Class Notes

'80s
Geoffrey Gallegos (B.S.,'81), music director and conductor of the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, was appointed music director of the Golden Gate Opera.

"Tang is not Juice," the fourth murder mystery by Vinnie Hanson (M.A., '82), has been awarded Best Book of Fiction of 2005 by the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc.

Barbara M. Pitschel (B.A., '84), head librarian at the Helen Crocker Russell Library, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, received the 2006 Charles Robert Long Award of Merit on May 18 from the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

Steven Schwarzbach (B.A., '85) is the new center director of the U.S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center in Sacramento.

Andrew Ly (B.S., '86) is CEO of Sugar Bowl Bakery, named the 50th fastest growing private company by the San Francisco Business Times.

Maureen Droney (B.A., '88) was named executive director of the producers and engineers wing of The Recording Academy®.