Seven valley UC Cooperative Extension academics retire at the end of June

Just received an e-mail listing of seven (7) UC Cooperative Extension folks retiring in June 2014.

Any familiar names?

1. 
   Gregorio Billikopf, labor management farm advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced counties 33 years
2. Alejandro Castillo, dairy farm advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in Merced County 12 years
3. Carol Frate, field crops farm advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in Tulare County 36 years
4. Michelle Le Strange, vegetable crops and environmental horticulture advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in Tulare County 31 years
5. Yvonne Nicholson, nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in Sacramento County 22 years
6. Larry Schwankl, UC Cooperative Extension irrigation specialist in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis, based at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier 28 years
7. Dorothy Smith, nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor, UC Cooperative Extension in El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties 12 years

Here's the link to the announcement: http://ucanr.edu/?blogpost=14315&blogasset=60503