Class Notes: 1980
Kevin Johnson ’80 writes: After 16 years as Dean of UC Davis School of Law, I returned to the faculty in fall 2024. I spent spring 2025 as a visiting scholar at Indiana-Bloomington School of Law (my son, a Cal alum, lived in Indy) and at UCLA Law in fall (where our daughters live). I saw a great first quarter of football against Duke with Leo O'Farrell '80. A visit to Top Dog was a highlight!
John Olsen / Johannes Setzer
University of Arizona Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology John W. Olsen (Ph.D. 1980, Anthropology) has received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest state award Mongolia can present to a foreign citizen. Created in 1936, the Order was bestowed upon Olsen in acknowledgment of his contributions to Mongolian science and society extending back over three...
Go Bears! After receiving his PhD in Business (minor in Anthropology) John Lawrence Graham has spent the last four decades in research, teaching and writing about peace in a variety of contexts -- within families, neighborhoods, international commerce, and foreign relations. Graham has published nine nonfiction books on those topics.
Continuing this endeavor -- teaching peace -- he has a...
Jamie Bowman '80 just published her first book, Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner. Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly "feline sex-fest" in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Moscow, sheltering under the sink (with the lizards) when the ammo dump exploded in Juba, automatic weapons training in...
Your Class Secretary made all of the home Cal football games this fall. Leo O’Farrell made all but one of the home games. It was an up-and-down season, but it was fun to root for the Bears. Once known as a regular on the fifth floor of Moffitt Library, Jeff Oki retired as an executive after 47 years at Grocery Outlet. Believe it or not, Steve Roscow ’81 has given up on Cal sports and now is...
Emily Gold Mears’s new book, Optimizing Your Health, is a guide to reducing one’s risk of chronic disease. It was released on May 17 and can be found on Amazon.
Jeff Schaffer writes: “Last year, I became president and owner of JMC Philanthropic Advisors, where I’ve been working for the past six years. We’re a boutique firm advising and supporting family foundations and other donors...
