'69 Warren NELSON is a labor and employment lawyer with Fisher and Phillips in southern California; his daughter Chloe is a student at Porter College.
'70 Peter SILTEN has an ongoing exhibit of limited-edition lithographs at Rincon Center in San Francisco.
'71 Katherine HUBAY Peterson returned from a three-year tour as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Windhoek, Namibia, and started a two-year tour as managing director of the Office of Overseas Citizen Services at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. This past fall Lloyd PRICE and Katherine MATLACK (Cowell '72) delivered their daughter Julia to Cowell College as a member of the class of 2000; their daughter Ramona is a senior at UC San Diego, and son Joey will graduate from Little League after the 1997 season.
'75 Victor HANSON teaches Greek at Cal State Fresno and is the author of Fields Without Dreams, a memoir of family farming in the central valley.
'76 Sylvia HUOT is a lecturer in French and a fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University. Her third book, Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet, is being published by Stanford University Press. Stephen LIPKE received his M.F.A. in painting at Central Washington University in 1996, and his work has been accepted into the International Printmaking Show at the Richmond (Calif.) Art Center.
'79 Nyira GITANA is assistant to the chair of the Music Department and a master's degree candidate in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of New Mexico; she can be reached via e-mail at nyira@unm.edu.
'80 Scott ENGLER is living at Esalen Institute, administering the computer systems, "learning everything I can about Gestalt therapy and somatics, [and] pursuing the simple path oflearning who I am."
'82 Jim BERNSTEIN and his good friend Michael SHIPLEY (Stevenson '86) are "having a blast" working as staff writers for the new Disney show Homeboys in Outer Space on the UPN network. Jonathan SPAULDING is celebrating the publication of his book Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography (University of California Press, 1995) and the birth of his first child, Margaret, in 1994.
'83 Leah KALISH McGarrigle and her husband, Phil, are the proud parents of two young daughters, Clare and Anne; Leah combines her love of history and interest in the law by conducting legal oral histories for the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
'85 Janet GROSSMAN received her Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1995 and is working as assistant curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif. Liz CURTIS Newnham and her husband have a daughter, Samantha Kathryn, born in April 1995, and her second solo art show in collage was scheduled to be held in November 1996.
'86 Erin FLYNN is finishing her Ph.D. in political economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is getting married.
'87 Ed YARBOROUGH has spent the last couple of summers working at Jerry Brown's We the People Foundation in Oakland.
'88 Jamais CASCIO is a technology manager for Global Business
Network, a future-oriented think tank, and he is married to Janice CRIPE
(Cowell '89). He can be reached via e-mail at
cynical@emf.net.
'90 Marc HARRISON lives and works in New York City; he is an editor at a new media research and consulting company.
'91 Margo TREVEY Buckley and her husband do joint ventures in the People's Republic of China, and they help U.S. companies find manufacturing, research and development, and software development appropriate to their needs in China.
'93 Adam ROSENBERG is moving to Fort Collins, Colo., where he will be entering vet school at Colorado State University. Cory HYTOFF Simpson and her husband, Mark Simpson, have a son, Tanner Dakota, born in December 1995; in the same month, she graduated from Pepperdine Graduate School with a degree in clinical psychology.
'76 Joseph BUSH is associate dean and director of research training in clinical psychology at the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara; his daughter Alexandra is two years old.
'79 Durand BEGAULT has worked at NASAAmes Research Center since 1988; he has written two books: 3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia (1994) and Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production (1996), both published by Academic Press.
'81 After receiving a master's in theological studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, Nicholas WALLERSTEIN is an assistant professor of English at Rockford College in Rockford, Ill.
'82 Lori CRUTCHFIELD Jepsen is living in the Bay Area, working as a human resources manager at an advertising agency, and raising her two children, Zander and Emma.
'83 Rebecka Hernandez WRIGHT has been telecommuting to her work as a pharmaceutical packaging designer since the birth of her daughter, Eva McClain Hernandez, in January 1996.
'84 Michael ROSS received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton
University and has taken a position as an assistant professor at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; his dissertation was on
the political economy of logging in Southeast Asia. Edith ROYAL is
teaching second grade in Savannah, Ga.
'85 Stephanie DENMARK is a freelance writer in New York City; she has written for the New York Times, Ms., Self, Good Housekeeping, American Health, Woman's Day, and GQ. David SCHLOSBERG teaches political theory and environmental politics at Northern Arizona University; he and Sheila CLANCY (College Eight '84) live in Flagstaff with their daughter Mira.
'86 Eric ELDER has moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., to work as manager of Assessment Services at DDI, an inter-national human resources consulting firm. Kathleen FUTTERMAN is "busy and happy" working as a real estate agent in the midSan Francisco peninsula area and "trying not to hack up the local golf courses too much."
'87 Lance BERNARD is a doctoral candidate in U.S. history at the University of Nevada, Reno; his dissertation deals with the history of California's modern architecture. Eric MENDELSON has been promoted to the position of chief financial officer of Dimension Data Systems; he is also on the board of directors of Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
'89 Marcy HALL is in business school at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been living for two years. Adam NEVITT is midway through his radiology residency; he and his wife, Bonnie (STEWART) NEVITT (Stevenson '88), have a son, Connor, and are expecting another.
'91 Megan McEVOY and her husband, Andrew HAUSRATH (Crown '91), are pursuing their doctoral degrees in chemistry at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
'95 Robert CREGG is serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in Malawi,
East Africa, teaching mathematics, biology, and physical science to secondary
school students. Kimberly NICHOLS is
pursuing her Ph.D. in physical anthropology at the University of Colorado,
Boulder.
'71 Michael NEWMAN is managing the U.S. Social Security Office on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
'72 Arthur BRIDGE is department chair, director of special projects, and a faculty member in philosophy at Marylhurst College near Portland, Ore., and he enjoys "lasting gratitude for the excellent grounding in natural sciences" he received at Crown College. Terry TERHAAR is pursuing a master's at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven, Conn.
'73 Marcella LADDON lives five minutes from Crown College with her husband, Richard, and daughter Sonya; she swims in the UCSC pool before she commutes to Monterey Peninsula College, where she has taught math for seventeen years.
'75 Dorothy BAUMANN hosted a 20-year reunion for fellow '75 grads at her Pacific Palisades home in June 1996. After providing medical care in the spring of 1996 in the Bocas Del Toro region of Panama while working for the California Army National Guard, Lori JOHNS has taken a position as a family nurse practitioner in rural medical clinics in Kings and Fresno counties. Dennis Armond NICHOLLS writes that he proved his friends who said he had a big mouth correct when he received his J.D. from Santa Clara University in May 1996 and took the California and U.S. Patent Office bar exams this past summer.
'77 After teaching for four years at Illinois State University and doing research for two years among the world's largest holdings of Romantic-era British fiction, Julie SHAFFER has taken a job with the English Department at the University of WisconsinOshkosh.
'78 David GREENE has been appointed to the position of assistant professor of geology and geography at Denison University in Granville, Ohio; he received his doctorate in geology in 1995 from the University of Nevada at Reno.
'82 After ten years at the Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville, Stacey VREEKEN is the editor of the Good Times, a Santa Cruz County news and entertainment weekly.
'84 David CRAGO has recently left the army and is working as a clinical psychologist at a federal penitentiary in Colorado.
'88 Joanna CALLEJA CONDON is teaching biology in Sunnyvale, Calif., and she and her husband, Terry, are proud parents of a new son, Kelly. As owner and operator of Polk Street Recording, a successful 24-track recording studio in San Francisco, Mark HOUGHTON is using skills learned from UCSC faculty Peter Elsea and Gordon Mumma.
'89 Alec ARAGO married Marjorie CALLAHAN (Crown '88) and is working for central coast congressman Sam Farr in Washington, D.C., with responsibilities in the areas of agricultural and environmental policy. Donna SNYDER Cox is a clinical pharmacist at the Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto and the proud mother of one-year-old Rachel.
'90 Michael OH graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School in June 1996 and moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., to start his residency in neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital.
'92 Sara ATKINS is pursuing a master's in social welfare at UCLA. Jeffrey KHALID received an M.S. in geology from Duke University in December 1996. Andrea SILVER was awarded a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in June 1995.
'93 Andria Lisa CATALANO received a J.D. and a master's degree in environmental law from Vermont School of Law.
'94 Sheila SANCHEZ Irao is working as a research assistant for Incyte Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto, a com-pany that deals with DNA sequencing and database subscriptions.
'72 Earl FONG is working as a software developer on a visual programming
language in Halifax, Nova Scotia; he is married to "the radiant"
Diane Prell. David VAN CLEVE is superintendent of six state parks
in southeastern California, and he has come into contact with several other
UCSC alumni in conjunction with a resource inventory under way at Anza-Borrego
State Park: Todd
KEELER-WOLF (Porter '74), who is heading a team of plant biologists;
Deborah HILLYARD (College Eight '75), who conducted early work on
the plant inventory; and Denzil
VERARDO (Porter '70), who is chief of administration for California
state parks.
'78 Spencer SHERMAN and Janice FUHRMAN (Merrill '77) wrote and produced a television documentary for PBS titled "Occupied Japan: An Experiment in Democracy," which aired in July 1996.
'84 After completing a master's in counseling at the University of San Francisco and receiving a marriage, family, and child counseling license, Beverly DESCHAUX has a private counseling practice in Santa Cruz with a special emphasis on assisting people with chronic physical illnesses.
'85 David KORDUNER is associate general counsel at the Directors Guild of America; he and his wife, Joan Krimston, had their first child, Zachary Asher, in December 1995. Joel NISHIDA is celebrating his eighth anniversary with the U.S. Department of Justice and his first year of marriage to his wife, Hiroko.
'86 Alfred KWOK has been appointed assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Nancy SOLORIO-Murray is teaching classes in photo preservation and creative imaging; she and her husband, Lt. Col. George Murray, U.S.M.C., and their daughter Elizabeth are moving to the Dominican Republic for three years of embassy duty. Sachi KUMON Nakamura received her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 1993 and is now working with the Japanese Christian Fellowship Network.
'88 Shana Marie KONGMAN is residing in Thailand. Sandy SKEZAS earned her master's degree in social work in 1994; she is currently the program director of a new juvenile justice program in Windham County, Conn.
'91 Chris HALL is working as a software engineer/Webmaster at TSP International, a small software company in Palo Alto, and writing a novel set in Santa Cruz in the summer of 1989; his personal Web page is located at http://www.best.com/~fozboot. Bonnie Lee PONTHIER is living in Italy and studying art conservation; in August she married Leonardo Curcuruto, whom she met while in the Education Abroad Program in Italy. Krista MAYNARD Robinson is working as a project manager at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
'92 Marcela ALCARAZ is a coauthor of several publications in the field of analytical chemistry; she is now pursuing an M.D. at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UrbanaChampaign. Malherbe BELIZAIRE, a native of Haiti, received an M.A. in international relations at St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Tex., and is presently superintendent of Audubon Schools in Haiti. Cara STERN has been living in Israel since graduation, finishing an M.A. in political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and working as an editor for a literary agency.
'93 David MORA works in distribution at Trimark Pictures in Los Angeles. Alma MURCIA received a J.D. from New York Law School.
'94 Maria LEVERIZA is working as a software engineer at a video games company in Marin County.
'95 Elizabeth "Lise" TORREY is working at Delta Health Care as a sexual health educator; she and Vicken MARKARIAN (Stevenson '94) plan to be married.
'73 Donna BLAKEMORE has taken a position as vice president for advancement at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
'74 Steven WANGSNESS is first secretary at the American embassy in Dublin, Ireland; he and his wife celebrated the birth of their son Eric in June 1996.
'77 Barbara EDELSTEIN has recently completed a site-specific
sculpture commissioned by the Djerassi Resident Artists' Program in Woodside,
Calif. Jaime JACINTO's first collection of
poems, Heaven is Just Another Country, was published by Kearny Street
Workshop Press in San Francisco; he is currently on the faculty of the School
of Education at San Francisco State University.
'78 After returning from a fourteen-month residence in Paris, Jeffrey GLUCKSON Briar is musical director at the Playback Theatre Company of Orange County, and he produces creative artists' salons in private homes. Pamela KLEIBRINK Thompson is a recruiter for interactive and entertainment clients, and she lives with her husband, Lance, and her daughter, Kearney Merritt, in Sun Valley, Calif.
'79 After completing an M.S. at UC Berkeley and an M.D. at UC San Francisco, Susan FERGUSON is raising her three-year-old daughter, Annelise, and was expecting a second daughter in July 1996 with husband Ken Finney.
'82 Erica ROSENAST coauthored and performed in Lefts and Rights at Dixon Place Theater in New York City in June 1996. Daniel SONNEBORN received his Ph.D. in music from UCLA in December 1995, and he is the coauthor of Planet Drum with UCSC professor Fredric Lieberman and percussionist Mickey Hart (HarperCollins, 1991); he can be reached via e-mail at: macaco@aol.com.
'85 Steve COLLINS is "still dancing and happily flies spacecraft around the solar system for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory." Lance SILBERT is in a doctoral program in health services at UCLA and is working as a consultant at the RAND Corporation.
'87 After working as a molecular biologist at SRI International for six years, Jay WEBSTER now owns and operates a software company in Menlo Park, Calif. Jessica YU has completed an M.A. in medical anthropology and is currently a graduate student in the family and women's health nurse practitioner program at UC San Francisco.
'88 Jill FORD Brooks has worked as an engineer for a telecommunications company since graduation; she has also obtained her M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
'91 Lisa JOSEPH received an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Iowa in 1995. Catherine SERVENTI is in the second year of a Ph.D. program in anthropology/archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh.
'92 Neal KRAWETZ has recently completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Texas A&M University and is working as a research programmer at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Michelle MACH is in the master's degree program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Lara NATHER is the assistant to the city attorney for the city of Santa Cruz.
'93 Jeffere FERRIS is a designer with Light Span Partners. Vicky MENDENHALL received her M.A. in English from San Jose State University in May 1995 and is working as a technical editor at Boole & Babbage, a mainframe software company.
'94 Amanda HODGIN-WILKINSON is pursuing her master's in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in expressive arts therapy, at John F. Kennedy University.
'70 Peter LAWTON is completing a Ph.D. in economics at the University of New Mexico.
'72 Janet POLLEX Near has been named the Dale M. Coleman Professor of Management at the Indiana University School of Business; she has chaired the Management Department at Indiana University for the last six years and will now direct the school's doctoral program.
'78 Laura SEED is a psychiatrist in Fort Myers, Fla., where she lives with her two young daughters. Ellen SLAVITZ completed a master's in international and intercultural communication at the University of Denver and is looking for a job.
'79 Paul ALPERIN has a thriving psychotherapy practice and is completing a magical realism work of fiction.
'85 Frederick LIFTON has been awarded a doctor of philosophy degree in English from Duke University.
'86 Diane COHEN is a clinical psychologist working with adults and teens in Berkeley and the proud mother of a new baby, Dylan. Leslie CUCUEL is working as a medical assistant in a perinatal office and spending as much time as she can guiding white-water rafting trips, including trips for disabled and disadvantaged children. Dan ENGEL is an attorney in private practice focusing on business and entertainment litigation.
'89 Christine GUERRE Grant received a master's in counseling from the University of Oregon in 1992 and is now a fifth-year doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of WisconsinMadison. Melonie MILLER received a master's degree in special education from the University of Oregon in 1992 and is currently teaching students with learning disabilities in Madison, Wis., where she lives with her husband, Chris GRANT (Kresge '89). Sue WALDMAN has a private psychotherapy practice in Upper Montclair, N.J., and is an adjunct instructor of psychology at Bloomfield College.
'94 Gina LANGHOUT has entered a Ph.D. program in clinical/community psychology at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.
'95 Raven HANNA is pursuing a doctoral degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University.
'79 Breton CARR is working with a philosophical research center, EIDOS, in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he lives six months of each year; the other six months he lives in Santa Cruz. He and his Russian wife were expecting a baby girl in December 1996.
'80 Brian ZANZE is currently employed as legislative counsel for the Federated States of Micronesia; he and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children, Joshua and Laura.
'81 After working as in-house legal counsel for Pacific Western Bank and Comerica BankCalifornia, Breck MILDE has joined the law firm of Jackson, Tufts, Cole and Black in San Jose.
'87 Mark WIMBLEY completed medical school at UCLA in 1991 and worked for an L.A. County hospital; he is currently recovering from injuries from an automobile accident.
'89 Nadine BROWNING Dubrule graduated with her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993 and completed her residency in family practice in June 1996.
'90 Maria CASTRO and her husband, Carlos GARCIA (Oakes '90), are completing their residencies in family practice and hope to continue to practice in northern California.
'92 Jennifer DYER is working as a technical recruiter for a minority-owned computer consulting company in the Princeton, N.J., area.
'93 Lisa BAUMAN is in her third year as an environmental education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa; she is currently coordinating activities among the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Ministry of Education, and the Peace Corps in Dakar.
'96 John VALMORES is working as a stockbroker for Dean Witter in Newport Beach, Calif., under the auspices of Matt HOWARD (Crown '85).
'77 Eric NEE, editor-in-chief of Upside magazine, was named one of 59 members of the "Silicon Valley Class of 1996" by the San Jose Mercury News; Upside is a business magazine for the high-tech industry.
'79 Kevin DANN is embarking on a two-year chautauqua focused on "Nature, History, and the Natural Historical Sciences in the 20th Century," a joint program of the University of Oklahoma, Arkansas State University, and the University of Minnesota.
'86 Wyndham ELLIOT Jackson has started an interactive computer game company, called Sibling Interactive, with his brother; he can be reached via e-mail at max@cts.com.
'88 Anne BIKLÉ moved to Seattle five years ago after finishing a graduate program in environmental planning at UC Berkeley and is now working as the Cedar River Basin steward, promoting watershed stewardship by implementing fish habitat restoration projects, landowner outreach, and public education; she can be reached via e-mail at anne.bikle@metrokc.gov. Rachel GOLDBERG is pursuing a Ph.D. in social science, focusing on conflict resolution, at Syracuse University. Marcy POMEROY received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at Humboldt State University. Mysti RUBERT wrote the award-winning screenplays Crescent Peak (1995) and St. John (1996); she is currently in the screenwriting certificate program at UCLA.
'89 After receiving her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1994, Faith ROBINSON obtained her license to practice as a clinical psychologist in California and is opening her practice in Carmel.
'91 After teaching English for three years in Shizuoka Prefecture,
Japan, with the JET Program, Kimberly JONES is now teaching high
school English in San Jose, Calif. Dennis SULLIVAN is
entertainment publicity coordinator for Fox Broadcasting Company.
'93 Kelly FINN is pursuing a master's in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation at the University of Massachusetts.
'94 Kieran CROSS is working as a technical writer for a messaging software corporation in Santa Monica and is very interested in Web design and the Internet. Sherry GALAZYN is working with undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Michael MONTGOMERY has won the Third Place Brief Writer award in the Southwestern University School of Law 1996 SCALE Appellate Advocacy Competition. Tracy Lea SMITH Oskolkoff is working on a master's in education at Cal State Chico.
'95 Michael CONYER is pursuing an M.F.A. in film production at the University of Texas at Austin.
'82 Patricia WEENOLSEN is the author of The Art of Dying: How to Leave this World with Dignity and Grace, at Peace with Yourself and Your Loved Ones (St. Martin's Press, 1996).
'87 Diane RAYOR is an associate professor in the English Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan; she has published three books of translations: Latin Lyric (1995), Sappho's Lyre (1991), and Callimachus (1988). Edward STEPHENSON is an adjunct instructor for a number of colleges in south Florida, while extending his dissertation research on Rastafari.
'89 Alvina QUINTANA is an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware; her new book is titled Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices (Temple University Press, 1996).
'90 Charles DEUTSCH is studying the behavioral and population ecology of Florida manatees with the University of Florida and the National Biological Service's Sirenia Project; he lives in Gainesville with his wife, Chris, and two daughters. Martin RAMIREZ is an assistant professor of biology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
'94 Carolyn WHITSON has been named assistant professor of English at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn.
Stephen CUDHEA (Porter '78) died at age 35 of Hodgkin's disease in 1990; his wife, Fukiko, and his son, Frederick, would appreciate hearing from anyone who knew Steve at UCSC. Their address is: 269 Harvard Street, No. 26, Cambridge, MA 02139.