UC SANTA CRUZ

Winter 2001

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Visionaries ofthe Visual Ada Takahashi is one of the many UCSC alumni working as museum and gallery curators and directors

Plus: Filling the teacher gap; Measuring mercury contamination CONTENTS FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

UC Santa Cruz Features Visionaries of the visual n my position as chancellor, challenge, launching a 15-month Review As curators or directors at I am fortunate indeed to come in program that provides our students Chancellor some of the country’s most contact with many of the people with both a teaching credential and M.R.C. Greenwood Visionaries of the Visual 8 respected art museums that make the UC Santa Cruz master’s degree in education. and galleries, a number of I I community so special: our students, Our faculty and students are Vice Chancellor, University Relations Ronald P. Suduiko UCSC graduates are helping whose thirst for knowledge is only achieving distinction in a variety of decide which works their Associate Vice Chancellor, Meeting the Need 14 exceeded by their commitment to other ways. Research that is revealing Communications institutions buy or borrow— improve society; our faculty and staff, important information about mercury Elizabeth Irwin and ultimately bring to who diligently see to it that our students contamination in San Francisco Bay

Editor freidman/losgary angeles times the public’s attention. 8 receive a world-class education at the waters is one example of that excel- Mercury: A Toxic Legacy 18 Jim Burns Meeting the need same time that UCSC produces impres- lence (page 18). In fieldwork involving Art Director/Designer UC Santa Cruz is helping sive research; and our alumni, whose faculty from UCSC’s newly formed Jim MacKenzie years on campus very often foreshadow Department of Environmental Departments prepare tomorrow’s K–12 Associate Editors teachers, desperately needed important postcollegiate careers. Toxicology, UCSC graduates, and Mary Ann Dewey This issue of the Review underscores don harris in California, through a current students, the extent of contam- Jeanne Lance the important contributions of just a ination from the New Almaden and unique new program that Writers From the Chancellor 1 few members of the UCSC family, New Idria mine sites is coming to provides students with a People from UC Santa Cruz’s Louise Donahue people whose work is making a real light. Their efforts could prevent Barbara McKenna teaching credential and difference in our world. additional contamination of San Jennifer McNulty master’s degree—in Doreen Schack The cover story (page 8) shines the Francisco Bay Area waters. Campus Update 2 jones r. r. just 15 months. 14 Education Department are helping Tim Stephens spotlight on a half-dozen of our gradu- In closing, I would like to call Francine Tyler A toxic legacy ates who hold prominent positions on your attention to another achievement: Cover photography Mercury is beginning to the national art scene. Through their UCSC has been selected to participate Alumni News 22 to address one of California’s R. R. Jones surpass lead as a major work as curators and directors, these in one of three new California Office of University Relations environmental concern, half-dozen alumni are making the Institutes for Science and Innovation. Carriage House and UCSC faculty, decisions that determine which works Established this past December by the University of California most daunting challenges: Alumni Notes 24 students, and alumni are 1156 High Street are displayed in many of this country’s governor (page 4), the Institute for Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 assessing the extent to leading galleries and museums. Bioengineering, Biotechnology and which old mine sites are voice: 831.459.2501 UCSC people are also leading the the preparation of a new Quantitative Biomedical Research, fax: 831.459.5795 Alumni Profile 25 contaminating the way in helping to address one of otherwise known as “QB3,” promises e-mail: [email protected] jones r.r. San Francisco Bay. 18 California’s most daunting challenges: to lead the next revolution in biomed- web: review.ucsc.edu Lost and found sound the preparation of a new generation generation of K–12 teachers— ical research. It is obviously too soon Produced by UCSC Public Information of K–12 teachers—educators who will to report on QB3 findings in this issue and Publications. 1/01(01-045/72M) We’ve had the ability to record sound for just over be desperately needed in the state’s of the Review, but stay tuned. UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) classrooms in the new decade. Two Vol. 38, No. 3 / Winter 2001 100 years, and UCSC educators who will be desperately UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative alumnae Davia Nelson and years ago, Governor Gray Davis asked publications published quarterly by the University of California to do more University Relations at UC Santa Cruz. Nikki Silva have brought a Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, CA century’s worth of recordings in the area of teacher preparation. needed in the state’s classrooms 95060. Postmaster: Send address changes to life in an award-winning As you will see in this issue of the to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, series for National Review (page 14), UCSC’s Education M.R.C. Greenwood Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. james sorensen Public Radio. 25 Department has responded to the in the new decade. Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE jones r.r. Extinct rhino behaved like modern hippo

The mystery behind Koch, an associate professor of mong the large Earth sciences, have teamed up mammals that roamed

al forster the vanishing fur seal to determine why the distribu- prehistoric North A museum university of nebraska state tion of marine mammals around America was a type of rhinoc- or years, anthropologist the Monterey Bay Area has un- eros that seems to have lived An artist’s rendering of the Teleoceras habitat in Miocene Nebraska. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez was dergone such dramatic changes in the water, much like a Fpestered by nagging ques- in the past 2,000 years. modern hippopotamus. The and we now have evidence oxygen atoms), but their tions about some marine mam- Northern fur seals are per- extinct rhinoceros, known as from isotope analysis that they greater mass has interesting mal bones that were part of haps best known for their fur, Teleoceras, ranged from Florida were semi-aquatic like hip- consequences. Evaporation, UCSC’s extensive archaeological which was prized by hunters in to the West Coast from about pos,” said Mark Clementz, a for example, acts preferentially archive. Why, she wondered, the 1800s. 17 million years ago until graduate student in Earth sci- to remove water molecules did the collection contain the Long before the coming of about 4.5 million years ago. ences, who presented his find- containing the common, light remains of so many northern fur the fur trade, however, some- Its semi-aquatic lifestyle, first ings at a recent meeting of the isotope of oxygen. seals, a species that today is thing made the seals vanish suggested by its body shape, Geological Society of America. The water left behind, found primarily off Siberia and from mainland beaches along has been disputed by some Clementz and Paul Koch, whether in a puddle or in the Numerous construction the Aleutian Islands in Alaska? the Central Coast. Gifford- Talat (seated) and Kamil Hasan researchers. But evidence an associate professor of Earth body of an animal, ends up Building for the future projects are about to The northern fur seal, one of Gonzalez and Koch have ruled preserved in fossil teeth now sciences, analyzed oxygen with a higher proportion of commence, already under way, or nearly completed on campus. the smallest of the eared seals, out the usual suspects: bears, Endowment boosts indicates that in some areas, isotopes in fossil Teleoceras heavy oxygen isotopes. The major projects, which will result in new housing, classrooms, accounts for fewer than 1 per- coyotes, and other carnivores. at least, Teleoceras did spend teeth for clues to the animals’ The Teleoceras study grew office, and research space, include the following: the Physical cent of all pinniped strandings More likely, they believe, Indian classical music much of its life in the water. habits. Oxygen occurs in nature out of work Koch had done Sciences Building (depicted in an artist’s rendering, above), to be along the Central Coast today. would be human overpredation “Morphologically, as three different isotopes. on modern mammals in East completed in fall 2003; the Core West Parking Structure, providing But the presence of its bones or climate change—or a combi- awab hamid ali khan, ruler Teleoceras looked a lot like The two heavy isotopes are Africa comparing different space for approximately 500 vehicles in the Science Hill area; the accounted for about one-third nation of the two. of the state of Rampur, Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, to be completed this fall; the modern hippos, with large, very rare (together they make species within the same of all sea mammals in local A small-scale pilot study they JIndia, in the early 1900s, squat bodies and short legs, up less than 0.5 percent of all ecosystem. Center for Adaptive Optics, to be completed this fall; Bay Tree archaeological sites. have conducted into the mystery was well known for his love and Bookstore and Graduate Student Commons, ready for occupancy this Gifford-Gonzalez and Paul has attracted support from the patronage of the arts. spring; and residence halls for Colleges Nine and Ten, which will National Science Foundation. Now, halfway around the provide on-campus housing for 800 students by fall 2002. Grant helps students With NSF funding, Gifford- world and three generations ‘gear up’ for college Gonzalez and Koch plan to later, the great-granddaughter schiffrin victor

UCSC faculty endorses The meeting brought to jennifer mcnulty pinpoint the date of the seal’s of this respected Nawab and her tudents in the city of a close 12 months of senate disappearance and fill in details husband are carrying on that Watsonville will get a boost ‘narratives’ and grades discussion about the manner of the environmental record. tradition, providing funding Son their way to college from in which UCSC will assess the that will substantially expand UCSC, which has received a csc’s academic senate performance of future students. the performance and instruction $3.7 million, five-year federal in November reaffirmed As a result of the pro-NES Campus enrollment of Indian classical music at UC grant to help disadvantaged Uits commitment to the vote—and a vote on letter Santa Cruz. students prepare for college. campus’s long-standing grades that was finalized only tops 12,000 students The couple are Silicon Valley The funding comes from the Narrative Evaluation System a month earlier—students entrepreneurs Talat and Kamil U.S. Department of Education’s (NES). In a special session of the who enter UCSC this coming nrollment at ucsc Hasan of Saratoga, California. GEAR UP program, which senate, faculty rejected a propos- fall will receive letter grades totaled 12,124 in the fall Their gift of $350,000 estab- stands for Gaining Early al that would have made the in most of their courses and Equarter. The growth mirrors lishes the Kamil and Talat Awareness and Readiness for writing of “narratives” optional. narratives in all of them. Anthropologist Diane Gifford- what’s happening at campuses Hasan Endowed Chair in Undergraduate Programs. The The outcome drew a thun- In a separate vote, senators Gonzalez, left, and geochemist statewide, as higher education Classical Indian Music, which mission of GEAR UP is to in- derous ovation from the stu- also overwhelmingly endorsed Paul Koch have teamed up to study systems gear up to serve an provides ongoing annual sup- ongressman Sam Farr (center) and Norman Mineta, commerce crease the number of low-income dents who were able to squeeze an NES reform resolution northern fur seals (below). unprecedented number of new port for UCSC’s flourishing secretary in the Clinton administration and President Bush’s trans- students who are prepared to en- into the lecture hall and from authored by Professors Barbara students in the state. programs in Indian arts. Cportation secretary-designate, joined Chancellor Greenwood for the ter and succeed in postsecondary the dozens more who listened to Rogoff and William Ladusaw In the UC system alone, it “Indian classical music is a dedication in October of the new federal marine research facility next education. the proceedings via a speaker that, among other things, asked is estimated that space will be remarkable art form,” said Kamil to UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory. In addition to conducting fisheries The Educational Partnership system set up outside. a senate committee to draft needed for 63,000 additional Hasan. “It stands out from pop- research, the new National Marine Fisheries Service Santa Cruz Laboratory Center at UCSC will administer kimberlee b. beckmen kimberlee b. “We’re doing some things guidelines for the writing of academically eligible students ular music because it not only will house the nation’s first National Science Center for Marine Protected the grant. right at UCSC, and part of narratives and requested admin- by the year 2010. pleases the mind and senses, it Areas. “Our oceans are indispensable lifelines from both environmental The funding will support what we’re doing right is the istrative support for software One scenario under discus- goes much deeper. It’s important and economic perspectives and require first-class research to ensure their programs at Watsonville High NES,” noted professor of that would ease the workload sion would have UCSC grow to us to do our part to keep this health,” Mineta said. “This laboratory will provide researchers with the School and its feeder middle linguistics James McCloskey. associated with the NES. to 16,900 by the year 2010. tradition flourishing.” critical tools they need to help shape the future of our oceans.” schools.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 3 grate physical, mathematical, NASA Ames park is Valley institutions, we already UCSC astronomers are making and engineering sciences to cre- have a strong foundation on steady progress on the concep- Please pass the ate powerful new techniques for preferred site for which we can develop further tual design for CELT. ucsc photo services ucsc photo attacking biological problems of academic programs of benefit to Project leaders hope to build caterpillar pie such enormous complexity that Silicon Valley Center the region.” the massive telescope within they have simply remained un- The center is expected to the next ten to 15 years, said magine a potluck buffet approachable—until now. This hancellor greenwood serve as a portal to the UC Joseph Miller, director of UC featuring fried spiders and integration of sciences could has announced that plan- system, connecting all of the Observatories/Lick Observatory rattlesnake. Sound yucky? sentinel cruz shmuel thaler/santa

robert williams, hubble deep field team; nasa williams, hubble robert I open the way for discovery of Cning for UCSC’s Silicon campuses to Silicon Valley, (UCO/Lick). Miller estimated Welcome to the world of treatments and cures for some Valley Center will focus on the especially in the areas of research. the total cost of the project food preferences, where what of our most intractable diseases, proposed NASA Ames Research The University of California and would be around $500 million, is considered delicious— such as brain disorders, cancer, Park as the preferred site for a NASA share many research areas Many of the distant objects revealed but it’s not clear yet where that and disgusting—is more a Dane Archer and diabetes. permanent location. Further of interest and strengths, such as in the Hubble Deep Field, a revolu- money would come from. matter of culture than most One focus of QB3 will be planning studies will lead to a biotechnology, nanotechnology, tionary image of deep space taken people think. and tolerance,” he said. bioinformatics—computing final proposal to the Regents. planetary sciences, and astro- by the Hubble Space Telescope, are Several new faces in “People feel very strongly Archer, a professor of David Haussler methods to sift through the vol- Among the criteria for siting biology. In addition, research is too faint for detailed study with about what they will and sociology at UCSC, has umes of data generated by the the center are visibility, accessi- expected to be conducted on existing telescopes. With CELT, campus administration won’t eat,” said sociologist produced a new educational human genome project and bility, opportunity, net cost, and issues of social justice, education, astronomers would be able to probe Dane Archer. “Westerners video about food, entitled UCSC is partner in other new developments in bio- alignment with the teaching, labor, and economics, among the faintest smudges of light in the our new deans have cringe at the thought of A World of Food: Tastes and new science institute medical research. The institute’s research, and service mission of other topics. Hubble Deep Field, some of which assumed positions within some Asian cultures that eat Taboos in Different Cultures. bioinformatics program will be UCSC. It is expected that UCSC may show the earliest stages of F UCSC’s senior administra- dog meat, because dogs are The engaging 35-minute csc will play a key role in based at UCSC. Ames Research Center is one will offer classes for both under- galaxy formation in the universe. tion this academic year. sacred in our culture. But video features interviews with one of three new California “As experimental methods be- of ten field centers of NASA. graduates and graduates at Wlad Godzich, a department Hindus feel the same way people from different cultures UInstitutes for Science and come more sophisticated and the The proposed site is part of a the Silicon Valley Center. The Astronomers set sights chair at the University of about cows and are horrified and undercuts the dominant Innovation established in amount of data skyrockets, the collaborative R&D campus specific curricular offerings and Geneva in Switzerland, is the by the ‘dead animal’ racks in Western view that “what we December by Governor Gray role for bioinformatics is dramat- currently being developed by subjects of research are to be on next telescope new dean of the Division of our supermarkets.” eat is normal and what every- Davis. The Institute for ically expanding,” said David NASA Ames that includes a determined through planning by Humanities; Sung-Mo “Steve” Food preferences and body else eats is strange.” Bioengineering, Biotechnology Haussler, UC Presidential range of research, education, faculty, which now is under way. he desire for ever larger Kang, a department chair at the taboos are extremely emo- The video describes the and Quantitative Biomedical Professor of computer science at and museum activi- telescopes has driven University of Illinois at Urbana- tional and value-laden, said prohibitions against certain Research (QB3) will be centered UCSC and a codirector of the ties. UCSC’s Silicon astronomers relentlessly Champaign, the dean of the Jack Archer. People tend to regard foods in the major religions greg pio greg T at UC San Francisco with major institute. He and his colleagues Valley Center would for nearly 400 years. In 1610, Baskin School of Engineering; their own diet as sensible of the world and presents a research components at UC at UCSC have played a key role be included on a par- Galileo discovered the moons Cathy Sandeen, an assistant dean and the diets of other cul- seven-rung food ladder, or Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. in the Human Genome Project, cel within the NASA of Jupiter using a telescope with a at UC San Francisco, the dean of tures as bizarre or irrational, “hierarchy of eligible foods,” The institute promises to assembling the first publicly Research Park, which lens not much more than an inch University Extension/Summer all of which makes food a that ranks what is considered lead the next revolution in bio- available working draft of the is located adjacent to in diameter. Today, the largest Session; and Frank Talamantes, “powerful way to teach edible, delicious, and dis- medical research. It will inte- human genome sequence. the existing campus optical telescopes are the twin of UCSC’s Department of about cultural diversity gusting in various cultures. of the NASA Ames Keck Telescopes in Hawaii, with Molecular, Cell, and Develop- Research Center in 10-meter mirrors that gather the mental Biology, has been Moffett Field. faint light from distant galaxies. named vice provost and dean Humanities gets boost lecturer series and, in another “NASA’s proposed But, of course, astronomers still of Graduate Studies. surprise announcement, Campus R&D park fulfills the want bigger telescopes, knowing in funding for center Provost and Executive Vice ucsc photo services ucsc photo location criteria for they can yield new insights Clockwise, from upper left: Godzich, Chancellor John Simpson our Silicon Valley into the nature and origins of Kang, Talamantes, and Sandeen his past october, more pledged $38,000 to the IHR for Center,” Greenwood The formation of a partnership to address the universe. than 70 faculty, staff, and graduate student support. said. “NASA’s innov- Silicon Valley’s critical education and workforce The next milestone in T students gathered at a The IHR was created in ative vision for a re- needs was announced this past fall by leaders telescope size is likely to be one Porter College courtyard for an 1999 to support humanities search complex that from UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, with a primary mirror 30 meters inaugural celebration of UCSC’s faculty and graduate student emphasizes synergy Foothill–De Anza Community College District, in diameter, which would pro- new Institute for Humanities research and academic program- among participants and NASA Ames Research Center. The vide ten times the light-gather- Research (IHR). ming. The IHR is also the is compatible with “collaborative” envisions joint research and ing area of each of the Kecks. The festive mood of the home of the internationally our campus’s goals. education programs among the institutions, to UC and the California Institute services ucsc photo services ucsc photo reception turned even more renowned Center for Cultural Each year, UCSC’s Academic Senate honors a number of the Because of our exist- take place at the proposed NASA Research of Technology (Caltech) have celebratory following surprise Studies, one of the nation’s campus’s most exemplary and inspiring teachers. Thirteen such ing research collabo- Park. Joining Chancellor Greenwood at a press teamed up to design and build a announcements of additional premiere centers of interdisci- professors and lecturers were chosen to receive Excellence in rations with NASA conference announcing the partnership were 30-meter telescope, dubbed the funding to the center. plinary research. IHR also Teaching Awards for 1999–2000. The recipients, above, were Ames and numerous Robert Caret (also seated), president of SJSU; California Extremely Large Humanities Dean Wlad supports Focused Research nominated by students for qualities such as their enthusiasm for other educational Leo Chavez (standing, right), chancellor of the Telescope (CELT). The project Godzich promised to earmark Activities in Feminism, Mind teaching, commitment to learning, and the content of their courses. partnerships between community college district; and NASA Ames is still in the early planning $60,000 over the next three and Meaning, and Pre- and titangos photography studio photography titangos UCSC and Silicon Research Center director Henry McDonald. stages, but researchers led by anderson chris t. years to support a distinguished Early Modern Studies (PEMS).

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 5 New map provides Manganese exposure the effects of Parkinson’s. ate the emergence of neuro- In Memoriam Economist funds in the Division UCSC researchers evaluated degenerative diseases like detailed views of UCSC of Social and Parkinson’s the effects of low-level exposure Parkinson’s,” Smith said. grad student awards Sciences. Each

jennifer mcnulty to manganese using rats with The possibility that people in

will receive a don harris new map of ucsc new study suggests that a condition that mimics pre- the early stages of Parkinsonism avid kaun, a professor of $1,000 award. has been unveiled that illus- too much manganese, an Parkinsonism, an early stage of could be especially sensitive to economics at UCSC, has The award A trates the campus with Aessential element required the disease in which no symp- moderately increased levels of Dworked with some very is named after by the body in tiny amounts toms are apparent. Their find- manganese is disturbing, he said. unprecedented clarity. The new good graduate students over the its first recipi- campus map differs from its but toxic at elevated levels, may ings were published this past Manganese is ubiquitous in the years. But he was so impressed ents, Garrett predecessors in several important contribute to the early develop- fall in the scientific journal environment, and its increasing by two talented teaching assis- Milam and Matt ways: It is detailed enough to ment of Parkinson’s disease Neurotoxicology and Teratology. use in industrial processes may tants that he has given the McGinty, who show all paved pedestrian and symptoms in susceptible people. The study highlights the im- cause some people to take in campus $50,000 to establish are in UCSC’s bike paths, it shows the topogra- Recent epidemiological stud- portance of looking at the effects greater amounts from water, a new annual award that will doctoral pro- phy of the campus, and it has ies have suggested an association of toxic substances on sensitive food, and airborne sources. recognize outstanding teaching gram in interna- David Kaun, flanked by Matt McGinty (left) been produced in color. between Parkinson’s disease and subsets of the population who In addition, increased expo- by graduate students. tional econom- The map is available from the and Garrett Milam elevated exposure to manganese. may be most vulnerable, said sure to airborne manganese Two graduate student ics. Milam and campus’s Bay Tree Bookstore as The new study in animals shows Donald Smith, an associate pro- could result from the use of the recipients of the new Milam- McGinty were TAs last year derful young men were phe- a poster ($8.95) or as a folded that exposure to low levels of fessor of environmental toxicolo- manganese compound MMT as McGinty-Kaun Award will be in Kaun’s Intermediate nomenal in every dimension. map ($2) that includes insets for manganese does not directly gy and a coauthor of the paper. a gasoline additive. Currently, Ronald Henderson named each year: one from the Microeconomic Theory course, They were so good, I just all of UCSC’s off-campus sites contribute to the disease, but “We are concerned about none of the major oil refineries Economics Department and which had an enrollment of wanted to acknowledge that (including Long Marine Lab, affects a different part of the how chronic low-level exposures are using MMT, but that could Ronald W. Henderson, a profes- one from another department about 120. “These two won- kind of teaching assistance.” Lick Observatory, the Monterey brain in a way that exacerbates to toxic substances may acceler- change, Smith noted. sor emeritus of education and Bay Education, Science, and psychology at UCSC whose Technology Center, and all UC program, which brings research focused on improving Making science ry, guest speakers, slides, Santa Cruz Extension locations). high school teachers Alumni Association educational opportunities for videos, music and engaging The map was created by shockingly fun into the SCIPP labs for don harris underrepresented minorities, names award winners readings,” said Jorge cartographer Cherie Northon, hands-on research experi- died at his Santa Cruz home in Hankamer, former dean of who used existing maps, aerial aniel greenhouse, a ence. Teachers from local November after a lengthy battle professor of women’s humanities. “She transforms photos, and fieldwork to check senior physics and math of daniel greenhouse courtesy schools in Santa Cruz with melanoma. He was 67. each class experience into a for accuracy. Dmajor, thinks learning and Watsonville were studies, the national Henderson’s dual academic multimedia chapter of a well- The map was produced about science should be fun. among those involved in A editor of the New York interests in child development planned story.” under the direction of UCSC’s He began experimenting the project, along with Times, and a UCSC staff and education fueled his Roberts “represents the Office of Planning and Analysis. with electricity when he was UCSC physics faculty member have been selected to research on social and cultural best of a Santa Cruz educa- Funding was also provided by 12 years old, and before long and staff. receive the highest awards influences on development, Bettina Aptheker tion,” said Alumni Council a number of other offices: he was building Tesla coils The first public demon- bestowed annually by the academic motivation, cognition, member Douglas Foster. Housing, Transportation and that could generate huge stration was held last July UCSC Alumni Association. and mathematics and science Named national editor in Parking Services, Admissions, arcs of electricity. This led at Aptos High School’s Bettina Aptheker was given education. November, Roberts had been Public Information, University to special-effects projects summer session. Hartmut the Distinguished Teaching His specific research interest Award for her more than 20 the newspaper’s op-ed page Relations, the Division of Social for concerts by the Grateful Sadrozinski, adjunct profes- times photo york new was in the development of editor since 1995, and had Sciences, and the Arboretum. Dead and Phish bands. sor of physics and coordina- years of teaching and service; instructional approaches that worked in several other posi- More recently, however, tor of SCIPP’s summer Katherine Roberts, national would increase achievement and tions there. Roberts received a New campus map Greenhouse has helped a research program, said the editor of the New York Times, participation in mathematics by bachelor's in politics from group of UCSC physics Daniel Greenhouse demonstrates one of response has been tremen- the Alumni Achievement Latino students, women, and UCSC (Kresge ’74). faculty and local high school the cool special effects—arcs of elec- dous. “You could see from Award, and David Kirk, who other groups that are under- Outstanding Staff Award teachers develop a physics tricity breaking out of his fingertips— the expressions on the stu- has worked hard to expand represented in math and the Katherine Roberts recipient Kirk’s encylopedic demonstration for use in that can be achieved with a Tesla coil. dents’ faces that they were the university’s video and sciences. He specialized in the knowledge of film has placed high school science classes. really impressed.” He plans digital media collection, the development of motivation him in a rare position for a The demonstration, concepts about the power of to bring the demonstration to Outstanding Staff Award. don harris to achieve and participate in nonacademic staff member. involving such electrifying sights electromagnetic fields. other local high schools as well The Alumni Council, the mathematics. In his more than 27 years at as a five-foot bolt of electricity “I’ve always been interested as to schools in San Jose association’s governing body, Henderson, who joined the UCSC, Kirk has built a repu- striking a person in a metal suit, in using electronic devices to get and San Francisco. selected the winners based on UC Santa Cruz faculty in 1977, tation as someone who can is part of the educational out- people excited about science,” At the heart of the demon- nominations from students, also served as provost of UCSC’s track down the most obscure reach activities of UCSC’s Santa Greenhouse said. “I love seeing stration is a Tesla coil, invented faculty, alumni, and staff. The Crown College, chair of the video, becoming a savior for Cruz Institute for Particle someone’s eyes open wide in in the 1890s by Nikola Tesla. three recipients were honored Academic Senate, and dean of teachers who had nearly given Physics (SCIPP). The visual wonder.” Tesla’s inventions include the on campus in early February. the Division of Graduate up hope of finding just the spectacle of the exhibit provides The demonstration was alternating-current (AC) power “In many of her courses, Studies. right title for their classes. an attention-grabbing context developed as part of SCIPP’s system used to supply electrical Bettina incorporates art, poet- David Kirk His illness forced him to

cherie northon for teaching a range of basic summer research associates power throughout the world. retire in 1999.

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 7 VISIONARIES OF THE VISUAL

While crowds fill many of this country’s museums and galleries each day to

appreciate the soul-stirring qualities of exhibition art, a very small number

of individuals—curators and directors—make momentous decisions

about the works we stand in line to see. UC Santa Cruz alumni fill many of

these important positions, and the half-dozen graduates profiled here make

gary freidman/los angeles times Jeremy Strick the critical judgments that determine the art that their institutions buy or Director Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Art History, 1977

EFORE COMING to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in July 1999, Jeremy Strick worked borrow, which artists to feature, and in what contexts the works will be in curatorial positions at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is credited with having a profound B influence on programs in 20th-century art at those institutions, even managing to open a new wing of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago during his tenure. “In all three displayed. With past and present affiliations at some of the nation’s most jobs, I worked to bring those institutions more decisively into the present moment,” Strick says. As head of one of the largest and most important contemporary art museums in the world, Strick is in his element. MOCA’s 4,000-piece collection draws thousands of visitors each day for exhibitions and public programming. Strick is involved in every aspect of the museum’s respected art museums and galleries, these six not only influence how art is operation—from acquisitions (there were more than 200 in his first year as director) and event programming, to fundraising and marketing. He even curates on occasion. “It’s a big responsibility,” Strick concedes, “but one that’s really more exhilarating than burdensome. It’s very thrilling to be working where people come to discover the most ambitious art being viewed today, but how it will be remembered tomorrow. BY BARBARA MCKENNA created today.”

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 9 jim goldberg

Philip Brookman Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Individual Major, 1975

RECIAN STATUES, Renaissance landscapes, and other classical art will always occupy a prominent place in the art world. But, for more than a quarter century, Philip Brookman has been expanding exhibition practice to foster another important G function of art—the reflection of everyday life. During his eight-year tenure at the Corcoran, Brookman has curated scores of critically acclaimed exhibits, unveiling gritty and evocative realities—the hardened faces of

r.r. jones r.r. homeless children; the pill-riddled rooms of dying cancer patients; guileless moments of exuberance, compassion, and intimacy. Karen Moss Brookman’s approach brings with it occasional controversy, perhaps the most publicized Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs example being a 1989 exhibition at the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) of the San Francisco Art Institute homoerotic works of Robert Mapplethorpe. The show was originally slated to go on Studio Art/Art History, 1977 exhibition at the Corcoran, but was canceled just weeks before the opening for politi- cal reasons. Brookman, a curator at the WPA at the time, and UCSC alumnus and AREN MOSS is drawn to both the scholarly and the hands-on worlds of art that have led to positions in either then–WPA executive director Jock Reynolds, decided to bring the show to the WPA. curation or education at such prestigious institutions as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, L.A.’s Museum “It wasn’t a hard decision,” Brookman says. “We wanted people in Washington to see what they of Contemporary Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. But it wasn’t until 1999, when she were being told they couldn’t see. And people came in great numbers. I think we had stepped into her current position, that Moss could finally combine her dual passions under one job title. about 50,000 people in 25 days. No one had seen anything like it.” KAt the 125-year-old San Francisco Art Institute, one of the country’s premier art colleges, Moss curates exhibitions “I have worked for a long time to rethink what a museum is and what a museum does,” says in the institute’s three galleries, manages an extensive public programming schedule, and oversees a far- Brookman, whose career also includes curatorial positions at UCSC’s Sesnon Art reaching community education program. Gallery, San Diego’s Centro Cultural de la Raza, and the National Gallery of Art. Moss credits her wide-ranging interest in art to her training at UCSC. “The direction I took in my career was very “For a long time museums were mainly history archives. What I am aiming for is not much influenced by my studies in art history and the experiences I had in a museum studies seminar at so much a traditional academic look at art and art history, but art as it connects to UCSC,” she says. Moss still has the printed program from a modern sculpture exhibition that she and the community, to people’s lives.” fellow classmates put together under the supervision of her UCSC mentor, former faculty member Nan Rosenthal. “It was really unusual to experience that level of museum practice as an undergraduate,” she says. “You were allowed to do things at Santa Cruz that absolutely didn’t happen in other places.”

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 11 alex contreras/yale university alex contreras/yale r.r. jones r.r.

Jock Reynolds Director, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven william coupon Psychology, 1969 Keith Christiansen Curator of Italian Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City AKING ON THE JOB in 1998 as director of the Yale University History and French Literature, 1969 Art Gallery—America’s oldest university teaching museum and home to a collection of more than 86,000 N HIS JOB, T Keith Christiansen comes face to face with some of the most magnificent works—was a logical step for the former director of a cut- art in the world. A staff member at the Met for the past 23 years, Christiansen Ada Takahashi ting-edge graduate program in interdisciplinary arts (San I oversees the museum’s collection of 14th- through 18th-century Italian paint- Director and Partner Francisco State University), executive director of a dynam- ings. This gives him a full palette of job duties—from examining paintings Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco ic artists’ organization (the Washington Project for the with infrared equipment, to matching a Renaissance masterpiece to a period Aesthetic Studies, 1975 Arts), and director of another prestigious academic muse- frame, to installing exhibitions at the Met using art from around the world. um (Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art). Christiansen’s detailed grasp of art history is essential in curating a show, but so is a OST ART GALLERIES emphasize selling art, not collecting it. As a practicing artist, Reynolds and longtime artistic collaborator certain pragmatism. “Exhibitions take place in a negotiable realm between the But the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco has and wife, Suzanne Hellmuth, have created large-scale ideal and the practical,” he says. “You get in your mind the works of art you gained an international reputation not only as a visual theater productions, installations, and exhibitions need to carry out your concept, and then the negotiating and bartering M distinguished vendor of fine photography, but for its that have been seen around the world. Their works have begins: You learn that a work that would perfectly exemplify a certain period unique collection of vintage 19th- and 20th-century been commissioned by MIT, the Carnegie Library, and the or style is never put on loan, that another has all the right components but is European and American photography. University of Washington, while some of their studio art in terrible condition, and yet another belongs to a museum that is already Ada Takahashi, who has been with the gallery since 1986, shares resides in such collections as the Walker Art Center, the lending you two paintings and won’t be thrilled about making a third loan.” duties with co-owner Robert Koch. Once a photographer Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian. Christiansen not only decides what the public will see, but also what the museum will herself, Takahashi now focuses on curating shows and But it is his role as a teacher that Reynolds values most. For ten buy—heart-pounding decisions that can carry price tags into the millions. managing the gallery. She began her professional career as years Reynolds was a member of the San Francisco State “If you’re laying down $2–5 million on an acquisition, it’s vital to have a a researcher at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University art faculty, and, from early in his career, he clean, unbiased reaction to the piece,” he says. “We all have these ingrained but quickly moved into gallery work where she found has made the education of up-and-coming artists and responses that, when you’re making this kind of a purchase, you can’t afford more opportunities for interaction with people—discov- scholars a priority. Reflecting on the path that led him to follow uncritically. You have to stretch your expectations and ask, ‘What ering new artists and sharing their work with others. to Yale, Reynolds says: “I purposely eschewed chances to am I looking at? How does this compare to works from a similar period? “It’s exciting to come across new work,” she says. “When it’s a run big-city museums because I wanted to play an active What will it add to the collection? Does it represent a historically pivotal great discovery, you know it right away. The great pieces role as an educator. It’s a thrill to continuously engage the moment?’ You have to be absolutely certain—intellectually and intuitively.” captivate your perception visually, intellectually, and minds and creative curiosity of young people.” intuitively. And then, when you can ultimately exhibit that work—when you see it up on the wall—that’s a very satisfying experience.”

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 13 Meeting theNeed UC Santa Cruz responds to California’s teacher shortage with a bold new program

arol Krantz was about to give up on her lifelong dream of becom- ing a teacher when she heard last year about a new program at UCSC that Coffered both a teaching credential and a master’s degree in education in just 15 months. Krantz, 58, had decided at the age of 12 to become a teacher, but marriage and children had sidetracked those plans. Having recently earned her bachelor’s degree in American studies at UCSC, Krantz couldn’t afford two more years of school. UCSC’s program, which combines preparation for classroom teaching with an emphasis on the theoretical basis of teaching and learning, was a perfect fit for her. “I feel like this is what my destiny has always been,” said Krantz, who is preparing to teach third grade. “I have always loved teaching. It’s just a part of me.” Eighty-five students are enrolled in the inaugur- al class, and many cite the 15-month schedule as a Carol Krantz and some of her students at Main Street major factor in their decision to choose UCSC. Elementary School in Yes, it’s rigorous, they all agree, but the prepar- Soquel, California

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 jones r.r. 15 Gordon, whose not-so-hidden agenda is to in- ation is a valuable blend of hands- prepared only about 4 percent of “We believe that better prepa- a recognition that good teaching on using language to reach their spire new teachers to take on the extraordinary on training and scholarship. the teachers who are credentialed ration leads to greater profession- grows over a lifetime.” students. Being fluent in Spanish Teaching job of urban teaching, said the experience of If the 15-month program in California. Private colleges and al success,” she said, noting that At UCSC, teacher prepara- will help Henne, particularly if she working in urban schools transforms many aspir- for a ing teachers. “So many issues are played out in seems to have been tailor-made universities credential another 30 the UCSC program exceeds state tion can begin at the under- lands a job in nearby Watsonville urban schools—immigration, socioeconomic for students, its origins actually lie percent or so, and the rest earn requirements for the number of graduate level with a minor in as she hopes, but it won’t help her BetterWorld differences, language barriers, lack of school in meeting the needs of the state their credentials at California hours spent student teaching. education. In addition to the reach students who speak resources,” said Gordon. “Unless our students get of California, which is experienc- State University campuses. Davis The program begins in credential/master’s program, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Chinese. he Peace Corps slogan, “The toughest this hands-on exposure, many aspiring teachers ing an acute teacher shortage. It’s asked UC to double its share, summer with an intensive UCSC administers the very “We’re learning how to use Tjob you’ll ever love,” is an apt description won’t consider urban schools. Nothing but experi- hard to fathom the scope of the and he backed his directive three-course load, including a successful New Teacher Project, everything at our disposal to reach of what’s in store for new teachers. And like ence can change that, and we provide a safe Peace Corps volunteers, many aspiring teachers environment where they can discuss and critique challenge: Between 250,000 and with resources, including the classroom placement that offers which provides professional students, including other children are drawn to the work by a desire to build a what they have seen and felt.” in the classroom. Everyone in the 300,000 new teachers will need Governor’s Teacher Scholars opportunities for observation development and mentorship better world. Adding to the challenge facing urban school Color of Teaching, to be hired in the next and integration of opportunities for teachers during room is a resource,” said Henne, Nowhere is that need as great as it is in districts is the struggle to build a diverse teaching ten years, according theoretical material their first two years in the whose upbeat confidence is shared low-income urban schools which typically lack force, said Gordon, author of the new book The etween 250,000 and 300,000 to the California with “real-world” classroom. The model has been by many. “Diversity creates so the resources it takes to attract—and keep— which explores the cultural and top-notch teachers. social forces that discourage people of color from Commission on new teachers will need to be hired scenarios (see side- so successful that it is being many opportunities for a teacher At UCSC, the credential/master’s program becoming teachers. The reasons vary depending Teacher Credentialing. B bar). It wraps up the expanded beyond the Monterey to bring world studies into the in the next ten years. That rivals the size emphasizes field placements in diverse settings, on the ethnic group, according to Gordon. Family That rivals the size following summer Bay Area into Silicon Valley, and classroom. Most of our group see beginning with the students’ first classroom discouragement is a common theme, as are the challenge as exciting.” of the entire teacher of the entire teacher workforce today, with a condensed it is being replicated in school assignment in a poor inner-city school district in lack of respect afforded teaching by mainstream workforce today, five-week quarter districts across the state. For UCSC’s faculty, preparing San Jose. America, and the lasting effects of racism and which numbers which numbers 284,000. California that ends mid-July Next on the department’s badly needed teachers offers several “By working in urban schools, our students get the mislabeling of children’s academic abilities. a chance to see the issues that are keeping low-in- Contrary to public perception, teaching is a 284,000. The task is to allow graduates to agenda: a new doctoral program levels of gratification: There’s no come children from succeeding in the educational creative, challenging, and rewarding profession currently issues only 20,000 new creden- doubt their students will find jobs, even more daunting begin teaching in in education that would prepare context,” said June Gordon, assistant professor of that requires risk-taking and commitment, said given that California tials each year but will need to hire 36,000 mid-August. the next generation of faculty and there is satisfaction in knowing education at UCSC, who teaches Urban Education Gordon. “Understanding the complexity of teach- currently issues only The pace is gruel- for UC and California State that UCSC offers follow-up at the undergraduate level and coordinates the ing and portraying the reality of the profession 20,000 new creden- teachers per year to meet the demand. ing, as is the work- University schools of education. professional support after gradua- San Jose placements for master’s students. “Our would help correct misperceptions,” she said. tials each year but will load. “We had to Currently in the proposal stage, tion. There is also comfort in graduates may not choose to teach in urban set- Castillo, 25, sees teaching as a road to social tings, but the urban field placement exposes them change. “I’m an activist, and teaching to me is a need to hire 36,000 write 16 papers in the the Ph.D. program is targeted to knowing that former governor Pete to the challenges facing many school districts.” form of activism,” said Castillo, who was a union Wilson’s class-size reduction efforts teachers per year to first class,” recalled begin in fall 2003. Franklin-McKinley is the lowest-income district organizer with the United Farm Workers as a UCSC meet the demand. Fellowships, which cover tuition Krantz. “It was a killer, and it For Sarah Henne, 25, one of have improved the classroom envi- in San Jose. The student body is made up predom- undergraduate. “My dad—we used to pick straw- In 1999, when Governor for aspiring teachers who com- can be hard to assimilate it all. the most valuable aspects of the ronment for everyone. inantly of Vietnamese, Latino, Cambodian, and berries, and he said, ‘Mico, if you really want to Gray Davis tapped the mit to work for four years in But education is the core of our credential/master’s program is “As a taxpaying citizen, my fear Laotian students, with smaller numbers of African make a difference, you’ve got to be a teacher. Start Americans, whites, and immigrants from Eastern with the little kids and try to be a role model.’ ” University of California to beef low-performing, hard-to-staff future. Teachers have an amazing the way she and her fellow was that if we didn’t do something Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Eighty- After college, Castillo taught fourth grade with to speed up the credentialing up its teacher-preparation schools following graduation. amount of responsibility. When I students are encouraged to view seven percent of the students participate in the an emergency credential in his hometown. It was a programs, UCSC was quick to Fifty of UCSC’s current students can use the tools from my classes each other as resources. “The process and get more teachers in free-lunch program—a standard measure of the difficult nine months, in part because of the chilly respond. Santa Cruz, in fact, was are enrolled in the fellowship to take children aside, and— curriculum manages to be honest schools, the state would be putting economic status of a school’s population. reception he got from the parents of his white stu- the only campus that was able to program. boom!—they’re learning, they’re about teaching conditions while nontrained people in the classroom, “There were eight or nine different languages dents. But Castillo persevered and had a success- launch an intensive program by The UCSC curriculum plays successful, they’re not feeling also inspiring us to believe that and class-size reduction wouldn’t in my classroom,” said master’s student Americo ful year. Now he looks forward to returning with Castillo. “The teacher tacked a world map on the additional skills to break down cultural barriers summer 2000. “We plunged in,” on the strengths of a teacher- hopeless, well, that gets to the we can face those challenges in accomplish what was hoped,” said wall with pins marking where the students were and encourage parental involvement. Justus. “Education has emerged at said Joyce Justus, chair of preparation program that was heart of all the idealistic reasons well-prepared, effective ways,” from, and there were dots all over that map.” Recalling the pride he felt in fourth grade UCSC’s Education Department. developed to emphasize the I want to teach.” said Henne, a UCSC graduate the top of everyone’s agenda, and we Such robust diversity stood in stark contrast to when, for the first time, his teacher—a man of “I went to the UC Office of the needs of linguistically and UCSC has also contributed who is earning her bilingual have got to take advantage of that the divisions Castillo saw between Latino and Mexican heritage—provided a role model for his President and said ‘Help!,’ culturally diverse students. The significantly to a rethinking of multiple-subject (elementary and move quickly. I think universi- white students in Castroville, the small agricultur- own future, Castillo said he hopes to inspire some al town south of Santa Cruz where he grew up. of his students, too. “There are kids from my com- and they gave our campus the program’s breadth and depth teacher education and profes- school) teaching credential. ties like ours have a special responsi- “The kids in San Jose were awesome,” he said. munity who aren’t being heard,” he said. “There bility to work with our public- resources we needed to condense have historically prepared its sional development. “We’re mov- Because English-language “There were so many cultures that everybody are a lot more voices out there that could be our successful two-year program graduates to take strong leader- ing away from saying that when skills vary tremendously by education partners to improve the seemed to just appreciate everybody else. If that’s heard. I can provide a means for those voices to into 15 months.” ship roles “right out of the start- you get your credential, you’re region and even within a single quality of public schools.” typical of urban schools, other schools have a lot be heard, because I know what they sound like.” UC campuses historically have ing gate,” said Justus. ready to teach,” said Justus. “It’s classroom, teachers can’t count —Jennifer McNulty to learn from these kids.” —Jennifer McNulty

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 17 Mercury: a toxic legacy

s a UCSC graduate student in 1997,

Priya Ganguli had not yet settled flegal russell on a research subject for her thesis when she came upon a strange- looking creek during a field trip. AThe creek was bright orange, stained with iron oxides draining into it from an abandoned mercury mine. Intrigued, Ganguli decided to Mercury, a highly toxic element, was entering the find out what else was escaping from the creek from the New Idria mine site. New Idria mine into San Carlos Creek, which Francisco Regional Water San Joaquin River and con- flows into a wildlife refuge at the headwaters Quality Control Board to tribute to the contamination develop a plan to clean up of San Francisco Bay. But the of the San Joaquin River. mercury pollution in the San largest single source of mer- What she discovered not only earned her Francisco Bay Area. Ganguli, cury pollution in the bay ap- meanwhile, is one of two for- pears to be another inoperative a master’s degree, but helped focus attention mer students from Flegal’s lab mine that Flegal’s lab is now on a serious environmental problem. working on mercury cleanup investigating. efforts for the Regional Board. The New Almaden mining Ganguli found that mer- world,” says Flegal, one of the San Francisco Bay consis- district in the Santa Cruz cury, a highly toxic element, world’s leading experts on lead tently exceeds water quality Mountains near San Jose was was entering the creek from and other trace metals in the standards for mercury. Some once the largest producer of the mine and nearby piles of environment. popular sport fish in the estu- mercury in North America. mine tailings. Spurred by her As chair of UCSC’s newly ary contain such high levels of Mining operations at New findings, Ganguli’s adviser, established Department of mercury they are unsafe to eat. Almaden shut down in 1975, professor of environmental Environmental Toxicology, High mercury concentrations and the area is now a Santa toxicology Russell Flegal, Flegal oversees a unique inter- have also been found in failed Clara County Park. But launched several new research disciplinary program that is ad- eggs of an endangered bird, Flegal’s lab is finding that projects looking at various dressing a broad range of issues the California clapper rail, mercury from the mines and Graduate students Douglas Steding (left) and aspects of mercury pollution. concerning potentially harmful that nests in the bay’s marshes. associated waste piles is mak- Christopher Conaway collect water samples “Mercury is starting to sur- chemicals and microbes in the According to Ganguli, some ing its way into the Guadalupe from the Guadalupe River, which carries pass lead as one of the biggest environment (see sidebar). mercury from the New Idria River, which empties directly mercury pollution from the New Almaden mine environmental concerns in the His lab’s findings on mine, located in San Benito into the southern end of San into the southern end of San Francisco Bay. U.S. and throughout the mercury are helping the San County, may travel down the Francisco Bay.

18 19 r.r. jones r.r. UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 ost people know opmental impairments caused ercury enters mountains of California. No That was surprising, The Santa Clara Valley Water mercury as the silvery by exposure to methylmercury the environment one knows how much they left because a substantial amount District and the U.S. Army Environmental perils: liquid metal used in in the womb. At greatest risk from a wide range of behind or where it is now. of mercury enters the north Corps of Engineers are currently thermometers, but it are children whose mothers sources, both natural “In the western United end of the bay through the engaged in a massive flood-con- An interdisciplinary approach occurs in a variety of consume large amounts of and manmade. It is States, we are cursed with this Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta trol project on the Guadalupe otherM forms. All forms are tox- mercury-tainted fish while aM trace contaminant of most mining legacy,” says Khalil from old gold and mercury River, which Abu-Saba sees as ic, but the most dangerous is pregnant or nursing. coal, and emissions from coal- Abu-Saba, an environmental mining sites that drain into the an opportunity to remove mer- an organic form of the element “What appears to be fired power plants are a major specialist with the San Central Valley. So Abu-Saba cury-contaminated sediments. known as methylmercury. happening with mercury is source of mercury pollution Francisco Regional Water asked Flegal if his lab could “We have been working A potent neurotoxin, the same thing we’ve seen in many parts of the world. Quality Control Board. take a look at mercury contam- closely with them, and I do methylmercury readily enters with lead—the more carefully In California, however, his- Abu-Saba, who earned his ination in the New Almaden believe we can remove large the aquatic food chain and researchers look, the more they toric mining activities have M.S. and Ph.D. degrees under region. Martha Thomas, an amounts of mercury from the becomes concentrated in the discover subtle health effects left a toxic legacy of mercury Flegal, is now working to devel- undergraduate working in watershed in the short term,” tissues of fish and the animals from low-level exposure,” contamination. op a mercury “total maximum Flegal’s lab, and graduate stu- he says. that eat them. Through Flegal says. Rich deposits of cinnabar, daily load,” or TMDL, dent Christopher Conaway In the long term, preventing the process of biomagni- for San Francisco Bay. A took on the project. additional contamination from fication, concentrations TMDL defines how much “They produced some of New Almaden will require of mercury in predatory Through the process of a pollutant a body of the first measurements of controlling erosion and runoff fish can be a million of biomagnification, water can receive and still methylmercury in sediments from the huge piles of mine times higher than in the meet water-quality stan- from the Guadalupe River tailings, which cover large areas jones r.r. concentrations Environmental Toxicology Department chair Russell Flegal surrounding water. dards. The Regional Board watershed, and that gave us around the mines. Ganguli is In humans, mercury’s of mercury in then allocates a portion the smoking gun we needed to monitoring the effectiveness eavy metals, pesticides, dioxins, pathogenic bacteria— a dizzying toxic effects on the ner- predatory fish can of the total load to each show that New Almaden is of such remediation efforts at array of pollutants and harmful organisms has made its way into vous system can lead to be a million times of the known sources of the biggest ongoing source of another old mercury mine, the the environment, raising disturbing questions for our industrial serious illness and death. the pollutant, and those mercury pollution in the bay,” Gambonini mine, in Marin Hsociety. Are there toxic chemicals in our drinking water, our food, Symptoms include shak- sources are required to Abu-Saba says. County. the air we breathe? What level of exposure is harmful to human health? higher than in the How are pollutants affecting wildlife and complex ecosystems? ing, slurred speech, loss reduce loads to meet their Ongoing sampling in the Investigations of the New surrounding water. UCSC’s Department of Environmental Toxicology, established in the of coordination, and allocated amounts. Guadalupe River shows a lot of Almaden and New Idria mine summer of 2000, is addressing these issues through scientific research, changes in mood and jones r.r. The challenge is to mercury coming down the sites are only one aspect of the teaching, and collaborations with state and federal regulatory agencies. personality. The expression Compared with human the red ore of mercury, identify and quantify all of the river from the New Almaden ongoing mercury research in With a growing range of interdisciplinary research programs, the depart- “mad as a hatter” came from health effects, much less is occur naturally in California’s sources of mercury so that mining district, Conaway says. Flegal’s lab. Other projects in- ment builds on UCSC’s recognized strengths in environmental research. the effects on 19th-century known about the effects of coastal mountains. The New cleanup efforts can target the “In some places, people clude measuring mercury in air The department’s faculty are widely recognized for their work on toxic heavy metals and harmful bacteria. Ultimately, the results of their hatmakers of the mercury mercury on wildlife. In the Almaden and New Idria most significant sources. In the have even been able to pan and rainwater to see how much research may lead to new methods for controlling environmental hazards salts used to make felt. In the 1980s, Flegal and his coworkers mines ranked first and second late 1980s, Flegal helped the liquid mercury out of the mercury pollution in the Bay and for counteracting the health effects of pollutants. 1950s, mercury discharged looked at mercury levels in ma- in output, but many other old Regional Board set up a moni- sediments,” he says. Area comes from the atmos- “We want to identify the sources of toxicity in the environment and by a factory into Japan’s rine mammals, fish, and inver- mercury mines are scattered toring program for trace sub- Abu-Saba’s draft report calls phere; looking at petroleum understand how they become a threat to organisms, including humans,” Minamata Bay accumulated in tebrates. They found especially up and down the interior stances in San Francisco Bay, for a major reduction in the products as potential sources says Russell Flegal, who chairs the new department. fish and poisoned thousands high concentrations in marine flanks of the Coast Ranges. and his lab still conducts much mercury load coming from the of mercury; and studying how The department, which offers graduate programs leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and undergraduate courses in environmental toxicology, of people in the fishing village mammals, but the effects are Much of the mercury those of the sampling and analysis for Guadalupe River. The Santa mercury changes from one fills a distinctive niche, Flegal says. Most other toxicology programs are of Minamata, killing more still unknown, he says. mines produced was used in the program. As a graduate stu- Clara Valley Water District, as form to another in the environ- associated with medical schools and focus primarily on human health, than 800. “If they were humans they’d gold mining operations during dent, Abu-Saba participated in well as the Santa Clara County ment and how it cycles between while UCSC’s program focuses on all types of organisms, including But current concerns about be in trouble,” Flegal says. “But the Gold Rush, leaving mer- the monitoring program, so Parks, would be primarily the water and the sediments in humans. mercury are focused on more we don’t really know what the cury-contaminated sediments when he began work on the responsible for achieving that San Francisco Bay. In addition to Flegal, who studies how human activities affect the subtle health effects from effects of mercury are on ma- throughout the Sierra Nevada mercury TMDL he knew reduction, he says. According to Flegal, many cycling of trace elements in the environment, the department includes: exposure to low levels of rine life in San Francisco Bay.” and other parts of the vast where to turn for data. The process leading to for- unanswered questions remain. RAssistant Professor Karen Ottemann, who studies how pathogenic methylmercury. According The possible connection be- watershed that ultimately drains “When I sat down with the mal adoption of a total maxi- “Our understanding of the bacteria respond to their environment and infect their hosts; to a recent report from the tween mercury and egg failure into San Francisco Bay. Miners numbers and looked at the mum daily load for mercury cycling of mercury in the envi- RAssociate Professor Donald Smith, who studies the biological effects National Academy of Sciences, in endangered California clap- used mercury to enhance recov- distribution of mercury in San will take several years, but ronment is about where our of heavy metals and is involved in efforts to improve treatments and as many as 60,000 children per rails, however, has intensi- ery of gold, hauling about 26 Francisco Bay, I saw a clear Abu-Saba hopes to get cleanup understanding of lead was ten reduce human exposure to lead; may be born each year in the fied the pressure to clean up million pounds of “quicksilver” signal leading into the South efforts in the Guadalupe River years ago, so we’re way behind,” RAssistant Professor Zhiwu Zhu, who studies the molecular mechanisms United States with neurodevel- mercury pollution in the bay. in 76-pound flasks into the Bay,” he says. watershed started before then. he says. —Tim Stephens involved in the regulation of metal ion concentrations inside cells.

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 21 Association brings R greg pio greg ‘Phone home,’ says You’ll continue to receive this ALUMNI NEWS alumni writers to UCSC magazine and other occasional your alma mater UCSC publications. lumni poets, novelists, R You’ll receive the bimonthly lways wondered what journalists, technical writers, E-Slug Bulletin, a quick read with Alumni Association A memoirists: All are part of happened to so-and-so from the hottest campus headlines. Banana Slug Spring Fair 2001 on April 21 The Writing Life, a course created A your college days? Want to Councilors, 2000–01 at Kresge College over the last two know if there are other UCSC A comprehensive UCSC ...... years with the support of the alumni in your area? The Alumni alumni directory is being pub- Alumni Association’s Distinguished Association can help, but only if lished in May. To compile it, the Cowell Visiting Professor program. it knows where to find you. association recently mailed per- Adilah Barnes “We wanted to bring alumni When you keep your alma sonal data updates to all 45,000 Michael Twombly back to campus to talk about how Freelance journalist Don Wallace mater informed of your address graduates for whom it had valid they’ve made lives around writing,” (Cowell ’74) talks with a student (street and e-mail): addresses. If you didn’t fill out Stevenson during his visit to the fall-quarter your update form, have moved, John Laird, President-Elect Provost Paul Skenazy said. “A lot of R Your friends can find you. The Kresge class, The Writing Life. or simply changed your e-mail Heather Urquhart,Vice President our students are transfers trying to Alumni Association frequently address, then your alma mater for Administration figure out where to go with what forwards mail from one long-lost wants to hear from you. they learn here at the university. book, Comfort Woman, mixes mem- college pal to another. (Address Updating your information Crown We’re showing them what some ories of the Japanese occupation of and phone data are never

byron patterson photo by greg pio; all others by mickey pfleger mickey by pio; all others greg by photo patterson byron is simple via the Alumni Michael Brown writers have done with their educa- Korea with contemporary issues of a released, but mail is forwarded.) Carol Hoshizaki tion at UCSC.” daughter’s struggles with her moth- Association’s web site. R At Banana Slug Spring Fair 2000 (left) Byron Patterson (Oakes ’83) evokes a laugh during the African American Alumni Kresge was able to create the er, will read from her new work. Invitations to your reunion Go to alumni.ucsc.edu Merrill Reunion Mentor’s Circle; (right) Oakes founding provost J. Herman Blake talks with alumni about the life of the college at its course by combining college alumni Surrounding these alumni resi- and local alumni events will and click on the “update your Ken Doctor 25th anniversary celebration; (inset, left) Ana Espinoza (Oakes ’84) participates in a panel discussion at the Oakes reunion; funds with funds from the Distin- dencies have been class visits from reach you. address” link. Dominador Siababa (inset, right) old friends Don Nance (Merrill ’70) and Becky Ray (Cowell ’70) meet again at the alumni reunion luncheon. guished Visiting Professor endow- other alumni writers, including Cris ment. Mini-grants support three- Beam (Kresge ’94), Cate Corcoran which have brought hundreds of Porter Newest affinity group anana Slug Spring Fair is UCSC’s open house and reunion weekend. to four-day residencies that bring (Kresge ’88), Donna Jones (Kresge alumni into meaningful interaction Daren Lewis,Vice President alumni to campus to read from their ’93), Persis Karim (Merrill ’85), for gay, lesbian, bisexual, with each other and the campus,” for Internal Affairs For alumni, the event is an opportunity to revisit old stomping grounds while work and meet with students. Thad Nodine (Graduate Division says Alumni Association executive Linda Ziskin and transgender alumni B seeing the campus as it is today. BSSF 2001 takes place Saturday, April 21, In 1999, Gloria Anzaldua, ’90), Juan Ramirez (Merrill ’86), director Carolyn Christopherson. author of Borderlands/La frontera and Susan Watrous (Kresge ’87). “The new affinity group will help Kresge with reunions, tours, lectures, and receptions. Alumni highlights are listed below. and other books, talked with During winter quarter, another new trend is emerging alumni find each other,” says Deb Douglas Foster For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (800) 933-SLUG or students about her work as a poet, version of The Writing Life is being for the UCSC Alumni Abbott (Porter ’76), director of the Richard C. Hall check the web site at alumni.ucsc.edu. community activist, and essayist offered with another series of alum- A Association: affinity groups. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Oakes focusing on women of color. Last ni writers, whose works range from In the past year, alumni have orga- (GLBT) Resource Center on cam- fall, freelance journalist and mem- short stories and travel commen- nized Black Escargot, a network pus. “This network will build a sense Renée Martínez via e-mail at [email protected]. R The Community Studies Events to welcome alumni: oirist Don Wallace (Cowell ’74) and taries to investigative journalism. for African American alumni, and of community that was impossible Eric D. Thomas,Vice President Reunion will include a panel R Kresge College will celebrate New Yorker staff writer William Established in 1982 with a the Latino Alumni Network for to achieve at the time UCSC’s older for Finance R Find your old friends at the discussion and reception to bring its 30th anniversary beginning on Finnegan (Cowell ’74) worked $250,000 endowment funded by Chicano and Latino graduates. alumni attended college.” Alumni Association’s All-Alumni together alumni, faculty, and cur- College Eight Friday night with memorabilia with core-course students on issues Alumni Association dues income Now, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and To get on the mailing list or Reunion Luncheon. Classes of rent students. Contact department Joanne Foxxe,Vice President displays, panel discussions, and a of race, gender, and culture. In and donations, the Distinguished transgender alumni are joining to volunteer for the GLBT affinity ’71, ’76, ’81, ’86, ’91, and ’96 will manager Penny Stinson at for External Affairs college dinner. Former provosts February, poet Mark Jarman (Porter Visiting Professorship rotates together to form the newest Alumni group, contact the GLBT Center get special recognition. Guests (831) 459-2849 or via e-mail Robert Weiner, Past President and key staff members will attend. ’74) is teaching poetry and poetic annually among the colleges. The Association affinity group at UCSC. director Deb Abbott at (831) are seated together by class year. at [email protected]. To contribute your memorabilia narrative. In April, Nora Okja Keller endowment is intended to enhance “We are delighted to support 459-4385 or via e-mail at Contact the Alumni Association At Large or for more information, contact R A gathering for Asian American (Graduate Division ’90), whose intellectual life at the colleges. these grassroots organizing efforts, [email protected]. at (800) 933-SLUG or via e-mail Mark Adams Provost Paul Skenazy at (831) and Pacific Islander alumni is Liz Anne Jensen at [email protected]. 459-4792 or via e-mail at being planned. Contact AA/PI Kresge senior Gilbert Velasquez Yvette Keller R Every college will hold a [email protected]. Resource Center director Nancy Jr., shown here with his wife, Sandor Nagyszalanczy provost’s reception for alumni late R Kim (Merrill ’94) at (831) Ana, and daughter, Yamileth, is ucsc photo services ucsc photo The Economics Reunion will services ucsc photo Pat Walker Saturday afternoon. 459-5349 or via e-mail at include a Saturday afternoon one of 82 UCSC students who’ve Linda Wilshusen, President [email protected]. received awards from the R Stevenson College will celebrate panel discussion followed by an Alumni Association Scholarship Ex Officio its “living tradition” and its 35th alumni/faculty dinner. Economics R The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Fund. Last year, generous Roger Anderson, Chair, anniversary with a reception and professors will also lead a hike, Transgender Resource Center will alumni donors pushed the fund’s Academic Senate panel discussion reflecting on the bike ride, golf game, auction, hold an afternoon reception and endowment to $1 million. This Carolyn Christopherson, college’s past, present, and future. and other activities. Contact roundtable discussion, including year, 15 students, an all-time Executive Director Invited guests include former department chair Daniel members of the newly formed high, received $2,500 awards. M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor provosts Glenn Wilson, David Friedman (Graduate Division ’77) GLBT alumni affinity group. The Alumni Association will Lee Ritscher, President, Kaun, Dennis McElrath, and at (831) 459-2657 or via e-mail Contact GLBT Resource Center continue fundraising to make Graduate Student Association Carlos Noreña. Contact Teresa at [email protected]. Find director Deb Abbott (Porter ’76) multiyear scholarship awards Shown at a fall 2000 meeting to plan an affinity group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and Lauren Williams, Chair, Huidor, Stevenson provost affairs more information on the web at at (831) 459-4385 or via e-mail at available for financially needy transgender alumni are (l–r) UCSC staff member David Kirk, Stuart Rosenstein Student Union Assembly coordinator, at (831) 459-2638 or econ.ucsc.edu/alumni.shtml. [email protected]. UCSC undergraduates. (Kresge ’99), John Laird (Stevenson ’72), Deb Abbott (Porter ’76, director of the UCSC GLBT Resource Center), and Alumni Council member Renée Martínez (Oakes ’83).

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 23 Kenneth and Robert Kitchen.) During their days at KUSP- ALUMNI NOTES folger laura FM, they explored Santa Cruz and neighboring counties with a micro- phone and a notebook. The broad- casts from their fieldwork featured series; in 1999 she was nominated of “Greek Funerary Sculpture in the cializing in threat management and Cowell College for a “BAFTA” (British Academy J. Paul Getty Museum,” appearing trauma response. John GOEHRING a variety of locals, including rodeo ’69 Margaret WADE Krausse is in Award) for a children’s series she in spring 2001. Li Chiao-Ping and his wife, Marilyn, are owners of queens, Chinese apple growers, her 15th year of teaching in the directed for the BBC called Animal (Nancy LEE) is an associate profes- The Toyworks, which sells quality and “The Road Ranger,” who Modern Languages Department at Shelf. Keith MOORE is consulting sor of dance at the University of nonviolent kid-friendly toys in rescued stranded motorists. Linfield College in Oregon and and conducting research on Wisconsin–Madison; her dance Sonoma County, Calif. At about that time in their planning a sabbatical to France with community-based natural-resource company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, ’70 Juliette MONDOT and Greg collaboration, the Kitchen Sisters her husband, Jeff, in 2002. Claudia management in West Africa and founded in 1991, recently per- CALVERT (Cowell ’70) met at discovered an old 78 r.p.m. wax KRICH is an elementary school on pesticide management in the formed at the Kennedy Center in UCSC and are still married 26 disc record in an Oakland garage teacher, and she is involved in com- Ukraine; he is an assistant program Washington, D.C.; she would like years later; they are homesteading a belonging to Silva’s father. The wax munity activities in Davis, Calif.; she director in the Office of International to locate her former roommate, ranch with their three children in disc, with a handwritten label is enjoying sharing college life vicari- Research and Development at Erin CLARKE. Allen RAMIREZ- Colorado’s southeastern prairie, and reading “To Louie, Love Mrs. B.,” ously with daughters Sophie (Porter Virginia Polytechnic Institute and MARTINEZ is a second lieutenant they own a home-based desktop carried a World War II message ’04) and Vivian (Stanford ’04). State University. (chaplain candidate) in the U.S. publishing company. Claudia from an unknown woman to her ’71 ’75 Donna FELDMANN Karen OLSON writes that she Army Reserve and a Catholic hospi- SHAFER was appointed to the husband stationed in England. Marbach is a freelance writer whose “keeps all of her mail-order catalogs tal chaplain. Santa Cruz County Planning “Do they jitterbug there, hon- work was published recently in alphabetized in a file box in her ’87 Kelly WINN-Boaitey has a Commission in spring 2000; she is ey?” Mrs. B. can be heard asking Breakaway magazine; she is teach- dining room.” master’s in counseling and is self-em- a research lawyer who has been ing creative writing to 11–14 year ’76 Peter HANKOFF is still writing ployed as a rehabilitation counselor; involved in local political issues. Louie. “Bet they don’t dance as nice olds and has cofounded a bilingual in Hollywood. Daniel KIRSHNER she is married and has two children. ’71 After ten years in rural Niigata as we do though, and I bet they’re journal for this age group in is still designing bicycles, the latest of ’91 Deborah BRESNICK has Prefecture, Donna FUGIMOTO not half as pretty, are they, hon?” Guadalajara, Mexico. D. (Diane) which incorporates arm levers into a completed an M.S.W. at San Jose has moved back to Kobe, her Davia Nelson (left) and Nikki Silva, aka the Kitchen Sisters, have brought recordings from the last century to life. On the other side of the record, Barratt LUCAS Walton and her recumbent bike. Alan McKAY State University. Japanese “home,” where she teaches Mrs. B. sings the lyrics to “Can’t husband, Stephen, are living in the manages a 60,000-member health ’92 After graduating with an M.D. English as a foreign language. into a national collaboration, Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine.” Netherlands; she is writing for an plan for low-income residents in from Universidad Católica de Córdoba ’73 Gunnar FRIDRIKSSON, a involving radio producers, public Nelson and Silva played the American publisher and having fun Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. in Argentina, Robert MATTHEWS vice president at Merrill Lynch in ‘Lost and Found Sound’radio stations, creative artists, record on their Santa Cruz radio participating in the English theater ’77 Kate O’SHEA is founder of has moved to Irvine, Calif. New York City, is the change and listeners. “Each person and show in 1981 and on NPR nearly and performance poetry scene. the Institute of Orthopedic ’93 Bailey SMITH has a management manager for the firm’s each organization that got involved two decades later, but the identity ’72 Nadene THORNE Davis Psychology and author of Healing master’s degree in multicultural Global Design and Development Davia Nelson (B.A., politics, the material for the series comes has added some of their imagination of Mrs. B. and her husband works a week-on, week-off schedule Hip, Joint and Knee Pain, published education from the University of Group; he has a ten-year-old Stevenson ’75) and Nikki Silva from the listeners themselves, who and their vision to it,” says Nelson. remains a mystery. for the oil companies at Prudhoe by North Atlantic Books. Wisconsin–Milwaukee and is work- daughter, Gudrun Moss, who lights (B.A., aesthetic studies, Porter ’73) have scoured their attics, base- The series has received critical Ironically, Silva says, of all the Bay, Alaska; on her off time, she ’78 Michael BARRIOS has a pri- ing as an education coordinator for up his life. ments, and garages for personal acclaim, winning a 1999 George media uncovered for the Lost & teaches float-plane flying in Moose vate practice in clinical psychology the Conservation Corps of Long ’75 Diane SIPKIN is practicing produce a historic series for recordings of historic events, audio Foster Peabody Award for excel- Found Sound series—including Pass, where she lives with her and is clinical director of the Center Beach; she was married in 1999. medicine at the Student Health National Public Radio letters, and other sonic artifacts. lence in radio and a 2000 Clarion husband and son. For ten years, for Psychotherapy in Essex, Conn.; ’97 After working with Center at CSU Sacramento; she has records made of cardboard and homas Edison cracking “The ability to record sound is Award for excellence in radio doc- Georgeanne HANNA Morris has he is also an assistant professor in Technovision Cameras in Rome, received a $511,000 grant from the recordings made with wire, on wax worked as a certified rehabilitation the Department of Psychiatry at Michaele SHAPIRO is now in a California Endowment to screen, jokes. Tennessee Williams just over 100 years old,” says Silva, umentary. The series web site, at cylinders, and on 78s—some of teacher for the blind for the state of Yale University. Margaret BURKE camera intern program at Panavision treat, and study chlamydia infec- T making recordings at a penny who has coproduced radio projects Lostandfoundsound.com, received a the least-stable media are those Arizona; her husband, Philip, man- is studying art in San Francisco. Hollywood in Los Angeles. tions in the college population. arcade. The whir, whistle, and with Nelson for two decades. 2000 Webby. In addition, a selec- that were popular in the latter part ages New Frontiers Natural Foods ’80 Steven MAYERS is an admin- ’99 Christopher CHRISTIANSON ’76 Fred MEDNICK is the hum of electric fans. Carnival talk- “There was a written record prior tion of the NPR pieces is now of the 20th century. Market and Cafe in Prescott; they istrative assistant/desktop publisher is working in San Francisco, living founder of Teachers without ers. Vietnamese manicurists. Voices to 1900 and an oral tradition available as a two-CD set, Lost & Some of the reel-to-reel tape, have three teenagers, the eldest of at UC San Francisco and a freelance in an artists’ commune in Oakland, Borders, a nonprofit devoted to of long-lost sisters, fathers, and before that, but the 20th century Found Sound, Volume One. which the Kitchen Sisters used in whom is a freshman at UCSC. photographer; he lives alone with doing lots of writing, and being global educational reform and grandfathers. Answering-machine was the first that was completely For their work on the project, the 1980s, is disintegrating. “We’re Kate STAFFORD has done the two cats. published on an Internet site, teacher training. For the past 15 monologues. documented through the medium which they oversee and produce even finding some of the DATs photography, writing, and research ’82 Peter GAVIN is teaching Swirlpop.com. Jeffrey NEWMAN is years, Rebecca NAIDIS has been These are just a few of the of recorded sound.” with Allison, Nelson and Silva (digital audio tapes), are fragile, for numerous books and magazines; English in Marin County, living in teaching marine biology to children working as an interpreter from sounds and subjects Davia Nelson Lost & Found Sound got its start have crisscrossed the country, and the recordings are starting to she is a horticultural therapy San Francisco, writing screenplays, in fifth through 12th grade at the Spanish, French, and Italian into and Nikki Silva have brought to with Nelson, who, learning of a digging into archives of recorded fade away,” Silva says. consultant for the California Health and “most importantly, married to a Catalina Island Marine Institute. English for the European Union, life for millions of radio listeners project commemorating the last sound and interviewing pioneering Nelson and Silva have received Services Department and owns and beautiful lady, Leslie.” the United Nations, and other nationwide on Lost & Found Sound. century in photographs, realized disc jockeys, record producers, a grant from the National operates a photography business. ’83 Since January 2000, Peter international institutions in Europe. Stevenson College Launched two years ago, the award- the same could—and should—be eccentric sound collectors, and Academy of Recording Arts and ’73 Eric ROY is news anchor and GOLDSTEIN has been European ’77 After participating in the April winning series will air on National done in sound. everyday people who were willing Morning Edition cohost at KCRW news editor for WSJ.com, the online ’67 Susan AUGHINBAUGH 2000 African American Alumni Sciences to begin preserving the in Santa Monica. Wall Street Journal, based in Young administers the Social Reunion at UCSC, Compton Public Radio’s popular program After approaching award-win- to share their recordings. Lost & Found Sound archive for the ’74 Jeffrey DAY is composing London. Security Administration’s Disability Superior Court Commissioner All Things Considered through 2001. ning radio producer Jay Allison and The experience reminds Nelson future. The grant will help ensure music and teaching guitar at various ’84 Barbara FENNELL is director Program for the State of Nevada; Kelvin FILER returned home to Lost & Found Sound weaves discussing the project with friends and Silva of their work at a Santa that people whose voices have been music schools and is a doctoral of Family Court Services for her daughter attended UCSC and is find that he’d been written up in together archival recordings, inter- and colleagues from across the Cruz radio station in the late resurrected and chronicled for the candidate in psychology at the Monterey County, Calif.; she is an now a graduate student at UC Davis. the Long Beach Press-Telegram’s views, and music with journalistic country, Nelson and Silva proposed 1970s and early ’80s, when they series—like that of the mysterious University of Zürich. Ellen attorney and a writer and lives with ’69 Diane COHAN is a licensed “Collectors Corner” for his 1,131 storytelling to chronicle how the series to the National Public cohosted a show as the Kitchen and captivating Mrs. B.—aren’t MESKE is a storyboard artist and her nine-year-old son, Alexander. private investigator and a licensed comic books, 120 coffee mugs, recorded sound shaped and cap- Radio (NPR) network. With NPR’s Sisters. (They took their name silenced once more. director for children’s animated TV ’85 Janet GROSSMAN is author marriage and family therapist spe- continued on page 26 tured the 20th century. Much of support, the project mushroomed from 1940s Santa Cruz masons —Francine Tyler

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 25 continued from page 24 the Department of Internal Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris for ’91 After stints in Atlanta and ing on a master’s in industrial and Japan TV News in Honolulu as a ployed by Streetlight Records. Talin Medicine as a physician assistant; his dissertation on Orientalism in Crown College Ketchikan, Jennifer CARMAN is systems engineering at San Jose bilingual news anchor as well as the TASCIAN is a student at Rutgers and 1,000 jazz albums. she and her husband live in West 17th- and 18th-century French ’75 David SHAPIRO is busy prac- working as a city planner in Seattle State University. host of a weekly Japanese TV show Law School in Newark, N.J. ’79 Ruth ROSENBERG’s dance L.A.; friends can reach her at theater; his article on Bakhtin and ticing as an anesthesiologist; his and doing jazz vocals around town ’99 Paul BROCK is studying airing in Japan. company, Ruth Rosenberg Dance ESzafi[email protected]. Winston Russian/Soviet satire will be pub- children are in 11th, eighth, and occasionally. After working as an Spanish in Spain. ’86 After ten years at Columbia Ensemble, is celebrating its tenth Porter College HOLYAN and his family have been lished in the Journal of European fifth grades. Diana WHITESIDES attorney for five years in San Jose, University as associate director of anniversary in 2000–01. living on the windy high plains of Studies. Yvonne HODGE and her is coaching swimming, teaching PE, Russell JACOBSON has taken a the Donald Keene Center for ’71 Tony LUSH is the director of ’83 Lawrence WILSON is an Merrill College Clovis, N.M., where he is working husband, who is retired, have and staffing pools in Carmel Valley; position as vice president for WC Japanese Culture, Fred LITTLE is Web Services for Fleming and emergency medicine doctor in as a firefighter and training with the moved back to her hometown in she is “still waiting at Robata for Docs.com, an Internet start-up, and ’72 Patricia BROWN Coughlan working at the New Jersey School Roskelly, a firm that specializes in Midland, Tex., associate medical New Mexico National Guard in air Florida. Sean TAYLOR works for [alums] Erik and David.” is phasing out his law practice. is chairman of the Public Policy of Architecture; he also operates a public relations, direct marketing, director of the Physician Assistant defense artillery; in his spare time Wells Fargo Bank and has been ’77 Jim FOX graduated from law Hillary MAY married David Committee of the board of directors small Aikido club, continuing the and interactive media; he is an avid Training Program at Texas Tech, he is studying for the LSAT. (Yung) doing a lot of camping in Oregon school in December 1999, passed Alemian in September 1997. of the Alzheimer’s Association of practice that began when he was a sailor and has represented the U.S. and emergency medical services Min KIM is pursuing a Ph.D. in and California. the California Bar, and is now a ’92 Barbara BROKISH Cadigan the North Bay and author of Facing UCSC student. in three OASTAR single-handed director for Midland; four to six English at the University of ’95 Melissa JOHNSON is curator patent attorney and an inventor; he married Steve Cadigan in October Alzheimer’s: Family Caregivers Speak. ’90 Since 1991, Blanca ARELLANO trans-Atlantic races. weeks a year he is also a cruise ship Maryland; she and her husband, and registrar at the Campbell and his wife, who is a musician, 1999. Stuart MEYLER is working ’74 Marni BARNES and Clare has worked for a nonprofit econom- ’72 For 20 years, Gaylord SCHAAP physician with Holland America. Mark Pederson, live with their son, Historic Museum and Ainsley have three children. at Modem Media, which was re- Cooper Marcus have written a ic development organization in has been owner and manager of ’85 Julia HAMBLIN Pinsky is Erik, in Washington, D.C. Lisa House in Campbell, Calif. ’81 Carol HOSHIZAKI is work- cently profiled by Adweek magazine book, Healing Gardens: Therapeutic southern California, which provides Northwood Golf Club in Monte working at home to be close to her SONIN Larsen is completing her ’96 Michelle MA is graduating ing at a nonprofit organization on a as the “granddaddy” of Internet Benefits and Design Recommendations, business assistance, entrepreneurial Rio, Calif.; he has a two-year-old son daughter, Emma Louise, and doctorate in psychology from from the Yale University Physician web-based directory of health and marketing. Jonathan SLATER has which won the Place Research training, job training and place- and had another child due in July “enjoying Santa Cruz still after all John F. Kennedy University; she’s Associate Program this year. Julie human services agencies in Santa been practicing chiropractic in Los Award at the Environmental Design ment, and affordable housing. 2000. Ellen ELIAS Silver is market- these years.” been married for four years to Glen NEWELL works with emotionally Clara County (www.Helpscc.org). Gatos since 1998 and is a clinical Research Association’s annual After returning to Guam in 1990 ing manager at O’Reilly and ’86 Heidi SIMONSON received Larsen. Stacey LEETS Oborne is a disturbed adolescents at a nonprofit ’82 After finishing up a postdoc on faculty member at Palmer College conference in May 2000. to join the family business, Kevin Associates, a technical information the Commitment Award from senior web developer for a major agency; in her spare time, she maize molecular genetics at UC San of Chiropractic West; he has two ’76 Jill FIELDS is an assistant pro- KYUNG founded PM Restaurants provider; in her spare time, she Santa Clara University Law School Silicon Valley technology company; attends rock-n-roll shows in San Diego, David LERNER moved with children, ages ten and five. fessor of history at California State in 1995 and opened the first TGI produces lesbian and gay comedy for her years of service as an she’s been married since 1992 to Francisco, reads comics, and makes his family to the Gold Country, ’93 Paul WARE is slaving away in University, Fresno; she published Friday’s franchise in Guam in 1998. events with her life partner, Robyn. attorney providing pro bono legal Tim OBORNE (Crown ’90); they super-8 movies. where they are enjoying running his internship at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt an article, titled “Fighting the ’91 John CURNUTT is an ’74 Eric HAMBURG recently assistance for low-income women live in South San Francisco with ’97 As district coordinator for the their own business providing Hospital in New York en route Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets Internet consultant and has a new coproduced the film Any Given in the Santa Cruz area. Stacy their two cats. Christopher Carey- AmeriCorps Literacy Program at biotechnology trade shows on to becoming a physical medicine and Culture, 1900–1930,” in the spouse, Jennifer Rue. Linda WEISS Sunday with Oliver Stone; he is HANDELMAN Stark married STRONCK is a public school San Jose/Evergreen Community university campuses. and rehabilitation doctor; he’ll be winter 1999 issue of the Journal of Lyon’s company, Hatbox, makes now a visiting scholar at UCLA. Brian Stark in April 2000; she re- teacher in San Jose and lives in the College District, Marylin ’84 Cheryl JETT Chapin has completing his training at Social History. hats and bridal veils for upscale Steve WANGSNESS is first ceived her M.A. in education and Santa Cruz Mountains with his wife, CRAWFORD has established a been involved in neonatal pul- Stanford. ’77 Peter GAARN was asked to department stores and boutiques secretary at the U.S. Embassy in creative arts and is working as an Sharon, and their two children. program where college students monary research at UC San ’94 Shirley KIRBY is a natural lead the “Rules of the Garage” team nationwide. Sara MORRISSEY Kingston, Jamaica, where he lives instructional coach for teachers. ’92 Brian FISK completed para- tutor disadvantaged children in Francisco for eight years; she and resources biologist with the for Hewlett-Packard’s reinvention O’Callaghan is working as an with his wife, Egle, and their two ’87 Lesli SCHUSTERMAN is medic school and is working in kindergarten through third grade her husband, Steve CHAPIN Resource Assessment Division of the and transformation of itself as a attorney in bankruptcy law in the children. teaching full time in Palo Alto, and downtown Long Beach on “Rescue and earn money toward their (Crown ’84), have three children, Maryland Department of Natural company and a culture. Joshua Santa Cruz area; her daughter, ’77 Roberta ARENSON has been she is the mother of a five year old. 3”; “it’s a lot different than on TV,” future educational expenses. Ricky ages ten, eight, and three. Erin Resources; she is working on PECHTHALT and his wife, Lynn Kaitlin Rose, was born in February illustrating children’s books for the ’88 After finishing her Ph.D. in he writes. After living in Micronesia TECZON is conducting site inves- HALLISY Smith is married to a Chesapeake Bay and Watershed pro- KERSEY (Stevenson ’78), celebrat- 2000. Dale ROSE started his past eight years; collage art from her political science at Claremont for several years, Lisa HOUSTON tigations and preparing plans and Navy man and has been teaching grams, including monitoring and ed their 15th wedding anniversary own business, 3-D Group most recent book, Manu and the Graduate University in 1999, Mirabelli returned to the U.S. to specifications for the San Francisco special education and ESL in Japan; nontidal assessment. Alissa in 2000; they have a one-year-old (www.3DGroup.net), in 1994 doing Talking Fish, will be included in Elizabeth JAGOW is teaching at get her M.A. in recreation and Bay Area toll bridges. they have relocated to Washington JACKSON Nolan and her husband, daughter, Danielle Rose Kersey research on the impact of human an international exhibition of the University of North Florida as a leisure; she and her husband have a ’98 Justin BORBA has returned State recently, where she is continu- James NOLAN (Crown ’96), were Pechthalt. resources and nonprofit education children’s book illustration, “Le visiting assistant professor. son and are living in Ohio. Robert from southern California, where he ing to work in education. expecting their first child in ’79 Kay MOHLMAN and her programs; he currently employs two Immagini della Fantasia,” which ’89 Susanne McCAFFERY- VALLONE and his wife are living was working on his master’s in ’86 Lisa ALVAREZ has a solo law September 2000. Ashley SMITH husband, Richard Krause, have UCSC grads. will travel in Europe in 2001. SAVILLE is the author of in San Clemente and were expect- psychology at University of LaVerne; practice in estate and elder law in is in her fourth year of a doctoral been living in Singapore for four ’92 Ruth RABINOWITZ has her Tom POSTER recently signed with PugSpotting: A True History of How ing their first child in July 2000; he “I’d rather be here (No.Cal.) without Cupertino, Calif. program in health psychology at the years; they travel on their breaks to own business photographing wed- Howard Talent West for theatrical Pugs Saved Civilization (Lawrence, is in UC Irvine’s fully employed a degree than living in So.Cal. with a ’87 Lisa HENDRY Olson and her University of Pittsburgh; her research destinations in Asia, most recently dings in the Santa Cruz area. representation. Mass.: Cliocopia Press, 2000). M.B.A. program. degree,” he writes. Paul LOPEZ is husband, Brian, are raising their two examines stress and anxiety, diet, and to Vietnam and Thailand. ’95 Dan ZIVKOVIC has joined a ’82 In addition to her work as a ’90 After serving as the executive ’93 Denyelle GANSHIRT is plan- enjoying working for a nonprofit children in Pleasanton, Calif.; she exercise and how these affect cancer ’80 Genevieve OBERT is a free- start-up in Pleasanton, Calif.; the textile artist, Sarah ALLISON is director of the American Chambers ning to get married in May 2001; organization helping low-income received her M.S. in mechanical patients and their families. lance automotive journalist; her company, Xing Corporation, is working toward becoming an of Commerce in Uzbekistan, she will be having a commitment families qualify for subsidized child engineering from UC Davis and is ’95 Walter COCKING is director book, Prince Borghese’s Trail, in building a new electronic checking occupational therapist; she and her Abaseh MIRVALI and her husband ceremony with her girlfriend, Erica care and enabling their welfare-to- now working part time at the Clorox of operations for Nub Circus, a which she describes co-driving a system. husband, Michael WILHELM have moved to Ankara, Turkey, Smith. Caryn NARDELLO is pro- work participation in California’s Company as a packaging engineer. California Certified Organic 1970 Hillman Hunter in the Peking ’98 Shelly BATHE is a graduate (Merrill ’81), have a seven-year-old where she is a consultant working on viding consulting services to differ- CalWORKs Welfare Reform ’88 After teaching in the San Farmers (CCOF) food processor. to Paris Motor Challenge, won the student in the school counseling daughter. Elena CAPELLA is projects like President Clinton’s state ent companies as a technical trainer; Program. Karin WATSON-STEIER Lorenzo Valley Unified School Naomi DEVLIN is working as a Motor Press Guild’s Dean Batchelor program at the University of teaching at the University of San visit to Turkey. Michael WILHELM she has trained nonprofit organiza- is teaching English at Mt. Eden District for ten years, Lynda web-content developer, playing lots Award for excellence in automotive Massachusetts, Amherst. Heather Francisco and at San Jose State is a partner in a large multimedia tions about California’s healthy High School in Hayward, Calif. ROGERS is working as a science of hockey, and managing an apart- journalism. NAGAMI planned to enter the University; she is a consultant to company; he and his wife were ex- families program and is now train- ’99 Maria ORTEGA is starting a and technology coordinator for the ment complex; she is engaged to ’82 Mark STEPHENS is a senior M.F.A. program in creative writing Catholic Healthcare West and pecting a baby in June 2000. ing Paine Webber stockbrokers on massage therapy business and Santa Cruz County Office of Arik FLORIMONTE (Porter ’93). management consultant in the L.A. at the University of Arizona in fall working on her Ed.D. at USF. Michele WILSON is a social worker several computer applications. focusing on her family life. Education. ’96 Brian HILLIER is a graduate County Office of Education and 2000. ’83 Lisa KAPLAN works as a at the Golden Gate Regional Center Larisa OVERMIER Somsel is the ’00 Katherine ECONOMOU is ’89 Martin AZEVEDO is back in student at Scripps Institution of the executive director of Yoga Inside ’99 Elizabeth NICKNAM is voice actor in cartoons and com- working with developmentally dis- strategic initiatives coordinator at working as a legal assistant in San northern California after a few years Oceanography in the Marine Foundation; he has been a consul- working as a buyer at Intel mercials in Los Angeles, where she abled clients, and she is pursuing her the California Historical Society. Francisco at Brown & Wood LLP, a in New York; he spends his time as Biology Program. tant to social-change organizations Corporation in the heart of Silicon lives with her animation-writer license in clinical social work. ’94 David HAMMERBECK con- global securities firm. a computer consultant, freelance ’97 Donald KERNS has a baby in Los Angeles since 1982. Valley. Jesse PEMBERTON is husband; she is eager to locate ’91 Elizabeth FINEBAUM-Szafir ducted three months of research at writer, and no-budget filmmaker. girl, Cecelia Aphrielle, and is work- ’85 Alice INOUE is working for making metal sculpture and is em- Phillip PLATH (Stevenson ’84). is working at Kaiser Permanente in continued on page 28

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 2001 27 continued from page 27 Genome Research Institute, which ried Kristin Stevens in San formation science at the University Marie GALLARATE (Stevenson 2-D and 3-D digital effects and ’96 Orson AGUILAR received ’95 Michael POOLE (Ph.D., biol- leads the Human Genome Project, Francisco; he is director of legal of North Texas. Adolfo MERCADO ’89), live in San Francisco and have digital painting at DreamWorks a master’s in public affairs and is ogy) leads a research program on ’84 Kristina JESSKA Carey an international effort to sequence the affairs for ICS, Inc., of San Jose, is the learning specialist for the one daughter, Alicia; he is working Feature Animation. now a program manager for the wild dolphins and whales in French moved to Marin County to be near human genome. Suchitra FIELDS which went public last May. Upward Bound Program at Yuba in payroll and accounting. ’80 Donn HURD is self-employed Greenlining Institute, a multiethnic Polynesia; the program is part of a family and be a mom; she’s busy is painting, showing her work, and ’91 Belinda VAN SICKLE lives College; he works with 50 high ’90 Nadine GRETHE works for a as a web-site designer and site public policy center in San biological station associated with keeping up with a two-year old raising her 12-year-old son. in Santa Monica and works as a school students preparing for uni- major pharmaceutical company administrator. Francisco. Betty COWDERY is a the University of Perpignan in daughter. Amy GERHAUSER has writer/production artist at an ad versity success. Kirk PEARSON conducting clinical trials on new ’81 E. Katherine MILLER is an mental health worker for Merced France; his research is featured on been appointed assistant professor Kresge College agency that specializes in computer has opened up a retro 1940s-style antibiotics; she is working on her associate professor of biology at County, and she’s finishing up her the Discovery Channel and Animal of sculpture at the University of games; on the side she’s gearing up supper club, Aces, with live music master’s in pharmacology and has a the University of Wisconsin–River master’s in social work. Planet as well as in two documen- Texas at Tyler. ’74 Gary MERRILL joined for a second career as a travel writer. seven nights a week, in Sacramento first-degree black belt in Kenpo Falls, where she is doing research on ’98 Aureliano RODRIGUEZ is a taries, The Ocean’s Acrobats— ’85 Kennedy ADAMS is very Caucus Systems, the leading Karyn SCHULTZ received an at Madison Avenue and I-80. karate. Lisa KERR is living on mRNA expression in the brain of first-year graduate student in city Spinner Dolphins and Shark Central: happily living in Corralitos, Calif., provider of online business confer- international M.B.A. in May 2000 Angela THOMPSON is enjoying Cape Cod and is enrolled in a three HSP70 gene family members. and regional planning at Cal Poly, The Secrets of Rangiroa Atoll. with his 13-year-old daughter. ences; he has stayed in Santa Cruz from the Monterey Institute of life back home in Sonoma County, Ph.D. program at the University of David SCHNEIDER is working San Luis Obispo. ’96 Ana CARBONELL (Ph.D., ’88 Janine THEODORE is acting all these years and is still happily International Studies; she helped learning drafting using AutoCAD, Massachusetts, Boston. in portfolio management in San ’99 DeShawn FULLER is an literature) is raising her two-year- and singing; she works as a hair married to Donna Becker; they create a new Internet company, tutoring high school students ’91 Troy RAMSEY is a Special Francisco. educational adviser for the VOA old and was expecting a second; stylist in downtown Santa Cruz at have two children, Katie and Matt. EnContacto.Net, which will enable in English, and playing in the Forces medic serving in Germany. ’85 Colleen Kelly CUFFE is Educational Talent Search Program, she is also working as an English Phoebe’s Salon. ’75 Gary PISCHKE is a senior Latin Americans to remain in community band. ’92 Catherine PFISTER lives in working for the California Coastal and she is working on her master’s instructor at Los Medanos ’89 Tamiko AZUMA is an assis- geologist at ESCNC and was chair contact with family and friends ’99 Lorelei BOWEN is working Berkeley and has a job as a social Commission in the Central Coast in counseling. Julie PERRUZZI is Community College teaching com- tant professor in the Speech and (1998–2000) of the San Francisco regardless of their physical location. on her master’s in library and infor- worker; she and her partner, District Office in Santa Cruz. a social worker for the Economic position and Chicano literature. Hearing Science Department at section of the Association of ’92 Michael FAULKNER is mation science at San Jose State Jonathan Cheung, are restoring Christina HARDY is a doctoral Opportunity Commission, working ’97 Sandra PACHECO (Ph.D., Arizona State University. Engineering Geologists. Sharon teaching Shakespeare to teens at the University. Nancy FOSTER works their craftsman-style house and student in the Philosophy and with pregnant and parenting teens. psychology) is a professor of psy- ’90 Olman VALVERDE is in his ROSEME is “happily ensconced Tony-award-winning South Coast as a research assistant for a pre-IPO planning an extended stint of travel. Religion Department at the chology at CSU Monterey Bay, fourth year as a business lawyer in on a small ranchette” northeast of Repertory Theater and acting in TV start-up biotech company and is Edward ROMAN works for the California Institute of Integral Graduate Studies where she is preparing to host the Los Angeles; his areas of practice Sacramento, practicing real estate commercials, including ones for a waitress at one of the top 100 County of Los Angeles and is an Studies in San Francisco. Carl Peter first annual conference on critical include business litigation, law, raising her daughter, and doing Amtrak, U.S. Cellular, and Miller restaurants in the Bay Area. officer in his union; he recently MUTTERSBACH is a practicing ’79 Judith TOTMAN Parrish- psychology. protection of trademarks, and community work. Genuine Draft. After spending three negotiated a collective-bargaining civil engineer; in January 2001 he Jones (Ph.D., Earth sciences) is ’98 Bruce FOSTER (M.A., music) representing start-up companies. ’79 Doug FRIEDMAN is writing years in Taiwan and a year in Japan, Oakes College agreement for about 2,000 mem- planned to make his ninth trip to now associate dean of the College is a member of Citywinds quintet in ’91 Lisa MEEKER Gorny is a few tunes and attempting to get Vanessa RAGAN moved to Los bers of his bargaining unit for a the Philippines, where he engineers of Science at the University of San Francisco and teaches on the fac- happily “homesteading” in a very acting work in southern California. Angeles, where she is a social worker ’77 Angela BEAN runs her own three-year term. houses and other buildings for the Arizona, as well as a professor of ulty of the College of Notre Dame; remote part of Alaska. ’80 Patricia BEDFORD is work- and in a master’s program to become immigration law firm; she and her ’94 Martin FJELD is working as urban poor. Michael VAN ALTENA geosciences. he is performing with the West Bay ’92 After teaching English in ing as a counselor at a community a bilingual (Spanish) school psy- partner, Heidi, have been together an anthropologist; he also writes, enjoyed his first winter in Idaho, ’80 Donald KAIPER (Ph.D., Opera, Ensemble Monterey, and the Budapest for three years, Susan college in rural New Hampshire; chologist. Jason SCHOLZ has been for 18 years and have two children. plays drums, and races motocross. cross-country skiing, brewing beer, history of consciousness) is a senior Bayshore Lyric Opera. HAAS is working on an M.A. in she has one son, 13, and a life part- with Whole Foods for nine years; ’78 Henry SPILLER recently re- Michelle JELINCH is on leave and working too many hours. instructor in the Social Sciences ’99 Sanda BAILUND-VANA English with an emphasis in ner of ten years. during that time he has moved to turned from West Java, Indonesia, from her job as an ESL instructor ’86 Hugh CHAPPELLE was plan- Department at Los Medanos (M.A., education) is teaching sev- creative writing at Sonoma State ’81 After being fired upon the buy- Ann Arbor, gotten married, and is where he conducted research at Hartnell College in Salinas; ning to move to Flowers Vineyard Community College in Pittsburg, enth graders in San Ysidro, Calif.; University. out of his old company, Drew now in a teacher-certification pro- into Sundanese music and dance she gave birth to her first child, and Winery on the Sonoma coast in Calif., where he chairs the General she hopes to relocate back to the ’93 After receiving an M.Phil. in SMITH helped found a new gram at Eastern Michigan University. with support from a Fulbright Alexander James, in February 2000. August 2000 as a winemaker. Brian Education Implementation Santa Cruz area and teach in anthropology from the University biotech company whose goal is the ’93 For the last five years, Jennifer Fellowship; he is completing a Stephanie ROSEN married FITZGERALD received a master’s Committee and is involved in Watsonville. Marieka Van Tilburg of Cambridge, Alexis PAVENICK development of a proteomics chip ANDERSON has been living in Ph.D. in music at UC Berkeley. Lar MADER (Oakes ’91); she is degree in public health and is a hos- curriculum development in the KLINE (M.A., education) and her married Alex Tennant, received an capable of diagnosing hundreds of Indonesia and Germany and ’79 Francisco PONCE received in her last year at Jefferson Medical pital administrator in southern area of political and social thought. husband, Matt Kline, with assis- M.A. in literature from Cal Poly, diseases using a single drop of blood. working as an English teacher and his Ph.D. in 1987 from UC Santa College in Philadelphia. California. Heather RASNICK is ’83 Lawrence BOUTON (M.S., tance from a Mana Foundation Pomona, and is now pursuing a ’85 Terry McLARNAN is a psycho- family-planning administrator; she Barbara and is a licensed psycholo- ’97 Veronica RODRIGUEZ- an art director and set decorator for applied economics) has worked at grant, have created a web site and a Ph.D. in literature at UC Riverside. therapist working with children in was planning to get married in July gist; he’s worked at Cabrillo College Brown lives in Stockton, Calif., Sony Studios’ Wheel of Fortune; the World Bank for 13 years, en- lizard character named Monty to Ondine YOUNG is pursuing a doc- Santa Clara. 2000. Wayne COLEMAN has for the last 12 years. with her husband, Joseph, and she and her husband, Steve, were couraging the growth of global cap- follow their travels and act as a tour toral degree in musical arts at the ’87 After four years as program been farming organically since ’86 John SCHMUCK finished his daughter, Marisa; she is coordinator expecting a baby in spring 2000. italism; he and his wife of 15 years guide for children exploring the University of Southern California; director of the Holocaust Center of 1992; for two years he had an eco- Fulbright with a master’s in visual of Mariposa, a program that targets Janet RILOVICH has her Ph.D. in have three boys. James YOUNG world; Marieka, Matt, and Monty she plays freelance baroque violin Northern California, Ali CANNON logical landscape-design business, arts at the Canberra School of Art young at-risk Latinas, and she is a psychology and is self-employed as (Ph.D., literature) is chair of the are now on a six-month trip to and viola and was a New York is now program coordinator for and now he is installing and manag- and a very successful show at the health educator for incarcerated director and owner of Del Mar Department of Judaic and Near Greece, Nepal, Kenya, Vietnam, Concert Artists Guild finalist. the Golden Gate National Parks ing a vineyard in Aptos, Calif. Beaver Galleries in Canberra, youth. Counseling in Aptos, Calif. Eastern Studies at the University of and the Cook Islands. Rafael ’94 Lisa MAYER started her own Association; she has performed at ’95 Joanna ESPIRITU-Moriwaki Australia. ’99 Holly ALDERMAN is work- ’88 Mysti RUBERT won second Massachusetts, Amherst, with a new RAMIREZ (M.A., education) is a graphic design business in 1998 and Chutzpah, a San Francisco Jewish is working on a master’s degree in ’88 Jennifer PHILLIPS Davids ing toward a single-subject teaching place in the Austin Gay and Lesbian book, At Memory’s Edge (Yale Univ. third-grade bilingual teacher at feels very lucky to be doing what dyke event, and at Tranny Fest, a public administration at the College recently graduated with a Ph.D. credential in art and an M.A. in Film Festival for her screenplay Press, 2000); he and his wife, Lori Ohlone Elementary School in she loves and getting paid for it. transgender film festival. Coreen of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., in anthropology from Emory education with an emphasis in art; “St. John”; she is working for Friedman, have two children. Watsonville; he loves his job and ’95 Alexander MacBRIDE is in PLACHY recently finished a six- while working full time as a sales University; she and her husband, she is also an avid surfer. James BroadVision in Redwood City as ’86 Edwin LIDDLE (M.A., sociol- describes his first year of teaching as graduate school at UCLA. month trip to India, Thailand, account executive at Aetna U.S. Andrew DAVIDS (Oakes ’89), a JOLLIFF is teaching wood shop at a senior technical writer. ogy) is reading, skiing, and helping “an incredible learning experience.” ’96 Oscar ROSALES has been Bali, Australia, and New Zealand. Healthcare. Rachel Marie MEYER rabbi, recently celebrated the birth Saratoga High School. ’89 Abby CHAVEZ is a consultant to make the world a better place. working and getting ready to go back Deena MENDELSON Solwren is is working on a Ph.D. in English at of their third child. Remelle in edible landscaping and a novelist. ’93 Gary FISHER (Ph.D., chem- In Memoriam to school. Jas SANDHU is a consul- a licensed clinical social worker and UC Irvine. BURTON Olson and her husband, College Eight ’91 Dennis SULLIVAN is living istry) is a professor of chemistry at tant advising Fortune 500 compa- her husband, Daniel REUWER ’96 Matthew SCHONBRUN Terry Olson, adopted a nine-year- and working in Santa Monica as De Anza College, where he is work- Neal BEUTLER (Cowell ’76) died nies and high-tech start-ups in Solwren (College Eight ’89) teaches earned a law degree in 1999 from old girl, Ana, in May 2000; Remelle ’78 Mary COHEN Merritt manager of production and acquisi- ing on the design of the new chem- suddenly of heart disease in June Silicon Valley and surrounding areas. biology and attends CSU Hayward, Thomas M. Cooley Law School in is a self-employed professional is chairman of the Newhall tion for Pearson Television. istry/biology building; many of his 2000 in Los Angeles. ’97 Tony ARIAS is a graduate film working toward an M.S. in Lansing, Michigan. geologist; friends can reach her by Redevelopment Committee in ’95 Inemesit WILLIAMS is students are now distinguished un- student at UCLA. education. ’98 Elizabeth COUNCE is in a e-mail at [email protected]. Santa Clarita, Calif. Sharon working at Chiron Corporation dergrads at UCSC, doing research ’99 Micol BENET is assisting the ’90 Carl DURHAM recently mar- master’s program in library and in- ’89 Ernest BATREZ and his wife, SUSSMAN trains animators in in Emeryville, Calif. with Professor Bakthan Singaram. director of the National Human

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