1950s

Kathryn McKee, ’59, has joined the board of directors of the American Red Cross, Santa Barbara County Chapter. McKee is president and principal consultant of Human Resources Consortia. McKee currently serves as a Trustee of the UCSB Foundation; director on the boards of Old Spanish Days, Santa Barbara Human Resources Association and the UCSB Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

1960s

Edward J. Hanzlik, ’68, has been elected a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in honor of his contributions to the Society and the petroleum industry, having served on Society committees and published technical papers in each of four decades. He previously served the Society as a Distinguished Lecturer, which included giving the first distinguished lecture in Kazakhstan. His career has led him to visit more than 25 countries.
David Moss, ’68, will retire from public education in June after a 40-year career. He is Superintendent of Fortuna Union High School District (Humboldt County) and taught government, history and economics. He also coached track for 23 of those years.

1970s

Coach and UCSB Grad Lin Loring Racks up 700 Wins in Tennis Indiana Women’s Tennis head coach Lin Loring, ’72, earned the 700th coaching win of his career earlier this year. Loring sits atop the NCAA wins column as the first Division I women’s tennis coach to win 700 matches. Loring tallied 658 of the wins at Indiana University, and 42 wins while coaching at UCSB from 1973 to 1977. He didn’t even realize he had 700 wins until assistant coach Ramiro Azcui told him. While at UC Santa Barbara, Loring spent four years guiding Santa Barbara’s women’s teams into the Top 20. He engineered his UCSB squads to 17th-, ninth-, and 14th-place national finishes his last three seasons.
Chris Jochim, ’70, has been appointed resident director of the California State University International Programs Center at Beijing University in China. He will begin his appointment in August. Jochim, who received his doctorate in Religion and East Asian Studies from USC in 1980, is the chair and a professor of the Humanities department at San Jose State University.
Kati Haycock, ‘71, has joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission, which will hold a two-year investigation on how factors such as education, environment, housing and transportation shape and affect Americans’ health choices. Haycock is the president of The Education Trust, a Washington,D.C.-based organization that provides hands-on assistance to urban school districts and universities to improve student achievement.
Steven A. McAdam, ’72, retired after a 30-year career at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, which managed the environmental and economic resources of San Francisco Bay. He was deputy director at the time of his retirement. He plans to serve on the boards of director for nonprofit agencies and continue as head coach of the men’s and women’s volleyball teams at Alameda High School, where his two children attend.
Larry A Calderon, ’72, has become the vice president of Community and Government Affairs at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He previously served as president of Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Community College for four years after leaving the presidency of Ventura Community College in California in 2003.
Dorian (Elder) Kuper, ’78, has been elected president of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists. She lives in Oregon and is the president of Kuper Consulting, an engineering geology firm specializing in mining.

1980s

Brent Auernheimer, ’80, MS ’82, Ph.D. ’87, received the 2008 President’s Award of Excellence at California State University, Fresno, where he is director of the digital campus program and a computer science professor. The award, which includes $10,000, recognizes a faculty or staff member who demonstrates integrity, leadership and a commitment to the university and community as exemplified by CSU Fresno President John Welty, according to the university.
Timothy Johns, ’80, has been named president, director and chief executive officer of Bishop Museum, Hawaii’s State Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Johns previously served as chief operating officer for the Estate of Samuel Mills Damon and chairperson of the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Suzanne B. Rudy, ’80, has been elected to the board of directors of both FNB United Corp. and CommunityONE Bank. Rudy is vice president, corporate treasurer, compliance office and assistant secretary for RF Micro Devices, Inc., a supplier of radio systems and solutions for the wireless communications industry.
Peter Deragon, ’81, has merged his search firm, Deragon Executive Search LLC, with Stanton Chase International. Deragon Executive Search LLC was founded in 1994 and is based in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Deragon will partner with the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Stanton Chase, focusing on the expanse of its financial services practice. Deragon’s work targeted executive placement in sectors that include private wealth management, securities research, asset management, and private and investment banking.
David Prichard, ’81, has been elected to the United Way of Santa Barbara’s board of directors. He serves as chairman of the Leadership Giving Committee at the United Way. Prichard is a senior vice president, private client advisor and market president for the Bank of America, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
Richard Nanula, ’82, has joined Colony Capital as a principal, taking on a senior role in all firm activities worldwide. He will be based in Los Angeles. Nanula previously served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Amgen, Inc., where he made a number of significant acquisitions and raised substantial capital.
Nancy Weiss, ’82, is the new director of nutrition services for the Santa Barbara School Districts. She will be responsible for managing elementary and secondary school cafeterias and food service employees for the districts. She had spent several months as interim director of nutrition services.
Col. Ken Chance, ’85, will serve as the U.S. Army Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow beginning this summer when he and wife Coleen Chance, ’85, move to Russia.
Juan Necochea, Ph.D.’87, has been awarded the Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award,the highest honor that CSU San Marcos bestows upon its professors. He is also co-director for the Center for the Study of Border Pedagogy.

1990s

C. Vincent Leon- Guerrero, ’90, has been elected partner in the law firm Blank Rome. Leon-Guerrero will be a member of the real estate group in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He represents institutional investors, REITs, local and national developers, and corporations in connection with real estate dealings.
Cliff Melnick, ’94, has been named a partner in the law firm Meserve, Mumper & Hughes in Los Angeles. His law practice focuses on trusts and estates.
Bryan Cook, Ph.D. ’97, last year’s recipient of the early career research award from the Division for Research, Council for Exceptional Children, has been promoted to full professor by the University of Hawaii.
Lesley Rex, Ph.D. ’97, professor at the University of Michigan, won The D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities. This award was created to recognize scholars who have provided students with the quality of intellectual support that only remarkable learning, coupled with boundless generosity of spirit, can bestow.
Shannon Moore, MESM ’98, recently received a Governor’s Citation for work with the Chesapeake Bay Tributary Teams and a gold Chesapeake Bay Partner Community Award from the Chesapeake Bay Program. She works for the Frederick County government in Maryland, coordinating Clean Water Act compliance for the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System and. She also writes a blog about global warming at http:// local-warming.blogspot. com/,
Anne Bingham, ’99, has become Intel Corp. ’s Campus Recruiting Manager, which involves recruiting job candidates at colleges and universities. She previously worked in Intel Finance for three years.
Jill Gravender, MESM ’99, has left her position as Director of UC Water Programs for the Los Angeles– based Environment Now Foundation to become National and Operations Officer at the L.A.–based California Climate Action Registry.
John L. Johnson, Ph.D. ’99, interim associate dean of Winston-Salem State University’s School of Health Sciences, published “Every Night and Every Morn” (Tristan Press 2007), a book that reports on the accomplishments of Congressional Medal of Honor winners of color.

2000s

After seven years as manager of the Prezelin lab at UCSB, Steve McKagan, MESM ’00, has begun a new position as a fisheries biologist for the Division of Fish and Wildlife on the island of Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Andrew Breibart, MESM ’01, had his article “The WEPP Road Batch Model: A Tool for Reducing Erosion from Trails” published in the July 2007 issue of STREAM NOTES, a publication of the Stream Systems Technology Center at the Rocky Mountain Research Center in Colorado. Breibart was a hydrologist on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit when this study was conducted and currently holds the same position at the USDA Forest Service in Northern California. WEPP stands for “Water Erosion Prediction Project,” and his article addressed techniques for reducing erosion from new hiking trails near Lake Tahoe.
Daniel McGregor, ’01, is a licensed real estate broker with Radius Group Commercial Real Estate on California’s Central Coast. He will specialize in apartment sales. Previously, McGregor worked with Re/Max Gold Coast Realtors in Ventura, Calif.
Danielle Fest Grabiel, MESM ’03, is now at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), having received the school’s first three-year, full-tuition “Advocate for Justice” academic scholarship. She plans to study international human rights and environmental law.
Brandy O’Gorman, MESM ’03, was named chair of the Environmental Compliance Committee for the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association, the largest organization of water-supply professionals in the world. The committee works to develop a proactive program to identify and track changes to existing environmental regulations and new regulatory requirements that would affect water supply utilities.
Kazuhido Yamada, MESM ’03, has spent the past three years living in Munich, Germany, developing renewable energy sources. This past March, he established a windpower company in Poland, which owns a 50-megawatt wind farm and plans to expand its capacity to 200 megawatts. He is also working to build eco-power plants fueled by micro-hydro or biomass in Central and Eastern Europe.
Kevin Afflerbaugh, MESM ’04, left his job in the Environmental Services Office of the city of Santa Barbara and moved to Boulder, Colo., to become the Energy Sustainability Coordinator in the city’s Office of Environmental Affairs. He works with local commercial and industrial sectors to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings and increase the use of renewable energy as part of the city’s Climate Action Plan, which established a strategy for meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol.
Evangeline Benchek, ’05, is the new executive director of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Kristina Estudillo Tierney, MESM ’05, who works as a planner for Marin County, was recently elected to represent Sonoma in creating the Sonoma County Community Climate Action Plan, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2015.
James Uwins, MESM ’05, recently returned from a “seven-month all expensespaid stay in one of the Middle East’s finest locales: Camp Taqaddum in Al Anbar province, Iraq.” Uwins was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1999, has been a captain since 2004, and was on active duty when he attended the Bren School as a part of a USMC program to provide training for officers to manage environmental issues.
Kristiana Kocis, ’06, joins the American Red Cross, Santa Barbara Chapter, as major gifts officer. Kocis had previously worked with UCSB’s Annual Fund and the science and engineering fundraising office.
Nicole Helton, ’06, had “As We Are,” a work of dance choreography, presented as part of the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s “New Works: Santa Barbara Choreographers” on Jan. 11. Helton serves as the administrative director for Santa Barbara Dance Alliance. She also performed with Ballet Santa Barbara recently.
Amanda Kastelic, ’06, is the new community relations and education coordinator for Hospice of Santa Barbara. She was previously executive assistant to the publishers of the Santa Barbara News- Press.
Kimbrely Matsoukas, MESM ’06, has been promoted from Sustainability Coordinator to Sustainability Manager at carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street. In addition to managing and reporting on internal waste elimination teams and the recycling program, she organizes community projects and directs the company’s external recycling program and climate-neutral product program.
Patrick Yellin, MESM ’06, has been promoted to National Coordinator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Discharge Monitoring Report—Quality Assurance Study Program. Central to his many and wide-ranging duties is the task of coordinating state-level coordinators, who evaluate the analytical and reporting abilities of laboratories that routinely perform the inorganic chemistry and whole effluent toxicity self-monitoring analyses required by National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program permits. Yellin is located at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Daniella Elghanayan, ’07, has joined SurfMedia Communications as a public relations associate. She previously interned at nonprofit organizations, such as the Santa Barbara Green Business Program.
Tisa Jimenez, Ph.D. ’07, assistant professor of special education at Loyola Marymount University, published “Education for All: Critical Issues in the Education of Children and Youth with Disabilities” (Jossey- Bass, 2008) with co-editor Victoria Graf.
Antonio Lloret, Ph.D. ’07, has already begun an assistant professorship at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónimo in Mexico City.
Maria Mircheva, MESM ’07, became a mother on June 9, 2007, giving birth to a healthy daughter, Sasha. Mircheva is currently Executive Director of the Sugar Pine Foundation in South Lake Tahoe.
Amy Matteson, ’07, has joined the Santa Barbara Independent as a copy editor.
Peter Thermos, ’07, has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He will report to The Basic School in Quantico, Va., on May 1.
Anne Whitney, Ph.D. ’07, assistant professor of education at Penn State University, won the Steve Cahir Early Career Award given to early career scholars for an article or dissertation in the area of writing and literacies that demonstrates excellence in theory, literature review, methods, and findings, including significance of the research and quality of writing. The award is given every other year and only when there is a deserving paper.

Obituaries

Betty June (Cline) Zaby, ’45, died Dec. 14, 2007. She was 84. She was a longtime resident of Downey, Calif., although she and her husband, John, had recently moved to North Las Vegas to be closer to family.
June Marie Conrad, ’48, died Jan. 21, 2008, after a long battle with cancer. She was a lifelong resident of Ojai, Calif. She served as a homemaker and substitute teacher. She also served as church secretary for Ojai First Baptist Church.
Carl C. Cummins, ’48, died Jan. 3, 2008. He was 88. He served as the Dean of Applied Arts at Cal Poly for 25 years until his retirement in 1986. He continued to teach part time in the College of Engineering until 1998. He received a master’s from USC and a Ph.D. from UCLA.
Jesse Todd Brouhard, *’55, died Feb. 22, 2008. He was the first UC Santa Barbara Honorary Alumnus in 1955. His wife, June Koenig Brouhard, graduated in 1954. Todd Brouhard was a sales executive for Sears; he retired in 1986. The Brouhards moved to Santa Barbara from West Covina, Calif. Over the years they remained actively involved with the Alumni Association; June Brouhard was a founding board member. The Brouhards will leave their home on the Santa Barbara Riviera to the University to support alumni scholarships.
Jorgen Hansen, ’57, died Feb. 24, 2008. He was 85. He had taught figure drawing in the Santa Barbara Adult Education Program since 1978. He had served as the educational coordinator for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. His artwork was in group shows in California, Paris and Mexico. He had served as a navigator/bombardier in World War II.
James B. Lindholm Jr., ’65, died Jan. 31, 2008, after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 64. He served as San Luis Obispo County’s only legal counsel from 1977 to October 2007. He earned his law degree from UC Berkeley in 1968.
John Alfred Pierre Dennis Jr.,’70, was shot to death Feb. 9, 2008. He was a faculty member at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., and City College of San Francisco, where he was known as “Dr. D” on both campuses. He was director of St. Mary’s High Potential Program, which worked with first-generation college graduates. He held a Ph.D. and a master’s degree from Stanford.
Mark L. Bronson,’85, died Nov. 21, 2007. He was 44. He was a real estate and investment management partner in the Tokyo office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. A pioneer in his field, Bronson developed many of the financing and investment structures commonly used in Japan today.

* Honorary alumn