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UP FRONT Contents UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo President Justin Morgan ’07, Reno, Nevada Vice-President Kim Schizas, ’77, Santa Barbara Secretary-Treasurer Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga UC Regent/Past President Cuca Acosta ’01, Santa Barbara Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles Jan Campbell ’74, Santa Barbara Manuel Estaban Ph.D.’76, Chico David C. Forman ’66, Chula Vista Mark French ’73, Santa Barbara Preston Hensley ’67, M.A. ’69, North Stonington, Connecticut John Keever ’67, Camarillo Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto Francesco Mancia ’80, Cool Steve Mendell ’63, San Diego Justin Morgan ’07, Reno, NV Jennifer Pharaoh ’82, Washington, D.C. Wendy Purcell ’84, Manhatten Beach Niki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, Lompoc Rich St. Clair ’66, Santa Barbara Wenonah Valentine ’77, Pasadena Sue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa Barbara Marie Williams ’89, Ashburn, Virginia Travis Wilson ’02, Santa Barbara Ex Officio Sophia Armen President, Associated Students Beverly Colgate Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Mario Galicia Graduate Student Association Hua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 Faculty Representative Dan Burnham UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees COASTLINES STAFF George Thurlow ’73, Publisher Andrea Huebner ’91, Editor Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Renee Lowe, Media Intern ALUMNI STAFF Sheri Fruhwirth, Director, Family Vacation Center Susan Goodale ’86, Program Director, Director of Alumni Travel Program Andrea Huebner ’91, Publications Director Hazra Abdool Kamal, Chief Financial Officer John Lofthus ’00, Associate Director Mary MacRae ’94, Office Manager Sandy Thor, Business Manager Family Vacation Center George Thurlow ’73, Executive Director Rocio Torres ’05, Director of Regional Programs/ Constituent Groups Terry Wimmer, Webmaster Natalie Wong ’79, Senior Artist Christina Yan ’12, Membership & Donor Relations Coordinator
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Special 2013 Reunion Edition UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association Spring 2013 Vol. 43, No. 3
FEATURES
4 Alice Waters Brings Slow Food Movement to UCSB 8 Marie Tillman ’98 Honors Legacy of Leadership and Service
Special Section
The 7th All Gaucho Reunion
12 Taste of UCSB Toasts Gaucho Vintners, Brewers, Restaurateurs 15 Plenty of Fun Without the Run at Gaucho Gallop 17 Golden Gaucho Reunion Honors Class of ’63 19 GreekFest Spotlights Gaucho Brothers and Sisters 20 Event Schedule for All Gaucho Reunion 23 Gauchos Giving Back at Reunion 25 Get Your Gaucho Pass for Great Deals 31 Sponsors of the All Gaucho Reunion
DEPARTMENTS
33 Milestones: ’50s to the Present
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Alum Kohl Gill’s Career Path Takes Him From Science Labs to Labor Rights UCSB Research Biologist and Alum Busts a Rockfish Rhyme Alumni Authors: From the Shelves of Gauchos
COVER: Alice Waters will receive the UC Santa Barbara Honorary Alumni Award during “An Evening with Alice Waters” on Saturday, April 27.
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Alice Waters Brings the Artistry of Simple Food to UCSB By Anna Davison In the four decades since Alice Waters opened her now-iconic restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, she has helped expand American palates and minds and led “a delicious revolution” that’s brought sustainably produced, local food to dinner tables, restaurant menus and schools around the country. She has inspired people to plant gardens and children to enjoy their vegetables, and she’s bolstered the
Waters, who will be presented with an Honorary Alumni Award during an appearance April 27 as the keynote event of the All Gaucho Reunion, spent her freshman year at UC Santa Barbara. These days, she counts the folks at Fairview Gardens as good friends, marvels at the bounty of food nurtured by Santa Barbara’s rare microclimate, and when she’s in town she likes to stop in at La Super-Rica, the Milpas Street taco stand also favored by another culinary icon and Santa Barbara resident, the late Julia Child. Back when Waters was a student at UC Santa Barbara and a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, though, she had not yet discovered the joy of food, but indulged her intellectual curiosity by taking an assortment of courses — “always classes that had great teachers,” she says. “I’d go into a class and if I liked the teacher I took the class.” In 1964, Waters and several of her Santa Barbara sorority sisters transferred to UC Berkeley, where they joined the Free Speech Movement and quickly felt at home in this new community. Waters then spent a year studying in France, delighting in the pleasure the French take in great food — an ethos she’s fostered at Chez Panisse, which opened its doors in 1971. “It’s about enjoying yourself with friends and family,” Waters says. “It’s not dreaming up anything new. I’m just going back through the history of civilization and finding the threads that bind us together.” Waters believes it’s crucial to educate Americans about their food, about the land that supports it, and about the people who produce and harvest it — “farmers are precious; they’re the caretakers,” Waters says. “Farmers and teachers are heroes,” she adds. “One feeds the body and the other feeds the mind.” She also wants to challenge the idea that cooking and gardening are drudgery — a belief that is more common in the United States, she says, than in countries with deeper roots in agriculture and gastronomy. “We need to know how to take care of the land, and we need to know how to take care of ourselves,” Waters says. To cultivate that awareness among schoolchildren, she created the Edible Schoolyard, a program that gets children gardening, cooking and sharing food in an interactive edible education that’s “a delicious and fun way to digest all these lessons,” she says. “They’re sitting eating a raspberry and learning about photosynthesis.” From its roots in an acre of neglected land in a Berkeley school in 1996, the program has since spread to more than 2,000 locations around the world — including several in the Santa Barbara area. “When kids grow food and cook it, they want to eat it,” Waters says. 4
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Her School Lunch Initiative, launched a decade ago in Berkeley public schools, also aims to nourish children’s bodies and minds by replacing reconstituted and reheated lunches with nutritious and delicious food — “It’s really immoral to feed children food that’s not good for them,” Waters says. “Food affects the way we relate to people in the world, the way we think about life, and our aspirations, and the way we digest education.” In Waters’ opinion — and in many of the world’s poorest countries — providing fresh, healthy food free in schools is a no-brainer. “I think it benefits everybody,” she says. “It feeds the children, benefits farmers and green businesses, and it gives money back to the parents.” Waters has taken her culinary philosophy to college, too, helping establish the Sustainable Food Project at Yale University — where Waters’ daughter Fanny studied. Colleges, Waters believes, “should support people who take care of the land and feed — really nourish — the population in the university. That will set the example for K-12. “The bottom line is food,” Waters says. “Let’s begin there with what we have in common. We depend on the land for eating, we’re taught beautiful lessons from nature and, once you fall in love with nature, you get it. You learn about diversity and you learn about everybody else on the planet and you learn how to feed them.”
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“An Evening with Alice Waters” will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall, as part of the 2013 All Gaucho Reunion.
This event is sold out. Prior to the Campbell Hall event, the Alice Waters Reception & Book Signing will take place at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 27, at Mosher Alumni House. Each attendee will receive a copy of Alice Waters’ book “The Art of Simple Food” and a ticket to “An Evening with Alice Waters.” Tickets are $100. For more information and to register, go to allgauchoreunion.com. The event is sponosred by Whole Foods, Food Bank of Santa Barbara County, the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association and UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures.
Books from Alice Waters: • Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone • Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook • Chez Panisse Vegetables • Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes • Chez Panisse Café Cookbook • Chez Panisse Cooking • Chez Panisse Fruit • Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) • The Art of Simple Food • The Edible Schoolyard • In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart
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Harvey Schechter ’47 and his wife Hope have been strong advocates of UC Santa Barbara for many years. Harvey attended the Riviera campus and has been closely involved with the campus, including serving as a board member of the Alumni Association and also as a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.
A GIFT OF GRATITUDE
As Harvey tells it, “There was no tuition in those days, and the registration fee was only $17 per semester. In short, the people of California gave me a free four-year college education!” Harvey and Hope sought to create a lasting legacy to show their appreciation for the education he received. Through discussions with the Development Office, Harvey and Hope decided upon one of the most common forms of planned giving – a bequest in their wills. Their generosity will provide UC Santa Barbara with a gift totaling 80% of their estate upon their deaths. Upon receipt of their gift, the money will be used to help needy students enjoy and benefit from a UC Santa Barbara education that they might not otherwise have been able to afford.
Harvey explains the motivation for their gift this way: “Because that [UCSB] diploma served me so well since 1947, I vowed decades ago to pay back what I owe by doing for the young people of today and tomorrow what was done for Harvey Schechter, BA ’47, and Hope Schechter me so long ago. If I lived to be 120, I would not be able to repay UC Santa Barbara and the people of California for what was done for me decades ago. Hope and I are investing in the future of California!” If you have similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director, Office of Development at (805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email plannedgiving@ia.ucsb.edu. For more gift ideas and examples, please visit www.plannedgiving.ucsb.edu
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Marie Tillman, Pat Tillman’s widow, builds a new life in Chicago By Barbara Brotman, Chicago Tribune
8 years after NFL-player-turned-soldier was killed by friendly fire, the woman he loved moves on, while supporting his legacy
Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan almost nine years ago played out in public — the NFL player who quit football to enlist in the Army after 9/11, killed in what the Army tried to portray as a heroic death at the hands of the enemy but what turned out to be a barrage of friendly fire. But for UC Santa Barbara alumna Marie Tillman, ’98, it played out in private. Tillman, then 27, had lost her husband. The hero of the public story was the man she had loved since high school. She had a story of her own. And that story has come to Chicago.
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Tillman, 35, moved there two years ago to be with the man she married in September 2011. A few months ago they moved to Northfield, where they live with their 6-month-old son, Mac, and his three sons part-time. The former Californian is an enthusiastic Chicagoan. She loves dinners downtown, the Tower Road Beach in Winnetka and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has become a Blackhawks fan. From her home office, she does her work as president of the Pat Tillman Foundation, which has awarded more than $3.2 million in scholarships to 230 Tillman Military Scholars. At Soldier Field, she gave the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Valor Games Midwest, an athletic competition for disabled veterans and wounded or ill active-duty service members. It is here that she is building her new life, which includes her memoir, “The Letter: My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life.” Published in June, it tells a love story through the letters she and Pat exchanged for years. She also excerpts the final, fateful letter Pat left for her to read if he didn’t come home from deployment: Through the years, I’ve asked a great deal of you, therefore it should surprise you little that I have another favor to ask. I ask that you live.
persona, so many human elements fall out. That was part of why I wrote the book — to show this very human being that was incredible, but he was just like you and me.” Three years after his death, seeking anonymity and a fresh start, she moved to New York and got a job in
It took time before she was ready.
production and events for ESPN. She had a fear of public
“It was really obviously a difficult
speaking and kept a low profile at the foundation she had
time for me personally, dealing with the loss of Pat and having it be such a
helped establish. But she gradually began to expand her role. She
public thing,” she said by phone from
fervently supported the foundation’s work. The battle with
a family vacation in Lake Tahoe.
Army officials for the truth about his death did not affect
The man at the center of the public narrative was not the man she knew. “He was portrayed in ways that were unrecognizable to me,” she said. “When you have an individual who takes on this heroic
Marie Tillman of The Tillman Foundation attended the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Annual Heroes Gala at Gotham Hall in 2010. She is pictured with CAA Foundation’s Gabe Kleinman. Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images for IAVA
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her feelings about soldiers. “With any organization, there are things that
wake up and think about what my
she said. “But the people I interact with every day —
life was and what I struggled with. It
it’s amazing individuals that have served their country
wasn’t that long ago. I can certainly
and come home and want to continue their education
remember some pretty dark times.
and go on to do great things in their lives.”
But to be able to sit here today, on all these wonderful things — it’s
be helpful to someone else.
pretty amazing.” The letter in which Pat Tillman
public speaking and devoted herself to the foundation
asked her to go on living “still does
full time.
guide me in my life,” she said. “There
Two years ago, a fundraising trip took her to
is a lot of guilt associated with
Chicago. She went to a business dinner with a board
moving forward. To be able to come
member who brought along a friend — Joe Shenton,
back to it and know he wanted me
an investment banker and divorced father of three.
to move on and live my life has been
At an Asian fusion restaurant near North Michigan
a gift.”
Avenue, electricity hummed. “It was just one of those instant connections,” Tillman said. “We were at dinner with two other
Her work is another. She wrote in her book: I think that’s what Pat meant
people, and the two of us just talked to each other the
when he asked me to live — not only
whole night and ignored the other people.
to have fun but to understand that
“Pretty shortly after that, I moved to Chicago. It was
there is a weight to life, and he didn’t want me to be frivolous with mine. It
very fast.”
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vacation with my family and enjoy
of overcoming adversity, she thought her own might She moved back to California, took lessons in
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“It’s sort of unreal sometimes to
happen. Certainly there was reason for us to be upset,”
And having been inspired by other people’s stories
Marie Tillman, ’98, will be honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award later this year.
that’s fulfilling and meaningful.
As life has been ever since.
is a tragedy that Pat’s life ended too
She juggles work, the baby, the family schedule.
soon. But it’s also a tragedy to live a
She and her husband take Mac to storytime at the library. On weekends during the sports seasons they go to soccer and hockey games. “I feel really lucky,” she said. “I feel like I have this amazing person who’s so supportive of all the things I do. I have a beautiful family. I have work that I love
long life that isn’t meaningful. In her happily busy home outside Chicago now, Marie Tillman is doing what Pat Tillman asked in his final request: She lives.
The Pat Tillman Foundation
Tillman Military Scholars
Marie Tillman, baby Mac Shenton, husband Joe Shenton and stepsons Johnny Shenton, Sam Shenton and Joey Shenton attend the 2012 Pat’s Run in Tempe, Ariz. The annual event honors the memory of Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinal football player who left the NFL to enlist in the U.S. Army and died after accidentally being shot in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in 2004. Photo: Courtesy the Pat Tillman Foundation
The Tillman Military Scholars program supports the nation’s active and veteran service members, spouses, and dependents by providing scholarship funds, leadership training, regional gatherings, and veterans networking groups and events. Since the program’s inception, the Pat Tillman Foundation has invested over $3.2 million in financial support to 230 scholars. These scholars include the following UC Santa Barbara alumnae:
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Paige Engebretson, ’08, M.A. International Affairs at Columbia University. Sergeant Jou Jessi Tseng ’11, M.A. Public Administration at Columbia University
Former Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman, in this June 2003 file photograph, was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Tillman, 27, was serving with the U.S. Army Rangers. Credit: Photography Plus C/O Stealth Media Solutions
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Taste of UCSB
Treat Your Senses With the Flavors of UCSB The only way to top last year’s sold-out Taste of UCSB is to bring Gauchos more of a good thing.
Margerum Wine Company, Doug Margerum ’81, Owner Whitcraft Winery, Drake Whitcraft, Winemaker Sunstone Vineyards & Winery, John Poulos ’83, Partner Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards, Richard Sanford, Owner
The 3rd annual Taste of UCSB, presented by Montecito Bank & Trust, will offer more than three-dozen tasting tables and expanded hours.
Mercy Vineyards, Mike Kohne ’00, Owner
The excitement and anticipation is brewing as we near the All Gaucho Reunion’s signature event, to be held from 3-6 p.m. April 27 at the Recreation Center.
Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co., Jaime Dietenhofer ’02, Owner
Live music and performers will accompany tastings from alumni vintners, brewers, chefs, caterers, and restaurateurs.
Ventura’s Surf Brewery, Bill Riegler ’85, Owner
Sanford Winery and Vineyards, Steve Fennell ’90, Winemaker
Hollister Brewing Company, Eric Rose ’99, Owner
Beachwood Brewery, Julian Shrago ’00, Owner
A silent auction is also in the mix with proceeds benefitting the McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream UCSB Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Bagel Cafe, Wes Hensley, Owner Participating restaurants include Enterprise Fish Company, Country Catering Company, and Woodstock’s.
Woodstock’s
Notable vintners include Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards, Margerum Wine Company, and Whitcraft Winery.
Enterprise Fish Company, Kathleen Bank ‘73, Owner
Featured brewers include Hollister Brewing Company, Figueroa Mountain Brewery, and Ventura’s Surf Brewery.
Country Catering Company, Steve Gully ‘90, Owner
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So come sip, munch, and groove in the Santa Barbara sunshine Crushcakes, Shannon Noormand, Owner and be a part of the All Gaucho Reunion. You must be at least LunaOlivo, Steve Berry 21 years old to attend.
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Tempt Your Taste Buds Art on the Table: Food and Drink from the Permanent Collection Noon–5p.m. Wednesday–Sunday, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Art-making, eating and drinking: all fill basic human needs. The exhibition explores the diversity of approaches artists and craftsmen have taken to celebrate these essentials. Assembled from the museum’s collection, the exhibition looks at a wide range of cultures and materials. Free. History of Geography and Beer presented by Maps.com 7-9 p.m., April 26, Faculty Club During this dinner, Geography Professor Dan Montello intertwines food, beer sampling, and a lecture on the cultural and economic practices surrounding beer. $45. Library Vintage Collections: Food & Wine 10 a.m., April 27, Davidson Library, Pacific View Room, (8th floor) Whet your appetite with hand-picked morsels from the Library’s collections, including a 3,000-year-old recipe for beer, vintage photographs and documents from Isla Vista eateries, and the latest in viticultural research. Something’s Brewing in Arabia: A Secret History of Coffee & Coffeehouses 11 a.m., April 28, Mosher Alumni House Professors Juan and Magda Campo uncover the littleknown history of coffee in the Middle East and how it became one of the world’s favorite beverages. The talk will conclude with a demonstration of Turkish coffee making and a sampling of Middle Eastern sweets. $10.
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Breakfast Burritos, Music, Kids Dash and Racing Dogs. Running is Optional! Join us for the 6th annual Gaucho Gallop on April 27. The Gaucho Gallop promises to have something for the entire family. The one-kilometer Dioji Dog Dash will begin at 8:15 a.m. on Storke Field, just south of Harder Stadium. The Santa Barbara Running Company 10K and Elite Performance 5K Run/Walk races begin at 9 a.m. The 10K has been added to the Santa Barbara Athletic Association Grand Prix competition. The Gaucho Challenge, presented by Santa Barbara Airbus, starts at 9:30 a.m. Teams of two complete five challenges along the 5K course.
The “G Kids� Dash will take place at 10 a.m. and is free. Celebrate your finish at the Finish Line Festival (beginning at 9:30 a.m.) with breakfast burritos, coffee and live music. Registration fees are $20 for students, UCSB alumni, faculty and staff, and $25 for the general public. Gaucho Challenge team registration is $40 for two people. For more information and to register, go to www.ucsbruns.com.
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Let the nostalgia set in as we come together to remember the days of Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. The Golden Gaucho Reunion is a perfect excuse to get your old college friends together where it all started, at UCSB. Students, faculty, and staff from 1955-1965 are invited to the Golden Gaucho Reunion, as part of the growing All Gaucho Reunion. The Golden Gaucho Reunion will kick off from 5-7 p.m. April 26, at the TGIF event held at a familiar spot, the El Paseo Restaurant in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara. Share a toast as well as your college nostalgia with your fellow Gauchos. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch up with your longtime friends.
The following day on campus will give those who haven’t been back for a while the opportunity to see how that small campus of 50 years ago has grown. The Class of 1963 will be recognized at the Golden Gaucho Reunion Luncheon held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 27, at the Faculty Club. A short program at the luncheon will honor the class of ’63 for their 50th graduation anniversary. Each 1963 graduate will receive a certificate and special gift. Luncheon tickets: $35 per person To register for the various Golden Gaucho Reunion events, please visit www.allgauchoreunion.com
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The inaugural GreekFest puts the focus on Greek Alumni during the All Gaucho Reunion.
Highlighted Events GreekFest Happy Hour Join other Greek sisters and brothers in Downtown Santa Barbara and start the All Gaucho Reunion with a toast and hosted appetizers. 5:30-8 p.m. April 26, Savoy, 409 State St., Santa Barbara.
Chapter House Open Houses & BBQ Lunch Re-visit your old chapter house for a tour. Is your chapter without a home? Join us at Greek Park for a barbecue. Noon-3 p.m. April 27 Greek Park and Chapter Houses in Isla Vista.
GreekFest Brunch Greeks of all ages are invited to have a special breakfast while reminiscing about a great weekend. The Greek Program of the Year Award will be presented during the brunch. 9:30-11:30 a.m. April 28, Faculty Club. $10.
Taste of UCSB presented by Montecito Bank & Trust Look for the Greek Zone banner on the RecCen lawn where you can meet fellow Greeks. 3-6 p.m. April 27, Pavilion Gym, Recreation Center. $30 general/ $25 Alumni Association members and students. (Add $5 to cost at the door).
Greek Philanthropy Groups from specific eras who donate as a Greek House will be part of the Greek Giving Competition held in conjunction with the All Gaucho Reunion. Check www.allgauchoreunion.com for more information.
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UCSB Campus Tours: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., Visitor Center. Reservations: http://admissions. sa.ucsb.edu/ Second Annual Chemistry Graduate Student Symposium: 2:30- 6 p.m., Engineering Sciences Building, Room 1001. Limited seating. RSVP: Mallarie Stevens, stevens@chem.ucsb.edu. All Gaucho Reunion Kick Off Bash: 5:30-7:30 p.m., El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara. No-host bar. Education Abroad Program Private Wine Tasting: 6:30-8 p.m., Municipal Winemakers, 22 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara. RSVP by April 19: (805) 893-5116 or madeline.schulman@ia.usb.edu.
1927 Theater: 8 p.m., Campbell Hall. $38 general/$18 students. Tickets and info: www.artsandlectures.ucsb. edu or (805) 893-3535.
Friday, April 26, 2013 UCSB Stem Cell Research Lab Tour: 10 a.m., Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering. Limited to 30. UCSB Campus Tours: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., Visitor Center. Reservations: http://admissions.sa.ucsb. edu/ Gaucho Friday Celebration: Noon, Arbor Walk. Recreation Center Field Grand Opening: 4:30 p.m., RecCen Field 4. Golden Gaucho Reunion TGIF: 5-7 p.m., El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara. No-host bar. Santa Barbara Hillel Happy Hour and Shabbat: 5-8 p.m., Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista. Greek Night at the Savoy: 5:30-8 p.m., Savoy, 409 State St., Santa Barbara. No-host bar. Briner Bowl: 6 p.m., Zodo’s Bowling & Beyond, 5925 Calle Real, Goleta. $20 individual and $100 team of five. Info: gauchosplay.com. Women’s Soccer Exhibition Game: 6 p.m., Harder Stadium. Info: christina.baglas@athletics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-5372. Men’s Rugby Cocktail Hour: 6:30 p.m., Beachside Bar & Café, 5905 Sandspit Road, Goleta. www. UCSBrugby.com. 20
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Queer Alumni Dinner: 6:30 p.m., Mosher Alumni House. Info: (805) 893-5847. History & Geography of Beer presented by Maps.com: 7-9 p.m., Faculty Club. $45.
Saturday, April 27, 2013 Gaucho Gallop presented by GEICO: 8:15 a.m. race start, Harder Stadium. Info: www.ucsbruns.com. Recreational Sports Alumni Softball Tournament: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Storke Field. Info: gauchosplay.com. Storke Tower Carillon: A Beautiful UCSB Melody: 9 a.m. concert, UCSB campus. Barber Family Academic Success Center: 11 a.m., Intercollegiate Athletics Building. Library Vintage Collections: Food & Wine: 10 a.m., Davidson Library, Pacific View Room (8th floor). Golden Gaucho Reunion Luncheon: 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., UCSB Faculty Club. $35 Alumni Association members/ $40 nonmembers. UCSB Campus Tours: 10:30 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., Visitor Center. Reservations: http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/ Riviera Reunion Luncheon: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Riviera Campus Quad, 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara. $35. Women’s Soccer vs. Alumni: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Harder Stadium. Info: christina.baglas@athletics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-5372. UCSB Alumni Diversity Reception: noon-4 p.m., Student Resource Building . Free. GreekFest Chapter House Open Houses and BBQ: Noon-3 p.m., Greek Park and Chapter Houses in Isla Vista. Department of Communication Career Day: 12:30-4 p.m., Corwin Pavilion. Info: www.comm.ucsb.edu/ news/annual/career-day. UCSB Gaucho Softball vs. CSUN: Noon, UCSB Softball Field. Tickets and info: www.ucsbgauchos.com. Women’s Lacrosse Reunion: Noon, Mosher Alumni House. Men’s Rugby Touch Rugby: 1 p.m. on the beach. www.UCSBrugby.com. UCSB Men’s Soccer Alumni vs. Westmont Men’s Alumni (Over 30): 1-2:30 p.m., Harder Stadium. Free. Info: christina.baglas@athletics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-5372. UCSB Gaucho Softball vs. CSUN: 2 p.m., UCSB Softball Field. Tickets and info: www.ucsbgauchos.com. EMBoDI: UCSB & Medicine: 2-2:45 p.m., 2206 Phelps Hall. Limited spaces. SOLD OUT..
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UCSB Men’s Soccer vs. UCSB Men’s Alumni (Under 30): 2:30-4:30 p.m., Harder Stadium. Free. Info: christina. baglas@athletics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-5372. Taste of UCSB presented by Montecito Bank & Trust: 3-6 p.m., Pavilion Gym, Recreation Center. Cost: $30 general/ $25 Alumni Association members and students. (Add $5 to cost at the door). EMBoDI: UCSB & Medicine: 5:45-6:30 p.m., 2206 Phelps Hall. Limited spaces. SOLD OUT. Keeping Your Brain Healthy — Preventing Alzheimer’s with Gary Small, M.D.: 3 p.m., Campbell Hall. Tickets: $20 general/$10 students. Tickets and info: www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3535. Kathy Gregory Dinner: 5 p.m., Intercollegiate Athletics Building. Info: christina.baglas@athletics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-5372. Veterans Reception: 6 p.m., Veterans Memorial Building, 112 W. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara. Alice Waters Reception: 6-7:30 p.m., Mosher Alumni House. $100. An Evening With Alice Waters: 8 p.m., Campbell Hall. $10 general/$5 students. SOLD OUT.
Sunday, April 28, 2013 Greek & Friends Brunch: 9:30-11:30 a.m., Faculty Club. $10. Something’s Brewing in Arabia: A Secret History of Coffee and Coffeehouses: 11 a.m., Mosher Alumni House. $10. Surfrider Alumni BBQ: Noon, ROTC Building 451. Info: (805) 893-2769. UCSB Gaucho Softball vs. CSUN: Noon, UCSB Softball Field. Tickets and info: www.ucsbgauchos.com. UCSB Associated Students Foodbank’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration: 2-4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House.
Ongoing Art on the Table: Food and Drink from the Permanent Collection: Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, Art, Design & Architecture Museum.
For more information and to register, visit allgauchoreunion.com, unless otherwise noted. Schedule is subject to change. Stay up to date by scanning this QR code using your smartphone and link to the All Gaucho Reunion website. www.mobile-barcodes.com/ to download a reader for your phone. www.ucsbalum.com
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Gauchos Giving to Gauchos Proceeds from many of the events of the 7th annual All Gaucho Reunion benefit the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Scholarship Fund.
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Register to receive the Gaucho Pass, your allaccess wristband for numerous discounts and deals for campus activities, bars and restaurants, and local attractions. These local deals are valid for the entire weekend of April 26-28, in conjunction with the All Gaucho Reunion. The Gaucho Pass will be available for pick-up at locations on campus and in Goleta and Santa Barbara.
• Indochine: VIP line pass on April 26 and 27 before 11 p.m. • The Savoy: VIP line pass on April 26 and 27 before 11 p.m. • Free entry to all three UCSB Softball games over the weekend — April 27 at noon and 2 p.m. and April 28 at noon
Gaucho Pass Perks (More to come!) • Santa Barbara Museum of Art: 2-for-1 passes • Santa Barbara Trolley: $3 off ticket • Wheel Fun Rentals: 20 percent off bike rentals • Santa Barbara Maritime Museum: 2-for-1 passes • UCSB Recreation Center: Free entry April 26-28 • Coast Restaurant & Bar: Buy one, get one free entrées
This year, the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association is teaming up with Night Out to provide additional deals for Gauchos. To find out more, go to http://gaucho-pass.nightout.com/ To get more information on how your local business can get involved, contact jennifersmith@ ucsbalum.com
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Mosher Alumni House The Mosher Alumni House is one of the premier event locations on campus. It’s perfect for your wedding, conference, or special event. Meeting rooms and reception areas offer spectacular settings and views from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ynez Mountains. Mosher Alumni House, on the UC Santa Barbara campus is elegant and unique while comfortable and convenient. For room rates and availability, please contact Mary MacRae at (805) 893-2957 or email mary.macrae@ia.ucsb.edu. www.ucsbalum.com
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1960s Phil Earl, ’61, has his artwork displayed at the Village Gallery in Rolling Hills Estates. Earl currently produces fine art black-andwhite landscape photographs using film and traditional darkroom techniques. Trent Pridemore, ’63, has retired as a dentist. He lives in Grass Valley and Carnelian Bay. He worked as a timber cruiser in Humboldt and Trinity counties. After earning a doctorate at UC San Francisco, he was deployed to the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia with the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. Jim Olson, ’69, professor of psychology at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin is one of the “founding faculty” of UTPB, starting at the university when it first opened in 1973. He was instrumental in the development of the campus’ Counseling Center, where he served his clinical internship. He’s been a licensed psychologist in Texas since 1978. He’s also co-authored three books on behavioral sciences and the analysis of burglary. Lee Mallory, ’69, retired as a Santa Ana College professor in 2012. The Newport Beach Independent has dubbed him “the Grandfather of Poetry in Orange County.”
1970s Cindy Klempner, ’74, is a new board member of the Mental Wellness Center in Santa Barbara County. Klempner has been associated with the law firm Fell, Marking, Abkin, Montgomery, Granet & Raney LLP since 2000. She is a member of the firm’s litigation department. Klempner received her law degree from the Santa Barbara College of Law in 1995. John Schneider, ’74, music professor at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium with the rest of the musical ensemble Partch, a Los Angelesbased group dedicated to performing the work of composer Harry Partch. Schneider sings and plays adapted viola and adapted
guitar on “Harry Partch: Bitter Music,” released by Bridge Records in December 2011. Dave Kuehn, ’75, has retired from teaching and coaching baseball at Santa Ynez High School. He worked there for 37 years, and had 330 wins. He taught science and math. Pat McElroy, ’78, has been appointed fire chief for the Santa Barbara City Fire Department. Chief McElroy has worked with the city’s Fire Department for 32 years, where he has served in various leadership positions since 1990. In his most recent position as the fire operations division chief, he managed 95 firefighting personnel, eight fire stations, and the airport rescue and firefighting operation.
1980s Julie Harland, ’80, received a master’s degree in applied mathematics at UC San Diego and joined the MiraCosta College faculty in 1987. She has since written her own math books, which are used at MiraCosta College. She has also created more than 850 math videos, which are posted at http://YourMathGal.com. Dean L. Mensa, ’80, was elevated to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow rank. He was recognized for outstanding and unique contributions to high-resolution radar cross-section imaging. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. Jim Farr, ’82, was elected to the Goleta City Council. He is a member of the Goleta Historical Society where he co-chaired the successful Restoration Campaign for La Patera/ Stow House. He has also assisted Bill MacFadyen in launching Noozhawk, a successful online newspaper serving primarily the South Coast. Gina Niebergall, ’82, was featured in the Art About Agriculture exhibit at the Santa Paula Art Museum. The museum’s hall was transformed into a casual working studio for the artist. Her works document fleeting moments in life and landscape as both are
Jeff, ’66, and Judy Henley, H ’09, were named one of the 50 Most Generous Donors of 2012 by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Henleys are tied at No. 21. They have pledged $50 million to UC Santa Barbara, of which $26 million will go toward a new building for the university’s Institute for Energy Efficiency and $1 million for general support of that institute; $20 million will endow the College of Engineering, with $3 million going toward faculty salaries. constantly changing. Teri Coffee McDuffie, ’82, was recognized as the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Ambassador of the Year. McDuffie, who owns Santa Barbara Women’s Self-Defense, was selected because she leads by example and makes a difference. She also serves on the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Santa Barbara Chapter. Garry Eister, ’74, Ph.D. ’83, an Arroyo Grande composer, was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium with the rest of the musical ensemble Partch, a Los Angeles-based group dedicated to performing the work of composer Harry Partch. Eister sings and plays piano on “Harry Partch: Bitter Music,” released by Bridge Records in December 2011. Hector Neff, ’79, Ph.D. ’84, delivered a Pacific Coast Archaeology Society Lecture about the Olmec of Mexico’s Gulf Coast, which produced some of the earliest monumental sculpture and architecture in Mesoamerica. His research emphasizes the application of analytical chemistry to archaeological questions. He also carries out fieldwork in southern Mexico and Guatemala. Scott Patton, ’84, was named Alameda County’s newest Superior Court judge. Patton became an Alameda County deputy district attorney in 1990, remaining in that post until Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him in late November 2012 to become an Alameda County Superior Court judge. www.ucsbalum.com
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Jim Turner, ’84, joined the Radius Commercial Real Estate and Investments as a commercial real estate expert. Radius Commercial Real Estate & Investments is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm serving all of the Central Coast. Melissa (Hein) Gough, ’86, joined Union Bank, the Private Bank, as Vice President, Regional Director of Private Banking for the Central Coast. Gough is responsible for a team of Private Bankers from Camarillo to Carmel who provide banking, lending, investment management, trust, estate and wealth planning services to high net worth individuals, families and business owners. She has been in the financial management industry for more than 25 years and serves on the board of the United Boys and Girls Club, is a member of the Community Council for the Westside Boys and Girls Club, the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara, the UCSB Planned Giving Advisors Council and the finance committee of La Cumbre Country Club. Jeff Baarstad, Ph.D. ’89, was named Superintendent of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators. He has been superintendent of the Conejo Valley Unified School District for less than three years. The regional award covers Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
Division of the Planning and Development Department serving as manager of the Transportation Planning and Grants Programs and as a project manager. After serving at the city of Goleta, Amoon founded a consulting firm, GKA Consulting, which provided transportation planning and grant writing services to local clients. Dan Hile, ’95, was named to the San Luis Obispo Tribune’s Top 20 Under 40 list for 2013. Hile is an optometrist and co-owner of Optometric Care Associates in Paso Robles and Los Osos, Calif. In addition to his practice, Hile works with First Five, each year screening about 4,000 children who would otherwise not get adequate care. He received the California Military’s Meritorious Service Medal for his work with at-risk youth of the Grizzly Academy, where he volunteers each term to screen and treat cadets. He also created a highly discounted eye clinic at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, Calif. A Bay Osos Kiwanis member, he serves on the Head Start Health Advisory Board and previously hosted a cable access show about children’s health. Lysandra Cook, M.Ed. ’99, has been awarded tenure at the University of Hawaii. Cook has published on evidence-based practices in special education and contributes to the university’s teacher preparation program.
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Cam Gittler, ’91, has been elected the 201213 president of the Board of Directors for the Junior League of Santa Barbara. Gittler has been involved with the Junior League since 2000 and has served in other roles with the organization, including membership chair, membership council director and presidentelect.
Pedro Paz, M.A. ’00, was elected to the board of the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education. Paz lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and serves as the program and evaluation manager for First 5 Santa Barbara County, an organization that focuses on supporting children’s healthy early development and preparing them for kindergarten.
Scott Hadley, ’91, managing partner at Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf, became the board chairman of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce. George Amoon, ’92, accepted the position of manager of planning for the Santa Barbara MTD. He spent five years at the city of Goleta Community Services Department as a project manager and 10 years at Santa Barbara County in the Long Range Planning 34
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Steve Aoki, ’01, owner of Dim Mak label, is working with mtvU in the Fulbright scholarship selection process. The Fulbright fellowships are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and administered by the Institute of International Education, areestablished to promote the “power of music” as a global force for mutual understanding.
Tory DuVarney, ’02, was named to the San Luis Obispo Tribune’s Top 20 Under 40 list for 2013. DuVarney and wife Christie own a clothing store on Main Street in Ventura that sells their clothing lines, Handsome Devil and Beautiful Disaster. DuVarney also launched the vintage car show Primer Nationals and a motorcycle show called Chopperfest, both of which have taken place at the Ventura County Fairgrounds annually for almost a decade. Zachary Hall, ’07, was named to the San Luis Obispo Tribune’s Top 20 Under 40 list for 2013. He is a communication studies instructor at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, Calif. He teaches first responders and city/county government leaders across the state how to improve crisis communication with the media and the public. He volunteers with the United Way, Bay Area Lupus Foundation and channel swimmer David Youdovin’s charitable efforts. He is chair of the Arroyo Grande Traffic Commission and plants trees with the Arroyo Grande Tree Guild. Monica Bulger, Ph.D. ’09, is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she studies scholarly use of digital resources. Previously, Bulger had taught in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program.
2010s Johnny Heineken, ’11, is the 2012 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. Heineken works at an alternative energy company in Alameda that develops wind turbine technology. Last year, he won the Kiteboarding Course Racing World Championship in Italy, beating more than 100 competitors to claim the world title for the second consecutive year. Edward Pultar, ’11, and five other owners created a startup company, Valarm LLC based in Thousand Oaks. Valarm is a software platform for collecting geo-located sensor data and it serves as an anti-theft and tracking device. Sieva Kozinsky, ’12, founded StudySoup. com, an online platform that allows students to access their material from any computer or device using the Internet. The online course readers are available at and were tested at the UCSB Bookstore last fall. StudySoup.com has expanded over the past four months to other UC campuses as well as Brown University and other schools.
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Jacqueline Reid, ’12, codirector of the nonprofit Teachers for the Study of Educational Institutions, was elected as a board member of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation. She also serves as director of projects for the Center for Literacy and Inquiry in Networking Communities, and as the project director for the New Multiculturalism Initiative for the Department of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
IN MEMORIAM Robert E. “Bob” Kallman, ’48, died Feb. 26, 2013, from Parkinson’s disease. Kallman served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He retired as a captain from the Naval Reserve in 1978. Kallman was one of a group of early founders of the Santa Barbara Zoo, helping procure the property and transport animals in the back of his station wagon. He served on the Santa Barbara Board of Education for six years and, in 1975, he was elected to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, where he served
the county for 11 years. In 1985, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a special assistant to the interior secretary and began a career as a federal official. In addition to Reagan, he served the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as an assistant to the interior secretary and director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service. Survivors include wife Ruth, son Kristopher, and daughters Tina and Carol. Patricia Ann Brenner, ‘49, died Feb. 12, 2013, in Bakersfield, Calif., where she had lived since 1996. Brenner graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic and UC Santa Barbara, where she was a Pi Phi. She married the love of her life, Donald Brenner, who worked as a civil engineer, in 1951. Brenner served the Assistance Leagues of Long Beach and Bakersfield. She found great joy in dressing children with Operation School Bell and working in the Bargain Box Thrift Shop. She is survived by son Brian and daughter Katharine Winn. Virginia English, ’50, died Feb. 22, 2013. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara, she and her husband began their teaching careers in a two-room schoolhouse in Bieber, Calif. She then taught elementary grades and special education in the Monterey and Pacific Grove School Districts and retired in 1983. English enjoyed volunteer work, her knitting
group at St. Dunstan’s, her lunch bunch, and playing the stock market, but her most fulfilling roles were those of wife, mother, and grandmother. She is survived by her children, George Bush, Connie Stoaks, Margo Fuselier. Daniel Martinez, ’51, died Feb. 6, 2013, from cancer. He taught at Claremont High School, Riverside Poly, San Bernardino Valley College, and Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, where he headed the Foreign Language Department from 1955 to 1987. Besides Spanish, he taught driver training, photography and other subjects, officiated basketball, and coached track and field. An active member of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Martinez was part of President John F. Kennedy’s NDEA “Sputnik” teacher’s workshops at the University of Kansas, in 1961. His 1958 master’s thesis on the Bracero Program has been widely studied, and in 2009 was recognized as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent history archive. Survivors include wife Barbara (“Bobbie”), and children Elizabeth, Lee Anne, Michele, Daniel, Renee and Paul. Marjorie Louise Negus, ’51, died Feb. 5, 2013. While at UC Santa Barbara she met her future husband on a blind date. She married Richard Negus, a U.S. Navy veteran in August 1950. Negus became a realtor in Palos Verdes Estates and was active in Ventura until 1993. She studied neuro linguistic programming and became an active practitioner. After retiring, she studied art at Ventura College where she expanded her love of painting. She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Richard “Dick” Negus, and son, Ted W. Negus. Cynthia Adele Davis, ’54, died Jan. 10, 2013, after a stroke. Davis married her first husband, William Thomas, while at UC Santa Barbara. Cynthia and Bill started their family on a small farm in Santa Barbara. For more than 25 years, Davis was a sewing instructor for Santa Barbara Adult Education. In 1990, Davis moved to Santa Paula with her second husband, Fred Davis, and in 1995 they opened the Fabric Depot, where, for more than 10 years, she sold fabric and sewing machines and taught craft classes. Survivors include husband Fred Davis, and sons Lindon, Thomas and Matthew. Fred “Coach” Standifer, ’61, died Feb. 7, 2013. He was a teacher and coach at Ventura High School, his alma mater, for 36 years. He served as a basketball official for 28 years. In 2006, he was inducted into the Ventura College Athletic Hall of Fame. During high www.ucsbalum.com
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school and college, he competed in football, basketball, baseball and track. Survivors include wife Jean, son Eric, and daughter Keristin Thomas. Donald Lee Posthumus, ’64, died Feb. 25, 2013, from mantle cell lymphoma. Posthumus completed medical school at UC San Francisco. He then did a stint in the U.S. Army, going from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Washington, D.C., to Fort Huachuca, Ariz. He settled with his family in San Jose, Calif., in 1977. He worked in the South Bay medical community, retiring his practice in 2006. He was preceded in death by his wife Sherry. He is survived by daughters Lisa and Jennifer Posthumus, siblings James Posthumus, Margorie Whitney and Carolyn McClure. Kim Soby Barber, ’83, died Jan. 18, 2013, of cancer. Born in San Francisco, she graduated from Del Valle High School in Walnut Creek, Calif. She earned a master’s degree from San Francisco State in 2003 and created
award-winning e-learning educational materials through her work at Golden Gate University and Kaiser Permanente. Her work in developing highly interactive and instructionally sound web-based courses for nurses is one of many legacies she leaves behind. Survivors include husband Michael Bauman, mother Jan Hoadley Glossman, father Paul Soby, stepfather Norton Glossman, stepmother Annette Soby, and brother Eric Soby. Deenie Kinder Neff, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’87, died on Jan. 26, 2013, from cancer. She grew up on a three-acre farm, raising championship pigs for 4H. She attended Santa Rosa Junior College and UC Berkeley before earning her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wyoming. After earning graduate degrees at UC Santa Barbara, Neff worked as an economist for PG&E from 1983 to 1985. In 1986, she moved to Washington D.C., where she worked as an economist for
the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Department of Health and Human Services. In 1990, Neff began her teaching career at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. Survivors include her husband of 28 years, Hector Neff, and two sons, Andrew and Daniel. Dr. Ronald Gilbert, ‘83, died Jan. 28, 2013, after being shot to death in his medical practice in Newport Beach. He was 52. Gilbert graduated from UC Irvine College of Medicine in 1987. He was a volunteer faculty member there from 2000 to 2008. Gilbert founded Absorption Pharmaceuticals. Gilbert was affiliated with Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian for more than 20 years. He also was a partner in a private practice, Orange Coast Urology. Gilbert was a member of Chabad of West Orange County in Huntington Beach. Survivors include wife Elizabeth, and sons Stephan and Jake.
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