Alumni Notes

Cowell College

'69 Margaret WADE Krausse is teaching at Linfield College in Oregon; she married Jeff Krausse in Portland in 1995.

'70 Ann COURTRIGHT obtained an M.S. in human resources management and is currently the personnel officer for the City and County of San Francisco Department of Human Services; she still enjoys oratorio and liturgical singing and is happily partnered.

'71 Jessica GRESSETT Morton, who has been a teacher in Mendocino, Calif., for 26 years, is enjoying a recent move up to the fourth grade; her book, Kids on the 'Net: Conducting Internet Research in K­5 Classrooms, was published by Heinemann in 1998. Rebecca LARUE Terry is a school psychologist with the Pasco School District in Washington; she is married to Mike Terry, a nuclear safety engineer with Los Alamos National Lab.

'72 Miguel TEJADA-FLORES recently finished an extended stint as a staff writer for Welcome to Paradox on the Sci-Fi Channel.

'76 Steve LIPKE is an artist and part-time instructor at Mendocino-Lake Community College; he lives in Santa Rosa. Virginia BURTON Whitehead is a high school teacher and has two children.

'77 Michele GERARD has a private practice in neuropsychology in Boulder, Colo.; she is "cultivating her gardening addiction with a cutting garden of 100 rose bushes." Doris MICHAELS, who started the New York City­based Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency in 1994, was speaker at the seventh annual Columbus Writers' Conference in September 1999.

'78 Michael YINGER is working on Internet projects with Cambridge Management Consultants and living in New Jersey, reluctantly.

'80 Mark PADILLA was promoted to professor of classics at Bucknell University; he can be contacted at mpadilla@bucknell.edu.

'81 Sherril BABCOCK is currently representing AIDS Project Los Angeles before the California Supreme Court; she's gardening, cycling, going to Dodgers games, living with seven cats and a bunny, and is 11 years sober; "life is good," she writes. Lauren JONES is pursuing an M.A. in counseling psychology and began an internship at Youth Services in Santa Cruz in September 1999; she can be reached at laurenj@got.net. George (Bob) PERKOVICH is deputy director for programs and director of the Secure World Programs for the W. Alton Jones Foundation; his book, India's Nuclear Bomb (UC Press, 1999) describes India's long and complicated nuclear history.

'84 After completing yet another graduate degree--most recently in physical therapy at Duke University, Chris LINSON is living in the San Francisco Bay Area, looking for gainful employment, running, rock climbing, and playing guitar; he can be reached at chris_linson@yahoo.com. Kevin MICKEY and his wife, Amy, are trial attorneys in Spokane, Wash.; they are the extremely proud parents of a one-year-old son, Matt.

'86 Annette EMERY is working at Caltrans on welfare-to-work transportation issues and was recently elected to the Grant Joint Union High School Board of Trustees. After completing her M.S. in accountancy at San Jose State University, Emilie LIND is an accountant with Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corpora-tion in San Jose; she lives in Palo Alto with her two cats and her husband, former Cowell College preceptor Andy Hernandez.

'87 James CALLEROS is contract review supervisor for Northwest Administrators, a third-party benefits firm in San Mateo, Calif.; alumni who share his interest in art, dance, and French culture may contact him at jmc3320@aol.com.

'88 Bibit HALLIDAY Traut, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology at UC Davis, has been named a Canon National Parks Science Scholar.

'97 Marcus VIGIL's sticker art was included in a show called "Sticker Shock" at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art in 1999.

 

Stevenson College

'72 Bill GOLDEN continues a career in radio broadcasting, currently at a three-station complex in Hickory, N.C., near Charlotte; he is also doing freelance narration and voiceover work for ad agencies and business videos. Friends can contact him at bill_golden@hotmail.com.

'73 Wayne GLAUSSER, a professor of English at DePauw University, where he has been teaching since 1980, was awarded that university's prestigious Minar Award for his exceptional record of scholarship; his most recent book is Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eighteenth Century.

'74 Anne HAFNER is a full professor of education at Cal State Los Angeles, living in Long Beach with her husband, Joe Lowrey; she would like friends to contact her at annehafner@aol.com.

'75 Davia NELSON and Nikki SILVA (Porter '73), known in the radio world as The Kitchen Sisters, have produced a series for National Public Radio called Lost and Found Sound, a collection of stories that chronicle and celebrate the changing century through recorded sound.

'86 Robin ALLEN is working as a deputy district attorney for L.A. County in the Sex Crimes Unit; she lives with her partner in Pasadena, and they have an art studio in their garage.

'87 Steve OLIVER is the author of Lotus Domino Web Site Development (1998) and Domino Web Development and Administration: Accelerated Study Guide (1999); he is president of Steve Oliver Consulting. Bernard YAMRON is manager of market research at Oxford Health Plans; he lives in Connecticut with his wife, Jennifer, and daughter, Kelly.

'90 Stephen KAHN is associate rabbi at San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel, where, as a child, he had received confirmation and was president of the youth group. Kahn's first rabbinical job was at Temple Sinai in Denver, where he helped guide the congregation through their grief after the shootings at Columbine High School, which is ten miles from the synagogue. John VALLIER is a second-year graduate student in ethnomusicology at UCLA; he and his wife, Cara, reside in Los Angeles with their cat, MeiMei.

'91 Seth BLACHER is working for the Earthquakes, San Jose's major league soccer team, as a ticket sales representative. After earning master's degrees in library science and Latin American studies at UCLA and getting married, Roberto DELGADILLO began a Ph.D. program in Latin American history at UCLA in fall 1999. Jeanne LEONE-Sterwerf gave birth to a daughter, Arabella, with her husband, Albert Sterwerf, in June 1999.

'92 Marcia WALL is teaching English at the University of New Orleans.

'95 Charles HENLEY is pursuing a master's in public policy at the University of Michigan. Tlaloc RIVAS received an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Washington School of Drama in spring 1999 and has been appointed artistic director of the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia.

'97 Jeremy FACTOR received a master's in public health from Rutgers University in 1999 and is now in his first year of dentistry school at UCLA.

'98 Michelle FRANCO is applying her experiences as a leukemia survivor and her sociology degree background to work for Healing Journeys, a local nonprofit that supports cancer patients.

 

Crown College

'70 Since receiving an M.A. in geography in 1994, Michael BAUBLITZ has been traveling across the country and working as a freelance writer, tutor for disabled students at UC Berkeley, high-tech consultant to Silicon Valley, and poet bon vivant.

'71 Reid BECKER owns and runs

a medical diagnostic testing business in Coral Springs, Fla.; he has been married 24 years and has two sons, ages 12 and 16.

'72 Terry TERHAAR is getting her doctorate in forestry and environ-mental studies at Yale University.

'75 Charles CALLEROS, a professor of law at Arizona State University, is a visiting professor of contract law at Santa Clara University for the 1999­2000 academic year.

'76 W. Gale WATKINS is serving as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Phoenix; he and his wife, Laurie, are parents of Tim (14) and Becky (12).

'78 Nina KOLTNOW is saddened to report the death of her husband, Carl Dolan, on July 25, 1999; he died of heatstroke suffered during a bicycle event on the east shore of Maryland.

'83 Michael GOLDBERG and Elizabeth de FOREST (Cowell '84) are "enraptured" by their son Asher Abraham Goldberg de Forest, born in December 1998; Michael is teaching American studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington at Bothell, where he has recently received tenure.

'84 David CRAGO is a lt. commander in the U.S. Public Health Service, working as the Drug Abuse Program coordinator for the residential drug programs at the Federal Correctional Institution and the Federal Prison Camp in Florence, Colo.

'86 Robin BARRETT Hastings is now a full-time housewife, busy with remodeling a new home and assisting her husband, Allen HASTINGS (Crown '85), with his computer business. Calvin HUI is currently working as a network engineer at Silicon Valley Networking Lab.

'87 Megan ROBBINS received a master's degree in school psychology from San Francisco State University in 1990.

'91 Sean DEXTER is completing an M.A. in anthropology from CSU Chico and working as an archaeologist for a consulting firm; he is preparing to act as a field director on a major archaeological excavation of Emeryville Shellmound. Friends can contact him at sean_dexter@urscorp. com. Ellen REITERMAN moved to San Diego after graduating from Contra Costa College with a C.A. in early childhood education. She writes, "Theater and improv training is a great asset when working with children!"

'92 Robert GROPP has been named the 1999­2000 American Institute of Biological Sciences Congressional Science Fellow. After finishing a Ph.D. in physiology and an M.B.A. in marketing, Anthony RUSSELL is now the technical marketing manager at Baxter in Glendale, Calif.

'95 Bincy CHU completed the multiple subject CLAD clear teaching credential program at San Jose State University and is in her second year of teaching kindergarten at Alta Vista Elementary in Los Gatos, Calif. Nicole FRESQUEZ Lawrence married Matt LAWRENCE (Crown '95) in 1996, and she is currently working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the Education Department.

'97 John POLAND is working on a master's at the University of San Diego; he and Rachel STEVENS (Crown '97) were planning to marry in August 1999.

 

Merrill College

'70 Donald OLSEN retired in July 1999 after 25 years with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, where he had served as police commander since 1990.

'74 Rich KITCHENS has been teaching high school social studies for about 25 years and was a basketball coach for about 20 of those years; he is president of the teachers' union and recently received a law degree from John F. Kennedy University in Walnut Creek and has a part-time law practice in the areas of education and labor law.

'79 Jill FEHLMAN enjoys her work as a charge nurse on an adult unit in a private psychiatric hospital; she gardens and raises koi in her spare time.

'86 Jennifer DURRIE MacKay is living in a small town in northern Mexico, running a tourism business, which includes a bed and breakfast, river trips, hiking, and bird watching; she can be reached by e-mail at solipaso@compuserve.com.

'88 Shela TOBIAS received her M.B.A. from the University of the Pacific in May 1999 and is taking a position as an accountant with the State of California Employment Development Department.

'89 Clay EVANS published I Can See by Your Outfit (Johnson Books, 1999), a memoir of the six and one-half years he spent working as a cowboy.

'90 After spending many summers during high school and college in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jake LUSTIG is now president of Reunion Mezcal Company in Oakland, Calif., a business which imports the artesanal mezcal of the Oaxaca area.

'92 Sherry ROUSH received her Ph.D. in Italian from Yale University in May 1999 and began a tenure-track position as assistant professor at Penn State University in fall 1999. Tamara WHITE Van Hooser has been married five years and has a nine-month-old son, William Christopher; she is living in Tillamook, Ore., and working as a fourth-grade dual-language teacher (Spanish-English); she would love to hear from friends at tamara@earthling.net.

'93 Betsy BRAIT started a graphic and Web design company, Digital Media Visions, in January 1999. Melissa LUCAS is exploring the worlds of health care policy and publishing and searching for the next Mia Hamm while coaching AYSO under-12 girls' soccer; her e-mail address is mlucas@medi-cal.org. Esther VARGAS completed an M.A. in education in May 1999 and married Hector Real, an R.N., in July 1999; she is in her fourth year of teaching a dual-immersion first-grade class in Baldwin Park, Calif.

'96 After graduation from UCSC, Janeen MALATESTA did graduate work at Oxford University and at an Italian university; currently she is a substitute teacher and working on an M.A. in English.

'97 Kristi BERES files unemployment claims with the State of California.

 

Porter College

'73 Christie NICHOLS is a licensed clinical social worker working with recently homeless people with psychiatric illness, substance addiction, and HIV; she was president of the San Francisco unit of the National Association of Social Workers and was nominated for California social worker of the year.

'75 Lori HIGA is West Coast public relations manager for Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group.

'76 Tamara PINKAS is serving a second year as Faculty Council chair at Lane Community College in Oregon, where she continues to work as a cooperative education coordinator, setting up work-based learning experiences for students.

'77 Rebecca MORGAN and Ken Braly received the 1999 President's Distinguished Service Award from the National Speakers Association for their publication SpeakerNet News, a free weekly e-mail newsletter for speakers, trainers, and consultants; the same duo received the Patricia Fripp Outstanding Leadership Award from the Northern California Chapter of the same organization in 1998. Terence SCHULL received a Ph.D. in chemistry in May 1999 from George Washington University; he is now working as a postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. John YEWELL has been news editor of Metro Santa Cruz since June 1998.

'78 John BOGART taught philos-ophy from 1985 through 1990 and then went to Stanford Law School; after law school, he first practiced in Los Angeles and now has a practice in Salt Lake City. David MORI is a pastry chef for Stanford Alumni Sierra Operations at Fallen Leaf Lake. Pamela FLINN Schanuel is living in Colorado, missing the California coastline, and dreaming of returning to the sea.

'79 Barry FOX is the author, coauthor, or ghostwriter of 20-plus books, including the New York Times No. 1 best-seller The Arthritis Cure; his books and over 160 articles have been translated into 16 languages, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio shows; he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Nadine.

'81 While continuing her work as a reference specialist for visual resources at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Tracey SCHUSTER is doing consulting work for organizations that need assistance with their archival collections.

'85 Rob LAMMÉ is director of communications for the president pro tem of the North Carolina Senate, where he oversees communication strategy for the senate's Democratic majority; his e-mail address is robl@ms.ncga.state.nc.us. Lisa LICHTMAN Smith is an associate editor at U.S. News & World Report in Washington, D.C.

'86 Mary Cathleen SPOHRER Wilder is a lesbian pagan living in Eugene, Ore.; she received a master's in music from the University of Oregon and is now teaching and performing as a singer-songwriter.

'87 Douglas STYLES completed a doctor of psychology degree in spring 1999; he is working on a collection of short stories titled "Conversations About My Nose."

'90 Eric ELKINS is editor of the weekly kids' section in the Denver Post; his latest book, School Tools, was published in 1999. Holly KEENAN is the proud mom of her eight-month-old son, Jared; she and her husband, Jordan, own a feature- film marketing company, Celluloid Heroes, in Los Angeles. John ROEVEKAMP cofounded a software company, Cyrun Corporation, based in Santa Cruz, which manufactures and supports software for law enforcement; the company is in its seventh year, with clients in California, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Eleanor RUCKMAN received her master's degree in art therapy/marital and family therapy from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., in May 1999; she paints and exhibits her art in San Francisco.

'91 Kristanne BOHNER Heaton and her husband, Sid, are living in Europe, where Kristanne is working on her master's thesis in art history while her husband does research on alternative employee-employer relations by telecommuting to his company back in Silicon Valley; they continue to update their "Extreme Telecommuting" adventures on their Web page (www.officeodyssey.com), which was featured in Telecommute magazine.

'92 Sean AARON is employed by the UC Office of the President as a Unix system administrator.

 

Kresge College

'76 Don McCORMICK has started a new job as an associate professor in the Department of Management and Business at Alfred North Whitehead College at the University of Redlands. Bob SCHRAER is married with three sons, ages 19, 16, and 11; he has been self-employed as a flooring and window-covering contractor for the past ten years.

'80 Douglas MANCILL, a partner at Graham & James since 1992, is now posted to Deacons Graham & James in Bangkok, where he handles restructuring matters.

'85 Terrance McLARNAN has a private practice in psychotherapy and is the training coordinator at the Center for Human Development.

'86 Gail CARLSON is now a regional account manager with Roche Diagnostics in diabetes-care retail promotions, representing Accu-Chek brands.

'90 Anne GARNER is teaching first grade and raising two children with her husband, Mathew Plate. Faye JAHNIGEN is chief radiological technologist for the Santa Cruz County Human Services Agency; she received an M.S. in health services administration from Saint Mary's College in 1998. Trent JONES received the 1999 Phil Killiam Fellowship from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he assisted in the production of Henry IV, Part Two, and Pericles, as well as directing a staged reading of Edward III. Natalie LUTZ has been living in France for the past ten years teaching English to French professionals as an independent contractor; "I have two beautiful children and a lovely life but sometimes I get nostalgic for those long-lost friends from my wonderful years at UCSC," she writes. Elizabeth STARK graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. in writing in 1996; her novel, Shy Girl, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (July 1999), and she is at work on her next novel.

'91 Tamara LIEBMAN was planning to marry Greg GIFFIN (Cowell '90) in November 1999; they live in Los Angeles. Elizabeth MAURO owns a successful art installation business in Seattle; she and her husband, a fellow artist, spend their summers at their cabin on the Yellowstone River in Montana.

'94 After graduation Jon CARNERO worked in Japan for three years, got married in Canada, and then went to grad school at Columbia University; now he and his wife are living in Brooklyn.

'95 Misty BURGESS graduated from Arizona State University in May 1999 with a master's in social work; currently, she is the coordinator of a domestic violence shelter in the Seattle area. After living in Israel, Guatemala, and Mexico, Sara-Rozet NORWICK has graduated with an M.A. in international economics and finance from Brandeis University and is now employed by one of the "Big 5" in San Jose.

'97 Yan SHAM-SHACKLETON moved back to Hong Kong after a stint in Central America and is working as an editor for a new bilingual community Web site (www.renren.com) that aims to provide a home for the global Chinese family on the Web; her e-mail address is yanipoo@renren.com.

 

Oakes College

'75 Danny SYLVESTER recently completed a one-year probationary period as a disability evaluation analyst for the California Department of Social Services.

'82 Robin TOMA is assistant executive director of L.A. County Commission on Human Relations, which focuses on hate crimes, intergroup conflict, and strengthening and building multicultural communities; he was married last year, and he continues to do pro bono lawyering for Japanese Latin Americans abducted and imprisoned by the U.S. during WW II.

'92 Mike SINCLAIR and his wife, Dorota, spent St. Patrick's Day 1999 celebrating the birth of their first child, Alexis Nicole. Clay ZHANG is currently a full-time M.B.A. student at Rice University in Houston.

'95 Sandra LOVING graduated from California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco in May 1999 and is now doing a two-year residency at the Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto.

 

College Eight

'76 Henrietta FINGOLD Bensussen is retiring after almost 20 years at Stanford University Press to devote time to gardening and writing.

'81 Beverly ALEXANDER has been appointed vice president of rates and account services at Pacific Gas and Electric, where she has worked since 1992; she has a law degree from Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley.

'82 Jean BROCKLEBANK has worked in the field of energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings since 1982; her work has included a number of projects at UCSC; she can be reached by e-mail at j45bean@hotmail.com.

'83 Greg MEYER is a freelance naturalist and leads expeditions to five continents; between travels, he runs a kayak tour company in Santa Cruz and teaches at Cal State Monterey Bay; his e-mail address is greg@ge-trips and his Web site is ge-trips.com.

'84 Lisa GRAVES is living in Salt Lake City, working at Wild Oats Market, and back in school pursuing a B.F.A. in drawing and painting.

'85 Carl MUTTERSBACH will be a Peace Corps volunteer in Southeast Asia for 27 months beginning in May 2000. Michael VAN ALTENA moved to New Meadows, Idaho, where he is enjoying the peace and quiet, working from home as a programmer. Susannah FREEMAN White is a licensed acupuncturist living in Bozeman, Mont.

'86 Karen SEMERAU moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area from the Dakotas; she is an office administrator/events planner for a software development company.

'87 Carrie KAHN was awarded a Pew Fellowship for International Journalism for fall 1999; during her fellowship she planned to study international affairs at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and do in-depth reporting in Mexico.

'95 Kate McFADDEN is finishing her M.S. at Texas A&M University, where she is studying endangered wildlife biology; after completing her master's she will begin a Ph.D. program in conservation biology at Columbia University. Mark MUIRHEAD is designing computer systems in Latin America for a large New York­based insurance company.

'96 Andrea HELZER is pursuing an M.S.W. at the University of Pennsylvania and plans to work with abused children.

'98 Matthew SIMMONS worked for a year before opening his own business and buying a house in Long Beach.

'99 After serving as an intern with California Governor Gray Davis, Patrick CHANDLER is working for AmeriCorps in Riverside.

 

Graduate Studies

'75 Marc HOFSTADTER (Ph.D., literature) has published his first volume of poetry, House of Peace.

'80 Thomas BASS (Ph.D., history of consciousness) has a new book, The Predictors, which follows UCSC grads Doyne FARMER (Ph.D., physics, '81) and Norman PACKARD (Ph.D., physics, '82) as they apply chaos theory to the global financial markets; the book is a sequel to The Eudaemonic Pie, which describes Farmer's and Packard's years in Santa Cruz developing chaos theory while working on beating the game of roulette in Las Vegas.

'87 Edward STEPHENSON (Ph.D., psychology) is an assistant professor of psychology at Florida Memorial College and an adjunct instructor at Miami Institute of Psychology and at Nova University, with a specialty in cross-cultural psychology.

'90 Thomas MADDEN (Ph.D., physics) is a programmer at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a section of the National Library of Medicine, working as part of a team of researchers on a new generation of protein database search programs.

'91 Eberhard SCHEIFFELE (cert., theater arts) finished his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and now works as a psychodramatist in Pennsylvania; friends may e-mail him at scheiffe@math.berkeley.edu.

'95 Jonathon GRASSE (M.A., music) earned a Ph.D. in music with a cognate in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1999 and is now a lecturer in world music theory in UCLA's Ethnomusicology Department.

'96 David SONNENFELD (Ph.D., sociology) is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley during the 1999­2000 aca-demic year; he is working on two books and doing research on environmental reform in Southeast Asia.

 

In Memoriam

Aaron David McVEY (Crown '84) died in October 1997 of a heart attack. At the time of his death he was working in Rancho Cordova, Calif., for MCI Telecommunications as a senior systems analyst. Prior to that he worked for many years at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco. Aaron was married in 1989; he and his wife had no children.

 


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