Professor Emeritus Melvin “Mel” Ramey’s eyes welled up with tears when he found out his colleagues, friends and former students had established a student-support fund in his name and that the lobby of the Student Community Center would be named after him.
Don Van Wie spends most of his time as the manager of the environmental health and safety department for UC Davis Facilities Management, but he is also the proprietor of a small winery known as Wasted Grape.
This February, the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s 2017 Alumni Awards Gala was a night like no other, with Rob Stewart from KVIE’s Rob on the Road as the emcee for the evening.