UCSC Review Winter 1995

Alumni Notes

Cowell College '70 Alex STEPICK has coauthored a book, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami. '73 Janice HANSEL is vice president of the Greater Austin (Tex.) Chamber of Commerce. '74 Daniel HOWARD-Greene has been appointed executive assistant to the president at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. Dean SILVERS has been a bilingual teacher in the primary grades for 21 years, 9 of them in Santa Cruz, and has written two local history books, including one of Santa Cruz in Spanish for third graders. '76 Fred PHILLIPS, professor of geoscience at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, was named recipient of the school's Distinguished Researcher Award for 1994. '77 Matt HILL has published a book of poetry, Rouge Aurora, which he describes as a "randomly introduced alloyage of surreal juxtaposings and orphan phrases" written as an "antidote to the corrosive effects of the apoetic world in which we find ourselves." Dana BEN-YEHUDA Levit is starting a business in video compression and is active as a classical guitarist and in ballroom dance. '79 John LEECH is marketing director for Polebridge Press in Sonoma, Calif., publishers for the Jesus Seminar. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Lance McMILLAN graduated from the Naval War College in Rhode Island and is serving with the Amphibious Squadron Seven in San Diego. Kerth O'BRIEN has been promoted to associate professor of psychology, with tenure, at Portland State University in Portland, Oreg. After a "misguided stint as a lawyer," writes Gary SPERLING, he is now a writer/story editor for Walt Disney Television Animation. '80 After three years working in Europe, Nadine VAN VRANKEN has returned to the Bay Area and is doing child therapy in Sonoma County. '81 Derek ANHORN is working for an advertising agency in Eugene, Oreg., doing desktop publishing and copy writing. '83 Marti ABRAHAM Hirsch and her husband bought a home in Atlanta. '84 After covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill as editor of the Cordova Times, Nancy STRUYS Cohen is currently raising a son and serving as president of the MOMS Club of Portland, Oreg. '85 After receiving a Ph.D. in art history from New York University, Janet GROSSMAN is assistant curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. '87 James CALLEROS has been promoted to senior pension representative with Northwest Administrators, an administrator of employee benefit plans. Stephen SCHWARTZ is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he directs a multiyear project assessing the full economic, political, social, and military consequences of the U.S. nuclear weapons program since its inception in 1940. '88 Bruce HULL is teaching at the Monterey Center for American Language Studies and working on education projects for the Institute for International Communication and Development. Susan KORSON is working on a master's in library science at California State University, Fullerton. '89 Christopher LAY received an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. '90 Ralph BATTELS received a doctorate in medicine from Ohio State University Medical School. '91 Jerry McCUSKER owns and manages a dog-grooming salon in Fort Wayne, Ind. Marjorie SAINT Sanchez-Walker received her master's in U.S./Chicano history in 1993 and is working on a Ph.D. at Washington State University. '92 Mike FITZGERALD is pursuing a Ph.D. in American history at Louisiana State University and is studying the rise of anti-Semitism in the South. Roderick PAGSOLINGAN is a second-year medical student at California College of Podiatric Medicine.

Stevenson College '67 David GUGGENHIME received a Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award on behalf of the Marin City Children's Program. '70 Virginia McKINLEY is interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, N.C. '72 Juan ABOYTES is helping traumatized Vietnam veterans at the National Center for PTSD, located at the Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park, Calif. '73 Amy REYNOLDS is the first woman utility plumber to work for the San Francisco Water Department. '74 Lawrence OUELLET is assistant professor in the School of Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has published Pedal to the Metal: The Work Life of Truckers, based on his experience driving diesel trucks for thirteen years. '77 After twelve years serving as a trustee of the Compton, Calif., school board, Kelvin FILER has been appointed commissioner of the Municipal Court in Compton. Sandor NAGYSZALANCZY returned to Santa Cruz, where he is working on a furniture commission for the Minneapolis Museum of Art. He also has published a book, Woodshop Jigs and Fixtures (Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1994). '79 Jeth GOLD received his M.S.W. from UC Berkeley and is currently assistant director of Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Kevin RENNER has joined the start-up team with MedicaLogic, a Portland-based company providing electronic medical records to health care professionals. '80 Andrew FRANKEL is working for Price Waterhouse in Kyrgyzstan on mass privatization and in Moscow on the Russian capital market. '81 Cynthia FEILD Hamberg received a Ph.D. in psychology from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles. Bruce RORTY has a law practice in Redondo Beach, Calif., emphasizing medical malpractice and appellate practice, and works on coastal law issues. '84 Stephanie BAINBRIDGE is designing computerized business applications at Tandem Computers. '85 Wendy RANDALL received an M.B.A. from Purdue University, got married, had a daughter, and is currently working in marketing research at the Clorox Company in Oakland. '86 Rebecca DENISON is founder and executive director of WORLD, an international information, support, and advocacy network for HIV- positive women and concerned others. '87 Katrina BLEDSOE began a doctoral program in applied social psychology at Claremont Graduate School. Jim GILBERT is working for Envicom Corporation in southern California as an urban planner. Diane LEE was promoted to food and beverage director of twelve facilities in Tokyo, Japan. '88 Mike FENNELL and Lauren LOCKLIN are married and have been living in Omaha, where Mike completed his M.D. degree and Laura directed a career development office at a small college. '89 Caryn POGOJEFF is office manager for the Lone Cypress, a holding company for the Pebble Beach Company. Navy Lt. Jill SIREN graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md., the nation's only uniformed medical school, and was commissioned as an officer. '91 Jeanne LEONE is working at Walt Disney Studios and pursuing a career in feature-film publicity. '92 Rebecca ROMIJN appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's 1994 swimsuit issue. '93 Jenn HATHAWAY is an assistant to Democratic political consultants James Carville and Paul Begala in Washington, D.C.

Crown College '71 Trudy BELL, a senior editor of IEEE Spectrum, has received the New York Business Press Editors' first-prize award for reporting on a general issue. Her winning article, "Jobs at Risk," described the record number of engineering positions being eliminated by high- technology companies worldwide. '72 Cindy METZ Zechenelly writes that she is now "a stay-at-home mom to adorable two-year-old twins, Benjamin and Chanelle--and loving it!" '73 David ACUFF is in San Diego County coordinating endangered species/habitat programs. Mark FISHER is a neurologist working for an HMO in Houston. '75 After receiving a master's in nursing at UCLA, Lori JOHNS is school nurse for the Wiseburn School District in southern California and serves with the California Army National Guard. '77 Bruce STEINER is a member of the technical staff at the Aerospace Corp., doing human factors engineering on space systems, and lives in Huntington Beach, Calif., with his wife and three daughters. Blake TODD got married in April 1994 and is vice president and portfolio manager with Smith Barney in Glendale, Calif. '78 Mark PEAIRS is a software engineer for Ricoh in Menlo Park and is the father of a son, Evan, with wife Naomi GOODMAN (Crown '76), who is a scientist for the environmental consulting firm of Hart Crowser in San Francisco. '79 Renee FLOWER is working on the illustrations for her second children's book, School Supplies, a book of poetry selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 1996. After receiving a master's in computer science from San Jose State University, Linda HIBBARD is living in Nevada with her husband, a dog, two cats, and three horses. '80 Charles CONVIS is director of conservation at GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Foundation, which donates computer technology to conservation organizations, and is science and technology adviser to the National Park Service's National Biological Survey vegetation mapping program. Ken WASSERMAN is doing developmental research on formulation of T cell-based vaccines for ovarian cancer and lymphoma. '81 Lawrence BOUTON is working at the World Bank while taking care of three sons and finishing a Ph.D. in economics. '82 Deanna JUSTICE Reynolds is a physician in Corpus Christi, Tex., and a new mother. '85 Stephanie DUMAS Heyeck received a Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard University. Collette MOQUETTE Ricks is a product marketing manager for Sun Microsystems and the new mother of a son. '88 Roy BRIDGMAN writes that his controversial "toaster art" was displayed at the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. '89 Kim BROWN writes that she is "working full-time as a therapist in Illinois and living in a town named Normal, which amuses my friends no end." Jan GOLDBERG completed her M.Ed. from Antioch New England Graduate School and is writing a children's book on endangered species. '90 Constance COOPER is finishing up an M.A. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Roxane OSBORNE graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center with an M.S. in biopsychology and is continuing her studies toward a doctoral degree. '91 Trina KUREK and Joe ROMO were recently married. Daryle McBREARTY is teaching mathematics at a middle school in San Jose, where she is also a cheerleading coach. John McDERMOTT has been to Ireland, where he saw U2 in concert twice, and to the Hawaiian Islands, where he surfed the huge waves created by Hurricane John. Kenneth SIMON is senior secretary at Indiana University's Student Legal Services Office and is acting in community theater productions. '92 Robert GROPP is working toward a Ph.D. in grassland ecology in the Department of Botany at the University of Oklahoma. '93 Susan RITTER, a member of the first Crown College freshman class in 1967, proudly announces that she finally graduated in 1993, and now lives in Van Nuys.

Merrill College '71 Anne TAYLOR Fleming is a columnist and writer for national newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and Newsweek, an on-camera essayist for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and author of Motherhood Deferred--A Woman's Journey published by Putnam. '72 Edward McCAUGHAN, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Santa Cruz, received the Hubert Herring Award of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for an article he wrote on political, economic, and social upheaval in Mexico since 1968. '74 Daniel COLNER lives in Santa Monica and is a partner in a law firm that practices construction and business litigation. '75 Robert GRIES is working in desktop publishing and office automation and wrote a suite of macros for PG&E. '76 In spring 1995 through UCSC Arts & Lectures Brenda Wong AOKI will perform in the play she wrote, The Queen's Garden, based on her experience growing up with southern California Asian Pacific Island street gangs and from her years of working in the ghettos of Los Angeles and San Francisco. '83 Francisco SERNA has been chosen by Santa Cruz city officials to be community liaison to Beach Flats, a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood near the Boardwalk. '86 Joseph VU is a recent graduate of Southwestern University School of Law, where he won an Exceptional Achievement Award in Immigration Law and received a John J. Schumacher Minority Leadership Scholarship. '88 Gina COVELLO is working toward an M.A. in international policy studies and Spanish at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. '89 Barry GRIGSBY is a social worker for Children's Protective Services in Santa Clara County. '90 Pamela LERI received an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and works as an intercultural trainer/consultant in Chicago. Walter LEVISON is doing environmental work in northern California. '91 Erika LUNDHOLM is director of a new nonprofit, the California Association of Persian Gulf Veterans, focusing on Gulf War syndrome and health care. After receiving a master's of public health from Boston University, Kenneth VAIL is doing graduate work in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. '92 Alissa GARDENHIRE is at Harvard in the Ph.D. program in urban planning. '93 Wendy HOOD is in a Ph.D. program in behavioral ecology at Boston University. Ana TURCIOS is a counselor with the Early Academic Outreach Program in the SAA/EOP Office at UCSC.

Porter College '74 Craig RIESER is teaching high school art in a visual and performing arts magnet program and is publishing a quarterly family adventure magazine called Outdoor Family with his wife. '75 Keith REDENBAUGH works at Calgene and recently obtained approval from the FDA to sell the FLAVR SAVR tomato, the first genetically engineered whole food. '77 Rebecca MORGAN was a guest on an Oprah Winfrey show featuring service workers and was featured in an article, "Clients From Hell," a cover story for Home Office Computing. Michael YAMPOLSKY is married and living in Long Beach, Calif., where he produces interactive multimedia programs. '78 Jeffrey GLUCKSON Briar conducted an opera by Lukas Foss in Vienna, and he played piano and sang in Budapest and Paris. Kenneth PARKER left Seattle for a permanent position as oceanographer in global climate-change research at the new NOAA Marine Prediction Center in Monterey. '81 Lynn ERLICH Erfer is promotion and marketing manager for Raytek. '82 Gino RAUGI teaches school at Branciforte Elementary in Santa Cruz and directs the school orchestra. '83 Gregory HANSEN graduated with an M.F.A. in architectural lighting from Parsons School of Design, works as an energy- management specialist with a public utility in Oregon, and teaches lighting at a local community college. Daniel WOLF is composing music in Frankfurt, Germany, and raising a year-old son. '84 Kristine JESSKA practices psychotherapy in Boulder Creek, Calif. '85 Claire PARSONS has her own dance company in Sweden. Linda REXFORD-McWilliams is married and raising her first child, Walter. '86 Carol HARTMAN Shadwell is a classroom and an instrumental music teacher in an elementary school, as well as an avid beekeeper. '87 Richard HILL received a Ph.D. in English/creative writing from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. '89 Jay FIENBERG is head librarian for the Laughing Man Library of the Free Daist Avabhasan Communion and managing editor for Avatara Dau Loloma's "The Basket of Tolerance." Dung NGUYEN moved to Atlanta. '90 Jennifer WOLF Finetti is a psychiatric emergency-team counselor in San Jose. Christopher LALLEMAND has married Laurie CALDWELL (Crown '91), and they are living in Santa Cruz. Che LeSEUR received her M.S.W. from San Diego State University and is working for San Diego County as a social worker. Jeff LINDELL graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and is a freelance industrial designer. '93 Vicky MENDENHALL is teaching freshman composition at San Jose State University, where she is a graduate student. Bill WOODCOCK is president of Zocalo Engineering, an AppleTalk and IP design and construction firm, has written a book on networking the Macintosh, and writes a regular article in Connections: The Journal of Macintosh Networking.

Kresge College '78 Louise DIAMOND received production funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a film documentary she is producing on conjurers. Ruth LINDEN is a Mellon fellow in history and philosophy of science at Stanford, where she conducts research on the culture and politics of mammography. Her book, Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (1993), won the Helen Hooven Santmyer Price award in women's studies. '82 Nancy DENENBERG is studying for a master's in physical therapy at Oakland University, north of Detroit, and is teaching anatomy for artists and Feldenkrais on the side. '84 Marc SANDS is an attorney with QUALCOMM, a telecommunications company in San Diego. '87 Rachel ROTH helped organize a graduate student union at Yale, which won access to health benefits for graduate and professional students' same-sex domestic partners, the first such union to do so. '89 Ayame FUKUDA is working on a novel. '90 Kristina JOHNSON is the sous-chef at the Clearwater Cafe in Pasadena. Heather VON LETKEMANN received an M.S. degree in physical therapy from Duke University. '91 Teresa BERGEN has published Vegetarian Asia: A Travel Guide with Noble Poodle Press. Yehudit SHERMAN is a freelance scientific illustrator and has done biological field research in Australia, Ecuador (the Galapagos), and Canada. '92 Joan SPRING has moved to Corvallis, Oreg.

Oakes College '78 Rebeca RANGEL teaches ethnic studies, cultural diversity, and self-esteem in San Jose, founded Unlimited Women Consultants, and is featured in Women and Work: In Their Own Words, a book published by New Sage Press. '80 Dan PULCRANO, executive editor of Metro Santa Cruz, has assembled a team of fellow alums: Sharan STREET (Porter '85), director of editorial operations; Buz BEZORE (Porter '73), Santa Cruz editor; Michael GANT (Crown '71), arts editor; and Richard von BUSACK (Cowell '83), film reviewer. '85 Scott ROSEMAN opened up a second New Leaf Community Market in Capitola.

College Eight '74 Cynthia DuBOIS has gone from fashion design to fine art and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Tim Hunter, a lecturer at Porter between 1970 and 1974, and their four children (including twins). '78 Yakov GREENSTEIN is assistant professor of psychiatry and medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Architect Martin MERVEL has spent three summers in Rome compiling an architectural survey analysis of Hadrian's Villa, and he is pursuing a production-design career in Hollywood. '80 Patrick MEAD has been made northwest regional vice president of the American Arbitration Association, a 69-year-old nonprofit educational and public service organization offering alternatives to litigation for resolving disputes of all kinds. '81 Steven JENSEN is raising a family and bidding analytical and process-control instrumentation on water and wastewater jobs in southern California. '82 David ELKIN is pursuing an M.B.A. at Santa Clara University. '84 Stephen DeMYER is director of dentistry at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. '85 Kim MATSUNAGA's wedding in Santa Barbara was attended by the bride's two brothers, Keith MATSUNAGA (Crown '76) and Jon MATSUNAGA (Crown '78). '86 After a year in Japan, Paul CRENNA is completing an M.S. degree at Oregon State University. '87 Nathalie FLEMING Kelly is owner, educator, and director of a childbirth and parenting center in San Francisco. '88 Kelley BURST Singer is a mother and an internal medicine resident at the University of Oklahoma. '92 Shelley McQUEENY graduated from Berkeley with an M.S.W. and is now living on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound near Seattle. After a year at the Department of Commerce in Washington, Trae MENARD is going to graduate school in Hawaii to study biogeography and natural resource management. '93 Amy WEPSIC has received a Fulbright grant to study in Costa Rica for the 1994-95 academic school year, where she will research feminist environmental movements.

Graduate Studies '80 Douglas DUNCAN is professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago and director of astronomy at the Adler Planetarium; he recently returned from exploring the Arctic and the North Pole. '83 Lauret SAVOY is an assistant professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College and has received a Smithsonian Institution Faculty Fellowship, as well as a fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University for research in its collection. '86 Gustavo VALADEZ Ortiz received an Ed.D. degree from the University of San Francisco. '87 Carole McCANN is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945, published by Cornell University Press. Edward STEPHENSON is a psychology instructor at various universities in Florida and is working on a book about Rastafari.