olli instructor kickoff for winter 2012 classes - UC Davis Extension

Mr. Goldstene holds an M.A. in government from California State University, Sacramento, where he taughtAmerican government and political theory for nearly 15 years. He has served in management positions in stategovernment and currently serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Clean Air Agencies. Heis co-chair of the Western Climate Initiative executive committee.Paul Goldstene has more than 36 years of experience teaching modern political thought. Author of severalbooks, he received the Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award in 1995 from California State University,Sacramento.James Goss, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, is emeritus professor and former chair of the department ofreligious studies, California State University, Northridge.Ralph Hanson has been editor of the OLLI newsletter for two years. Politics has been a continuing interest forhim, going back to his career in journalism. This interest has drawn him to OLLI classes such as Whither Americaand Reading The New Yorker. Ralph has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Prior toretirement he worked as reporter, editor and photographer for five daily newspapers.Peter Hays has taught at UC Davis for 45 years. He has published four books on Hemingway and numerousarticles about both Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and is the News and Notes editor of the Fitzgerald Newsletter. Hismost recent publications appear in Hemingway in Context, Fitzgerald in Context and The Critical Reception of“The Sun Also Rises.”Germaine Hupe has an M.A. from Claremont Graduate School. She is a retired high school teacher of literatureand history. As an Army wife, she traveled extensively and taught in several states and overseas in Germany andIran. Most recently she was a faculty member at Winters High School where she introduced honors courses inBritish literature, world literature, Shakespeare and mythology.Desmond Jolly holds master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Oregon. He has taughteconomics at the University of Oregon, and Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. He also taught atFederal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia), serving as chair of the Department ofEconomics, as well as at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Department ofAgricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis from 1971 to 2006 and taught various applied economicscourses from 1974 through 1995, when he assumed the position as director of the University of CaliforniaStatewide Small Farm Program and director of the University of California Small Farm Center. He was a codeveloperof a new course in the general education curriculum: Biotechnology, Ethics and Public Policy.Charles Judson is emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. His specialty was insect physiology and hisfavorite research animal was the mosquito.Gopal Kapur consults, writes and educates as a noted authority on project management. He has lectured atHarvard University, Commonwealth Club, the National Press Club, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UC Davis and atthe Brookings Institution. Mr. Kapur graduated summa cum laude (Gold Medal) with a diploma in civil engineeringfrom Thapar University, Patiala, India. He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for hiscontributions to education by the president of India. He is a member of the Harvard Policy Group, Rotary Club ofRoseville, and served as a trustee for the Charles Babbage Foundation. Ten years ago he and his wife, Darlene,created Light1Candle, a program that supports the operation of a girls’ orphanage and education scholarships forbright deserving children in Patiala, Punjab, India. His hobby is cooking, which he uses to raise funds for variouscharities. He and his wife are the creators of an innovative green living program, www.familygreensurvival.com.Cynthia Kellogg retired in May 2011 after 35 years of teaching English at Woodland Community College andfour years of teaching high school in Oakland. She is researching the local history of black people in herhometown of Bloomington, Indiana. She is an active member of Davis Friends of Rutillio Grande, El Salvador.Last summer she attended the National Endowment for the Humanities “Landmarks” workshop, “FreedomSummer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike” in Mississippi and Memphis.Eileen Leung, MBA, serves on the board of directors of the Chinese New Year Celebration Association andSacramento Chinese Culture Foundation and has published the foundation’s culture newsletter for the past 10years. A second generation Chinese American, she co-edited the book, 150 Years of Chinese Presence inCalifornia. She has conducted oral history research and coordinated lectures and panel discussions on theChinese American experience. She is a volunteer docent for the Locke Museum.Larry Lobre, M.P.A., served the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance as division manager forplanning and operations. He was also a part-time instructor for 13 years at UC Davis Extension, where he wasawarded an Outstanding Service Award. In 1999 he was appointed director of professional services at the Centerfor Human Services at UC Davis Extension. He retired in 2010. His love for the history and culture of the Central9