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1991  Don Harris, J.D., founder and chair of the board of Nehemiah Corp. of California, was named a distinguished alumnus of the UC Davis School of Law. The Nehemiah Corp., based in Sacramento, is one of the nation's largest affordable housing organizations.  •  Eric Paul Shaffer, Ph.D., has published his fourth book of poetry, Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen (Leaping Dog Press). The book contains poems written in the voice of an eighth-century cook and janitor at a monastery in the T'ien-t'ai Mountains of China during the T'ang Dynasty and a companion of the renowned Han-shan (whose poems were translated as Cold Mountain Poems by poet and UC Davis faculty member Gary Snyder). The book is a companion volume to Portable Planet, Shaffer's poems of Okinawa, Japan, Indonesia and America. Shaffer is the author of two previous books of poetry, RattleSnake Rider and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets, and a chapbook of poems, Instant Mythology.  •  Suzanne Ch‡vez Silverman, Ph.D., recently returned from a year's sabbatical in Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by a Fellowship for College Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities. And an essay collection she co-edited with Librada Hern‡ndez was published last November: Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Writing and Culture (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Silverman is an associate professor of Spanish at Pomona College in Claremont, where she also coordinates the Spanish program and teaches courses in Latin American and Latino/a literature and culture.

1992  Katie Gundlach and Wayne Lambright III were married in July in San Francisco. Gundlach works in creative services for Franklin Templeton Investments, and Lambright is a software developer.

1993  Joanne Ayers, a project manager at Barclays Global Investors, and Shaun Ayers, a staff researcher in the environmental science and policy department at UC Davis, had a baby, Allison Laura Ayers, in August. They live in Davis.

1994  Terri Chung is engaged to marry David Smith. They plan a September wedding in the Bay Area. Chung, an optometrist, and Smith, a computer consultant for the credit-card company Visa, share an interest in scuba diving. They live in the Sacramento area.  •  Karyn (Piche) Gonzales and Matt Gonzales '95 had their first child, Abigail Grace, in August. They live in Denver, Colo., where Matt teaches agriculture at a local high school and Karyn is a healthcare consultant for McKesson Corp.  •  Erika Olson, a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, married Mike Wilson in September at Lake Tahoe. They live in Incline Village, Nev.  •  Robert Orth married Jennifer Schmidt '96 last May in San Luis Obispo. They met through Alpha Phi Omega, a service organization on the UC Davis campus. Recently, Schmidt received her master's degree in social work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Orth received a medical degree from Creighton University, and the couple moved to Overland Park, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City. Orth is a first-year pediatrics resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center, while Schmidt is a social worker at a local domestic violence shelter. Schmidt writes that they welcome hearing from college friends; write to jenniferorth@yahoo.com.  •  After receiving a D.D.S. degree from the University of the Pacific and completing a one-year general practice residency at the Veterans Administration on Mare Island, Kenneth Wong has now started a new residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland. His wife, Shelley Wong '93, earned an R.N. degree and is currently finishing her master's degree to be a family nurse practitioner at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland. She works at UC San Francisco in the pediatric intensive care unit. The couple also had their first child, Justin Kenneth Wong, in June. They live in San Francisco.

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