Alumni Notes

Cowell College

'68 Paul MARKOWITZ was recently reelected to the board of directors of the California Teachers Association.

'76 Joshua MILLER is a professor of government and law at Lafayette College in Easton, Penn.; he plans to marry Diane Weger in August 1997 after a two-week rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.

'78 Herbert ROSENBLOOM is still teaching math at the San Fernando High magnet, and he is in Who's Who Among American Teachers.

'80 Kurt TOELKEN is living near Frankfurt, Germany, on a three-year assignment for the firm EDS.

'85 Li Chiao-Ping (Nancy LEE) just received tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been promoted to associate professor in the dance program. She has received fellowships for choreography from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon.

'87 Danielle HERRMANN is the manager of Student Services at the Stanford University School of Engineering in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research, and she is raising a son.

'89 John APPLING has spent the last two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Vladivostok, Russia.

'90 Nicole SWENSON is leaving her position at the Overseas Marketing Division of Toyota Motor Corporation's Tokyo headquarters to pursue graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

Stevenson College

'72 Connie MICHALAK Holmes is living in Austin, Tex.; her twin sons graduated as valedictorian and salutatorian of their class and are currently on the dean's list at Texas A&M University.

'75 Celia WINKLER has been appointed assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Montana.

'76 Lee Palmer WANDEL will be at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., during the 1997-98 academic year.

'86 Stacy HANDELMAN is teaching a kindergarten/first-grade multiage class in Seattle; she just bought a large catamaran and plans on sailing the world on it one day.

'87 Catherine ELLIS, who is working on a doctorate in cultural anthropology at Columbia University, was a visiting scholar at the Rand Corporation this year, and she was recently married.

'89 After receiving a J.D. from Thomas Cooley Law School in January 1996, Yvette SPRAGUE Willson is working as a staff attorney for Legal Aid of Central Michigan; she is married to Thomas WILLSON (College Eight '88), who is finishing his Ph.D. in soil microbiology at Michigan State University.

'91 Lisa SONIN Larsen was married in June 1996 and is pursuing a doctoral degree in psychology at John F. Kennedy University.

'92 Pablo GONZALEZ received his M.S. in mechanical engineering from UC Davis in 1996 and is now working in the robotics field in Silicon Valley. Matthew GREEN is a legislative assistant for Congressman Sam Farr in Washington, D.C.

'93 Steffen ECKART received his M.A. in teaching English to speakers of other languages from the Monterey Institute of International Studies; he is now living with his wife in Kanagawa, Japan.

Crown College

'70 Norma MARASCHIN received a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT in 1974; she is now director of research and development at Quantum Chemical Corporation. Suzanne RAMPTON has left the firm she founded to become senior vice president and director of account planning at Campbell-Ewald Advertising in Los Angeles.

'71 Janet GLASGOW Mulshine is married, has two boys and the usual school and community involvements, and works in the field of environmental management. "Life is fun when children think about UCSC," she writes.

'72 Tobeylynn BIRCH donated a videotape titled First Steps in Library Research: The Presearch, which she produced for the American Library Association, to the UCSC Alumni Association authors' library. Birch is director of Library and Information Services at the Los Angeles campus of the California School of Professional Psychology.

'79 Chris METZLER is on sabbatical leave from his position as professor of geology and oceanography at Mira Costa College in San Diego County.

'82 John STERITZ is living north of Houston with his wife and two children, exploring for oil in Venezuela, and trying to learn Spanish.

'85 Frank SOUZA is controller for GST-Call America Business Communications in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

'86 Jan WILLIAMSON "has put her art degree to good use spending most of her time filling out sweepstakes entry order forms, confident she'll be a million dollar winner before the end of the millennium."

'89 Scott SEIWERT is the 1996 grand prize winner of the Pharmacia Biotech & Science Magazine Prize for Young Scientists. His winning essay was on RNA editing in trypanosomes, microscopic organisms that lead to tropical diseases in humans and cattle.

'91 Mabel Ann LEW graduated from University of the Pacific's pharmacy program in May 1996 and is now working as a pharmacist. She and Chris LAWTON (Crown '90) are planning to get married in July 1997.

Merrill College

'71 Ken DOCTOR has been named vice president/editorial of Knight-Ridder New Media, which oversees 34 Knight- Ridder Internet products, including Mercury Center, Philadelphia Online, and (Miami) Herald Link, along with online directories, entertainment guides, and house-hunting Web sites.

'76 Fred DAVIDSON was recently named the deputy general counsel to a presidential commission examining ways to protect the nation's critical infrastructures from physical and cyber threats.

'78 Jean SCHMIDT Anthony is an elementary school principal in Redwood City, Calif., and she and her husband are raising three children. Peter BURKETT is a commercial fisherman, a sheep farmer, and the father of four children.

'80 Michael JURGENS has pursued a career in the building industry as a general contractor. "Would like to hear from college buddies--it's been a while," he writes.

'85 Alice LEARY Inoue is a news anchor for Japan TV News and host of a sports show on the Fuji Channel in Honolulu, Hawaii.

'89 Dale BOUTIETTE has joined the San Francisco law firm of Kaufman & Logan, specializing in environmental insurance coverage and business litigation; he received his J.D. from University of San Francisco School of Law in 1995.

'90 Carolyn (Kit) CHERRY continues to work in the Minneapolis public schools; she is now coordinating a program for students with severe emotional/behavioral disorders. Pamela LERI is the vice president of Global Management Development and Training for Training Management Corporation of Princeton, N.J.; she is also working on a novel and recently received a grant from the Lannan Foundation to support her residency at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Walter LEVISON is a consulting forester to PG&E, and he teaches African drumming.

'91 Daniel "Jack" FITCH is spending his sixth year of self-imposed retirement/exile, traveling overland from South Africa to France; he will be returning to the U.S. in December 1997 and can be contacted at fitchum@aol.com. Elizabeth WATSON is in the Ph.D. program in art history at the City University of New York's Graduate School and University Center.

'92 Dmitria SOKOLOW has moved to Billings, Mont., to live with her fiancé, Eric WAGER (Merrill '92), who is a paramedic. She is pursuing a teaching credential at Rocky Mountain College.

'93 Ana Silvia TURCIOS is working toward an M.S. and an M.F.C.C. at CSU Los Angeles, and she is working for UC Cooperative Extension in L.A.

'96 Carlos ARTETA is pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at UC Berkeley.

Porter College

'74 Teresa McNEIL MacLean's drawings and paintings of landscapes were shown at the Side Street Café in Los Olivos, Calif., in January and at The Roasted Bean in Santa Ynez, Calif., in February.

'75 Gene KRAHAM is a family practice physician's assistant in a rural health clinic in a town of 1,000 in southwest Oklahoma; he has five children.

'77 Rebecca MORGAN was quoted in an article in the Orange County Register titled "Get a Grip: Seven Authors Pinpoint Bad Habits Worth Changing." She is the author of two books, titled Professional Selling and Calming Upset Customers.

'79 Patty CASON is working as a family nurse practitioner in Mill Valley, Calif.; she has two children, Noah and Mikaila.

'82 Alan SCHROEDER's book Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman has won this year's Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration; it also received the Christopher Award, which is given to work that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.

'84 Susan Laura GENTZ Gillespie has recently completed a master's in counseling psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and she married Constantine Gillespie in May 1996.

'85 After receiving an M.A. in secondary education in 1995, Tracy PHILLIPS is teaching art and language arts in a middle school, and she was recently married.

'88 Joe COLLETTI is selling computers by day and singing and acting by night.

'89 Miriam SALZER and David DUNN (Kresge '89) have a son, Reuben, born in November 1996.

'90 After receiving a master's in social work from San Diego State University in 1994, Ché LE SEUR works with abused children and reunites families as a social worker for Child Protective Services in San Diego.

'93 Mark MACH is in the life-span developmental psychology master's program at CSU San Bernardino.

'94 Christina HOPKINS planned to complete a J.D. at McGeorge School of Law in May 1997.

Kresge College

'74 Sara GRISHAM McCarthy is a principal consultant to the California State Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

'82 Panda KROLL and Kevin VOLKAN (Kresge '81), who met at Kresge, are moving from Santa Cruz to Boston, where they will celebrate their 10th anniversary and begin graduate programs. Kroll will enter law school at Boston University to pursue her interests in applying the Internet to online dispute resolution and new problems in intellectual property law; Volkan will pursue a master's degree in public health with an emphasis in biostatistics at Harvard's School of Public Health.

'87 Eloise (Latimah) SHIM is a computer consultant in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, and when she's not in front of a computer, she is writing a screenplay and teaching.

'88 Kathleen "Kat" McDIVITT is co-owner and marketing manager of an Internet training and Webmaster certification company called The Chapel Hill Group in Chapel Hill, N.C.

'89 Christine GUERRE Grant has been accepted as a predoctoral intern in counseling psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and she and her partner, Melonie MILLER (Kresge '89), are moving to Austin this summer. Mike HONSBERGER is living in Leucadia, Calif., and has started Surf City Stock Footage, a company specializing in surfing footage for broadcast advertising. After receiving a master's in English from Old Dominion University and a J.D. from Temple University, Jonathan David WEISS is now working in the Appellate Department at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in Philadelphia.

'90 Susanna VILLAREJO Majernik is attending graduate school to obtain a California CLAD teaching credential and she hopes to start teaching in fall of 1997; she has remarried and has a son, Zachary.

'92 Jonathan BENAK is an EMT living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where, for the last five years, he has been a river guide during the summer and a snowboard instructor in the winter. Richard HALL is area manager for Integrated Health Services/Symphony Home Care and is living in the Napa Valley with his wife Rachel Leach.

'93 Stephanie CREVIER Iles and her husband, David, had their first child, Nicholas, in December 1996, and now she is a stay-at-home mom.

Oakes College

'74 Dana PIERCE-Hedge lobbies for public health bills for the California Department of Health Services; she is chairperson of the Sacramento Urban Indian Health Project; and she teaches Native American studies at CSU Sacramento.

'78 Rebeca RANGEL offers workshops and seminars on self-esteem and cultural diversity through her firm Unlimited Woman Consultants in San Jose.

'79 Breton CARR and his wife, Nadezhda Tselikova, have a baby girl, born in December 1996, weighing 3.5 kg., with her father's eyes, her mother's lips, and Zhirinovsky's nose.

'80 Sharron BASSANO, an ESL instructor and program coordinator at UC Santa Cruz Extension, was a plenary speaker at the Thirty-First Annual TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention in Orlando, Fla.

'82 Sharon GRAYER Wolf has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

'83 Annamarie MELODIA has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for undergraduate education and director of the Office of Campus Interrelations at Indiana University­p;Purdue University Indianapolis; she works directly under vice chancellor for undergraduate education J. Herman Blake, former UCSC professor of sociology and founding provost of Oakes College.

'92 Sasha DICKINSON Keller is pursuing her master's in U.S. history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, focusing on labor history. Catherine PFISTER is pursuing her master's in social work at San Francisco State University; her e-mail address is pfisterc@sfsu.edu.

College Eight

'76 Laura RICE Beauchesne is an attorney specializing in technology law matters; she has worked for Merrill Lynch in New York City for the last five years. John GROENINGS is with Coldwell Banker in Sarasota, Fla.

'78 Hope BARR Smith is living and teaching in Big Sky Country with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and two cats. "It really is the last best place," she writes.

'83 William STANDLEY is living in the small coastal town of Cayucos, Calif., and operating his own consulting firm doing wildlife research and creating World Wide Web sites for the Internet.

'90 Aaron PERLMUTTER is in the first year of internal medicine training at the University of Hawaii.

'91 Elyssa ELDRIDGE is living with her husband in Tempe, Ariz., and is a buyer/planner for Three-Five Systems, a company that manufactures liquid crystal display modules. Emma Stacy JOHNSON is working for the Service Employees International Union doing research to organize workers in agencies that serve people with mental illnesses or who are developmentally delayed. She lives with her girlfriend, Stephanie, who is an organizer with the SEIU.

'92 Ross SMITH has been busy implementing integrated pest management and sustainable practices in Central Valley agriculture for over four years; he also makes wine and is engaged to be married.

'96 Wendy Nadine SZETO expected to complete a master's in accounting at the University of Southern California in May and go to work for Arthur An-dersen as an auditor/accountant.

Graduate Studies

'74 Richard ZWEIGENHAFT is Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., and author of Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America (Yale University Press, 1991); he has coauthored, with UCSC's Bill Domhoff, an article titled "Sophisticated Conservatives and Integration of Prep Schools: The Creation, Funding, and Evolution of the 'A Better Chance' Program," which
appeared in the journal Research in Public Policy, vol. 5, 1997.

'86 Lisa LOWE is a professor of comparative literature at UC San Diego, and she recently published Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996).

'91 David SONNENFELD is assistant professor of sociology at Washington State University, where he continues his research on industry, environment, and social movements in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Northwest.

'92 Alan HOLYOAK has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs at Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind., where he has been on the faculty for the past five years. He will maintain his appointment as assistant professor of biology and will continue to teach.

'94 Sue GOETINCK, a writer for the Dallas Morning News, has received a William Harvey Award for excellence in newspaper writing on the subject of high blood pressure. Her article, titled "Scientists Search for Genetic Causes Behind Hypertension," appeared in the Dallas Morning News on September 4, 1995.

In Memoriam

Mary CALDWELL (Crown '72) died from a recurrence of breast cancer on December 3, 1996. Lucinda MELCHIOR Desmond (Merrill '81) died after a long struggle with breast cancer at her home in Walnut Creek, Calif., on December 7, 1996. She is survived by her husband of seven years, Gregory M. Desmond. David ORMOND (Cowell '85) died of a heart attack on December 18, 1996, in Phoenix, Ariz.; he was 50. David Ormond was a school psychologist at the Phoenix Day School for the Deaf and a board member of the unit providing psychological services for the hearing impaired at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.


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