Alumni Updates

Kevin Nadin

Forestry & Wildland Resources, B.S. Computer Science, Chico State University, 1990, 1985

KEVIN NADIN, 1985 Forestry and Wildland Resources, has been with Sierra Pacific Industries for the past 11 years, currently in the position of network administrator. After leaving HSU, Nadin began working in various forestry positions before returning to school at Chico State. He has been married for 18 years and has three children.

Nancy (Plant) Hendrix

, Speech & Hearing, 1970

NANCY (PLANT) HENDRIX, 1970 Speech Pathology & Audiology, earned three master's degrees: one in Special Education (University of Arizona); another in Counseling & Guidance (Truman State University); and one in Rehabilitation Counseling (San Diego State University). Hendrix has two daughters and two granddaughters. She has taught special education in college for 10 years and was a special education teacher in public schools and elsewhere. Most recently Hendrix was counselor for California Department of Rehabilitation, covering the towns of El Centro, San Jose, Mountain View, Fremont. She is currently retired from Dept. of Rehabilitation and happily living in Grass Valley, Calif. Hendrix recalls fond memories of living in Arcata on A Street and a certain snowshoe backpacking trip with Boot 'N Blister Club.

Richard Caldwell

Music, 1969

RICHARD CALDWELL, 1969 Music, was in the Navy Band Program for 20 years after graduating from Humboldt State. Since retiring in 1991 Caldwell has been a Band Instrument Repair Technician. Caldwell says he owes his career in instrument repair to a repair class he took at Humboldt the summer of 1969.

Jessica Peters

Anthropology, 2010

Jessica Peters, 2010, Anthropology, received a Master of Arts degree in Anthropology in 2012 at UCLA. Peters also presented research at the American Anthropological Association 2012 meeting, and at the Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at the University of West Georgia.

Jason W. Cooley

Biological Sciences, 1994

Jason W. Cooley, 1994, Biological Sciences, is currently a professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri.

Beth Downing Chee

Journalism, 2001

Recently accepted a position as the Media Relations Manager for San Diego State University.

Sarah Lewers

Communication, 2005

I'm living in Geyserville, CA, and happily employed as a plaintiff's-side civil litigator with the Law Offices of Peter Goldstone in Santa Rosa. While I handle a wide variety of cases, I specialize in landlord-tenant work, easement disputes, and wrongful foreclosure cases.

Benjamin

Art, 2010

I am currently a graduate student at Syracuse University working towards my MFA in Art Photography.

Eric W. Van Stryland

Physics & Astronomy, 1970

see website http://www.creol.ucf.edu/People/Details.aspx?PeopleID=316
Past President of the Optical Society of America (OSA), 2006, R.W. Wood Prize of OSA 2012
First Dean of a College devoted to Optics/Photonics in the US

Josh Bartee

English, 2011

These days I'm pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Since graduating, I have had two papers accepted for conferences. The first, which I presented in May of 2011 to the Robinson Jeffers Association in Monterey, CA, is a look at the poet’s diachronic influence on the environmental ethics of rock climbers. The second paper, presented in November of 2011 to the Western Literature Association in Lubbock, TX, concerns the hominin relationship with fire as read in Loren Eiseley's "The Angry Winter" and a selection of poems by Robinson Jeffers.

I keep busy studying, cycling and making all kinds of fun connections between poetry and natural history.