Alumni Notes

Cowell College

'69 Margaret WADE Krausse is in her 15th year of teaching in the Modern Languages Department at Linfield College in Oregon and planning a sabbatical to France with her husband, Jeff, in 2002. Claudia KRICH is an elementary school teacher, and she is involved in community activities in Davis, Calif.; she is enjoying sharing college life vicariously with daughters Sophie (Porter '04) and Vivian (Stanford '04).

'71 Donna FELDMANN Marbach is a freelance writer whose work was published recently in Breakaway magazine; she is teaching creative writing to 11-14 year olds and has cofounded a bilingual journal for this age group in Guadalajara, Mexico. D. (Diane) Barratt LUCAS Walton and her husband, Stephen, are living in the Netherlands; she is writing for an American publisher and having fun participating in the English theater and performance poetry scene.

'72 Nadene THORNE Davis works a week-on, week-off schedule for the oil companies at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; on her off time, she teaches float-plane flying in Moose Pass, where she lives with her husband and son. For ten years, Georgeanne HANNA Morris has worked as a certified rehabilitation teacher for the blind for the state of Arizona; her husband, Philip, manages New Frontiers Natural Foods Market and Cafe in Prescott; they have three teenagers, the eldest of whom is a freshman at UCSC. Kate STAFFORD has done the photography, writing, and research for numerous books and magazines; she is a horticultural therapy consultant for the California Health Services Department and owns and operates a photography business.

'73 Eric ROY is news anchor and Morning Edition cohost at KCRW in Santa Monica.

'74 Jeffrey DAY is composing music and teaching guitar at various music schools and is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Zürich. Ellen MESKE is a storyboard artist and director for children's animated TV series; in 1999 she was nominated for a "BAFTA" (British Academy Award) for a children's series she directed for the BBC called Animal Shelf. Keith MOORE is consulting and conducting research on community-based natural-resource management in West Africa and on pesticide management in the Ukraine; he is an assistant program director in the Office of International Research and Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

'75 Karen OLSON writes that she "keeps all of her mail-order catalogs alphabetized in a file box in her dining room."

'76 Peter HANKOFF is still writing in Hollywood. Daniel KIRSHNER is still designing bicycles, the latest of which incorporates arm levers into a recumbent bike. Alan McKAY manages a 60,000-member health plan for low-income residents in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.

'77 Kate O'SHEA is founder of the Institute of Orthopedic Psychology and author of Healing Hip, Joint and Knee Pain, published by North Atlantic Books.

'78 Michael BARRIOS has a private practice in clinical psychology and is clinical director of the Center for Psychotherapy in Essex, Conn.; he is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. Margaret BURKE is studying art in San Francisco.

'80 Steven MAYERS is an administrative assistant/desktop publisher at UC San Francisco and a freelance photographer; he lives alone with two cats.

'82 Peter GAVIN is teaching English in Marin County, living in San Francisco, writing screenplays, and "most importantly, married to a beautiful lady, Leslie."

'83 Since January 2000, Peter GOLDSTEIN has been European news editor for WSJ.com, the online Wall Street Journal, based in London.

'84 Barbara FENNELL is director of Family Court Services for Monterey County, Calif.; she is an attorney and a writer and lives with her nine-year-old son, Alexander.

'85 Janet GROSSMAN is author of "Greek Funerary Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum," appearing in spring 2001. Li Chiao-Ping (Nancy LEE) is an associate professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her dance company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, founded in 1991, recently performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; she would like to locate her former roommate, Erin CLARKE. Allen RAMIREZ-MARTINEZ is a second lieutenant (chaplain candidate) in the U.S. Army Reserve and a Catholic hospital chaplain.

'87 Kelly WINN-Boaitey has a master's in counseling and is self-employed as a rehabilitation counselor; she is married and has two children.

'91 Deborah BRESNICK has completed an M.S.W. at San Jose State University.

'92 After graduating with an M.D. from Universidad Católica de Córdoba in Argentina, Robert MATTHEWS has moved to Irvine, Calif.

'93 Bailey SMITH has a master's degree in multicultural education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is working as an education coordinator for the Conservation Corps of Long Beach; she was married in 1999.

'97 After working with Technovision Cameras in Rome, Michaele SHAPIRO is now in a camera intern program at Panavision Hollywood in Los Angeles.

'99 Christopher CHRISTIANSON is working in San Francisco, living in an artists' commune in Oakland, doing lots of writing, and being published on an Internet site, Swirlpop.com. Jeffrey NEWMAN is teaching marine biology to children in fifth through 12th grade at the Catalina Island Marine Institute.

Stevenson College

'67 Susan AUGHINBAUGH Young administers the Social Security Administration's Disability Program for the State of Nevada; her daughter attended UCSC and is now a graduate student at UC Davis.

'69 Diane COHAN is a licensed private investigator and a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in threat management and trauma response. John GOEHRING and his wife, Marilyn, are owners of The Toyworks, which sells quality nonviolent kid-friendly toys in Sonoma County, Calif.

'70 Juliette MONDOT and Greg CALVERT (Cowell '70) met at UCSC and are still married 26 years later; they are homesteading a ranch with their three children in Colorado's southeastern prairie, and they own a home-based desktop publishing company. Claudia SHAFER was appointed to the Santa Cruz County Planning Commission in spring 2000; she is a research lawyer who has been involved in local political issues.

'71 After ten years in rural Niigata Prefecture, Donna FUGIMOTO has moved back to Kobe, her Japanese "home," where she teaches English as a foreign language.

'73 Gunnar FRIDRIKSSON, a vice president at Merrill Lynch in New York City, is the change management manager for the firm's Global Design and Development Group; he has a ten-year-old daughter, Gudrun Moss, who lights up his life.

'75 Diane SIPKIN is practicing medicine at the Student Health Center at CSU Sacramento; she has received a $511,000 grant from the California Endowment to screen, treat, and study chlamydia infections in the college population.

'76 Fred MEDNICK is the founder of Teachers without Borders, a nonprofit devoted to global educational reform and teacher training. For the past 15 years, Rebecca NAIDIS has been working as an interpreter from Spanish, French, and Italian into English for the European Union, the United Nations, and other international institutions in Europe.

'77 After participating in the April 2000 African American Alumni Reunion at UCSC, Compton Superior Court Commissioner Kelvin FILER returned home to find that he'd been written up in the Long Beach Press-Telegram's "Collectors Corner" for his 1,131 comic books, 120 coffee mugs,

and 1,000 jazz albums.

'79 Ruth ROSENBERG's dance company, Ruth Rosenberg Dance Ensemble, is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2000-01.

'83 Lawrence WILSON is an emergency medicine doctor in Midland, Tex., associate medical director of the Physician Assistant Training Program at Texas Tech, and emergency medical services director for Midland; four to six weeks a year he is also a cruise ship physician with Holland America.

'85 Julia HAMBLIN Pinsky is working at home to be close to her daughter, Emma Louise, and "enjoying Santa Cruz still after all these years."

'86 Heidi SIMONSON received the Commitment Award from Santa Clara University Law School for her years of service as an attorney providing pro bono legal assistance for low-income women in the Santa Cruz area. Stacy HANDELMAN Stark married Brian Stark in April 2000; she received her M.A. in education and creative arts and is working as an instructional coach for teachers.

'87 Lesli SCHUSTERMAN is teaching full time in Palo Alto, and she is the mother of a five year old.

'88 After finishing her Ph.D. in political science at Claremont Graduate University in 1999, Elizabeth JAGOW is teaching at the University of North Florida as a visiting assistant professor.

'89 Susanne McCAFFERY-SAVILLE is the author of PugSpotting: A True History of How Pugs Saved Civilization (Lawrence, Mass.: Cliocopia Press, 2000).

'90 After serving as the executive director of the American Chambers of Commerce in Uzbekistan, Abaseh MIRVALI and her husband have moved to Ankara, Turkey, where she is a consultant working on projects like President Clinton's state visit to Turkey. Michael WILHELM is a partner in a large multimedia company; he and his wife were expecting a baby in June 2000. Michele WILSON is a social worker at the Golden Gate Regional Center working with developmentally disabled clients, and she is pursuing her license in clinical social work.

'91 Elizabeth FINEBAUM-Szafir is working at Kaiser Permanente in the Department of Internal Medicine as a physician assistant; she and her husband live in West L.A.; friends can reach her at ESzafir@aol.com. Winston HOLYAN and his family have been living on the windy high plains of Clovis, N.M., where he is working as a firefighter and training with the New Mexico National Guard in air defense artillery; in his spare time he is studying for the LSAT. (Yung) Min KIM is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Maryland; she and her husband, Mark Pederson, live with their son, Erik, in Washington, D.C. Lisa SONIN Larsen is completing her doctorate in psychology from John F. Kennedy University; she's been married for four years to Glen Larsen. Stacey LEETS Oborne is a senior web developer for a major Silicon Valley technology company; she's been married since 1992 to Tim OBORNE (Crown '90); they live in South San Francisco with their two cats. Christopher Carey-STRONCK is a public school teacher in San Jose and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his wife, Sharon, and their two children.

'92 Brian FISK completed paramedic school and is working in downtown Long Beach on "Rescue 3"; "it's a lot different than on TV," he writes. After living in Micronesia for several years, Lisa HOUSTON Mirabelli returned to the U.S. to get her M.A. in recreation and leisure; she and her husband have a son and are living in Ohio. Robert VALLONE and his wife are living in San Clemente and were expecting their first child in July 2000; he is in UC Irvine's fully employed M.B.A. program.

'93 Denyelle GANSHIRT is planning to get married in May 2001; she will be having a commitment ceremony with her girlfriend, Erica Smith. Caryn NARDELLO is providing consulting services to different companies as a technical trainer; she has trained nonprofit organizations about California's healthy families program and is now training Paine Webber stockbrokers on several computer applications. Larisa OVERMIER Somsel is the strategic initiatives coordinator at the California Historical Society.

'94 David HAMMERBECK conducted three months of research at Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris for his dissertation on Orientalism in 17th- and 18th-century French theater; his article on Bakhtin and Russian/Soviet satire will be published in the Journal of European Studies. Yvonne HODGE and her husband, who is retired, have moved back to her hometown in Florida. Sean TAYLOR works for Wells Fargo Bank and has been doing a lot of camping in Oregon and California.

'95 Melissa JOHNSON is curator and registrar at the Campbell Historic Museum and Ainsley House in Campbell, Calif.

'96 Michelle MA is graduating from the Yale University Physician Associate Program this year. Julie NEWELL works with emotionally disturbed adolescents at a nonprofit agency; in her spare time, she attends rock-n-roll shows in San Francisco, reads comics, and makes super-8 movies.

'97 As district coordinator for the AmeriCorps Literacy Program at San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, Marylin CRAWFORD has established a program where college students tutor disadvantaged children in kindergarten through third grade and earn money toward their future educational expenses. Ricky TECZON is conducting site investigations and preparing plans and specifications for the San Francisco Bay Area toll bridges.

'98 Justin BORBA has returned from southern California, where he was working on his master's in psychology at University of LaVerne; "I'd rather be here (No.Cal.) without a degree than living in So.Cal. with a degree," he writes. Paul LOPEZ is enjoying working for a nonprofit organization helping low-income families qualify for subsidized child care and enabling their welfare-to-work participation in California's CalWORKs Welfare Reform Program. Karin WATSON-STEIER is teaching English at Mt. Eden High School in Hayward, Calif.

'99 Maria ORTEGA is starting a massage therapy business and focusing on her family life.

'00 Katherine ECONOMOU is working as a legal assistant in San Francisco at Brown & Wood LLP, a global securities firm.

Crown College

'75 David SHAPIRO is busy practicing as an anesthesiologist; his children are in 11th, eighth, and fifth grades. Diana WHITESIDES is coaching swimming, teaching PE, and staffing pools in Carmel Valley; she is "still waiting at Robata for [alums] Erik and David."

'77 Jim FOX graduated from law school in December 1999, passed the California Bar, and is now a patent attorney and an inventor; he and his wife, who is a musician, have three children.

'81 Carol HOSHIZAKI is working at a nonprofit organization on a web-based directory of health and human services agencies in Santa Clara County (www.Helpscc.org).

'82 After finishing up a postdoc on maize molecular genetics at UC San Diego, David LERNER moved with his family to the Gold Country, where they are enjoying running their own business providing biotechnology trade shows on university campuses.

'84 Cheryl JETT Chapin has been involved in neonatal pulmonary research at UC San Francisco for eight years; she and her husband, Steve CHAPIN (Crown '84), have three children, ages ten, eight, and three. Erin HALLISY Smith is married to a Navy man and has been teaching special education and ESL in Japan; they have relocated to Washington State recently, where she is continuing to work in education.

'86 Lisa ALVAREZ has a solo law practice in estate and elder law in Cupertino, Calif.

'87 Lisa HENDRY Olson and her husband, Brian, are raising their two children in Pleasanton, Calif.; she received her M.S. in mechanical engineering from UC Davis and is now working part time at the Clorox Company as a packaging engineer.

'88 After teaching in the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District for ten years, Lynda ROGERS is working as a science and technology coordinator for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education.

'89 Martin AZEVEDO is back in northern California after a few years in New York; he spends his time as a computer consultant, freelance writer, and no-budget filmmaker.

'91 After stints in Atlanta and Ketchikan, Jennifer CARMAN is working as a city planner in Seattle and doing jazz vocals around town occasionally. After working as an attorney for five years in San Jose, Russell JACOBSON has taken a position as vice president for WC Docs.com, an Internet start-up, and is phasing out his law practice. Hillary MAY married David Alemian in September 1997.

'92 Barbara BROKISH Cadigan married Steve Cadigan in October 1999. Stuart MEYLER is working at Modem Media, which was recently profiled by Adweek magazine as the "granddaddy" of Internet marketing. Jonathan SLATER has been practicing chiropractic in Los Gatos since 1998 and is a clinical faculty member at Palmer College of Chiropractic West; he has two children, ages ten and five.

'93 Paul WARE is slaving away in his internship at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York en route to becoming a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor; he'll be completing his training at Stanford.

'94 Shirley KIRBY is a natural resources biologist with the Resource Assessment Division of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources; she is working on Chesapeake Bay and Watershed programs, including monitoring and nontidal assessment. AlissaJACKSON Nolan and her husband, James NOLAN (Crown '96), were expecting their first child in September 2000. Ashley SMITH is in her fourth year of a doctoral program in health psychology at the University of Pittsburgh; her research examines stress and anxiety, diet, and exercise and how these affect cancer patients and their families.

'95 Walter COCKING is director of operations for Nub Circus, a California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) food processor. Naomi DEVLIN is working as a web-content developer, playing lots of hockey, and managing an apartment complex; she is engaged to Arik FLORIMONTE (Porter '93).

'96 Brian HILLIER is a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the Marine Biology Program.

'97 Donald KERNS has a baby girl, Cecelia Aphrielle, and is working on a master's in industrial and systems engineering at San Jose State University.

'99 Paul BROCK is studying Spanish in Spain.

Merrill College

'72 Patricia BROWN Coughlan is chairman of the Public Policy Committee of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association of the North Bay and author of Facing Alzheimer's: Family Caregivers Speak.

'74 Marni BARNES and Clare Cooper Marcus have written a book, Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, which won the Place Research Award at the Environmental Design Research Association's annual conference in May 2000.

'76 Jill FIELDS is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Fresno; she published an article, titled "Fighting the Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets and Culture, 1900-1930," in the winter 1999 issue of the Journal of Social History.

'77 Peter GAARN was asked to lead the "Rules of the Garage" team for Hewlett-Packard's reinvention and transformation of itself as a company and a culture. Joshua PECHTHALT and his wife, Lynn KERSEY (Stevenson '78), celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in 2000; they have a one-year-old daughter, Danielle Rose Kersey Pechthalt.

'79 Kay MOHLMAN and her husband, Richard Krause, have been living in Singapore for four years; they travel on their breaks to destinations in Asia, most recently to Vietnam and Thailand.

'80 Genevieve OBERT is a freelance automotive journalist; her book, Prince Borghese's Trail, in which she describes co-driving a 1970 Hillman Hunter in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, won the Motor Press Guild's Dean Batchelor Award for excellence in automotive journalism.

'82 Mark STEPHENS is a senior management consultant in the L.A. County Office of Education and the executive director of Yoga Inside Foundation; he has been a consultant to social-change organizations in Los Angeles since 1982.

'85 Alice INOUE is working for Japan TV News in Honolulu as a bilingual news anchor as well as the host of a weekly Japanese TV show airing in Japan.

'86 After ten years at Columbia University as associate director of the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Fred LITTLE is working at the New Jersey School of Architecture; he also operates a small Aikido club, continuing the practice that began when he was a UCSC student.

'90 Since 1991, Blanca ARELLANO has worked for a nonprofit economic development organization in southern California, which provides business assistance, entrepreneurial training, job training and placement, and affordable housing. After returning to Guam in 1990 to join the family business, Kevin KYUNG founded PM Restaurants in 1995 and opened the first TGI Friday's franchise in Guam in 1998.

'91 John CURNUTT is an Internet consultant and has a new spouse, Jennifer Rue. Linda WEISS Lyon's company, Hatbox, makes hats and bridal veils for upscale department stores and boutiques nationwide. Sara MORRISSEY O'Callaghan is working as an attorney in bankruptcy law in the Santa Cruz area; her daughter, Kaitlin Rose, was born in February 2000. Dale ROSE started his own business, 3-D Group (www.3DGroup.net), in 1994 doing research on the impact of human resources and nonprofit education programs; he currently employs two UCSC grads.

'92 Ruth RABINOWITZ has her own business photographing weddings in the Santa Cruz area.

'95 Dan ZIVKOVIC has joined a start-up in Pleasanton, Calif.; the company, Xing Corporation, is building a new electronic checking system.

'98 Shelly BATHE is a graduate student in the school counseling program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Heather NAGAMI planned to enter the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Arizona in fall 2000.

'99 Elizabeth NICKNAM is working as a buyer at Intel Corporation in the heart of Silicon Valley. Jesse PEMBERTON is making metal sculpture and is employed by Streetlight Records. Talin TASCIAN is a student at Rutgers Law School in Newark, N.J.

Porter College

'71 Tony LUSH is the director of Web Services for Fleming and Roskelly, a firm that specializes in public relations, direct marketing, and interactive media; he is an avid sailor and has represented the U.S. in three OASTAR single-handed trans-Atlantic races.

'72 For 20 years, Gaylord SCHAAP has been owner and manager of Northwood Golf Club in Monte Rio, Calif.; he has a two-year-old son and had another child due in July 2000. Ellen ELIAS Silver is marketing manager at O'Reilly and Associates, a technical information provider; in her spare time, she produces lesbian and gay comedy events with her life partner, Robyn.

'74 Eric HAMBURG recently coproduced the film Any Given Sunday with Oliver Stone; he is now a visiting scholar at UCLA. Steve WANGSNESS is first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, where he lives with his wife, Egle, and their two children.

'77 Roberta ARENSON has been illustrating children's books for the past eight years; collage art from her most recent book, Manu and the Talking Fish, will be included in an international exhibition of children's book illustration, "Le Immagini della Fantasia," which will travel in Europe in 2001. Tom POSTER recently signed with Howard Talent West for theatrical representation.

'82 In addition to her work as a textile artist, Sarah ALLISON is working toward becoming an occupational therapist; she and her husband, Michael WILHELM (Merrill '81), have a seven-year-old daughter. Elena CAPELLA is teaching at the University of San Francisco and at San Jose State University; she is a consultant to Catholic Healthcare West and working on her Ed.D. at USF.

'83 Lisa KAPLAN works as a voice actor in cartoons and commercials in Los Angeles, where she lives with her animation-writer husband; she is eager to locate Phillip PLATH (Stevenson '84).

'84 Kristina JESSKA Carey moved to Marin County to be near family and be a mom; she's busy keeping up with a two-year old daughter. Amy GERHAUSER has been appointed assistant professor of sculpture at the University of Texas at Tyler.

'85 Kennedy ADAMS is very happily living in Corralitos, Calif., with his 13-year-old daughter.

'88 Janine THEODORE is acting and singing; she works as a hair stylist in downtown Santa Cruz at Phoebe's Salon.

'89 Tamiko AZUMA is an assistant professor in the Speech and Hearing Science Department at Arizona State University.

'90 Olman VALVERDE is in his fourth year as a business lawyer in Los Angeles; his areas of practice include business litigation, protection of trademarks, and representing start-up companies.

'91 Lisa MEEKER Gorny is happily "homesteading" in a very remote part of Alaska.

'92 After teaching English in Budapest for three years, Susan HAAS is working on an M.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing at Sonoma State University.

'93 After receiving an M.Phil. in anthropology from the University of Cambridge, Alexis PAVENICK married Alex Tennant, received an M.A. in literature from Cal Poly, Pomona, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in literature at UC Riverside. Ondine YOUNG is pursuing a doctoral degree in musical arts at the University of Southern California; she plays freelance baroque violin and viola and was a New York Concert Artists Guild finalist.

'94 Lisa MAYER started her own graphic design business in 1998 and feels very lucky to be doing what she loves and getting paid for it.

'95 Alexander MacBRIDE is in graduate school at UCLA.

'96 Oscar ROSALES has been working and getting ready to go back to school. Jas SANDHU is a consultant advising Fortune 500 companies and high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley and surrounding areas.

'97 Tony ARIAS is a graduate film student at UCLA.

'99 Micol BENET is assisting the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which leads the Human Genome Project, an international effort to sequence the human genome. Suchitra FIELDS is painting, showing her work, and raising her 12-year-old son.

Kresge College

'74 Gary MERRILL joined Caucus Systems, the leading provider of online business conferences; he has stayed in Santa Cruz all these years and is still happily married to Donna Becker; they have two children, Katie and Matt.

'75 Gary PISCHKE is a senior geologist at ESCNC and was chair (1998-2000) of the San Francisco section of the Association of Engineering Geologists. Sharon ROSEME is "happily ensconced on a small ranchette" northeast of Sacramento, practicing real estate law, raising her daughter, and doing community work.

'79 Doug FRIEDMAN is writing a few tunes and attempting to get acting work in southern California.

'80 Patricia BEDFORD is working as a counselor at a community college in rural New Hampshire; she has one son, 13, and a life partner of ten years.

'81 After being fired upon the buyout of his old company, Drew SMITH helped found a new biotech company whose goal is the development of a proteomics chip capable of diagnosing hundreds of diseases using a single drop of blood.

'85 Terry McLARNAN is a psycho- therapist working with children in Santa Clara.

'87 After four years as program director of the Holocaust Center of Northern California, Ali CANNON is now program coordinator for the Golden Gate National Parks Association; she has performed at Chutzpah, a San Francisco Jewish dyke event, and at Tranny Fest, a transgender film festival. Coreen PLACHY recently finished a six-month trip to India, Thailand, Bali, Australia, and New Zealand. Deena MENDELSON Solwren is a licensed clinical social worker and her husband, Daniel REUWER Solwren (College Eight '89) teaches biology and attends CSU Hayward, working toward an M.S. in education.

'90 Carl DURHAM recently married Kristin Stevens in San Francisco; he is director of legal affairs for ICS, Inc., of San Jose, which went public last May.

'91 Belinda VAN SICKLE lives in Santa Monica and works as a writer/production artist at an ad agency that specializes in computer games; on the side she's gearing up for a second career as a travel writer. Karyn SCHULTZ received an international M.B.A. in May 2000 from the Monterey Institute of International Studies; she helped create a new Internet company, EnContacto.Net, which will enable Latin Americans to remain in contact with family and friends regardless of their physical location.

'92 Michael FAULKNER is teaching Shakespeare to teens at the Tony-award-winning South Coast Repertory Theater and acting in TV commercials, including ones for Amtrak, U.S. Cellular, and Miller Genuine Draft. After spending three years in Taiwan and a year in Japan, Vanessa RAGAN moved to Los Angeles, where she is a social worker and in a master's program to become a bilingual (Spanish) school psychologist. Jason SCHOLZ has been with Whole Foods for nine years; during that time he has moved to Ann Arbor, gotten married, and is now in a teacher-certification program at Eastern Michigan University.

'93 For the last five years, Jennifer ANDERSON has been living in Indonesia and Germany and working as an English teacher and family-planning administrator; she was planning to get married in July 2000. Wayne COLEMAN has been farming organically since 1992; for two years he had an ecological landscape-design business, and now he is installing and managing a vineyard in Aptos, Calif.

'95 Joanna ESPIRITU-Moriwaki is working on a master's degree in public administration at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., while working full time as a sales account executive at Aetna U.S. Healthcare. Rachel Marie MEYER is working on a Ph.D. in English at UC Irvine.

'96 Matthew SCHONBRUN earned a law degree in 1999 from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.

'98 Elizabeth COUNCE is in a master's program in library and information science at the University of North Texas. Adolfo MERCADO is the learning specialist for the Upward Bound Program at Yuba College; he works with 50 high school students preparing for university success. Kirk PEARSON has opened up a retro 1940s-style supper club, Aces, with live music seven nights a week, in Sacramento at Madison Avenue and I-80. Angela THOMPSON is enjoying life back home in Sonoma County, learning drafting using AutoCAD, tutoring high school students in English, and playing in the community band.

'99 Lorelei BOWEN is working on her master's in library and information science at San Jose State University. Nancy FOSTER works as a research assistant for a pre-IPO start-up biotech company and is a waitress at one of the top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area.

Oakes College

'77 Angela BEAN runs her own immigration law firm; she and her partner, Heidi, have been together for 18 years and have two children.

'78 Henry SPILLER recently returned from West Java, Indonesia, where he conducted research into Sundanese music and dance with support from a Fulbright Fellowship; he is completing a Ph.D. in music at UC Berkeley.

'79 Francisco PONCE received his Ph.D. in 1987 from UC Santa Barbara and is a licensed psychologist; he's worked at Cabrillo College for the last 12 years.

'86 John SCHMUCK finished his Fulbright with a master's in visual arts at the Canberra School of Art and a very successful show at the Beaver Galleries in Canberra, Australia.

'88 Jennifer PHILLIPS Davids recently graduated with a Ph.D. in anthropology from Emory University; she and her husband, Andrew DAVIDS (Oakes '89), a rabbi, recently celebrated the birth of their third child. Remelle BURTON Olson and her husband, Terry Olson, adopted a nine-year-old girl, Ana, in May 2000; Remelle is a self-employed professional geologist; friends can reach her by e-mail at rebo@wwdb.org.

'89 Ernest BATREZ and his wife, Marie GALLARATE (Stevenson '89), live in San Francisco and have one daughter, Alicia; he is working in payroll and accounting.

'90 Nadine GRETHE works for a major pharmaceutical company conducting clinical trials on new antibiotics; she is working on her master's in pharmacology and has a first-degree black belt in Kenpo karate. Lisa KERR is living on Cape Cod and is enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

'91 Troy RAMSEY is a Special Forces medic serving in Germany.

'92 Catherine PFISTER lives in Berkeley and has a job as a social worker; she and her partner, Jonathan Cheung, are restoring their craftsman-style house and planning an extended stint of travel. Edward ROMAN works for the County of Los Angeles and is an officer in his union; he recently negotiated a collective-bargaining agreement for about 2,000 members of his bargaining unit for a three-year term.

'94 Martin FJELD is working as an anthropologist; he also writes, plays drums, and races motocross. Michelle JELINCH is on leave from her job as an ESL instructor at Hartnell College in Salinas; she gave birth to her first child, Alexander James, in February 2000. Stephanie ROSEN married Lar MADER (Oakes '91); she is in her last year at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

'97 Veronica RODRIGUEZ-Brown lives in Stockton, Calif., with her husband, Joseph, and daughter, Marisa; she is coordinator of Mariposa, a program that targets young at-risk Latinas, and she is a health educator for incarcerated youth.

'99 Holly ALDERMAN is working toward a single-subject teaching credential in art and an M.A. in education with an emphasis in art; she is also an avid surfer. James JOLLIFF is teaching wood shop at Saratoga High School.

College Eight

'78 Mary COHEN Merritt is chairman of the Newhall Redevelopment Committee in Santa Clarita, Calif. Sharon SUSSMAN trains animators in 2-D and 3-D digital effects and digital painting at DreamWorks Feature Animation.

'80 Donn HURD is self-employed as a web-site designer and site administrator.

'81 E. Katherine MILLER is an associate professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where she is doing research on mRNA expression in the brain of three HSP70 gene family members. David SCHNEIDER is working in portfolio management in San Francisco.

'85 Colleen Kelly CUFFE is working for the California Coastal Commission in the Central Coast District Office in Santa Cruz. Christina HARDY is a doctoral student in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Carl Peter MUTTERSBACH is a practicing civil engineer; in January 2001 he planned to make his ninth trip to the Philippines, where he engineers houses and other buildings for the urban poor. Michael VAN ALTENA enjoyed his first winter in Idaho, cross-country skiing, brewing beer, and working too many hours.

'86 Hugh CHAPPELLE was planning to move to Flowers Vineyard and Winery on the Sonoma coast in August 2000 as a winemaker. Brian FITZGERALD received a master's degree in public health and is a hospital administrator in southern California. Heather RASNICK is an art director and set decorator for Sony Studios' Wheel of Fortune; she and her husband, Steve, were expecting a baby in spring 2000. Janet RILOVICH has her Ph.D. in psychology and is self-employed as director and owner of Del Mar Counseling in Aptos, Calif.

'88 Mysti RUBERT won second place in the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for her screenplay "St. John"; she is working for BroadVision in Redwood City as a senior technical writer.

'89 Abby CHAVEZ is a consultant in edible landscaping and a novelist.

'91 Dennis SULLIVAN is living and working in Santa Monica as manager of production and acquisition for Pearson Television.

'95 Inemesit WILLIAMS is working at Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, Calif.

'96 Orson AGUILAR received a master's in public affairs and is now a program manager for the Greenlining Institute, a multiethnic public policy center in San Francisco. Betty COWDERY is a mental health worker for Merced County, and she's finishing up her master's in social work.

'98 Aureliano RODRIGUEZ is a first-year graduate student in city and regional planning at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

'99 DeShawn FULLER is an educational adviser for the VOA Educational Talent Search Program, and she is working on her master's in counseling. Julie PERRUZZI is a social worker for the Economic Opportunity Commission, working with pregnant and parenting teens.

Graduate Studies

'79 Judith TOTMAN Parrish-Jones (Ph.D., Earth sciences) is now associate dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona, as well as a professor of geosciences.

'80 Donald KAIPER (Ph.D., history of consciousness) is a senior instructor in the Social Sciences Department at Los Medanos Community College in Pittsburg, Calif., where he chairs the General Education Implementation Committee and is involved in curriculum development in the area of political and social thought.

'83 Lawrence BOUTON (M.S., applied economics) has worked at the World Bank for 13 years, encouraging the growth of global capitalism; he and his wife of 15 years have three boys. James YOUNG (Ph.D., literature) is chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a new book, At Memory's Edge (Yale Univ. Press, 2000); he and his wife, Lori Friedman, have two children.

'86 Edwin LIDDLE (M.A., sociology) is reading, skiing, and helping to make the world a better place.

'93 Gary FISHER (Ph.D., chemistry) is a professor of chemistry at De Anza College, where he is working on the design of the new chemistry/biology building; many of his students are now distinguished undergrads at UCSC, doing research with Professor Bakthan Singaram.

'95 Michael POOLE (Ph.D., biology) leads a research program on wild dolphins and whales in French Polynesia; the program is part of a biological station associated with the University of Perpignan in France; his research is featured on the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet as well as in two documentaries, The Ocean's Acrobats–Spinner Dolphins and Shark Central: The Secrets of Rangiroa Atoll.

'96 Ana CARBONELL (Ph.D., literature) is raising her two-year-old and was expecting a second; she is also working as an English instructor at Los Medanos Community College teaching composition and Chicano literature.

'97 Sandra PACHECO (Ph.D., psychology) is a professor of psychology at CSU Monterey Bay, where she is preparing to host the first annual conference on critical psychology.

'98 Bruce FOSTER (M.A., music) is a member of Citywinds quintet in San Francisco and teaches on the faculty of the College of Notre Dame; he is performing with the West Bay Opera, Ensemble Monterey, and the Bayshore Lyric Opera.

'99 Sanda BAILUND-VANA (M.A., education) is teaching seventh graders in San Ysidro, Calif.; she hopes to relocate back to the Santa Cruz area and teach in Watsonville. Marieka Van Tilburg KLINE (M.A., education) and her husband, Matt Kline, with assistance from a Mana Foundation grant, have created a web site and a lizard character named Monty to follow their travels and act as a tour guide for children exploring the world; Marieka, Matt, and Monty are now on a six-month trip to Greece, Nepal, Kenya, Vietnam, and the Cook Islands. Rafael RAMIREZ (M.A., education) is a third-grade bilingual teacher at Ohlone Elementary School in Watsonville; he loves his job and describes his first year of teaching as "an incredible learning experience."

In Memoriam

Neal BEUTLER (Cowell '76) died suddenly of heart disease in June 2000 in Los Angeles.

 


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