Cowell College

'67 Robert BOYLES has had a stroke and has aphasia; he is single and Christian.

'69 Jane KENNER is studying to become a psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Don ROBERTS received two first-prize awards at the Washington Poets Association's annual conference in May 2001; he works as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor in Seattle, where he lives with his wife, Shelley MELTZER Roberts, who attended Stevenson; they have two teenage daughters. Larry ROBINSON is married to Cynthia Kishi, and they live in Sebastopol, Calif., where Larry serves as mayor and practices ecopsychology. Eric THIERMANN is producing documentaries this year on winter in Yosemite, the Balkans, calypso music in Trinidad, contemporary ballet, and Pygmies from the Congo.

'70 Stephen DREWES has been teaching theater at the City College of San Francisco since 1989 and directing locally.

'71 D. Barratt LUCAS Walton is doing international theater projects; she had an original piece, cowritten with Irish actor Donal Merren, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in August 2001.

'76 Patricia ROSE is on the community relations staff at South Humboldt Community Hospital; recently she raised $1.6 million for an affordable housing project for seniors; she was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2000, has undergone treatment, and has a good prognosis. Ginger BURTON Whitehead has two boys, ages 9 and 12, and is a high school teacher in Santa Maria, Calif. Jared WILKINSON is a therapist and radio talk show host; presently he is also a househusband and an investor.

'79 Rachel EPSTEIN has been living in Anchorage for seven years, working as a special events coordinator at the University of Alaska. Peter GILFORD wrote the lead article in the September 2000 issue of the journal American Psychologist; the article, titled "Will Managed Care Change Our Way of Being," was drawn from hermeneutic research on psychotherapy and managed care. Janet STEIN Lazier had her fourth child in November 1999; she continues to run her business, Stein Investigation Agency, in Glendale, Calif., and is active in the PTA and the church.

'80 Steven MAYERS has worked as an administrative assistant at UCSF since 1992 and continues his freelance photography; he has three cats, Brea, Ramses, and Trojan. Several marriages (and children) later, Katherine Anne SMITH is now a frontline supervisor working for the state; she enjoys working with the public as well as assisting technicians in dealing with complicated laws and procedures.

'83 Carol SUNDBORG married Michael Curtiss in April 2001; she is working for a hospice foundation in the East Bay.

'85 Humphrey CHAN is a project consultant at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco; he still scuba dives and plays piano and would like to hear from old friends at freedive@my-deja.com.

'86 Heidi RUDOLPH is a technical recruiter for Rydek Computer Professionals.

'87 Danielle HERRMANN is senior director of administrative operations for the School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she is also a graduate student studying organizational and clinical counseling; her son is a freshman in the Honors Program at the University of Maryland, and she is buying her first home. Douglas REED is an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University; his book, On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity, was published by Princeton University Press in 2001; he credits Bob Meister's Constitutional Law class at UCSC with sparking his lifelong scholarly interest in Supreme Court cases related to poverty, race, education, and public school funding. Melissa SANDERS-SELF has a novel called "All That Lives" in press; her son Dylan is a high school student at Mount Madonna School in Watsonville and her son Luke is at the Santa Cruz Montessori School.

'89 Robert MOOREHEAD is a doctoral student in sociology at UC Davis, studying minority communities in Japan, and his wife, Christina HOOVER Moorehead (Cowell '89), is codirector of a Montessori school in Orangevale; they live in Davis with their two children.

'91 While working part-time as a senior corporate paralegal, Steve GIBSON is going to school full-time at UC Hastings College of the Law.

'92 Carolyn Lee LAGER is buying and fixing up an old house in San Anselmo, working at Levi Strauss & Company, painting, sculpting, and living life! "Always proud to be a UCSC alumni," she writes.

'94 Heidi KLING and her husband, Daryn REICHERTER (Cowell '94), have been living in New York for the past four years; Heidi recently received her M.F.A. in creative writing/writing for children from New School University in Greenwich Village; Daryn just graduated from medical school at New York Medical College and was accepted to Stanford University Hospital for his residency/internship in psychiatry. Sara SNYDER Saldaña teaches third grade in San Francisco, and she is having fun with her young daughter, Kelly, born in March 2001. Kevin WEHR is completing a Ph.D. in sociology; his dissertation is titled "Dam Nation: The State of Nature and the Nature of the State in the American West."

'98 Marcella NEWHOUSE received her M.Sc. from McGill University and is now the HIV/AIDS surveillance epidemiologist for the state of Vermont.

'99 James RILEY is in graduate school in politics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Stevenson College

'70 Linda PALMER De La Ysla is codirector of the Maryland Writing Project and an instructor of writing in the College of Education at Towson University, near Baltimore; she is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland and the mother of two teenagers.

'74 Richard LOESCH is course manager at the National Interagency Civil-Military Institute (NICI) in the area of military support to civil authorities. David Karl WHITE finished residency training in psychiatry four years ago; he and his wife, Kelly, have three children.

'77 Kelvin FILER has bought a new house, and he is now a Superior Court commissioner. Sandor NAGYSZALANCZY's Power Tools: Electrifying Celebration and Grounded Guide was published by Taunton Press in 2001.

'79 Kevin RENNER has joined Planar Systems, where he is responsible for marketing the company's medical systems in the U.S. and Europe.

'81 Sarah PARAD Rowen and her husband Larry ROWEN (Stevenson '81) have been married 19 years and have two beautiful children, Annie and Jake; Larry is vice president of marketing for Sportscapsule.com, and Sarah has a private practice working with the chronic mentally ill. Wendy WEISS is practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine in Lake County, Calif.; she has also started a small gift business, Acme Beach-Animal Company, making sacred animal fetishes, sacred medicine bundles, and humorous and contemplative Banana Slug fetishes.

'82 Jessica Dora (previously MOODY) continues to reside in her hometown of Santa Barbara, where she is a teacher, counselor, and writer.

'83 Ronald DAVISON has a teenage daughter and an 11-year-old son and is enjoying both kids tremendously; he works with companies to accelerate their product development and has recently developed a task-engagement methodology to create more enjoyable work experiences.

'84 Edith ROYAL is teaching second grade at a federal school on Fort Stewart in Georgia and has begun a doctoral program in curriculum studies.

'85 Stephanie DENMARK is associate editor at Consumer Reports Online.

'87 Kyria BIANCHI Osborne earned her teaching credential from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., and taught fourth grade for two years; she is married to Eric Osborne and is now a full-time mother. Steven ROSENFIELD is working as an anesthesiologist in the beautiful state of Alaska; he is happily married and has two daughters.

'88 Nancy BAIN conducts in-service training on fetal alcohol syndrome, and she oversees teen pregnancy prevention programs; she also recently bought a house and got a puppy.

'90 Leonard SCOGGIN is working on his Ph.D. in music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and living in Boston with his wife, who is working on her doctorate in musicology at Boston University.

'91 After graduating from the University of San Francisco with a master's in sports management, Seth BLACHER is working at D1Athletes.com, which provides universities with online recruiting information.

'92 Thomas CHANG was one of 15 San Francisco artists, out of some 350 applicants, who received grants from The ArtCouncil, Inc., in July 2001; Chang's award was $1,500. After attending grad school in San Diego, Amy EVERITT worked as the country manager for Southeast and North Asia at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; now she is working at the Democratic National Committee. Daria PENNINGTON is teaching English at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, Calif. Marcia WALL is still living in New Orleans and recently started a private personal coaching practice; she can be reached via e-mail at wallmarcia@hotmail.com.

'93 Shelley BJORNSTAD has taken a position as producer of interactive projects with the Seattle-based advertising, design, and interactive agency Horton Lantz Marocco.

'94 Gregor HARRIS received a master's degree in social work in 1998 from San Jose State University.

'95 Lucretia MILLER is an editor, film camera assistant, and sound mixer; she is associate producer on CBS's Survivor and works for NFL Films, NBC Sports, and Fox. Tlaloc RIVAS received a 2001-03 National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communications Group Career Development Program grant for directors; he also received a 2001 directing fellowship from the Drama League in New York City.

'96 Jason NELSON recently purchased a house.

'97 Dana WESPISER has been teaching language arts and social studies to ESL middle school students in San Jose, while happily raising her daughter, Isabel.

'98 Joshua CAULKINS is teaching geology at Hunter College, CUNY, while studying geographic information systems and remote sensing within the geography master's program.

'99 Lisbeth ESPINOSA is a media buyer at Walker Advertising in Los Angeles.

Crown College

'70 Gary HARROLD is creating a satisfying life by teaching Hispanic adults, studying piano, being an environmental activist, growing organic pumpkins, doing yoga, and sprinting on nearby Rio Del Mar Beach.

'72 Andrea ASARO is a partner in a small San Francisco law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and complex commercial litigation; she's married to an environmental consultant, and they have a 14-year-old daughter, Emily.

'73 Philip DRELL is the director of community development in the city of Palm Desert, Calif.; he and his wife, Dianne SUECHIKA (Crown '71), have two children, Michael and Gina. Randy FLICK joined a start-up in Silicon Valley and is involved in foreign-language broadcasting via cable and broadband.

'75 Claude ZACHARY is working as university archivist at the University of Southern California and is active in the UCSC and UCLA Alumni Associations.

'77 After four years living and working in Italy, Marc BOND has returned to the U.K. with his wife and two children; he works as a consulting geophysicist with an energy company and has just published his first book, International Relocation: A Practical Guide to Living and Working Overseas. Bob COLLENDER is a senior financial economist with the USDA in Washington, D.C.; he has recently served as an expert witness in cases involving alleged racial discrimination by the government, and he chairs the Agricultural and Rural Finance Roundtable. Ric FORRESTER has two daughters, Madelyne and Gwyneth, and had a third due in October 2000; he is manager of engineering services at a Silicon Valley start-up. Stephen ROSE has been appointed chair of the Health Law Department of the law firm Inslee, Best, Doezie and Ryder; he has two children, Andrew and Emily.

'79 After receiving an M.D. from UC Davis, Janice LINN now works for the Indian Health Service and lives on a 1,400-acre cattle ranch outside Billings, Mont. Robert VALENTE is living with his family in New Delhi, managing the Indian operations of an international business consulting firm.

'83 Scott TEMPLETON has moved to Clemson, S.C., where he is an assistant professor of economics at Clemson University; his research deals with sustainable development; although he is enjoying life in a small college town with friendly people and four seasons, he misses friends and the live-and-let-live attitude of people in the Bay Area. Karen HUTCHINSON Wilbur has taken an extended leave of absence from her job as an internist in a large HMO in San Diego to stay home with her three young sons; she and her husband, Stan Wilbur, also an internist in the same HMO, recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.

'84 Thomas TREVINO is a corrections officer with the California Department of Corrections; he and his wife, Gloria Cienfuegos Trevino, were married in 1991 and have a son, Thomas, born in 1992.

'86 Pauline DENGLER Darrow and her husband, Andy, welcomed a daughter, Kathleen Elizabeth, into their family in August 2000; they are thoroughly enjoying parenthood. Jennifer KOENIGS has become a certified Beginning Teacher Support and Assesssment (BTSA) support provider - a.k.a., a newfangled teacher mentor; her kids, she reports, are awesome and smart too. Steven QUANDT is a partner in forming and incorporating N-Space Technology, which specializes in neural networking solutions; he and his wife, Lisa Jo Quandt, were married in 1995.

'90 Jennifer NOONAN Horne and her husband recently returned from a yearlong journey around the world, visiting 23 extraordinary countries; now they are settling back into life in Silicon Valley.

'91 In 2000, Don GIBBS and his wife, Lesley, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Maya Renee Gibbs, and both Don and Lesley completed master's of education programs through Trinity College of Vt.; now Lesley and Don teach and coach at Saint Johnsbury Academy, a private high school in Vermont.

'93 Dana LONGO is practicing law in Santa Barbara with an emphasis in real estate litigation and estate planning; he is still surfing, sailing, and skiing and can be reached at Dana@Longolawoffices.com. Paul WARE was at New York Medical College in 1995-99, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in 1999-2000, and is now doing a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Stanford; he and Darien HERON (Merrill '92) were married in May 1999.

'94 After teaching high school science for three years, Leanne KETTERLIN Geller has moved to Oregon to pursue a Ph.D. in educational leadership.

'95 Diana KUSHIN married Ronan MANDEL (Crown '93) in June 2000, and they are living in the Willow Glen area of San Jose.

'99 After traveling in China, Marina BALDWIN is living in San Jose and working; she would like to get in touch with old friends.

Merrill College

'71 Catherine CIOFALO is treasurer of the El Dorado County (Calif.) Search and Rescue Council Corporation, a training officer for El Dorado County Search Management Team, and a mission-ready trailing dog handler for the California Rescue Dog Association; otherwise she's a typical computing nerd.

'72 Benjamin DUNN travels to Italy and Hawaii; he has also served on the Mission Street Widening Task Force in Santa Cruz. Christopher PECK has been a social worker in child welfare for the past 10 years.

'73 David AMKRAUT is an attorney in Los Angeles; his practice includes severe personal injury, copyright litigation, class actions, and various business litigation.

'74 Jeanne LYONS is a school psychologist for the Albuquerque public schools.

'75 Donald ORTEZ has retired as chair of the Latin American Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.

'76 Ruth MACKAY's book, The Limits of Royal Authority (Cambridge University Press, 1999), won the American Historical Association's Leo Gershoy Award for the best book in 17th- and 18th-century European history. Shannon BRANDT Rowson has worked in family practice and spinal-cord injury care; in 1986 she served with the International Medical Corps in Pakistan helping with Afghan refugees and training Afghan medics.

'77 Kathy BRYON is raising two boys, Noah and Jeremy, and participating in making her community all it can be in years to come.

'78 Richard SERGAY is senior producer of the Internet and technology unit at ABC News.

'79 Sylvia MENDEZ has worked as an educator for 21 years in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District; she was recently appointed principal of an elementary school.

'85 Margaret-Ellen POWELL is a real estate broker with Bailey Properties and a substitute teacher in elementary schools.

'86 Suzanne ALLEN is co-owner of a financial services brokerage, a published poet, and a model, hired by three agencies in Beverly Hills. After working for 10 years at Cabrillo College, Victoria LUGO became the project director of career services at Mira Costa College in Oceanside, Calif., in March 2000; she loves her job and is happy to be back in sunny southern California.

'87 Nancy NETHERLAND is directing programs at MOCHA (Museum of Children's Art) in Oakland, taking programs funded by the NEA and the California Arts Council to inner-city school children.

'88 Thomas CHU is working in Hong Kong as a chief operating officer for a media/technology company. Melissa GIBBS received her Ph.D. in neurobiology and is now an assistant professor of biology at Stetson University, where she is also director of the Aquatic and Marine Biology Program.

'89 Chance BROWN is currently a senior training specialist in the Corporate Training and Development Department at AXA Financial in New York City. Jay SHUBROOK and his wife, Sam, married in 1993, and they have two daughters; Jay is a family physician and professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

'91 In 2000, Jaxon Ravens (Daniel FITCH) was elected president of the Young Democrats of Washington and also selected as "Rising Star of the Year" by the Washington State Democratic Party; he volunteers for the Red Cross and the United Way and planned to begin graduate studies at Thunderbird in Glendale, Ariz., in fall 2001.

'95 After working at California State University, Dominguez Hills, for two years, Adriano AMAYA has returned to the Central Coast to work at California State University, Monterey Bay. Lynne NEAR has been a bilingual teacher since 1997; last year she taught first grade at Mar Vista Elementary in Oxnard, Calif.

'97 Denali Laurel McCULLOUGH has been teaching Spanish for the past three years in San Jose.

Porter College

'73 Jim HULL teaches at the Braille Institute and performs in Larry WILSON's (Porter '75) magic show; his essays can be found at www.jimhull.com. Tad KITADA directs prevention programs for the Placer County Office of Education and teaches part-time at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and at California State University, Sacramento.

'75 Lori HIGA is working as a public relations manager for Agere Systems and would love to hear from fellow College V alums at higa@agere.com.

'77 Jaime JACINTO completed an Ed.D. in international-multicultural education at the University of San Francisco in 2001, and he is on the faculty at San Francisco State University; his first book of poetry, Heaven Is Just Another Country, was a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association award. Thomas POSTER is now working with the East L.A. Classic Theater Project, teaching middle school students in the greater L.A. area.

'78 Martin GANTMAN's artwork has been included in exhibitions in Los Angeles, Denver, New Haven, Tempe, Miami, and Chicago, and he has had a work installed at the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio; he has also coedited a book, Benjamin's Blind Spot (DAP Publications, 2001). David MORI was planning to work in Antarctica as a lead baker in the winter of 2001-02.

'79 Judy SILK is living the good life with her two daughters, Milly and Isak, and her composer husband, Jeff.

'80 Lynn ERLICH Erfer is now traveling with the Maui Visitors Bureau to promote Maui and train travel agents on the mainland.

'84 Ann KOSHOWSKY Jensen is director of human resources at a cemetery in Los Angeles as well as an ice skater and a photographer; she is married to Daniel Jensen, a geek and a dropout from the virtual class of '84.

'85 Christopher GRABOWSKI is an associate professor of drama at Vassar College; he has recently directed Collected Stories with Kristen Linklater at the Portland Stage Company in Maine; Angels in America at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City; and Euripides' Helen and Purcell's Fairy Queen at Vassar College. Michael WALLENSTEIN passed the bar in February 2001 and is working as a litigator at Brown Winfield & Canzoneri in L.A.

'89 Michael MOON was planning to enter the M.B.A. program at the Yale School of Management as a Dean's Scholar in fall 2001.

'90 Alissa ARNOLD Block is married and living in L.A.; she has one child and another on the way.

'91 Joseph BRYANT Jr. was recently married; he has been named one of the most influential church leaders of the next generation by the National Association of Evangelical Churches.

'93 Bernadette BOSINGER sails and works in Santa Cruz; she recently sailed in the South Pacific, and she spent the summer of 2000 in France making perfume. Elizabeth LAWRENCE and Matt GRIFFITHS (Porter '93) returned to Santa Cruz in May 2001 to get married; they met in Porter B dorm in 1989.

'94 Nicholas ZAJCHOWSKI is pursuing a master's degree in public administration nonprofit management at the University of Washington.

'96 Jonathan CROCKETT leads bicycle rides for Applied Computer Technology Corporation, plays violin in the local community college orchestra, and was preparing to do a triathlon in 2001. Michelle D'ANGELO was planning to begin vet school at UC Davis in fall 2001 with the intent of pursuing a specialization in small animal internal medicine - "just a small change from her theater major."

'97 Nicole "Coco" MEDVITZ earned an M.F.A. in acting from Pennsylvania State University in 2000; now she is working as a professional actor in Chicago.

'98 Kate STAVERS was planning to take a yearlong trip around the world and participate in community service projects. After marrying Amy VANDERBUNDT (Porter '98), James MOCKOSKI received a master's in film studies and archiving at the University of East Anglia in England; he is currently working at the UCLA Film and Television Archive as a film lab technician.

'99 After serving as a TA in the Art History Department at UCSC for a year, Mahlon CHUTE was planning to begin graduate studies in architectural history at UC Santa Barbara in fall 2001.

Kresge College

'75 Bobbi HOOVER has retired from practicing psychotherapy and is volunteering with Hospice of the Valley doing bereavement work; she was also planning for her 50th wedding anniversary in October 2001. Victoria KIRSCH is collaborating with soprano Julia Migenes on a show titled "Diva on the Verge," which is touring the U.S. and Europe; she is married to Michael Alexander, a leading arts advocate and director of Grand Performances in downtown Los Angeles. Donald MOINE has written a series of articles for TMCnet.com on how readers can save hundreds of thousands of dollars on the value of their stock options.

'80 Chris BELETSIS is a psychologist in La Jolla, Calif.; he has returned from a trip around the world and would like to hear from old Kresge friends at CJbeletsis@yahoo.com.

'82 Traci STYNER Schaible is working on web-based training and a master's program in interactive telecommunications; she is raising her seven-year-old daughter, Katie.

'84 Mark ARNIOLA married Darnell Basque in May 2000. James SCHWEITZER is president of the Brea Historical Society and an officer in the Lions Club District 4-L4.

'85 Robin GROESBECK is manager of exhibition coordination at the Field Museum in Chicago.

'86 Lori LANDER Goodman is working as a substitute teacher in the San Mateo School District; she published an article in an online magazine in 2000.

'89 Beth LILACH is a doctoral candidate in Holocaust history at Clark University; her dissertation focuses on displaced-persons camps with regard to gender and age.

'91 Andre DOUMITT has taken a position with Bell/Agusta Aerospace, where he serves as global market development manager for two new aircraft.

'92 Thuy DAO-Jensen is working on a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at Arizona State University.

'95 Robert SCHMITT has been promoted from associate attorney to deputy city attorney in the Roseville City Attorney's Office.

'98 Katie AGGEN is an administrative manager at Excite@Home, and she is pursuing a professional dancing career in San Francisco. After working for BMW in Munich, Beth MANNING is pursuing an M.I.S. degree at UC Berkeley. Alfredo ZUANY received his master's in college counseling from the University of San Diego and is presently working as a college counselor with disadvantaged students at a nonprofit organization in East Los Angeles.

'99 David CHIAN is working in the field of molecular epidemiology and autism and plans to attend Columbia University in fall 2002. Sonia CRUZ is a copy editor at a Spanish newspaper; she is also taking classes at California State University, Bakersfield, to get her teaching credential. Juliette KUSHNER earned an M.A. in communication studies at California State University, Chico, in 2001; she is now working for Coastline Community College and plans to never leave academia.

Oakes College

'81 Tim STROSHANE works for the City of Berkeley Housing Department; he has also started a newsletter called SPILLWAY: California Water, Land and People.

'82 Ervin SIMMONS is a coordinator with the Department of Juvenile Justice in Savannah, Ga.; he and his wife, Mary, a middle school teacher, have three children: Ray Robinson, who is #5 on the North Carolina State football team; Ervin Jr., who graduated with honors from Clark-Atlanta University; and daughter Bahiya, who is an honor student in the 10th grade.

'83 Troy TINSLEY is a pilot with United Airlines and looking to contact the 1982-83 Derelicts Ultimate Frisbee team; alums may contact him at Gonridn2@aol.com.

'84 After receiving his Ph.D. in immunology from Stanford University in 1997 and taking six months off to travel, Gregory FRANK did pharmaceutical management consulting at Plan A in Palo Alto, Calif.; he is currently director of business development at Metazoa Systems.

'87 After graduating from USC medical school in 1994 and doing his residency at L.A. County-USC Hospital, Francisco ORNELAS is now practicing medicine at several hospitals. Jana SHOHAT married Robert BUSBY (Cowell '86) and both received their master's degrees in 1993; Rob works for the State of California as a geologist, and Jana stays home and writes grants part-time; they have two children.

'90 Nadine GRETHE bought a house in northeastern Pennsylvania and is working on phase three of clinical trials in the anti-infectives division of Aventis Pharmaceuticals; she's also working on her master's in clinical pharmacology. Jessica Vidican-NEISIUS has been making Morning Glory Chai in Seattle for six years and practicing as a village witch herbalist at Tenzing Momo in the Pike Place Market on and off during that time.

'91 Becky Kate MANSFIELD received her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oregon in 2001 and has moved, with her husband, Gary ALLISON (College Eight '91), to Ohio to take a job as an assistant professor of geography at Ohio State University; she does research on the political economy of fisheries and the global seafood industry.

'92 After graduate school in Washington, D.C., followed by a one-year public policy fellowship to study the impact of federal legislation on local communities, Carmen LEPE Joge served as senior policy analyst for the National Council of La Raza, leading its civil rights policy agenda; she got married in 1996 and now works with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in charge of training the next generation of Latino leaders. Kirsten LISKE is playing soccer, helping grow and run Ecology Action in Santa Cruz, and living as sustainable a lifestyle as possible.

'96 Corinne TAYLOR-Cyngiser recently finished traveling the world and is happy to be back in the redwoods and working at the UCSC Women's Studies Department.

'99 Terran BROWN completed an M.S. in statistics at UC Davis and is now teaching statistics at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Tamarra JONES was planning to finish a master's program in public health education at Loma Linda University in June 2001.

College Eight

'78 Paul HANDLEMAN is living and working inside the Beltway, keeping taxpayers on their toes.

'81 Mark KLINE runs a small receptive incentive travel company based in New York City where he lives.

'83 Lisa DABEK is the director of conservation and research at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, R.I.; since 1994 she has also been directing a community-based conservation program in Papua New Guinea, helping to protect rain-forest habitat and wildlife. Since 1998 Matthew SUNDT has been owner/principal of Golden State Planning and Environmental Consulting with his wife as partner; they live and work in Monterey.

'85 Joanne GRAMO is a licensed acupuncturist.

'88 Debra MORSTEIN Sloss is a marriage-family therapist intern and the mother of three beautiful boys.

'89 Julia KARP and her husband, Robert JACKMAN (Porter '88), have lived in Florida, Connecticut, and now in Klamath Falls, Ore., where Julia is pursing a career as a full-time mother to their two children. Trevor SIEGEL is a percussionist and a senior systems analyst and software engineer.

'91 After receiving an M.S. in traditional Chinese medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego in April 2001, Patricia JACKSON was planning to start an acupuncture practice in the San Diego area.

'93 Raul ESSIG is doing special effects for the film industry. George MEGENNEY is working on his Ph.D. in history out of UC Riverside; he is researching the activities of covert German operatives within Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

'94 Michelle MERRILL is working on a Ph.D. in biological anthropology and anatomy at Duke University; she spent six months in 1999 on Sumatra (Indonesia) studying orangutans in the wild. Monica Sequoia NEIRO is a massage therapist living with her partner, Nicholas O'Connor, and baby boy, Raphiel Marcus, born in June 2001. Douglas KEEHN was planning to enter the Public Interest Law and Policy Program at UCLA School of Law in fall 2001. Sako KITSINIAN served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, in 1995-97; since 1998 he has been manager of the 14 Karat Club in Honolulu.

'95 Daniel HEFFERNAN is a research assistant in the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology in the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University.

'96 Ilian FIGUEROA Emmons works as a manager for Deloitte & Touche and is pursuing her M.B.A./M.I.S. at the University of San Diego. Roberta HAVER is a watershed consultant for a Santa Cruz group dedicated to improving water quality, protecting fish and wildlife habitat, and enhancing the environment throughout the Arana Gulch watershed. Amber PAIRIS is in a Ph.D. program in environmental studies at Antioch New England Graduate School; in October 2001, she received a Switzer Environmental Fellowship for outstanding young environmental leaders, which she will use to evaluate the Natural Communities Conservation Planning Program in southern California as a model for future planning processes around the country.

'97 Derrick CHUA will be finishing a D.M.D./M.B.A. program this year and starting a practice in cosmetic and family dentistry in the San Francisco Bay Area; for consultations, he can be reached at dochu@hotmail.com.

'98 After a brief career in marketing, Shannon HERMANSON is teaching elementary school students at the French American School in Woodland Hills, Calif.; she is also pursuing a master's in education and a teaching credential in a combined program at Pepperdine University.

'99 Michelle LYNAR lives in Washington, D.C., and works at the U.S. Department of Energy as an environmental policy analyst; she is also pursuing an M.A. degree in city planning at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Graduate Studies

'79 Thomas CARTELLI (Ph.D., literature) has published a book titled Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (London: Routledge, 1999).

'84 James GURLEY (M.A., literature) gave an address, titled "Love as Source and Image in Leaves of Grass," at the annual conference of the Walt Whitman Society of Japan in October 2000 at Kyoto University.

'92 Scott TREIBER (Ph.D., biology) is director of clinical research at PharmaNet, an international drug development company.

'93 Lisa STRONG-AUFHAUSER (cert., science communication) has started a small digital video production company called Strong Mountain Productions, which specializes in science, nature, history, and outdoor projects; clients so far have included the Yosemite Association, the Exploratorium, the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, and Discovery Channel online.

In Memoriam

Jefferson MARTIN (Porter '00), a native of Oakland, a championship wrestler, and a lover of the outdoors who served in the Coast Guard in the Bay Area, Tahoe, and Cuba, died June 26, 2001, in Santa Cruz at age 40.

Timothy ROUFAEL (Oakes '91), who worked as a writer-producer for Lonely Planet Publications and was the founder and proprietor of a bicycle-repair business, died October 4, 2001, as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

Atsushi SHIRATORI (Merrill '89) died as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York; he worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, a New York firm with offices in the World Trade Center.

Stephen WOODFIN (Crown '71) died October 17, 2000; he was 51.