Cowell College
'67 Michael FARNEY has been named the Philip G. Laurson
Professor of Mathematics and promoted to full professor at
Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S. Dak.
'68 Ellen SCHIFF has been a nuclear medicine technologist
at Sonoma Valley Hospital since 1976; she has a black belt
in Shito-Ryu karate, a second kyu in Bo-Okinawan kobudo, and
she is an assistant karate instructor.
'73 After seven years living in Hong Kong and working as
regional managing director of a personal and organizational
effectiveness training company, Mitchell FEIGENBERG
and his family are returning to northern California this
July; he would love to hear from old classmates at
mfeigenberg@compuserve.com. David HOVLAND has worked
for 25 years in the fields of geology and environmental
geology and is now manager of Idaho's Drinking Water
Program.
'76 In summer 1998, Richard LEITER was promoted to full
professor of law and appointed associate dean for
Information and Technology Services at Howard University
School of Law; his book, Concordance of Federal
Legislation, was published by William S. Hein Co. in
1998.
'77 Rita ROSENKRANZ runs the Rita
Rosenkranz Literary Agency in New York City; she has worked
with alumna Patricia HALL (see Stevenson '70) on five
books.
'80 Scott ENGLER spent the summer of 1998
in Poland visiting relatives with his wife, Zuza; they have
moved recently to Petaluma, Calif., and Scott can be reached
at scotte@aol.com.
'82 Karen LINICK and Vince ROMERO (Cowell
'84) are married, and their son, Evan Romero, was born in
October 1998. Vince is teaching high school social studies
and coaching the academic team and varsity basketball; Karen
is a full-time mom trying to figure out how to supplement
their income without having to be away from home 11 hours a
day.
'84 After finishing a residency in family medicine at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995, William
(Sandy) CRAIG joined the UNC Medical School faculty; did
medical work in Malaysian Borneo with his wife,
anthropologist Kirsten Edey; and is working now as a family
doctor at a rural health center in Vermont.
'85 Karen NEWBRUN Einstein teaches English
as a second language at Santa Rosa Junior College; she is
living in cohousing in Sebastopol, Calif., and is the proud
mother of four-year-old twins, Koby and Elsa.
'88 Jennifer HATHORNE is working in Salt
Lake City as a development associate for the Sundance
Institute, raising money for the Sundance Film Festival and
the Theatre Program.
'91 Elisa GORDON completed her Ph.D. in anthropology at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and is now
working as a research associate in the Department of
Medicine at the University of Chicago. Rachel MARTIN,
a senior financial auditor at Barclays Global Investors
in San Francisco, began an evening M.B.A. program at the
Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in fall 1998. Michael
SMITH has recently finished his Ph.D. in environmental and
community sociology at Utah State University and feels
fortunate to have landed a tenure-track assistant professor
position in natural resources planning at Humboldt State
University in Arcata, Calif. "He is happy to be back living
and working in a place where there are redwoods surrounding
campus buildings and banana slugs prowling the
sidewalks."
'92 After spending two and a half years in Nairobi with
the Peace Corps and subsequent stays in Argentina and Spain,
Christopher MONDAY is in St. Petersburg, Russia,
working on a master's degree in economics. Jane Parks-McKAY
is a reporter for the Times Publishing Group's family of
newspapers; she is at work on her third book and "credits
her UCSC education for her current activities."
'93 Sara DANIELSEN is finishing her master's in
theater from UC Santa Barbara and has relocated to San
Francisco with Amanda WYLIE (Cowell '94).
'95 Eric LIPTON is working in Washington, D.C., for the
Tribune Company doing production and reporting for the
various Tribune television stations, Internet sites, and
newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, KTLA-TV in
Los Angeles, WPIX-TV in New York, and their Web sites.
Marine Lance Cpl. Charles McEWEN is currently
deployed to the western Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and
Arabian Gulf with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Ready
Group.
'96 Bruce ROCKWELL won the Jim Highsmith
Competition for Composition from the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music for his piece, "Fire Signs"; the piece
was performed in January by the San Francisco Conservatory
Orchestra with Jung-HoPAK (Cowell '85) conducting.
'97 After serving in the Peace Corps in Eritrea, East
Africa, Betty DEPPS is now teaching English at a high school
in Japan.
'98 Neal HARTLEY was voted best teacher for
1998-99 at the high school in Saitama, Japan, where
he is teaching English. When asked about his most
influential teacher, he answers, Dane Archer, from whom he
took classes on sociological methods and nonverbal
communication.
Stevenson College
'69 Diane COHAN was awarded a license in marriage
and family therapy from the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences in 1998; she has been a licensed private
investigator for 17 years.
'70 Patricia HALL is the author of Johnny
Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy: The Definitive
Biography of America's Premier Juvenile Entertainer
(1993) and the Raggedy Ann and Andy Postcard Book
(1998).
'71 Charles (Chuck) BURTON has moved with his wife
and daughter to Steilacoom, Wash., where he is a seasonal
tax preparer. He also hikes and bikes and has won nine major
tournament bridge titles in the last several years. Jonathan
KIRSCH is the author of two best-selling books on the Bible
and two books on publishing law; he is also a contributing
writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a
book critic for National Public Radio affiliate KPCC-FM in
southern California. Kirsch practices law in the field of
publishing and intellectual property as a partner in the
firm Kirsch & Mitchell. His wife, Ann BENJAMIN Kirsch
(Porter '71), is a psychotherapist in private practice
in Beverly Hills. Jeanette PETERSON Nutcher is teaching
K-12 students in an English Language Development
program in Lone Pine, Calif.; she has been involved in
bilingual education since 1973 and received her M.A. in
bilingual crosscultural special education in 1987 from San
Jose State University. She added the following comment on
the article on Adilah Barnes in the last UCSC Review:
"Herman Blake had a profound influence on my career and
interest in my own heritage, as did Murray Baumgarten and
Norman O. Brown." Nina SUNTZEFF Zagaris is working in the
Development Department at the Jewish Museum in San Francisco
and finishing her M.A. in museum studies at John F. Kennedy
University in Orinda, Calif.; she is president of the Board
of Directors of the Modesto Sister Cities International.
'72 Judy BERGER directs new leadership development
initiatives for Health Forum, a subsidiary
of the American Hospital Association, based in San
Francisco.
'73 Robert BROOKS is working with a police
department in a juvenile-delinquency prevention program,
teaching criminal justice at a local university, and working
his 40-acre farm in his spare time. Christine ABRAHAMSON
McClelland holds leadership positions in a local NAMI
(National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) group, providing
companionship and education for people affected by mental
illness.
'77 Dori BARNETT is a school psychologist at three
schools in the Brea Olinda Unified School District; she was
recently awarded a human services recognition for her work
as a school psychologist and conflict management program
coordinator. Sharon HAYS, an assistant professor of
sociology and women's studies at the University of
Virginia, has written a book about the contemporary
ideology of "intensive mothering" and the unrealistic
expectations of mothers, titled The Cultural
Contradictions of Motherhood (Yale University Press,
1998).
'83 Beverly CRAIR has joined Sun Microsystems in
Menlo Park as manager of the NFS (network file system)
development team.
'84 Diane KERN Hamilton's business won the Telstra
and government Small Business Award for the southwest of
Australia in 1997 and the Telstra Internet Innovation Award
in 1998; in her free time, Diane is an active member of the
local theater group and a Cub Scout leader.
'85 After graduating from the University of Montana Law
School in 1988, Andrew SUENRAM is living and
practicing law in the "last best place"--Dillon, Mont.; he
is married and has two daughters.
'87 Lance BERNARD is teaching U.S. history
at the University of Nevada at Reno and finishing his Ph.D.
in history. Chuck FLACKS changed careers in 1998 and is now
working in market research. Eric MENDELSON writes, "the
years I've spent on my mountain bike in the uphill battle
against gravity have paid off with a lifetime achievement
award from the Flummoxed by Physics Society."
'89 Michael Norman MANN has written a
musical theater production, titled Cumberland Blues,
which tells the story of a disintegrating Appalachian mining
family in the 1940s and features classic songs from the
Grateful Dead; the play ran at the Stage Door Theater in San
Francisco in summer 1998.
'91 Kim BEA is in the first year of a master's program in
history at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St.
Paul. Dana CADILLI Linnet returned to the U.S. after six
years of corporate life, graduate study, and public service
in Denmark; she is now president and founder of
ICON-International Consultants in Boston. Julie SEVRENS has
been appointed to the position of health and fitness writer
at the San Jose Mercury News.
'92 Marcia WALL is teaching English at the University of
San Diego. Timothy WEINER is a second-year law
student at Southwestern University School of Law in Los
Angeles; this summer he is clerking for a Superior Court
judge in Los Angeles County.
'93 Carolyn LEEDY received her M.D. from Northwestern
University Medical School in 1998; she is presently a
resident in pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center
in Washington, D.C.
'96 Jolene ALLRED is serving with the Peace Corps in
Jamaica, working with the National Resources Protection
Authority on improving water quality and maintaining
freshwater resources. Mai BLOOMFIELD is practicing graphic
design in southern California and pursuing her love of music
as vocal and guitar lead in an all-women band called Raining
Jane. After moving to Portland, Ore., as an AmeriCorps
member, Renée SANCHEZ is now working as a tenant
organizer.
'97 Sarah RUSSELL is in her first year of medical school
at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
'98 Andrea VAN NOTE is pursuing an M.S. in counseling at
San Francisco State University; she has recently become
engaged and "already misses UCSC."
Crown College
'69 Jack OTIS took a year off from the printing business
to participate in the Expo 98 Round the World Rally, in
which he sailed over 20,000 downwind miles in 358 days on a
Nelson Merick 68 "Maverick." The trip took him across three
oceans and four seas and to four continents and over 20
islands.
'71 Deborah KAPLAN is
executive director of the
World Institute on Disability in Oakland. Kathy BENDER Koch
is working as a clinical laboratory scientist in cancer
research at the University Medical Center in Göttingen,
Germany.
'73 After working for 20 years in Sacramento drafting
education legislation, Rick SIMPSON has joined Governor Gray
Davis's team as educational liaison to the legislature.
'83 Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine
awarded Larry CORNMAN, a researcher at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., one of its
annual laurels for his lead role in developing a new method
of measuring atmospheric turbulence from commercial
aircraft.
'84 Lisa SIEVERTS is still living in Boise, Idaho, with
the goats and chickens.
'86 Jennifer BUNDY Koenigs is hiking in the desert,
taking ballet and piano lessons, and camping with her
family; she is involved with Cub Scouting, and she's a
soccer mom.
'89 Nick KOPSINIS completed his master's in education at
Chapman University and is now in his tenth year of teaching
at a middle school.
'90 Jason HOFFMAN is working for Wells Fargo in
information security; he plans to enter an M.B.A. program at
St. Mary's College this summer.
'91 Damian BIONDO is halfway through a J.D. program at
Georgetown University and is contemplating a career as an
art lawyer.
'92 Amanda SARGENT received her master's degree in social
work in 1998 at USC and recently moved back to Santa
Cruz.
'93 Karen Lara ACKERMANN completed a
master's degree in marine biology at the College
of William and Mary in Williams-burg, Va., in January.
Gary LISKA was chosen new associate of the year
for John Hancock Financial Services in 1995 and 1996; in
1997, he started his own registered investment advisory
firm, SEIA. After receiving her M.S.W. from Loma
Linda University in 1997, Susan RITTER is now living on the
Mendocino coast and working as a social worker for Child
Protective Services.
'94 Henry DAVIS is graduating from the University of
Nevada Medical School and moving, with his wife, Lucy
ROBBINS Davis (Porter '94), and their three children, to
Tacoma, Wash., where he will begin a residency in family
medicine.
'96 Virginia Anne YOUNG was expecting to graduate from
Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley in May.
'98 Through his involvement with the Cabrillo
College Archaeological Program, Matthew ARMSTRONG was
part of a team that uncovered an ancient Native American
site in Monterey County during a routine survey of land in
Los Padres National Forest; he also assisted in an
excavation of an original Spanish cathedral at the San
Francisco Presidio.
Merrill College
'71 After 17 years living in Israel, where she
worked as a teacher and an editor, Joan (now
Yael)
MILIMAN Gott is living in Bellingham, Wash., with
the younger of her two daughters;
she is enrolled in a program for clinical pastoral education
and is working as a hospital chaplain
intern.
'76 Bernard GOLDEN has been named vice
president of engineering at Deploy Solutions, a company
specializing in workforce management software.
'79 Peter COLE is a social worker in
private practice in Sacramento and a clinical instructor of
psychiatry at UC Davis School of Medicine; he lives with his
wife, Daisy, and their blended family of five kids in Fair
Oaks, Calif.
'83 Deidre WILLETTE Paknad and her husband,
Mohammad PAKNAD (Crown '85), live in Palo Alto with their
five-year-old daughter, Azora, and are cofounders of a
Silicon Valley start-up company, Glyphica. Deidre and
Glyphica were recently inducted into the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of American History for the
company's work in preserving historical Olympic documents on
the Internet.
'85 Persis KARIM received her Ph.D. in comparative
literature from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998
and will take a position as an assistant professor at San
Jose State this fall; she is coeditor of A World Between:
Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian Americans,
published in April by George Braziller.
'86 Juan RAMIREZ has had his book A Patriot
After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet--which
began as his undergraduate thesis--published by the
University of New Mexico Press; he owns a landscaping
business in Watsonville.
'89 Michelle ANDERSON is a professor of law
at Villanova University School of Law. Jonathan
KLEIN is a partner at the 14-attorney law firm of
Kelly, Herlihy, Advani & Klein in San Francisco; he has
a new baby girl named Rachel. John PEREIRA and his
wife, Anne Riddell, were expecting their first child in fall
1998; they have relocated to Mexico City, where he
represents Bechtel in the Latin America northern region in
the area of human resources. He asks
"moat rats" to contact him at
merrillslug@mailexcite.com.
'90 Carolyn CHERRY is doing special
education monitoring and compliance in the Minneapolis
schools; she would like friends and classmates to write her
at cjcblossom@aol.com.
'91 Debra SCHMIDT is living and working in
the San Diego area and teaching ESL in Baja California,
Mexico.
'92 Kate SULLIVAN lives in Minneapolis and
is a pop music critic at the St. Paul Pioneer Press,
as well as a theater critic for American Theater
Magazine and an arts reporter for City Pages
weekly newspaper.
'94 Linda MIKLOSKO is an editor of research
publications and the Web development manager for the Wood
Materials and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State
University; she and her son, Aaron, live in Moscow,
Idaho.
Porter College
'72 Diane KOMINICK Ouzoonian is working as
an art teacher for prekindergarten through 12th-grade
students at a Christian school in New York; she is in a
master's program at SUNY and has been involved in missionary
work in the Philippines.
'74 In spring 1998, Lisa JENSEN Aschbacher
had her first novel published in Germany, and she and
her husband, artist James Aschbacher, painted a mural in
downtown Santa Cruz; this year she celebrates 23 years as
film critic for the Good Times, 14 years as a book
critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and 20 years
of marriage. Noe LOZANO is enjoying working at Stanford but
misses UCSC; he has one daughter at Stanford, one applying
to UCSC, and two boys still too young for college. Teresa
McNEIL MacLean teaches colored-pencil drawing, writing and
performing poetry, and "music of the westward expansion" in
Santa Ynez, Calif., area schools; she had a one-person show
of her drawings and watercolors in February at the Faulkner
East Gallery in Santa Barbara.
'77 B. J. BAUER Glowacki is working toward
an M.A. in special education and a concurrent CLAD and
special education credential at National University.
Laura MORRELL Marello has written four novels, a
collection of stories, and a collection of novellas; she
teaches at the State University of New York at Albany.
'78 Steven PEÑA recently left Warner
Bros. Online to become counsel in the L.A. office of Brown,
Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner; he's still working
on entertainment matters,
including Internet issues.
'79 Singer and songwriter Carmaig DE FOREST
has a new album titled El Camino Real.
'80 Kathryn CHETKOVICH's collection of
short stories about women and their friendships,
titled Friendly Fire, was the 1998 winner of the John
Simmons Short Fiction Award, a national juried award through
the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Jennifer COLBY is the
owner of Galería Tonantzin, which shows women's
contemporary art in San Juan Bautista, Calif.; she teaches
in various colleges and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the
California Institute of Integral Studies.
'84 In September 1998, Camryn MANHEIM
won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Drama Series for her role as attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC's
The Practice. She has had feature roles in a number
of films as well, including Romy and Michelle's High
School Reunion, Mercury Rising, Happiness, and
David Searching.
'85 Mattison FITZGERALD's paintings are on
an animated film on the Internet, which was screened at the
Cannes Film Festival; her work is archived in the National
Museum of Women in Arts.
'90 Michael DILLON lives and teaches in
lovely Venice, Calif. After graduating from the University
of La Verne Law School in 1998 with his J.D. and passing the
California Bar, Marc GROSSMAN has opened a law office
in Upland, Calif., and is building a practice, hoping to
specialize in consumer and class-action matters.
Folksinger/songwriter Gillian WELCH's second
album, Hell Among the Yearlings, was released in
1998; her first album, Revival (1996), was nominated
for a Grammy.
'91 Andrew EHRNSTEIN earned the Top Gun
Award for business growth in 1998 within the Lynden Air
Freight system; he and his wife, Cynthia, bought a house
with studio space for them both.
'92 Susannah COPI received her M.F.A. in
film production from CalArts; she is currently teaching film
classes at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. John
FOWLER is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya,
teaching basic fundamentals of biology and chemistry to high
school students.
'93 Alexis Lynne PAVENICK earned an M.Phil.
in anthropology from Cambridge University in England and a
master's in English from Cal Poly, Pomona; she married Alex
Tennant, a mechanical engineer, in 1997.
'95 Monica CREASON de la Garza is a
research assistant at the L. A. County Natural History
Museum and is working toward an M.A. in art history and
museum studies; she recently married Jaime de la Garza.
'96 After serving in the Peace Corps,
William KTSANES is now director of an
organization caring for HIV-positive children in Thailand,
and he is proud to announce the birth and adoption of his
son, Thomas, a Thai child orphaned by AIDS.
Kresge College
'75 Dana Andersen-WYMAN is head of drama at
Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Tex.
'76 Gael PERRIN is happily living in
Novato, Calif., with her husband and considering the options
for graduate school.
'79 Navy Chief Petty Officer Elsa FRIEDMAN
Conely was one of more than 5,000 sailors and marines
aboard the USS John C. Stennis who recently spent a
record 131 days in the Arabian Gulf helping to enforce
mandates levied against Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
'83 Kevin ERGIL is director of research at
the New York College in Syosset, N.Y.; he is conducting
research in alternative and complementary medicine.
'84 Jim SCHWEITZER is president of the
Yorba Linda Lions Club, as well as secretary of the North
Orange Region of District 4-L4 Lions Club in Orange County,
Calif.; he is also secretary of the Brea Historical
Society.
'88 Daphne BROGDON is cohost of CNET
Central, a show on computer gadgets on the USA/Sci-Fi
networks and producer and call screener for Dr. Dean Edell's
KGO radio show; she is also a cocreator and performer with
an improv group called Scratch Theater.
'89 Carl DURHAM left the position of vice
president of a Santa Cruz company to return to the Bay Area
and practice law in San Jose. Christine JOHNSON-Staub
has a 14-month-old son, Benjamin, and she has recently
begun a position as director of research and public policy
for Associated Day Care Services in Boston.
'92 Elena AGUILAR is in a Ph.D. program in
anthropology at UC Berkeley; she married the love of her
life in 1998. Jonathan BENAK is currently on a preceptorship
in the emergency room at Washington, D.C., General Hospital
as a second-year physician's assistant student; he expects
to graduate from the MCP Hahnemann University Physician
Assistant Program in August.
'94 Michelle SHIN graduated from Hastings
College of Law with a J.D. in 1998.
'95 Shelley BATES sold her first novella,
titled "Strictly Business," which will be published by Red
Sage this summer. After graduating from McGeorge School of
Law, Robert SCHMITT is working as associate city attorney
for the city of Roseville, Calif.
'96 Cassandra MOONEY taught English in
Spain for two years; now she is doing research on women
photographers.
'98 Angela THOMPSON is currently working
for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and is searching
for a good graduate program in journalism.
Oakes College
'76 Denise SEGURA is a sociologist at UC
Santa Barbara, and she directs the university's Center for
Chicano Studies.
'80 Tamara NICHOLS is a licensed marriage
and family therapist working with seriously emotionally
disturbed (SED) adolescents and with perpetrators of
domestic violence.
'81 Christoph RUBACH is an actor in an
experimental English dance company that has been touring
throughout Europe with a production relating to the
Holocaust.
'90 Paul BUSE is a tax preparer with
Mission Financial Services, and he owns his own bookkeeping
firm; he and his wife, Suzanne Barreras, live in Santa Cruz
and have a daughter, Caitlin Jane, born in 1998. Barry
HAINES was made an officer of General Reinsurance
Corporation in 1998.
'92 Catherine PFISTER completed her M.S.W.
at San Francisco State University in 1998 and is now working
with disabled children in San Mateo County. She and her
"compañero," Jonathan, live in San Francisco and are
planning a trip around the world.
'93 After receiving an M.S.W. from Boston College
Graduate School of Social Work in 1997, Sherie FULLER
Smith is teaching health in a middle school. Matthew
RAHMAN has been awarded a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the F.
Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences; he is currently engaged
in a postdoctoral fellowship in drug-abuse research at Texas
A&M University.
'94 Michelle JELINCH graduated from the
Monterey Institute of International Studies with an M.A. in
teaching English as a second language in 1995 and is now a
full-time faculty member at Hartnell College in Salinas,
Calif., teaching ESL. Janis BARNEY Aziza Varo is a
nationally certified massage therapist; she also works as a
services administrator for a software company.
'95 After graduating from medical school at
Michigan State University, Estaban LOPEZ has moved to
Houston with his wife, Agueda LOPEZ (Oakes '92), and their
three daughters, where he is completing a residency in
internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Texas
at Houston.
College Eight
'82 April ZILBER has been working as a
glass artist for six years; "still trying to figure out what
to do with my science background," she writes.
'83 Brian McRAE is living in the beautiful
northern-beaches area of Sydney, Australia, with his wife
and six-year-old son; he is the technical director for the
Australian Water and Wastewater Association. He would be
happy to hear from anyone at bmcrae@awwa.asn.au.
'85 Since receiving an M.S. in forest resources
from the University of Idaho in
1994, Natalie SHAPIRO has been working with environmental
groups in Idaho and is currently doing research for
attorneys in a lawsuit against one of the national forests;
she is also involved in human rights issues, such as
protesting the Aryan Nations parade in northern Idaho last
summer and fighting antigay initiatives.
'88 Kelley BURST (K. B.) Singer is an
internal medicine physician and mother of Oskar and Otto;
she is married to a Brandeis University graduate.
'90 After finishing an M.D. at Boston
University, Aaron PERLMUTTER is completing his
residency in internal medicine at the University of
Hawaii.
'91 After two busy years at Net-scape,
Heather TRUMBOWER is working as a software
engineer for a pre-IPO company developing enterprise
application integration software.
'94 An identical twin herself, Tracy Lea SMITH
Oskolkoff is now the proud mother of identical twin
girls.
'95 Winnie POON is working in the Asset
Management Department at Solectron Corp.
'98 Corey QUINN's company, Quintal Internetworking
LLC, provided a live video/audio broadcast on the Internet
of all the action taking place at O'Brien's Irish Pub in
Santa Monica, Calif., on St. Patrick's Day.
Graduate Studies
'81 Kathy Louise RAFKIN (M.A., literature) is the
author of Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious
Adventures, a collection of humorous and thoughtful
essays drawn from interviews with housecleaners and her own
experiences cleaning other people's houses.
'86 James HATTERSLEY (M.S., chemistry) has moved
with his wife, Jennifer, and his children to Salt Lake City
for Anesta Corp., an anesthesiology/analgesia pain
management drug delivery company.
'88 Eugene SHEEHAN (Ph.D., psychology) was chosen
the 1998 Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern
Colorado, where he is professor of psychology and department
chair; the honor carried with it an award of $1,500. Hardi
PRASETYO (Ph.D., earth sciences) has been appointed
assistant to the minister of mines and energy in
Indonesia.
'89 Jon HOLTZMAN (Ph.D., astronomy), an assistant
professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University in Las
Cruces, won a campus award for outstanding teaching.
'91 Wolfgang ROSENBERG (cert., theater arts) has
given up commuting from San Francisco and moved to Santa
Cruz permanently.
'92 Ceyda CAN (M.A., applied economics) married
Kutlu Aricanli in 1998, and they live in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
'96 Lucía RAEL (M.A., education)
has been selected as advising and retention coordinator
for the Title III Grant Project at Oregon Institute of
Technology in Klamath Falls. Portia ROLLINGS (cert.,
science illustration) provided the cover art for the July
1998 issue of National Geographic. (See page 15.)
'97 Alexander (Sasha) BOGDANOWITSCH (M.A.,
music) wrote and performed a piece titled "Atom Turning in
the Sun of Eternity" at the American Festival of Microtonal
Music in 1998; his piece was described as an "intriguing
work" with a "winning authenticity" in a New York
Times review of the festival.
'98 Katherine SPILDE (Ph.D., anthropology) has
been appointed policy analyst/writer on the national
Gambling Impact Study Commission; she is in charge of
writing the section on Indian Gaming for the commission's
report.
In Memoriam
Eugene FRANK (Cowell '76), a passionate Jew and
cocreator, with his wife, Leslie Gattman, of a Jewish
ceramic arts business, died of an aneurysm at his home in
Forestville, Calif., in November 1998; he was 45.
Terence FREITAS (Crown '97), who had been working to
preserve the culture of the U'wa, an indigenous people in
Colombia, was found shot to death near the
Colombia-Venezuela border in early March; he was 24. Friends
of the Freitas family have established an endowment at UCSC
in his honor to support the research of undergraduate
students in environmental studies; to make a contribution to
the endowment, contact Christina Valentino, director of
development for the social sciences, at (831) 459-3857.
Christoffer Erik HARMS (Cowell '91), a former Peace Corps
volunteer, who had worked for the U.S. Geological Survey on
hydrology projects and helped run a safari business,
committed suicide in November 1997. At the time of his
death, he was a master's student in civil engineering at San
Diego State University.
Vicken MARKARIAN (Stevenson '94) died of complications
from an auto accident in December 1998; he was the husband
of Lise MARKARIAN (Merrill '95).
Laurie LATZER Webb (Porter '76) died in May 1998 in
Farningham, England, where she lived with her husband,
Jonathan Webb.
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