Kevin Ablett (’83) is a programmer for Technology Builders Inc.

Chris Addiego (’98) is an engineer/scientist at JDSU in Santa Rosa.

Marc Afifi (’89) teaches physics and chemistry at Pacific Grove High School in Pacific Grove, CA. He earned an M.S. in science education at Montana State University in 2005.

Clifford Alapa (’00) is an engineer at JDSU in Santa Rosa.

Eileen Leidel Albertsen (’77) teaches ice skating at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center in Santa Fe, NM and runs a jewelry-making business.

Siana Hurwitt Alcorn (’97) is an air quality analyst at Sonoma Technology, Inc. in Petaluma.

Jason I. Alexander (’92) when last heard from was general and technical executive manager of a startup company, Vivaray, in San Jose. Formerly a marketing manager of organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for OSRAM in San Jose, he earned an M.S. in physics in 1995 at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Kenneth Aline (’81) is a materials and process engineer with Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto. He has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and numerous other satellites.

George Amorino (’86) died of cancer 13 September 2008. He was an assistant professor in radiation oncology at the University of Virginia , where he did research in the radiosensitization of prostate cancer. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular radiobiology at Colorado State University in 1995 and his M.S. in biomedical engineering from California State University, Sacramento in 1988. (photo)

Scott Anderson (’78) is the editor and primary author of Science for People. Formerly vice president of marketing at BigFix, Inc. in Berkeley, he was the producer of the LEGO Island project at Mindscape in Novato, and has written several books on computer graphics and animation. His latest book is Human Embryonic Stem Cell: An Introduction to the Science and Therapeutic Potential, coauthored with Dr. Ann Kiessling of Harvard University.

Philippe Argouarch (’88) is an internet consultant in France, where he runs a regional press agency. Formerly manager of the International Herald Tribune website in Paris, he has also been a senior software engineer with quios.com, an application programmer/analyst with Wells Fargo Online Financial Services and a computer graphic specialist and accelerator system operator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Frederick Arioli, Jr. (’75) is a systems integration and test/project engineer for the Space and Exploration Systems Division of Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale. For four years he worked on the software for the Spitzer Space Telescope.

James Aroyan (’87) is the principal of JRJ Simulation & Design, providing consulting services in physical, numerical, and biological modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1996 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he developed 3-D bioacoustic simulations for modeling dolphin biosonar and hearing . He continues to do research in bioacoustic modeling, dolphin biosonar, and marine mammal hearing.

Marcus Asaro (’01) is a graduate student in mathematics at California State University, Sacramento. He earned an M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 2004, and did further graduate work in physics at the University of California, Riverside.

Thomas Barbour (’78) is the senior manager of global clinical applications and IT liaison for the biostatistics and clinical data management groups of Allergan in Irvine, CA.

Norman Basham (’85) is a senior software engineer at iRise in El Segundo, CA.

Steven Becerra (’98) is CEO of Mockworld, a developer of Real-Time 3D First-Person Shooter and Multiuser Games. He also operates the online games portal Shockwave3D.com.

Danielle Beddow (’07) is a senior engineering technician at Soladigm, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Keith Benguiat (’75) is director of the engineering support division at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Richland, Washington.

Paula Bennett (’86) is a nurse in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Louisville, KY. She has taken classes in photography and took the photos of the Department’s reunion in 2001.

J. Scott Berry (’00) is a computer software engineer for Techrizon in Lawton, OK. He was formerly a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at Oregon State University.

Russel Best (’86) is a physician assistant in the Emergency Department of the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital. He earned a Master of Medical Science degree at Midwestern University in 1999. Formerly wastewater permits manager for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, he has also worked in the department of public works in Santa Paula and has been a lecturer in civil engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he received his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering in 1989.

Michael Brown Bick (’85) is a graduate student in physics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He earned an M.S. in physics at San José State University in 2000, and did further graduate study in physics at the University of California, Riverside.

Teresa Bippert-Plymate (’84) is now working at Steward Observatory as Interferometry Technical Specialist for the Terrestrial Planet Finder Testbed project. She was previously the technical writer for the SOLIS project at the National Solar Observatory.

Allyson Bishop (’86) is a homemaker and real estate investor in Germany. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical physics at UCLA in 1994 after winning a fellowship upon graduation from SSU.

Tom Bittancourt (’03) is a metrology engineer at Research Electro-Optics, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado.

Ron Bleau (’79) retired in 2008 from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Ft. Worth, Texas, where he was a senior staff research engineer conducting system engineering and research and development for product improvements. He now raises cattle and works on vintage motorcycles. (photo)

Anthony Blume (’92) is a research and development engineer doing microwave design for Tektronix in Beaverton OR. He formerly worked for many years for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent.

Tiffany Borders (’04) is a Research and Instrument Analyst working with the WFC3 team at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She earned her M.S. in astronomy at San Diego State University in 2008. Formerly a telescope operator at the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM, she worked at NRAO and also at the Hubble Space Telescope during summers while a student at SSU. She has been featured on the Hubble website.

Earl Boysen (’75) has retired to Port Townsend, WA after various engineering positions in the semiconductor industry.

Keith Brister (’82) is the manager and a senior research associate in the Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an associate research professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in the department of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at Cornell University in 1989. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.

Patrick Brown (’08) is a coating technician at Depositions Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Charles Bullen (’75) is the owner of a computer networking/service/consulting firm, Olympic Computer Solutions, serving the marine industry in the Northwest. He was formerly a radio electronics officer in the merchant marine.

Ben Burress (’85) is at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, where he is the education and public outreach project manager for the International Focal Plane Instruments Package on the Hinode (formerly Solar B) mission, which was launched in 2006 and is now observing the Sun. Formerly head observer at the Naval Prototype Optical Interferometer Observatory, an editor and writer on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, and a telescope operator on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, he has also taught high school mathematics and physics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.

John Philip Cabaud (’80) is the principal of Serve Rite, an engineering services firm in Sonoma. He was formerly an engineer at Thermo Jarrel-Ash.

William F. Cabrall (’76) is a lead engineer with the Boeing Company in Colorado. He earned an M.B.A. in finance at the University of Denver in 1985.

Robert Chavez (’03) was an instructor in physics and astronomy at the College of Marin from 2003–08. He holds previous B.S. (UC Berkeley) and M.S. (Stanford) degrees in electrical engineering.

Lisa Christensen (’94) is a technical writer and editor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where she was formerly an accelerator operator. She earned a teaching credential and a master’s degree at Stanford University in 1995.

Bruce Clark (’86) is a senior quality engineer with TheraSense, now part of Abbott Diabetes Care, in Alameda.

Andrew Clawson (’05) is an optical engineer with OptoSigma in Santa Ana.

John Collins (’03) is an equipment technician for the School of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry at Sonoma State University. Formerly he was the principal of Gizmophile, an eBay store. He sold much of the surplus equipment from Darwin Hall when the building was emptied for remodelling.

Patrick Colbus (’05) is a molecular beam epitaxy engineer in the High Frequency Technology Center at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa.

Peter Conwell (’76) is an associate professor of physics at Westminster College in Utah. He earned his Ph.D. in computational physics at the University of Utah.

Christopher Cook (’88) is director of nanotechnology at Axsun Technologies in Billerica, MA. He previously built a thin film laboratory at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.

Cherie Copeland (’95) when last heard from was a test engineer at Advanced Fibre Communications in Petaluma.

Melissa Crain (’07) is a web design engineer for WebPex.com, San Jose, and is also the principal of New Skin Media, Santa Rosa, which specializes in web design, online marketing, and graphic design for web and print medias.

Stephan Crandall (’82) is now an art student at San José State University. He formerly managed a team of engineers for Polaris Networks in San Jose.

Gregory M. Crawford (’88) is a field regional trainer for McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & Johnson. He lives in Tracy.

Chris Crosher (’01) is a graduate student and research assistant in the department of chemical and nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico.

Phil Cullen (’89) is a technical publications supervisor at Photon Dynamics, Inc in San Jose.

Antoinette Matthies Davis (’84) is the executive director of the Activity Owners Association of Hawaii. She earned an M.B.A. at the University of Hawaii in 2002.

Greg Davis (’90) is the lab technician in the Engineering/Physics Department at Santa Rosa Jr. College.

Jon Davis (’89) is a senior account support consultant for Hewlett Packard in Virginia, providing HP-UX Software Support for the AOL/Time Warner account.

Matt Davis (’93) teaches physics at Santa Rosa High School.

Dakota Decker (’08) is a graduate student in mechanical engineering at UCLA.

Susan Milligan DeFelice (’98) is an estate and trust manager with Lifetime Advocacy Plus in Seattle.

Richard K. DeFreez (’80) is principal scientist for photonics at MesoSystems Technology. He formerly held a similar post at Hach Homeland Security Technologies in Grants Pass, OR. He has also been on the faculty of Linfield Research Institute and the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1985. He was honored as one of Sonoma State University’s Distinguished Alumni in 1995. (photo)

Alan DeMars (’78) is a member of the DSP/BIOS Kernel development team at Texas Instruments in Santa Barbara, CA. He was formerly manager of DSP applications development with Ericsson IP Network Edge & Access in Santa Barbara. He received an M.S. in scientific instrumentation at UC Santa Barbara in 1980.

Joanne del Corral (’83) has been a lecturer in the SSU Department of Physics and Astronomy since graduation. She teaches several introductory laboratory courses.

Jeremy Dixon (’07) is an engineer with Soladigm, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

J. Robert Dobbson [formerly Mark Robinson] (’93) is the physical sciences technician at College of Marin.

Bill Dover (’95) is California Sales Representative for Edmund Industrial Optics.

Adolfo Duarte (’97) is an engineer with Advanced Projects International, Petaluma. He travels the world designing and implementing computer networks using satellite links to provide access to remote places.

Alan Duquette (’93) is a quality supervisor at Amy’s Kitchen in Santa Rosa. He was formerly the quality manager at Dynatex International, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and materials in Santa Rosa.

Douglas Epperson (’88) teaches physics, astronomy, and other science courses at West Valley College in Saratoga. He was formerly a lecturer in physics at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001 after doing research at the HERA accelerator in Hamburg, Germany. He earned his master’s degree in physics at San Francisco State University.

Lance Erickson (’80) is a professor of applied aviation sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned his Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Florida in 1987.

Jim Eyer (’83) is the principal of Energy and Information (E&I) Consulting, which provides technology marketing planning and economic analyses, Internet services, Excel spreadsheet development,and personal computer solutions. Twice a candidate for Congress, he earned an M.A. in management at SSU.

Keyvan Farahani (’85) is the Acting Chief of the Image-Guided Interventions Branch of the Cancer Imaging Program in the National Cancer Institute. He was formerly an assistant professor of radiological sciences and biomedical physics at UCLA, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993.

Richard Ferguson (’87) is a pilot with United Airlines, flying to Latin America from Miami. He served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force after graduation from SSU.

Davy Figaro (’91) is a physicist at PNI Corporation developing new orientation algorithms and working with magnetic sensing technology. Previously he worked as an electrical engineering consultant developing a custom RF network analyzer, and before that for seven years as a microwave engineer at Agilent Technologies.

Michael Fink (’93) teaches mathematics and science at Cooley Middle School in Roseville. Formerly a teacher at Cross & Crown Middle School in Rohnert Park, he earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1994.

Timothy Finnegan (’84) is a self-employed tax consultant in Kansas. He earned an M.S. in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986.

Elizabeth “Libby” Hays Flower (’93) is running a horse farm in Tennessee and practicing emergency medicine all over the country. For many years a physician practicing emergency medicine in Willits, she earned her M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco in 1997 and did her residency in Santa Rosa.

Arthur B. Flynn II (’76 ) retired in 2004 as the director of the US Department of Energy National Training Center in Albuquerque. He is now a professional consultant for various companies including Sandia National Laboratory.

Justin Flory (’02) is a graduate student and research assistant pursuing a Ph.D. in the new Biological Design program at Arizona State University. After graduation he worked seven years as an engineer in the diabetes care division of Abbott in Alameda and at Symmetricom, Inc. in Santa Rosa. He also played in the American Philharmonic — Sonoma County.

Leon Fossett (’00) is a research and development engineer with Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, Oregon.

Scott Fraser (’95) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned a certificate of advanced study in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 1996 after spending a year at the University of Heidelberg on a Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

Sean Fraser (’95) is a lecturer in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M.A. in 2002. He earned a certificate of advanced study in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 1996 after spending a year at the University of Heidelberg on a Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

Marta Fuentes-Filp (’05) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of Iowa.

Jim Garrett (’90) has moved to Bend, OR after nine years of teaching physics and physical science at Petaluma High School. Alan Gilbert (’77) retired in 2008 as a programmer analyst and software engineer. After graduation he taught math and science in Swaziland as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

David Goldkind (’82) is a consultant on management and process engineering with Rebecca Robinson Associates, Inc. in Rough and Ready, CA. He also does consulting in optics.

Dennis Goodrow (’78) is is chief architect at BigFix, Inc. in Berkeley, a company that creates and sells software and services that allow large organizations to have real-time visibility and control over their desktop, mobile, and server computers.

Paul Goodwin (’71) was chief scientist of Variance Dynamical Corp. in Kasilof, Alaska when he passed away on 21 October 2008. He earned a Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Alaska, where he taught courses in philosophy and developed a physics program for the Alaska native community. He was at one time president of Earth Science Consulting and Technology Corp. and of the Fairbanks Native Association, Inc. He was also a consultant in mathematical neuropsychology in Anchorage.

Ross Goodwin (’78) is a managing partner with the Bennett Valley Group, Inc., a marketing and consulting firm in Santa Rosa. He was formerly an account executive with Socratic Technologies, a market research firm in San Francisco and for many years a business customer research consultant for Hewlett-Packard. A former chair of the Bennett Valley School Board, he earned an M.B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.

Tim Graves (’01) is a business analyst with Pacific Pulmonary Services in Novato. For ten years he was an educational developer and information technology consultant on the NASA Education and Public Outreach team at Sonoma State University.

David Gray (’05) is a project engineer and program manager at Deposition Sciences Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Sean Greenwalt (’05) is preparing for a teaching credential through EnCorps. He was until recently assistant project manager at Solaris Inc., an installer of solar photovoltaic systems in Sebastopol, CA.

Douglas Greenwood (’81) is an internet sofware consultant in Tahoe City.

Steve Grossberg (’92) teaches mathematics at North Eugene International High School in Eugene, OR. From 2004-06 he taught high school mathematics, including International Baccalaureate courses, at the European School in Heredia, Costa Rica. Previously he taught math and science at Geyserville Educational Park, along with numerous courses for Sonoma State University’s PreCollege Programs.

Michael Grzesik (’00) is a graduate student in physics at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Brooke Haag (’01) is a physics instructor at Hartnell College. She earned her Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the University of California, Davis in 2009.

Milton Hagler (’85) is one of the founding partners of Corigo, Inc., and is CTO, responsible for all software engineering, architecture and design. Located in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, Corigo specializes in a SaaS web-based Vietnamese payroll system with integrated project management. Previously he founded VietCAD, which sells Autodesk products and provides CAD/CAM support and training in that country.

Zee Betty Hakimoglu (’75) is President and CEO of ClearOne Communications. In 2007 she won Frost & Sullivan’s 2007 Audio Conferencing CEO of the Year award. Formerly vice president for product line management of Oplink Communications in San Jose, she earned an M.S. in physics at Drexel University in 1979.

Daniel R. Hale (’96) teaches physics and astronomy at Folsom Lake College. He earned an M.S. in physics at Michigan State University.

John J. Hall (’80) is teaching middle and high school science and math in Sonoma County. He earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1998 after working as a thin film design and project engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa for 15 years.

Barnell Hampton (’98) when last heard from was a software qualification engineer with Next Level Communications in Rohnert Park and a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Elizabeth Harmony (’05) is a homemaker in Cazadero.

Roy W. Harthorn (’78) is a building safety and code consultant in Santa Barbara. With grants from the state and federal governments he published a book on methods for the temporary shoring and stabilization of earthquake-damaged historic buildings. He is a former chief of building and safety for the city of Santa Barbara and is currently a member of the California State Historic Building Safety Board.

David K. Hawk (’77) is retired from his position as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale.

John H. Hayes (’97) is a computer specialist with the high energy astrophysics division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. He works with the user support group of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Harvey Hecht (’92) is the information technology manager for Service Employees International Union Local 1021 in northern California. He earned a master's degree in computer science at Regis University in 2006.

Michael W. Helm (’82) is a network engineer working on the Energy Sciences Network at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Don Herriott (’72) is Head of Global Chemical Operations for Swiss drug maker Roche Pharmaceuticals. He is responsible for the production of Roche's chemically produced pharmaceutical active ingredients at four factories in Europe and two in the US. Based in Florence, SC, he has served as chairman of the South Carolina Governor’s Task Force on Workforce Education, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and the School Foundation. He serves on the board of the Palmetto Institute, and he was one of SSU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2003. In 2005 he was further honored with the Ashpy P. Lowrimore award of the United Way of Florence County.

Richard Hertz (’78) is the principal of Hertz Research, a polling and software company in Bodega Bay. Currently he is also teaching a course in the SSU Department of Political Science, in which he earned his M.A. in 1989.

Roman Hewette (’05) is an air traffic controller in Las Vegas.

Victoria Moore Hewitt (’87) was formerly the principal of Lawrence Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa.

Jeremy Hieb (’03) is a graduate student in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz an also working as an electrical engineer at Zero Motorcycles in Scotts Valley.

Laurel Allen Highland (’83) is a teaching assistant, teaching science at Forestville Elementary School. She was formerly an engineer at Optoelectronics.

Jim Hill (’71) retired in 1999 from teaching physics at Piner High School in Santa Rosa. He is a past president of the Northern California/Nevada section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Logan Z. Hill (’06) is a security operations technician at Red Condor, Inc. in Rohnert Park. He was formerly a consultant in the Education and Public Outreach group at Sonoma State University.

Victor Hipkiss (’96) is an engineer at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa.

Daniel Hogan (’99) is an officer in the U.S. Navy, currently the communications officer aboard the USS Pennsylvania, a nuclear submarine based in Bangor, Washington.

Ian Holland (’95) is a counselor in the alcohol and drug program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles.

Ben Hood (’90) is principal of Designed Solutions, a worldwide software consulting firm based in San Rafael. Henry Hoppe (’74) and his wife operate a tour business in Napa.

Lynn Marie Hubbard (’75) is an environmental scientist at the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority. The recipient of a National Center for Atmospheric Research fellowship upon graduation from SSU, she earned her Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California, Riverside.

Monika Ivancic (’93) is the associate director of the Magnetic Resonance Facility in the Chemistry Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly a postdoctoral researcher in biochemistry at the University of Vermont, she earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University in 2001.

Holly Jessop (’93) is a Ph.D. student in zoology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She earned her M.S. in tropical conservation biology at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo in 2008. She was recently awarded a prestigious Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship For Graduate Environmental Study. She formerly worked in the Education and Public Outreach program of the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Miriam Jewell [formerly Tobin] (’90) and her husband operate the Jewell Ranch in Sebastopol, where they have apple orchards, grape vineyards, and a trucking business.

Steve Jilka (’71) is a senior project manager with NCR in San Diego.

Jon M. Jurgovan (’85) is a senior patent attorney and partner in the Electronics and Computer Technology Group of Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta. He earned an M.S. in electronic engineering at California State University, Fullerton and a J.D. at Washington & Lee University in Virginia.

Kevin John (’07) is an educational science support assistant in SSU’s Education and Public Outreach Group.

Rick Kamen (’80) is running three on-line businesses: HeirloomStories.com, which sells his book of stories by his father, AutographedByAuthor.com, which connects readers with authors, and Elderhood.com, for the “third stage of life.”

Jeff Kavanaugh (’94) is an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of Alberta. Formerly a postdoctoral researcher in the department of geography at the University of California at Berkeley, he earned his Ph.D. in earth and ocean sciences at the University of British Columbia in 2000. His research in glacier dynamics has taken him to the Yukon, Antarctica, and points in between.

David M. Kelson (’80) is the principal of David Kelson Sound, Inc., which provides full production sound and production video assist services for the motion picture and television industries.

Bruce Kemmell (’72) has taught physics and mathematics at several colleges in New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of New Mexico in 1992.

Tim Kimball (’92) is a data archive specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Bill Kobabe (’90) is teaching sixth grade at the Greenwood School in Mill Valley, CA. He has been the principal of Bill Kobabe Woodworking in Petaluma and a teacher of woodworking and physics at several schools, including Sunridge and Sebastopol Independent Charter.

Paul Kohlmann (’92) is a senior engineer and manager of the science and technology labs for Flex Products, a division of JDSU in Santa Rosa. He is also studying law at Empire College School of Law.

Nancy Kunnari (’90) is an engineering manager at Atmel Corporation in San Jose.

John Lacombe (’83) is the network administrator for Pacific Lists, Inc., a list brokerage and management company in Corte Madera.

Robert Lahaderne (’94) is a senior process engineer at SpectraSwitch, Inc. in Santa Rosa. He was previously an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

David J. Lamb (’94) is an advanced physics research specialist in the Optical Systems Division of 3M in St. Paul, MN, where he is currently working on applications development for LCD TVs and desktop monitors and managing a group of application engineers who are dedicated to improving display energy efficiency while maintaining visual performance and quality. He received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1999, where he worked on the use of Fresnel lenses in a proposed space-based extensive air shower observatory called the Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collector (OWL).

David Lapp (’84) teaches physics and calculus at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, CA, and has taught part-time at SSU. He spent 2002-03 at Tufts University where he wrote a book, The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments, while holding a prestigious Wright Fellowship. He earned his M.S. in physics in 1990 at DePaul University.

Kenneth Larson (’69) is a professor emeritus of computer science at Southern Oregon University and a self-employed programmer in Ashland, OR. He earned an M.A. in mathematics at SSU in 1970 and a Ph.D. in information and computer science at the University of California, Irvine in 1977.

Rodney Lee (’97) teaches chemistry, physics and math at Regis High School in Stayton, OR and also teaches astronomy part-time at Chemeketa Community College in Santiam. Formerly at Marin Catholic High School, he earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1999 and an M.S. in astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology in 2003.

Mark Lenhart (’94) was formerly a quality control technician with ARM Systems in Cotati.

Valerie J. Leppert (’87) is an associate professor in the Division of Engineering of the University of California, Merced and a Visiting Associate Professor in the department of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of California, Davis. She earned her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University in 1994.

Linda Lindsley (’02) was until recently a graduate student and research assistant in science and engineering of materials at Arizona State University.

Mark Loguillo (’03) is an Instrument Systems Scientific Associate at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. He was formerly a systems engineer with United Space Alliance working with hazardous gas detection systems in and around the space shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center.

Amy Weber Madruga (’97) is a full-time mom in Monument, CO. Formerly an engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. in Petaluma and Next Level Communications, Inc. in Rohnert Park, she has served as a member of the executive board of the SSU Alumni Association.

Gregory Madruga (’96) is a senior systems analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Monument, CO. He was formerly an assistant vice president for network services at North American Mortgage Company, where he managed the voice and data networks for the company’s 300 branch offices.

Julia Maisen (’03) is a technical writer with AAE Systems, Inc., a satellite communication company in Sunnyvale, CA.

Jeanie Mar (’05) earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007.

Mario Marckwordt (’95) is an aerospace engineer at the University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. He earned his M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 1997. (photo)

Patricia Marriott (’67) is retired. She worked for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Electronic Arts, Adobe, and other companies in various software development, marketing, and excecutive positions. The Department’s first graduate, she earned an M.S. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1976.

David E. Marshall (’88) is an information technology consultant at Humboldt State University, where he earned an M.S. in mathematical modeling in 1998.

Michael May (’04) is a mechanical engineer working on aerospace projects with General Dynamics OTS in Healdsburg.

James A. McBride (’75) is an independent wealth management advisor in Petaluma. He did similar work for 18 years with Merrill Lynch in Santa Rosa and has been the business editor of KFTY Channel 50. A past president of the SSU Alumni Association, he earned a second bachelor’s degree in mathematics at SSU in 1976 and an MBA at Pepperdine University in 1983.

Michael McBride (’75) is a regional sales manager for Research Electro-Optics, Inc. A past president of the SSU Alumni Association, he earned his M.A. at the American Graduate School of International Management in 1977.

Corey McCarthy (’04) is a pilot with Atlantic Southeast Airlines. He graduated from the Commercial Airline Pilot Training program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida in 2005.

Ryan McDaniel (’07) is an associate engineer at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa and is also helping out the astronomy program at SSU.

Douglas McKenzie (’83) is an applications and sales engineer at Dillon/Quality Plus, Inc. He is also the guitarist for the Pulsators.

Tim McKernan (’05) is an application engineer at Fronius USA Solar Electronics Division in Brighton, Michigan.

Andrew E. McLean (’75) is a Senior Account Executive for SPSS, Inc. selling data mining and analytical software to the financial industry.

Tom McMahon (’85) works at the University of Arizona, where he is the project manager for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. He was previously principal systems engineer of the Multiband Imager for the Spitzer space Telescope, and he has worked on several other major instruments.

Scott McWilliams (’91) is director of laser development at Photodigm Inc. in Richardson, TX, where he develops indium phosphide-based surface-emitting lasers for telecom applications. He earned an M.S.E. in electronic materials and devices at San José State University in 1996.

Nickolas Melville (’93) is a a senior engineer building batteries for satellites with Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto. He earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at UC Davis in 1995.

David E. Miller (’96) is a graduate student in experimental particle physics at Purdue University, where he received his M.S. in 2000. He is now based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory while conducting research at Fermilab.

Iad Mirshad (’89) is an applications engineer with Therma-Wave, Inc., a maker of metrology systems in Fremont. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics at the University of California, Davis in 1995.

Richard Montgomery (’81) is a professor and past chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he works on the N-body problem of classical mechanics. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer.

Francis Moraes (’90) is an author. He earned a Ph.D. in atmospheric physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1995.

Fausto Morales (’90) is the Director of Organization at Neo Metrics, a Business Intelligence consultancy based in Madrid, Spain. He earned an M.S. in physics at the University of Michigan in 1991 and an M.S. in mathematics at Bowling Green State University in 1993.

Brett Morgan (’82) is an independent computer programmer in San Diego.

Sharon Gilkison Morganelli (’76) is a disclosure analyst with Jones Hall, a municipal bond law firm in San Francisco.

Doug Morris (’78) is the vice president of operations at Imara Corporation, a Menlo Park start-up company developing a new high power lithium ion battery for power tools, outdoor equipment and electric vehicle applications. He was formerly vice president and director of quality, engineering, technology, and product safety in Motorola’s Energy Systems Group in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Stephen K. Mosier (’90) is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his M.D. at the State University of New York at Brooklyn in 1998 and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.

Shawna Moyer (’02), is a Diagnostic Test Engineer with Alcatel-Lucent.

David Munton (’82) conducts research in the Space and Geophysics Laboratory of the Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1991.

James Musto (’88) is Information System Manager at the Pacific Coast Tariff Bureau in Alameda, CA.

John C. Nelson (’76) is a Senior Research Specialist with the 3M Display and Graphics Business Laboratory in Petaluma.

Leslie Kormier Nelson (’96) is a project scientist at WZI Inc., an environmental engineering and consulting firm in Bakersfield, CA. She is working towards an M.S. in Environmental Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Donald Nemec (’75) is a retired laboratory technician in Kingman, AZ.

Daniel Nicholas (’06) is a technical services engineer at EandM in Healdsburg.

David Nielsen (’74) retired in 2005 from his position as a computer systems supervisor in the Division of Emergency Services and Homeland Security of the Utah Department of Public Safety.

Leif Noble (’01) is a business banker for Wells Fargo in Santa Rosa while pursuing an MBA in sustainable enterprise at New College of California.

John P. Norton (’74) is a reporter, covering chemical demilitarization, technology and schools for the Pueblo Chieftain in Pueblo, Colorado.

Dan Nottingham (’89) is a marketing manager for Kronos, Inc. in Chelmsford, MA. He formerly participated in rocket-launching experiments for the Boston University Center for Space Physics.

Lauren J. Novatne-Harris (’89) is the physics instructor at Reedley College. She earned her M.S. in physics at California State University, Fresno in 1999.

Zachary Nuño (’07) is working at CDG, a Boeing company, in Cypress, CA. He will begin graduate study in physics at California State University, Long Beach in Fall 2009.

Bill Oakes (’96) is a manufacturing manager working on thin film filters for the telecommunications industry at JDSU in Santa Rosa.

Laura Odeh (’00) earned an M.F.A. in the New York University Graduate Acting Program and is now acting in New York City. Formerly a marketing engineer in the electronics and solutions group at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa, she was SSU’s student commencement speaker in 2000.

Bruce Odekirk (’78) is Director of SiC Technology at Advanced Power Technology in Bend, OR. Former positions include vice president of engineering of Zeus Semiconductor and vice president of technology for Sarif, both in Vancouver, Washington. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1982.

Dan O’Donnell (’83) is the Information Systems Security Officer for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.

Ryan Olson (’07) is currently traveling after spending some time as a teacher naturalist teaching outdoor environmental education at Caritas Creek and working for another nonprofit organization in San Francisco.

Art Onwan (’93) is teaching math and science at Bangkok Christian College in Thailand. Formerly a nuclear medical science officer in the health physics department at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he earned an M.S. in physics at the University of North Dakota.

Chris Ott (’85) is the principal of Christopher’s Designs, a residential design studio in Santa Rosa, and the director of marketing for the International Footbag Players’ Association.

Ed Ott (’01) is teaching physics, chemistry, technology, and forensics at Pottstown High School in Pottstown, PA. He earned his teaching credential in 2002 at SSU.

Benjamin J. Owen (’93) is an associate professor of physics and director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1998 at Caltech, where he was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize "awarded annually to the Caltech PhD candidate whose research is judged to exhibit the greatest degree of originality as evidenced by its potential for opening up new avenues of human thought and endeavor as well as by the ingenuity with which it has been carried out." He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship upon graduation from SSU.

John Palmerlee (’85) is an independent contractor holding the position of senior software engineer with The Workhorse Group. He is also writing a science fiction novel.

Daniel Paulson (’02) is a science teacher at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa. He earned his teaching credential at Sonoma State University in 2003.

Andrew Peri (’91) is teaching part-time in the department of geography and human environmental studies at San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.A. in 2005. The former executive director for the Bay Model Association in Sausalito, he also is working as an advocacy coordinator for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition and as a campaigner for Green Sangha (www.greensangha.org) where he co-directs their "Rethinking Plastics"

Eileen Philips (’74) is a retired programmer living in Novato.

David Piazza (’91) is teaching science at Hokkaido International School in Sapporo, Japan. He has also taught physical sciences at the Branson School in Ross. and at El Molino High School in Forestville since earning his teaching credential at SSU. He earned a master’s degree in science education at the University of Washington in 1999.

Jim Pisano (’82) is a software engineer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, where he develops software for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

Bert Plambeck (’78) is senior marketing manager with KLA-Tencor Corp. in San Jose. He has published papers on overlay metrology and the implementation of coherence probe microscopy.

Claude Plymate (’81) is site manager of the National Solar Observatory’s McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak. He received the AURA Technology and Innovation Award in 2001 and earned an M.S. in astronomy from the University of Western Sydney in 2002.

Jeff Porter (’83) is doing high energy physics research in the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington. He was formerly database leader for the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1995 at the University of California, Davis while participating in the DiLepton Spectrometer experiment.

Robert Porter (’71) is a retired international business and product development consultant living in Sebastopol. He earned his Ph.D. in psychophysiology at World College and University, UNESCO, in 1982.

John Proud (’73) taught physics and astronomy for many years at Punahou School in Honolulu, where he chaired the science department and was director of the school’s challenge ropes course.

Peter Quinliven (’04) is working for PG&E in San Francisco. Formerly an energy analyst with the California Energy Commission, he earned an M.S. in physics at the University of California, Davis in 2005.

Ryan Quitzow-James (’05) is a graduate student in physics at the University of Oregon, where he earned his master’s degree in 2008.

Johannes Raab (’79) is an auditor with a large insurance company in Munich, Germany. he earned a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987 and did postdoctoral research at CERN, the University of Mainz, and the Max Planck Institute.

Roberto Ramirez (’72) teaches mathematics and physics at Windsor High School and bilingual mathematics and science in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at SSU. Honored with a $15,000 Outstanding High School Teachers of America award by the Carlston Family Foundation in 2001, he was one of SSU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2002.

Linda Rarey (’88) is a nuclear medicine technologist at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. She also performs PET/CT scans for DMS, a mobile imaging company. For eighteen years she was a clinical coordinator and instructor in Radiologic Technology at Santa Rosa Junior College and an occasional lecturer at SSU. She earned a master’s degree in an interdisciplinary major, Aging and Medical Facilities, at SSU in 1997.

Chris Ray (’87) is a professor of physics and astronomy at St. Mary’s College of California. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1994 at the University of California, Davis.

Jim Rector (’76) has retired after 23 years as a network operations specialist with Sprint in Sacramento. He now works part-time for the California Department of Parks and Recreation at Lake Oroville State Recreation Area.

John G. Reinecke (’84) is an engineer/scientist buying and building state of the art spectral measurement equipment to accurately measure the thin film coatings at JDS Uniphase. He was awarded a patent for contributions to a hand held instrument for measuring the color shift by angle of ink on $20 bills.

Katherine Rhode (’89) is an assistant professor of astronomy at Indiana University. In 2009 she was awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program award by the National Science Foundation. She was formerly an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, dividing her time between Yale University, where she earned her Ph.D. in astronomy in 2003, and Wesleyan University, where she earned an M.S. in astronomy in 1997.

Kenneth Ritley (’88) is a manager with the SBB, which is the Swiss National Railway. He formerly worked for Hewlett-Packard-Consulting in Germany, but he spent much of each year working in India. Formerly a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, he earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois in 1998.

Mallory Roberts (’94) is an astrophysicist with Eureka Scientific. He was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University. He earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Stanford University in 2000.

Willie Rodriquez (’97) is District Manager of Burney Water District in Burney, CA. He was formerly a product safety engineer at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa.

Michael Rogen (’84) is a real estate agent with Paragon Real Estate Group in San Francisco. He retired after many years with Maxon Precision Motors, Inc., Burlingame, where he was vice president of electronics sales and marketing.

Peter Rooney (’86) is working with the Fratelli Group, a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. He was formerly the deputy staff director of the House of Representatives Committee on Science. From 1999 -2002 he was the founding Executive Director of the Forum on Technology & Innovation. As the American Physical Society’s Congressional Fellow for 1998 he worked in the office of Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, San Diego, where he was an IBM fellow.

Josh Rose (’07) is a technician at TriAccess Technologies in Santa Rosa.

Tina Dearmin Rosenberg (’92) is a preschool teacher at the Santa Rosa Junior College Children’s Center.

W. Chris Rostel (’96) is program manager for the special products group at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Scott Rowlands (BS, 6/86) is a sales director for Westwave Communications in Santa Rosa. Formerly marketing manager with Alcatel in Petaluma, he has also worked at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa.

Lou Sanchez-Chopitea (’88) is a senior software engineer at Xilinx, a manufacturer of programmable logic control systems in San Jose. He was formerly a control systems programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Jeff Sandberg (’90) is Water Conservation Programs Coordinator for the City of Portland Bureau of Water Works. He works in the engineering department performing water efficiency surveys and providing technical assistance to the commercial sector.

Gabriela Sanz-Douglass (’08) is a graduate student in mechanical engineering at San Diego State University.

Jerilynn Schisser (’03) has been a chemist at Analytical Sciences in Petaluma and a quality engineer at Triformix. She has also taught physics and chemistry at Bethel High School in Vallejo and worked as an optical engineer developing three-dimensional graphics systems with Real D in Beverly Hills.

Jacques Schlumberger (’82) is president of Michel-Schlumberger Benchland Wine Estate in Healdsburg.

Else-Marie Schmidt (’94) is an engineer at Agilent EEsof EDA in Santa Rosa.

Greg Seeger (’74) is the owner of Sport Select, providing software to ski areas and sporting goods stores.

Niles Severy (’71) is a professor at Napa Valley College, where he teaches physics, engineering, and mathematics. He is the director of two projects run by consortia of community colleges: the Network Training Academy Collaborative and the Certified Software Developer Specialist 2+2 Collaborative. He earned an M.S. in geology at the University of Colorado.

Alexander Sevilla (’07) is a coating technician for Deposition Sciences, Inc. inx Santa Rosa. He formerly worked on the design and construction of electric vehicles for Thunderstruck Motors in Santa Rosa.

Hugh Shacklett (’92) retired from his position as program manager for environmental cleanup (PCBs) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1996. He is now a teaching assistant in the Special Education program at Rancho Cotate High School, where he helps teach 9th grade physical science.

Lorie Siebler (’03) is the parent voices coordinator for the Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County.

Peter Sieck (’82) was for many years a senior scientist with AFG Development Corporation in Petaluma, where he developed new window coatings for buildings and cars.

Mary Silber (’81) is a professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics. She earned her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Sarah Silva (’02) resigned as the program manager in the NASA Education and Public Outreach Team at Sonoma State University to pursue a career in real estate.

Tim Silver is an independent translator of Japanese working in Tokyo. He earned a master's degree in international relations at the University of California, San Diego.

Gray Slater (’04) was until recently working with electron beam coating machines at Research Electro-Optics, Inc. in Boulder, CO.

Stephanie “Steph” Snedden (’83) is an astronomer at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. An employee of New Mexico State University, she earned her Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

James Snyder (’97) is a research engineer in the Applied Optics Laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park. Formerly he was a program manager at Deposition Sciences Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Paul Somerville (’93) is a partner in MojoJava, a combination Cafe/Motorcycle shop in San Francisco. He has also been a project manager for Coherent, Inc. in Santa Clara and a motorcycle racer. (photo)

Keith Soreng (’81) is the principal of Golden Gates, a Petaluma-based company that specializes in custom automatic gates and entry systems.

Greg Sprehn (’93) provides technical and scientific consulting services to medical device startups. He has been a physicist in remote sensing, chief scientist in radiological imaging, and vice president of engineering in ophthalmic imaging. He has been awarded several patents in image processing and fiber-optics.

Bob Steele (’71) founded Motion Engineering, Inc. in Santa Barbara in 1990. Now chief technical officer, he is using skills that had their start with an NCR Century 200 computer at Sonoma State. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1977 at UC Santa Barbara.

Lee Steele (’85) is a technical writer in Silicon Valley. One of his projects was to write the primer on using the gamma ray detection software for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space telescope (GLAST).

Tyana Stiegler (’03) is a graduate student and research assistant in physics at Texas A&M University. She is currently working on the LUX (Large Underground Xenon Detector) Project, a dark matter direct detection experiment in South Dakota. She earned a master’s degree in physics at the University of California, Davis.

Mary Stowell [formerly Howland] (’86) is optical engineering manager at Signet Armorlite, Inc., a manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses in San Marcos. Daniel Swearingen (’91) is the director of development at Total Immersion Software in Alameda, CA, where he leads the engineering development of simulation systems software for DARPA, the Special Operations community and other government agencies. He is also the principal of PolyWeb Services in San Rafael, providing contract and part time project management, programming and system support for small and medium sized companies. He earned a master’s degree in physics at California State University, Northridge in 1991, and a second master’s in astronomy at Indiana University in 1997.

Geoffrey Syphers (’93) is the chief sustainability officer of Codding Enterprises in Rohnert Park, managing the transition to sustainable development through awareness education, training, policies and certification of all construction at Sonoma Mountain Village. Formerly director of KEMA Green, he earned his M.S. in Energy Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 1994.

Ryan Taylor (’07) is a senior engineering technician at Soladigm, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

Kevin Thomas (’02) is a police officer working for the California State University system.

William C. Tomlinson (’83) is the systems administrator for Royce Instruments, Inc., a producer of test instruments used in the research and development of new silicon chips. He earned a second B.A., in management, at SSU in 1992, and an MBA, with a specialization in MIS, at the University of Arizona in 1994.

Tedman Torres (’04) is a graduate student in physics at Arizona State University, where he is working on Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.

David Turkington (’85) is the project coordinator for the National Center for Data Mining/Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he earned an MBA in 1996. He has taught English in Japan and high school mathematics and physics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.

Kris Tyson (’05) is an advanced optical physicist at 3M’s Optical Systems Division in St. Paul, MN.

Raymond Ubelhart (’91) is a software/systems engineer for Harris Corporation in Illinois. He earned an M.S. in computer and engineering science at SSU in 2004. He has also worked in the Communications Solutions Group at Agilent Technologies and at Sola Optical USA Inc., Petaluma.

Clyde Underwood (’74) is a quality assurance engineer with the electronic products and solutions group in the signal sources product generation unit of Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa.

Michelle Valencia [formerly Jones] (’03) is a revenue auditor at ShoKaWah casino in Hopland while studying for a teaching credential at Dominican University of California. She is also a docent at Taylor Observatory in Kelseyville.

Paul Vanderbilt (’76) is an integrated circuit designer of 40+ Gbps communications chips with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in San Diego.

Tomas Vera (’84) is a software developer working in e-Commerce in Fresno. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy after graduation from SSU.

Keith Waxman (’90) is an instructor of astronomy and head of the astronomy program at Santa Rosa Jr. College. He was formerly a part-time lecturer there, at San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.S. in earth and space science in 1994, and at SSU.

Eric Weiss (’91) is a manager for Trilogy, an enterprise software company in Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Washington in 1998 with research in experimental particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Brenton White (’84) is the principal of Brenton White Company in Loveland, CO. He was formerly a product manager in measurement and automation software technology for Agilent Technologies in Loveland.

Suryadi Wijono (’94) is sales/marketing manager for BASF in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he works with chemical and plastic products.

Dan Wilcox (’89) is a research support specialist at Cornell University’s Space Sciences Lab. He was for many years an electronics technician at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

Jamie Williams (’06) is a youth program coordinator for Women’s Mountain Passages, a non-profit agency devoted to improving the lives of women and youth in Quincy, CA.

Steve Williamson (’73) is a principal of MCTS, a consultant for manufacturing companies implementing productivity improvement and employee involvement. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in physics at UCLA in 1975.

Geoffrey A. Wilson (’84) is a research physicist working on bioparticle detection at Coherent Technologies in Boulder, CO. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 1992.

Ashley Wiren (’04) is a nuclear engineer managing mixed waste at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. She was formerly a graduate student and research assistant in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Zachary Wiren (’02) earned a Ph.D. in physics at Oregon State University in 2008.

Alan J. Witten (’99) retired from his position as manager of inside sales at DEY L.P., a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Napa, in 2003. He is now active in community and charitable organizations in Lincoln, CA.

Laura Withnell (’00) is an asphalt quality control technician in Battleground, WA.

Justin Wolfe (’01) is an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Formerly an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa, he earned an M.S. in optical sciences at the University of Arizona.

Michael Youmans (’07) is a laser technician at Spectra-Physics in Mountain View.

Gary Zupan (’69) is an engineer working for the Food and Drug Administration on approval and regulation of medical devices with embedded software such as MRI, CAT-scan, ultrasound, pacemakers, infusion pumps and dialysis. He was formerly a consulting software engineer with Legendary Systems, Inc. and was a self-employed software engineer for many years. He earned an M.Ed. at Hyles-Anderson College in 1983.