben, 9, and Ian, 5.

'81 Nicholas WALLERSTEIN is an associate professor of English at Black Hills State University, in Spearfish, S.D.; he is editor of Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (2002).

'83 Rocky OFFNER has been appointed vice president of engineering for Dantz Development Corporation, a provider of backup and restore software in Orinda, Calif.

'85 Stephanie DENMARK is a freelance editor and writer, mostly working for Consumer Reports special publications; she lives in Seattle with her husband, Adam Simon, a professor of political science at the University of Washington.

'86 Steve MEISTER is a former prosecutor and political adviser and is now a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles; he and his wife, Allyson, have a daughter, Noa, 3, and a son, Ari, 1. Richard NUNES received his M.D. from UC Davis School of Medicine and is now in his last year of a residency in child psychiatry at Yale University.

'91 Winston Mark HOLYAN and family recently bought a home in Rio Rancho, N. Mex.; Winston is a member of the class of 200 at the University of New Mexico Law School; his wife, Belinda, is a social worker in the Albuquerque area.

'92 Marcia WALL recently purchased a home in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

'96 David LIPPMAN is in a creative writing graduate program at Mills College in Oakland; friends may contact him at lippman@yahoo.com.

'97 Joule ADLER will be graduating from UC Irvine College of Medicine in May 2003.

'98 Andrea VAN NOTE King and her husband, Adam King, recently relocated to Beaverton, Ore.; Adam is pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy, and Andrea is looking for work in career counseling; friends may e-mail her at dre46@hotmail.com.

'01 Stefano BLOCH is pursuing a master's in urban planning at UCLA and plans to do a concurrent law program at UCLA, as well. Catherine WORTH is a freelance writer in New York City; she won the New California Media Award for Best International Coverage for an article she wrote in 2001 for the national bilingual magazine El Andar.

Crown College

'70 Cory SMITH earned a Ph.D. in biomathematics from UC San Diego; worked at Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boeing, and Intel; and is now consulting, teaching, and tech writing.

'73 Bill ALLAYAUD is the state legislative director for Sierra Club California in Sacramento. Arthur NONOMURA is a Monbusho Scholar, holds master's and doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley, is a Dow Chemical Corporate Fellow, and is currently a Harvard University officer. After 25 years in various marketing positions, David SCHAEFER is teaching business full-time at a local community college; he has a daughter in college (UCSD) and another in high school; his wife facilitates focus groups and business meetings. Antony TERSOL is living in Pacific Grove, working in solar photovoltaics, and helping start the Monterey Bay Council for Sustainable Communities.

'74 Michael BROWN recently turned 50 and celebrated by hiking Mt. Whitney; he continues to do environmental consulting, is an editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is still able to surf with his three sons.

'78 Wade LESCHYN is the proud father of twin boys, Aleksy Richard and Erek Wade, born in May 2002 in Redwood City, Calif.

'82 Greg SANDERS is chief of staff-elect at Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington, Wash., and clinic director at SeaMar Community Health Center. Andrew SIEGEL and his wife, Catherine WEBER Siegel, met at Crown in '79 and were married there; during the past 16 years, they have worked for the U.S. Department of State overseas and in Washington, D.C.; they are currently in Frankfurt, Germany, with their sons, Christopher, 14, and Nathan, 10, on a four-year assignment.

'85 George L. WILLIAMS II was inducted into the Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society in Business, Management, and Administration by California Lutheran University in May 2002, in recognition of his high scholastic achievements while a student in the M.B.A. program.

'93 David CHACE has worked at a bookstore since 1996; in 2001 his illustrations of UFO occupants from close encounter cases were published in Ronald Story's Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters. Tania FERGUSON has finished medical school and has two years left of a residency in orthopedic surgery at UC San Francisco. Laura MEIZEL Reeve and her husband, Marc REEVE (Oakes '96), have a two-year-old daughter, Sadie; Laura is a teacher and a musician.

'94 After earning a second bachelor's degree in biology and working in high tech for a few years, Deborah FLORES is working now on a joint J.D./M.A. in international relations at the University of San Diego. West WALKER is an elementary school teacher in Saratoga, Calif.

'98 Amanda FUSON recently received her M.S. in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A&M University; she is now a research assistant at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, studying renal physiology.

'01 Jennifer DEAN is teaching a combination sixth-seventh-grade class, and she loves her job.

Merrill College

'71 Ric SHAFFRAN has been a lawyer, entertainment executive, teacher, and consultant and is now assistant dean of continuing legal education at USC Law School.

'72 Eric CAIN is a television producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland; he recently won a regional Emmy for his documentary on Oregon agricultural workers; another project, Normal for Us: The Miller Twins, aired nationally on PBS in August 2002.

'73 After finally finishing a Ph.D. in sociology at Berkeley in 2001, Joseph PALACIOS moved to Washington, D.C., to take a teaching position in the Sociology Department at Georgetown University; he is also teaching Latin American studies in the School of Foreign Service; old friends can write him at jmp32@georgetown.edu.

'77 Marjorie MILLER has been named foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times; she had been London bureau chief since 1998; in her new position she will oversee 28 correspondents and 23 foreign bureaus.

'83 Michael LINICK was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army; he spent seven months in Kuwait supporting the war on terrorism and has recently moved back to Washington, D.C.

'87 Lisa JEFFERS-Fabro lives in Hawai'i and works part-time as a family literacy coordinator for the Department of Education; she and her husband, Ati, are expecting their second child.

'88 Carolina CARDENAS is the director of access programs at Cal State San Marcos; she is married and has a two-year-old son, Giancarlo.

'90 Lia Scott PRICE lives in Los Angeles and is a writer of dark fiction; she has had two of her thriller novels optioned for films. Brian ROSSMAN has returned to the Bay Area from Capitol Hill, where he spent five months working as communications director for a congresswoman from California.

'91 In May 2002, Timothy GERACI received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland; he plans a residency in internal medicine at the University of Southern California. Tony LEWIS lives with a Siberian husky in central New York and teaches linguistics at Syracuse University.

'92 Rachel HOWZELL's first novel, A Quiet Storm, was published in September 2002 by Simon & Schuster; visit her web site at www.rachelhowzell.com. Dmitria SOKOLOW is currently teaching ESL in Portland and enjoying the city culture and beautiful outdoors with Eric WAGER (Merrill '92), who works for Widmer Brothers Brewery as cellarman, microbiologist, and taste panelist.

'99 Denise LeeAnne HALL received her M.A. in sports fitness management from the University of San Francisco in January 2002 and has recently been appointed head men's water polo coach at San Mateo High School.

'00 Navy Ensign Noah FLECK received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.

'01 Mickey SUN is pursuing an M.A. in economics at UC Santa Barbara; friends may write him at msun@econ.ucsb.edu.

Porter College

'73 Jim HULL recently published a book, titled Are Humans Obsolete?; his web site is www.jimhull.com.

'74 Kent NAGANO, music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Berlin's German Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Opera, was identified as one of 100 top creative talents in the San Francisco Bay Area in an article in the September 2002 issue of San Francisco magazine.

'76 Lucy HEYNEMAN Arnold and Michael ARNOLD (Kresge '75) recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary; Lucy is doing solo work and singing with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble and exhibiting her artwork; Michael is an economist and involved in local land-use, conservation, and traffic issues; they have two children, ages 14 and 17. Richard O'BRIEN Jr. is the owner of a landscape design and management company, Environmental Enhancement, which specializes in creating low-maintenance residential garden sanctuaries.

'77 In August 2002, Barbara EDELSTEIN opened two solo sculpture exhibitions in China, at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, and at the Shenzhen Art Institute Museum; she also has a permanent sculpture at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Thomas POSTER recently received his U.S. Coast Guard captain's license, and he is still acting. Yael (Jacklyn) SCHY has her own consulting business, InterACT Leadership Consulting; she and her husband, David Schwartz, a children's book author, live in Oakland; she can be reached at yael@pobox.com.

'78 Nanci FINGERHOOD lives in Los Angeles, works in public relations and fundraising, and is the proud mother of her one-year-old daughter. Steven PEÑA has recently opened a law practice focusing on entertainment law in the Los Angeles area.

'80 Lynda WEINTRAUB Bouch is enjoying her 21st year in the music industry; she has been married for 16 years, loves to travel, is still writing poetry, and has renewed her passion for sailing. T. Louise FREEMAN-TOOLE's book, Standing Up to the Rock, a memoir about life on Hells Canyon Ranch, was named the 2001 Book of the Year by the Idaho Library Association and also was chosen Book of the Year by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.

'81 After living in the Bay Area for 19 years, Karla HUEBNER moved to Washington, D.C., where she earned an M.A. in art history in August 2002 from American University; now she is working on her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. Sarah STONE earned an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and now teaches writing at UC Berkeley; her novel, The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday, 2002), was a BookSense 76 selection; she and her husband, Ron Nyren, live in the East Bay.

'83 Leslie FREILICH lived in India for eight years learning to make a rare traditional Tibetan textile art; her hand-stitched mosaics of silk were exhibited at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.

'87 Lisa LENKER has bounced from San Francisco to Los Angeles, getting an M.F.A. (San Francisco State University), Ph.D. (Stanford), and J.D. (UCLA) along the way; she curently practices law in Century City and lives near the beach.

'88 Olman VALVERDE is an attorney in L.A.; friends may contact him at his firm's web site, www.mhalawyers.com.

'89 Susan GUION is now living in Eugene, Ore., where she is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon; she has two children, Augustus, 3, and Jane Bruce, 1; visit her web site at darkwing.uoregon.edu/~guion/guion.htm. Alberto MORENO, his wife, Anna, and his son, Matias, have moved to sunny Boca Raton, Fla., where Alberto has taken a job as a financial adviser for UBS Paine Webber.

'90 Gillian HERMAN earned her master's in social work from NYU in May 2002 and has moved back to the Bay Area as associate director of the newest AileyCamp at UC Berkeley, which exposes underprivileged 11- to 14-year-olds to the arts. Michael WERTZ and Andrew COWITT (Cowell '88) live in Oakland with their new dog, Olive; Michael is a freelance illustrator and performs in an electronic dance band called Svelte, and Andy does HTML for work and music for fun.

'91 Andrew EHRNSTEIN is beginning a career in commercial real estate in Denver; he and his wife, Cynthia, have an 18-month-old daughter, Sabrina, and another on the way; friends may write him at endeavorstation@earthlink.net. Jonathan Likeke SCHEUER is working for the Kamehameha Schools on programs that help realize multiple returns (educational, conservation, cultural, and economic) from the schools' properties on three islands; he and his wife, Cami Kloster, recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary.

'92 David HAYS got married to a wonderful woman in July 2002 and they are expecting their first child at the end of April 2003; pictures are online at www.elfland.net.

'93 Niall BRENNAN has moved from New York City to Rio de Janeiro to expand his horizons in life and love.

'95 Christopher ARNOLD has been living in Seattle for five years; he's writing Java applications for Metro One Telecommunications and living with his girlfriend and two cats. Emily HAOZOUS will finish her master's in nursing in May 2003 at Yale School of Nursing and will go on to pursue a doctoral degree in nursing also at Yale, specializing in oncology; she married Alexander Evans in March 2002, and Lara GREENE (Porter '95) was a bridesmaid. Amanda HOEHLER Rappaport received her M.D. degree in June 2002 from UC Irvine.

'96 Sarah TEED is a ceramic artist and children's teacher at Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center on Maui; her goal is to promote world peace through the arts.

'97 Lisa HILLSTROM works in the Presidio of San Francisco and bumps into fellow Slugs every now and then; she bought a home last year and lives in Marin County.

'98 James MOCKOSKI was recently hired at American Zoetrope in San Francisco as its film archivist. Yasmeen THOMASON was in the Peace Corps for over two years, serving in Mauritania, West Africa, where she worked on community health projects; she is currently living in Oakland.

'99 Charles PADOW has taken a job as a communications associate with the California Wellness Foundation, an independent, private foundation that makes grants for health promotion, wellness education, and disease prevention.

'00 Kyla SANKEY is at George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development working on a master's in secondary education and a teaching credential in K-12 art.

'01 Crystal COMBS is serving with AmeriCorps*VISTA in Boston, where she is volunteering with ReadBoston, the city's early literacy program.

Kresge College

'73 Gary NOVACK lives in Marin and is a frequent visitor to the UCSC campus in his role as UCSC Foundation Board member or to go mountain biking; he continues as a consultant in pharmaceutical development, and he filed a New Drug Application with the FDA for a new glaucoma drug in fall 2002.

'75 Bobbi HOOVER was given the Crystal Bowl Award at the 33rd annual volunteer recognition luncheon of the Junior League of San Jose for her bereavement volunteer work for Hospice of the Valley. After 20 years of practicing real estate law with McDonough Holland & Allen in Sacramento, Sharon ROSEME is taking a year off to travel, play, and make the world a better place.

'81 After living in Japan, Denver, and New Orleans, Allison CRANE Garcia has come home to Santa Cruz and is working at the UCSC Alumni Association.

'82 Panda KROLL and Kevin VOLKAN (Kresge '81) have a son, Maxwell Tiberius Volkan (MTV), born in May 2002, and they have relocated from Boston to the Los Angeles area, where Kevin has accepted a position as professor of psychology at California State University's newest campus, Cal State Channel Islands.

'89 Andrea BREUNER graduated from the Physician Assistant Program at the University of Washington Medical School in summer 2002; she finished her training in a clinic in Antigua, Guatemala. Lael HAZAN and her husband live in Florida and run a cooking school outside of Verona, Italy (www.giulianohazan.com/school): they are in the process of launching A & H Selections, a company that will bring Italian food merchandise to the public.

'91 Lani POTTS has been promoted to house manager of Landmark's Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco; previously she was house manager of the Park and the Guild Theatres in Menlo Park.

'92 Sheryl MARTINELLI is teaching English at North Salinas High School, her alma mater.

'93 Kimberly SWABACK is a student in the Working Professionals' Program in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

'94 Sarah YOUSSEFI married Carlos Estrada in June 2002 in Fiji; she graduated from Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans and is completing a pathology residency in Phoenix.

'95 Shelley BATES graduated in January 2002 with an M.A. in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania; her master's thesis, a romantic comedy, was accepted for publication and will be released in June 2003 as part of the Temptation line from Harlequin Books, under the pseudonym Shannon Hollis. Sarah RUBENSTEIN-Gillis is living in Ithaca, N.Y., with her husband, Eric, whom she met when she picked him up hitchhiking at the Porter bus stop in 1994; she is a social worker and has recently begun a job teaching social work and applied sociology at Ithaca College.

'96 Yvette KELLER and Mark Bessey are planning to marry in May 2003 in Fremont, Calif., and they recently purchased a home in San Jose; former classmates are encouraged to write at yvette_keller@yahoo.com. Genevieve MUNSEY is the editor of Nosh, a new veggie/environmental magazine out of the Bay Area run by all volunteers; to contribute writing or art, contact info@noshmagazine.com. Jennifer SMIETANA and Anerio ALTMAN (Kresge '96) are still together after meeting at UCSC; they were married in 1996 and both recently graduated from law school; friends may write them at altana@earthlink.net.

'97 Shay CANTY works for a high-tech company (AMD) in Sunnyvale, and her husband, Jacob SARASOHN (Kresge '00) is attending San Jose State's teaching-credential program; friends may contact them at shay_canty@yahoo.com. Yan SHAM-SHACKLETON is back in Hong Kong, studying film and TV production for the next year and enjoying working in a creative environment again; friends can reach her at yanipoo@yahoo.com.

'98 Maria Elena GOODEN and Aaron JARSON (Merrill '00) got married in San Luis Obispo in July 2002; Aaron works at Tarmin Solutions in San Diego, and Maria Elena received her master's in education and her teaching credential from UCSD in July 2002. J. Stephen MILLER is a literary manager and works for Talent Scout Management, a division of Ross Media International; he works with new and produced writers for features and TV and assists them in marketing their scripts to major producers within the studio system; contact him at Steven-M@ATalent Scout.com.

'00 William STAUBLE is currently a student at Santa Clara University School of Law specializing in international and comparative law; he graduated from the International Human Rights Institute in Strasbourg in 2002; he can be reached at wstauble@scu.edu. Tim WOODALL has been working in Boston for the Nature Conservancy for about a year and has discovered a new phenomenon unbeknownst to Californians: win*ter (wn tr), noun (1) Usually the coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring.

Oakes College

'80 Jerome DIXON is a practicing attorney in Baton Rouge, La., and he is coaching Little League Baseball and Pee Wee Football.

'82 After 14 years at a San Francisco commercial litigation firm, Gregory GERMAIN earned a master's degree in taxation at the University of Florida and worked as an attorney adviser for U.S. Tax Court Judge Renato Beghe; he joined the faculty at the Syracuse University College of Law in fall 2002.

'83 Mark ADAMS is living in San Jose with his wife and two daughters; he also spends time organizing the Silicon Valley alumni chapter; anyone who would like to help with events can contact him at markandmarge@earthlink.net.

'88 Jeff PIPER is working as a construction project manager and is currently managing construction of the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Garden and Visitors Center in Keene, Calif., for the United Farm Workers Union.

'94 Kristine BURGESS Amodeo is a fine artist and also teaches from her art studio near Sonora, Calif.; she has three teenagers, a new husband, a home in the woods, and a web site: www.sierra-arts.net/Kris-AmodeoIndex.html.

'95 Kevin BROWN is an assistant men's basketball coach at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

'96 Laura MOSS Allen was elected Teacher of the Year 2002 at Miller Middle School in San Jose, where she teaches sixth and seventh graders; she married Gene Allen in June 2002 in Santa Cruz.

'99 Maya CHINCHILLA is doing a master's at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism in combination with work in Latin American studies; she's living with Slug alums Ann KIMBALL (Crown '01), Rachel GALLAGHER (Cowell '00), and honorary roommate Carmen ROJAS (Oakes '00); send her e-mail at mayachapina@yahoo.com.

'00 Artur AKKERMAN recently received his master's degree in social work from New York University; his first book, Somewhere Below the Great White Clouds, was published by Seaburn Books in August 2002.

'01 Jonathan WISHNEV is building web sites and shooting virtual tours for real estate agents; friends may contact him at jondabomb@aol.com.

'02 Angelia CAREY recently started a job with the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians in San Jacinto, Calif.; she is testing water and writing water-quality standards.

College Eight

'77 After earning a master's degree from Sacramento State University in 1979 and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 1983, Edward TAMSON cofounded Performance Dimensions International, a business consulting firm, in 2001; he is also involved in world-class windsurfing in South Padre, Texas.

'81 Patrick CAMPBELL and his wife, Carolyn, completed the adoption of Peter, age 13, from Russia in April 2002; they also have two biological children, Thomas, 12, and Jessica, 10.

'83 Robert WEINER recently launched his own consulting practice in San Francisco, helping educational and nonprofit institutions make decisions about their use of technology for fundraising; his web site is www.rlweiner.com.

'84 Rachel Anne GOODMAN was the managing editor for the series The DNA Files, a five-part documentary series about genetics distributed by National Public Radio; the series won the 2001 George Foster Peabody Award and a Robert Wood Johnson Award for Health and Medical Reporting; among the producers were alumni Rusten HOGNESS (cert., science communication '93) and Joe JORDAN (M.S., computer science '81).

'87 Jon GUICE and his wife have a one-year-old and are living in the Bay Area; he is enjoying work combining sustainable development and technology, which includes other UC and UCSC alums, faculty, staff, and students.

'88 Christina FLAHERTY Callahan is a doctor of chiropractic, but she has chosen to stay at home with her three young children.

'89 Rachel SCHWARZ volunteers at the San Francisco Sex Information switchboard and publishes weekly articles on various body art topics for a woman-oriented web site Bellaonline.com.

'92 Wendy PRICE earned a second undergraduate degree in illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena; she now owns and runs a graphic design firm.

'93 After years of global travel and grad school, Jennifer DEMES Hayes and Andy HAYES (College Eight '93) have found careers in the environmental planning field in Olympia, Wash.; they were expecting a baby in December 2002.

'96 Andrea HELZER graduated in May 2002 from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's in social work.

'99 Lara TETER Colthurst married Christopher COLTHURST (College Eight '96) in March 2001; they now own a home in San Diego, where Chris works at DivXNetworks, a video compression Internet company, and Lara works at SeaWorld as an animal-care specialist. As a participant in the Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Program, Ricky LE had a summer internship in 2002 at the San Jose business law firm of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel; he is now a second-year student at Santa Clara University School of Law. Kelly REICH is working on an M.A. in communications from Cal State Fullerton; she is currently working for a nonprofit organization as assistant to the public information officer and also preparing a business plan for an evening of the 2003 Newport Beach Film Festival. Sahar SHEIDA graduated from law school in May 2002 and will be practicing law in Orange County.

'01 LeSanne ETIENNE has started a sedan and limousine company called Abacus Transportation Services, providing reliable and affordable airport transportation to the Santa Cruz community.

Graduate Studies

'82 David Neal MILLER (Ph.D., literature) writes that his beloved wife, Marcy J. Miller, succumbed to breast cancer; he is director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies at Ohio State University and is currently pursuing research on Brooklyn and memory.

'87 Raul RODRIGUEZ (Ph.D., psychology) was appointed superintendent/president of San Joaquin Delta College in August 2002; prior to this appointment, Rodriguez was president of Los Medanos College in Contra Costa, Calif.

'88 Elizabeth HORAN (Ph.D., literature) was recently promoted to chair of the Department of English at Arizona State University in Tempe.

'91 Jeffrey MARSHALL (M.S., Earth sciences) received his Ph.D. in geological sciences from Penn State University in 2000 and is now an assistant professor of geology at Cal Poly, Pomona. Francisco ROSADO-MAY (Ph.D., biology) has been named chancellor of the University of the State of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico; his research is in the areas of agroecology, sustainable land use, the impacts of ecotourism, and the development and management of protected areas in the State of Quintana Roo.

'94 Magdalena ZSCHOKKE (Ph.D., literature) had her third book, a mystery, titled Fulcrum, published in November 2001 by First Books Library; her other titles, Windswept (1996) and Salt Rock Mysteries (2000), were both published by New Victoria Publishers.

'95 Laurea LONG (M.A., mathematics) moved to southern California in August 2002 and is teaching math at Saddleback College and Irvine Valley College.

'96 Susan BERNARDIN (Ph.D., literature), an assistant professor of English at SUNY Oneonta, is the editor of a new book from Rutgers University Press titled Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940.

In Memoriam

Dale HATHAWAY (Merrill '82), a political science professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, died May 22, 2002, in Florence, Italy, while leading a student study tour; he was 50.

Suzanna SHINER (Crown '93), a sonar engineer employed by Search, Survey and Recovery, Inc., and a crew member of the survey ship Performer, died June 25, 2002, in Norfolk, Va.; she was 35.

Joan TIERNAN (Crown '73), who in 1987 was one of the first women to graduate from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in engineering, died in December 2001. At the time of her death, Tiernan was working as a civil engineer for Suburban Water Systems in Covina, Calif.

Luci DALEY Vincent (Stevenson '74), an urban planner and a real estate attorney who worked for several Boston-area law firms, died July 26, 2002, after a long illness; she was 48.