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1980  Daniel Bernardo was named dean of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University in Pullman. Bernardo was professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, specializing in production economics, farm management and natural resources.

1981  Anesthesiologist Dean Berkus, Res., recently joined the permanent staff of the Specialty Surgical Center in Beverly Hills. His wife of 18 years is a registered nurse at the Encino Specialty Surgical Center. They have a 15-year-old daughter.  •  Michael Evans was named vice president of the Asia Pacific division of KRATON Polymers LLC, a global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Houston, to help expand the company in the region.

1982  Nadine Aguilera has been named department chair of hematopathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.  •  Bernadine Cruz, D.V.M., has written The Secret Sex Life of Dogs and Cats (Angel City Press). Cruz, a companion-animal veterinarian and media consultant, has lived in Southern California with her husband and two cats since leaving Davis.  •  Lewis Feldman, J.D., is the new managing partner of the Century City office of the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.  •  Jose Granda, Ph.D., was awarded a NASA Faculty Fellowship and invited to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as a part of the support team for orbit repair maneuvers for the International Space Station and the space shuttle. He will be sharing his expertise on three-dimensional modeling.  •  Susan Gustafson, M.A., was named the Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies at the University of Rochester in New York. A member of the faculty since 1987, Gustafson is also a professor of German and director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, and recipient of a number of honors for her work in German literary and cultural studies.  •  James Kluksdahl died in May 2005 at the age of 45 in San Rafael, following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Mr. Kluksdahl was a civil engineer, employed by Chevron in Richmond and Hawaii, and then by PSI in Walnut Creek. He was also an amateur historian and a member of the Bay Area Electrical Railroad Association, the Organization of Naturalists and Explorers, and the Northwest Pacific Railroad Historical Society. Survivors include his parents, Ann Nilsson Davis and Harris Kluksdahl; two brothers, Scott and Tom Kluksdahl; and his friend and caregiver, Charles Yoshida.

1983  Janet Keeter, former deputy city manager of Lodi, began work in August as the new city manager for Orinda. City councilmembers selected Keeter, who has 20 years of city management experience, from among 50 applicants as the most capable to revitalize the struggling downtown area. She and husband Stephen plan to move from Lodi to the Bay Area.

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