Class Notes 1980
US Fish and Wildlife Service wildlife biologist BILL BROOKS writes: “As our federal government administration changes, I wanted to share that I have had the privilege of working closely with outgoing Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. I tag-teamed a press conference with Secretary Jewell (above, with Bill at podium) on June 14, 2014, when we upgraded the status of the wood stork under the Endangered Species Act from ‘endangered’ to ‘threatened.’”
Big League Baseball Survive?: Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball. Lincoln shared two memorable moments from his book tour: “I spoke at the annual meeting of the Bay Area Lefty O’Doul chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) in San Leandro. I realized that I was in a room with about 45 people and, compared to them, I had only a passing interest in baseball.” Lincoln also enjoyed being interviewed by Ron Barr for Sports Byline. His fellow interviewee was Roy Eisenhardt, who had been president of the Oakland A’s when Lincoln played baseball at UHS.
1986
Amazon app users can get alerts about the deals on their smartphones, but once all the goods are spoken for, that’s it. The patent lays out a series of sketches for the truck’s boxy back end, festooned with electronic display strips. The filing also covers the marquee sign on the top of the cab and cites GeekWire’s “First Look” story as part of the documentation.
JENNIFER WEISS (above) gave birth to her son Charles “Charlie” Andrew Alexander Weiss (UHS Class of 2033) on March 4. Charlie adores his UHS alumni friends and their families.
1990
1981 KATHERINE MELCHIOR RAY started a new management and marketing consulting firm called Globe Ally (globe-ally.com) which takes her to Paris and to Tokyo for one week every month. She spoke in French onstage in Paris to a group of 500 retailers on global fashion trends for a French brand owned by Uniqlo.
1982 NATASHA BOAS, art historian and thought leader, taught a 13part class on California Countercultures at the Berkeley Art Museum this spring, looking at the range of countercultural expressions in the Bay Area in the 1960s.
1985 LINCOLN MITCHELL has published his fourth book, Will
CLAIRE MYERS and her boys, John Michael and James, attended UHS varsity basketball’s 10th annual Oracle Day, and they are still talking about the experience of playing ball on the court at halftime. ALISON PEARLMAN writes: “Due to a wonderful UHS education, I am still a professor at Cal Poly– Pomona, teaching art history.”
1989 SHERMAN GRIFFIN was part of a three-person team at Amazon that secured a patent for Treasure Truck, the funky delivery vehicle for flash deals ranging from cameras to candy. The Treasure Truck has been compared to an ice cream truck for grown-ups:
After five years living in Australia, JENNIFER DRYAN SMORGON and her family (above) have moved back to the Bay Area from Melbourne. CHRISTOPHER WAUD, his wife, Amy, and their three sons, Wyatt, Austin, and Ryder, have moved to Sandpoint, Idaho. Both Chris and Amy telecommute for their careers in the Bay Area, he to his real estate law office, Ironhouse Law Group, in Walnut Creek. GABRIEL LEVY, for the second year in a row, hosted our NYC Alumni Gathering after-party at his club, Rumpus Room. Thanks, Gabriel! MONIQUE MORRIS was a fea-
tured speaker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Kerry James Marshall—A Creative Convening, an all-day event in January that considered the role of innovation, social justice, and the imagination in art history, performance, and other disciplines.
1994
ANNA KLAFTER moved back to San Francisco from Boston to become the principal of the San Francisco Unified School District’s Independence High School and Community Home-Based Instruction K–8. Here Anna (above, second from left), a colleague, and a student visited UHS physics instructor Ozzie Nevarez (above, right) to learn more about the U-Lab and how the home-based instruction program could provide Maker resources.
1996
On December 9, 2016, LILY JENSEN-BLUMBERG and MARC BLUMBERG welcomed baby Tobias Paul Blumberg. Big brother Joshua is excited to teach Toby all about cars, trains, and anything else with wheels.
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