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1939  Sarah Mulock Duncan has been an active volunteer since she retired from 30 years of kindergarten teaching in 1979. She is co-curator of the San Gabriel Museum and is active with the Chamber of Commerce, the San Gabriel City Coordinating Council and Delta Kappa Gamma, Epsilon chapter. She writes that she also does a lot of gardening and has two grown sons and two grandchildren: "Life has been busy and good!"

1954  Houston Couch, a plant pathologist and faculty member at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., has received a Distinguished Service Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. He was honored as the "go to" pathologist for the industry.

1960  The British Veterinary Zoological Society made Fred Frye, D.V.M. '64, an honorary member at its annual general meeting in November. The award is given to individuals who have advanced the field of veterinary zoological medicine and the aims of the society.  •  Gary Matteson, M.S. '67, retired in November after more than 41 years with the University of California, most recently working as director of energy and utilities planning in the Office of the President. He is now working as a visiting researcher at UC Davis, teaching and doing research on biomass, and he is helping with speeches for the state governor's office, providing guidance on alternative forms of energy and the Enron bankruptcy.

1962  Bob Foster, M.A. '74, former football coach at UC Davis and defensive coordinator at the University of Oregon, was lured out of retirement to serve as linebacker coach for UC Berkeley.  •  Lowell "Skip" Nault recently retired from the Ohio State University after 36 years of service. At the time of his retirement he was associate director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and professor of entomology. He now plans to spend more time with his children and grandchildren in New York and Oregon, fly fishing, caring for his saltwater reef tanks and playing tennis.

1963  Mary Schiedt, a longtime volunteer for nature-related endeavors, was named 2001 Volunteer of the Year by the Yolo Basin Foundation. A former research technician at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Schiedt has done bird banding for the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control Department, been education chair of the Yolo Audubon Society and a scientific aide for the state Department of Fish and Game, among other work.

1964  Signe Zoller, M.S. '88, winemaker for Meridian Winery in Paso Robles, helped produce a brochure titled "7 Things Every Gal Should Know About Ordering Wine" after the winery conducted a survey that found a much smaller percentage of women than men felt they were "very knowledgeable" about wine. Zoller, a stay-at-home mom who returned to UC Davis to get a master's degree in enology, told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I was nearing middle age before I got over my trepidation about wine."

1968  Marilyn Nelson, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, was recently named poet laureate of the state of Connecticut. Her most recent book, Carver: A Life in Poems, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award and won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. Together with poet/translator John Balaban, Nelson has instituted, in memory of David Gitelson (a 1966 UC Davis graduate who died in 1968), the Gitelson Fellowship for the study of the Nom language of Vietnam. To donate to the Nom Society, contact Nelson at Marilyn.Nelson@UConn.edu.

1969  Construction and real-estate lobbyist Rex Hime, J.D. '72, president and chief executive officer of the California Business Properties Association, was profiled by the Sacramento Business Journal in December in an article that marked the 30th anniversary of the association and Hime's 30 years of work in and around the state Capitol. He, his wife, Gwyn Bicker '87, and their two children live in Loomis.

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