UNH Magazine Fall 2014

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Inside

Bringing the U. to You UNH Cooperative Extension celebrates a century of service to the Granite State

Taking Control UNH has turned its own lessons learned into a national model for sexual assault education and prevention

Uncommon Valor Hailed by the military and UNH Manchester for his leadership, Medal of Honor recipient Ryan Pitts ’13 says he’s just part of the team

Contents 4 | Letters

5 | View from T-Hall 6 | Campus Currents

39 | Book Reviews

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure

of Human Rubble, by Marilyn Johnson ’78, and

Invisible Streets, by Toby Ball ’99G

Gifts for stellar students, a new stadium, and signature

programs; a new home for UNH Manchester and more.

40 | Alumni News

13 | Crossword Puzzle

14 | Inquiring Minds

Football safety, the politics of climate change,

Ocean Mapping’s 15 seconds of fame.

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42 | Class Notes

Profiles of Richard Whitney ’68, Mary Currie ’76, Mary Jordan ’88 and Josh Chamberlain ’99

61 | In Memoriam 64 | On Ben’s Farm

SINTA-SE EM CASA: Students arriving on campus this fall did indeed feel jambo and willkommen, greeted by 54 bright new banners that run the length of Main Street and offer welcome in a sampling of languages spoken by UNHers. Sinta-se em casa means “make yourself at home” in Portuguese.

16 | From Campus to Coos A century after the Smith-Lever Act mandated a new partnership between land-grant universities and citizens, UNH’s Cooperative Extension continues to support the Granite State with everything from agricultural intel to community development planning.

22 | Back to School As the fall semester shifts into high gear, two UNHeducated professors reflect on the rhythms— and the whims—of the academic life.

26 | Lessons Learned Almost 30 years after an assault rocked the Durham campus, UNH has become a national model for college sexual assault awareness and prevention programs.

32 | The Reluctant Hero A soldier in the United States Army before he was a student at UNH Manchester, Ryan Pitts '13 this summer became just the ninth living recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in the war in Afghanistan.

37 | Keeping the Beat Camaraderie, tradition have kept the Wildcat Marching S prplaying i ng 2013 Uni ve rs ityyears. o f Ne w Hamps h i r e Mag azine • 3 Band for•almost 100

Letters to the Editor Part of the Pride

Just read through the Spring/Summer issue of UNH Magazine and feel a renewed sense of pride in my alma mater. Susan Mercandetti’s journey, efforts to save Great Bay, Joan Stolar Smith’s New Hope work— they all say to me that UNH is doing so many things “right.” I’m part of the pride!

Peter Hollister ’60 Florence, Ky.

Bay Heroes

I received my Spring/Summer issue of UNH Magazine and read the wonderful article on professor Floyd Jackson. As a biology major, I spent many hours in Nesmith Hall and remember him very well. At age 20, I was not aware of his many activities and accomplishments—or now at age 90 perhaps I have just forgotten!

Since we have lived close to Ohio State University for many years, I was interested to know it was here that he received his master’s degree. The article brought back many memories of being in professor Jackson’s classes.

Shirley Newcomer Wagner ’46 Dublin, Ohio I loved the articles about the Great Bay estuary and professor Jackson in the Spring/ Summer issue of UNH Magazine.

In 1968, I began a work-study job with Arthur C. Borror of the UNH zoology department, a noted ecologist and taxonomist of, among other things, tiny one-celled organisms that lived in salt marshes and marine sands. Along with Dr. Borror, I spent a lot of time in the salt marsh off of Adams Point Road, just before the Jackson Marine Lab, where we studied ecological processes taking place at the microscopic level.

One thing we had to do at the outset of our research was to create a physical grid system in the marsh so we could reliably go back to a location for sampling through the year (for our younger readers, this was long before GIS!). One spring morning in 1969,

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Dr. Borror and I were out in the marsh with stakes, ropes and measuring tape, creating the grid, when an elderly gentleman who saw us in our waders, pounding stakes into the marsh, began yelling at us, waving his cane.

“Get out, get out! Goddam developers are going to wreck everything.”

It made perfect sense once we calmed him down. Salt marshes have always been paved over, built on, altered and otherwise destroyed and this old man was going to have none of it on his watch. Today, with Google Earth, I can be assured that that wonderful marsh is still unpaved and unspoiled. And while I can’t see Dr. Borror’s grid in the images from Google Earth, my memories of that time are still very clear: the joyous sense of being immersed in the dream I had of being a biologist, immersed in the smell of the marsh, immersed in the sounds of the bugs and water, and immersed in the sense that there was something wonderful and meaningful for me to do with my life. And that gift, given by Dr. Borror and the salt marsh, indeed all of my professors at UNH, provided a direction to my life that I am forever grateful for.

Richard Kool ’71 Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada What a great article on Great Bay in the 2014 Spring/Summer UNH Magazine. My father (born in 1905) grew up in Newington, a town that borders both Great and Little Bays. His family moved to New Jersey when he was 18, but he maintained friendships with several Newington schoolmates who, while also moving away, purchased camps along Little Bay. I grew up going to N.H. every summer as my father rented one of the camps for his vacations (he purchased his own camp in 1960). I spent many boyhood hours swimming, boating, fishing, and walking the shoreline of Little Bay. To reach a small raft Continued on Page 12

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The View from T-Hall

An Extraordinary Legacy

By President Mark W. Huddleston

B R U C E C R A M E R / S N AV E LY A S S O C I AT E S

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hen Dana Hamel and I met for lunch in Durham on a beautiful day this fall and looked over the profiles of 15 brilliant UNH students, we joked that neither of us would have qualified to be among them when we were in college. I shared that observation when we honored this year’s Hamel Scholarship winners and Hamel Scholars, and it got a good chuckle from the audience.

I wasn’t joking entirely. Among the 10 new scholarship winners are some of New Hampshire’s best and brightest recent high school graduates: “go-getters” who excel in academics, demonstrate leadership and show a real commitment to community service. Likewise, our five new Hamel Scholars are rising juniors who join an elite group of past recipients who have grown and achieved with unparalleled distinction at UNH. What these students do with the opportunities UNH offers is simply astounding.

Take Hamel Scholar Gw ynet h Welch, for example. Gwyneth, a junior from rural Hancock, N.H., is majoring in neuroscience, and she recently earned a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Her project: “Understanding the Role of Histone Modifications in DNA Damage Response.” She is also editor of Inquiry Journal, UNH’s online undergraduate research journal; a violinist who shares her talents at Portsmouth Regional Hospital; and a member of UNH Oxfam.

Or, consider Tim Marquis, who was named a Hamel Scholar two years ago. Tim, who grew up in Nashua, will be the first in his family to finish college when he graduates in May. He aspires to pursue an advanced degree, attend medical school, become an oncologist—and establish a state medical school in New Hampshire. He has also been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier national award for undergraduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors. To relax, Tim performs as the principal bassoonist for the UNH

Symphony Orchestra, and also volunteers for the Crotched Mountain Ski Patrol and in the endoscopy department of Portsmouth Regional Hospital.

Then, there is Dana Hamel.

To those outside of UNH, perhaps the most surprising fact about Dana is that he did not attend UNH. He graduated from Harvard. But he and his family became passionate about the university when his daughter, Karen ’88, attended UNH. Through their experiences, the Hamel family became an integral part of the UNH family—and some of the university’s largest benefactors and most dedicated volunteers. Dana established the Dana A. Hamel Family Scholarships and Hamel Scholars Fund in 2007 with a $5 million endowment. This fall, he contributed $10 million more. It is the third-largest gift in UNH history, and the largest ever for scholarships. Through these and other efforts, his lifetime giving total is close to $25 million.

Dana believes that the best way to make a positive, enduring impression on New Hampshire’s future is through UNH. And while he is a soft-spoken, unassuming man, Dana gives in ways that speak volumes about his genuine compassion for the families who entrust the promise of their talented sons and daughters to UNH. It is nearly impossible to imagine—even when we meet these brilliant young scholars in person—the real impact that his gifts have on students like Gwyneth and Tim. And will have on generations to come.

I am deeply moved and inspired by Dana’s example. And I hope that you are, too.

Imagine the hundreds of Hamel Scholarship winners and Hamel Scholars who will one day be our state’s doctors and nurses, teachers and business leaders, writers, artists, scientists and engineers.

What an extraordinary legacy for Dana to provide to UNH, and to our home state of New Hampshire. ~

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Manchester on the Move

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ith its soaring spaces and iconic clock tower, the historic Pandora building at 88 Commercial Street in Manchester is a testament to the city’s past economic vitality—and a bit of a metaphor for the future of UNH. After standing vacant for some three decades, in early 2015 the millyard landmark will become the new home for UNH’s Manchester campus, deepening the university’s commitment to developing a technology-savvy workforce with a number of new academic programs. “UNH’s campus in Manchester is an amazing asset for the city and for the region,” says president Mark Huddleston. “The expansion signals the university’s commitment to its role in Manchester and to Merrimack Valley area businesses who count on work-ready UNH graduates.”

In July, the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees voted unanimously to support the sale of UNH’s current building at 400 Commercial Street to DEKA in exchange for a long-term lease with the option to buy the Pandora space.

“This building is just the start,” says UNH Manchester interim dean J. Michael Hickey ’73. “It provides a foundation for success.”

The move will consolidate UNH’s urban college in a single building and provide a 44 percent increase in space

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over its current location. The space will allow for new and upgraded labs focusing in areas of engineering and computing technology, mechanical engineering technology, digital media, sign language interpretation, psychology, biology and chemistry. The biological sciences program, which saw a more than 20 percent increase in enrollment this fall, will have five new labs, including a new area for cell biology.

This year UNH Manchester is introducing new programs in analytics, accounting, computer science & entrepreneurship and English teaching. A number of current programs are also being redesigned and expanded to respond to market needs for technology-savvy and work-ready graduates. The college expects to grow its student base to 1,000 over the next four years.

Community and state leaders gathered in September to celebrate the expansion and move of the Manchester campus.

U.S. senator Kelly Ayotte, congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, Manchester mayor Ted Gatsas and DEKA founder and CEO Dean Kamen were among those who spoke to the significance of the move and UNH’s commitment to the Merrimack Valley.

“The education you get at UNH is the future,” says Shea-Porter. “This school will serve our city, state and country very well.”

— Kim Wall

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Historic building is the future for UNH’s city campus

A Genius Among Us Math professor Zhang named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow

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POLICYMAKER: Michael Ettlinger joined the university as founding director of the new Carsey School of Public Policy on June 30. Formerly a senior director with the Pew Charitable Trusts in charge the organization’s fiscal and economic policy portfolio, Ettlinger says the Carsey role gives him the opportunity to marry the policy work that has defined his career with the great educational and research capabilities of UNH. “This is a unique opportunity to build a school attuned to the world of 21st century policymaking, a world transformed by technology and globalization,” Ettlinger says. “The Carsey School will train future leaders in the craft of policymaking and make important

research contributions to the region and nation’s policy landscape.” The new school was established last fall with a $20 million gift from Emmywinning television producer Marcy Peterson Carsey ’66 to expand and build on the work of the existing Carsey Institute. It opened in late summer and launched its first public event in September.

EXPERT: In July, President Barack Obama appointed Dan Habib of the UNH Institute on Disability (IOD) to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID).

Habib, who is the project director for the IOD’s Inclusive Communities Project, is a documentary filmmaker.

He made his mark with the award-

the globe who have now narrowed the gap to several hundred, the proof shot Zhang overnight from obscurity to mathematical celebrity. He’s UNH’s third MacArthur Fellow, following professor emeritus of English Charles Simic, who received the fellowship in 1984, and historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ’80G, who was a professor of American history when she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992.

A quiet man and popular teacher whose reticence and heavy Chinese accent cannot mask his humor, Zhang reflects on his newfound notoriety with mixed emotion.

“Everything’s getting better, although I wish to be very quiet, to be peaceful, and not be bothered by all of this,” he says.

That particular wish won’t come true any time soon, however.

Later this fall, he’ll add to his list of awards when he receives the Rolf Shock Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

—Beth Potier

winning 2007 film “Including Samuel,” which looks at educational and social inclusion of youth with disabilities through his own family’s efforts to include his son Samuel, who has cerebral palsy, in all aspects of everyday life. Habib also won numerous awards for his 2013 film, “Who Cares About Kelsey?”

Established by President Johnson in 1966, PCPID aims to ensure the right of a “decent, dignified place in society” for people with intellectual disabilities and promotes policies and initiatives that support independence and lifelong inclusion for those individuals in their communities.

ADVISOR: In September, senior vice provost for research Jan Nisbet was invited to serve as a member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Advisory

Council.

Established by President John F. Kennedy to study “the complex process of human development from conception to old age,” the NICHD supports a wide range of studies and programs that explore health processes and the impact of disease and disability.

Founding director of UNH’s Institute on Disability, Nisbet will bring her internationally recognized expertise in the field of disability services to the council. She has received numerous public service awards for her work and previously served as the president of the executive board of directors of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.

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e’s already collected a number of illustrious prizes for his work, a 2013 proof related to one of mathematics’ oldest and most captivating problems, but on September 17, mathematics professor Yitang “Tom” Zhang added one more, when he was named one of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2014 MacArthur Fellows. The so-called MacArthur “genius grant” is a five-year, $625,000 stipend, awarded to “exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and the potential for even more significant contributions in the future.”

Zhang’s no-strings-attached award recognizes his breakthrough understanding of the twin prime conjecture, which states that there are an infinite number of prime numbers (numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves) that are only two numbers apart, like 3 and 5 or 17 and 19. First published in the May 2013 Annals of Mathematics, Zhang’s work demonstrated that the number of prime pairs that are less than 70 million units apart is infinite. Subsequently taken up by colleagues across

Buried in Style Custom coffin maker shares Ghanaian tradition with UNH community

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Anang and his team make coffins for high-ranking community members as well as ‘regular folks’—but not all of his work focuses on the sadness of someone’s passing. Of the five or six pieces they work on each week, some are commissioned art pieces for museums or private collections. Last year, about 50 of his coffins ended up out of the country as pieces of art rather than functional objects.

The fantasy coffin tradition is unique to the Ga people of southern Ghana. “To me [coffin making] is a very important profession,” Anang says. “A lot of Ghanaians don’t have a good respect for it because you are working with death. But to me it is a great way of honoring someone who has played a vital role in life.”

UNH was the last stop on a five-month stay in the U.S., during which Anang taught at other colleges, picked up tools for his workshop in Ghana, and exchanged ideas and experiences with professors like Woods.

—Michelle Morrissey ’97

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o one likes to think about their own mortality, especially the details of their funeral. But visiting artist Eric Adjetey Anang showed a group of UNH art and art history students that in his home country of Ghana, West Africa, a funeral is a celebration of life, not necessarily a somber occasion.

Anang is a custom coffin maker in the Ghanaian tradition. Families commission ‘fantasy’ coffins for their loved ones in various forms—an eagle, a lion, a fish or even an airplane are among some of the designs created by Anang and his team of apprentices.

Anang spent the week of September 20 with woodworking and art students, building a coffin in the shape of a lobster—very appropriate to this New England setting. The finished coffin will eventually be donated to the Seacoast African American Cultural Center in Portsmouth.

Leah Woods, an associate professor of art and art history who teaches woodworking and furniture design, met Anang when she was traveling and studying in Ghana last year. The third generation to run the family business, Ghana Coffin, in Teshie, Ghana, Anang learned his trade at the hand of his father and grandfather. The business started in the late 1940s, when Anang’s grandfather was asked to build a cocoa pod coffin for a local chief. Today, Anang and his father work with eight apprentices.

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tep into your closet. See anything you haven’t worn in the past year? There’s someone who needs your extra ties and too-tight dress shoes more than you do. And his or her career may depend on them.

In a small room on the ground floor of Hood House, where once stood dusty bookcases now hang suits and sports coats, skirts and scarves—all donated, and all free to UNH students in need of interview clothes. It’s the Career Closet, and it’s the brainchild of Krystal Hicks, associate director of career support at the UNH Career Center. “Many students just don’t have much disposable income to spend on clothes,” says Hicks. The Career Closet gives them an affordable option for outfitting themselves before the big interview—not to mention the confidence boost that comes from knowing they look their best.

Career Closet is open and accepting donations from alumni. “If it’s interview-appropriate and like new, it’s a go,” Hicks says.

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Helping Home

A gift from J. Morgan ’84 and Tara Rutman honors two kinds of history

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rom his earliest days, history and UNH were an integral part of life for J. Morgan Rutman ’84. His father, long-time faculty member and early American history scholar Darrett B. Rutman, played a central role in establishing UNH’s doctoral program in histor y, and his mother, Anita H. Rutman, was a historical researcher who co-authored several works with her husband.

But Rutman recognized early on that “one historian in the family was definitely going to be enough.” After reading The Money Game by Adam Smith at the age of 17, he instead turned his attention to the lure of the financial world. “From that moment on I knew that I definitely wanted to go to Wall Street,” he says.

When he landed there after graduating with a double major in finance and economics, all was not the same as the book’s portrayal of Wall Street in the 1960s and 1970s. Still, Rutman was hooked. Work with one of the biggest financial institutions in the country was soon followed by a focus on investing and a successful career as a hedge fund manager.

Yet, after more than a decade working in New York and California, Rutman was drawn back to New Hampshire.

“I think that when I was younger I always felt like Durham, and even New Hampshire, was such a small place that it wasn’t part of the real world,” he says. “All I wanted to do was get away.”

But then he realized “what a great place New Hampshire was and how significant UNH had been” in his life.

Rutman and his wife Tara recently honored that connection with a $1 million donation that will support three critical initiatives. $375,000 of the Rutmans’ gift is earmarked for the Shoals Marine Laboratory, a cooperative program of UNH and Cornell University, and will provide funding for 10-week summer research internships, awards and scholarships, and curriculum development. Another $500,000 will go to support the construction of a new athletic complex, a project Rutman calls “important to the state and to the university.”

And $175,000 of the gift provides additional funding for The Rutman Distinguished Lecture Series on the American Presidency, established in honor of Rutman’s parents. “New Hampshire is a unique place with its first-in-the-nation primary,” Rutman says. “With the university’s strong history program and the state’s significant place in America’s politics, this series will bring some of the world’s most noted history scholars to campus, benefitting the community as a whole and raising the profile of UNH.” As Rutman sees it, giving back benefits not just current Wildcats, but alumni and future students, as well. “It’s really a virtuous cycle,” he says. “The more we support the institution, the more recognition it gets for the excellence that is already here, and the better and more prestigious it becomes. We’re definitely on the right track—I know how much pride I feel when I say I went to UNH, and I know I’m not the only one who feels that pride—but I’d like to see us continue to expand on what we’ve done to improve the culture of giving back to the university.”

Certainly Rutman is doing his part. Though based in New York, he spends as much time as possible in New Hampshire and at UNH, and recently bought a family home in Rye. “I love New Hampshire,” he says. “It is definitely home to me.”

— Rachel M. Collins ’81

Goodwin's Guys: After a lifetime spent writing about American presidents, world-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is a little anxious about what complaints her subjects might come to her with in the afterlife. “My only fear is that there will be a panel of all the presidents and every single one is going to be telling me every single thing I got wrong about them,” she joked with a full-capacity Johnson Theatre audience on September 29. On campus to deliver the second-annual Rutman Distinguished Lecture on the American Presidency, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian shared her perspective on what makes a great leader and the lessons she’s learned from the presidents she has studied over her 40-year career, from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to LBJ.

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Football’s Future

Cowell Stadium renovations will benefit more than just Wildcat teams

the ice hockey teams are able to in the Whittemore Center.

“We are coming off a banner year for UNH sports teams, with five programs going to NCAA post-season play and the football team making its historic run all the way to the division semifinals,” Scarano says. “The new complex will enhance the experience for our fans and aid recruiting efforts as the home of UNH’s football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s track and field teams. We’re grateful for the support of the many donors who made it possible for us to reach our goal.”

Renovations are being timed to minimize disruption to the university’s teams while they’re in session. This summer, the existing Field House bleachers—which will ultimately become visiting-team seating—were upgraded and the access road for the new home-side complex went in. The facility is expected to be completed and open for business in time for the fall 2016 football season.

— Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Phase One of the stadium project was simple but essential: installing facility lights around the football field to make it possible to hold evening practices, games and events. Five 120-foot-tall light poles arrived in late July and were installed over the course of August. The football team played its first game under the lights on September 27, rewarding fans with a 52-19 New Hampshire Day drubbing of Dartmouth College.

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increasingly competitive admissions marketplace.

“I’m very pleased that the project is moving forward with the support of so many people throughout the state,” says president Mark Huddleston.

The renovated complex will be a resource for more than UNH. With a new home grandstand on the College Woods side of the field, state-of-theart broadcast capability, concessions and restrooms—amenities the current facilities are lacking—the expanded facility will allow the university to host a broader range of competitions and events such as Special Olympics, concerts and high school championships. Outdoor lighting (see box) will also make it possible to expand the hours for which the facility is useable.

Approval for the $25 million project came after the university successfully raised $5 million in private donations.

As athletic director Marty Scarano sees it, those private donations are an indication of how eager friends, fans and alumni are to see additional Wildcat teams compete in a venue worthy of their athletic accomplishments—as

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rnold Garron ’84 still laughs when he remembers the faux pas he made as a Wildcat football recruit some 35 years ago: “I went to check out Cowell Stadium and said something like, ‘hey, nice practice field,’” the UNH Hall of Famer and interim dean of Paul College recalls.

“When I realized I’d just insulted the game field, I figured that was it for my chances at UNH.” Garron is probably not the first— and surely not the last—student-athlete to be taken aback by the mismatch between the excellence of UNH’s athletic programs and some of the facilities that support them. But that won’t be a problem much longer. In June, the USNH Board of Trustees approved plans for an ambitious r enov at ion of t he F ield Hous e athletic complex that will replace Cowell Stadium and offer increased and improved seating for visitors, including a dedicated student seating area. Identified as a priority in the campus master plan, the new facility will enhance recruitment, student satisfaction and overall visibility in an

Speedy Sophomore Elinor Purrier ’17 receives national honor

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n October 13, cross country athlete Elinor Purrier ’17 finished a week of firsts by becoming the first Wildcat athlete to be named a National Athlete of the Week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Two days earlier, Purrier had broken the tape in the New England Championships women’s 5 kilometer race, pacing the team to overall top honors at the meet. Purrier’s time of 17:27 bested a field of 261 other runners from 39 schools competing on an unseasonably cold and rainy afternoon. Purrier is no stranger to the front of the pack, or to national honors.

In July, the sophomore nutrition major major from Montgomery, Vt. placed ninth in the women’s 3000 meter steeplechase at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships in Eugene, Ore., the first UNH runner to compete in the event.

— Ed.

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Using Her Head Rugby player Jamie Burke ’14G is a study in discipline, on field and off

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amie Burke ’14G has spent the last seven years at UNH working toward her Ph.D. in education. She’s hit a few bumps along the way, like when her research didn’t cooperate, and when she had a setback in her data collection. But Burke is nothing if not determined.

Sounds like one of those trite things people always say about someone faced with an arduous task, right? Well, consider this: Three times now Burke’s studies have been interrupted for months while she trained to compete with the U.S. women’s rugby team. If you’ve ever seen a match, you know the kind of

grit, strength and resilience the game requires. It’s a tough sport.

Burke is a prop, one of the players at the front of the pack that locks heads while trying to get the ball.

In August, Burke was in Paris with the team, playing in her third World Cup tournament. Her first was in Edmonton, Alberta, in 2006, just when she was due to start at UNH. Next came London, 2010, where she was one of the team captains.

The 33-year-old Burke first started playing rugby in 1998 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., earning All-American honors in 2000 through 2003. In 2003, she won the prestigious Woodley Award, given to the top collegiate player in the country. She joined the USA national team in 2004, and in 2010 won the Thomas V. Moser, M.D. Memorial Scholarship, bestowed on outstanding rugby players who are pursuing educational goals.

The August tournament marked yet another career highlight: Burke earned her 50th cap—given to mark international competition—becoming the first female rugby player in the United States to do so. She was already the most capped woman in the history of U.S. rugby, having passed the previous record holder in summer 2013.

In December, she will reach another milestone when she receives her doctorate. Her focus then will be off nearly half a lifetime spent playing rugby and on to furthering her career.

“At this point in my life, I have played rugby for as long as I haven't—17 years. So I could never just cut it out, but my body has taken a beating and I am ready to hang up the cleats, so to speak,” Burke says.

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Letters to the Editor (Continued from Page 4) anchored a couple of hundred feet out from the shore we had to walk through thick areas of eelgrass. The property is now owned by another family member, but I still vacation in N.H. every year and visit the old familiar place on Little Bay. Walking the shoreline now, the eelgrass that was once so abundant is gone. I greatly applaud UNH’s involvement to clean up the bay and to bring the eelgrass back with all its attendant benefits to other bay life.

Ron Davis ’57 Silver Spring, Md.

Bluebloods

I felt a little guilty after reading Katharine Webster’s article on horseshoe crabs in the Spring/Summer UNH Magazine.

While at UNH (1978-80), I bled a large number of local horseshoe crabs

for my master’s thesis in microbiology.

At the time, there was no suggestion these blood draws had an impact on morbidity or mortality. Thirty-five years later, new research at UNH and PSU suggests otherwise. Fortunately, over that same time period, DNA technologies have been developed to produce recombinant enzymes (Factor C) and commercial test kits to replace the crab blood used in sterility testing.

With declining crab populations and hi-tech alternatives, there is now less reason to harvest—and harm—these odd, mechanical-looking creatures from the Triassic Period. Left to themselves again, they may continue their unobtrusive lives for another half a billion years.

Edward McSweegan ’80G Crofton, Md.

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Future Perfect

I was delighted to read of the outdoor pool renovations in the Spring/Summer UNH Magazine. The day the pool opened, in 1937, I was the first person to swim in it. I took lessons then, too.

In the summer of 1953, I ran the pool with Jere Lundholm ’53, Susie Craig ’57, and Dick Sweet, who was the son of track coach Paul Sweet. After moving to California, I headed up the UNH Northern California Alumni Chapter periodically for 56 years.

Tom Kirkbride ’53 Menlo Park, Calif.

Ed. note: Tom Kirkbride ’53 passed away in late October, just before the Fall magazine went to print. Our condolences to the Kirkbride family.

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Among other outlets, Quigley’s puzzles also run in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post—and now UNH Magazine! You’ll be able to find the puzzle solution online; this issue’s answers are at unhmagazine. unh.edu/f14/puzzle.

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DOWN 1 Stood in line 2 Remove, as cargo 3 Atomic bomb trials, briefly 4 Novelist Hermann 5 Expression of disgust 6 Nathan and Matthew’s costar in "The Producers" 7 Spry 8 Some ’80s Chryslers 9 Mideast peace talks site 10 Vacuity 11 Tea dispenser 12 White Stripes drummer White 14 Grand Central, e.g.:abbr.

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Inquiring Minds

Highlights from UNH research

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Tackling some of football's biggest safety questions hen it comes to head and helmet safety, one of the NFL’s most valuable players isn’t a quarterback, a receiver, or even a coach. In fact, Erik Swartz isn’t a football player at all—the former rugby forward is a professor of kinesiology at UNH. Swartz, who teaches in the athletic training option and does research on football helmets and other equipment, serves on the NFL’s Head, Neck, and Spine Safety Equipment and Rules Subcommittee. So when the league wanted to evaluate the impact of nonstandard facemasks on player safety, they turned to Swartz for the data. His findings led to the league’s much-reported recent banning of overbuilt facemasks for the 2014-15 football season.

With more bars providing greater coverage from the nose down, the masks were popularized by players like Justin Tuck of the Oakland Raiders for their perceived enhanced protection. “There was the thought that these masks would decrease the chance that you’d be able to stick a finger through and poke the player, or to grab the mask and twist it and hurt the neck,” says Swartz.

But after testing the helmets with overbuilt facemasks in his New Hampshire Hall laboratory and in a national impact testing facility, Swartz found that instead of reducing risk of injury, the facemasks potentially increased the risk. Not only could the added weight of the facemask compromise the structural integrity of the helmet, it shifts the head’s center of gravity forward, possibly resulting in fatigue to neck muscles and riskier tackling posture. What’s more, Swartz found that an opposing player’s finger

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Challenge, will extend this work to high school football players starting in 2015.

“We anticipate that when the technique is initiated in high school players who are newer to the sport, it can make participation in football safer throughout a career without changing the nature of the game,” he says.

— Beth Potier

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Climate change divides along political lines un control. Abortion. The death penalty. You wouldn’t be alone in assuming that these are the hot-button issues that create the widest philosophical and political divide between Republicans and Democrats. But survey data released in May from UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy yielded some surprising results: Democrats and Republicans are actually farther apart on their beliefs about climate change than on any of these other familiar political third rails.

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still could get stuck in the smaller spaces of the facemask—and result in serious injury to the opponent’s finger and the player’s neck.

While Swartz’s research means NFL players are sporting standard facemasks this fall, it also has some UNH football players shedding their helmets altogether, albeit temporarily. With the Wildcats as his subjects, Swartz is testing the idea that players could be trained to tackle in a way that reduces head and neck injuries with a series of drills done in practice without protective equipment.

During practices this fall, Wildcat gridders are doing drills according to Helmet-less Tackling Training, or HuTTTM, a system Swartz developed.

Players’ helmets and shoulder pads have been wired to determine whether the HuTTTM intervention lessens the impact they take when fully protected.

The two-year study has been funded by the National Athletic Training Association; funding from the NFL, along with UnderArmour and GE through the national Head Health

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RESEARCH PROFESSOR, paleoceanographer ...Hollywood collaborator? James Gardner of the UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and the Joint Hydrographic Center added an unusual credential to his CV this summer when he signed over rights to Warner Bros. Entertainment for one of his images of the Mariana Trench.

The image, taken during an August-October 2010 underwater survey of the deepest gash in the Earth’s surface, was used in a montage sequence in the summer movie “Godzilla,” and while it’s not the first time images from that survey were licensed to other organizations, “Godzilla” was the survey’s—and Gardner’s—first outright star turn. “I was very surprised, and then pleased, that one of our images was to appear in the new movie,” says Gardner. “The advanced technology we used during the Mariana Trench survey allowed us to map the seafloor at a much higher resolution than previous efforts.” The 2010 effort yielded not only highly accurate maps of the western Pacific seafloor but also the most precise estimate to date of the depth of the Challenger Deep, the deepest spot on Earth, measuring around 10,984 meters (36,028 feet).

“Climate change has become one of the most divisive questions we ask on the polls. That’s a change,” says report author Lawrence Hamilton, who is a professor of sociology and senior fellow at the Carsey School. A whopping 53 percentage points separate Democrats and Republicans on questions about whether and why climate change is happening.

Parse the data further, subdividing those who identify themselves with the Tea Party out of the general pool of Republicans, and the gap widens to 60 percent.

Hamilton tapped results of the UNH Survey Center’s 2014 Granite State Poll for his policy brief, called “Do You Trust Scientists About the Environment?”

We do, said two-thirds of the 568 Granite Staters randomly selected for the poll.

Yet Tea Party Republicans stood out This polarization stands in contrast to again with their responses: While 83 the bipartisan support of environmental percent of Democrats and 60 percent of issues in decades past, when Democrats Republicans reported trusting scientists and Republican reached across the aisle on the environment, just 28 percent of Tea to pass landmark legislation like the Partiers did. As a Mother Jones magazine Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered headline about the survey summarized, Species acts.

“Tea Party Members Really, Really Don’t While not a perfect match, New Trust Scientists.”

Hampshire is a reasonable proxy for the “I’ve suspected for a while that this nation in these results, says Hamilton. If was happening, that climate change had anything, he says, the evangelical nature become one of the main wedge issues of Tea Party members in the rest of the of our time” says Hamilton. “There country might exacerbate the political has been mobilized a lot of opposition divide that has policy implications for to environmental protections over the the nation. past decades … people tend to see “It’s really in gridlock right now,” environmental topics through the light of Hamilton says. “You can’t move anywhere their political prejudices.” With climate with this much polarization between change as the driver, Hamilton surmises, Republicans and Democrats.” the so-called science gap on a range of

— B.P. issues is widening.

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BRINGING THE U. TO YOU UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE GRANITE STATE One hundred years ago, Babe Ruth took the mound for the Boston Red Sox, an American steamship became the first vessel to pass through the Panama Canal, and a gentleman named M. Gale Eastman began visiting the farms of Sullivan County as New Hampshire’s first agricultural agent for the newly established Cooperative Extension system, setting the stage for a century-long partnership between the University of New Hampshire and New Hampshire residents.

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R In May of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson had signed the Smith-Lever Act, which called on states’ land-grant universities to bring practical education to the people where they worked and lived. That year, where most people worked and lived was on farms, and by 1917, UNH Cooperative Extension had agricultural agents on the ground in each of the state’s 10 counties—the first state in the nation to accomplish this.

During farm visits, Eastman and his colleagues would find out what challenges farmers were facing and bring them new information and methods—some of which were generated at the state’s new Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES)—to help improve their operations.

So, when NHAES researchers developed a promising new cultivation method, for example, Extension agents held demonstrations and training workshops for farmers in their counties. Or when apple scab threatened to wipe out the year’s harvest, Extension stepped in to help.

It’s a paradigm that persists today. “We’re in a different era, but agriculture is still very important to New Hampshire,” says UNH Cooperative Extension professor emeritus John Porter, whose great uncle, John Daniel Porter, was one of the Farm Bureau officials who appointed M. Gale Eastman a century ago. As the organization celebrates its centennial, Porter notes that the need for new information and constant improvement is as urgent now as it was a hundred years ago—if not more so.

At no time in recent years has that been more apparent to New Hampshire growers, perhaps, than in 2012 and 2013, when a seemingly insatiable insect bore down on their fruits and Extension answered their calls for help.

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Keith Marshall’s voice is still laced with dread as he describes the catastrophic loss facing Wilson Farms of Litchfield in the summer of 2012. “We got wiped out,” he says. “Eighty thousand dollars in raspberries and blackberries. We sprayed them, but never harvested them. We just let them drop to the ground.”

Marshall, Wilson Farms’ manager, was one of many growers who destroyed or opted not to harvest their soft berry crops that summer.

Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and other soft-skinned fruits had been assaulted by spotted wing drosophila, or SWD, an invasive fruit fly species native to China. Unlike most fruit flies, which target rotting fruit, the tiny SWD uses its serrated appendages to slice open still-ripening berries and lay its eggs inside. The result is a field of fruit that rots before harvest—or worse, makes it home with consumers unaware that their berries harbor the larvae of this formidable pest.

First discovered in the western United States in 2008, SWD had swept across the country with staggering speed. 2011’s Hurricane Irene accelerated the insect’s arrival in New Hampshire and created shady, damp spaces in downed trees and vines that were SWD’s preferred environment for procreation, setting the stage for the 2012 crisis.

“This was a record breaker in my career,” says UNH Cooperative Extension entomologist Alan Eaton, who estimated that New Hampshire growers lost $2 million in the berry crop that summer.

To mount a counterattack against SWD, Eaton convened “a council of war,” bringing together Extension fruit and vegetable specialist George Hamilton, Extension agriculture field specialists and a small

army of farmers to capture SWD, study it and estimate the extent of the infestation to develop individualized treatments for affected farms. Too little pesticide and an insect capable of producing 10 generations in a single summer—with each female laying up to 300 eggs per generation—would continue its infestation unchecked.

Too much pesticide and the health of future crops would be at stake.

The council’s SWD trap was simple and familiar to anyone who’s ever attended a summer picnic: a 16-ounce red Solo drink cup, baited with a shallow layer of vinegar, ethanol and grape juice. Extension field specialists, researchers and growers hung the cups among infested bushes, then counted the number of SWD in the sticky liquid in the trap to determine the proper treatment program. Two or three flies found in a trap every three days or so at the height of the season meant a modest infestation and a less aggressive application of pesticide. Ten or more flies signaled a bigger problem and the need for more spraying.

Once they had a handle on the extent of the problem, Extension specialists did what they do best: they took the information out to the communities where it was needed. They created a website, held gatherings in counties, hosted twilight meetings (a mainstay of Cooperative Extension outreach), and published a newsletter series.

They visited dozens of farms regularly for reports from growers on new developments. “The great idea that has kept Cooperative Extension relevant for 100 years is taking our know-how out to the people who can’t afford the time to come to Durham,” says Ken La Valley, Extension’s interim dean and director. “Bringing information to the people is still how it works today.”

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Spotted wing drosophila is not the only bug keeping Extension specialists hopping.

Alan Eaton, George Hamilton and their two insect scouts provide season-long, on-farm monitoring across the state for a number of unwanted visitors such as European corn borer, corn earworm, and fall armyworm.

“We trap the moths with a pheromone lure that attracts the males. If we find a certain number, we know that the problem has crossed an economic threshold and we need to control it by spraying,” says Extension fruit and vegetable specialist Hamilton. The team also watches for squash vine borers on squash and pumpkin plants. If scouts find more than five borers on a plant, that’s a trigger to start treatment; for vine running plants like pumpkins, the threshold is 12.

These strategies save money in crop value ($200,000 last year, Hamilton estimates) and in not applying pesticides when they’re not needed. “Last year farmers saved almost $40,000 just on spray materials,” Hamilton says.

Cooperative Extension was born in the years following the Civil War, when America was struggling to heal and rebuild. The Morrill Act of 1862, a major investment in education and research, had made it possible for many states to establish land-grant universities with a mission to help farms rebuild as fathers and sons came home from war. The Act recognized farming as not only a science but a collection of sciences—animal husbandry, agronomy, hydrology, biology, botany, meteorology and climatology, to name a few—and a pursuit that required education and expertise to develop and improve.

But as families turned their attention to the soil, they had little time to travel to UNH for courses or workshops on agriculture, relying instead on knowledge and wisdom passed down through generations and shared among neighbors. “They had no time to risk experimenting with what had reasonably worked for them in the past,” says La Valley. “But the new information on farming techniques coming out of the land-grant universities wasn’t making its way to the people who needed it. Agricultural improvement came slowly, or not at all, and a lack of strategies for fighting pests and disease could ruin a farm and break a family.”

The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 addressed that problem by establishing a cadre of field agents, employees of the university, tasked with bringing practical information and new knowledge on agriculture to communities throughout the state, making the bounty of land-grant universities available to all of its

residents. This new relationship—field agent and farmer working in partnership to increase productivity and realize more successful farms, families, and communities—became an American tradition. Today, Extension and the farming community work together to try new kinds of crops, experiment with alternative planting and harvesting patterns, test out new equipment and “grow” the next generation of farmers and citizens through the 4-H program. And they unite to tackle tough problems like SWD. In 2013, armed with Extension intel on how to battle SWD, growers went to work— posting Solo cup traps, trimming or destroying SWD-favorite plants like pokeweed and glossy buckthorn, pruning bushes to eliminate shady spots and expose SWD to the pesticides, freezing and burying damaged fruit and covering crops with SWD-proof mesh netting.

The results were stunning. In 2012, growers lost 25 percent of their soft berry crops. In 2013, that number dropped to five percent. A statewide loss of almost $2 million was reduced to about $200,000. Keith Marshall says Wilson Farm’s losses went from $80,000 to $1,500. “And that’s all because of Extension,” he says. “They educated us…nobody knew what to do. Everybody was freaked out, but Alan and George calmed us down, held meetings to give us guidance. Without their help, we’d still be having a lot of issues.”

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BE Y OND A GR IC ULT UR E Extension’s roots are firmly bound in agriculture, but its role has pushed past the pastures and paddocks over the last century to include stewardship of many of New Hampshire’s ecologies and economies. Today’s specialists are in forests, on lakes, in classrooms and in cities and towns, putting know-how into the hands of Granite State entrepreneurs, civic leaders, landowners and families to make them more successful and to keep the state’s natural resources pristine and productive. The topics have changed, and the delivery mechanisms have expanded—Extension now has many online offerings—but the mission has endured.

Here’s a snapshot of Extension’s evolution and key milestones over the last 100 years.

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1925 The New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands sought Extension’s help in teaching the public about forest health and stewardship. The partnership, which is unique in the nation, was renewed for the seventh time earlier this year.

1914 The new Cooperative Extension system gained oversight of 4-H clubs.

There are hundreds of 4-H clubs run by more than 800 volunteers in New Hampshire today.

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1929 During the Great Depression, Extension home demonstration agents taught about nutrition, food preservation and stretching the food budget.

1930s The Rural Electrification Authority called on Cooperative Extension to help rural farm families understand how powering up could improve their operations.

During farm visits, UNH Extension specialists held up electric feed grinders, brooders and milk coolers as potentially beneficial items.

The New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) is a hotbed of study for scientists from UNH Cooperative Extension and the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA). On a given day this summer, these and many other projects were underway: Gr o w ing the g r o w ing season. Ex tension sustainable horticulture specialist Becky Sideman suggests that New Hampshir e’s wor s t agr icul tur e enemy is New Hampshire itself. “We have a very short growing season,” she says. “Our soils are variable, our climate is variable, going from zone 6B to 2A in the White Mountains with radically different production environments.” To prolong that season, Extension builds low- tech devices like high tunnels and low tunnels—small, tubular greenhouse-like environments—which can add more than a month to either end of the growing season for certain crops. “Our high tunnels at the Woodman Farm allow us to grow really hardy vegetables like spinach, kale and some overwintering crops like onions or carrots that we harvest very, very early in the spring,” Sideman says. She is also experimenting with potential crops like sprouting broccoli, which is planted in summer and harvested in February and March.

1950s and 60s Extension specialists helped growers harness newly mechanized production methods and technologies.

New life for greenhouses. Extension greenhouse and floriculture specialist Brian Krug is working to breathe new life into the greenhouse industry. Many greenhouses have closed as the costs to maintain them have overcome profitability. “One of the biggest expenses for greenhouses is heat,” Krug explains, noting that ornamental crops need a temperature somewhere between 65 and 70 degrees, 24 hours a day. Krug and his team are testing a new way to supply some of that heat. In the past, greenhouses have simply vented the extra heat that builds up inside while the sun is shining.

“That heat is just lost,” says Krug. At the NHAES Woodman Farm greenhouse, the team installed heat pumps that capture and store solar heat in a hot water tank. At night, when the sun goes down and the greenhouse calls for warmth, the heat pumps turn on before the furnace kicks in.

Trusting in triticale.

Eight New Hampshire farmer s have joined with Iago Hale of COLSA and Ex tension’s Carl Majewski, Steve Turaj and Daimon Meeh to explore the benefits of planting a winter cover crop called triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.

Typically, f ields that yield corn lie vacant through winter. Triticale, planted in the fall and harvested in the spring, offers farmers a second forage crop for their herds and reduces topsoil runoff from snow and rain. The challenge for farmers: to make this work, they have to plant a corn that matures earlier in the season so they can plant the triticale on time.

1979 New Hampshire citizens began monitoring the quality of New Hampshire lakes and streams as volunteers for Extension’s new Lakes Lay Monitoring Program, which continues today and has served as a model for similar programs worldwide.

1991 Extension took over the Civic Profiles program started by Governor Judd Gregg in 1989. Today, Community Profiles, as they are now called, are a cornerstone of Extension’s work in community and economic development.

>> 1940s During WWII, Extension helped farms boost crop yields in order to meet the state’s food needs at a time when many farm laborers were off at war, and they helped non-farmers grow their own Victory Gardens.

1970s When the energy crisis hit, high fuel prices prompted many homeowners to begin heating with wood. Extension hosted workshops to teach them how to cut and prepare their own firewood.

1981 Extension specialists helped landowners deal with the gypsy moth caterpillar infestation.

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ONE NATION, FOUR STATESMEN, MILLIONS OF ACRES Over five decades, four men laid the foundation for the teaching-research-outreach triad that defines land-grant universities today. Here are the key milestones.

TEACHING Vermonter Justin Smith Morrill spent 44 years in the U.S. Congress bet ween 185 4 and 18 9 8. E ar ly in his congressional career, he sponsored legislation to create in every state a college dedicated to the studies of agriculture and engineering. He said the schools should be “accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil...and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends.” The Morrill Act of 1862, signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, gave eligible states—there were 34 at the time—federal land with which to establish these institutions. Today, there are 235 land grant institutions nationwide.

RESEARCH William Henry Hatch was a lawyer and farmer who served as chair of the Committee on Agriculture for an entire decade of his 16year stint in Congress as a democratic Representative to Missouri. A champion of agriculture at a time when farming was

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becoming incr easingly indus tr ialized, Hatch sponsored legislation to establish “experiment stations” at the new land-grant colleges where agricultural research could take place. President Grover Cleveland signed The Hatch A c t o f 18 87 o n March 2 of that year. Today, the New Hampshire Agricultural E xperiment Station has sever al ac tive research and field sites on campus and throughout the state.

OUTREACH In 1914, the year the first stone for the Lincoln Memorial w a s p l a c e d i n to the ground in the nation’s capital, two members of Congress s aw their e f f or t s to improve agriculture on a broad scale realized when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Lever

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2008 Extension staff worked closely with landowners after a tornado swept a 50-mile path from Northwood to Effingham, providing one-on-one consultations about what to do in the aftermath.

1998 UNH Extension became one of the first Extension systems in the nation to offer training in geospatial technologies.

Act of 1914 on May 8. Wilson described the law, which created the Cooperative Ex tension system, as “one of the most significant and far-reaching measures for the education of adults ever adopted by any government.”

Michael Hoke Smith was a United States S enator fr om Georgia who had ser ved a s Gr o v er C l e v e l an d ’s Secretary of the Interior and governor of Georgia before being elected to fill A lex ander C lay ’s vacant Senate seat in 1911. The son of a farmer, Asbury Francis Lever had a readymade model of what Cooperative Ex tension could be: Extension-like work had been going on in his native South Carolina, where tomato demonstration clubs were prevalent and Clemson University professors crossed the state by rail to teach about agriculture and food preservation. Lever taught school for a couple of years before heading to Washington, D.C., and he was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture when the Smith-Lever Act passed.

2013 Extension’s 4-H program turned an even greater focus on STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) education in order to help meet changing workforce needs.

On the discovery of the invasive emerald ash borer in the state, Extension natural resources specialists assisted partners at the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands with survey work and educational outreach about the destructive beetle.

2012 Extension food safety specialists trained more than 1,100 New Hampshire foodservice employees in safe food handling and preparation.

Extension and New Hampshire Sea Grant helped Portsmouth-area fishermen begin experimenting with mariculture—the farming of the sea—raising steelhead trout, mussels 20 • Uni ve rs it y o f Ne w Ha m p s h i r e Ma g a z i n e and • Fa l l 2014 kelp at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.

2014 Extension launched its Business Retention and Expansion program to help cities and towns foster a friendly business climate and improve the competitiveness of local businesses and held its first-ever Economic Development Academy.

SMALL STATE. SMALL FARMS. SMALL POTATOES? Just how important is agriculture in New Hampshire?

Agriculture makes up a wee percentage of New Hampshire’s economy—a mere drop in the bucket compared to the big farm states of the Corn Belt. But the number of farms has increased steadily over the last 15 years, and the importance of a state’s farming activity cannot be NH Commissioner measured merely in dollars and of Agriculture cents. So, just how important Lorraine Merrill ’73 is agricultural in New Hampshire?

Important, says New Hampshire Commissioner of Agriculture Lorraine Merrill ’73. “Farmers may be a tiny percentage of the state’s population, but 100 percent of residents and visitors to the Granite State are eaters—with a vested interest in a safe, healthy, and delicious local food supply,” Merrill says, adding that farming “is at the heart of New

Hampshire’s cultural traditions, environmental quality and working landscape—all important aspects of our quality of life and tourist economy.”

A strong agricultural sector is important for food security, too, says Joanne Burke, the Thomas W. Haas professor of sustainable food systems at UNH. Today, less than 10 percent of New Hampshire’s food is grown in the state. Burke says with a changing climate, more drought in the nation’s bread baskets and more competition for imports comes less surety that New Hampshire will have an adequate food supply in times of crisis, or with the competition for food that comes with a growing population.

“It really makes sense for more regions to produce more food instead of just one or two areas,” Burke says. She and her collaborators on the report “A New England Food Vision” propose that, with thoughtful, comprehensive planning, at least 50 percent of New England’s food could be produced within the region by 2060.

BY THE NUMBERS A look at NH’s farming landscape New Hampshire ranks #2 in the country in the percentage of farms reporting direct market sales.

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New Hampshire ranks #1 in the country in direct sales of agricultural products to consumers.

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• HILLSBOROUGH (27th, $5 million)

• ROCKINGHAM (66th, $3.3 million)

• MERRIMACK (83rd, $2.8 million)

Cheshire County ranked 104th, with $2.5 million in direct-to-consumer sales USDA statistics

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WHAT TEACHING TEACHES In Boston and Istanbul, two UNH-educated professors find each school year a fresh chance to learn something new

The Perennial Chance to Get It Right

By Phyllis Wentworth ’02G

Shuffling the roster and mentally rehearsing my opening lines, I notice that the glass apple on my bookshelf is catching the morning light. The apple was an end-of-semester gift. So were the hand-thrown ceramic mug and the purple earrings, flat enough to fit into a thank-you card. All these things I’ve more prominently arranged around me, or worn recently, as reminders that I know what I’m doing.

As a child, our son loved to rearrange his room. We grew used to the sound of furniture being dragged about overhead, and to the frequently redesigned walls that highlighted new interests and downplayed old ones. Now, during his first few weeks of college, I wonder how many times he’s already reorganized his small space—seeking just the right places for his own reminders of home, independence and past successes.

In my 12th year as a college professor, the anticipation of starting a new academic year has not grown old. Previewing new readings and videos, writing the syllabus, organizing my folders—it’s all still rejuvenating to me. There’s something so hopeful about the semester cycle of beginnings and endings—the perennial chance to get it right, to try again.

This year the f resh star t is even more pronounced: In the spr ing I lef t a large comprehensive community college for a private fouryear technological institute. At my last school, the thrill of each new academic year struck a balance—enough mystery to make it exciting (what will the dynamic of this particular group be?), but enough familiarity to let me stand in front of the room and use my relatively soft voice to assuredly lead the way.

Now, much as my oldest child is bound to forget the right book, lose his shirts in the laundry or lock himself out of his dorm room, I continue to get lost on campus, hesitate to speak in meetings and question whether my attendance policy fits in. I switched jobs in academia once before, but I’d conveniently forgotten about the temporary loss of professional confidence.

At first, things went smoothly enough to lull me into thinking I’d made a painless transition. Then, this summer, I got my comeuppance. I’d been accustomed to teaching groups composed mostly of women who didn’t know one another before they landed together in my psychology class, which most were taking

In my 12th year as a college professor, the anticipation of starting a new academic year has not grown old.

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purely out of interest. Now suddenly I was teaching two sections of industrial and organizational psychology to groups of students, 90 percent of them men, who were required to be there and had been taking courses together for three years.

W hen I tried my previously foolproof set of discussion questions, they fizzled and died like malfunctioning sparklers. When I wanted to hear more about the thoughtful points the students had submitted in writing, most became engrossed in the tops of their desks— with the exception of a few apologetic faces that signaled, “We don’t talk about that stuff in front of each other.”

And when I asked for volunteers to participate in demonstrations, for the first time in my teaching career, few hands went up.

I consider it my job to establish a trusting classroom climate where open discussion of different points of view flows freely. But these students already had their own well-established culture, including a set of classroom rules that I clearly was breaking.

I had not felt that vulnerable in the classroom for years. It took me back to my days as a grad student at UNH,

where I had a kind and able teaching mentor in professor Ken Fuld. When I described to him how distracted I felt by a group of students (sorority sisters, they'd told me) whose whispers and body language seemed to poke fun at my new-teacher mannerisms, he coached me patiently. No matter how things look from where we stand, he said, most student behavior has nothing at all to do with the teacher.

There is so much more going on than what we may be aware of in any moment.

It took a few years for that lesson to sink in, but it eventually did, along with the realization that as hard as I strived to be the best professor I could be, I would never be the best match for every student in every class—an insight that is much easier said, or written, than lived.

Yet those lessons seemed out of reach this summer as I wondered how I could have lost my touch.

Opening up to a couple of my warm and welcoming colleagues, I heard echoes of Ken Fuld’s observations.

As they talked about their experiences teaching at a technical institute where many students follow a prescribed set of courses from start to finish, all

together, it dawned on me that there was indeed “so much more going on” than I’d been aware of. Sure, my cluelessness was a contributing factor —but only one.

Sometime after I figured this out and began yearning for the chance to try again, from the top, I showed my student s Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford.

I was more moved by it than they appeared to be—especially the conclusion, when he talked about the importance of staying “hungry and foolish.” Leaving the known for the unknown is always a leap of faith. I am glad I made this one. It has been humbling and uncomfortable, and at times a bit too much like facing those sorority sisters all over again.

As much as I look forward to regaining my hard-won teaching balance, I will try to keep fresh the emotional memory of what it’s like to be new, somewhat unmoored and in need of perspective. Feeling a little hungry and foolish might keep me in touch with what first-year students, including my son, are experiencing this fall.

AFTER 10 YEARS AT TWO COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN MASSACHUSETTS, PHYLLIS WENTWORTH BECAME AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES THIS YEAR AT WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN BOSTON. Her name and the school’s are entirely unrelated. A shorter version of this piece was previously posted to the Academe blog.

America, the Mythical

By Louis Mazzari ’04G

One student’s note went right to the point: “I am taking this course because I am an enemy of the United States.”

A second was effusive: “Growing up in Bulgaria, what sent my parents out into the streets in protest against the Communist government, what made our struggles worthwhile, was the dream that if we struggled hard enough, some day we could become like America.”

“I want to take this course,” explained a third, a young Turkish man on the first day of American history last year, “because I’m a fan of Tupak Shakur, and I play for the Sultans” Americanfootball team. His views on U.S. foreign and economic policy counted less than his feel for the crunch of a downfield tackle and a heavy bass line.

In Istanbul, you hear the word “Amerika” in shops and cafes, on buses and on television; it’s a mythological presence. In classrooms you see why.

America is a Rorschach test for Turkish students and other citizens interested in everything from gender relations to international diplomacy. It’s a measuring stick, a cudgel and an excuse. It’s a nest of conspiracies.

It’s a reward for diligence.

For the last decade I’ve taught at two very different universities in Istanbul. Both have reminded me every day to forego any assumptions I’d have at home about how a class will run. The U.S. engages students’ imaginations, admiration or ire, producing digressions that make my work interesting.

An hour on the settlement of colonial America may turn into a primer on the Protestant Reformation and the metaphysics of Catholicism. Do all Christians obey the Pope? students will ask. Are there cultural differences between Catholics and Protestants? In another class, no one may have heard of Thomas Jefferson, but many have read John Locke. What’s the connection between the European Enlightenment they have studied and the American system of government they haven’t?

I first landed in Istanbul to teach American histor y at an Islamist university, where I found perspectives that surprised me. In a crowded hallway after class one day, a quiet young woman wearing an Islamic headscarf turned to me and said, “I love the United States because you can burn your flag.”

To this thoughtful Muslim, the freedom to burn the flag meant not only unfettered expression, but the immense security of the rule of law. I’d never thought about it that way. She was speaking up for free speech in a place where Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk had recently been convicted by a high court of “insulting Turkishness”— because he’d told a foreign reporter that, in his country, Kurds and Armenians had been killed.

For the last seven years I have taught at the staunchly secular Bogazici University, built high on a bluf f overlooking the Bosporus Strait north of the old city. (Bogazici is the Turkish

For the last decade I’ve taught at two very different universities in Istanbul. Both have reminded me every day to forego any assumptions I’d have at home about how a class will run.

wea ri ng n a om w g un yo t ie qu a , ay d e . . . afte r cl ass on id, “I lo ve sa nd a e m to ed rn tu f ar sc ad a n Is la m ic he your fl ag.” rn bu n ca u yo e us ca be es at St th e U nited version of Bosporus.) The strait is the 20-mile-long waterway that runs from the Black Sea and Russia south toward the Aegean and Mediterranean. It’s the route of an unceasing parade of tankers, freighters and cargo ships from China, Canada, Russia, Argentina and New Zealand.

Istanbul spans the Bosporus, which, everyone in the city will tell you, is where Europe and Asia join and collide. The eastern bank is where Asia begins.

Cross a bridge westward, and a sign says, “Welcome to Europe.” The twain is met hundreds of times a day by a multitude of ferries and water taxis, by bridges and tunnels.

The f ir st A mer ican over seas university, Bogazici was established as Roberts College by New England missionaries in the 1860s. During the late 19th century, it so well accomplished its mission of providing education in science and technology—rather than religious instruction—that it drew students from around the Ottoman Empire and educated several Balkan heads of state. The national government has run the university since the 1970s.

Admission is highly competitive; people

call Bogazici the Harvard of Turkey.

Having been high achievers all their young lives, these students are interested in the concept of success. So, in my courses, they want to know why America has been so clearly marked by success. For some, the reasons appear to be the result of great natural resources, an influx of talented immigrants and participatory democracy. For others, America’s success traces to imperialism, its nuclear arsenal, the CIA or the Trilateral Commission.

Whatever their view, America provides focus in a variety of fields.

W hen t he young women in my literature classes write a paper on, say, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, they’re using literary analysis to find a new language to talk about themselves. By looking at what American women have experienced, they develop their own words to describe their places in their own society, words that might not exist in the vernacular of a traditional, often highly patriarchal society. It has been a privilege to see American literature excite and broaden the vocabulary of some of the Muslim world’s brightest young people.

Teaching American history and literature in a foreign metropolis, you see that the temperature of the classroom inevitably reflects politics and the state of international relations. During the last two years of the presidency of George W. Bush, who was not popular among Turks because of the Iraq War, I twice opened an American history class to all interested students, and 60 signed up each time. After the November 2008 election of Barack Obama, a figure of fascination, that same open enrollment resulted in a class of 420, the largest course in the university. Each year since, the same hundreds continue to request the course.

Some students have left Istanbul to study physics in Ann Arbor; others have worked summer jobs in carnivals outside Nashville. Some resent the United States for its frightening military or voracious capitalism; others use the U.S. as a gauge for what’s possible in democratic participation and individual success. In a multitude of ways, across their full range of preconceptions and beliefs, these students have shown me the responsibility America carries as the world’s indispensable player.

LOUIS MAZZARI IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE AT BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY IN ISTANBUL.

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hris Urbanski ’18 had gotten the message about sexual assault awareness at UNH long before he arrived on campus. At first-year orientation in June, older students told the newbies they should use the buddy system and watch out for each other at parties. In midsummer, Urbanski completed an interactive computer lesson—required for all 3,400 new students this year—explaining UNH policies and New Hampshire laws about sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. His parents also had a conversation with him after they received an e-mail from UNH.

Still, the message seemed a bit academic until Urbanski arrived for the Pre-Orientation Volunteer Experience in Service program, where he took part in a 90-minute interactive workshop called Bringing in the Bystander®, which starts from the premise that everyone can help prevent sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking, and offers simple and effective ways for bystanders to intervene.

The program hit Urbanski in the gut: He learned that one in four women and at least one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted during their college years, and he heard vivid examples of real rapes and

assaults in which bystanders did nothing.

That got him worrying about his girlfriend, who attends college in another state.

“This really spoke to you and brought a lot more emotion into it,” he says. “You really should intervene, because it’s dangerous if you don’t.”

Urbanski wasn’t the only one to get the memo. Before classes started, new students saw a performance by the student improv group WildACTs that portrayed an alcohol-fueled date rape, and watched a 10-minute video about sexual consent at their college assemblies. They will likely get the message again if they pledge a

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fraternity, play on a sports team, read the bulletin boards in their residence hall or take a class in psychology, sociology, criminal justice or women’s studies.

“To give them a 15-minute message at orientation is not enough,” says Sharyn Potter, an associate professor of sociology and co-director of Prevention Innovations, the UNH research and practice collaborative that created Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power®, a social marketing campaign featuring images with similar messages about positive bystander intervention. “The prevention message needs to be repeated in different ways and formats before it resonates with students and creates a campus culture of sexual respect.”

At first blush, the emphasis might seem excessive or alarming—a sign that UNH confronts a bigger sexual violence problem than other colleges. In fact, it’s just the opposite: UNH is winning recognition everywhere from The New York Times to Cosmopolitan to the U.S. Senate as a national leader in combating sexual assault, both for Prevention Innovations’ groundbreaking research and the university’s ambitious on-campus education and discipline efforts.

A National Crisis

Curbing campus sexual assault is very much on the minds of colleges across the country these days. In April, the U.S. Department of Justice released a list of 55 schools it was investigating for their handling of sexual assault cases under Title IX, a federal law that forbids sex discrimination at educational institutions.

More schools have come under scrutiny since then, and a number of highly public protests—from that of a Columbia University student who has vowed to carry her mattress everywhere until her rapist is expelled to those of victims who have filed federal complaints against their schools with help from the activist group Know Your IX—have further thrust the issue into the national spotlight.

The investigations, in particular, were a wake-up call for colleges that had grown complacent about sexual assault—or even tried to sweep it under the rug—and now many are turning to Prevention Innovations for help. Earlier this year, the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault recommended Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power as well-researched programs for addressing sexual assault and dating violence. The task force also asked Prevention Innovations to become one of just four college groups to partner with

it on new research: a multi-campus study of the most effective ways to educate students. Prevention Innovations recently won a $1 million federal grant to adapt Bringing in the Bystander for high school students, as well as a $600,000 grant to develop a video game for teaching bystander intervention. In the meantime, it has had so many requests for Bringing in the Bystander that instead of going to one campus at a time, it is inviting college officials to regional training sessions.

“It’s a really approachable program that students can relate to,” says Ally Manousos, prevention coordinator at the Sexual Assault Crisis Team in Barre, Vt., which offers programs at Norwich University. A recent graduate herself, Manousos is eager to introduce Bringing in the Bystander to Norwich’s corps of cadets, athletes and RAs. “It engages you and makes you want to do something the next time you see that situation.”

Hard Learned Lessons

UNH’s leadership status is no accident. The university got its own wake-up call 27 years ago: an ugly sexual encounter in February 1987 between three upperclassmen and a first-year student in Stoke Hall that set off a firestorm.

After getting drunk at a fraternity party, the first-year student had headed back to Stoke Hall by herself, but was intercepted by the three men, who brought her up to their floor. According to media reports at the time, at least two of the men had sex with her, and as one man bragged to others on the hall that they had “a train” going, word spread across the dorm. Alerted by two female students, an RA told the men to get the young woman out of their room because their actions could be perceived as rape, but left the woman to find her way back to her room by herself. She left, but a short time later the three men reappeared at her door, anxious for her to agree she had been a willing sexual partner. Then one of them had sex with her again.

Though she had no clear recall of the night’s events, the student went to Health Services for help. Her subsequent decision to file a police report and press for disciplinary action polarized the campus. Someone hung two male students in effigy from the front of Hamilton Smith Hall. Other people said the young woman had “asked for it” by getting drunk, or speculated that she had agreed to sex at the time, then cried “Rape!” to salvage her reputation. In March, the university held a public disciplinary hearing, with national media in attendance. The student’s advocate said it was gang rape: The young woman was too drunk to

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resist or consent to sex. But the three men, represented by lawyers, argued that she was an active and willing partner.

Prevention Innovations co-director Jane Stapleton ’90G was a graduate student in sociology at the time. She says it seemed as if the young woman was on trial. “It was so revolting. It was very re-victimizing,” she says. “The fact that she was under the influence of alcohol, the fact that she didn’t get up and walk out of the room—it was presented as her fault.”

In May, when the hearing board cleared all three men of sexual assault, hundreds of students, faculty, staff and community members protested, demanding that the men be expelled. Dozens of protesters occupied the dean of students’ office, where 11 were arrested—but they had made their point. Shaken administrators headed off to the summer break ready to examine UNH’s handling of sexual assaults.

First steps included hiring a full-time rape services coordinator—the genesis of SHARPP, UNH’s Sexual Harassment And Rape Prevention Program. It was the second rape crisis center to open on a college campus and remains one of just five nationwide. Then-president Gordon Haaland appointed a task force to consider changes, and funded an anonymous survey on students’ experiences of sexual assault. The results were startling.

A whopping 37 percent of women students reported unwanted sexual contact during the first six months of the 1987-88 school year, including 10 percent who had been raped. For men, the figures were 11 percent and 4 percent.

Other changes followed, but not in time for the Stoke Hall victim. Although county prosecutors charged two of the men with felony sexual assault, they pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and served only two months in jail. They returned to UNH after a six-month suspension, and their criminal records were annulled.

The victim transferred to another college.

Lesson One: Teach Students to be Better Bystanders

Their research at UNH and elsewhere showed Bringing in the Bystander worked well with a broad range of groups.

“We trained some athletes, we trained Greeks, we trained orientation leaders, we trained police officers,” Stapleton says.

“It’s probably the best-researched bystander intervention program in the country.”

Stapleton got a second grant and enlisted Potter to help her develop and research a social marketing campaign using visual images, Know Your Power, as a cost-effective alternative to Bringing in the Bystander. They assembled a committee of students, faculty and staff who met every two weeks to brainstorm realistic scenarios of bystanders intervening in dating violence and sexual assault. Then they piloted Know Your Power at UNH, flooding selected residence halls with the images. Surveys given to the students before and after indicated that those who were exposed to the images were more likely to recognize potentially dangerous situations and more willing to intervene.

“What we’ve established is both prevention strategies—Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power—change attitudes, increase bystander interventions and decrease rape myths,” Potter says.

Stapleton notes that bystander programs also foster a sense of community responsibility. Instead of treating all women like potential victims and all men like potential perpetrators, bystander programs are based on a positive idea: that everyone can help to end sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. On a practical level, they also show students there are many ways to help, from pulling a potential perpetrator into a conga line at a party to accompanying a victim to the hospital.

Prevention Innovations, which was formally established in 2006, continues to update, adapt and research its programs in different settings, including at two U.S. Army posts in Europe.

They have also created Know Your Power images to address male victims, as well as relationship and sexual violence in the LGBTQ community.

At the request of the White House task force, Potter is leading research at seven colleges this fall about the most effective ways— from e-mail, to online lessons, to in-person trainings—to make sure students understand campus sexual assault policies and state laws. The schools include a historically black college, a college serving a large Hispanic population, an Ivy League school, a small liberal arts college and two large public universities.

Closer to home, Prevention Innovations is working with SHARPP to evaluate the effectiveness of the messages bombarding UNH students, from the WildACTs show, to the online program, to SHARPP’s popular workshop on sexual consent: “Putting the yes, yes, YES back in sex.”

The Stoke Hall episode and its aftermath had a profound effect on Stapleton, who changed her master’s thesis topic to examine acquaintance rape. After graduation, she worked for SHARPP for five years, and then went on to coordinate the university President’s Commission on the Status of Women and two other commissions, teach women’s studies classes and work with colleges and groups around the state to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence.

Stapleton was an independent consultant in 2003 when campus police chief Paul Dean asked her to administer a Justice Department grant to reduce sexual assaults at UNH. She used part of it to offer Bringing in the Bystander workshops to student groups and campus police. Psychology professor Victoria Banyard, women’s studies associate professor Mary Moynihan Lesson Two: Teach Consent and then-SHARPP director Elizabeth Plante had developed Year in and year out, SHARPP is on the front lines of UNH’s the workshop under a National Institute of Justice grant. They efforts to educate students. As 3,000-plus fresh faces arrive in used the Stoke Hall case as a teaching tool, asking participants, Durham each fall, SHARPP’s first job is to teach them the “Where were the bystanders?” who could have helped before, importance of getting explicit consent from a sexual partner during and after the assaults. They also drew on a growing body before each and every act—and that it’s not okay to have sex of research showing that witnesses are more likely to intervene if with someone who is drunk or drugged. That’s not clear to a lot they recognize a dangerous situation, someone asks them to help, of incoming students, who may think it’s normal in college to get they see someone else step in and they know how to be effective. drunk and hook up, says Maggie Wells, SHARPP’s education

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he reach of Prevention Innovations, Research and Practice for Ending Violence Against Women extends well beyond UNH. Two licensed and registered education programs developed by Prevention Innovations researchers, the Bringing in the Bystander® In-Person Prevention Program and the Know Your Power® Social Marketing Campaign, have been used by colleges and university campuses in the United States and Canada, adapted for the U.S. Army and, most recently, translated into Swedish. Both Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power are commercially available, with comprehensive and customizable materials that allow

schools and other organizations to implement these proven programs in their community. Today, some 300 colleges, universities and other organizations in the United States and Europe are working with one or both of these two tools.

As the issue of sexual violence has gained increased scrutiny and national attention over the past three years, the group’s research and programs have been cited in everything from Cosmopolitan to National Public Radio to The New York Times and in European media outlets including The Guardian and BBC. The expertise of Prevention Innovations researchers is regularly sought at the highest levels of the U.S. government. In April, UNH was one of four universities tapped by a White House task force to conduct further research on ways to

ming because their nationals often provide extensive education in dating and sexual violence.) In another sign of how much has changed since 1987, the fraternity where the Stoke Hall victim got drunk, Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike), has become one of Wells’ most devoted fans, inviting her back every year after new pledges join. That’s because her message is positive.

“We’re not talking about doom and gloom sexual assault,” Wells says. “When we’re talking about consent, what we’re really talking about is healthy sexuality.”

Pike’s president, Andrew Flaherty ’16, says his fraternity now has sober monitors at every party. Their sole job is to be hypervigilant that no one gets too drunk or too “handsy.”

“Because it’s going to happen: At every party scenario, there will be something along those lines,” Flaherty says. “We have no tolerance for any sexual abuse, whether man on woman or woman on man.” Pike is working toward becoming an official “Safe Zone” for gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities. And the brothers have gotten the bystander message, too. “If you’re just sitting there, then you’re just as bad as the person who’s actually doing it,” he says.

SHARPP programming for first-year athletes also focuses on consent and reminds players to look out for their teammates, who could lose their scholarships and get kicked off the team or out of school if they commit sexual assault. During preseason of their second year, all athletes also go through the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, created by Northeastern University’s Center for Sport in Society. Like ’s PP Bringing in the Bystander, MVP encourAR SH l, fal rive in Durham each ages athletes to set a good example or step t.”

“As 3,000-plus fresh faces ar e of getting . . . consen nc rta po im e th em in before things escalate. th ch tea first job is to Volleyball player Madison Lightfoot ’16 and her coach, Stacy Barnett, trained SHARPP student last winter as MVP facilitators. Lightfoot advocates Ryan remembers feeling uneasy as a first-year Grogan ’16 and Sam student when she heard groups of guys Gagnon ’15 help catcalling or directing obscene comments run the UNH White toward women, because she’d never exRibbon Campaign, perienced that in high school. “What do which recruits UNH you say in that situation if you don’t know men as allies in the effort to end either person? That was scary,” she says. violence against Now if she hears a guy cat-calling, Lightwomen. foot marches right up to him and asks, “Is that what you think you need to say to get 3 0 • Un i ve rs it y o f Ne w Ha m p s h i r e Ma g a z i n e • Fa l l 2014

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and outreach coordinator. “We’re trying to undo 18 years of culture when they get here,” she says.

Studies show that first-year students are more likely than upperclassmen to be sexually assaulted, especially during their first six to eight weeks on campus, when they may be drinking for the first time or drinking more than in high school, have no parental supervision and haven’t yet established a strong circle of friends to look out for them. SHARPP emphasizes the link between alcohol and sexual assault for good reason: Alcohol is the No. 1 date-rape drug on college campuses. Other studies show that only a small minority of college men­—about 4 percent—are sexual predators, but they often mask their behavior as “normal” among all-male groups such as fraternities and athletic teams, which studies have linked to higher rates of drinking and sexual assault. At UNH, however, those groups have made great strides in recent years.

“We know that group-think is a real problem,” Wells says.

But it can be harnessed for positive ends, too. “We’re a very sports-oriented culture. If you can get your athletes to act as role models, that can effect huge change. The same with fraternities.”

To that end, SHARPP has built relationships with fraternities, the Athletics Department, and other campus groups. UNHrecognized fraternities must do some educational programming each year. Choosing a SHARPP program is voluntary, but most fraternities do, and their favorite is “Putting the yes, yes, YES back in sex.” (Fewer sororities request SHARPP program-

end campus sexual assault, with Prevention Innovations’ codirector Sharyn Potter as the principal investigator. In June, Potter’s co-director Jane Stapleton testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions as part of a full committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Prevention Innovations researchers have also testified before the Department of Defense and researcher Victoria Banyard, an associate professor of psychology at UNH, is currently collaborating with the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

To find out how you can bring Prevention Innovations team members to your community, contact prevention. innovations@unh.edu. a girl to notice you? What makes you think it’s OK to speak to anyone like that?”

Not everyone is comfortable being so confrontational, but athletes are a recognizable group who can model better behavior, Barnett says. “Recognition is huge. Strength in numbers is powerful,” she says. “If 600 student athletes have the same message, I think it resonates.”

Lesson Three: Confidential Counseling and Hearings

UNH is doing something right. Follow-up sexual climate surveys in 2000, 2006 and 2012 found a dramatic decline in the rate at which female students experienced unwanted sexual contact, from 37 percent in 1988 to 16 percent in 2012. The rate for men fell from 11 to 6 percent.

At the same time, the reporting of sexual offenses has increased—an indication that victims have more confidence in the campus judicial system, says Mark Rubinstein, vice president for student and academic services. For 2012, the latest year for which statistics are available, 20 sexual assaults were reported to campus authorities, whether an RA, the Office of Community Standards, or campus police. That’s the figure UNH must disclose under the Clery Act, which mandates that all colleges publish their crime statistics.

While other colleges have lower numbers, that’s not always a sign they have fewer sexual assaults and rapes: Many campuses under investigation by the Justice Department were accused of discouraging victims from making an official report, putting an impossible burden of proof on victims or failing to remove rapists from campus.

“We’d like to have reports going down only because sexual assaults are going down—not because (victims) don’t feel like it’s worthwhile reporting,” Rubinstein says.

Stephen Nelson, director of the Office of Community Standards, says UNH has been doing a solid job addressing reported rapes for many years, but there’s always room for improvement.

“We want to go above and beyond what’s required,” he says.

Right now, Nelson’s office is working on two changes recommended by the White House task force. The conduct code gives a range of possible punishments for various violations, but Nelson’s staff is compiling a more detailed guide showing what punishments UNH actually has handed down for specific infractions.

And this year, for the first time, campus police will oversee the

investigation of all sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence complaints, collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses and preparing reports for Nelson’s office. That change was prompted in part by the experience of other colleges facing lawsuits by male students who say their rights were violated during disciplinary proceedings, Nelson says.

Still, there are many victims who never tell anyone except a friend. Amber Carlson ’13, ’14G, who is writing her master’s thesis in Justice Studies on the Stoke Hall case, understands why.

She was sexually assaulted her senior year while out drinking with friends at a bar; a man she was dancing with maneuvered her into a dark corner and shoved his hands up her pants. After a brief struggle, she broke free. She told a friend, a student advocate for SHARPP. But she didn’t go to police or campus authorities because she had been drunk and she didn’t know her assailant—or whether he was even a student.

“It’s a secret crime. It’s usually just the perpetrator and the victim, and you don’t have witnesses to say, ‘I saw this happen,’” she says. “And with alcohol, there’s an issue with memory.”

Yet Carlson can see how much the campus has changed since those fraught early months of 1987. Research she designed as an undergraduate showed that most students were clear on the definition of a sexual assault, whether the victim was male or female and whether the assailant was the opposite or the same sex.

Most of them also knew it wasn’t okay to have sex with someone who was drunk.

Sexual assaults still happen, but they are less frequent, and students are more likely to step in, she says. She thinks the Stoke Hall victim would have a very different experience today.

“I don’t think she’d be left alone at a fraternity party. Now we stay very close to our friends,” Carlson said. “The RA would have done something: Their training is much better now that they are in collaboration with SHARPP. SHARPP would be involved, and there would be a choice” about reporting.

Stapleton, too, thinks often of the Stoke Hall survivor, who would now be in her mid-40s. This past June, speaking before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, she testified, “I often wonder where and how (she) is, if she ever finished college, how she makes meaning of what was perpetrated against her. I would like her to know that things have changed, even though more change is needed, and that I and many other women and men have dedicated our lives to stopping very preventable crimes.” ~ Fal Falll 2014 2014 •• Uni University ve rs ity ooff New Ne w Hampsh Hamps hiirree Magaz Mag azine ine •• 31 31

By Beth Brosnan

H A I L E D A S A L E A D E R I N T H E M I L I TA R Y A N D AT U N H , M E D A L O F H O N O R R E C I P I E N T R YA N P I T T S ’1 3 I N S I S T S H E I S J U S T PA R T O F T H E T E A M .

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Team Spirit

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s he strode toward the White House stage on a late July a f ter noon, A r my Staff Sergeant Ryan Pitts ’13 looked every inch the soldier: eyes front, shoulders back, dress uniform decked with ribbons, knife-crease trousers tucked into polished boots. In just a few minutes President Barack Obama would present him with the Medal of Honor, “for extraordinary acts of heroism at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.” The nation’s highest military honor, it had been awarded just 16 times over the course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Yet the way Pitts saw it, he was far from alone on that stage.

“The Medal of Honor,” he says a few weeks after the ceremony, “is an individual award for a collective effort.”

At ease, Pitts’ face relaxes into the kind of boyish grin that makes people around him beam right back. Tall and broadshouldered, a slight limp the only trace of the injuries that confined him to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for many months, he exudes the easy warmth that endeared him to faculty and classmates at UNH Manchester, where he enrolled following his medical discharge from the army. Now 29 and a business development consultant for the Oracle Corporation, he lives in Nashua with his wife, Amy, a mortgage processor, and their 18-month-old son, Lucas.

Yet his affable face snaps quietly to attention when he talks about a far different July day, near the end of his second deployment to Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

In the predawn hours of July 13, 2008, his 48-man unit and members of the Afghan National Army were attacked by a group of 200 insurgents near the tiny village of Wanat in remote Kunar Province. The battle of Wanat was, in the president’s words, “one of the most fierce of this entire war.” In the space of just a few hours,

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nine men were killed, and 27 wounded. “ T h e r e w a s ,” Pitts says simply, “valor everywhere.”

It was essential to him that the credit for it be shared.

And so the East Room of the White House was filled to capacity with other soldiers, not just past recipients of the Medal of Honor, but also, at Pitts’ express invitation, the paratroopers he served with in Kunar Province, along with the medevac team that airlifted him out of Wanat. Directly in front of Pitts were the Gold Star families, relatives of the men who fought alongside him that day and died: Specialist Sergio Abad, Corporal Jonathan Ayers, Corporal Jason Bogar, 1st Lieutenant Jonathan Brostrom, Sergeant Israel Garcia, Corporal Jason Hovater, Corporal Matthew Phillips, Corporal Pruitt Rainey and Corporal Gunnar Zwilling.

“We grew up together in the army,” Pitts says of the men he served with. “We were privates together when we trained for our first deployment, and by the second deployment we were all in leadership positions within the same company, many within the same platoon.”

They were, in short, a family. On that fateful morning they fought for country, to be sure, but they also fought for each other.

OURS, NOT MINE As President Obama described the battle, the men’s valor became palpable. For a few minutes the pomp-filled East Room became the sandbag observation post where Pitts and a handful of other soldiers—most of them injured during the first barrage of machinegun fire and rocket-propelled grenades—sought to hold off the insurgents and prevent them from overrunning the main base below.

With shrapnel injuries to his left arm and both legs, Pitts was among the critically wounded. His left Achilles tendon was partially severed, and he was losing blood badly from deep lacerations to

On that fateful morning they fought for country, to be sure, but they also fought for each other.

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LIFE IN FOCUS: Pitts at home in Nashua with son Lucas and wife Amy.

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leaving him the sole man left to defend the outpost.

Bleeding heavily, Pitts says he expected to soon meet the same fate. Yet he continued to call in targeted air strikes against the enemy’s position, less than 100 feet away from where he crouched, while four more soldiers arrived from the base below. “And with those strikes,” said the president, “the tide of the battle began to turn.

Eventually, the insurgents fell back. Ryan and his fellow soldiers had held their ground.” As Pitts told Stars and Stripes, “The Medal of Honor is ours, not mine. It belongs to them and their loved ones just as much as it belongs to me. Those guys saved my life and a lot of other people’s lives that day.”

GROUP BEFORE SELF Back in New Hampshire, Pitts’ former professors were watching the ceremony with tremendous pride, but not surprise.

“You could tell that any feelings he had were anchored in the

You go through life and you meet all types of individuals.

Ryan personifies the type of leadership that not many people possess. He knows what’s important.

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- UNH Manchester Interim Dean J. Michael Hickey ’73

running a full city block, he marvels, “while people are shooting at you from all the buildings.” Most were, like Pitts, only in their early 20s, “but they just did their jobs,” he says, “and trusted each other to do theirs,” even as, one by one, they succumbed to enemy fire, 34 • Uni ve rs it y o f Ne w Ha m p s h i r e Ma g a z i n e • Fa l l 2014

sense of responsibility he felt for all those with whom he served,” says interim dean J. Michael Hickey ’73. A past president of the UNH Alumni Board of Trustees, Hickey last year selected Pitts to serve as UNH Manchester’s representative to the board. “You go

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his right leg that traveled all the way up to his lower back. Yet, as the president recounted, “Ryan picked up a grenade, pulled the pin, and held that live grenade—for a moment, then another, then another—finally hurling it so they couldn’t throw it back.” Again and again, Pitts held the “cooked-off” grenades and threw them; between throws, he called in situation reports to the company commander in the base below. Then, to conserve grenades, he switched to a machine gun and returned fire, even though he could no longer stand.

When asked what he remembers most about the battle, it’s not his own actions or injuries that Pitts describes. Through the darkness, through the chaos, he could see his friends manning their positions and tending to their dying comrades. He recounts how Corporal Bogar applied a tourniquet to his right leg, to stanch the blood loss, and how platoon leader 1st Lieutenant Brostrom and Corporal Hovater sprinted from the base below to reinforce the outpost—like

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through life and you meet all types of individuals. Ryan personifies the type of leadership that not many people possess. He knows what’s important.”

“He puts the group before the self in all that he does,” adds Regina McCarthy, assistant dean of student academic services.

“He’s a leader who knows how to step back and make room for others.”

Associate professor of business Kelly Kilcrease got to see those skills firsthand when Pitts enrolled in his Organizational Behavior course, which is peppered with team projects. “Ryan took charge not by telling people what to do, but by encouraging their participation,” Kilcrease recalls. “I’d never seen someone do that so well.” It was clear, he adds, how much the other students respected him, even when they didn’t know about his military background. “What they knew was that if you were on a Ryan Pitts team, you would get results.”

“He might seem serious at first, but once you got to know him and saw him smiling and joking, that melted away,” says Kristin Tejada ’12, now a business analyst with Unilever, who worked with Pitts in Manchester’s peer tutoring program and Enactus, the business team. “He has a great ability to balance supporting someone while at the same time pushing them to learn.”

Any discussion of Pitts’ academic achievements tends to turn into a flat-out lovefest, albeit a factual one. A business major, he graduated summa cum laude, with a near-perfect GPA. Named a Presidential Scholar, he also received the Brennan Award for character, perseverance and academic excellence and one of the UNH Awards of Excellence, as well as several student leadership prizes. “Never before in my 22 years of teaching have I met a student who is the complete package: intelligent, people-oriented, organized, helpful and concerned about others,” wrote one professor, who nominated Pitts to serve as the honors convocation speaker. Business program coordinator William Troy, who taught Pitts in two courses and served as his internship adviser, calls him “as perfect a student as a professor could ever hope to have: very smart, articulate, thorough, analytical and a wonderful writer.”

Pitts, naturally, tends to see things a little differently. In his honors convocation address, he confessed that while he had always planned to attend college following his military service, he was, quite frankly, “scared about returning to school. I was worried I would fail after an almost six-year break from academic pursuits.” Born in Lowell, Mass., he moved with his family to rural Mont Vernon, N.H. and attended Souhegan High School, where he described himself as an “unfocused” student who never really applied himself.

His interest in the military dates to at least kindergarten: asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he told his teacher he wanted to “play football and join the army.” Like several of his high school friends, he enlisted during his senior year under the army’s delayed entry program. Following graduation, he boarded his first-ever airplane flight in the summer of 2003 to travel to Fort Sill, Okla., for basic training.

THE LESSON OF THE TEAM It was there that life began to come into focus. For some, the transition to military life is jarring, with the inevitable loss of personal autonomy; for Pitts it meant “becoming part of something larger, and working toward larger goals, together.” The lesson of the team

was born. What mattered wasn’t individual success (and success, in any case, is seldom individual); what mattered was the success of the team.

Pitts says that lesson was hammered home by the “consistently strong leadership” he experienced throughout his training at Fort Sill and at the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and during both his deployments to Afghanistan. He singles out his platoon sergeant, Matthew Kahler, who “would listen to everyone’s ideas, even a private’s, because he believed good ideas can come from anywhere.” What mattered wasn’t who had the idea, but whether it would help the mission.

THE COMPLETE PACK AGE: Classmates at UNH Manchester say that while Pitts might seem serious at first, he really is a regular guy—as regular as any summa cum laude graduate who is named a Presidential Scholar and honored with the Brennan Award and a UNH Award of Excellence can be, that is.

“The military transformed me into someone who seeks out challenges and pours everything they have into rising to the occasion,” he wrote in his honors convocation address. “It is when we are really challenged, it is when we take it to the edge of our abilities, that we discover what we are truly capable of.”

Those challenges could be heartbreaking. Sergeant First Class Kahler was killed a few months before the battle of Wanat; in fact, his men nicknamed the base there in his honor. The loss of Kahler and his friends at Wanat transformed Pitts as well. As he told anchor Judy Woodruff on The PBS NewsHour, “They made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could come home. They gave us all a second chance. I have an appreciation of life that I didn’t have before, and I’m not going to waste it.”

During his lengthy convalescence at Walter Reed, Pitts got to work on his second chances. He decided to apply to UNH Manchester because it was near his home in Mont Vernon (and Fal l 2014 • Uni versity o f New Hampsh i r e Magaz ine • 35

because, having lived in close quarters with hundreds of soldiers for six years, he wasn’t looking for the full-out dorm experience).

He also noticed the college had a tutoring program, the Center for Academic Enrichment, and thought, “I’m going to need that.”

Assistant dean Regina McCarthy believes that part of what made Pitts’ transition a successful one was “his willingness to acknowledge whatever academic challenges he faced and embrace the support of the institution. He sought out its resources.”

Case in point: his first-year writing course, which Pitts describes as “baptism by fire,” because the analytical writing required was unlike anything he’d done in the army, and he didn’t know if he could handle it. (“I didn’t even know if I could sit in a classroom all day,” he says with a laugh.) He credits instructor Patricia Hicks with teaching him how to work through multiple drafts, reflecting and revising as he went, “and that helped prepare me for all of my classes, including my business courses, which were very writing intensive.”

“All the faculty and staff were just incredibly supportive,” says Amy (Guilbeault) Pitts, who had a front-row seat to her husband’s entire college career. “Because of the school’s smaller size, he was able to develop very close relationships with a lot of his professors.

He really found himself as a student there.” A longtime family friend

from Nashua, Amy began dating Pitts shortly before he enrolled at UNH Manchester. She liked his sense of humor; she also liked that “he was just a very genuine person. If he said something, he meant it.” The pair were married in the summer of 2012 (coincidentally, their second anniversary fell on the same day as this summer’s Medal of Honor ceremony). Their son, Lucas, was born a week before Ryan graduated—right in the thick of his senior internship and final exams. Once again, says Amy, the college had his back, providing support and encouragement.

At UNH Manchester, Ryan Pitts found a new team he could be part of. “This university holds a special place in my heart,” he said during his honors convocation speech. And just like he did at the White House, he managed to pull the rest of the team onstage with him. “This is my story,” he said, after touching briefly on his own experiences, “but it is not unique to me.” He singled out the faculty and staff for their “mentorship, support and dedication,” and his fellow graduates for all the sacrifices they had made, all the challenges they had overcome. His closing instructions: “Never forget that there is greatness in all of you that drives you to do extraordinary things.”

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Ryan Pitts is one of many UNH student vets to bring an impressive set of skills to their college careers, says Manchester’s assistant dean of student services, Regina McCarthy, who leads a college-wide team committed to serving veterans and addressing any concerns. “They’re mature, they’re persistent and they have broad world views,” she says of the vets, who comprise around 7 percent of UNH Manchester’s 815 undergrads. “And, holy macaroni, are they ever focused.”

What many vets also have, she adds, are a unique set of challenges. Like Pitts, some are daunted by the prospect of returning to school, and of navigating the transition from a regimented military culture to a less-structured academic one. Says business program coordinator Bill Troy, who also works closely with student veterans: “The army gives you a path, but when you go to a college, you’re choosing a path.

You have to figure out how to make it meaningful.” Not only are vets older than their classmates, many are also juggling multiple roles as employees, spouses and parents. Some are also dealing with PTSD and the emotional toll of war.

To better understand veterans’ needs, UNH Manchester conducted focus groups with its student vets. Next the college phased in a series of administrative upgrades to make it easier for vets to apply, enroll and adapt to college life, including training two staff members to help vets make full use of their GI Bill benefits.

Perhaps most significant, last year UNH Manchester launched From Barracks to Blackboard, a first-year seminar of, by and for veterans. “The goal,” explains McCarthy, “is to support our veterans’ transition to academic culture and connect them to campus resources.” While it parallels the first-year seminar that all incoming students take, From Barracks to Blackboard is taught by a combat veteran and focuses specifically on “helping our vets redefine victory and success,” says McCarthy.

Meanwhile, in Durham, there are around 450 veterans, National Guard members and military dependents enrolled at UNH’s main campus, according to veterans coordinator Lonn Sattler.

Much of his staff’s time is devoted to helping vets navigate their benefit certification and financial aid applications. “Because many vets weren’t planning to attend college before they enrolled in the military, they tend to be less familiar with the steps involved,” Sattler explains. “So we don’t tell them to go online and complete an application; we welcome them to come to the Military and Veterans Services office and we will walk them through the process.”

Asking for help is definitely not second nature for many vets, he adds, so part of his job is persuading them to take full advantage of the benefits and services they’ve earned, including UNH’s Center for Academic Resources, University Health Services and the Counseling Center. Military and Veterans Services also hosts weekly brown bag lunches for campus vets every Thursday at the Memorial Union Building. Because the MUB is home to New Hampshire’s official state war memorial, Sattler hopes that one day it might also be home to a bona-fide veterans center—a place that vets could call their own, right in the heart of campus.

As for Ryan Pitts, he considers it a personal mission to encourage other vets “to find the school that’s right for them and use the GI Bill to go to college,” says his wife, Amy. “There is life after the service. They can take the incredible skills they learned in the military and apply them to college.”

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From Barracks to Blackboards

Marching On

By Larry Clow ’12G

ROD GRONDIN ’62

IT’S A COLD NOVEMBER SATURDAY

morning and out on the Cowell Stadium field, the Wildcat Marching Band has its hands full. Today, the band’s ranks have swelled to include high school students from around the state, an annual tradition that gives high school musicians a peek at what it takes to play in a college marching band.

And so, in addition to rehearsing for their performance at the afternoon’s football game against James Madison University, Wildcat Marching band members are wrangling shivering high schoolers into position and snatching up errant sheet music caught in the wind.

Once the band is lined up in rows, band director Casey Goodwin ’01 ’06G gives the signal and the band begins a test-run of a portion of its half-time show. In the front row, the wind section moves to the right; behind them, the horn section moves to the left. But a few high school students in the front row are having trouble keeping up with the drill and Goodwin, standing on a raised platform on the sidelines, calls everyone to a halt.

“Okay!” she shouts above the wind.

“Let’s try that again!”

As everyone returns to their places, a puzzled pair of high school flautists gather around a marching band member; she rolls up a piece of paper and holds it up to her

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lips, like a flute, and quickly demonstrates the steps in the march. Goodwin gives the signal again and this time, the high school students stumble a bit, but make it through to the end of the drill.

“I did this in high school, and this is what solidified my decision to come here,” marching band staff member Risa Kapp ’12 ’14G says. “Someone wrote on our Facebook page this morning, ‘It’s just another Saturday game for you, but to the kids, it means the world to them.’”

It’s a small moment in the day, but one that perfectly encapsulates the Wildcat Marching Band experience. Ask any of the thousands of alumni who’ve donned the blue and black uniforms and marched across a football field at half-time about their fondest band memories and chances are they’ll remember a scene like this—learning complex marches and fighting some kind of inclement weather, all while having a blast and building an ad hoc family.

“I think it was best decision I made going into freshman year,” says flautist Erin Lee ’17. “I had immediate friends and immediate support. I set myself up for four years with something I can come back to and have a community with.”

The band traces its official origin back to 1906, when the ROTC formed an official

university band. It wasn’t until 1919, however, that the ROTC band marched at a football game. The band later became a student-run organization and, for a while, operated under the auspices of the President’s Office and then the Athletics Department. It became part of the Music department in 1923, when music faculty member Richard R. Lamont became the first faculty band director.

“The band itself has changed a lot since it started, from a military band to a ragtag student group to a fully-staffed corps-style marching band,” Goodwin says.

What hasn’t changed is the alchemy that transforms a group of close to 100 or so students into a tightly knit family each fall.

It’s a sentiment that marching band members from every generation share.

“Spending lots of quality time with 120 people four to five days a week for 10 weeks will bond you, and then that bond continues throughout the year in other musical ensembles until it’s marching season once again,” says Michele Boulanger ’74.

“These people saw you at your best and at your worst, sweaty and exhausted, and flying high after a great show.”

Make no mistake: playing in the marching band is not for those with faint hearts and easily tired feet. Band members return to the university every August a week

“Spending lots of quality time with 120 people four to five days a week for 10 weeks will bond you, and then that bond continues throughout the year…until it's marching season once again.”

before classes begin and practice for hours each day under the hot summer sun. Once the marching season is in full swing, the band rehearses three times a week, and when Saturday rolls around, the band begins preparing for that afternoon’s football game at 8 a.m.

And then there’s the weather. For every picturesque autumn afternoon, there are just as many days when the band marches through driving snow, biting cold and blinding rain. Kristina Looney ’11 remembers traveling to Salem, N.H., for a band showcase during her freshman year.

In the middle of the show, a hard, driving rain began and lightning flashed across the sky. The show ended abruptly, just as the Wildcat Marching Band was set to perform.

“We had already warmed up, and as everybody was running to the buses, the trumpet section started to play,” she recalls. “Everyone joined in and we did an impromptu show in the driveway. As the buses were pulling away, kids were leaning out of the windows and cheering and the busses were honking.”

Tina Erickson ’84 remembers marching in snow so thick that the yard lines on the field disappeared. “We would try to make the forms anyway,” she says. “There was one

-Michele Boulanger ’74

game where it was so muddy that one of the guys in my squad marched right out of his shoes and kept going.”

Many band members go on to become music educators and direct their own bands, and others continue playing music in their own bands. Band alumni have also racked up a roster of impressive achievements: Jared Cassedy ’04 is a quarter-finalist for the 2014 music educator Grammy award, and Col. Larry H. Lang, who directed the band from 1980 to 1982, is now the commander and conductor of the U.S. Air Force Band.

Marc Kerouac ’69 had a 30-year career as a music educator and band director in Massachusetts and he still plays regular gigs with The Spectras, the band he helped form during his years at UNH. “Here I am, 43 years later, still playing with a lot of the same guys,” he says. “It never stops.”

Along the way, each generation of band members has established its own traditions and carried on others. Boulanger points to the band’s unofficial “zim zam” cheer of the 1970s (it begins “Zim zam, goddamn, who the hell are we? Wildcats once, Wildcats twice!”), while Emily Grondin ’11 recalls Wednesday evenings spent holed up in a dorm room with a few dozen other band members working on the band newspaper,

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“Savage Beast.” Grondin’s grandfather, Rod Grondin ’62, used to gather with fellow band members on the Thompson Hall lawn on Friday nights, psyching up for the Saturday football game. “They’d build a bonfire,” he says, “and we would just play our hearts out.”

Like any close-knit group, Wildcat Marching Band member s t hink of themselves as a family—and some of them have gone so far as to make it official. No one has kept track of how many marriages have come out of the Wildcat Marching Band, but Goodwin approximates the number at “lots,” and she’s one of the many alums who found her future spouse there. So did Kristina Looney. She and her fiancée, Chloe Garrage ’13, met there, and the couple expects a strong showing of band members at their summer 2015 wedding, where they’ll carry on another unofficial band tradition: a choreographed dance to Meat Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.”

“That’s been going on for generations,” Looney says. And, if the last 95 years are any indication, it—or something like it— will be going on for many more. ~

LIS A NUGENT, ROD GRONDIN ’62

Book Reviews Of Note

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble True stories of archaeologists

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by Crystal Ward Kent ’78, The History Press, 2014.

Strange Sweet Song

by Adi Rule ’01, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014.

ot long ago, Forbes listed “Anthropology and Archaeology” as the worst college major based on graduates’ initially low earnings and high unemployment. The captivating Lives in Ruins shows how much excitement archaeology nonetheless offers to anyone willing to make do for a while with peanut-butter sandwiches and iffy job prospects.

Seeking to demystify the profession, Marilyn Johnson ’78G traveled by boat, plane, Land Cruiser and other means to watch— and, when she could, join—archaeologists at work. Johnson dug into the earth with a trowel on a tiny island in the Mediterranean that may have been developed to honor Caesarion, Cleopatra’s child by Julius Caesar. She courted claustrophobia by following an archaeologist into a stone room the size of a closet at Machu Picchu. Back in the United States, guided by another veteran, she made an obsidian knife—and used it to help butcher a lamb—to see how Ice Age Homo sapiens fed themselves.

Johnson learned from all of it that contemporary archaeologists scarcely resemble the Hollywood images of swashbuckling figures like Indiana Jones, whose adventures were set in the 1930s to allow him to snatch the sort of ancient treasures that are now protected by laws and treaties. “These days,” she adds, with typically low-keyed wit, “Indiana Jones would be considered a looter.”

But Lives in Ruins is much more than a guide to buried sites and their passionate excavators. It shows that even the smallest fragments of the past—goat’s teeth, bits of glass, broken tiles—can matter, so much so that an unlikely alliance of archaeologists and the U.S. military has emerged to try to protect relics in hot spots in the Middle East and elsewhere. “Good archaeology fills in the blanks of history,” one of Johnson’s sources says. “It tells the losers’ story.” This book fills in the blanks about the people who do that work, and in doing so suggests why—far from being the “worst” college major—archaeology is, for some students, the most thrilling.

—Janice Harayda ’70

Invisible Streets Proof

by Karina Borowicz ’96G, Codhill Press, 2014.

A Portal to Vibrancy

by Laurette Folk ’92, Big Table Publishing, 2014.

Web Extra For more books by alumni and faculty members, see unhmagazine. unh.edu.

A dystopian thriller

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hat ethical responsibility do psychology professors have to students who take part in their experiments? That and other provocative questions drive Invisible Streets by Toby Ball ’99G, helping to lift the noir-ish thriller above suspense novels that offer little more than turbocharged action.

Ball sets his story in a fictional metropolis that resembles a more sinister version New York in the mid-1960s, a corrupt urban dystopia. A polarizing Robert Moses-like power broker is retrofitting the city for a new era by building highways that will link its business district to its burgeoning suburbs. His ruthless tactics have alienated so many residents that suspects abound when a huge stash of explosives disappears from one of his demolition sites.

Detective Torsten Grip and reporter Frank Frings take separate but intersecting paths toward trying to learn who stole the dynamite. Some clues point to a group of radical leftists known as Kollectiv 61 and

others to conspiracy-minded anti-communists on the far right. Then there’s the psychology professor who conducted secret experiments with mind-altering drugs on unsuspecting students and others. Could his work have left any of his victims with a thirst for revenge?

The sense of menace builds as the questions deepen in this multi-layered novel, the third in Ball’s City trilogy. And if the action take place a half-century ago, some of the answers are remarkably pertinent to the digital era. Kollectiv 61 radicals, for example, spray-paint aphorisms like “As technology progresses, freedom regresses” on sites they’ve vandalized. That idea might once have sounded anarchic, but today it expresses perfectly a widespread fear fostered by search engines that track our every online move— that access to technology has brought with it an incalculable loss of personal freedom.

—J.H.

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A l umni Ne w s

Doubly Honored University celebrates its two highest awards

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n September 19, alumni and friends gathered to bestow the University of New Hampshire’s t wo highest honors on alumna Marcy Peterson Carsey ’66, ’88H and Lewis Feldstein.

Carsey, the television producer behind such hit shows as “The Cosby Show,” “Mork and Mindy,” “Roxanne,” and “Third Rock From the Sun,” received the Hubbard Family Award. An honor that recognizes exceptional philanthropy, the award comes to Carsey less than a year after her commitment of a $20 million gif t to establish the Carsey School of Public Policy at UNH. The former president of t he New Hampshire Char itable Foundation and a tireless advocate for community and civic engagement, Feldstein was recognized with the Charles Holmes Pettee Medal. Named after the UNH dean who served the college from 1876 until 1938, the Pettee Medal is awarded to a New Hampshire resident or former resident for outstanding accomplishment or distinguished service to the state, the nation or the world. Both Carsey and Feldstein have earned UNH honors AWARD WINNERS: Lewis Feldstein and Marcy Carsey ’66, ’88H were feted before; Feldstein received the Hubbard Award in at the annual "Evening of Distinction" on September 19. Feldstein wears 2002 and Carsey was the Pettee Medal recipient in 1999. the Charles Holmes Pettle Medal, also won by Carsey in 1999.

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ast spring, the Alumni Association general awards committee faced a daunting task: paring down some 150 worthy nominations to a list of 11 alumni award recipients. “We were astounded by the number of high-quality nominations we received, says committee chair Jennifer Higgins Pitre ’95, ’05G. “While it made our job quite challenging, it was a real honor to learn about the incredible accomplishments of so many our alumni.”

Five alums were selected to receive the Alumni Meritorious Service Award: Judy Kennedy ’62, Andrew Durette ’64, David King ’78, Christine Carberry ’82 and Michael Vlacich ’95. Betty 40 • Un i ve rs it y o f Ne w Ha m p s hi r e Ma g a z i n e • Fa l l 2014

Hoadley ’57 and Cory Schwartz ’82 were named to the Profile of Service Award.

Three young alums—Tyler Walker ’08, Jocelyn Bissonnette ’09, and Taylor Chace ’11— were chosen for the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award. Randy Pierce ’88 will receive the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement.

Together with the Charles Holmes Pettee Medal, the Alumni Association general awards celebrate UNH’s guiding value of service to the local community, the state of New Hampshire, the nation, and the world. This year’s recipients will be recognized with a formal reception in spring 2015.

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Alumni Association set to fete 11 in the spring

PL AN TO AT TEND ... ☛ UNH Serves: student and alumni community service, week of Nov. 10, locations around the country ☛ Student and alumni networking event, Nov. 18, Manchester, NH ☛ Seacoast Network holiday party, Dec. 10, New Castle, NH ☛ New York City Network holiday party, Dec. 10, NYC ☛ Boston Network holiday party, Dec. 11, Boston ☛ Alumni pre-game reception: Men’s hockey vs. Maine, Dec. 12, Manchester, NH ☛ Online career coaching, Jan. 13, your laptop ☛ Florida Southwest Coast alumni luncheon, Feb. 7, Venice, FL ☛ Boston Network pre-game reception: Men’s hockey vs.

BU, Feb. 13 Boston Write alumni@unh. edu to receive email notice of events.

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CLASS NOTES Send Us Your News!

Share your adventures, accomplishments, updates, and more! Here’s how to reach us: Email your class secretary (listed at the end of each column) or classnotes.editor@unh.edu. Post a class note on UNH Connect (unhconnect.unh.edu),ournewonlinealumnicommunity. Orsendanote through the mail: UNH Magazine, 15 Strafford Ave., Durham, NH 03824.

The deadline for the winter issue is December 15.

1940

I was the only one from our class to attend the June alumni lunch.

This was our 74th Reunion and I wish to thank thecommitteeforthebeautifulredrosesignifying the earliest class. This was the first time in 10 years that I didn’t attend the Florida Southeast chapter meeting and luncheon inVenice, however.Sorrytoreportthefollowingdeathsin our class. Rachel H. Demers died June 9, 2014 in Portland, Maine. She taught English at high schoolsinEssexandAttleboro,Mass.,andlater ran her husband’s construction business, L.R. Higgins,Inc.,afterhisdeath.Shewasamember of the Scarborough (Maine) Historical Society, GardenClub,ScarboroughWomen(aRepublicanclub)andtheCollegeClubofPortland.She is survived by a son and daughter. Elizabeth MargaretMcCroneFrendodiedFeb.24,2014,in Hilo,Hawaii.ShewasaretiredstateDepartment ofHealthsocialworker,formerGirlScoutregional director,pastpresidentoftheZontaClubofHilo, amemberoftheHawaiiMasonicOrder,DARas well as other civic and cultural organizations.

ShealsoheldablackbeltwiththeHiloAikidoKi Club. She is survived by two sons and a sister.

Lillian M. Putnam died on April 5, 2014, in Newport,N.H..ShewasborninClaremont,attended UNH for two years, and graduated from Keene State. She taught home economics in Dalton, OrfordandSouthRoyalton,Vt.,retiringin1958.

A member of the First Baptist Church and the DAR, she is survived by several nephews. MildredE.LovettdiedonMay17,2014,inGorham, Maine. A longtime English teacher at Gorham HighSchool,shestartedoutintheWomen’sArmy Auxiliary Corps in 1941 and earned the rank of captain. Millie was also active in the First Parish Church and Cub Scouts and is survived by two sonsanddaughtersandseveralgrandchildren.

GwendolynS.EckmandiedonJune16,2014,in Lawrence, Mass. She lived in Manchester, N.H., and Palm Beach, Fla. She is survived by a sister, twin sons, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.Onabrighternote,Nelson Bennett writes that he will celebrate his 100th birthdayshortlyafterthismagazinecomesout, onDecember6,2014.Oneofthefamed“Soldiers onSkis”ofthe10thMountainDivisionwhofought theGermansintheAlpsduringWorldWar11,Ben-

nettwasprofiledintheWinter2011magazinefor hisexploits.Thedeveloperofmanyskiareasand managerofthreeOlympicskiteams,perhapshis greatest claim to fame is as ski instructor to the stars,rubbingelbowswiththelikesofLucilleBall, GaryCooperandClarkGable.Hemayormaynot makeitontotheslopestocelebratehiscentury, butBennettsaysheplanstopartyonDecember 6. Well done, Nelson! ’Til next time.

—Dan Sweet, 275 Piscassic Rd., Newfields, NH 03856; dan.sweet@alumni.unh.edu

1941

I’m writing this news from my mom’sfavoriteplace,MerrymeetingLakeinNewHampshire.KnowinghowmuchI missmymom(Eleanor“Lonnie”GouldBryant),I extendmysympathiestothefamiliesandfriends ofthefollowing’41classmates:Mildred“Millie” Brown Caplan passed away on May 25, 2014, in Palm Springs, Calif. She was a docent at the PalmSpringsDesertMuseum.Milliewaspredeceased by her husband, David, and is survived bytwosons,fivegrandchildrenandonegreatgrandchild.EugeneNormanDuffydiedonMay 22, 2014, in Windsor, Vt. He worked as a cost accountingmanagerandwasactiveinthecommunity,helpingtofoundtheCrownPointCountry Clubandservingonseverallocalorganizations.

Eugeneispredeceasedbyhiswife,Laura,andis survived by his son, Kenneth. MaryTorrey Ellis passed away on May 18, 2014, in Durham, N.H. She and her husband ran a successful horseridingbusiness.Marywasafoundingmember ofthePiscataquaDogObedienceClub.Shewas predeceasedbyherhusband,Richard,adaughter and a son; she is survived by three daughters, eightgrandchildrenandsevengreat-grandchildren. Ruth Adelaide Hardy Seifert died on May 17,2014,inPepperell,Mass.Shetaughthomeeconomics,chemistryandfoodscienceandcoached basketball. Ruth was active in many communityorganizationsandvolunteeractivities.She was predeceased by her first husband, Robert Lievens,andsecondhusband,Francis,andissurvivedbytwodaughtersandfourgrandchildren.

Katharine“Kay”OldhamParkerpassedawayon May13,2014,inSeattle,Wash.Shelivedmostof her life in Juneau, Alaska. Kay enjoyed keeping in touch with friends and family, sewing, read-

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ingandwatchingwildlife.Shewaspredeceased by her husband, Larry, and is survived by three daughters, seven grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren.VirginiaMaryAldendiedonMay3, 2014,inLebanon,N.H.ShewasanEnglishteacher andworkedforIBMandthefederalgovernment.

Virginiawasanavidreaderandwriterofpoetry andastudentofreligion.Sheissurvivedbyason, threegrandchildrenandfivegreat-grandchildren.

Doris E. (Jill) Gelatt Andrews passed away on May 2, 2014, in Canton, Ohio. She taught high schoolFrench,Latin,andEnglish.Dorisdirected andsanginseveralchoirsandplayedpianoand organ. She was predeceased by her husband, Merle,andissurvivedbytwostepchildren,five grandchildrenandfourgreat-grandchildren.Alice ShoreyManterdiedonApril21,2014,inBinghamton,N.Y.Shespenthercareerworkinginhospitals andsocialserviceprograms.Aliceco-foundedthe LyceumatBinghamtonUniversityin1988.She wasmarriedtoJerauld,andissurvivedbythree childrenandfourgrandchildren.WilsonBrunel passedawayonMarch19,2014,inLongmeadow, Mass.HeservedintheU.S.ArmyduringWorldWar II.Wilsonworkedasabankpresidentandserved asadirectoroflifeinsurancecompanies.Hewas predeceased by his wife, Doris, and is survived by a son and granddaughter. HowardWilliam BurchdiedonFebruary8,2014,inProvincetown, Mass.HeservedasalieutenantintheU.S.Army duringWorldWarIIandwasawardedseveralmedals.Howardwasamasterelectricianandformer owneroftheSeaSurfMotelinProvincetown.He was predeceased by his wife, Florence, and is survived by two children, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Roland Sargent passedawayonMay22,2013,inAsheville,N.C. HeservedintheU.S.ArmyAircorpsduringWorld War II, rising to the rank of major and receiving many medals. Roland worked as a fire insuranceappraiserandwasanavidbirdwatcher.He was predeceased by his first wife, Doris, and is survivedbyhissecondwife,Betty,twochildren, onestepdaughter,fourgrandchildrenandone great-grandchild.

—Nancy Bryant, on behalf of Lonnie (Eleanor) Gould Bryant, 56A Blossomcrest Road, Lexington, MA 02421; (781)-863-5537

1942

For the class of ’42 we say thanks to Elaine Isherwood ’79, who for manyyearssupervisedoursubmissionstoUNH Magazine. Elaine is a gracious woman of great competenceandwarmth,andweshallmissher greatly.ClassmateMarionStevensonFrostand I continue to keep in touch regularly, and congratulateourselvesonourenduranceandpersistence.TheunwelcomenewsisthatwelostDottie PerkinsO’NeilonMarch6.Dottiewasmarriedto classmate James E. O’Neiland they raised their

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Strokes of Genius Richard Whitney ‘68 captures lands, leaders and laymen

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s an art student at UNH, RichardWhitney ’68 would pay his PhiKappaAltabrothersfivedollarstositfortheirportrait,and thenhe’dgivethemthefinishedpaintingwhenhewasdone.

Today,Whitneyisaworld-renownedartistwhohaspaintedhundreds oflandscapesandportraits,includingthoseofsevenNewHampshire governors, four New Hampshire Supreme Court chief justices and 2012RepublicanpresidentialnomineeMittRomney.Hislatestpiece,a portraitofretiredchiefjusticeJohnBroderick,wasunveiledattheNew Hampshire State House in September.

To some extent,Whitney’s success was predestined. Adopted by artisticparentswhohadspenttwoyearssearchingforachildwithan “exceptional”background,heshowedhisgeniusasearlyasagethree, whenhismothersathimdownwithcrayonsandpaper.Shewanted himtodrawahouse.Theyoungboy,whowouldyearslaterfindoutthat hislineageincludedmanyartistsincludingthefamousFrenchpainter FrançoisBoucher,wasn’tinterested,sosheputthepaperaway.Aweek laterheshowedheradrawing:aknightonahorsebackwithacastleand a sunset. His parents knew then that they had a talented child—and they expectedhimtodedicate himselfto whateverhe wanted todo and to be good at it.

“TheyreallyputthepressureonmebecausethatwasawayIcould show my affection,” Whitney says.

Fromelementaryschoolon,Whitneywonallsortsofawardsforhis work.AtUNH,studyingartinanerawhenabstractartandexpressionism wereinvogue,heconvincedprofessorJohnHatchtoallowhimtofocus onclassicalpainting,supplementinghiscourseworkfirstwithasummer portraitclasstaughtbyrenownedrealistSidneyF.Willisandlaterwith privatestudyunderR.H.IvesGammell,whoseTwilightofPaintingWhitney says“changed my life.”Widely hailed as one of the last classically

trainedrealistpainters,Gammellselectedonlytwoorthreestudents atatime,whomhewouldthenmentorforaperiodoffivetosixyears.

Aftercollege,WhitneymovedtoKeene,N.H.,andekedoutaliving paintingportraits.Afterstrugglingtopaythebillsforacoupleofyears, hereconnectedwithWillis,whosuggestedhegotoBostonandshow hispaintingstogalleriesonNewburyStreet.WhitneyfollowedWillis’ advice,andgothisfirstrealbreakwhenVoseGalleriesinBostonoffered him his first big commission.

“They said, we hate to insult you, but can you paint a portrait for a thousanddollars?”Whitneyrecalls.“IsaidsureIcould—I’dbeendoing them for a hundred bucks!”

Today, the 68-year-old Whitney lives with his artist wife, Sandy Sherman,on81acresoflandinStoddard,N.H.It’sanartist’sparadise, surrounded by some 12,000 acres of conserved land. He figures he hascompletedaround400portraitsand300landscapesatthispoint inhiscareer,someofwhichhavetakenlongerthanothers.HisRomney portrait, for example, took him about 150 hours.

Whenhe’snotpainting,Whitneyisrevisinghis1995book,Painting theVisualImpression,whichheplanstorereleaseonAmazonandasan ebook.ThebookincludesnoteshetookwhilestudyingwithGammell.

He’s also busy giving lectures and running workshops.

“IwasmeanttodowhatI’mdoing,”Whitneysays.“Fortunately,inthe last10to20years,realismhasbeenexplodingworldwide,sonowI’m internationally known in my field, which is very nice.”

JustasniceisthelastingbondbetweenWhitneyandUNH.Fiftyyears afterhepaidpeopleinordertopainttheirlikeness,Whitneysaysthat someofhisPhiKappaAlphabrothersstillhavetheirportraits—andtwo of them bought some of his paintings not too long ago.

— Michele Filgate ’06 Fall 2014 • U niver sit y o f New Ham p shi re M agazine • 4 3

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familyoffourchildreninthetownofChesterfield.

Shewasanactivevolunteerincommunityand stateorganizationswhoalsoservedontheUNH BoardofTrusteesandtheUNHAlumniAssociation andsupportedtheuniversityinnumerousother capacities. An innovator, she was a founder of the first kindergarten in her town as well as the senior citizens lunch program. She was active in her church, historical society, library, human serviceorganizationsandhospital,andreceived awards for her service to others. She leaves a son,twodaughtersand grandchildren.Dorothy Janvrin Dail died on April 4. After graduation, Dottie worked as a bookkeeper at BT Janvrin & SonsLumberCompanyinHamptonFalls,N.H.,a businessstartedbyhergrandfather.Shemoved into sales and later became a partner until the companywassoldin1985.Shewasveryactive intheHamptonFallsBaptistChurchandtheOrder oftheEasternStar.Sheissurvivedbythreesons andmanygrandchildren.EdithRuddKentdied June4.ShewasdaughterofUNHprofessorHerbertRuddandsisterofclassmateBillRudd.She earnedhermastersinnursingfromYaleUniversityin1945andduringWorldWarIIservedwith distinctionintheArmyNurseCorps,attainingthe rankofsecondlieutenant.EdiemarriedHollister Kent in 1947 and they began their life together in Hempstead,N.Y.,whereEdithworkedinpublic health for Nassau County and Sam worked in admissions at Hofstra University. Sam’s work eventually took the family to Brazil and British Columbia,whereEdieutilizedhernursingskills inlocalcommunitiesandnurturedwhatwould becomealifelonginterestincommunityhealth care.Afterherchildrenweregrown,shespent25 yearsinMontpelier,Vt.,committedtoalternative modesof healing,expandingherknowledge,and teaching as a reiki master. She is survived by threesons,adaughter,astepdaughterandgrandchildren.Letmehearfromyou.Beofgoodcheer.

—Mary Louise Hancock, 33 Washington Street, Concord, NH 03301; mlhdeerisland@alumni.unh.edu

1943

Please send your news.

—Dorothy Kimball Kraft,

2 Lilac Lane, Wolfeboro, NH 03894; d.m.kraft@alumni.unh.edu

1944

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or via mail: UNHMagazine,15StraffordAve.,Durham,NH03824.

1945

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or via mail: UNHMagazine,15StraffordAve.,Durham,NH03824.

1946

Please send your news.

—Jeane Steacie Harriman,

14 Old Mill Dr., P.O. Box 670, Wolfeboro, NH 03894

1947

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or via mail: UNHMagazine,15StraffordAve.,Durham,NH03824.

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1948

TheUniversityofNewHampshire Reunion of June honored the classes of 1944, 1954, 1964, 1974 and 1979.

It also attracted U.S. Air Force retiree Elwood S. Fraser, and his blushing bride, Betty Sawyer ’47.Remember“Woody,”photographerextraordinaire,coveringallcampusathleticandentertainmentactivitiesduringhispost-WorldWarII tourofdutyinDurham.TheGoldenWildcatLuncheonwassharedbycongenialclassesof1940 through1963attheElliottAlumniCenter’s1925 Room.Mostenjoyablewasalivelypresentation

by Michael McCann, director of the Sports and EntertainmentInstituteattheUNHSchoolofLaw. Regrettablyonlyobituariesremaintobereported: JeanDelandHardyofSaranacLake,N.Y.,formerly ofCanton,N.Y.,diedonMay27,2014.ThyraAnn SpoffordHalldiedpeacefullyonMarch31,2014, inBozeman,Mont.;JosefA.DeMuziodiedatthe GraceCottageHospital,Townshend,Vt.,onMay 22,2014;PatriciaLincolnJohnsonofWestPalm Beach, Fla., passed away on June 2, 2014; Sally YoumansZinkdiedathomeinWonalancet,N.H., onNov.8,2013;RichardG.MardendiedFeb.16, 2014,inWolfeboro,N.H.;AndrewG.Lariviereof Wells,Maine,diedonMarch3,2014;KathrynG. “Kay”LaTourettediedNov.12,2013inWebster, N.Y.;ElinorJ.SandlerFinnofMedford,Mass.,died Sept.26,2013;MaryBrowndiedonJan.16,2014, inLancaster,N.H.,andRobertDurgin,formerlyof Portsmouth,N.H.,diedinBradenton,Fla.,onApril 11,2013.Oursinceresympathygoesouttoeach of their families.

—Betty MacAskill Shea,P.O. Box 1975, Exeter, NH 03833; eshea@alumni.unh.edu

1949

The 2014 UNH football season started off with a game against theToledo Rockets; I well remember when the 1947undefeatedUNHfootballteamwasinvited totheGlassBowlinaplacecalled“Toledo,”which mostofushadneverheardof.Onedarknightall ofUNH(itseemed)wasatthe DurhamRailroad Stationtocheertheteamonastheystartedtheir long ride to Ohio, with co-captain Ernie Rainy carryingabig,reddish-brownrooster—andthey receivedjustasbigacheerwhentheyreturned.

They hadn’twon,butthescorewasn’timportant; they were our football heroes.The six 49ers at our Reunion luncheon were Phyllis Karpinski Martin, Ann Paul Hatch,“Stu”Eynon and wife, Wanda,“Woody”Fraserandwife,BettySawyer ’47 Fraser, Harold“Hack”Jordan and me. Our president, Dick Dart, didn’t make it because of healthproblems,whichwehopearebetternow.

Ofcourse,noneofusreturneeslookedverydifferent from June 1949; but just to remind us of howgoodlookingwewere,theAlumniOfficestaff gaveusnametagsthatincludedourpicturefrom the1949Granite!Themostrecentgroupofcolleagueswhoarenolongerwithusislistedinthe backofthismagazine.IwillmentionatypicalUNH veteran,ThomasCushing,whoisrepresentative of many 49ers, if probably from a larger family.

Tom and nine of his brothers served in World

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WarII.AftergraduatingfromFranklin(N.H.)High, he served for three years in the PacificTheater.

ReturningtoFranklinhemarriedhishighschool sweetheart,Mildred,andthenattendedUNH.They weremarriedfor68years,untilhisJunedeathin Hopkinton,N.H.Twosons,sadly,pre-deceased him.DonationsinTom’smemorymaybemadeto theWilliamT.CushingScholarshipFundatUNH, which was previously set up for Tom’s family.

—Joan Boodey Lamson, 51 Lamson Ln., New London, NH, 03257; (603) 526-6648

1950

Linda Garland Cross ’71 sent me a lovingtributetoherfather,Edmund Thomas Garland, who passed away June 27, 2014,attheageof88.Survivinghimishiswifeof 66 years, Phyliss, and three children. He began hisbankingcareerin1952withStraffordNational BankinDover,N.H.,andlatermovedtoVirginia, where his wife still resides. Carlton Bradford of North Sutton, N.H., was honored in June by the NewLondonServiceOrganizationwiththeThird of a Century Award, reflecting his 33 years of notableandvaluablecontributionstotheNew Londonarea.Heandhislatewife,Maggie,owned andoperatedtheKearsargeBookshelf,wherehe hosted poetry readings for past poet laureate DonaldHall,amongmanyothers.Agreatpicture ofhimwithhisdog,Skye,wasfeaturedintheIntertownRecordofSunapee.George“Red”Rollins ofConcord,N.H.,passedawayinMarch2014atthe age of 91. He served inWorldWar II in the South PacificbeforeattendingUNHandlateroperated BrownandSaltmarsh,aretailofficesupplystore inConcord.Anavidoutdoorsman,churchchoir memberandgardener,Georgealsoskiedwith hisgrandchildrenintohis80s.Ourcondolences tohiswifeof64years,Madeline(“Nikki”),andto hisdaughterandson.Recently,Icalledonanold friend, Norma Perkin Slanetz, to ask her about classmatesinthegreaterKeene,N.H.,area,and wehadagreatlongchat.Iwassogladtolearnthat shestillenjoystennisaswellasbridge.Normaand herhusband,Bill,havebeenmarriedfor63years and have spent most of that time in the same house,originallybuiltin1771.Thankstohertwo children,grandchildrenandgreat-grandchildren who live in the area, they are able to remain in theirhome,gardensandall!Sincewehaveanew systemofcommunicatinginplace,Iencourage you to continue to share your memories of our class activities over the years as well as your familynews.Sendthemdirectlytomesowecan allshareaspecialpartofourliveswitheachother.

—AnneMarieFlanaganLong,2601NewcombCt., Sun City, FL 33573; amflong@alumni.unh.edu

1951

News is sparse but thank yous are not for Janet Sanderson Pitman Anderson, who was our treasurer for so many yearsthatIcan’tremember!Shehasbeenretired fromherofficebytheadministration’shandling ofthemoneywehavecollectedfromdues,she turnedourtreasuryoverinJulybutitisstilltobe used as our scholarship fund.You should have

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received a letter mailed in August as we finally went with the flow—just remember to mark any contribution check for the 1951 Scholarship Fund. And any news items come directly to the class secretary which will relieve Janet of an onerous job! So raise a toast to Jan for the work she did over the years of conducting our financial affairs ! Janet has replaced our time withcontinuedinterestinOLLI,whichisacompilationoffascinatingcoursesinfallandspring segments.AndshevisitsHavenwoodinConcord where you can run into many UNHers such as Art Grant and Harold and Kathleen Beliveau.

Janet also enjoys telephone conversations with Alice and Ralph Amsden in Stratham as well as lunches with Eloise StoddardWallspen inAltonBaywhenEloiseisupfromFlorida.Mary Lou Gilman Sawyer spends her summers in Newbury and usually makes our lunch bunch atbothendsoftheseason.TheMayluncheonin Concordwaslowincountbutloudinvolumeas only seven of us prattled on.We meet again on Oct.2attheRedBlazer.Joinus,weusuallyspan from1949thru1953butanyoneiswelcome!Ellie BrocklebankBeaudetteforwardedpicturesof herthreesons(allflirtingwiththeover-50mark andhealthyandhandsome)Shelivesonalovely lake in Stow, Mass. Please turn to the bottom of the back pages, sad pages, and be thankful for the classmates we remember so well and their accomplishments in their lives.

—Anne Schultz Cotter, PO Box 33, Intervale, NH 03854; a.cotter@alumni.unh.edu

1952

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Hi dear mates! It’s a beautiful AugustdayandDelawarehashadan unusuallymildsummer—yeah!I’llbe outofclass news after this issue but sadly I do have many obituaries.First,Iwouldliketoexplainasituation whichonlyyoucanbeofhelp.You’vesaidthe’52 class news is the first thing you read when our UNHMagazinearrives.Ifyouwanttoreadyour ’52column,pleasesendmenotesaboutYOU!We allwanttoknowwhatyouaredoing! Itrulyneed helpfromyou.Thefollowingobituariessadden medeeplyandIsendmylovetotheirlovedones.

MildredPrattDeRocherofStafford,Vt.,onMarch 15,2009;YvetteBergeronDuffyofFallsChurch, Va., died on March 14, 2014; Cornelius J. Flynn (Connie)ofRichmond,Va.,passedawayonMarch 31, 2014;Wilfred A. Parenteau of Denton, Md., diedonApril26,2014.DorothyFlowersDodgeof Muncy,Pa.,diedMay30,2014;OttoA.Koskelaof Dublin,N.H., diedJune5,2014;RobertDespres wrote me that his brother, Joseph Despres, of NorthAuburn,Maine, diedonJune7,2014.Robert G.FriedmanofOcala,Fla.,diedonJune12,2014 andPeggy-AnnLevitateReidofConcord,N.H., died on June 18, 2014. Marcia Sullivan“Sully” Colewrites:“AfterJohndiedin2012,Imovedto LosGates,Calif.,tobeclosertomydaughterand son and I enjoy it here.”Joann Snow Duncan’s son“just put out a CD on the life of Celia Thaxter.” Joyce Cook Evans Barry writes that she alwayslooksforwardtoreadingtheclassnotes.

So good hearing from you, Joyce. Peter Ladd states,“Sinceretirement,CarolandIhavebeen

livinginTuftonboro,N.H.,onLakeWinnipesaukee andarebothdoingwell.”Peter,didyouknowthat wehaveafamilysummerhomebuiltbymygreat grandfatherin1892on“LakeWinni?”Catherine Irish Dillon wonders if there are any UNHers in Boise; yes, Catherine, I do remember you very well. Lester Garvin is still very active in Ashland, Mass., community commissions. Bill Shea is a nationalandinternationalaviationexpert.“Bim” Allen,oursexyprexyandTunihavemovedintoa lovelycondoinChatham,N.J.BimandIchaton thephoneoften.HeandTuniplannedtogototheir cottageinNovaScotiainOctober.MayGodBless you all and our troops!

—Ruth Goldthwait Maynard, 23 Bent Lane, Newark,DE19711;DMayn32445@alumni.unh.edu

1953

Ifyoumissedthewonderful60th, andseveraldidbecauseofgrandchildren’sgraduationsorweddingsorotherreasons,a65thisintheworks.Usuallytheuniversity countsreunionsindecadesafterthe50th,soour next one would be our 70th in 2023, but we’re not,unfortunately,gettingyounger,sothought it would be a fine idea to jump the gun and get togetherinhospitableDurhamin2018inaddition.Sostayhealthyandplantoreturntowhere youhadfourmemorableyears.Incidentally,just touringthenewbusinessschoolisworththetrip back.TheAlumniOfficehassentthenoticeofthe death of Harry J. Faucy, 91, of Durham, N.H., in 2001. At UNH he was an English major. Paul A. Mason,aThompsonSchoolgrad,diedMarch1,

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2014, from Parkinson’s. After Army service, he and his family settled in Lebanon, N.H., where hebecameseniormethodsengineeratSplitBall Bearing, retiring in 1993. He also wrote poetry, was a volunteer firefighter and was active in many civic organizations.

—Ann Merrow Burghardt,

411 Wentworth Hill Road, Center Sandwich, NH 03227; annjack@alumni.unh.edu

1954

Please send your news to alumni.

editor@unh.edu or via mail: UNHMagazine,15StraffordAve.,Durham,NH03824.

1955

Greetings!Wheredidsummergo?

Withcoolertempsit’stimeforfootball.MarilynandTomTracynotedtherewouldbe agreatgroupof55ersattendingtheUNH-Lehigh game Sept. 13. Dick and Jeanne Shepardson, Len and Penny Willey, Marshall Litchfield, Art Valicenti,BillandShirleyGeoffrion,LouisGeorgopolus, Victor and Cecelia Azzi, Bill and Ruth Lacey,BobandFlorenceWyman,DonandBetty Oleson,NorrisandDeeBrowne,AnnRusselland Bud, Ralph and Jean Stevens, Chan and Ann SanbornallplannedtojointheTracysthere.Go Wildcats! Jack and Pat Weeks have spent the summeratLakeWinnisquaminN.H.,Chanand AnnSanbornareinWellsBeach,Maine,andLorna Kimballistouringsomeofournationalparkswith family.Your Reunion Committee (Shep, Lorna, Jack,Pat,Chan,Ann,MargeandBill)wouldliketo remindyoutomarkyourcalendarsforJune5–7, 2015, for our 60th in Durham. Plans are already firming up, our location will be the Holiday Inn ExpressinDurham,withaFridaynightwelcome receptionatthePaulCenterCourtyard,Saturday campus tour, class march and banquet in the MemorialUnionBuilding(withaDJanddancing too)!,Ifpossibleyoumightbeabletosqueezein an ice cream stop!You won’t want to miss any ofit.Keepaneyeonunhconnect.unh.edu.Gina Damiano’02,associatedirectorofreunions,has beenagreathelpingettingthingsunderway.She hasprovideduswitha55-classmateroster.Don’t besurprisedifyoureceiveane-mailorphonecall asking you to make a few contacts with classmatesinyourarea.Earlyknowledgeofclassmate attendance will help in the planning process.

—Marge and Bill Johnston, 40502 Lenox Park

Drive, Novi, MI 48377; billj7485@aol.com

1956

I am sure you all enjoy reading news about classmates, but unfortunately, didn’t have a single message from anyoneoutthere!Sadly,thatwillmeantheonly newsthisquarterisobituaries.Manyofusfondly rememberDr.JohnA.Bagonzi,astandoutbaseballandbasketballathlete,whoearnedabachelor ofsciencedegreeinbiologyasamemberofour class. Following commissioned Army service, he pursued a baseball career, pitching for the ChicagoCubs,andlaterearnedhismaster’sand doctoral degrees from Indiana University. Despite an arm injury, he returned toWoodsville,

FOND FAREWELL: A half-dozen UNH alums gathered at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for the final reunion of the C-133 Cargomaster, a limited-production aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force and retired in 1971. Pictured from left to right are: Dan Ruskiewicz ’60, Dick Quinby ’56, Jim Twombly ’63, Jean Anne RumazzaTwombly ’62, Joy Anderson Chartrain ’64 and Dick Chartrain ’62.The group was all stationed at the Dover AFB in the 1960s and the four men piloted the C-133 Cargomaster in Vietnam.

N.H.,withhiswife,Dreamer,aSouthCarolinanative.Hepursuedateachingandcoachingcareer.

Thereheearnedadoctoraldegree,taughtand coachedfoursports.Histeamsachievedsomeof thelongestwinningrecordsinGraniteStatehistory.Johnwasrecognizedwithseveralstateand national awards and accolades. After 33 years atWHS,hecoachedbaseballatPlymouthState University.JohndiedonFebruary13,2014,and issurvivedbyDreamer,theirthreechildren,and fourgrandchildren.Analumnuswithamaster’s degreeinanimalnutrition,RichardM.Vondellof BattleCreek,Mich.,diedonJune14,2014.Richard receivedadoctoraldegreeinfoodscienceand nutrition at UMass and spent 28 years with the KelloggCompany,risingtoseniordirectorofthe cereal research department. He is survived by hiswife,fourchildrenandeightgrandchildren.

Welookforwardtohearingfromyouandsharing your news.

—JoanZingHolyrod,5TimberLaneApt213,Exeter NH 03833; j.holyrod_zing@alumni.unh.edu

1957

Classmates,weneedtohearfrom you! We did hear from our president,FritzArmstrong,whoreceivedathankyou letter from Rachel W., a UNH music education majorwhowasawardedaClassof1957Center forInternationalEducation(CIE)Scholarshipto furtherherstudiesinItaly.Excerptsfromherletterfollow:“Overall,Ihavegrowntremendously, both as a student and as a person … Getting to knowsomeofthepeoplewhohavegrownupin thistown(AscoliPiceno)hasbeenagreatexperience and I feel that I can incorporate this new knowledgeandconfidenceinbothmyacademic and personal lives. …Since I took a class last fall calledAncientWorld,Iwasabletorecognizeand explain different sculptures and their history in the Borghese Museum, column styles in the Pantheon,andhistoricaleventsthattookplace intheColiseum,whichIsharedwithpeers.”The letter describes her anticipation of going to a

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restaurant,“wheretheowner’ssonisbringinghis bandandthey’regoingtoplayauthenticItalian folkmusic!I’mexcitedsincethispastsemesterI learnedanItaliantarantella,alsocalledthespider dance,onclarinet.”Rachelendsthelettersaying, “Iamverygratefultohavehadtheopportunityto studyinItaly.ThankyouagainfortheCIEscholarship.”Send us your news so that the next class letter can be about you!

—Carly and Jim Hellen, 20 Fitts Farm Drive, Durham, NH 03824; jandchellen@yahoo.com

1958

Our class has received a wonderful letter of thanks from Grace Ouellette ’14, who was a recipient of one of our Classof1958EndowedScholarships.Inherletter, Ms. Ouellette gives a brief history of herself andherplansforthefuture.Majoringinnursing, shehadasummerjobworkingasacampnurse inVermont. She hopes to work for two years in anacutecarehospitalbeforegoingtograduate school to obtain her license as a family nurse practitioner/emergencynursepractitioner.The entire letter will be on unhconnect.unh.edu. I recently heard from Barbara Shute Lowrey, a fellowphysicsmajor.BarbaraworkedforNASAat GoddardSpaceFlightCenterfor36yearswhere shecalculatedlaunchtimesfortheIMPhighlyeccentricsatellitesandworkedtodevelopscientific data systems for satellites like Landsat 5, COBE andTRMM.Sheretiredin1995,returningtoNew Hampshireforseveralyearsbeforere-locatingto Marylandtobeclosertoherchildrenandgrandsons. Barbara is active in her retirement having recentlytriedkayakingforthefirsttime.InJune, myhusbandandItooktotheroadonacombined businessandvacationtriptoBoulder,Colo.,the mountainwest,andtheUniversityofKansas,covering7,000miles.InAugustweattendedtheCommitteeonSpaceResearch(COSPAR)Assemblyin Moscow,Russia.ThiswasourfifthtriptoMoscow in 44 years; we have seen many changes. I am stilleditingfortheCOSPARscientificjournalAdvances in Space Research. We have received information on the passing of the following classmates: Victor Cardosi, Jr. (Palm Harbor, Fla.); Donald H. Chase (Hampton Falls, N.H.); Clement L. Dunkley, Jr. (Tampa, Fla.); Robert E. Dustin (Canterbury, N.H.); Castella Root Ford (Stanford, Ky.); Frederick R. Holbrook (Laramie, Wyo.andHampden,Maine);JohnF.Kenny(Sierra Vista, Ariz.); Arthur Leslie Seamans (Lewiston, Idaho);and MaryAgnesLong (Springfield,Vt.).

Additional information on these classmates is on unhconnect.unh.edu.

—PeggyAnnShea,100TennysonAvenue,Nashua, NH 03062; peggy.shea@alumni.unh.edu

1959

Please send your news.

—Carole Vitagliano Carlson,

15 Thatcher Road, Gloucester, MA 01930; c.v.carlson@alumni.unh.edu

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reunionnextyear!Sobesuretomakenoteofthe dates—June5–7,2015.Youwillbeinformedof alldetailsinthecomingmonths.PeterHollister andhiswife,Patsy,splittheirtimebetweentheir primary home in northern Kentucky and their smallfarminEvinston,Fla.Athirdgenerationof HollistersisnowatUNH.Theirgranddaughteris amemberoftheclassof2017.Herparentswere bothUNHgrads.Lastfall,AlmaWrightWoodsand DaveWoodsofEvanston,Ill.,celebrated50years ofmarriagehavingmorethan200guestsatthe UnitarianChurch.Theywouldwelcomevisitors intheChicagoarea.Ihadawonderfultripbackto NewHampshireinMaywithmydaughter,Martha Duffey ’93. While I spent time with family and friendsinNashuaandBedford,sheandsomeof hersororitysistersattendedthe2014UNHCommencementastheirsororitysister,Oscarwinning JenniferLee’92whowroteanddirectedFrozen, wascommencementspeaker.Myhusbandand I spent some time in July with our children and grandchildrenatBoulderLakeinLakeHarmony, Pa.,celebratingour50thanniversary.InAugust, I enjoyed a return trip to Portsmouth for a mini Nashua reunion that included UNH grads Joe Bellavance, Roland Lajoie and Jimmy Soule. It saddens me to report on the many obituaries I receivedfromtheAlumniOffice:Dr. JamesBallou, Inverness, Fla., April 18, 2012; Burr Clark, Columbus, Ohio, February 3, 2014; Elaine C. Ciarkowski, Largo, Fla., Jan. 20, 2014; Donald Munsey, Jr., Sandwich, Mass., Jan. 21, 2014; RichardPlaydon,Dunbarton,N.H.,March8,2014;

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Norman‘Jerry’Roberts,Montpelier,Vt.March23, 2014;RichardKeen,Homosassa,Fla.,March31, 2014;andJamesLundberg,EastLongmeadow, Mass., June 20, 2014.

—Estelle “Stella” Belanger Landry, 315 Chickory Trail, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062; (856)418-1800; stella.landry@alumni.unh.edu

1961

Many thanks to classmates who sent in notes. Harvey Galloway writes,“OnarecenttriptoFlorida,mywife,Linda, and I got together for lunch inVenice with Paul Berubeandhiswife,Arolyn,andPeteElliottand hiswife,Phebe.BothPaulandPetearemembers ofourclass,whereasArolynandPhebeareUNH classof1962.WehadanicevisitatthePlantation LakesCountryClubwherePaulandArolynhave lived the past eight or so years. Normally we try toworkinagolfgamebutthisyearitdidnotwork outduetootheractivities.Ourfamilyisgetting along fine and we now have a great grandson.”

SusanLymanBridge sentaninterestingarticle datedApril7fromthePortsmouthHeraldabout Walt Ayer headlined, Unique Mustang out for a drive, with a subtitle: Local man one of the originalownersof1964½model.“Turnsoutthat today,heisoneofonly26originalownersofthe so-called 1964½ Mustang—and the only one believedtoliveinNewEngland.”TheodoreHaapala writes he has been retired for 20 years and hasbeenthetrusteeofthelocallibrarysystemin NorthCarolina’sRockinghamCountyforthepast six years, currently chairman. He also serves on

thelocalhospitalfoundationboardandistaking classesatthelocalcommunitycollege.Gretchen Webster is teaching math at Clark Community College in Vancouver, Wash. She also teaches duringthesummersatuniversitiesinKunming, China,orLima,Peru—exchangingteachingmethods.HolidaysandvacationsarespentinVirginia andIdahowithchildrenandgrandchildren.Class condolencestoJohnKjellmanonthedeathofhis wife,Eleanor,inMarch.Condolencestothefamily KatharineE.Stansfield,whodiedJune25,2013.

She had recently retired from the Department ofLanguages,LiteraturesandCulturesatUNH. Condolences to the family of Bertrand“Toby” Sprague,TKE,whodiedJuly20,2013.Tobywas askijumpingjudgeandtookpartinthe1980and 1984 Olympics. Finally, Denis Lacroix writes“I amretiredfrombeingahighschoolbasketball andsoccerofficial.Basketballfrom1970-2013for IAABOWashington,D.C.BoardNo.12(43years) andMetropolitanWashingtonSoccerReferees Association from 1975-2014 (39 years). It was a blast!”

—PatGagneCoolidge,P.O.Box736,Rollinsford,NH 03869; pat.coolidge@alumni.unh.edu

1962

Sandra W. Martin of Hopkinton, N.H., founder ofThe Little Nature Museum, has announced the museum has moved toWarner, N.H., in the barn across from theMountKearsargeIndianMuseum.Shestarted her museum at the age of 13. It is now 59 years old. As a family nature center, the museum will

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continuetoofferenvironmentaleducation,while complementing the exhibits and programs at theIndianMuseum.Youcanlearnmoreatwww. littlenaturemuseum.org.ClassTreasurerLouise R. Zerba has closed the class of 1962 accounts andthetotalamountof$7,552.40hasbeengiven to the Class of 1962 Student Enrichment Fund.

YouareencouragedtocontinuetomakedonationstothisfundwheneveryoudonatetoUNH. PleasewriteClassof1962StudentEnrichment Fund on the form you send in with your check.

Nancy J. McIntire received a card from Sarah Wiggins’15thankingherandtheclassformaking her research possible. Sarah is conducting researchonagritourismintheMauleRegionof Chile.Shehopesherresearchwillleadtoabetter understandingofthechallengesthesefarmers faceandhowtheycanbebetterassisted.Since youwillnolongerbesendingintheduesforms withyournewsforthiscolumn,pleasesendyour newstomeatjak@alumni.unh.edu.Ifyouenjoy readingaboutnewsofyourUNHfriendsherein thiscolumn,youneedtosendmenews,please!

—Judy Dawkins Kennedy, 34 Timber Ridge Rd., Alton Bay, NH 03810; (603) 875-5979; jak@alumni.unh.edu

1963

Nelson Kennedy has the following items from our 50th reunion thatyoumaypurchase:GoldenGranitesat$15 and pewter ornaments at $10; prices include shipping.Youcansend yourrequestandcheck directlytohim andhewillturnitovertoclasstreasurerSueLong.Hecanbereachedatnfkjak@ttlc. net,(603)875-5979or34TimberRidgeRoad,AltonBay,NH03801.Thistimenoclassnewsitems reachedmeandIhaven’tbeenabletomakemy usual“random”phonecallssopleasesendnews!

—Alice Miller Batchelor, 37 Rydal Mount Dr. Falmouth,MA02540;a.m.batchelor@alumni.unh.edu

1964

Definition of a reunion? Picture ever-so-manypeopleentering the gathering venue, eyes searching the room, quick glances at nametags prominently displayed (slightly larger print than they used to be?) warm hugs, kisses on the cheek, handshakes and back claps, huge smiles and a few tears—382classmatesandgueststomeetonce again. It was almost like“speed dating:”Three minutesallottedtoeachperson,moveon,catch theeyeofsomeoneapproaching,grabtheattention of someone across the room. How quickly it all happened! An amazing accomplishment andkudostoCarrieCanapaFriedmanandDick McKinney and their tireless and hardworking crew to bring it all together! Ross Deachman has assumed the presidency of our class, Carrie the vice presidency and I’ll hang in there as secretary/treasurer—but only for another 47 years!OurheartfeltthankstoTommyDietz,who served as our vice president for so long. Such a pleasure,Tommy, to hug you once again!The GoldenGranite,brilliantlyorchestratedbyAnn Fuellhart Seamans, is indeed a treasure and a

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HOME RUN IN CONCORD: Chuck Douglas ’65, Debra Douglas, Stella Scamman ’63, Doug Scamman ’65 and Paul Holloway ’91H joined Boston Red Sox icons David “Big Papi” Ortiz and Wally the Green Monster to announce a commemorative Red Sox lottery ticket issued in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the New Hampshire Lottery. Sponsor of UNH Paul College’s annual Holloway Business Competition and namesake of the university’s Holloway Commons, Paul Holloway is also the state lottery commissioner. lovelyremembrance.Shouldyouwishtosecure one, it may be purchased for $15, payable by check to UNH Class of 1964. (Kindly indicate “GoldenGranite”onthememoline!)RonNoble designedaquietandmosttouchingcapsuleof timetorememberandneverforgetourdeparted classmates.Althoughphysicallyabsentfromus now,theywereindeedwithusduringthathourso beautifullyofferedtothosepresent. Duringthe numerousactivities,theChiOgalsdecidedupon theirnextannualget-together.BriarPatchInnin drop-deadgorgeousOakCreekCanyon,Sedona, willwarmlywelcometheminSeptember2015— yetanotherpart;howpleasedIwastomakeTHAT reservation!JonieWisellHomokaysentalovely andlengthypersonaloverview.SheandJeanne SullivanBigelowenjoyedwanderingabout,awed by so many changes and strategically placed emergencyphones.(Moreofyourlettertofollow, Jonie.) Like so many of us, they just want to do this all over again! Future columns will reflect personalobservationsfromallthosewho“write in.”Standing by and sending warmest wishes!

—PollyAshtonDaniels,3190N.StateRoute89-A,

Sedona,AZ86336;polly.daniels@alumni.unh.edu

1965

The50thReunionCommitteehas been busy planning great events forourJune5–7,2015reunion,whichincludes aFridaymorninggolftournament,aFridaynight lobster bake off-campus, an exciting banquet Saturdaynight,andseveralotherspecialgroup eventsandtours.Wewillholdamemorialservice forthedeceasedmembersofourclass.Asweget closer,keepaneyeoutforemailsandbrochures thatwillcomefromthereunioncommitteeand the Alumni Office with more details. You can check our reunion website for details to date: www.unhconnect.unh.edu/reunion.Forallof theFacebookusersoutthere,wedohaveaclass

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groupthatyoucanfindonthereunionwebsite.

Jointodayandreconnectwithotherclassmates!

Class president Dr. RalphYoung has helped to reducethenumberoflostclassmatesfrom220 to39.Youcanseethelistofnamesonthereunion websitewww.unhconnect.unh.edu/reunion.He hasalsohelpedidentifydeceasedmembersof ourclass,whonumber131.Therewere978membersofthegraduatingclassof1965.Iamsorryto announceanobituaryforclassmateArthur“Ted” CutterIII,DVM,whodiedunexpectedlyMarch25, 2014,inDeerfield,N.H.Heearnedhisdoctoratein veterinarianmedicinefromCornellUniversity.Ted ownedandoperatedhisownpracticeandworked throughouttheNewHampshireformorethan40 years.Dr.GeorgeBarrondidhislasttwoyearsof collegeatUNHandwentontomedicalschoolat UVM.HenowteachesatVirginiaTechSchoolof Medicine. George and his wife, Mary, winter in MarcoIsland,Fla.PaulPinetofColgateUniversity publishedthesixtheditionofInvitationtoOceanography. Paul believes that anybody can learn abouttheprocessesandcreaturesoftheocean.

Anextensivewebsite,OceanLink,accompanies thebook.SomethoughtsfromDavidEastman: “FrommyearliestfroshdaysatUNH,Itreasured theCollegeWoods.Dr.ClarkSteven’sDendrology class took us out there as well as perusing the campustrees.Wecollectedleavespluckedduring thatfirstgloriousNewHampshirefall,andmade acollection,pressedbetweenmagazinepages andthensprayedwithaclearplasticlacquerfor a scrapbook to be handed in.”Dave’s ’64 Forest Campclassconk’storywaspublishedinarecent UNH Magazine. David says that for 25 years he wasstewardoftwonaturalareasonSquamLake thankstotheUNHprofessorswhorewardedhim after teaching a class in 1982 upon his return fromthePacificNorthwest.KatherineLangelives Batavia,Ill.SheretiredfromJPMorganChasein

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A View From the Bridge

For more than two decades, Mary Currie ’76 was the ‘voice’ of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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aryCurrie’76retiredearlierthisyear,but she went out on top.

For 22 years, Currie served as chief spokespersonforasingle,celebrityclient:SanFrancisco’sfabledGoldenGateBridge.Shortlybeforeshe retired last spring, she made a final trip up one of thebridge’stowers,whichriselikegracefulArtDeco skyscrapersfromthebaybelow.“Theveryfirsttime I went all the way up, I was pretty terrified,”she admits.“You’restandingonaplatformsurroundedby railings,soit’sverysafe.Butstill,it’s746feetabove the water. That’s pretty overwhelming.”

Curriegrewaccustomedtotheheights,yetshe’s still overwhelmed by the sheer grandeur of the bridgeandthesweeping,360-degreeviewsitcommands.“Thebridgealwayslooksandfeelsdifferent, depending on the light, weather and time of day,” shemarvels.“WheneverIworkedwithfilmcrews, I would always suggest a sunrise shot, because there’snothinglikethesightofthesuncomingup over San Francisco and the East Bay.” Currie’sownstorybegan3,000milesaway.She grew up in Connecticut, and inherited an interest in science and the outdoors from her father, a biologyteacher,andacommitmenttopublicservicefromher grandmother,whowasactiveinDemocraticpolitics.Shespent twoyearsatUConnthentransferredtoUNH,whereshemajored in botany and minored in soil sciences. After graduating, she landed work as a field biologist atYellowstone National Park andthenasasoilmapperwiththeSoilConservationServicein ColoradoandMontana—anddiscoveredshehadanaptitudefor “takingcomplextechnicalinformationandtranslatingitinway that is meaningful for the general public.”

Thatskillprovedessentialwhen,afterrelocatingtoCalifornia, she joined a friend’s public affairs consulting company that specialized in transportation projects. (“You have a science background,”herfriendtoldher.“Youprobablycanunderstand theseengineersmuchbetterthanIcan.”)Afterseveralyearsof helpingcommutersgrasptheintricaciesoftheBayAreaRapid TransitsystemandCaltransconstructionprojects,shewashired astheveryfirstpublicinformationofficerfortheGoldenGate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

Curriebecamethego-tocommunicationspersonforeverything from routine transit issues like bus scheduling (“surprisingly complex,”she says) to random but regular acts of whimsy—likethefoggymorningshearrivedatworktodiscover that a group of enterprising engineering students had suspendedaVWbugoverthesideofthebridge,orthelatesummer afternoonwhenasix-foot-tallostrichescapedfromacargovan

andbroughtbridgetraffictoacompletehalt.Shedeveloped thebridge’sonlinepresence,creatingitsfact-and-photo-filled websiteandtrainingbridgeworkerstouseTwittertoprovide trafficupdatestotheestimated39millionvehiclesthatcross the bridge every year.

Shealsodealtwithfarmoreseriousissues,likethesteppedupsecuritymeasuresthatfollowed9/11andthelong-running debateoverwhethertoinstallsuicide-deterrencenetsbelow thebridge’spublicwalkways.Whilethebridge’ssecurityteam isabletointerceptthevastmajorityofwould-besuicides,since thebridgeopenedanestimated1,600peoplehaveendedtheir lives there.“That’s a tragedy for the people who are harming themselves, and for the bridge itself,”says Currie. She was greatlyheartenedthisJunewhenthedistrict’sboardofdirectors approveda$76millionfundingplantoinstallthesteel-mesh nets by 2017.

Most of all her work made her a passionate student of the GoldenGateBridge’srichhistory,andeventuallytheauthorof twobooksaboutitsconstructionandengineering.“Thisbridge wasbuiltduringtheGreatDepressionbymenwhodesperately neededthejobs,”saysCurrie,whocountsinterviewingsome ofthesurvivingbridgebuildersasoneofthehighlightsofher tenure.“Itbecameasymbolofinnovation,oftheabilitytodream bigandaccomplishit.Itgivesmethechillstohavebeenpartof something so special.”

—Beth Brosnan

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1997afteracareerincorporatefinance.Sheand herhusband,Ken,enjoybiking,canoeing,kayakingandcross-countryskiing.PhiMumembers from the classes of ’64 and ’65 will be spending some time at the Lake Morey Inn in Fairlee,Vt., inSeptemberforapre-reunionget-together.We hope to encourage other sisters to attend our 50threunion.Ifyouareintouchwithagroupfrom theclass,pleaseencourageattendancein2015.

—Jacqueline Flynn Thompson, PO Box 302, 197 Cross Hill Road, Wilmot, NH 03287; thompson2004@tds.net

1966

Findanddustoffthosebluebeanies.

Twenty-twomonthsandcounting until our“Fantastic Fiftieth.”Your fellow classmates who are working to make this a great reunionareasfollows:GlennAppleyard,CurtBean, BeverlyMorrisonBeasley,R.AllenBrandt,Lynda Brearey,RayDuffillJr.,KatherineGerbrachtHall, B.GailKingston,DavieDeering,JaneKavanaugh, Gail Hayes Kelly, Peter Krippendorf, Carol Cole LaClair, Catherine (Kitty McKay) O’Leary, Maryellen Flanagan Morse, Doug Murphy, J. Gregg Sanborn, Peter Spaulding, JonathanTetherly, BrendaWoodfinThomasandPeterZotto.Share yourideasandsuggestionswiththem.Ifyoudo not have their contact information, check with GinaDamiano,associatedirectorofreunionprogramsatgina.damiano@unh.edu.Inadditionto theaforementionedcontactinformation,wehave a class of 1966 group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/115664234327.Getintouch!

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BarbaraStarkeyWingardnerislookingforward tohearingaboutplansforour50thReunion.Every year,AlphaXiDeltasistersBarbara,SheilaBruce Far,LindaKellyJewettandNancy(Sis)Perreault WoodsgettogetherandtraveltoMexico,Hilton Head,S.C.,MarcoIsland,Fla.andAspen,Colo.BarbaraandhusbandTom’68liveinEastLyme,Conn., and winter in Palm Coast, Fla.TheWingardners enjoy their children and grandchildren.Tom is still an avid fisherman. Richard Schade retired fromhispositionasprofessorofGermanStudies attheUniversityofCincinnatiin2013.Hestates his“swan song”was a guest professorship for a

CHHS REUNION: Faculty member emerita Elizabeth “Betty” Blesdell Crepeau ’66 recently met up with several of her fellow OT majors and Delta Zeta sisters at the Dairy Bar in Durham. Pictured at with Betty (far right) are Judith Breed Pleiss ’65, Virginia Farnham Smith ’65 and Ardythe Wiggin Eaton ’65.

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semesteratGermanUniversity.Hislegacyisthe establishment of a designated fund for undergraduatetraveltoGermany.Hewritesmorebut IwillsavethatfortheGoldenGraniteatreunion.

It is always difficult to share the news of the loss of classmates but important to us as a class to remember Frances Cecile (Frankie) Murdock ofBradenton,Fla.,whodiedMarch14,2014,with her beloved husband, Richard Murdock, at her side.FrankietaughtinNewHampshireatPembrokeAcademy,RundlettMiddleSchool,andSt. Anselm’sCollegebeforereturningtoFlorida.No matterwhereshelived,Frankiealwaysremained aNewEnglanderatheartandnevergotenoughof fallinNewHampshire.Therearemanyplansfor reuniononeofwhichwillbeamemorialgathering for classmates who have passed on. They willnotbeforgotten.Ivolunteeredtotakeonthe reunionGoldenGranite.Youwillbehearingfrom measImoveforwardwiththisproject.Weeach haveapageinthebooktoshareourpicturesand write-ups. So put on your thinking caps to put yourthoughtsonpapertosharewiththeclassat reunion.Takecare,myfriends,andkeepplanning for the 50th!

—Lynda Brearey, 2 Roundabout Ln., Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107; lbrearey@alumni.unh.edu

1967

Many of our classmates are lookingforwardtothewintermonths in Florida and the special activities sponsored bytheSouthwestFloridachapter.Checkouttheir websiteonwww.unhconnect.unh.edu under

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“Connect.”For those of us near Durham, we’re planningfootballgamesunderthenewlights.

WesadlyreportthatArmandBrassardofStark, N.H., has passed away. Like many classmates, ArmandservedinVietnam.HereturnedtoUNH to complete his degree in forestry and retired from the Brown Company in Berlin, N.H., after 35yearsofservice.Ourcondolencestohiswife, Angela,sonsMichaelandMarc,daughterMonique and their families.

—DianeDerring,921DeerwanderRd.,HollisCenter, ME 04042; dndeering@yahoo.com

1968

It has been a while since I have heard from my 1968 classmates.

A number of us enjoyed our 45th reunion and we will be planning for our 50th soon. What a journeywehaveallmadesincegraduating,which includes marriages, grandchildren, jobs, trips allovertheworld,authoredbooks,worksofart andretirement!Ihavejustrecentlyretiredfrom teachingataCatholicschoolinOrlando,Fla.,and Iamtakingfulladvantageofmyfreetime.Since school starts this week here in Florida, I am alreadyrealizingthatIhavenomorelessonplans to write!We have taken a cruise, and I am playinglotsof tennisand quilting. I work threedays a week at a local quilt shop. Mary Ellen Maier writes that she also has retired from 11 years intheUNHAdmissionsOffice.Ifyouevergetto Portsmouth,N.H.,goovertotheJohnPaulJones HouseMuseumwheresheistheleadguideeach summer.Iwouldlikemoreofyoutowritemeat angelapiper28@gmail.com and tell us all how youarespendingyourtime,whetherintheworkplace,vacationplaceorretirement.Itwouldbea surpriseforanyofustomeetupwithsomeone unexpectedly who is visiting or living nearby.

Richard Whitney writes that he has recently beenmadealifetimehonorarymemberofboth the American Artists Professional League and AlliedArtistsofAmerica,headquarteredinNew York City. Perhaps you will get a chance to view his art if you are in the area of Crescent Pond in Stoddard,N.H.IalsoheardfromJimO’Reilleywho islivinginFloridanearNaples,spendinghistime runninganot-for-profitonlineschoolforgifted andtalentedstudents.EveryfewmonthsIreceive theobituarynoticesfromtheAlumniOffice.Our condolencesgoouttothefamiliesofthefollowing classmates who have passed since my last letter:JudyShagouryKaneofHallowell,Maine inNovember2012,JaneMcIntyreofLee,N.H.,in May2013,CherylHoweHowardofBaltimore,Md., inNovember2013.FredericMurphyofHillsborough,N.H.,inFebruary2013.JamesSchwenkof Hingham,Mass.,inApril2014,Betina“Tina”Virgin ofOgunquit,Maine,inApril2014,AnnaEganof Sewickley,Pa.,inApril2014andDanaWenantin April 2014 of Key West, Fla. —Angela M. Piper, 1349 S. Prairie Cir., Deltona, FL

32725; a.piper@alumni.unh.edu

1969

Earlierthissummer,Windham,N.H., residentJudySimpsonNewcomb

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WINDHAM’S WINNER: Judy Newcomb ’69 poseswithherdaughterandgranddaughter after receiving the Windham (NH) Terrace Assisted Living Senior Service award for her service to Fight 2 Finish Cancer. received theWindhamTerrace Assisted Living SeniorServiceAwardinrecognitionofhercommitmenttotheWindhamcommunity.Aformer first-grade teacher and active volunteer, NewcombwashonoredforherservicetoFight2Finish Cancer, a team ofWindham educators who raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Newcomb herself is a cancer survivor, having successfullycompletedtreatmentforHodgkin’s lymphomafouryearsago.Ourcongratulations to Judy all around! Please send your news to alumni.editor@unh.edu.

1970

Our class mourns the loss of the journalistJamesWrightFoley,son ofJohnandDianeWrightFoley,whowaskilled in captivity in August, nearly two years after he was kidnapped while reporting in Syria for the internationalnewssiteGlobalPost.Manyofour classmateshaveexpresseddeepsympathyand admirationforthegraceandcouragethatJohn andDianehaveshownamidthishorrifictragedy, includingNancyWinterbottom,whoattended theAug.24MassinJim’shonoratOurLadyofthe HolyRosaryChurchinRochester,N.H.Nanwrites that, for all its sadness, the service was“moving, inspirational, even beautiful”and marked by the“compassion, peace and an emphasis on reconciliation rather than anger and hate” thattheFoleyshavedisplayedthroughouttheir ordeal.“DianeandJohnaregraceful,articulate, poised. I feel privileged to have been in attendance as a member of the class of 1970,”she writes.AfuneralMassforJimwillbeheldOct.18, on what would have been his 41st birthday. In the meantime, you may read the Foleys’statementabouttheirplanstohonortheirsonatwww. freejamesfoley.org.Wehavealsolostsixmembers of our own class. After earning a degree in mechanicalengineering,HarrisBarnardbecame directorofengineeringforKidderPressinDover, N.H.Eileen[Boszko]Bryantreceivedadoctoral degreefromtheUniversityofWashingtonand served as director of the Clinical Cytogenetics Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Lamont“Mickey”Beaudette of Swansea, Mass., had a 40-year career in the energyindustryafterservingwiththeU.S.Navy inVietnam.PhilipKirkpatricktaughtLatininthe Keene (N.H.) School District for 32 years. David

MasondiedatWestwoodCareandRehabilitation Center in Keene. Susan Kavanel Nash worked incomputerprogrammingandasaregulatory complianceofficerforWorldSavingsandLoanin California.Toendwithgoodnews:JimFioreranin the2013UNH5kHomecomingRaceandposteda bettertimethansomealumniintheir30s.That’s showing them what we’re made of, Jim! —Jan Harayda, 10 North Section St., #105, Fairhope,AL36532;haraydajan@alumni.unh.edu.

1971

WendyWakefield Ferrin has purchasedacondoinNewHampshire asherNewEnglandbase.Recognizingthatthe trend has been for people to move to warmer climates,shedelightsinwatchingpeople’sfaces when she reveals her‘backwards’move. She willsplithertimebetweenNewHampshireand NorthCarolinawhereshecontinuestoconduct businessinafamily-ownedinternationalhigher educationcompany,inhereducationalconsultingcompanyanddoingauthorevents.Hergrandmothernickname“Willow”hasaffordedherthe luxury of an anonymous re-entry to early life stompinggrounds.Nowontosomesaddernews.

AntonyP.Takacswhowasborninwhatwasthen HungaryandisnowSlovakia,immigratedtothe UnitedStatesin1962.HegraduatedfromUNH withadegreeingeologythenmovedtoMaine wherehemarriedhiswife,Claudia.HeranasuccessfuldairyinAlbionformanyyears,thentook uphand-craftingofironandblacksmithing.Gail A.Tufts of Salisbury, Mass., had worked for RemaxRealtyfor30years.Shewasanavidanimal loverandlovedspendingherfreetimewithher family and friends. Richard J. Donovan earned hismastersincounselingfromUNHin1971.He laterreceivedhisdoctoratedegreefromVanderbilt. After a successful career in counseling, he transitioned into the field of institutional advancementandworkedforavarietyofemployersincludingKetchumInc.,DartmouthMedical School,HarvardMedicalschool,theSchepens EyeResearchInstitute,EmmanuelCollege,Anatolia College and Green Mountain College. He later became practice leader for Institutional AdvancementConsultingService.Hehadapassion for mountain climbing and achieved his goal of climbing New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot mountains with his buddies Stan, Roger, and Parker.Healsolovedtravelwithhiswife,Linda.

He was a history buff and liked to know quirky historicalfactswhichenhancedtheirfrequent trips to Europe and the United Kingdom. In his obituary,Ilovedthefactthatitwasmentioned thatheissurvivednotonlybyhiswifeandclose relatives, but also by his cat, Wendell. I will be doingthesamething—eventually.Lovetohear from more of you!

—Debbi Martin Fuller, 276 River St. Langdon, NH 03602; debbifuller@alumni.unh.edu

1972

Please send your news.

—PaulBergeron,15StansteadPlace, Nashua,NH03063;bergeronpaulr@alumni.unh.edu

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1973

DarrylSmithrecentlyretiredafter 39 years with the Massachusetts TrialCourt.Duringthelast27yearsasregionalcoordinatorfortheOfficeoftheChiefJusticeofthe DistrictCourtDepartment,hehelpedmanage21 courthousesinnortheasternMassachusetts.In addition,DarrylwontheFalmouthRoadRaceOver 60 Age Group on Cape Cod last summer. Peter Wellenberger recently retired after 22 years asmanageroftheGreatBayNationalEstuarine Research Reserve in Durham, N.H.. He was featured in the most recent UNH Magazine in an article about Great Bay. Brian J. Kelley has been appointedastheinterimCEOfortheAlteva,Inc.,a businesscommunicationscompany.Priortothis appointment,BrianwastheCEOofFourWinds Advisors LLC, focused on advising technology clients on restructuring, turnaround and businessdevelopment.BrianalsoservedasCEOfor Technology,Inc.inWoburn,Mass.Otherpositions heldbyBrianincludepresidentandCEOofTiiNetworkTechnologiesinEdgewood,N.Y.;presidentof TAMCOTechnologyinTampa,Fla.;presidentand CEOofCognitronicsCorporationinDanbury,Conn. andseniormanagerwithTIECommunications, Inc. in Seymour, Conn. Claudette Chagnon reportedthatsixUNHpalsarestillskiinginBeaver Creek,Colo..TheyareElizabethVarneyNewman, Patty Quinlan, Leslie Crommett Newell, Debra CampanellaHansch’74,andStaretteFeuerstein ’72. Cindy Moore LeLievre also sent photos of someAEPifraternity[nolongeractive],whoheld theirownreunionlunchinPalmetto,Fla.,thisJanuary.These classmates included Larry Morse, GaryHenry,PaulLelievre,MikeWashburn,Peter Baxter, Candi Hillsgrove Baxter, Barbara Morse andGaryHenry.Iamsorrytoreportthepassing of several of our classmates: Sidney L. Brayton of Norcross, Ga., Gail J. [Lambert] Edwards of Lancaster, Mass.; Theodore K. Rice Jr. of South Portland,MaineandKathrynM.[Robish]Topliff.

—Joyce Dube Stephens, 33 Spruce Lane, Dover,

NH 03820; j.d.stephens@alumni.unh.edu

1974

Please send your news.

—Jean Martson-Dockstader,

51 Londonderry Road, Windham, NH 03807; UNH1974@alumni.unh.edu

1975

Itissohardtobelievethesummeris goneandthecolderweatherismovingin.HereinSeattle,wehadoneofthesunniest summersever—verypleasantandunusualfor ushereinthecloudy,drizzlyPacificNorthwest.I haveheardfromafewclassmates,soamexcited to relay their news to you. Congratulations to Dave Wihby who, after serving for almost 25 years as the New Hampshire commissioner of labor,acceptedthestatedirectorpositiontoU.S. SenatorKellyAyottelastspring.DaveisnowworkinginManchester.Hegraduatedwithadegreein economic and business administration. Carol BlockTollandJanePrince,whose1975Durham address was a wonderful little apartment for hostingpartiesat4MainSt.,wanttoencourage

REMEMBERING MARK: Nancy Evans Burns ’54 is surrounded by family and friends at a June memorial service for her son-in-law Mark Paris ’79. Bottom step: Sara Kelleher Klemmer ’79, Naomi Thaler Volain ’80, Rick Klemmer ’78, Beth Whelton’80, and Cathy Burns Paris ’78.

Second step: Lettie Palmer Arnols ’79, Joan Harwood Kimball ’78, LeslieWatton Clemens ’80, Roberta Benson Wool ’78, Brooks MacMillen ’79. Seated: Ann Erickson ’78, Sue Nickerson Hewitt ’78, Burns, Karen O’Soro Storrs ’78. Top row: Keon Burns ’16, Kim Edmands Hicks ’86, Jack Burns ’82, Lindsey Edmands Burns ’83, Douglas Storrs ’78, Jim Howard ’81, Tom Crory ’77, Phil Kimball ’78, Charlie Arnold ’78, Jim Evans ’72, and Alice Burns ’83. Also there but not pictured were Michael Burns ’86 and Jaqueline Heard ’91G. allfriendsandclassmatestocometothereunion from’74to’76attheUNH40thReunionWeekend , June 5-7, 2015. Carol and Jane were back on campusaboutayearagoandrealizeditwastime to gather Hitchcock Hall friends, so suggested lookingonFacebookortheUNHAlumnieDirectorytoletthemknowifyoucanmeetnextJune.

Carolandherhusband,Charlie,liveinOlney,Md., and have a son, Nate. Carol is a clinical social workerspecializinginfertilityandwomen’shealth issues.Janeandherhusband,DaveMurphy,live in St. Paul, Minn., where they raised their son, Sam.JaneearnedherjurisdoctoratefromHamlineLawin2007andnowpracticesintheareaof municipal law as well as serving as her school’s alumni director. Michael Pillsbury joined The LouisBergerGroupasthedirectorofhighwayand civilengineeringintheNortheasttransportation division.HealsoisnowworkinginManchester.

Priortothisposition,MichaelwasthedeputycommissioneroftransportationinNewHampshire and the co-founder of Aplicon, Inc., a privately heldconstructionandengineeringfirm.Onamore somber note, three classmates died this year.

Lester“Scot”Folensbeepassedawayfollowing a lengthy illness. Scot served in Vietnam and thenattendedUniversityofNewHampshireand laterFranklinPierceLawSchool.Francis“Frank” Pineau, a retired professor at New Hampshire Technical Institute and honorably discharged veteran,diedwithhiswifeof47yearsathisside.

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occupationaleducation. RobertBurrillearned hisundergraduatedegreefromUNHlaterinlife.

HetaughtvocationalartsatColebrookAcademy for 26 years until he retired in 1994. Bob was a memberoftheTrinityUnitedMethodistChurch anda65-yearmemberoftheMohawkGrangeNo. 217.Mayourfellow’75graduatesrestinpeace.

Please send your news and, like Carol and Jane suggested,thinkaboutcomingbacktoyourold stompinggroundsatUNHnextJune.Remembering the dinner rolls with icing at Philbrook Hall.

—Kim Lampson Reiff, 7540 S.E. 71st St., Mercer Island, WA 98040-5317; klampsonreiff@alumni.unh.edu

1976

BobSilvaandhiswife,Diana,liveon a 120-acre tree farm in southwest central Wisconsin in the picturesque driftless area.Theyhavethreedaughters,Jennifer,Tracy andDanielle,andsevengrandchildren.Boband his wife own and operate Precision Controls, a division of Silva LLC, a HVAC and refrigeration serviceandinstallationcompany.Bobwouldlove to hear from UNH friends. He can be reached at silva.bob@preconsteam.comorbycalling(608) 625-2593. Please send your news.

—SusanAcklesAlimi,48FairviewDr.,Fryeburg,ME 04037; alimi@alumni.unh.edu

1977

Pleasesendsomeinformationmy way when you get a chance so I don’thavetowriteaboutmysummervacation

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Back in the Saddle

Multiple sclerosis hasn’t kept Mary Jordan ’88 from a successful equestrian career

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ary Jordan ’88 was 4 years old the first time her familymadethedrivetoNewYorkCity.Hermother drove, and a doctor met them curbside to draw spinalfluidfromherfather’sback,becausemultiplesclerosis left him unable even to stand. Every month for 14 years, they madethattrip.Thetreatmentdidn’thelpbutitwasalltheyhad.

Today, 12 years into the disease herself, not only is Jordan still standing, she’s a seasoned equestrian who competes on thenationalandinternationalstage.InAugust,theWells,Maine, residentqualifiedforherthirdinternationalcompetition. “My fatherwasaquadriplegicwhocouldonlyturnhisheadandneck,” Jordan says. “I can ride a horse. How lucky am I?” That’shernaturalposture,oneofhopeandoptimismanda kindoffaiththathaskeptherpursuingthepassionthathasfed her since she was a 12-year-old growing up in rural NewYork, whereherfatherwasanEpiscopalministerwhotaughtphilosophyatnearbyHamiltonCollege.“Heneversawmecompetebut he was one of my key inspirations,” Jordan says.

Jordancompetesregionallyinthree-phaseeventsanddressage.Three times now she has been named a New England champion.Herinternationalexperiencebeganin2009,seven yearsafterherdiagnosis,whenshelearnedshewaseligibleto rideasapara-athlete.Thatyear,shetraveledtoHollandtowork withaDutchtrainerwhohelpedreadyherfortheEuropeanParaEquestrianDressageChampionshipsinKristiansand,Norway.

“Therewere78ridersonaninternationalelitelevelandthereI wasonaborrowedhorsewithateamputtogetherwithducttape,” the 48 year old says.“I spent three weeks in Holland training.

Failure was not an option.”

Andfailshedidn’t:Jordan’sscoresqualifiedherforthe2010 AlltechWorldEquesterainGamesinKentucky,wheresherode with the U.S. team. Twice since she has earned a spot as an alternateonaninternationalteam,oncewiththeParalympics andagainwiththeWorldGames.Thoughshewasn’tcalledup eithertime,thegradeIVrider—theratingforaleast-disabled contender—isdeterminedtomakeaParalympicteam.“It’son my bucket list,” Jordan says.

Sheisalreadypartofanotherteam,onethattravelsthecountrytalkingtoMSpatientsandtheirfamilies,offeringencouragement and firsthand knowledge about the illness.

Jordan,thethirdmemberofherfamilytobeafflictedwithMS— anoldersisteralsohastheautoimmunediseasethattargetsthe central nervous system—says it’s one of the most important things she does.“MS affects whole families. I make it my mission to connect with those people.When we meet, I feel like I knowthembecauseI’vebeenthere.Itrytothrowthemalifeline.”

Unlikeherfather,whohadnooptions,Jordanhasbeenableto controlhersymptomswithmedication,givingherselfinjections everydayforthelast12years.“Now,it’slikebrushingmyteeth,” Jordan says of the shot regime.“Instead of viewing it as a daily reminder of the disease, I see it as a daily dose of hope.”

What’smore,shehasbeenabletoshowherson,whowas5 whenshelearnedshehadMS,thepersonshewantedhimtosee.

“Ithoughtalotabouthowitwouldplayoutwithmyson.Iwanted toshowhimwhatapersonwithMScoulddo.Sittingontheback ofahorse,Ifeltpowerful.Ifeltincontrol.Iwantedtomakesure he saw that,”Jordan says.“I figured if he could see me doing things, he wouldn’t be afraid.”

—JodR yecord 9’ 5

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anymore! My Alexander Hall roommate and childhoodfrienddecidedwehadn’thadenough of Newport sailing last year, so we once again charteredasailboatfromNewportwithanother RochesterfriendandsailedovertoBlockIsland, uptoCuttyhunk,EdgartownandNantucket.My wifeaskedwhatthreeguyscouldtalkaboutfor a whole week on a 44’sailboat. Somehow we were never at a loss for topics to discuss. It was agreatweekofgoodwindsandclearskiesandI lookforwardtoanotherweeknextyearasthere are many more ports to visit.We have received word of the passing of three classmates. Steve Friedberg of Brookline, Mass., died on March 2011, John Hart of Merritt Island, Fla., passed awayonJan.11,2014,andCamilBretondiedon May28,2014.Weofferourcondolencestotheir families and friends.

—Gary Pheasant, 1099 Lanier Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30306; pheasant@alumni.unh.edu

1978

RichardSeidenisaprincipalatRDK Engineers where he is involved in the management of the engineering, design, andconstructionsupportofbuildingandfacility systems and infrastructure for commercial, mission critical, science and technology and industrial market sectors. He is also involved in businessdevelopmentandthemarketingofthe firm capabilities. Meredith Brown Fitzherbert writes that she is suffering from a congenital kidneyproblemandwilleventuallybeondialysis and is in need of an altruistic kidney donation.

Sheisotherwisehealthyineveryotherrespect.

Shecanbereachedatcjkfitz@comcast.netifyou needmoreinformationaboutkidneydonations.

Tim Domosiaris writes that after receiving his degree in electrical engineering, he worked at thePortsmouthNavalShipyardfor31years.He hasretiredandlivesinDover,N.H.BrucePayton graduatedwithadegreeinforestryandhasbeen appointed state forester for Rhode Island. He workedatUNHCooperativeExtensionfrom1980 to 1982 and then went to Rhode Island as a service forester, cooperative forestry supervisor, foresthealthprogramleader,statelandsforester, stateforestryplannerwritingtheStateForestry Action Plan and deputy chief of the Division of ForestEnvironment.Bruceishonoredtobestate foresterandcreditedUNHandtheCooperative Extensionforhiseducationandtraining.Bernard Clairmont of Cheshire, Mass., died at home in Juneafterashortillness.HeenlistedintheArmy and served with the Army Security Agency in Vietnam.Laterhereceivedhismaster’sinphysicsandbecameateacheratNorthAdamsState College.Forthepast29yearshewasemployedat HighVoltageLaboratoryasaphysicist.Kenneth KroupaofRoswell,Ga.,passedawayDecember 2013;nootherinformationisavailable.Iamthe proudparentofa2014UNHgraduate.Nowthere aretwoWildcatalumniinourfamily.Pleasesend your news.

—Carol Scagnelli Edmonds, 75 Wire Rd., Merrimack,NH03054;c.edmonds@alumni.unh.edu

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—ChrisEngel,268WashingtonAve.,

Chatham, NJ 07928; c.engel@alumni.unh.edu

1980

Fallwillbeuponuswhenthisissue comesout.Myyoungest,Samuel ’16willbeinNewZealandwiththeUNHEcoQuest programforthefirstsemester.Earlierthissummer, I hooked up with Laura Meade Kirk, Mary LouPetersenColeburn’79,MarthaMorrison’82 andBarbaraRector’82foraCongrevePitreunion.

We all met in Boston, and started with a trip to a RedSoxgame.Therewerealotoflaughslooking throughmanyphotoalbumsofourUNHdays,and oneofthegroupaddedtotheweekendexcitementbygoingtothehospitalandhavingherappendixout!Ithadbeenmorethan25yearssince we had all seen each other. It has been a while since I have received news from 1980 classmates.Ifyouhavenotwritten,pleasesendnews!

—Anne M. Getchell, P.O. Box 2211, Conway, NH

03818; agtech@alumni.unh.edu

1981

Please send news of family, of career, of volunteer activity, of travel,ofretirement.MarySearlesreceivedher master’s of library science degree at Simmons in 2004 and recently marked her tenth year as alawlibrarianattheNewHampshireSupreme Court and director of the New Hampshire Law Library—theonlypubliclawlibraryinthestate.

She received the Distinguished Service to the LegalProfessionAwardfromtheNewHampshire Bar Association earlier this year—congratulations. Eric Roland Layman died Jan. 15, 2014, at his home in Everett, Wash., after a sudden illness. After UNH, he received an electronics servicetechniciancertificatefromR.E.T.S.ElectronicsSchoolandatechnicalwritingcertificate from Northeastern University. He worked as a technical writer at several companies in the Seattlearea,includingTheBoeingCo.andAT&T Wireless.Heissurvivedbyhisparents,Frederic andGraceLayman,hissister,MarjorieLayman; several aunts, uncles and cousins and many friends. We extend our condolences to Eric’s family and friends.

—CarolineMcKeeAnderson,8626FauntleeCrest SW,Seattle,WA98136;c.anderson@aliumni.unh.edu

1982

DavidBiddlewasrecentlynamed senior vice president of sales and marketingfortheworkers’compensationcompanyCuravita,basedinAtlanta.Sincegraduating fromUNHwithabachelor’sinbusinessadministration,DavidhasworkedforseveralFortune500 companiesincludingBauschandLomb.OursympathiestothefamilyandfriendsofDanielVachon whopassedawayinJuly2012.Danwasasumma cumlaudegraduateandwentontoworkforUNH, assisting those with physical disabilities. In addition to his work at UNH, he was the past vice presidentofGraniteStateIndependentLiving.

—Julie Lake Butterfield, 44 Earle Dr., Lee, NH

03861; j.butterfield@alumni.unh.edu

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1983

Hello out there,Wildcat alumni! I hopeyouallhadalovelysummer.

I was so disappointed to learn that the football gamebetweenUMassandUNHdownmywayat Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., for the past twoyearshadbeendiscontinuedbecauseofa division change. It gave alumni like myself an opportunity to put on our UNH Wildcats gear and hang out and cheer closer to home. Now I will just have to keep my eye out for the hockey team to visit our local rivals. I received an email severalmonthsagofromDennisKirouacwhois interestedinreconnectingwithhismechanical engineeringclassmatesaswellasfellowdormmates fromChristiansen.Hehasbeenawayfrom NewEnglandforabout25years,andiscurrently residing in Annapolis, Md., but is looking to try and relocate back to this area. Marti Nyman is stillemployedwithUlteigEngineers,wherehe isthechiefclientdevelopmentofficer,andcontinues to enjoy helping his firm expand. Marti and his wife, Carolyn, recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and are planning a triptoLondonandParis.Theiryoungestdaughtergraduatedfromhighschoolthisyear,andis headedtoNorthDakotaStateUniversitytomajor inengineering(Martiincludeda“yay”hereinhis email.)Their middle child is entering his senior yearattheUniversityofWisconsin,withadouble major in molecular biology and Spanish.Their oldestdaughtergraduatedfromtheUniversityof IowaandisnowemployedwithRadissonBluHotels.MartiandCarolynliveinChanhassenMinn.

Sharon Reynolds Runge, her husband, Mike, anddaughters,EmmaandMegan,successfully climbed all 46 of the high peaks of the Adirondacks, joining the 46ers Club. It was a fabulous four-year family quest. Sharon is the executive directorforKenyaConnect,anon-profithelping tostrengtheneducationinaruralvillageinKenya.

—Ilene H. Segal, DVM,245WarrenDrive,Norfolk, MA 02056; i.h.segal@alumni.unh.edu

1984

Happy30threuniontotheclassof 1984! Although it is not an official reunionyear,ifyouplantocometoHomecoming on Sat., Oct. 11, you can meet up with classmates at the AlumniTent on Boulder Field. Sue Choquettehasaskedmetocovertheclassnotes column for her for a while, so I hope you will get intouchwithmetotellmeyournews.Myemail addressisrschell@jjwpr.comandphoneis(603) 770-3607.Lookingforwardtohearingfromyou!

In the meantime, here are some things I can reportfornow:ThisAugust,Irodeinthe2-dayPan MassChallengewithTeamLUNGstrong(basedin Amesbury,Mass.).Wehad61peopleonourteam and one of them was Mary Ellen (Graff) Ulrich, whoisapre-KteacheratAmesburyElementary School and also lives in Amesbury. Mary Ellen hasthreechildren:Ben(aUMassgradnowworking at Fidelity), Caroline (a junior at Marquette UniversityinMilwaukee)andSophia(ajuniorat AmesburyHigh).Bothofuswanttothankallour UNHfriendswhosponsoredussogenerously.The

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team collectively raised $350,000 for the Dana FarberCancerInstitute.Myhusband,ToddSchell, justcelebratedhis20thyearworkingforEdward JonesinAugustandweofficiallybecameempty nestersthatsamemonth,withdaughterAmanda afreshmanatIthacaCollegeandsonTucker’16a junioratUNH.OurfellowclassmateMattCullen isanEdwardJonesfinancialadvisorinMedfield, Mass., and lives with his wife, Diane, and three kids, John, Joseph and Sarah in Norfolk, Mass.

Dennis Bazylinski was recently named a 2014 AcademyFellowbytheAmericanAcademyforMicrobiology.Oneof88fellowstobenamedthisyear, Bazylinski is being recognized for“significant contributionstothefieldofmicrobiology.”Some ofourSanDiegoStateexchangegroupstilllivein theSeacoastarea:wehaveMarkSheehanandhis wife,Joanne,inAmesbury,AndyLordandhiswife, Nancy, in Kittery Point, Maine, Kathy (Brewer) BayekandhusbandWarreninHampstead,N.H., andDonna(Kelsey)ChisholmandhusbandJoe inLondonderry,N.H.Here’sashoutouttotherest oftheSDSU’83crowd—letmehearfromyouand whatyou’vebeenupto!Ihavealsobeenintouch withRoyLenardsonandJoanneLearywholivein AveMaria,Fla.Theirdaughter,Christine,isajunior atUniversityofVirginiaandtheirson,Anders,isa freshmanatUNGMilitaryCollegeofGeorgia.Roy hasapublicaffairsmanagementfirm,Strategic Advocacy,andJoanneworksforLowVisionWorks as a low-vision occupational therapist, helping theelderlystayintheirhomesbycomingupwith strategiestocopewithcompromisedvision.My longtime buddy Carol (Waisgerber) Seidel just celebrated22yearsatTuftsMedicalCenterwhere sheisdirectorofadministrationandfinance.She livesinScituate,Mass.,withherhusbandGeoffand children Griffin (15) and Allison (11).Whenever I get to New York City I get together with Tracy (Murdoch)O’Such,wholivesinFairfield,Conn., withhusbandBruceandsonChase,whoisahigh schoolsenior.Tracyismanagingpartner,digital media,entertainmentandsportsforDiversified SearchinNewYorkCity.OK,yourturn!Pleaseget intouchwithyournews;Ilookforwardtohearing from you.

—Robin Schell, 5 Ashley Drive, Amesbury, MA 01913; rschell@jjwpr.com; (603) 770-3607

1985

Hi everyone! Hope middle age is treatingyouwellandthatyoutruly are in the thick of all good things. Received a wonderful email this spring:“Amy (Therriault) Ray’ssuspense/thrillernovel,DangerousDenial, was recently published by Barking Rain Press.

She also has a short story coming out in the anthology Love Free or Die later this year. More information about her writing can be found at WriterAmyRay.com.AmyhasbeenhappilymarriedtoGlennSuchocki’84for28yearsandthey havea16-year-olddaughterwholovesgoingto UNHhockeygames.”IcheckedoutAmy’swebsite andFacebookpageandfoundoutthatDangerous Denial was No. 5 on the Barnes and Noble local bestseller list under paperbacks this August.

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Wow!Congratulations,Amy,andthanksforthe update!HereinsuburbanPhiladelphia,ChipKelly is taking the area by storm as the Eagles’head footballcoach.ThePhiladelphiaInquireriscalling him“Captain Chip.”It is exciting and certainly a pointofpridethatheisafellowWildcat—manyof usintheclassof1985startedourfreshmanyear withhimwaybackwhen!Pleasedropmeanemail and let us all know how you’re doing.

—Julie Colligan Spak, 116 Longfields Way, Downingtown, PA 19335; juliespak@verizon.net

1986

Please send your news.

—Stephanie Creane King,

92 Channing Road, Belmont, MA 02478; s.king@alumni.unh.edu

1987

Helloeveryone.Hopeeveryoneis doingwell.Myhusband,Rick,andI haveenteredintoanewchapterinourliveswith ouroldest,Nick,havingleftforcollegelastweek.

I have to say, as sad as I am to not have him at home,Icouldnothavebeenprouderaswemoved himintoStokeHallinSeptember—anewmember of the UNH class of 2018!The move-in day atmospherewassofestive,withmusicblaring, balloonseverywhereandabigbanneroutside ofStokethatread,“WeLoveUNH—YouWillToo!”I thinkthatsaiditall.EveryonelovesUNHandwe allhavesuchgreatmemoriesofourtimethere.

I can only hope that Nick gets to have all of the great experiences that I did during my years in Durham! In other news, I heard from George P. McCarthywhocelebratedhisfirstyearasajudge recently.In2013,Georgewasappointedbythe governorofOhioasjudgeoftheAthensCounty OhioCommonPleasCourt.Hepresidesoverserious felony cases. George lives in Ohio with his wife and two boys. Lastly, Jay Ablondi is the executivevicepresidentofglobalproductsfor theInternationalHealth,Racquet&Sportsclub AssociationinBoston.Hepublishedafantastic bookcalled,ActivefromAtoZ,andrecentlysent me a copy. It is a fun, illustrated book that talks aboutgettingandstayingactive.Congrats,Jay! That’sallofthenewsIhavefornow.Pleasesend along any news you have on yourself or any of our classmates!

—TinaNapolitanoSavoia,5SamuelPath,Natick, MA 01760; savoia@comcast.net

1988

Basketball player Keith Hinderlie went on to get his master’s and doctoraldegreesincounselingpsychologyfrom BostonCollege.Currently,heisaconsultingpsychologist at a private school and has a consulting business. Previously, Keith was in private practice. He lives in Silver Springs, Md., with his wifeandtwokids.Inhissparetime,Keithenjoys spendingtimewithhisfamily.Withaheavyheart, I share that Stephen J. Arkell died suddenly on May12ofafatalgunshotwoundwhileondutyas aBrentwoodPoliceOfficer.Stevewasadedicated husband,fatherandcommunityvolunteer.He wasabuilder,coach,hunter,fisherman,boater

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“FORE” HOWIE: Friends of Cleveland H. “Howie”Howard ’91 gathered in his honor at the Newport National Golf Club in Newport, RI, in August. From back left: Corey Nelson ’91, Todd Baker ’91, Jamie Tedford ’91, Alan McDonald, Mike Densmore ’91, Doug Moon ’91, and (front) Dustin Pons ’91, Todd Smith and Chris Sapuppo took to the links to raise money for Howard, who is in treatment for a recurrence of brain cancer. and a general outdoorsman. Steve leaves his wifeof21years,Heather,twodaughters,aswell as his parents and two brothers. Our deepest sympathies are extended to Steve’s family.

—BethD.Simpson-Robie,P.O.Box434,Kennebunk, ME 04043; bgsrobie@alumni.unh.edu

1989

Melissa Berryman’s book People Training for Good Dogs: What BreedersDon’tTellYouandTrainersDon’tTeach was awarded the 2013 gold medal in the pets categoryinForeWard’sIndieFabawardsandthe 2014silvermedalintheIndependentBookPublisher’sIPPYawards.Melissarecentlyjourneyed toSkagway,Alaska,wheresheconductedafree seminarforthevolunteersofthePawsandClaws AnimalShelterandatalkonsafetyandliabilityprotectionfordogownersandcommunities.Contact Melissaatptfgd@hotmail.com.PatrickSweeney (patrick@dwinQ.com)ispresidentandCEOofa socialmediamarketingcompanycalledDwinqin Cambridge.OutsideMagazinerecentlynamed Patrick America’s Real Fittest Athletes. Outside Televisionproducedthefollowingsegmentfeaturing Patrick discussing his intense workout habits and love of the outdoors. http://youtu. be/46aHzWfPm_0.CynthiaGonnermandiedin March.AfterUNHsheworkedasasocialworker attheSpauldingYouthCenterinTilton,N.H.After losinghersightatage30,Cindyfacedherfuture withcourageandindependence.Shewasvery active in her community. For the past 18 years shevolunteeredattheVeteransHomeinTilton, taking her guide dogs for the residents to play with.Itgavehergreatjoytobepartoftheirlives andshecouldinstantlyrecognizeeachveteran bytheirvoices.EdwinMcDaidwaskilledinacar accidentinMay2013.HefoundedSouthShore Staffingin2004,a successfulstaffingcompany serving the business community south of Boston.MarkLalibertiewritesthatnearly75—more thanhalf—oftheNewHampshireGentlemen’salltimemembershipgatheredtocelebratethe35th anniversary of the group’s founding in June at

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EastMadison’sPuritySpringsResort.The“Gents,” UNH’sall-menacapellasingingstudentgroup, wasfoundedin1979byPhilWalz’80andseveral ofhiscontemporaries.Thirty-fiveyearslater,the tradition is going strong. Alumni gather every Junetorenewourmotto“goodsingingandgood times,”butthemilestoneanniversaryyearsreally bringoutthenumbers.Inadditiontothepastand current members, many spouses and children showedupbringingthetotalattendanceclosetoa record100peoplefromourextendedGentfamily.

Asheoftenis,ourfounderPhilwasthere,perhaps justalittlewide-eyedaboutallhe’swrought,as groupsfromthe1980stothepresentdustedoff theirrepertoires(somemoredustythanothers).

—DavidL.Gray,131HolmesAve.,Darien,CT06820; david.gray@alumni.unh.edu

1990

Please send your news.

—Amy French, 2709 44th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116; amy.french@alumni.unh.edu

1991

Dr. Jeannette Riley was named as thenewdeanoftheCollegeofArts andScienceatUMass-Dartmouth.Dr.Rileywas formallyatKentStateUniversitypriortoarriving atUMassDartmouthin2002.JoeFarospokein MayattheCEOForumwithinthePeterT.PaulCollege of Business and Economics at UNH. Faro is theownerofTuscanKitchenandTuscanMarketin Salem,N.H.TuscanKitchenhasbeenrecognized forprovidingagourmet,artisandiningexperience. Faro’s first company, Joseph’s Gourmet PastaandSauces,cametolifefirstasabusiness planthathewasrequiredtowriteforaUNHclass.

He sold Joseph’s Gourmet Pasta and Sauces to Nestlé Prepared Foods in 2006.

—Christina Ayers Quinlan, 2316 Beauport Dr. Naperville,IL60564;c.a.quinlan@alumni.unh.edu

1992

Frozendirectorandscreenwriter JenniferLeeaddressedgraduates atUNH’s2014Commencement,encouraging the crowd to free themselves from self-doubt inordertoachievetheirdreams.Accomplished dragon boat racer Liisa Reimann was selected tocoachmenandwomenintheU24(18-24year olds) division in theWorld Nations Championships,regardedastheOlympicsofdragonboating. Laurette Vitteritti-Folk has taken a major departure from her engineering days at UNH, recently publishing her first novel, A Portal To VIbrancy,withBigTablePress.Afterearningacivil engineeringdegreefromUNH,shewentontoget anMFAinwritingfromVermontCollegeandtoday is an adjunct writing professor at North Shore CommunityCollegeinBeverly,MA.Congratulations, Laurette!

—Missy Langbein, 744 Johns Rd.,

Blue Bell, PA 19422; m.l.langbein@alumni.unh.edu

1993

NedWaltz received the L.J. MarkwardtAwardfromASTMInternationalCommitteeD07onWoodinrecognition

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of his extensive contributions to committee activities,particularlythoserelatedtothedevelopmentofstandardsforthemechanicaltesting ofwoodandwood-basedproducts.AseniorengineerofproductevaluationatWeyerhaeuser’s TechnologyCenterinFederalWay,Wash.,Waltz earneddualbachelor’sdegreesincivilengineering and forest science and went on to receive a master’s in structural engineering and wood science from Oregon State University. He was an engineer with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. in Boston before joiningTrus Joist in Boise, Idaho, as an engineer in 1998. He assumed his currentrolewithWeyerhaeuserin2009.Please send your news!

—Caryn Crotty Eldridge, 2 Steele Rd., Chiswick, London, W4 5AF, UK; caryn.eldridge@alumni.unh.edu

1994

Karin Soweid writes,“ On Nov. 6, 2013, I added a son (Cedric) to my family,whichalsoincludes5-year-olddaughter, Chloe. I successfully defended my research in fulfillmentofaPh.D.inIndustrial/Organizational PsychologywithCapellaUniversity’sHaroldAbel SchoolofSocialandBehavioralSciencesonMay 14,2014.Mydissertationistitled,“Genderequity intheworkplace:ExperienceoftheArabfemale professiona.l”I live in Beirut, Lebanon.”Please send your news.

—Mike Opal, 26 Rockwood Heights Rd.,

Manchester, MA 01944; m.opal@alumni.unh.edu

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Hope this update finds everyone well. The summer has certainly passed quickly! I received some sad news that our classmate Richard O. Wasson, Sr., 90, died on Sunday, June 15, 2014, in Nashua, N.H. Born in1923,Richardwasapoliticalsciencemajorand hadthedistinctionofbeingtheoldestgraduate ofUNH.PleasereadtheInMemoriamarticlefor more about Richard’s remarkable life. In other news,IwaspleasedtohearfromMichaelVlacich, whoislivinginConcord,N.H.,withwifeLizPurdy ‘96andtwodaughters,Katie,9,andAbbie,4.He is currently managing Jeanne Shaheen’s U.S. Senatere-electioncampaign.Mikereportsthathe andhisfamilycontinuetosupporttheuniversity, keepintouchwitholdfriends,andtrytoattend as many UNH hockey games as they can.Todd Perkins also sent me a nice email reminiscing abouthisyouthinIpswich,Mass.,(whereIwork atEBSCO).Hehasbeenaninvestmentassociate atUBSWealthManagementforthepastfouryears after spending 13 years at Merrill Lynch.Todd lives in beautiful Jacksonville Beach, Fla., with wifeAdrianandtwodaughters,Hannah,14,and Erin, 6. Please send your news!

—Tammy Ross, 22 St. Ann’s Ave., Peabody, MA

01960; tross8573@yahoo.com

1996

WaltNordstromisnowaFreedom Writerteacher.Waltcompletedthe June2014FreedomWritersInstitute,afast-paced andintensiveprogramtohelpteachhowtoengage,enlightenandempowerat-riskyouth.Be-

ginningnextyear,Waltwillbetheseventh-grade specialeducationteacheratNorthviewMiddle School,partoftheMetropolitanSchoolDistrict ofWashingtonTownshipinIndianapolis.Fellow swimmerMattJenningsmarriedSarahOsteen in June 2014. Please send me your news!

—MichaelWalsh,607AtwoodDrive,Downingtown, PA, 19335; michaelwalsh@alumni.unh.edu

1997

JoePacerecentlymovedtoWashington (state, not D.C.), dutifully followinghisArmydoctorwife.Heisnowdodging raindropsinthePacificNorthwestandisalmost fullydomesticated.In2012,hisbookMinotaur waspublishedbyReliquaryPress.Afteracareer innewspapersandasix-yearstintincommunications at a private school, Michelle Morrissey joinedUNH’sCommunicationsandPublicAffairs Officeasanassistantproducer.She’llbewriting storiesandshootingphotosfortheUNHwebsite and UNH Magazine—so feel free to share any newsorstoryideasaboutUNHalumswithher!

Jeremiah Dutch is living in Yokohama, Japan, andteachingEnglishatYokohamaCityUniversity. He and his wife just had their second baby, a girl; their older daughter is 6. An avid runner, Jeremiah finished a marathon this spring and is also working on his first novel. And finally, in my own news, I accepted the position as math departmentchairattheRabunGap-Nacoochee SchoolinRabunGap,Georgia.Theopportunity tohelpshapecurriculum,courseofferings,and mentorteacherswasagoalofmine,andthisjob

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was exactly what I was looking for. I also serve attheheadfootballcoachforthemiddleschool junior varsity program at our school.

—Michael Milbury, 518 South Plymouth St., Culver, IN 46511; milburm@live.com

1998

Helloclassof1998.It’sprettyquiet out there; please send me your news. I am happy to share the news that Neil NeveuandErikaOlsenweremarriedonJuly28, 2013,attheMountWashingtonHotelinBretton Woods,N.H..TheyliveinBedford,N.H.whereheis thedirectorinmergersandacquisitionsconsulting at Deloitte &Touche, and Erika is an English professoratNHTI.Congrats!CarlMummenthey sentnewsthatheisleavinghispostassuperintendentofJefferson(N.Y.)CentralSchoolwhere he has been since 2005. Carl earned an master’s of science for teachers degree in English through the Summer Literacy Institutes. This fall, he started a new job as superintendent at Cobleskill-RichmondvilleSchoolDistrict.Under his leadership at Jefferson Central, the district added college-level coursework in many subjectareas,expandedandupgradedtheschool’s campus,andearnedcitationsfromU.S.Newsand WorldReportasoneofAmerica’stophighschool in five of the last nine years. I’m sure he’ll make asimilarimpactattheCobleskill-Richmondville Central School District in New York’s greater capitalregion.Bestofluckinthisnewendeavor!

Lookforwardtohearingfromfolkssoon.Shana (Brunye) Hoch and Casey Hoch moved back totheSeacoastareaofNewHampshire.Shana worksatSpragueOperatingResourcesLLCasa managerofmarketingandcustomerservice,and Casey is the director of training for Plane Sense inPortsmouth.Theyhavetwokids,now8and6.

LaraBrickerhasjoinedtheUniversityAdvancementstaffatUNH.Brickerpreviouslyworkedas an investigator for the New Hampshire Public Defender program and as a journalist. At UNH, shewillresearchprospectivedonorsinorderto enhanceandinformtheUniversity’sfundraising efforts.ShelivesinExeterwithherfamilywhere she also writes a regular column for the Exeter News-LettercalledExeterLife.ChristinePenney hasreturnedtoUniversityAdvancementasbrand managerforcampaigns.Shepreviouslyworked atTheMusicHallinPortsmouth,N.H.,andprior to that was associate director of annual giving atUNH.Additionally,Penneyisco-founderand producingdirectorofSevenStagesShakespeare Company.

—Emily Rines, 23 Tarratine Dr., Brunswick, ME

04011; emily.rines@alumni.unh.edu

1999

Please send your news.

2000

—Jaime Russo Zahoruiko,

PO Box 287, Haverhill, MA 01831; j.a.russo@alumni.unh.edu

Emily Cavalier has been named vicepresidentofmarketingcommunicationsforNewYorkCity-basedHavasMedia

WILDCAT WEDDING #1: Alums from 1944 to 2014 were in attendance to watch John Patrick Haley ’06 and Hallory Hatch Oberg ’06 tie the knot on June 7. Writes Haley’s mother, Martha Haley ’78:“My husband and I, all of our siblings, both of our children and now their spouses are all alums, as are many of the aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends in attendance.” Even Gnarlz made the trip to Jackson, NH! NorthAmerica,partofthesixth-largestadagency holdingcompanyglobally.Priortohernewrole, she was vice president of strategy and partner in her own media startup as well as a business developmentdirector/accountmanageratArgyle ExecutiveForum.She’slivedinBrooklynforeight years, but writes that she“never stops missing autumn in New Hampshire.”

—BeckyRomanHardie,3715N.4thSt.,Harrisburg, PA 17110; becky.roman@alumni.unh.edu

2001

AlexMitrushimarriedHeidiHanson ’04inMay2013.Aftercompleting a master’s degree in film production at Boston University, Alex is now a Dover, N.H., police officer,owneratSeacoastFilms,andco-founderof SIX03Endurance.Heidiisamarketingdirectorat a large healthcare facility and dance teacher at bothSoleCityDanceandPortsmouthSchoolof Ballet.MaryEllenMateleskawashonoredwith southeasternConnecticut’sFortyunder40award forherexcellenceinpromotionandimplementation of educational conservation programs in thecoastalarea.MaryEllenwasalsopromoted todirectorofeducationandconservationatthe Mystic Aquarium. Arthur Powers, who earned hisdoctoratedegreein2010,receivedthe2014 CatholicArts&LiteratureAwardforAHeroForThe People (Press 53, 2013), his collection of short stories set in Brazil. Arthur and his wife lived in Brazil for 30 years, initially as Peace Corps volunteers. He subsequently worked there as aninternationallawyer,communityorganizer intheAmazonfortheCatholicChurch(working on land rights for subsistence farmers), directorofprogramsforCatholicReliefServicesand USAID, and most recently general counsel for Raytheon in connection with the SIVAM environmentalmonitoringprogramfortheAmazon.

Arthurhasreceivedseveral previousawardsfor fiction,includingaMassachusettsArtistFoundationFellowshipinFictionandthe2012Tuscany Novella Prize.

2002

Withthechangeofseasonscome someexcitinglifechangesforour ’02 graduates. Jonathan Schreck returned to PortHealthcareCenterinNewburyport,Mass., asanadministrator.Withstrongtiesinthearea, Schreckislookingforwardtogivingbacktothe communitythroughhisworkatPort.Bestofluck to you, Jonathan, as you settle in to this new position.Inweddingnews,Iwasthrilledtowatch as my UNH roommate, KaraTownley, married ThomasBarberaonMay24.Fellowroommateand ’02 grad Zach Powers also attended. Kara currentlyworksinBostonasagroupsalesmanager atTajBostonandalsoasaBikramyogainstructor.

Congratulations,Kara!HappyfalleveryoneandI lookforwardtohearingmorenewsfromourclass.

—AbbySeveranceGillis,19ChaseStreet,Woburn,

MA 01801; agillis716@alumni.unh.edu

2003

Please send your news.

—ShannonGoffWelsh,77Hooksett Road, Auburn, NH 03032; s.goff@alumni.unh.edu

2004

Please send your news.

—Victoria Magowan Reed,

5 Twilight Dr., Scarborough, ME 04074; victoria.macgowan@alumni.unh.edu

2005

—Elizabeth Merrill Tewksbury,

Congratulations to Jonathan L’Ecuyer and his wife on their first child, ababygirlnamedZoe,whowasborninJuly 2013.JonathanhasstartedgradschoolatSalem State University to become a History teacher.

Sean Pine has been named the new principal of Newmarket (N.H.) Elementary School. Sean previouslyservedasprincipalofAuburnVillage School. Joseph Fagan passed away on May 14, 2014,afterabattlewithlymphoma.Joeyearned is bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering whilestudyingatUNH,andworkedasanapplicationengineerforHenkelCorporation.Toread moreaboutJoey’scourageousbattle,pleasevisit http://lovelifelymphoma.wordpress.com/,ablog created by his wife, Jessica.

PO Box 7185, Cape Porpoise, ME 04014; etewksbury@alumni.unh.edu

NH 03104; megan.stevener@alumni.unh.edu

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A passion for music led Josh Chamberlain ’99 to Jamaica

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oshChamberlain’99fellinlovewithmusicasanundergrad, withWXGRinPortsmouth,N.H.thatplays“allAlphaallthetime,” spinningtunesasaDJforWUNH.Ahistorymajor,Chamber- withJamaicanreggae,skaandjazz.Thesecondendeavorisa lainwasinterestedintheculturalrootsofdifferentkindsof screen-printing business that features designs by Jamaican musicandbecamefascinatedwiththebold,rhythmicmusical graphicartistMichael“Freestyle”Thompson.LaunchedinApril formsofJamaica.Buthehadnoideathisinterestwouldoneday 2013withalineofT-shirts,AlphaWearJArecentlyexpandedto inspirehimtomovetothatcountryandultimatelyleadtohis tote bags made in the school’s tailoring shop. involvement with a world-famous music school.

“Ourgoalistofindnewwaystopromotetheschoolandensure While working on his doctorate in cultural studies at the itissuccessfulformanyyearstocome,”Chamberlainexplains.

UniversityoftheWestIndiesinKingston,Jamaica,Chamberlain “Itsmusichasbeenwellknownandhighlyregardedforsome connectedwithSisterSusanFrazeroftheAlphaBoy’sSchool, time;nowweneedtheschoolasawholetoberecognizedthe whoinvitedhimtobecomeanAlphavolunteer.RunbyRoman same way.”

Catholic nuns, the school was founded in 1880 as a place for ThededicationthatmarksChamberlain’sconnectiontoAlpha “wayward boys.” Alpha received its first instruments in 1892 isnothingnew.AfterUNH,heworkedforNewHampshirestate andlaunchedamusicprogramthatisnowworld-renowned. senatorLouD’Allesandro’60,whowasamongthosewhoencourFrom reggae to ska to rocksteady,“nearly every style of agedhisinterestincommunityserviceandcivicengagement.

Jamaicanmusichasbeeninfluencedbymusicianswhoonce Now,Chamberlain’sdoctoralworklooksatthewayanindividual’s attended the Alpha Boys School,” Chamberlain explains. senseofidentificationaspartofaculturalgroupinfluenceshisor Untilrecentlyagrouphomeforstudentswhoarrivedbyway herinvolvementinthecommunity.He’sparticularlyinterested oftheJamaicancourtsystem,Alphatodayisadayprogramfor intheroleplayedbyJamaicansoundsystems—groupsofmuboyswithremediallearningneeds.“Whenstudentscomehere, sicians, disc jockeys and engineers who set up street parties theygetaneducation,arecaredfor,taughtvaluesandtaught withhugeportablespeakersandturntables—whichemergedin a trade that they can pursue after completing school,”Cham- Kingstoninthe1950sandtodayattractinternationalattention berlainsays.Alphaistheonlyremedialtrainingprograminthe on par with professional sports teams.

Kingstonareawithanemphasisongivingstudentsaviableskill “MusicisverycentraltotheculturalidentityofJamaicaand forenteringtheworkforce.Studentscanchoosefromlandscap- fans of Jamaican culture worldwide,”Chamberlain says. It’s ing,woodworking,andscreenprinting—andofcourse,music. centraltohisownidentity,aswell.HeplayedanumberofinstruChamberlaindoesfundraising,marketinganddevelopment mentsgrowingup,hesays,butnoneofthemclicked.“Inever onbehalfoftheschool,andhashelpedcreatetwoinitiativesto hadthepracticediscipline,”headmits.“Butdisciplineisoneof promoteandsustaintheAlpha’programs.Oneisthe24-hour Alpha’sstrongestvalues,sonowatleastI’minthebestpossible AlphaBoysSchoolRadio,anonlinestationruninpartnership place to learn.”

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afirst-gradeteacherinBrockton,Mass.Congrats toyouboth!Andfinally,Iwantedtothankyouall for sending me your updates over the past few years. I have enjoyed sharing your good news acrosstheUNHarena.Ihaverecentlyaccepted a job as the deputy press secretary for the MassachusettsDepartmentofTransportationand plan to remain as the 2006 reunion chair, but will be stepping down as your class secretary.

Thankyouforyourkindemailsandfunpictures these past few years. If anyone is interested in takingontheroleofclasssecretary,pleaseemail KristinDuisberg,UNHMagazineeditor,atKristin.

Duisberg@unh.edu and you can of course feel freetoemailmeanyquestionsyoumayhaveas well at Rebecca.Cyr@gmail.com

2007

MeganIsaacson-Schmidmarried Scott Hussey on July 12, 2014, at Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Mo. MeganworksforWashingtonUniversity/Barnes Hospital and Scott works for AT&T.

—Michael Patrick Antosh, 3476 Post Road, Wakefield, RI 02879; mantosh@alumni.unh.edu

2008 2006

Kristin Blanchette and Bryan Tracy were married in July 2013 andwelcomedtheirdaughter,TenleyMargaret Tracy, into their family on April.. Kristin played lacrosse for four years at UNH and just finished herfifthyearasaheadwomen’slacrossecoach at Plymouth State. Deepest sympathies to the families and friends of Emily Suzanne Olsen Merchant and Gregory J. Lavalley, both UNH 2006 graduates. Emily passed away on March 31, 2014, after suffering for more than 15 years from a painful illness. Emily attended school in LondonderrybeforeattendingUNH.Gregory,of Nashua, passed away on Wednesday, April 9, 2014attheChildren’sHospitalinBostonaftera courageous lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.

PriortoearninghisUNHdegreeinbusiness,Greg was most recently employed as an operations manager for Flatley Discovery Labs in Charlestown, Mass. He felt honored to be employed

by Discovery Labs working on cystic fibrosis.

CongratulationstoTimothyZinkaandElizabeth WichetawhoweremarriedlastAugustatOhme GardensinWenatchee,Wash.Timothygraduated from UNH in 2006 and is a human resources analystfortheU.S.PostalServiceintheOfficeof theInspectorGeneral.Heiscurrentlypursuing hismaster’sdegreeatGeorgeMasonUniversity in Fairfax, Va. Lynn Walsh and Tyler Collins ’08 weremarriedonDec.31,2013inHingham,Mass.

AfterUNH,Lynnreceivedhermasterofeducation degreefromBridgewaterStateUniversityandis

Hey class of 2008! I hope you’re all doing well and staying busy. I find myself very far from home these days as I havedecidedtomovewithmygirlfriend,whois in the U.S. Air Force. It’s so strange to recognize preciselywhatyoudecidetoholdontoonceyou leave a place, and it’s comforting to know that some things can never leave you. I didn’t hear fromtoomanyofyouinthelastfewmonths,so onlytwoupdatestoreport:Congratulationsto DavidLong,whohasbeenpromotedtoNashua branchmanagerofServiceCreditUnion.Hewillbe responsiblefortheday-to-dayoperationsofthe branchwhilemanagingastaffofatleastsix.Our condolences to the family ofTyler Collins, who diedonMay14.AtUNH,TylerwasamemberofPhi MuDelta,andaftergraduationhewentontoearn amaster’sdegreefromBostonUniversity.Hehad workedfortheVeteransAdministrationinWest Roxbury,Mass.,forthepastthreeyearsandwas marriedtoLynnWalshCollins.Iwouldlovetohear fromanyandallofyouregardingyourcontinued adventuresaftercollege!Feelfreetoemailmeat apo2@alumni.unh.edutobeincludedinthenext classnotes.Bewell,stayhappyandgetintouch!

—Alexandra Covucci; apo2@alumni.unh.edu

2009

Please send your news.

—Jenelle DeVits,

187 Woodpoint Rd., Apt. 4, Brooklyn, NY 11211; j.devits@alumni.unh.edu

2010

Congratulations to Caleb Henry, who married BethYoder on Feb. 15 in Boyertown, Pa. They honeymooned on Turtle Island, Fiji. Nicole Clark and Dan St. Jean weremarriedonJuly26,2014.TheymetatUNH, DevineHalltobespecific,inthefallof2006.Dan askedNicoletomarryhiminMay2013inAcadia NationalPark.Theyweresurroundedbyfriends,

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WILDCAT WEDDING #2: Nicole Clark St. Jean ’09 and Dan St. Jean ’10 were married on July 26, 2014, at the Wachusett Village Inn in Westminster, MA. Fellow Wildcats included in the picture above are Jessica Miele Downing ’09 , Lauren Freedman ’09, Sara Townsend ’09, Allison Somers ’09, Sandra Woodman ’09, Jacob Rossman ’10, Martin Higgens ’10, Travis Eckhoff ’10 and Billy (William) Claffy ’10.

familyandmanyUNHalumniastheysaid“Ido”at theWachusettVillageInninWestminster,Mass.

With a bachelor’s degree in English teaching andamaster’sinteachingdegreeinsecondary education,Nicolebecameasixth-gradereading teacheratHillsboro-DeeringMiddleSchool.With abachelor’sdegreeinmechanicalengineering, DanbecameaprocessengineeratUltrasource inHollis.TheycurrentlyliveinManchester,N.H..

CongratulationstoJoshSmith,whorecentlytied the knot with fellowWildcat JillianTombarelli ’11.Joshgraduatedwithabachelor’sdegreein biologyandJillearnedherbachelor’sdegreein chemicalengineering.ThecouplelivesinHooksett, N.H. And finally, our condolences to the family of Laura LaPlante, who lost her life in a trafficaccidentinChicagoonMay2,justamonth beforeshewassettograduatefromtheUniversityofChicagoSchoolofLaw.Lauratransferred toUNHfromColumbiaUniversityandgraduated withdualdegreesineconomicsandphilosophy, earningsummacumlaudeandPhiBetaKappa honors.Shewasalsoanavidrunnerandamemberofthewomen’scross-countryteam.Laurawill bemissedandourthoughtsarewithherfriends and family.

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In Memoriam Arnold P. Hanson, Sr. ’48

He was devoted to his family, his profession, and UNH

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orn prematurely in 1924, Arnold Hanson weighed just three pounds. Fortunately, the doctor who delivered him in his parents’ kitchen had recently learned a new method of caring for at-risk infants. He instructed Hanson’s mother to warm the tiny baby in the oven. Ninety years later, Hanson still expressed amazement that he had survived being “baked” and had lived so long, says his daughter, Julie Mook.

Hanson served three years in the Navy submarine service during World War II and enrolled in UNH at the war’s end. He married his wife, Della, in 1948, a week after graduating. In 1951 he received his JD from Boston University School of Law, financing much of his law degree by working c on st r uc t ion du r i n g su m mer br e a k s a nd selling vacuum cleaners on weekends. A lucrative offer to practice law in Boston was tempting, but Hanson’s love of his hometown of Berlin, N.H. went deep. As a boy he had had an early morning milk route and three newspaper routes in town. In winter, he shoveled snow for neighbors; in summer, he mowed lawns. He returned to Berlin and the people he had known all his life, practicing law there until his retirement 40 years later.

In addition to his private law practice, Hanson served four years as attorney for Coos County and, along with Della, was involved in many local and national social and political organizations. He was also a board member and past president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. Boston University School of Law honored him with its Silver Shingle Award for exemplifying leadership, ethics and integrity in the legal profession.

Hanson loved getting together with friends at the family home, says Julie. Della played the piano and everyone enjoyed

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a sing-along. Later in life, while living in an assisted living facility, Arnold and Della eagerly awaited the piano player who entertained at the weekly social hour. They were always the first ones downstairs, encouraging other residents to join in.

Grateful for the education Arnold had received at UNH, and wanting to provide opportunities for other students, the Hansons established two significant endowments. The Dr. Norman Alexander Teaching Excellence Fund, created in 1998, rewards faculty for outstanding performance in teaching and scholarship. Although Hanson’s father had planned for his son to become a mechanical engineer, Arnold was more interested in law. Dr. Alexander, then dean of men, encouraged him to major in political science and pursue his passion. Hanson never forgot his mentor, and, speaking of Alexander’s positive influence said, “No other person I know had ever had his life changed like that.”

Believing that students of promise should not be denied a college education because of financial constraints, in 2002 the Hansons created the Arnold P. and Della A. Hanson Endowed Scholarship Fund to provide four-year scholarships to students from Coos County. In recognition of their commitment to the university, in 2004 the Hansons received the Hubbard Family Award for Service to Philanthropy, the highest honor awarded by the UNH Foundation.

Della Hanson died in August 2013. Shortly before Arnold’s death 11 months later, Julie Mook and her siblings, Caryl Hanson Brensinger ’73 and Arnie Hanson, Jr., along with seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and other family members, gathered with Arnold to celebrate his 90th birthday.

He had accomplished much in the professional world, but always said that his proudest achievement was his family.

Judy Cocci Vachon Rogers ’64 She saw beauty in everything

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er parents named her for Judy Garland, their favorite movie star, but to everyone else she was always “Bubsy.” Italian on her father’s side, Judy Rogers fondly recalled childhood Sundays that included huge pots of homemade pasta and sauce shared with her large, extended family.

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diagnosed in 1999, progressed, her husband converted empty whiskey barrels into miniature gardens that she could easily reach.

Last spring, during what they both knew would be their final visit, Craig asked his mother how she would like to be memorialized at her funeral. “Say that I lived without regrets,” she said. “That I loved to laugh and dance and swim and sing.

That I cherished the life I led.”

Rogers died on May 17, shortly after pruning her flowers one last time.

Karen Colclough ’99

She had big dreams and a big heart

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n a mission to Nicaragua with her church and an organization that provides land for housing and cash-crop gardens to impoverished residents of Central America and Mexico, Karen Colclough helped families become self-reliant.

But a life built on service was cut short during that April trip when Colclough, 37, was found dead near a beach in Montelimar, where she had gone to take photographs. She had been robbed and murdered by a local man.

From childhood, her life was one of humanitarian service and love of the natural world says her mother, Janet Colclough. “She was always sensitive to others’ feelings, happy, upbeat, and tried to see the good in everyone.” Karen cut her long hair for Locks of Love, a nonprofit group that provides wigs for cancer patients, and during high school and college breaks she volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.

At UNH Colclough majored in environmental conservation and outdoor education and was a leader in the Outing Club. There she met Heather Townsend Layton ’00, who became a close friend. After Layton graduated, the two women set off on a six-week road trip in a car so stuffed with belongings they christened it “The Abyss.” An experienced wilderness hiker, Colclough wasn’t fazed by the sight of nearby bear tracks when they camped and canoed in Glacier National Park. Remembering her friend’s adventurous spirit, Layton says, “Many people dream big but don’t pursue their dreams.

Karen did.”

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Rogers was always athletic and “very much a go-getter” says her son Brent Vachon. She worked as a high school physical education teacher before becoming the first female director of a YMCA when she was selected to head the organization’s facility in Leominster, Mass.

In the 1970s Rogers was at the forefront of the movement to introduce infants to the water and was recognized in the book Your Baby Can Swim by fitness pioneer Bonnie Prudden. She later became founder and administrator of the Bonnie Prudden School of Physical Fitness and Myotherapy in Stockbridge, Mass. With her second husband, David Rogers, Judy trained many exercise therapists in myotherapy, a system of pain relief involving manipulation of specific trigger points.

Making a career change 19 years ago, the couple opened Art in Green, a landscaping firm in Brewster, Mass. Their own home, surrounded by lush lawns and gardens, was often the site of fundraising events.

“Judy was all about finding the beauty in everything,” says David. “She believed it was one of the reasons we are put on this earth.” Before she and David married, Rogers offered her large home as a safe house for battered women. Along with meeting their practical needs, she brought beauty into the women’s lives by helping them choose attractive clothes at the local thrift shop.

When her father died, Rogers shocked her traditional Italian relatives, first by insisting on being a pallbearer, and then by not wearing black. Instead, she wore a fuchsia dress and a picture hat to the funeral, explaining that rather than mourning, she chose to celebrate the beauty of her father’s life.

Rogers enjoyed the creative process, says her son Craig Vachon, remembering stories she wrote, recipes she developed, and crafts she fashioned from odds and ends. Among her creations are a number of whimsical sculptures made from recycled materials, says David. “Our home is filled with eclectic Judy.”

She also conceived the idea for dancing garden mirrors, tiny double-sided mirrors strung between transparent fishing wires.

Manufactured on Cape Cod by local artisans, the mirrors are sold across the country and internationally.

Happiest in her garden, Rogers loved being outside with pruning shears in her hands. As her Parkinson’s disease,

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Colclough’s enthusiasm spurred other friends and family to pursue life to the fullest. “If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have had the courage to live my lifelong dream of backpacking in Alaska,” says another friend, Cathy Coletti ’00, recalling their hiking trip in Denali National Park. When Colclough’s older brother, Mike ’04, found himself at loose ends after dropping out of his first college, she convinced him to apply to UNH, focus on his studies and join the Outing Club. “Karen encouraged me to stop staying put,” he says.

EMT-certified while at UNH, Colclough joined the ski patrol at Gunstock Mountain in Gilford, NH, after college.

In 2003 she moved to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where she guided tours on the Upper Missouri River in Montana, worked with a state program assisting individuals with special needs, and taught adaptive skiing. Susannah Woodruff, who interviewed Colclough for a position with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wolf Recovery Program, recalls telling her that the predation study entailed skiing or hiking more than 20 miles a day tracking wolves, collaring sedated animals, and crawling into abandoned, often flea-ridden dens. “Karen’s smile kept spreading wider and wider,” she says. “I knew she would be perfect for the position.”

When the circumstances of her death were announced, outraged Nicaraguan citizens and officials assisted police in finding her killer. Traced through the sale of her camera, a local man was arrested three days after her body was found and ultimately sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Nicaragua.

Born on Christmas Day 1976, Colclough was memorialized on Easter Sunday 2014 by about 300 friends and family in Jackson Hole. The National Ski Patrol held a teleconferenced nationwide moment of silence. Massachusetts State Police escorted her body from Logan Airport to a second funeral attended by more than 200 people in Reading, Mass., near her hometown of Lynnfield. When the funeral procession passed the Lynnfield firehouse, department members stood at attention.

Richard O. Wasson ’95

Devoted to his family and his hometown, he led by example

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hen he received his bachelor’s degree in 1995, Richard Wasson was 71 years old, the oldest person in UNH history to earn an undergraduate degree. He majored in political science, a subject that had always intrigued him.

His course work included a geology class field trip to climb South Mountain in Pawtuckaway State Park. Upon reaching the top, Wasson found that his youthful classmates had long since

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arrived, eaten lunch, and were about to hike back down. Without a break he turned around and went with them. “He was proud that he had climbed the mountain like the 20-year-olds,” says his daughter Deborah Schanda.

A World War II veteran, Wasson was an aviation machinist mate first class and a crewman on dirigibles throughout the war.

After leaving the service he entered the shoe business, retiring 43 years later as comptroller and vice president of Miller Shoe Co. in Dover.

Wasson and his wife, Marie Therese, were married for 67 years before his death at age 90 on June 15. Spending time with family meant everything to him, says his daughter Carol Peck, recalling that his enthusiasm for vacations “was hard to resist, even for a reluctant teenager.” With six children, vacations usually meant camping wherever they could find a space, says Schanda. She remembers a morning in Hershey, Pa., when they were awakened by a golf course groundskeeper informing them they had set up camp on the eighth hole.

New Hampshire winters never slowed Wasson down. He loved piling everyone onto a toboggan, and after teaching himself to ski, taught several of his children.

Wasson’s interest in politics led to his twice being elected a New Hampshire state representative from his hometown of Rollinsford. Among other roles, he also served as Rollinsford’s town treasurer, chaired several nonprofit organizations and instituted a recycling program.

His unbridled enthusiasm continued throughout his life. He took flying lessons, golfed, sailed and gardened. He traveled to the Great Wall of China and via ski plane to the glaciers of New Zealand, navigated the hairpin curves of San Francisco’s Lombard Street, skied in the Swiss Alps, and explored historic sites from Maine to Mexico and Morocco.

Always a man of his word, Wasson led by example even as his health declined in recent years. In his late 80s he arrived one day at a road cleanup he had organized on Route 4. Few other volunteers showed up, but Wasson, undeterred, went to work.

He had made a commitment to beautify the highway, he’d said, and he would keep it.

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n 1941, the debate over gender roles and the fight for equal comfort of trousers and the convenience of pockets?,” they wrote rights for women at UNH boiled down to one very simple in a letter that appeared in The New Hampshire. idea: Denim.

They then stated their platform in rhyme: With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into Let ’em itch and let ’em squirm, World War II, traditional campus activities in Durham came to From nubbly shins and whiskers firm. a temporary halt as many young UNH men signed up to serve If they don’t shave—what the hell, in the military. Intercollegiate sports and some clubs and social Our dungarees make us feel swell! events were suspended. Female students were advised to include a In the next edition of The New Hampshire, the men countered “war training” course in their studies so that after graduating they with a ditty of their own: could replace the men leaving the workforce for military service.

You girls in slacks Those with aptitude in mathematics and physical science were Look like whacks, urged to enroll in special engineering war courses, such as the Wearing our dungarees. aeronautical aide fellowship program sponsored by the Pratt & You can wear our shirts Whitney Aircraft Corporation.

Until it hurts, Estelle Dutton Wall ’45 was one of 15 women accepted into But not on campus please! the first class of “P&W Girls.” When she and her classmates At 12:45 p.m. on the day of the deadline, members of CAD walked into the previously males-only territory of the engineering assembled in front of East and West Halls then made their way to labs in Demeritt Hall, they were dismayed to find them very the Commons (now Huddleston Hall), led by a makeshift band. dingy and dirty—not suitable workspaces for their dresses and CAD’s chairman gave a speech to a small crowd, expounding on skirts. “When we started in the lab courses my friends and I went the evils of girls in dungarees. Every girl who owned or was able to Dover to buy jeans—an unheard of thing for coeds!” Wall to get a pair of dungarees had them on. The band then marched recounted years later. “When we asked for jeans according to to the women’s dorm, Fairchild Hall, and began serenading the waist size, imagine our surprise to find we could not begin to get girls inside with their rendition of The Old Gray Mare. Thinking them over our hips!”

CAD needed some cooling off, a group of women attempted to The university returned to its regular operations after the war, throw a bucket of water on their chairman. but, much to the men’s chagrin, the women were reluctant to give The meeting broke up when classes resumed, and the women up the casual clothing they had come to enjoy. In October 1945, continued to don their dungarees. The UNH faculty and a group of unhappy male students organized the Committee for administration remained neutral throughout the feud, though the Abolishment of Dungarees, or CAD. Members signed a President Harold Stoke later stated he didn’t care what the pact stating that if the girls did not stop wearing men’s shirts and women wore as long they were comfortable. And while CAD may dungarees within one week, they would all stop shaving. have failed in its mission to get the women to stop wearing men’s The women responded by establishing the Daughters of clothing, it did succeed in stirring up a big dose of school spirit.

Dungaree Tolerance. “Are the men the only ones entitled to the —Mylinda Woodward ’97

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