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Volume 23
Number 4
Summer 2006
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2000  Noah Cuttler, J.D. ’03, recently took a position as the state regulatory affairs liaison with the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing the satellite industry. When he is not working, he is training for his first triathlon, the Gulf Coast half-ironman, to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.    Courtney Deane married Dan Klink in August in Palos Verdes Estates. A number of Deane’s UC Davis classmates were in attendance, including bridesmaid Megan (Daley) Alsop, Diane (Babros) Vanek, Allison (Pratt) Turner, Angie (Lopez) Navarrete, Kim (Parker) and Geoff Matranga ’01, Susan Mills and Jaime (Sigillo) and Scott Dever. The newlyweds honeymooned in Maui and currently live in Redondo Beach where both work at Deloitte & Touche in Los Angeles.

2001  Jonathan Eastman graduated in May from Pennsylvania State College School of Medicine and will begin a five-year residency in orthopedic surgery at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.    Abby Taylor is the executive director of Ag Against Hunger, a nonprofit organization based in Salinas that procures surplus produce from growers in San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties and gives it to food banks throughout the state and then to other states. She will also be married in July in San Juan Bautista to fiancé Paul Silva.    Diana (Sillman) Taylor and her husband, Ross, welcomed their first child, daughter Madison Jean, in April. The family lives in Santa Cruz.    In the past year, sisters Amy Denney Zuniga and Robin Denney ’04 have dedicated themselves to worldwide public service. Zuniga is an Episcopal priest and Fulbright scholar serving in El Salvador. Denney spent six weeks helping after Hurricane Katrina and now heads to Liberia this summer to spend a year teaching courses in agriculture. Also this summer, a group of UC Davis students will visit Zuniga for a service project in El Salvador. Zuniga’s blog can be found at www.updatesfromelsalvador.blogspot.com.

2002  Rouzbeh Daylami married Natalie May ’04 in June 2004. In May, he will graduate with his M.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University and will begin his residency training in general surgery at UC Davis Medical Center. He writes that they are excited to return to Davis.    Natalia Celuch Gaerlan and her husband, James, welcomed a new daughter named Malaya last year. In September, Natalia was promoted to project manager at Sacramento-based landscape architecture firm RJM Design Group, and in March she became a licensed landscape architect. In addition, Natalia still found time in January to win big on Wheel of Fortune!    Sara Raffo and Heather Davis started the Davis design firm Twin Theory, which received the 2005 American Graphic Design Award from industry publication Graphic Design USA. Twin Theory was also honored in March with a Dottie Award from the American Marketing Association/Sacramento Valley Chapter for outstanding Web design.

2003  Gerald Hayden made the U.S. paralympic alpine ski team and competed in the 2006 Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy. Hayden was paralyzed in a 1995 car accident when he was 15 but returned to athletic competition, taking up skiing during college. He currently lives and trains in Winter Park, Colo. His father, Stuart Hayden ’72, is also a UC Davis alum.

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