Jay Ferro ‘94, owner of Kyle’s Kitchens and Silvergreens, has launched a new food delivery business to keep his restaurants open during the COVID-19 outbreak. Working with local business leaders, he is delivering to businesses that are still open and want to feed their staffs. Silvergreens is a landmark in Isla Vista but had to close as a result of the pandemic. Some of the profits from Kyle’s Kitchens goes to special needs children’s projects in the Santa Barbara area.
Kristin Newton ‘94 has launched a special fundraising campaign to establish a swim scholarship at UCSB in honor of distinguished swimmer Marcie Kjoller, ’90, who died last year while swimming off the Santa Barbara coast. Kjoller was a team captain and Gaucho Hall of Fame swimmer during her four years at UCSB. Newton works in the development office at UCSB. Donations may be made to the UCSB Foundation.
Gary Clark ‘92 has been named the director of Collaboration for Social Impacts at the Santa Barbara Foundation. Previously he worked at the Fund for Santa Barbara, a foundation providing grants for social justice projects in Santa Barbara County. He has been a board member of the national Funding Exchange.
Geoff Green ’96, is the newly elected chair of Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Green is the CEO of the Santa Barbara City College Foundation.
2000’s
Justin Anderson ’01 has been elected treasurer of the Board of Directors of MOXI, the Wolf Museum of Exploration in Santa Barbara. He is the managing partner of Santa Barbara-based AmeriFlex Financial Services.
Das Williams ’05 MES won re-election to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors defeating Laura Capps, the daughter of the late Walter Capps who taught at UCSB for many years and later held a seat in Congress.
Logan Green ’06, co-founder of Lyft, has announced a new program to address the impacts of the Corona virus. He has launched “LyftUp,” a service to provide free rides to the most vulnerable populations during the pandemic. The company will pay for its drivers to give rides to workers in the medical industry, families, and low income seniors. It has also launched an aid fund at LyftUpCovid19Funding@lyft.com.
Mike Wiltshire, MA ’08, was named the Waterfront Director for the city of Santa Barbara. He had worked for the city as its Facilities and and Energy Division manager. Previously he worked in the oil industry and was a contractor on U.S. Navy projects at Pt. Mugu. As Waterfront Director he will manage a staff of 47 and a budget of $16 million. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia and his master’s at UCSB in Business Economics.
Claire Im and Jeff Marsch ‘09, graduates from the Harvard Graduate School of De- sign have joined BNIM Design studios as Associates in the San Diego Office.
2010’s
Jonathan Abboud ’14, ’18 MTM and Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo ‘88 failed to qualify in the primary for the 37th District California State Assembly seat in March.
Monica Moe ’15 will be part of the ensemble for the San Jose Stage Company’s production of Chicago. She is a double major in art history and dance. Last year she participated in Work 002 Summer dance intensive with Kristin Damrow & Co. in San Francisco.
Gabe Vincent ’18 has signed a two-way contract with the Miami Heat. A two-way contract enables Vincent to play basketball with the NBA Heat and their G team in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Vincent played this year for the Sacramento Kings G league team in Stockton. He led the G League in 3 point shots made.
Kavitta Ghai ’19 has signed a contract with UCSB to provide services for her start-up Nectir. The product provides online services and has already been used to help more than 100 classes go online for the spring quarter. Ghai was a graduate of the UCSB Technology Management Program.
Rita Mounir, ’19 is ready to begin installation of her Authenticate products, including smart phone applications and smart door authenticators. His company came out of the UCSB TMP program. Among her clients is Apeel, a produce preservation company founded by UCSB alum James Rogers PhD. ‘12.
In Memoriam
Mike Moropoulos ’55 died February 16, 2020 in Santa Barbara. Moropoulos played on the UCSB football team for three years before joining the Army in the Korean War. He came back to UCSB to play one year of football in 1954. He went on to spend 35 years as a teacher and a coach in Santa Barbara, eventually being named to the Santa Barbara High and Santa Barbara Roundtable Halls of Fame. In 1983 he joined with Sut Puailoa to resurrect football at UCSB in 1983. The sport was short lived, being discontinued in 1992.
Harold William “Bill” Lunt ’56 died February 5, 2020 in Santa Barbara. After receiving his degree in chemistry he worked in the U.S. Army as a biochemist. He received his PhD in zoology from the University of Illinois in 1966. He taught for many years at Chicago State University before returning to Santa Barbara. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and earned one of its highest honors, the Silver Beaver Award. He held a number of leadership positions in the Optimist club.
Louise Mahon Evans ’69 died February 28, 2020 in Santa Barbara. She received a teaching credential and taught for many years at La Cumbre Junior High in Santa Barbara.
Former UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Barbara Uehling Charlton died January 2, 2020 in San Diego at the age of 87.She was the first female Chancellor in the University of California system.
She served as Chancellor from March 1987 to June 1994. Previously she had served nine years as Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Charlton received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Wichita State University and her PhD in the same field from Northwestern University. She served on the faculties at Oglethorpe and Emory universities and as the dean at Roger Williams College in Rhode Island. She went on to assume the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, then was named provost at the University of Oklahoma.
Her appointment at the University of Missouri made her the first woman to head a land grant university in the U.S. Throughout her career she was a passionate advocate promoting educational opportunities for women and minorities.
During her tenure at UCSB campus enrollment grew to 19,000 and the Bren School was established, the first new professional school at UCSB since the founding of the College of Engineering.
Enid Louise Pike ’70 died February 6, 2020 in Santa Barbara. She was a founding partner of the Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM) organization in Santa Barbara. She was active in philanthropy her whole life.
Frank Delaun Kelsey Cox, PhD ’72 died January 18, 2020 in Santa Barbara. He received his doctorate in education and taught psychology at Santa Barbara City College for 37 years. He performed as an actor at the Granada Theater in a number of Neil Simon plays. He wrote several books, including “Human Intimacy” and “Stories of Service: Santa Barbara Veterans.”
Jamie Forrest Raney ’75 died November 12, 2020 in Santa Barbara. She was a partner in the law firm of Fell, Marking, Abkin, Montgomery, Granet and Raney. She received her law degree from UCLA in 1979. She joined the Fell law firm in 1980 and became a partner in 1984. She was one of the first female partners in a Santa Barbara law firm. During her 40 year career she focused on family law, particularly those involving complex tax and business issues. She was president of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association in 1996.
Ruth Miriam Goldstine ’77, died February 24, 2020 in El Granada, CA.
Lisa Owens Davis ’88 died February 26 , 2020 in Alameda, CA. She received her master’s degree from the Monterey Institute for International Studies and did an internship at the International Atomic Energy Agency. She was selected for the Presidential Management Program at the Dept. of Energy managing nuclear safeguard programs. She later worked at the State Department as chief of staff to Ambassador Wulf, the U.S. representative to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. She later worked at the Lawrence Livermore Labs managing intelligence support programs.
Mary Jane ’98 and Adolfo Corral ’98 died February 9, 2020 in Santa Barbara after being struck by a car as they walked on a bike path. Mary Jane was a computer science major, Adolfo was a double major in Chicano Studies and Sociology and received his masters degree from Michigan State. Mary Jane was active in church and educational programs, Adolfo was a counselor and program director at Santa Barbara City College. They met while attending UCSB.
In Remembrance
UCSB Staff, Students, and Community Friends
Emeriti professor John Ridland died in Santa Barbara January 29, 2020. He received his PhD from Claremont Graduate School in 1964. He taught for more than 40 years at UC Santa Barbara in the English Department and the College of Creative Studies. He was one of the founding professors of CCS and focused his research on the work on Robert Frost. He was honored by the Hungarian government for his translations of Hungarian literature.
Emeritus Professor Augustine Gray in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering died October 28, 2019 in Florence, Oregon. He was a member of the UCSB faculty from 1964-1980 and was one of the first faculty members in the Electrical Engineering Dept. He received his BS and MS degrees from MIT and his PhD at CalTech. He did pioneering work in designing banking computers as well as ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. In the 1980s he cofounded Signal Technology Inc.