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Class Notes
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1970s
RICHARD CATHCART, ’72, B.S., Physical Education, has been the director of athletics and a teacher and coach at Bret Harte Union High School in Angels Camp. He is the current coach of the boys’ and girls’ golf teams. He has taught for 34 years at the high school from which he graduated, in the town where he was raised. Cathcart attended Sacramento City College, played football, and then enrolled at Sac State where he earned his degrees in biology and physical education.
KEITH JACINTO, ’72, B.S., Environmental Studies, teaches science and social studies as a fourth-grade teacher at Erma Reese Elementary in the Lodi Unified School District. He is involved with the Solar Olympics, an annual contest among schools to use solar power to build cars or model houses. Reese Elementary won the Solar Olympics in a regional contest and was awarded a solar panel to help with campus electricity bills. Jacinto supervises students in an after-school Homework Club and tutors several days a week. He is also the site coordinator for the art display for Lodi Unified’s Visual and Performing Arts program every year.
JAY REIDY, ’72, B.A., ’82, M.A., Government/ Journalism, is an instructor with the Mt. Baldy, Calif. National Ski Patrol. As a patroller, Reidy is part of the largest winter rescue organization in the world, composed of more than 28,500 members serving more than 600 ski patrols including volunteer, paid, alpine, snowboard and Nordic patrollers throughout the United States and at certain military areas in Europe. He teaches the Outdoor Emergency Care course which is the training that an EMT gets, except that it emphasizes cold-weather and high-elevation illnesses and injuries. Before joining the patrol, Reidy taught skiing to blind athletes. He is a life member of the Alumni Association and served on its board of directors for three years.
DAVID FREELAND, ’73, B.S., Environmental Resources, will be retiring the first of the year from the U.S. Forest Service capping a 34-year career in public service. As the Kern County District Ranger for the Kern River Range District in the Sequoia National Forest, Freeland has been responsible for the administration and management of nearly 665,000 acres of forest and up to 300 employees. Freeland and wife Debbie live in Bakersfield and have two grown children. JOE
D’ALESSANDRO, ’78, B.A., Italian, was recently named to head the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to coming back to California, D’Alessandro directed the Oregon Tourism Commission for five years and then the Portland Visitors Association— a far cry from his first job working in the food concession at the Sacramento Zoo.
1980s
KIMBERLY ELLIOTT, ’81, B.A., English, has been named marketing director for the Nevada Commission on Economic Development after being interim marketing director for the first part of 2006. She previously served as prospect manager for the agency and was on the front line for business relocation and expansion calls. Elliott will be planning, directing and implementing the agency’s marketing communications activities for print and electronic media. In 2004, she took on the Made in Nevada program, the official state program designed to market Nevada-made products and artisan crafts. Under her stewardship, the membership-based program has grown more than 30 percent each year.
PAM KINDIG, ’82, B.S., Business and Physical Education, has been elected to her sixth term as Napa County’s auditor-controller. She is responsible for internal audits, assessment roll changes and accounting functions, as well as financial reports to the county, state and federal authorities. She establishes budget revenue and expense limitations and maintains budget controls.
CHRISTOPHER J. OLSEN, ’84, B.A., Business Administration, has been a Certified Financial Planner for 22 years and is the senior financial advisor with Olsen & Associates in Lodi, a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise, Inc. Olsen is also president of the Financial Planning Association of San Joaquin Valley.
TIMOTHY J. MEEKS, ’86, B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been selected as the new administrator of the Western Area Power Administration and will start his new position in January. Western is a part of the United States’ power and related services within a 15-state region, including California. Meeks received his master’s degree in engineering from the University of Colorado in 1997 and he is currently completing a master’s degree in counseling psychology at the University of Colorado at Denver. A registered professional engineer in California, he is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Tau Beta Phi Engineering Honor Society. Meeks and his wife, Tena, have two sons, Joshua and Ethan.
MARK OUTLAND, ’87, B.A., Government/ Journalism, ’92, Teaching Credential for Severely Handicapped, has been teaching in the Independent Living Skills program at Calaveras High School for the past six years. His latest project has been to develop a program, and gather materials to help students who are thriving academically but whose poor social skills keep them from making friends.
LAURA BEMIS, ’89, B.A., Education, before opening her own company Fine Focus Photography, was the main photographer for the Elk Grove Citizen for 22 years. She now specializes in sports, parties, outdoor activities, portraits, scenic images and general events. Her first photography show just closed at Infinity Photographics.
1990s
CLAIRE GOLDSTENE, ’90, B.A.,History, ’95, M.A., Anthropology, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland, College Park, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. She will conduct research at the New York Public Library. Her project title is “America was Promises: The Hopes and Limits of Equal Opportunity, 1877-1910.” Goldstene participated in the California State Executive Fellowship Program, was the Coordinator for the Graduate School Colloquium at the University of Maryland, and was the Graduate Student Representative on the University of Maryland History Department Graduate Committee.
CHRISTOPH N. JENSEN, ’94, B.S., Construction Management, never thought while he was a student in the Department of Engineering in the ‘90s that one day he would be back at Sac State overseeing building projects for McCarthy Construction that would change the landscape of the 300-acre campus. After helping wrap up the data center project, Jensen is now the project manager of the new parking structure in Lot 7 due to be completed in early 2007.
MARC D. MOMSEN, ’94, B.A., Environmental Studies, was recently hired as a civil engineer by LandDesign, an urban planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture company, in its Charlotte, N.C. office. Previously, Momsen worked with Mackie Consultants in Rosemont, Ill. LandDesign employs about 100 in Charlotte and about 230 systemwide in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Florida, Tennesee and China. Momsen and wife Kathleen have a daughter and two sons and live in Waxhaw, N.C.
CINDY NELSON, ’98, B.A., Music, after fronting various rock bands and being featured in musicals and operas, headed back to school and graduated cum laude in the top 10 of her class with a degree in music, major emphasis in voice. Since graduating, Nelson has had a successful career, writing, recording and teaching. Now, as an international BMI recording artist, she has just released her latest song, “Running With Scissors,” based on Augusten Burrough’s best-selling book of the same name. A movie starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow, and featuring Nelson’s song, was released in October. The single climbed to the Top 10 on many of the Internet radio stations and her album Hello which includes “Running With Scissors,” has been remastered and distributed in the U.K. and Europe.
STEFANIE JORDAN, ’99, M.S., School Psychology, after interning in the Winters Joint Unified School District, was employed by the Mill Valley School District. She is now the school psychologist at Prestwood Elementary in the Sonoma Valley Unified School District. She is the mother of two small sons.
2000's
SHEREE PALMA, ’01, Health Services, ’04, M.A., Nursing, has spent 26 years as a school nurse and for the last 10 has worked in the Loomis School District, at Franklin, Placer and Penryn schools in particular. She is also health advisor to the special education team and is a board member of the California School Nurses Organization. Palma’s passion is to make sure all children are properly immunized and she conducts scoliosis tests on all seventh- and eighth-graders. She enjoys snow skiing, mountain biking, gardening and tennis.
CAROLE ROBERTS, ’01, M.S.W., Social Work, a licensed clinical social worker, has practiced medical social work for 15 years. She is now with Hill Country Community Clinic in Round Mountain in Northern California. Prior to working at Hill Country, she spent four years in health and human services care management seeing HIV and AIDS patients, something she continues to do. After raising four children who earned higher education degrees, Roberts returned to school and earned her master’s degree at Sac State.
JEREMY SIEMILLER, ’04, B.A., History, was on the Hornet football team in 2002, and following graduation is now employed as a math teacher at Los Banos High School. His other sports outlets include golf, flag football and softball.
LAUREN DAVID, ’05, B.S., Kinesiology, is working on her master’s degree in physical therapy at Sac State and is the new bride of ED JOHNSON, ’06, B.S., Recreation and Leisure Studies, who graduated in May and is employed by the Sacramento City Parks and Recreation Department.
MICHELLE SWEENEY, ’05, B.A., Marketing, has been named director of business development for Westlake, Grahl & Glover, a Roseville branch of Ameriprise Financial. She handles media and community relations, fosters new business and manages client appreciation.
ANGELA SILVA, ’06, B.A., Communication Studies, after a 10-month internship, has been named communications coordinator for the city of Elk Grove. Her duties include assisting in event planning, handling finances for the communications department and working with the public information officer. Silva is applying for the master’s program in the fall of 2007.
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