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Volume 19
Number 3
Spring 2002
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1991  David Del Testa, M.A. '92, Ph.D. '01, has a tenure-track job as an assistant professor in the Department of History at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. He lives in Santa Monica.

1992  Jean-Paul Arlie, division manager of Vector Marketing Corp.'s Los Angeles operation, reached a $14 million career sales milestone as manager. Arlie joined the company as sales representative after he graduated and has since served as an assistant manager, branch manager and district manager. Vector markets Cutco cutlery and accessories.    Shelly (Bianchi-Tomasin) Bianchi-Williamson, a geographical information system (GIS) technician for the county of Sonoma, is serving on a team to coordinate GIS emergency response for Sonoma County following the Sept. 11 attack. She lives in Forestville with her husband and sons Stephen and Nicholas.    Samuel Blanco III is assistant director of the UC Davis Educational Talent Search Program, which helps students from families with low incomes or little college experience pursue a higher education. He has worked with ETS since 1994, while also earning a master's degree in educational administration from California State University, Sacramento. He and his wife, Pam, also a UC Davis staff member, have a daughter, Veronica.    Michael Chang and his wife, Hiromi, had a son, Laurent Hirakata Chang, born in October in Japan. Their daughter, Alyssa--also born in Japan--is 4 years old.    Theodore Hamm, M.A., Ph.D. '96, has written Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974 (UC Press, 2001). Hamm has written about criminal justice for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation and American Quarterly. He currently teaches in the metropolitan studies program at New York University.    Katya Ledin completed her Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Georgia last year and is now working on tick-borne diseases as an American Society for Microbiology fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facility in Fort Collins, Colo.    Toshihiro Minohara, a professor at Kobe University in Japan, was the subject of a Los Angeles Times article in December describing his discovery that Japan had successfully broken U.S. and British diplomatic codes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Decoded documents may have contributed to Japan's decision to bomb the United States, the Times reported.

1993  Ed Darack has published his third book, Wild Winds: Adventures in the Highest Andes (AlpenBooks Publishing, 2001). The book chronicles expeditions to Aconcagua, Ojos del Salado, Cerro Pissis, Llullaillaco and Sajama, five of the highest mountains in the Western Hemisphere. More information about the book can be found at www.HighestAndes.com.    Michael Lorilla, regional investment management and trust manager for The Mechanics Bank in Roseville, writes that he loves teaching college and being a father and is looking forward to a second child with Jennifer Sexton Lorilla. He also notes that he recently beat cancer with the help of surgery and radiation. Recipient of a J.D./M.B.A. degree from McGeorge University and California State University, Sacramento, in 1996, Lorilla now enjoys playing rugby with the McGeorge Ducks, despite breaking his ankle in spring of 2001.

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