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Class
Notes
'60s
Dance instructor Alicia Morena–di Palma's (B.A.,'63)
"Spanish Flamenco Dance Reference Guide" (Wood Designs
Inc., 2002) is designed to supplement lessons in the studio.
Jane Chamberlain (B.A., '67), will donate $5
to the SFSU Alumni Association each time an alum purchases her book, "Cool,
Grey City of Love: A Celebration of San Francisco." Call Tinkachew
Press at 415/332-5998 and mention that you're a Gator.
"Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood"
(Serpent's Tail, 2003) by Woody Haut (B.A, '68)
examines the lives of crime writers including Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
Chandler after their stories hit the big screen.
"Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved?" (AltaMira Press,
2001), a book co-written by Thomas F. King (B.A.,
'68), has received the Society for American Archaeology's 2003 Public
Understanding of Archaeology Book Award.
'70s
Judge Diana Becton Smith (B.A.,'74) presides
over the criminal calendar at Contra Costa County Superior Court.
C. Kay Ammon (M.S.W., '77), a social worker
in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Santa Clara Valley Medical
Center, received the National Association of Perinatal Social Work's 2003
Award for Excellence in Perinatal Social Work.
Connie Gibson D'Aura (B.S.,'78) and her husband
are co-owners of Contemporary ComputerWear, an Internet-based business
which sells covers for computers and printers.
Jeff Green's (B.A., '78) "The Green Book
of Songs by Subject" (Professional Desk References, 2002) divides
thousands of song titles into categories of singer, subject, theme, and
mood. Green came up with the idea while working at SF State's KSFS-FM
in 1977. Elvis Presley had just died and the station needed a playlist
to honor the King's memory.
Nancy Rutowski-Lampert (B.A., '78) is an assistant
professor and administrative director of the Art Education Department
at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
Robert Rubino (B.A., '79) has been a copy editor
for The Press Democrat in
Santa Rosa for 18 years and a Sunday sports columnist for nine years.
His fiction has appeared in Elysian Fields, a literary journal based in
St. Paul, Minn.
'80s
In Vinnie Hanson's (M.A.,'80) third detective
novel, "Rotten Dates" (Mainly Murder Publishing, 2003), baker/sleuth
Carol Sabala tracks a killer in Santa Cruz.
Mike Shapiro (B.A.,'80) reveals the stories
behind a handful of items auctioned on e-Bay in "You Are Bidding
On" (Big Mouth Publishing, 2002).
Poet Carlota Caulfield (M.A., '86) has won the
first Dulce Maria Loynaz International Hispanic-American Poetry Prize.
The award is given by the government of the Canary Islands, Spain.
Based on a true story, Julia Park's (B.A., '86)
"Tongues of Angels" (Scarlet Letter Press, 2003) follows a Catholic
priest's struggle with celibacy.
"When You Go Away" (New American Library, 2003), the third novel
from Jessica Barksdale Inclan (M.A.,'87), follows
three children as they come to terms with their mother's swift departure
from their lives.
Maureen Droney's (B.A.,'89) "Mix Masters:
Platinum Engineers Reveal Their Secrets of Success" (Berklee Press,
2003) is a collection of Droney's interviews with some of the most experienced
sound engineers in film and music.
'90s
Cal Orey's (M.A., '90) new book, "202 Pets'
Peeves: Cats and dogs speak out on pesky human behavior" (Kensington
Publishing, 2003) looks at the world from the view of our four-legged
companions.
Martin F. Morales (B.A., '91; M.A., '93) has
been appointed assistant professor of political science at Cosumnes River
College in Sacramento.
Fredericka L. White (B.A. '96; M.S.W., '99)
is serving a second term as director of the National Association of Social
Workers, Region C, which comprises Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano
counties.
Theresa Mendoza Mostasisa (M.S., '98) is a nursing instructor
at City College of San Francisco, a nurse educator at Mills Peninsula
Medical Center, and a doctoral student at Argosy University in San Francisco.
Keep
your fellow Gators in the loop.
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Fax: 415/338-1498;
Mail: SFSU Magazine, Office of Publications,
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