Class Notes - Sac State Connection - August 2008
1950s
Mary Nosler Buehler, ’58, B.A.,’82, M.A., Education, is the volunteer director of the Sacramento Literacy Program. The program has served more than 2,500 adult students, who are both native-speakers and refugees/immigrants. In June, Buehler was awarded a resolution by the California State Assembly, honoring her 32 years of service to the program. She is retired from the Sacramento City Unified School District after a long career as an educator. She and her husband Paul Beuhler ,’58, B.S., Business Administration, live in Gold River.
1960s
William (Bill) Enos, ’64, B.S., Business Administration, ’78, M.A., Education, is the president of the Siskiyou County Board of Education and has been the Area 2 Trustee, which includes Mount Shasta Elementary School District, since 1999. On that board, he served as president for seven years. As a lifelong educator, first as a Sacramento-area teacher, principal and superintendent, Enos moved to Siskiyou County where he later retired after serving as the superintendent of Siskiyou Union High School District. He is also the Region 2 Director of the California School Boards Association, representing Modoc, Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, Plumas, and Lassen counties. He and his wife, Lillian, live in Mount Shasta.
Terry Battenberg,’68, B.A., Physical Education, after retiring a year ago after 38 years of full-time teaching and coaching at the high school and college levels, was recently hired to be an assistant men’s basketball coach at Sac State under new coach Brian Katz, the new Head Coach for the Hornets. Battenberg and his wife, alumna Barbara Battenberg, ’84, M.A., English, live in Fair Oaks.
1970s
Margaret Fortune, ’73, M.A., Education, has been appointed to the California State University Board of Trustees. In March, she was named CEO of Project Pipeline, a Sacramento-based non-profit with a 20-year track record of credentialing public school teachers. Prior to that, Fortune was a senior advisor in the Office of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for two years. She also served as an education advisor and director of public affairs for the Governor. Her experience also includes two years as assistant secretary in the Office of the Secretary for Education, chair of the commission on Teacher Credentialing and service on the California Children and Families Commission. She lives in Granite Bay.
Marian Gaston, ’79, B.S., Business Administration, is the supervisor and project manager of information technology for the City of Sacramento. As IT project manager of electronic content management, she is one of four in a newly formed team that will take the city into the age of paperless processing. She makes her home in Sacramento.
1980s
Kathleen Cusick Mackey, ’81, B.A., Education, ’88, Credential (Art), has been teaching art for the past 23 years in the Elk Grove Unified School District. She writes that “daughter, Julia, graduated from UC Santa Barbara this past June and I keep busy with art book clubs, travel, and knitting.” Mackey and her family live in Davis.
Guy Gillen, ’89, B.A., Criminal Justice, and Tina Pineiro Gillen, ’87, B.A., Criminal Justice, ’95, Multiple Subjects Credential, are new parents of a baby boy, Lance Patrick, born March 30. Guy is with the Department of Corrections. The family lives in Sacramento.
1990s
Erica Olson Jeffrey, ’90, B.A.,’06, M.A., English (Creative Writing), translates comic books into English for a United Kingdom-based publisher. These series have sold many millions of copies in Europe and elsewhere, and Cinebook Ltd. is introducing them to a North American audience. Jeffrey, who credits Sac State French teacher Laurence Lambert for helping make French fun and accessible, translates Yakari and The Bluecoats. She also edits series, including Lucky Luke, Queen Margot and Iznogoud. Jeffrey’s freelance writing and editing credits include Random House Children’s Books, Silver Moon Press, ArtNetwork Publishng, Tower Records’ Pulse magazine, Listin! magazine, and numerous newspapers and websites. She lives in Marysville, Calif.
Charles “Chuck” Hahn, ’95, B.A., Government, is chief of staff for Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill. Hahn began his government career as an intern in then-Gov. Pete Wilson’s office during his freshman year at Sac State, and then joined the Governor’s staff part time a year later. He followed that with service as chief of staff for Rod Pacheco and then Dave Cogdill when they were both Assemblymen. Secretary of State Bruce McPherson appointed Hahn as his chief deputy during his tenure. Hahn has also served as staff director for the bi-partisan joint Assembly and Senate Rural Caucus. Hahn lives in Healdsburg.
2000s
Marni Culy, ’03, B.S., Biological Sciences, ’04, Credential Education (Biological Science), is a science teacher at Will C. Wood in the Sacramento City Unified School District. She is also the basketball coach, an advisor for the Science Club and the administrator for the science fair at the school. Culy lives in Rancho Cordova.
Timothy D. Cochrane, ’03, B.A., Arts and Letters, is the general manager of the Hillstone Restaurant Group. A former Associated Students, officer, Cochrane now resides in Corona del Mar, Calif.
Danielle Roberts, ’99, B.S., Biological Sciences, has worked for the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff’s Criminalistics Laboratory for the last seven years. Currently, she is a forensic toxicologist who is assigned to the Forensic Alcohol Unit. Roberts is responsible for the blood and breath alcohol programs for both Contra Costa and Solano Counties. She maintains more than 30 breath alcohol instruments in both counties as well as analyzing alcohol and the effects of alcohol on the human body. Currently, she owns a home in Brentwood.
2000s
Samuel Ellison, ’02, B.S., Business Administration (MIS), is the IT anager at Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP in Sacramento. He was the IT supervisor at the company for more than five years and excels in network management, Citrix, and database administration. He makes his home in Sacramento.
Andrea E. Garcia, ’04, B.A., Communication Studies (Public Relations), is a health and social services reporter for Solano County’s
Daily Republic. At the California Newspaper Publishers Association awards this past year, she garnered first place for feature writing for “Cancer as Creator,” a cancer survivor’s story; second place under the best writing category for “A Mustard Seed,” a story of a developmentally disabled man and his struggle in life, and second place for arts and entertainment coverage. Garcia’s other past accomplishments include additional California Newspaper Publishers awards and Associated Press awards. Garcia graduated magna cum laude and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Lambda Pi Eta. She lives in Fairfield.
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