KENNETH LARSON
GARY ZUPAN (’69) is a consulting software engineer. He earned an M.Ed. at Hyles-Anderson College in 1983.
ROBERTO RAMIREZ (’72) teaches mathematics and physics at Windsor High School and bilingual mathematics and science at SSU. He received a major teaching award from the Carlston Family Foundation in 2001.
DON HERRIOTT (’72) is the president and general manager of Roche Carolina, Inc., a South Carolina company which develops new pharmaceuticals and the technology for making them. He is also chairman of the South Carolina Chamber’s Education Council and of the Governor’s Workforce Education Task Force, and chair-elect of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.
JAMES A. McBRIDE (’75) is a Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch in Santa Rosa. Formerly vice-president and national accounts manager for the payment products division of Citicorp, he earned a B.A. in mathematics at SSU in 1976 and an M.B.A. at Pepperdine University in 1983. He has served as president of the SSU Alumni Association.
ZEE BETTY HAKIMOGLU (’75) is Vice President, Product Line Management, of Optilink Communications in San Jose.
SHARON GILKISON MORGANELLI (’76) is a project coordinator with Jones Hall Hill & White, a municipal finance law firm in San Francisco. She earned an M.B.A. in finance from California State University, Northridge.
JOHN C. NELSON (’76) is a Senior Research Specialist with the 3M Microreplication Technology Center in Petaluma.
PAUL VANDERBILT (’76) is an integrated circuit designer of 40+ Gbps communications chips with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in San Diego.
SCOTT C. ANDERSON (’78) is chief technology officer of 3D Door, in charge of developing new techniques of streaming 3D animation over the Internet.
ROSS GOODWIN (’78, physics & applied mathematics) is business customer research consultant for Hewlett-Packard’s Business Innovation and Technology Services. A former chair of the Bennett Valley School Board, he earned an M.B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.
DOUGLAS MORRIS (’78) is a senior staff member for Motorola's Energy Systems Group in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Formerly an engineering manager and engineer, he has been awarded several patents.
ALBERT PLAMBECK (’78, physics & music) 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.
RICHARD MONTGOMERY (’81, physics & mathematics) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2002-03. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1986 with a physics-related dissertation and continues to work on the N-body problem.
DOUGLAS GREENWOOD (’81) is an internet software consultant in Tahoe City.
STEPHAN R. CRANDALL (’82) is a manager of software development at Cisco Systems, San Jose, where he develops ATM backbone switches.
DAVID GOLDKIND (’82) is a consultant on management and process engineering with Rebecca Robinson Associates, Inc. in Grass Valley.
WILLIAM C. TOMLINSON (’83) is the systems administrator for Royce Instruments, Inc., a Napa 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.
TERESA BIPPERT-PLYMATE (’84, physics & art) s the technical writer for the SOLIS project at the National Solar Observatory. SOLIS is a suite of solar telescopes that will take magnetograms and spectroheliograms, and should be deploying on Kitt Peak in Fall 2002.
DAVID LAPP (’84), teaches physics and calculus at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. He will spend 2002-03 at Tufts University where he has been awarded a prestigious Wright Fellowship. He earned his M.S. in physics in 1990 at DePaul University.
BRENTON WHITE (’84) is a product manager in measurement and automation software technology for Agilent Technologies in Loveland, CO.
NORMAN BASHAM (’85) is a senior software engineer at Moviso, the wireless arm of Vivendi Universal, and contributing architect on yourmobile.com, a wireless web site.
KEYVAN FARAHANI (’85) is the program director in the Image-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy Branch, Biomedical Imaging Program, the National Cancer Institute. Formerly, he was an assistant professor of radiological sciences and biomedical physics at UCLA, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993.
GEORGE AMORINO (’86) is an assistant professor in radiation oncology at Vanderbilt University. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular radiobiology at Colorado State University in 1995. He received his M.S. in biomedical engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
BRUCE CLARK (’86) is a senior quality engineer with TheraSense in Alameda.
PETER ROONEY (’86) is the majority staff director of the Subcommittee on Environment, Standards and Technology of the House of Representatives Science Committee. 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.
SCOTT ROWLANDS (’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.
VICTORIA MOORE HEWITT (’87) is the principal of Cook Jr. High School in Santa Rosa.
PHILIPPE ARGOUARCH (’88) manages the International Herald Tribune website in Paris. He has also been a senior software engineer with quios.com and a computer graphic specialist and accelerator system operator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
DOUGLAS EPPERSON (’88) is 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 Germany. He received his M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 1994.
JON C. DAVIS (’89) is a software support consultant for Hewlett-Packard, based at AOL Time Warner in Virginia.
KEITH WAXMAN (’90) is an instructor of astronomy at Santa Rosa Jr. College and a lecturer at San Francisco State University, where he earned his M.S. in earth and space science.
ANDREW PERI (’91) is the executive director for the Bay Model Association in Sausalito.
ERIC WEISS (’91) is a manager for Trilogy 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.
HUGH SHACKLETT (’92) has retired from his position as program manager for environmental cleanup at Mare Island Naval Shipyard and is now a teaching assistant in the Special Education program at Rancho Cotate High School.
ALAN DUQUETTE (’93) is the quality assurance coordinator and safety program administrator at Dynatex International, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and materials in Santa Rosa.
MONIKA IVANCIC (’93) is 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) works in the Education and Public Outreach program of the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
NICKO MELVILLE (’93) is a senior engineer building batteries for satellites at Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto. He earned his M.S. in mechanical engineering at UC Davis in 1995.
BEN OWEN (’93) will be an assistant professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University starting in August 2002. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1998 at Caltech, where he was awarded the Clauser prize for Caltech’s best doctoral dissertation of the year. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship upon graduation from SSU.
LISA CHRISTENSEN (’94) is a beam operator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. She earned a teaching credential and a master’s degree at Stanford University in 1995.
WILLIAM DOVER (’95) is California Sales Representative for Edmund Industrial Optics.
DANIEL HALE (’96) teaches physics and electronics at Heald College in Concord, and physics and astronomy labs at Diablo Valley College.
VICTOR HIPKISS (’96) is an engineer at Agilent in Santa Rosa.
STEVEN BECERRA (’98) is webmaster for Gamma Enterprise Technologies and currently developing a realtime 3D, multi-user environment called MockWorld.
LAURA ODEH (’00) is a student in the New York University Graduate Acting Program. 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.
MICHAEL GRZESIK (’00) is a graduate student in physics at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
CLIFFORD ALAPA (’00) is an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa.
MARCUS ASARO (’01) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at San Francisco State University.
BROOKE HAAG (’01) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of California, Davis.
EDWARD OTT (’01) is a student in the teacher credential program at SSU.
JUSTIN WOLFE (’01) is an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa. In Fall 2002 he will be a graduate student and research assistant in the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center.
TIMOTHY GRAVES (’01) is an educational developer and information technology consultant on the GLAST Education and Public Outreach team at Sonoma State University.