1965  Dennis Garber retired after 34 years at UC Davis in land, air and water resources. Garber lives part time in Davis and also manages a farm trust in Modesto.

1966  Chris Gansberg retired after 16 years as Alpine County supervisor but continues to ranch. His wife, Faye Harrison, is a retired teacher. They have three children, seven grandchildren and another grandchild on the way.  •  Gene Martin retired after 36 years with IBM and two years with Hitachi. He and his wife, Mary (Brence) Martin ’66, live in Los Gatos and remain active volunteers and travelers. Their older son, Nathe, is a captain in the U.S. Army stationed in Iraq, and their younger son, Scott Martin ’99, works in Berkeley as a researcher.  •  Juliet Mevi-Shiflett, M.S. ’69, chairs the nutrition department at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. Her true passion, however, is art, and she spends much of her time painting in her Berkeley studio.

1967  Stephen Isle retired as the state aviation safety officer and flight instructor for the State Military Department. He and his wife, Bridget, raise quarter horses in Wilton. They have six adult children, all of whom live nearby with their families.  •  Scott Smith, Ph.D. ’71, joined the Reno, Nev., office of Kleinfelder Inc., an employee-owned engineering consulting firm, as a regional senior geotechnical engineer. Smith has over 33 years of experience in the field, working as an engineer in mining, transportation, power and flood control in California and Nevada.  •  M.O. ‘Mo’ Way, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’82, received the 2004 Rice Industry Award in recognition of his 22 years at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Beaumont, Texas.

1968  Rose Colored Glass Co., a business owned by Tom Stallard, J.D. ’75, and his wife, Meg, was named small business of the year by the Sacramento Metro Chamber in January. The Stallards, who have long histories of service with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and the UC Davis Foundation, have been restoring Victorian-era commercial property in the Woodland area for 25 years.

1969  Melanie Reitzel Ashworth has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction for “A Personal History in Color,” which was published in October in the North American Review. Ashworth, an R.N. lactation consultant at Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, is hoping to pursue an M.F.A. degree at San Francisco State University.