Submitted by NOREEN B. MAZELIS
ALAN CARLSON has been practicing employment law with Littler Mendelson in San Jose. He has been on the Atherton City Council for the last eight years; during that time he served a term as mayor. He is now running unopposed for mayor, a development Alan definitely does not oppose.
STEVE COLE moved his law office but he wouldn't tell me its new location. He reports that he sees STEVE BOUTIN regularly and visits JOHN YORK whenever in OC. He also sees TOM MINDER off and on out there in El Macero. (Tom lives down the street from new El Mo residents FEL and Mel RAMEY.) Steve and Meredith are still married (to each other) and have tow grandchildren, courtesy of oldest daughter Nikki.
PAUL GRAHAM and KATHY (TODRANK) GRAHAM report that they can see retirement on the horizon and are looking forward to have more time to enjoy their two granddaughters and to travel. In the meantime Paul continues his work as Assistant AG for Oregon, specializing in energy law. Kathy has been a professor at Willamette University College of Law for almost 30 years; she is also the Assistant Dean.
DAVID HICKS and wife Nicole are building a home in downtown Dunsmuir which should be finished next summer, at which time they invite all fly-fisherpersons to stop by.
After previous lives in the military and the investment world, SPENCER HOOPES is now living in Napa and, in his words, is "running hard in the wine business". He's even got his own brand, Hoopes Vineyard. Spence still has a container management and tracking business, his largest customers being John Deer, NUMMI and Chatha Industries. (BTW, his only daughter, Lindsay, just started Hastings School of Law this fall.)
After some 30 years, you will no longer be able to get RON JANES at the Ventura County DA's office where he served for many years as the Grand Jury Advisor and helped to start one of California's first Drug Courts. Ron retired as a Chief Deputy DA and now spends lots of time with wife Judy and their two ground children. He is also restoring and driving old cars, when not working as a volunteer for several not-for-profits. He looks forward to seeing all of us at our next reunion.
When contacted by the class rep, the HON. KATHLEEN (KATHY) O'CONNOR was in the middle of a murder trial up there in Yuba County and had no time to come up for air, much less some class notes.
After 20 years as a business litigator and senior owner of 2 major law firms in Fresno, JIM PHILLIPS changed gears in 1993 and morphed into a full-time mediator and arbitrator. In 1996 he opened his own mediation/arbitration group, the Phillips Company. He and wife, Gayle, are in the process of opening a residential real estate office in the area. Jim has very fond memories of UCD law school, "where the instructors and staff knew and cared for the students so well."
FELICENNE (FEL) RAMEY and husband Mel are loving retirement, especially now that they have three grandchildren. They will be visiting scholars at Olin College for Fall semester 2006 where Fel is teaching a course titled "Exploring Art in Boston". She will also be doing an entrepreneurial project with some of the Haitian artists in the Boston area with the National Center of African-American Artists.
JIM WOODS continues to manage the SF office of LeBoef, Lamb, Green & MacRae. He also co-chairs the firm's global insurance practice, an activity which found him assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina with their claims — at the Astrodome! Jim co-founded the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims and helped to create the California Earthquake authority. He will be hosting a UCD luncheon for the naming of the new Mablie Law Library