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1926  Warren Hilliard died at home in Sacramento in April 2006 at the age of 102. Mr. Hilliard worked as an agricultural advisor to farms throughout California, providing advice during World War II on which crops might be most helpful to the war effort. In 1960, Mr. Hilliard moved to Sacramento to work for the state Department of Agriculture, from which he retired in 1970. An avid traveler, Mr. Hilliard had been throughout the United States and to Europe, Canada and Australia. He is survived by sons Bruce, Ken and Donald; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

1949  Elana Belinkoff ’49 died in March 2006 in Pomona at the age of 80. In 1948, Ms. Belinkoff co-founded the first Jewish student organization at UC Davis with Adar Belinkoff, whom she married in 1949. In 1949–53, they lived in the newly established state of Israel, where they helped found Kibbutz Gesher Haziv. After returning to the United States, Ms. Belinkoff served for 25 years as a social worker in the Los Angeles County child-welfare system. Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Adar; her daughters, Dalia Belinkoff, Alisa Katz and Dena Belinkoff; and seven grandchildren.

1953  Moshe Shifrine, M.S., Ph.D. ’58, founder of Truffles International Inc., is cultivating French truffles in hydroponics. These rare mushrooms are being used in chocolate candies—“truffled truffles”—under the brand name Eros.

1955  Jim Coelho, Cred., was named 2005 Livestock Man of the Year at the Grand National Rodeo, Horse and Stock Show in San Francisco in April. Coelho has over 40 years of experience raising livestock and also has taught agricultural science and business management at Livermore High School and Chabot College for 25 years. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Fremont.

1959  Lynn Griner, Ph.D., died at his home in Cambria in March 2006 at age 92. Dr. Griner served with the U.S. Army Medical Corps before becoming a professor of pathology at Colorado State University, a position he held from 1949 to 1964, when he joined the San Diego Zoo as pathologist and director of research. After his retirement in 1978, he continued to work part time as a consultant for the San Diego County Veterinary Department and for Sea World. Survivors include his wife, June; four children, Lynda Jensen and George, Randall and Mark Griner; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

1960  Allen Christensen, M.S., was appointed by President Bush to a two-year term on the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. He also directs the Benson Institute at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, an organization designed to help poor families in rural areas achieve self-sufficiency.

1964  Douglass Miller, M.A. ’66, Ph.D. ’69, has written Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Cornell University Press). Miller is a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

1966  Michael Gillin, M.A., Ph.D. ’70, was named deputy chair of the Department of Radiation Physics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He also holds the title of professor and chief of clinical physics in the department. Gillin spent 27 years at the Medical College of Wisconsin before he and his wife, Pamela Newberry, moved to Texas, where Gillin describes himself as an avid gardener, experimentalist cook and red-state liberal.

1968  Richard Mitchener, M.A., died in February 2006 at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre. Mr. Mitchener taught for many years in the United States before moving to Canada. Mr. Mitchener also edited magazines, books and manuscripts for the Canadian Rose Society, and was involved with Tyndale Seminary, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. Survivors his wife, Marilynn; his son, David, and daughter, Darlene; and stepsons Allan and Stephen Lougheed.

1969  After a 30-year career with the U.S. Public Heath Service, Bureau of Medical Services, Michael Breckinridge retired and is now a tribal employee at Pleasant Point Health Center in Perry, Maine. His public health service included assignments in New York, Puerto Rico, the Ft. Peck Reservation in Montana and the Passamaquoddy Reservation in Perry. He and his wife, Cathy, have three daughters.

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